| Safeco Consolidates Nonprofit Social Service Product Line with NIF ...
Seattle-based Safeco said its insurance product line for nonprofit social service agencies will now be available to all independent agents through NIF Group Inc. "NIF Group has successfully represented Safeco's nonprofit social service program in the eastern half of the United States since 1998," said Tom Troy, senior vice president of Safeco Business Insurance. "Now, as our singular national partner, NIF Group is making it easier than ever for independent agents to sell Safeco's program across the country." Based in Manhasset, NY, NIF Group has nine offices throughout the U.S., including its newest location in suburban Seattle. NIF Group has underwritten nonprofit social services continuously for more than 25 years. The company will underwrite and manage Safeco's nonprofit social service program, which spans a spectrum of 501(c)(3) organizations, including: * Drug- and alcohol-treatment centers; * Mental health facilities; * Homeless/family shelters; * Child/family services; and * Community service agencies.
Insurance company employees donate goods to homeless
AIG Hawaii employees will turn over 10 boxes of clothing, blankets and toiletries to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority at 10:31 a.m. today as part of the "Spring It Forward" collection drive. The items gathered by AIG will be given to the Institute for Human Services and the new Waianae Civic Center to distribute to clients of the two facilities. IHS serves about 500 clients while the Waianae Civic Center shelter hopes to move about 300 homeless people off the beach. .
Housing giveaway in Honolulu raises eyebrows as it lifts spirits
HONOLULU: One morning a few weeks ago, as Dorie-Ann Kahale was straightening the room she lived in with her five daughters, a visitor arrived sporting coiffed gray hair and keys to a mansion. The visitor, Genshiro Kawamoto, a Japanese real estate tycoon, had come by to tell Kahale that he was about to change her life. She and her girls would be leaving a homeless shelter for one of his multimillion-dollar houses in Honolulu's Kahala neighborhood, the Beverly Hills of Oahu. "It's God's miracle," Kahale said, standing barefoot on the marble tile floor of the four-bedroom, four-and-a-half-bath, modified Colonial-style house. "Look! I have crystal chandeliers in every room." At the shelter, she had been sleeping on the floor of a room smaller than her new kitchen, and her daughters, ages 6 through 20, had been sharing one double bed.
Bill would give domestic-violence survivors time off work to get help
Survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking could take unpaid leave from their jobs to get services or treatment under a bill headed for a vote of the Oregon Senate. The Senate Commerce Committee unanimously approved Senate Bill 946 on Wednesday. Jill Raichel of Hillsboro, a social worker and mental-health therapist, said such a law could have shielded her in a previous job from an abusive ex-husband who came to her workplace and threatened her and co-workers. "I did not feel I could obtain the support I needed to protect myself and thus had to resign from my job. This was a financial and emotional burden for me and my children, which resulted in our having to relocate and for me to acquire a new job," Raichel said. "Having a law, such as the one proposed, could have prevented me from this upheaval in my children's lives." The bill also won support from Rob Quesnel of Tualatin, the Oregon director of American Family Insurance, the nation's third largest mutual-insurance company.
Flexcar Delivers Philadelphia Freedom — From Car Payments
Flexcar (www.flexcar.com) today announced it has expanded to the city of Philadelphia with an initial fleet of 30 low-emission vehicles, growing to more than 100 by year's end. The vehicles are available to residents and businesses by the hour for a simple fee which includes gas, insurance, parking, maintenance, 24×7 roadside assistance and 150 free miles per day. The fleet includes hybrids, sedans, minivans, pickup trucks and sporty cars, including MINI Coopers. Philadelphia becomes Flexcar's 11th U.S. city, extending the company's national footprint. Flexcar gives its members the freedom of owning a car without the cost and hassles. Flexcar's “point-click-drive" system lets members have a car just when they need it, paying for it just when they use it. Initially, vehicles will be located primarily in downtown garages.
Acupuncture pins down your pain
YOUR knee hurts, and every little movement is sheer torture for your aching back too. If medication or other therapy fails to help, acupuncture can bring relief. Inserting fine needles into the skin and underlying tissues can also combat allergies, menstrual pain and even moderately severe depression. "Acupuncture helps primarily in cases of chronic and acute pain such as migraines and arthrosis, but also stress and asthma," said Helmut Ruedinger, vice chairman of the Hamburg-based German Medical Association for Acupuncture (Daegfa). Timo, a 30-year-old from Berlin, suffered from severe, stabbing headaches during his studies, particularly when he was at the computer writing his final paper. "First they prescribed physiotherapy, then massages," he recalled. "Only acupuncture helped." After just eight acupuncture sessions, Timo was completely pain-free and still is.
Driving safety techniques are being taught by online Hillsborough ...
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Great-West Lifeco to buy US health administrator
TORONTO (Reuters) - Great-West Lifeco Inc.'s (GWO.TO: Quote) U.S. unit will buy an 80 percent stake in Benefit Management Corp., a U.S. third-party health plan administrator, Great-West said on Monday. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. The deal will add nearly 90,000 medical members to Great-West's health-care division, the company said. Great-West, Canada's second-largest insurer by market value, said the transaction should start adding to earnings this year and should close later in this quarter. Great-West's shares rose 56 Canadian cents, or 1.6 percent, to C$35.22 on the Toronto Stock Exchange on Monday. The acquisition is Great-West's first since it announced in February that it will buy U.S.
Domestic and International Class Struggle in a Harmonious ...
In his eulogy at the graveside of Marx, Engels pointed to the two great discoveries of Marx, the discovery of the materialist concept of history and the discovery of surplus value as the source of capitalist profit. Surplus value is the difference between the value created by the worker and the value of the returned to the worker in the form of wages. Surplus value is therefore the value of the workers labor time that is appropriated by the capitalist. In this manner, Marx disclosed the irreconcilable conflict of interest between capital and laborthe capitalists striving to increase their profits by increasing the ratio of surplus value to the wages, while interest of the worker lies in decreasing that ratio. The struggle of the workers to raise their wages or to resist attempts by the capitalist lower them is what we refer to as class struggle.
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