| Tree Trimmer Killed In Palm Tree
FALLBROOK, Calif. -- A man trimming a towering palm tree in a rural North County neighborhood died Friday after heavy palm fronds collapsed around him, a sheriff's official reported. The accident in the 4300 block of Sleeping Indian Road in Fallbrook was reported about 10:45 a.m., Lt. Sylvester Washington said. It took emergency crews about three hours to reach the man's perch several stories above the ground. Firefighters pronounced him dead at the scene. .
CCU staff has access to $80 million
GEORGETOWN | About 200 Coastal Carolina University employees have some form of access to the school's $80 million budget, a matter that has some university officials worried. "I don't understand why that many people need to have a credit card from the college and need to access university funds," said trustee Bill Biggs via telephone during a CCU joint finance and audit committee meeting Thursday at the school's Georgetown Higher Education Center. Finance committee member Rob Rabon pointed out that of the school's 998 employees, about 20 percent of them had some form of purchasing power. "That's a lot of people who can incur debt in the name of the college," Rabon said. Concerns about access to credit cards come after incidents earlier this year in which the university's financial record keeping had been called into question, including after two university officials falsely reported the amount of money available to build a new athletic fieldhouse.
Moody's Reviews BorgWarner for Upgrade
Moody's Investors Service said Thursday it has placed BorgWarner Inc.'s senior unsecured debt rating under review for a possible upgrade. Moody's said the review was prompted by BorgWarner's reduction of debt with stronger earnings and better free cash flow over the last nine months, as well as its affirmation of 2007 guidance at the higher end of earlier ranges. Moody's now has an investment-grade rating of "Baa2" on BorgWarner's senior unsecured debt. It also placed the company's "Baa3" subordinate shelf rating, its "Ba1" preferred shelf rating, its "Baa3" trust preferred rating and its Capital Trusts I, II and III ratings on review for upgrades. Shares of BorgWarner, a maker of power train systems and components, rose $1.78 to $101.33. .
Life on the fast track
At that long-lost North Norfolk junction I might just have been saved from breaking my dentures on a rock bun in the station café by a woman with a cut-glass accent who needed help with a smut in her eye.There the smut would end, what with me being a doctor and Celia being married and with the Brief Encounter script being by Noel Coward in the strait-laced and censored 1940s.Phew, but that Rachmaninov music still gets me going. Possibly it even warmed up the chap with the pipe and slippers sitting by the fire at the end of the movie who, encouraging his wife between supper-serving and sock-darning, says: “Thenk you for coming beck tooo meee."What a pity it did nothing for that Dr Beeching - the man with the scarlet suit, horns and trident - who lopped off most of our branch lines in the bittersweet 1960s.But why put the romance of train travel into the past? From Wednesday the first new railway in Britain for a hundred years is set to relight our love affair with what should always have been a transport of delight…Eurostar will be shifting from Waterloo to St Pancras, and promising easier and speedier services for an estimated 50 million passengers a year.
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