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• Pennsylvania doesn't pay pothole damage claims - PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
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Pennsylvania doesn't pay pothole damage claims - PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Posted: 06 Mar 2010 01:35 PM PST On the daily commute to his auto repair shop in Lawrenceville, Marco Imbarlina found himself headed toward a pothole on the 40th Street Bridge, hemmed in by traffic and unable to swerve. "I could feel the car bottom out. I could see the hubcap fly off," said Imbarlina, 64, of Allison Park, whose right rear tire was useless when the wheel bent and cut through the sidewall. "If I could get paid back for it, that would be wonderful." Imbarlina won't get back the $50 he spent on a replacement tire, and neither will many who bend rims and blow out tires after hitting potholes. The state of Pennsylvania will not pay for damage potholes cause, and counties and municipalities only have to pay if officials knew the pothole was there and didn't fix it. Since 1978, the state has not been held responsible for damage caused by "potholes, sinkholes or other similar conditions caused by natural elements," said Ed Myslewicz, spokesman for the Department of General Services, which handles the state's insurance. He estimated between a few hundred and 1,000 drivers a year try to file claims anyway. The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission accepts pothole-related claims, but reimburses few people for them. None of the 17 claims filed in 2009, nor the four filed this year, were reimbursed, turnpike officials said. State law holds counties and municipalities responsible, but only if officials knew about the pothole and didn't fix it within a reasonable amount of time — which isn't defined in the law, but generally is accepted to be 7 to 10 days, said Allegheny County Risk Manager Karen Womack. "If we don't fix it in a reasonable amount of time and a car is damaged, we will compensate for that," said Kevin Evanto, Allegheny County spokesman. "In those cases, we typically reimburse a driver's out-of-pocket expenses, like their insurance deductible." Twenty people filed claims with Allegheny County during the 2008-09 winter and the county shelled out $1,211 to reimburse four of them. So far in the 2009-10 winter, the county has received 14 claims and paid $200 on one. In Pittsburgh, motorists filed 26 pothole claims in 2009; the city reimbursed 15 of them, spending $3,572. So far this year, 12 claims have been filed. City Solicitor Dan Regan said this year's large number of potholes might give the city wiggle room in determining whether Public Works crews had a reasonable amount of time to fix them all. More potholes might mean more time before the city is held responsible. "(The number of potholes) would be taken into consideration. The statute is written the way it is because claims are evaluated on a case-by-case basis," Regan said. Ross Manager Wayne Jones said the township gets complaints each winter, but most are for damage sustained on county-owned Babcock Boulevard or state-owned McKnight Road. "They call us up and are often very angry," Jones said. "We get the pleasure of passing them on to someone else." Repairs aren't cheap, but Progressive Insurance spokeswoman Susan Rouser said drivers who have a deductible of $500 or more usually skip filing an insurance claim and pay themselves. "If you have an aluminum wheel, you can get a refurbished one for about $200, and a tire is going to be another $100," said Joe Ober, assistant manager at J&T Tire in Allison Park. "You're looking at three or four hundred dollars for one wheel." Solicitor R. Mark Gesalman said Westmoreland County could be liable for damage motorists incur as a result of poor road conditions. "You have to show a municipality was negligent in its approach to maintain the roads," Gesalman said. Motorists first would seek damages from their insurance companies, then try to recover their deductibles from local governments. So far, the county has received no complaints about road conditions and no claims for damages. Westmoreland County has 52 miles of roads, and for the past three days work crews have attempted to fill potholes and improve road conditions. Ted Kopas, chief of staff to Commissioner Tom Balya, said the public works department has fielded some calls about potholes, but few complaints were registered. "Road crews have been out there every day just checking," said Tarentum Borough Manager Bill Rossey. "They're doing the best they can." Until then, motorists should do their best to avoid potholes because they likely won't get any reimbursement for tire damage. "That's what insurance is for," Rossey said. Butler County only maintains one mile of road, but oversees about 140 bridges in the county, said Dave Johnston, director of the county planning commission. The rest of the roads belong to PennDOT or local municipalities. "One of our highest priorities is to make roads safe to pass and not do damage to vehicles," said Shawn Houck, PennDOT safety press officer. "We ask that people help us by calling 800-FIX-ROAD as soon as they see a pothole." Potholes that have been given a temporary fix are then put on PennDOT's list for permanent repair. Once asphalt plants open in April, a hot mix is used. "A cold patch doesn't hold very long — it could be one to two days or a few weeks," said Houck. "It depends on the size and how much water gets under it," Houck said. "It's more difficult at this time of year because the potholes are filled with ice. Water is the biggest enemy. That's what expands and pops up the asphalt." The more successful PennDOT is with its fall program of sealing pavement cracks, Houck said, the less potholes there will be after winter. Once the thaw begins in late March and early April, there will be a lot of potholes erupting, he said. "It's been a hard winter," Houck said. "People are going to see a lot of potholes." Subscribe to the Tribune-Review today Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

Collection of church fans represents Southern hospitality - Star News Online Posted: 06 Mar 2010 01:28 PM PST "Aunt Susie would come down from Raleigh, and my mother would serve her a piece of her pound cake," McNeill said, remembering his 5-year-old self holding a fan printed with an image of Jesus ascending into heaven. "And I fanned Aunt Susie while she nibbled her cake. So Southern hospitality then was a sweet tea and a sweet Jesus." Since then, the Bladen County and part-time Wilmington resident's fascination with the instrument of church air conditioning and funeral parlor advertising has grown to a 30-year collection of more than 150 church fans from the turn of the century to modern times. "I see my fans as historical artifacts, vanishing relics of the American South," McNeill said. "Part of the appeal is nostalgia. I am troubled by the fact that the past is being ignored, even erased." The earth tones used in printing fans in the 1920s-1960s often attract his collector's eye as well. Reliving the past Interests in antiques runs in McNeill's family, so naturally, his family members have sent him many fans through the years. He's also found fans at flea markets and antique stores. McNeill's oldest fans are woven straw, grass and reed fans, some rainbow-hued, from African-American churches. Many have religious images – Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus as a shepherd holding a lamb, a 1950s child kneeling with her white-gloved hands pressed in prayer. "I have many different interpretations of The Last Supper, which seems to be a common theme in fan iconography," he said. "Another thing I've noticed in my collecting is that the image of Jesus has evolved from a Renaissance image of him with a long beard to a more modern Jesus with a trimmed, short beard." Others in his collection are purely secular – Cowgirl star Dale Evans with her horse Buttermilk, an idealized portrait of a 1940s housewife teaching her daughter to knit with the family dog at their feet or a teenage Shirley Temple holding an RC Cola with advertisements to "Buy More War Bonds" on the back. Some are pristine while others are creased and bent from Sunday after Sunday of fast fanning. McNeill has become so knowledgeable about his collection that he's given seven N.C. Humanities Council lectures about it called "Fanning the Heat Away" at senior centers and churches around the state. "It's a revisiting of the past. Most of the folks that really enjoy this (program) are seniors who remember sitting in church with the fans," said Carolyn Allen, program coordinator for the N.C. Humanities Council. "They all talk about how wonderful it is to remember that time in their lives, a simpler time." Pieces of social fabric The fans trigger memories for McNeill as well. One fan with an advertisement on the back for the Belk-Hensdale Company store in Lumberton reminds him of visiting that store as a child. "I would run straight to the back of the shoe department in that store and stick my feet in the Buster Brown X-ray machine and look at my toes glowing a sickening, eerie green," he said. Apparently, some shoe stores used the X-ray images to properly fit children's shoes. But McNeill loves the church images on the fans best, a product of his interest in Sunday school illustrations as a child at Singletary United Methodist Church in Bladen County. "I sat in church as a kid and twirled my fan around and around. My mom would take her fan and conk me in the head to stop," he said, laughing. One public misconception about church fans is that only funeral homes advertised on the backs of them. But McNeill has fans advertising tobacco houses, tire dealers and auto repair shops. Some list three- and four-digit phone numbers. "The advertisements reveal bits and pieces of the social fabric of the day," he said, referring to a dog-eared fan for a tobacco house with lines of numerical equations scratched in pencil on it. "This guy got his fan delivering his tobacco and then used the back of it to do his figures of how much he was going to get for it," McNeill added. Others tell human stories. His favorite fan shows three black children kneeling at their bedside in prayer. On the back, a simple hand-written ink inscription: "Mama's fan" and then a signature "Georgine." Because McNeill doesn't know the family, he's formed a history in his mind for the fan. "That fan had probably followed her mother to baptisms, funerals and weddings, but then Georgine dies and then her grandchildren didn't know their grandmother very well and put it in a flea market," he added. McNeill hopes to donate the collection to a museum some day and brought his collection to the Cameron Art Museum for evaluation. "I was intrigued to see what he had," said Daphne Holmes, curator of public programs for the Cameron. "I think it's terrific that someone would preserve that." Though he doubts any of the fans have monetary value, McNeill takes pleasure in the church fan's everyday reminder of the divine. "The sense of mystery intrigues me," he said, turning over a tri-fold fan of Jesus in the Garden. "These are common objects, but this fan has the power to inspire prayer and give comfort." Amanda Greene: 343-2365 On Twitter.com: @iwritereligion Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

New Market Report Now Available: Pep Boys - Manny, Moe & Jack, The ... - PR Inside Posted: 06 Mar 2010 12:52 PM PST 2010-03-06 21:55:43 - Datamonitor's Pep Boys - Manny, Moe & Jack, The - SWOT Analysis company profile is the essential source for top-level company data and information. Pep Boys - Manny, Moe & Jack, The - SWOT Analysis examines the company's key business structure and operations, history and products, and provides summary analysis of its key revenue lines and strategy. The Pep Boys-Manny, Moe and Jack (Pep Boys) is engaged in the retail sale of automotive parts, tires and accessories, automotive repairs and maintenance, and the installation of parts. The company operates in the US. It is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and employs over 18,458 people. The company recorded revenues of $1,927.8 million during the financial year ended January 2009 (FY2009), a decrease of 9.8% compared to FY2008. The operating loss of the company was $9.9 million in FY2009, as compared to operating loss of $17 million in FY2008. The net loss was $30.4 million in FY2009, as compared to net loss of $41 million in FY2008. Scope of the Report * Provides all the crucial information on Pep Boys - Manny, Moe & Jack, The required for business and competitor intelligence needs * Contains a study of the major internal and external factors affecting Pep Boys - Manny, Moe & Jack, The in the form of a SWOT analysis as well as a breakdown and examination of leading product revenue streams of Pep Boys - Manny, Moe & Jack, The * Data is supplemented with details on Pep Boys - Manny, Moe & Jack, The history, key executives, business description, locations and subsidiaries as well as a list of products and services and the latest available statement from Pep Boys - Manny, Moe & Jack, The Reasons to Purchase * Support sales activities by understanding your customers' businesses better * Qualify prospective partners and suppliers * Keep fully up to date on your competitors' business structure, strategy and prospects * Obtain the most up to date company information available For more information or to purchase this report, go to: - www.fastmr.com/prod/50045_pep_boys_manny_moe_jack_the_swot_analy .. Report Table of Contents: This product typically includes the following sections: SWOT COMPANY PROFILE: Pep Boys - Manny, Moe & Jack, The Key Facts: Pep Boys - Manny, Moe & Jack, The Company Overview: Pep Boys - Manny, Moe & Jack, The Business Description: Pep Boys - Manny, Moe & Jack, The Company History: Pep Boys - Manny, Moe & Jack, The Key Employees: Pep Boys - Manny, Moe & Jack, The Key Employee Biographies: Pep Boys - Manny, Moe & Jack, The Products & Services Listing: Pep Boys - Manny, Moe & Jack, The Products & Services Analysis: Pep Boys - Manny, Moe & Jack, The SWOT analysis: Pep Boys - Manny, Moe & Jack, The *Strengths: Pep Boys - Manny, Moe & Jack, The *Weaknesses: Pep Boys - Manny, Moe & Jack, The *Opportunities: Pep Boys - Manny, Moe & Jack, The *Threats: Pep Boys - Manny, Moe & Jack, The Company View: Pep Boys - Manny, Moe & Jack, The Top Competitors: Pep Boys - Manny, Moe & Jack, The Location and Subsidiary: Pep Boys - Manny, Moe & Jack, The *Head Office: Pep Boys - Manny, Moe & Jack, The *Other Locations and Subsidiaries: Pep Boys - Manny, Moe & Jack, The About Datamonitor The Datamonitor Group is a world-leading provider of premium global business information, delivering independent data, analysis and opinion across the Automotive, Consumer Markets, Energy & Utilities, Financial Services, Logistics & Express, Pharmaceutical & Healthcare, Retail, Technology and Telecoms industries. Datamonitor's market intelligence products and services ensure that you will achieve your desired commercial goals by giving you the insight you need to best respond to your competitive environment. View more research from Datamonitor at www.fastmr.com/catalog/publishers.aspx?pubid=1002 About Fast Market Research Fast Market Research is an online aggregator and distributor of market research and business information. We represent the world's top research publishers and analysts and provide quick and easy access to the best competitive intelligence available. For more information about these or related research reports, please visit our website at www.fastmr.com or call us at 1.800.844.8156. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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