Archive for December, 2009
Electric Insurance Appoints Eight New Agents across the United States
by admin on Dec.31, 2009, under Uncategorized
Business Wire, Oct 28, 2008
Expands Personal Lines Coverage Across Arizona, Colorado, Pennsylvania and Missouri
BEVERLY, Mass. — Electric Insurance Company, a national provider of auto, homeowners, condominium, and renters insurance, today announced that it has appointed eight new independent agents for the marketing of its personal lines insurance products in the United states. The agencies named are: San Corporation dba Novakoff Insurance and Southwest Insurance Brokers, Phoenix, Arizona; Affiliated Insurance Service Corporation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Gallaher Insurance Group, Mexico, Missouri; Arizona Federal Insurance Solutions, Gilbert, Arizona; Premier Insurance Group LLC, Denver, Colorado; James L. Smith Insurance Agency, Pittsburgh, PA; and Sweet & Sons, Inc., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
“These appointments allow us to provide our personal lines products to a larger geographic area,” said Michael Mucher, Vice President, Sales and Marketing, Electric Insurance. “Their experience in their local insurance market provides great value to their clients and makes them a good fit for Electric Insurance’s personal lines insurance products. We will continue to recruit and appoint select agents in the United States so that we can provide our unsurpassed customer service and claims management to a greater number of customers.”
When choosing Independent Agency partners, Electric Insurance is very selective, and seeks to create franchise value by limiting their appointments in a geographic market
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Ban on foreign waste gets OK
by admin on Dec.31, 2009, under Uncategorized
0 Comments | Deseret News (Salt Lake City), Dec 3, 2009 | by Lee Davidson Deseret News
The U.S. House voted Wednesday to ban importing foreign low- level radioactive waste and block an attempt by EnergySolutions to bring tons of it from Italy to Utah.
It voted 309-112 for a bill pushed by Reps. Jim Matheson, D- Utah, and Bart Gordon, D-Tenn., to bar such foreign waste, which includes lab coats, shoe coverings and cleaning cloths from nuclear power plants. EnergySolutions has proposed to process 20,000 tons of Italian waste in Tennessee and dump it in Utah. The bill now goes to the Senate.
Matheson and Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, voted for the bill. Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, was with Utah students touring Virginia and missed the vote but has spoken against it previously. He was once a state lobbyist for EnergySolutions and received about $26,000 from the company’s political action committee and employees for his 2008 election and $5,000 this year.
“No other country in the world takes another country’s radioactive waste,” Matheson told the House. “I don’t think we should either.”
Any nation sophisticated enough to produce nuclear waste should also be sophisticated enough to responsibly dispose of it within its own borders, he said. “This clarifies federal policy and preserves our disposal space for our own domestic needs.”
Besides the 20,000 tons that EnergySolutions is proposing to import from Italy, Matheson said, “There’s discussion about Brazil, Mexico, Great Britain to move low-level radioactive waste to this country.”
But Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., argued that the bill restrains international trade and would cost jobs created by treating and disposing such waste.
Matheson countered, “For trade to exist, you have goods and services going in both directions, not just one. I don’t understand how this in any way could be described as a restraint of trade.”
During debate Chaffetz said there’s a reason no place in Europe, even with $1 billion on the line, has stepped up to take foreign waste: “It’s dangerous. It’s very dangerous.”
Gordon also argued that America should preserve what space it has for such waste for expansion of the U.S
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NetQin Teams with PhoneGuard to Enter North American Retail Market
by admin on Dec.31, 2009, under Uncategorized
0 Comments | Wireless News, Dec 30, 2009
NetQin Tech, a Chinese mobile security service provider, announced their entrance into the North American retail market through the partnership with Cellular Spyware (CSI), which does business as PhoneGuard.
PhoneGuard, providing a new software suite specifically designed to safeguard cellular phones/PDAs or smart phones, will launch its retail PhoneGuard card loaded on a Micro-SD card as a package deal on 167 kiosks in all the major high-end shopping malls for the holiday season as a 60-day test, in addition to launching the commercial version of “PhoneGuard Powered by NetQin” with a 14-day free trial.
The companies stated that the retail availability of these mobile security products offers mobile phone users ready access to a more comprehensive alternative to virus, spyware, spam, phishing, hacker protection and intrusion detection and prevention.
“The flexible and diverse marketing and partner strategies accelerate our pace in international expansion. We’re glad that PhoneGuard has soon made the product available at retail end and we’re confident that NetQin has strong R&D; and operation resource to support PhoneGuard distribution in the North American market, and make it one of the most successful mobile security products in the North American market,” said Lin Yu, CEO of NetQin.
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Electric Insurance Appoints James L. Smith Insurance Agency, Inc
by admin on Dec.30, 2009, under Uncategorized
Business Wire, Nov 17, 2008
Addition of James L. Smith Insurance Agency Extends Regional Coverage in Pennsylvania
BEVERLY, Mass. — Electric Insurance Company, a national provider of auto, homeowners, condominium, and renters insurance, announced today that it has appointed James L. Smith Insurance Agency, a full-service, personal lines insurance agency, as an independent agent for the marketing of its personal lines insurance products to the greater Pittsburgh, PA market.
“Electric Insurance looks for independent agencies that share our core values of integrity, positive reputation, customer service orientation, and reliability,” said Michael J. Mucher, Vice President, Electric Insurance Company. “We’re pleased The James L. Smith Insurance Agency is representing us in the area and look forward to serving the needs of the agency and their customers in the future.”
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Samsung Jet Mania
by admin on Dec.27, 2009, under Uncategorized
Generation X is the aimed market of relatively most of the great businesses and industries today. A large percentage of consumers in today’s time are comprised of the youth. So, products are made to attract mainly these consumer profile.
Samsung has recently been the forerunner of targeting the next generation of users with their products. Their new ware which is the S8003 Jet is fashioned to tempt the high-end, techno-savvy buyers. As the “Jet” name entails, its constructed for speed. The gadget’s design represents the true nature of phone esthetics. The candy bar model is wrapped with a plastic brilliant finish with exquisite maroon stripes at the back and brags an AMOLED 3.1 inch wide touchscreen displaying vivid colors. Since it is using AMOLED (Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode), the luminescence is great and the colors are very vivid with a resolution of 800 x 480. It not only gives off a vibrant image but the touchscreen is sensitive too.
What make this phone amazing are its brilliant multimedia system capabilities. A 3-dimensional menu block presents different parts of the mobile phone like the Album, music player, Video player, Radio Tuner, Web browser and Games.
The Samsung Jet’s 5 megapixel photographic camera is brilliant enough to get memories as it occurs. Photographic Camera characteristics like an LED flash, macro mode, autofocus, anti-shake, face detection etc. are also consolidated. Video Recoding is also supreme with this device highlighting a recording speed of 30 fps, enough to produce an mp4 file of 720 x 480 pixels resolution. The integrated music player add something for the music lovers to be gratified with. With the motion response interface, you can just easily convert audio files by shaking the mobile phone.
Apart from the exquisite display and big screen, the Samsung S8003 Jet uses the accelerometer technology that lets online browsing in either portrait or landscape mode. With its fantastic touch reactivity, web browsing is viable with one-finger zoom. The browser handles adobe flash which certainly will allow you to view video recordings on YouTube. Connectivity alternatives inlude Bluetooth, Wifi and HSDPA. The GPS unit in this device works with a 3D mapping navigation software program known as the Samsung Mobile Navigator
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Mum and kids left in terror by car chase; Jail for banned driver
by admin on Dec.23, 2009, under Uncategorized
Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England), Dec 2, 2009
Byline: EXAMINER
A BANNED driver has been jailed following a police chase in which terrified parents with youngsters feared for their lives.
One young mum was left in tears as she walked home with her young children as the car raced past.
Bradford Crown Court heard yesterday how Rebecca Blackmore had been picking up her sons from school in May when 20-year-old Benjamin Seymour drove through Lindley at speed while being pursued by a police car.
The mum-of-three was walking in the Kirkwood Drive area when she grabbed her two-year-old daughter and screamed at her sons, aged five and nine, because she feared that Seymour’s Vauxhall Corsa was going to mount the pavement and take them all out.
The prosecution said the mum was left crying after the incident and one of her sons also became upset later.
The mid-afternoon pursuit, which began after uninsured Seymour failed to stop for the patrol car, finally ended in Stanley Road, Lindley, when another vehicle doing a three-point turn blocked his way and he abandoned the Corsa.
But mechanic Seymour, of Lamb Hall Road, Longwood, was traced after one of his fingerprints was found inside the car and last month he admitted charges of dangerous driving, driving while disqualified, failing to stop for the police and driving without insurance.
The court heard that in January Seymour was banned from driving for a year after a conviction for drink-driving.
The prosecution said during the pursuit Seymour had reached speeds of up to 59mph in a 30mph zone and had caused two other motorists to brake to avoid collisions.
In the Lidget Street area another group of pedestrians were seen to jump out of the way as the speeding Corsa approached.
Barrister Adam Birkby, for Seymour, conceded that the risks to other road users and pedestrians were aggravating features of the case, but he pointed out that there was no evidence his client had been drinking or using drugs.
Seymour told police after his arrest that he panicked because he was a banned driver.
“When he saw the police car instead of being mature and accepting what was a very serious situation he panicked and put his foot down and drove away,” conceded Mr Birkby.
“I can only put that down to immaturity and a lack of common sense.
“He is fundamentally a decent young man with real prospects who in a fit of panic and stupidity did something he bitterly regrets.”
Mr Birkby urged Judge Jonathan Durham Hall QC not to jail his client, but the judge said the public would be outraged if Seymour did not go to prison.
Jailing him for eight months he told Seymour:”The court takes no pleasure seeing a young man like you in front of it.
“You are otherwise hardworking and I have read several quality testimonials written on your behalf. I have to balance the need to measure your sentence in line with your character and the gravity of this offence for this was a serious example of dangerous driving.
“You put the lives and safety of others at risk solely to evade your own responsibilities.
“The chase led you to drive at grossly offensive speeds. You cut corners, you ignored traffic signs. Had other vehicles come into your roadway, as it were, you would have seriously injured, if not killed, yourself and others.”
He said the mother had been so concerned she thought Seymour was going to wipe out her and her young family.
“I take, I repeat, no pleasure in it but this is a clear case demanding an effective sentence which must deter others as well,” added Judge Durham Hall.
Seymour was also banned from driving for 30 months and must take an extended retest at the end of his disqualification.
Zoom/ClubCom and Urban Active Sign Exclusive Media Partnership
by admin on Dec.18, 2009, under Uncategorized
Business Wire, Dec 03, 2009
NEW YORK & LEXINGTON, Ky. — Zoom Media & Marketing, the worlds largest and fastest growing
fitness digital media company, today announced that ClubCom, LLC.,
Zooms digital media network subsidiary; and Urban Active, a leading
operator of health clubs in the Midwest and South, have signed an
exclusive digital media and advertising relationship as part of
expanding its current relationship in digital media. As
part of the deal, Zooms ClubCom division will be upgrading its
award-winning network operations within Urban Active to its
revolutionary HD digital media suite including high definition
entertainment, digital signage and personal entertainment programming.
Zoom will also be installing fixed billboards and representing
Urban Active with sampling and promotional opportunities.
ClubCom has been an invaluable partner of ours for over eight
years, said KT Remus, Senior Director of Marketing at Urban Active
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Witnesses recall SW Philly stabbing as trial opens for man accused of first homicide of 2008
by admin on Dec.18, 2009, under Uncategorized
0 Comments | Philadelphia Daily News, December, 2009 | by MENSAH M. DEAN deanm@phillynews.com 215-854-5949
Philadelphia’s first homicide of 2008 could aptly be viewed as a Greek tragedy, given that the victim, Andreas Gabranidis, 55, was a native of Greece.
A small man, standing five feet tall and weighing 140 pounds, Gabranidis was dragged from his Southwest Philadelphia rowhouse, beaten and stabbed multiple times just before 3 a.m. on that Jan. 1, Assistant District Attorney MK Feeney told a Common Pleas Court jury during opening arguments yesterday.
The killer, she said, was sitting at the defense table – Anthony Pander, 22, the brother of the victim’s estranged wife, Georgianna Pander.
After a night of drinking at a house party, Feeney said, Anthony Pander became enraged after his sister cried to him about her problems with the victim, who was her senior by 27…
OHSU Selects CCLC to Open Child Care Center for Employees and Students
by admin on Dec.17, 2009, under Uncategorized
Business Wire, Dec 07, 2009
New Center to Open Fall 2010 in South Waterfront District
PORTLAND, Ore. — Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) has chosen Childrens Creative
Learning Centers (CCLC), a nationwide child care
provider dedicated to quality employer-sponsored early childhood
education, to open its first on-site child care center in Portland.
Through the agreement, CCLC will operate the OHSU child care center and
offer priority enrollment to OHSU employees and students. Renovations
will begin immediately to the site leased by CCLC, which is located at
3325 S.W. Moody St. directly west of the South Waterfront Portland
Aerial Tram terminus and next to OHSUs Center for Health & Healing
with plans to open by fall 2010.
Like many hospitals and health organizations, keeping its employees and
students on the job is often of life-and-death importance to OHSU, a
nationally recognized health and research university that employs some
of the nations top physicians, researchers, nurses and health care
professionals. OHSU determined that opening its first child care center
could be a key strategy to retaining its highly skilled staff,
especially in a time where work force shortages in health care are at
critical levels in Oregon, as well as nationwide.
Weve known for some time that having child care near OHSU is important
to our employees, said Mark Williams, associate vice president for
campus development and administration at OHSU. After several years of
evaluating opportunities, we ultimately chose CCLC because of their
experience, reputation, emphasis on diversity and eco-conscious
construction, and because they proposed the most desirable location.
Based in Portland, with several clients in the education and health care
industries, they understand our needs. Were excited to partner with
them to deliver this benefit to OHSU families.
For clients including OHSU, CCLC is committed to providing a
high-quality, safe and nurturing environment. As part of this promise,
the center will operate with low teacher/child ratios, allowing staff to
focus on the individual needs of each child. In addition, CCLC will
implement its developmentally appropriate programs through their Guided
Discovery Curriculum, which incorporates physical, social,
language, cognitive and emotional development.
Enrollment begins in January 2010. The center will have capacity for 172
children aged 6 weeks to 5 years and will be open for monthly full-time
and part-time care Monday through Friday.
OHSU shares our passion for education, and they too see the importance
and impact education can have on a child from an early age, said Ty
Durekas, CEO of CCLC. Building a solid foundation for a lifetime of
learning is a common interest and were proud to work with them to
deliver individualized, quality education to their families. We cant
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CCLC is the operator of the center. OHSU will pay a sponsorship fee over
10 years to help subsidize the initial capital investment to develop the
center and secure priority enrollment for OHSU families. This fee will
be paid from a restricted-use insurance settlement fund not from OHSU
operating funds.
CCLC operates more than 100 employer-sponsored child care centers across
the nation. All CCLC centers are endorsed as Eco-Healthy Child Care
Programs by the Oregon Environmental Council
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Letters to the Editor
by admin on Dec.16, 2009, under Uncategorized
0 Comments | Oakland Tribune, Dec 2, 2009 | by Anonymous
Thanksgiving came early for some in Antioch
Dear Editor:
The Gathering Church in Antioch held its first Thanksgiving Outreach to feed the community on Nov. 20. More than 250 were fed.
This year the church partnered with Love A Child Missions in Pittsburg and brought 37 mothers and kids to the outreach. They had dinner, listened to live music and had great fellowship. There were clothes, bags of groceries, and gift cards to Safeway for anyone who needed them.
The Gathering would like to thank the following companies for their donations to this outreach: Safeway Corporate office in Pleasanton for the gift cards that were given out, Outback Steak House in Pittsburg for sending a lot of “fresh mashed potatoes”; Dr. Tracy Benhamou for toothbrushes and toothpaste; Kohl’s in Brentwood for the stuffed animals; and Starbucks in Pittsburg for supplying coffee and tea.
As I spearheaded the event for the church, I was asked if we were going to have enough food for everyone. My response was, “Look to Matthew 15:32-39, and you will find you answer.” And Jesus called His disciples to Him, and said, “I feel compassion for the people, because they have remained with Me now three days and have nothing to eat; and I do not want to send them away hungry, for they might faint on the way.” The disciples said to Him, “Where would we get so many loaves in this desolate place to satisfy such a large crowd?” And Jesus said to them, “How many loaves do you have?” And they said, “Seven, and a few small fish.” And He directed the people to sit down on the ground; and He took the seven loaves and the fish; and giving thanks, He broke them and started giving them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people. And they all ate and were satisfied, and they picked up what was left over of the broken pieces, seven large baskets full. And those who ate were four thousand men, besides women and children. And sending away the crowds, Jesus got into the boat and came to the region of Magadan.”
The Gathering has Sunday service at 10 a.m
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