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Indianapolis native McClain helped change athletic training in baseball
December 10, 2018 stvkrh905	1 Comment
Ron McClain was on the forefront of change in athletic training for baseball. The Indianapolis native worked with some of the best players of all-time in a career that went from 1973-2004. He plied his trade with the Indianapolis Indians, Cincinnati Reds and Montreal Expos. He was the National League trainer for the All-Star Game in 1982 (Montreal), 1989 (Anaheim) and 1997 (Cleveland).
A National Athletic Trainers Association member beginning with his college days, McClain helped found the Professional Baseball Athletic Trainers Society.
McClain's accomplishments will be recognized Friday, Jan. 18 at the Indiana High School Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame and awards dinner. It will be held during the IHSBCA State Clinic at Sheraton at the Crossing in Indianapolis. Contributor McClain will be inducted along with player Fred "Cy" Williams, coach Pat O'Neil, contributor Bob Schellinger and player Scott Rolen.
McClain grew up on the south side of Indianapolis near the Silver Hills Riding Stables and took an early appreciation of horses. He was also into sports of all kinds. He played varsity football and was a reserve for basketball and baseball at Warren Central High School, where he graduated in 1968.
Combining an interest in athletics and medicine, McClain studied physical education and training at Indiana University and graduated in 1975.
While he was still in college, he was driving a truck as a summer job in 1973 when he learned of the Indians' need for a trainer and served a few months as a volunteer then turned to IU for the fall semester.
McClain impressed enough that he was invited to serve with the parent Reds in spring training and the Indians during the season in 1974 before again returning to IU in the fall.
From 1975-79, McClain trained for the Reds in spring training and Indians during the season then returned to Cincinnati each September to assist head trainer Larry Starr.
"That was quite a thrill," says McClain. "It was the Big Red Machine era and I was a fan."
Johnny Bench and Pete Rose were among his favorite players.
"I really came to admire Joe Morgan," says McClain.
In his first season in Indianapolis, the team featured Ken Griffey Sr., George Foster and Dan Driessen. Ray Knight came along the next year.
McClain and the elder Griffey shared a birthday (April 10) and were fast friends.
"He was a real genuine guy," says McClain. "He was just a good guy and a family man."
Images of Ken Griffey Sr. instructing his tiny son — Ken Griffey Jr. — are still etched on McClain's memory.
He also recalls Griffey Sr. and Foster taking him out for ice cream after games.
"It's hard to find an ice cream shop open at 11 p.m.," says McClain.
"The best person as a superstar I ever met was Tom Seaver," says McClain.
Sparky Anderson was the manager for McClain's first five years he was associated with Cincinnati. John McNamara was Reds skipper in 1979.
Starr and McClain brought strength training into baseball with the addition of Nautilus equipment in 1975.
Players who had gotten where they were within such training were hesitant at first.
McClain says the Reds did not stretch before games in 1974. They did some stretching during spring training then began throwing the baseball.
In 1976, the training staff added long distance running and modified sprints to the spring regimen.
"To a baseball player, long distance means two times around the field (about a half mile)," says McClain. "Everything is so slow to move in baseball. Managers are older ex-players. This is how I did it. Players wanted to conserve their energy.
"Conditioning was at a very low level. By August, a lot of these guys were wilting. They didn't keep up their strength."
With Indianapolis, McClain worked with managers Vern Rapp, Jim Snyder and Roy Majtyka.
Rapp after 1975 and joined the coaching staff at Montreal, where they were looking for a trainer with baseball knowledge and experience.
"They were having trouble finding one that wasn't a hockey trainer," says McClain. "They were not knowledgeable enough about shoulders and throwing arms in their opinion.
McClain received a referral from Indianapolis general manager Max Schumacher and Reds executive Sheldon "Chief" Bender that helped him land the head trainer position in Montreal and he held that job from 1980 until 2004.
"I aced the interview and got hired," says McClain. "I spent the next 25 years in the big leagues, which was quite a thrill."
Expos managers during his tenure were Dick Williams, Jim Fanning, Bill Virdon, Buck Rodgers, Tom Runnells, Felipe Alou, Jeff Torborg and Frank Robinson.
When McClain started in Montreal, the club had just a few pieces of strength equipment.
"I changed all that," says McClain, who saw 20-by-30 strength training room go in. The Expos did stretches and used free weights as well as Nautilus and Cybex machines for strength training at a time when some teams only had stationary bikes
"Some were slow to get on the bandwagon," says McClain. "It takes awhile for most teams to abide by good advice. You don't know if it's good advice for a few years."
In June 1980, McClain gave Andre Dawson a simple device which helped his Hall of Fame career.
Dawson had injured his knees in football and had surgery while in high school. They took a beating in baseball, particularly on the hard artificial surface of Montreal's Olympic Stadium.
"I was like running on padded cement," says McClain.
Dawson's knees really swelled on airplane flights.
"Cabins are pressurized at 10,000 feet," says McClain. "He would have inflammation (a build up fluid) and it was hard to play the next day."
McClain gave the outfielder a neoprene compression sleeve and that took care of the swelling and discomfort.
It was also 1980 that the Expos brought in Bill Sellers as a exercise science and nutritional expert.
"It all kind of goes hand-in-hand and now every team has to have a certified chef for the home team and the visiting team," says McClain. "But it's a tough thing to get a superior athlete to change their ways. They already think they are the best. They have to fail first."
It was common for players to insist on being in the lineup even when injuries slowed them down.
"Guys like Dawson and Gary Carter, they will always tell you that they want to play," says McClain. "They would aggravate things a lot. Especially with soft tissue injuries. They think they can play then the tear in further."
The Expos had speedsters like Tim Raines, Indianapolis native Rodney Scott and Ron LeFlore.
"They would aggravate injuries and be out an extra week," says McClain. "You almost have to prove to each guy individually what's going to happen.
"As a young trainer they didn't listen to me as much as they did later."
Players weren't the only ones to turn a deaf ear to the expert.
"Dick Williams didn't listen to anybody," says McClain. "Bill Virdon was a tough one to deal with."
Later managers like Rodgers and Alou had a better understanding of the role of training in baseball.
McClain says it was the training staff that was dictating to the coaching staff the limits that should be placed on pitchers to keep them healthy.
Bill Sampen, who now lives in central Indiana and runs Samp's Hack Shack training facilities in Brownsburg and Plainfield where McClain takes 11-year-old grandson Andrew for lessons, pitched for the Expos 1990-92 and was used mostly in long relief.
"You can overwork them pretty easily in that position," says McClain, noting that attention should be paid to the number of pitches and consecutive days these pitchers throw. (Expos pitching coach) Galen Cisco welcomed stuff like that.
McClain also witnessed the strain put on pitchers' elbows, wrists and shoulders in throwing the split-finger fastball.
"They snap the elbow really hard," says McClain. "That's why there were not throwing it that much now."
McClain was in the ballpark when history was made July 18, 1999 as David Cone tossed a no-hitter for the Yankees against the visiting Expos on Yogi Berra Day.
"I remember how good he was with a bum shoulder," says McClain.
It was also in New York that McClain was in the middle of a dust-up that got him suspended for the final seven games in 1997.
McClain, manager Alou and second baseman Mike Lansing were all tossed by plate umpire Larry Vanover after a disputed ninth-inning play at home plate. The Mets beat the Expos 1-0 at Shea Stadium on Sept. 14.
Montreal's David Segui tried to score on a Darrin Fletcher double. After taking a throw from Rey Ordonez, New York catcher Todd Pratt resulted in an out call. But Expos, including McClain, saw the ball lying on the ground.
At the time, base umpires in the field could not advise the home plate umpire's call, a rule that changed in 1998. McClain recalls that crew chief Harry Wendelstedt said to Alou within earshot of Vanover: "I can't tell him if he won't ask."
"He still didn't ask," says McClain of Vanover. "That wasn't right."
Remembering something he saw in a movie, McClain used his finger and thumb to make the shape of an "L" on his forehead and said, "You are a loser and a cheat."
"My idea was let's get the call right no matter whose feelings get hurt," says McClain, who had suspected that the umpires were in a hurry to catch their flight out of town.
McClain enjoyed his time away from the ballpark in Montreal.
"It's an international city," says McClain, who lived in a condo there during the season then came back to wife Pamela and daughter Ashley in central Indiana the off-season.
He learned enough French to be passable and also spoke some Spanish, which helped him communicate with Latin players.
McClain got to watch Vladimir Guerrero in the early part of his career.
"He was one great player," says McClain of the former Expo. "He never did master English. All he wanted to do was to eat, sleep, play baseball and video games."
McClain notes that Rusty Staub — aka "Le Grande Orange" — already knew French from growing up in New Orleans. Catcher Carter did his best with the language.
He also remembers something of a hometown advantage.
There were many games played in April and September where the temperature was below 40 degrees Fahrenheit (4.4 Celsius).
"It was always so cold in Montreal," says McClain. "It hurt the other team. We were more used to it."
McClain is a classic car enthusiast (he's owned a 1961 Corvette "Fuelie" and 1934 Ford Victoria). He also enjoys shooting and has taken up golf since retirement. Ron and Pamela McClain reside in Franklin Township on the southeast side of Indianapolis.
The McClains of Indianapolis — Pamela and Ron — enjoy their travels. Ron McClain is going into the Indiana High School Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in January 2019.
The McClains of Indianapolis — Pamela and Ron — see the Grand Canyon. Ron McClain is going into the Indiana High School Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in January 2019.
Former Montreal Expos athletic trainer Ron McClain of Indianapolis enjoys Alaska. McClain, who was with the Expos for 25 years, is going into the Indiana High School Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in January 2019.
Former Montreal Expos athletic trainer Ron McClain of Indianapolis visits the Grand Canyon. McClain, who was with the Expos for 25 years, is going into the Indiana High School Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in January 2019. He also trained for the Indianapolis Indians.
Former Montreal Expos athletic trainer Ron McClain of Indianapolis enjoys Alaska. McClain, who was with the Expos for 25 years, is going into the Indiana High School Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in January 2019. He also trained for the Cincinnati Reds.
Former Montreal Expos athletic trainer Ron McClain of Indianapolis enjoys Alaska. McClain, who was with the Expos for 25 years, is going into the Indiana High School Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in January 2019. He is an Indiana University graduate.
Former Montreal Expos athletic trainer Ron McClain of Indianapolis enjoys Alaska. McClain, who was with the Expos for 25 years, is going into the Indiana High School Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in January 2019. He is a Warren Central High School graduate.
Two former Montreal Expos — catcher Darrin Fletcher and athletic trainer Ron McClain — meet up. Fletcher played 14 seasons in the big leagues with the Los Angels Dodgers, Philadelphia Phillies, Expos and Toronto Blue Jays. McClain was with the Expos for 25 years.
Former Montreal Expos athletic trainer Ron McClain (center) shares a moment with Amy and Bill Sampen at Samp's Hack Shack in Plainfield, Ind. Indianapolis resident McClain is going into the Indiana High School Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in January 2019. Bill Sampen pitched for the Expos 1990-92.
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Delta, Ball State alum Nichols nearing baseball broadcast milestone with Dayton Dragons
August 4, 2018 stvkrh905	2 Comments
An Indiana native is about to reach a baseball broadcasting milestone with an Ohio-based team in Michigan.
Tom Nichols, a Muncie native, will work his 4,000th minor league game (radio and television combined) on Wednesday, Aug. 8, if the Dayton (Ohio) Dragons of the Low Class-A Midwest League are not rained out between now and then.
All Dragons games (140 during the regular season) are broadcast on WONE 980 AM and http://www.daytondragons.com.
In his 31st season as a baseball play-by-play announcer and his 11th in Dayton, Nichols is in some rare company.
Jim Weber (Toledo Mud Hens) and Howard Kellman (Indianapolis Indians) have been at the mike for more than 40 years and have done upwards of 6,000 games apiece.
Larry Ward (Chattanooga Lookouts) has been on the call for more than 35 years.
By his calculations, Nichols trails Curt Bloom (Birmingham Barons) by a few games. He counts Bloom as his longest friendship in the business. Though Bloom is a year older than Nichols, they share the same birthday — Feb. 9. They first crossed paths in the Carolina League and then for years in the Southern League.
"I'm sure I'm in the top 10, but not sure if I'm in the top five," says Nichols of the longest current radio voices in the minors.
Nichols, 54, was born in Muncie, Ind. At age 7, he became a fan of Cincinnati's "Big Red Machine."
Al Michaels was the Reds play-by-play from 1971-73 and young Tom only missed games when he was playing himself.
Marty Brenneman took over Michaels' role in 1974 and is still the No. 1 man in the Reds booth. For years, he was paired with former Cincy pitcher Joe Nuxhall.
"You used to be able to your ride bike through neighborhood and listen to the game because someone would have Marty and Joe on there porch," says Nichols. "In those days, only 10 or 15 games were televised."
Another way to keep up with the Reds — and baseball — in the '70s was by subscribing to The Sporting News. The publication came in the mail each Friday and Nichols devoured the box scores and stories after getting home on the school bus.
He played baseball at Delta High School in Muncie, where he graduated in 1982.
While at Ball State University, where he got his diploma in telecommunications in 1986, Nichols called high school football, basketball and baseball for WWHC in Hartford City and one season of Ball State baseball for WERK in Muncie.
He was the news director WLBC in Muncie for almost three years after college when he got his professional baseball broadcasting break.
Getting up the nerve to call Kellman for some advice, he was presented with the opportunity to be a No. 2 voice when musician duties took away.
Nichols did that during the 1988 and 1989 seasons.
"I'm eternally grateful to Howard Kellman for giving me that opportunity," says Nichols, who has taken the opportunity to pay it forward mentoring young broadcasters as they serve as his second during Dayton home radio broadcasts, take the whole game when Nichols is on the TV side and work extensively in media relations.
"I do that because somebody did it for me," says Nichols. "We've had one every year. Many have gone on to be No. 1's."
Owen Serey was in Dayton in 2008 and went on to be the voice of the Midwest League's South Bend Silver Hawks.
Jason Kempf was with Nichols and the Dragons in 2017 and 2018 and is now the No. 1 for the MWL's Quad Cities River Bandits in Davenport, Iowa.
Others who assisted Nichols in Dayton and moved on to lead play-by-play roles include Mike Couzens (Fort Wayne and now with ESPN), Brendan Gulick (Delmarva and now in Cleveland area radio), Keith Raad (Staten Island) and Alex Vispoli (Winston-Salem, Frisco and then the Ivy League).
Bill Spaulding has carved his niche in the broadcasting world by calling Olympic sports for NBC.
While Nichols is with the Dayton all-year and does many things including speaking engagements and has come to thoroughly enjoy audience Q&A's, the Dragons No. 2 position is seasonal — March-to-September.
Nichols' first No. 1 gig was with the Kinston (N.C.) Indians of the Carolina League, where he worked for the 1990 season. Jim Thome (just inducted into the Ball Hall of Fame) led the future big leaguers on the Cleveland Indians-affiliated team. A couple others of note were Curtis Leskanic and Robert Person.
He came the Midwest League to lead airings of Peoria (Ill.) Chiefs games in 1991-92. There, he got frequently have former Harry Caray sideman Jimmy Piersall as his analyst.
"He had a tremendous knowledge of the game and was very colorful person," says Nichols of Piersall. A Chicago Cubs farm team at the time, Nichols followed the exploits of future MLB players Brant Brown, Mike Harkey and Amaury Telemaco.
Moving over to the Fort Wayne (Ind.) Wizards (Minnesota Twins), Nichols surveyed action from since-razed Memorial Stadium — aka "The Castle" — and saw future big leaguers LaTroy Hawkins (who went into the Indiana High School Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in January), Torii Hunter, Corey Koskie, Matt Lawton and A.J. Pierzysnki come through town from 1993-96.
Nichols' career path took him south to present diamond descriptions to fans of the Mobile (Ala.) BayBears (San Diego Padres) from 1997-2004. Matt Clement, Doug Dascenzo, Brian Lawrence and Jake Peavy were among those on their way to the majors. Lawrence is now the pitching coach for the Midwest League's South Bend Cubs.
During much of the time Nichols was in Mobile, he was also an executive director for a franchise management company — Victory Sports Group.
From 2005-07, Nichols was director of broadcasting of the Gary SouthShore RailCats of the independent Northern League. Jermaine Allensworth, an Anderson, Ind., product who had played in the bigs, was with Gary in 2006-07.
Nichols took his current position — Director of Media Relations & Broadcasting at Dayton Dragons Professional Baseball — prior to the 2008 campaign. Dayton's affiliation with the Reds was one of the things that attracted him about the job.
Over the years, he has got to have former Reds sit in with him. That list features Todd Benzinger, Tommy Helms, Lee May, Ron Oester, Jim O'Toole and many more.
Hall of Famer Joe Morgan was on the TV broadcast with Nichols this season.
"That was a thrill for me," says Nichols, who was also pleased when he got to regularly interact with one of his boyhood idols — Ken Griffey Sr., when the former Red was Dayton's hitting coach in 2010.
Indiana's own Tucker Barnhart (who was with Brenneman and others for the 2018 Reds Caravan stop in Muncie) plus Zach Cozart, Didi Gregorius, Billy Hamilton and many others have been Dragons and later big leaguers during Nichols' tenure.
When a Cincinnati player makes a rehabilitation appearance with Dayton and the Reds don't play at the same time, flagship WLW often picks up the Dragons broadcast.
In his one game on the Reds Radio Network, Nichols worked the 2017 Reds Futures Game with color man Jeff Brantley and former Cincy broadcaster Jim Kelch.
"Put this one in the win column" is the phrase Nichols uses to cap every Dayton victory.
He says he may have subconsciously picked up descriptive phrases from all those years of listening to Reds broadcasts and recordings of them on his parent's living room stereo.
But other than the win-capper, Nichols makes it a point not to have signal calls.
He had the belief reinforced by Ernie Harwell when they spent the day and worked side-by-side with the Hall of Fame broadcaster for the 1994 Midwest League All-Star Game in Fort Wayne.
"He told me, 'People tune in for the game, not for you," says Nichols of Harwell. "When you put yourself ahead of the game, you're cheating your listeners."
Nichols does not cheat on his homework either.
"Preparation is key," says Nichols. "I believe in that strongly.
"That's the most important thing. The more experience you get, the better you get at preparing."
Nichols gathers plenty of facts and has them at the ready to use during the game. He knows that he has a three-hour broadcast to fill. On the road, that's solo. He familiarizes himself with players and coaches and any pertinent storylines around the Dragons or the opponent.
He has at his ready a sheet full of the "last time" nuggets. Who was the last Dayton player to go 4-for-4 or hit three home runs in a game? His list tells him.
For the past two decades, Nichols has been using a ledger-sized scorebook that he devised with the help of veteran Adams, Blackford and Wells County radio man Bill Morris. It gives him room to right in facts about each player, including key statistics. For opponents, he will list things like their college and draft round.
"This way you're not looking through a media guide," says Nichols. "Without wasted time, you can quickly mention how many homers has if he just hit another one.
"It is time-consuming. But if you're willing to put in the time, there will be rewards."
The most rewarding thing to Nichols is spending time with family.
His parents — Tom Sr. and Fran Nichols — are retired and live in a country house outside Muncie during the summer months and in Marco Island, Fla., other parts of the year. He was a firefighter in Muncie and she an accountant.
Tom Jr. is the oldest of three. There's also brother David Nichols and sister Kelli (Nichols) Dulaney.
David Nichols is a former Delta basketball player who was one year ahead of Matt Painter (now the Purdue head men's basketball coach) and played hoops at Huntington University. He works in claims resolution in Indianapolis.
"David is the better athlete," says Tom Jr., who was inducted into the Delaware County Athletic Hall of Fame in the coaches, contributors, media, officials category in 2009. "I was very average."
Uncle Tom is close with David's two children — Kaylee Nichols (a volleyball player at DePauw University in Greencastle) and Matthew Nichols (a former Delta basketball player).
Kelli is employed by Delaware County 911.
With his trusty ledger-sized scorebook in front of him, Tom Nichols broadcasts a Dayton (Ohio) Dragons baseball game. He is in his 31st season as a play-by-play man — 11th with Dayton — and is nearing his 4,000th game broadcast, most of those on radio and about 200 for Dayton on television. (Dayton Dragons Photo)
Tom Nichols, a graduate of Delta High School and Ball State University in Muncie, Ind., does a stand-up during a Dayton Dragons telecast. Nichols has been doing minor league baseball play-by-play since 1988 and has been a No. 1 voice since 1990. He started in Dayton 2008. (Dayton Dragons)
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Shawna and I after filming a few workout videos!
When I was in Vegas recently for a fitness mastermind meeting and I got to meet up and talk with one of the most sought after experts in the industry, Shawna Kaminski.
Shawna is just so much fun to be around and is so knowledgable when it comes to fitness (and not to mention she is super fit… See below).
In all her awesomeness, we were able to put together a quick video for you that discusses some ways that you can start building into doing more burpees, no matter what fitness level.
Shawna gives us some great insight on how to build into doing more and more burpees whether you are a beginner or advanced.
We both agree that the burpee is one of the best exercises around. And Shawna thinks so highly of them that she has actually put together a FULL BURPEE WORKOUT PROGRAM!
As you heard me say in the video… You have a challenge on your hands. If you can beat my 50 burpees as fast as possible time of under 3-minutes you get a FREE gift (since this video I broke my record and now have a new record 5o burpees in 2 minutes and 51 seconds).
Now here's the thing… an incredible way for you to build into beating my burpee challenge (and keep your workouts interesting) is to follow the workout flow of Shawna's challenge burpee program.
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So it is safe to say that this super-fit lady knows what she is talking about and has your back when it comes to intense workouts.
If that isn't enough to convince you to 'Do the Burpee'… I don't know what will… I'm off to go beat my 2-minutes and 51-second record. Wish me luck!


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How Stavros 24-7 Clinics Handle the Pandemic
May 27, 2020 by Alison Knopf
When the pandemic hit the epicenter of New York City in mid-March, Nicholas Stavros' 24-7 clinics across the country were already preparing. "We got in front of this right away," said Mr. Stavros, CEO of Community Medical Services (CMS), based in Scottsdale, Arizona. CMS has programs in several states, so keeping up with federal regulatory changes and state-by-state nuances … [Read more...] about How Stavros 24-7 Clinics Handle the Pandemic
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When the pandemic hit full force in mid-March, the State Opioid Treatment Authorities (SOTAs) had to move fast. They regulate opioid treatment programs (OTPs) in their respective states, and well knew that many patients had to visit the clinic frequently. "Social distancing" was possible, but "virtual" treatment was not. To get medication, the patients had to be there. Smith … [Read more...] about How the North Carolina SOTA Responded to the Pandemic
STUDY: Risk Factors EDs Can Use to Identify Patients With Substance-Related Encounters Who Are at High Risk of Fatal Opioid ODs
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Lacking alternative resources, many people with substance use disorders (SUDs) visit emergency departments (EDs), especially after an overdose (OD). This gives care providers an opportunity to provide referrals to treatment for those who need it. But EDs may lack the time and resources to select the patients at highest risk—those who could benefit from intervention. This is … [Read more...] about STUDY: Risk Factors EDs Can Use to Identify Patients With Substance-Related Encounters Who Are at High Risk of Fatal Opioid ODs

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Functions help us in analyzing and referencing data. To use functions in a worksheet, first of all we need some data on which the functions are to be applied. Any function needs some arguments to be passed to it as parameters, upon which the calculations or other operations are performed.
Say we need to add the numbers present in some cells. We can use the 'SUM' function to perform this task. To use the 'SUM' function, first select the cell where you want to put the result of the addition operation. Then click on 'Insert' from the main menu bar, from the resulting drop-down, click on 'Function'. This opens the 'Function Wizard'. All this has been shown below.
The selected cell is the one where the sum of the cell values which have been highlighted needs to be put in. Then in the 'Function Wizard', under 'Category', select 'Mathematical', and then under 'Function', select 'SUM'. Then click on 'Next'. The below shown dialog will get displayed.
Here, as shown, '=SUM ( )' gets displayed in the 'Formula' section. Now we'll pass arguments to this function. For that we'll use the 'Select' icons, which have been highlighted above. For selecting the first number, click on the 'Select' icon in front of 'number 1'. This will minimize the 'Function Wizard' and then the required cell(s) can be selected from the sheet.
As has been shown above, the data range from A2 to A14 has been selected here. After making the selection, again click on the 'Select' icon from the minimized 'Function Wizard'. This will again maximize the wizard and the argument will be shown in the formula.
We can pass thirty arguments to the 'SUM' function, and each of these arguments can contain any data range. So this shows that we can add almost any amount of data using this function. After selecting the arguments, simply click on 'OK', and the result will be shown in the selected cell.
All kinds of different functions can be used in a similar manner in Calc. The steps will all remain the same. Just the arguments and the functionality of the functions vary.
The 'AVERAGE' function returns the mathematical average of the numbers present in the cells which are selected. Exactly same steps need to be followed for the 'AVERAGE' function as were followed for the 'SUM' function. The only variation is that the 'Category' for the 'AVERAGE' function would be 'Statistical'.
To get the minimum and maximum values from any list of arguments, we can use the 'MIN' and 'MAX' functions from the 'Statistical' category respectively.
The 'COUNT' function form the 'Statistical' category counts how many numbers are present in the argument list. This function only counts how many numbers are present in the argument list, and ignores other types of values like text.
The 'COUNTA' function from the 'Statistical' category counts how many values are present in the argument list. This function counts the number of all kinds of values present in the argument list, be it numbers or text or any other.
The 'ROUND' function from the 'Mathematical' category rounds a number to a predefined accuracy. The 'ROUND' function takes two arguments, 'number' and 'count'. Here 'number' is the number which needs to be rounded and 'count' is the number of places to which the number needs to be rounded. Say, if the 'number' selected from a cell is 1006.5555 and the 'count' given is 2, then the result will be 1006.56. This is how the 'ROUND' function works.
To use the logical function 'IF', we need to follow the same steps as above to reach the 'Function Wizard'. In the 'Function Wizard', select 'Logical' in the 'Category' and from 'Function', select 'IF'. Click on 'Next' and the following dialog is displayed.
The 'IF' function takes three arguments, these are 'Test', 'Then_value' and 'Otherwise_value'. 'Test' is the condition which needs to be tested for being either true or false. A condition could be anything and can be defined with the help of comparison operators. Here we'll put a simple condition 'K8>1000', this will check whether the number present in the cell K8 is greater than 1000 or not. 'Then_value' defines the value which will get printed in the target cell if the condition is satisfied and 'Otherwise_value' defines the value which will get displayed if the condition is not satisfied. Here we'll put the 'Then_value' as "Is greater than 100" and 'Otherwise_value' as "Is less than 1000". Anything which is put inside "" in Calc is considered to be text by the tool, this should be kept in mind while making inputs to the tool. After making all the inputs, click on 'OK'.
Since the value in cell K8 here is 1032, which is greater than 1000, so "Is greater than 1000" gets displayed in the selected cell. This is how 'IF' function works.


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Rimini Street Honored With Seven Stevie® Awards for Technical Innovation, Excellence in Customer Service, Global Growth and Corporate Responsibility
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Rimini Street, Inc. (Nasdaq: RMNI), a global provider of enterprise software products and services, the leading third-party support provider for Oracle and SAP software products and a Salesforce partner, today announced it has won a total of seven Stevie Awards between the 2021 Stevie American Business Awards (ABA) and 2021 Stevie International Business Awards (IBA).
Rimini Street Honored With Seven Stevie® Awards for Technical Innovation, Excellence in Customer Service, Global Growth and Corporate Responsibility (Graphic: Business Wire)
AI Innovation Leveraged to Deliver the Most Responsive Customer Service
Rimini Street was awarded the Gold Stevie Award for Achievement in Science or Technology for its proprietary, patent-pending AI Support Platform that provides proactive intelligence to accelerate better client service and decreases the time to resolve client cases by an average of 23%. The AI Support Platform was developed by the Company's in-house Innovation Team that has deployed several other ground-breaking, proprietary support tools and technologies used to assure the most responsive delivery model in the enterprise software support market. The Company's average global client satisfaction score is currently 4.9 out of 5.0, where 5.0 is "Excellent."
Improved Service Guarantees, New Services Drive Customer Satisfaction and Growth
Rimini Street also won two Stevie Awards for Company of the Year - Computer Services in the 2021 ABA and IBA awards for expanding its products and services portfolio, new executive appointments, revenue growth and its continuous innovation in client service delivery. Over the past year, the Company launched the global availability of Support for SAP S/4HANA, enhanced its service response guarantee for clients by shortening response times for critical Priority 1 cases from 15 minutes to 10 minutes and crossed the $5 billion mark for total maintenance cost savings delivered to its clients since the Company's inception.
Helping Clients Manage COVID-19 Specific Challenges
Rimini Street's Global Product Delivery (GPD) team also won a Stevie Award for Customer Service Team of the Year in the 2021 ABA. The GPD team is made up of hundreds of professionals around the world responsible for building tax, legal and regulatory (TLR) updates to support the TLR requirements for Rimini Street global clients operating in 126 countries. It is one of the only organizations in the world that researches, analyzes, scopes, develops, tests and delivers TLR updates to those running Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards and SAP enterprise software across dozens of releases and relied upon to process billions of dollars in transactions annually.
In a period dominated by COVID-19 special government legislation, TLR updates were often unexpected and urgent due to the tax and payroll changes made across dozens of countries, which added to the critical importance and complexity of the work. During this period, the GPD team delivered a total of nearly 90,000 individual updates in 2020 across 58 countries – a 40% increase over the previous year – and which included more than 6,000 pandemic-related TLR updates to clients in 42 countries.
A Commitment to Supporting Local Communities
Rimini Street won two Stevie Awards for Corporate Social Responsibility Program of the Year for the work stemming from the Company's global Foundation efforts. The Rimini Street Foundation is the charitable arm of Rimini Street that is funded privately by the Company and reflect the hearts, passion and values of the Company's global colleagues to give back through employee time, in-kind donations and financial contributions. The Foundation was recognized for its ongoing commitment to provide relief for people and places in dire need. Over the past year, to help combat the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Rimini Street Foundation provided masks and cleaning supplies across six continents and deployed 3D printers to employees to print face shields for front-line healthcare workers in hospitals and senior centers.
"We are humbled and honored to be recognized once again with prestigious Stevie Awards for our commitments to innovation, client service excellence, expansion, growth and giving back to a global community with so much need for assistance," said Seth A. Ravin, Rimini Street CEO. "We bring the same passion for client service excellence as we bring to our Foundation activities in the communities in which we live and work, and I couldn't be prouder of the mission-critical, 24x7x365 service our global Rimini family provides our clients and the support we provide our communities in need."
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Rimini Street, Inc. (Nasdaq: RMNI), a Russell 2000® Company, is a global provider of enterprise software products and services, the leading third-party support provider for Oracle and SAP software products and a Salesforce partner. The Company offers premium, ultra-responsive and integrated application management and support services that enable enterprise software licensees to save significant costs, free up resources for innovation and achieve better business outcomes. To date, more than 4,200 Fortune 500, Fortune Global 100, midmarket, public sector and other organizations from a broad range of industries have relied on Rimini Street as their trusted application enterprise software products and services provider. To learn more, please visit http://www.riministreet.com, follow @riministreet on Twitter and find Rimini Street on Facebook and LinkedIn.
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Q: Evenly distributing $n^2$ ball between $n$ pockets by chosing $2$ of them at a time. We have $n^2$ balls distributed among $n$ pockets (some of them may be empty). We can choose any two pockets of which sum of balls is even and then distribute the balls equally among these two pockets. We can repeat it as many times as we wish. For every natural, even number $n$ such that $2 ≤ n ≤ 10$ decide if by using this method we can always distribute the balls so that at the end every bag contains n balls, no matter how many balls there are in each pocket at the beginning.
I think and I am informed it is true that we can do it for every n number of pockets which is a power of two. I suppose, we split them in two until we are left with $n/2$ pairs of pockets. Then we make a move on each pocket and make our way out merging the subsets of pairs. For $n=4$ we have two pairs which we first want to even out and then make the move on the first elements from the each pair an then on the second elements from each pair. However the number of ball combined in the selected pockets has to be even. That feels to be the case as if $n$ is a power of two, $n^2$ is even so we have an even number of odd numbers of balls. How would a proper proof of that look? How to prove we cannot do it if $n$ is not a power of two?

A: First, call a distribution of balls "dead" when some pockets have an even number $E$ of balls and the rest have an odd number $O$ of balls.  When we start with such a dead distribution, it's impossible to change the distribution of balls, so we cannot evenly spread the balls among the pockets.
We will be able to generate a special class of dead distributions as follows: Given any $n>1$,

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*Choose $k$ such that $0 \leq k < n$.  Put $k$ balls into each pocket.  At the end of this step, we have $n^2 - nk = n(n-k)$ balls remaining to distribute.

*Write $n(n-k) = 2^i\cdot m$ where $m$ is odd.  If $2^i < n$, then pick any $2^i$ pockets and put $m$ balls in each, so these pockets will have $m+k$ balls in total; otherwise, do nothing.

With this procedure, we have two claims:

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*This procedure can test whether a given $n$ has a dead distribution.

When the procedure finishes, some pockets have $k$ balls and others have $m+k$ balls and $(m+k) - k = m$ is odd, so the resulting distribution is dead.
On the other hand, when a dead distribution exists with $E$ and $O$ as in my first paragraph, we can set $k = \min(E,O)$ and take $|E-O|$ balls from each of the $P$ pockets currently holding $\max(E,O)$ balls.  Every pocket now has $k$ balls.  Also, you now hold $$n(n-k) = P\cdot |E-O| = 2^i\cdot m$$ balls in your hand, and since $|E-O|$ is odd, $2^i \leq P < n$, so the procedure also yields a dead distribution.

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*The existence or non-existence of a dead distribution is the key question we must investigate.

In short, this is because the existence of a dead distribution provides an initial distribution from which you cannot equally distribute the balls, and the non-existence of a dead distribution, combined with the fact any distribution $(b_1, b_2, \ldots, b_n)$ of balls can move at most $\sum b_i^2$ times before you cannot make any more moves, which only happens when the final distribution is equally split among all pockets or is a dead distribution.

Now consider the cases:

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*$n$ is not a power of two:  If $n$ is odd, choose $k=0$ in the above procedure; otherwise choose $k=1$.  Then $n-k$ is odd and $2^i$ divides $n(n-k)$, so $2^i$ divides $n$.  Since $n$ is not a power of $2$, $2^i < n$ so the above procedure successfully yields a dead distribution.  Therefore, when $n$ is not a power of two, it is not always possible to evenly distribute the balls.

*$n$ is a power of two:  In this case, regardless of the $0 \leq k < n$ chosen, we will always have $n$ dividing $2^i$, so $n \leq 2^i$.  Therefore the above procedure can never complete, and in particular no dead distribution of balls exists.  Therefore, when $n$ is a power of two, it is always possible to evenly distribute the balls.

A: To rule out cases where a fair distribution is impossible it suffices to show there is one initial allocation that can't be distributed.

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*$n$ is odd
Let all the balls be in the same pocket. Then no "move" is permitted. Thus the allocation is impossible.

*$n = 2^d\cdot m,\ m$ is odd $>1$
Split the $2^{d+1}\cdot m^2$ balls evenly into $2^{d+1}$ pockets. Note that since $m\ge3$ there are enough pockets. Now, we can "move" forever but no move can change the allocation, apart from change which pockets contain the balls.

*$n = 2^d$
Proof by induction:

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*Base case: Check $n = 2$ by hand.

*Inductive hypothesis: Assume that it holds for some $d$.

*Inductive step: Pick any starting allocation. Then, if there are any pockets with odd number of balls paired them with each other until only pockets with even are left. Now, if you treat any two balls as one, the series of "moves" that solves the inductive case allocates 2 balls in $2^d$ pockets. To finish, you simply match all two ball pockets with all the empty ones.

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Case 2 is wrong. My idea is to split it into $2^i m^2$ in such way that you will always be stuck with numbers of the same form. Working on it.

A: Let's do it for n=6 and n=10
For n=6 If you take it as $({7,7,7,7,4,4})$ or ${5,5,5,5,8,8}$ or ${3,3,3,3,12,12}$ or ${1,1,1,1,16,16}$ or ${9,9,9,9,0,0}$. Here the sum is 36 but you can't make it into ${6,6,6,6,6,6}$.
For n=10 If you take it as ${1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,46,46}$ or ${9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,14,14}$ or something of the form {o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,e,e} where o is odd and e is even
So basically doesn't work for n=6 or n=10 or any n of the form 4k+2 for k>0.
It does work for $n=2^k$
It doesn't work for odd numbers also.
Am I making sense?

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Private rented sector regulations and traditional buildings
What do you know about the private rented sector regulations (PRS)? From 1 April 2018 they started to bite in earnest, and traditional buildings are right in the frame.
Tenants have had the right to request improvements since 2016, but from 1 April a landlord of a private rented property with an EPC (Energy Performance Certificate) rating of F or G must not grant a new lease or renew an existing lease of that property until works have been carried out to improve the energy efficiency to a rating of E or above. While these requirements relate to new or renewing leases, landlords will feel the full force of compulsion from 2020 for domestic, and 2023 for non-domestic, properties; from these dates, they will not be able to continue to let a property until it has been improved to band E or above. [1]
Band E has been specified, for the present, as the minimum energy efficiency standard (or MEES), but this requirement is just the first stage of a ratchet that will bite ever more sharply on buildings of traditional construction. The government's Clean Growth Strategy wants all fuel-poor homes, as many private rented homes are, and as much social housing as possible, to reach Band C by 2030. It wants as many homes as possible to be EPC Band C by 2035 'where practical, cost-effective, and affordable'. [2] The Committee on Climate Change notes that 19 million homes out of 27 million are below Band C, and 64 per cent of all energy performance certificates registered in England Wales are below Band C. [3]
Government guidance has been issued to landlords in relation to non-domestic (February 2017) [4] and domestic private-rented property (October 2017) [5]. The domestic guidance is notable for including good advice on traditional buildings. Chapter 3, 'Technical advice for landlords on making energy efficiency improvements', highlights performance characteristics of traditional buildings, and issues relating to both historic character and breathing buildings; and it references the whole-house approach developed by the Sustainable Traditional Buildings Alliance.
It states that: 'In nearly all cases, retrofit work will need to comply with the building regulations' (although puzzlingly, there is no mention of Part L of the building regulations, now up for review for implementation in 2019 – be vigilant!) 'through either the local authority, an approved inspector, or the competent persons scheme.' It continues: 'If the property in question is a traditional building, then knowledge of BS 7913: Guide to the Conservation of Historic Buildings is encouraged.' Historic England's advice relating to traditional buildings is referenced, and 'landlords are encouraged to approach their local authorities for more direct advice' (although conservation officers are not mentioned by name).
So far, so good, but there is major confusion in relation to the minimum energy efficiency requirements and to the exemptions. The draft Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) guidance suggested a conditional exemption for listed buildings (as not requiring an EPC, so not within the scope of PRS). In its response, the IHBC objected to this approach on the basis that many historic buildings are amenable to some energy-efficiency improvements without harm (as per Part L), and that a blanket exemption would exacerbate perceptions of historic buildings as obstacles to climate-change adaptation.
The published BEIS guidance potentially extends the exemptions to include buildings in conservation areas. This change is consistent with the governing European Energy Performance of Buildings Directive 2008, which provides exemptions for 'designated environments'. This approach is carried forward in the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG) guidance on EPCs for dwellings and non-dwellings, published in December 2017 .
'An EPC is generally not required where the seller or landlord can demonstrate that the building is any of these: buildings protected as part of a designated environment or because of their special architectural or historical merit are exempt from the requirements to have an energy performance certificate insofar as compliance with minimum energy performance requirements would unacceptably alter their character or appearance.
'To comply with minimum energy performance requirements, many of the recommendations in an EPC report eg double glazing, new doors and windows, external wall insulation, and external boiler flues would likely result in unacceptable alterations in the majority of historic buildings. These can include buildings protected as part of a designated environment or because of their special architectural or historical merit (eg listed buildings or buildings within a conservation area). In these cases an EPC would not be required.
'Building owners will need to take a view as to whether this will be the case for their buildings. If there is any doubt as to whether works would unacceptably alter the character or appearance of a building, building owners may wish to seek the advice of their local authority's conservation officer.' (The guidance goes on to list a number of other situations in which an EPC is not required.)
The Catch-22 is that to know what measures would be needed to get a protected building to Band E, and whether they would be damaging, you need an EPC. The last paragraph puts the hard-pressed conservation officer (if there is one) in the hot seat, but this guidance expects him or her to be even more all-knowing than usual. How can a conservation officer be reasonably expected to know what works might be needed to bring any particular building up to meet a specified minimum energy efficiency standard, to make a reasoned assessment as to the acceptability of any impacts, or what might be the alternative options? How many conservation officers will even have time to begin to grapple with these questions?
[1] https://legislationupdateservice.co.uk/blog/energy-efficiency-regulations-2015/
[2] Clean Growth Strategy, October 2017, https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/clean-growth-strategy
[3] An Independent Assessment of the Government's Clean Growth Strategy
[4] http://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/656541/Non-Dom_Private_Rented_Property_Minimum_Standard_-_Landlord_Guidance.pdf
[5] http://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/669587/Domestic_Private_Rented_Landlord_Guidance_-_Updated_Version.pdf
[6] A guide to energy performance certificates for the marketing sale and let of dwellings.
This article originally appeared in IHBC's Context 153, published in March 2018. It was written by John Preston, convenor of the IHBC green panel and heritage chair of the Sustainable Traditional Buildings Alliance. With thanks to David Pickles and Robyn Pender of Historic England.
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The non-affiliated group aims to galvanise climate action in the heritage sector.
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Die Tauben-Skabiose (Scabiosa columbaria), auch Tauben-Grindkraut genannt, ist eine Pflanzenart aus der Gattung der Skabiosen (Scabiosa) innerhalb der Familie der Geißblattgewächse (Caprifoliaceae).

Beschreibung

Vegetative Merkmale
Die Tauben-Skabiose wächst als sommergrüne, ausdauernde, krautige Pflanze, die Wuchshöhen zwischen 20 und 80 Zentimetern erreicht. Der Stängel ist zumeist mehrfach verzweigt. Die vegetative Vermehrung erfolgt durch Wurzelsprosse.

Die gegenständig am Stängel angeordneten Laubblätter sind am Rand und direkt auf den Blattadern behaart, ansonsten aber kahl, höchstens mit einzelnen verstreuten Haaren. Die Blattfarbe ist matt-grün. Die unteren Laubblätter sind in der Regel ungeteilt, eiförmig und nur am Rand gekerbt. Die oberen Laubblätter sind ein- bis zweifach gefiedert, mit linear-lanzettlichen Abschnitten, die 1 bis 3 mm breit sind.

Generative Merkmale
Die Blütezeit reicht von Ende Juni bis Oktober. Die köpfchenförmige Blütenstände weisen Durchmesser von 15 bis 35 Millimetern auf. Die Hüllblätter sind schmal-lanzettförmig und kürzer bis leicht länger als die eigentliche Blüte. Sie bilden einen Außenkelch von 1 bis 2 Millimetern Länge. Im Blütenstand stehen viele Blüten zusammen. Am Köpfchenboden sind spelzenartige Spreublätter vorhanden. Der Kelch besitzt 3 bis 5 Millimeter lange, runde Borsten. Sie sind dunkelbraun bis schwarz und auf der Innenseite schwach gekielt. Die Kiele haben eine 0,1 bis 0,2 Millimeter breite Basis. Die bläulich-lilafarbene bis violette Krone ist fünfzipfelig.

Die Fruchtstände sind kugelig. Die Frucht ist von einem häutig verlängerten Außenkelch eingeschlossen und mit fünf langen, schwarzen, hygroskopischen Kelchborsten versehen sind. Die einsamige und achänenähnliche Frucht ist 2,5 bis 3 Millimeter lang.

Die Chromosomenzahl beträgt 2n = 16.

Ökologie
Bei der Tauben-Skabiose handelt es sich um einen Hemikryptophyten und eine Halbrosettenpflanze. Dieser Tiefwurzler erreicht Tiefen von bis zu 1,5 Metern.  Die vegetative Vermehrung erfolgt durch Wurzelsprosse.

Blütenökologisch handelt es sich um "Köpfchenblumen" mit verstecktem Nektar. Im Körbchen stehen anstelle der Einzelblüten gestauchte Teilblütenstände (Zymen). Die Blüten sind vormännlich. Neben Pflanzen mit zwittrigen Blüten sind auch rein weibliche Pflanzen vorhanden. Die Blüten sind selbststeril. Als Bestäuber kommen verschiedene Insekten in Frage, z. B. Bienen und Schmetterlinge.

Die Tauben-Skabiose wird von mehreren Schmetterlingsarten, wie dem Schachbrett und besonders auch Widderchen als Nektarpflanze genutzt. Zudem ist sie Raupenfutterpflanze für den Skabiosen-Scheckenfalter (Abbiß-Scheckenfalter), den Goldenen Scheckenfalter, den Skabiosenschwärmer, und das Skabiosen-Grünwidderchen.

Die Früchte sind Achänen, die von einem häutig verlängerten Außenkelch eingeschlossen sind, der am oberen Ende einen als Fallschirm dienenden Saum bildet, und mit fünf langen, schwarzen, hygroskopischen Kelchborsten ausgestattet ist. Die Fruchtreife beginnt ab August. Zur Reifezeit werden die Einzelfrüchte durch den Druck der Spreublätter emporgehoben und dadurch flugfähig: Schirmchenflieger (bei starkem Wind). Außerdem Kletthafter, bei Nässe Adhäsionshafter und wegen der hygroskopischen Kelchborsten auch Bodenkriecher. Auch eine Ausbreitung durch Ameisen kommt vor. Die Samen sind langlebig.

Verbreitung
Die Tauben-Skabiose ist ein Florenelement der submeridionalen bis subatlantischen Zone. Sie findet sich in fast ganz Europa, fehlt aber im atlantischen Gebiet und im hohen Norden. Die Nordgrenze des Verbreitungsgebiets liegt in Südschottland und Südskandinavien und zieht sich dann weiter nach Estland. Die Südgrenze reicht von Nordspanien über Süditalien in den Nordostbalkan. Disjunkte Vorkommen finden sich auf der Krim und im Kaukasusraum. Obwohl häufig behauptet tritt die Art nicht in West- und Südafrika auf, hier sind aber nahverwandte Arten heimisch. In den Allgäuer Alpen steigt sie bis zu einer Höhenlage von etwa 1000 Metern auf.

Die Tauben-Skabiose gedeiht am besten auf mäßig nährstoffreichen, mäßig trockenen, meist kalkhaltigen Böden. Sie findet sich aber auch auf mäßig-sauren, humosen, lockeren, mittel- bis tiefgründigen Lehmböden.

Die Tauben-Skabiose ist eine Brometalia-Ordnungscharakterart, sie findet sich dabei vor allem in Beständen des Mesobromion, gedeiht aber auch im Xerobromion. Sie flieht gedüngten Flächen und liebt sonnige Kalkmagerrasen und magere Moorwiesen. Sie ist eine tiefwurzelnde Lichtpflanze.

Die Tauben-Skabiose wächst gerne zusammen mit der Aufrechten Trespe (Bromus erectus), mit Wiesensalbei (Salvia pratensis), Saat-Esparsette (Onobrychis viciifolia), Knolligem Hahnenfuß (Ranunculus bulbosus) und Gewöhnlichem Hufeisenklee (Hippocrepis comosa).

Systematik
Die Tauben-Skabiose  (Scabiosa columbaria) besitzt neben dem nominotypischen Taxon noch weitere Unterarten:
 Scabiosa columbaria  subsp. columbaria (Syn.: Scabiosa columnae , Scabiosa communis , Scabiosa ceratophylla , Scabiosa affinis , Scabiosa dubia )
 Scabiosa columbaria subsp. balcanica : Sie kommt in Serbien, Bulgarien und in Griechenland vor.
 Scabiosa columbaria subsp. banatica
 Wiesen-Skabiose (Scabiosa columbaria subsp. pratensis ): Sie erreicht von Frankreich und Belgien her gerade noch Westdeutschland, z. B. im Moseltal. Sie blüht vor der ersten Mahd bereits Ende Mai und Anfang Juni. Schon die Grundblätter sind in der Regel stark fiederteilig. Die Stängelblätter nehmen nach oben hin wenig an Größe ab und sind ziemlich gleichmäßig über den Stängel verteilt.
 Scabiosa columbaria subsp. pseudobanatica  (Syn.: Scabiosa pseudobanatica ): Sie ist in den östlichen und zentralen Karpaten beheimatet.
 Scabiosa columbaria subsp. tomentosa : Sie kommt in Spanien vor.

Nicht mehr hierher wird gerechnet:
 Scabiosa columbaria subsp. portae  (Scabiosa portae ): Sie ist in Italien und im nordwestlichen Teil der Balkanhalbinsel beheimatet. => Scabiosa taygetea subsp. portae

Tauben-Skabiose und der Mensch

Auf der Roten Liste gefährdeter Arten ist die Tauben-Skabiose in Deutschland insgesamt nicht gefährdet (Stand 2018). Sie wird aber in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Stand 2005) als gefährdet, in Schleswig-Holstein (Stand 2005) und Brandenburg (Stand 2006) als stark gefährdet und in Sachsen als stark gefährdet (Stand 1999) bzw. als vom Aussterben bedroht (Stand 2013) geführt.

In Deutschland ist die Tauben-Skabiose ein Archäophyt. Der erste archäologische Fund stammt aus dem 1. bis 3. Jahrhundert und wurde in der Nähe von Rottweil gefunden. Diese Art wurde von Hieronymus Harder zwischen 1576 und 1600 in der Umgebung von Geislingen an der Steige in ein Herbarium aufgenommen.

Im Jahr 2000 wurde die Tauben-Skabiose von der Perennial Plant Association zur Staude des Jahres ernannt. Sorten werden in Parks und Gärten als Zierpflanzen verwendet.

Illustrationen

Siehe auch
 Duft-Skabiose
 Gelbe Skabiose
 Glanz-Skabiose

Literatur

 Bruno P. Kremer u. a.: Wildblumen. Erkennen & bestimmen. Hrsg. von Gunter Steinbach. Mosaik, München 2001, ISBN 3-576-11456-4; 2., überarbeitete Auflage 2010 ebenda. ISBN 978-3-8001-5933-8.

Weblinks

  (englisch)

 Thomas Meyer: Skabiose  Datenblatt mit Bestimmungsschlüssel und Fotos bei Flora-de: Flora von Deutschland (alter Name der Webseite: Blumen in Schwaben).
 Steckbrief auf www.gartendatenbank.de.
 Steckbrief auf www.heilkraeuter.de.
 Bilder auf www.kuleuven-kortrijk.be

Einzelnachweise

Kardengewächse

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