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dankhausen · 1 year

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Impact: Hard To Kill 2023 Review (January 13th, 2023)

Right off the bat, let me say this was overall a 10/10 show and I highly recommend checking it out- as such, no match spoilers here! Here's my thoughts:

Show opened with a heartfelt tribute to Don West, that was nice!

Really hype video package to kick off the show, I love it.

Bully Ray vs. Josh Alexander: Full Metal Mayhem was a BADASS title match, and one hell of an opener! It had a definite deathmatch feel (I've been watching way too much GCW, I guess), and there were so many awesome moments. Highlights include Josh FALLING OVER THE ROPES ONTO THUMBTACKS, Tommy Dreamer with an epic fakeout, Josh's wife (I didn't quite catch her name, I think it's Jen?) hitting a sick bulldog and Josh DIVING OFF A LADDER ON THE OUTSIDE TO PUT BULLY THROUGH A TABLE IN THE RING.

Victoria (or Tara as she's known in this company) was backstage with Mickie, it's cool to see her.

Ace & Bey vs. Motor City Machines Guns vs. Major Players vs. Heath & Rhino was a really good, fast paced match. Chris Bey and Heath really stood out to me in this one, and commentary had some major gold with the puns and relatable lines (I too follow too many people to know if I follow Cardona lol).

Surprise appearance by Frankie Kazarian, and a pretty good promo.

Excellent video package for Moose vs. Hendry

Moose vs. Joe Hendry was a pair of matches (both the original and an immediate rematch) that were really good, I will say the original finish shocked me. Hendry hit some amazingly impressive moves, like a walking suplex and a BRUTAL cutter that flipped Moose head over heels.

A surprise appearance by Santino Marella, who looks to be the new authority figure. Loving him in this role.

Masha Slamovich vs. Deonna Purrazzo vs. Taylor Wilde vs. Killer Kelly was a really quick paced, awesome match! Highlights included Taylor with a nasty top rope choke, Deonna with a deadlift powerbomb and Masha nailing everyone with a stacked Snowplow.

Steve Maclin vs. Rich Swann: Falls Count Anywhere was a somewhat long but still enjoyable match, loved the hardcore elements and Raven on guest commentary. Highlights include Swann with a cutter off the stairs and MACLIN WITH A POWERBOMB ON THE OUTSIDE, HOT DAMN.

Eddie Edwards vs. Jonathan Gresham was a brutal, hard hitting, fast paced match- possibly match of the night! I'm quickly becoming a fan of Gresham's work, I love how he works one limb the entire match and has so many smooth as butter transitions and moves out of nowhere. Also.... YOOOOOO, PCO IS BACK!!!!!!

Awesome hype up video for Rebellion, should be a great show

Mickie James vs Jordynne Grace... where to begin with this one? It was a phenomenal match, the right mix of hard hitting and high drama and I loved Mickie as the plucky underdog! Highlights include a *brutal* double stomp by Jordynne, Jordynne with a standing sidewalk slam, Jordynne with a delayed superplex into a jackhammer, Mickie James turning a Tombstone into a hurricanrana(?)... seriously, watch this if you haven't yet!

Again, I cannot recommend Hard To Kill 2023 enough- it's truly an absolute win by Impact Wrestling.

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wrestlingchampions · 1 year

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2022 in Impact World Tag Team Champions

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ijustthinkevilunoisneat · 2 years

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#heath #rhino #impact wrestling #wrestlingedit

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probablyasocialecologist · 6 months

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Textbooks on biology and forestry make it clear that large parts of Europe would naturally be covered by dense forests. The textbook narrative is that our ancestors felled the forests, drained the swamps and cultivated the heathland. In other words, they created the varied landscapes of meadows, heaths and grasslands that characterized our cultural landscapes before the advent of modern agriculture. But new research from Aarhus University suggests that this is not the case. Elena Pearce, postdoc at the Department of Biology at Aarhus University, and the lead author of the study explains. “The idea that the landscape was covered by dense forest across most of the continent is simply not right. Our results show that we need to reassess our view of what European nature is," she says, and her colleague and co-author Professor Jens-Christian Svenning continues: “Nature during the last interglacial period – a period with a mild climate similar to today, but before modern humans arrived - was full of variation. Importantly, the landscapes harboured large amounts of open and semi-open vegetation with shrubs, light-demanding trees and herbs alongside stands of tall-growing shade trees.”

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According to calculations from the new study, somewhere between 50 and 75 per cent of the landscape was covered by open or semi-open vegetation. And this is most likely due to the large mammals that lived at that time, explains Jens-Christian Svenning. "We know that a lot of large animals lived in Europe at that time. Aurochs, horses, bison, elephants and rhinos. They must have consumed large amounts of plant biomass and thereby had the capacity to keep the tree-growth in check," he says and continues: "Of course, it’s also likely that other factors such as floods and forest fires also played a part. But there’s no evidence to suggest that this caused enough disturbance. For example, forest fires encourage pine trees, but mostly we did not find pine as a dominant species.” Although the research group cannot be 100 percent certain about the extent to which large animals were behind the open areas, there are strong indications that they were. Firstly, large animals such as bison have exactly that effect in areas where they are still found in European forests. Furthermore, beetle fossils from the last interglacial period also show that many large animals lived at that time. “We have looked at a number of finds of beetle fossils from that time in the UK. Although there are beetle species that thrive in forests with frequent forest fires, we found none of them in the fossil data. Instead, we found large quantities dung beetles, and this shows that parts of the landscape have been densely populated by large herbivores," he says.

#trees #forest #wood pasture #ecology #prehistory #more evidence against the closed canopy hypothesis #emphasis added

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gachabastard · 11 days

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it's really hard to not dump every gregcliff thought i've ever had. anyways. if you had to pick ONE new gregor or heathcliff id to come out RIGHT NOW who would it be. yknow like rhino greg or kurokumo heath etc

funeral of dead butterflies ego greg

projmoon hire me im an ideas guy

#also do dump your gregcliff thoughts on me PLEEZ

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dionysusdecent · 9 months

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Heathcliff sin analysis, but this time its just R Corp and Sunshower

My second post ever and its the same as the first, but smaller this time. After thinking about it, I figured that I should retry to do R Corp Heath and Sunshower Heath because I did not do good with them. So I decided to look at them again along with looking at what people had said about them. Before starting, of course this was made using @lu-is-not-ok’s sin affinity guide, because its really good and yes I will not stop asking people to look at their stuff. They did it before me and are doing to much better than me so check them out. But lets get started with analyzing Heathcliff’s IDs......but again. Also I'll probably do a quick version of this once Seven Association Heath comes out.

Spoilers Ahead

R Corp. 4th Pack Rabbit Heathcliff Again

Wrath - Wrath is his first sin, and so the most surface level sin. Wrath is the sin of defiance, which unlike what i originally said, could make sense. As @orfs had said, RHeath survived the Hatchery, defying death and taking pride in the fact that he made it, even if he is disposable. But something else is that him being a clone can technically be a defiance against The City and The Head. Multiple clones existing at the same time is illegal, but R Corp gets around this by using T Corp tech. While his current existence doesn’t break the rules, he did technically defy the rules of The City and made it out alive, even if it was just for a short time.

Gluttony - RHeath’s Gluttony is sorta obvious. He had to survive the Hatchery and he did. One way to look at Gluttony is for the hunger to survive, and he accomplished that. Another way to look at Gluttony is similar to Greed, to want more. More money, more power, etc. In this instance, it would be for combat. RHeath always wants more missions, more fighting, he always wants to be fighting. Even when fulfilling an extra condition in a stage, he wants to immediately go back into the fray.

Envy - Envy is RHeath’s core sin, which is very interesting for him. Because he is a confirmed clone (Thanks Meursault), as @lu-is-not-ok said, he would most likely be under heavy pressure from R Corp to do the best job he can, because if he didn’t, then they would either put him back into the Hatchery with the possibility of not making it out and a different Heath taking his place, or just outright getting rid of him. Another way it could be seen comes from @riellegaming. They said that it could be possible that RHeath’s Envy is based around the fact that he never got the chance at a normal life. The reason for this is because all the R Corp IDs have envy in some way. All the R Corp IDs never got a chance at a normal life. We don’t know if our sinners can actually affect the versions of themselves from different worlds. We know that versions from different worlds can influence them, but it could be the other way around as well. It’s possible that the R Corp IDs remember atleast parts of their time with Dante and the other sinners, experiencing a life where they are more than just expendable soldiers, and some part of them grows envious of that, whether they show it or not. Rhino Meursault has Envy as his first sin, which seems odd just in general for him. Meursault himself doesn’t really care what others say to him, you give him an order and he will follow through, no matter how heinous, and I don’t see that changing for a version of him that exists to follow orders. But it could be possible that even he, on some small level, is envious of his sinner counterpart, while Heathcliff might hide it, but wishes very often that he could have LCB Heathcliff's life, even with all the pain and suffering it would bring.

Lobotomy E.G.O::Sunshower Heathcliff Again

Sunshower Heathcliff gave me issues last time...a lot of issues. But having recently gotten him (at time of writing) has made me think about this version of Heath. And also is the reason I'm doing this again but with the two that needed to be looked at a bit closer than before. With all that said, @lu-is-not-ok did an analysis of Impending Day Sinclair/Doomsday Calendar (go check it out), and while reading it, I had a thought. If the EGOs can have information and ideas brought forth from the abnormality they are based on, then why can't the E.G.O gear IDs? So that's what I'm doing. That's right, your on a post about Heathcliff and now your gonna read my thoughts, ideas and ramblings about Drifting Fox and how its story and themes can connect to Sunshower Heathcliff.

Drifting Fox

The Drifting Fox itself has quite a bit to it. The basics of its log is Sinclair feeling sad for the creature, being able to feel the pain and sadness that it does. This is while Faust tries to convince him that the Fox is just trying to manipulate him, that its nothing more than an abnormality, a creature that just wants to kill the sinners. Interestingly enough, Heathcliff is also present in the logs, saying that the sinners not doing what they are told will get them killed, and comparing the Fox to the Fairy Gentleman, saying how he wasn’t easy to deal with either.

Drifting Fox’s MD Event has the sinners finding it in an alleyway, sleeping in a corner, being disguised by the umbrellas. Two options are given, to pull out the umbrellas or to pet the fox. Choosing to pull out the umbrellas has the sinners believe that the umbrellas are causing the Fox pain. When attempting to pull the umbrellas out, the umbrellas do come out, but along with pieces of flesh, hurting the fox, causing it to retaliate and cause damage to all present sinners. The Fox seems to reprimand the sinners for trying to help it without actually thinking about what's happening, causing it more pain. Petting the Fox has two outcomes. On a failure, the Fox is extremely distrustful, yelping when touched and jumping away, before running away, leaving the sinners wondering what else they could have done. Succeeding has the Fox to recede its growling, before it closes its eyes, lays down and becomes the E.G.O Gift itself.

Drifting Fox is about feigning kindness and how that can hurt others. Even if you think you helped, that is only really true when you know what the issue is, and don’t just try to help without asking. The umbrellas are from people who thought they helped the Fox but just ended up hurting it. They believe that they helped and are good people because of it, but they just ended up causing pain.

This is all obvious from its log and MD Event, but something that the log and its fight itself made me think about, is how the Fox doesn’t seem to actually want to fight. In its event it either accepts your kindness, runs away, or retaliates. But before any of these, it growls, and that's it. Its not trying to attack you, its trying to make you leave. No matter the choice, it lets you get close, but only retaliates once you hurt it, and then it leaves. You hurt it and so it hurts you before getting away from you. Its log states how the Drifting Fox is wary of the sinners and watchful. It sometimes waits and does nothing, just watching the sinners, before retaliating with a powerful attack. It doesn't want to fight the sinners, and only does it once it has to. It tries to ward others off, to get them to leave it alone, so that it can find an alleyway, and sleep. Alone. Its only attachment being the umbrellas stabbed into its back. Alone, with his only attachment being the memories of the friends he lost, with a little fox trying to show him genuine kindness, when others wouldn’t.

Sunshower Heathcliff is in the same situation. Different circumstances, the same result. The Drifting Fox wants to be alone, it doesn’t want to fight and only does when it has to. Heathcliff only wants to be alone, he doesn’t want to fight but only does because he has to.

Drifting Fox and Sunshower Heathcliff share two sin affinities, Sloth and Gloom, with Fox having Gluttony while Heath has Envy.

Drifting Fox: Gloomy Moan/Raging Withdrawal (Sloth) - Sloth represents apathy, resignation, and inaction. This makes sense as the Drifting Fox’s two “surface” sins. Both its Skill 1 and Skill 2 are this sin, showing what we already know. It wants to be left alone so it can do nothing and just sleep in a corner, away from others.

Sunshower Heathcliff: Umbrella Thwack (Envy) - Heathcliff’s Envy here, i believe, is what i originally said and due to the friends he lost. He hates technology, he wants to liberate The City from all technology as a part of the TLA. But he also wants to liberate technology, not out of loyalty to the TLA, but for his friends. Sunshower Heathcliff says in his uptie story that his friends all died to technology, one way or another. One lost their job and starved, one got their flesh taken apart, and others were worked like cogs in a machine like junk. He’s doing this out of love for the friends he lost. Just like Dongbaek, the hatred for technology is only the front for their true goal. Dongbaek, to get revenge on Dongrang. And Heathcliff to get revenge for his lost friends.

Drifting Fox: Sorrowful Recoil/Sorrowful Torrent (Gluttony) - Gluttony for the Drifting Fox is its hunger for survival. It just wants to be alone, but if it is threatened, it will not hold back against those that hurt it. It will kill, but only when it needs to, when its survival is threatened. It doesn’t want to fight or kill, but it will when it has to.

Sunshower Heathcliff: Puddle Stomp (Gloom) - Heathcliff is acting out. He is acting out against The City due to the immense sadness and pain he feels because he lost those he cared about. He regrets the fact that he never showed that he cared, that he enjoyed his time with the friends that he can never see again. His Gloom isn’t just the feeling of sadness for losing his friends, but also his regret for never having truly shown that he cared, he never showed his kindness to them. Heathcliff isn’t the Fox here, he's the stranger that left the umbrella.

Drifting Fox: Cries Seeking Something (Gloom) - Gloom for the Drifting Fox represents its want for genuine kindness. It cries out into the sky, for the possibility that someone hears its cries and comes to help it, to be kind to it. Not the kindness that others have shown, which only hurt it, but kindness that truly makes it happy. The Fox dwells on its feelings of sadness and pain, letting it all echo out into the sky, but acting as a beacon of sorts. A beacon calling for the genuine kindness of strangers. Faust says that the fox is trying to trick and manipulate Sinclair in the log, but I don't think it is. This is a mistake on Faust’s part. She is too robotic, too logical to realize that the pain the Fox feels is real, and that Sinclair is just the one that can feel its sadness the most clearly. Sinclair is one of, if not the most emotional sinner. I do not see a reason for him to not be able to sympathize with the Fox. He has felt pain before, all the sinners have, but he lets it out the most and lets others know about it the most, even if unintentional. It’s not that the Fox is manipulating Sinclair, its that he can feel its pain and sadness, and wants to help, to give it the genuine kindness that it calls out for.

Sunshower Heathcliff: Spread Out! (Sloth) - Heathcliff always wants to sleep. He is always trying to find an excuse to look for an alleyway so that he can curl up in a corner and sleep. But unlike what i originally said, his want for sleep isn’t the reason for him having Sloth. It’s the result. He doesn’t have a Sloth sin affinity at his core because he is tired, he is tired because of his slothfulness. He lost his friends, people that he cared about, its possible that one of these friends could have been Catherine. It’s reasonable to think that for some time, this would have put him in a depression. He didn’t want to do anything, be anything. Just a Fox that slept all the pain away. Even with his Gloom and Envy affinities pushing him to destroy technology as revenge for his friends, the deepest parts of him don’t care. He's fighting for a cause, yes, but his true cause is wanting revenge for his friends. But they are all gone, he's fighting for people that can’t appreciate the fact that he's doing it for them. He is alone and just doesn’t truly care. He knows this, he understands this. He’s fighting a war, for his friends, but even he knows that in reality its for himself. His friends are gone and his quest to destroy all technology is just a way for him to deal with this pain. And even when given the chance to gain a new friend, a little Fox that wants to show him genuine kindness, he tells them to leave. He can’t even bring himself to try to connect with the one being that is trying to help. He is the Drifting Fox that was pet, but yelped and ran away. He was shown true kindness, but can’t bring himself to care. Even with the kindness given to him, he can’t bring himself to accept it.

#lcb #heathcliff lcb #lcb heathcliff #limbus company #project moon #lcb analysis

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Great Parks of Africa - nature film review

Whether you are considering tourism or seeking understanding about the last great wild places of the world, The Great Parks of Africa is a good place to begin your search. Each episode on the Smithsonian Channel focuses on a single wildlife reserve, each one unique and limitless in beauty. The 11 episode series also cover Kgalagadi Transfrontier and Lower Zambezi Park.

Table Mountain National Park needs no introduction, holding the great Table that overlooks Cape Town, one of the most beautiful cities on Earth. There is much more to this sprawling park that stretches from the famous plateau, across Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden, down a series of mountains dubbed The Twelve Apostles, along Chapman’s Peak Drive, the finest scenic drive in the world, ending in the Cape Peninsula to the Point of Good Hope. ‘Breathtaking’ scarcely does it justice, as it is merely a word. Swept by the frigid Benguela current, upwelling brings nutrients to the surface and creates some of the most productive and diverse oceans in the world.

The soil quality of the land, however is poor, the winds constant, and fires frequent. The animals who live here must struggle to survive such harsh conditions, but that adversity has created the Cape Floral Kingdom, more biologically diverse than a rainforest. Wherever you stand in the heath, you are surrounded by a dozens of species of proteas, ericas, and restios. Walk a hundred meters, and you will find an entirely different community. That diversity is echoed all the way across the Fynbos, and few parks equal Table Mountain for such diversity. Take a trip down to the Cape Point, and experience the collision of two oceans, and you will know the power of nature.

Across the country lies the more tranquil Isimangaliso National Park, a vast area along the KwaZulu-Natal coast dominated by the St Lucia Estuary. The river that flows into this wetland varies in strength, sometimes stopping entirely, allowing the ocean to flow into the estuary, creating a salty lagoon. Few places on earth can rival the sheer diversity of bird life, some of which journey here from Europe to take advantage of the bounty. Leatherback sea turtles also call this place home, and the world’s largest vegetated sand dunes are used by thousands of bird species, crocodiles, and others. The sand is unique, with high levels of titanium, which holds the sun’s heat and that energy fuels the activity of the animals that reside here.

Hippos are present here in the hundreds, filling the estuary river down toward the ocean. At night they journey on land to graze, sometimes going into the town of St Lucia for window shopping. One resident named Vincent for his ear injury has killed people who ran into him at night. None of the residents take this personally, as Vincent’s ilk made their home in the estuary long before humans.

The richness of this land is apparent as offshore whales can be seen in season, Humpbacks making the journey to feeding grounds and breaching constantly on the way. Brimming with elephants, antelope, and rhino, various carnivores following them, and the occasional leopard, Isimangaliso is a truly wild land.

Karoo National Park is a far more quiet place, lying far inland across two mountain ranges and receives very little rainfall. Home to true desert specialists, one can find herds of springbok, gemsbok, and the rare Cape Mountain Zebra. The spectacular mountains and rock formations make for astounding hiking, and one is bound to run into ostrich, black-backed jackal, and itinerate eland. There are more tortoise species here than any other reserve. The critically endangered riverine hare can be found here. The real riches of the park can be found by getting down on a knee - the park is a haven for succulent plants such as living stones. The bitter cold of night brings on a crystalline star-filled sky, which is perfect for star viewing. Just to the west is the small town of Sutherland, home of the largest optical telescope in the southern hemisphere.

The Garden Route chapter covers an embarrassment of riches, as one glides along the southern coast of Africa, battered by the ocean waves. The magnificent De Hoop Nature Reserve begins the trip, which is a treasure of a place that shelters some of the most endangered mammals in the world, including the Bontebok and Cape Mountain Zebra. The Southern Right Whale can be seen along the coast, though is easiest to find in the bay of De Hoop. Further east are the small villages of Witsand, filled with glittering beaches, Stillbaai, Mossel Bay, and George. There are stretches of wilderness between the villages, sheltered forest where the rare Yellowwood tree can still be found. The Cape Floral Kingdom covers most of the remaining undeveloped land. Plettenberg Bay adjacent to an elephant reserve and the Tsitsikamma National Park is an endless paradise. In between is the vacation town of Knysna, at foot of an estuary. Ocean life collides with the riverine forest, filled with pristine beauty.

Augrabies National Park sits in a remote corner of northwestern South Africa along a length of the Orange River. Covering 28000 hectares, the arid park is home to the Quiver Tree and many desert tolerant species like springbok and gemsbok. Along the vegetated Orange River the Cape Clawless Otter and Caracal can be sighted. The true draw of the park is one of the planet’s great waterfalls, the Augrabies, cascading 60 meters in height into a granite basin that runs 240 meters deep.

Kruger’s Pafuri Camp lies in the remote northern section of the Kruger National Park, and has a storied history as an outlaw region. More recently during Apartheid the Makuleke people were forced off the land into a barren region, only later negotiating a return after the first democratic elections. The Makuleke decided not to return, but to keep the land for conservation and staff the park. Today the Pafuri holds 75% of the Kruger’s biodiversity, including the Big Five seen throughout the park, but is best known for having the finest birding in the country. Over 350 species can be seen here on many safari walking trails.

Chobe: Land of Learning covers the National Park of Botswana bordered by the Chobe River, one of the best places to see elephants. The dirt roads and occasional rustic buildings are the only sign humanity even exists, as Chobe is a true wilderness. Elephants herd here in vast numbers, at least 50000 at present. Lions, African Painted Dogs, spotted hyena, cheetah, rhino… a seemingly limitless array of mammals make this park their home. With the languid river, waterbirds such as spoonbills, ibis, storks, ducks, and other waterfowl are common.

Part of this park is the Savuti marsh, the relic of a vast inland lake that has since dried up after the geologic plate on which Botswana sits migrated. The carnivores that patrol this area have been the stuff of legends.

Addo Elephant National Park is the third largest game reserve in South Africa, lying next to Algoa Bay. It is best known for its great elephant herds, but also holds lions, buffalo, leopards, rhinos, and at the coast Southern Right Whales and Great White Sharks. It is also a stronghold for black rhinos, though they tend to avoid people and stay in dense thickets. Spotted hyena are common, African Painted Dogs less so. The star of the park is, of course, the African Elephant, in all its tree engineering glory. Seen with these elephants are enormous amounts of elephant dung, which is in turn processed by a very healthy population of dung beetles. Drive slow - dung beetles have the right of way. Algoa Bay also has one of the few remaining colonies of the critically endangered African Penguin.

Hluhluwe-Umfolozi, located in KwaZulu-Natal, is a nature reserve of great historical importance. Established in 1895, it is the oldest wildlife reserve in South Africa and pioneered animal capture and sustainable utilization in wildlife conservation. At a time when the rhinoceros was being hunted to extinction, the park was a haven. Even today the white rhino has been exterminated from nearly all of its native territory. Today the park has been a true success story for many species struggling elsewhere. Elephants proliferate across the park, to the point where there are too many for the area given their penchant for uprooting trees. This would not be a problem if the elephants could migrate elsewhere, but the park is hemmed in on all sides by humans. Black rhino numbers have done as well as their white relatives, though they are still quite vulnerable. African Painted Dogs normally struggle to establish a foothold within a reserve in competition with lions and against the hostility of people. At Hluhluwe-Umfolozi, the packs have done a brisk business, hunting with wild success and breeding prodigiously enough to create emigration pressure which is released by the Wild Dog Metapopulation project. The genetic variability has been critical to maintaining Painted Dog viability elsewhere in the southern African region.

If you are looking for tourism options, you would do well to visit Hluhluwe-Umfolozi park, combined with the Isimangaliso Park located across the N2 to the east.

#south africa #africa #nature film #film review

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i fucking hate that i have to say this, bc i’d loved him throughout most of his career, but man oh man does heath slater bring nothing to the table anymore.

he wrestles in slow motion, and is directionless without rhino.

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Hard to Kill preview

Jordynne Grace vs. Mickie James - On September 1, James announced her "last rodeo," where she vowed to retire if she lost even one match before winning the Impact Wrestling women's world title. In effect, Mickie has been putting her career on the line for over four months, and she's gone undefeated that entire time. Now she finally gets her championship match, so this is title versus career. If she wins, it'll be James's fifth Impact title reign, and her eleventh world title overall.

The stakes in this one make it worth the price of the whole show, so I'm glad they positioned it in the main event spot. Grace is 26 and ought to be at the top of the division, but it might benefit her to lose to a top veteran and chase her for a while. James is 43 and has a lot left in the tank, but nothing left to prove. Something has to give, but I don't know what it will be.

Josh Alexander vs. Bully Ray - Ray returned to Impact Wrestling on October 2 to win the annual Call Your Shot match, earning him the right to challenge any champion at any time. On November 18, Bully issued the challenge to Alexander for the Impact men's world title at this show. Ray then immediately turned heel, viciously attacking the champion and his wife.

This is billed as a "full metal mayhem" match, per the demands of Alexander after Ray attacked him again on December 22. Sometimes "full metal mayhem" is a souped-up ladder match (anything goes until a participant retrieves a prize suspended above the ring), and sometimes not (anything goes until a participant scores a pinfall). But the main idea is that tables, ladders, chairs, chains, and possibly other stuff will be placed at ringside to use as weapons. The stipulation plays to Ray's strengths as a pioneer of hardcore wrestling, and works against Alexander's emphasis on mat-based offense.

To put it mildly, I'm disappointed that Impact brought in Bully, let alone for a world title program. I got bored with his how-low-can-he-stoop heel work back in Ring of Honor. Pro wrestling has younger, better stars innovating on that formula while Ray, 51, is just recycling the same old shit. I'd be more interested in seeing Alexander wrestle Jeff Jarrett, and brother that's saying a lot. I sure hope Josh retains and Bully quickly disappears, but I don't have a lot of faith in Impact right now.

Jonathan Gresham vs. Eddie Edwards - This match was originally scheduled for April 23 last year, back when Gresham was the ROH men's world champion and Edwards was the leader of the anti-ROH faction Honor No More. The match was scrapped when Gresham was sidelined (possibly due to a concussion). Since then Gresham has fallen out with Tony Khan's version of ROH and finally ended up signing with Impact. In the meantime, Honor No More has disbanded, but Edwards is still a dick, so these two are back on a collision course. I think Gresham needs to win, but I can't rule out Edwards pulling shenanigans.

Chris Sabin & Alex Shelley vs. Matt Cardona & Brian Myers vs. Heath Miller & Rhino vs. Ace Austin & Chris Bey - The Motor City Machine Guns (Sabin and Shelley) are defending the Impact men's tag team title in a four-way, so the first man to score a fall on any opponent will win the match and the title for his team. Sabin and Shelley are also the STRONG tag team champions in New Japan, but that title isn't at stake.

As usual with four-way matches, I don't expect this to settle any feuds, and whoever wins will probably still be feuding with at least two of these teams right up until the next PPV in April. I guess Sabin and Shelley retain, since double champions seem to be a hot trend these days.

Trey Miguel vs. Black Taurus - This is for Miguel's Impact X division title. I am so relieved this is not a three-way or a four-way match. Keep up the good work, Impact.

I'm out of the loop but I heard Miguel turned heel and tagged the title belt with his graffiti. I'm not sure how Miguel really works as a hell, but I'll give it a try. Taurus has been with Impact for years and he's always just sort of...there. I expect some good big man/little man spots, but nothing to write home about. Miguel should retain.

Deonna Purrazzo vs. Killer Kelly vs. Masha Slamovich vs. Taylor Wilde - This a four-way to determine the next #1 contender for the women's title, so whoever scores the first fall will win the match and be slated to challenge the winner of Grace vs. James.

Assuming James wins the title, any of these four make sense as her first challenger. If Grace retains though, I think it's too soon to run back Grace-Purrazzo or Grace-Slamovich. Kelly would be my pick as a fresh face in the title picture.

The x-factor in this match is Wilde, a veteran from the 2000s who was retired for ten years, returned in 2021, and then took a year of personal leave. Now she's back with some kind of witchy/tarot reader gimmick, which I haven't seen much of yet. If they're serious about this new direction, she should get to shine a lot in this match; otherwise I don't have a lot of faith it'll work out.

Joe Hendry vs. Moose - Hendry is putting the Impact digital media title up for grabs. Last time I looked this title barely existed outside of PPV pre-shows and such, so I'm surprised Hendry made it on the main card and Moose has sunk this low. I guess if Moose won this belt he could elevate it. On the other hand, if Hendry retains I have to wonder if Moose is on his way to greener pastures...

Rich Swann vs. Steve Maclin - This is a falls count anywhere match, so the participants cannot be disqualified or counted out of the ring, and the deciding fall does not have to be scored inside the ring.

Ever since Maclin debuted with Impact his gimmick has been that he's a big mean guy who beat everybody up because he's pissed. For some reason this never translates into enough wins to put him in the title picture, so he just gets into feuds like this one where a babyface tries to shut him down. Maybe this time Maclin can just win the feud and start chasing Josh Alexander. On the other hand, if Bully Ray actually wins the title, Swann's the guy you'd want to push as the next challenger. So I could see this going either way, depending on the men's world title bout.

KUSHIDA vs. Mike Bailey vs. Yuya Uemura vs. Alan Angels vs. Bhupinder Gujjar vs. Mike Jackson - This is a six-way match scheduled for the pre-show. As usual, the first wrestler to score a fall wins.

Kushida is a top junior heavyweight in New Japan. Bailey is a key guy in Impact's X division. Uemura was a Young Lion in NJPW but he's on excursion here, so hopefully that goes better than it did for Okada. Angels was in AEW's goofy fun cult but now he's Cody Deaner's mean serious cult. Gujjar is stuck in the spot where a wrestling promotion puts a token Indian guy on TV and just expects everyone in India to turn into wrestling fans. "Action" Mike Jackson is 73 years old and regularly works in matches like this for GCW.

This isn't officially to determine a #1 contender for the X title, but you'd have to think the winner of this match would move to the front of the line. Since I don't expect Trey Miguel to drop the belt for a while, I'd have Uemura or Gujjar win to give them a little mini-push before putting over the champion.

Taya Valkyrie & Rosemary & Jessicka vs. Tasha Steelz & Savannah Evans & Gisele Shaw - Another pre-show match. The Death Dollz (Valkyrie, Rosemary, and Jessicka) collectively hold the Impact women's tag team title, but since this isn't a two-on-two match the title is not at stake. I assume the heel team is gunning for a title shot, but I'm not sure which of them will end up being the challengers. I guess Steelz's team should win to keep the story going.

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Bronze to Mythic: Khans of Tarkir, draft #1

I'll take a 6-3.

Pack 1, pick 1 the meme, the myth, the legend, Siege Rhinoceros. In other sets, getting married to the busted 3 color rare is a recipe for a trainwreck, but the fixing in Khans makes the exciting multicolored cards higher picks. The only other card in the pack I considered was Mystic Monastery. I'm considering Siege Rhino to basically be a black card, I will look to end up BW or BG and I'll probably have a white land at some point. I'm likely to pick lands pretty aggressively anyway.

Pick 2 Debilitating Injury over Bear's Companion and Hordeling Outburst. Red is a little far off what I'm doing right now, and Debilitating Injury is a premium tempo play in the Morph format. Pick 3 Bitter Revelation over Mardu Roughrider. Mardu Roughrider is good but there's a lot of action at 5 mana with morphs. I just don't prioritize this kind of thing. This is a disappointing 3rd pick out of a pretty bad pack. Pick 4 easy Blossoming Sands over nothing. Pick 5 Scoured Barrens over Bloodfell Caves and Burn Away. See? Siege Rhino mana easy. Pick 6 Rite of the Serpent over Goblinslide. Pick 7 Mardu Hordechief over Swiftwater Cliffs and Force Away. Pick 8 kind of a brick, Unyielding Krumar over Dragonscale Boon. I will say I got hooked up on the wheel: Rakshasa's Secret 9th, the Mardu Roughrider came back 11th, followed by Bloodfell Caves 12th. Perfect mana!

Aside on Rakshasa's Secret: this card is awesome. Mind Rot is awesome in this format. Khans is a little on the slow side and cards tend to sit in people's hands a little longer because they're flipping morphs. The mill 2 is also excellent with delve cards and Dutiful Return.

Pack 2, pick 1 Windswept Heath, which is fine ,but admittedly a bit of a rare draft. It's probably not better than Scoured Barrens, the other card I considered. The pack was good for others: Temur Charm and Jeskai Charm were kind of far from what I could do. Pick 2 Abzan Guide over Force Away, Feat of Resistance, and Bloodfell Caves. There was a sweet Jeskai deck I could have been on but I don't think there was ever a definitive way in. Pick 3 Blossoming Sands over Dutiful Return. Pick 4 Alabaster Kirin over Jeslai Student; the Kirin looks mopey but 2/3 vigilance blocks morph, Flying helps trigger raid, and 4 mana curves you from morph on 3 to unmorph on 5. Pick 5 Abzan Guide over Hooting Mandrills, Glacial Stalker, and Bring Low. Pick 6 pretty easy Feat of Resistance, I'm very interested in keeping my quality creatures alive. Pick 7 easy Dutiful Returned, with Jeslai Elder still there. That Jeskai deck is mocking me at this point. The rest of the pack was basically junk.

Pack 3, pick 1 Jungle Hollow over like 5 other medium playables. The Savage Knuckleblade kind of mocking me in the rare slot. Pick 2 Dead Drop, love to see it. This isn't the *best* Dead Drop deck, but it's pretty hard for it not to be good. And the ceiling is 1 mana Plague Wind. Pick 3 Alabaster Kirin. Pick 4 Abzan Guide. Pick 5 Mardu Skullhunter. Pick 6 Ponyback Brigade, which is exactly the kind of card I want to splash, and Bloodfell Caves came back from pick 1.

First loss, I just threw the game away by not reading/remembering my cards. Rush of Battle is a Sorcery, and I just chump attacked my team where every one of those blocks would have resulted in at least a trade. I still almost came back with Rush of Battle but they had Thousand Winds. It should have never gotten to that point but you know, busted rares do the thing.

Second loss, I'm still trying to figure out how... They were on the play, mulliganed to six, I hit them with Rakshasa's Secret *and* Dead Drop. But I never drew green mana to deploy Siege Rhino or Abzan Guide.

My sixth win was pretty epic. I went from getting to parity, but my opponent was sandbagging. I thought I couldn't win, then I sorta drew out of it to parity again. Then I saw the line to win but I needed my opponent to brick for a couple of turns, and at that point they had way more land in their deck than I, so it was just a probability game at that point where I was favored. It was a sick long game win.

Then I was rewarded with never drawing a black source and drawing 4 black cards in a row.

I love this set.

#bronze to mythic #khans of tarkir #premiere draft #magic arena #mtg limited #magic the gathering

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