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Dr. Edwin Clausen – a Teacher at Heart
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Members of the Hong Luck Kung Fu Club of Toronto performed a traditional Chinese Lion Dance to kick off the ceremonies.
The beginning of the fall, 2011 semester not only brought new and returning students back to the Daemen campus, it also marked the start of the first semester under a new President. Dr. Edwin Clausen, the fifth President of Daemen College, accepted the Presidential Chain of Office midway through Inaugural ceremonies on September 8 in Wick Center on the Daemen campus. The events of the afternoon were kicked off in a stunning fashion with a traditional Chinese Lion Dance by Canada's first and oldest Traditional Chinese Martial Arts Club, the Hong Luck Kung Fu Club of Toronto. The Lion Dance was performed to recognize Dr. Clausen's extensive scholarship and his leadership in establishing cultural ties with educational institutions in China. The Inaugural ceremonies took place before approximately 800 Daemen students, faculty, administrators, Trustees, and invited guests, who all enjoyed a reception upon the conclusion of the events.
Seeing What's Coming
It is mid-morning, and Daemen's fifth president, Dr. Edwin Clausen, has just come from a meeting with a delegation from Saudi Arabia. Participants wrapped up details of an agreement involving a partnership between Daemen College and The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Cultural Mission to the U.S.; Dr. Clausen now looks forward to escorting his guests to Niagara Falls. Informal socializing with the visitors will help lay the foundation for trust and understanding in future joint ventures, he says, and "the tone of that comes from the president's office."
After 11 years as vice president for academic affairs and dean of the College, Dr. Clausen officially assumed responsibilities as Daemen's president on June 3 of this year.
"I now have to take a broader view of the institution," he says. "Part of doing that is helping the vice presidents make sure their operations are running smoothly and serving the mission of the College."
A night owl, Dr. Clausen has found that the responsibilities that go along with being president fit very well into an "elongated day," so it helps that he usually does not go to bed till the wee hours. Beginning to relax around 11 p.m., sitting outside in the stillness, he can sort through the events of the day and anticipate what's ahead. "One ability that has served me well is seeing what's coming before it gets here – and then going to work on it," he says.
Helping to ensure the College's financial strength is a good example, he says. "That is a charge that has become more and more the function of the president at colleges and universities across the country.
"It involves working much closer with the board of trustees, with alumni, cultivating donors, and working extensively with local, state, and federal agencies and representatives, so they do not just know about the College but are willing and able to help us meet our goals and objectives," he explains. He is grateful that his predecessor, Dr. Martin Anisman, drew him into Daemen's legislative affairs early on; he is already acquainted with Western New York's legislators and the issues affecting higher education. "The president can do a fair amount to make sure the institution gets on the national map."
Though he says "national map," it is, in fact, a world map he has in mind. Daemen is a small liberal-arts college, but its programs in the arts and health sciences, he points out, are in many respects world-class – and that is the key to the College's future, especially amid "the shifting nature of education." Daemen has a history of engaging in unique international exchange programs and already enrolls students from as far away as Azerbaijian and Sudan. Now, he says, it is time to extend that reach.
Promoting innovative international programs will have important implications for both the College's fiscal stability and the education it provides, he explains. "It fits very well into the College's quest to have students really understand and be comfortable with the world in which we live. Trying to distill down what is important is one of the great tasks of higher education, and you have to have association with different people."
"In a climate of increasing competition for students, colleges and universities can save on facilities, salaries and a whole host of other things through institutional partnering." – Dr. Edwin Clausen
That philosophy is deeply ingrained in his personal experience. As a young man, he traveled to Taiwan to teach English as a second language. His immersion in Taiwanese culture lit the intellectual fire that led him to earn his doctoral degree in modern Chinese history from the University of California at Santa Barbara. Fluent in Mandarin Chinese, he has traveled extensively throughout Asia, often while teaching or doing research.
Dr. Clausen returns frequently to that part of the world. On the tail end of a recent business trip to China with some of his Daemen College colleagues, they ventured into Mongolia to set the stage for a new partnership with the Health Sciences University of Mongolia (HSUM). The program will bring medical technicians from Mongolia to Daemen for training with specialized medical diagnostic equipment. In another dimension of the agreement, students and faculty in Daemen's new International Center for Excellence in Animation will assist in launching a multimedia technology system at HSUM and creating animated health-education videos for use in Mongolia.
Dr. Edwin Clausen, accepts the Chain of Office from Thomas E. Brydges, J.D., Vice Chair, Daemen Board of Trustees.
In Africa, the College is exploring programs "of real potential" with the University of Botswana, Dr. Clausen notes. One program under consideration would enable students to earn a bachelor's degree in Global and Local Sustainability – a new offering at Daemen – plus, in just one additional year of study, a master's degree in Development Practice from the University of Botswana. The initiative could pave the way for similar joint-degree programs between Daemen and partner institutions both in the U.S. and abroad. Such programs would be "immensely cost-effective," says Dr. Clausen. In a climate of increasing competition for students, "colleges and universities must do this. It saves on facilities, it saves on salaries and a whole host of other things."
Pursuing such initiatives is a matter of urgency, he stresses. As the cost of a College education continues to rise, he predicts that in the next decade, "more and more American students are going to go overseas to get their education, because it's going to be a lot cheaper, and they are going to get a top-flight education. I can tell you right now: a degree in engineering from Beijing University is going to carry great respect. It is going to happen. What are we going to do about that? How are we going to deal with that?
"Well, you had better have some serious joint programs. We are going to have to visualize now how this will work, and do it. Otherwise, it is not just that we are going to hurt financially; we are going to hurt in terms of the kind of education we deliver. This involves everything: facilities, curriculum – all aspects of the institution are going to be affected by these developments.
"We can wring our hands and say, 'Woe is me!' Or we can see this as an opportunity – and I think it is a great opportunity."
Exchange programs are important in another way, he says, because travel connects students to the broader world and fosters "thinking in integrated ways. You can not think in solitude today. If you are a physical therapist [for example], you had better be well versed in cultural understanding, problem-solving, and creative thinking. And if you are a historian, you had better understand that if you are looking at the complex Middle East today, you need to look at it from a religious perspective; from the viewpoint of political science, not just history; and you need to look at complex [health-related] issues they may have."
The Changing Curriculum
The value of interdisciplinary thinking is reflected in the College's revised core curriculum, which Dr. Clausen helped craft after he first came to Daemen 11 years ago. The new core—which affects every student—comprises courses that stress "seven key skills and competencies that we think every student should have," he explains. "Strong writing and research skills are among those competencies."
Dr. Clausen is also a strong advocate of academic programs that incorporate career-related skills and experiences that will give students an edge in the job market after graduation. He says an excellent example is Daemen's B.F.A. program in animation, offered for the first time in the fall of 2011. He championed creation of the new major and worked closely on its development with Dr. Laura Sommer, director of visual and performing arts and associate professor of art history, and Ben Porcari, president of IBC Digital in Buffalo.
"Our program is different in key ways: first, because it is art-based – the first two years focus on artistic skills, figure drawing – and second, we are partnered with one of the best animation companies in this area." He believes the classroom/industry link will make the major "a highly visible, nationally recognized program."
The Service Legacy
Dr. Clausen is also a staunch proponent of the College's emphasis on "service learning," through which students gain academic credit for taking part in community service projects throughout Western New York. All students are now required to engage in service learning in order to graduate, because service "is absolutely essential, and Daemen has a rich history of it. The Sisters of St. Francis founded this College, and that was part of their ethos. It is a continuing legacy, something they have left for us to embrace. That is a Daemen hallmark."
Putting his belief into action, Dr. Clausen put the wheels in motion for the creation of the Western New York Service Learning Coalition, which unites not-for-profit organizations, government agencies, and 12 colleges and universities around the region, all "working together to improve Western New York."
"Daemen's Academic Festival gives our students an opportunity to showcase their academic work. It is a day of genuine celebration of their accomplishments. It is wonderful what they can do." – Dr. Edwin Clausen
Dr. Clausen takes great pride in the fact that Daemen emphasizes excellence in teaching and learning. His own years in the classroom have engendered a strong respect for the faculty and an appreciation of what they and their students are capable of achieving together. He looks forward every year to the College's Academic Festival, an event at which students give poster presentations, exhibits, and performances that showcase their academic work. "It is a day of genuine celebration of the accomplishments of our students," says Dr. Clausen. "It's wonderful what they can do." Looking back on his academic career, he says that is what brings him the greatest satisfaction.
"Becoming Daemen's fifth president is truly an honor, but it is just the icing on the cake," he says. "Daemen College has the potential to become one of the country's best small-liberal arts institutions with professional programs. To have been part of that rebirth, that reaffirmation – it doesn't get any better than that."
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Iowa woman sentenced in intentional head-on crash
Prosecutors say she threatened to kill herself and her passenger before purposely veering her vehicle into the path of an oncoming car
Updated: 8:11 AM CDT May 9, 2017
A northwest Iowa woman accused of intentionally crashing her vehicle into another has been imprisoned.Melissa Ebert had pleaded guilty in Plymouth County District Court to two counts of serious injury by motor vehicle. On Monday she was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Prosecutors say Ebert threatened to kill herself and her passenger before purposely veering her vehicle into the path of an oncoming car Sept. 9, 2015. The collision seriously injured Ebert's passenger, Damian Johnson, and the other driver, Dustin Boll, of Le Mars. Copyright 2017 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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A northwest Iowa woman accused of intentionally crashing her vehicle into another has been imprisoned.
Melissa Ebert had pleaded guilty in Plymouth County District Court to two counts of serious injury by motor vehicle. On Monday she was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Prosecutors say Ebert threatened to kill herself and her passenger before purposely veering her vehicle into the path of an oncoming car Sept. 9, 2015.
The collision seriously injured Ebert's passenger, Damian Johnson, and the other driver, Dustin Boll, of Le Mars.

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The Truth About Ted Cruz's Multi-Million Dollar Home
By Mallory C/Feb. 20, 2021 2:26 pm EST
On Feb. 18, 2021, Texas Senator Ted Cruz made headlines again, but this time for an ill-timed vacation. Cruz was spotted heading to Cancún, Mexico, with his family while a winter storm in his home state left millions of people without power or water. The next day, the senator reversed course, flying back to Texas on Feb. 19, where he spoke to reporters.
"I started having second thoughts almost the moment I sat down on the plane, because on the one hand, all of us who are parents have a responsibility to take care of our kids, take care of our family. That's something Texans have been doing across the state," the politician said, according to CNN. "But I also have a responsibility that I take very seriously for the state of Texas and frankly, leaving when so many Texans were hurting didn't feel right and so I changed my return flight and flew back on the first available flight I could take."
With Cruz back in Texas, he's likely heading home to his family's house in Houston. Read on for more details about the senator's posh living quarters he tried to leave behind.
Ted Cruz's multi-million dollar home has five bedrooms and two walk-in closets
According to the New York Post, Texas Senator Ted Cruz and his family live in a large 4,142-square-foot house valued at $2.1 million dollars. The home was built in 1940 and has five bedrooms, along with a spacious kitchen, two walk-in closets, and an outdoor patio. It looks like a comfy abode where one would think the family could have ridden out the storm.
But according to The New York Times, Cruz's wife Heidi texted her friends that their lavish dwelling was "FREEZING" and invited them on the family's trip to Cancún. New York Magazine Intelligencer reported that the Cruzes didn't have functioning heat or running water when they decided to leave for the trip.
And then there was one member of the Cruz family who likely didn't get the invite to Mexico. Intelligencer reporter Michael Hardy tweeted that he went to the Houston home during the debacle and spotted the family dog, a poodle named Snowflake, staring out the front door — alone. It's unclear if Cruz brought the pooch back with him or if the pup had been in the freezing, heatless mansion the whole time.
Apparently, Cruz's constituents are familiar with his house, too — a group of protestors gathered outside on Feb. 18 to demand his resignation in response to Cancun-gate, per Newsweek. As of this writing, according to the New York Post, the rest of Cruz's family has yet to return to the house.


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IAVI Announces Clinical Trial of Next-Generation HIV Vaccine Candidate Designed to Induce Antibodies to Block HIV Infection
NEW YORK — OCTOBER 9, 2018 — The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) announces the start of a Phase I clinical trial (IAVI G001) to test a novel vaccine candidate designed to stimulate the immune system to initiate a key first step in the generation of potent proteins, known as broadly neutralizing antibodies (bNAbs), against HIV. The trial will evaluate the safety of the candidate and the immune responses it is able to induce. The candidate, known as eOD-GT8 60mer, represents an important step forward in the quest to develop an HIV vaccine.
Computer image of the eOD-GT8 immune-stimulating protein. Image courtesy of Joseph Jardine, Sergey Mennis, and William Schief of Scripps Research and IAVI.
Researchers widely agree that a vaccine that induces bNAbs will likely be the best way to confer durable protection against the virus. bNAbs are desirable because in laboratory experiments, they are effective against many of the genetically diverse strains of HIV, and in animal studies, they can block infection of a virus similar to HIV.
"The world urgently needs new ways to prevent HIV infection, and chief among these is a vaccine," said Mark Feinberg, M.D., Ph.D., president and CEO of IAVI. "Fortunately, a new generation of HIV immunogen candidates, including eOD-GT8 60mer, is entering clinical trials. These candidates are being developed using highly sophisticated and elegant vaccine science and provide a precedent for vaccine strategies targeting the induction of specific immune responses believed to be critical in protecting against HIV infection."
Over the past 15 years, scientists have gained an unprecedented understanding of the structure of HIV's outermost envelope protein, which is the target of all bNAbs. From large cohort studies of HIV-infected volunteers, researchers isolated and characterized many bNAbs that develop naturally, but only rarely, during the course of HIV infection, and identified where they bind to the virus. These sites of vulnerability on the virus were then used to design vaccine immunogens, using what is referred to as a structure-based vaccine design approach. The eOD-GT8 60mer candidate is based on one of these sites targeted by bNAbs.
The candidate was developed in the laboratory of Dr. William Schief, director of vaccine design for IAVI's Neutralizing Antibody Center (NAC) at Scripps Research and professor at Scripps. It is the first candidate to enter clinical trials that was designed using a structure-based vaccine approach, and it is the first in a sequence of engineered vaccine candidates that Dr. Schief and his colleagues are developing.
"In this trial, our goal is to prove that it is possible to induce responses from special, targeted B cells," said Dr. Schief. "We'll have a promising outcome if some of the vaccine recipients produce B cells expressing a specific type of antibody, whereas placebo recipients do not. This would confirm that we are able to induce the desired initial immune response, and the next step will be making technical refinements to improve performance."
There are several steps involved in the development of bNAbs, and in animal studies, the eOD vaccine candidate successfully elicited antibodies that are precursors to the much more specialized antibodies that scientists classify as broadly neutralizing. It is envisioned that eOD or a similar engineered vaccine candidate would be the first in a series of vaccinations that would elicit the bNAbs believed to be needed to protect against HIV infection.
"This is a big moment, not just for HIV vaccines, but for vaccine science as a whole," said Dr. Dennis Burton, scientific director of the NAC and chair of the Scripps Research Department of Immunology and Microbiology. "This trial is going to tell us how much control we can have over the immune responses induced by a targeted vaccine candidate. If this type of vaccine engineering is successful, it can be applied more broadly, bringing about a new day in vaccinology. If we can really drive immune responses in predictable ways, we can make better, more effective vaccines, not just for HIV but for other viruses, too."
The IAVI G001 trial will enroll 48 healthy adult volunteers who will receive two doses of eOD-GT8 60mer, along with the AS01B1 adjuvant developed by the pharmaceutical company GSK, or placebo. Adjuvants are substances used to enhance immune responses induced by a vaccine, and the AS01 adjuvant is used in licensed vaccines. The doses are spaced two months apart and are administered through intramuscular injection.
The trial is taking place at two sites: George Washington University (GW) in Washington, D.C., and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington. At GW, the trial is led by Dr. David Diemert, associate professor in the Department of Medicine, who will serve as the principal investigator at this site, and Dr. Jeffrey Bethony, professor in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine, who will direct the specimen processing and biorepository aspects of the trial at GW. At the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, the trial is led by Dr. Julie McElrath, senior vice president and director of the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division.
The Collaboration for AIDS Vaccine Discovery (CAVD) Comprehensive T-Cell Vaccine Immune Monitoring Consortium/The Dale and Betty Bumpers Vaccine Research Center at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)/National Institutes of Health (NIH), the CAVD Comprehensive Antibody Vaccine Immune Monitoring Consortium, and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center will be performing key analytical assays in support of the trial, to assess whether the targeted immune response is elicited. The CAVD Vaccine Immunology Statistical Center played a major role in the study design and analytical methods to evaluate the data.
Results of the IAVI G001 trial are expected in late 2019.
IAVI developed the eOD-GT8 60mer candidate with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology and Immunogen Discovery (CHAVI-ID) at NIAID at the NIH, and Scripps Research.
Research at the NAC that contributed to the development of eOD-GT8 60mer was also made possible by the Dutch people through the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Trade & Development Cooperation and through the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). USAID administers the U.S. foreign assistance program providing economic and humanitarian assistance in more than 120 countries worldwide. The contents are the responsibility of IAVI and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the United States government.
About the IAVI Neutralizing Antibody Center at Scripps Research
The IAVI Neutralizing Antibody Center (NAC) was launched by IAVI in 2002 to solve a fundamental problem in HIV vaccine development: the elicitation of antibodies that can neutralize a broad range of HIV variants.Today the NAC is one of the leading sources of innovation worldwide in the study of broadly neutralizing antibodies (bNAbs) and the design of immunogens that could elicit HIV bNAbs in the human body.
During the past decade, through the efforts of the NAC and many other leading scientific collaborators, more than 200 bNAbs have been isolated from volunteers around the world. The structures of some of the most potent of these antibodies and their targets have also been solved. These discoveries are now being applied to the design of novel HIV vaccine candidates.
The NAC is headquartered at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California. Together, Scripps and IAVI employ experts in computational immunogen design, structural biology, virology, immunology, and antibody discovery.
[1]GSK proprietary AS01 adjuvant system contains QS-21 Stimulon® adjuvant licensed from Antigenics LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Agenus Inc. (NASDAQ: AGEN), MPL and liposomes.
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Let's chat about Half Rectangle Triangles or HRT's. I promise...a tutorial following.
First off, half rectangle triangles (HRTs) can expand your design world out of the half square triangles (HSTs) corner you may be caged in. Don't get me wrong, HSTs are fabulous, but this takes you to the next step!
I designed my Twizzle Pattern with them.
See Michelle's awesome Dancing Horses quilt using HRTs. She also used the Fat Quarter Shop Jolly Bars like I did with Hello Darling for the same blog hop. They say great minds think alike!
How can I make these great HRTs, you say? Let me walk you through a few techniques.
Technique one: Also known as the, What Not to Do Technique. It will be your first instinct after making so many Half Square Triangles (HSTs) in the past. By placing two rectangles right sides together, drawing a diagonal line and then sewing 1/4" along each side? It is simply NOT going to work. At all. Unless you had plans for paper airplanes using your coveted fabric?
Technique two: The traditional technique. Cut your right angle triangles from your rectangles. Sew the cut edges, right sides together, while shifting the two pieces 1/4" each end. It isn't a bad technique at all. I just find it to be super sensitive to presser feet mangling and definitely require some squaring up/trimming.
Technique three: The Accuquilt die cut. Similar to the one above, but you it takes away the 1/4" shifting. You line up the blunt edges and sew your seam. The Accuquilt tutorial is HERE.
Technique four: I think it's my favorite. It's the one I'm sharing below. I call it the Magic technique. I find it to be a unique and fun way to make them. I feel they need less fussing at the sewing machine and require much less trimming.
The other important part of HRTs is the direction you create them. I will admit, I made the mistake when designing my most recent quilt by assuming that all HRTs were the same. At first glance, it appears that you can flip them and get two different angled HRTs.
However, your diagonal line will be in the same orientation on both of your finished Half Rectangle Triangles no matter how you turn it.
Flip the left one? You can see they are the same orientation.
I've renamed them A-B and B-C blocks to hopefully clear up the confusion when using this in conjuction with my Twizzle pattern (and maybe more in the future).
This particular tutorial will result in 4.5 x 9.75″ final block size for the purpose of my Twizzle Quilt using Fat Quarter Shop Jolly Bars. You can easily learn this technique using ANY SIZE rectangle as long as you use the same size rectangles. There does not seem to be an exact formula for finished sizes, but I have found that it should be 1/4″ to 1/2″ smaller in either direction. When changing the dimension drastically, I encourage you to make a sample block to test it out.
right side up on the left side and the background unit wrong side up on the right side.
3. You will place them on the BOTTOM LEFT corners and UPPER RIGHT corners of the face up fabric. Draw dots on the UPPER LEFT corners and BOTTOM RIGHT corners on the back of the face down background fabric.
5. Lift the face down piece and rotate it to the right, slightly. Place it on top of the face up piece and match the dots and diagonal lines.
6. Cut on diagonal line.
7. Open blocks, press, and trim.
1. Layout the two rectangles, placing the rectangle print unit right side up on the left side and the background unit wrong side up on the right side.
2. Using the half inch intersection on your ruler draw dots on the UPPER LEFT corners and BOTTOM RIGHT corners of the face down fabric. Draw dots on the BOTTOM LEFT corners and UPPER RIGHT corners of the face up background fabric.
3. Draw line through the dots on each of the pieces of fabric.
4. Lift the face down piece and rotating to the left slighting, placing it on top of the face up piece and match the dots and diagonal lines.
Complete steps 5-7 from the A/B HRT blocks to yield C-D HRT blocks.
Just so you can see the comparison, once more. Not all half rectangle triangles are alike.
As always, I strive to make sure my tutorials are thorough and helpful. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me and ask questions. I had a lot of fun designing my Twizzle Pattern using the HRTs and have a few more patterns in the works where I plan on using them. By changing the dimensions, like all quilt blocks, the possibilities are endless.
Disclaimer: Only old quilting scraps were used for this tutorial. They were somewhat harmed by the rotary cutter, but appreciated being pieced together.


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Whether you are driving in Charleston, Myrtle Beach or Spartanburg, there are thousands of miles of scenic roads in South Carolina. Road in this growing state are used by at least three million drivers every day, who each average 10,000 miles per year. If you are planning to live, work or visit the Palmetto State, it is important to know the car accident laws, rules and insurance liability basics in case you are ever in an accident.
Statistics & Notable Car Accident Settlements
The 2012 US Census found there were 4.7 million people in the state with an increasing population from the last census. But there was a slight decline in fatal accidents from 2008 to 2009: 841 to 817. Of the fatalities caused in those years, most of them were caused by pickup trucks. There were 31,053 total car accidents in 2008 and 31,086 in 2009. In 2012, there were 863 fatalities in South Carolina car accidents, which was an increase of 35 over the year before. Of these crashes, 533 of them were single vehicle, 316 involved speeding and 477 involved a roadway departure. The same year, there were 358
Below are specific accidents types with fatalities for 2008 and 2009:
Tractor trailers: 55 and 71 deaths for 2008 and 2009, respectively.
Motorcycles: 112 and 95
Pedal cycles: 15 and 13
Pedestrians: 101 and 90
Trains: 4 and 5
Motorized bikes: 13 and 18
School bus: 3 and 4
SUVs: 197 and 214
Vans: 71 and 59
Pickup trucks: 215 and 244
Like many growing states, South Carolina has many careless and reckless drivers. Below are the most common reasons for car accidents in the state in 2009:
Disregarded turn signals: 35 deaths
Distraction: 21 deaths
Driving too fast: 143 deaths
Failure to yield right of way: 77 deaths
Ran off road: 48 deaths
Fatigue: 11 deaths
DUI: 282 deaths
Wrong way driving: 45 deaths
One of the more unfortunate car accidents that has occurred recently was one that killed two young high school graduates in Spartanburg County, South Carolina. The South Carolina Highway Patrol reported that an SUV with three people inside ran off the road, killing an 18 year old and 21 year old man. One of young men died at the scene and the other passed away during surgery. Troopers said the 18-year-old was thrown from the SUV. Both dead graduated in the last three years from nearby Landrum High School.
Another serious accident occurred recently in Spartanburg County near Inman that also killed a teacher. The teacher was killed when he was cycling. The woman who hit him has been charged with reckless homicide. He was a 53-year-old teacher and father of two who taught at the local junior high school.
The woman allegedly fled the scene of the crash in July 2017 and was arrested six months later. She allegedly ran into the rear of the man's bike at high speed. Witnesses allege the woman was using a phone and speeding 17 MPH above the 45 MPH speed limit when she hit him. The accused stopped approximately 300 feet from the accident but then left the scene.
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According to federal and South Carolina state laws, some portions of a personal injury settlement may be taxable and others not. For example, any personal injury compensation that is for your medical expenses is not taxable as income. This is the case for compensation for medical bills, treatments, prescriptions and physical therapy.
South Carolina law states that any settlement compensation that is paid to compensate for your physical injuries is not subject to tax. However, the question can get cloudy when you are trying to understand the difference between damages for physical injuries and those for pain and suffering.
The settlement amount for your lost income is likely subject to taxation. The premise is that you are getting compensation and made whole for your lost income that, if the injury had not occurred, you would have been taxed on anyway. Note that if you get compensation for lost wages in a lump sum, this can put you into a higher tax bracket.
In a few South Carolina personal injury cases, punitive damages may be awarded. Punitive damages punish the defendant and are not compensatory for the plaintiff. Thus, they are subject to tax at the federal and South Carolina state levels.
South Carolina Negligence Laws
South Carolina follows a comparative negligence standard in motor vehicle accidents. You are not barred from recovering damages in a lawsuit if your negligence in the accident was not more than the defendants. This means you need to be less than 51% at fault to recover damages. This is different than North Carolina, where if you are at all at fault for the accident, you are barred from recovering damages. For this reason, filing a lawsuit in South Carolina is generally regarded as easier than North Carolina.
South Carolina Car Accident Statute of Limitations
You have three years from the date of the car accident to file a personal injury lawsuit to recover damages. If a person is killed in the accident, you have three years from the date of death to file a wrongful death lawsuit.
Auto Insurance Requirements in South Carolina
You are required to carry a minimum of auto insurance in South Carolina. The current minimums under state law are:
$25,000 and $50,000 for bodily injury
$25,000 for property damage liability
$25,000 and $50,000 for uninsured motorist bodily injury
$25,000 with a $200 deductible for uninsured motorist property damage
Other South Carolina Driving Laws
As of late 2014, there is a state texting and driving law. It applies to all drivers but it only has a $25 fine for first time violations. There is a bill under consideration as of 2018 in the state legislature that would increase fines for texting and driving to between $100 and $300. Police are authorized to stop motorists they see texting and driving but cannot seize the wireless device.
The state has a yearly driver suspension eligibility week every March that lets drivers who lost their driver's license to reduce the time left on their suspension.
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If you are unfortunate enough to get in a South Carolina car accident, this is a stressful time. Below are some resources that you may find helpful so that you can move forward after the accident. Most importantly, make sure you receive immediate medical attention. If you have any injuries, it is critical to have these documented as soon as possible by a medical professional.
You are required to report some car accidents to the South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles. In accidents where there was death or injury, or property damage of $1000 or more, you must submit a Traffic Collision Report within 15 days of the crash. If the police respond to the accident, they will draft an accident report.
If you have suffered injuries in a South Carolina car accident, you will probably want to get an idea how much your case is worth. Lawsuit Info Center can help.
Visit South Carolina DMV if you need to get a copy of your accident report for lawsuit or claims purposes.
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Patrick Joseph McGoohan (19 March 1928 – 13 January 2009) was an American actor who was brought up in Ireland and Britain, where he established an extensive stage and film career. His most notable roles were in the 1960s television series Danger Man (renamed Secret Agent when exported to the US), and The Prisoner, which he co-created. McGoohan wrote and directed several episodes of The Prisoner himself, occasionally using the pseudonyms Joseph Serf and Paddy Fitz. Later in his career, he moved back to the United States and subsequently appeared as murderers in four Columbo episodes, twice winning an Emmy. He was featured in David Cronenberg's Scanners (1981), and played King Edward I in Mel Gibson's Braveheart (1995).


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We're Speechless about Handicare's Ceiling Lift, Independent Lifter and Freecurve stairlift being featured on the hit TV show Speechless. Speechless airs Friday nights on ABC at 8:30 EST and 7:30pm CST.
The show is by "Friends" producer Scott Silveri and follows a family of five: Maya DiMeo (Minnie Driver), her husband Jimmy (John Ross Bowier), and their three kids – Ray (Mason Cook), Dylan (Kyla Kennedy) and JJ (Micah Fowler). Maya is a fierce mother who will do anything on behalf of her family, including her eldest son JJ, a teen with non-verbal cerebral palsy. In reality, Micah Fowler, the actor that portrays JJ, has cerebral palsy, but is able to communicate verbally.
The show has achieved the unique ability to entertain while providing insights into how a family handles the physical, mental and emotional challenges experienced when one member of the family has a disability. There are hardships and complications, but also fun and joy. All is explored and handled by a family whose members are not perfect – they're flawed, they're real.
Speechless does not fall into the trap of portraying JJ as superficially inspiring or one to be pitied. Rather, JJ resonates as a complex and humorous individual with a full range of human experiences, emotions and qualities, including being a jerk on occasion. The character provides a genuine glimpse into real life, which many families find empowering.
The creators are guided by advisors to ensure real life necessities be included in the story. The episode aired on February 1st and includes a Handicare Ceiling Lift and Independent Lifter in a scene which explores the challenges of JJ attending college. Another scene takes place at a homecare convention; in the background is our Handicare booth showcasing the Freecurve stairlift.
We are extremely honored to have been asked to provide real-life equipment and staging for Speechless. We appreciate their attention to detail and dedication to include items used in the real world to provide individuals with accessibility, mobility and safety.
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I eventually had to put in a claim for a missing lamp, a destroyed jewlery case, and broken wheel on Oscilloscope cart, and at the time informed them of the bike damage, in-ability to find replacement parts, and money I saved them on this.... I asked for a small re-imbursement for the repair.... for my time.
I had asked one local shop about it, and he said he'd write off bike due to in-availability of parts, and set a value of $300 on the bike. This was not my intent... I would rather keep my 1980 bike than buy new..
The attitude I received was as if I was trying to defraud their company, instead of trying to make the best of a potentially bad situation!
Seems Mayflower is like a fish out of water! Hench the ole If you want it done right, ya gotta do it yourself!
First one obviously didn't want to deal with an old French bike.. Over phone he said that parts were not available, and he'd write off the bike because of that... end of story.
When I reported that to Mayflower, they were un-impressed!
A couple days ago, I did a search for another bike shop, and called them, and spoke with the owner, an older fellow (about my own age), who indicated the first shop I called, the answer I received wasn't exactly correct.
He gave me information that the repair I did WAS SUCCESSFUL, and gave me information on what would have happened if I had not repaired it, and had him work on it... He'd use a new front derailleur that had shims to fit the French frame dimensions..... About $35 for parts, $25 for labor!
He said he would be willing to speak with Mayflower, and so I passed all his information on to Mayflower, and we'll see what develops!!!
Hope it works out, I will send some Karma your way!
In Addition they said: "As per the settlement letter dated September 23[sup]rd[/sup], you can dispute the settlement through independent arbitration".
Well.... Even though it was bent and twisted, I was able to dis-assemble it, straighten it, re-assemble it, and re-align it.
The bike's front derailleur works fine... Bike shop indicates it's OK.
When it came off the truck damaged, knowing the availability of parts, I started in on the repair immediately.
Thanks for listening.... Hopefully my next post will be back on track on bicycle repair.... Phooey!
Goes along with the rest of the thread, doesn't it? !
Well... I at least got a check for the other damages and the lamp that was packed in Illinois and wasn't on the truck when it got to NC!
I guess bicycles don't count, though!
Movers: ALL are BAD, some are worse.
If you are moving, and do not want something damaged; build a box from 2x2 (min 2x4 even better) and 7/16" (¾" is better) plywood. Make sure that the item cannot move inside the box. I did this for my '82 AR9 speakers. On our move to CA my bike was damaged. Next move, the bicycles will be far better protected.
Also, sell/abandon/donate/give away everything that does not have sentimental value. The cost of moving it is more that the replacement cost.
We moved recently from LA to Texas. No problems just picked our movers carefully. Mayflower had too many complaints against them so we passed. We used King Relocation Service , its employee owned and we liked that....We packed our own stuff, what a headache. Too much stuff.
For part of our move we used a POD hired a experienced crew to load it and than locked it up and put in storage to follow us when we were ready. Got it delivered and hired a crew to unload it. Bikes shipped fine and they were just loaded and tied to wall.
My motorcycle was shipped by Federal, no problems.
(09-30-2015, 04:20 AM)GeorgeET Wrote: Movers: ALL are BAD, some are worse.
I think this post should be moved to a disgruntled moving forum? I don't see what it has to do about bicycle maintenance?
Well it does have to do with advice on documenting and collecting for bike damage from Mayflower, followed by advice on how to ship a bike safety. That's bike related. If all you read is the disgruntled part you missed the point. This list is about more than just maintenance.
I am sure at this point, Alex would take any post, anytime, about anything, anywhere as long as the word bicycle is mentioned in one form or another!
(10-01-2015, 05:11 AM)GeorgeET Wrote: Well it does have to do with advice on documenting and collecting for bike damage from Mayflower, followed by advice on how to ship a bike safety. That's bike related. If all you read is the disgruntled part you missed the point. This list is about more than just maintenance.
Maybe you are reading a different post then I'm seeing up top George?
This thread has really slowed down since we cannot post pics right from out tablets into our posts.
Thanks George, I blame it on the fact that I am the youngest child born a Sagittarius!
Thanks or your replies.... I indicated I was venting !


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Our range was originally built by the Wisconsin National Guard in 1903. There is some evidence that shows a guard or militia range existed here as far back as 1893. Shooting clubs were also present on the site. Over the years the range was optimized for training Guard members and law enforcement. As America entered WWI, WWII, the Korean War and possibly even Vietnam the range was fitted out to allow the Wisconsin National Guard to practice with the different firearms ranging from bolt action rifles to 30 and 50 caliber machine guns. Berms were added to prevent fired rounds from heading into the waters of Lake Michigan. Target carriers were built, and the pit areas were made safe for people to pull targets in. The Racine County Line Rifle Club was incorporated in 1962 in Wisconsin at this site. RCLRC also provides a training ground for Law Enforcement agencies in Wisconsin and Illinois to train at. During the week you may see various Law Enforcement agencies conducting training. With 7 active ranges there is plenty of room for just about every style of shooting.
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In this yearlong course students will write about six major ancient civilizations—Sumer, Egypt, Israel, Babylon, Greece, and Rome—while working progressively through the nine IEW units and a variety of stylistic techniques. This class can be a level A or B. Students that took Fables Myths and Fairytales should be prepared for this class. New IEW students in grades 4-7 will also do well in this class. Students should be reading at a minimum of a fourth grade level.
This course requires the student to read four Narnia books in conjunction with the writing course: Prince Caspian, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The Silver Chair, and the Last Battle. This is an upper level B/C book that requires analytical writing. This course is suggested for those with 1-2 years of IEW experience or new students in 8th-12th grade. Advanced elements are covered. No research paper.
Rockets, Radar, & Robotics gives middle school students practice writing with the IEW models and stylistic techniques using technology as the subject material. This course is designed for students with 1-2 years of previous IEW experience. Students will write a research paper.
High School Essay Intensive and American Literature (No Textbook Required) This course requires at least two years of an IEW writing course.
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The Loyola residence tower rises 67 metres above Saint Mary's University. Perched atop it is the Burke-Gaffney Observatory, an eye fixed on the heavens in the form of a Planewave 0.6-metre CDK24 telescope.
Inside, sheltered from the Halifax fog and the rain, third-year astrophysics student John Read is clicking around a computer screen in a program called Earth Centred Universe. The program was written by observatory director Dave Lane. Points wheel by on the screen, representing asteroids, moons, planets and stars.
He stops at a grouping of stars.
The ancient Greeks named the objects we know as the planets Mars, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn and Mercury the asteres planetai, the wandering stars, since they moved against the fixed background stars. Read, a Halifax native born here in 1982, has returned to his hometown on a long orbit around North America and through more than a decade working in corporate America.
His father, a potato salesman, moved the family to Prince Edward Island when Read was young. It was on the island that a nine-year old Read was offered a revelation in the person of Jean-Luc Picard.
His interest in space kindled, but not fully ignited, Read put aside thoughts of the final frontier for one a bit closer to home. In the fall of 1996, when Read was 13, his mother signed him up for air cadets. From the age of 14 to 19, Read devoted himself to the pursuit of a private pilot's licence. He won one of two scholarships offered through the program, and earned his wings in 2001 at the Moncton Flight College.
A brief stint at Carleton University taught Read that he didn't want to be an aerospace engineer, either.
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"I realized in the first semester that I didn't want to be the guy that builds the spaceship. I would rather be the guy that tells it where to go," says Read.
A career in science still seemed far-fetched so with his father's example in mind, Read returned to Halifax in the fall of 2002, enrolling in the business program at Saint Mary's, majoring in finance. He graduated with his bachelor of commerce in 2005 and landed that most coveted of prizes: a job in his field right out of graduation.
From July 2005, Read climbed the corporate ladder. He met his wife, Jennifer, and they married in May 2009. But space continued to exert a pull that Read could not ignore. Living in California in the Bay area put him at the center of the astronomy universe.
He bought himself a small telescope. And then another slightly bigger 'scope, a computerized 80mm refractor.
In 2013 he and Jennifer moved to the Carolinas. In May of that year, Read self-published his first book, 50 Things to See With a Small Telescope, and something clicked.
His love of space was well known at the office, but it was a hobby, like the hobbies of millions of other office workers. Read wanted it to be more. He wanted to go home and study the stars.
If this were a movie, Read's decision would come in an instantaneous realization accompanied by a swell of violins. But for the man Jennifer Read calls The King of Spreadsheets, it was a more calculated endeavour. Between the lower cost of living, the success of his book, and income from a rental property in California, he figured they could make it.
John gave Clorox his notice, and by summer 2016 he and Jennifer were prepared to move back to Halifax. A simple matter of getting the documentation in order for her, a U.S. citizen, and their two children to move to Canada, along with papers and shots for their two cats and Lyra the dog. And what's moving without an unforeseeable last minute complication?
"The plane that they had put us on didn't have the straps to tie down the dog's crate. John and the dog got pulled off on their own and I had to travel on the plane with the two kids and the two cats by myself. So that was exciting," says Jennifer.
That fall Read returned to Saint Mary's as a student, 11 years after his first graduation. Dave Lane was surprised to see a familiar face.
Undergraduate life has been different for Read the second time around.
Read has become close with his fellow students as the small group of astrophysics students tries to grind through yet another impossible math assignment. One of those students, Tiffany Fields, is completing her master's of astronomy and operates the telescope at the observatory.
As graduation and his final year approaches, Read is readying himself for what's next. He has continued to update his original concept with new editions and languages for those editions. His newest book, 50 Things to See with a Telescope: A Young Stargazers Guide, was just published in 2018 and his next, 50 Things to See on the Moon is due out this winter.
Read has also branched out into science fiction, with The Martian Conspiracy in 2015 and the follow-up Callisto Deception in 2017. Jennifer has begun partnering with him in the writing and is currently working on her own book about 50 animals that have been to space.


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Given the twists and turns, betrayals and sacrifices that await in the next five episodes, such illumination will be needed.
Episode 206: "The Old Gods and the New"
Among slick acting, superb cinematography, and some remarkably adept dialogue, one of the brightest – and most impressive – facets of The X-Files was its location filming, one of the most notoriously difficult parts of the filmmaking process due to the long hours of scouting, negotiating contracts, and securing permits that it requires. (Why engage in the act if it's so mind-numbingly tedious? Because the loss in time is routinely made up for by the immense savings in money – designing, constructing, and striking a set is always an expensive proposition, one that routinely eats up large chunks of the production's budget – and because, well, everything in filmmaking is excruciatingly monotonous, anyway.) Many television series have bragged at one time or another that they attempt to create a mini-feature film each and every single week; X-Files did it, and in large parts thanks to the varied landscapes that Agents Mulder, Scully, and Doggett would find themselves chasing aliens and monster against.
The Sopranos is a close second in this regard, but by the time its run is done, Game of Thrones can easily dethrone (no pun intended) its HBO predecessor. Whether it's Joffrey's name day tournament at the Red Keep or, for the past two episodes, Jon Snow's trek to the Frostfangs, the locations sizzle behind the set dressing, costumes, and, of course, performances, and they do much to add a remarkable level of realism to the medieval narrative.
The soundstage sets, however, are a (slightly) different story. Some hit the same high level of quality in terms of authenticity (the Eyrie's sky cell or Dragonstone's map room, for instance) or, even, in blending constructed elements with locations (Winterfell reigns supreme in this regard), but others leave much to be desired in all aspects. Harrenhal is, unfortunately, definitely and definitively one of these weak areas, a castle whose stones consistently look like plaster, whose lighting reeks of artificiality (unlike, say, King's Landing), and whose larger-than-life towers and curtain walls look like a Hallmark production's attempts at CG. Scenes seem to take on a more stilted feel here, which, at a guess, has as much to do with the castle's inferior screen presence as with Maisie Williams's understated performance as the spunky and oftentimes-unrestrained Arya Stark.
At least Lord Tywin Lannister's chambers are more in keeping with the vitality of Lord Eddard's bedroom at Winterfell and Lord Balon Greyjoy's chambers at Pyke. Given its overwhelming monopoly of screen time at Harrenhal, this is no small constellation prize.
In a season filled with truncations, expansions, and outright fabrications, what is arguably the single biggest deviation from Martin's A Clash of Kings is Bran Stark.
Yes, the narrative structure is (more or less) still there in Dan Weiss and David Benioff's adaptation: a young boy who has to play the lord while his elder brother is off waging a war of independence and his lord father is dead, fighting against the tedium of an adult's responsibilities while attempting to run away from the ambivalent meaning behind his "wolf dreams." But the character beats are all different; Bran is more confident, more sure of himself as he ultimately confronts, thanks (in very small part) to the wildling Osha, not only those moments of apparently being a wolf, but also dreams of impending doom for Winterfell and its denizens. He's something more of a tragic figure here than a gawky adolescent going through a coming-of-age story (albeit one set against a horridly vicious backdrop), as do all the rest of the Stark children, from one degree (Arya) to another (Sansa).
In the book, Bran, a prince who is wont to getting his way, absolutely refuses to confront the mysterious possibilities of his dreams – which include Summer, a giant weirwood tree that seems somehow to talk to him, the ever-present three-eyed crow, and actually being Summer – until two brand-new characters arrive at Winterfell to partake in the traditional harvest feast. Jojen and Meera Reed are siblings, just a few years older than Bran, children of Lord Eddard's bannerman and close friend and from a people who are rarely seen, even in the North. Jojen comes baring prophecies, particularly one about the sea rising to drown Winterfell (and, ultimately, Ser Rodrik Cassel, though a bit after Theon Greyjoy's stealthy assault), and the accuracy of his so-called green dreams forces Bran to finally face the truth about his own special gifts.
(There is a scene from A Game of Thrones that details the dreams Bran has while in his coma. This is the grand introduction of the three-eyed crow, who flies alongside the young boy as he is plunging from the tower to the ground, telling him that he can either fly or fall to his death When Bran finally, desperately chooses flight, the crow pecks viciously at his forehead, right where his own third eye should be. It turns out that Jojen Reed had a similar experience when very little and almost dying of a bout of sickness, and that it is the crow who is ultimately responsible for the Reeds' visit to the seat of House Stark.)
Unlike the changes with, say, Queen Regent Cersei Baratheon and Tyrion Lannister, which seem part of a deliberate strategy to portray the characters in a specific light to the audience, the alteration in Bran Stark's throughline might have been born out of the necessity of cutting as many characters out of the second season as possible rather than a thoughtful reconstitution – or rehabilitation, as is the case with Theon – of television storytelling. There's more to the decision, though, besides draining much of the meat, not to mention most of the drama, out of Bran's journey; it also robs the show of one of Martin's nastiest moments in the novel: the revelation that the biggest "green dream" Jojen has yet is the death of both Bran and Rickon (and the mutilation of their corpses, a nice little bonus for the young Starks).
How the showrunners plan on delivering an emotional wallop of the same caliber is unknown – if they even, indeed, plan on finding a replacement or compensatory element at all – but one can only hope that it bears absolutely no resemblance to the travesty that befell Daenerys Targaryen in this episode. The stealing of her dragons is a complete and utter invention on behalf of the writing staff, along with the carnage of Dany's and Xaro Xhoan Daxos's dead households (and Xaro's vault, and Dany's [very much repeated] confrontation with the Spice King, and the Dothraki attempts at plundering their host's city). The signs certainly aren't good, but there is a slight saving grace in what promises to be a dragged-out (and probably unnecessarily gratuitous) story arc: the fact that the last over-the-top cliffhanger ending – Jon Snow following and then being clubbed over the head by Craster – ended up being much sound and fury that signified very little follow-up in the succeeding episode, much less the rest of the series.
Again, one can only hope.
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Q. What trails are wheelchair accessible?
A. The Pa'rus Trail and the Riverside Walk and accessible with assistance.
Q. Are bicycles allowed on the trails?
A. No. With one exception, the Pa'rus Trail.
Q. Is there mountain biking in the park?
A. No. There is world class mountain biking in nearby areas. Bike shops in Springdale have information and maps of those areas.
Q. Are pets allowed on any trails?
A. Pets are only allowed on the Pa'rus Trail and must be on a leash.
Q. Are service dogs allowed on the trails, in the buildings, or in the wilderness?
A. Yes. Service dogs are permitted on a leash anywhere in the park and on the shuttles. They must be easily identified as helper-dogs.
Q. How many people have fallen off Angels Landing?
A. Since 2004, eight people have died falling from the cliffs along the route.
Q. How many fatalities from "falling" have occured in Zion National Park?
A. Below is a list of fatalities from "falling" in Zion National Park, dating back to the parks establishment. The information below is incomplete and includes only incidents where suspicious activity was not involved.
Q. Why are the trails paved?
Q. Who built the trails in the park? Was it the CCC?
A. The Watchman Trail and Canyon Overlook Trail were the only trails constructed by the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps). The Watchman was completed in 1934, and Canyon Overlook in 1933. Most other trails in the park were started by early settlers of the area and improved by the NPS or were built by the NPS in the 1920s.
Q. How did they get the concrete on the trails?
A. The East and West Rim Trails were constructed by the NPS in the early 1920s. The trails were paved with gallons of oil (East Rim = 760 gal., West Rim = 1240 gal.) mixed with natural sand and rock chips available along the trail. The oil, tools, other materials and equipment were hauled onto the various sites by packhorse.
In 1985 extensive repair was done on the West Rim Trail from 4900 ft. through Refrigerator Canyon to the top of Angel's Landing. The concrete for this job was hauled in by maintenance and mules from the Grotto. Walters Wiggles was resurfaced with 88 cubic yards of concrete, and the concrete for this job was hauled onto the site by helicopter. This took 258 flights. WHEW!


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Morgan Stanley CEO: 'I'm bullish on the bank stocks'
Published Thu, Jun 29 2017 5:23 PM EDT Updated Thu, Jun 29 2017 7:07 PM EDT
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Financial stocks have struggled so far this year.
Morgan Stanley Chairman and CEO James Gorman expects bank stocks to benefit from higher interest rates and less regulation.
Gorman said Thursday's broader market decline could be the beginning of a more volatile period.
We've had extraordinarily low rates around world: MS's James Gorman
The head of one of the largest U.S. financial firms said he sees a solid case for a rally in bank stocks ahead.
"If we get a more normal yield curve, I'm bullish on the bank stocks. I'm not surprised the market is reacting the way it is," Morgan Stanley Chairman and CEO James Gorman said Thursday on CNBC's "Closing Bell. " The yield curve refers to the relationship between short-term and long-term interest rates. Bank profit increases when long-term rates rise, making the curve steeper.
Gorman pointed to better capitalization, strong liquidity and other conditions "primed for growth." The banks should also benefit from the Federal Reserve's and other central banks' plans to tighten monetary policy and the Trump administration's deregulation proposals.
The Fed on Wednesday did not object to any of the capital return plans of 34 banks it reviewed, the first time in the seven-year history of the annual stress test implemented following the financial crisis.
Financial stocks are the fourth-worst performer in the S&P 500 this year. However, on Thursday after the stress test's second-stage results were released, bank stocks climbed while the broader market fell.
The closed nearly 0.9 percent lower and dipped below its 50-day moving average in intraday trade for the first time since May 18. The CBOE Volatility Index (.VIX), considered the best gauge of fear in the market, leaped to a high of 15.16, also its highest since May 18.
"So we're now coming into this period of real volatility. People are starting to take positions, and we're seeing that action in the market," Gorman said.
"We've had an incredibly flat yield curve, and I think this is perhaps the beginning of more normalization," he said.
Treasury yields climbed this week with a rise in European bond yields following European Central Bank President Mario Draghi's comments that "reflationary forces are at play." The on Tuesday hit a high of 1.38 percent, its highest since March 15. The U.S. 10-year Treasury yield climbed Thursday to 2.297 percent, its highest since May 24.
On Wednesday, Morgan Stanley said the Fed approved the firm's plan to raise its quarterly dividend to 25 cents a share, up from 20 cents a share. The dividend increase is set to be declared for the third quarter of 2017.
The bank also said it will increase share repurchases from $3.5 billion to up to $5 billion of outstanding common stock for the four quarters beginning the third calendar quarter of this year.
The stock closed 0.97 percent higher Thursday, up 5.9 percent year to date.
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So Meb's not running Boston? This is finally our year!!!
Tips for enjoying your first triathlon – #2: Make motorcycle noises as you pass people on your bike.
Point Break, the movie, is trending worldwide. How awesome is that. Going to scream "I AM AN FBI AGENT!" randomly at people.
This is the year that we'll finally beat the ambulance.
@runnersworld Are you by any chance hiring for a Chief Carbo-loading Officer? Plenty of experience. References available upon request.
Huevos Running's moto is "Our running shirts won't make you fast. They'll just make you awesome." Huge thanks folks to the talented and generous folks at Huevos for making us awesome.
If you want to be awesome too, join our Love4Gambia Bluenose Marathon Charity Team and you'll get your very own awesome AND free race t-shirt. Click on Bluenose Team for easy instructions.
A sneaky egg in soup? Yes!
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Bored of the same old? Here are 5 ways to use up those blocks of mochi. Kirimochi are pre-made mochi cut into blocks and sold in Japanese supermarkets around the world. Today we'll show you some traditional ways, as well as a couple of non-traditional ways to enjoy them.


A long overdue Mixtape Tuesday. Hugo Hans.
In other music news, the hits keep coming to our neck of the woods. A few days ago Jared and I bought tickets to see the amazing Kishi Bashi play here in Jacksonville, and later this year Tennis! My beloved Tennis! We will have to make our way down to Orlando (on a school night yuck!) for that one, but I take solace in the fact that the venue has an old school photobooth.


OCALA BREEDER SALES HELD THE CHILI COOK-OFF FOR 15 YEARS, BUT THIS YEAR THE EVENT WAS MOVED TO IT'S NEW LOCATION. THE SOUTHEASTERN LIVESTOCK PAVILION IS NOW THE NEW LOCATION FOR THE EVENT.
THE MOVE SEEMED TO BE VERY SUCCESSFUL, AS PEOPLE PACKED THE PAVILION ALL DAY. PARKING WAS NOT A PROBLEM AS THERE WAS ACRES OF PARKING NEXT TO THE ARENA. AND BEING CLOSER TO TOWN SEEMED TO BRING EVEN MORE PEOPLE.
40 TEAMS WERE ENTERED THIS YEAR SO THERE WAS PLENTY OF VARITY IN TASTE AND 'HEAT' . FROM MILD TO "OH MY GOSH, MY MOUTH IS ON FIRE! WATER....WATER..."
THERE WERE SO MANY DIFFERENT RECIPES, ONE I TASTED HAD BUTTERNUT SQUASH AND PUMPKIN IN IT. IT WAS GOOD!!
I LOVE THE WAY THEY GO ALL OUT TO DECORATE THE BOOTHS. EVERYONE HAS SO MUCH FUN AT THIS EVENT. GOOD FAMILY FUN . AND LET'S NOT FORGET, IT'S A FUNDRAISER FOR THE CORNERSTONE SCHOOL.


I was sent by the Lord to paint the mercy seat at a gathering of intercessors representing the Body of Christ in our state and nation. One of the things that took place at that meeting was a heartfelt repentance and reconciliation among those present to bring healing and restoration to the body beginning with the intercessors. The prophetic message I was given to share through the painting was one of unity and single focus on the mercy and glory of God. We were to pray that this would begin to be the governing factor in the body of Christ at large. As the cherubim or covering angels are of one heart and one mind focused on the presence, power, and love of God, they represent two individuals in perfect unity. While their wings form a heart shape pointing up toward God, the radiant glory around the merciful and victorious cross of Christ gives the impression of a heart pointed down toward us. I believe it is the Lord's heart for us to be cleansed of all issues that might hinder His love flowing to us and through us first to each other in the church and then out to the world. His blood was poured out for this purpose and it is His blood on the mercy seat that is the final atonement and covering for all sin, for all time.
With that in mind, we must ask ourselves: Is there anything in us or in our relatedness with others that might not line up with His mercy flowing freely through us? Is there any division or lack of unity in us, or amongst the body of Christ, the church? This cannot be if we are to be one body with many parts glorifying the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Around the top of the ark the craftsmen were instructed to create a crown. As I began to paint that part, literally on my knees, I kept hearing the Old hymn, "Crown Him with Many Crowns." So I played Chris Tomlin's version on his "Burning Lights" CD titled "Crown Him (Majesty)" (with Kari Jobe) for inspiration. I felt like the Lord was saying that nothing in our lives should be lifted up, given importance or power over Christ and what He mercifully suffered on the cross and accomplished for us through His shed blood. Crown Him above all things. In every situation, He is Our Creator, Savior, Healer, Deliverer, and Prince of Peace. He is the Life, the Light, and the Truth. He is our Righteousness, Vindicator, Provider, Protector and so much more. He is Majesty, Lord of all. Let every throne before Him fall. His presence, His power, His mercy, His glory requires our focused worship and provokes us to Holy reverence.
God's divine judgment was also experienced by the Dagon worshiping Philistines who had taken it. Soon their own priests advised their leaders to send it away with guilt offerings of golden tumors and golden rats representative of the plague and infestation that had come upon them. The purpose of this guilt offering was to give glory to God and hopefully He would lift His hand of judgment. A burnt offering was made to God when the ark arrived in a levitical city of the Israelites, but 50,070 men were struck down there for looking into the ark. The remaining men said, "Who is able to stand before the Lord, this holy God? And to whom shall He go up from us?" (I Samuel 6:20) From there it went to the house of Abinadab on the hill who consecrated his son, Eleazar, to keep the ark of the Lord. It remained there for 20 years until all Israel lamented after the Lord.
"Then Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, 'If you return to the Lord with all your heart remove the foreign gods and the Ashtoreth from among you and direct your hearts to the Lord and serve Him alone; He will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines'" (I Samuel 7:3). In response, Israel repented, was delivered, and God protected them from the Philistines. God also restored the cities that had been taken from them and there was peace between Israel and the Amorites.
Through these and many other Old Testament accounts, we see that the Ark of the Covenant and the glory or presence of God was such a holy, fearsome and powerful thing that not everyone lived to tell about it. Today, however, because of Jesus sacrifice, the glory of God dwells in His people. Imagine that! We are His chosen carriers. The glory of God, no less holy, no less powerful, or fearsome, dwells in us. A doctor, that I know, describes the sphenoid bone, as a structure our heads that resembles the mercy seat. She says its shape simulates the wings of the cherubim over a cradle or seat. The pituitary, or master gland of the endocrine system, sits on this seat sending and receiving messages to and from the entire body. Occasionally, tumors are found on this seat that try to displace the master gland or block the healthy flow of messages thereby harming many parts of the body. Could there be a correlation in this to when ark left Israel with the Philistines and their being cursed with tumors. Corporately consider the correlation to the body of Christ, the Church? I believe the Lord wants His people to repent just like when Samuel instructed the Israelites who were lamenting for the Lord in their midst. He longs for each of us to come to a place of unity with Him and, therefore with each other, in oneness of heart, mind, and spirit where nothing is elevated above His glory or sitting on the seat of His mercy in us except His loving kindness. Freely we have received and freely we are to give. Preferring above all else to glorify Him in our expressions of His love to one another and to the world. Like the cherubim, we must be of one mind, one heart and one spirit. United we stand in holy reverence refusing to allow anything to distract us from the glory and the mercy of God.
Is it possible? We choose and do our part and God does His by the transforming power of His Holy Spirit. As a confirmation of this, the following is a prophetic word given to me by one of our precious sisters in Christ at the Pray Georgia conference where I began this painting. She also gave me her worship flag of many colors in the shape of an angel's wing to be kept with the painting. I believe it is all part of the bigger picture God wants us to see.


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Libyan Dictator Moammar Gadhafi Is Dead
Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, the most wanted man in the world, has been killed, Libyan Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril said today. The White House and NATO said they were unable to confirm reports of his death. He was accused of backing the 1986 bombing of a Berlin disco popular with American soldiers, reportedly funding the hijacking of the cruise ship Achille Lauro in 1985, and the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, which resulted in the U.N. and United States imposing sanctions on Libya. For years, Gadhafi refused to take responsibility for the bombing, but that changed in 2003 when he acknowledged his role and tried to make amends.
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Factor One Technology Inc. Successfully Integrates Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System (Dynamics RMS) with the RMS Solutions Gas Pump Interface (GPI)
Factor One Technology Inc. successfully integrates Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System (Dynamics RMS) with the RMS Solutions Gas Pump Interface (GPI) providing full integration of gas pumps at the point of sale screen.
CALGARY, AB, August 11, 2010 (Press-News.org) Factor One Technology Inc. is pleased to announce that they have successfully integrated the Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System (Dynamics RMS) with the RMS Solutions Gas Pump Interface (GPI).
This powerful solution benefits convenience stores and gas bars by giving them effective management of fuel sales and costly fuel stocks (inventory).
The first successful installation is paying off for Ste. Anne Co-operative Oil Ltd. in Manitoba. Henry Nickel, the General Manager, said: "We are very pleased with the speed and reliability of the Dynamics RMS system with the Gas Pump Interface. It is easy to learn and use, and with the touch screens our staff can give great service to our large numbers of customers.
"We are seeing benefits from the consistent central control for all store locations. We also look forward to higher margins and reduced costs due to the accurate and complete information available from the system, such as the volume of fuel stocks. We really appreciate the positive support provided by the vendors throughout the installation, training and start-up phases."
Jason Deyholos, President of Factor One, said "Adding the ability to manage fuel sales directly within Dynamics RMS gives us an excellent opportunity to address a critical need faced by these retailers. We can now give them superior control of their fuel sales and inventory costs without increasing staff."
Thomas Viccars, President of RMS Solutions Inc., said "We are proud to partner with Factor One and the worldwide Microsoft Dynamics Partner community to bring our proven fuel management solution to their customers. Combining our experience with Microsoft's range of products gives retailers an excellent solution at a very competitive price."
The RMS GPI is PA-DSS (PCI) compliant for customers in the USA, and also meets US EPA standards for reporting and history of site operations. It can handle Pay-at-the-Pump (PAP), fleet cards, private loyalty programs, price signs, car washes and tank monitors. Combined with Dynamics RMS it is a flexible, scalable solution that can be used in environments from single convenience stores to large enterprises with hundreds of locations.
Factor One Technology Inc. is a technology solutions provider for the retail and hospitality industry. We are a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner and Microsoft Dynamics President's Club member. Factor One is a certified Dynamics RMS Partner and developer of custom add-on modules for Dynamics RMS. Our core product is the installation and support of the Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System, Dinerware Restaurant POS System and NitroSell E-Commerce System. Go to www.factor1.com for more information about Factor One.
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The Canterbury Bankstown Bulldogs can today confirm that Richard Kennar will be joining the club for the next two seasons.
The centre-winger has penned a two-year-deal with the Bulldogs after beginning his career with the Melbourne Storm.
Kennar, the third Victorian to play for the Storm after making his NRL debut against the Penrith Panthers in round 13, 2015 will move to Belmore after playing nine games in two seasons for Melbourne before a foot injury ended his 2016 season.
The 21-year old hard running outside back has earned representative honours in his short career to date which included an appearance in the 2011 Australian Schoolboys side where he became the first Victorian to achieve the honour.
The signing of Kennar will bolster the clubs outside backs stocks, which include the likes of Brett Morris, Josh Morris, Kerrod Holland, Will Hopoate, Tyrone Phillips and Brenko Lee.
Kennar joined his new teammates at Belmore yesterday to begin preparations for the 2017 season.