It’s Your Karma Retreat with KathyDV & Micara
Join Kathy Dannel Vitcak CSC, CPLC and Micara Link CSC, CPLC as they embark upon a series of Radiant Journeys. Kathy and Micara are both Certified Past Life Coaches® (trained by Denise Linn) and will be guiding you through your Radiant Journeys and Soul-Based Examinations.
Are you curious about Past Lives? Have you ever wondered why you absolutely love Italian food and architecture? Do you find yourself drawn to all things Native American? Is extra weight plaguing you…no matter what you do? Past Life Exploration can help explain all of this and more! Not only can you find answers, you can heal issues from Past Lives…yes, you CAN heal the Past.
This long weekend will include:
• Past Life workshops and classroom experiences
• Past Life Journeys and Guided Meditations
• Meet and work with your Past Life Guides (angels, animals, guides and more)
• Past Life Growth and Guidance Vision Board Life Mapping
• Working with Kathy’s new It’s Your Karma Past Life Oracle Deck
• Free time for journaling, nature walks, boat rides, fishing (if desired)
Dates: Friday, October 23: You may arrive anytime after noon. Welcoming ceremony is 7pm. Class ends on Sunday October 25th at 3pm, but you may stay later, if desired. Kathy and MIcara will be available for one-on-one work Friday afteroon, prior to class and Sunday afternoon after class.
Cost: $197 if you register by October 1st with $50 deposit. After October 1st, $247. This includes lodging in cabins, six meals and all classes. Space is limited, so please register early. Last day for registration is October 17th. payment can be made with check, money order or PayPal.
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Kathy Dannel Vitcak
17025 Sitka Drive nW
Pinewood, MN 56676
Cheetahs have Fingerprints Also…well, kinda
Fingerprints’ identify cheetahs By Jody Bourton Earth News reporter
Conservationists have developed a new technique to identify cheetahs in the wild from just their paw prints. The technique works in a similar way to that which allows humans to be identified by fingerprints. By photographing paw prints in the wild researchers can monitor cheetahs without ever seeing them. It is hoped that this non-invasive technique may aid conservation efforts to protect the cheetah population in the wild.
The footprint identification technique (FIT) has already helped researchers study other big cats and endangered species including bengal tigers and polar bears. Now the method has been developed for the first time with cheetahs in a international collaboration involving conservation organisations N/a’an ku sê sanctuary, Wildtrack, AfriCat and Chester Zoo.
The technique is based on the assumption that every paw print is unique to that cheetah and can be identified similar to a human fingerprint. The local San people in Namibia have been able to identify individual animals from their tracks for many years.
Whereas each human fingerprint has a unique pattern of ridges and whorls, each cheetah produces a paw print of unique size, shape and character.
It is extremely important because you can never catch and collar all cheetah to find out about their population size and structure, their interactions and how the population changes over time. Digital photographs of each cheetah’s prints are taken and fed into a computer database. When a new print in sighted and recorded, a bespoke computer program then scans these photographs, recording the distances between specific points on the paw print, until it finds a match.
So far, researchers have photographed and taken measurements of footprints from wild and captive cheetahs held in N/a’an ku sê sanctuary in central Namibia, Africa and Chester Zoo in the UK. They now hope to increase the size of their database to include many more wild cheetahs, allowing the cats to be identified in a non-invasive way.
Paw prints from individual animals will enable scientists to understand the movements and interactions of cheetahs plus how many there are in a certain area.
“It is extremely important because you can never catch and collar all cheetah to find out about their population size and structure, their interactions and how the population changes over time,” says Florian Weise co-ordinator of the N/a’an ku sê research programme. This technique will also enable problem animals to be identified and relocated protecting them for future generations. Cheetahs in Namibia that stray out of conservation zones and onto farmland are often killed by farmers who fear they are a threat to their livestock.
In the first year of study on commercial farmland in the Windhoek area of Namibia researchers have identified 18 resident cheetahs in an area of 20,000 ha. Out of this population, two cheetahs were identified as problem animals and subsequently relocated. The team hope to develop the technique so that they can make it available to other conservation programmes across Africa. They also aim to continue their work with local farmers and land owners to reduce cheetah and human conflict.
