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When opponents of hydraulic fracturing geared up for what they thought would be a major election in Colorado this fall, they created a movie for the campaign.
"Dear Governor Hickenlooper" was intended to be a tool that activists could take around the state to rally opposition to fracking, with 11 vignettes showing different aspects of oil and gas drilling and how they are affecting Colorado's residents and landscape.
"Each film — documentary, horror movie or love story — conveys to the governor a simple message: This is my Colorado," the movie website says.
It was meant to bolster support for two proposed amendments to the Colorado Constitution that would provide more local control over oil and gas drilling and establish stronger environmental standards.
The goal wasn't to "tear apart" Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, according to director Stash Wislocki. Instead, the movie sends the message, "We're concerned with where you're heading with your natural-gas policy," Wislocki said.
If anti-fracking activists — also known as fractivists — were concerned with the governor's actions before, they are downright livid now. Although enough signatures were gathered to get the two proposed amendments on the Colorado ballot in November, they were yanked earlier this month in a deal brokered by Hickenlooper and blessed by U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, a Boulder Democrat whose district includes the Eagle County portion of the Roaring Fork Valley. Polis was bankrolling the fractivists' efforts.
The surprise move creates uncertainty about how fractivists will proceed, so that creates questions about the film's screening schedule, Wislocki acknowledged.
"We're still scratching our heads, actually," he said. "Losing the amendments meant they had to rethink their strategy."
One screening that remains certain will be Wednesday in Aspen at the Wheeler Opera House. "Dear Governor Hickenlooper" will be shown at 7:30 p.m. as a special "pre-festival screening" event prior to Thursday's launch of MountainSummit, a collaboration between the Wheeler and Mountainfilm, of Telluride.
The film includes a healthy dose of vignettes from Colorado's Western Slope. "Backyard With Aaron Milton," a film by Deia Schlosberg, tells the story of western Garfield County resident Milton, who went from gas-patch worker to whistleblower and fractivist.
The film "Alison Gannett, a Moveshake Story," by Alexandria Bombach, follows a woman's efforts to save her Paonia-area farm as it is surrounded by gas wells.
"Project Rulison" tells about the effort decades ago to release gas far underground with a nuclear explosion and documents how drilling now is encroaching on potentially contaminated resources.
"United Divided," by Basalt photographer Pete McBride, documents the effort to prevent gas drilling in Thompson Divide, west of Carbondale.
The short films don't have to be viewed as one, Wislocki said, but they combine to create a powerful, 70-minute story.
The element that ties the films together is Shane Davis, a fractivist who narrates throughout the film. Davis said Hickenlooper's efforts to prevent the proposed constitutional amendments from appearing on the November ballot underscore why the film needed to be made and shown to Colorado residents. Otherwise they won't know what's really occurring with what he called the largely unregulated oil-and-gas industry.
Wislocki admitted there was a time during the project where he feared the result would be "horrible." Outdoor apparel and equipment companies Patagonia and Osprey sponsored the effort. Wislocki adopted a new role for himself by collecting films rather than directing himself and by tying the pieces together.
It started well when a handful of strong films came in, Wislocki said. His confidence waned in January and February when he wasn't getting enough material to flesh out the story he wanted to present. Then the fortunes changed again.
"Late in March I started getting some really great films," he said. The project was salvaged; Wislocki was relieved.
"A control freak would be a mild description of what I am," he said with a laugh.


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Penn State Lehigh Valley Celebrates Chinese New Year
In observance of Chinese New Year, Penn State Lehigh Valley will acknowledge the Year of the Rat by presenting a variety of Chinese foods. The event will be held on Thursday, February 7, 2008, beginning at 12 noon in the Atrium and is open to the campus community. The festivities are being sponsored by the Office of Student Affairs.
This is one of several multicultural events at Penn State Lehigh Valley which are designed to bring an understanding of cultural acceptance throughout the campus community.For more information, contact Cindy Nguyen at 610-285-5042.

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It's so close we can almost see it. The wait is nearly unbearable. To help, BBC America has released this great trailer for the second half of Doctor Who Season 7 and some lovely pics from the first episode. It does help, but it is not enough. We need time to go faster. At least until the show starts, then having time stop indefinitely would be terrific.
Watch the BBC America-Exclusive Trailer for the All New Episodes of DOCTOR WHO *** Premiering SATURDAY MARCH 30 at 8/7c *** Presented by Supernatural Saturday, only on BBC America.
Immediately followed by the World Premiere of New BBC AMERICA Original Series ORPHAN BLACK at 9/8c and the new season of BBC AMERICA Original Series THE NERDIST at 10/9c.
Through all of time and space, the unknown is everywhere. But sometimes, the universe's greatest mystery is the person right next to you…
"I look at you every single day and I don't understand a thing about you."
"You're the Impossible Girl, the only mystery worth solving…"
In these episodes, The Doctor (MATT SMITH) is joined by his new companion Clara (JENNA-LOUISE COLEMAN) for the latest set of incredible adventures through space and time. The duo finds new adversaries and familiar friends around every corner as they journey from the bottom of the ocean in a submarine to the center of the TARDIS and beyond. The Cybermen make a thunderous return and the Ice Warrior arrives in an unexpected place.
In the premiere, a modern-day urban thriller called "The Bells of Saint John" written by lead writer and executive producer Steven Moffat (Sherlock) and set in London against the backdrop of new & old iconic landmarks, a new nemesis – the Spoonheads – battle the Doctor as he discovers something sinister is lurking in the Wi-Fi.
Trailer: DOCTOR WHO – BBC America Exclusive
Aren't they both lovely? This is going to be a great second half of a season. But argh. You would think that a show with a time machine could make this wait shorter. COME ON ALREADY.
Doctor Who, starring Matt Smith and Jenna-Louise Coleman, airs its midseason premiere on Saturday, March 30 at its NEW TIME SLOT OF 8/7c on BBC America.


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By: Desiré Bennett
Through her collaboration with local nonprofit arts organization Happen, Inc. and Hitachi High Technologies America, Inc., UC's Advanced Materials Characterization Center's (AMCC) Melodie Fickenscher magnifies learning with science via microscopy for area children.
Melodie Fickenscher, a recently graduated PhD student and research associate at UC, didn't always know that she wanted to be a scientist. "I came from a background where I didn't realize I was a scientist," she said. Fickenscher studied journalism and worked as a photographer before going back to school to study math and physics.
Said Fickenscher , "A lot of my friends my age who went back to school, for whatever reason, went into science – we just figured that out about ourselves – that we could actually do that," she said. "This is kind of why I want to do this [with Happen]. I want to plant that little seed in that kid's head, even if they don't realize right away, they may realize later on that they still have an interest in science."
In hopes of sparking and cultivating that interest, Fickenscher has teamed up with local nonprofit arts organization Happen, Inc. and Hitachi High Technologies America, Inc. "I've been wanting to start a microscopy outreach program to get kids interested in microscopy because it has a broad range of sciences to which it's applicable," she said.
And now, thanks to a bevy of old, yet functional, free microscopes acquired from the UC surplus and a $75,000 electron microscope on loan from Hitachi High Technologies, that hope is a reality. "I was able to borrow a really nice tool – a tabletop-standing electron microscope on loan from Hitachi," said Fickenscher.
That microscope, the Hitachi TM3000, is a tabletop scanning electron microscope able to observe everyday objects such as fibers, plastic, plants, and insects with magnifying capabilities of up to 30, 000x.
Hitachi High Technologies America, Inc. representative Joe Furlong believes that exposing children to the nano-world helps to give them perspective on what they cannot see with their own eyes. "When students get their hands on the equipment it really hits home how much science can be fun and interesting. If we can get some of these students excited about science, perhaps they can see themselves becoming a scientist," said Furlong. "It is our hope that this program helps inspire students to pursue studies and ultimately careers in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) fields in their futures," he said.
Happen, Inc. executive director Tommy Rueff believes this program not only holds the possibility of inspiring future scientists but it also facilitates collaborative learning. "We want to entertain, educate and empower," said Reuff. "To give parents and children an opportunity to learn and experience science together makes a huge impact on families working and learning together and it will also inspire future interest in science."
According to Fickenscher the effects of this experience will be far-reaching. "These are our next generation of scientists," said Fickenscher. "So it's important for us to have a broader impact on our community – so that not just students at UC but also kids in different neighborhoods can see what these tools can do and they can develop a long-term interest in them."
Although an appointment must be made to use the TM 3000, children can bring in their own samples and look at those samples under the other microscopes. "When using the electron microscope we will project that on the wall, with projectors acquired free from UC surplus," explains Fickenscher. "That way everybody who is present can see what their samples look like up close."
The two main events will occur May 5 and May 12, 2013. Parents can sign up through Happen, Inc. but they must go to Happen, Inc. to get their box and deposit their child's samples.
Please visit the Happen, Inc. website for more information.
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Botany & Plant Science
DR MICHELINE SHEEHY SKEFFINGTONPlant Ecology Research Unit (PERU), Botany & Plant Science, School of Natural Sciences
Contact details:
· Office: room 2008, Botany & Plant Science, Áras de Brún
· Email: micheline.sheehynuigalway.ie
· Phone: +353-91-492682
Council Member Tropical Biology Association 1993-present. Taught on Uganda course 2012.
Appointed in 2005 to the Project Advisory Group for the international award-winning Burren LIFE programme and is newly-appointed to the Aran LIFE programme Advisory Board.
Academic representative on the Irish Ramsar Wetlands Committee
Courses: BPS302 Plant Ecology and BPS405 Ecology and Conservation Issues. MSc in Sustainable Resources, Policy and Practice; MSc in Biodiversity and Land-use Planning. All include residential and /or day field excursions.
Curator of the NUI Galway Vascular Plant Herbarium
Most recent publications
Hodd, R L, Bourke, D, and Sheehy Skeffiington, M. (2014) Projected range contractions of European protected oceanic montane plant communities: focus on climate change impacts is essential for their future conservation. PLoS ONE 9(4) e95147.
Maher, C., Gormally, M., Williams, C. and Sheehy Skeffington, M. (2014) Atlantic floodplain meadows: influence of hydrological gradients and management on sciomyzid (Diptera) assemblages. Journal of Insect Conservation DOI 10.1007/s10841-014-9630-z
Sheehy Skeffington, M. (2013) Turloughs -vanishing lakes or vanishing fields?. In: Jebb, M and C. Crowley (eds) Secrets of the Irish Landscape. Cork University Press, Cork. pp 87-92Sullivan, C, Finn, J, Gormally, M & Sheehy Skeffington, M (2013) Field boundaries on lowland farms in western Ireland and their contribution to semi-natural habitat diversity. Biology and Environment: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 113B
Moran J, Gormally M, Sheehy Skeffington M. (2012) Turlough ground beetle communities: the influence of hydrology and grazing in a complex ecological matrix. Journal of Insect Conservation 16 (1): 51- 69.
Sheehy Skeffington M., and Hall, K. (2011) The ecology, distribution and invasiveness of Gunnera L. species in Connemara, western Ireland. Biology and Environment: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 111B(3): 157-175.
Hodd, R. and Sheehy Skeffington, M. (2011) Irish oceanic montane heath plant communities and possible impacts of climate change. Climate Change and Systematics, Systematics Association Special Series, Cambridge University Press. Pp 490-515.
Sullivan, C, Bourke, D, Sheehy Skeffington, M., Finn, J, Green S, Kelly, S. Gormally, M. (2011) Modelling semi-natural habitat area on lowland farms in western Ireland Biological Conservation 144: 1089–1099.
Williams, CD. Beltman, B., Moran, J., Sheehy Skeffington, M., and Gormally M J. (2011) Empirical support for the possible application of modified Ellenberg indices to the study of environmental gradients on dynamic Irish wetlands—evidence from Skealoghan turlough, County Mayo Biology and Environment: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 111B(1): 19-31.
Ryder, L., de Eyto E, Gormally M., Sheehy Skeffington, M., Dillane M. and Poole R. (2011) Riparian zone creation in established coniferous forests in Irish upland peat catchments: Physical, Chemical and Biological Implications. Biology and Environment: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 111B(1): 41-60.
All publications (to 2011)
Wyse Jackson, P.S. and
Sheehy Skeffington, M.J. (1984)
The Flora of Inner Dublin
Royal Dublin Society, Dublin, 173 pp.
Carter, R.W.G., Curtis, T.G.F. and Sheehy Skeffington, M.J , eds. (1992) Coastal Dunes Geomorphology, Ecology and Management for Consevation. Proceedings of the third European Dune Congress, Galway, Ireland, June 1991. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam.
Lysaght, L., Sheehy Skeffington, M. and Gormally, M. eds (2000) Recognising European Pastoral Farming Systems and Understanding their Ecology. European Forum for Nature Conservation and Pastoralism and the Heritage Council, Kilkenny, Ireland. 51 pp.
Sheehy Skeffington M.J.and O'Connell C (1998) Peatlands of Ireland In: P. Giller (ed.) Studies in Irish Limnology. Invited chapter for the Societas Internationalis Limnologiae (SIL) conference, August 1998. pp. 39-66.
Sheehy Skeffington M. (1998) Maritime and sub-maritime communities:1) mud flats 2) sub-tidal and inter-tidal communities. In: D. Doogue, D.Nash, J. Parnell, S. Reynolds and P. Wyse Jackson (eds) Flora of County Dublin. Dublin Naturalists' Field Club, Dublin. pp.63-66.
Nash D, Reynolds S. and Sheehy Skeffington M. (1998) Maritime and sub-maritime communities: 4) rocky cliffs 5) boulder clay banks and deeper coastal soils. In: D. Doogue, D.Nash, J. Parnell, S. Reynolds and P. Wyse Jackson (eds) Flora of County Dublin. Dublin Naturalists' Field Club, Dublin. pp. 68-69.
Sheehy Skeffington, M. (2013) Turloughs -vanishing lakes or vanishing fields?. In: Jebb, M and C. Crowley (eds) Secrets of the Irish Landscape. Cork University Press, Cork. pp 87-92
Sheehy Skeffington, M. (1978) The influence of topography on the vegetation in the Camargue, France. Bulletin of the Irish Biogeographical Society, 2, 58 - 62.
Corre, J.J., Bigot, L., Billes, G., Bouab, M., Coulet, E., Gautier, G., Heurteaux, P., Pont, D., & Skeffington, M.S. (1982) Structure et peuplements des rives d'étangs temporaires en Basse Camargue. Bulletin Ecologique 13 (14), 339-356.
Sheehy Skeffington, M.J. (1985) Vegetation productivity in Rahasane turlough, County Galway. Bulletin of the British Ecological Society XVI (1),20-23.
Sheehy Skeffington, M.J. & Jeffrey, D.W. (1985) Growth performance of an inland population of Plantago maritima L. in response to nitrogen and salinity. Vegetatio 61, 265-272.
O'Connell, M and Sheehy Skeffington, M.J. (1985) Botanical notes from three sites in East Mayo and Sligo. Irish Naturalists' Journal 21(9), 419-420.
Sheehy Skeffington, M.J. (1985) What is Rattan ? Voice of Nature 33, 34.
Sheehy Skeffington, M.J. (1986) Soils from cultivated stands of Shorea javanica K. & V. In: Multidisciplinary research project on Shorea javanica K. & V. Progress Report. E. Torquebiau (ed.) Tropical Forest Biology Programme. BIOTROP, Bogor, Indonesia.
Scott, N.E. and Sheehy Skeffington, M.J.(1987) A new record for Oenanthe pimpinelloides L. in Ireland. Irish Naturalists' Journal 22(8), 351-353.
Sheehy Skeffington, M.J and Jeffrey, D.W. (1988) Response of Armeria maritima (Mill.) Willd. and Plantago maritima L. from an Irish salt marsh to nitrogen and salinity. New Phytologist 110, 395-408.
Sheehy Skeffington, M.J (1989) Soils from Shorea javanica K. & V. plantations in Lampung Province, Sumatra, Jurnal Penelitian dan Pengembangan Kehutanan (Indonesian journal of forestry research and development) V(1), 11-19.
Lockhart, N.D., O'Connell, M., Sheehy Skeffington, M. and Van Doorslaer, L. (1989) Scraw (schwingmoor) plant communities at Loch an Chorcail, Carna, Co.Galway. Irish Naturalists' Journal 23 (4), 125-134.
Sheehy Skeffington, M. and Wyse Jackson, P. (1989) A contribution to our knowledge of the flora of Inishmurray. In: D.C.F.Cotton (ed.) The Heritage of Inishmurray, 18-21, Regional Technical College, Sligo.
Sheehy Skeffington, M.J. (1990) The special nature of the Burren flora. Technology Ireland 22 (3), 22-25.
Brodie, J. and Sheehy Skeffington, M.J. (1990) Inishbofin - a resurvey of the flora. Irish Naturalists' Journal 23 (8), 293-298.
Dyos, H., Proctor, J. and Sheehy Skeffington, M.J. (1991) Notes on the vegetation of the Dawros and other ultrabasic outcrops in Connemara. Irish Naturalists' Journal 23 (10) 415-419.
Sheehy Skeffington, M. J. and Wymer E.D. (1991) Irish salt marshes-an outline review. In M.B.Quigley (ed.) A Guide to the Sand Dunes of Ireland. European Union for Dune Conservation and Management. c/o Trinity College Dublin 77-91.
Bleasdale, A.J. and Sheehy Skeffington, M. (1992) Influence of agricultural practices on plant communities in Connemara. In J. Feehan (ed.) Environment and Development in Ireland. The Environmental Institute, University College, Dublin pp. 331-336.
Keane, S. and Sheehy Skeffington, M.J. (1995) Vegetation in the east Burren uplands in relation to land use and conservation. In Jeffrey, D.W Jones, M.B. & McAdam J.H. (eds) Irish Grasslands. Royal Irish Academy, Dublin pp. 253-266.
Bleasdale, A and Sheehy Skeffington, M. (1995) The upland vegetation of north-east Connemara in relation to sheep grazing. In Jeffrey, D.W Jones M.B. & McAdam J.H. (eds) Irish Grasslands. Royal Irish Academy, Dublin pp. 110-124.
Sheehy Skeffington, M J, Bleasdale, A & McKee A-M (1996) Research in the Connemara Uplands: vegetation changes and peat erosion. (Sustainability and sheep grazing in the Connemara Uplands). In Hogan, D & Phillips, A (eds) Seeking a Partnership Towards Managing Ireland's Uplands. Irish Uplands Forum, Co Galway.
O'Connor, M. and Sheehy Skeffington M. (1997) Roundstone Bog, Connemara: the challenges for conservation. In: J.R.Tallis, R. Meade and P.D. Hulme (eds) Blanket Mire Degradation causes, Consequences and Challenges Proceedings of symposium at Manchester, April 1997 Mires research group, British Ecological Society, London pp.189-202.
McKee A-M and Sheehy Skeffington M. (1997) Peat erosion and degradation in the Connemara uplands. In: J.R.Tallis, R. Meade and P.D. Hulme (eds) Blanket Mire Degradation causes, Consequences and Challenges Proceedings of symposium at Manchester, April 1997 Mires research group, British Ecological Society, London pp.81-82.
Conaghan, J. P. Dalby, C. Sheehy Skeffington M. and T. C. G. Rich (1998) Eriophorum. In: T. C. G. Rich & A. C. Jermy (eds) Plant Crib. Botanical Society of the British Isles in association with National Museums & Galleries of Wales.
McKee A-M., Bleasdale A. and Sheehy Skeffington M. (1998) The effects of different grazing pressures on the above-ground biomass of vegetation in the Connemara uplands. In: G. O'Leary and F Gormley (eds) Towards a Conservation Strategy for the Bogs of Ireland. Irish Peatland Conservation Council, Dublin pp. 177-188.
Curtis T.G.F. and Sheehy Skeffington M. (1998) The salt marshes of Ireland: an inventory and account of their geographical variation. Biology and Environment 98B 87-104 .
Guinan L, O'Connor A., O'Connor M. and Sheehy Skeffington M. (1998) Small-scale vegetation patterns in a raised bog, Co. Offaly and an Atlantic blanket bog, Co. Galway, Ireland. In: Standen V., Tallis J.H. and Meade R. (eds) Patterned Mires and Mire Pools. Origin and development; flora and fauna. British Ecological Society, Mires Research Group Proceedings.
Sheehy Skeffington M.and Curtis T.G.F. (2000) The Atlantic element in Irish salt marshes. In: B. Rushton (ed.) Biodiversty: the Irish dimension. Royal Irish Academy, Dublin. pp.179-196.
Ní Bhriain, B, Sheehy Skeffington, M and Gormally, M (2002) Conservation implications of land use practices on the plant and carabid beetle communities of two turloughs in Co. Galway, Ireland. Biological Conservation, 105: 81-92.
Geerling G., van Gestel C., Sheehy Skeffington M, Schouten M.G.C., Nienhuis P.H. and Leuven R.S.E.W. (2002) Blanket bog degradation in river catchments in the west of Ireland. In: Leuven R.S.E.W., Poudevigne I and Teeuw R.M. (eds) Application of Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing in River Studies. Pp. 25-40.
Poole, A, Gormally, M and Sheehy Skeffington, M (2003) The flora and carabid beetle fauna of a mature and regenerating semi-natural oak woodland in south-east Ireland. Forest Ecology and Management, 177: 207-220.
Ní Bhriain, B, Gormally, M and Sheehy Skeffington, M (2003) Changes in land use practices at two turloughs, on the east Burren limestones, Co. Galway, with reference to nature conservation. Biology and Environment: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 103B (3): 169-176.
Moran, J, Gormally, M J and Sheehy Skeffington, M (2003) Records of Panagaeus crux-major (Linnaeus) and Pterostichus aterrimus (Herbst) recorded on turloughs in Counties Clare and Mayo. Irish Naturalists Journal 27 (8): 309-311
O Connor, Á, Bradish, S, Reed, T, Moran, J, Regan, E, Visser, M, Gormally, M & Sheehy Skeffington, M. (2004) A comparison of the efficacy of pond-net and box sampling methods in turloughs – Irish ephemeral aquatic systems. Hydrobiologia: 524: 133-144.
Coroi, M., Sheehy Skeffington M., Giller P., Smith C. Gormally M., and O'Donovan. (2004) Vegetation diversity and stand structure in streamside forests in the south of Ireland. Forest Ecology and Management 202, 39-57.
Sheehy Skeffington , M. and Gormally, M. (2005) Turloughs, west of Ireland. Seven web pages in Cultbase, Cultural Landscape Database for Europe. Atlantic central. Archived in August 2005. http://pan.cultland.org/cultbase/?document_id=264
Sheehy Skeffington M. (2006) Organic fruit and vegetable growing as a national policy: the Cuban story. Published on 21 Feb 2006 by Energy Bulletin / FEASTA. Archived on 21 Feb 2006. http://www.energybulletin.net/13067.html
Sheehy Skeffington, M. Moran J., O Connor Á., Regan E., Coxon, C. E., Scott, N. E., and Gormally, M. (2006) Turloughs – Ireland's unique wetland habitat. Biological Conservation 133/3, 265-290.
Visser, M, Regan, E, Moran, J, Gormally, M and Sheehy Skeffington, M. (2006) The rise and fall of turlough typologies: a call for a continuum concept. Wetlands 26 (3), 745-764.
Coroi, M., Sheehy Skeffington , M., Giller, P., Gormally, M., Smith, C., O'Donovan, G. (2006). Using GIS in the mapping and analysis of landscape and vegetation patterns along streams in southern Ireland. Biology and Environment: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 106B(3):287-300.
Sheehy Skeffington , M. and Gormally M. (2007) Turloughs: a mosaic of biodiversity and management systems unique to Ireland. Acta Carsologica. 36/2 217-222.
Sullivan, C., Sheehy Skeffington, M., Gormally, M., Finn, J. and Kelly, S. (2007). Identifying High Nature Value Grassland in the West of Ireland. High Value Grassland: providing biodiversity, a clean environment and premium products, Proceedings of conference, University of Keele, Staffordshire, 17-19 April 2007, pages 325-328. (peer-reviewed).
Visser, M, Moran, J, Regan, E, Gormally, M and Sheehy Skeffington , M. (2007) How users and non-users perceive turlough management under the converging EU agendas of Natura 2000 and CAP in Ireland. Land Use Policy. 24 362–373
Chollett, D; Ferguson, B; Furusawa, K; Furusawa, M; Hollis, S.; Hollis, A; Kent, A.; Sheehy Skeffington , M.; Sugai, M; Rosset, P; and Martinez-Torres, M.E. The Cuban Agroecological Transformation: from Necessity to a Way of Life. Report of the Organic Farming and Sustainable Agriculture Research and fact-Finding Delegation to Cuba, May 4-12 2006 Organized by Desarrollo Alternativo, AC, Mexico http://www.desal.org.mx/report.php3
Regan, E.C., Sheehy Skeffington , M. and Gormally, M.J. (2007) Wetland plant communities of turloughs in the west of Ireland in relation to environmental factors. Aquatic Botany 87 22–30.
Roden, C., Sheehy Skeffington , M. and D'Arcy, G. (2007). Three Oak woods in the valley of the Owendalulleegh river in the Slieve Aughty Hills, South east Galway H15. Irish Naturalists' Journal. vol 28 (9) p361-371
Scott N and Sheehy Skeffington, M. (2007) Turloughs –Ireland's vanishing lakes. British Wildlife 19(2) 109-117.
Moran, J. Regan, E.C., Visser, M., Gormally, M. and Sheehy Skeffington, M. (2008) Past and present land management of 12 turloughs in the west of Ireland. Tearmann 6: 83-102.
Moran, J, Kelly, S, Sheehy Skeffington, M and Gormally, M. (2008) The use of GIS techniques to quantify the hydrological regime of a karst wetland (Skealoghan turlough) in Ireland . Applied Vegetation Science 11: 23-34.
Moran, J, Sheehy Skeffington , M and Gormally, M. (2008) The influence of the hydrological regime, soils and management on the plant community composition and species richness of Skealoghan turlough, Ireland. Applied Vegetation Science 11: 11-22.
Sheehy Skeffington M, Morales, H. and Ferguson, B. G. (2008) Lessons from two contrasting organic growing systems –Chiapas, Mexico and Cuba. 18pp. In: Healy, C (ed) Developments Futures eBook. Proceedings of conference at NUI, Galway 24th & 25th November, 2007. Development Education Network (DERN), NUI Galway & Irish Aid http://www.nuigalway.ie/dern/ebook.html
Sheehy Skeffington , M. and Scott, N.E., (2008). Do turloughs exist in Slovenia? Acta Carsologica 37/2-3, 291-306.
Conaghan J., and Sheehy Skeffington , M. (2009). The Distribution and Conservation of Eriophorum gracile Koch ex Roth in Ireland. Watsonia.27 no.3, 229-238.
Sheehy Skeffington , M. and Gormally M. (2009) Turloughs: a mosaic of biodiversity and management systems unique to Ireland. In: Krzywinski, K. O'Connell M. and Küster H. (eds) Cultural landscapes of Europe, Fields of Demeter, Haunts of Pan. Aschenbeck Media, Bremen. pp 170-171.
Sullivan, C.A., Sheehy Skeffington, M, Gormally, M.J and Finn, J.A. (2010) The ecological status of grasslands on lowland farmlands in western Ireland and implications for grassland classification and nature value assessment . Biological Conservation 143: 1529-1539.Canning, B, Bell, A, Mongan, B, Gormally, M, Sheehy Skeffington, M and van Rensburg, T (2011) Upland commonages in Connemara – can biodiversity be used to inform agri-environmental policy? Conserving Farmland Biodiversity: Lessons Learned & Future Prospects. Teagasc Biodiversity Conference: 50-52.
Maher, C, Sheehy Skeffington, M, Gormally M. (2011) Hay meadow plant communities on the Shannon callows: responses to summer flooding and changes in management. Conserving Farmland Biodiversity: Lessons Learned & Future Prospects. Teagasc Biodiversity Conference: 72-73.
Sullivan, C, Bourke, D, Finn, J, Sheehy Skeffington, M & Gormally, M (2011) Mapping high nature farmland in Ireland. Conserving Farmland Biodiversity: Lessons Learned & Future Prospects. Teagasc Biodiversity Conference: 94-96.


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Budget woes may cause USM dorm closures
Dickey, Wood halls could shut downUPDATED 6:23 PM EDT May 02, 2014
The University of Southern Maine may close two dormitories on its Gorham campus as a budget-saving measure. USM officials said the move to shut down Dickey and Wood halls will save hundreds of thousands of dollars in maintenance and heating costs.Video Transcript
BUDGET PROBLEMS MAY FORCE THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE'S TO CLOSE TWO LONGTIME DORMS ON ITS GORHAM CAMPUS. DICKEY AND WOOD HALLS ARE SET TO BE CLOSED - BECAUSE OF THE UNIVERSITY'S 14 MILLION DOLLAR BUDGET GAP. OFFICIALS SAY THE MOVE WILL SAVE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS IN MAINTENANCE AND HEATING COSTS. PLUS THE BUILDINGS HAVE THE CAPICITY TO HOUSE 350 STUDENTS IN BOTH BUT RIGHT NOW, ONLY 40 ARE LIVING THERE. ONCE THE STUDENTS MOVE OUT - THE FUTURE OF BOTH BUILDINGS IS UP IN THE AIR. "they're gonna re- assess, their need for that space in the future over the next academic year and the decision will be made whether to take them down or not or rehab them. THE "TWO TOWERS" AS THEY'RE CALLED, ARE 44 YEARS OLD. STUDENTS WILL START MOVING OUT
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DETROIT (AP) -Mike Babcock's steely glare and sharp tongue vanished in public for perhaps the first time in three seasons with the Detroit Red Wings.
A simple question stirred emotions Babcock usually hides.
"What would it mean to you have your name on that Cup," a reporter asked Babcock.
"When I've seen it out and around, I haven't gone near it," Babcock said. "When I saw it at the Hockey Hall of Fame, I took the time to read all the names on it.
"I'm not thinking about that - about my name."
Babcock then paused again and took a sip of water, trying to keep his composure, before finishing his answer.
"It would be nice," he said softly.
After walking away from the news conference, Babcock acknowledged that the question tugged at his emotions.
"Yeah, no question it did," he said. "The biggest thing is, I believe in the process and when you get ahead of yourself things don't work the way they should."
Babcock and the Red Wings will get their first chance at moving toward their goal on Saturday night at home in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup finals against the Pittsburgh Penguins.
When the NHL emerged from its lockout in 2005, Detroit didn't offer coach Dave Lewis a chance to return as coach and hired Babcock away from the Anaheim Ducks.
The Red Wings got too cozy playing for Lewis, a former Detroit player and longtime assistant, but it was clear that wouldn't be possible under Babcock.
During a morning skate before a preseason game three years ago, players were simply gliding around the ice and Babcock didn't care for their pace.
"Let's go!" he shouted.
Instantly, the Red Wings started skating faster and their days of coasting and relying on their resumes were over.
"I don't want to say there was a lot of yelling, but our practices were a lot more intense and he was much more vocal," Kirk Maltby recalled Friday. "I don't think he's changed. He's still very much about preparation and his system."
Babcock has helped Detroit be at or near the top of the league in each of his three regular seasons. After a first-round exit in 2006, the Red Wings reached the conference finals last year and made their 23rd trip to the finals this month.
He has preached the importance of driving to the net to score, digging in the corners for pucks and punishing players in open ice.
The changing style of play has paid off, maximizing the talent on the roster and creating roles for other players.
"Everyone said we weren't tough or physical enough," Chris Osgood said. "He's instilled in us the need to play physical and for everybody to play stronger."
Babcock had a simple explanation for his insistence on crowding the net with players and pucks instead of passing it around the ice, looking for a picture-perfect shot.
"If you play on the perimeter, you go home," he said.
The Red Wings found that out in 2003 when the Babcock-led Ducks beat them in the first round and advanced to the Stanley Cup finals, where they lost to the New Jersey Devils in Game 7.
Babcock was 69-76-19 over two seasons in Anaheim, which offered him a one-year extension that he rejected, leading to his hiring in Detroit.
He likes Detroit's chances to fare better than the Ducks did.
"I know our team is better than the teams I coached in the past and I'm a better coach," Babcock said. "You would hope experience makes you better. I'd like to tell you it does."
The Penguins believe they've made up for their lack of experience thanks in part to coach Michel Therrien.
"He always emphasized the defensive part of the game," Darryl Sydor said. "It didn't work for a while, but he stuck with it and these young guys picked it up. Once that happens, it's such a talented group of kids it's not hard to just turn them loose."
After coaching the Montreal Canadiens from 2000-03, Therrien replaced Eddie Olczyk when he was fired early in the 2005-06 season.
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Pittsburgh broke the 100-point mark again this season, then lost just two games over the first three rounds of the playoffs.
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On the back we found an interesting item in the Features at the top left. When Team Group announced their new G1 they also announced an R1 model that retains the 2.5 inch form factor but has two SSDs running in RAID 0 like the PhotoFast V5 we tested several months before. Little has been said about the R1 since the press release went out, but hopefully we see it in the test lab soon.
Also on the back we found specific information about the G1 like the 2 year warranty and speed numbers.
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Betfair Collaborates with Playtech
In an attempt to resuscitate its troubled poker revenues, the officials at Betfair are collaborating with the Playtech network. At present, Betfair has a partnership with Ongame; however, this collaboration has not earned the company any substantial profits. As a matter of fact, the company is facing a lot of financial crisis at present, as […]
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Now that 2013 has finally arrived, what's new with poker? PokerStars has launched the world's fastest poker variation called Zoom Poker. On the other hand, PokerNews is making the new year more special by allowing poker players to sign up with Full Tilt Poker via their online poker platform. By doing this, players can reap […]
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Players at PartyPoker have more reasons to party this New Year! The poker site has completely modified its tournament calendar and has increased its monthly guaranteed promotions and bonuses to $15,000,000. Apart from this, the player traffic at PartyPoker has shot up as Bwin.com merged with PartyGaming to form Bwin.party. To add on to this, […]
Hellmuth will Not Play in Premiere League and More
Friday, March 16th, 2012 by Nadia
Quite a few big poker tournaments such as the Poker Players Championship, PartyPoker Premier League V and Wynn Classic Championship will be held in the next few months. High stakes games too will be back in May 2012 at Aruba with the Poker Players Championship by PokerStars.
Phil Hellmuth to be Absent from Party Poker Premiere League V
Some of the best known pros in the world of poker tournaments have registered for the Party Poker Premiere League V. However, Phil Hellmuth is possibly giving the Premiere League a miss this year. He has not yet registered for the Vienna event which is accompanied by a buy-in of $125,000. The news about the absence of Hellmuth was disclosed by poker pro, Tony G. According to Tony, Hellmuth didn't get a sponsor this time and the player doesn't have enough money to fund himself.
Eminent pros have registered for the Premiere League such as Sam Trickett, Luke Schwartz, Dan Cates, Vanessa Selbst, Erik Seidel, Patrik Antonius and Tom Dwan. According to a few pros, Hellmuth, who didn't meet with big successes in the previous Premiere League competitions doesn't want to face the strong player field this year.
With the exception of 2012, Hellmuth had been a part of all Party Poker Premiere League events. The best Premiere League performance of the player had been a 9th place finish in the 4th session of the event in Las Vegas. Hellmuth has never made it to the final in the Premiere League competitions.
Apart from the Premiere League, the other big event to take place next month in Vienna is the Big Game VI – a 48 hour tournament. Many pros participating in the Premiere League are expected to join the Big Game.
Win Classic Championship Running
The Win Classic Championship is running at Las Vegas till today. A large number of professional players registered for the $5,170 buy-in event in Las Vegas. Last year, 212 players took part in the Win Classic Championship. Tim West took the winning title after besting Annette Obrestad in a heads-up battle.
Player Poker Championship in May
The PokerStars sponsored Poker Championship will be held in the Aruba Island in two months. The championship was previously called the Aruba Poker Classic organized by Ultimate Bet. The poker room cancelled Aruba Poker Classic in 2009. The event is returning this year for the first time after its closure.
The Poker Championship will be held between May 3rd and 7th this year at the Westin Resort and Casino of Aruba. Total 6 events will be conducted with buy-ins ranging from $330 to $3,300. The biggest event will be a No Limit Hold'em tournament with a buy-in of $3,000+300. It will start on May 4th and continue till the 7th of the month.
In the No Limit Hold'em competition, each player will be given a chip stack of 25,000 at the beginning. PPC Commissioners like Bryan Oulton and Sandy Swartzbaugh have been working to organize the event at Aruba. Swartzbaugh stated that the organizing team is trying for the expansion of the Caribbean poker series. 6 destinations such as Turks, St. Croix and Bahamas are on target for hosting the event.


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Definition of limen in English:
noun (plural limens or limina /ˈlimənə/)Psychology
A threshold below which a stimulus is not perceived or is not distinguished from another.
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- One enters into ritual time and ritual space by passing over a limen, a threshold, such as one finds at a doorway.
- Academics call it 'liminality', from the Latin limen - the line separating, or failing to separate, Arthur from Martha.
- The approach of death - or a willed approach to the radius of death - brings the subject to the limen of that void.
Mid 17th century: from Latin, 'threshold'.
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Definición de river en inglés:
- Global warming could devastate lakes, streams, rivers and wetlands throughout the United States.
- In river valleys, water that seeps from canals and fields provides groundwater that can be pumped for various purposes or the water may return to rivers through streams or creeks.
- Water can be obtained from streams, rivers, lakes, or underground aquifers, which are used to supply private wells and public drinking water.
- The young man was sweating profusely; rivers of it were flowing down his pale face.
- I proceeded along the jagged ridges staring down into a river of a boiling red substance.
- There I am running rivers of sweat down my neck, down my chest, down my belly and through my shirt, and I'm dancing harder than I've ever danced to a rock band.
sell someone down the river
- informal Betray someone, especially so as to benefit oneself: he said they were management lackeys who had been sold down the river by BunkerEarlier referring to the sale of a troublesome slave to the owner of a sugar-cane plantation on the lower Mississippi, where conditions were relatively harsherMás ejemplos en oraciones
cheat, trick, swindle, defraud, dupe, hoodwink;double-cross, betray, deceive, sell out, stab in the back;exploit, take advantage ofinformal do, con, take for a ride, sell, diddle, bamboozle, finagle, bilk, rip off, fleece
- Staff feel they have been sold down the river by the Government.
- And they say they feel they have been sold down the river by their union leaders, who last week accepted a pay settlement involving changes in shift patterns and working practices.
- He has sold us down the river and made our democracy a joke.
up the river
- North American informal To or in prison: we were lucky not to be sent up the river that time boyWith allusion to Sing Sing prison, situated up the Hudson River from the city of New YorkMás ejemplos en oraciones
- You're indicted, convicted and sent up the river.
- Let me be on record as being strongly opposed to sending Limbaugh up the river, even though that is the penalty he wished to inflict on others.
- They're sent up the river for 'life,' having all the time in the world to spend together.
rivered adjetivo
- Oraciones de ejemplo
- All Night Radio serve up an escapist's reminder that spring is fast approaching, and we always need music for open windows, top-down convertibles and misty drives on roads rivered with melted snow.
- His bloated face was rivered with veins, like raspberry ripple ice-cream.
riverless adjetivo
- Oraciones de ejemplo
- But, so far as we could discover, the land was riverless, and eternal frost prevailed.
- O'Connor saw for himself the arid, riverless country through which the new railway line from Northam must pass.
Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French, based on Latin riparius, from ripa 'bank of a river'.
River comes from the same root at rival. To sell someone down the river is to betray them, especially to benefit yourself. The expression refers to the slave-owning period of American history. It was the custom to sell troublesome slaves to owners of sugar-cane plantations on the lower Mississippi, where conditions were harsher than those in the more northerly slave-owning states. The first recorded use is in 1851 by the American writer Harriet Beecher Stowe, whose best-known work is the anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). The 'betray' sense did not emerge until much later, in the 1920s, perhaps because the subject was too sensitive to be used casually. In the USA someone who has been sent up the river is in prison. The phrase originally referred to Sing Sing prison, which is situated up the Hudson River from the city of New York.
Palabras que riman con riveraquiver, downriver, forgiver, giver, quiver, shiver, sliver, upriver
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Quote #1
One morning we had a rare rainfall. It came during her gym class. The teacher told everyone to come in. On the way to the next class they looked out the windows. Stargirl was still outside. In the rain. Dancing (2.39).
Rain, while not so common in Arizona, is still not completely unheard of. Nevertheless, you'd think it was a flat out miracle, based on Stargirl's reaction. Really, she's acting like an explorer of everyday life, here. She goes out to experience and celebrate the world around her.
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As they played, rooted in their places, she pranced around the grass in her bare feet and long lemon-yellow dress. She roamed from goalpost to goalpost. She swirled like a dust devil. She marched stiffly like a wooden soldier. She tootled an imaginary flute (5.5).
Shmoopers, does this not sound like a ton of fun? Once again, we see Stargirl taking life by the horns. She celebrates the moment when the band is playing on the field. She lives in that moment and dances and gets into it. She doesn't care that there are people watching her, because she's not doing it to get attention.
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She ran straight across the fifty-yard line and joined the other team's cheerleaders. We laughed as they stood there with their mouths open. She cheered in front of the players' bench and was shooed away by the coach. At halftime she played her ukulele with the band (8.6).
After Stargirl becomes a cheerleader, she takes her new role to the extreme. She cheers for everyone, even the opposing cheerleaders and players. She lives her life to the fullest, doesn't she? You know the expression "only boring people get bored"? Well, it seems like this gal has never known a boring moment in her life. She is involved. Totally.


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This article is part of a special feature on packaging that was published in the May issue of PTE Digital, available at http://www.pharmtech.com/ptedigital0511.
How has pharma's demand for coding technologies altered recently?
Mass serialisation is a growing area of interest and a number of countries are changing their packaging requirements to meet new traceability initiatives. As well as increasing the use of 2D barcodes, these initiatives will involve greater use of serialised numbers and increased levels of human readable information. One example of such a legislation is France's CIP13 mandate, which came into effect on 1 January 2011. The legislation requires pharmaceutical packages to incorporate a 2D data matrix code comprising product code, batch number and expiry date, alongside human-readable information. Other countries also have proposals in place to adopt a similar code structure.
These pieces of packaging legislation will require pharma companies to add new print and verification capabilities to their existing packaging lines. According to our research, up to 80% of currently installed coding devices within the pharmaceutical and healthcare sector cannot meet the required high speed and quality levels.
How are new coding systems adapting to these demands?
Coding small packs with detailed information at high speed is a challenging application. High-resolution coding technologies such as thermal ink jet or scribing laser are generally best-suited to this duty. While neither technology is brand new, there is a continued emphasis on optimising the technology to deliver fast, high quality coding for optimum packaging line efficiency. Where thermal inkjet technology is concerned, matching the ink to the substrate to be coded is important to ensure a crisp, highcontrast code. With laser, higher-powered models address the need for speed. In both cases, it's important to take a holistic view of the installation, rather than looking at coding in isolation.
Innovations in product identification are also taking place off the packaging lines. New technologies exploit the ubiquity of smart- and camera-equipped mobile phones by enabling patients to routinely capture data matrix codes of various types, which can then be cross-referenced with an online database to provide instant authentication. This is also a good way to build customer relationships.
Which technologies are proving popular for pharma companies?
At our company, we find that the most popular coding systems in the pharma industry are thermal ink jet and laser systems. Thermal ink jet enables the printing of highquality 2D Data Matrix codes and other machine-readable formats at high speeds. Such systems also have minimal maintenance because changing the cartridge changes the whole printhead, without the need for an engineer. Scribing lasers also enable the printing of unique numbers and codes, but also eliminate the risk of ink contamination, which makes them very popular in pharma applications. These laser systems also offer clear marking and require less maintenance. Recently, a number of advances have also been made in this area. These advances includes the development of high-powered lasers for faster performance and more robust, compact systems, as well as technologies to allow for a greater linear marking area.
Existing technologies are already well-suited to meet the current needs of the pharma industry in terms of legislation and traceability requirements. However, the challenge is to optimise these technologies to ensure that packaging and production lines are as lean and efficient as possible.
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Skill Tree when complete below. Currently 79 and I consider the build more or less complete at 81
With full 7 frenzy charges I get 11K tooltip I am sure there are better shadow builds out there but I wanted to do something different. I also run hatred anger and wrath and switch out haste and clarity on 50% regen maps. I use crit weakness when I run into a mob that doesn't die in less than 10 seconds. The only thing that usually really kills me is phys reflect. What would be a good skill to use on phys reflect mobs?
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Several people were in the store at the time. One of the suspects stole an item from a shopper. No one was hurt.
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Microsoft has recently announced their latest keyboard and mouse set — the Wireless Comfort Desktop 5000. Just to begin with, the new set is wireless, with both the keyboard and mouse using a shared USB 2.4GHz transceiver.
They keyboard itself, aside from being Windows 7 ready, has a Comfort Curve layout with a soft-touch palm rest and low-profile quiet touch keys. The mouse offers an ambidextrous friendly shape along with rubber side grips and uses Microsoft BlueTrack technology for tracking.
Now, getting back to the Windows 7 ready features, the keyboard has a feature called Taskbar Favorites that will give users an easy way to access and open their applications. Other features specific for Windows 7 include Device Stage which gives the user easy access to common tasks as well as Windows Flip which will allow users to easily see a thumbnail preview of all open windows by pressing a single button.
The Wireless Comfort Desktop 5000 will retail for $80 when it hits stores later this month. However, if for some reason you feel the need to rush out and purchase this now, it is currently available for pre-order though Amazon.
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How to survive and even succeed after splitting up with a business partner
"Running a fast-growing company with your spouse can be tough under the best circumstances," says Jayme Hall, co-founder and CFO of Alligator Performance, a Coeur d'Alene, Idaho-based provider of Diesel performance parts. "Going through a divorce on top of it was almost impossible."
Despite the difficulty of it all, Hall and her now-ex-husband, Chad, who continues to serve as Alligator Performance's CEO, survived a year-long dissolution of their 18-year marriage, as did the company they conceived together in 2005.
The pair accomplished that feat in large part due to the following lessons, each of which Hall suggests could help small business owners in similar situations—whether the parties in question are married and splitting up or just co-owners who are parting ways.
1. Don't just think about yourselves.
Hall admits that even today, a year after their divorce was finalized, "emotions can run high, and Chad and I don't always get along," but those flare-ups tend to cool down quickly.
Why? Because they want their employees "to be healthy and happy, and that means we have to put aside our differences, demonstrate grace under pressure and treat everyone involved with respect." It's helped, she adds, that they're co-parents (to two sons), which "isn't too different from being co-employers to our staff."
2. Be friendly, but not friends, with your employees.
"Prior to the decline in our marriage, we ran the company very much as a 'family,'" Hall shares. The problem with that, she discovered, is "when the parents (in this case, us) divorce, the children (our employees) choose sides, blame one or the other, and play one against the other."
Although the pair resolved that issue by making a "conscious effort to love our staff through the hard moments and encourage everyone to work together for the good of the company," Hall suggests they may have been able to keep it from popping up in the first place had they put a bit of professional distance between themselves and their employees. Determining the right amount of social interaction between owners and employees is so important, she stresses, as is "learning to draw the line between being friendly and being friends with staff."
3. Stay calm and focus on the big picture.
"Finding strength and calm amidst the chaos and hurt is paramount to making it through a crisis like this," Hall says. Specifically, she--and her company--benefited from "[taking] a deep breath and [reminding] myself that I had the power and ability to get through this with very few casualties."
Also beneficial to everybody involved: Hall realizing that "my calm reaction would influence others as much as if I lashed out in anger." All of which helped Hall come to the conclusion that "if I could act professionally and with dignity, we might all be able to look back in a few years and see this company still standing, still providing for our families, and still providing for our futures. It's so powerful to be able to see the big picture and not react to the immediate behaviors."
4. Get help.
And that doesn't necessarily mean seek the assistance of a therapist. In the case of Hall and her ex-husband-co-owner, for instance, it meant hiring managers to help the pair run their respective divisions. "This also helped us not to be so emotional in dealing with pertinent company matters," she explains. "Having managers and advisors alongside us kept our focus on the company and not our personal problems."
While these pieces of advice helped Alligator Performance not just stay in business but succeed after the divorce of its co-owners, Omaha, Nebraska-based consultant Jeff Zindel suggests that not all small businesses in similar situations should expect to see such positive results.
Zindel himself once went through a "business divorce" with a minority partner--although his break-up story has a far more negative ending. "It was the worst experience of my life. I would not wish that on anyone. Even with all the agreements we had in place, it was a very lengthy and pricey, not to mention time-consuming, process."
That said, Zindel acknowledges that the success or failure of such experiences often "depends on a lot of factors. How long have [the co-owners] worked together? How is the ownership of the business set up? What types of clauses are built into the operation agreement, if any?
"I can't say it's a bad idea, [as] I know a few couples in this situation and it works" for them, he adds. "But in general, I wouldn't recommend it."


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ST. MARYS, W.Va. -Four repeat selections headlines the 2010-11 All-Little Kanawha Conference girls' basketball team.
Topping the group is St. Marys' senior Kelsea Fickiesen, who was named for the fourth consecutive time and also recognized as the 14-team conference's Player of the Year after leading the Blue Devils to a perfect 21-0 regular season mark.
"There have been some very talented players come through this conference," explained St. Marys head coach Howard Meeks. "But I can't believe they were any more talented than Kelsea."
Fickiesen, who averaged 26.5 points per game, was joined on the 12-player first unit by teammates Dani Renner and Audra Clark.
Renner, a junior, averaged 12.8 points per game while Clark, a sophomore, averaged a double-double (15.7 ppg and 10.0 rpg).
"Those three were the keys to our success this year, but they would also be the first ones to tell you that they couldn't have accomplished what they did without their teammates' help."
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All-LKC Teams
First Team
Player, School Grade PPG
Kelsea Fickiesen, St. Marys* 12 26.5
Emily Rector, Ravenswood 12 18.0
Hannah Murray, Ravenswood 10 13.8
Liz Flowers, Williamstown 11 16.4
Jacee Markle, Clay County 11 19.0
Leah Hughes, Parkersburg Catholic 10 11.5
Dani Renner, St. Marys 11 12.8
Audra Clark, St. Marys 10 15.7
Savannah Church, Calhoun County 11 18.1
Corri Phillips, Braxton County 11 9.7
Maggie Lilly, Gilmer County 11 11.4
Shannon Cieslewski, Williamstown 12 8.7
Player of the Year: Kelsea Fickiesen, St. Marys
Coach of the Year: Howard Meeks, St. Marys and Chris Michael, Ravenswood
Second Team
Tristin Toman, Ritchie; Montana Barker, Clay; Brittani Gaskins, Wirt; Maddie Roedersheimer, Parkersburg Catholic; Shila Allman, Williamstown; Becky Frye, Roane; Taylor Lipscomb, South Harrison; Sami Jones, Tyler Consolidated; Taylor Bragg, Braxton; Brittany Gould, Clay; D'Andra Swiger, Doddridge; Hannah Gurtis, Ravenswood
Third Team
Regan Stout, Ritchie; Sophie Kinnard, Tyler; Jessica Montgomery, Gilmer; Sarah McMillan, Ravenswood; Megan Roberts, Williamstown; Kelley Bunner, Wirt; Hunter Sodaro, Braxton; Emily Koerber, Parkersburg Catholic; Ali Johnson, St. Marys; Amber Wilford, Calhoun; Brooklynn Pavalok, Roane; Erica Eddy, South Harrison; Liz Ruscitto, Parkersburg Catholic; Anne Golinsky, Braxton; Corena Gray, Clay; Hannah DeMarino, Gilmer; Heather Suter, Tyler; Kourtney Beall, Gilmer; Maria Webber, Ritchie; Hannah Nichols, Wirt; Hunter Newton, Doddridge; Sierra Riffle, Doddridge; Torrye Cline, Tyler; Ashley Houchin, Calhoun; Amanda Davis, Ritchie; Leigh Thomas, Wirt; Kaleigh Wetzel, South Harrison; Brittany Bork, South Harrison
Fickiesen became only the fourth player in conference history to capture the POY award more than once. Ravenswood's Mary Beth Varney (1993, 94, 96), Ritchie County's Missy Spangler (1999, 2000, 01) and Parkersburg Catholic's Sarah Tokodi (04, 05, 06) were all three time choices by the conference's coaches as the league's best player.
In addition to leading the LKC, and Mid-Ohio Valley in scoring, the St. Marys standout finished among the Top 10 in the conference in assists (4.7, 3rd), steals (4.9, 2nd), rebounds (7.7, 8th) and 3-point shots made (31, 8th).
Other repeat selections included Ravenswood's Emily Rector, Williamstown's Liz Flowers and Braxton County's Corri Phillips. All three were named for the third consecutive time.
Rector (18.0 ppg), the only senior among the trio, led the Red Devils to the runner-up slot in the North Division and a 51-29 victory over Braxton County in the Night of Champions' third place contest.
Flowers, a junior, led the conference in assists (5.8 pg) and averaged 16.4 points and 8.4 rebounds per game as the Yellowjackets finished third in the North.
Phillips, also a junior, led the Eagles in just about every category, averaging 9.7 points, 4-5 rebounds and 1.4 assists per game as Braxton finished behind Clay County in the South Division.
Rounding out the first unit are Hannah Murray of Ravenswood, Jacee Markle of Clay County, Leah Hughes of Parkersburg Catholic, Savannah Church of Calhoun County, Maggie Lilly of Gilmer County and Shannon Cieslewski of Williamstown.
Murray and Hughes are sophomores and Cieslewski is a senior-the rest are juniors.
Markle finished second in the conference in scoring with a 19 points per game average followed by Church (18.1), Rector, Flowers, Ritchie County's Tristin Toman (15.9), Clark, Murray (14.2), Clay's Montana Barker (13.3) and Lilly (12.4).
Hughes was the primary weapon for a Crusaderette team which finished fourth in the North, averaging 11.5 points, 6.9 rebounds and two steals per game while Cieslewski closed out her career with the Yellowjackets by averaging 8.7 points and 7.8 rebounds per game.
Second team members included Toman, Barker, Wirt County's Brittani Gaskins, Maddie Roedersheimer of Parkersburg Catholic, Shila Allman of Williamstown, Roane County's Becky Frye, South Harrison's Taylor Lipscomb, Sami Jones of Tyler Consolidated, Taylor Bragg of Braxton, Brittany Gould of Clay, D'Andra Swiger of Doddridge County and Ravenswood's Hannah Gurtis.
Selected as the Coach of the Year by the coaches were Meeks and Ravenswood's Chris Michael.


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Spatial Heterogeneity of Autoinducer Regulation Systems
1 Institute of Biomathematics and Biometry, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Ingolstädter Landstraße 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany 2 Department of Mathematics, Technische Universität München, Boltzmannstraße 3, 85748 Garching, Germany 3 Research Unit Microbe-Plant Interactions, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Ingolstädter Landstraße 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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AbstractAutoinducer signals enable coordinated behaviour of bacterial populations, a phenomenon originally described as quorum sensing. Autoinducer systems are often controlled by environmental substances as nutrients or secondary metabolites (signals) from neighbouring organisms. In cell aggregates and biofilms gradients of signals and environmental substances emerge. Mathematical modelling is used to analyse the functioning of the system. We find that the autoinducer regulation network generates spatially heterogeneous behaviour, up to a kind of multicellularity-like division of work, especially under nutrient-controlled conditions. A hybrid push/pull concept is proposed to explain the ecological function. The analysis allows to explain hitherto seemingly contradicting experimental findings.
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New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris continues her Sookie Stackhouse series (where the HBO series, True Blood, came from) with "Dead in the Family."
Speaking of the show True Blood, fans of it need to really start at the beginning of the book series and work their way up instead of just jumping into this one. For longtime fans of the book series, this one continues where "Dead and Gone" left off and references many of the events in the past of the series.
After the brutal Fae War that Sookie and her friends have just been through, there are many dead and others forever changed. Bill is injured and Sookie is determined to find a way to help him and Eric (whom Sookie is with) is being watched by the new vampire king, Victor. Eric and Sookie's relationship seems to be a bit on the rocks as well, though they still have feelings for each other.
Meanwhile, Sookie's Fae cousin, Claude, comes to stay with her for dubious reasons. Alcide's wolf pack comes to ask to use Sookie's land for a meeting, just as the tension surrounding the human/werewolf relations are heating up and they may possibly be under government scrutiny. And there's always a vampire or two poking around. And with everyone on Sookie's land, they eventually find a recently dead body and it's not who Sookie's expecting (poor Sookie - how messed up is your life when the body you EXPECT your friends to find isn't the one?) , and evidence that there's been a Fae also on the land that's not Claude. Could it be Sookie's crazy uncle Dermot? Or is it someone else? And then to make matters worse, Eric's vampire maker comes to town with his other "son" who is more than slightly crazy, which causes even more tension between Sookie and Eric.
All three of these plotlines come together in the end, and not without more than a little bloodshed. When the dust settles, what will happen to Sookie?
I continue to enjoy Harris' series, and look forward to each new book to see what will happen to Sookie next. Here's hoping there's many more adventures for Sookie in the future.
"Dead in the Family" is published by Ace. It is $25.95 and 311 pages long.
Some towns are obsessed with football. Some fans would do anything for the football team. Even raise them from the dead. A small Texas town shows a new side to football obsession in "Play Dead" by Ryan Brown.
Quarterback Cole Logan is the bad boy leader of the Killington Jackrabbits. The team is one win away from district championships and a game against crosstown rivals, the Elmwood Badgers.
But the Badgers is one tough team and they are determined to do anything to win, not limited to steroids. Cole is attacked by masked 'men' and his fingers cut off (from his non-throwing hand.) Cole's determined to still play for the team, though, and Savannah Hickman, the daughter of the coach and school reporter, is determined to get the story from the source about what happened. While Cole and Savannah are distracted elsewhere, the Badgers cause a crash with the Jackrabbit's bus, causing it to plunge into the river and everyone but the coach aboard drown. That's when Cole turns to his strange neighbor and rumored witch, Black Mona, for a little help in revenge...and the team comes back. But this team is hungrier for more than just a win (try flesh) and if Cole can't get a win over the Badgers, not only is the whole school's reputation on the line, but the teams' souls as well.
This is a funny book about small town football obsession with a zombie twist. The zombie part is played a bit for laughs - the parents can't tell the kids are zombies - all they want to do is eat and stare into space, which to them just sounds like normal teen behavior. Cole and Savannah are fun lead characters that are determined to do right or die trying.
"Play Dead" is published by Gallery Books. It is $24.99 and 344 pages long.
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- It was a needlessly conceded free-kick out on the right wing, and as it was sent in across the edge of the six-yard box, the Milan players were queuing up to nod it home.
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Erh!Not sure what game you watched, but it wasn't the same as me!Spurs battered Blackpool, If we had a striker who could actually do his job we would have massacred you.Initially I was delighted with Blackpool and their footballing ideals, however 'Olly is grating a little bit now. Thers was all that pap about how derisory the offers for Adam were and he's making embarrassingly low offers for championship players, now he's defending one of the worst challenges of the season.Back to the championshit with you! and get some undersoil heating if you ever want to play in this league again.


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Evidence of Evolution
The Theme of Unity and Diversity in Evidence of Evolution
If any single theme really stands out in Evidence of Evolution, this is it. To acknowledge that evolution has occurred is to acknowledge that living things are united by common ancestry, and that they have diversified over time to meet the specific demands of widely variable environments.
The great diversity of life is easy to see, but the unity (common ancestry) of life can be a little harder to wrap your mind around. We mentioned it a bunch of times earlier, and discussed how various forms of evidence support the notion of common ancestry, but let's explore this idea in depth. What, exactly do we mean by common ancestry? Common ancestry means that all living things—past, present, and future—share an ancestor, and all descended from that one individual. Scientists believe that the last (most recent) common ancestor to all existing life forms lived about 3.9 billion years ago. This ancestor gave rise to the three domains of life—Eukarya, Bacteria, and Archaea—and all the organisms that comprise those domains.
You're probably thinking this is hard to believe, considering the vast differences between E. coli bacteria, the mushroom on your pizza, and humans. But look a little more closely; they all rely on nucleic acids to encode information, they all synthesize proteins by similar processes, and for all of them, the basic unit of life is the cell. The differences between these organisms have evolved in the billions of years since their common ancestor lived. In other words, since that ancestor lived so long ago, there has been plenty of time for evolution to shape these organisms into the disparate forms they take today.
It's also important to note that, while the ancestor for ALL life forms lived 3.9 billion years ago, we share more recent ancestors with other, more closely related organisms. For example, the ancestor of all living mammals probably lived in the early Jurassic period—around 200 million years ago. The last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees (our closest living relative) probably lived sometime between 6 and 10 million years ago. The more closely related organisms are, the more recently their common ancestor lived. And, since a more recent common ancestor means less time for evolution to occur, more closely related organisms generally share more traits.
In sum, the fact that all organisms are unified by certain common traits—which revel their common ancestry—and at the same time show tremendous diversity in their morphology, physiology, ecology, and life history, among other things, is compelling evidence that evolution has occurred.


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4 Happy Foods that Boost Your Spirits
The mind and emotions are not detached from the physical body.
What you eat plays a big role in how you think and the state of your emotions.
Some foods give you an immediate boost but end up being very bad for you. These include refined sugars, artificial ingredients, alcohol and other stimulants.
There are, however, nutritious foods that can naturally lift your spirits.
Foods that lift your spirits
Nature provides spirit-lifting foods that make you feel good emotionally.
They do this by providing happy chemicals, phytochemicals that stimulate or trigger certain body systems (your hormonal system, for example), offer unrefined sugars and fats, and offer the building blocks for energy.
In no particular order of importance, here are some (organically or biodynamically grown) foods for thought:
- Coconut butter. This fat, contains ketones and medium chain triglycerides that feed the brain. Available here.
- Spinach. This food promotes the production of serotonin, a neurotransmitter most linked to happiness.
- Bananas. (also promotes production of serotonin) — plus they're fun to peel!
- Sunflower seeds. These seeds contain a lot of glutamine, which is used by your cells to convert energy for cellular use.
Next time you're feeling moody or depressed, try eating some of the above foods and notice the difference!
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Well, it's a good thing I don't start writing these things after the game because I wouldn't know where to start. Couldn't have felt any more optimistic coming into this one with the Hurricanes in the second of a back-to-back after losing last night 5-1 to the Blue Jackets, and even though that should merit getting a team kicked out of the league, the return of Nick Lidstrom and some other guy sealed certain victory.
Until the Wings dug deep enough in the Earth to find a 4-1 deficit. I was not enthused, and in fact very angry. But luckily for us it appeared that the Wings were too, and from that goal on, all of the action was tilted toward Cam Ward. Four unanswered goals and two points later, I'm a bit more enthused. Here's a few bullets.
Until the Wings dug deep enough in the Earth to find a 4-1 deficit. I was not enthused, and in fact very angry. But luckily for us it appeared that the Wings were too, and from that goal on, all of the action was tilted toward Cam Ward. Four unanswered goals and two points later, I'm a bit more enthused. Here's a few bullets.
- Trying to get my pregame snack streak back on track, I went with a Vernor's and a three day-old wheat biscuit. What better way to celebrate the return of Nicklas Lidstrom than eating something that makes me sound 85 years old.
- Confirmation of Nick's return right before the game spread across the Red Wing fanbase like wildfire. And news of Jakub Kindl's return brought about the question, "If a tree falls in the woods, but a wildfire burned down all the trees down beforehand, is this tree a hologram?" You aren't fooling anybody, Jakub Kindl hologram.
- "The Red Wings have never lost to the Carolina Hurricanes at home." This is a blatant lie. I will never understand why, with certain stats, you are allowed to overlook playoff stats as if they never happ.... holy shit I just realized something. Using Fox Sports Detroit's crazy amnesia logic, the Wings haven't lost a regulation game at home to Pittsburgh since December 10, 2000. My god, these people are geniuses! With my new-found wizard powers I can see my reflection in the mirror again, eat food without using a straw, and visit the Detroit Zoo without taking the penguin exhibit hostage and forcing the penguins to re-enact the final episode of M*A*S*H*. Before this, I couldn't not do the hostage thing. Like I am in jail right now. Please send me some money.
- Carolina assistant coach Dave Lewis was the "Dave Lewis" of Red Wings coaches. Just one man's opinion.
- Henrik Zetterberg scored his second goal of the game late in the 2nd period off the mask of Cam Ward, avoiding a Jiri Hudler high stick. I don't know what this Hunger Games thing is that the kids are all into now, but the thought of Jiri Hudler growing tall enough to take away a Wings goal via a high stick sounds science-fiction-y enough for me to assume that's what it is.
- Gustav Nyquist had a fantastic opportunity for his first NHL goal five minutes into the 3rd period. Frankly, I don't think it's going to ever happen until they get the Derek Meech juice off that #14 jersey.
- No joke: Zetterberg was a horse. Looked like a guy who would rather loose his sack than lose to the Carolina Hurricanes at home.
- In this up-and-down game, I have to say the most exciting part was Ken Daniels declaring the Red Wings had won -- with two seconds left on the clock. Between 2 and zero there was a centering pass and a Ty Conklin save (no really). Don't fucking do that, Ken.
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According to family tradition, the Trumbo surname comes from when a member of the Rule family saved the life of King Robert the Bruce at Stirling Park from a charging bull by turning the bull's head. The grateful King decreed that in commemoration of the brave act the new name of the family would be Turnbull, and granted them an area of land then known as Bedrule. Other Etymology suggests that the name comes from the Old English Trumbald, meaning "strongly bold."
The surname Trumbo was first found in Roxburghshire where they held a family seat from early times and their first records appeared on the early census rolls taken by the early Kings of Scotland to determine the rate of taxation of their subjects.
Spelling variations of this family name include: Turnbull, Turnball, Trimble, Trimbell, Trumbell, Trumbill, Turnbul and many more.
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Trumbo research. Another 543 words (39 lines of text) covering the years 1214, 1249, 1296, 1335, 1447, 1639 and 1716 are included under the topic Early Trumbo History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Another 33 words (2 lines of text) are included under the topic Early Trumbo Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Some of the Trumbo family moved to Ireland, but this topic is not covered in this excerpt. Another 135 words (10 lines of text) about their life in Ireland is included in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: Thomas and William Turnbull settled in New Jersey in 1685; John Turnbull settled in Annapolis, Maryland in 1753; William Turnbull settled in Bonavista, Newfoundland in 1765.
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The Trumbo Family Crest was acquired from the Houseofnames.com archives. The Trumbo Family Crest was drawn according to heraldic standards based on published blazons. We generally include the oldest published family crest once associated with each surname.
This page was last modified on 16 September 2014 at 15:43.
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