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Home prices keep city assessed values rising
Home prices jumped 27 percent on average in Minot last year, according to the city assessor's office.
The median sale price of $239,000 on homes not in the flood area compared with a median sale price of $188,000 in 2011.
Those strong market figures mean assessed values also must go up to stay in compliance with state law, city assessor Kevin Ternes told the Minot City Council, which met Tuesday as the Board of Equalization. The board approved assessed valuations for the city, but final determination of assessments will be made by the State Board of Equalization.
Owners of about 10,000 of the city's 13,000 houses received notices in March that their assessments would rise 10 percent or more. The average increase citywide is 13 percent.
Several home and business owners appeared at Tuesday's meeting to present information and request changes in their assessments. Some questions over assessments have come from valley property owners, who are seeing values greater than pre-flood.
"If you fixed up a home in the valley and it is ready to go or close, it is worth a lot more than last year," Ternes said.
City records show about 166 flooded homes sold after they were repaired. The median assessment of these homes before the flood was $141,000. The 2012 median sale price was $182,000, or about 30 percent more.
"We did determine that the median sale price in the valley is 10 to 20 percent less than what was selling on the hill. That is recognized in our numbers," Ternes said.
In doing sales studies, repaired homes in the valley are assessed based on comparable home sales. They are not compared with sale prices of homes outside the flood zone or prices of replacement homes in the flood zone, he said.
Bob Timm, a resident of southeast Minot who reported a 40 percent increase in his assessment, said lack of disclosure about rehabbed homes in his once flooded neighborhood prompted buyers to pay more than they should. Contractors who repaired and marketed homes never lived there and aren't telling buyers that the neighborhood has been plagued by sewer backups and resulting mold for a number of years, he said.
Referring to one newly enlightened buyer, Timm noted, "They said they never would have bought the house, no matter what price it was at. I think that needs to be taken into account. A lot of these houses that have been flipped, that were sold privately, the unsuspecting owners had no idea the problems that went with that house."
Mike Stenvold, who owns rental property, suggested to the board that assessment increases in the valley be phased in over a period of years to enable people to recover what they have invested in rebuilding. In setting rent, he anticipated some increase in assessment but not the huge jump that he received.
"It is hard to go back to my renters now and say, 'I need to increase your rent,'" he said.
Joe Klein, whose muffler shop flooded a month after he bought it, told the board that flood damage never resulted in a discount on his property assessment, which has almost doubled since 2011.
Ternes said commercial property in general in Minot has been assessed 21 percent below what properties are selling for, which forces an increase in assessments.
Renovating a flooded property also creates improvements that increase the property's pre-flood worth, he said. That, along with housing demand, is increasing the value of properties in the flooded area, he said.
Ternes added that assessments, although used in calculating taxes, don't determine whether taxes rise or fall.
"Taxes are the result of government budgets, not assessments," he said.


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Ellicott Approves 4.9 Percent Tax Levy Hike
FALCONER-The Ellicott Town Board approved the 2014 final budget at its meeting Monday.
The budget increased the tax levy by 4.9 percent, an increase of $114,338 from 2013. The total to be raised by taxes, the tax levy, will be $2,333,950, and $1,647,894 will be expected in revenue. Citizens outside the town will have a tax rate of $4.98 per $1,000 of assessed value, and citizens in Falconer and Celoron will have a tax rate of $4.41 per $1,000. The total budget is $3,981,844 for 2014.
On Oct. 21, a public hearing was held to discuss Local Law 2-2013, authorizing the Ellicott Town Council, if they should so choose, to override the 2 percent property tax cap imposed by New York. No public comments were heard. The board approved the override of the 2 percent tax cap with Councilman Robert Heintzelman voting against the override.
Marvin Shellhouse, highway superintendent, reported Ellicott Highway Department intended to begin work on the Horton Road drainage project as soon as the surveys of several properties had been finalized.
The council also discussed the feasibility of conducting a "bait and shoot" program in West Ellicott. William Wright, town attorney, said the Chautauqua Watershed Conservancy has agreed to allow such a program to be conducted on their property located behind the Fairmount Plaza. However, they have stipulated the town furnish "indemnification and hold harmless agreements as a condition of allowing the program to proceed." The insurance agent needed more details about the bait and shoot program before determining the potential liability issues involved.
Monday's meeting tabled the ongoing deer management issue in West Ellicott. The town board also accepted a donation from the Chautauqua Lake Partnership.

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James Frederick Leckman, MD, PhD
Neison Harris Professor in the Child Study Center and Professor of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Adolescent Psychiatry; Child Psychiatry; Tourette Syndrome; Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder; Psychiatry; Tic Disorders; Global Health
Research Organizations
Child Study Center: Family, Genetic and Molecular Research | Tic Disorder & Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Program
Neuroscience Research Training Program (NRTP)
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Research Clinic
Program in Neurodevelopment and Regeneration
MacMillan Center: Middle East Studies
Research Summary
Dr. Leckman is widely recognized as a master clinician with special skills in the evaluation and treatment of Tourette's syndrome (TS) and early onset obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Since the early 1980s, he has seen and evaluated hundreds of individuals with these conditions. In 1999, he edited with Dr. Donald J. Cohen, Tourette's Syndrome: Tics, Obsessions, Compulsions - Developmental Psychopathology and Clinical Care, published by John Wiley & Sons. Given its success, this volume was re-issued in paperback in 2001. More recently, Dr. Leckman edited (along with Andres Martin, Lawrence Scahill and Dennis Charney) a 56-chapter volume, entitled, Pediatric Psychopharmacology: Principles and Practice published in October of 2002 by Oxford University Press. Dr. Leckman's specific research interests include the interaction of genes and environment in the pathogenesis of TS and OCD. His research on these disorders is well known and multifaceted from phenomenology and natural history, to neurobiology (neuroimaging, neuroendocrinology, neuroimmunology) to genetics, to risk factor research (perinatal factors are important), to treatment studies.
Specialized Terms: Child and adolescent psychiatry; Tourette's syndrome; Obsessive/compulsive disorder (OCD)
Extensive Research Description
James F. Leckman, M.D. is the Neison Harris Professor of Child Psychiatry, Psychiatry, Psychology and Pediatrics at Yale. He serves as the Director of Research for the Yale Child Study Center. Dr. Leckman is a well known child psychiatrist and patient-oriented clinical investigator. His peers have regularly selected him as one of the Best Doctors in America. Dr. Leckman is the author or co-author of over 300 original articles published in peer-reviewed journals, seven books, and 120 book chapters. In 2002, he was identified by American Society for Information, Science and Technology as a "Highly Cited Researcher" - one of the world's most cited authors in Psychology and Psychiatry – in the top half of the top one percent of all publishing researchers.
In 1999, he edited with Dr. Donald J. Cohen, Tourette's Syndrome: Tics, Obsessions, Compulsions - Developmental Psychopathology and Clinical Care, published by John Wiley&Sons. Given its success, this volume was re-issued in paper back in the fall of 2001. More recently, Dr. Leckman edited (along with Andres Martin, Lawrence Scahill and Dennis Charney) a 56-chapter volume, entitled, Pediatric Psychopharmacology: Principles and Practice published in October of 2002 by Oxford University Press. In November 2002, an invited review article on Tourette's syndrome appeared in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet.
Clinical expertise
Dr. Leckman is widely recognized as a committed clinician with special skills in the evaluation and treatment of Tourette's syndrome (TS) and early onset obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Since the early 1980s, he has seen and evaluated hundreds of individuals with these conditions. Physicians, patients and families from across the country and around the world regularly seek his advice. He is frequently invited to address professional, parent and advocacy groups at local, regional, and national meetings as well as international meetings. For example during the past four years, he has presented to professional and/or family groups in London, Rotterdam, Berlin, Rome, Johannesburg, Istanbul, Beirut, Sharm El Sheikh, Tehran, Tel Aviv, Taipei, Tokyo, Mexico City, Lima, and Sao Paulo. He is also a fully trained psychoanalyst.
Interdisciplinary research program on TS & OCD
One of Dr. Leckman's main research interests has been the interaction of genes and environment in the pathogenesis of TS and OCD. His research on these disorders is well known and multifaceted from phenomenology and natural history, to neurobiology (neuroimaging, neuroendocrinology, neuroimmunology) to genetics, to risk factor research (perinatal factors are important), to treatment studies.
2006 has been another productive year in the world of Tourette's syndrome and OCD here at Yale. Headlining this year's contributions are original articles appearing in Science and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. One of these reports identify for the first time variations in a gene SLITRK1 that confer vulnerability to develop Tourette's syndrome. The other report is a study of donated postmortem brain tissue that documented dramatic changes in the cellular organization of individuals with severe, persistent, refractory Tourette's syndrome. We are particularly pleased that several of the first authors of these reports are either currently Yale undergraduates (Diana Feygin), medical students (Jesse Abelson and Paul Kalanithi), or recent medical school graduates (Michael Bloch). This bodes well for the future of research in this area as we bring along the next generation of scientific leaders.
Current projects focus on the role of post infectious autoimmune processes that may play a role in the development and course of some forms of TS and OCD. We are also working collaboratively to understand more about the electrophysiology of TS and OCD. This work includes EEG and magnetoencephalographic studies as well as the use of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) and deep brain stimulation (DBS) to treat individuals with severe forms of these disorders.
Yale Program on Risk, Resilience and Recovery
With the support of Yale School of Medicine, the Institute for Research on Unlimited Love, and a group of private donors, Dr. Leckman partnering with Linda Mayes initiated a new research program that focuses on that special time in the lives of families – from the pregnancy through the first years of life. Under normal circumstances, this is a time of transformation - a time when families come into being and what new parents value changes forever, as well as a time when a new person begins their journey through life. Projects include a prospective longitudinal study of typically developing families. In additional behavioral assessments, brain imaging studies have been an important feature. Another core mission of the program is to facilitate synergism across existing programs of research within the Center and the University as well as with leading investigative teams nationally. These affiliated projects between together investigators at the Child Study Center, as well as those in Psychology, Psychiatry, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Epidemiology and Public Health, Laboratory Medicine, Diagnostic Radiology, and the School of Nursing. Some of the highlights of the last year included a second annual conference that was held in the spring of 2006, entitled: "Risk, Resilience and Recovery: The Formation of the Family and the Effects of Trauma and Recurrent Stress: From Animal Models to Model Programs and Social Policy."
Drs. Leckman and Mayes also regularly teach an undergraduate seminar on Love and Attachment at Yale College that integrates the principles of evolutionary biology, ethology, and developmental neuroscience with the study of psychopathology.
ERICE (Empowerment and Resilience in Children Everywhere)
With the support of the Fondazione per lo Studio e la Ricera sull'Infanzia el'Adolescenza, Italian Government, the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, Dr. Leckman convened child mental health professionals from Israel, the West Bank and Gaza to discuss how best to improve the lives of children in this region of conflict. From the first meeting in Jerusalem in 2004, this group continues to meet both in the region and in Europe. The last meeting was in Rome in July 2006 where we heard the ongoing results from the first funded joint project that is jointly led by Ruth Feldman (Israel) and Iyad Hallaq (West Bank). Theirs is a remarkable project that extends from the Israeli settlements in Gaza to the Palestinian neighborhoods of Nablus. It focuses on the effects of witnessing combat and catastrophe by infants and their families. At the meeting we also developed guidelines for the next round of grant requests. They include: (1) the likelihood of a positive impact for Palestinian and Israeli children; (2) that it will be a joint project involving Israeli and Palestinian professionals; and (3) that it will be feasible and will be capacity building. Thus far, we have secured external funding from NARSAD and the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation.
As part of his leadership of the research program at the Child Study Center, Dr. Leckman has directed for the past 23 years an institutional postdoctoral research training program at Yale. With seven postdoctoral positions awarded annually, this is one of the largest grants of this kind awarded by the NIMH. Several of the graduates of this program now occupy leadership positions in child psychiatric research nationally. Dr. Leckman has been selected on five occasions as the Outstanding Research Mentor by the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists.
For two years Dr. Leckman served as the Co-Chair of the National Psychiatry Training Council. The NPTC was appointed by Thomas Insel, MD, Director, the National Institute of Mental Health to implement the recommendations of an Institute of Medicine committee report entitled: Research Training in Psychiatry Residency: Strategies for Reform. This effort led to the inauguration of the Albert J. Solnit Integrated Child and Adult Psychiatry Research Pathway at Yale in 2004. With the support of Yale University School of Medicine, NIH, and a group of private donors the Solnit Integrated Research Training Program was initiated to increase the number of physician-scientists with clinical and research skills. Dr. Leckman leads this effort nationally and one other site is active at the University of Colorado where there are also six trainees enrolled.
In 2002, to honor the memory of Donald J. Cohen, The Kingenstein Third Generation Foundation and the John & Patricia Klingenstein Fund established the Donald J. Cohen Medical Student Fellowship program. Through early engagement with patients and their families, this program is designed to encourage medical students to become familiar with the special challenges associated with the care of children and adolescents with mental, behavioral and developmental disorders. Thus far, more that 80 Yale medical students have entered this program. Many are now envisioning careers in child psychiatry and a number are doing their thesis project with faculty at the Child Study Center. Based on the success of the Yale program the Board of the Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation has now funded five additional sites: Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Mt. Sinai, Stanford and the University of California at Davis. Here at Yale the other faculty involved in this effort include: Andres Martin, MD, MPH, and Samuel Ritvo, MD, along with a score of faculty mentors.
We are currently involved in a series of studies focused on tic disorders (Tourette's syndrome, TS) and early-onset obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). These include cross-sectional and longitudinal studies that focus on neuropsychological performance and clinical outcomes, genetics, the role of environmental factors (such as psychosocial stress and perinatal risk factors), neurobiology (brain imaging and post-mortem studies), immunobiology, as well as studies evaluating novel treatments, including repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS).
Recent Yale Medical Student Thesis projects have included:
1. Longitudinal studies of the early adult outcomes of children with TS and early onset OCD. We have found that certain clinical indices, certain neuropsychological findings, and certain brain imaging findings are predictive of future tic and OC symptom severity in early adulthood.
2. Cross-sectional neuroimaging and dense array EEG studies looking at the role of sensorimotor gating.
3. Behavioral interventions that require focused attention and fine motor control appear diminish tic frequency.
Recent NIH funded studies include:
1. A multisite prospective longitudinal study of children with PANDAS with a focus of specific immune mechanisms and the role of psychosocial stress.
2. RTMS treatment of adults and adolescents with severe TS.
3. We are also participating in a number of multisite genetics consortia.
Formative Childhood and Peace Building
Most recently, in partnership with colleagues at UNICEF and the Mother-Child Education Foundation based in Turkey, Dr. Leckman has begun to explore the question whether strengthening families and enhancing child development is a path to peace and violence prevention. Related efforts include the Early Childhood Peace Consortium that was launched (September 2013) in New York in at the United Nations and the 15th Ernst Strüngmann Forum that took place in Frankfurt, Germany in October 2013. The deliberations of 40 international experts from a broad range of scientific disciplines are summarized in volume entitled, Formative Childhoods: The Transformative Power of Children and Families, published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press in 2014. More information is available at: http://childstudycenter.yale.edu/international/peace/index.aspx.
Selected Publications
- Leckman JF. Thank goodness for Uncle Sam and the NIMH Intramural Program. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 2011;50(9):851-3.
- Gordon I, Martin C, Feldman R, Leckman JF. Oxytocin and Social Motivation. Dev Cogn Neurosci. 2011; 1(4):471-493.
- Lebowitz ER, Omer H, Leckman JF. Coercive and disruptive behaviors in pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder. Depress Anxiety. 2011; 28(10):899-905.
- Kim P, Feldman R, Mayes, LC, Eicher V, Thompson N, Leckman JF, Swain JE. Breastfeeding, Brain Activation to Own Infant Cry, and Maternal Sensitivity. J Child Psychol Psychiatry 2011 Aug;52(8):907-15.
- Leckman JF. Variations in maternal behavior--oxytocin and reward pathways--peripheral measures matter?! Neuropsychopharmacology 2011; 36(13):2587-8
- Leckman JF, March JS. Developmental neuroscience comes of age. J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2011 Apr;52(4):333-8.
- Leckman JF, King RA, Gilbert DL, Coffey BJ, Singer HS, Dure LS4th, Grantz H, Katsovich L, Lin H, Lombroso PJ, Kawikova I, Johnson DR, Kurlan RM, Kaplan EL. Streptococcal upper respiratory tract infections and exacerbations of tic and obsessive-compulsive symptoms: A prospective longitudinal study. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 2011; 50(2):108-118.
- Leckman JF, Yazgan MY. Developmental transitions to psychopathology: from genomics and epigenomics to social policy. J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2010; 51(4):333 – 340.
- Leckman JF, Denys D, Mataix-Cols D, Hollander E, Rauch SL, Saxena S, Miguel EC, Phillips KA, Stein DJ. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A review of the diagnostic criteria and subtype and dimensional and specifiers for DSM-V. Depress Anxiety 2010; 27(6):507-27.
- Hampson M, Tokoglu F, King RA, Constable TR, Leckman JF. Differential brain activity during chronic motor tics and intentional movements of healthy controls. Biol Psychiatry 2009 Apr 1;65(7):594-9.
- Leslie DL, Kozma L, Martin A, Landeros A, Katsovich L, King RA, Leckman JF. Neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infection: A case-control study among privately insured children. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 2008; 47(10): 1166-1172.
- Lin H, Katsovich L, Ghebremichael M, Findley DB, Grantz H, Lombroso PJ, King RA, Zhang H, Leckman JF: Psychosocial stress predicts future symptom severities in children and adolescents with Tourette syndrome and/or obsessive-compulsive disorder. J Child Psychol Psychiatry 2007; 48(2)157–166.
- Kawikova I, Leckman JF, Kronig H, Katsovich L, Bessen D, Ghebremichael M, Bothwell ALM. Decreased number of regulatory T cells suggests impaired immune tolerance in children with Tourette's syndrome. Biol Psychiatry 2007; 61(3):273-8.
- Bloch MH, Landeros-Weisenberger, A, Kelmendi B, Coric V, Bracken MB, Leckman JF. A systematic review: Antipsychotic augmentation with treatment refractory Obsessive-compulsive disorder. Mol Psychiatry 2006 Jul11(7):622-32.
- Bloch MH, Peterson BS, Scahill L, Otka J, Katsovich L, Zhang H, Leckman JF. Clinical predictors of future tic and OCD severity in children with Tourette syndrome Arch Pediatrics Adolesc Med 2006:160:65-69.
- Leckman JF, Vaccarino FM, Kalanithi PSA, Rothenberger A. Tourette syndrome: A relentless drumbeat driven by misguided brain oscillations. J Child Psychol Psychiatry 2006; 47(6):537-50.
- Bloch MH, Leckman JF, Peterson BS: Basal ganglia volumes and future tic severity in children with Tourette syndrome. Neurology 2005 65(8):1253-8
- Abelson JF, Kwan KY, O'Roak BJ, Baek DY, Stillman AA, Morgan TM, Mathews CA, Pauls DL, Ra_in MR, Gunel M, Davis NR, Ercan-Sencicek AG, Guez DH, Spertus JA, Leckman JF, Dure LS, Kurlan R, Singer HS, Gilbert DL, Farhi A, Louvi A, Lifton RP, _estan N, State MW. Mutations in SLITRK1 are associated with Tourette syndrome, Science 2005 310(5746):317-20.
- Kalanithi PAS, Zheng W, DiFiglia M, Grantz H, Saper CB, Schwartz ML, Leckman JF, Vaccarino FM: Altered parvalbumin-positive neuron distribution in basal ganglia of individuals with Tourette syndrome. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2005; 102(37):13307-12.
- Leckman JF. Tourette's syndrome. Lancet 2002; 360:1577-1586.
- Leckman JF, Riddle MA: Tourette's syndrome: When habit forming units form habits of their own? Neuron 2000; 28(2):349-354.


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Thompson completes competitive internship at marine laboratory
Thompson completes competitive internship at marine laboratory
Aug. 16, 2013
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Earlier this month, Maryville College junior Ravyn Thompson completed a 10-week competitive internship at the Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, Fla. The experience, offered to only 10 undergraduates from across the country, was made possible by the National Sciences Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program.
Students who are selected for the program conduct independent research projects under a mentor's guidance. Participants have the opportunity to build communication skills by presenting their findings in both a written report formatted for a scientific manuscript and at a lab-wide poster symposium.
"It is an excellent resume-building experience that will help Ravyn gain admission to graduate school in the future, regardless of whether she stays in marine science or shifts to another field in biology or biochemistry," said Dr. Jennifer Brigati, associate professor of biology at MC and Thompson's academic adviser.
When Thompson, a biochemistry major at the College, began looking for science-related summer internships during the past academic year, marine biology was not the first thing that came to her mind.
"I was sitting at my computer one afternoon, looking up different types of internships, with most of my focus on biomedical research at medical schools. I hadn't thought about marine biology since middle school, but I thought I would give it a try. That's when I started searching for biomedical programs within marine science and came across the REU program," Thompson said.
During the internship, Thompson performed a series of experiments using the white blood cells of the clearnose skate, a member of the cartilaginous fish family that includes sharks, skates and rays. The purpose of these experiments was to collect preliminary data that will be used later in researching the effect of environmental quality on the species' immune system.
"In class labs, the professor generally knows the expected results, but the research I'm doing here has never been performed using skates. I've spent most of my time working on methodology through trial and error by tweaking one thing or another," Thompson said in an earlier interview.
Founded in 1955, Mote Marine Laboratory is an independent nonprofit organization and has seven centers for marine research, the public Mote Aquarium and an education division, specializing in public programs for all ages. The laboratory staff numbers more than 190, including 30 doctoral-level scientists.
Throughout her summer internship experience, Thompson became proficient in a diversity of cellular and molecular research techniques and gained the confidence to work independently in the laboratory. According to Thompson's research mentor at Mote, Dr. Jennifer Yordy, the work that Thompson has completed while in the REU program has provided valuable insight that future REU participants will be able to build on in later programs.
"Ravyn is a hard-working and highly motivated individual with a strong interest in pursuing a career in scientific research," Yordy said. "From the short time I've spent with Ravyn, it's clear that she has a promising career in science ahead of her."
The hands-on approach that the REU program provides has allowed Thompson to hone in on her career plans.
"My goal for the future is to get my Ph.D. after I obtain my undergraduate degree and then do some type of research," she said. "There are so many different types of fields within science, but this internship has helped point me towards biomedical research and possibly continuing with marine organisms.
"I love how got a taste of what research is really like at a nonprofit laboratory. As of right now, research is my career choice, so to gain the experience of actually working at a lab conducting experiments everyday is the best part to me."
Thompson, the daughter of Allen and Shasta Thompson of Knoxville, Tenn., is a 2011 graduate of Halls High School.
Maryville College is ideally situated in Maryville, Tenn., between the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and Knoxville, the state's third largest city. Founded in 1819, it is the 12th oldest institution of higher learning in the South and maintains an affiliation with the Presbyterian Church (USA). Known for offering its students a rigorous and highly personal experience that includes an undergraduate research requirement, Maryville College is a nationally ranked institution of higher learning that successfully joins the liberal arts and professional preparation. Total enrollment for the fall 2016 semester is 1,197.


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Wednesday, December 5, 2012
DOT Fines Vision Airlines for Charter Violations
The U.S. Department of Transportation issued a $50,000 penalty to Vision Airlines as the result of the sudden shutdown of public charter operator Direct Air in March.
Direct Air's shutdown forced several of the carriers it had charter agreements with to cancel the remaining flights they were scheduled to fly. Vision Airlines violated the department's regulations prohibiting the cancellation of public charter flights less than 10 days before their scheduled departure.
Vision Airlines is the third carrier to receive a fine related to the shutdown of DirectAir, Xtra Airways and World Atlantic Airline received similar fines early this year, and the department recently introduced new rules regulating public charter flights in November. More


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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (56 votes).
In short: Fun filled course but make sure you can do a lot further than 10K!In full: This was my first Survival of the Fittest event and I entered in a team of 10. We didn't 'race' it and decided to plod around at the pace of our slowest runner to stick together and help each other on some of the more difficult obstacles. Really enjoyed the free-for-all at the first obstable (Hay Bails), running the steps in the Millennium and the team effort to get over the wall at the end. Not so sure about getting in the river Taff though!The obstacles aren't too difficult especially if you've got people around to help you over the taller ones so in terms of those I think most could give it a good go. However, I'd been told and read on here that the distance is often a kilometer or so longer than the 'roughly 10K' they state on the website... but a couple of our team measured it at 13.5K!?We may have just been lucky but didn't experience any more than 10-20 second queues for most obstacles which I think was down to the excellent organisation and wave starts. If I were to do it again, I'd probably try to race it to make it a bit more of challenge. Saying that, I may have finished not feeling to bad - but legs were aching for 2-3 days after!Definitely worth doing once - a good 'beginners' course for anyone considering Tough Mudder or another longer, more difficult obstacle coure event.Date of review: October 7, 2013
In short: Great event, but spoilt by lack of prizes and some poor organisationIn full: I've taken part in the Cardiff event every year since it started in 2009, with this years Cardiff event being my 9th Survival event in total. I love the event and it's one of the races that have motivated me to train harder and get quicker. Entry is steep, but you get a lot of obstacles and used to get excellent prizes if you could finish near the front. This year however, they have decided to scrap prizes altogether, going with the philosophy of "everyone's a winner and it's the taking part that counts" - slightly unfitting for an event called Survival of the Fittest! So despite higher entry numbers and higher entry costs each year, the returns have disappeared. This probably explains the decrease in club runners near the front, which is a shame. I doubt I'll do it again next year.Date of review: October 2, 2013
In short: Brilliant obstacle raceIn full: 3rd time doing Survival (2 in London, 1 in Nottingham) and I keep coming back for more obstacle fun. Honestly the 8ft wall does get easier! Thought the course was a it short this year and more of a boring run in the middle compared to last year (when there were more obstacles in the park) and the road crossing was a bit ridiculous but appreciate the organisers are constrained by location. Great race to do as a team and work together to finish in one piece. Massively bruised the next day but well worth it! Just wish the uber competitive people would start in wave 1, I got shoved, pushed over and kicked in the face by people trying to race which seemed a bit pointless (and rude!) when there were queues at some of the obstacles. It's supposed to be fun people! Other than that, really enjoyed it and have already signed up again for next year. Date of review: December 14, 2012
In short: FunIn full: A good race with some challenges for everyone. Some queuing at obstacles but that allowed for some good chats with fellow competitors. Good organiser, great atmosphere. Book an early race if you plan on racing around though to beat the busy spots.Date of review: November 16, 2012
In short: Great location for a great race and VERY fun!In full: The Survival of the Fittest events are excellent fun and brilliantly organised. The atmosphere in and around Cardiff Bay was great with lots of people out watching and cheering you on.One of the highlights of the race was running in the Millenium Stadium, although the run up the 6 flights of stairs to get into the stadium was killer after 8KM!!The only downside was seeing the 9KM marker and thinking there was only 1 to go but then passing the 10KM marker and then an 11KM marker, still knowing you've got an 8ft wall to get yourself over. Well worth it though and highly recommended!!Top tip, register early to get the cheaper entry price as it can become pricey the closer to the event it gets.Date of review: October 8, 2012
In short: Great funDate of review: November 16, 2011
In short: what a great day to rememberIn full: my first survival run didn't know what to expect but i will know next time. Great fun i'v been running a very long time but never experianced any thing like this.I am 60 years young in a few weeks and did a time of 58:53. Where were these runs 30 years ago???.Very well organised and definately be back next year.Date of review: November 15, 2011
In short: Great fun & teamwork. Well organised 'waves' of runners meant the course never felt too busy. Not a run for PB Seekers as all of those blooming obstacles keep getting in the way - don't expect to use your trainers either !!Date of review: November 14, 2011
In short: Great event made all the more fun by the obstacles!!In full: Not your typical 10K run!! A 10K course starting at Battersea Power Station, moving into Battersea Park and back again, with 16 obstacle zones along the way consisting of water, mud, ice, sand bags, climbing, crawling and more water and mud!! Well worth it and I will definitely be entering again next year.Date of review: November 14, 2011
In short: Great fun and a good challengeDate of review: November 14, 2011
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Some Nights
Some NightsFun.
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- 1. Some Nights Intro
- 2. Some Nights
- 3. We Are Young ft. Janelle Monáe
- 4. Carry On
- 5. It Gets Better
- 6. Why Am I the One
- 7. All Alone
- 8. All Right
- 9. One Foot
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Eric Telchin saw the first one in July 2009 in a puddle of melted ice cream.
There, in the sticky substance on his kitchen counter in West Palm Beach, was the shape of a heart.
He pointed it out to his friends, and they laughed about it. But although the chocolate heart was wiped away, the shape never left Telchin's sight.
He began seeing hearts every day, everywhere. In sidewalk cracks. On leaves and flowers. As a crumpled napkin at a bar. In patterns of light. As a coiled-up snake. Each time he saw one, Telchin took a picture of it on his iPhone and shared the photo on Facebook.
A collection of his findings—ironically for Valentine's Day, 214 images—has been made into a book, See A Heart, Share A Heart ($12.99, Dial Books/Penguin Young Readers). The images come straight from his iPhone, none retouched, and short descriptions are scattered throughout the pages. Most of the hearts featured were found locally, including a madeleine from Café Boulud and a shell picked from the beach at the Boca Raton Resort and Club. Since 2009, Telchin has captured thousands of hearts in the area.
"There's a lot of love in Palm Beach County," he says.
After Telchin spotted the first heart in the ice cream, he set a goal to find 99 more. Once he did, he created a matrix out of the photos.
The reaction to the montage blew Telchin away. Friends and family members wanted copies. The positive responses motivated him to launch in 2010 Boy Sees Hearts, an online campaign to share the lesson he learned in finding hearts: Love is all around, if we only look for it.
"Seeing a heart brightens your mood," Telchin says. "It can give you a different perspective."
His project has caught on, and Telchin now regularly receives heart submissions—online and in person. A man on the beach showed him the shell from the Boca Resort. Another person looking to adopt a dog spotted one with a heart-like patch on its eye.
Telchin uses the photos to make art compilations, forming images like a shark, a skull and an eye out of them, while continuing to photograph naturally occurring hearts daily. He gave his neighbor a photo he took of the perfectly heart-shaped twist ties of her garbage bag outside her home. "She probably thought I was crazy for taking a picture of it," he says. "But now she has it framed."
In November 2010, Telchin's "heartwork" caught the attention of producers at ABC's Extreme Home Makeover. They asked him to design a mural for a 10-by-9-foot wall in a 10-year-old Texas girl's new bedroom. He created four large heart images, composed of hundreds of photos.
Locally, Telchin has given presentations at elementary schools throughout South Florida. He shares his heart discoveries and speaks about looking for positivity in everyday life. The message resonates the most with young audiences, he says.
"Kids see the world differently than [adults] do. They're more open to it," Telchin says. "After talking to these kids, they started seeing hearts immediately."
On Valentine's Day 2011, students at Melaleuca Elementary School in West Palm Beach were so motivated by Telchin's speech that they created a mural out of hearts they drew. Their excitement inspired him to publish See A Heart, Share A Heart, released in December, which he calls "a book of love."
"Everyone has their own take on it," he says. "For some, it's reassurance; some, inspiration."
For others, appreciation. A second-grader in Broward County told Telchin in a letter that finding hearts makes her feel loved and helps her forget the mean names she's been called. "It validated the book," Telchin says.
See A Heart, Share A Heart is about giving others "the gift of hearts and the ability to see them in their own lives," he says. Although the book is geared toward children, Telchin hopes readers of all ages grasp the universal message: Give love.
"It's really amazing," he says. "I never expected this to happen from a puddle of ice cream."


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The Chronicle of Higher Education profiles the late Italian Jewish writer Primo Levi whose thoughts on fascism sound as relevant today (amid unrest we observe in Libya and Syria) as when he was writing in 1974:
"Every age has its own fascism, and we see the warning signs wherever the concentration of power denies citizens the possibility and the means of expressing and acting on their own free will. There are many ways of reaching this point, and not just through the terror of police intimidation, but by denying and distorting information, by undermining systems of justice, by paralyzing the education system, and by spreading in a myriad subtle ways nostalgia for a world where order reigned, and where the security of a privileged few depends on the forced labor and the forced silence of the many."
Levi's reflection on Passover shares this same spirit of anti-fascism, of parity and equity with optimism for a better future:
"Tonight they will exchange questions: The wise, the godless, the simple-minded, and the child. And time reverses its course, today flowing back into yesterday, like a river enclosed at its mouth. Each of us has been a slave in Egypt, soaked straw and clay with sweat, and crossed the sea dry-footed. You too, stranger. This year in fear and shame, next year in virtue and justice."
He is best known for Survival in Auschwitz, his memoir about the year he survived as a prisoner in a concentration camp. He said of that experience and the impact on his character:
"Auschwitz left its mark on me, but it did not remove my desire to live. On the contrary, that experience increased my desire, it gave my life a purpose, to bear witness, so that such a thing should never occur again."


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Boletus frostii
Boletus frostii, commonly known as Frost's bolete or the apple bolete, is a bolete fungus first described scientifically in 1874. A member of the Boletaceae family, the mushrooms produced by the fungus have tubes and pores instead of gills on the underside of their caps. Boletus frostii is distributed in the eastern United States from Maine to Georgia and Arizona, and south to Mexico and Costa Rica. A mycorrhizal species, its fruit bodies are typically found growing near hardwood trees, especially oak.
Boletus frostii mushrooms can be recognized by their dark red sticky caps, the red pores, the network-like pattern of the stem, and the bluing reaction to tissue injury. Another characteristic of young, moist fruit bodies is the amber-colored drops exuded on the pore surface. Although the mushrooms are considered edible, they are generally not recommended for consumption because of the risk of confusion with other poisonous red-pored, blue-bruising boletes. B. frostii may be distinguished from other superficially similar red-capped boletes by differences in distribution, associated tree species, bluing reaction, or morphology.
The species was named by the Unitarian minister John Lewis Russell of Salem, Massachusetts, based on specimens found in Brattleboro, Vermont. He named the fungus after his friend, another amateur American mycologist, Charles Christopher Frost, who published a description of the species in his 1874 survey of the boletes of New England.[2][3] When the name of a species is contributed by an individual, but the name is formally published by another, the contributor's name can be cited, separated from the publishing author as apud; for this reason, the name and authority are written Boletus Frostii Russell apud Frost in some older literature.[4] Bernard Ogilvie Dodge made reference to B. frostii in 1950 during an address to the Mycological Society of America, in which he spoke about the role of the amateur in discovering new species: "They would have informed us all about the man Russell, who named a fine new bolete for his friend Frost, and about the man Frost, who named a fine new bolete for his friend Russell. Boletus Frostii and Boletus Russellii are mushrooms with character, even though they were described by amateurs."[5] However, in attempting to establish a lectotype specimen, mycologist Roy Halling examined both Russell's original material and his accompanying notes; he concluded that it was Frost who made the original species determinations, further suggesting "there is no evidence to show that Russell ever collected B. frostii or wrote a description of it."[6]
William Murrill in 1909 placed the species in the genus Suillellus,[7] while Sanshi Imai transferred it to Tubiporus in 1968;[1] both of these genera have since been folded into Boletus.[8] In 1945, Rolf Singer described a bolete he found in Florida; although he originally described it as a subspecies of B. frostii,[9] he later considered the differences between the taxa significant enough to warrant publishing Boletus floridanus as a unique species.[4]
Boletus frostii is commonly known as "Frost's bolete"[10] or the "apple bolete". In Mexico, its vernacular name is panza agria, which translates to "sour belly".[11]
The shape of the cap of the young fruit body ranges from a half sphere to convex, later becoming broadly convex to flat or shallowly depressed, with a diameter of 5–15 cm (2.0–5.9 in).[12] The edge of the cap is curved inward, although as it ages it can uncurl and turn upward. In moist conditions, the cap surface is sticky as a result of its cuticle, which is made of gelatinized hyphae. If the fruit body has dried out after a rain, the cap is especially shiny,[4] sometimes appearing finely areolate (having a pattern of block-like areas similar to cracked, dried mud).[12] Young mushrooms have a whitish bloom on the cap surface.[13]
The color is bright red initially, but fades with age. The flesh is up to 2.5 cm (1.0 in) thick, and ranges in color from pallid to pale yellow to lemon yellow.[12] The flesh has a variable staining reaction in response to bruising, so some specimens may turn deep blue almost immediately, while others turn blue weakly and slowly.[4]
The tubes comprising the pore surface (the hymenium) are 9–15 mm deep, yellow to olivaceous yellow (mustard yellow), turning dingy blue when bruised. The pores are small (2 to 3 per mm), circular, and until old age a deep red color that eventually becomes paler. The pore surface is often beaded with yellowish droplets when young (a distinguishing characteristic), and readily stains blue when bruised. The stem is 4 to 12 cm (1.6 to 4.7 in) long, and 1 to 2.5 cm (0.4 to 1.0 in) thick at its apex. It is roughly equal in thickness throughout its length, though it may taper somewhat toward the top; some specimens may appear ventricose (swollen in the middle).[12] The stem surface is mostly red, or yellowish near the base; it is reticulate—characterized by ridges arranged in the form of a net-like pattern.[12] Mycelia, visible at the base of the stem, are yellowish white to light yellow.[4]
The spore print of B. frostii is olive brown.[12] The spores are thick walled, smooth, and spindle shaped, with dimensions of 11–15 by 4–5 µm. Longer spores up to 18 µm long may also be present.[12] The cap cuticle, or pileipellis, is made of a tangled layer of gelatinized hyphae that are 3–6 µm wide.[14] The spore-bearing cells, the basidia, are four spored and measure 26–35 by 10.5–11.5 µm. Cystidia are non-fertile cells interspersed among the basidia, and they are prevalent in the hymenial tissue of B. frostii. These hyaline (translucent) cells measure 30–53 long by 7.5–14 µm wide, and range in shape from somewhat like a spindle (tapering at each end, but with one end typically rounded) to subampullaceous—shaped somewhat like a swollen bottle.[4]
Edibility and nutritional composition[edit]
In 1910, Murrill wrote of this mushroom's edibility: "Usually viewed with suspicion because of its red hymenium, but its properties are not accurately known."[15] Since then, several authors have advised against consuming the species, due to its resemblance to other toxic red-capped boletes.[10][12][16] In his 100 Edible Mushrooms (2007), Michael Kuo notes that although the mushroom is apparently edible for some, it "affects others negatively".[17] Despite these warnings, Boletus frostii is edible, and David Arora mentions that it is commonly sold in rural markets in Mexico;[11] a 1997 study suggests that it is only consumed in rural areas in Querétaro state.[18] Its taste and odor have been described as "pleasant"[10] or "sweet"[19] and somewhat like citrus,[13] although the cuticle of the cap may taste acidic.[12]
Chemical analysis of fresh fruit bodies collected in Mexico showed them to have the following composition: moisture 94.53%; ash 3.23 milligrams per gram of mushroom (mg/g); dietary fiber 30.24 mg/g; fat 3.68 mg/g; and protein 15.81 mg/g. The free fatty acid content of dried fruit bodies was 45 mg/g, slightly more than the common button mushroom (Agaricus bisporus), which had 35 mg/g. The majority of this total was oleic acid (19.5 mg/g), followed by linoleic acid (16.8 mg/g) and palmitic acid (16.9 mg/g).[18]
Similar species[edit]
Other red-capped boletes include the poisonous B. flammans and B. rubroflammeus; the former grows most commonly under conifers, the latter in association with hardwoods in eastern North America and southern Arizona.[11] Often confused with B. frostii are B. permagnificus and B. siculus, but the latter two species are known only from Europe and always grow in association with oaks.[20][21] The fruit bodies of young specimens of B. kermesinus, newly described from Japan in 2011, are similar in appearance to B. frostii. In addition to its distribution, B. kermesinus can be distinguished from B. frostii by having flesh that does not bruise blue and a stem in which the reticulum is not as deep and coarse.[22] B. pseudofrostii, found in Belize, produces smaller caps that are 1.7 to 2.0 cm (0.7 to 0.8 in) in diameter.[23] Boletus russelli, found in eastern North America, has a red to reddish-brown cap and reticulate stem, but its pore surface is yellow, and the fruit body does not bruise blue.[17]
Boletus floridanus differs from B. frostii in having a lighter cap color and in the texture of the cap surface: it is tomentose (covered with dense, short, soft, matted hairs) or velutinous (like velvet), compared to the relatively smooth surface of B. frostii. Singer notes that although the physical characteristics between the two taxa may be blurred and are hard to define, the area of origin can reliably distinguish them: B. floridanus is found on shaded lawns and scrubland in open oak stands in non-tropical regions of Florida, typically on grassy or sandy soil, where it fruits between May and October.[4]
Ecology, habitat, and distribution[edit]
Boletus frostii is a mycorrhizal species,[24] meaning that the fungus forms associations with the roots of various species of trees. These associations are mutualistic, because the fungus absorbs mineral nutrients from the soil and channels these into the plant, while the plant provides the fungus with sugars, a product of photosynthesis. The characteristic feature of the mycorrhiza is the presence of a sheath of fungal tissue that encases the terminal, nutrient-absorbing rootlets of the host plant. The fungus forms an extensive underground network of hyphae that radiate outward from the surface of the root sheath, effectively increasing the surface area for nutrient absorption. The hyphae also invade between the root cortical cells to form a Hartig net.[25] Using pure culture techniques, Boletus frostii has been shown to form mycorrhizae with Virginia pine (Pinus virginiana),[24] while a field study confirms a similar association with the oak Quercus laurina.[26]
The fruit bodies grow solitarily, scattered, or in groups on the ground under hardwood trees; the fungus fruits in summer to early autumn. William Murrill noted its preference for growing in "thin oak woods, where the light is sufficient to enable grass to grow",[7] and Alexander H. Smith mentioned its preference for growing in "thin, sandy soil under scrub oak."[3] In the United States, it is distributed from Maine south to Georgia, extending west to Tennessee, Michigan, and southern Arizona.[4][13] In Mexico, it is often found under Madrone.[11] It has also been collected in Costa Rica, where it associates with the oak species Quercus copeyensis, Q. costaricensis, Q. rapurahuensis, and Q. seemanii.[27] A 1980 publication tentatively suggested that the fungus was also present in Italy,[28] but the author later determined that the putative B. frostii was actually Boletus siculus.[21]
Fruit bodies can be parasitized by the mold-like fungus Sepedonium ampullosporum.[29] Infection results in necrosis of the mushroom tissue, and a yellow color caused by the formation of large amounts of pigmented aleurioconidia (single-celled conidia produced by extrusion from the conidiophores).[30]
See also[edit]
- ^ a b "Boletus frostii J.L. Russell". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. Retrieved 2011-06-21.
- ^ Frost CC. (1874). "Catalogue of Boleti of New England, with descriptions of new species". Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences 2: 100–5.
- ^ a b Weber NS, Smith AH. (1980). The Mushroom Hunter's Field Guide. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press. pp. 104–5. ISBN 0-472-85610-3.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Singer R. (1947). "The Boletoideae of Florida with notes on extralimital species III". American Midland Naturalist 37 (1): 77–8. JSTOR 2421647.
- ^ Dodge BO. (1952). "The fungi come into their own". Mycologia 44 (3): 273–91. JSTOR 4547605.
- ^ Halling RE. (1983). "Boletes described by Charles C. Frost". Mycologia 75 (1): 70–92. doi:10.2307/3792925. JSTOR 3792925.
- ^ a b Murrill WA. (1909). "The Boletaceae of North America". Mycologia 1 (1): 4–18. doi:10.2307/3753167. JSTOR 3753167.
- ^ Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA. (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CAB International. pp. 672, 709. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
- ^ Singer R. (1945). "New Boletaceae from Florida (a preliminary communication)". Mycologia 37 (6): 797–9. JSTOR 3755143.
- ^ a b c Phillips R. "Boletus frostii". Rogers Plants. Retrieved 2012-03-01.
- ^ a b c d Arora D. (1986). Mushrooms Demystified: A Comprehensive Guide to the Fleshy Fungi. Berkeley, California: Ten Speed Press. p. 529. ISBN 0-89815-169-4.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Thiers HD, Smith AH. (1971). The Boletes of Michigan. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press. pp. 343–4. ISBN 0-472-85590-5.
- ^ a b c Bessette AE, Roody WC, Bessette AR. (2000). Boletes of North America. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press. p. 114. ISBN 978-0-8156-0588-1.
- ^ Kuo M. (January 2007). "Boletus frostii". MushroomExpert.Com. Retrieved 2012-03-01.
- ^ Murrill WA. (1910). "Poisonous mushrooms". Mycologia 2 (6): 255–64. doi:10.2307/3753292. JSTOR 3753292.
- ^ Bessette A, Miller OK Jr, Bessette AR, Miller HR. (1995). Mushrooms of North America in Color: A Field Guide Companion to Seldom-Illustrated Fungi. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press. p. 385. ISBN 0-8156-2666-5.
- ^ a b Kuo M. (2007). 100 Edible Mushrooms. Ann Arbor, Michigan: The University of Michigan Press. pp. 121–2. ISBN 0-472-03126-0.
- ^ a b León-Guzmán MF, Silva I, López MG. (1997). "Proximate chemical composition, free amino acid contents, and free fatty acid contents of some wild edible mushrooms from Querétaro, México". Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 45 (11): 4329–32. doi:10.1021/jf970640u.
- ^ Miller HR, Miller OK. (2006). North American Mushrooms: A Field Guide to Edible and Inedible Fungi. Guilford, Connecticut: Falcon Guides. p. 385. ISBN 0-7627-3109-5.
- ^ Pöder R. (1981). "Boletus permagnificus spec. nov. – ein auffallender Röhrling der Sektion Luridi Fr. assoziiert mit Eichen" [Boletus permagnificus new species – a striking bolete of the section Luridi associated with oak]. Sydowia (in German) 34: 149–56. ISSN 0082-0598.
- ^ a b Alessio CL. (1981). "Boletus siculus inzenga il gia presunto B. frostii Russell rinvenuto in Italia" [Boletus siculus is the supposed Boletus frostii discovered in Italy]. Micologia Italiana (in Italian) 10 (2): 40–2.
- ^ Takahashi H, Taneyama Y, Koyama A. (2011). "Boletus kermesinus, a new species of Boletus section Luridi from central Honshu, Japan". Mycoscience 52 (6): 419–24. doi:10.1007/s10267-011-0119-2.
- ^ Ortiz-Santana B, Lodge DJ, Baroni TJ, Both EE. (2007). "Boletes from Belize and the Dominican Republic" (PDF). Fungal Diversity 27 (2): 247–416 (see p. 322).
- ^ a b Vozzo JA, Hackskaylo E. (1961). "Mycorrhizal fungi on Pinus virginiana". Mycologia 53 (5): 538–9. JSTOR 3756310.
- ^ Deacon J. (2005). Fungal Biology. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishers. pp. 262–3. ISBN 1-4051-3066-0.
- ^ Morris MH, Pérez-Pérez MA, Smith ME, Bledsoe CS. (2009). "Influence of host species on ectomycorrhizal communities associated with two co-occurring oaks (Quercus spp.) in a tropical cloud forest". FEMS Microbiology Ecology 69 (2): 274–87. doi:10.1111/j.1574-6941.2009.00704.x. PMID 19508503.
- ^ Halling RE, Muller GM. "Boletus frostii". Macrofungi of Costa Rica. New York Botanical Garden. Retrieved 2011-09-29.
- ^ Alessio CL. (1980). "Boletus Frostii presente in Italia?" [Boletus frostii present in Italy?]. Micologia Italiana (in Italian) 9 (3): 15–20. ISSN 0390-0460.
- ^ Sahr T, Ammer H, Besl H, Fischer M. (1999). "Infrageneric classification of the boleticolous genus Sepedonium: species delimitation and phylogenetic relationships". Mycologia 91 (6): 935–43. JSTOR 3761625.
- ^ Neuhof T, Berg A, Besl H, Schweche T, Dieckmann R, von Döhren H. (2007). "Peptaibol production by Sepedonium strains parasitizing Boletales". Chemistry & Biodiversity 4 (6): 1103–15. doi:10.1002/cbdv.200790099. PMID 17589879.


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Bellstar Hotels & Resorts partners with EcoStay™, a program that
will offset our properties carbon footprint.
EcoStay™ is a national initiative that helps hotels measure their carbon
footprint, identify and fund reduction strategies and balance off their
greenhouse gas emissions through carbon offsetting.
Under the program, Bellstar properties will collect two dollars per night from hotel guests. Funds will be used to purchase carbon offsets in support of emission-reducing projects across the province such as renewable energy, energy efficiency, composting and recycling - making each hotel night completely 'carbon neutral'. The guest's contribution completely offsets the impact or their stay, and more. Carbon offsets are supplied by LivClean, a top ranked retailer by the David Suzuki Pembina. All LivClean Eco-Stay™ Carbon Offset Projects are listed on the CSA Group's GHG CleanProjects™ Registry ensuring ISO 14064-2 reporting and independent ISO 14064-3 verification. In addition, each offset tonne is uniquely serialized by CSA Group to ensure proper retirement and avoid double counting. For more information about Ecostay™ visit bellstar.ca/ecostay.
Team Green Effort
Each property has an assigned Stay™ | Green committee consisting
of three Bellstars (Bellstar team members). The team meets once a month
to discuss environmental issues and strategies to go the extra green
Every property has an environmental information board, where team
members can get up-dates on procedures & policies. Bellstars can
also post a green idea and can be announced as "green thumb" of the
At Bellstar we actively celebrate & participate in the following environmental and community events:
- World Water Day
- Earth hour
- Earth Day
- Arbour Day Canada (in Canada, Maple Leaf Day falls on the last Wednesday in September during National Forest Week).
- Community Clean up!
- For our BC properties: BC Shake Out.
Energy Efficiency
- We have switched over 90% of the common area and guest suite light bulbs to compact fluorescent bulbs at all of our resorts.
- A policy of checking and reducing thermostats settings and closing drapes to regulate room temperature is implemented in all resorts.
- Commercial dryers and hot water heaters are regularly maintained in order to maximize operating efficiency.
- A policy has been implemented to replace old appliances with high energy efficient products.
Air and Water Quality.
- We have converted several of our resort swimming pools to salt-water – reducing chlorine off-gases to the environment. We are considering this process for our other pools in 2012.
- All our properties are 100% non smoking.
- Our properties are "idle" free. Posted signs in the arrival area encourage our guests to turn off their car while waiting. In 2012 our goal is to convert 100% of our properties to idle free.
- Several of our properties offer bike rental at their location to motivate guests to use an alternative transportation to enjoy the surroundings and to reduce their footprint.
Water Conservation
- Towel/linen re-use: our in-room collateral asks guests to reduce water and energy consumption by giving them the option of re-using their towels and extending the use of their bed linens. This program extends the life of laundry equipment, reduces the consumption of laundry products and energy and has reduced our water consumption by nearly 13% overall.
- Cleaning and laundry products: we use product lines which are free of acids, phosphates and butyl.
- Several properties have low-flow toilets installed and future installations will be converted.
Waste Minimization
- Recycling: our resort recycling program provides blue bins in every guest suite and all back of house areas for the recycling of glass, bottles, newspaper, office paper, batteries and cardboard. Room attendants separate the waste if guests do not. Batteries are collected at the front desk.
- Spent batteries: we implemented a program for collecting spent batteries from door locks and remote controls and delivering them to the local recycling depot for proper disposal.
- Office paper products: all office printers and copiers use 100% recycled paper. We have a policy of printing both sides whenever possible. All office waste paper is recycled. One-sided paper is cut up and used for scrap paper in place of note pads.
- Marketing materials: all marketing materials are primarily distributed electronically either by email, though website downloads or on memory sticks. If printing is required, we print on 100% recycled (FSC certified) paper products. In addition, all Bellstar emails include the tag line: "please consider the environment before printing this e-mail."
Environmental Purchasing
- Buying locally: wherever possible, we purchase food, beverages and services from local growers and suppliers.
- Bath amenities: we exclusively use June Jacobs products because of their ethical business practices and their traceable soil-to-bottle process. They do not employ animal testing and their products are certified "cruelty free". All soaps and liquids are vegetable-based and 100% biodegradable, all packaging and containers are made from up to 100% PCR material and are 100% recyclable. June Jacobs is made in Canada.
- Coffee & tea: our in-room tea and coffee is supplied by Fratello, a company that deals exclusively in fair trade practices.
- Garbage bags: we use garbage can liners that are biodegradable, compostable and manufactured from recycled content.
- Products: we use facial tissue, paper towels and toilet tissue that undergo a chlorine free manufacturing process and use up to 100% recycled and post-consumer fibers.
- Standard textile: our linens and terry products supplier aggressively recycles supplies and byproduct materials, uses compressed and recycled corrugate to ship products, offers Estar (textiles engineered to reduce energy consumption during laundering process) and uses hydroelectric power in their production. Their products arrive pre-laundered, thereby reducing the carbon footprint of our smaller capacity laundry facilities.
- We do not supply plastic bottles for meetings.
- Our pens are made of recycled material.
- Doggy bags: our doggy bags are biodegradable, compostable and manufactured from recycled content.
Climate Change
All our Alberta resorts have partnered with direct energy to make
Bellstar their first major hospitality customer in North America to
convert to 100% carbon-neutral energy through a direct energy offering
of carbon-neutral natural gas and Ecologo certified renewable power.
Under the program, Bellstar substantially lowers its impact on the
environment by offsetting carbon emissions that would normally result
from the use of electricity generated from conventional, coal-fired
sources. Ecologo energy comes from renewable sources such as wind, solar
and run-of-river hydro. The natural gas consumed will be
carbon-neutral, offset through investments in projects which reduce
greenhouse gas emissions.
Bellstar has signed an agreement with Ecostay carbon offsetting program for all resorts to reduce the environmental impact of our properties.
Marketing Efforts & Communication
Our resort Group Coordinators have developed a green meetings package which enables Bellstar to offer green meetings to those who wish to host meetings at our resorts. This includes smaller items such as using recycled paper for flip charts to installing bulk water coolers in each meeting room or having the meeting group purchase carbon offsets through the Ecostay™ program.
Commitment to Community
Bellstar hotels & resorts strives to give-back to the communities
where we work and play. We encourage our staff to volunteer in the
community, we implement initiatives to train and employ aboriginal
peoples, and our unclaimed lost and found items are donated to local
We have also launched a pair of unique animal respect initiatives:
- Our pet-friendly program provides guests' pets an extra bit of pampering – a map of local dog parks, a list of local bi-laws, biodegradable doo-bags, treats, loaner leashes and water/food dishes. A percentage of the $20 per night pet-friendly fee goes to support the regional SPCA. To date, our donations have totaled over $12,600.
- At a number of our resorts, we sell indigenous plush animals as souvenirs' for our guests. Upon purchase of the animal, guests receive information about the animal and a portion of the proceeds goes to either Wild Smart, an awareness program that teaches about living with and respecting wildlife or to the NK'MIP rattlesnake research program. To date, our donations have totaled over $680.
Green Bucks
As part of Bellstar's commitment to sustainability, conservation, and a greener hospitality experience, we offer you Bellstar Green Bucks for each day that you forgo daily housekeeping services during your stay. Green Bucks can be used towards your next Stay at a Bellstar Resort. By taking part in this initiative you will be helping to reduce water consumption, reduce energy consumption, reduce amenity waste, and reduce chemical use. Bellstar's Stay™ | Green program includes partnerships with Ecostay™, Clean The World, The Green Key Eco-Rating program, and Green Key Meetings program. To learn more about these partnerships, and Bellstar's commitments to energy efficiency and conservation visit www.bellstar.ca/green.


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These handouts provide basic information about the seven different areas to focus on when you are trying to manage your diabetes. Each one includes facts, tips, advice, and activities that will get you started on your self-care and reinforce the lessons you learn in diabetes education sessions. This page contains links to handouts that are available in both English and Spanish.
American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE)
This guide uses visual representations to show the benefits of regular exercise to those with diabetes. It gives suggestions to get more active and includes places for you to write your ideas and create your own physical activity plan.
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
This guide will help you fit physical activity into your life—your way. Decide the number of days you'll exercise, the types of activities you'll do, and the times that fit your schedule.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
This booklet and website, designed for Latino families, provides strategies for quitting smoking and factors to consider when making a plan to quit smoking.
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
This guide shows you many types of exercise and physical activity. It also has lots of tips to help you be active in ways that suit your lifestyle, interests, health, and budget, whether you're just starting out, getting back to exercising after a break, or fit enough to run a 3-mile race. It's for everyone—people who are healthy and those who live with an ongoing health problem or disability. En español
National Institute on Aging (NIA)
This website is filled with information about living with diabetes and developing habits for healthy eating and physical activity through small, sensible steps. En español
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Child sponsorship is an excellent way to help children because you will be giving a child hope for the future and for all eternity. As a sponsor, you will also be able to correspond with your child and develop a close relationship. Your child will be deeply encouraged by your love and care. The children are very thankful, and many pray for their sponsors daily. Also, many sponsors eventually meet their children in their native countries!
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Marshall Council revisits special vehicle ordinance
MARSHALL – It's an issue the city of Marshall has discussed for about a year now, with little result. But after a work session Tuesday night, the Marshall City Council might be taking a step closer toward deciding whether "special vehicles," from golf carts to ATVs, should be allowed on city streets.
At Tuesday's work session, Marshall City Administrator Ben Martig gathered feedback from both council members and members of the public to help draft a possible special vehicle ordinance.
The issue was first raised last May, when the council received a request from Marshall residents for a permit to drive a golf cart on city streets. The permit was denied, but the city has talked about drafting ordinances to regulate special vehicles ever since.
Martig said the options discussed previously had included restricting all special vehicles, or opening city streets to them. However, he said council members could help give him further direction for drafting an ordinance.
"I really believe we have to break it down into pieces," said council member Mike Boedigheimer. Council members needed to decide which vehicles to allow in the city, what safety measures or equipment to require for them and which streets to allow them on.
Both council members and other community members said they would be all right with certain kinds of special vehicles, like utility vehicles (UTVs) or "Gators," being allowed on city streets.
Marshall Public Safety Director Rob Yant said UTVs were bigger and more similar to a standard car. From a traffic safety perspective, "they would probably bring the least amount of problems," he said.
Marshall resident and business owner Bill Ziegenhagen said he would also be in favor of UTVs being allowed. The vehicles have features like safety cages and seatbelts, he said.
Council member Larry Doom said special vehicles on city streets would need to be able to maintain posted speed limits.
There was a little less consensus on which streets special vehicles should be allowed on.
"I think safety is a prime concern," said council member Ellayne Conyers. State statutes already forbid special vehicles from traveling on state highways, but she said she would also want vehicles like golf carts kept off of other busy Marshall streets like Bruce Street, 4th Street and Saratoga Street.
However, Marshall residents Steven and Karen Meister said they haven't had problems driving an electric GEM car, which has a relatively low speed, on Saratoga Street. Overall slower traffic on Saratoga would be a good thing for safety, Steven Meister said.
Martig said he would take feedback from Tuesday's work session to the city's Legislative and Ordinance Committee for drafting and revision of a special vehicle ordinance. The committee would make a recommendation to the city council, he said, and in turn the council would have a chance to introduce the ordinance and call for a public hearing.
Council members' concerns about city accounting practices were also discussed at the work session. Financial consultant Terri Heaton addressed questions about making city budget adjustments at the end of the year.
In March, council member Glenn Bayerkohler had questioned several city budget adjustments for 2012. Marshall City Finance Director Tom Meulebroeck said the adjustments covered items like unexpected or emergency expenses and would lessen the variances between the original 2012 budget and actual revenue and expenditures. Bayerkohler said he was concerned about approving expenses after the fact.
Heaton said Tuesday that it was permissible for the city to make the budget adjustments, provided the council approves them. However, she said the adjustments could also be made sooner and more often than at the end of the year. Having more timely budget adjustments could also help the city monitor revenue and expenses.
Heaton noted that making adjustments more often would take time, and Meulebroeck is currently the only accountant on city staff.


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Onyxia @ 60.
Karazhan in early BC. I had no epic gear and like 1% hit rating on my hunter with only a couple of enchants. But the raid leader was patient and I managed to do the tasks I was assigned with little error (except that I ran in front of the red beam on Netherspite and killed myself). Good times. I got a guild invite and began raiding every week.
UBRS way back in the Classic day before they made it a 5-man.
My first? Molten Core
My second? Gruul's Lair haha (didn't start raiding hardcore till late BC / early Wrath
Kara, the best place to start raiding.
UBRS prolly, but MC was my first "F*CK YES, WE KILLED HIM!" raid :P
Not sure if it was Zul'aman or Sunwell Plateau one of the two...
In Naxx 80 when I killed Patchwerk. That was one of the most fun times I have ever had raiding. It felt so awesome at the time.
Either Gruul's Lair or Karahzan. Kara was definitely the first one I cleared though.
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Molten Core, years ago at Level 60. Very good times! The screaming after Rag was great haha. It was my first real taste of 40 man raiding. There was UBRS before that.
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I'm pretty sure it was Kara. I spent most of bc in there lol.
ICC 10 man. Got all the way up to Blood Queen on my first go. Guild I joined kind of carried me. Now I carry them.
molten core
Naxxramas at 80. Maexxna or something was the first major boss I did.
Probably Naxx 80.
Since I started playing in pirate servers, then joined vanilla when it was ending, continued with bc and quit for over a year until I returned with wotlk.
Probably all the years before raiding in Naxx were fullfiled with solo leveling, small dungeons and such. I was younger and my deeds and time couldn't be spend on raiding. But yeah, I don't really know, probably I stepped some raid without even knowing it, oh my early noob days.


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The production staff diligently spent hours selecting clips from their favorite television series for inclusion in this week's program with Diane Winston. We've even got a title: "TV and Parables of Our Time." Somehow, I am told, downloading and watching 24 and Lost and Battlestar Galactica and The Wire is really hard work. Ah fellow producers, "you suffer for your soup." *grin*
The professor of religion and media at USC appealed to the heart of Krista's eclectic consumption of TV series on DVD. After all, they actually have sat together and watched the tube. This enthusiasm spilled over into our search for actualities from these episodes.
And, this passion bore itself out in last week's cuts and copy session. The script was extraordinarily rough. There were at least five spots for audio clips from some of those series. Then it really got messy — two or three clips with an average length of 3-5 minutes (one more than 8 minutes) were included in the listen. Heads were spinning.
What I experienced was an insider's perspective. Script was trying to explain too much of each plot, and the opening scene from 24 ("8:00 AM–9:30 AM" - season 2, episode 1) was heavy. So we sussed out the needs of various listeners and focused on illustrating or accentuating a point made at the out-cue. The result: a much better, more listenable production.
What I realized is that I don't watch that much TV — well, except for my utter obsession of the Tour de France on Versus — and felt a bit sheltered, out of the loop actually, when talking about these dramatic series. Not being part of these conversations and the larger culture is isolating. I'm an outsider who can only politely smile and lean in when Krista and Mitch and Colleen and Nancy start discussing characters like Snot Boogie and McNulty, or Cylons and Caprica, or Jack Shepard and John Locke.
My hope is that an unknowing perspective helps those of you who are in the same boat that I'm in. That Thursday's podcast clues you in rather than leaving your face pressed against the window watching the family sit in front of a toasty fire, chomping on popcorn and sodas, with a 42" HD screen glowing in the background.
So, here's a list of the episodes and scenes we considered. I've flagged in bold the clips we're using.
The Wire. The vernacular of the characters is difficult track at first, but somehow your ear tunes in after a while and you get the gist. Nevertheless, the distinct dialects and slang used eliminated a lot of great scenes from consideration for the radio.
- "Misgivings" (Season 4, episode 10) - In the scene we chose, Colvin meets with Miss Shepherdson to seek permission to continue the alternative class.
- "Final Grades" (Season 4, episode 13) - This scene presents Colvin meeting with Wee-bay in prison and asks if he can adopt his son Namond.
- "Corner Boys" (Season 4, episode 8) - Colvin gives speech about corner boys to the alternative class.
- "Refugees" (Season 4, episode 4) - Here, Mr. Prezbo (Pryzbylewski) tries talking to his class after a student has been slashed.
Battlestar Galactica. Probably Krista's favorite series. And so we found a place for three clips in the program.
- "Flesh and Bone" (season 1, episode 8) - Compelling scenes with aural allusions to waterboarding and torture, as well as rich dialogue about the being human and being an artificial life form.
- "Guess What's Coming to Dinner" (season 4, episode 7)
- "No Exit" (season 4, episode 15), "Deadlock" (season 4, episode 16), "Someone to Watch Over Me" (season 4, episode 17), "Islanded in a Stream of Stars" (season 4, episode 18), "Daybreak parts II & III" (season 4, episodes 20 and 21) - A few of the many episodes from BSG under consideration but never made the cut.
- "White Rabbit" (season 1, episode 5) - We used two scenes from this episode: one where Jack Shepard tells the group that they have to learn to live together or die alone, and the other in which John Locke speaks dramatically about looking into the eye of the island and seeing its beauty.
- "Exodus part 2" (season 1, episodes 24/25) - A rich discussion between Jack and Locke on science and faith.
- "There's No Place Like Home, parts 2 & 3" (season 4, episode 13) - Locke says the island is a place where miracles happen and tries to persuade Jack to stay on the island.
House. A late entry to the production process that wasn't part of the first cuts and copy session. A clip from this series was selected because it's a different genre of drama and it is a popular series still in production.
- "Informed Consent" (season 3, episode 3) - Here we have multiple scenes featuring a patient who wishes to die and not be treated while Dr. House tricks him into continuing testing/treatment.
- "Damned if You Do, Damned if You Don't" (season 1, episode 5) - A scene where Dr. House and a nun with a mysterious ailment debate God and faith.
- "The Socratic Method" (season 1, episode 6) - We strongly considered this scene with Dr. House and his nemesis Dr. Cuddy about the ethics of using unapproved protocols to shrink a patient's tumor so it could be operated on.


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Take your individual or group workout to the next level with the Body Solid ® 18 lb Padded Weight. These weights are ideal for individual workouts or group exercise classes like yoga, pilates and aerobics. Increase core strength, stability and endurance with this padded weight. The durable rubber construction gives good grip and is easy to clean when you are done. Color-coded tips make it easy to tell which weight you are grabbing.
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