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Q: Sorting and sequencing data from a file I've developed a program that stores a list of ids, so:

But for the desired purposes, the data should take the sequential form, so that the first pair of ids is something like: "889926212541448192" becomes 1 and "889919950248448000" becomes 2. That is, the file to be should be something like:

Where the first id connects with 2,3 and 6, and the id 4 only with 5, forming a network.
I have no experience in this area, but I can not find a way to do this reading.
I tried to do some programs, but they only read row and not column id to id. This data is saved following the following program
import json

arq = open('ids.csv','w')
arq.write('Source'+','+'Target')
arq.write("\n")

lista_rede = [] #list to store all ids

with open('dados_twitter.json', 'r') as f:

    for line in f:
        lista = []

        tweet = json.loads(line) # to write as a Python dictionary
        lista = list(tweet.keys()) #write list of keys

        try:
            if 'retweeted_status' in lista:
                id_rt = json.dumps(tweet['retweeted_status']['id_str'])
                id_status = json.dumps(tweet['id_str'])

                lista_rede.append(tweet['id_str'])
                lista_rede.append(tweet['retweeted_status']['id_str'])

                arq.write( id_status +','+ id_rt )
                arq.write("\n")

            if tweet['quoted_status'] in lista :
                id_rt = json.dumps(tweet['quoted_status']['id_str'])
                id_status = json.dumps(tweet['id_str'])

                lista_rede.append(tweet['id_str'])
                lista_rede.append(tweet['quoted_status']['id_str'])

                arq.write( id_status +','+ id_rt )
                arq.write("\n")
        except:
               continue
arq.close()

As a result I have a file with ids data in pairs of interactions.
How can I then rearrange these data in reading, or even how to write them ?? In Python or another language?

A: The following snippet would do the job-
import re

header = ''
id_dict = {}

# read the ids
with open('ids.csv') as fr:
    header = fr.readline()
    for line in fr:
        ids = [int(s) for s in re.findall(r'\d+', line)]
        try:
            id_dict[int(ids[0])].append(int(ids[1]))
        except:
            id_dict[int(ids[0])] = [int(ids[1])]

# sort the ids
for key in id_dict:
    id_dict[key].sort()

# save the sorted ids in a new file
with open('ids_sorted.txt', 'w') as fw:
    # fw.write(header)
    for key in sorted(id_dict):
        for value in id_dict[key]:
            fw.write("{0} {1}\n".format(key, value))

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July 11, 2015 by Rubenature
I would like to share with you a very interesting article written by the The Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT) about the risk of keeping carnivores in captivity and the bussiness behind. Many so-called NGO`S, Charities, etc which argue to work for carnivore conservation are part of one of the most unethical bussiness. Not only they keep wild animals in captivity as pets but also translocated what they call "problem animals" to new areas without monitoring the translocation, without a scientific protocol and viability study and sometimes (most of the times) without even a permit.. Please read and share the article, it would help you to identify who are this so called NGO´s and Charities:
Picture above: Captive adult cheetah male showing submissive behavior
The Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT) is growing increasingly concerned about the proliferation of captive facilities holding a range of carnivores in South Africa for the sole purpose of tourism and financial gain. We urge the public to consider a few facts when visiting any of a number of these facilities that hold lions, Cheetah, Leopards, Wild Dogs, hyena and even some exotic (non-native to South Africa) species such as tigers and panthers.
* No captive carnivore facility is breeding carnivores for release into the wild, despite what they may claim. Captive carnivores do not contribute to the conservation of free roaming populations; they are not releasable and they do not form part of any registered conservation or management plan for any carnivore in Africa.
* In many carnivore facilities, petting and bottle feeding of cubs is offered, for a fee. These cubs are often taken away from their mothers to stimulate faster reproduction and provide aconstant supply of petting carnivores. Visitors pay to pet the animal and have their photograph taken with it, as well as with their slightly older tame carnivore siblings.
* These carnivores become human imprinted, they do not grow up in a natural social group, and this makes it impossible to release them into a natural habitat for the long-term. This, coupled with the disease risk posed by captive bred animals, as well as their potentially dubious genetic lineage renders them a risk for release to not only themselves, but to other free roaming carnivores.
* Frequently the situation of a 'paying volunteer' is exploited for further financial gain, with volunteers being told that the carnivore mothers are not able to care for their offspring and that once they are old enough, hand-raised carnivores will be returned to the wild.
* "There are approximately 6 000 captive lions in South Africa bred for a variety of economic purposes", as opposed to approximately 2 300 free roaming in reserves and parks. [Draft Biodiversity Management Plan (BMP) for Lions, 2015]. In fact the BMP defines Captive Lions as being "lions [that] are bred exclusively to generate money. Managers actively manipulate all vital rates and demographics."
Picture above: Captive adult cheetah male showing both aggressive and defensive behavior
The EWT's concern relates to the public's understanding of the role and the purpose of captive carnivores and these facilities in carnivore conservation and we urge the public to better understand the role of these facilities as well as the risk that these animals may pose to the public:
* Captive bred carnivores are always more dangerous than their wild counterparts. They lose their fear of humans and tend to associate humans with food providers. Their social structures are heavily interfered with and their natural cycles are often manipulated. A wild carnivore will usually steer away from humans but a captive bred carnivore may not feel the need for such caution.
* A facility breeding carnivores will usually have to sell their offspring; it stands to reason that they cannot always have cubs and youngsters if they do not sell 'excess' animals.
* The captive bred lion hunting industry in South Africa has increased rapidly in recent years and South Africa is increasingly supplying captive bred lion bones for export to Asian markets.
* The Department of Environmental Affairs released figures in December 2013 that stated that "South Africa officially issued permits for the export of nearly (if not more than) 1 300 dead lions from South Africa to China, Lao PDR and Viet Nam from 2011 to 2012 inclusive." BMP, 2015.
* "The so-called 'canned hunting' industry for lions has also increased in recent years and the total value generated from hunting captive lions amounted to about R98 million in 2006/2007." Lion BMP, 2015.
* This raises the question: where do all these lions come from or go to? In South Africa, a thriving canned hunting industry can, in many cases, be linked to an equally thriving industry based on cub petting and commercial captive breeding centres.
Some may argue that there is educational value in allowing people to handle wild animals. Howeverthis kind of education provides the incorrect message that wild animals exist for human entertainment, that they can be petted like domestic animals. They also do not learn much about the natural behaviour, social structure or role of free roaming carnivores.
It is important to note that captive breeding is not a conservation recommendation for any carnivore species in South Africa. Carnivores in fact breed extremely well in the right conditions and for almostall our threatened carnivore species, the conservation priorities include reducing human-wildlife conflict, securing suitable habitat, reducing illegal offtake and maintaining balanced, functioning ecosystems. Without these in place, captive breeding leads to an over-supply of non-releasable animals which often end up as trophies. We also question that any funding generated from captive carnivore breeding goes to support the conservation of free roaming carnivores.
The EWT does not allege that any specific facility is breeding carnivores for the lion bone trade or forthe practice of 'canned hunting' but we do urge the public that visit these facilities to ask at the very least these critical questions:
· What is the plan for the long-term future of the animals in this facility?
· Where are the cubs' mothers?
· Why are cubs not being raised by their mothers?
· What happens to the facility's cubs when they grow up?
· If they are released into larger wildlife areas, where are these and can the facility provide documentation to prove a viable, ethical and successful release process?
· If the facility is breeding, do they have a management plan that determines responsible husbandry and management of all stock?
· Do any of the 'stock' have the opportunity to live out their natural lives, or are they hunted or bred with again?
· What happens to the facility's surplus animals?
· Can the public inspect the record books of the facility and follow the life cycle of an individual animal?
· If these animals become part of another breeding programme, for what purpose?
The EWT calls for a more active participation from the public in questioning the role of all captive carnivore facilities and the management of the animals in their care. We also call on the tourism sector to recognise the role that they may be playing in supporting some facilities that cannot account for the conservation claims that they make. Find a pdf of the article HERE
Contact: Kelly Marnewick
Carnivore Conservation Programme Manager
The Endangered Wildlife Trust
kellym@ewt.org.za
Yolan Friedmann
yolanf@ewt.org.za
Lillian Mlambo
lillianm@ewt.org.za
To this words, I would like to add a few links:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v425/n6957/full/425473a.html
Click to access Jule_et_al_2008_Effect_of_captive_experience_on_reintroduction_success_of_carnivores.pdf
| Tagged Africa, Behavior, Bussiness, Captivity, Carnivores, Cheetah, Conservation, Leopard, Lion, Volunteer, Wildlife Management | Leave a comment
February 24, 2015 by Rubenature
Large carnivores' tough life: Lion and Buffalo fight to death
I usually hear people saying that herbivores are prey and are vulnerable to be killed at any moment. They have fear, and while grazing/browsing are vigilant and ready to run if anything similar to a predator has been spotted or smelled in the surroundings. They are seen as the weakest against the powerful predators armed with sharped claws and muscled jaws that hold an army of threatening canines.
From my point of view, the truth is slightly different. Predators do not have an easy life neither. They have to compete with other powerful and armed carnivores of their same and other species for food, space, access to reproduction, survival, etc. They also have to cope with diseases, human persecution (their biggest challenge in life!) and always have to be in good shape. They must be successful hunters which required skills and techniques that need to be constantly improved throughout their life.
Quite a difficult task too… who is afraid now?
Next pictures were published in the Daily Mail two weeks ago. They were taken by Matt Armstrong-Ford, who works as a safari guide in the South Luangwa National Park, Zambia.
I thought interesting to share them as they well illustrate the predators' tough life.
Desesperate six-year-old male lion suffering from mange was waiting nearby a waterhole for a meal when the lone female buffalo appeared in the scene.
The feline is tossed around in the air as he attempts to mount his adversary.
The amateur photographer said that the fight lasted up to an hour. The buffalo managed to shake the lion itself off several times but instead of trying to escape just stood there. Both animals stared at each other both too exhausted to move. After a few minutes of rest the lion then went for the buffalo and another ten-minute battle ensued.
As it looked like fortune was favouring the exhausted but ravenous lion a member of the buffalo's herd came to its aid and delivered a deadly blow.
After this the lion managed to drag himself under a bush to lick his wounds. Both animals were covered in blood by the end. Two days later the lion succumbed to his injuries, while the buffalo's carcass was found two weeks later having failed to fight off infection
Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2945904/Battle-death-Buffalo-lion-endure-epic-hour-long-fight-leaves-animals-fatal-injuries.html
| Tagged Africa, Behavior, Large Carnivores, Lion, Predator & Prey, Wildlife | 1 Comment
January 28, 2015 by Rubenature
Top carnivores increase their kill rates on prey as a response to human-induced fear
We all know that human activity can influence the lives of nearby animals, especially those top predators that now have to play second fiddle to our ever-expanding interests. However, a new study has shown that not only do our actions impact them, but also our mere presence may cause majestic killers like pumas to grow so fearful that they change their hunting habits for the worse.
In the first-ever real-time tracking of leopard populations in India, researchers have determined that the big cats are surprisingly fearless when it comes to wandering near human neighborhoods. This was determined in a new GPS study, which has uncovered how these animals try to thrive in a man's world.
That's at least according to a new and fascinating study recently published in the Journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, which details how, among pumas living in California, those living closest to humans were found to kill a lot more prey, but eat less of each kill, compared to pumas in more wild and secluded areas.
This was determined after a team of scientists from the University of California captured and tagged 30 wild pumas with GPS collars so they could track their movements. The territory and hunting grounds of these animals were then identified, breaking the pumas up into those that are living either near more rural or suburban human environments. The team also investigated kills, measuring just how much of each kill was eaten before a puma elected to slip away.
What they found was startling. In areas near a higher density of human housing, female pumas in particular were found to kill about 36 percent more large prey – mainly deer – than the more "rural" pumas.
Strangely, it wasn't that the suburban pumas were hungrier. Instead, it appears that they are eating less of each kill – revisiting kill sites less frequently and spending less time taking their meals, compared to your average puma.
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Leopard vs Crocodile
The astonishing spectacle of a leopard savaging a crocodile has been captured for the first time on camera. A series of incredible pictures taken at a South African game reserve document the first known time that a leopard has taken on and defeated one of the fearsome reptiles. The photographs were taken by Hal Brindley, a wildlife photographer, who was supposed to be taking pictures of hippos from his car in the Kruger National Park.
The giant cat raced out of cover provided by scrub and bushes to surprise the crocodile, which was swimming nearby. A terrible and bloody struggle ensued. Eventually, onlookers were amazed to see the leopard drag the crocodile from the water as the reptile fought back. With the crocodile snapping its powerful jaws furiously, the two animals somersaulted and grappled. Despite the crocodile's huge weight and strength, the leopard had the upper hand catching its prey by the throat. Eventually the big cat was able to sit on top of the reptile and suffocate it. In the past, there have been reports of crocodiles killing leopards, but this is believed to the first time that the reverse scenario has been observed.
Mr Brindley said: 'I asked many rangers in South Africa if they had ever heard of anything like this and they all said NO. 'It just doesn't make sense. The meat you get out of a crocodile is just not worth the risk it takes a predator to acquire. The whole scene happened in the course of about 5 minutes. Then the leopard was gone.
Source: http://uk.pinterest.com/duncanmoon/leopard-attacks-crocodile/
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June 13, 2014 by Rubenature
Polar Bear – POV Cams (Spring 2014)
This video was edited and compiled from raw footage recorded by a camera equipped radio collar that was put on a female polar bear in the Beaufort Sea during April 2014 by the US Geological Survey. The video, which is the first ever from a free-ranging polar bear on Arctic sea ice, shows an interaction with a potential mate, playing with food, and swimming at the water's surface and under the sea ice. These videos will be used by the US Geological Survey in research to understand polar bear behavior and energetics in an Arctic with declining sea ice. Note: Some creative license has been taken to make this footage easier to follow and understand, including playful language that helps describe the polar bear's actions.
Location: , Arctic, Beaufort Sea
Date Taken: 4/16/2014
Video Producer: Paul Laustsen , USGS Office of Communications and Publishing
Note: This video has been released into the public domain by the U.S. Geological Survey for use in its entirety. Some videos may contain pieces of copyrighted material. If you wish to use a portion of the video for any purpose, other than for resharing/reposting the video in its entirety, please contact the Video Producer/Videographer listed with this video. Please refer to the USGS Copyright section for how to credit this video.
Additional Video Credits:
Produced by USGS
Anthony Pagano: Principal Investigator
Paul Laustsen, Karen Oakley and Stephen M. Wessells
Stephen M. Wessells
Scientific Reviewers:
Todd Atwood
George Durner
Karen Oakley
Mehdi Bakhtiari,
Exeye, LLC, Bristow, VA, USA
USGS Changing Arctic Ecosystems Initiative
Adam Ravetch
Arctic Bear Productions
Source: http://gallery.usgs.gov/videos/811#.U5b2c3J5NIF
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Lion vs. Warthog
Original Source: Daily Mail
This is the moment a warthog stepped into the path of a hungry lion and then became its prey. The incredible pictures show the warthog step into the lion's den, but it was only ever going to end one way, as the predator then leaps out with brute force to capture the animal.
The lion then goes on to devour the wild pig, proving his status as top of the animal food chain.
The stunning images were caught on camera by photographer Dr Trix Jonker, at the Addo Elephant Park in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.
Dr Jonker revealed she almost missed the moment as the warthog had a lucky escape first of all after it accidentally woke a sleeping lioness, but foolishly walked back in front of the lions and this time was not so lucky. But she managed to capture the action at the perfect minute. She added: "After the warthog escaped, I thought the action was over. But the warthog went back in a circle and went back on the same path as before, straight back into the lions."
She said: "It was getting late and the gates were closing in an hour. I looked away and when I looked back I saw the warthog coming straight towards some resting lions. By this time, a male lion had woken up and was sat up straight trying to see what the commotion was. He saw the warthog coming and went straight into the attack position. This was when I had my camera poised as I knew this time something was going to happen. At one stage there was only this big dust cloud and I could not see what was happening."
"He stayed like that for quite a while then lifted the warthog into the air and started dragging it away. I couldn't believe how tough the warthog was, and was absolutely stunned by what I saw that afternoon. It's amazing I managed to capture it on camera."
http://blog.africageographic.com/africa-geographic-blog/wildlife/wildlife-and-nature/lion-vs-warthog/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2611074/Lion-v-Warthog-The-stunning-moment-warthog-steps-path-hungry-lion-Spoiler-alert-lion-wins.html
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Wolves are not the Cause of Elk Population Decline in Wyoming
by Alex Robinson
Any hunter who's spent time in wolf country can attest to the predators' influence. We see wolf tracks, find old kills, and often times we spot fewer game animals. But exactly how wolves affect big-game populations is still greatly unknown. Yeah, wolves eat elk. But, do they kill mostly adults or calves? Do they eat enough elk to wipe out a whole herd? Do they pressure elk into hiding in the timber or force them off their feeding patterns? Are wolves even one of the main factors in elk population dynamics?
New research from the Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at the University of Wyoming is starting to shed light on some of these questions. After three years of studying the Clark's Fork elk herd (about 5,000 animals) in northwest Wyoming, lead researcher Arthur Middleton found that wolves might not be as detrimental to elk populations as many outdoorsmen think.
His research shows that the Clark's Fork herd's fate is based on a complex set of variables including habitat, weather, hunting, bears, and wolves.
"There's a pretty popular notion that elk are always responding to wolves. And that's a fairly logical perception because wolves are always hunting elk … But wolves hunt an elk population. That [hunting pressure] doesn't always affect individual animals."
Photo: Elk traveling across their winter range in Yellowstone National Park, USGS.
Middleton and a coalition of biologists GPS collared wolves and elk west of Cody, Wyoming in and around Yellowstone National park. In a study area of about 1 million acres, they monitored interactions between predator and prey. Over three years they observed the animals in January, February, and March – when wolves typically put the most stress on elk. The study was funded by a variety of organizations and agencies including Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, Boone & Crockett Club, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and Safari Club International.
The researchers set out to test the theory that wolves were responsible for decreasing elk populations in ways besides direct predation. In other words, they wanted to find out if pressure from wolves was running elk out of their regular feeding patterns and keeping cows from putting on enough body fat to rear calves in the spring.
The research started at a critical time for the Clark's Fork herd. Calf-to-cow ratios in the migratory herd started dropping in the mid-90s, about the same time wolves were introduced. Those ratios have remained low since 2002 and overall elk numbers decreased. Middleton found about 15 calves to 100 elk in the migratory Clark's Fork herd. In the resident herd, the ratio was about 35 calves per 100 elk.
Hunters and wildlife managers were alarmed by the drop in elk numbers. Doug McWhiter, a Wyoming Fish and Game biologist who manages the area, said elk numbers are stable now, but hunting opportunities had to be cut. Cow tags were reduced and hunting units in the area were switched from general over-the-counter licenses to limited quota in 2010. Hunter opportunity was reduced by 50 to 75 percent, says McWhiter who helped with Middleton's research.
"We can maintain these elk numbers but we had to severely limit hunting opportunity to do that," he says. "That in itself is difficult for people to understand."
Photo: The Agate wolf pack in a stand-off with a bull in Yellowstone, NPS.
Middleton and his crew found that a new wolf pack does not mean certain doom for an elk herd. In fact, elk have adapted to living with wolves.
"From my time in the field, I can say that most days in the life of a cow elk are pretty boring," Middleton says. On average, elk encountered wolves once every 9 days. The highest wolf-encounter rate for any individual elk was once every four days. And, even though elk were encountering wolves, they weren't overly stressed or run to starvation.
"We didn't see any reduction in rate of feeding and we didn't see them shift into timber. Those two behaviors were said to be [metabolically] costly, but we just didn't see [the elk reacting that way,]" Middleton says.
Elk did move slightly more when wolves were within 1 kilometer, but not by much – they only traveled an extra 30 meters per hour when wolves were in the area.
The researchers also found that the number of wolf encounters had no impact on the amount of elk body fat. Body fat is a critical measurement for cows' ability to rear calves.
So if the wolf-hunting-pressure theory was busted, what was happening to the Clark Fork's herd?
Middleton says it comes down to habitat. The area has suffered a 20-year decline in habitat across the herd's summer range. If an elk can't put on enough body fat in the summer and fall, then it will struggle through the winter, regardless of predators, Middleton says.
"We looked at a suite of factors that could explain late-winter body fat and the only thing that did explain it was autumn body fat. In other words, whatever they get over the summer determines where they end up in winter," he says.
Of course, wolf predation does affect overall elk numbers, but in a separate study Middleton found that wolves weren't even the top calf predators. He found that bears typically take out more elk calves than wolves do. During a June monitoring period grizzlies killed an elk calf every two to four days and black bears killed a calf every four to eight days.
Photo: Wolf on an elk kill in Yellowstone, PLOS Biology.
Backcountry Observations
Collecting data that shows an elk herd can thrive in wolf country and then getting people to actually believe that data are two different challenges. Hunters and outfitters who have spent their lives in the backcountry – before and after the wolf reintroduction – have already made plenty of their own observations.
Tim Doud, owner of Bliss Creek Outfitters out of Cody, says the elk decline goes hand-in-hand with the wolf reintroduction. Clear and simple.
"The elk population numbers have certainty decreased and it is because of the wolves. That's the only reason in my eyes," he says. "Now I'm not anti-wolf. I don't think they should be wiped out or anything like that. But we do need to hunt more of them. Most people don't see what I see. They don't see the horrific, suffering death of an elk whose hindquarters have been chewed away and can only lay there and die slowly. That's a real shame. Most people … go to Yellowstone to see the pretty dogs."
Ron Lineberger owns Butte Creek Outfitters with his wife Theresa and guides elk hunters in the Wyoming backcountry. Over the years he's seen elk behavior change, and in many ways his observations match Middleton's research.
"Elk behavior has totally changed, but the elk are not gone. Everyone loves to blame the wolf because it's easy … [Wolves] did change the dynamic for the environment and they've changed the way a lot of animals have evolved. It has led to a bit of catastrophic natural adaptation…
"There has been a succession of fires, which destroyed natural elk habitat. Grizzly bear numbers have gone up and the elk have moved to survive. They have moved to more agricultural and human habitat areas. It's not just the wolf that's caused the change. People just look to put the blame on one thing. Yes, elk have moved to areas that haven't seen elk for 200 years. But there are large portions of healthy elk populations that have moved to private land, which makes them unhuntable … Think of it this way: the elk are picking their poison. Either deal with hunters in the low country for 6 weeks, or stay in the high country and deal with wolves and bears year round."
The takeaway? Adapting to environmental changes is key to the success of a species, and an elk hunter.
"The hunter has to adapt as well," Lineberger says. "Hunting elk also relies on a lot of factors that we have no control over. The fact that they have become more alert thanks to the wolves, certainly makes it tougher, but hunters must adapt to that. We are no different than any other animal. We must adapt to survive."
Source: http://www.outdoorlife.com/blogs/newshound/2013/06/study-wolves-not-cause-wyoming-elk-decline
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Wolves in a Tangled Bank
by Cristina Eisenberg
The wolves' return to Yellowstone and the subsequent recovery of plants that elk had been eating to death in their absence has become one the most popularized and beloved ecological tales. By the 1920s humans had misguidedly wiped out most of the wolves in North America, thinking that the only good wolf was a dead one. Without wolves preying on them, elk and deer (also calledungulates) exploded in number. Burgeoning ungulate populations ravaged plant communities, including aspen forests. Decades later, the wolves we reintroduced in Yellowstone hit the ground running, rapidly sending their ecological effects rippling throughout the region, restoring this ecosystem from top to bottom. Yet today some scientists caution that this story is more myth than fact because nature isn't so simple.
For decades scientists have been investigating the ecological role of wolves. In his 1940s game surveys, Aldo Leopold found ungulates wiping out vegetation wherever wolves had been removed. He concluded that by controlling ungulates, wolves could restore plant communities and create healthier habitat for other species, such as birds.
Since Leopold's time, many scientists have studied food web relationships between top predators and their prey—called trophic cascades. In the 1960s and 1970s Robert Paine, working with sea stars, and James Estes, working with sea otters, showed that ecosystems without top predators begin to unravel. John Terborgh called the ensuing rampant species extinctions an "ecological meltdown." Paine created the metaphorical termkeystone species to refer to top predators and noted that when you remove the keystone, arches and ecosystems collapse. Over the years ecologists found trophic cascades—also called top-down effects—ubiquitous from coral reefs to prairies to polar regions. However, William Murdoch and others have maintained that sunlight and moisture, which make plants grow, drive ecosystem processes from the bottom-up, making predators relatively unimportant. The Yellowstone wolf reintroduction provided the perfect setting to test these contrasting perspectives.
In the mid-1800s in his book The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin presciently described nature as a "tangled bank." Nature's complexity results from myriad species and their relationships with other species and all the things that can possibly affect them individually and collectively, such as disease, disturbance, and competition for food. Science works incrementally, taking us ever deeper into nature's tangled bank as we investigate ecological questions. Each study answers some questions and begets new ones. Sometimes we find contradictory results. Learning how nature works requires what Leopold called "deep-digging research" in which we keep searching for answers amid the clues nature gives us, such as the bitten-off stem of an aspen next to a stream where there are no wolves.
Trophic cascades science that focuses on wolf effects is still in its infancy, with huge knowledge gaps. For example, we've linked wolves to strong effects that cascade down through multiple food web levels. However, we're just starting to parse how context can influence these effects. Some Yellowstone studies have found that wolves have powerful indirect effects on the plants that elk eat, such as aspens, due to fear of predation. With wolves around, elk have to keep moving to stay alive, which reduces browsing pressure. Conversely, a growing body of studies are finding no wolf effect—that aspens in places with wolves aren't growing differently than those where predation risk is low. Other studies have found that wolf predation risk doesn't affect elk feeding behavior. In my own research I've found that wolves need another keystone force—fire—to most effectively drive trophic cascades. With wolves and fire present, elk herbivory drops, aspens thrive, and biodiversity soars due to the healthy habitat created by young, vigorously growing aspen.
It's human nature to try to find simple solutions. Today we are grappling with monumental environmental problems such as climate change and habitat fragmentation. Due to the wolf's iconic status and our need to fix broken ecosystems, the environmental community and the media have run with the science that shows a strong wolf effect. This has inspired other scientists to prove that ecosystems are more complex than that. These dissenting studies demonstrate that the wolf dwells in a tangled bank, working alongside many other ecological forces.
Tangled banks seldom yield simple answers. However, arguing about what exactly carnivores do ecologically and why we need them is fiddling while Rome burns. Large, meat-eating animals improve the health of plant communities and provide food subsidies for the many species that scavenge on their kills. A system with wolves in it is far richer than one without and can support many more grizzly bears, coyotes, wolverines, and eagles. There are things we don't know and disagreements about what we do know. But given the accelerated human-caused extinctions we are experiencing today, a precautionary approach to creating healthier ecosystems means conserving large carnivores.
Beyond empiricism, scientists often operate based on instinct. Instinct led Darwin to dig more deeply into species adaptation and Leopold to doggedly delve into the effects of predator removal. For many of us who conduct trophic cascades science, our instincts are telling us that wolves should be conserved in as high a number in as many places as possible, due to the invaluable benefits they can bring to ecosystems. To do anything other than conserve wolves would be foolish, given all we've learned thus far.
Source: http://ipfieldnotes.org/wolves-in-a-tangled-bank/
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April 17, 2014 by Rubenature
Lion takes on crocodile in war over hippo
THIS is the amazing moment a lion fought off the snapping jaws of a crocodile so it could feed on a dead hippo
The incredible battle was caught on camera by Richard Chew [CATERS/RICHARD CHEW]
The pictures were taken in the Maasi Mara nature reserve, in Kenya and show hungry lion braving a crocodile-infested river to get to an upside down hippo, which had died overnight of natural causes.
The incident was witnessed and captured on camera by Richard Chew, an IT manager from San Francisco, USA who was on holiday with his wife.
Semi- professional photographer Richard has travelled the world taking pictures but said it was a really unique moment.
He said: "It was such an amazing moment in wildlife and our Kenyan guide Abdul has never seen anything like it before.
The pictures were taken in the Maasi Mara nature reserve, in Kenya [CATERS/RICHARD CHEW]
The lion takes a mighty swing at the croc's snapping jaws [CATERS/RICHARD CHEW]
The whole river was infested with crocodiles [CATERS/RICHARD CHEW ]
The lion defiantly snarls at the croc [CATERS/RICHARD CHEW]
"Two lions spotted the hippo at first but couldn't reach it as they were on the wrong side of the river.
"The lions left in search of other prey and we went to explore a different area." But when Richard returned to the same spot at the end of the day, the two lions had managed to get to the other side and were battling with 15 crocodiles for the free meal.
"The lions were really showing no fear. The river was full of crocodiles who were wanting a piece of the hippo but the lions were putting up a good fight.
"It was amazing to watch the wildlife food chain in action."
Source: http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/466503/Battle-of-the-beasts-Incredible-moment-a-lion-takes-on-a-crocodile-in-war-over-a-hippo
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April 1, 2014 by Rubenature
The Ecology of fear in Washington
Discover why wolves in Washington State are an essential part of the ecosystem
Learn more on website: http://ow.ly/uhcU5
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Q: Почему несколько js-файлов склеены? На сайте js-скрипты подключаются примерно так:
<script src="js/init.js+programming.js.pagespeed.jc.0CvsngqB5t.js"></script>

но в папке js эти все скрипты лежат отдельно, и если их редактировать и залить по фтп, то изменений на сайте не видно.
т.е. в папке js лежат такие файлы: init.js,  programming.js
Подскажите, как эти скрипты компилируются в один файл и как вносить в них изменения?
pagespeed.jc.0CvsngqB5t.js такого файла в папке js нет. Откуда он?

A: Файлы склеены для того, чтобы вместо нескольких http-соединений использовать одно. Это одна из техник оптимизации веб-сайтов, позволяющая избежать оверхэда на установку соединения и передачу http-заголовков, а также более рационально использовать одновременные 8 соединений с одним доменом, которые может позволить браузер.
По-хорошему, где-то в имени файла должен быть хэш, чтобы можно было нормально использовать кэширование (сделать его постоянным), но в вопросе его не заметно.
Попробуй обновить страницу без использования кэша - при помощи Ctrl+F5, либо открыв в приватном окне. Если поможет, то сервер стоит как-то перенастроить, чтобы в имени файла был хэш. Если не поможет, то никаких данных, чтобы тебе чем-то помочь с настройкой в вопросе вообще нет.


In an age proliferated by the exponential rise of adaptive challenges and unsolvable dilemmas, we still find that our organizational environments and cultures remain awash in a sense of solutionitis. In the face of these challenges and dilemmas, we see leaders and organizations inevitably switch to choosing veneer answers and short-term solutions, when, in fact, deeper questions and long-term considerations are not only what is needed, but are in their best interest for future relevance in a world aimed at accelerated obsolescence.
Too often we treat these adaptive challenges and dilemmas as problems to be quickly dismissed and solved, we jump to simplicity without gaining a full grasp of their complexity, we shape a solution without diving deeper to determine the depth of the challenge, and we continue to formulate our answers before we truly comprehend whether or not we are asking the right questions.
In a sense, we thrive on this want and need to provide certainty in a time of great uncertainty.
Unfortunately, the more we try to provide this sense of certainty to these challenges, the more we tend to jump into solutionitis mode. And yet, what we find is that the more we work to engage short-term fixes to these dilemmas we now face, the more we create individual and organizational confusion, frustration, dysfunction and disconnection are created.
Rather, in the midst of these dilemmas and adaptive challenges, we must move from being solution-focused to opportunity-open.
Which often starts when leaders building their capacity and ability to more effectively determine whether they are facing a problem, or a dilemma or adaptive challenge. Understanding the difference between the two and engaging strategies and processes to approach them more effectively can lead to greater individual and organizational clarity and coherence in moving forward into the future.
In the end, greater clarity and coherence is created when we truly understand whether we are facing a problem or an adaptive challenge or dilemma, as well as being able to create the appropriate individual and organizational expectations towards the outcomes we are seeking to each one, which is incredibly important in times of greater uncertainty and complexity.
Which often starts by understanding that what worked in the past will not necessarily work in the future…and may just be the first step in understanding this tremendous and exponential shift from technical problems to a world now awash in dilemmas and adaptive challenges.
We live in a time when we are truly seeing the importance of greater organizational adaptability and overall agility to not only parallel pace the turbulent pace of change, but to hold onto some semblance of relevance in a world that is bent on discontinuity and the speed of next.
The greatest risk in our modern world is often our inability or unwillingness to take a risk. It is this type of VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) environment that not only necessitates, but requires an enhanced ability to work more effectively in team settings, collaborate at a much higher and efficient level, as wells as create and utilize more expansive internal and external networks to leverage greater learning and idea flow throughout the organization, at all levels.
We can no longer entrench ourselves in the successes of the past, mire ourselves in outdated strategies, practices, processes and structures, or allow the overwhelming pace and speed of change to stagnate us in decision paralysis, especially if we are to remain relevant to the exponential shifts that are occurring across the entirety of our societal ecosystem.
The disruptions we are witnessing, driven by this technological transformation, are emerging not as events…but rather, as daily occurrences.
As is shared in Team of Teams, "An organization should empower its people, but only after it has done the heavy lifting of creating shared consciousness." Unfortunately, too many organizations err too far on one side or the other: they either provide autonomy without creating the capacity to fully utilize that autonomy, or they build up individual and organizational capacity and fail to provide the autonomy or empower their people effectively. Both of which end in frustration at all levels of the organization, doing little to enhance individual or organizational adaptability or agility.
Today's leaders need to look to ways to not only engage the collective intelligence that resides in an organization, but amplify that "shared consciousness" towards greater collective capacity in an environment that empowers people to make better decisions as they adapt to the complex conditions they face on a daily basis.
Create groups with mutual respect, shared interests and foster mutual respect.
Minimize the leaders influence on group thinking.
Seek and explore diverse solutions to the problem, to maximize the group's likelihood of uncovering an excellent option.
Aggregate the group's knowledge through frank debate.
Use quorum responses for speed, cohesion, and accuracy, balancing interdependence and independence.
Our ability to tap more effectively into the knowledge and ideas that exist within our teams, groups and networks will allow us to create deeper and more expansive collective capacity that will enhance our ability to not only amplify this organizational idea flow, but empower our people to adapt to this new knowledge with the autonomy to implement and utilize ideas that improve an organization's ability to work towards and emerge more effectively as a culture of continuous improvement.
The question now becomes, can we rebuild and recreate it for speed, agility and adaptability?
Have we noticed the world has changed, and not in subtle, but often exponential ways?
Are we aware that the speed and turbulence of change has and is accelerating at an unprecedented rate?
Can we see how disruptive this technological (fourth industrial) revolution has been and will be in the future?
In a world that often supports that tagline adapt or die, nothing less than organizational transformation is sufficient for survival in a world gone VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous).
We cannot bury our head in the sand and believe that the disruption that stands at our doorstep will pass us by unnoticed. The shifts are too enormous to be ignored.
If we are not careful, if we remain more lethargic than proactive to the changes we do and will face, we may find our future mirroring the Parable of the Boiled Frog. Or as Hemingway states, "gradually, then suddenly" may very well define the discovery of just how disruptive "1" degree can shift the environment in which we exist.
The ambiguity of today's world is leaving us awash in anxiety. Fear and uncertainty often makes us recoil from the plethora of unknowns we face, further entrenching us in status quo thinking and doing. The permanence of the past is an illusion in today's turbulent and accelerated world.
We can't conquer the ambiguity and uncertainty that this new world creates, but we can learn to adapt ourselves to it. We can learn to parallel pace this heightened speed of change by becoming more agile, in adjusting quicker and more effectively to the shifts that it provokes in our individual and organizational lives.
To attain the level of adaptability and agility necessary to deal more relevantly with these exponential shifts and the new levels of complexity that accompany them, it will ultimately require us as individuals and organizations to engage in learning that: builds greater individual and organizational capacity, is more strategic and intentional, provokes intrinsic motivation, is continuous and evolving, leverages 'best' practices while engaging in 'next' practices, creates greater idea flow through the use of internal and external collaborations and networks, is based in a want for better, while being focused on the tenets and principles of continuous improvement.
Technology isn't just driving innovation…it's changing our mental models and disrupting the entire ecosystem of the future.
To keep pace in this new world, we will have to become much better in connecting dots in real time, and to do this, we will ultimately find that our ability to learn, and to connect that learning in new and novel ways, becomes our best advantage.


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class CM_Type_EnumTest extends CMTest_TestCase {

    public function testValid() {
        $circle = new FiguresValidMock('circle');
        $this->assertSame('circle', (string) $circle);

        $this->assertSame(
            [
                'CIRCLE'   => 'circle',
                'SQUARE'   => 'square',
                'TRIANGLE' => 'triangle',
            ],
            FiguresValidMock::getConstantList()
        );

        $default = new FiguresValidMock();
        $this->assertSame('square', (string) $default);
    }

    public function testInvalid() {
        $exception = $this->catchException(function () {
            new FiguresValidMock('bar');
        });
        $this->assertInstanceOf('CM_Exception_Invalid', $exception);
        /** @var CM_Exception_Invalid $exception */
        $this->assertSame('Invalid value for enum class', $exception->getMessage());
        $this->assertSame(
            [
                'value'         => 'bar',
                'className' => 'FiguresValidMock',
            ],
            $exception->getMetaInfo()
        );

        $exception = $this->catchException(function () {
            new FiguresInvalidNoDefaultMock();
        });
        $this->assertInstanceOf('CM_Exception_Invalid', $exception);
        /** @var CM_Exception_Invalid $exception */
        $this->assertSame('Default value in not defined for enum class', $exception->getMessage());
        $this->assertSame(['className' => 'FiguresInvalidNoDefaultMock'], $exception->getMetaInfo());

        $exception = $this->catchException(function () {
            new FiguresInvalidValidDefaultMock();
        });
        $this->assertInstanceOf('CM_Exception_Invalid', $exception);
        /** @var CM_Exception_Invalid $exception */
        $this->assertSame('Invalid default value for enum class', $exception->getMessage());
        $this->assertSame(['className' => 'FiguresInvalidValidDefaultMock'], $exception->getMetaInfo());
    }
}

class FiguresValidMock extends CM_Type_Enum {

    protected function _getDefaultValue() {
        return self::SQUARE;
    }

    const CIRCLE = 'circle';
    const SQUARE = 'square';
    const TRIANGLE = 'triangle';
}

class FiguresInvalidNoDefaultMock extends CM_Type_Enum {

    const SQUARE = 'square';
    const TRIANGLE = 'triangle';
}

class FiguresInvalidValidDefaultMock extends CM_Type_Enum {

    protected function _getDefaultValue() {
        return 'foo';
    }

    const SQUARE = 'square';
    const TRIANGLE = 'triangle';
}

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Two of Pomona College's most prominent alumni authors, Vikram Chandra '84 and Ved Mehta '56, have new books out in India.
The latest from Chandra, author of the bestseller Sacred Games, is Mirrored Mind: My Life in Letter and Code, which explores computer coding and novel writing and the connections and trajectories of the seemingly opposing methods of expression.
Mirrored Mind will be released in the U.S. in September as Geek Sublime: Writing Fiction, Coding Software. Chandra, who has spent years as a computer analyst and years as an acclaimed fiction writer, creates a work described by the publisher as "part literary theory, part tech story, and part memoir." The book ranges from discussions of the Silicon Valley coding culture to an analysis of the writings of the fourth century Sanskrit grammarian Panini to an examination of his own relationship to Western literature.
The Telegraph (U.K.) called it "a delight to read and never prescriptive… a thought-provoking set of linked essays that are part memoir, part analysis of geeks, part aesthetic treatise." Meanwhile, Chandra's bestseller Sacred Games may become a TV series.
Ved Mehta '56, the author of 27 books and many articles, has released The Essential Ved Mehta. The book contains excerpts from almost all of his nonfiction writings, beginning with his first novel Face to Face, published in 1957. Mehta was a staff writer at the New Yorker from 1960 to 1993, writing prolifically during his tenure. The Essential Ved Mehta contains Mehta's published pieces that include his many writings on India and politics, as well as family stories and personal memoirs that delve into living with blindness since the age of 4.
Both The Essential Ved Medhta and Mirrored Mind are published by Penguin India.


Today is a national day of mourning.
At 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday, a tram carrying up to 30 people and a truck carrying beer collided in the Melbourne suburb of Parkville. It left 50 kegs of beer from Carlton & United Breweries strewn across the road and footpath in the terrible tragedy.
"Paramedics arrived to find the tram extensively damaged and beer kegs from the truck strewn across the road," Paramedic Craig Cain told ABC News, as Australians shed a collective tear.
Luckily, only two people suffered minor injuries when the tram derailed. "Paramedics assessed those at the scene and no one was seriously hurt," Cain added.
The beer, though, is an entirely different matter.
Sad day. #beer truck collides with tram in #Melbourne.
Humans all ok, beer critical.
It's an odd sense of pride, finding out it was a tram on your tramline that had a faceoff with a beer truck.
A tram and beer truck have collided in Parkville. There are supposedly 'kegs everywhere'.
@pappy90 @melbtimes @illumination_ Bring pretzels... I repeat, bring pretzels.


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NEW YORK (WCBS 880) — Sofia "Sonya" Kenin is only 19, but has been climbing the ranks to the top in professional tennis.
Kenin won in three sets during her first two matches at this year's US Open and has reached the third round. The Florida resident will take on Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic Friday night.


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Soliloquium
Black/doom metal
Epic doom metal
Funeral doom metal
Gothic doom metal
Stoner doom metal
Traditional doom metal
Doom metal reviews
Death/doom metal
Death/doom metal bands
10 essential death/doom metal albums
Melodic death/doom metal
Death/doom metal from 2017
Old school death metal
Progressive death metal
20 best metal live bands
Published by soliloquium on August 4, 2020 August 4, 2020
Since my lists of the 100 best death metal bands and 20 best death metal vocalists got some cool reactions, I figure I'll keep the nerdy lists coming. But this time I'll go a bit broader than death metal and list my 20 best metal live bands.
Who am I to talk about this, you might say? Well, I've seen more than my fair amount of metal bands live. The list is bound to be skewed towards my favorite genres, like death metal, thrash metal and doom metal.
Oh, and few excluded borderline metal bands that would've been in here if they counted: VOLA, Deftones, Anathema, Junius. Not trying to be one of those genre-nitpickers, but I felt it was better to do it like this for this particular list.
20 best metal live bands – written by:
Stefan Nordström
Vocalist, guitarist, songwriter, blogger
Member of Desolator, Soliloquium and several other music projects
20. Meshuggah
A robotic high-tech band like Meshuggah may feel like something that doesn't explode in a live environment, but actually, that couldn't be more wrong. I love the feel the low-end attacks more in the ground than in the ears, and if you're lucky enough to see them at night, the lighting effects are absolutely wild.
19. Sólstafir
When it comes to overly emotional metal live gigs, Sólstafir is one of the most intense bands. The presence in the band's performances is fantastic, and it's definitely one of the deeper experiences you can get at a metal festival.
18. Misery Index
Short, and intense. That's what best describes my two encounters with this awesome deathgrind band. Even if both gigs barely lasted 30 minutes, songs like "The Carrion Call" and "The Great Depression" feels like a massive beating. Definitely looking to see another Misery Index gig as soon as possible.
17. Napalm Death
Napalm Death has never been a major band for me playlist-wise, but I've always loved their live shows. Barney is an absolute maniac up there, and the band displays no signs of slowing down. Always one of those bands I enjoy a lot at festivals.
16. Ghost Brigade
Finland's Ghost Brigade may not sound like one of those bands that absolutely tear it up live, but the gigs were (hoping for a comeback) massive. The band's sludgy parts are extremely headbangable live, and it doesn't hurt that Ghost Brigade can switch gear with emotional tunes like "Into the Black Light" and "Soulcarvers".
15. Vader
Vader is a well-oiled live machine that rarely goes on autopilot. The gigs are usually both tight and energetic. I think Vader really just got better over time, and I'm massively bummed that my last encounter with the band in 2018 fell victim to Fryshuset's (Stockholm concert arena) terrible sound.
14. Amorphis
Amorphis with Tomi Joutsen is always one of the most welcome sights on a festival billing. I've had several 10/10 encounters with the band, and even with some overplayed setlist choices the gigs are absolutely fantastic.
13. Dark Tranquillity
Mikael Stanne is one of metal's best frontmen, and the excellent "Where Death Is Most Alive" DVD doesn't exaggerate his abilities. Dark Tranquillity was actually the first metal band I ever saw live, back in the stone-age, on the tour for "Damage Done". I had the opportunity to see them at Brutal Assault a few years ago, and it was just as great.
12. The Crown
I've only managed to catch this long-time favorite once in almost 20 years, but it was worth the wait. The Crown's music is 99 % attitude and balls, and it couldn't fit better on the live stage. It was also fun to get featured in their music video for "Iblis Bane", since footage from the gig I attended was included.
11. Testament
Few bands can beat Testament live on a good day, even in 2020. Chuck Billy is commanding AF, and the band has an insane amount of hits to choose from when compiling their setlists. The only thing stopping Testament from being higher on the list is the unevenness; I've had three 10/10 experiences and two decent ones.
10. Candlemass
Candlemass is one of the heaviest live bands, and the gigs I've witnessed have been epic AF. I've seen them with Messiah, Robert, Johan, Mats and various live guests, and it's always been awesome. The "Epicus Doomicus Metallicus" performances with Johan remain the most epic, but I'd go see Candlemass no matter the singer.
9. Neurosis
A Neurosis show in a proper setting is like a very explosive meditation session. Unlike most of the bands on this list, it's more introversion than entertainment. It may sound strange, but the experience I had last time I saw them in Stockholm easily warrants the band a position as high as this.
8. Katatonia
My favorite band Katatonia is a group that has really grown on the live stage over time. It was enjoyable to see them back in the day, but over the course of the last three albums or so, the difference has been massive. Instrumentally, it's always been tight, but it seems Jonas Renkse levels up his singing and frontman skills by a few percent every year. My two Katatonia encounters on the "The Fall of Hearts" tour cycle were immense, and I hope I get to see the band again soon (damn you, Covid).
7. Blood Red Throne
Got riffs? Well, Blood Red Throne does – and the band is not afraid to headbang as well. "Altered Genesis" has always been one of my favorite death metal albums, and the super-catchy riffs and structures is the main reason. Live, the band is equally tight and relentless as in the studio. Both times I've seen Blood Red Throne left me with a non-functioning neck, so I'm hoping for a third chance as soon as possible.
There is certainly a lack of classic bands on this list, but at least I'm not excluding Iron Maiden. Two of the shows I've seen with the band has been some of the most epic and massive concert experiences I've had, especially the Wacken show in 2010. There's just something about watching an epic band with fantastic stage presence along with almost 100 000 people.
5. Death Angel
The best old school thrash metal on a live stage is not one of the well-known classics. For me, Death Angel outplays them all, at least in the 2000's. But why? It's mostly about two things in combination: energy and tightness. These guys are extremely good musicians, and I think that's what allows them go so full-on with the energy and interaction while keeping it tight. Bands like Testament, Overkill, Exodus and Kreator are still good live too, but I don't think they can compete with Death Angel.
4. Black Breath
I've seen this crossover-ish U.S. band on two occasions and I have to say it delivers one of metal's most destructive live shows. The music, where crossover thrash is combined with a Swedish death metal guitar tone, just goes down so well live. My second Black Breath show actually got me worst concert injury to this day: a smashed up eyebrow that turned into a black eye that stayed for a week. Headbanging into the edge of a monitor, mad skills!
3. Benighted
When it comes down to pure intensity and energy, few bands can compete with Benighted. I've had a few absolute out of control Benighted experiences, 2015 at Neurotic Deathfest being the wildest one. On one side it comes down to the super-catchy and dynamic songwriting. On the other side it comes down to some of the members going absolutely wild on stage. If you have a chance to see Benighted live, go for it!
2. Immolation
Immolation just seem to get better and better over time, and the live shows I saw in 2019 really proved that. The members have absolutely fantastic stage presence, and the overall live sound is like a damn battle tank. I love Immolation in studio, but I think the music gets an even more nasty edge live. Definitely one of the best metal live bands.
1. Dismember
Dismember's "Live Blasphemies" DVD show what was got me into real death metal after mostly liking the melodic stuff. I managed to catch them seven times back in the good old days, and I can safely say most of them consisted of non-stop headbanging. A lot of it has to do with the catchy, well-written songs and massive guitar tone, but Matti Kärki's presence and humor has a lot to do with it at well.
20 best metal live bands – summary
These are the 20 bands I came up with, based on my own experiences. If you share music taste with me, it's highly likely that you'll enjoy a few of my bands. Yup, it's self-promotion time. But what the hell.. you might like it?
If you're into death metal, check out my old school death metal band Desolator. For fans of: Immolation, Morbid Angel, Blood Red Throne, Vader, Bloodbath, Nile and more.
If you're into doom metal, progressive metal or melodic death metal, check out Soliloquium. For fans of: Katatonia, Daylight Dies, October Tide, Rapture, Anathema, Insomnium, Alcest, Slumber and more.
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Full death metal genre guide ->
10 tips for learning extreme vocals ->
Full doom metal genre guide ->
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Metal from 2021 – the ultimate list of new albums
After doing my best to keep track of metal albums from 2020, I'm back with metal from 2021. Here I'll list all interesting 2021 metal releases, both upcoming and released. Am I missing something interesting? Read more…
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Lets Talk About What We Want To See In Big Mouth Season Three
Season three might be going through changes.
By Kate GardnerNov 18th, 2018, 2:29 pm
Get those bubble baths ready, the Hormone Monsters are coming back. Netflix has officially renewed Big Mouth for a third season as a Thanksgiving miracle. With the tagline "Puberty gets even messier," the streaming site dropped the announcement with a promotional video on Twitter yesterday.
Puberty gets even messier.#BigMouth Season 3 is coming to @netflix in 2019. pic.twitter.com/vd1CpHg9L6
— Big Mouth (@bigmouth) November 17, 2018
Now that the celebratory musical numbers have stopped, let's look ahead to what might be in store for our favorite middle schoolers. To recap the end of season two: Nick's puberty is finally on its way, as the Hormone Monstress is officially partnered with him to shepherd him through puberty. Andrew befriended the Shame Wizard, but now can't stop thinking about whether or not Missy still has a thing for him. Jessi is finally ready to get help after a rough season that culminated with a visit from the Depression Kitty. Jay might be bisexual, and finally someone realized Coach Steve really shouldn't be teaching children.
First off, here's one thing I hope the show continues: keeping the girls as central to the plot as the boys. Big Mouth isn't just here to cater to the needs of Nick and Andrew; Jessi and Missy get their time to shine and grow as well. Female sexuality is presented as being just as much a part of growing up as male sexuality; while the show doesn't shy away from the double standards, it also never shames the girls for wanting more either. Hopefully, Gina will return for season three and be just as central to the plot as she was this season, and Jessi and Missy will continue to grow just as much as their male counterparts.
I'd love to see more Very Special Episodes like the Planned Parenthood episode, which tackled many of the myths surrounding the organization with humor and grace. While not every episode has to have political grandstanding, it's nice to see a comedy tackling these issues without just making them punchlines.
I'm excited to see Jay getting the potential for more development outside of just being horny and having a tragic home life. We're still working towards more positive bisexual rep across the board, and if the writers of the show approach it with their usual nuance, I'm excited to see Jay's potential coming out. It would be great to involve Matthew with the main gang as well, as he's currently the only gay student that we know is out in the school.
Hopefully, the Shame Wizard will continue his journey from enemy to awkward friend. Nothing says "ruining your childhood" like hearing Remus Lupin talk about a teenager being a filthy little pervert. Though on the flip side of that, maybe scale back Coach Steve's role. He's certainly a character, but he's not the strongest of the bunch, and he's better in moderation. Let's let him take a break for a bit.
What do you want to see in season three? A few more musical numbers? Maya Rudolph saying bubble bath on loop? Let us know in the comments.
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Actor David Lander Wiki, Bio, Age, Career, Height, Spouse, Children, Books, Occupation, Active Year & Net Worth
ByGabriele Oster
First Published: May 13, 2020
David Lander is an American actor, voice actor, comedian, composer, musician, and baseball scout. He has also worked as the Goodwill Ambassador for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Similarly, he is best known for his portrayal of Squiggy on the sitcom Laverne & Shirley. He is the father of Natalie Lander. Lander was born David Leonard Landau in Brooklyn, New York, the youngest son of two Jewish schoolteacher parents.
Moreover, Lander decided to become an actor when he was 10. He studied to become an actor at the High School for the Performing Arts and continued at Carnegie Tech and New York University. Likewise, he is best known for his role of Andrew "Squiggy" Squiggman on the situation comedy Laverne & Shirley from 1976 to 1982 along with sitcom sidekick Lenny, played by Michael McKean.
Lander's partnership with McKean began during their acting classes at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. There they developed the characters of Lenny and Squiggy. Later, after Pittsburgh they teamed up in the Los Angeles-based comedy ensemble The Credibility Gap. The duo released an album as Lenny and the Squigtones in 1979 featuring Christopher Guest on guitar, credited as Nigel Tufnel. Moreover, a name Guest would later reuse in the spoof rock band Spinal Tap.
Lander and McKean also appeared together in the 1979 Steven Spielberg comedy 1941, and the 1980 Kurt Russell film Used Cars. Moreover, Lander and McKean lent their vocal talents to the animated TV series Oswald, which ran from 2001 to 2003. Lander and McKean voiced the characters of the penguin cousins Henry and Louie, respectively.
Lander has also appeared in numerous other TV shows. And movies including The Bob Newhart Show, Barney Miller, Happy Days, Viva Valdez. Similarly, married… with Children, Twin Peaks, On the Air, The Weird Al Show, Mad About You, Pacific Blue, and The Drew Carey Show. Further, his film roles were more sparse but still memorable; these included the part of a minor league baseball radio announcer in the film. A League of Their Own and a bit part of the minister officiating the marriage ceremony in Say It Isn't So. He also played "Tanning Intruder" in Christmas with the Kranks. Lander created the starring role of the demented fast food franchise clown Bruce Burger. Further, in the cult film Funland directed by Michael A. Simpson.
Full Name: David Leonard Landau
Birth Place: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Height: 1.6 m
Books: Fall Down, Laughing: How Squiggy Caught Multiple Sclerosis and Didn't Tell Nobody, etc.
Occupation: Actor, voice actor, comedian, composer, musician, baseball scout
Years active: since 1967–present
Home town: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Spouse(s): Kathy Fields (m since 1979)
Children: Natalie (b. 1983)
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Ankhhor or Ankh-Hor was an ancient Egyptian "Great Chief of the Libu" during the late 22nd Dynasty.

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He is attested as Great Chief on a stela dating to the regnal year 37 of pharaoh Shoshenq V (c. 731 BCE), and was probably the successor of the Great Chief Rudamun, who is attested in year 30 of the same pharaoh.

The year 37 stela was found in the Serapeum of Saqqara, and was one among several stelae issued to commemorate the death of an Apis bull, the most famous among these being the Stela of Pasenhor. The aforementioned stela was offered by a priest of Ptah named Pasherenptah on behalf of both king Shoshenq V and Ankhhor, as well as the latter's son Horbes. This was interpreted as a sign of growing power of the Great Chiefs of the Libu which has exceeded their realm in the western Nile Delta up to Memphis.

Ankhhor is also attested on a stela from Thebes. On it, it is known that he was married with a lady Tjankhebi, and that he sent their daughter Nebetnehutmehut south to Karnak in order to make her become a chantress of Amun to serve the God's Wife of Amun Shepenupet I. Nebetnehutmehut's burial chamber was eventually found within Shepenupet's tomb at Medinet Habu.

Ankhhor's rule, however, was not recognized by everyone. Already in Shoshenq V's regnal year 36  – a year before Ankhhor's Serapeum stela – the unrelated prince of Sais, Tefnakht, was already claiming for himself the title of "Great Chief of the Libu", a claim renewed two years later in Shoshenq's year 38. Since then, Ankhhor disappeared from records, and in a few years Tefnakht would claim the pharaonic titles, founding the 24th Dynasty.

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8th-century BC rulers
People of the Twenty-second Dynasty of Egypt
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Once my father played guitar in a trio. Once he carried me on his shoulders, paired rotors of elm leaves spiraling to land in my hair. He spun with his hands the playground carousel as I gripped silver rails, metronome wand of his body reappearing each pass where I left it. I fell asleep anchored to the rhythm of his voice reading me book after book from The Hobbit to The Song of Hiawatha to The Chronicles of Narnia.
Once he waved goodbye as I rode off to college on the back of a motorcycle. To the trill of Hermit Thrush, the day I wed, he walked me down a cotton-lined path strewn with rose petals. Once he came every Friday to care for my children when they were infants, then toddlers, just so I could write poems at the coffee shop until we moved 600 miles away along the coast.
The days have turned their pages to the part in the story where it is my turn to play guitar for him. My turn to read, record poems, send sound files, so that where eyes fail to see, his ears may hear the family voice he once midwifed as nightly he drifts dreamward in sleep. If I could, I would carry him on my shoulders so he might catch the falling stars.
Tania Pryputniewicz, author of November Butterfly (Saddle Road Press, 2014), teaches Wheel of Archetypal Selves Tarot Writing classes and is using the Tarot cards to finish writing her second poetry manuscript about an Illinois commune she lived on as a child.


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Wigan to host Roosters in World Club Challenge 17th Feb 2019
Date:2/11/18
The World Club Challenge will return to the DW Stadium next February when the Betfred Super League champions Wigan Warriors take on the National Rugby League champions Sydney Roosters 7pm Kick-off on Synday 17th Feb 2019.
The match will be televised live by Sky Sports.
It will be the 27th Challenge since the Roosters were the inaugural winners in 1976, the sixth in Wigan, and the fourth at the DW Stadium – where Wigan won the last of their record four world club titles two years ago, with a memorable 22-6 triumph against the Cronulla Sharks.
That was the only British victory in the World Club Challenge in the last six years, with Melbourne Storm recapturing the title for Australia by beating Leeds Rhinos 38-4 in Melbourne at the start of the 2018 season.
The Roosters, who won their 14th Australian title this year with victory over Melbourne in the NRL Grand Final, will be aiming to equal Wigan's tally of four World Club Challenge wins – having demolished St Helens 38-0 on their last Challenge appearance in England in 2003, and beaten Wigan 36-4 on home soil in Sydney in 2014, in addition to that initial 1976 win against St Helens, also in Sydney.
Wigan's previous wins came against the Brisbane Broncos in Queensland in 1994, against Penrith Panthers at Anfield in 1989, and against Manly Sea Eagles at their old Central Park home in 1987 – the fixture that really established the World Club Challenge.
Robert Elstone, the chief executive of Super League Europe, said: "I can't wait for two giants of our game to go head to head, seeking to be crowned the best club team in world rugby.
"The opportunity to see some of the best players in the world is one I don't want to miss and one I know all our fans will relish.
"The best of Super League versus the best of the NRL is a mouth-watering prospect, and will provide one of many early highlights in a season which promises so much."
Ian Lenagan, the Wigan chairman, added: "The World Club Challenge is a special competition for the Wigan club and with a game against Sydney Roosters we have two of rugby league's most iconic institutions facing one another. Seeing the cherry-and-white of Wigan up against the tricolour of the Roosters in front of a packed stadium on a Sunday will be a great spectacle. With the calibre of players on show from both teams, it should be a great advert for our sport.
"We're delighted to be hosting the game in England and we're looking forward to welcoming Owner Nick Politis AM, Head Coach Trent Robinson and the whole Sydney Roosters team and support staff to what should be a sold-out DW Stadium in February 2019."
With the Sydney Roosters due to commence their pre-season training in the coming weeks, the club's Chief Executive Officer Scott Bennetts said: "The World Club Challenge is a significant fixture on the rugby league calendar and we are very proud to be taking our club to England to compete against the Wigan Warriors for the 2019 World Club Challenge title.
"Both clubs feature notably in the history of the tournament, and with the Roosters having hosted the 2014 World Club Challenge match at Sydney's Allianz Stadium, we are looking forward to making the trip to Wigan."
Full ticket details for the game will be announced on Wednesday 7th November.
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A teenager has a busy day planned, inventing things that might stop him from doing his homework.
Bobby Thape (14) will merge the use of his phone, iPod and Xbox with a regular opening of the fridge door, before finally deciding to do his homework on the bus, tomorrow morning.
But dad, Peter Thape is not fazed by his son's procrastination, and simply believes that he is preparing nicely for adult life.
'Putting off all the important and difficult things in life…he'll fit right in,' said Peter Thape.
'Might need to develop his over-eating, drinking and self-hatred. But then, my son, I think you'll be ready,' added Thape.


Meetings are held monthly at the St. Charles Parish Training/Special Services Facility located at 220 Judge Edward Dufresne Parkway in Luling. Events focusing on crime prevention for seniors are held regularly throughout the parish.
Sheriff Greg Champagne and Richard Keller, chairman of the parish's Council on Aging, announced the creation of a local TRIAD program on April 23, 1997.
"We have a growing elderly population in St. Charles Parish, so meeting the needs of these people is a big challenge for law enforcement and community agencies," Champagne said. TRIAD is a national concept operating under the belief that together, with sheriffs, police chiefs ,and seniors globally joining forces, better programs and services can be provided to the elderly.
TRIAD is managed by a SALT (Seniors and Lawmen Together) board. Input from senior citizens is also sought as to what type of crime prevention programs would best benefit them.


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Bills creating stricter voter identification laws are quickly making their way through the Legislature.
The Michigan Public Radio Network's Cheyna Roth reports on the state House passing new voter ID legislation.
Lawmakers need to be more transparent. That was the message sent by the House today when it approved bills to expand Michigan's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
The Michigan Public Radio Network's Cheyna Roth reports on pending legislation designed to make the state government more transparent.
Democrats in the state Legislature say it's time to restore citizen oversight panels to supervise air and water programs in the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality.
The Michigan Public Radio Network's Rick Pluta reports on the possibility of more oversight for the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality.
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Question: On the Amendment (simpson amendment no. 3739 )
Vote Number: 83
Vote Date: April 25, 1996, 03:00 PM
Vote Result: Amendment Rejected
Amendment Number: S.Amdt. 3739 to S.Amdt. 3725 to S. 1664 (Immigration Control and Financial Responsibility Act of 1996)
Statement of Purpose: To provide for temporary numerical limits on family-sponsored immigrant visas, a temporary priority-based system of allocating family-sponsored immigrant visas, and a temporary per-country limit--to apply for the five fiscal years after enactment of S. 1664.
Akaka (D-HI), Nay
Baucus (D-MT), Yea
Biden (D-DE), Nay
Bingaman (D-NM), Nay
Boxer (D-CA), Nay
Brown (R-CO), Yea
Bryan (D-NV), Yea
Burns (R-MT), Yea
Byrd (D-WV), Yea
Chafee (R-RI), Nay
Cohen (R-ME), Yea
Conrad (D-ND), Nay
Daschle (D-SD), Nay
Dodd (D-CT), Nay
Dole (R-KS), Nay
Faircloth (R-NC), Yea
Feingold (D-WI), Nay
Feinstein (D-CA), Nay
Glenn (D-OH), Nay
Graham (D-FL), Nay
Grassley (R-IA), Yea
Hatfield (R-OR), Nay
Inouye (D-HI), Nay
Kassebaum (R-KS), Yea
Kennedy (D-MA), Nay
Kerry (D-MA), Nay
Kohl (D-WI), Nay
Kyl (R-AZ), Yea
Lautenberg (D-NJ), Nay
Leahy (D-VT), Nay
Levin (D-MI), Nay
Lott (R-MS), Yea
Mikulski (D-MD), Nay
Moseley-Braun (D-IL), Nay
Moynihan (D-NY), Nay
Murray (D-WA), Nay
Pell (D-RI), Nay
Reid (D-NV), Yea
Robb (D-VA), Nay
Roth (R-DE), Yea
Sarbanes (D-MD), Nay
Shelby (R-AL), Yea
Simon (D-IL), Nay
Simpson (R-WY), Yea
Specter (R-PA), Nay
Thomas (R-WY), Yea
Wellstone (D-MN), Nay
Wyden (D-OR), Nay
Dole (R-KS)