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A Grand Day Out: Badger Ales Chase Day at Wincanton
I am really looking forward to Badger Ales Chase Day this Saturday at Wincanton, where I am Clerk of the Course. It is one of the richest racedays of our season and is always a favourite among us at the course, racegoers and connections.
We are always look to increase the prize money at Wincanton and Saturday has a £200,000 total prize fund. With great prize money on offer and so many top yards local to us, we always get a good turn out. Part of what makes this day so special is the connection with Badger Ales, part of local brewers Hall & Woodhouse, who have done so much to support Wincanton over the years.
The other part of what makes racing at Wincanton special is the people. Wincanton is a proper rural racecourse and our racegoers are people who know their horses & know their racing. That said, we are a very welcoming track too so if you are thinking of coming for your first visit, tomorrow is a great day to do it.
I was asked whether there were any horses people should look out for, but to be honest, if I do I am sure there will be some of our trainers looking to have a word or two with me, especially if I don't pick the right one!
Saturday's raceday has three highlights starting with the Totepool Elite Hurdle which has been won by some class horses, including Zarkandar last year. It is a great race where good horses come to the fore.
On the chasing side, the Rising Stars Chase always turns out to be a cracking race and is particularly good at throwing up future big players, like Silviniaco Conti who won in 2011. The field might be small, but it will be a quality one as local trainers like to target it.
Badger Ales Chase is a really popular race with racegoers and trainers. For the last three or four years we have had big fields in it – 16 or 18 runners – and with 22 entered we are hopeful we will get another good field. The local trainers have it as a point on their calendar and tend to have it as a early season aim for horses.
In a recent interview Paul Nicholls said that the Badger Ales Trophy is always a seasonal target and I'm pleased to see that Poungach is entered, after winning novice chases last season at Haydock and Kempton. Paul admitted that Poungach still needs to improve on his jumping but he's an out-and-out stayer who could be ideal for the Badger Ales Chase, and I know that Paul will have him ready to run for his life this Saturday.
The course is in excellent condition, the ground is a mixture of good and good to soft and it has a smashing covering of grass. I couldn't be more pleased with it. The forecasters think it will be mostly dry in the run up to Saturday. There is rain forecast for Saturday night but it should be dry on the day itself.
We'll be looking forward to welcoming the ultimate champ, AP McCoy and continuing his 4000 win celebration! Hope to see you there.
Tickets available at wincantonracecourse.co.uk or on the day.


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The bosk, without which the Wagon People could not live, is an oxlike creature. It is huge, shambling
animal whith a thick, humped neck and long, shaggy hair. It has a wide head and tiny eyes, a temper
to match that of a sleen, and two long wicked horns that reach out from its broad head and
suddenly curve forward to terminate in fearful points. Some of these horns, on the larger animals,
measured from tip to tip, exceed the length of two spears.
Not only does the flesh of the bosk and the milk of its cows furnish the Wagon Peoples with food and
drink, but its hides cover the domelike wagons in which they dwell; its tanned and sewn skins cover
their bodies; the leather of its hump is used for their shields; its sinews forms their thread; its bones
and horns are split and tooled into implements of a hundred sorts, from awls, punches and spoons
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and used for fuel. The bosk is said to be the Mother of the Wagon Peoples, and they reverence it as
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The hundred, rather than eight, bosk- that drew his wagon had been unyoked; they were huge, red
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Nomads of Gor, page 41
Behind them another four haruspexes, one from each People, carried a large wooden cage, made of
sticks lashed together, which contained perhaps a dozen white vulos, domesticated pigeons. Then
the women climb to the top of the high sides on the wagons and watch the war lanterns in direction.
When the bosk horns sound the women cover the fires and prepare the men's weapons, bringing
forth arrows and bows, and lances. The quivas are always in the saddle sheaths. The bosk are
hitched up and slaves, who might otherwise take advantage of the tumult, are chained.
Then the women climb to the top of the high sides on the wagons and watch the war lanterns
in the distance, reading them as well as the men. Seeing if the wagons must move, and in what
direction. Nomads of Gor, page 175-176
The Bosk is a large, horned, shambling ruminant of the Gorean plains. It is herded below the Gorean
equator by the Wagon Peoples, but there are Bosk herds on ranches in the north as well, and
peasants often keep some of the animals. Raiders of Gor, page 26
"What lazy animals those sleen are," said Imnak. "They are not even really hungry, but they are
keeping us in mind. They should be out hunting snow bosk, or basking sea sleen, or burrowing and
scratching inland for hibernating leems." Beasts of Gor, page 334
I saw four small milk bosk grazing on the short grass. In the distance, above the acres, I could see
mountains, snow-capped. A flock of verr, herded by a maid with a stick, turned, bleating on the
sloping hillside. She shaded her eyes. She was blond; she was barefoot; she wore an ankle-length
white kirtle, of white wool, sleeveless, split to her belly. About her neck, I could see a dark ring.
Marauders of Gor, page 81
Forest Bosk
He would be referring to the wild bosk, which can be surly and territorial. In forested areas, they are
substantially forward horned, and attack, head down, directly. The Tuchuk bosk, on the other hand,
usually have wide spreading horns. When angered they attack, a bit to the side, to tear the enemy.
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They also hook nicely, and, of one is caught on the horn, one can be hurled a hundred feet. They are large and powerful. The
straighter horns of the forest bosk are presumably an adaptation to the arboreal environment. They plains bosk, usually more widely
horned. Swordsmen of Gor, (Electronic book, Loc 3315 of 11941)
The forest bosk tends to be territorial, and, as I have already suggested, it can be quite dangerous. Swordsmen of Gor (Electronic
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NATIVE PLANT QUIZ by Don Keller
Tuesday, May 28, 7:30 p.m. at Fairchild Tropical Garden, 10901 Old Cutler Road.
Rare Plants of South Florida Keith Bradley, Institute for Regional Conservation.
Keith will be discussing species that The Institute for Regional Conservation, after seven years of research, have found to be the most critically imperiled plant species south of Lake Okeechobee. Photographs of many of the species will be shown, and the history and conservation status of each species will be discussed.
Keith grew up in Dade County, has worked with IRC since 1996, and has been botanizing here for over ten years. He served as chapter president for three years and was co-chair of the 2000 FNPS state conference.
Thanks in advance to refreshment donors: Carol Farber (drinks and ice); and Donna Rich and Robin Just (snacks). Additions to the refreshment or plant raffle table are always appreciated.
At this meeting we plan to sell some donated plants that will not hold until the next sale (too many to put in the raffle). Bring your wallet! (Many thanks to Gwen Burzycki and John Tomczak.)
Upcoming meetings. June 25: Annual Summer Solstice Evening Yard Visit and Social. Instead of a formal meeting, we will gather at the homes of chapter members (most likely in South Miami) to tour their gardens and visit with each other. Details in the June Tillandsia. (Note: The June meeting is for FNPS members and their invited guests only.) July 23: "Combining Fruit Trees and Natives in the Home Landscape" Richard Campbell, Senior Curator of Tropical Fruit and Head of the Tropical Fruit Program at Fairchild Gardens.
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Field trips are for the study of plants and enjoyment of nature by FNPS members (Dade and Keys) and their invited guests. Collecting is not permitted. Please join today so that you can enjoy all the benefits of membership! Call Patty for more information or carpooling (from Dade). If the weather is very bad, call to confirm before leaving home.
Saturday, May 18: Hugh Taylor Birch State Park (Broward Co.). Well explore a coastal hardwood hammock and look for rare beach plants including beach jacquemontia, which we helped survey in 1990.
Sunday, June 23: Canoeing in North Dade. We will paddle the Oleta River to East East Greynolds (yes, two "Easts") to botanize and examine Tequesta artifacts in an island hammock. An easy paddle along mangroves also offers good birding. This is in an urban area with possible noisy boat traffic nearby, but it is also scenic, one of the last places in Dade county to canoe in a flowing river, and one of the few natural areas in North Dade.
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- 16 (Thurs.) Keys Meeting (Key West, Propagating native plants)
- 18 (Sat.) Field trip to Hugh Taylor Birch St. Park (Broward Co.)
- 18 (Sat.) Keys Field trip to Long Key Canoeing
- 28 (Tues.): Dade monthly meeting (rare South Florida plants)
- 1 (Sat.) Everglades National Park Workday
- 8-9 (Sat. & Sun.) Tropical Audubon Native Plant Sale
- 23 (Sun.) Field trip Canoe Oleta River
- 25 (Tues.): Dade monthly meeting (Members yard visit and social)
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Note: All Dade Chapter members are welcome at all chapter activities. For more information, please contact Lisa Gordon (email firstname.lastname@example.com or Jim Duquesnel (305-451-1202 at John Pennekamp State Park or email firstname.lastname@example.com). Leave your name, phone/fax number, or email address.
Next meeting: Thursday, May 16 in Key West. Rob Campbell, Grower for Plant Creations Nursery an Landscaping in Homestead, will speak on "Propagating native plants in the Florida Keys". The meeting will be at the Holiday Inn Beachside, with a pre-meeting tour at the KW Botanical Garden. You can stay overnight at the hotel with a special rate. Details below.
6 p.m.: Tour of KW Botanical Garden on Stock Island. Directions to the garden: (going south): At MM 4.1 (after Boca Chica bridge), look for a golf course on right. At light: Jr. College Road, make right hand turn. You will see county buildings on right. Go about 500 yards and look for Aguero Circle. Make right on Aguero Circle and follow road to the rear. Garden entrance is clearly marked. There are also signs on US1 and at Aguero Circle.
7 p.m.: Plant Identification session. Bring a cutting of your "mystery" plants, preferably with several leaves and with fruits and or flowers.
7:30 p.m.: Announcements and program. Refreshments and native plant raffle follow the program. Bring a native plant for the raffle and get a free raffle ticket.
A life spent growing South Florida plants makes Rob Campbell more than qualified to speak on the subject. His February 2001 FNPS presentation in Key Largo was deemed one of the best we have ever had, so it's about time we got him down to the lower Keys. Whether your questions are about seed preparation and germination, or fertilization and irrigation, Rob is sure to have tried, or at least seen, almost every imaginable approach.
Directions to Holiday Inn: Go south on US1 until the first intersection in KW, continue right and the Holiday Inn is on that corner, entrance right around bend, 3841 N. Roosevelt Blvd. Overnight accommodations: call the hotel at 305-294-2571 and ask for the $80 rate for the Florida Native Plant Society meeting. A certified arborist class will be held the next day in Key West with a test on Saturday. Call Cynthia Snell (305-292-8157).
Field trip: Saturday, May 18, Long Key State Park canoeing. Take a "mostly pretty easy" paddle to Long Key Point. See Middle Keys oceanfront /coastal strand vegetation, including buccaneer palms in a native plant habitat conservation project. Explore and eat lunch on a sandy beach before the paddle home. Note: Field trips are for FNPS members and their guests.
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SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 9 to NOON ALL HANDS NEEDED
We will kick off the rainy season with a major planting at our Everglades National Park Coe Visitors Center landscaping project. Please contact Carrie (305-661-9023) or Patty (305-255-6404, email@example.com) if you can come. This date is slightly tentative, so be sure to reconfirm before you come.
We will be planting trees and shrubs and spreading mulch in the "hammock" areas near the Visitor Center. Bring shovels, picks or other digging tools, wheel barrows, gloves, sun protection. Snacks and drinks provided. The digging is easier than at home (not on rock), but we hope to have a lot to plant, so bring tools and sturdy friends. Volunteers of lesser strength will be needed for watering, spreading mulch and weeding -- we need everyone.
By the way, the landscaping looks great after a full year of work and a very productive workday in April. The pond margin is bright with flowers and the baby pines planted last summer are robust and ready to take off. Thanks to all who have helped!
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March and April were a busy time for the chapter. Besides monthly meetings and field trips in both Dade and the Keys, we hosted Native Plant Day, held a workday at Everglades National Park, participated in Earth Day at MetroZoo and Books and Books, sold plants in the Fairchild spring plant sale, and assisted at a workday at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Nature Center. Several members also attended the FNPS state conference (including two speakers). John Tomczak of Envirodesign brought a whole truck-load of plants for the MetroZoo display and donated all to the chapter. Thanks to all the volunteers and plant vendors who made these events happen or represented our chapter. We could have done even more (there is hardly a day without environmental events in the spring), but the volunteer pool was tired.
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FNPS Education Committee, under the guidance of Chairwoman Maria Minno, is organizing two great workshops -- opportunities to learn about natural Florida or enhancing the organizations effectiveness, to meet fellow FNPS members from all over the state, and to get away from it all for a weekend. Contact Maria (352-375-3028 or firstname.lastname@example.com) with questions and suggestions.
July 26-28: A retreat for all chapter and state officers and officer wanna-be's. "Untying the Not's" will feature speakers on environmental advocacy and mini-workshops on maximizing our talent & resources. We are still looking for a facility with natural area for hiking during breaks, inexpensive onsite/nearby sleeping accommodations (tent/cabin), kitchen for cooking delicious meals to feed you with, and meeting space of course.
November 8-10: natural history workshop at Welaka State Forest. See swamp forest, pine flatwoods, and sandhill habitats. Three days/two nights of nature immersion with some of Florida's best naturalists. Meals & bunks provided. More info later.
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Native Plant Workshop. 3rd Tuesdays at Bill Sadowski Park, 1/2 mile west of Old Cutler Road on SW 176 Street, 7 PM. Study of plant ID and taxonomy. Call Steve Woodmansee (305-247-6547) or Roger Hammer (305-242-7688). May 21 topic: the Cyperaceae (Sedges). You can prepare in advance since sedges preserve well when pressed (or even just placed in newspapers). If you can, please bring in fertile specimens (that is with mature seeds). Some sedges have vegetative characteristics that enable identification, but many can't be identified without achenes. This should be an exciting workshop. Also, see the announcement below about the formation of Broward Native Plant Workshop. This may be more convenient for North Dade residents.
Tropical Audubon Society activities. Doc Thomas House, 5530 Sunset Dr. 305-666-5111 on the web at tropicalaudubon.org, May 21: monthly meeting. Chuck McCartney will present a program on wildflowers. June 8-9: Native plant sale, 9a.m.-5 p.m.
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A monthly workshop for the serious but enjoyable study of native plants debuts on Wednesday May 15 at 7:30 on the Davie campus main building of Florida Atlantic University (FAU), in the botany lab, room 317. We expect to meet every third Wednesday of the month. Address: 2912 College Avenue, Davie. Look for a large brick building on the north side of the Broward Community College (BBC) campus across (south) from the UF- IFAS research center and the Broward County Cooperative Education Division Extension Service building on College Avenue. The FAU building sits back from College Avenue but is easily seen across the parking lots. Park in the lots northwest of the building (except faculty slots) or in the UF-IFAS lot across College Avenue.
The Broward Native Plant Workshop will be patterned after the highly successful Native Plant Workshop in Dade County, which has met for about fifty years. The focus will be on the identification of native plants and will involve the examination and discussion of morphological characters, use of technical botanical keys, published floras and other literature, herbarium specimens, and the assistance of knowledgeable people in attendance.
Meetings will have themes, such as a particular plant family or plants of particular habitat. The first meetings theme is plants of the seashore, with Chuck McCartney at the lead. Please bring three plants related to the theme, particularly those found to be vexing or otherwise interesting. More plants, plants outside the evenings theme, and even mysterious non-native species will be studied, time permitting. Also bring your own reference material, such as Richard Wunderlins Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida, etc. Workshops will probably last 2 to 2 1/2 hours. The workshop is free and open to the public.
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For the next few months, the winners of the 2002 FNPS Landscape Awards will be featured. Miami-Dade Parks Natural Areas Management Division won 1st place in ecosystem restoration. Marjory Stoneman Douglas Nature Center was awarded 2nd place for restoration and interpretive trails at Bear Cut Preserve (part of a larger restoration of Bear Cut Preserve by Dade County Parks Natural Areas Management and Dade County DERM). The articles below are from the applications submitted by Linda McDonald for the Deering Estate restoration and Chris Landsea for the MSD Nature Center. Both Linda and Chris are DCFNPS members.
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The Deering Estate at Cutler is a 458 acre property located on Biscayne Bay managed by the Miami-Dade Park & Recreation Department. This protected natural area park contains a wealth of biological, historical, archaeological and architectural resources unequaled in Dade County and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The Deering Estate has six biotic communities including the globally imperiled pine rockland, rockland hammock, bottomland forest, marine tidal swamp and marsh, barrier island with beach dune and submerged benthic communities (soft bottom, hard bottom, and sea grass beds). It is one of the few remaining places in Dade County where such communities have ecotonal connections to each other. In addition to the Federally endangered American crocodile and West Indian Manatee, there are 25 birds, 4 butterflies, 3 fish, 3 snails and 1 snake as well as 62 plants known to occur in the natural areas at Deering that are listed federally or by Florida as endangered, threatened or commercially exploited.
The Estate has undergone major renovation following Hurricane Andrew in 1992 to restore severely damaged historic structures and natural habitats. The Natural Areas Management (NAM) Division is responsible for restoration and management of the native plant communities. After Hurricane Andrew, exotic control efforts in the 142-acre tropical hardwood hammock were intensified. The hurricane sheared off the forest canopy, allowing light and nutrients to reach the forest floor. Aggressive non-native vines responded more rapidly than native plants and quickly enveloped the remaining struggling natives. Air potato (Dioscorea bulbifera) and jasmine vines (J. fluminense, J. dichotomum) were the most problematic. Approximately 3/4 of the hammock had 50-75% coverage of non-natives. Most of the hammock is currently in, or close to, maintenance condition, less than 1% exotic plant coverage.
Burma reed (Neyraudia reynaudiana) was overwhelming the 105 acre pine rockland forest. This shaded and crowded out sun loving pine rockland natives and added increased wildfire risk. Hurricane Andrew and the subsequent pine bark beetle infestation decimated 95% of the slash pine (Pinus elliottii var. densa) canopy. Intervention was critical to the rare habitats continued existence. Since 1995, exotics have been painstakingly removed and over 21,000 pine seedlings have been planted. The pineland is now considered to be in "maintenance" condition. A regimen of prescribed fire is being implemented to ensure the health of the pineland and coastal marsh communities.
The Estates mangrove forest and salt marsh became overrun with seaside mahoe (Thespesia populnea), Australian pine (Casaurina sp.), latherleaf (Colubrina asiatica) and Brazilian pepper (Schinus terebinthefolius). Exotic plant coverage was 10-50% but was reduced to 5% by initial treatment. Chicken Key, a seven acre bird rookery and mangrove island is one of only six naturally-occurring quartz sand islands in Biscayne Bay. During the 1930s and 1940s dredged material was pumped onto the key, destroying native plant communities and changing the topography. Invasive exotic plants colonized the island. Restoration was undertaken by Parks and Dade Countys DERM. Excess fill was removed, the dune was restored, and desirable native vegetation was planted. Miami-Dade Parks now maintains and manages the island as a preserve and bird rookery as part of the Estate.
All of this restoration was achieved through systematic labor intensive physical, manual and chemical means of exotic removal. By eliminating competition from exotics, natural areas have been able to recover naturally. Aside from portions of the pine rocklands, the intact native seed bank allowed regeneration , and planting was not necessary.
In addition to functioning as a preserve for Miami-Dade Countys natural treasures, the Deering Estate is foremost an educational facility. Historic structures were restored and a brand new Environmental Education Center and outdoor laboratory classrooms were constructed. Parks staff have partnered with other agencies and organizations to create educational and recreational programs, including an Internet-based middle school curriculum that emphasizes technology and field experience (see http://www.deeringestate.org).
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The Marjory Stoneman Douglas Biscayne Nature Center has helped to restore the disturbed Bear Cut Preserve (at the north end of Crandon Park in Key Biscayne) and has also implemented a limited interpretive trail system to provide access and information on natural resources to the citizens of and visitors to Miami-Dade County. This project was made possible by a $75,000 grant from the Miami-Dade County Parks and Recreation Department for capital improvements and is part of a larger restoration of Bear Cut Preserve by Dade County Parks Natural Areas Management and Dade County DERM.
The Bear Cut Preserve has been degraded by human-caused fires, invasive exotic plants, and hurricanes that damaged an already weakened ecosystem. The areas of Bear Cut Preserve targeted for restoration and interpretation included the Coastal Maritime Hammock and the Back Dune/Coastal Shrub Zone. One entirely new trail, the Tequesta Hammock Trail, was created to provide a short introductory loop through the hammock, designed for visitors who desire a brief and easy walk. Three other pre-existing trails were improved and interpreted. These are the Fossil Reef Bike Trail (leading to a unique geological feature), the Bear Cut Nature Trail (through the Coastal Maritime Hammock), and the Osprey Beach Trail (which provides a walk parallel with the dunes and shoreline). Brochures have been developed for each of the trails that focus upon the differing ecology that is present throughout the Bear Cut Preserve.
Exciting changes are clear in the Preserve. Wild Lime, one of the plants historically in the Preserve, but absent of late until this restoration, is a plant food of the magnificent Giant Swallowtail butterfly. These butterflies are currently uncommon in the Preserve. Restoration volunteers and naturalists were able to observe one of these butterflies fluttering around and laying eggs on a Wild Lime that had been planted only minutes before!
Come and explore the Bear Cut Preserve and visit the Biscayne Nature Center. To get to the Bear Cut Preserve, take Rickenbacker Causeway to Key Biscayne and enter Crandon Park at the North Beach entrance. For more information about programs at the Biscayne Nature Center call 305-361-6767 or visit the website at http://www.biscaynenaturecenter.org/.
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The Adopt a Tree program is an urban tree canopy replacement for private residential properties in Miami-Dade County funded by the State Department of Agriculture and administered by Miami-Dade Department of Environmental Resources Management (DERM). This program allows private landowners in Miami-Dade to "adopt" two trees from a variety of non-invasive fruit and shade trees to plant in their yards to aid in restoring the canopy of Miami-Dade County. DERM will mail out flyers (in English/ Spanish/ Creole and info for disabled and elderly) to households affected by citrus canker near the event location, but the event is open to any Miami-Dade residential property owner. Information is available at http://www.co.miami-dade.fl.us/adoptatree or via a trilingual event phone number (305-372-6555), or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
Participants will register with some form of ID and are required to visit education stations where they will learn how to plant and care for trees. Each household may select two trees from two fruit, one native, and one flowering tree species (as available). DERM is working with a community-based organization to provide planting services for elderly or physically challenged people.
Events are 9 a.m. to noon except as noted but close early if trees run out. The tentative schedule for the major events this year is: May 18 (2-6 pm), A.D. Barnes Park, 3401 SW 72 Ave.; June 8, North Miami Stadium, 2155 NE 151 St.; July 6, tentatively Coral Gables Youth Center; July 27, tentatively Miami Springs Recreation Center; August 17, tentatively North Dade Library; September 14, Central-West Miami-Dade; October 5, Northeastern Miami-Dade; October 26, South Miami-Dade.
DCFNPS members are invited to assist with the tree questions booth. Bilingual help is especially needed as well as any volunteers able to pass out or carry trees, to escort people to education stations, or for crowd control. DERM offers community service hours for students as well.
DERM is also working on other distribution opportunities with businesses, other County agencies and community events. If you have any comments or questions, please contact Joy Klein at (305-372-6586) or email firstname.lastname@example.com or email@example.com.
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NATIVE PLANT QUIZ by Don Keller
- Q: What Florida native plant originally provided the flower for sarsaparilla soda pop?
- A: The roots of greenbriers (Smilax spp.). The strong fibers of the stems of this plant were used by the Vikings to lash the planks to the frame of their boats no nails were used.
- Q: What group of Florida native plants provides the largest number of species of critters with food?
- A: The many species of oak trees in the U.S provide food for 96 animal species from bears and deer to tiny songbirds and mice.
- Q: What common south Florida plant has no leaves?
- A: Cactus (except Pereskia genus). What appears to be leaves are really cladophylls, flattened stems that function as leaves.
- Q: What common green vascular plant has neither roots nor leaves?
- A: The wisk fern, Psilotum nudum, consists of stems only with a few rhizoids to absorb water. It is the oldest known plant on earth today.
- Q: What useful commercial product was once obtained from red mangrove trees?
- A: Tannin, a substance used to tan leather. The Manetta Company cleared the red mangroves from the Miami River and Miami Beach. They then started to clear them from the Shark River (in ENP) but a series of hurricanes wiped out the enterprise.
- Q: Are red mangrove trees really "land builders" as they are often reputed to be?
- A: Red mangroves in South Florida are marching inland, not seaward. They are being washed away on the seaward side while marching inland. Three quarters of what is Florida Bay was once mangrove forest. This phenomenon is probably due to the rising seas.
- Q: What Florida native tree ranges the farthest north in the U.S.?
- A: The red maple grows in the eastern U.S. all the way to Canada.
- Q: What Florida native plant has the longest north-south range of any plant on earth?
- A: Tillandsia fasiculata ranges from Georgia to southern Argentina.
- Q: What south Florida native tree has become as outrageous pest in Australia?
- A: The pond apple tree has invaded riverine areas in northern Australia much as the melaleuca has invaded our wetlands.
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General information and memberships: 305-255-6404
Contact in the Keys: Jim Duquesnel at John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park (305-451-1202)
President: Carrie Cleland (305-661-9023)
Vice President: Jerry Russo
DCFNPS e-mail: email@example.com
DCFNPS Web page: http://www.fnps.org/dade/
Webmaster: Greg Ballinger
FNPS Web Page: http://www.fnps.org/
FNPS Eco Action Alert List: send email request to email@example.com
FNPS (state) phone: 561-462-0000
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The Dade Chapter Florida Native Plant Society is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to the understanding and preservation of Florida's native flora and natural areas, and promoting native plants in landscapes.
The chapter includes residents of Miami-Dade County and the Keys. Meetings in Miami-Dade County are on the 4th Tuesday of each month except June, August and December at Fairchild Tropical Garden and are free and open to the public. In June, members and their guests are invited to an evening garden tour on the 4th Tuesday. Meetings in the Keys are held on a varying schedule of dates and locations from Key Largo to Key West. The basic FNPS membership (state and chapter) is $25 per year. Please contact DCFNPS for a membership application.
Please send articles, announcements of local activities and news of interest to the Dade Chapter PO Box or email to the editor (above) by the 15th of each month to be considered for publication the following month. Advertising rates from $10/month.
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Guest artist Sally Chisholm, violist of the Pro Arte Quartet and Germain Prévost Professor of Music at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, will present a master class featuring students of Juliet White-Smith, professor of viola.
This event is sponsored in part by the student organization Viola Nation, which provides opportunities for Ohio State students (regardless of major) to learn about their instrument, interact with professional violists and perform community outreach. Additional support is provided by The Ohio State University School of Music for performance space and marketing, and the Ohio Union which has provided funding.
This event is free and open to the public, as is the March 27 recital presented by Sally Chisholm.


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National Novel Writing Month's website and I am getting excited and a little scared to what I signed up for.
50,000 words in 30 days and I have a loose sketch of what I am going to write. Over the next few days I need to get my layout more solid and don't forget to expand that as I write otherwise I may hit a brick wall.
Perspectives is going to a fun project if I can pull it off. However, the unique design to the story layout makes planning harder for me as each section needs to be unique enough to stand alone yet have a unique piece of the puzzle itself but not too big of a piece to give away the ending.
I am all about twists, taking the reader on an assumed path then take a sharp left then a right they didn't expect. I hate it when I figure out what's going to happen halfway through only because the book follows a specific formula of story structure and flow. I love books that I step back and go, 'I didn't see that coming!'. Richard Matheson was the king of the twist, unexpected and unique flows. I haven't found an author that has come close to the story structure of the sci-fi writers of old.
I hope I can capture a fraction of an ounce of talent of those I so admire. Sticking to November Novel Writing Month will be a test for my true desire for writing.
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Veggie-Phobic: Woman Left Shaking at Sight of Peas
Daily Mail UK
November 09, 2009
Student Vicki Larrieux cannot eat her five a day because she is frightened of vegetables.
The 22 -year-old suffers from an unusual fear known as lachanophobia, which leaves her sweating and stricken with panic attacks at the merest sight of a sprout or a pea.
Miss Larrieux, from Portsmouth, Hants, survives on a diet of meat, potatoes, cereals and an occasional apple but refuses to even accept a solitary slice of carrot on her dinner plate.
Vicki said: 'I have always had an irrational fear of vegetables – even as a child I used to properly freak out if some carrots or a few peas were on my plate.
'But as it continued into adult life I started to think it might not just be a dislike for vegetables but an actual phobia.
'Every time I would see vegetables – not just on my plate, but anywhere – I would get feelings of panic, start sweating and my heart rate would shoot up.
'People might think it is a bit of a laughable affliction but I have a genuine fear of greens – it's not just that I dislike the taste of sprouts or broccoli, but the actual sight of them fills me with dread and I could never touch them.'
The unusual fear affects just a few thousand people in Britain and treatments for the condition include 'psychological re-programming' to control the anxious response to seeing veg.
Vicki's condition makes routine trips to the supermarket or a night out at a restaurant with boyfriend Joseph Jade, 25, a major problem.
Vicki added: 'It is a bit of an ordeal to go to the supermarket because the veg is usually right by the door.
'My boyfriend is very understanding and does his best to accommodate me. It is a good job he isn't a vegetarian because it just wouldn't work.
'I am learning to control my fear but it isn't easy – it is a hard thing to have to bring up when I meet new people and I'm sure some people must think I'm taking the mickey.
'But I'm confident that I will eventually overcome the phobia – I'd love to be able to sit down to a slap-up Sunday roast with a pile of greens and I'm sure one day that will happen.'
Ancraophobia – A fear of wind
Aulophobia – A fear of flutes
Caligynephobia – A fear of beautiful women Eisoptrophobia – A fear of mirrors
Genuphobia – A fear of knees
Linonophobia – A fear of string
Vestiphobia – A fear of clothing
Xanthophobia – A fear of the colour yellow
Vicki first discovered her curious affliction when as a toddler she would refuse to eat her greens and break out into a tantrum.
Her parents would try and force her to eat her greens but from a very young age they soon realised the effect they were having.
Vicki said: 'My mum thought I was being fussy like most children but the physical effect was for all to see.
'I cannot remember much but I was told I would get all red and blotchy and be really irritable. I was taken to the doctors and diagnosed with lachanophobia.
'When I was a child it was quite nice because I had a reason not to eat vegetables but now I am a bit older I am curious as to what they taste like.'
A spokesman for phobia charity Anxiety UK said: 'Around 13 per cent of Brits suffer a phobia of some form.
'There are treatments available including medication and self-help groups for all manner of phobias, but anyone fearing they may have a problem should see a GP first for proper diagnosis.'


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Past projects include:
2016: Site Plans for La Maestra Community Health Center in City Heights
Students worked with La Maestra Community Health Centers, a nonprofit which provides comprehensive services to City Heights residents, to develop a variety of site plans for a new one-block development.
The varied proposals included (a) the City Heights Mosaic, a community hub for living, working, and playing; (b) a proposed partnership with the San Diego Community College District to establish a health and child care training facility, a holistic indoor/outdoor Community Center; and (c) a sustainable Green Hub campus.
2015: Redevelopment of Central Elementary School Site in City Heights
Students worked to develop the highest and best use land development proposals for the re-use of the Central Elementary school site in City Heights. Goals of the redevelopment study included determining highest and best land us scenarios that support the goals of the community while demonstrating financial feasibility. Theories of sustainability and social equity were introduced in the course and used a lens
through which to evaluate both existing conditions and project proposals
2014: Revitalizing Fairmont Corridor
This studio focused on revitalizing the Fairmont corridor between University Avenue and El Cajon Boulevard. Students examined the potential role of streetscape and infrastructure investments in catalyzing private investment and connecting the City Heights town square to the new YMCA.
2013: Revitalizing University Ave. Corridor
Students developed a range of creative community plans centered on the adaptive re-use of a historic neighborhood theater. Ideas ranged from a Mercado incubator of ethnic restaurants led by local entrepreneurs to whimsical place-making.


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Email Marketing - Newsletter
e-mail marketing
The e-mail brought a revolution in communication, messaging, data files that cost a lot in time and money, is now with one click, quickly easily to all parts of the globe.
Since the Internet is a first line business tool, the same thing happens with the e-mail. Besides the quick and easy communication is one of the main features and advantages of the Internet. The e-mail then sells, promotes, informs Recalls. In short it is one of the most useful and mainly economical forms of marketing.
For direct response marketing, there is no faster, cheaper, or more effective ways to meet the challenges of the highly competitive business environment prevailing since the e-mail. The e-mail allows you to target an audience that is ready to hear your message.
The advantages of e-mail marketing
- Direct communication with customers. The e-mail allows direct business-to-consumer or business-to-business communication while still allowing allowing two-way communication, if needed or desired.
- Communication. Unlike advertising in a printed medium, an advertisement on television, a promotional spot on the radio , or anything else, promotion via e-mail encourage and facilitate direct and fast communication. The message really is absolutely clear: "click here to get it," or " Visit this site at this address to learn more ."
- Low cost. The e-mail especially if you compare with other forms of marketing is extremely economical.
- Correct Targeting. For promotional campaigns via e-mail no specific mailing lists, ie lists that include specially selected recipients, available for rent.


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The 2019 OWHE* Annual Conference will take place at the beautiful Salishan Resort in Gleneden Beach, OR.
Salishan Resort
7760 North Highway 101
Gleneden Beach, Oregon 97388
United States
If you would like to stay at the conference hotel, the special conference rates are as follows:
|Traditional Queen
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|$125/night (not including taxes or fees)
|$125/night (not including taxes or fees)
To book a room:
Call 1-800-452-2300
Let them know you are with Oregon Women in Higher Education to lock in the special rates
Rooms will not be guaranteed at this price after January 3, 2019.
The reduced room rate is good two days prior and two days after the conference dates (January 30-February 4, 2019). We encourage you to extend your stay and enjoy the Oregon Coast!
**Please note, traditional rooms are sold out (barring cancellations). You will likely need to reserve a deluxe room, which will be at a higher cost. Rooms are limited so if you have not reserved, please do so as soon as possible.**
Room reservations are on a first come, first serve basis so we highly encourage participants to reserve a room as soon as possible as space is limited. We encourage people to room together. If you need to split a room charge, you can do so with the hotel upon check-out. If you are looking for someone to share a room or a ride to the conference with, please post on our facebook page or use our carpool site.
Rooms at the Salishan Spa & Golf Resort offer balcony views of nearby forests and the on-site golf course. All rooms have fireplaces and an upholstered sitting area; deluxe rooms are larger and include a sofa bed. Guests at Salishan Spa & Golf Resort, next to Siletz Bay on Oregon's coast, will find work desks and Internet access in their rooms, as well as a mini refrigerator, and coffee maker. In addition to golf and tennis, there's an indoor pool and spa for guests to enjoy. The Shops at Salishan sell locally-crafted jewelry, clothing, art objects and gourmet coffee.
Amenities included with your stay at Salishan:
- In room coffee makers, microwave, refrigerator and safe
- 2 luxury bathrobes
- High speed wireless internet
- Unlimited phone calls
- Access to the indoor pool, fitness center and 9-hole putting course
- Private beach access
Canceling and Refund Policy
When reserving your room, a credit card will be required to confirm the reservation and a one night deposit will be due at the time of the booking. The equivalent of one night's lodging will be billed to the individual's credit card for each guests who cancels less than 3 days prior to their arrival date.
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How often, going by bus, would we like the bus to stop at the place we need, not riding the next bus stop? What about if it's a night time, and you are in an unfamiliar city?
And there is a nice news from Paris! Local authorities decided to make an experiment (started in the beginning of February) – buses, which work in the capital at night, will stop not only in fixed bus stops but by passengers' request as well.
So far that will be vehicles of ten routes, however, in the case of success, this practice can be used for all hight buses in Paris.
The Government of Ile-de-France considers this step will allow residents and visitors of the capital and its suburbs to get home more quickly and reduce the risk of becoming a victim of robbery, violence and other crimes.
Good initiative! Let's wish the experiment to be really successful.


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December 6, 2017 at 6:45 PM | Toulouse, France
Toptal Sponsored
On December 6th, we are partnering with GDG Toulouse, a group of people interested in Google technologies and platforms. They regularly get together to share their knowledge and experience on Android, Angular, Chrome, Google Apps, GWT, Cloud Platform, and more.
- Patrice Trognon - Realize WebServices in Go
- Aurélien Baumann - Unleash the power of App Engine
The meetup will be a great opportunity to meet fellow developers in the area as well as the event organizer, Julien Renaux, a Toptal developer and Community leader.
The event begins at 6:45 PM at Harry Coworking. For more information, please see the event website.
HarryCow Coworking, 13 rue Sainte Ursule, Toulouse, France
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text: For 11 years, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California has hosted this special event. Open to the public and free to attend, the program is an opportunity for Metropolitan employees, along with other agencies, businesses, conservation organizations, and the educational community to highlight their role as the innovators and providers of environmentally-friendly programs, products and services that save water and promote sustainability. The event will include a series of seminar presentations to educate attendees on the best and most promising ideas and solutions to conserve and protect water supplies. Students will compete in the Eco Innovators' Showcase which honors projects and innovative approaches to managing natural resources.The application for student projects is now open and the Spring Green 2018 website is live! Follow the link to learn more about the event and to access the application form: http://mwdh2o.com/DocSvcsPubs/SpringGreenExpo/GreenExpo2018/college.html. The deadline to apply is March 1, 2018 at 11:00 p.m.Metropolitan encourages all interested students to apply. In the past, the Expo has featured projects with a sustainability component from academic disciplines including (but not limited to) art and design, chemistry, education, and engineering.Please contact the Student Coordinator, Megan Buckley at (213) 217-5647 or email@example.com for all questions and inquiries.


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Anice Blanche Ellis (Dumbleton), 87, of Vestal, passed away peacefully at home, August 8, 2017, surrounded with the love of her family, Tuesday. She was a gentle soul with a joyful spirit. Her heart light shone so brightly and she was loved by many. She never missed an opportunity to party, tell a joke or dance. Anice was predeceased by her husband of 65 years, Donald Bruce Ellis. She is survived by her children, Jamie (Marty) Mash, Laurie Ellis, Bruce Ellis, Tracy (Greg) Jarrold, her grandchildren Nicole, Erica, Shawn, Dylan, Blaine, her three great-grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews. She had many life-long groups of friends who shared her high spirits and special neighbors who always helped her. Anice was a teacher in the Vestal School District. Our mom lived a life of honor, kind words and without prejudices. Please toast to our mom for a life well lived.
A private family celebration of life will be held at a later date
Our sincere condolences.
The staff of Allen Memorial Home.
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Driving through the picturesque and very traditional, quiet village of Calvia sits this lovely four bedroom villa nestled into the pine trees. The peace and privacy of the location are all at once evident as electric gates open onto a driveway bordered by lavender gardens and a little orchard. Double front wooden entrance doors lead into the main hallway with a cloakroom, and then give way to the open plan kitchen and living area. All around this pretty and social space are doors which lead onto the garden and al fresco dining areas, the 8 metre pool and its loungers are on the terrace above.
On the outskirts but within walking distance of the picturesque and very traditional, quiet village of Calvia sits this lovely four bedroom villa nestled into the pine trees. The peace and privacy of the location are all at once evident as electric gates open onto a driveway bordered by lavender gardens and a little orchard.
Double front wooden entrance doors lead into the main hallway with a cloakroom, and then give way to the open plan split level kitchen and living area. The modern kitchen is very well equipped and the cooking station faces onto the lounge with a dining table for 8, two fireplaces, a flat screen television providing the full Sky package, and plenty of seating areas. The wooden flooring of this room is a lovely contrast to the cream marble that is the foundation for the rest of the house. From the kitchen doors open onto a spacious terrace with dining and seating areas. Steps lead up to the top terrace where you will find the 8 metre saline pool, a large terrace with sun loungers and shady sitting areas. There are also doors into the master bedroom at this level.
Upstairs, leading from the entrance hall the four bedrooms can be found. The first is a double with a separate bathroom (shower only) at the top of the stairwell, directly to the right is the master double and this has a dressing area and an en suite bathroom with large double rain shower and a sunken marble bath. There is a fireplace, flat screen television and doors leading onto the stunning pool terrace. At the top of the entrance stair way are two further en suite bedrooms. The double en suite (shower only) has a large terrace with views onto the front of the house and the hills beyond. The twin/double en suite (shower only) has a garden view but no terrace. The Sonos sound system provide music and global radio stations thought the living and garden areas.
The village of Calviá is very pretty and very quiet, with a few local shops and some traditional restaurants. Every Monday there is a market in the main street, which is two minutes by car from the house. Palma Nova is a ten minute drive and here there are plenty of long, safe sandy beaches with water sports, shops and nightlife.
The picturesque village of Calvia is a gem for anyone wanting a true taste of tranquil Mallorcan life and countryside, whilst being 10 minutes away from three major towns with beautiful beaches, shops and amazing bars and restaurants. Calvia provides an ideal location close to golf courses and has horse riding and beautiful walks and hikes on your doorstep. The village has a weekly market, bars, an excellent restaurant, Meson Ca'n Torrat, serving grilled meat and fish, and a small supermarket. Each July is the Festival of Saint Jaume with live music, an array of children's activities and a correfoc where groups dress as devils and run with fireworks, quite a spectacle.
When you are on holiday you want a stress free time so your own personal concierge provides that little bit of extra luxury. Whether it be recommending and booking local restaurants before you get to your villa, making sure that your arrival is smooth organizing airport transfers and a rental car delivered to you and that the fridges are full or advising on day trips, sightseeing, shopping and beaches then your concierge is there to help.
For some people leisurely trawling of local food markets and then cooking at home is an ideal part of the holiday and our experts can advise the best places to go. If however you never want to see a food shop or market then we can organize fresh food deliveries for your arrival and during your stay, pre cooked meal deliveries or, the ultimate indulgence is your own private chef or cook as well as a waiter or butler and we have a selection of some of the best.
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Petra: The Definitive Guide
Main Page
Aaron's Tomb
Al-Beidha (Little Petra)
Petra Monuments
The Nabataeans
Photo Gallery
Petra Map
Tourist Guide
Biblical Petra
Nearby Attractions
Petra Books
Djinn Blocks
Obelisk Tomb
The Siq
The Treasury
The Outer Siq
Aneishu Tomb
Street of Facades
The Theater
The Royal Tombs
Sextius Florentinus Tomb
Turkmanian Tomb
Colonnaded Street
The Arched Gate
The Byzantine Church
Winged Lions Temple
Qasr Al-Bint
The Monastery
High Place of Sacrifice
Lion Fountain
Broken Pediment Tomb
Renaissance Tomb
Roman Soldier Tomb
The Garden Tomb
Snake Monument
Petra Monuments
Running through the heart of Petra is the Colonnaded Street, the main thoroughfare of the ancient city. Hidden beneath the paving stones lie about four centuries of Nabataean domestic architecture, some of which was revealed in the late 1950s in a British excavation led by Peter Parr. Three metres below the street they found remains of simple stone and clay dwellings, with clay floors. Parr believes they date to the late fourth or early third centuries BC – not long after that time, around 312 BC, when Diodorus describes the Nabataeans as nomadic, and so averse to wine, agriculture and house-building that 'if anyone is found acting contrary to this, death is his penalty'. These unsophisticated houses must, therefore, have been among the first architectural efforts of a metamorphosed people. Their style remained little changed for over 200 years.
Then, in the early first century BC, something quite new happened: town planning. The little houses were completely covered over to form a 15-metre-wide terrace, with a gravel road in the middle. Later, probably in the reign of Aretas IV (whose coins were found in the foundations), the road was further upgraded, transforming it into a public and ceremonial thoroughfare. Its grandeur was enhanced over the following century, as buildings of fine ashlar masonry were constructed on either side of it.
That the Romans made additions and alterations to the street soon after their annexation of the Nabataean kingdom is clear from an inscription found during Parr's excavations. It is a dedication to the Emperor Trajan, dated to AD 114 – the time when the great Via Nova Traiana was completed, linking Aila (Aqaba) and Petra with the cities of the north. Opinion is still divided as to whether it was Aretas IV or the Romans who paved the street and lined it with columns and porticoes.
The earthquake of AD 363 brought down many of the columns and surrounding buildings, but the inhabitants doggedly pulled the stones out of the rubble to build new shops along the edge of the street, gradually extending on to the street itself. By the sixth century, accumulated sand and neglect had hidden the paving stones, and the fine street became a dirt track once more.
A monumental gate stands at the end of the Colonnaded Street, originally with three stately arches which once formed the main entrance to the sacred precinct, or temenos, of the principal Nabataean temple of Petra. It was built after the road had been paved, for the stones were lifted and re-laid to accommodate it. Since it was more important for the arch to conform with the layout of the temenos, it is out of alignment with the street.
On the east side, facing the Colonnaded Street, four free-standing columns stood before the gate, the pilasters bordering the central arch decorated with square carved panels, alternately busts and flowers. The west side is plain. Four sculptures were found among the debris of the fallen arch in the 1950s, and must once have adorned it: two relief figures, of Hermes and a winged Tyche; a handsome bust of a bearded god, Dushara-Serapis, now over the door of the Museum; and a bust of a god with tightly curled hair, flashy sideburns and a pair of wings sprouting from his head.


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How to get there...
By bus, railway or car to Lake Chiemsee.
By car...
From Munich (west):
- Motorway A8 - exit 106 "Bernau" - in the direction to harbour in Prien/Stock.
From Salzburg/Austria (east):
- Motorway A8 - exit 109 "Grabenstätt" - in the direction to the village Chieming with pier (only during the summer timetable).
- Motorway A8 - exit 108 "Übersee" in the direction to the village Felden/Übersee (only during the summer timetable).
- All year round: From harbour Prien/Stock to the islands. Motorway A8 - exit 106 "Bernau" - in the direction to harbour in Prien/Stock
Navigation system: Adresses of the piers and the railway station 'Chiemsee-Bahn'
- Prien: Seestraße 108 in 83209 Prien am Chiemsee
- Gstadt: Seeplatz in 83257 Gstadt am Chiemsee, parking for busses: 1. Fam. Heistracher: Seeplatz 10 (phone +49 (0)8054/251), 2. Loibertingerstraße (phone +49 (0)8054/442)
- Seebruck: Traunsteiner Straße 49 in 83358 Seebruck or Traunsteiner Straße 35 (Seecafé Feichtmayer)
- Chieming: Markstatt 8 in 83339 Chieming
- Übersee/Feldwies: Julius-Exter-Promenade in 83236 Übersee
- Bernau/Felden: Felden 10 in 83233 Bernau/Felden
- Railway station 'Chiemsee-Bahn' in Prien: Chiemseebahnweg 4, 83209 Prien am Chiemsee
By public transportation
By train with 'Meridian' (track Munich or Salzburg to Prien):
By train with 'DB' (track Munich or Salzburg to Prien):
By bus with 'RVO' (= local bus transportation):
- information timetable RVO
- Ringbuslinie Nr. 9586 (= a special bus connection around the Lake Chiemsee)


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At Bell Helicopter, safety and a safe work environment are not the sole responsibility of the safety department, but of every employee. While many companies make this statement, not all "walk the talk" by backing it up with the resources Bell Helicopter devotes to creating an accident and injury-free environment.
Employees receive several types of training including DuPont's STOP (Safety Training Observation Program) and SMART training, which teaches good body mechanics and lifting as well as safety-specific training for their jobs and, in some cases, daily safety briefings.
Mark Bregenzer, manager of Shipping and Receiving, says the employees in his area have begun monthly safety audits as an outgrowth of their DuPont training, which teaches them to stop and observe both safe and unsafe behaviors and activities. In Shipping and Receiving, every operation is inspected by two or three employees who work in a different area. "You might have 25-foot lengths of pipe sitting there, but everyone in that area is used to them and just walks on over them," says Bregenzer. "The employees from another area bring a new set of eyes into it. They want to know "Why is that pipe a potential trip hazard laying there?"
Two of the most successful tools the company uses to engage employees in safety have been Safety Summits (for both hourly employees and managers) and Operations Managers Safety Training.
Operations Managers Safety Training
Participants in the Operations Managers Safety Training review the company's current culture, and look at seven "deadly sins" that have caused problems with compliance and safety performance. They study what other best-in-class organizations have done when faced with the same challenges, conduct a cultural analysis and culture gap analysis, and discuss what is needed for change to occur.
The seven "deadly sins" reviewed by participants are:
- Tolerating EHS defects. "That's when you get accustomed to seeing the trees in the forest and don't do anything about it," explains James "Skipper" Kendrick, manager, Industrial Safety and Hygiene. "Kind of like those pipes Mark was talking about."
- Assuming that small operations just because they're not part of the main focus of the company don't need an EHS management system.
- Delegating responsibility without understanding what's been delegated.
- Setting up EHS managers for less than success. EHS managers must be provided with the resources and corporate commitment to get the safety message across to all employees.
- Positioning EHS professionals in the company hierarchy so they cannot be a catalyst for change.
- Forgetting about the community. Bell offers activities for members of the local community, invites them into the facility and makes donations to local schools and for local projects.
- Making safety the responsibility of the EHS manager only.
At the end of the day-long session, managers are asked to commit to one activity or behavior they will personally change to help move the culture change forward at Bell. Some managers have committed to daily safety meetings with employees. Others said they would take a daily "360;" that is, stop at some point in the day, do a complete 360-degree turnaround to look for safety problems, and fix any they see.
Bregenzer recalls he vowed at a meeting to never be caught without his safety glasses. There are certain operations in the area Bregenzer supervises where nail guns and saws are used. The use of safety glasses in those areas is a relatively recent and important cultural change at Bell, and Bregenzer says he wants to lead by example. "The first thing I do when I come in is put my safety glasses on and head straight for that area to check that employees are wearing them. I can't tell them to wear them if mine are hanging around my neck."
Conversely, when Bregenzer sees an employee exhibiting safe behavior, he stops and encourages him and commends him on working in a safe manner. "You have to reinforce the good behavior, not just criticize the bad behavior," he says.
Safety Summits
Over the past 5 years, cross-functional teams of 20-30 Bell employees evenly split between hourly and supervisory have gathered to discuss ways to make Bell a safer place to work. They review current activities, discuss safety challenges and break up into three teams to ponder three questions: What is Bell doing well as a company? What is Bell not doing well as a company? What should Bell be doing?
The results of the team activities are submitted to senior management for their review and approval. The summits have proven so popular with employees, and so valuable to the safety effort, that they are conducted four times a year.
A.W. Allen, the Facilities and Equipment manager, remembers that confusion about the correct type of gloves to wear during different operations was brought up at one Safety Summit.
"We have 13 or 14 different styles of latex gloves in the tool crib, and employees were confused about which type to choose. So with Skipper's help, we built a display board that includes all of the gloves and their uses," says Allen.
At the end of the summits, participants are asked, "What is the safety culture like at Bell?" The culture is rated from one to 10. The initial Safety Summits elicited responses of twos and threes from hourly employees; fives and sixes from supervisors. "Last year and this year, those numbers were getting closer together and higher, and from employees, we even got a couple of 10s," indicating more employee buy-in, says Kendrick.
"Hourly workers haven't had much ownership for safety in the past, not much of a voice in being part of the solution," Hurst adds. "Now, the people who use the equipment make the decisions that help them work safely."
Through the Safety Summits and the Operations Managers Safety Training, employees have learned to work together to achieve a change in the safety culture. Allen tells the story of one supervisor who held a contest for his hourly employees with the promise of a barbecue at the end. Employees were challenged by the supervisor to find and fix 150 SHEARS (Safety, Health and Environmental Action Requests) in a six-week period. The employees found over 200 and fixed 130 of them. (The remaining SHEARS required engineering changes or capital improvements and were passed along to senior management.) The union embraced this particular program, says Hurst, "because the UAW doesn't like to reward employees for things like no lost-time injuries because that leads to non-reporting. This is a proactive program to find hazards before something happens and someone gets hurt."
Kendrick shares an anecdoteabout an employee who wrote a poem on her own time about the importance of working safely, and shared it with her coworkers at an all-hands meeting a few weeks ago. "There was no way, a couple of years ago, that an employee would sit down on company time to write a poem about safety, let alone on their own time," says Hurst. "We have come a long way."
But not far enough, says Kendrick: "While we celebrate honors [such as being named one of America's Safest Companies], we still have a long way to go. We recognize this as one step on the road to zero."
Company Profile
- Bell Helicopter is headquartered inFort Worth, Texas.
- The company manufactures helicopters and vertical lift rotorcraft.
- Bell employs 8,000 employees at 12 locations.
- The company has 16 EHS professionals.
- The lost-time injury rate at Bell Helicopter is 0.66. The industry average is 1.4.


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To my Beloved, an incredibly patient, kind, loving, thoughtful, and connected daddy...charmer of babies and all other small mammals, fetcher of treats, killer of spiders, soother of fussies, helper with math, bane of fishes, midnight ironer of a dozen little girl dresses before leaving for a deployment at dawn...my safe harbor and the love of my life.
The Norman Rockwell painting above is entitled "Freedom from Fear" and is one of a series of four done during WWII to set forth our shared purpose in fighting - freedom from fear, freedom from want, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech - as addressed in a speech by FDR to Congress in 1941. Rockwell brought these ideals to life through images of American life as only he could produce. My grandfather (1912-1997) was an artist trained at the Chicago Art Institute, and owned one original Rockwell, (which went to his very nice and kind third wife, sadly, when he died) purchased in person from the man himself. It was a family love. Before and after my parents divorced, my dad always had tons of Rockwell prints at his office and all over the house, including this one and its brothers, as well as books of his works. All were chucked by my stepmother, who hated them, at some point during THAT divorce. Had I known, I'd've been to the house at the drop of a hat.
I used to pore through the books on weekend visits, wishing I could live in the world and in the families Rockwell depicted. This one was bittersweet to me, because when I looked at it, I often wished my parents were still together to tuck me in at night. I have very few happy memories of them having done so. I suppose I longed for that feeling of security and, yes, safety from scary noises, boogeymen and all those sorts of childhood fears that having a Daddy down the hall provided. It wasn't until much, much later that actually I read the caption on the print and understood that it was much, much more than a slice-of-life bedtime scene.
You can read more about "The Four Freedoms" here.
And finally, I must say Happy Father's Day to my Dad. Hope you are well, wish you would be, and I hope you are safe.


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I made this Christmas Bingo game to play with our homeschool friends when they came for a Christmas party.
Print out as many of the first page as you have kids. Print out one of the second page. The second page becomes the cards you draw. On the first page kids should fill in the Christmas words from the word bank to whichever square they like. There are a few more words than squares so not every word will be used. Make sure the kids understand to use each word only once.
There are pictures next to the words in the word bank to help non-readers and beginning readers play the game with the bigger kids.
I colored the draw cards just for fun.
Four in a row wins. But the kids we played with wanted to keep going until all the cards were called and they all had blackout.


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High School Dual Enrollment (Online and On Campus)
The Asbury Academy program allows high school juniors and seniors to take general education courses for college credit.
Start Here! Asbury offers 150+ areas of study, plus graduate degrees, a fully-online degree-completion program for working adults and high school dual enrollment courses. AU majors — Equine and Communication Arts are examples — offer programs you can't find at any other school in the world.
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Impact the World! Asbury's reputation for academic excellence and spiritual vitality is spread far and wide. AU's rigorous liberal arts education is what employers seek and the University is focused on helping you impact the world by finding your part in God's plan. You will feel His presence and tight-knit community when you visit campus. You'll never be just a number here, you'll be part of a very successful, serving family.
Unique Value! With academic, multicultural, talent and need-based scholarships – plus grants – nearly every student receives financial aid. Graduation rates, retention rates and job placement rates are much better than public schools in Kentucky, and thus AU is annually rated in the top 10% for Nationwide Best Value.
Learn more about admissions, campus visits and financial aid.
The Asbury Academy program allows high school juniors and seniors to take general education courses for college credit.
A traditional, residential program that offers more than 150 areas of study. Bachelor's and associate's degrees are obtainable.
Graduate studies that are affordable, accredited, and provide appropriate certification for adult students holding a bachelor's degree.
The Adult Professional Studies program offers multiple majors for busy adults seeking to complete their undergraduate degree.
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Healthy Foods that give you Healthy and Glowing Skin
Food is the essential fuel for our bodybuilding. For a good health, a proper nutrition should be required. If you do not take a healthy diet, it can affect your metabolism, cause weight gain and may affect organs like heart and liver.
You have to maintain your diet to reduce the chances of having diseases. You need to take food which gives you a good health. As you knew foods like dark leafy greens, dark chocolate, citrus helps to treat chronic conditions but some food also becomes beneficial to your skin.
What you eat is get directly reflected on your skin. Thus, the eating is as important as your makeup and cream. As you take time to choose good skincare products, you have to give more time while choosing food. Make a habit to have healthy food according to your skin.
You need a food that helps you to make healthy and glowing skin within. Here are some foods which help you to get a healthy skin. Add these foods to your daily diet and can easily see their natural effects.
Some Food for Healthy and Glowing Skin
1. Avocados :
It contains rich content of vitamins like A, E, C, K, B-6, foliate and also contain healthy fats. Consuming these healthy fats helps in maintaining the cell integrity and act as anti-aging. It also prevents the sun damage, keeps skin soft and flexible, strengthens and rejuvenates the skin.
It contains vitamin E which contains antioxidant properties and protects skin from oxidative damage. It also contains vitamin C which is essential for healthy skin. It is required to create collagen, which is the structural protein, make your skin healthy and strong.
Deficiency of vitamin C results in dry, rough, scaly skin. It also protects your skin from sun damage and reduces the signs of aging.
2. Walnuts :
A Walnut contains a large amount of omega-3 fatty acids. It helps to decrease the skin inflammation and become essential for vegetarians who cannot eat fish. They act as antioxidant, increase skin elasticity and prevent and protect your skin.
It also contains copper that boosts collagen production and improves your complexion. The walnut scrub helps to remove the dead skin cell and exfoliate your skin.
3. Sweet Potatoes :
Sweet potatoes contain Beta-carotene which is an essential nutrient. It gets easily converted into vitamin A inside the body which helps to keep your skin healthy.
It is also an antioxidant which incorporated into your skin and protects from sun exposure. This prevents your skin from sunburn, cell damage and decreases dryness and wrinkles.
4. Broccoli :
It is a complete blend of vitamins and minerals such as zinc, vitamin A and vitamin C which are important for skin health. It also contains Beta-carotene which protects the skin from damage.
It also contains a compound called as sulforaphane, which has more health benefits like protecting from sun damage. It has anti-cancer properties which become effective in skin cancer.
5. Tomatoes :
These are known as the great source of Vitamin C and also contain all major carotenoids. Beta-carotene, lutein, and lycopene protect the skin against damage and prevent wrinkles.
Due to the presence of carotenoids, they are known as great food for keeping healthy skin. Having tomatoes with fat like cheese or olive oil, these fats get easily absorbed.
6. Dark Chocolate :
Cocoa beans contain rich amount of flavonols and also have antioxidant properties which hydrate your skin and improve circulation.
By consuming the high amount of cocoa powder results in less skin dryness, dark spots, wrinkles, and rashes.
It is great news for those who love to eat chocolate and they should have to choose the chocolate with 70% of cocoa to get more Health Benefits.
7. Green Tea :
Green tea has the quality to protect your skin from aging and sun damage.
It contains energetic compounds which protect and improve the skin health in different ways.
It also boosts the moisture, roughness, thickness, and elasticity of the skin.
8. Spinach :
Its leaves are known to as the effective veggie to treat the skin problems and also help to keep your gut healthy.It helps to avoid skin disease with its anti-inflammatory and anti-tumor properties.
9. Eggs :
Eggs are known as a rich source of vitamins, minerals, and protein. Vitamins help to flush out toxins with their antioxidant properties and reduce acne, rashes, and infections.
Vitamin D present in eggs helps in the formation of melatonin which helps to protect cancer.
10. Olive Oil :
Olive oil gives an effective result in weight loss and also improves skin health. It has a large quantity of vitamin E which helps to excrete toxins from the body.
It can be applied topically to protect your skin from UV radiation and decrease the risk of skin cancer.
These foods you can easily add to your daily diet to improve your skin health and decrease the chances of several skin diseases.
Along with these essential foods, you can also give an Ayurvedic Care to your skin with complete Natural Products of Roop Mantra. It has a wide range of skincare products which help you to overcome different skin problems and give you a healthy glowing skin.
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A designer Vogue pattern for pull-on pants with a shaped hem made the perfect pair of pyjama bottoms.
The pattern is Kathryn Brenne's Vogue 9217 and I'm quite happy with how these turned out. They have generous pockets, an elasticized waist, and the cutest seam binded hem. There will defiantly be another pair or two in my sewing future. I'm thinking the reversible top that is part of this pattern along with another pair of pants would make a cute summertime outfit. But I digress...
The fabric is a 100% cotton. It was pretreated with a cycle through the washing machine and tumble in the dryer followed by a pressing on the steam setting. The pattern was shortened by an inch and I had to grade the pattern up to a large to provide the amount of ease I want for pyjama bottoms. The pattern is a multi-sized pattern but I purchased the smaller size thinking that the loose-fitting description would be enough. Perhaps loose-fitting referred to the other garments in the pattern? Or maybe I need to do some more squats? Anyway, it all worked out perfectly.
The Stats:
Fabric: 2.2 metres
Elastic: 1.2 metres of 25 mm wide elastic
Seam binding: 1.65 metres
Pattern: Vogue 9217
Additional Tools and Supplies: Cutting table, pins, measuring tape, tailor's chalk, scissors, thread clippers, sewing machine, serger, thread, seam ripper, iron, ironing board, and tea.
Happy Sewing!


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Building a long-term relationship
From the Oxford Molecular Pathology Institute and the Weston Library refurbishment, to the Saïd Business School and Ashmolean Museum, we have been working with the University of Oxford to deliver outstanding facilities for students and world-class researchers for over a decade.
Through a strong, collaborative partnership, we have helped the University meet its estate strategy objectives to ensure that it remains at the forefront of cutting edge research, attracts the brightest minds and delivers an outstanding student experience.
Delivering world-class facilities
Our approach to working with the University of Oxford is to integrate fully with the University's estates team. We always seek to bring together project teams that deliver as one. We understand specific client drivers in the higher education sector and so have learnt how to work seamlessly in collaboration with the University of Oxford and our specialist supply chain to overcome challenges and deliver best-in-class facilities.
Exceeding client expectations
Through experience we know the University of Oxford is working with diverse stakeholders, budgetary pressures and resource constraints, and so our teams sit alongside Oxford Estates' in-house team as delivery partner to develop solutions to these very problems.
In 2010 we completed one of the most complex museum refit projects of its time at the Ashmolean Museum, including the relocation of 50,000 priceless artefacts. Faced with the need to double the display space in a constrained site, we were responsible for the planning, decanting, demolition and construction methodology. This success gave us the confidence to take on the refurbishment of the iconic Grade II listed Weston Library. The team not only overcame challenges, such as an additional £8 million of works on an already tight 128 week design and build contract, but also found over £4 million in savings before the works even began.