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Toledo Radisson becomes Park Inn
Passers-by might not realize it, but the downtown Toledo Radisson Hotel has a new name and soon will undergo a facelift of spaces including guest rooms and the ballroom.
The hotel is now called the Park Inn Toledo, said general manager Michael Sapara. The Radisson and Park Inn are two of the chains owned by Carlson Hotels Worldwide. The Radisson line caters to transient guests, and the Park Inn is being positioned to handle convention business, he said, adding, "We are the prototype of what Park Inn wants to be."
The property has been owned for years by the Ohio Carpenters' Pension Fund, which will now manage the site, he said.
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Mike and Maria at Ribera
A photo on Instagram of ROH star Mike Bennett taking his lovely wife Maria Kanellis out to dinner at the world famous Ribera steak house that the wrestlers all go to when they visit Japan.
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A post on Twitter from ROH star Mike Bennett about how hard it is for professional wrestlers to deal with the death of a peer after the tragic passing of Perro Aguayo.
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History disagrees with you.
History disagrees with you.
Fascism is a Leftist ideology: Fascists pursue government control of the economy, the people, and everything else. Since Fascism is statist, and those on the political Right embrace personal freedom and responsibility, Fascism has no logical relationship to the Conservative ideology of the political Right.
Censorship is an evil on humanity.
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Honestly, the way Barack Obama has wasted and squandered our tax dollars in the four years he has been president, I don't understand he can sleep at night!
Thanks to Barack Obama and four years of his failed economic policies, government dependency jumped 8.1 percent in the past year, with the most assistance going toward housing, health and welfare, and retirement.
The federal government spent more taxpayer dollars than ever before in 2011 to subsidize Americans. The average individual who relies on Washington could receive benefits valued at $32,748, more than the nation's average disposable personal income ($32,446).
This is "income re-distribution" on the part of Barack Obama and the liberal Democrats in Congress at its very worse. Why should anyone work today when you can make as much money by not working as you do by working?
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The city of Columbus was the first in Indiana to form a Human Rights Commission back in 1962.
That was two years before passage of the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964, landmark legislation that banned discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
Today, it is one of just four Indiana cities whose human rights rules and regulations specifically address discrimination based on sexual orientation — in addition to other categories of people that expect fair treatment in matters of employment, housing, education and public accommodation.
"We're Columbus, and we aim higher," proclaimed Mayor Kristen Brown in remarks during Wednesday night's Human Rights Commission dinner.
For more than half of the 52 years that the city Human Rights Commission has existed, Lorraine Smith has been deeply involved in local efforts to protect people's rights while Columbus built its identity as a welcoming community.
But as of July 1, Smith will retire from her position as director of the city's Human Rights Commission, ending 28 years of public service.
Retirement will allow Smith to spend more time with her husband of 39 years, Charles, and other family members. She will be replaced by deputy director Aida Ramirez.
Smith, 58, announced her news during the commission's annual meeting at The Commons, which drew a record and near-capacity 436 registered guests, beating the previous year's record of 363 attendees.
As with other things, Smith had a strong hand in that 20 percent attendance increase, too.
While serving 24 years as deputy director for the commission, Smith initiated, wrote and secured grants — as well as coordinated the commission's Oral History Project, which documented the stories of community members who witnessed and participated in the city's own civil rights movement.
The project's video, "Lifting Up a Voice ... ," and its companion guide were recognized as one of the best practices in diversity by the state Civil Rights Commission.
Those accolades were part of a tribute delivered during the dinner by Brown, who proclaimed Wednesday as Lorraine Smith Day in the city.
Brown noted that Smith in 2011 became the city's first African-American department head as human rights commission director. And in the past two years, she helped guide the Mayor's Advisory Council on Disability and Accessibility, "creating a greater awareness and understanding in our community about the issues facing people with disabilities."
Smith's impact on the city and its people includes serving on the Heritage Fund Board, including four years on the Lilly Scholarship Selection Committee; serving on the NAACP Board and being a founding member of the African American Fund of Bartholomew County.
"Lorraine is a champion of human rights, a dedicated public servant," Brown told Wednesday's audience. "Through her passion for civil rights and under her leadership, the Human Rights Commission, the city of Columbus and our community have benefited from Lorraine's substantial, innovative and noteworthy efforts in advancing the goal of making Columbus a welcoming community for all people."
Quoting longtime Cummins Chairman J. Irwin Miller, Smith repeated the approach of how Columbus has built its national reputation: "We work on one problem, and then we go on to the next."
Even after she retires, Smith said: "I still want to find ways to give back and serve."
Gil Palmer, who worked closely with Smith as he presided over the Human Rights Commission the past 20 years as chairman, was among those to echo praise for her.
In closing comments for the dinner, he challenged others to step up and serve.
"We are each responsible for our own legacy," Palmer said. "What do you want your legacy to be?"
Tom Jekel is editor of The Republic. His column appears each Sunday. You may reach him by phone at 379-5665 or by email at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Updated: 12/17/2006 - Your Christmas Decorations may be pretty, but they can be deadly for your pets.
Updated: 12/17/2006 - Your Christmas Decorations may be pretty, but they can be deadly for your pets.
Posted: 12/16/2006 - State Health Officials say some vaccines given in Newton County may be ineffective.
Posted: 12/16/2006 - The American Red Cross enlisted the help of the Jolly Old Elf to raise money for disaster relief.
Posted: 12/16/2006 - The oldest Plantation House in Lauderdale County re-opened Saturday to benefit L.O.V.E.'s Kitchen.
Posted: 12/16/2006 - An Enterprise salon cut hair for a good cause Saturday.
Posted: 12/16/2006 - Hundreds of area students began a new chapter Saturday.
Posted: 12/15/2006 - This is the last full shopping weekend before the long Christmas weekend. And shoppers are out in force.
Updated: 12/15/2006 - The hustle and bustle of the holiday may often seen commercial and cold. But a group of friends is remembering the true spirit of Christmas.
Posted: 12/15/2006 - First grade students at Witherspoon Elementary presented a play, portraying animals who taught a kitten about the meaning of Christmas.
Posted: 12/15/2006 - Riley Hospital and its employees this year continued a long tradition of giving.
Posted: 12/15/2006 - The ever-expanding medical field has some new nurses in the workforce, as of Friday.
Updated: 12/15/2006 - A crash involving a Newton County school bus and a car critically injured a motorist.
Updated: 12/15/2006 - Mitchell Distributing Company has broken ground for a new warehouse at the site of its home for 75 years.
Updated: 12/15/2006 - For more than 20 years, students at Poplar Springs Elementary School have been learning the joy of giving.
Posted: 12/14/2006 - Music filled Meridian nursing homes Thursday. A student at Northwest Junior High School came up with the idea.
Updated: 12/14/2006 - Lauderdale County's District 5 supervisor spoke publicly for the first time about a recent misdemeanor arrest and a run-in with Meridian police last year.
Updated: 12/14/2006 - Thursday was the end of the beginning for Meridian's newest major retail project.
Posted: 12/14/2006 - Brandi Michelle Wright, an honor student at Meridian Community College, has been chosen to receive a $1,000 scholarship sponsored by WTOK-TV.
Updated: 12/14/2006 - United Blood Services has a critical need for all blood types.
Posted: 12/14/2006 - Millions of new books were delivered to the libraries in hurricane-damaged areas of Mississippi.
Updated: 12/13/2006 - Santa Claus paid a special visit to Wesley House kids who were treated to a Christmas party.
Updated: 12/13/2006 - The capital murder trial of Shaun Singleton was supposed to start Wednesday, but it didn't happen.
Posted: 12/13/2006 - Mississippi lawmakers are still debating what should be in a state budget blueprint, with a deadline only two days away.
Updated: 12/13/2006 - A sleepy Kemper County community is getting ready for a major league wakeup call.
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Nottingham Caribbean Carnival
Nottingham Caribbean Carnival is two days of activities and entertainment for all the community, drawing crowds of up to 30,000. The event comprises live performances from the main stage, a carnival parade, music tents, workshops, stalls, funfair, créche facilities and truly something for everyone!
The Nottingham Caribbean Carnival is one of Nottingham's most spectacular and colourful events with two days of family entertainment for all to enjoy. The Carnival site at Forest Recreation Ground is open 12noon to 9pm on the Saturday for a music festival with a small admission fee of £2. The carnival parade is on the Sunday, commencing 2pm. It returned to it's root at The Embankment in the Meadows in 2015 with many local and visiting troupes, performances on stage and funfair and stalls for a full day of family fun.
Since 1999 Nottingham Caribbean Carnival has been organised by Nottingham Carnival Trust based at Tuntum Housing Association (office base Beech Avenue, NG7 7LW). The Carnival is almost exclusively dependent on volunteer support, chaired by Tuntum Chief Executive Officer, Richard Renwick MBE. Administrative support is provided through Tuntum Housing Association.
The Caribbean Carnival in Nottingham began in 1970. A group of West Indians, mainly from the island of St Kitts, held a carnival parade in the Meadows and this became a major annual event for Nottingham's black community. However, the struggle to secure funding for the Carnival meant that a number of years were missed in the 1980s and 1990s.
The cancellation of the Carnival in 1998 acted as a catalyst for the event we see today. Concerns over health, safety and security were the reasons it was called off, but the disappointed reaction from the community resulted in Nottingham City Council asking for outside help. Tuntum Housing Association, a community based, black-led housing association, was approached and agreed to set up an infrastructure to help re-form the carnival. The Nottingham Carnival Trust (an unincorporated voluntary association) was formed and the event re-established in 1999.
The revised carnival now made a parade of mass bands a key event of the weekend celebrations with the main parade day on Sunday. It was also staged in the heart of the community with the event focused around the Forest Recreation Ground. Today the Nottingham Caribbean Carnival is a truly multicultural festival.
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All the online searches I did refer to folks hooking up one router to another to make an access point but I do not need to do that. My new rental is 3 story and I can hook up my modem and wifi router on any floor because there is a phone/DSL jack in the wall on every floor. Cement floors so signal does not pass through. It is not an ethernet jack but a phone jack on each floor. I am willing to buy another wireless router or access point but I cannot find advice on my situation. QUESTION: Can I simply plug in a wireless router in one of these phone jacks utilizing the modem on another floor? Thank you to whoever is willing to answer.
Greetings, I have a constant strong wi-fi signal in my two-story home for my computers, but the signal comes and goes for my ipad or any other mobile device is unpredictable. Sometimes, I am left without a signal for hours or days. Should I change my Arris router, what is the solution?
What is " tb proprietary channel.rq" in my wifi connections. It randomly popped up in wifi signals I could connect to at my house there are no homes close to mine so where is the locked signal coming from
I am using my personal computer at work, and am connected to the company's internet service by wire (LAN i think). I use a wifi hotspot application on my laptop to create a wifi hotspot, so that i can use my tablet to connect to the internet via the laptop wifi. Can my employer know what i am surfing on my tablet? Please email me a reply on firstname.lastname@example.com as well. Thanks for helping! :)
can people using wifi also know what im doing?
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Nice job, I really like the story as well as the plot :D
But you should reaaly check out the hero's overworld back sprite. I think there is something wrong with the green part. It is way too big, despite the fact that it looks way smaller in the left/right direction sprite, like my attachment (sr because I can't post URLs)
And I suggest you should make a new sprite for the Normal Gym Leader :D
I know this is not a topic to ask, but how could you fix the PokemonFollowing error? When the Pokemon says "...hates travelling with...", an error pops. So could you show me the following script which you put in? Btw what did you put in common event TalkToPokemon?
Lots of things. Ok. First of all. The sprite i am using is still temporary.It is the sprite from one of the battle towers in platinum I think. It will change. The sprite for Joey will not change. The gym leader is Joey, so the game should use his sprite. I can PM you with the following pokemon issue. I am happy to help, but PM me. Not here. If you want help, feel free to PM me
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T-Shirts in Elmendorf
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The global market is flooded with all categories of t-shirts: slogan t-shirts and tees; logo collar t-shirts; sweat shirts; hi-fashion t-shirts for men, women and kids alike. It's stylish and fashionable to wear hit slogans, company logos on yourself, and what better way than by personalizing your t-shirts. The customer has a tormenting time hand-picking from the varied and attractive choices. The slogans are crazy, funny, naughty, patriotic and even humorous. They spell 'you' in every which way.
T-shirts with logos in Elmendorf are again customized to suit the needs of the end-customer. They are meant for companies, colleges, clubs and groups, and for all occasions that might be for cultural events, re-unions, group wear, sports team, group tours, social activities, product launches, promos, fairs, social functions like marriages or birthdays, elections and campaigning, etc.
Likewise, hi-fashion t-shirts in Elmendorf are just as popular with the youth. They are available in attractive, multi-colored screen prints with creative and inspirational themes.One may choose to personalize these t-shirts with photos, images, nick names, messages, caricature prints, besides slogans and logos.
Shopping, now, need no longer be boring when the clothing industry is spoiling you for choice.
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Each year as a tradition to myself and this green movement website, I write on the events of Earth Day (April 22nd) this year is no exception. I will focus more on some new ideas and representations of our planet Earth. The symbols of Earth Day have been similar throughout the years, including an image or drawing of the Earth..


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Deal reach in antitrust trial over reservation fees, policies
American Airlines and Sabre Holdings announced Wednesday that they have reached a settlement in its antitrust trial.
The two companies said they have renewed their current distribution agreement for multiple years, and American has agreed to negotiate with Sabre for additional technology services.
At issue were the fees American and other airlines pay the big travel reservation systems, such as Sabre, to display flights and make bookings. American wants more of its travel partners, such as travel agencies and websites, to connect directly to American's reservation system through a service called Direct Connect, which would save the airline booking fees.
As part of the settlement, Sabre will pay American an unspecified monetary payment while American will continue to market its Direct Connect software to travel agents.
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The terms of the settlement were not disclosed and need to be approved by the court.
The dispute started in late 2010 when American pulled its fares off Orbitz, one of the largest travel websites, because it would not use Direct Connect. Expedia, another big travel site, then dropped American's flight information.
Sabre joined the fracas in January 2011, making it harder to find American's fares in its system, raising booking fees and announcing that it would not renew American's contract when it expired. A temporary injunction was issued in American's favor, and the two sides reached an agreement that keeps American's fares in Sabre's system until 14 days after the trial is completed.
American said it lost $153 million in revenue during January and February 2011 when the Sabre system made it harder for travel agents to find its fares. The carrier was seeking almost $1 billion in damages from lost bookings, and potential losses of bookings that could have been made through American's own system.


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Murielle R. Drew-Nichols
Murielle R. "Midge" Nichols, 68, of Barre, died unexpectedly Saturday, March 7, 2015, in Englewood, Florida.
Midge was born Nov. 11, 1946, to Patrick and Jeannine (Rouleau) Roy in San Sebastien, Quebec. Jeannine died when Midge was just 2 years old. Patrick remarried, and his new wife, Aurelienne, raised Midge as her own. She spent a large part of her childhood in Kingfield, Maine, but her parents settled in Barre and she graduated from Marian High School in 1964. After high school, she completed her LPN at Thompson Nursing School in Brattleboro and went on to complete her RN as an adult, graduating from Vermont College with her Bachelor of Science in 1988. Her nursing career spanned over 40 years, beginning in Norwood, Massachusetts; working in Plattsburgh, New York; and finally back to Berlin, Vermont, at Central Vermont Medical Center. Over the years, countless people expressed their appreciation for her efficient, friendly presence in the operating room. She made many friendships there, which continued after her retirement in 2012 after many dedicated years of service. Previously married to Jeffrey Cavanaugh and David Drew, Midge found true companionship and happiness with her husband, George Nichols. Together they enjoyed camping, traveling and gathering with their many friends. They loved line dancing, and the two would light up the dance floor together at any event. For the past few years, they spent some of the winter in sunny Florida. It was a nice community where they felt home away from home. Devoted to her daughter, Stephanie, the two shared a special bond, which continued with her grandson, Chase, and new granddaughter, Kate. Chase will forever have a special place in his heart for his Grammy. She will always be watching over them. An avid reader, you could always find Midge with a new book. She loved the beach and spending time with her grandchildren. Midge had compassion for all, showering family and friends with love and help. Family was her priority; through her constant caring of others she was a true matriarch. She was the anchor in her sisters' group, "the girls." She will be missed greatly by so many.
Midge leaves her husband, George Nichols, of Barre; daughter Stephanie Drew and her partner, Jeremy Gonyon, grandchildren Chase and Kate, of Moretown; sisters Sue Trecartin, of West Danville, Joanne Cyr and husband Kevin, of East Barre; brother Alan Roy and wife Shelly, of Websterville; lifelong friend and confidante Marion Kibbee, of Norwood, Massachusetts; in-laws and nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her parents, Patrick and Aurelienne Roy, and her beloved sister pauline Stebar.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Green Mountain United Way, 1 Conti Circle, Barre, VT 05641.
For a memorial guest book, visit www.hookerwhitcomb.com.
Family and friends may call at the Hooker and Whitcomb Funeral Home, 7 Academy St., Barre, on Friday, March 20, 2015, from 3 p.m. until the time of service at 5 p.m. A committal service will be held in the spring at the Berlin Corner Cemetery in Berlin.
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Corabelle (Cora) Alice Lovejoy Russo Eddy, 73 died Thursday, April 2, 2015, at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H.
She was born June 25, 1941, the only child of Clayton and Goldie (Hudson) (Austin) Lovejoy. She attended grade school in Burke Hollow, VT, and high school at Lyndon Institute in Lyndonville, Vt. In 1960 she attended Fanny Allen School of Nursing and became a LPN, and in the 1990s attended Vermont College and became a Registered Nurse, fulfilling a lifelong dream.
She was always a nurse in specialty units, Intensive Care, Cardiac Care, and Nursery. At the end of her career she was a psychiatric nurse at the VA Hospital in White River Jct. where she was known as Grandma Cora by the patients.
Her Baha'i faith was a comfort to her throughout her long illness.
She married Gene Raymond Russo in 1963 and had three sons, Turner (Randy) Russo of Randolph Vt., Craig A. Russo and his wife, Margaret of Claremont, NH, and Clifford A. Russo of Newtown, Ct.
She married Ralph G. Eddy in 1976, and had one son, Robert G. Eddy and his wife, Sharon of Moscow, ID.
She had many hobbies and interests, sewing, knitting, crocheting, cooking, ceramic, gardening, and genealogy, among many others. She was a nurse to all living things and could get houseplants and animals to grow and thrive when others would consider them lost causes. Her love of animals was a lifelong passion. Her cats, dogs, and other pets were her adopted children. Above all, she had a kinship with turtles, she was a veritable turtle whisperer.
She was predeceased by her first husband; her parents; two brothers, Pearly Austin and Vern Austin, and nephews Norman Austin and Nathan Austin.
She is survived by her second husband, her four sons, and much loved grandchildren, Isobel Russo, Gretchen Eddy, Imogen Eddy, and Rohen Eddy, five nieces and one nephew and many cousins.
She is being buried June 12, 2015, with Oscar, her last cat of 19 years that passed a few weeks before her, in the East Haven Cemetery, East Haven, Vt.
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Lisa Thompson Kaiser
WOODBURY - Lisa Ann Kaiser, 43, of Woodbury, passed away in the comfort of her family at the Vermont Respite House in Williston following a valiant battle with cancer on Wednesday evening, Oct. 22, 2014.
Born in New Haven, Connecticut, on June 26, 1971, she was the daughter of Larry and Judith (Sornberger) Thompson Sr. On Sept. 16, 1995, she married Jeffrey S. Kaiser in Moretown.
Lisa was a graduate of Lamoille Union High School and then followed her dream and passion of becoming a nurse, graduating from the nursing program at Vermont College/Norwich University. She began her nursing career at Central Vermont Hospital in Berlin, a vocation that spanned over 20 years, working as an IV nurse and heading up the IV team. During this time she also worked with Central Vermont Home Health and Hospice and was the nursing director for Cota's Hospitality Home in Barre. Her memberships included the CRNI (Certified Registered Nurse Infusion), the Infusion Nurses Society and the Lamoille Valley Church of the Nazarene in Johnson.
Lisa's family fondly remembers her for the joy she experienced from gardening, being in the outdoors, making crafts of all kinds, traveling throughout the United States and the love she expressed for her family and many friends.
Lisa is survived by her husband, Jeffrey Kaiser, and their daughters, Kaitlyn and Madeline, all of Woodbury; her parents, Larry and Judith Thompson Sr., of Eden; her sisters, Tammy Peters and her husband, Seth, of Hyde Park, and Sarah Thompson and her companion, Cory Russin, of Johnson; her brother, Larry Thompson Jr., of Enfield, Connecticut; her mother-in-law, Linda Kaiser, of Waterbury; brothers-in-law Wesley Kaiser, of Waterbury, and Dennis Kaiser and his wife, Sheila, of Colchester; former sister-in-law Ann Kaiser, of South Burlington; as well as nieces, nephews and extended family.
A service celebrating the life of Lisa Kaiser will be held from the Lamoille Valley Church of the Nazarene in Johnson on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014, at 11 a.m. with burial to follow in the South Woodbury Cemetery.
The family requests that instead of flowers, memorial gifts would be appreciated to the Elizabeth Good Comolli Nursing Scholarship Fund, c/o Norwich University, 158 Harmon Drive, Northfield, VT 05663. Assisting the family is the Perkins-Parker Funeral Home and Cremation Service in Waterbury.
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Louise M. Sandberg
Louise Sandberg, of Corinth, died on May 12, 2015, after dealing in a courageous and inspiring manner with leukemia. It was a peaceful ending, surrounded by her family.
Thus ended a rich life that went from the turmoil of World War II Amsterdam to the upheaval of 1960s and '70s California to the tranquility of rural Vermont.
Louise Jeanette Haitsma Mulier was born in Amsterdam on Aug. 13, 1938, to Johann Henri Pieter Victor Haitsma Mulier and Cornelia (van Beusekom) Haitsma Mulier, the third of four children.
During the Nazi occupation of Holland, she remembers her mother cooking tulip bulbs for meals. When Germany surrendered in May of 1945, after a winter of near starvation, the bread dropped from Swedish planes onto the streets of Amsterdam was the best bread she ever tasted. After the war, her first English sentence was taught to her by her father, to say to American soldiers, "Do you have a cigarette for my father?" But she was a shy girl and did not remember if she ever had the nerve to approach one of those foreign soldiers.
After finishing high school, she attended the University of Utrecht. She was in two theater productions and was on the editorial board of the students' weekly newspaper. That turned out to be her passion, week after week writing articles and poetry for the paper, helping to assemble it, and watching the printer put it together letter by letter. She cut her university studies short in 1960, leaving for the United States to marry a Californian, Steve Devoto, whom she had met in Cannes a few years earlier.
She raised three children with Steve in California: Stephen, Vincent and Ulrike. During that time she completed her associate degree at Foothill Community College and wrote for the Palo Alto Times. But after her children, her most important work was nurturing the communities she was in, and protecting the Earth we all live on. She edited the neighborhood newsletter, helped to start the city's recycling program, served on city commissions, volunteered for Birthright and taught yoga. In 1979 she and Steve divorced after 19 years of marriage.
In 1983 she married Robert Sandberg, whom she would love and admire for always. They had two children who were born in Livermore, California, and largely raised in Corinth, Vermont: William and Bessie.
While continuing as a remarkable mother to all five children, she earned her bachelor's degree from Vermont College. She was a substitute teacher at Waits River Valley School and Chelsea High, earning from her students the title of "coolest sub ever." She continued to teach yoga, in Montpelier, and in her own yoga studio until her illness. Her classes now continue under the direction of Bessie.
In Corinth, Louise wasted no time integrating into the community, contributing her energy, idealism and determination to all around her. She never missed a single town meeting during her 27 years in Corinth, she served on the school board, the Blake Memorial Library board, was a justice of the peace, and was secretary of the Women's Fellowship. For the Earth, she co-founded Cookeville Compost with Robert, an enterprise that turns food scraps from area schools, restaurants and camps into rich soil to nurture life.
She began writing the Cookeville column for the Journal Opinion in 1993 and continued faithfully sharing the stories of her community until the week of her death. Readers learned of gatherings, harvests, visitors, memorials, births and in the past year followed the saga of the inimitable rooster Lone Star. In addition to her column, she wrote theater reviews, a Christmas story and for New Year's "A Cookeville Conversation," and reported on the town meeting.
Louise was the touchstone of those around her. She was a weaver of the textures and fabric of her community. She was and will always be inspirational to all who knew and admired her.
She was predeceased by her parents and by her brothers, Hans and Pieter. In addition to her children and husband, she leaves behind her sister, Wieke Mulier, and Wieke's husband, Bob Lowenstein, of Soest, and her sister-in-law Jacqueline Mulier, of Middelie, both in the Netherlands. She also leaves grandchildren Marcelle, Audra, Clark, Henry, Isabella and Stella, nephews Victor and Ernst, niece Femke, and several grandnieces and grandnephews.
The family asks that you support your local community. Come to all the events that she enjoyed - dinners at the East Corinth Congregational Church, the Corinth Coffeehouses, the Academy Cafe on Saturday mornings, the Bradford Conservation Commission movies and the Old Church Theater performances. And be good to the Earth.
There will be a memorial service to celebrate her life on June 13, beginning at 3 p.m., on the farm at 587 Abe Jacobs Road in Corinth.


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The Directorate for Emergency Services' Fire and Emergency Division recently received the 2010 Department of Defense Fire Prevention Program of the Year. Fire Chief Andrew Pagley accepted the award on behalf of the depot during a conference held Aug. 22-26 in Atlanta, Ga.
This annual award recognizes the Army Materiel Command's best fire prevention program based on outstanding achievements and accomplishments in direct support of the depot's mission.
"The program is aimed from the smallest kid to the biggest kid," said Pagley. It's a shame that we have a loss of life before we make a change in what we are doing. Our program is set up to educate everyone before bad things happen."
Three key elements in the Army's fire prevention program are: (1) fire prevention inspections, code compliance, enforcement & fire protection engineering; (2) community and public education programs and (3) innovativeness.
RRAD's fire and emergency service went above and beyond all three elements in 2010 with the community and public education program section being the most visible part.
The department reached out to more than 2,500 students with educational presentations and packets filled with coloring books, pencils, reading material, stickers and even a small plastic firefighter hat.
"All the schools in the communities invite us to come or come to our location here," Pagley said. "We take everything we can to get their attention."
The younger kids are the ones who listen and want to interact more, according to Pagley.
"The children that listen to us the most are Kindergarten thru 4th grade," he said. "We hear back from their parents after they have told them that their family must do a fire drill once a month or change the batteries in the smoke detector. That's the kind of thing we want the kids to do. We want them to take this information home because parents listen to their children."
During the course of the school year, schools also bring students to the fire department located on depot.
"We love to have them come to the fire house," said Pagley. "We give tours of where we sleep, where we eat and show them what a day in the life of firefighter looks like. It's always a great time."
Pagley explained that they also take them thru the administrative areas including his office which is full of antique firefighter equipment.
"My guys and gals always jokingly tell the kids this is Chief's office so don't touch anything," said Pagley, as he chuckled. "I don't care what they touch; I just love having all them come see us."
During each presentation made to the students, the men and women of the fire department also give in depth instructions on what to do if the child is ever caught in a fire.
"We teach the kids that hiding in closets and under beds is the worst thing you can do if a fire breaks out in your house," said Pagley. "We even go as far as putting a firefighter in full uniform so they know what he or she looks like if they are coming toward one of them. In a smoked filled environment that's a monster to a little kid, but we tell them this is someone's Daddy inside the suit and we let them know not to be afraid. Once we finish the presentation, a lot of the kids rush up to hug the firefighter in the suit."
Along with education of the local schools, the department is also ramping up fire prevention awareness around the depot. In conjunction with Fire Prevention Week (Oct. 9-15), the firefighters built several Sparky the Fire Dog signs and placed them next to marquees in various locations.
"This year you will see more fire prevention campaigns than ever at RRAD," said Pagley. "We are in an extreme fire condition and as firefighters it is our job to get the word out to everyone."
With the recent outbreak of wildfires in the area, the department also volunteered to help fight the Bear Creek fire in Avinger, Tex. Sept. 7-15.
"It was not only something that the department wanted to do but we needed to do it," said Pagley. "One thing about being a firefighter is that we are like a brotherhood. We help not only the community but each other."
The department was also nominated for 2010 DoD Fire Department of the Year (small department) and Civilian Firefighter of the Year with Michael Miller as the nominee.. Pagley was nominated for Civilian Officer of the Year.
"I enjoy the challenge and I enjoy learning new things," Pagley said. "Our plan is to continue to educate the little ones, the elderly and everyone in between those two."


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Pulmonary arterial hypertension is characterized by endothelial dysregulation, but global changes in gene expression have not been related to perturbations in function.RNA sequencing was utilized to discriminate changes in transcriptomes of endothelial cells cultured from lungs of patients with idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension vs. controls and to assess the functional significance of major differentially expressed transcripts.The endothelial transcriptomes from seven control and six idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension patients' lungs were analyzed. Differentially expressed genes were related to BMPR2 signaling. Those downregulated were assessed for function in cultured cells, and in a transgenic mouse.Fold-differences in ten genes were significant (p<0.05), four increased and six decreased in patients vs.No patient was mutant for BMPR2. However, knockdown of BMPR2 by siRNA in control pulmonary arterial endothelial cells recapitulated six/ten patient-related gene changes, including decreased collagen IV (COL4A1, COL4A2) and ephrinA1 (EFNA1). Reduction of BMPR2 regulated transcripts was related to decreased β-catenin. Reducing COL4A1, COL4A2 and EFNA1 by siRNA inhibited pulmonary endothelial adhesion, migration and tube formation. In mice null for the EFNA1 receptor, EphA2, vs. controls, VEGF receptor blockade and hypoxia caused more severe pulmonary hypertension, judged by elevated right ventricular systolic pressure, right ventricular hypertrophy and loss of small arteries.The novel relationship between BMPR2 dysfunction and reduced expression of endothelial COL4 and EFNA1 may underlie vulnerability to injury in pulmonary arterial hypertension.
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Vascular permeability is essential for the health of normal tissues and is an important characteristic of many disease states. The role of the Wnt/frizzled pathway in vascular biology has recently been reported. The objectives of this study are to analyse the role of Frizzled7 (Fzd7) receptor in the control of vascular integrity.Fzd7 is expressed in endothelial cells and accumulates at the points of cell-cell contact in association with VE-cadherin and β-catenin, two major adherens junction molecules. To selectively delete fzd7 in the vasculature, we developed gene targeting approaches using CreLox strategy in mice. Genetic fzd7 inhibition in the endothelium increases vascular permeability in basal and factor-induced conditions. On the cellular level, fzd7 knockdown or depletion leads to an increase in paracellular permeability with a loss of adherens junction organization. These impairments are associated with a decrease in both VE-Cadherin and β-catenin expression, a decrease in their association and an increase of tyrosine phosphorylation of VE-cadherin/β-catenin. Fzd7 transduces a Wnt/β-catenin signalling cascade that is required to regulate β-catenin and canonical target gene expression. Finally, LiCl, a GSK3 inhibitor, and β-catenin overexpression rescued endothelial integrity and adherens junction organization, induced by fzd7 deletion.These findings establish that Fzd7 is a new partner of adherens junctional complex and represents a novel molecular switch for the control of vascular permeability via activation of the Wnt-canonical pathway.
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Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is characterized by progressive elevation in pulmonary pressure and loss of small pulmonary arteries. As bone morphogenetic proteins promote pulmonary angiogenesis by recruiting the Wnt/?-catenin pathway, we proposed that ?-catenin activation could reduce loss and induce regeneration of small pulmonary arteries (PAs) and attenuate PH.This study aims to establish the role of ?-catenin in protecting the pulmonary endothelium and stimulating compensatory angiogenesis after injury.To assess the impact of ?-catenin activation on chronic hypoxia-induced PH, we used the adenomatous polyposis coli (Apc(Min/+)) mouse, where reduced APC causes constitutive ?-catenin elevation. Surprisingly, hypoxic Apc(Min/+) mice displayed greater PH and small PA loss compared with control C57Bl6J littermates. PA endothelial cells isolated from Apc(Min/+) demonstrated reduced survival and angiogenic responses along with a profound reduction in adhesion to laminin. The mechanism involved failure of APC to interact with the cytoplasmic domain of the ?3 integrin, to stabilize focal adhesions and activate integrin-linked kinase-1 and phospho Akt. We found that PA endothelial cells from lungs of patients with idiopathic PH have reduced APC expression, decreased adhesion to laminin, and impaired vascular tube formation. These defects were corrected in the cultured cells by transfection of APC.We show that APC is integral to PA endothelial cells adhesion and survival and is reduced in PA endothelial cells from PH patient lungs. The data suggest that decreased APC may be a cause of increased risk or severity of PH in genetically susceptible individuals.
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A growing body of evidence supports the hypothesis that the Wnt/planar cell polarity (PCP) pathway regulates endothelial cell proliferation and angiogenesis, but the components that mediate this regulation remain elusive.We investigated the involvement of one of the receptors, Frizzled4 (Fzd4), in this process because its role has been implicated in retinal vascular development.We found that loss of fzd4 function in mice results in a striking reduction and impairment of the distal small artery network in the heart and kidney. We report that loss of fzd4 decreases vascular cell proliferation and migration and decreases the ability of the endothelial cells to form tubes. We show that fzd4 deletion induces defects in the expression level of stable acetylated tubulin and in Golgi organization during migration. Deletion of fzd4 favors Wnt noncanonical AP1-dependent signaling, indicating that Fzd4 plays a pivotal role favoring PCP signaling. Our data further demonstrate that Fzd4 is predominantly localized on the top of the plasma membrane, where it preferentially induces Dvl3 relocalization to promote its activation and α-tubulin recruitment during migration. In a pathological mouse angiogenic model, deletion of fzd4 impairs the angiogenic response and leads to the formation of a disorganized arterial network.These results suggest that Fzd4 is a major receptor involved in arterial formation and organization through a Wnt/PCP pathway.
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Mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) are multipotent postnatal stem cells, involved in the treatment of ischemic vascular diseases. We investigate the ability of MSC, exposed to short-term hypoxic conditions, to participate in vascular and tissue regeneration in an in vivo model of hindlimb ischemia. Transplantation of hypoxic preconditioned murine MSC (HypMSC) enhanced skeletal muscle regeneration at day 7, improved blood flow and vascular formation compared to injected nonpreconditioned MSC (NormMSC). These observed effects were correlated with an increase in HypMSC engraftment and a putative role in necrotic skeletal muscle fiber clearance. Moreover, HypMSC transplantation resulted in a large increase in Wnt4 (wingless-related MMTV integration site 4) expression and we demonstrate its functional significance on MSC proliferation and migration, endothelial cell (EC) migration, as well as myoblast differentiation. Furthermore, suppression of Wnt4 expression in HypMSC, abrogated the hypoxia-induced vascular regenerative properties of these cells in the mouse hindlimb ischemia model. Our data suggest that hypoxic preconditioning plays a critical role in the functional capabilities of MSC, shifting MSC location in situ to enhance ischemic tissue recovery, facilitating vascular cell mobilization, and skeletal muscle fiber regeneration via a paracrine Wnt-dependent mechanism.
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Proper bone remodeling requires an active process of angiogenesis which in turn supplies the necessary growth factors and stem cells. This tissue cooperation suggests a cross-talk between osteoblasts and endothelial cells. This work aims to identify the role of paracrine communication through vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in co-culture between osteoblastic and endothelial cells. Through a well defined direct contact co-culture model between human osteoprogenitors (HOPs) and human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs), we observed that HUVECs were able to migrate along HOPs, inducing the formation of specific tubular-like structures. VEGF(165) gene expression was detected in the HOPs, was up-regulated in the co-cultured HOPs and both Flt-1 and KDR gene expression increased in co-cultured HUVECs. However, the cell rearrangement observed in co-culture was promoted by a combination of soluble chemoattractive factors and not by VEGF(165) alone. Despite having no observable effect on endothelial cell tubular-like formation, VEGF appeared to have a crucial role in osteoblastic differentiation since the inhibition of its receptors reduced the co-culture-stimulated osteoblastic phenotype. This co-culture system appears to enhance both primary angiogenesis events and osteoblastic differentiation, thus allowing for the development of new strategies in vascularized bone tissue engineering.
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Mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) transplantation offers a great angiogenic opportunity in vascular regenerative medicine. The canonical Wnt/beta-catenin signaling pathway has been demonstrated to play an essential role in stem cell fate. Recently, genetic studies have implicated the Wnt/Frizzled (Fz) molecular pathway, namely Wnt7B and Fz4, in blood growth regulation. Here, we investigated whether MSC could be required in shaping a functional vasculature and whether secreted Frizzled-related protein-1 (sFRP1), a modulator of the Wnt/Fz pathway, could modify MSC capacities, endowing MSC to increase vessel maturation. In the engraftment model, we show that murine bone marrow-derived MSC induced a beneficial vascular effect through a direct cellular contribution to vascular cells. MSC quickly organized into primitive immature vessel tubes connected to host circulation; this organization preceded host endothelial cell (EC) and smooth muscle cell (SMC) recruitment to later form mature neovessel. MSC sustained neovessel organization and maturation. We report here that sFRP1 forced expression enhanced MSC surrounding neovessel, which was correlated with an increase in vessel maturation and functionality. In vitro, sFRP1 strongly increased platelet-derived growth factor-BB (PDGF-BB) expression in MSC and enhanced beta-catenin-dependent cell-cell contacts between MSC themselves and EC or SMC. In vivo, sFRP1 increased their functional integration around neovessels and vessel maturation through a glycogen synthase kinase 3 beta (GSK3beta)-dependent pathway. sFRP1-overexpressing MSC compared with control MSC were well elongated and in a closer contact with the vascular wall, conditions required to achieve an organized mature vessel wall. We propose that genetically modifying MSC to overexpress sFRP1 may be potentially effective in promoting therapeutic angiogenesis/arteriogenesis processes. Disclosure of potential conflicts of interest is found at the end of this article.
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Louisiana-born and Milwaukee-bred MATC graduate Stella Bernard was recently accepted as an apprentice at L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon in Paris. Robuchon is widely recognized as one of the world's premier chefs and restaurateurs. Via e-mail, we catch up with Bernard and learn about her position in a Stage de Observation.
How did the opportunity at L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon come about?
I had attended a specialty culinary school in Burgundy last summer and performed a one-month stage in Paris. [A "stage" or "stagier" is an apprentice/apprenticeship.] Three months is too short to learn even the basics of French cuisine. I decided to return this year and stage again. My original plans were to stage in two kitchens here France. However, one of the restaurants I had chosen had closed and the other was already full with trainees. This set me on a path of writing many chefs requesting a stage. I was very optimistic at first but after dozens of unanswered letters, several unfruitful phone calls, and a few unsuccessful interviews I was ready to call it quits. Maybe it was that point of desperation that made me cast caution to the wind with one last batch of letters to the best kitchens in Paris. I figured they couldn't do or say anything more than I had already endured and at least I could say I exhausted all my possibilities.
When my phone rang with an unknown number, I had to consciously force myself to breathe. On the other end of the line was Chef Philip Braun, one of the top men of the Joël Robuchon empire and executive chef of the flagship restaurants here in Paris. After a short interview I was invited to join the team at L'Atelier as a stagier. After a long and difficult road I had arrived at the opportunity of a lifetime!
MATC culinary arts graduate Stella Bernard shown on the streets of Paris where she is an apprentice at L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon.
There are two teams and the one I am with, which I have already decided is the "A" team, is half international. The idea is that we build a cohesive machine that knows exactly what is going on through lunch and dinner service and from day to day.
I started in the Garde Manger [cold food preparation] supporting service from the back kitchen. I have recently graduated to live service in the Noir or the grand cuisine open to the dining room. Perfection is the only option here.
While in Paris will you be able to soak up the culture?
I originally chose Paris because I have a handful of friends from my previous travels, but also because much of the city is multilingual. I arrived with the most minimal amount of French, but now converse openly, although simply, with my friends and coworkers. This takes effort, practice and a bit of humility, as I often make poor pronunciation or word choices.
There have been many opportunities to attend exhibitions of food, wine, and art. In my everyday life I buy food at the open market, walk almost everywhere, and my TV/Newspaper are in French. So, yes I am soaking up the culture.
How long have you had an interest in culinary arts?
I think I have always had a love for food. My Father is Cajun and my Mother is German/Polish. I grew up eating a variety of foods and learning how to make them. My mother also took some night classes at MATC's West Allis campus back in the 1980s in cake decorating. She spent many years perfecting her skills and even made my sister's wedding cake. This exposure grew deep roots for love of food. But I think becoming a chef didn't enter my arena of thought until I was looking for a new career.
What attracted you to MATC?
After talking to other chefs, the choice to attend MATC was very clear. It was local, the price was right, and the reputation for graduating good cooks was well known. Also one chef told me something very important which I often pass on to aspiring culinarians ... "soup is soup." When you are learning the basics, it is all the same. You can attend a school with a big name and high tuition, but you get out of your education what you invest. The name on your diploma does not make you a chef. It is your soul, your passion, and what you do with it that puts you on the path to success.
How did MATC prepare you for your professional career?
As I mentioned, any school can teach you the basics. But it is when you want more that a teacher proves his/her own worth. Often I was asking for something different, harder, more exotic. I needed to prove I was serious and that I had mastered the lessons taught first. But soon, instructors were ready to match my desires with something more challenging. They were interested in my development outside of school and helped me find volunteer opportunities and my first real kitchen.
What are your memorable experiences while you were at MATC?
I can think of many occasions but it is not the happiest moment I remember most, but one of the saddest. It was my last day in the kitchen of Cuisine[MATC's student-run restaurant and dining room]. During the last week I had the assignment of Sous Chef, meaning I had to report 30 minutes earlier for class to cover the day's production list with Chef (John) Reiss. As I buttoned my coat and tied my apron for the last time as an MATC student, I felt tears running down my face. My chest was so tight I could hardly breathe. I turned to Chef Reiss and simply said "There wasn't enough time! We could have done more." There I was a grown woman, falling to pieces because it was the last day and there was so much more I wanted to learn.
What instructors were most influential on you?
I remember the first day of orientation and the instructors introducing themselves. One of the students ahead of me in the program pointed out Chef Reiss and suggested that he had a reputation for being a very hard instructor. There was a murmur of agreement from others. In truth, John Reiss is a hard instructor, but also a good and fair one. He pushes you to live up to the standards of our industry. A real kitchen isn't a place for the weak or tender hearted.
My first opportunity to work with Chef Reiss was for the Wisconsin Restaurant Association Single Plate competition. I was one of many students competing for MATC. Often we worked late into the night perfecting recipes, plate design, and the art of glazing. His dedication was amazing. With his help, MATC swept that competition capturing the top three places with gold medals. During my two years at MATC he was also my coach for the American Culinary Federation Hot Food Challenge, my instructor, and my mentor. Today I count him as a colleague and friend.
Were there any times when you considered another profession? If so, what made you stick with culinary arts?
Like many students attending MATC, I was seeking a different career. I had worked in different professional industries for many years before deciding I wanted a new career. I say it often "I don't just love to cook, I live to cook." Finding culinary arts was a discovery of my life's passion. Even though the days are long, the hours difficult, I couldn't imagine being anything else than a chef.
What's next for you?
The future? Well, I really don't know. It seems to me any door I want to approach now feels open. I would like to remain in the high-end fine dining kitchens for a few more years, but I also have a strong desire to teach. Since I have started down the culinary road, I have found that the most amazing opportunities tend to just happen. Whatever my next step, I am sure it will present itself in due time.
Stella Bernard (second from right) and instructor John Reiss (right) prepare for a competition with other culinary arts students.
Stella mentioned the influence Chef John Reiss had during her time at MATC. Reiss shares his thoughts about Stella's experience.
What does it mean for an aspiring culinary arts professional to have an experience like Stella's?
Great American chefs know their training isn't complete without a stint in European kitchens. The standard for fine dining was first established by the French and the tradition continues to this day. An apprenticeship in a European kitchen will sharpen your culinary skills and give you a competitive advantage in the kitchen and in your career. An opportunity like Stella's comes along once in a lifetime.
What do you remember of Stella as a student?
Stella was a focused and driven student. She was always looking at the top and how she could get there. She was a driving force behind the American Culinary Federation student hot food competition team at MATC. She was very involved with the local ACF chapter. She worked at some of the better restaurants in Milwaukee, including Roots. She sought out the advice and guidance of local, regional, and nationally known chefs.
How do you think Stella's education and training at MATC has prepared her for the experience at Robuchon?
Students always comment on the real world skills they achieve through our culinary program. The evidence of our success is all over the map in southeastern Wisconsin, not to mention around the country and the world. We have graduates in Amsterdam and Madrid.
For more information on MATC's culinary arts program, visit http://matc.edu/student/offerings/culartaas.cfm
To learn more about Cuisine, MATC's student-run restaurant that is open to the public, visit http://matc.edu//cuisine/index.cfm
For more information on L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon, visit
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Upsets continued at the Wimbledon 2013 as women's top seed and current champion Serena Williams was shown the door by German Sabine Lisicki 6-2, 1-6, 6-4 thus ending the American's 34-match winning streak. Here are other seeds who were knocked out from Wimbledon 2013:
Former world number 1 Roger Federer was sent packing by unseeded Ukrainian player Sergiy Stakhovsky 6-7, 7-6, 7-5, 7-6 in the second round.
In another shock at the Wimbledon, women's number 2 Maria Sharapova exited the tournament with a defeat to M. Larcher de Brito 6-3 6-4
Former world number 1 and reigning French Open champion, Rafael Nadal was ousted from the first round at Wimbledon by unseeded Belgian Steve Darcis. Nadal's 7-6 (7-4) 7-6 (10-8) 6-4 loss to Darcis ends his campaign on the grass court.
Fifth seed Italian Sara Errani (left) too suffered a shock first-round exit at the hands of Puerto Rican teenager Monica Puig losing 6-3 6-2.
11th seed Stanislas Wawrinka too tasted defeat at the hands of former champion and unseeded Australian Lleyton Hewitt. Swiss Wawrinka lost beat 6-4, 7-5, 6-3 to Hewitt
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The two banks, are part of the country's Big Four. Bank of China was reportedly having a hard time meeting loan-to-deposit requirements before the liquidity squeeze and it plans to resume lending on July 15.
Meanwhile, ICBC's headquarters set a cap on lending, but what was unusual was that "headquarters had cut down on the quotas to make room for its own operations," according to Caixin. Other sources however said this wasn't a major problem.
Chinese interbank rates, or the rates at which banks lend to each other, began spiking before the Dragon Boat festival earlier this month.
The People's Bank of China alleviated some of the pressure by injecting liquidity into some banks and saying that it would use various tools like short-term liquidity operations to help stabilize rates.
But it's important to remember that the "PBOC promised more liquidity but not enough to support the equity markets or enough to drop rates below 4%," according to Robert Savage at FX Concepts.
And the Chinese central bank's initial decision to let rates peak is still being interpreted as its way of punishing certain banks that had runaway credit growth. From Société Générale's Wei Yao:
The PBoC makes clear that it wants more responsible and less risky behavior from financial institutions, including the strengthening of liquidity and asset-liability management, and calls on large banks to help stabilize markets. Secondly, the PBoC calls on financial institutions to balance liquidity and profitability and other business objectives according to macroprudential requirements. Lastly, it calls on financial market participants to strengthen market discipline, particularly related to Shibor.
Jim O'Neill said China was never at risk of a genuine liquidity crunch. But there definitely are concerns of a credit bubble so we will be following these developments closely.
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Here are a dozen ways to have fun in the region this summer:
1) Fly a kite. Find an open area or head to one of the region's beaches to see how high you can make your kite go. You can find smaller kites available at the dollar store and more elaborate versions can be found at department and sporting goods stores.
2) Take a bike ride. Be safe and rather than riding in a road or having to cross busy intersections, take advantage of one of the region's bike trails. Find more information on the Pennsey Greenway at www.indianatrails.org/pennsy_nwi.htm.
3) Visit Sand Ridge Nature Center in South Holland for a short hike or a peek at the indoor exhibits.
4) Enjoy some ice cream. Some great spots to try out are Gayety's and Dairyville in Lansing, Dairy Belle in Hammond and Valpo Velvet in Valparaiso.
5) Go Bowling. On those rainy days when you can't enjoy the outdoors, head in to a bowling alley for a little bit of fun. Go to www.kidsbowlfree.com to find places in your area that offer free bowling sessions in the summer.
6) Play at the park. Throughout the region, you'll find lovely parks with great amenities, fun playground equipment and beautiful scenery. Some of our favorites are Erfert Park in Lansing, Centennial Park in Munster, Pheasant Hills Park in Dyer and Redar Park in Schererville.
7) The 49er Drive In. A drive-in movie experience is something this generation may not be familiar with. Check out this cool, nostalgic outdoor theater in Valparaiso. Also, check with local park districts on Movie in the Park nights.
8) The Port Drive-In restaurant. I was sad to see that the Blue Top Drive-In in Highland closed recently, but take the time to stop out in Chesterton at The Port Drive-In for a burger and shake delivered via car hop.
9) UPick. Northwest Indiana and Southwest Michigan are great places to visit a farm and pick your own fruit. Strawberry and cherry seasons are done, but blueberry season is here and peach and apple season are coming next month.
10) Munster Pool. I really miss having a community pool here in Lansing, but love spending lazy afternoons with my kids at the Munster Pool. It's not huge and overcrowded like some of the modern water parks — perfect if you want to swim for a couple hours rather than an entire day.
11) Tyler's Tender in Schererville. If you have fans of trains in your family, this cute choo-choo themed restaurant has model trains, a small train to ride and a train to deliver food at the counter seating. There's also an arcade for older kids to enjoy. So, when the weather keeps you inside, think trains.
12) Hoosier Theater in Whiting. As a teen, I spent countless evenings at the Dolton Theater, which closed many years ago. While we now have huge theaters with a dozen screens, there aren't many nostalgic theaters left. I love the character and feel of yesteryear at the Hoosier Theater, built in 1930.
Don't feed the wildlife
Our family really enjoys spending time outdoors in the summer and one activity we've been taking part in, not realizing the negative effects, is saving stale crackers or bread and feeding it to local ducks and geese. In a recent article I wrote about picnic spots, I mentioned bringing along some extra bread for ducks. I received a couple of emails informing me of how harmful it is to feed bread and crackers to wildlife and that it is prohibited at the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, where you can be issued a citation for doing so.
I did some reading online about why it isn't good to feed the wildlife (i.e. no nutrition in bread and crackers that can cause malnutrition, overpopulation, spread of disease.) This article explains it pretty well: http://birding.about.com/od/birdfeeders/a/feedingducksbread.htm


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In addition to being more economically efficient, proponents argue that the land value tax provides an incentive for development. The evidence to support this conclusion is limited by the availability of data within the United States. Economists Oates and Schwab in a 1997 paper find a positive association between adoption of land value taxation and building activity in Pittsburgh. In a 2000 paper, economists Plassmann and Tidemann use data from 15 Pennsylvania municipalities and find a direct, positive relationship between the tax differential between land and improvements and the number of building permits. In other words, under a split-rate system, Plassmann and Tideman find evidence that the higher the land tax in relation to the improvements tax, the more building activity occurs.
Elimination of the inefficient property tax system in the U.S. would be challenging because of the importance of the tax revenue to state and local governments. Property taxes are the largest single source of revenue for state and local governments, accounting for over one-third of all revenue. Opponents of the land value tax also argue that it encourages overdevelopment. The land value tax was largely blamed for the overdevelopment of Waikiki. Although unwanted higher density was most likely the result of poor planning rather than the land value tax, the county of Hawaii abolished the land value tax in 2002.
A recent study, Assessing the Theory and Practice of Land Value Taxation, lays out a framework for implementing the land tax. Another study, Land Value Taxation – Theory, Evidence, and Practice, includes an exhaustive discussion of legal issues that need to be overcome in each state in order to implement the land value tax. The legal and political challenges of changing the current property tax system are daunting.
In spite of these challenges, Connecticut signed into law this June a pilot program allowing three municipalities the option of implementing a land value tax. The success or failure of the program will likely determine the programs expansion within the state.
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