National Income Life Insurance Company is a 100% union company. It is a subsidiary of American Income Life, which has been serving Northing American union policy owners for over 50 years. National Income Life solely insures union members and retirees in New York State, with offices in Albany, New York City, Buffalo, Syracuse, Rochester, Corning, and Long Island.

With National Income Life being a 100% union company, they stand apart from typical insurance companies. This gives the company a stable and elite market. It also has let the company do away with cold calls and prospecting.

National Income Life gives union members and retirees Accidental Death and Dismemberment benefits. The company also gives an additional Accidental Death benefit to members’ spouses and children. The benefits are in force 24/7, even if one is on the job or at home. All of this is paid for at no cost to union members.

National Income Life is offering union members these benefits at no cost in exchange for the opportunity to introduce members to the company’s supplemental benefit plans. Members will receive direct mailings, to which they can respond to through a postage-paid card. Only the members who respond will be further contacted and given information about specific plans designed for them.

It is essential to National Income Life to give union members and retirees excellent customer service and current benefits. Every day, the company is working to introduce up-to-date benefits into the union insurance market. As these benefits become available, National Income Life will get in touch with a representative from the union to discuss if these latest benefits would be plus to members.

On National Income Life’s website, members can access their account to make address, name, and miscellaneous changes. If they need to make a change in beneficiaries, a form can be printed, filled out, and then mailed to the company. If union members opt for supplemental benefits, they can choose to have premiums automatically deducted from their bank account. Premium notices can also be sent to an E-mail address so members can pay the bill online. Members can also have access to claim forms on the website.

Members can receive two free items from National Income Life. The Child Safe Kit can help members’ children from becoming one of the 800,000 children who end up being reported missing each year. The kit lets a child’s vital information be stored in a secure place. Members can also take advantage of the Family Information Guide which helps members inform their family about their insurance coverage.

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Baseball

The New York Mets named Fernando Aquino director of market development. Aquino was press secretary of downstate press operations for New York State Senate Minority Leader Malcom Smith. South Coast League Chief Executive Officer Jamie Toole resigned. The West Coast Collegiate Baseball League hired Ken Wilson as president.

Basketball

The Minnesota Lynx promoted Nicole Smith to senior manager of ticket sales and service. Facilities Daytona International Speedway promoted Brian Crichton to vice president of special events and entertainment and John Guthrie to vice president of business development and partnerships. Gateway International Raceway promoted Ron Poe to senior group account executive, and hired Melissa Bevington as a corporate account executive.

Football

The Detroit Lions and Ford Field hired Robert Raymond as vice president of business operations. Raymond was vice president of marketing and ticket sales for the Detroit Tigers. The St. Louis Rams formed a new ticket sales department, and named Michael O’Keefe vice president of sales and Jake Bye director of ticket sales and premium seating. The team hired Evan Ardoin as community outreach assistant and Barbara Helman, Megan Knapp, Jon Kruse, David Kinsey and Nathan Schandl to its sales department. Marketing Maroon PR named Mitchell Schmale senior account executive. Schmale was an account manager for Kohn Creative. Media Comcast SportsNet Bay Area promoted Tom Pellack to vice president of marketing and creative services and Jen Franklin to director of marketing and interactive communications.

The USTA Tennis and Education Foundation named to its board Lucy Garvin, Jonathan Vegosen, Carol Kimmelman, Terry March and Paul Palandjian.

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http://www.cyberhomes.com/

Owned by Fidelity National Financial, CyberHomes allows homeowners and prospective purchasers to assess the value of particular properties, as well as general market conditions. For any property, you can see a list of comparable homes and how much they sold for.

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On Tuesday, CyberHomes will emerge from beta, joining a rather crowed field of real estate websites. CyberHomes is owned by Fidelity National Financial, which is one of the largest title insurance companies in the US. This gives CyberHomes a nice advantage in having direct access to data on every home transaction in the US.

[via TechCrunch

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http://www.ebay.com/

International person to person auction site, with products sorted into categories.

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The Pirate Bay, one of the most popular BitTorrent trackers, has officially announced they are indeed launching a streaming video site, tentatively named The Video Bay. The Video Bay is being touted by the blogosphere as a YouTube killer which I believe is a bit of a stretch. YouTube has a dedicated user-base that won’t deviate far from their home turf.

But, this doesn’t mean The Video Bay won’t meet great success. The Pirate Bay has a great team of lawyers that make sure they stay within the legal bounds of their native country, Sweden, where they operate. I can only see The Pirate Bay jumping into this niche if they will be providing streaming video of copyrighted content - since the team behind The Pirate Bay believes in the freedom of information. The Video Bay can go two routes with this new website - since I’m not completely up on my Swedish law, I’ll outline both of the possibilities.

First, The Video Bay could act as a video tracking service, much like The Pirate Bay currently does with torrents. This would save them a lot of legal battles, as they are merely linking to the offending property. This is the defense they have quite often stood behind in their previous legal battles and they are 100% correct - under Swedish law they are doing nothing wrong.

The other option, is to actually host the copyrighted videos on their own servers! Like I said, I’m not up on my Swedish law, so I can’t say whether this is a viable option for them or not. If it is, there will be some very interesting legal battles coming in the future that could redefine international copyright law as we know it.

Regardless, this is going to be a sure money-maker for the Pirate Bay crew. They already have a huge following within the pirating scene and have managed to dodge quite an amazing number of lawsuits. I don’t see The Video Bay being a direct competitor with YouTube - I don’t think the Pirate Bay team is interested in people’s cats or children’s magic shows - I think The Video Bay will be taking the TV, music video, and movie route with this one.

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http://mail.yahoo.com/

Official site for the service, which features spam filters, a virus scanner, and interfaces for international users.