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In this episode, I'm joined by Josua Wenzel — a talented young birder and artist — as he takes us on a deep dive into his two-month birding and conservation trip across Kenya.From the cloud forests of the Taita Hills to the coastal habitats of Malindi and the savannas of Tsavo, Josua shares the story behind the species, the challenges of traveling on a student budget, and the people and places that left the biggest mark on him. We also talk about his volunteer work with A Rocha Kenya, the importance of community-led conservation, and why the African Birding Hub could play a vital role in protecting Kenya's unique biodiversity.This episode is packed with insights, inspiration, and practical tips for anyone who's ever dreamt of birding beyond their borders. Whether you're into sound recording, local guiding, rare endemics, or travel with purpose, you'll find something in this conversation to take with you.Visit our online store to get your birding related merchandise at great prices https://www.thebirdinglife.com/online-storeIntro and outro music by Tony ZA https://soundcloud.com/tonyofficialzaLinks from show:Josua's Website - josuawenzel.co.za

NO ONE KNOWS YOU'RE UP THERE We continue COLF AF JANUARY with the aptly-titled, Adam Green 2010 film FROZEN. Join Anneliese and I as we discuss our favorite “trapped” films, the Tsavo man-eaters, and people confusing this filmwith the other Frozen (really?)… Enjoy!   Follow Would You Die? on  IG @wouldyoudieshow Twitter @wouldyoudieshow Facebook @  Would You Die? Email wouldyoudiepodcast@gmail.com for business inquiries Follow Austin everywhere @austinmtorres Follow Anneliese everywhere @whimsiwillow   Join us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/wouldyoudiepodcast   Subscribe to our YouTube Channel! You can find my short films, like The Blood Witch, and much more! https://www.youtube.com/@WouldYouDieShow   Visit the FANGORIA store: shop.fangoria.com/wouldyoudieshow Use Promo Code: WOULDYOUDIESHOW The Would You Die? Podcast can also be found on TikTok @wouldyoudiepodcast. Follow Austin on Letterboxd @austinmtorres. Follow me on Bluesky @austinmtorres.bsky.social NEW Music is composed by Josie Palmer @josiepalms Podcast produced by Jeremy Lippitt @annuallyfunny Podcast graphics created by Crosshook Creative @crosshookcreative Watch my short film, The Blood Witch, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Foz3PeQKJ4 Watch my short film, Spider, here: https://youtu.be/IJlqp9QJ1qo Watch my short film, Ice Scream, here: https://youtu.be/tghxuuJjPxM Watch my short film, Best Day Ever, here: https://youtu.be/WDJbfRl2Qh4 Find Three Y's Men Media here! ThreeYsMenMedia.com

Send us a textThe stories behind some lesser-known true crime events. A pair of horror franchises that flopped on television. Some of the craziest wild animal attacks.Episode 218 ends spooky season with a bang and a scream.It all begins with a look at two iconic horror franchises that ultimately flopped on television. A Nightmare on Elm Street crossed into TV with Freddy's Nightmares, while Friday the 13th had a show of the same name. Though powerhouse films in the 1980s, the TV shows didn't fare as well. We'll look at both shows and some about why they did not succeed. Many horrific true crime stories spring to mind when thinking of the worst of the worst. For this segment, we are going to go deeper and look at some of the lesser-known but just as terrifying true crime cases of the 20th century. Some might be familiar, some new to you, but they are all equally disturbing. Animals can be cute and cuddly, but many are extremely dangerous. In this week's Top 5, we will look at some of the craziest wild animal attacks ever. There is, as always, a brand new This Week In History and Time Capsule looking at the life of beloved actor John Candy.You can support my work by becoming a member on Patreon. Or you can Buy Me A Coffee!Helpful Links from this EpisodeBuy My New Book, In Their Footsteps!Searching For the Lady of the Dunes True Crime BookHooked By Kiwi - Etsy.comDJ Williams MusicKeeKee's Cape Cod KitchenChristopher Setterlund.comCape Cod Living - Zazzle StoreSubscribe on YouTube!Initial Impressions 2.0 BlogWebcam Weekly Wrapup PodcastCJSetterlundPhotos on EtsyVillisca Axe Murder HouseListen to Episode 217 hereSupport the show

Trevor reconnects with his former professor, Dr. Rupp Carriveau from the University of Windsor, to explore how Southern Ontario's agriculture and energy sectors intersect. From powering greenhouses and managing massive industrial demand to reimagining aging wind farms and testing “atomic agriculture,” together they unpack how innovation, AI, and new tech are reshaping Canada's clean energy future. Listen to episode 164 of thinkenery.    Related links Dr. Rupp Carriveau on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rupp-carriveau-b4273823/ Environmental Energy Institute: https://www.environmentalenergyinstitute.com/ Turbulence and Energy Lab: http://www.turbulenceandenergylab.org/ Offshore Energy and Storage Society: https://www.osessociety.com/    Trevor Freeman on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trevor-freeman-p-eng-8b612114    Hydro Ottawa: https://hydroottawa.com/en      To subscribe using Apple Podcasts:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thinkenergy/id1465129405   To subscribe using Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7wFz7rdR8Gq3f2WOafjxpl   To subscribe on Libsyn: http://thinkenergy.libsyn.com/ --- Subscribe so you don't miss a video: https://www.youtube.com/user/hydroottawalimited   Follow along on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hydroottawa   Stay in the know on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HydroOttawa   Keep up with the posts on X: https://twitter.com/thinkenergypod --- Transcript: Trevor Freeman  00:07 Welcome to thinkenergy, a podcast that dives into the fast, changing world of energy through conversations with industry leaders, innovators and people on the front lines of the energy transition. Join me, Trevor Freeman, as I explore the traditional, unconventional and up and coming facets of the energy industry. If you have any thoughts, feedback or ideas for topics we should cover, please reach out to us at think energy at hydro ottawa.com, hi everyone, and welcome back. Today's episode brings us back to a few elements of my own personal history. Now you'll have to bear with me for a minute or two while I dive into my past in order to properly set up today's conversation, I grew up in southwestern Ontario, in and just outside the border town of Windsor, Ontario. Now for those of you not familiar with this area, Windsor and its surroundings are the most southern part of Canada. It might surprise you to know that Windsor is at the same latitude as Northern California and Rome, Italy. You can imagine that after growing up in Windsor and then living in various places around the globe, when I finally settled down here in Ottawa, adjusting to the more stereotypical Canadian winters of this northern capital, took a little bit of getting used to Windsor is so far south when you cross the border to its neighboring American city, Detroit, Michigan, you actually travel north. Have a look at a map if this seems to defy logic, but I promise you, it's true. This is the area that I grew up in. It's also where I went to school and got my engineering degree. More on that in a minute. Now, if you've ever driven down to the southwestern end of the 401 going past London and Chatham, you will notice two things. First, it is flat, very flat. You will not see a meaningful Hill anywhere in sight. I often joke with people that I used to toboggan when we did get any meaningful snow off of highway overpasses, because that was the only hill we could find. I was only partly joking, and I have indeed tobogganed off of said overpasses in my young and foolish days. But that is a story for another time. That brings us to the second thing you'll see, which is wind turbines. A lot of wind turbines. They are seemingly everywhere, stretching as far as you can see, southwestern Ontario is a hotbed of wind energy generation. Finally, a hint at why I'm going on about this part of the province on an energy podcast. But before we get into it, there's one other thing to touch on, and that is the fact that this area is also home to a large number of greenhouses growing produce year-round, as well as manufacturing. Windsor and its surrounding area is the automotive capital of Canada, with a number of plants from major car companies, as well as a supporting ecosystem of parts manufacturers. Incidentally, that's where I started my career, working as an environmental engineer for one of the automakers, and many members of my family have also worked or still work in that industry. The reason I bring up greenhouses in the auto industry is because they have some very high energy demand profiles, and that is how we get for me going on nostalgically about the area I grew up in, to our conversation today, I recently caught up with one of my engineering professors, Dr Rupp Carriveau, about the work that he and his colleagues have been doing that ties all of this together. And I thought it would be great to have him on the show to talk about that. Dr. Carriveau is the director of the Environmental Energy Institute and co-director of the Turbulence and Energy Lab and the CO lead of AGUwin at the University of Windsor. Back in the day, he was my fluid dynamics professor. But today, he balances his teaching duties with research into energy systems futures and advanced agricultural systems. He is a founder of the offshore energy and storage society, a recipient of the University Scholar Award, and has been named to Canada's clean 50 for his contributions to clean capitalism. Dr Rupp Carriveau, welcome to the show.   Dr Rupp Carriveau  03:59 Trevor, great to be here. Thanks.   Trevor Freeman  04:01 Yeah. So, Rupp, the last time we chatted, well, so you and I chatted a couple weeks ago, but before that, the last time that you and I interacted, I was in third year university. You were my fluid dynamics Prof. So, in addition to your professorial duties, you're now the director of the environmental Energy Institute at the University of Windsor. So, there's two questions around that. First off, how did you end up going from my fluid dynamics prof a number of years ago, probably close to 20 years ago now, to running this institute? And tell us a little bit about what the Institute does.   Dr Rupp Carriveau  04:40 Sure. Though. So, thanks. Yeah, and very memorable Trevor, because I, you know, I remember you well. And, yeah, that was, that was a very nice class that we had. I remember, well, I remember your colleagues too.   Trevor Freeman  04:54 If there's one thing I do, well, it's, it's be memorable, and you can take that however you want.   Dr Rupp Carriveau  04:58 That is, that is. Something to be said for that. Yeah, thanks for that question. So I should point out that in addition to EEI, I am a co-director in the Turbulence and Energy Lab, which is really where all of the EEI initiatives have started from, that's a lab that I co supervise with Dr David Ting in mechanical engineering and the nuts and bolts, the very serious engineering side of things, comes out of the Turbulence and Energy Lab. EEI kind of came about to handle topics that were, frankly speaking, less interesting to Dr Ting. So, things that push more, a little bit more into policy wider systems looks at things as opposed to, you know, pure thermodynamics and energy efficiency type pursuits, which underpin a lot of the EEI policy pieces, but are sort of beyond the scope of what turbulence and energy lab does. So those two things, and then more recently, actually, I'm co lead on, AGUwin, which is like a center of excellence, emerging Center of Excellence at the University of Windsor. So, Agriculture U Windsor is a group of about 40 professors that do work in agriculture in some shape or form. And we've, we've, we've taken to organizing that movement in seeking sort of group funding proposals, developing curriculum and organized sort of platforms to help industry in agriculture. And it's, it's really taking off, which I'm really excited about my extremely hard-working colleagues and CO lead, Isabel Barrett-Ng, she in particular, has been really driving a lot of really cool initiatives ahead and all the people that work with us. So, yeah, lots, lots happening at the University since I saw you last. But you know, time has a way of helping with that, people find ways to find efficiencies and get to do and build on, build on, hopefully incremental progress.   Trevor Freeman  07:08 Yeah, very cool. And you're teasing a few of the areas our conversation is going to go today, that sort of intersection between agriculture and obviously, this is an energy podcast, and so how does agriculture and the way we're moving in with agriculture impacts energy and vice versa. So, we're definitely going to get to that in a minute, I think, for our listeners that are not familiar with Southern Ontario, and I haven't talked about Southern Ontario on the podcast a lot, but people that know me know I will gladly talk about what goes on in the very southern part of our country. It's where I grew up. Help us paint a picture of what Southern Ontario is like. So, in the context of energy, what makes this area of Ontario unique?   Dr Rupp Carriveau  07:50 Well, it's that's a really good question, and I'm glad you phrased it that way, because I think it gets taken for granted. And also, folks, folks don't know energy isn't in the headlines every day, and if it is, it's not a headline that everybody pays attention to. But the southwestern Ontario region, if you take the 401 west of London, you'll start to see a high concentration of wind. So, there's a significant wind corridor in the region, and that's because it's very flat, so the whole area used to be a lake bed, and so we have very fertile agricultural lands as a result of that. And we also have very few obstacles to fetch, which is a huge aspect of how wind carries over the lakes, and is, you know, not, not obstructed. And so it's like you have offshore resources onshore, which is completely ideal. Also, we have, as it may be, we have massive natural gas resources in the area, in sort of the subterranean space of Devonian reefs for natural gas storage. We have natural gas generation facilities down around the Windsor area that help with provincial peaking and there is some solar in the region, because it is the Leamington Kingsville area is referred to as the sun parlor of Ontario. And as a result, we have a lot of under glass agriculture there, which benefits, obviously, directly from solar resources. And then we have solar photovoltaic that takes advantage of that sun as well. So there's, there's a lot happening here energy wise.   Trevor Freeman  09:38 Yeah, and there's a lot on the demand side of things as well. So, you mentioned the greenhouses, which are an up and coming, you know, source of demand draws on our grid. There's also a big manufacturing base. Talk a little bit about the manufacturing base in the area. Yeah, yeah. And that's that gets into my next question is talking about some of the specific, unique energy needs of greenhouses. I think on the manufacturing side, you know, you mentioned the auto industry and the parts industry that supports it, you're seeing more. There's a battery plant being built now I think that, I think people have a sense of that, but greenhouses are this thing that I think a lot of folks don't think about. So, you talked about the magnitude of the load, the lighting side of things. What else is this like, a 24/7 load? Is this sector growing like? Tell us a little bit about, you know where things are going with greenhouses?   Dr Rupp Carriveau  09:53 Yeah, thanks. So, yeah, I was, I was thinking about generation and, yeah, demand is. Significant we have. You know, Windsor has laid claim to Canada's automotive capital, and while I'm biased, I'd like to think it still is. And so we have significant manufacturing around the automotive industry, either automotive OEMs or tier one parts makers that have significant draws. We have Stellantis. Every minivan comes out of this area has come out of this area. The electric Dodge Charger comes out of this area. But there are engine plants for Ford, but they're also now, you know, sort of next generation transport technologies. You've talking about battery manufacturing. So, there's an enormous LG consortium with Stellantis here that's doing battery manufacturing. And so, these are huge loads that that add to existing and growing loads in the greenhouse space, which, again, I'll just mention it now, is something that isn't well understood. And we did a, we did a study for the province a couple years, three, four years ago. Now, I think grid Innovation Fund project that looked at sort of really getting into granular detailing of the loads that come with a lit greenhouse. A lot of people don't appreciate that a lit greenhouse, when switched on, depending on the lighting technology, depending on how it's used, can be like a 50-megawatt load, which is a significant load. And just imagine that's one so they can come on quickly, and they are non-trivial, significant loads. And so, this is something that we looked at trying to develop distributed energy resource sort of solutions for, because, simply speaking, you can't put up a new transmission line overnight, and we don't want to economically constrain the growth of the sector. Sure, yeah. I mean, it's, it's not a simple thing to characterize, because what you can take away from this is that these greenhouse developers are business dynamos, and frankly speaking, many of them do very well, because they're very good at what they do, and with the resources they have, they can largely do what they want. And if, if the infrastructure isn't there, they will build it so. So, you'll have folks that are operating off the grid, essentially not off the gas grid, of course, but they're using gas for cogeneration purposes, to produce heat for their crops, but also the electricity for their lights. So that is one aspect of it that further complicates how to figure out what these loads on the grid will be. But for the most part, of course, the grid provides quite clean and quite affordable electricity in the province, and you know where they can they want to be able to connect to the grid. Now, lights are designed to extend the growing day and extend the growing season as well. So, in terms of when they're switched on and how they're switched on, that is highly variable, and that is also something that is, I would say, in development, folks are looking at different ways to use intermittent lighting to be conscious of when peaking happens. It is dispatchable in a way, in that some growers are able to turn their lights off to avoid, you know, peaking charges. But again, there's a lot to manage. And, and it's, it's very complicated, both on the grid side and, and for the greenhouse grower.   Trevor Freeman  14:38 Yeah, so you mentioned natural gas for cogen for heating as well. So, as we look to decarbonize all different aspects of the sector, we talk often on the show of what are the specific areas where decarbonization might be challenging. Is, is greenhouses one of those areas? And, and what are the options available for heating these spaces? Like, is it realistic to think that there's an electric solution here, or what? What's happening in that sector related to decarbonization?   Dr Rupp Carriveau  15:10 Again, you've hit on a real sort of hot button issue for the for the sector, the trouble with natural gas is that it's spectacular. Oh, it's storable. It's dispatchable. It's a triple threat for greenhouses in the best way possible, because you can make your heat, you can make your electricity, and the plants crave CO2, and that comes out of the flue gas on the other side of the combustion reaction. So, you know, when you swing in there and you say, Oh, I've got this great new solution. It's called hydrogen. We'll burn hydrogen and we won't have these nasty CO2 release. And they're like, Okay, who's going to replace my CO2? So, it's a difficult fuel to displace. Now, admittedly, people understand that, you know, that's where we really need to go. And is, is electric? You know, electrification the path. So, people talk about, people talk about heat pumps, people talk about electric boilers. And then, as I mentioned, people talked about, you know, we've, we've also looked at the idea of blending hydrogen into a natural gas feed for existing infrastructure to, you know, because, because not all of the CO2, that is, you know, released is, is taken down by the plants. And so could you get to a magic blend where it's just the amount of CO2 that you need is what goes into the other side, and then there's nothing left after the plants take what they need. So, there's a lot of things that are being looked at. It is again, a challenging space to operate in, because it's highly competitive. Getting really granular. Data is very sensitive, because this, this, this is a, you know, it's a game of margins, and it's in its high stakes production. So to get in there and sort of be in the way is, is difficult. So, this work is being done. We're participating in a lot of this work. We just finished a study for the province, a Hydrogen Innovation Fund study on looking at the integration of hydrogen into the greenhouse space. And it was, it was pretty revelatory for us.   Trevor Freeman  17:36 So is the exhaust from burning natural gas on site. Does that get recycled through the greenhouse and therefore captured to some degree? Do we know how much you kind of hinted at finding out that sweet spot? Do we know how much of that gets captured?   Dr Rupp Carriveau  17:53 Yeah, so the short answer is yes. So, they have the cogen engines have scrubbers on them, and these, these machines are spectacularly capable of being tuned the combustion and the professionals that operate them at the greenhouse facilities are artists, and that they can get the sort of combustion profile a certain way, and so that that flue gas will go into the greenhouse, but to know exactly how much is being taken down, that is an area of active research, and we don't, we don't know that answer yet. There are people that are looking at it, and you can imagine it's kind of a provocative number for the sector. So, they're being very careful about how they do it.   Trevor Freeman  18:36  I'm sure, I'm sure. Okay, let's, let's park that just for a minute here, and jump back to something you mentioned earlier. You talked about one how flat Southern Ontario is, and it took me leaving, leaving the county before I really knew what skiing and tobogganing and everything else was. So, there's a lot of wind power generation. And for anyone listening, yeah, as rip mentioned, if you ever drive down the 401 going towards Windsor, you'll just start to see these massive wind turbines kind of everywhere you look. So, help us understand how these turbines, you know, you look out over a field and you see, you know, 2030, of them more in your line of sight. How do they connect to our provincial grid? How do the contracts work? Like, who gets that power? Give us a little bit of a sense of how that works.   Dr Rupp Carriveau  19:28 For sure. Yeah, well, so what most people don't realize, and again, it's not something that's talked about, and if it is, I don't know people are necessarily paying attention to it, but, but you know the comment I'll get from relatives we talked about Thanksgiving. So, you know people, because they know I'm a wind person, they'll be like, 'Hey, I was driving down the road and I saw they weren't spinning with, what's going on? Are they broken or what?' Well, you know, because we, we've got some pro wind and some non pro wind folks in the in the family, so it's an exciting time for me. But you know, and I mentioned that the greenhouses I'm working with are often starved for utility supply. And they said, well, how can that be? The turbines are right there. They're sharing the same space, right? And most people don't realize that. Really, I would say 95% of the wind in our corridor is put on a transmission line and sent up to, effectively, to Toronto, to be distributed throughout the province, which is great, but it's not really a local asset. And that was sort of what inspired us when we saw these two sorts of juxtaposed. We thought maybe you could turn these assets into something that acted as really a new type of distributed energy resource, and that you've got a transmission connected asset that's currently under contract, but if that contract could be modified, then the fiscal connections could potentially be modified so you could have local distribution, let's say at a time of maybe at a time of transmission curtailment, maybe under different conditions. So again, looking into the physical plausibility of it was part of our study, and then doing some sort of economic investigation of how that would work, having a nearly 20-year-old asset all of a sudden springing into a new role in a new life, where it continues to perform transmission duties for the province at large, but it also serves local needs in the production, let's say, of hydrogen through an electrolyzer, or just plain electrons turning lights on. That is something that isn't possible yet. Regulatory reasons exist for that that would require some, some significant changes. But it was a really interesting exercise to go through to investigate how that could happen.   Trevor Freeman  22:08 Yeah, so there's just trying to understand how this work. There's someone who owns these turbines. Some conglomerate somewhere, you know, Canadian, not Canadian, who knows. They contract with the Independent Electricity System Operator who operates the grid in the province. And they basically say, yeah, well, look, we'll provide you with X amount of power on some contract, and when ISO needs it, they call on it. How long do those contracts last? Is that a 10-year contract? A 20-year contract?   Dr Rupp Carriveau  22:35 So, they are in Ontario. The ones that I'm familiar with for 20 years. So it's possible there are others. I know. I have a there's a farm that operates in PEI that has a nice 30 year PPA. So the longer you can get, the better. Yeah, and these, these power purchase agreements are, are wonderful for developers, because they're known entities, doing the math on your finances is really straightforward with these contracts. And frankly speaking, when you had a sector that needed to be brought up from nothing, they were very necessary. They were very necessary. And but those contracts, and they're and they're locked down, as much as we try to, you know, persuade the province to get crazy, to amuse us with these new, newfangled ways of of connecting to people, commerce wise, through energy, they are not interested so far, at least in and they're like, let's finish these out, and then we can talk your crazy ideas, you know, and so, but that's we're getting glare, because I would say many, many, many farms in the province will be coming up on the sun setting end of Their power purchase agreements in the coming five, six years.   Trevor Freeman  24:03 Yeah, yeah. Which brings me to my next point, of the assets themselves, the actual physical turbine, I assume last longer than 20 years. You're going to build one of these things. You know, 20 years is not its end of life. So what are the options available today? You talked about regulatory barriers. We talk about regulatory barriers on this show often, what are, what are the options today for a wind farm that is at its end of contract? Does it look at re contracting? Can it kind of direct source to someone else? Like, what are the options available for an owner?   Dr Rupp Carriveau  24:40 Yeah, well, to me, it's an exciting time, because it could be work for us. We get excited about this. I think it could be a source of anxiety for owners, because there's nothing better than that long term contract. So many of them will try to apply for things like a medium, a new medium term length contract from the. Province, like an MT two, I think they're called. There are other contract types that are possible, but there'll be, it'll be a highly competitive landscape for those, and the in the province won't be able to give everyone one of these contracts. So some of these, some of these operators, will likely have to look at other options which may be going into the spot market, potentially, you know, getting into the capacity game by getting a battery on site and firming up their ability to provide power when necessary or provide capacity. And then there's a there isn't a relatively recent regulatory development in the around the middle of July, the province said, you know, if you're a non emitting generator and you're not under contract, you could provide virtual power someone else who might need it, if they're looking if they're a class, a customer that's trying to avoid peak charges. You know, rather than that class a customer buys a battery behind the meter and physically reduce their peaks. They could potentially virtually reduce their peaks by setting up a virtual power purchase agreement with another supplier. So these, these off contract spinning assets could have an opportunity to get into this game of peak relief. Which, which could be very lucrative. Because, based on last year's provincial global adjustment charges at large, you're looking at being paid something on the order of about $72,000 a megawatt hour for the, for the for the for the megawatt hours in question, which, which, of course, you know, try to get as many as you can. .   Trevor Freeman  26:31 Yeah. So there's a couple of things there. Bear with me while I connect a few dots for our listeners. So on different shows, we talk about different things. Global adjustment is one of them. And we've been talking here about these long term contracts. Global adjustment, as you might remember from previous conversations, is one of those mechanisms that bridges the gap between the spot market price, you know, the actual commodity cost of electricity that's out there, and some of the built-in cost to run the system, which includes these long term contracts. So there's a there's a fixed cost to run the system, global adjustment helps bridge that gap. The next concept here that is important to remember is this class, a strategy where the largest the largest customers, electricity customers in the province, have the opportunity to adjust how they are build global adjustment based on their contribution to the most intensive demand peaks in the province over the course of a year. So during a really high demand period, when everybody needs electricity, if they can reduce their demand, there's significant savings. And so what you're saying is there's this new this new ability for kind of a virtual connection, where, if I'm a big facility that has a high demand, and I contract with a generator, like a wind turbine that's not in contract anymore, I can say, hey, it's a peak time now I need to use some of your capacity to offset, you know, some of my demand, and there's those significant savings there. So you're absolutely right. That's a new thing in the province. We haven't had that ability up until just recently. So super fascinating, and that kind of connects our two topics today, that the large demand facilities in southern Ontario and these these generators that are potentially nearing the end of their contract and looking for what else might happen. So are you guys navigating that conversation between the greenhouses or the manufacturers and the generators?   Dr Rupp Carriveau  28:49 I'm so glad you asked. And here comes, here comes a shameless plug. Yeah? So yes. So there's a spin off company from the turbulence and Energy Lab, and it's called jailbreak labs. And jailbreak labs really represents sort of the space that is more commercial than research, but it also was sort of spurned, spurred from research. So jailbreak Labs has developed a registry, and we've been providing some webinars as well. So this, again, this is a company that that is essentially run by students, that this registry allows generators and consumers to ultimately find each other so that, so that these kinds of connections can be made. Because, as you may well imagine, there is no guarantee that the wind will be blowing at the time that you need it so, so and your load may be such that you need a different type of generation profile. So it needs to be profiling on the generation side. There needs to be profiling on the customer side. Yeah, and, you know, we've been doing this on our own for years. It was the time was right for us to sort of step in and say, because we were following this, we were real fanboys of this, of this reg, even before it came into play. And we kept bugging, you know, OEB for meetings and ISO and they, begrudgingly, to their credit, would chat with us about it, and then the next thing we know, it's announced that it's that it's happening. Was very exciting. So, so, yes, so we're really interested in seeing this happen, because it seems like such a unique, we're thrilled, because we're always interested in this sort of Second Life for assets that already have been depreciated and they're clean energy assets. Let's get everything we can out of them and to have this dynamic opportunity for them, and that will help Class A customers too hard for us to ignore.   Trevor Freeman  30:56 And you mentioned the last time we chatted about building a tool that helps evaluate and kind of injecting a little bit of AI decision making into this. Talk to us about that tool a little bit.   Dr Rupp Carriveau  31:08 Yeah. So we have a, we have a tool called quantract which is basically playing on the idea of quantifying all the risk and opportunity in in a contract. So it's really a contract visualization tool. Another way to think of it as a real time Net Present Value tool that allows renewable energy stakeholders to really, evaluate the value of their investment by not only understanding the physical life left in an asset. Let's say that a wind farm that's, you know, at 20 years and it looks like we may need to replace some blades. Do we just walk away and say, look at it. We had a good run contracts over, you know, we made some money. Let's sell the assets as they are. Or do we say, you know, I'm looking into this vppa game, and we could do okay here, but I'm not exactly sure how that's going to work and when. And so this, this tool that we've developed, will do things like will first of all identify all risk factors, and risk includes opportunities and then we'll profile them, and then builds them into basically what is more or less a glorified discounted cash flow model. So it is a way of measuring the potential value of investment in the AI space. I mean, the AI piece of it is that we have developed agents that will actually identify other things that are less, less sort of noticeable to people. In fact, this regulatory change is one of the things that our AI agents would have been looking for. Okay, now it pre it predated our tool going online, so we didn't see it, but it's the kind of thing that we'd be looking for. So the agents look for news, they look for changes online, and then, and then what happens is, they got brought, they get brought into a profiler. The profiler then determines the probability of or makes an estimate of the probability that this risk will occur. IE, a regulatory change will happen. IE, battery plant will come to town at a certain time. IE, a Costco facility will come in. Then we'll determine the potential magnitude. So there'll be uncertainty in the occurrence, there'll be uncertainty in the magnitude, and there'll be uncertainty in the timing. So we have basically statistical distribution functions for each one of those things, the likelihood of it happening, the magnitude and the timing. And so those are all modeled in so that people can push a button and, say, with this level of certainty your investment would be, would be worth this much. And that's dynamic. It's in real time. So it's changing constantly. It's being updated constantly. And so no so that that is something that goes in, and one of these virtual power purchase agreements would be one of the types of things that would go into this sort of investment timeline?   Trevor Freeman  34:22 Yeah, so it's giving these owners of these assets better data to make a decision about what comes next, as you said, and as we're talking I'm kind of doing the math here. If these are typically 20 year contracts, that's bringing us back to, you know, the mid, early, 2000s when we were really pushing to get off coal. So a lot of these assets probably started in and around that time. So you've probably got a whole bunch of customers, for lack of a better term, ready to start making decisions in the next you know, half a decade or so of what do I do with my. Sets. Have you seen this? Has it been used in the real world yet? Or is, are you getting close to that? Like, where are you at in development?   Dr Rupp Carriveau  35:07 Yeah, it actually started. It's funny. It started a little a little bit even before this craze. A couple years ago, we had, we had a manufacturer in our county come to us with, they had a great interest in, in just, just they were trying to be proactive about avoiding carbon tax and so, and they wanted to develop a new generation technology close to their facility. And so we used it there since that time. Yeah, so, so it was field proven that was a still a research contract, because they were the technology that they were interested in was, was, was not off the shelf. But since that time, we got a chance, because we represent Canada in the International Energy Agency, task 43 on wind energy digitalization. And so one of the mandates there was to develop a robust and transparent tools for investment decision support using digital twins. And we had a German partner in Fraunhofer Institute that had developed nice digital twin that would provide us remaining useful life values for things like blades, you know, towers, foundations, etc, and those are, again, those are all costs that just plug into our but they did. They didn't have a framework of how to work that into an investment decision other than, you know, you may have to replace this in three years. Okay, well, that's good to know, but we need the whole picture to make that decision, and that's sort of what we were trying to bring so the short answer is, yes, we're getting a lot of interest now, which is thrilling for us, but it's, I'll be honest with you, it's not, it's not simple, like, you know, I I've talked about it a bunch of times, so I'm pretty good at talking about it, but, but the doing it is still, it's computationally intensive and in the end, it's still an estimate. It's a, it's a, it's a calculated, quantified estimate, but it's an estimate. I think what we like about it is it's better than saying, Well, I have a hunch that it's going to go this way, but we could get beat by the hunches too. Yeah, totally, right. So, so, you know, I'm not trying to sell people things that, like I we have to be transparent about it. It's still probability.   Trevor Freeman  37:35 Well, I think if there's, if there's one thing that is very apparent, as we are well into this energy transition process that we talk about all the time here on the show. It's that the pace of change is is one of the things that's like no other time we are we are seeing things change, and that means both our demand is growing, our need to identify solutions is growing the way that we need to build out the grid and utilize the ers and utilize all these different solutions is growing at a rate that we haven't seen before, and therefore uncertainty goes up. And so to your point, yeah, we need help to make these decisions. We need better ways of doing it than just, as you say, having a hunch. That doesn't mean it's foolproof. It doesn't mean it's a guarantee.   Dr Rupp Carriveau  38:27 Nope, it is not a guarantee.   Trevor Freeman  38:30 Very cool. So Rupp, this is a great conversation. It's really fascinating to talk about to me, two areas of the energy sector that aren't really understood that well. I think the agriculture side of things, not a lot of people think about that as a major demand source. But also wind, I think we talk about solar a lot. It's a little bit more ubiquitous. People's neighbors have solar on their roofs. But wind is this unless you drive through Southern Ontario or other parts of the province where there's a lot of wind, you don't see it a lot. So it's fascinating to kind of help understand where these sectors are going. Is there anything else that the Institute is working on that that's worth chatting about here, or is what we've talked about, you know, kind of filling your day, in your students days?   Dr Rupp Carriveau  39:15 Well, actually there is something we haven't talked about the nuclear option. Literally, literally the nuclear literally the nuclear option. Yeah, so we've been really thrilled to have a growing relationship with Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, which is much closer to you than it is to me. And specifically in the connection of small modular reactors to meet these growing agricultural loads. So I have a science colleague at the University of Windsor, Dr drew Marquart, who was all hot and bothered about these s. Mrs. And he's like, we should drop one of these SMRs in Leamington. Then I this, this part I really enjoyed, because it's obviously so he came from Oak Ridge National Laboratories in the States, and he's and he's been at CNL as well. So he's fully indoctrinated into the nuclear space. But it just didn't occur to him that that would be provocative or controversial at all, that there wouldn't be some social he, you know, he's like, we can do the math. And I said, Oh yeah, yeah, we can do the math. But I'm like, I think you're missing something. I think you're missing something, right? So, but so it's, it's a super fascinating topic, and we're trying to connect, physically connect. So just before the weekend, I was in the turbulence and Energy Lab, and we were trying to commission what we believe is North America's first we're calling it a model synthetic, small modular reactor, synthetic being the key word, and that it's non nuclear, okay? And so it's non nuclear. What it what it is really and if I'm going to de glamorize it for a second, it's a mini steam thermal power plant, which doesn't embody every SMR design, but many SMRs are designed around this sort of where you've got a nuclear reaction that provides the heat, and then after that, it's kind of a steam thermal power plant. Our interest is in this physical little plant being connected to small electrolyzer, being connected to small thermal battery, being connected to a lab scale electric battery and being connected to a lab scale fully automated inlet, cucumber, small cucumber, greenhouse, mini cubes greenhouse, all this in our lab. The exciting thing around this is, you know, I I've said that I think nuclear technology needs to get out from behind the walls of nuclear facilities for people to start to appreciate it, and by that, to start doing that, you have to take the nuclear part out, which, to me, is not necessarily a deal breaker in terms of these dynamic issues that we want to solve. You know, because nukes have traditionally been said, Well, you know they're not that. You know, you can't just ramp them up and down, and that's true, you know, and small modular reactors are supposed to be considerably more nimble, but there's still lots of challenges that have to be solved in terms of having how it is an asset that is provides copious energy, but does so maybe not, not as dynamic, certainly, as a gas turbine. That how does it? How do you make it nimble, right? How do you partner it up with the right complimentary other grid assets to take advantage of what it does so well, which is crank out great amounts of heat and electricity so, so effortlessly, right? And so that's, that's sort of what we're trying to do, and connecting it to what we're calling atomic agriculture. I don't know that's a good name or not. I like it, but, but, but, yeah, so that that's another thing that we're that we're flirting with right now. We're working on. We've done a few. We've had a few contracts with Canadian Nuclear Laboratories to get us this far. We did everything computationally. We're continuing to do computational studies with them. They develop their own hybrid energy systems, optimizer software, HISO, which we use, and we are now trying to put it into sort of the hardware space. So again, just the idea that physically looking at the inertia of spinning up a turbine, the little gap, the little sort of steam powered turbine that we have in the lab that's run by an electric boiler. But our hope is to, ultimately, we're going to get the electric boiler to be mimicking the sort of reaction heating dynamics of a true reactor. So by, but through electrical control. So we'll imitate that by having sort of data from nuclear reactions, and then we'll sort of get an electrical signal analog so that we can do that and basically have a non nuclear model, small modular reactor in the lab.   Trevor Freeman  44:14 Very cool, very neat. Well, Rupp, this has been a great conversation. I really appreciate it. We do always end our interviews with a series of questions here, so I'm going to jump right into those. What's a book that you've read that you think everyone should read?   Dr Rupp Carriveau  44:31 I would say any of the Babysitters Club. That's as high as I get in the literary hierarchy. I'm barely literate so and I thoroughly enjoyed reading those books with my daughters that they were great. So I recommend any, any of the Babysitters Club titles. I mean that completely seriously, I that was the peak of my that are dog man, yeah,   Trevor Freeman  44:56 I'm about six months removed from what i. Was about an 18 month run where that's, that's all I read with my youngest kiddo. So they've, they've just moved on to a few other things. But yes, I've been steeped in the Babysitter's Club very recently.   Dr Rupp Carriveau  45:11 So good. So, you know, absolutely.   Trevor Freeman  45:14 So same question, but for a movie or a show, what's something that you recommend?   Dr Rupp Carriveau  45:17 Everyone thrilled with that question. If you're looking for a good, good true story. I've always been romantically obsessed with the ghost in the darkness, the true story of, I guess, a civil engineer trying to solve a problem of man eating lions and Tsavo. That's a, that's a, that's a tremendous movie with Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas. Yeah, that's good then, and I think for something a little more light hearted and fun, a big fan of the way, way back and youth and revolt, nice.   Trevor Freeman  46:03 If someone offered you a free round trip flight anywhere in the world, where would you go?   Dr Rupp Carriveau  46:05 I don't really like flying, I got to be honest. But if, if I was forced onto the plane, I think, I think I go to Japan. Nice. Have you been before? No, I haven't. I'd like to go. Okay, cool. You're not the first guest that has said that someone else was very That's understandable. Yeah, who is someone that you admire? I would say truly selfless people that help people when no one's looking and when it's not being tabulated for likes those people are who I aspire to be more like nice.   Trevor Freeman  46:47 And last question, what's something about the energy sector or its future that you're really excited about?   Dr Rupp Carriveau  46:53 I think maybe power to the people I really like, the movement of distributed energy resources. I'm sure there's a limit to it, but I think, I think if we have more responsibility for our own power production, and again, I can see there are limits where it's probably, you know, there's, there's a point where it's too much. I'm all for, for major centralized coordination and the security in the reliability that goes with that. But I think a little bit more on the distributed side would be nice, because I think people would understand energy better. They would they would own it more, and I think our grid would probably increase in its resiliency.   Trevor Freeman  47:37 Yeah, that's definitely something that no matter the topic, it seems, is a part of almost every conversation I have here on the show. It works its way in, and I think that's indicative of the fundamental role that decentralizing our energy production and storage is is already playing and is going to play in the years to come as we kind of tackle this energy transition drove this has been a really great conversation. I appreciate you taking the time to talk to us, and that's great to catch up. Great to chat with you again.   Dr Rupp Carriveau  48:11 Total privilege for me. Trevor, I really appreciate it. Outstanding job.   Trevor Freeman  48:15 Thanks for having me. Yeah, great to chat. Thanks for tuning in to another episode of the thinkenergy podcast, don't forget to subscribe. Wherever you listen to podcasts, and it would be great if you could leave us a review. It really helps to spread the word. As always, we would love to hear from you, whether it's feedback comments or an idea for a show or a guest. You can always reach us at thinkenergy@hydroottawa.com.  

Keňa je jednou z nejvyspělejších zemí celé Afriky. Zaznamenal to i cestovatel Tadeáš Šíma, který ji teď při své cestě na kole přes Afriku projíždí. Do Mombasy na pobřeží Indického oceánu se ale vydal společně s přáteli vlakem. „Je to pohodlná vyjížďka keňskou savanou. Projíždíte národním parkem Tsavo, a když máte štěstí a dobře se díváte, můžete pozorovat slony nebo žirafy přímo z vlaku,“ popisuje Tadeáš.

Keňa je jednou z nejvyspělejších zemí celé Afriky. Zaznamenal to i cestovatel Tadeáš Šíma, který ji teď při své cestě na kole přes Afriku projíždí. Do Mombasy na pobřeží Indického oceánu se ale vydal společně s přáteli vlakem. „Je to pohodlná vyjížďka keňskou savanou. Projíždíte národním parkem Tsavo, a když máte štěstí a dobře se díváte, můžete pozorovat slony nebo žirafy přímo z vlaku,“ popisuje Tadeáš.Všechny díly podcastu Seriál Radiožurnálu můžete pohodlně poslouchat v mobilní aplikaci mujRozhlas pro Android a iOS nebo na webu mujRozhlas.cz.

Parshas Ki Tsavo: Covenant In Stone

Today we are diving into The Ghost and the Darkness to determine if it's the manliest hunting movie ever made! We'll explore the film's suspense and the terrifying reality of the Tsavo lions. Join Movie Dumpster and I as we review this 90s classic!https://youtu.be/idV7lFRHSzUhttps://rumble.com/v6y31wa-the-ghost-and-the-darkness-is-a-lion-fueled-thrill-ride-hack-the-movies.html

In 1896, construction began on the Uganda Railway starting from Mombasa and cutting west through dense bush, rocky escarpments, swamps, and unfamiliar terrain to the shores of Lake Victoria. The work was gruelling and the men suffered from horrible diseases, lack of food and water and terrible living conditions. And then they began disappearing in the night and soon work ground to a halt completely. But what was causing men to flee into the bush in terror?Don't miss an episode—follow, comment, like, and share!Connect with us on social media @‌themondaynightrevue or email at themondaynightrevue@gmail.com.Explore our podcast merch: Shop HereSupport the show: Buy Me a CoffeeDiscover curated reads: BookshopFor ad-free episodes, minisodes, and exclusive perks, join us on Patreon: Support on PatreonWritten and edited by Corinna Harrod with Holly Clarke. Artwork by Jessica Holmes. Music: "The Mooche" by Duke Ellington (1928). Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-monday-night-revue--4921180/support.

Emily Scripps and Peter Kern from Tsavo Highway visited the Flamingo Lounge on May 1, 2025. An engaging conversation along with music ensued. There are also special outtakes at the end of the episode. Quickly gaining recognition in the indie rock and jam scene for their engaging live performances and heartfelt songwriting is Tsavo Highway, a Buffalo-based band consisting of Emily Scripps – lead vocals/various percussion, Christian Dobosiewicz – guitar, Peter Kern – guitar/background vocals, Brian Calisto – bass/background vocals (Buffalo, NY), and Brian McMahon – drums. The band has shared the stage with an impressive lineup of national acts, including Andy Frasco and The U.N., Spafford, The Magic Beans, Shira Elias (Cool, Cool, Cool), Micheal Angelo Carubba (Remain In Light, and Cool, Cool, Cool), J.WAIL Live Band featuring Natalie Cressman (Trey Anastasio Band), Kito B. (Particle), and Scott Hannay (Mihali Band), yam yam, Thank You Scientist, Underground Springhouse, Seven Teller, and good trees river band. In 2023, they were honored with “Best New Band” and “Best Vocalist” in the AllWNY Awards, cementing their presence in the Western New York music community. The band made their debut with the EP “Pit Stop” in May 2023, followed by their single “Find a Way” that following December, which was featured in outlets such as NYS Music, Last Day Deaf, and Modern Neon. These releases laid the foundation for their distinctive sound and growing presence. Most recently, the band unveiled four singles (Buffalo Girls, V Day Song, Introspect, and Marco Polo) leading up to their highly anticipated album, Circles, released January 21, 2025. Filled with dynamic jams, emotional storytelling, and a fresh energy, the album reflects the band's growth and is already generating buzz in the indie and jam music scenes. Their goal is simple: to create memorable experiences through authentic performances and a shared love of sound.

In 1898, for nine months, two lion brothers would terrorize Tsavo, their main targets were men helping construct a railway bridge going over the Tsavo River. Many men would die brutal horrific deaths, being attacked, dragged away and consumed by the feline predators, until Colonel Lieutenant Patterson took them down. MUSIC COURTESY OF:

We honor the late, great Val Kilmer this week as we, along with special guest Steve Coates of the  ⁨@bucketofchumpodcast⁩ , dive into his turn as railroad engineer and hunter of the legendary Man-Eaters of Tsavo, John Henry Patterson, in 1996's THE GHOST AND THE DARKNESS. Plagued by production woes, it was surprising this film even got made at all. We dive into the legend of the infamous lions, the massive effect Michael Douglas had on the production, and how this may be an underrated performance by Kilmer himself. Watch your backs and stay away from the long grass, because they're watching you, this week on the Dissect That Film Podcast #201.   Follow Steve Coates and The Bucket Of Chum Shark Movie Podcast: https://linktr.ee/bucketofchum   Join our Patreon for as low as $1 for UNCUT versions of the episodes. https://patreon.com/dissectthatfilm Join any tier, including the free tier, for access to the DTF Discord Follow Dissect That Film on social media: https://instagram.com/dissectthatfilmpod https://x.com/dissectthatfilm https://bsky.app/profile/dissectthatfilm.bsky.social https://thread.net/@disectthatfilmpod https://facebook.com/dissecthatfilm For more go to our Linktree: https://linktr.ee/dissectthatfilm Intro/Facts: 0:00:00-0:21:07 Plot Breakdown: 0:21:07-1:37:06 Final Thoughts, Comments and Outro: 1:37:06-2:05:49

I'm super thrilled to introduce to you our next guest on the Pod @lydiatiller, the head of the human-elephant coexistence program @amboseli_trust Lydia joined @amboseli_trust in January 2023 to focus on human-elephant coexistence and connectivity in the Amboseli ecosystem. over a decade@savetheelephants in Tsavo, Kenya as their Research and Science Manager, where she coordinated field research and managed an elephant tracking program. In this episode, we chat about the following: Lydia's upbringing, her career life, and how her childhood shaped the person she is today How she got started working with and for Asian elephants in Thailand, Why elephants? What makes these majestic creatures special Biggest threats facing elephants and all about coexistence in an ever-increasingly changing landscape Her biggest challenge and most rewarding success in her career so far How she is empowering and mentoring the next generation of conservationists and so much more. Enjoy and be Inspired

BYD - 1297 - Los Devoradores de Hombres de Tsavo - Episodio en el que conoceremos los dramáticos sucesos ocurridos durante la construcción de un puente sobre el río Tsavo, África, a finales del siglo XIX, recogidos en las me morias del Coronel Paterson. Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

Parshas Ki Tsavo, Reflection and Renewal  The Parsha Perspective is in honor of Eretz Yisroel.  May G-d protect our brave soldiers.  May G-d return all the hostages in Gaza immediately.  The Parsha Perspective is in loving memory of Edward Ben Efraim, Shlomo Ben Edward, and Yirachmiel Daniel Ben Gedalia. May their souls be uplifted and their memories a blessing. Click here to listen, watch and connect! Parshaperspective.com  Our Parsha continues with Moshe's final address to the Jewish people. He begins by teaching the laws applicable once the Jewish nation settles in Israel. We find out which Torah portions are always read before Rosh Hashana. We learn the importance of leaving the past behind, so we can have a future.

Altre pillole dall'età contemporanea : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfSB5rwk8to&list=PLpMrMjMIcOklAamXwkzlub85zjR3Eh74B&index=1

Send a message an d let us know what you think of this episode!On this episode, Ellie discusses the pair of Tsavo Lions who ate "very few humans" (very few is in the eye of the beholder, we suppose!) as well as their post mortem fate.  Once again, the real fear is colonialism here on QFF.  We know what we're about.  Then, Abby discusses one of her favorite summer fruits, the watermelon.  She discusses some true history, stereotypes associated with watermelons and some folklore surrounding them.  Tangents include but are not limited to:  Kovu from Lion King 2, Abby's staunch opinion on eggs, the perfect fruit salad, and many more. We're drinking...Abby's Segment: Watermelon Spike Agua Fresca with a Tajin rimEllie's Segment: Content Warnings for this episode: Ellie's segment: Humans eaten by lions, humans killing lions, colonialism, and racism. Abby's Segment: poison, accidental deaths, and racismSources: Ellie's Segment: Field Museum, Atlas Obscura, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, UC Santa Cruz, Smithsonian Magazine, Wikipedia (for a recap of the book), AAAS Abby's Segment: How Watermelons became a Racist Trope by: William R. Black in The Atlantic, Wikipedia entry on watermelons, NPR, Bradford Watermelons, Today Follow us on Social Media: Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and Youtube: @queersforfearspodcastTwitter/X: @queersfearspodEmail: podcastqueersforfears@gmail.comTo support our show please subscribe, rate, and write reviews wherever you listen to our podcast.  If you're feeling super generous you can buy us a beer here without any additional commitments, or you can support us on Patreon monthly and get access to all of our spooky, gay BONUS CONTENT. 

The Redeemables has come to TSAVO! That's right, we headed to Kenya with Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas to hunt man-eating lions in 1996's The Ghost And The Darkness. The movie is free on YouTube so please join us on this adventure into the heart of Africa. As always, thanks for listening!

In 1898, a pair of killers stalked a worksite in the Tsavo region of Kenya. They evaded blockades and booby traps to torment hundreds of men who'd simply signed up to do a job but instead found themselves marked as prey for a seemingly unstoppable deadly duo. "Crimes of the Centuries" is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab exploring forgotten crimes from times past that made a mark and helped change history DON'T FORGET ABOUT THE CRIMES OF THE CENTURIES BOOK!  Order today at www.centuriespod.com/book (https://www.centuriespod.com/book)! Follow us on Instagram and Twitter: @centuriespod Episode sponsors: Laundry Sauce. For 15% off your order, head to LaundrySauce.com/COTC and use code COTC Ritual. Get 25% off your first month at ritual.com/cotc. Field of Greens. 15% off your first order, plus free rush shipping. Visit FieldofGreens.com and use promo code COTC.

Today's guest is Tsavo Knott, Co-founder and CEO of Pieces. Pieces is an AI-driven software company that builds a platform to enable software developers to work more efficiently. Tsavo returns to the program with Emerj CEO and Head of Research Daniel Faggella for the second in a special two-part conversation on the challenge for software developers as generative AI drives greater heights in computing power and enterprise infrastructure. This episode is sponsored by Pieces. Learn how brands work with Emerj and other Emerj Media options at emerj.com/ad1.

Today's guest is Tsavo Knott, Co-founder and CEO of Pieces. Pieces is an AI-driven software company that builds a platform to enable software developers to work more efficiently. Tsavo joins Emerj CEO and Head of Research Daniel Faggella for the first in a special two-part conversation on the challenge for software developers as GenAI drives greater heights in computing power and enterprise infrastructure. If you've enjoyed or benefited from some of the insights of this episode, consider leaving us a five-star review on Apple Podcasts, and let us know what you learned, found helpful, or liked most about this show!

Suspend Disbelief 15 Warning: This episode dives into the deaths of humans and animals. On this episode were veer from our Indigenous roots and dive into tales of deadly animal attacks. Cary discusses the real story behind the 1990's action thriller The Ghost and The Darkness, or the Man Eaters of Tsavo told by John H. Patterson. Orrin discusses the horrifying and deadly story of a bear lover and activist Timothy Treadwell whose admiration of the deadly predator ended in the grizzly death of him and his girlfriend. If you have any scary stories you would like for us to read on the show, send us an email with any pictures/videos you may have at Skullcrawlerfilms@gmail.com https://youtu.be/mAKxcNQpiSg?si=TZcdHG_4fYTOQocP --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-skull-crawlers/message

Are those human cages hanging from a cathedral? Why yes, they are! Because this week Hayley takes us to Münster, Germany where things started to get culty in the 1500s. Then Kat covers the equally disturbing events of a railroad construction in 1890s Africa that turned into a blood bath. Let's just say the railroad workers were begging for some of those human cages…. for protection.   Still got a thirst for knowledge and parasaocial camaraderie? You're in luck! We release bonus shows every week on our Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/nightclassy   Night Classy | Linktree Produced by Parasaur Studios © 2024

BYD - Los devoradores de hombres de Tsavo eran un par de leones machos devoradores de hombres en la región de Tsavo en Kenia, que fueron responsables de la muerte de muchos trabajadores de la construcción en el ferrocarril Kenia-Uganda entre marzo y diciembre de 1898. Se decía que la pareja de leones mató a 135 personas. Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

THE GHOST AND THE DARKNESS Sir Robert Beaumont is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry Patterson to right the ship, Beaumont expects results. Everything seems great until the crew discovers the mutilated corpse of the project's foreman, seemingly killed by a lion. After several more attacks, Patterson calls in famed hunter Charles Remington who has finally met his match in the bloodthirsty lions. Craig, guest co-host Brendan Agnew and Elisabeth Rappe discuss scary animals, the story of the Tsavo man-eaters, old school movies and the movie “The Ghost and the Darkness” On this week's Matinee Heroes! Show Notes 0:58 Craig, Brendan Agnew and Elisabeth Rappe talk about animals that scare them. 9:23 Craig, Brendan and Elizabeth discuss "The Ghost and The Darkness" 40:57 Recasting 1:06:44  Double Feature 1:11:48 Final Thoughts 1:18:45 A preview of next week's episode "Captain Marvel" Next week we get excited for the release of "The Marvels" with a past patreon episode of "Captain Marvel"

Today's guest is Tsavo Knott, Co-founder and CEO of Pieces. Pieces is an AI-driven software company that builds a platform to enable software developers to work more efficiently. Tsavo joins us on today's program to talk about the ways that new and emerging AI tools can help streamline workflows for developers, from making their work histories more accessible to bridging gaps between their work and their fellow stakeholders in design workflows. This episode is sponsored by Pieces. Learn how brands work with Emerj and other Emerj Media options at emerj.com/ad1.

Ongoing advances in generative AI are already having a huge impact on developer productivity. Tools like GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT are increasing the velocity of code development, and more advances are on the horizon. However, an ever-growing challenge for developers is how to manage their coding resources – things like code snippets, website links, messages, The post Building Pieces.app and the Future of Developer Productivity with Tsavo Knott appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Ongoing advances in generative AI are already having a huge impact on developer productivity. Tools like GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT are increasing the velocity of code development, and more advances are on the horizon. However, an ever-growing challenge for developers is how to manage their coding resources – things like code snippets, website links, messages, The post Building Pieces.app and the Future of Developer Productivity with Tsavo Knott appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Ongoing advances in generative AI are already having a huge impact on developer productivity. Tools like GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT are increasing the velocity of code development, and more advances are on the horizon. However, an ever-growing challenge for developers is how to manage their coding resources – things like code snippets, website links, messages, The post Building Pieces.app and the Future of Developer Productivity with Tsavo Knott appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

This week we're going back to 1890s Kenya with The Ghost and the Darkness! Join us as we learn all about Colonel John Patterson, the Kenya-Uganda Railway, the ivory trade, burial practices, and more! Sources: Ahmed al-Dawoody, Respect for the Dead Under Islamic Law: Considerations for Humanitarian Forensics. ICRC, available at https://blogs.icrc.org/law-and-policy/2018/11/01/respect-for-the-dead-under-islamic-law-considerations-for-humanitarian-forensics/ Rodney Muhumuza, "Africa Slowly Turning to Cremations, Though Long Taboo," AP, available at https://apnews.com/article/e4d90cbae6b84d2d95e74e357f2b8c16 Abdullah Shihipar, "Sri Lanka's Baseless Forced Cremations Must Stop," Washington Post (25 January 2021): https://go-gale-com.lscsproxy.lonestar.edu/ps/i.do?p=ITBC&u=nhmccd_main&id=GALE%7CA649607653&v=2.1&it=r&sid=ebsco&aty=ip Yanky Fachler, "The Zion Mule Corps--and Its Irish Commander," History Ireland 11:4 (2003): 34-8. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27725064  J.H. Patterson, The Man-Eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures (Gutenberg Press, 2009). https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3810/3810-h/3810-h.htm   William K. Storey, "Big Cats and Imperialism: Lion and Tiger Hunting in Kenya and Northern India, 1898-1930," Journal of World History 2:2 (1991): 135-73. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20078498  Paul Raffaele, "Man-Eaters of Tsavo," Smithsonian Magazine (January 2010). https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/man-eaters-of-tsavo-11614317/  Field Museum: https://www.fieldmuseum.org/blog/man-eating-lions-tsavo  Samuel G. Ruchman, "Colonial Construction: Labor Practices and Precedents Along the Uganda Railway, 1893-1903," The International Journal of African Historical Studies 50:2 (2017): 251-73. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44723449  Major E.H.M. Leggett, "The Economic Development of British East Africa and Uganda," Journal of the Royal Society of Arts 63: 3246 (5 February 1915): 209-20. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41341935  A.M. O'Connor, "New Railway Construction and the Pattern of Economic Development in East Africa," Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 36 (June 1965): 21-30. https://www.jstor.org/stable/621451  GC Whitehouse, The Building of the Kenya-Uganda Railway, Library of Congress, available at https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_13809/?sp=5&r=-0.302,0.162,1.407,0.881,0 RW Beachey, "The East African Ivory Trade in the 19th Century," Journal of African History 8, 2 (1967)

Have you heard the horrifying story of a pair of lions that went on a killing spree known as the Tsavo Man-Eaters?

Parshas Ki Tsavo, illuminate our path The Parsha Perspective is in honor of the Refuah Shlema of Harav Amitai Ben Shoshana and Ruchma Leah Bas Sarah. May all those who need experience a speedy and quick recovery with G-d's help.  The Parsha Perspective is in loving memory of Leah Mintche Bas Ya'akov Yosef, Edward Ben Efraim, Shlomo Ben Edward, and Yirachmiel Daniel Ben Gedalia. May their souls be uplifted and their memories a blessing. Click here to listen, watch and connect! Parshaperspective.com  Our Parsha continues with Moshe's final address to the Jewish people. He begins by teaching the laws applicable once the Jewish nation settles in Israel.  The first commandment is Bikurim, the Mitzvah of bringing the first fruits of each year's harvest to the Beis Hamikdash. This commandment specifically pertains to seven fruits: wheat, barley, dates, figs, grapes, pomegranates, and olives. We find out what was written with the Torah on the large set of stones? We learn the significance of what was inscribed, and how it was cemented for eternity!

This week Elizabeth talks about another controversial music video, The Haunted Mansion, and Callie actually learned something from reading fiction books. Elizabeth takes us on a wild ride into history to tell us all about man-eating lions and Callie questions if they weren't really dealing with werelions. Also, be sure to check out A Nefarious Nightmare on your favorite podcasting app! Music and sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com  Find us at: https://linktr.ee/horrendous.podcast  Affiliates with: https://www.boredwalktshirts.com/ Discount code: HORRENDOUS for 10% off --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/horrendouspod/support

BYD - Los devoradores de hombres de Tsavo eran un par de leones machos devoradores de hombres en la región de Tsavo en Kenia, que fueron responsables de la muerte de muchos trabajadores de la construcción en el ferrocarril Kenia-Uganda entre marzo y diciembre de 1898. Se decía que la pareja de leones mató a 135 personas. Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

Agradece a este podcast tantas horas de entretenimiento y disfruta de episodios exclusivos como éste. ¡Apóyale en iVoox! BYD - Los devoradores de hombres de Tsavo eran un par de leones machos devoradores de hombres en la región de Tsavo en Kenia, que fueron responsables de la muerte de muchos trabajadores de la construcción en el ferrocarril Kenia-Uganda entre marzo y diciembre de 1898. Se decía que la pareja de leones mató a 135 personas. Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Mutter Museum contains carefully preserved human remains that once placed a central role in a major political scandal. The Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois is home to a massive skull belonging to a beast that terrorized people on the African savannah. And at the Museum of Natural and Cultural History in Eugene, OR stands a replica of an otherworldly object that represents a creative and ingenious heist.For even more Mysteries at the Museum, head to discovery+. Go to discoveryplus.com/mystery to start your 7-day free trial today. Terms apply.For even more Mysteries at the Museum, head to discovery+. Go to discoveryplus.com/mystery to start your 7-day free trial today. Terms apply.

Today, Laura, Krysta and Dean return to 1898 Africa, this time to visit a a camp of men busily trying to build a bridge over the Tsavo River when two lions and their taste for people gum up the works In a story that was famously told in 'The Ghost and the Darkness'. Join us as we discuss the Tsavo Man Eaters, Krysta talks about clothes we like and we discuss how two lions got discussed in the House of Lords by no lesser personage than the British Prime Minister. Join us for this tasty episode where we talk lions, and lions and lions, oh my!!!

A decade ago,  the cloud forests of Kenya's Chyulu Hills were on the brink of collapse, threatening water supplies for the Tsavo and Amboseli Plains — and for the coastal City of Mombasa, 250 kilometers away. Then the Kenya Forestry and Wildlife Services teamed up with the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust, the Big Life Foundation, the Sheldrake Wildlife Trust, Conservation International, and, most importantly, grazing collectives, called “community group ranches” to launch the Chyulu Hills REDD+ Project — a thirty-year private-public partnership designed to save the hills by overhauling the rural economy.  The first of two parts

The brothers are back! This week with with Emily and Christian from Tsavo Highway! They give all the details about their upcoming shows and giveaway,  their music style, and love of performing.  And, you don't want to miss this divisive Who Would Win.Tsavo Highway on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tsavo_highway/?hl=enTsavo Highway Linktree:  https://linktr.ee/tsavohighwayInstacart Link: https://instacart.oloiyb.net/vAWXNMerch Link: https://snack-spot-se.creator-spring.comTITC Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/twointhecooler/?hl=enSupport the show

Join us as we talk about the Tsavo man-eaters, a pair of male lions in the Tsavo region of Kenya that were responsible for the deaths of over 100 people in 1898.

Beast is the 2022 film in which Idris Elba fights a lion. That's really all we have to say. We break down this film that splits its time between South Africa and the uncanny valley. We also do a proper special features section where we get into research on lions vs. tigers, the Tsavo man-eater lions (The Ghost in the Darkness), and the infamous nature snuff film, Roar. We also debate which big cats we think think we could beat in a fight and have some spoiler-free chats about Poker Face, Your Honor, and Magic Mike XXL. Follow us on Instagram @qhepod

We're Back! after a long break, we come in with the unofficial themes of our podcast! Animals that kill and the atrocities committed by Europeans. Austin goes into The Lions of Tsavo, the real actual killer lions that inspired The Ghost and The Darkness and whatever that Idris Elba movie that came out last year was. Twitter: @onthetestpod Facebook: Facebook.com/onthetestpod Insta: @onthetestpod TikTok @onthetestpod onthetestpod.com theme song by https://www.fiverr.com/nilgunozer

Episode 23A eulogy for ‘22Documentaryhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ1PDsNRfTk&ab_channel=RealWildMountain lion infohttps://web.archive.org/web/20101121100620/http://cougarnet.org/cougarfacts.htmlhttps://a-z-animals.com/animals/mountain-lion/https://www.nwf.org/Educational-Resources/Wildlife-Guide/Mammals/Mountain-LionMap:https://www.flickr.com/photos/santamonicamtns/33781179435/in/album-72157670897770258/News beats (Some paywalls) Don't pay them.https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/10/us/los-angeles-p-22-mountain-lion-mauls-zoo-koala-bear-killarneyhttps://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-famed-p22-mountain-lion-found-under-los-feliz-home-owner-says-20150413-story.htmlhttps://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-11-21/big-cat-kills-chihuahua-in-hollywood-hillshttps://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/11/hollywood-cat-p-22-mountain-lion-los-angeles/672285/?fbclid=IwAR2vsgJwcSLPweYgQaSI5_A1RZHi6RqXLez4udvoFnb171BJzwECwz1-3oshttps://www.latimes.com/california/newsletter/2022-12-16/essential-california-p-22-mountain-lion-legacy-essential-california?fbclid=IwAR36K8iqSX0lra7OOap05QXPDTIYwC_eNj4WuFslkFlK0r8QLLDmQc1wqNshttps://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/p-22-la-celebrity-mountain-lion-photographer-1234649904/?fbclid=IwAR23yJRWiWIvjxvpO_7X8xcSXgCN56vFRQwQgfx0OydCpK0DX56jJgLtmTkhttps://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/article/a-cougar-ready-for-his-closeupWiki links:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cougarhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-22https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_405_(California)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallis_Annenberg_Wildlife_CrossingHow to helphttps://annenberg.org/initiatives/wallis-annenberg-wildlife-crossing/https://www.facebook.com/p22mountainlionofhollywood/https://savelacougars.org/https://friendsofgriffithpark.org/p-22/More videoshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eufGfQulp0U&ab_channel=KCETSoCalConnectedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWFFvFmzkVA&ab_channel=ABC7Attributionshttps://freesound.org/people/shelbyshark/sounds/513332/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm2x6CVIXiE&ab_channel=YangBan-HoSteve winter for photosAs for what we've got today though, it's something a little different, it isn't really horror so much, unless you're a chihuahua, in which case be very afraid. But it's a story that's been bouncing around in my head for the last month or so. I think there's a lot of metaphor and coincidence when it comes to a sendoff for 2022 and more topically P-22.Towards the end of the episode I want to give some quick thoughts on the state of the show and the state of my life going into 2023, but if you're just tuning in because you found me from some arcane algorithm, or if you googled how to bag cougars, (Which you'll find I won't be much help with) I'm sure you want to jump right into the action. So with a quick belated Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year, and without further ado let's pounce right into today's topic.P-22 was a mountain lion that lived in the heart of Los Angeles in a small territory consisting of Griffith Park, and later on the surrounding city. For those of you that don't know LA well or at all, Griffith Park is home to that big ass observatory in Grand theft auto five, and the iconic HOLLYWOOD Sign. He became a celebrity in the city of celebrity and like many celebrities in hollywood, sometimes he did great good for his species, and other times he swallowed koalas right out of their pen. Looking at you gary busey. His life brought awareness to wildlife and kickstarted a project to help wildlife in the LA area. He was eventually brought down by the people of LA, not unlike the rest of the country, but his relationship with them proved fatal just about a month agoP-22 began his life in the Santa Monica mountain range, as many mountain lions do. I think big cats are cool as hell, peep episode one if you want to hear an amazing tiger story, and keep an eye out for future cat episodes down the lion. The Tsavo man eating lions, vengeful russian tigers, weird british ghost panthers, the great zoo suicide of 2011, depends on whatever mood I'm felineBut I think it's spectacular we have them in America, mountain lions and I think there are even jaguars or panthers in Florida now. Life and times of P-22Before we talk about the tragedy at the end of the story I think it's best we do a record scratch//freezeframe yup that's me I guess you're wondering how I got here situation so let's jump back in time, to somewhere between 2009 and 2012 on the 101 or 405 highways near los angelesThe Interstate 405 alone is 8 lanes across both ways. That's a big fucking highway and if any if the drivers in LA are as bad or worse than the ones in LA, which is an assumption I have no problem making, it's a dangerous proposition to cross. I rarely want to cross more than a two lane road in small towns unless I'm playing fucking frogger. Now imagine you're a 2 or 3 year old mountain lion or puma, or catamount, or mountain screamer or cougar or red tiger or any of the myriad of names we call felis concolor. You're entering adolescence and leaving the protective care of your mother to stake out a territory of your own. Unfortunately the santa monica mountain range doesn't have a whole lot of extra real estate so you need to venture westward towards human civilization, if you stayed around here the dominant male cat would kill you sooner or later This was P-22s predicament. When the going gets tough, the tough get going and he had to make the choice between certain death at the paws of the dominant male or 90 percent death crossing over 10 lanes of traffic on some of america's busiest highways. He somehow dashed across the 101 AND the 405, where many animals and cougars meet their doom and made his way into griffith park.Griffith park like I mentioned earlier, home of the hollywood sign and surrounded by human civilization. It was an area of about 9 square miles. Mountain lions usually claim an area of 280 square miles. So an insane choice for the cat but what is he supposed to do? go  back across a dozen lanes of busy traffic or just swang at his new pad where no mountain lion has been for probably hundreds of years. It was free real estate, and cats don't know exact statistics on how bg their homes should be, because they can't read biology textbooks. So P-22 made his home there in the park, peacefully eating mule deer, coyotes, and escaped chihuahuas. Fast forward to february of 2012 and Humanity got its first glimpse of the soon to be famous cat. He was caught on a wildlife trailcam looking for bobcats and coyotes and the guy is like that's a lion's ass! Immediately the national park service wanted to tranq him and fit him with a radio collar. It was a big deal. No lions got this close to humanity. Jeff sikich with the national parks service set up traps and eventually captured him in march They tagged him with a radio collar and dubbed him P-22, the name that would go on to be quite possibly the most famous puma ever, and simply standing for P as in puma and 22 because he was the twenty second puma captured and collared in the study.So it began, his observed life in griffith parkHe showed up in a variety of newspapers over time, la times ectPeople were excited to see him on hikes or later on as the tech became more mainstream, ring cams or other CCTV footage in the hollywood hills, because he would occasionally prowl through those suburbs. As time went by, he was more frequently spotted in civilized areas outside of the parkYou can see all kinds of footage of this. Prowling under stairs, running across the street, just walking down a sidewalk casually. It's really awesome. They're the fourth largest Cat species worldwide if we don't count sightings of relic smilodon. behind, I'm guessing, Tigers, lions, and jaguars. Cheetahs would be next, just guessing. If I'm wrong @ me on twitter or instagram or facebook or whatever. They clock in at 117-220 pounds generally and hit up to 8 feet long snout to tail tip. Way smaller than a tiger, if you want to know more tiger stats feast your ears on episode one. Still way bigger than a dog or a cat or anything else that'll be wandering the streets of LAPublished in late 2013 was a national geographic story with the now iconic image of P-22 crossing the ridge at night with the Hollywood sign off in the background. The cameraman set up motion detector cameras for 15 months in the park and finally got some great shots. Most of the other great shots couldn't be collected because people kept stealing the cameras. Following the Nat Geo stories, I'll link all this in the show notes, and I'll actually do that this time.More and more people became interested in the life and times of P-22.There's something remarkably human and relatable about him. One documentary put it well where it describes him, alone on a friday, stuck because of traffic, and unable to find a mate. We've all been there. He never ended up finding a mate just because the odds of a cougar making it out there across those highways to his territory were astronomical. He would stroll the city, like I mentioned, but the city took him on as a part of their own local culture. There are several murals, tons of facebook groups, hiking teams, fan clubs, you name it! People would see him on hikes, in their security cams or just roaming around. Some wanted him gone but the general vibe I get is that people were really proud of the big cat, as a neighbor, and as a symbol of the coexistence of nature and humanity As we over-expand and turn this place into a coruscant style hellhole we need to do what we can to keep giant predators living side by side with us. In 2014 we came across I think the first time I ever saw P-22, and that's when he was acting erratically according to his collar Authorities trapped him again and found he was suffering from disease, parasites and the dreaded mange. He looked bad, in short. That's another Iconic image, P-22 looks like the worst hangover of your life, scraggly unkempt hair, droopy eyes, dried mucus, and a general malaise marked his appearance The national park service tranqed him, cleaned him up and loaded him up on antibiotics and when he was captured again six months later he was in peak physical shape, this is where the meme comes in. They show the before and after picture of his treatment and in the after, he looks alert and regal. People were happy with his recovery and it was at this time a few other mountain lions were killed on the dangerous highways and where P-22 really found his greater purpose, or rather where we found it for him. He was already a symbol of urban wildlife and essentially became an ambassador in spirit for the wallis annenberg wildlife crossing, a proposed wildlife bridge over the 405, that would be the largest of it's kind in the world. It would be essential a highway overpass/underpass but instead of a road, it would be forested and maintained to keep the feel of the landscape, providing a safe way for all sorts of animals to cross the exceedingly deadly 405.I love this they have em in europe, and other places that care about animalsI'm pretty sure that as of now the crossing has broken ground and the construction has begunI'll throw a link to that in the show notes I think this is really awesome and really important, and 22s lasting legacy but I don't think it makes great show material necessarily so I'm not gonna go on too much about it, but I'm sure there are some crowdfunding options or cougar rehab organizations, if you want to lend them a hand somehow.Make sure it's the right kind of cougar thoughBut as his final glorious legacy, it's up to you to say if the end justifies the means and this is where the means get meanAfter recovering from mange and everything, The cat coasted for a while on his celebrity status. It seems most locals had at least heard of him but the sources I was looking at were obviously p-22 centric so I can't really asses what the actual feel was in LALet me knowPeople were content to catch a glimpse of the legendary critter on hikes or through local news reports and were overall happy to have himThe articles didn't touch on this too much but I'm sure there was a subset of people indifferent or straight up “shoot that varmint” before he kills a kid or something and I can see both sides but also I generally prefer cats to people anyway so if somebody's gotta be lunch to keep the big cats around wellBut like every true crime documentary, there's the part where everything is going fine, UNTIL IT WASN'T cue the music sting and the inverted image of P-22 His range was perilously small compared to other mountain lions his age and size, and he was no doubt lonely and restless. After all in the wild he would have likely mated by now. Additionally one of the main problems that he and many other animals in the entire ecosystem out there is rodenticide poisoning.People try to get rid of rats and pestsRats and pests eat the poison but take a long time to dieIt all stays bioavailable when they're preyed on or even just in the soilIt trickles up the food chain to the point that like 90 percent of the rescued wildlife in the areas is poisoned by it one way or another.They're all disoriented and internally bleeding It sucks just keep your place clean and put your trash away and you won't have the problemSo lonely, restless, and not thinking clearly, P-22 begins to roam further outside griffith park, showing up more and more frequently over the next few years, sometimes LION on peoples porch in broad daylight, I'm sure dogs and cats probably went missing But in 2016 it all came to a head.It was a weird year for zoos, peace be upon harambe's nameOn second thought it was a weird year for everyoneKillarney the koala, a robust 18 pound brave female koala, aged 14, so no spring chicken was doing her nightly walk about her enclosure, she was reportedly the only one brave enough to walk on the ground at night and paid with her life for it.On March 2nd of 2016 P-22 was spotted on security footage prowling outside the LA Zoo on the outskirts of Griffith park. The next morning Killarney was missing. Clumps of fur were discovered in her enclosure but none of the other koalas were gone. Later though, her remains were found chewed up 350 yards away. GPS data couldn't conclusively point at P-22 because there was a 2 hour gap in his GPS Tracking that night.  THE PERFECT CRIMEAnyway killarney, kill for short was mauled to death and the zoo was very sad, but they also said IF, big “Big if true” as to whether he killed her. It could be a bobcat, or SKC, spontaneous koala combustionDon't kill ‘22 he's just acting within his natureOver that same time period and later up until his untimely death, ‘22 increased his erratic behaviorHe showed up throughout the surrounding city and suburbsGot under peoples porchesAttacked dogs Ate a chihuahuaAte another chihuahuaAttacked another chihuahuaHe hung on, appearing sporadically in sightings until December of 2022He was captured after a report in a los feliz owners backyard on december 12th,where he would get a medical evaluation while tranquilized and have his gps collar battery changed, as usual.He was found to have huge trauma to his abdominal organs, and GPS data matched up with a reported collision with a vehicle and a mountain lion earlier that week. Not only the trauma damage, but long term health problems like heart disease and kidney failure were plaguing P-22 at his evaluation.IT was with heavy heart the decision was made At 9am on December 17th, 2022, the king of LA's reign came to an end.P-22 was euthanized, too beat up to be safely returned to the wild, see episode #1 if you want to know what an injured big cat can do to a human populationNow he reigns in cat heaven, with an all you can eat chihuahua buffet, maybe he'll finally meet a mate, maybe it's the champawat tigress, does that biology or spirituality work out on any level? I don't know and it doesn't matter, it's all a hologram anyway. This episode is actually coming out just in time, because P-22's celebration of life is going to be livestreamed this Saturday, February 4th, I'll have a link to that in the notes if you want to see it. I'll probably tweet that out too. And so the king of california is gone, but far from forgotten. His story serves as a reminder of the need to live in peace with urban wildlife. And saving big cats in general. I'm proud to bring this story into 2023 and I have a lot of awesome stuff planned for this year. We're doing youtube,we're doing sponsors? Any takers? We're hitting 3 thousand downloads, we're inspiring people to make their own art, we're educating the masses on big cats, big foots, big conspiracies, big legends, big history and so much more. I want to thank you guys for listening this far, and if you don't care about the sappy stuff, you know it's only gonna be nightmares from now onBut if you do, thanks for listening to this show, whether this is your first episode or you've binged the whole catalog, you're the reason I do this.The support has been unreal since launch and it's really a dream come true. I want to bust my ass this year and maybe get to a point where this can pay maybe a bill each month, and maybe a few years from now pay all of them. I'm happy to have you along, 2022 had some of the best and worst days of my entire life, I married my best friend with the support of all the people I care about, started this very podcast finally, and had he trip of a lifetime on my honeymoon, At the same time we battled all kinds of tragedy both close to home and abroad.I Cannot wait for the next 11 months ( I really did slack a bit there huh) for spooky bullshit here at nightmare now, more getting together with friends and family, more adventure and more of all the stuff that makes life awesomeSo thank you, the listener, one more time.And let's take a moment to learn from P-22 and take that into the new year.You may not be in the perfect habitat, without all the freedom to roam that you think you need, but even where you are you find your people, and you can make a difference. Whether it's crushing your chihuahua enemy analog, or blazing a brilliant new path forward for others like you On the flipside, don't be afraid to take that leap, cross your 10 lanes of 405, to find the place where you belong. And lastly remember you may not fully know the impact you have on others. ‘22 didn't know he was admired by thousands across LA, The US and the world, he just did what he was gonna do no matter what. Carry that shit with you this year and it'll be greatGoodnight to you, goodnight to 2022 and goodnight of course sweet prince, P-22I'd say Sweet dreams, but you all know it's only gonna be nightmares now!

Tim and Jen enlist animal expert Emma Bowers (Hyenas and Gin on YouTube) to explain why the fascinating story of two man-eating lions resulted in a boring movie called The Ghost and the Darkness.Watch a 1996 documentary about the man-eaters of Tsavo, which includes brief interviews with stars Kilmer and Douglas and director Stephen Hopkins. One interviewee theorizes that the local lions' taste for human flesh stems from generations of slave traders who left injured or dying captives to their fate in the bush.This 1996 Entertainment Weekly article sums up how bad Val Kilmer's reputation got to be in Hollywood.As Richard Stanley, who directed Kilmer for three days in The Island of Dr. Moreau before being fired, recalls, “Val would arrive, and an argument would happen.” Says John Frankenheimer, who replaced Stanley: “I don't like Val Kilmer, I don't like his work ethic, and I don't want to be associated with him ever again.” And Batman Forever director Joel Schumacher calls his onetime star “childish and impossible.”Entertainment Weekly, May 31st, 1996You can watch the tiger attack video Tim mentioned, with added context. Rawr!There's even a mineral named Tsavorite which was discovered in Tanzania and named in honor of the area.Finally, listen to our episode on the shockingly ill-conceived movie Roar, with special guest Emma! Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Parshas Ki Tsavo, fact of life This week's Parsha Perspective is in honor of the Refuah Shlema of HaRav Amitai Ben Shoshanna, Leah Mintche Bat Gittel, Dalit Bat Shoshanna, and Shaul Ben Berta. This week's Parsha Perspective is in loving memory of Edward Ben Efraim, Shlomo Ben Edward, and Yirachmiel Daniel Ben Gedalia. May their souls be uplifted and their memories a blessing. Click here to listen, watch and connect! Parshaperspective.com Our Parsha continues Moshe's final address to the Jewish people. He begins by teaching the laws applicable once the Jewish nation settles down in Israel. The first commandment is Bikurim, the Mitzvah of bringing the first fruits of each year's harvest to the Mishkan or Beis Hamikdash. This only applied to seven fruits and produce that Israel is known for wheat, barley, dates, figs, grapes, pomegranates, and olives. We find why bowing is needed to complete the Mitzvah of Bikurim. We learn the Jewish definition of gratitude.

The Man-Eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures by John Henry Patterson read by William Ramsey, Chapters 1-3 All Audio Chapters of the book read by WR can be found here: https://cms.megaphone.fm/channel/WIRI4739253618 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

TW: Colonialism, Big Game Hunting, Animal Attacks In 1898, two lions began systematically killing and eating Indian workers building a British train line over the River Tsavo in Kenya. Their stealth and cunning made them incredibly difficult to stop. In this episode, Hallie discusses the 9-month incident, the downfall of the lions at the hands of Lt. Col. Patterson, and why the lions may have gone after humans in the first place.

Man eaters. Two words that send shivers down your spine, that spark a deep, primal fear. Words that elicit dread, make your eyes widen, heart pump and legs tingle. Come along with us as we spend this week in Africa discussing the famous Tsavo man eating lions – with a twist. The grisly tale of what happened here in 1898 is undoubtedly among the most notorious tragedies in Kenya, but what can we learn from it? What drives lions to hunt humans, and will they ever stop? We love our National Parks and we know you do too but when you're out there, remember to enjoy the view but watch your back. Please take a moment to rate and subscribe from wherever you're listening to NPAD! Become part of our Outsider family on Patreon to gain access to ad-free episode, bonus content and more. Follow our socials Instagram, Facebook , and Twitter. To share a Trail Tale, suggest a story, access merch and browse our book recommendations - head over to our website.  Learn more about the lions of Africa here. Sources: The Lions of Tsavo - Exploring the Legacy of Africa's Most Notorious Man Eaters. Smithsonian. Carnige Museum of Natural History. Washington Post. African Wildlife Foundation. Live Science. Free Range American.