| Testimony alleges mobile home fire was arson
The fire that gutted a Reading Township mobile home was set "by human hand," a state police fire marshal testified Monday. Since his investigation ruled out any accidental causes, Fire Marshal Jeff Sarver said he concluded the Dec. 29 fire was arson. Following testimony from Sarver, insurance agent Walter Stainiker and Reading Township Police Officer Eric Beyer, Magisterial District Judge Mark Beauchat sent all charges against Marshall Kester to Adams County court. Police allege Kester, 49, set his trailer ablaze after being evicted from Mountain View Mobile Home Park, at 203 Rife Road, earlier that week. Kester faces charges of first- and second-degree arson, criminal trespass, recklessly endangering another person and insurance fraud. He also faces charges of open lewdness for an unrelated incident Nov.
USDA Announces Crop Insurance Deadline For Virginia Nursery
Virginia nursery producers should be aware that the final date for a new applicant to apply for the 2008 nursery crop insurance is May 1, 2007, according to the Raleigh Regional Office, USDA Risk Management Agency. New applications for crop year 2008 may be accepted until May 1, 2007, with coverage beginning 30 days after receipt of your signed application. If a policy is purchased after May 1st, insurance attaches 30 days after the application is filed and the premium is prorated based on the time remaining in the crop year after insurance attaches. For existing policies, coverage will automatically attach on June 1, 2007. The crop insurance year runs from June 1 through May 31. Growers may elect to insure field-grown and container grown practices under separate policies; for example, one practice may be insured under the CAT policy and the other practice may be insured under a Buy-up policy.
It took a disaster to see quality, compassion of professionals ...
We recently lost a good portion of our home in a house fire. There are those we would like to thank and a few valuable suggestions to the community. Most important, check your policies to ensure you have enough insurance on your dwelling and contents. And we can't stress this enough: Take pictures or videos of everything in your home; open drawers and closets also. Burn it onto a CD and store in a fireproof box. Learn to appreciate and donate to the wonderful services we have. The Plain Township and Jackson Township departments and Red Cross were there immediately. These folks are heroes in their own right. When we observed the danger that these firefighters subject themselves to, we most certainly had a new respect for them, and thank them for their quick response on one of the coldest days this winter.
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For those of us who are not billionaires -- or even millionaires -- in South Florida, life has gotten tougher.
It's difficult to find an affordable house, especially when adding on the cost of homeowners' insurance and property taxes. It also costs more to drive a car and see a doctor. And we have new bills for services we "need" such as high-speed Internet.
How do you live the South Florida life -- more cheaply?
In today's new Your Business section, Sun-Sentinel staff writers address some of the big cost issues for South Florida living.
We don't have all the answers. Maybe you have ideas on how to live more inexpensively in South Florida. Please tell us. Post your comments at sun-sentinel.com/business, where you also can get more money-saving tips by going to the Web sites listed inside.
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Cars will run on water is no more an idea to BankPHB, but the bank is ready to make it a reality for its customers. This was the position of the bank's Managing Director, Francis Atuche in this chat with Daily Sun. According to Atuche, "what we are saying as a bank, is that when a customer has an aspiration, a dream, a project, but does not know how or where to go to get banking support, that we will support the customer.
"At Bank PHB, we say our goal is to satisfy the customer's ambition, so that those aspirations can turn from dream to reality and that is what we stand for". Atuche said the steep reduction in the number of banks did not necessarily result in increased earning opportunities, just as liquidity surfeit in the banking sector resulted in a downward pressure on interest rates and the shrinking in interest margins.
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How Second Life could fix your broken DVD player
Web 2.0 is still the hottest buzzword in tech circles, with every big brand worth its salt rushing to open a headquarters in Second Life or build its own MySpace page. But beyond showing off some fancy programming, a handful of companies are already looking at the latest wave of technologies to explore whether user-generated content could be the next frontier in customer service. Since it began hosting the likes of Adidas, Dell, Reuters and Toyota, Second Life has become technology's equivalent of India or China - everyone needs an office and a strategy involving it to keep their shareholders happy. But beyond opening a shiny new building in the virtual world, what can such companies do with their remote real estate? Rather than a simple showcase, some believe Second Life could one day become a first point of contact for customers.
NeoStem Announces Launch of Government Affairs Initiative
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 3, 2007 - NeoStem, Inc. (OTCBB:NEOI), the first company to specialize in the collection, processing and storage of stem cells from healthy adult donors for personal use in times of critical medical need, announced today the launch of a "Government Affairs" initiative to lobby key members of the federal government on the growing threat to the thousands of first responders from radiation exposure following a possible nuclear assault. NeoStem's "Government Affairs" initiative is a concerted effort to leverage the Company's next generation services to allow the thousands of first responders, including firemen, police officers and National Guardsmen, across the nation to store their own, genetically-matched adult stem cells to treat bone marrow failure caused by nuclear radiation, a common cause of death following exposure.
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