We hope this note finds you feeling fantastic. Here are a few announcements to keep you in the Lair loop this winter!
Lair Day at Cal Women’s Basketball
We have a date for our annual get-together at Haas Pavilion – it’s Saturday February 6 at 2:00 pm vs. UCLA. Come hang with the Lair Office staff and a couple hundred Lair campers in this very fun and extremely family-oriented event. Your official invitation and ticket order form will be forthcoming by email shortly (please call us if you don’t receive it -510.642.0221).
The summer's gone and the snow is here! It's finally winter, and Pinecrest has never looked lovelier. We hope this note finds you and your families happy and healthy. Here are a few announcements to keep you informed of the very latest at our beloved Lair!
The forces of nature are on full display in the Inside Passage - mountains eroded by the crushing force of massive glaciers, icebergs plunging into cold aquamarine seas, land and marine animals struggling to feed and raise young during the short arctic summer. This exclusive small ship program offers unparalleled access to quiet coves, and the flexibility to linger while sea lions battle on rocky shores, or bears scavenge the beaches at low tide.
Travel Insurance - Question About Pre-Existing Condition?
By Cal Discoveries Travel
December 2, 2009 12:47 PM
Thanks to the help of our travel insurance provider, USI Travel Insurance Services, we now have some helpful tips on those pre-existing condition questions we receive.
Welcome to the Cal Discoveries Travel blog! This is a space for Cal Discoveries Travel to communicate issues concerning global travel including travel notices from the C.D.C , and also pass along snippets of information regarding our upcoming trips, such as online early booking offers. We will also be posting photos and commentary from travelers on our trips.
Get the dirt through our new Lair Blog! The Lair of the Golden Bear is very excited to be extending our latest updates to the CAA website. We'll be posting news as frequently as it comes in - from Berkeley and from Pinecrest - AND you can look forward to receiving updates related to campers and camp reservations, The Pinecrest Chalet, staff and staff hiring, and everything in between. Put on your favorite Lair T-shirt and your flip flops and we'll hope to see you here.
It has been widely reported in various news outlets that women are more verbose than men. One commonly cited popular statistic held that women spoke an average of 20,000 words a day versus a mere 7,000 for men. While those figures have since been discredited, a number of rigorous studies purport to show the differences between how, and how much, men and women talk.
"It's a sort of will-o-the-wisp thing," Glenn Seaborg once said of the discovery of plutonium. "We saw it and then it disappeared. Then we saw it again and then it disappeared and then finally we saw it and we could confirm it." That confirmation happened in Room 307 Gilman Hall, on February 23, 1941. It was a stormy night, Seaborg recalled. The 5 microgram sample of "element 94" had been bombarded in Ernest O. Lawrence's 60-inch cyclotron.
Cal football's explosive running back Jahvid Best will return to the gridiron his junior year as one of the top contenders for the 2009 Heisman Trophy. Last year, the All-American was the conference's leading rusher, boasting a Cal-record-breaking 8.1 yards per carry.
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