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  South Bohemian Region - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
South Bohemian Region (in Czech Jihočeský kraj) is an administrative unit (kraj) of the Czech Republic, located mostly in the southern part of its historical region of Bohemia, with a small part in southwestern Moravia.
The region borders (from the west clockwise) the regions Plzeň, Central Bohemia, Vysocina and South Moravia.
The region consists of the former districts (in Czech okresy) České Budějovice, Český Krumlov, Jindřichův Hradec, Písek, Prachatice, Strakonice and Tábor.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/South_Bohemian_Region   (223 words)

  
 CalCoast News
CARLSBAD — The region's main water provider and the city of Carlsbad have reached an agreement on a $230 million desalination plant proposal, officials announced Tuesday.
Carlsbad's council agreed to support Poseidon's second proposal last fall, but city officials stressed at the time that they really felt Poseidon should be working with the water authority.
The project concerns Carlsbad because it is in the center of the city's coastline area, which the city has long had in its sights as a redevelopment zone, Elliott said.
www.calcoast.org /news/water0050420.html   (642 words)

  
 Carlsbad - spa, therapeutic stay and recreation for you health   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The privileged status of Carlsbad as a spa is shown by a great number of granted privileges confirmed by the Bohemian rulers on an ongoing basis until 1858.
The genius loci of Carlsbad was affected by stays of leading representatives of the European culture, science and politics considerably prior to 1900.
Carlsbad, the most famous Czech spa, is still a popular place where both sick and healthy persons from the whole world arrive, which means that they keep supporting the tradition set up centuries ago in the reign of the wise king Charles IV.
www.karlovyvary.cz /static/historie_1.asp?LangId=2&Kol=1   (3702 words)

  
 Pardubice Region - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pardubice Region (Czech: Pardubický kraj) is an administrative unit (Czech: kraj) of the Czech Republic, located mainly in the eastern part of its historical region of Bohemia, with a small part in northwestern Moravia.
Total population of the Pardubice Region is 506,534 (Dec 31, 2002 - acc.
The largest town of the region is Pardubice (aprox.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pardubice_Region   (134 words)

  
 Central Bohemian Region - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Central Bohemian Region (Czech: Středočeský kraj) is an administrative unit (Czech: kraj) of the Czech Republic, located in the central part of its historical region of Bohemia.
Its administrative center is placed in the Czech capital Prague (Czech: Praha), which lies in the center of the region.
The city is not, however, a part of it and creates a region of its own.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Central_Bohemian_Region   (136 words)

  
 Carlsbad leads region in habitat planning North County Times - North San Diego and Southwest Riverside County News - ...
Carlsbad officials estimate the city has spent $1 million for consultant work and other expenses, including printing costs, to produce the planning documents.
The large parcels to be preserved in perpetuity include the area around Lake Calavera in northeastern Carlsbad, the land near the Villages of La Costa housing project along the city's eastern edge, and the property around the city's three lagoons.
Carlsbad does need to purchase land outside the city limits ---- 300 acres ---- as part of its commitment to the regional habitat program, he added.
www.nctimes.com /articles/2004/12/05/news/coastal/22_55_1612_4_04.txt   (1258 words)

  
 Book Review
The present study surveys the history of Carlsbad and its environs from the Spanish period to 1952 when the city was incorporated.
Following the Mexican Revolution of 1910-17, Mexican migrants worked Carlsbad's fields and established their residencies in a section of the community that was to be known as "Barrio Carlos." It was during the same period that Japanese vegetable growers immigrated to the area.
Carlsbad experienced an even greater increase in its population after World War II, and in 1952 residents voted to incorporate the city.
www.sandiegohistory.org /journal/83spring/br-seekers.htm   (659 words)

  
 Regional Talk - Voice of San Diego   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Carlsbad and Poseidon are the initial partners in a public-private partnership that will provide a new and highly reliable water supply for decades to come.
Carlsbad switching to desalinated water as its primary water supply will translate to a 3.5 percent reduction in the demand on the regional water supply system and an overall improvement in regional water supply reliability.
That is because this region is "the Silicon Valley of the desal industry." General Atomics pioneered the development of reverse osmosis technology in the 1960s that spurred San Diego County to become the world leader in the desalination industry, and many of the crucial advances have been developed here.
www.voiceofsandiego.org /site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=euLTJbMUKvH&b=312465&ct=911029   (710 words)

  
 San Diego Coastkeeper > Our Work > Law & Policy Clinic > Campaigns
However, regional habitat planning can be more or less effective depending upon the political influences exerted on the process.
CARLSBAD ---- In habitat conservation planning, Carlsbad is breaking the trail for other North County cities.
After more than a dozen years of work, Carlsbad officials celebrated last month when the last of their paperwork won approval from state and federal wildlife officials.
www.sdbaykeeper.org /content/lawPolicy/campaigns/landUse/cmp-lnd_northCounty.cfm   (312 words)

  
 Elysian Fields Quarterly - The Baseball Review
These were sophisticated fans, residents of a town which fielded teams for many years in organized baseball, yet they gasped in unison, then watched, stunned, as the tiny white dot disappeared into the darkness over a sixty-foot light pole at the 330-foot mark in left field, still rising.
The hitter was outfielder Gil Carter of the Carlsbad Potashers of the Class D Sophomore League.
Carlsbad real estate and insurance agent C. (Charley) Montgomery was owner and general manager of the Potashers.
www.efqreview.com /NewFiles/v18n1/numbersgame.html   (1138 words)

  
 Carlsbad, California
Although it bears no resemblance at all to the famous Bohemian spa of the same name (now Carlovy Vary), it must be explained that Carlsbad owes its name to mineral springs which are no longer used, but whose healing properties are every bit as good as those of Karlsbad.
Established in 1889, Carlsbad has developed into one of the favorite water-sports resorts in southern California, where a lot of golf and tennis is also played.
A new attraction in the form of a leisure park of miniature Lego brick buildings, similar to Legoland at Billund in Denmark, is planned for Carlsbad by the Danish toy company Lego World.
www.planetware.com /california/carlsbad-us-ca-cb.htm   (139 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > North County -- Progress seen on plans for private Carlsbad desalination plant
CARLSBAD – They came together over rusty pipes and millions of gallons of ocean water.
Desalination is viewed as a vital factor in the region's future needs for water.
Although the county Water Authority is responsible for supplying water in the region, Carlsbad and Poseidon have worked out a tentative deal under which the city would buy up to 25 million gallons of drinking water per day, all of its water needs, from Poseidon's plant.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/northcounty/20040904-9999-7m4desal.html   (773 words)

  
 CalCoast News - Water Quality
CARLSBAD ---- A hearing on a proposal to build a large desalination plant along Carlsbad's coastline has been indefinitely delayed because of ongoing negotiations between the city and the proposed developer, the city announced Friday.
CARLSBAD ---- The California Coastal Commission believes that the environmental report the city of Carlsbad is producing for a proposed desalination plant has "numerous significant shortcomings," according to a letter released with the massive document late last week.
CARLSBAD - City officials are almost giddy about their new role as main partner with a private company to bring a $270 million desalination plant to town.
www.calcoast.org /news/waterq.htm   (8175 words)

  
 Carlsbad Desalination Project-Brought to you by Poseidon Resources
Tonight the city of Carlsbad is poised to take a historic step toward achieving its goal of water reliability.
Specifically, Carlsbad secures a cost-certain, locally controlled, drought-proof supply of water with all risk borne by the private sector.
Carlsbad will never be obligated to accept or pay for water that does not meet the quality standards.
www.carlsbaddesal.com /news.aspx?id=47   (515 words)

  
 San Diego County Water Authority - News / Publications
The Carlsbad Seawater Desalination Project would consist of a reverse osmosis desalination plant producing 56,000 acre-feet of water per year, enough to meet the needs of 112,000 households in San Diego County.
The Water Authority will be responsible for the construction and operation of the pipelines and ancillary facilities required to convey water produced from the plant to local and regional water distribution systems.
The San Diego County Water Authority is a public agency serving the San Diego region as a wholesale supplier of water from Northern California and the Colorado River.
www.sdcwa.org /news/111402Desal_Approved.phtml   (582 words)

  
 NCRC BORC Winter Meeting, February 3, 2001
Regional Coordinator packets will be distributed this weekend.
Ashburn moves that the 2001 seminar be removed from the South Central Region.
Each Regional Coordinator needs to identify available rescue resources within the region, relay appropriate information to be posted on the Web.
www.caves.org /io/ncrc/winter2001.html   (687 words)

  
 The California GSP Club of DeLuz Mountain Empire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Several hundred years ago, the Spanish explorer and visionary, Antonio Vasquez Parra, came north over the oak forest thickets in the early evening, and upon viewing the mountains in the light of the setting sun, declared that the mountains were like the light to Heaven and this would be the location of his new empire.
The DeLuz Mountain Empire region is the least-densely populated area of the three local counties: Orange, San Diego, and Riverside.
The region runs from Laguna Hills to the north in Orange County, east to Lake Elsinore in Riverside County, down past Temecula in Riverside County to the Escondido/Poway/Ramona region in San Diego County, then west to the Carlsbad/Oceanside region on the ocean.
members.cox.net /deluzgsp/infoclub.html   (758 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > North County -- Carlsbad seeks desalination answers
A desalination plant is touted as a significant water source for the region's future supply.
The Water Authority has encouraged cities such as Carlsbad to continue trying to bring a desalination plant to the region, but Carlsbad officials said the authority is contradicting itself by going forward with its own environmental impact report for the proposed plant, suggesting that the agency plans to step in again in the future.
The agency is standing aside to let Carlsbad decide if it wants to continue the desalination project on its own, and is continuing with its own impact report to be prudent, he said.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/northcounty/20040128-9999_1mc28desal.html   (472 words)

  
 Carlsbad, Caves and Camera (paperback)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In Carlsbad, Caves, and a Camera, the author, a professional photographer, recalls his cave exploration while a young man in the 1930's.
Back in those days, in the Carlsbad Caverns region of New Mexico, caving lacked its present-day sophistication, and there was no dearth of outstanding caves to be found and explored.
This is the story of young amateurs who plunged, inexperienced, unadvised, and unguided, into the underground, who met their problems as they arose, and who bungled their way into competence.
store.karstsports.com /81151.html   (249 words)

  
 Czechs and Sudeten Germans in disagreement over Carlsbad Wafer status - 05-12-2005 - Radio Prague
The recipe was brought to Bavaria by Marlene Wetzel-Hackspacher, an ethnic German from the Carlsbad region, whose family was forced to leave Czechoslovakia just after the Second World War, during the mass expulsion of the Sudeten German minority.
"The Carlsbad Wafers were produced by Sudeten German bakers - small bakeries - in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries in Carlsbad and the whole surrounding region.
That is the circumstance that differentiates the wafers from the Carlsbad region from the wafers produced in Germany.
www.radio.cz /en/article/73394   (848 words)

  
 Czech Republic - Gurupedia
It is made up of two older regions, Bohemia and Moravia, and part of the third one, Silesia.
As of May 1, 2004, it is a member state of the European Union.
The Constitutional Court, which rules on constitutional issues, is appointed by the president, and its members serve 10-year terms.
www.gurupedia.com /c/cz/cz.htm   (861 words)

  
 Roth, A. A. --- False Fossils
As water occasionally percolated down through the normally dry soil of the region it facilitated the replacement of the original lime sediments with layers of denser concentration which form the pisoliths.
In the region of Carlsbad Caverns where there are many limestone caves lined on the inside with millions of alluring stalactites and stalagmites which are formed from water transported lime, Dunham's and Thomas' novel model is not so hard to imagine.
This meteorite, which is designated as ALH84001, is thought to have come from Mars because it is similar to other meteorites that have been found in the same Antarctic region and have gas bubbles whose composition is similar to the atmosphere of Mars, and not of Earth.
www.grisda.org /origins/23110.htm   (4241 words)

  
 dotPhoto - View Album - Carlsbad, CA - Flower Fields
As agricultural advances were made and irrigation allowed for water to be piped into Southern California for the first time, the Frazees expanded their operations again in 1958.
This time it was south to the Ponto region of Carlsbad.
The blooming hillside was given the unofficial name, the "flower fields," by Carlsbad's residents, who began to consider it part of the local heritage.
www.dotphoto.com /go.asp?L=calbirdman@email.com&P=&AID=712691&G=Y   (858 words)

  
 Carlsbad SB
Carlsbad State Beach is located on the San Diego Coast.
This small beach is located at the foot of coastal bluffs, south of the town on Carlsbad.
The beach is located on Carlsbad Boulevard, Highway S21 at Tamarack in Carlsbad.
www.parks.ca.gov /?page_id=653   (124 words)

  
 Fireman's Fund Fulfills $1 Million Commitment to San Diego Firefighters   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The awards are the result of a $1 million commitment FFIC made to the region last April through its long-term philanthropic mission, Fireman's Fund HeritageSM, which supports firefighters for safer communities.
"We chose San Diego County as the first region to participate in Fireman's Fund Heritage based on the firefighting needs in the region and because of our company's strong local base of employees and agents," said Darryl Siry, FFIC Vice President and Executive Director of Fireman's Fund Heritage.
The Carlsbad Fire Department received funding for confined space communications and rescue equipment.
www.insurancejournal.com /news/west/2004/11/19/47889.htm?print=1   (711 words)

  
 Carlsbad Marathon - Index
Carlsbad is a winter marathon/half marathon unlike any other.
Known as the “Village by the Sea,” Carlsbad is all about year-round fun, sun and sea!
For more information on Carlsbad tourism visit www.visitcarlsbad.com or call (800) 227-5722.
www.sdmarathon.com   (253 words)

  
 More Ojinaga History - Page Two
When they did so, they effectively moved the administrative seat of power of the immediate region over a few miles from where it had been located before, just on the other side of the Rio Conchos in the village of San Francisco.
The next marauding group of Indians were the Apaches, who had been the traditional enemies of the Jumanos, battling with them every year in the region around Carlsbad, New Mexico when a group of Jumanos would make their yearly trek between Ojinaga and Pecos Pueblo on a trading expedition.
Sabeata was given a rank and title by the Spanish government, and he wore a silk suit and rode a fine horse, such that French explorers whom he encountered on the Texas Gulf coast thought that he was a Spanish nobleman when they first saw him.
www.ojinaga.com /morehistory/two/two.html   (398 words)

  
 Carlsbad Vacation Rental   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Carlsbad, the perfect place for your next vacation!
Beachwalk Villas is ideally located in the hometown atmosphere of Carlsbad Village right at the edge of the broad blue Pacific.
You are only steps from the beach, and you can walk to any of the great restaurants, coffee houses and shops in the Village.
www.findrentals.com /6930.html   (245 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Cavern: Books: Jake Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
He has unearthed a vast and beautiful cave in which there is evidence of an undiscovered extinct species of bear that may be of interest to Cassie, his paleontologist ex-wife who left him because of his obsession with things underground.
The setting is an unexplored cave near Carlsbad Caverns and the scientists who study it � and begin disappearing.
In an undiscovered cavern in Carlsbad, New Mexico, a species of bear thought to be extinct has survived and adapted to the dark confines of its underground dwelling.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0826322263?v=glance   (1317 words)

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