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Lifau (Lifáo, Liphao, Leiffauw) ist ein osttimoresischer Suco im Verwaltungsamt Pante Macassar (Sonderverwaltungsregion Oe-Cusse Ambeno).

Name
Der Name "Lifau" leitet sich aus dem Uab Meto von "lé'àl" () "nanfaun" () ab. Eine Quelle leitet den Namen ab von liatnamfau neitin, was "viele Freunde, die zum reden kommen" bedeutet. Aufgrund seiner Bedeutung als Handelshafen in der frühen Kolonialzeit erhielt der Ort den Beinamen "énò naek", das große Tor.

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Der Suco Lifau liegt an der Sawusee, der Nordküste des Verwaltungsamtes Pante Macassar. Westlich befindet sich der Suco Taiboco, südlich Cunha und östlich der Suco Costa. Lifau hat eine Fläche von 20,10 km² und teilt sich auf in die drei Aldeias Nefobai, Oemolo und Tulaica.

Der Ort Lifau liegt an der Küste, sechs Kilometer westlich von der Stadt Pante Macassar, in Luftlinie 287 km westlich von der Landeshauptstadt Dili. Bei Lifau befindet sich am Strand ein Denkmal, das an die erste Landung der Portugiesen auf Timor erinnert. Zunächst nur ein Padrão, steht hier seit November 2015 das Lifau-Monument, die Nachbildung einer portugiesischen Karavelle, mit mehreren lebensgroßen, bronzenen Statuen, die das Zusammentreffen von Portugiesen und Timoresen nachstellen.

Westlich vom Ort Lifau liegt ein zusammenhängendes Siedlungszentrum aus den Ortsteilen Taosero, Tulaica (Tulaika) und Nepobai, die sich entlang einer Straße reihen, die von der Küstenstraße in das Landesinnere führt. In Tulaica gibt es eine Grundschule, die Escola Primaria Tulaica. Östlich des Siedlungszentrums liegt das Dorf Oemolo, westlich liegt an der Küste der Ort Najalu. Weiter im Nordosten mündet der Tono, der wichtigste Fluss von Oe-Cusse Ambeno, in die Sawusee. Auf der anderen Uferseite liegen die Dörfer Kolam Cina und Postusika. Hier führt die Noefefanbrücke über den Tono.

Einwohner

Im Suco leben 2505 Einwohner (2015), davon sind 1296 Männer und 1209 Frauen. Die Bevölkerungsdichte beträgt 124,6 Einwohner/km². Im Suco gibt es 469 Haushalte. Fast 99 % der Einwohner geben Baikeno als ihre Muttersprache an. Eine Minderheit spricht Tetum Prasa.

Geschichte

Am 18. August 1515 landeten die Portugiesen in der Nähe des heutigen Lifau erstmals auf Timor. 1515 folgten bereits die ersten Dominikaner, die 1556 die Siedlung Lifau zur Sicherung des Sandelholzhandels gründeten. Die Händler blieben aber in dieser Zeit nur wenige Wochen in Lifau und lebten dort in provisorischen Unterkünften. Nach der großangelegten Invasion der Portugiesen ins Innere Timors im Jahr 1642 nahm die Einwanderung der Topasse nach Timor zu. Die Topasse waren Nachfahren von portugiesischen Soldaten, Seeleuten und Händlern und Frauen von Solor und Flores. Die Topasse bestimmten maßgeblich die Entwicklungen auf Timor im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert. Unterstützt wurden sie dabei von den Dominikanern. Zentrum der Topasse auf Timor wurde Lifau, die Hauptbasis der Portugiesen auf Timor.

Die Portugiesen waren zu dieser Zeit nie sehr zahlreich in der Kolonie. 1689 gab es nur etwa 50 Portugiesen in Lifau. 1697 brandschatzten französische Piraten den Ort. Zuvor hatten sie schon die niederländische Festung in Kupang überfallen. Ein Reisender berichtet 1699, dass der Stützpunkt, der inzwischen nach Kupang der zweitwichtigste Hafen Timors war, zwar in kürzester Zeit 600 Mann mit Handfeuerwaffen und Schwertern aufstellen könne, es aber an einem Fort und einem Waffenmagazin fehle. Von den drei Portugiesen vor Ort waren zwei Priester. Die restliche Bevölkerung bestand aus Topasse und einigen chinesischen Händlern. Zeitgenössische Berichte beschreiben die Einwohner als Halsabschneider, zu denen Sklavenhändler und -jäger ebenso gehörten wie Deserteure aus verschiedenen Ländern. Die eigentliche Macht lag in den Händen der Topasse.

Ab 1702 war Lifau Hauptstadt der Kolonie mit dem aus Portugal erstmals auf Timor residierenden Gouverneur António Coelho Guerreiro. Die von ihm in Auftrag gegebene Karte von Lifau zeigt bereits eine komplexe Siedlungsstruktur mit militärischen und zivilen Einrichtungen, wie die Ermida de St. Antonio und ein Krankenhaus.

1719 begann die Cailaco-Rebellion. Erst rebellierten einheimische Herrscher, dann auch Topasse. Mehrfach wurde Lifau von ihnen belagert. 1738 wurde in Lifau das erste Priesterseminar Timors gegründet. Drei Bischöfe von Malakka residierten hier: Manuel de Santo António (1701–1722), António de Castro (1738–1743) und Geraldo de São José (1749–1760). Manuel wurde 1722 vom Gouverneur von der Insel verbannt, António und Geraldo starben in Lifau.

1759 verkaufte der portugiesische Gouverneur Vicento Ferreira de Carvalho (1756 bis 1759) eigenmächtig Lifau an die Niederländer, doch wurden diese 1760 an der Übernahme von Topasse gehindert. Am 11. August 1769 wurde der portugiesische Gouverneur António José Teles de Meneses durch die Topasse dazu gedrängt, Lifau zu verlassen. Neue Hauptstadt der Portugiesen auf Timor wurde Dili. Lifau selbst verlor an Bedeutung, weil die Topasse-Herrscher im nahegelegenen Pante Macassar residierten. Das Angebot der Topasse an die Niederländer, nun Lifau zu übernehmen, lehnten diese nach reiflicher Überlegung ab.

In Tulaica hat das Topasse-Reich von Ambeno seit der gescheiterten Rebellion gegen die Portugiesen im Mai 1912 seinen Sitz. Es wird noch heute von der Familiendynastie der Cruz geführt, die aber seit ihrer Niederlage bei der Revolte den Costas untergeordnet sind, den traditionellen Herrschern von Oe-Cusse.

Kultur

Jährlich findet eine Karfreitagsprozession (Procissão do Ama Senhor Morto) in Lifau statt, zu der mehr als Tausend Christen kommen, auch aus dem indonesischen Westtimor. Dabei wird die Kreuzigung Jesu in einem Schauspiel nachgestellt.

Politik
Bei den Wahlen von 2004/2005 wurde Xistu Gomes Bano zum Chefe de Suco gewählt. Bei den Wahlen 2009 gewann João da Costa und 2016 Krisantos Kolo.

Weblinks

 Ergebnisse des Zensus 2010 für den Suco Lifau (tetum; PDF; 8,3 MB)
 Ergebnisse des Zensus 2015 für den Suco Lifau (tetum; PDF)
 Seeds of Life: Suco information sheets Pante Macassar (tetum)

Belege
 History of Timor – Technische Universität Lissabon (PDF-Datei; 805 kB)

Einzelnachweise

Suco in Oe-Cusse Ambeno


A young basketball player who grew up in Southmead and Lawrence Weston and now lives in Brentry has been selected for the England u15 Basketball squad.
Louie Tucker who plays for Bristol Academy Flyers and Bristol Metropolitan Academy will travel to Paris over Easter with his England team mates to play in the Lions cup international tournament against strong European competition.
Louie has spent many hours perfecting skills with his club and school as well as at the public basketball courts in Southmead, Henbury and Lawrence Weston.


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Aston Villa W - Manchester City W
The Banks's Stadium: Aston Villa W vs Manchester City W Women's Super League data sheet
Competition: England Women's Super League
Venue: The Banks's Stadium (11300 seats)
Aston Villa W have some work to do from their 10th place, and the first chance is against Manchester City W. Read more!
Aston Villa W have the fewest scored goals in the first half (2) in Women's Super League
Manchester City W have the most points (13) away in Women's Super League
It's a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only three days ago in the League Cup Women. That game was also an away game, at Leicester W. It will be interesting to see if they are fully ready and rested for this match, and/or if some changes in the lineup is necessary.
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Aston Villa W form and stats
1-0-3 (win-draw-lost) are the Women's Super League numbers at home for Aston Villa W so far this season. Aston Villa W has three losses from their three previous games and the tension is increasing in the dressing room for both the manager Ward and the players.
No payout for Villa in their previous match, an away game at Manchester United W that ended in defeat 0-5. Aston Villa W were outplayed and humiliated in their previous game, as mentioned in the paragraph above. They will need to reinstall their confidence before this one.
Before that game, the home loss against Blackburn Rovers with the scoreline 0-1.
The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Aston Villa W here at The Banks's Stadium in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (3 from 4 games).
Manchester City W form and stats
The away team have been very comfortable on their travels so far, racking up 4 wins, 1 draw and only 1 loss in the Women's Super League. It's been three wins in a row for Manchester on their travels, an amazing performance which inspire hopes of making this one the fourth consecutive victory.
Manchester City W play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 5-0 victory visiting Leicester W (placed 12th). As mentioned above, Manchester City W was the only team on the pitch versus Leicester W in their previous game, winning 5-0. This could be a tougher task.
Preceding that game was the away Women's Super League victory against Brighton W with the score of 6-0.
Manchester City W are scoring goals for fun in their league games away this season, having clocked up more than three goals per game on average (19 goals from 6 away games). As for defending, Manchester City W rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 10 goals from these away matches.
These sides encountered each other earlier on this season: Manchester City W - Aston Villa W 5-0. Data for the last five meetings featuring these two contenders are: zero wins for Aston Villa W, zero draws and five wins for Manchester City W. Over 2,5 goals: four times; under 2,5 goals: one game.
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R. Allen
G. Stanway
Aston Villa W missing players
Manchester City W missing players
Aston Villa W Manchester City W
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
6 3 0 Scored S 11 19 25
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
70% 75% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 100%
60% 75% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 100% 90%
20% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 67% 67% 50%
30% 50% 0% BTTS BTTS 67% 50% 40%
20% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 33% 33% 30%
50% 50% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 17% 30%
3.9 2.2 0 Corners for (avg) C F 7 7 8.5
4.3 4.8 0 Corners against (avg) C A 2.3 4.5 3.5
1.3 1.5 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0.7 0.7 0.5
5.1 3.5 0 Shots (avg) S ( 10.7 11.5 11.9
1.7 1.5 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 6.3 6.3 6.2
35% 50% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 58% 50% 40%
9.4 12 0 Shots against (avg) S A 4.3 6.8 6.5
Aston Villa W First Half Manchester City W
70% 75% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 83% 80%
10% 0% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 50% 30%
0% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 17% 10%
40% 25% 0% Clean Sheets C S 33% 50% 50%
Aston Villa W Second Half Manchester City W
4 2 0 Scored S 4 11 16
13 5 0 Conceded C 0 5 10
30% 25% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 50% 40%
Key stats in Women's Super League this season:
All of Manchester City W's away-matches have had more than 3,5 goals.
Aston Villa W have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won at home.
Aston Villa W have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
Aston Villa W have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
Aston Villa W have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
Aston Villa W have won significantly less corners at home than away.
Aston Villa W haven't played a single 0-0 game.
Manchester City W have created more than twice as many corners as Aston Villa W.
Manchester City W have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
Manchester City W have scored more than double the goals of Aston Villa W.
Manchester City W have the most scored goals (19) away in Women's Super League
Manchester City W have the the best goal difference (+9) away in Women's Super League
Manchester City W have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
Manchester City W have won significantly less corners away then at home.
Manchester City W haven't played a single 0-0 game.
1 Arsenal W 10 8 1 1 30 5 5 5 0 0 19 2 5 3 1 1 11 3 25 25
2 Chelsea W 9 7 0 2 27 6 4 4 0 0 14 1 5 3 0 2 13 5 21 21
3 Tottenham W 10 6 2 2 12 7 5 3 2 0 5 2 5 3 0 2 7 5 5 20
4 Manchester United W 10 5 3 2 19 13 5 2 1 2 10 10 5 3 2 0 9 3 6 18
5 Manchester City W 10 5 1 4 25 18 4 1 0 3 6 8 6 4 1 1 19 10 7 16
6 Reading W 10 5 1 4 12 12 6 4 0 2 7 7 4 1 1 2 5 5 0 16
7 Brighton W 10 5 0 5 12 15 6 3 0 3 5 10 4 2 0 2 7 5 -3 15
8 West Ham W 9 3 4 2 12 11 5 2 3 0 9 4 4 1 1 2 3 7 1 13
9 Everton W 10 3 2 5 9 16 5 1 2 2 5 8 5 2 0 3 4 8 -7 11
10 Aston Villa W 10 3 1 6 6 22 4 1 0 3 3 8 6 2 1 3 3 14 -16 10
11 Birmingham W 11 1 1 9 6 26 6 1 0 5 4 14 5 0 1 4 2 12 -20 4
11 Leicester City W 2 1 0 1 2 4 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 4 -2 3
12 Leicester W 11 1 0 10 5 24 5 1 0 4 4 10 6 0 0 6 1 14 -19 3
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The FA Women's Super League (FA WSL) is the highest level of women's football in England. It has been through numerous format changes since its first season in 2011. Eleven teams play 20 fixtures to create the final league table and decide who are champions.

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2017 wasn't a spectacular year for bluebonnets in Texas, but there were fields scattered throughout the state that had prolific bluebonnets, as well as Indian paintbrushes. This was taken at one such field, outside Brenham, Texas. Available in the following sizes (Panorama A): 20x10, 24x12, 32x16, 40x20, 48x24, 48x24 Triptych (3 x 16x24), 60x30, 60x30 Triptych (3 x 20x30).
Entire fields in Texas erupt into blue, purple and red masterpieces in late March and early April, as the bluebonnets and Indian Paintbrush come into bloom. Here's one of the more dense fields of these flowers I saw while traveling through, in 2017. Available in the following sizes (Panorama B): 30x12, 40x16, 50x20, 50x20 Triptych (3 x 17x20), 60x24, 60x24 Triptych (3 x 20x24), 75x30, 75x30 Triptych (3 x 25x30), 90x36, 90x36 Triptych (3 x 30x36), 105x42 Triptych (3 x 35x42), 120x48 Triptych (3 x 40x48).
Entire fields in Texas erupt into blue, purple and red masterpieces in late March and early April, as the bluebonnets and Indian Paintbrush come into bloom. Here's one of the more dense fields of these flowers I saw while traveling through, in 2017. Available in the following sizes (Rectangle B): 12x8, 18x12, 24x16, 30x20, 36x24, 45x30, 60x40, 72x48.
As of 2017, I have yet to find a huge field entirely filled with bluebonnets. I did, however, spot this small but dense field of these beautiful and iconic flowers while driving through Texas Hill Country at the end of March, 2017. Available in the following sizes (Rectangle B): 12x8, 18x12, 24x16, 30x20, 36x24.
I frequently appear at art shows in Texas in March and April while the bluebonnets are in bloom. I always use these trips as an excuse to go out and shoot these beautiful, seasonal flowers. Here's a swallowtail butterfly atop an Indian Paintbrush, with a field of bluebonnets in the background. Available in the following sizes (Rectangle A): 10x8, 14x11, 20x16, 24x20, 30x24.
I suppose it makes sense for flowers to grow as far north as Canada and Alaska, but I'd never really given it much thought until my trip to this area in the summer of 2016. The city of Dawson is a cute, little gold-rush town that thrives, today, as a tourist spot along the famous Alcan Highway, taking travelers through Alberta, British Columbia, and the Yukon Territory en route to Alaska. The city has a lot of historical buildings, including the commissioner's home, which hasn't been inhabited for close to a century, but is beautifully maintained as a historical site. The garden in front is kept as it was during the city's heyday, and one of the flowers that seems to grow best in the region is this species of poppy, which filled a large portion of the gardens in the region. Available in the following sizes (Rectangle B): 12x8, 18x12, 24x16, 30x20, 36x24.
I took this photo about as far north as I have ever traveled, on the Yukon Territory's Dempster Highway. Earlier this day, I'd driven to the Arctic Circle, but returned a couple hours south to my hotel to spend the night. This photo was actually taken at 12:09 AM, and the sun had not yet set. Available in the following sizes (Rectangle B): 12x8, 18x12, 24x16, 30x20, 36x24, 45x30, 60x40, 72x48.
A cleverly-disguised fly. Available in the following sizes (Rectangle A): 10x8, 14x11, 20x16, 24x20, 30x24.
Although fireweed grows as far south as Arizona and New Mexico, it seems to be much more widespread as one goes further north. Summer in northern Canada and Alaska sees entire fields turn pink as this ubiquitous plant comes into bloom. Available in the following sizes (Rectangle B): 8x12, 12x18, 16x24, 20x30, 24x36, 30x45, 40x60, 48x72.
I spent the summer of 2016 on an Alaskan camping trip. On the drive to Alaska from Colorado, fields of canola began to appear in Montana. They continued along the side of the road for several hundred miles into Canada, but it wasn't until just outside of Dawson Creek, on the western (British Columbian) side of the BC / Alberta border, that a fully-blooming field came into view at the same time as a pleasing sky. I love the simplicity of this shot, as well as the contrast between the yellow foreground and the cloudy sky above. Available in the following sizes (Rectangle A): 8x10, 11x14, 16x20, 20x24, 24x30, 30x40, 40x50.
I spent the summer of 2016 on an Alaskan camping trip. On the drive to Alaska from Colorado, fields of canola began to appear in Montana. They continued along the side of the road for several hundred miles into Canada, but it wasn't until just outside of Dawson Creek, on the western (British Columbian) side of the BC / Alberta border, that a fully-blooming field came into view at the same time as a pleasing sky. I love the simplicity of this shot, as well as the contrast between the yellow foreground and the mostly blue sky. Available in the following sizes (Rectangle B): 12x8, 18x12, 24x16, 30x20, 36x24, 45x30, 60x40, 72x48.
Columbian ground squirrels are prolific throughout Glacier National Park, in Montana. They're quite cute, and used to people being around, so one can get quite close to them, in order to get closeup shots, like this one, without scaring them off. They're fun to watch as they scurry around and bite the heads off flowers. Available in the following sizes (Rectangle B): 12x8, 18x12, 24x16, 30x20.
During my summer, 2016 visit to Glacier National Park, in northern Montana, the wildflowers were in full bloom. I'm not sure of the names of the mountains in the background of this photo, but they can be seen in the Many Glacier area of the National Park. Available in the following sizes (Rectangle B): 12x8, 18x12, 24x16, 30x20, 36x24, 45x30, 60x40, 72x48.
The landscape photography I do typically takes place at sunrise and sunset. Mid-day light isn't usually any good for creating dramatic scenes, but I do like to shoot wildlife and flowers in the middle of the day. I shot these thyme-leaved bluets in early summer, in Tennessee's Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Available in the following sizes (Rectangle B): 12x8, 18x12, 24x16, 30x20, 36x24, 45x30.
The landscape photography I do typically takes place at sunrise and sunset. Mid-day light isn't usually any good for creating dramatic scenes, but I do like to shoot wildlife and flowers in the middle of the day. I shot these pink primroses in early summer, in Tennessee's Cherokee National Forest. Available in the following sizes (Rectangle B): 12x8, 18x12, 24x16, 30x20, 36x24, 45x30.


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John Whiteside (1773 – July 28, 1830) was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

John Whiteside was born near Lancaster, Pennsylvania.  He attended the common schools and Chestnut Level Academy.  He employed on his father's farm, and later engaged in the hotel business and operated a distillery.  He was a justice of the peace and a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1810 and 1811.

Whiteside was elected as a Republican to the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Congresses.  He resumed the hotel business in Lancaster and served as register of wills and again a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1825.  He died in Lancaster in 1830.  Interment in Lancaster Cemetery.

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1773 births
1830 deaths
Members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
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Democratic-Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
Businesspeople from Lancaster, Pennsylvania

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Orcas, Washington may refer to:
 Orcas Island, San Juan Islands, Washington, U.S.
 Orcas Village, Washington, a community on Orcas island, Washington, U.S.

See also
 Orca (disambiguation)


Although we did not note down details at the time, we just want to give you some wonderful walks we did and some comments about them. This because the Queyras and the Mercantour are just stunning places to hike! The Southern Alps are – luckily- a bit difficult to reach by car so need some extra effort but therefore they remain quite deserted and beautiful!
And they enjoy 300 days of sunshine per year! And few or no ski lifts nor bulldozered descents carved into their slopes spoiling the views!
• don't forget to visit Barcelonnette located just between the Queyras and the Mercantour, just after Col de Vars.
• And cycle up the Col des Champs between Colmar and St Martin d'Entraunes! You have the road all to yourself! And if wanted you can continue doing the beautiful ascent of the Col de la Cayolle from the south.
• If you don't walk to refuge de Basse Rua, go and visit by car: on the D902 from Guillestre to Vars look out for the sign "refuge de Basse Rua", an interestingly narrow road that leads you to the splendid mountain plateau of Basse Rua/Le Rif Bel! You can easily spend a whole day exploring the deserted village! And the refuge also has delicious cake. From here you can start the 2-day walk to and from Ceillac (see below).
For our walks we used the CICERONE Guide for the "Tour du Queyras" and the IGN walking maps for the Mercantour.
Note that on our walks we always carry a set of "crampons" i.e Kahtoola micro spikes to negotiate eventual snow patches – névés. We have needed them more in the Southern Alps than anywhere else!
1. TOUR DU QUEYRAS: start in Ceillac (we stayed at Gite les Balandins). For this trip we took the TGV to Valence, then the TER train (splendid views!) to Briançon, getting off in Guillestre and with a taxi to Ceillac.
Day 1. To St. Véran: the highest inhabited (also in winter) village of Europe; sleep in Le Grand Tetras, a wonderfully simple but cosy Logis de France!
3. To Refuge du Mont Viso . In nice weather, climb first to the top of the Pain de Sucre, 3100 m high, offering great views of the Monte Viso!
Note: there is also a 2 or 3 day "tour de Mont Viso" walk: park your car and start in Pontechianale (drive down Col Agnel into Italy, start at Torrent Vallante). The first night stay in refuge du Viso, the second day make sure you go via rifugio Vitale Giacoletti (or sleep there and make it a 3-day trip) and sleep in rifugio Quinto Sella. Note that in the afternoon a blanket of clouds comes from the Po plains and rolls over against the Monte Viso; Rifugio Giacoletti offers you the best vantage point to enjoy this phenomenon!
5. To Le Roux: gite le Cassu via Col d'Urine (!) (en route: have lunch at rifugio Jervis).
6. To Refuge Les Fonts the Cervières (via the green dotted trail): unique location!
7. To Brunissard or La Chalp: Gite le Teppio or les Bons Enfants.
8. To Refuge de Furfande: one of the most beautiful refuges and locations!
11. Back to Ceillac via Col de la Colette Verte and le Lac Miroir: another beautiful day to end a unique Tour!
Alternative: on day 3, from refuge Agnel to refuge La Monta – the green dotted path – (in Ristolas), then to the village of Abriès, then to Les Fonts the Cervières.
Note that you can stop your walk also in either Le Roux or Abriès to go back (by bus or hitchhiking via the D947 and then the D902) to Ceillac. So, this would make for a 4-5 day walk instead of a 9 or 11 day tour. Note that the south part of the tour is prettier than the north (we feel); south being south of the road linking Guillestre with Abriès.
start in SANT ' ANNA Di VALDIERI (accessible via tunnel de Fréjus – Torino – Cuneo). In Sant'Anna sleep in La Casa Regina (unique cute hotel) or gite Casalpina Balma Neris.
Park your car and start walking from Gias delle Mosche; this means driving from Sant'Anna to the end of the world via Terme di Valdieri. The start of the walk alone is already gorgeous!!!
Day 1. To Refuge de Cougourde: enter France via Col de Cerise. Cougourde is our favorite refuge in terms of location and organization! Don't forget to walk to the waterfall behind the refuge! (about 300 metres from the refuge).
4. To Refuge de la Madonne de Fenestre.
6. Back to Sant'Anna (Either via rifugio Remondino – more spectacular – or via rifugio Morelli Buzzi -shorter).
3. A SMALL TOUR IN the MERCANTOUR (an alternative on the previous tour): stay and park your car in Le Boréon (just North of St. Martin-Vésubie). By this you don't need to enter Italy coming from Belgium/Holland/North of France and save 150 km!
3. To Rifugio Remondino: a serious climb!
6. Back to Sant'Anna via Col de Cerise: (a very solid day if you start from Le Boréon!
Day 1. To Estenc: le Relais de la Cayolle. Beautiful walk at the foot of the Mont Pelat and via Col de la Petite Cayolle.
2. To St Dalmas le Selvage: idyllic village; chambres d'hotes La Petite Etoile.
3. To Refuge de Lac de Vens: (let you drive from St Dalmas to the start of the trail on the D64, about 2 km). Take the higher trail to Refuge de Vens, via the natural arch (arc de la Tortisse, see picture) !!
6. To Sant'Anna di Vinadio: sleeping in the Sanctuario!
7. Walking to Isola 2000 (2-3 hours only) (from here you can either hitchhike back to Allos or continue by walking to Le Boreon or to rifugio Emilio Questa, so making it a 12-13 day hike; see higher).
If any questions re these walks, feel free to contact us!


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Кэнтылькикэ (устар. Хэндыль-Кикя) — река в России, протекает по территории Ямало-Ненецкого автономного округа. Устье реки находится в 350 км по правому берегу реки Толька. Длина реки составляет 22 км.

Система водного объекта: Толька → Таз → Карское море.

Данные водного реестра
По данным государственного водного реестра России относится к Нижнеобскому бассейновому округу, водохозяйственный участок реки — Таз, речной подбассейн реки — подбассейн отсутствует. Речной бассейн реки — Таз.

Код объекта в государственном водном реестре — 15050000112115300066274.

Примечания

Притоки Тольки
Реки Красноселькупского района


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What is a 'living will'? Points you should know
Supreme Court has legalised 'living will' for terminally-ill patients
Sanghamitra Mazumdar | New Delhi | March 9, 2018 11:32 am
The Supreme Court has pronounced its verdict on the plea seeking legal sanction for passive euthanasia. A five-judge constitution bench, headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, has decided that the 'living will' of a person, who is suffering from a terminal disease and in his/her last stage of life with no chance of recovery, should be recognised.
The court was hearing a petition filed by NGO 'Common Cause', which had sought a direction for recognition of a 'living will', contending that when a medical expert says a person afflicted with terminal disease has reached a point of no return, the patient should be given the right to refuse being put on life support.
"How can a person be told that he/she does not have right to prevent torture on his body? Right to life includes right to die with dignity. A person cannot be forced to live on support of ventilator. Keeping a patient alive by artificial means against his/her wishes is an assault on his/her body," the petition had said.
The Centre had however told the SC that it was against letting people make "living wills", though it was vetting a draft law to permit "passive euthanasia" — The Medical Treatment of Terminally Ill Patients (Protection of Patients and Medical Practitioners) Bill "to provide for the protection of patients and medical practitioners from liability in the context of withholding or withdrawing medical treatment including life support systems from patients who are terminally ill".
The draft Bill was released by the Health Ministry in 2016, based on a 2012 Law Commission of India report.
The Centre had also told the court that the government had in principle decided to decriminalise attempt to suicide, which at present is an offence punishable under Section 309 of the Indian Penal Code.
What is a 'living will'?
As per definition, it's a direction issued by a terminally ill patient that "he or she… shall or shall not be given medical treatment in future when or he she becomes terminally ill". The term, "medical treatment", here refers to artificial life support system that can delay death. The Supreme Court has last year found merit in the concept of 'living will', also termed as "advance medical directive", paving the way for further discussion. The petition by Common Cause is on the lines of the US Patient Self Determination Act. The petition was referred to a Constitution Bench in 2014.
Living wills in other countries
Living will, or euthanasia, is permitted in varying forms in Belgium, Canada, and Sweden. In Australia, there is a system of "advance directive" to allow citizens to decide how they would like to be treated in future, if they are incompetent to make a decision at that point. The US has The Patient Self Determination Act that recognises advance directives or living wills, identifying the right to dignified death.
The Aruna Shanbaug connection
In the case of Aruna Ramchandra Shanbaug vs Union Of India & Ors (March 7, 2011), the Supreme Court had distinguished between "active" and "passive" euthanasia. Former nurse Aruna Shanbaug, a victim of a brutal sexual assault in 1973, had been in a persistent vegetative state in Mumbai's KEM Hospital for 36 years. The petitioner had prayed that Shanbaug should be allowed to die peacefully by stopping the mashed food that she was being fed. The court had said, "Active euthanasia entails the use of lethal substances or forces to kill a person, e.g. a lethal injection… Passive euthanasia entails withholding of medical treatment for continuance of life, e.g. withholding of antibiotics where without giving it a patient is likely to die…"
The Medical Treatment of Terminally Ill Patients (Protection of Patients and Medical Practitioners) Bill
It seeks to allow a patient faced with terminal illness not to sustain life through medical treatment in the form of artificial support system. The patient should be a "competent person" aged 16 or more, who can take the decision with the consent of spouse or parents. The Bill mandates that the medical practitioner must inform the patient of all treatment options, and suggest or provide palliative care to make life less painful.
NGO Common Cause
Passive euthanasia
Supreme Court legalises passive euthanasia: People have the right to die with dignity
SC verdict on 'living will' likely on Friday


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Q: Angular.js - share the same model between multiple views by $rootScope In an Angular.js app, I have a page with multiple inputs.
There are multiple views (each of them render a small number of inputs) but only one Save button.
When the user want to save I need to collect all the changes and send them to the client.
The way I chose to implement it is by loading the initial content in the ng-app main controller, and in each view I use $rootScope as the data container (instead of $scope).
This way I can access all the binded data from the parent controller to send it to the server.
Is it legal?
Is there a nicer way implement it?

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This is a recipe created by the fabulous Penny Brohn UK – a National charity, funded by public donations that provides free, integrative care to cancer patients, before, during and after treatment.
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Drizzle the potato with a little oil and bake in a pre-heated oven 200°C, Gas 6 for 30 minutes, turning every 10 minutes.
Soften the onion, garlic and spices in a little olive oil.
Combine with the remaining ingredients, mixing well to mash the beans and vegetables to help the burgers hold together, or place in an electric blender to mix.
Cool the mixture, divide into eight, roll each piece into a ball then flatten slightly on a lightly greased tray. Place in the fridge for an hour, this will help set the burgers and also make them easier to cook.
Bake at 180°C, Gas 4 for 15-20 minutes or heat a little oil in a frying pan and cook in batches for 3 to 4 minutes on each side until lightly browned and cooked through.
For added protein and texture, add 100g chopped walnuts.
These can be made in advance and kept in the fridge. The mixture can be frozen for up to a month.
Choose your favourite herbs and spices for variety.


The Palm Beach Country Estates Landowners' Association, founded in 1980, provides a unified voice for the community when addressing issues that impact the quality of life in Palm Beach Country Estates. The Association is entirely voluntary and run by landowners. The Association has no authority to tell landowners what they can or cannot do. Officers are not compensated in any way for their service.
Your membership in the Association gives you a vote and a voice and the dues help pay the various expenses we incur providing services for the community.
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The TICKLESS device emits a series of ultrasonic pulses that are imperceptible to humans, dogs, or wildlife, but interfere with the ability of ticks to orient themselves. Environmentally friendly, contains no chemicals or fragrances, making it perfectly safe to use for everyone. The University of Camerino in Italy confirmed the effectiveness of the TICKLESS device in 2012.
DIRECTIONS FOR USE: Remove the tab to activate the device. Press the button to turn the device on or off: 4 short green flashes indicate powering on, while a single long red flash indicates powering off. When switched on, the light will blink once approximately every 5 minutes. After 8 hours of continuous operation, the device will automatically turn off, and should be switched on again before using it once more. The TICKLESS Tick Repeller can be secured to clothing using either its clip, or the cord running through it.
WARNING: While not waterproof, the product is highly resistant to moisture (IP13). If the device gets wet, it should be dried immediately. Keep out of reach of small children. Do not put the device in your pocket or bag, as doing so will obstruct the emitted ultrasonic waves. In areas heavily populated by ticks, 100% protection is not guaranteed. If you find any ticks on yourself or on anyone with you, immediately remove them in the usual fashion. At normal temperatures, the device is capable of operating for approximately 3000 hours. In case of a technical malfunction, we offer 6 months warranty for the unit.


Government programs are helping ease poverty in red states, despite the GOP's best efforts.
Americans love nothing more than a good Red-State-Vs.-Blue-State argument, especially during election time.
So a new story in USA Today, looking at the changes in income, state by state, since the beginning of the Great Recession, of course breaks down the results into "red," "blue" and "swing" states. It declares that red states have seen incomes grow 4.6 percent since 2007, adjusted for inflation, while blue states have only seen incomes grow 0.5 percent. In swing states? A little more than the blue states, about 1.4 percent.
The answer, of course, is "No," because it's not really a stat. A closer look at the map shows that the similarities have less to do with "red" and "blue" than with regions, energy production, and already-existing affluence. North Dakota might have had 30 percent income growth, due, as the article notes, to an oil boom, but its residents still make less than those in Connecticut, even if Connecticut's seen incomes drop almost 2 percent. Meanwhile, deep red Idaho also had a 1 percent income drop, and swing state Nevada saw incomes plunge a full 10 percent. Ultra-blue Massachusetts, Maryland, and Vermont all had higher income growth than most of the deep south, and Washington, D.C.'s incomes are up 13 percent.
Statistical income increases or decreases tell us little about who's seeing those increases, as well. For that information, it's worth looking at another chart, this one from Dylan Matthews at the Washington Post. Matthews starts with a Census Bureau map calculating inequality on a state-by-state basis, which quickly puts the lie to any possible red-or-blue breakdown (both New York and Texas are highly unequal, while both Vermont and North Dakota very equal).
But then Matthews calculated where inequality rose and fell across the country in the years since the recession began, and that story is even more depressing. Most of the country saw rises in inequality, reflecting what many of us have been saying for a long time: corporations and the people who run them are doing just fine, but they see no reason to share the "recovery" with the people who work for them. Just a few states saw a decline in inequality—both states like Connecticut that saw incomes fall, and states like North Dakota and Wyoming that saw incomes rise.
Putting all this information together, though, the only thing we really learn is that we still desperately need an economic recovery that decreases inequality, that helps people in a sustainable fashion, and most importantly, that isn't dependent on whether or not a state is likely to vote for one party or the other.
I want to thank Frank & crew for adding the option to share on FaceBook. It allows me to post stuff from the Rag for the benefit of my many friends scattered around the world now who were old OB freaks back in the day. Damn I miss my little place on Brighton!
And all the action under the boardwalk back when the Calypso was open…..


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New Dynamic Planner review service provides support re MiFID II
Dynamic Planner has launched a new client review service to support adviser firms in meeting MiFID II requirements.
Dynamic Planner Elements, designed in close partnership with advice firms, will deliver better informed client review meetings and significantly reduce the time spent on annual client reviews, the firm said.
The new service has been in development for the past 18 months,with over 100 advisers using Elements since January when Dynamic Planner launched the Early Adopter Programme at its annual conference. It is part of the firm's multi-million pound initiative to provide significant upgrades over the next two years.
Ben Goss, CEO, Dynamic Planner, said: "MiFID II poses a significant challenge and opportunity for the industry, arguably greater than RDR ever did because it requires firms to change the ongoing service they provide to their clients. As the FCA places increasing emphasis on transparency and disclosure of charges, and encourages firms to demonstrate value for money, Dynamic Planner Elements helps them to do this in a single end to end process.
"Elements is a key part of our strategy to scale our position as firm's number one service for ensuring investment suitability."
Dynamic Planner said feedback showed 96% of advisers said Elements made their firm look more professional, while 80% said they would be integrating Dynamic Planner's new client review into their processes.
Lee Whiteside, Plan4Life, said of the new service: "Quite often, companies will tick along and take your money each month, but there's no new developments as such. With Dynamic Planner, it's nice to see a company taking an active part in trying to help advisers."
Martin Allsop, Marshwood Financial Services, added: "We are using the new client review to produce much more user-friendly data for annual reviews. We are able to use the software in an interactive way with clients, making the process much more engaging."
Elements will be available at no extra cost for all current users of the full service.
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13 North Koreans Die Trying To Rescue Portraits Of Kim Leaders
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Ryan Pickrell China/Asia Pacific Reporter
October 07, 2016 11:12 AM ET
A group of North Korean teachers and students died in an August flood attempting to save portraits of leaders in the Kim regime.
Seven teachers, including the vice principal, and six students at Songhak High School in North Hamgyong Province died trying to salvage portraits and paintings of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il from the flood waters, a North Korean source told Daily NK, a Seoul-based news outlet.
"The vice principal, fearing punishment for not properly protecting the idolization material, declared an emergency during the flood, and the teachers and students mobilized for the recovery task ended up losing their lives," the source said.
Failing to protect portraits of the Kim family, even in emergencies, is punishable in North Korea. The North Korean government threatens people's livelihoods and social status to ensure loyalty at all costs.
The state requires people to "serve the leader first with eagerness."
"If it weren't for the vice principal's forced display of loyalty, they could have avoided tragedy. It was the demand for loyalty that the Party so emphasizes that drove them to their deaths," the source explained.
Many local residents are said to have commented that the teachers and students "died in vain." Some people have reportedly said that the North Korean people must start putting their own lives first.
The families of the victims are not permitted to lodge complaints against the North Korean government, so they criticize the vice principal's reckless decision to drag children into such a situation.
"How can the poor children rest in peace after dying in such miserable conditions?" another inside source asked.
Severe flooding in August killed at least 130 people. Hundreds more disappeared, and over 140,000 people were left in need of food and shelter. The floods were called "a major and complex disaster" by the Red Cross.
North Korea has been struggling to recover. Diseases, such as e. coli and cholera, are already spreading. As winter approaches, the situation in North Korea is expected to worsen. Parts of the country will start to see sub-zero temperatures by the end of the month.
The North Korean government is focused on rebuilding idolization sites and houses.
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Rubin, Robertson, Disney Urge Congress to Resurrect Estate Tax That Lapsed
"Former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, Tiger Management LLC Founder Julian Robertson and an heir of Walt Disney urged Congress to reinstate a tax on multimillion-dollar estates, possibly retroactively.
The three were joined by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka today to support efforts by a Boston-based advocacy group, United for a Fair Economy, pressing lawmakers to act before Congress adjourns for a month-long recess in August.
The deaths of New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner and at least three other billionaires this year has focused attention on the absence of the levy, which lapsed Jan. 1. Had they died in 2009, they would have paid as much as 45 percent on much of their estate, depending on how their wills were structured.
"We should restore the estate tax in its entirety, and restore it now," Rubin, who was Treasury secretary under President Bill Clinton, said on a conference call with reporters. He said making the tax retroactive to cover all of 2010 "should be very seriously considered."
In 2001, Congress passed legislation phasing out the estate tax over the following decade and eliminating it for 2010. Unless Congress acts, the levy is scheduled to return in 2011, with a top 55 percent rate that would apply to amounts of taxable estates that exceed $1 million. [...]"
Read the full article by Ryan J. Donmoyer on Bloomberg.com.


To provide guidelines for issuing identification cards.
Identification cards may be issued to individuals who are visually impaired or meet the definition of legal blindness. Visual Impairment is defined as low vision causing a severe reduction in vision that cannot be corrected with standard glasses or contact lenses and reduces a person's ability to function at certain or all tasks. (The World Health Organization, WHO, defines low vision as best corrected acuity of 20/70) Legal blindness is defined as central visual acuity of 20/200 or less in the better eye with correcting lenses or a field defect in which the peripheral field has contracted to such an extent that the widest diameter or visual field subtends an angular distance of no greater than 20 degrees.
Certification of visual impairment or legal blindness may be made by an ophthalmologist, an optometrist, a nurse, social worker, counselor or other professional worker who has access to an adequate eye report. After proof of visual impairment or legal blindness is established, the Application for Identification Card should be completed and the card issued. The identification card may be signed by the DBS counselor, Supervisor or District Administrator.


My father passed away almost 2 years ago, and it is still painful. But it has been a complicated pain. The reality is that no matter what pain we experience life continues on in relentless fashion. This has deeply impacted the way in which I have worked through this pain. In the midst of the relentlessness of life, my ability and opportunity to explore in depth the impact of my father's passing was seemingly compromised. I still needed to work while I was dealing with this loss. I still needed to be a husband while dealing with this loss. I still needed to be a father while still dealing with this loss. This takes effort, and effort takes energy. Mourning too, takes effort and energy. So for me, I guess you could say I made a choice of where I wanted to spend my energy. I needed to be all of those things, and mourning a loss didn't seem to make the cut. As such, the pain I was feeling, the emotions I was going through were left like unattended like a wound. Time moved on like it does. Those emotions began to scab over. I would notice them from time to time but found delight in the opportunity for ignorance that the scabbed emotions gave to me. It allowed me to move on, surfing the wave of the relentlessness of life. It just made things easier.
The problem was that the scab didn't go away. For me, the result of my emotional scabbing was that my energy levels dropped significantly. I became more stressed at work. The result of which impacted the relationships around me. I was simply holding on. By default, it seems that I simply chose to ride the wave of life. Funny, because the choice I seemed to make was made in an effort to prevent this from happening. My neglect was eating away at me.
As I sit here and write this I am in a different place as a result of a number of people caring about me. They've asked me questions, encouraged me, and brought me new perspectives that have been life-giving. So, I'd like to share three things that have been important to me as I move into the depths of my emotions dealing with loss.
I share them with the hopes that what I have learned can help you.
Talk to someone – I was encouraged to see a counsellor. I was downright resistant to the idea. In principle I thought it was smart, but in reality I just put it off because I was scared. So about 8 months after the suggestion, and numerous questions and encouragements about setting up an appointment I saw a counsellor. I left the space of the appointment feeling like the weight of the world was lifted off my shoulders. It was incredible and worth every ounce of courage it took to walk through those doors.
Give yourself time – One of the first things the counsellor said to me was that I didn't give myself time to grieve. This shocked me at first. At the moment of my dad's death, my church gave me 3 weeks off to work through the practicalities of the funeral, and the endless streams of paperwork that go along with death. In my head that seemed like "time." Yet in retrospect, I can very well see that I didn't give myself time to grieve. My schedule was busy when I returned to normal life, I was tired, and grieving takes intentionality of which I was too tired. I wanted to have a break when my schedule finally took a break. You will need to give yourself space to breathe and grieve. Doing this will dare you to face the consequence of that very grieving on your heart. This has not been easy for me. In fact, it has sucked.
Create individual and shared practices – I am supposed to write a letter to my dead father. I haven't done this yet because I am intimidated by what words I would actually write, or what they might mean. But in even thinking about writing the letter has changed my experience with grief. Practices take intentionality. Sometimes practices seem a bit weird because they are not natural. For me, this is not even close to being natural. But it will be good. I just need the courage to do it. Practices are great because they are wholistic experiences. A part from the letter writing, I am exploring what a shared family practice could look like.
For me, the results have been telling. I have far more energy now than I have had in years. Initially it seemed counter intuitive for me to dive into something emotionally painful to find more energy, but it has been so. It still hurts, but as it hurts I am getting a better grip on my life as a husband, father and pastor. I hope that this can be of encouragement to you if you are in the mist of hurt and can't seem to move on.
For others, I would humbly ask that you share what has been helpful for you in working through pain and grief?
Thanks for sharing your journey of grief and loss. My parents were older when they died, so my process was probably less intense. MY life wasn't filled with young children, either, but there was a season of tiredness that accompanied the loss. I found it healing to pay attention to my dreams during this season and beyond. Blessings on your continued journey.


Ivan's blog: You Think It's Impossible? Steve Jobs and Henry Ford Would Disagree!
You Think It's Impossible? Steve Jobs and Henry Ford Would Disagree!
I have been listening again to the audiobook biography of Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson. Jobs could be a self-opinionated, arrogant brat or a sensitive soul in the course of a conversation but with all his personality faults, he was undoubtedly a genius.
His ability to have people do things that, on the face of it, were impossible using his "Reality Distortion Field" was nothing short of astounding.
For example, the launch of the original Mac had been scheduled and two weeks prior the technical people told Jobs that they would need at least two more weeks to make sure the software bugs had been eliminated so the launch would need to be postponed.
Jobs told them that two weeks was enough to get it right and the launch would go ahead as planned.
They did get it right working twenty-four hours a day and the launch went ahead.
Coincidentally I saw on TV this week a reprise of the 2015 Great British Bake-Off culminating in a win for the wonderful Nadia.
She was interviewed very soon after being told that she had won and among all the emotions swirling round her she said with great emphasis that she would never say that she couldn't do something ever again.
We are surrounded in the media by gloom mongers and naysayers all of whom greet any idea however simple or revolutionary with a shake of the head and a barrage of tut-tutting. They seem to look for any reason not to do things rather than embrace change. The BBC calls this balance.
The fact is that if we don't know that something is impossible then we can go ahead and do it.
The great leaders are able to persuade their people that nothing is impossible. It's called the Can-Do attitude and it works.
The example of Steve Jobs, preferably without the personality flaws, is one that should be followed by anyone looking to bring innovation into a business.
However we have to accept that because the very though of innovation implies a modicum of change there can be a natural reaction against it.
If a business doesn't embrace change as a matter of culture then it will slowly wither. The time to embrace change is always now. It has been wisely said that the only constant in any business should be change.
The Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field approach is not one that can easily be replicated. It demands a blank refusal to accept the obvious with a determination to rewrite reality and that isn't always easy or even practical.
Then again few of us are like Steve Jobs so we need to develop techniques that drive both innovation and the can-do attitude into the culture of the business in a way that is acceptable and motivational.
The power of positive thought is just as effective as that of negative thinking. Great leaders drive a positive culture into the business and that needs to become a habit.
If we constantly say that something is impossible or we can't do it, then nothing will be achieved. Conversely the more we say that we CAN do something then we are more likely to achieve.
Henry Ford said, "If you say you can or you say you can't, you are always right".
Now that is a very wise thought.


There were four of us. Two old men in their sixties. Two men much younger. We wanted an adventure. We wanted stories to tell. We were tough. We were arrogant. We still think we are tough, perhaps more so now, but now we have more respect for risk and danger. We will not again invite it so cavalierly, at least not anytime soon.
My older brother is a seasoned outdoorsman. A former Marine, former Border Patrol Officer, and retired from the Marshall's service. While not the military and law enforcement type like my brother, I've been down a river and through the woods a time or two myself. The young men, my brother's sons, had less experience, but the advantages of youth. The Ochlockonee River put all of us to the test . . . and, truth be told, got the best of us all, at least for a day.
The planning, begun in January 2013, (before the heavy rains and Florida Panhandle river floodings of February 2013), was to start the adventure at the Lake Talquin Dam and paddle down as far as we could go in four days, camping on the sand bars for which the Ochlockonee is known each night, wherever we decided to stop. The floods were so bad, however, that Ed and Bernice's Fish Camp, just below the dam, was closed for two weeks during March. Three weeks before the week planned for our trip, the scheduled Paddle Florida's 'Dam to the Bay' annual paddle down the Ochlockonee completed without problems, we were informed (except for some high winds and rough waters near the bay). That was encouraging. We did not want to modify our original plans, but we still worried it might be necessary, despite Paddle Florida's success. An integral part of our planned adventure was to go without GPS, but this was amended, at my urging, to have at least one per boat available in case of emergency. I got to say, "I told you so".
We arrived at the river, near the dam, on Tuesday, April 2, 2013, to look with our own eyes and make a final decision. We saw two gates open and much water coming through. The weather forecast for the week was heavy rains every day, with possible dangerous storms on Wednesday or Thursday, depending on whatever weather factors control the timing of such things. One of the young men lobbied to keep our original plans. He was overruled. It was late afternoon when we got to the river, so we modified our plans to go find a primitive camp site down river from the dam and make our decisions the next morning. After looking at a couple of others, we settled on Revell Landing, about twenty miles south of the Dam as the birds fly, and made our camp.
Our cell phones had no signal at Revell Landing. The only map we had was a small paddle guide. Our plan was to navigate like our ancestors had done, but we did allow ourselves the luxury of compasses, again in case of emergency.
Wednesday morning broke clear. The weather did not look threatening at sunrise. The eager young man among us insisted on going upstream as far as possible to launch. He talked his brother, the other young man, into going with him. As we had only one vehicle with us, I offered to transport the other three upstream, if they insisted on going, and bring the truck back to the landing to wait for them. I was concerned with how high the waters were and how often they ran out into the flats in every direction. I was also concerned with the last weather report I had seen the day before. My brother, the other old man, choose also to stay at the landing. Wisdom comes with age, apparently. Although they wanted to go farther up, my brother drove his sons only up to Whitehead Landing to launch, asking them to stop when they got back to Revell Landing so that we could all re-access the rest of the day.
My brother's observations of the river concerned him, though, and by time he got back to Revell, he proposed that he and I paddle upstream to meet them. I agreed that paddling upstream a couple of miles and joining up with the young men would be fun and seemed harmless enough. We should be back before the bad weather came. Plus, I looked forward to the paddling and the exercise. The river was so high that the little backwater on which Revell Landing is located looked like the main channel. We decided to paddle straight up it, to avoid the heavier currents and gain the shortcut. It had already begun to rain when we came to the end of the backwater, the trees thickening and it being a challenge to find our way through. We turned toward the morning sun and worked our way through the flats until we soon hit the main channel of the river. Thinking we had made good time, we paddled across to the east bank, my brother fishing a bit while we waited for the young men to paddle around the bend so we could surprise them.
After an hour's fishing, however, they had not shown. The rain being light, we were not concerned and decided that they must have made good time and passed before we got there. The current was fast and they could have easily made good time. The fish were not biting, so we set out down the main channel expecting to meet up with them at our campsite.
Way too much time passed and we had not seen our campsite. Although the rain was getting harder, we could still see well enough - we just had not seen the landing. We had all discussed, earlier that morning, that someone should mark the landing on the main channel; but, as it turned out, each one had thought the other would do so . . . and no one had. As time continued to pass, we became certain we had indeed missed our landing and decided to look for another. Plus, the farther south you go on the river, the more likely you are to have a cell phone signal – which was now becoming important to us after all.
When we reached a point where the river turned due north, we keep going southwest, believing we would run into the river again and save some time. The flats here were not that bad as the water was high. My brother and I made our big mistake, however, when hitting a westerly diversion from the main channel and thinking we had returned to the river. We had tried to follow the strongest currents to stay on the main channel earlier and this was the strongest current we had seen all day. We still were not using GPS. We were still quite arrogant. Although we had some concern for the younger men, not being in timely contact with them, we were gearing up for an adventure after all. When we turned west into what we thought was the river, we got one.
This channel, despite its strong current, took us deep into the cypress flats and abandoned us there, its waters spreading out over the cypress knees and palmettos in all directions as far as you could see. Our speed slowed tremendously while navigating the narrow passages between the trees. Often, we would go for quite a distance only to reach an impasse, having to back out and try another route in the maze, at times just getting stuck again. Our first plan was to go north in hopes of finding the real river. When going north led nowhere that looked promising, we decided to go back south and look for the river there again. We knew we had not passed another landing up river and were getting ready to find a place to get out. When that did not prove promising, and with the rain getting heavier and daylight becoming a finite commodity, we decided to head west. As the day got darker, the compass came out without a thought to any earlier dedication to primitive navigation we might have entertained.
My brother was now reasoning that if he and I, who had a life-time of experience on the Ochlockonee, had missed our landing, certainly his boys had missed it. If he and I, old seasoned and tested outdoorsmen, could not even stay on the river, certainly his boys could not either. He began to worry – not about us, but about them. I assured him that they were young, strong, intelligent, logical, and proficient with technology. By all accounts, I reasoned to him, they were fairing far better than we two old, white-haired fools were fairing. And, although they were not without a scary adventure of their own, they were.
The young men had indeed missed the landing also, but had managed to stay in the main channel and paddle on down several miles, getting their day on the river as desired. They were worried about us. They were far enough down to have a cell phone signal and had sent texts. They were not surprised that we had not answered their texts as they assumed we had no signal. But, they were surprised we had not been waiting at any of the landings they had passed. Finally, as darkness approached them, they pulled into a landing and called the Fish and Wildlife Commission with their GPS coordinates. One of the two wonderful Fish and Wildlife officers who helped us that night directed them to paddle on down to the next landing where he would be waiting to take them back to camp. Unforeseen to the officer, though, a bit of the bad weather did hit right as they got back in the river. The young men had to fight to keep from capsizing as they paddled quite a distance on down the river in the dark. Finally, they made the landing and were out safely, although with an adrenaline blood level now that they had rarely experienced and found unpleasant.
In the meantime, it is getting dark and the weather is getting bad on the two old fools back up in the flats and still no land in sight. Contingency plans are being made. Cutting enough palmettos to make a reasonably dry bed in the swamp was one. Finding a rare spot of high ground and climbing was another. Stringing the tarp we had in the canoe from a tree limb and taking turns sleeping in it through the night was another still. Yet, still hoping to find actual land before any of those plans became necessary, despite the fog in our eyeballs and clouds of mosquitos blurring the track of our vision as each moment got darker, westward we continued. As Abraham Lincoln has been portrayed as saying, however, "A compass, I learnt when I was surveying, it'll point you True North from where you're standing, but it's got no advice about the swamps and dessert and chasm that you'll encounter along the way. If in pursuit of your destination, you plunge ahead, heedless of obstacles, and achieve nothing more than to sink in a swamp... What's the use of knowing True North?" My brother and I had learned that about True North that day. . . and True South . . . and were about to decide that the same rule applied to True West.
But, we had no choice. We had already tried north and south and we were now so far west that it made no sense to turn east and go backwards at this late hour. We knew that would not work. West it was, as true as we could go, which was not very true due to cypress knees and hardwood and all manner of obstacles. All afternoon we had been going one direction in order to go another. Such is the world of cypress flats, a world we felt we would never escape.
Then, just as hope was slipping away as fast as the last bit of daylight, we saw what looked like dry land. We could not truly trust our vision. There were swarming balls of flying bugs in our faces. We were so wet that water dripped incessantly into our eyes, our arms too busy paddling, pulling and pushing to wipe it away any longer. We had seen a few mirages already. Was this just another? But, instead of fading away, it became clearer. The closer we got the more assurance we had. This was indeed land. As we got close, my brother wanted to get out and pull the canoe toward it, but I insisted he stay put until I navigated the bow up against the dry soil and could get out and step on it. It was rough land, the palmettos scratching at our legs while the thistle was stinging them. All manner of spiders and bugs danced and flew around us in celebration of the feast that had arrived. We heard scurrying in the undergrowth as various critters either crawled away or slithered closer to size us up for dinner. Still we loved this land. With a burst of renewed energy, we pulled our borrowed canoe up the hill and secured it. Then, while I sorted out what was left of our supplies, my brother, the one with closed toe shoes, made his way through the brush to the top of the hill. There, a few minutes later, after he was out of sight, I heard him shout back "Road!" I immediately re-examined, as one is want to do in these situations, my understanding of the universe and the role of the Deity within it. I wondered if I had made any promises in the last few hours that would now be hard to keep. It can be miles between these little forest roads and we had come out right at one.
The road led on up a hill and at the top of the hill a cell phone bar appeared, if and only if, you held the phone up at head level. Our GPS, also brought out without reluctance now, was not viewable due to the fog on our glasses. So, I took a picture of my brother's phone with my water-proof camera. It was upside down, but eventually I could read it. When I pulled out my lens cloth to clean the fog from my glasses, it only deposited more water on them. Like everything on us, it was dripping wet. We could eventually see the texts from the young men and placed a call to them. They did not answer immediately, but called back in a few minutes – safe and sound, albeit a bit shaken. We spoke with Fish and Wildlife and notified them of our position. Then, with the world back in its proper order, we abandoned unnecessary weight and began to follow the two rut forest road we had found, still heading west. Within a mile we came to Highway 67, where we turned north. As there is very little traffic on this road after dark, we resolved to a long walk. We had no idea where we were at the time, but we were only about five miles or less south of our campground. As we walked up Highway 67, my thoughts turned to a book I am reading – A Soldier of the Great War – by Mark Helprin. The novel begins with an old man undertaking an all night walk. While reading the novel, it had never occurred to me that this old man might be taking an all night walk – especially while soaking wet, bone cold, and with a possible storm on the way. The tree tops were bending in the wind at this point. Fortunately, we did not have to walk long before another fantastically nice Fish and Wildlife Officer came by and picked us up. Turns out, we had only two miles left to the camp from where he found us, but for all we had known earlier while walking, it could have been fifteen or more.
We slept the night at Revell with the tents leaking a bit in the hard rain. But, I slipped in the back of the truck when I heard the others snoring and stayed dry. Wisdom does come with age. The next morning we went to retrieve the abandoned canoe. Near it, where we had considered sleeping the night before, we found a rattlesnake sunning. After retrieving the canoe, we took it easy. Broke camp and moved to Womack Creek, where there is a toilet and a hot shower and a generous host who is an excellent cook. We rested. The next day, as the weather was still bad, we stayed off the river again. Instead, we grubbed worms, went fishing, had a fish fry, had a drink or two and told tall tales of four men of great courage on the river during the storm.
After all, what's the point in almost killing yourself, if you can't tell tall tales about it later?
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Olga Nevska, Telekom Mobility Solutions: Mobility Means to #Takepart
The interview was conducted by
Verena Vinke | 29.10.2020
Telekom MobilitySolutions, a full-service provider and wholly owned subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom, operates one of the largest fleets of company vehicles in Germany. It provides today a wide range of environmentally friendly, economical, and sustainable mobility services and is working intensively on new forms of interconnected, digital employee mobility. As part of our series "Working in the New Reality," we spoke with managing director Dr. Olga Nevska about the corporate mobility of the future and how the global coronavirus crisis is affecting our mobility behavior, the transportation transition, and the mobility strategy of the Magenta world.
Deutsche Telekom has the second-largest corporate fleet in Germany. In your view, how is Covid-19 changing occupational mobility? What form will the "new reality" take in this respect?
The coronavirus crisis has led to a significant change in mobility behavior, and Deutsche Telekom is no exception. Working from home has increased, the number of business trips has fallen drastically, so of course the use of all means of transportation has decreased. As is well known, the biggest losers have been public transportation services, but all the sharing services have suffered as well because the fear of infection has made us feel safest in our own car or on the bike. However, I do not think that the new reality is a matter of personal transportation. The mobility transition that started long before the coronavirus appeared cannot be reversed. That is why we are sticking to our strategy "From cars to mobility." For me, this means that we are focusing on three topics: first, on the diversification of our portfolio through electric and micro-mobility; second, on the introduction of digital services such as sharing and pooling; and third, on interconnected and demand-oriented mobility for all.
At Deutsche Telekom, you have been rethinking the issue of employee mobility for some time now, and you are also taking bold steps. The emphasis is on "shared, digital, and interconnected mobility." How might we understand this?
Our aim is to create a form of mobility that is flexible and uses resources efficiently. Deutsche Telekom is determined to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions by 90 percent in comparison with 2017 by 2030, and mobility is one of the levers for achieving this goal. At Telekom MobilitySolutions, we have long since bid farewell to the identity of a classic fleet manager and see ourselves as a mobility provider offering a holistic range of efficient, economical, and sustainable mobility services. The portfolio ranges from classic company cars or service vehicles to sharing concepts and various types of on-demand mobility. Besides around 23,000 company and business vehicles, we operate our own car-sharing fleet, 8,000 deferred-compensation bicycles, a shuttle service for around 120,000 people a year, and e-scooters and pool bikes in the field of micro-mobility.
This certainly gives you one of the broadest ranges of products and services that can be found among German corporations. How are all these different services used? The SUV for management board members, the bicycle for the vocational trainee?
This is a good question. My vision is to provide to every employee the mobility he or she needs at any given time. For example, when I'm traveling within a city, I might need a public transportation ticket or an e-bike to get to work. Having my own car no longer makes good sense over the long term, so I use a car-sharing service whenever necessary. Flexibly coordinated options of this type are precisely what we want to provide, enabling quick and easy access to the means of transportation appropriate to every situation.
How difficult is it to convince employees who have enjoyed the privilege of a company car for years of the value of the new concepts?
That doesn't happen overnight, of course; the company car is often a fixed component of an employment contract and that can't be changed with a snap of the fingers. And yet, it is easier than you might think. We are all aware that we urgently need to change our mobility behavior so that we improve our CO2 balance as quickly as possible. The younger generation in particular has grown up in a sharing society and the dream of having their own car has long since become irrelevant for these people. Moreover, digitalization has made possible new forms of mobility such as car sharing or pooling and other on-demand services. This will enable us to offer to our employees increasingly flexible solutions in the future.
But one thing is clear to us: the user experience must be perfect and, above all, simple! We should not require our clients to worry about how to get from A to B whereas in the past they simply sat in their cars and were guided to their destinations by the navigation system. That's why we're currently working on an app that makes convenient, interconnected mobility possible. Regardless of the means of transportation or the transportation provider, users will book their travel via app, individually and appropriate to their travel needs. This reduces stress for people and congestion on the roads. We want to increase employee satisfaction without taking anything away from anyone. This is our motivation for the introduction of a digital platform in 2021; mobility as a service is the guiding principle here.
About: Dr. Olga Nevska
Dr. Olga Nevska grew up in the Ukraine and came to Germany in 2004 on a scholarship granted by the German Bundestag. After working for Roland Berger, Axel Springer, and Commerzbank, the holder of a doctorate in economics and law has held various positions at Deutsche Telekom since 2009. She has been managing director of Telekom MobilitySolutions since March 2019.
What does your personal mobility mix look like, and how will it change in the future?
My mobility mix has always been really diversified – I have a job ticket, a car, and a bicycle. I didn't buy my first car until I was 35. I grew up in Ukraine; public transportation is very well developed there and owning a car used to be extremely expensive. Even after I moved to Germany, I really liked the excellent public transportation in the big cities. It was not until I had a child and began commuting between Cologne and Bonn that I became dependent on a car. I am certain about one thing – my next car will be electric and my mobility mix will remain diversified and demand-oriented.
What means of transportation will we be using in the future? What do you think will be the most important mobility trends in the coming years?
Mobility solutions that are to be successful in the long term must adapt to the needs of people, not vice versa. And digital technologies that are completely unknown to us today will be the enablers for new concepts and procedures. For example, I see autonomous driving becoming a reality within the next ten years. The car will then become a so-called third place along with the workplace and home where we work, read, sleep, hold meetings, or meet friends. Other trends are certainly air taxis, hyperloop travel, freight transport by drone, and, of course, intermodal mobility. This will require a high degree of willingness to change and the readiness to question the familiar, allow the unfamiliar, and try out new things.
Olga, what do you love about your job?
Our CEO Tim Höttges often says: "We are only satisfied when everyone takes part." We connect people. Via our networks. But not only with our networks." Mobility also connects and involves much more than simply overcoming a spatial distance. It enables people to be a part of the world and to participate in it and is therefore a guarantee for success, freedom, health, and growth.
Deutsche Telekom is investing a great deal in the sustainable mobility of its employees and gives me the freedom to strike out on new paths and to try out innovative solutions together with my team. This is a great responsibility, but is as well an opportunity to accelerate the achievement of our climate goals and, in doing so, to make the world a little bit more livable for my daughter.
Thank you, Olga, we wish you and your team all the best for the future.
Verena Vinke
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Originally called the Mountaineer Soccer Complex, the stadium was completed in August 2004 and is named in honor of University benefactor Dick Dlesk. Dick Dlesk Stadium has hosted the Mountain State Derby twice where WVU holds a 2-0-0 advantage over Marshall.

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From Carna To Mirai: Recovering From A Lost Opportunity
We had four years to prepare for recent DDoS attacks and failed. How can we learn from our mistakes?
Those not immersed in security and technology are mostly oblivious to one fact: the Internet is a fragile ecosystem. There are many parallels between the Internet and the ecosystems that span our globe. Each has vital resources that need to be protected and utilized for the greater good. When there is an imbalance in an ecosystem, bad things happen.
We saw this twice recently with the Mirai botnet, which co-opted a cadre of devices in the Internet of Things and forced them to issue denial-of-service (DoS) attacks that crippled many sites and services. But we knew this was coming and did virtually nothing to stop it, just like many real-world ecosystem disasters.
Let's look at where we were four years ago, how far we've progressed, and what we could do to stave off an Internet ecosystem disaster.
Back to the Future: The Carna Botnet
The Internet and media were abuzz four years ago when individuals claiming to be researchers — they remain anonymous to this day — released reports from what was described as the most comprehensive scan of the Internet to date. This became known as the 2012 Internet Census, and it provided insight into what was running on the Internet back then. These anonymous researchers hijacked home routers using weak, default credentials and installed software on those devices that let them control the execution of Internet service scans. While they claim to have done this solely to study the Internet, it is not known if they only performed harmless actions or used the devices in more malicious ways.
Reliving the Past until We Get It Right
Let the previous section sink in for a minute: we knew this was possible four years ago and as each year passed we knew there would be more "things" connected to the Internet, and yet we did nothing to prevent these "things" from being deployed insecurely.
We're now at a point in time when it's easy to quickly scan the entire Internet and — if you're performing scans from hacked machines — at virtually no expense or risk.
When these devices are taken over and used maliciously because of vulnerabilities or weak default configurations, there are no consequences for manufacturers of IoT devices, owners of IoT devices, or network providers where these IoT devices originate communications.
Again, we're reliving the pain of decades of PC bots and viruses in the era of IoT with some key differences when it comes to things such as vulnerabilities, rampant adoption, usability, and exposure. There is another problem that comes with millions of IoT bots joining together in massive attacks: we're virtually defenseless, primarily because of how the Internet has been architected.
The distributed DoS mitigation company protecting Brian Krebs had to abandon him as a customer because it couldn't absorb the attack on his site in September. Even if there were a handful of providers that could absorb such attacks, most people and organizations couldn't afford to use them, leaving everyone else at the mercy of the attackers. This is what's at risk if we retain the status quo.
A Secure Path Forward
If we do nothing, the attacks we saw this fall will not only be repeated, they will grow larger, have longer impact, and potentially have more sinister outcomes. What can be done?
For starters, more IoT vendors should follow Hangzhou Xiongmai's lead and recall products that have unfixable or easily exploitable default configurations. Although this step would be the responsible thing to do, it might not have the impact you'd expect. There's no surefire way to notify all individuals with problem equipment, and it only takes a scarily small number of vulnerable systems to cause widespread damage.
Another option is for each of us, in every country, to work with lawmaking bodies and get sane standards and regulations put forth for IoT devices. This won't affect the vast number of devices that are already out there, but most of us will throw these things away as we upgrade devices to take advantage of new features (or, they'll just break down, as many aren't made to last). This approach can be time-consuming, and it may take five years to have strong, enforceable standards in place.
A third option is for Apple, Amazon, and Google to co-develop requirements for when manufacturers want to integrate their IoT devices with the ecosystems of those three companies. These three are fast becoming the gatekeepers of IoT, and if they set the bar high enough it would have an immediate downstream effect. My guess is that we'd see more secure versions of products within one product release cycle and discounts for upgrade/trade-in offers.
A fourth option: a "cash for clunkers"-like program. Given the potential impact of these insecure "things," governments around the world — in partnership with nonprofit foundations — could band together and offer cash incentives for bringing in derelict devices. Coordination at this scale would be difficult, but it would be a boost to security and the global economy.
The Internet of Things has the potential to dramatically change our lives for the better and for the worse. We must all work to understand the current, tenuous state our fragile Internet ecosystem is in, then work together to ensure it will be there when we expect it to be.
New Free Mirai Scanner Tools Spot Infected, Vulnerable IoT Devices
Changing IoT Passwords Won't Stop Attacks. Here's What Will.
Reality Check: Getting Serious About IoT Security
Bob Rudis, Chief Data Scientist, Rapid7Bob Rudis has over 20 years of experience using data to help defend global Fortune 100 companies and is a chief security data scientist at Rapid7. Bob is a serial tweeter (@hrbrmstr), avid blogger (rud.is), author (Data-Driven Security), ... View Full Bio
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12/8/2016 | 12:42:00 PM
Certainly Not Our Only Options?
Living in the open world, the free and open source software world, I am loathe to consider some of the other options that have been thrown out there of late, including introduction of highly proprietary protocols for the Internet and network firmware that would replace current ones. However, I can't believe that these are our only options. A recent article I read on the GCHQ and their push to get Internet providers to change protocols to help fight spoofing and its use in DDoS attacks raised the excellent point that in order for this to work, you'd need a global effort that would pull in both hardware and software consortiums across the planet to make changes that would theoretically help make the Internet more secure. Wow. I can see the trillions of dollars that go into that project evaporate in a hearbeat when the first exploit gets published on that new infrastructure.
Not to discount my statement that there must be more options, which I'm starting to talk myself out of, but how about from another angle in which (at least in the US) we provide more protection to White/Grey Hat (ethical) hackers who can actually help through offensive cybersecurity tactics? Get funds into tactical cybersecurity teams who not only can help, but are willing to put their best efforts forward in analyzing, profiling and attacking hackers and their teams in such a way that they are either quickly found by on-the-ground law enforcement teams, or can't get the resources they need online to perform their hacks. Not to make a standard Hollywood image of the offensive hacker team seem realistic and easy to put together, but come on, there is a level of reality to this option that is hampered in large part by fear of prison due to our nation's archaic and frankly ill-informed computer-related laws.
I just feel there needs to be a big leap, a massive impact, in order to get ahead of cybercrime; the must-dos and process changes noted here obviously are going to happen, but we need a wall to get raised somehow to help that work not go to waste.


A comprehensive mulit-agency strategy to eliminate, and prevent the reintroduction of, Elodea on the Kenai Peninsula.
An addition to the CWMA's Strategic Plan that provides a control option by watershed as opposed to ownership to assist in making informed decisions to prioritize controls.
In 2007, a reed canarygrass expert (Dr. Susan Galatowitsch, University of Minnesota) visited with partners in the Kenai Peninsula CWMA to discuss methods to manage reed canarygrass. Attached is her report.


Ballet as a dance discipline is recognized as an ideal form of exercise for children, as it keeps their bodies supple and encourages graceful, flowing movements. Classical ballet improves the students' posture and trains them to walk correctly. It is also one of the most beautiful forms of dance, with a long history and broad international appeal. Ballet students learn to like their bodies and develop a healthy respect for body and mind. Best of all, ballet nurtures the students' self-esteem and… it's fun for students of all ages!
The repertoire consists of established choreography which has been developed by renowned choreographers when classical ballet was in its prime, from the 18th to the 20th century, leading up to the neoclassic age.
Through these choreographies we aim to strengthen the dancers' legs through pointe work, to build stamina, and allow the students to experience the varied challenges these sequences present, both in class and on stage.
BALLET IV and BALLET ADANCED I.
Liberated from the strict rules of ballet, this contemporary dance form grants the dancers greater freedom in the way they choose to express their innermost feelings.
Hip hop – breakdance is a wonderful means of stress relief, a way to balance the pressures and anxiety that are often associated with everyday work or school. It is very popular as an expressive and enjoyable dance experience.
Jazz dance is a high-energy dance form which invariably bears the dancer's personal touch. It offers every jazz dancer or student room to interpret and execute the movements and steps in his or her own way.
Modern dance evolved almost in defiance of the strict rules of ballet.
The dancers in this case reject the limitations imposed by ballet and instead welcome movements that are rooted in their personal emotional disposition. The main features of this dance form are the freedom and the powerful expression that are embedded in the dancers' movements.
Drama Play is a fun play group inspired by the theatre, without focusing on the performance of a specific play. Through various theatrical techniques such as mimicry, pantomime and improvisation as well as other forms of play that stimulate the senses, children learn how to 'tune in' to their inner world as well as their surrounding environment. Within the group, children learn how to express themselves as complete individuals and channel their energy in a positive way. At the same time, participation in this group helps children develop a team spirit.
Drama Play incorporates various elements: art, colours, music, various fairytales, physical movement, vocal expression as well as deliberate silence. All these forms of expression and more are among the many aspects that Drama Play covers.
As an instructor, the animator introduces various techniques that are designed to stimulate the children and encourage them to explore and experiment with different signals and modes of communication and expression. Offering an introduction to drama and the theatre, the animator helps the children discover the fun and challenges of acting out different roles. On a psychological level, and through the various Drama Play activities, the children learn to overcome insecurities. Instead, they feel secure and develop a greater sense of trust and confidence.


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Odisha MLA Performs Last Rites Of A Beggar After No One Came Forward
The Logical Indian Crew Odisha
August 7th, 2018 / 6:04 PM
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In Amanapali village of Odisha's Jharsuguda district, when not a single villager was ready to touch the lifeless body of a woman beggar, it was Ramesh Patua, a BJD MLA from Rengali constituency, who decided to perform the woman's last rites. Ramesh Patua is one of the poorest MLAs in Odisha. He still lives in a rented house. His actions, however, are that of a truly compassionate public servant.
The deceased woman, who survived on pennies and leftover food from village feasts, lived with her ailing brother-in-law. Both of them survived the alms they received from the villagers. However, the relative could not perform her last rites on account of his poor health.
Apparently, the villagers did not come forward to even offer a shoulder to the deceased's body because of the fear of ostracisation. According to a village practice, if an individual touches a deceased's body belonging to another caste, he/she gets ostracized by his own community. After the local police informed him that nobody was willing to touch the deceased, Patua, decided to perform the woman's last rites.
Although Amanapali does not come under his constituency, the MLA did not hesitate in attending to the crisis at all. He first sent two of his relatives to perform the last rites. "It did not take me much time to understand why nobody was coming forward for the last rites of the deceased. [According to a practice in the village] If a person touches a body belonging to another caste, he is ostracised by his own community. As I was away from the spot, I sent two youngsters from my family to take the body to the burial ground," Mr. Patua told the Hindu.
"I thought the two youngsters may not be able to handle the situation, so I rushed to the spot. We brought four bamboo poles and prepared a bier to carry the body. Since I did not want any controversy by tinkering with the existing beliefs, we took the body to the ground and performed the last rites," the MLA added.
Most of the rituals were performed according to Hindu beliefs, however, because of a shortage of time to arrange for a cremation, the mortal remains of the old woman were buried. Since the relative of the deceased was extremely unwell, he could not attend the funeral.
Odisha: Ramesh Patua,BJD MLA from Rengali, came forward to perform last rites of a woman in Jharsuguda's Amnapali Village y'day after locals skipped it fearing ostracisation. The woman,a beggar,lived with her ailing brother-in-law who couldn't attend the ceremony as he was unwell pic.twitter.com/ljoWPTXFSi
— ANI (@ANI) August 5, 2018
One of the poorest MLAs in Odisha
It is to be noted that Mr Patua was elected from Rengali in Sambalpur district. He is also one of the poorest MLAs in Odisha and lives in a rented house.
He expressed his disappointment over the fact that none of the villagers came ahead to help even at such time.
The Logical Indian take
The Logical Indian appreciates Mr Patua on taking due cognizance of the situation and going out of his way to do such a good dead. However, one must not forget that the people of the village where this woman regularly went around asking for alms did not come ahead to perform the last rites. Such is the stigma around the caste and fear of ostracization which prevents a person from seeing an individual as a human being like them. The Logical Indian hopes that people leave behind such regressive belief and come ahead to help anyone who is in need.
Written by : Disha Thakrar (Guest Author)
Edited by : Shraddha Goled
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