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City of Solon and Ohio Department of Transportation conducted a study to determine the effectiveness of a MUTCD non-compliant HIGH CRASH LOCATION-FOLLOWING TOO CLOSE yellow warning traffic sign. Within the context of the study limitations, the study concluded that the traffic sign made no positive impact on the number of traffic crashes. It was as if the traffic sign was invisible to the motorists.
Assured Clear Distance
According to Ohio Revised Code- Title [45] XLV MOTOR VEHICLES – AERONAUTICS – WATERCRAFT-Chapter 4511: TRAFFIC LAWS – OPERATION OF MOTOR VEHICLES-4511.21 Speed limits – assured clear distance. (A) No person shall operate a motor vehicle, trackless trolley, or streetcar at a speed greater or less than is reasonable or proper, having due regard to the
- traffic,
- surface, and
- width of the street or highway and
- any other conditions,
and no person shall drive any motor vehicle, trackless trolley, or streetcar in and upon any street or highway at a greater speed than will permit the person to bring it to a stop within the assured clear distance ahead.
A high number of accidents occurred → continue reading The invisible high crash traffic sign in Solon Ohio
Thank you Chairman Towns.
I am Akio Toyoda of Toyota Motor Corporation. I would first like to state that I love cars as much as anyone, and I love Toyota as much as anyone. I take the utmost pleasure in offering vehicles that our customers love, and I know that Toyota’s 200,000 team members, dealers, and suppliers across America feel the same way. However, in the past few months, our customers have started to feel uncertain about the safety of Toyota’s vehicles, and I take full responsibility for that. Today, I would like to explain to the American people, as well as our customers in the U.S. and around the world, how seriously Toyota takes the quality and safety of its vehicles. I would like to express my appreciation to Chairman Towns and Ranking Member Issa, as well as the members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, for giving me this opportunity to express my thoughts today.
I would like to focus my comments on three topics -
- Toyota’s basic philosophy regarding quality control,
- the cause of the recalls, and
- how we will manage quality control going forward.
First, I want to discuss the philosophy of Toyota’s quality control. I myself, as well as Toyota, am not perfect. → continue reading Testimony of Akio Toyoda, Toyota Motor Corporation
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the time when borrowers would do anything to pay their mortgage, it was the time when some borrowers walked away from their home mortgage; it was the time when lenders held onto home mortgages for 30 years; it was the time when lenders promptly sold home mortgages.
Business Strategic Mortgage Defaults
Roger Lowenstein, author of The Way We Live Now, Walk Away From Your Mortgage, gives an example of strategic mortgage default in the business world. A Morgan Stanley fund decided to stop making payments on a real estate purchase in San Francisco because the value of the real estate had decreased. He suggests that the owners of any company that defaults on bonds and chooses to let the company fail rather than invest more capital in it are practicing “strategic default”. → continue reading Mortgage-Mortgage Default-Strategic Home Mortgage Default
 Marcellus and Davonian Shale in Appalachian Basin For new residents of Northeast Ohio, one of the lesser known facts about the region might be its association with its oil and natural gas wells. The State of Ohio has about 274,733 wells yielding 1.126 billion barrels of crude oil and more than 8.35 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. Research completed by Ohio Department of Natural Resources’s Divisions of Mineral Resources Management and Geological Survey indicates that Ohio has significant remaining producible oil and natural gas reserves.
The subject of natural gas well drilling has been controversial and contentious in the Northeast Ohio region. → continue reading Oil and Natural Gas Wells-Ohio Residential Property Disclosure Form
The glory of financial innovation
Top 529 College Savings Plans
- Virginia
- Nebraska
- Colorado
- Maine
- Tennessee
Other top 529 College Savings Plans
- Ohio
- Pennsylvania
- Wisconsin
These states have laws that specifically protect the 529 plan accounts from creditors. For example, Alaska’s creditor protection language is that
an account is exempt from a claim by the creditors of a participant or of a beneficiary.
Colorado’s creditor protection language states that
moneys credited to or expended from the savings trust fund by or on behalf of an account owner, depositor or designated beneficiary of a savings contract…. are exempt from all claims of creditors of the account owner, depositor, designated beneficiary or the authority.
Background: Sugar-sweetened carbonated beverages (called soft drinks) and juices, which have a high glycemic load relative to other foods and beverages, have been hypothesized as pancreatic cancer risk factors. However, data thus far are scarce, especially from non-European descent populations. We investigated whether higher consumption of soft drinks and juice increases the risk of pancreatic cancer in Chinese men and women.
Results: The first 14 years for the cohort resulted in cumulative 648,387 person-years and 140 incident pancreatic cancer cases. → continue reading Soft drinks linked to pancreatic cancer
 Toyota Motor Corporation is reported to have recalled the following vehicles.
- 2009-10 Toyota RAV4 crossovers,
- 2009-10 Toyota Corollas,
- 2009-10 Toyota Matrix hatchbacks,
- 2005-10 Toyota Avalons,
- 2007-10 Toyota Camrys,
- 2010 Toyota Highlander crossovers,
- 2007-10 Toyota Tundra pickups and
- 2008-10 Toyota Sequoia SUVs.
Check out this letter from Edolphus Towns, Chairman Committee on Oversight and Government Reform to Raymond LaHood, Secretary, US Department of Transporation. Chairman Towns states that “the problem may not be limited to Toyota”!. Secretary LaHood is reported to have called Toyota “a little safety deaf”. When a senior government official comes out with such a strong statement, citizens have to extrapolate the nature of safety concerns that could have prompted this statement.
Letter from Chairman Edolphus Towns to Transportation Secretary Lahood
 - Christmas 2009
Something is not right when people have to informed through a sign that Christmas is about Jesus Christ and not shopping.
Municipal zoning or other rules may permit installation of non commercial opinion signs if the signs meet the size, color, location and other prescribed criteria. These yard signs are a tribute to our First Amendment.
However, some yard signs or commercial electronic message boards, in particular, that are becoming too common on higher speed roadways, are likely to be cause of distraction to some iPhone slinging motorists and may lead to traffic crashes.
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 Atypical Stop Sign The Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, or MUTCD defines the standards used by road managers nationwide to install and maintain traffic control devices on all public streets, highways, bikeways, and private roads open to public traffic.
This atypical stop sign is installed off of South Bissell Road at its intersection with West Pioneer Trail, near Walden of Aurora in City of Aurora Ohio. Purists might find this City of Aurora sign unappealing but → continue reading Atypical Stop Sign in City of Aurora, Ohio
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Paula Schleis is the author of a valuable article titled Day with Warren Buffett enriching to University of Akron students in The Akron Beacon Journal. The article is based on a meeting between Warren Buffett and a few University of Akron students lead by Todd A. Finkle, Associate Professor of Management, Fitzgerald Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, University of Akron. In this article, the most striking comments from Warren Buffett are not about investments but about friendship and love. While Buffett’s friendship test’s validity is debatable, what is clear is that he has learned from his life’s experiences.
Todd Finkle said many comments made a deep impression on him as well, but one he’ll never forget was in response to Finkle’s own question about the most influential people in Warren Buffett’s life. Among those Warren Buffett named was a friend who was a Polish Jew, taken to a World War II concentration camp after an acquaintance reported the friend’s hiding place to the Germans. Warren Buffett said ever since hearing that story, ”when he would begin friendships, he would ask the question: Would this person hide me from the Nazis?”
”Warren Buffett then went on to say that one of the most important things [if not the most important] was unconditional love. If you can find two or three people who love you unconditionally, you are a lucky person.”
 "To Life" (L'Chaim) “To Life” L’Chaim by © David E. Davis in the lobby of Cleveland Clinic facility at Beachwood, Ohio.
The double-helix (DNA), symbol of life’s secrets; the sphere, life’s source; the figures, growth by care and medicine bind patient and doctor in mutual support, like the spirals, –recalling the caduceus, symbol of medical profession.
Rising out of water, where life began, to a height of eighteen feet. Eighteen is “chai”–life. In honor of Rabbi Elias and Ida Davidowitz.
 To Life
City of Solon Mayor
Susan A. Drucker 4163 votes
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