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Before comparing stacked vs unstacked insurance coverage, it helps to clarify the terms. Stacked insurance is one method to increase the coverage for injuries caused by an underinsured or uninsured motorist. Approximately 20 states allow the stacking of car insurance coverage, so if you want to exercise this option, then you need to check if your state allows it and if there are any limits in coverage that may arise as a result.
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Stacked coverage can only apply if there is more than one car covered. By stacking insurance, you can take advantage of increased underinsured and uninsured motorist bodily injury coverage for all cars under your policy.
What Is Auto Insurance Stacking?
Auto insurance stacking is the combining of coverage for underinsured and uninsured motorist bodily injury if you have multiple cars. By combining coverage, you are able to substantially increase your insurance company's payment limits should you be involved in an accident with an uninsured motorist. For example, if you had $50,000/$100,000 coverage and decided to exercise the stacking option for a second car, stacked coverage for both cars would be $100,000/$200,000 (existing coverage times two cars). With three cars, the coverage would increase to $150,000/$250,000 and so forth for additional vehicles.
Unstacked Insurance
With multiple cars on a policy, you do not have to stack the coverage. As in the above example, each car would be covered at $50,000/$100,000 individually. No matter how many cars you have on the policy, the amount of coverage for each one stays the same. The benefit to this is that it will save you money on premiums as stacking carries a heavier fee. However, if you were to try to increase the coverage level of each car to the amount the stacked coverage would be, you'd find it more expensive and more complicated than stacking.
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When Is Stacking Allowed?
Stacking insurance coverage only applies to the uninsured and underinsured motorist bodily injury coverage on your auto policy.
Additionally, stacked coverage is not allowed in every state. If it is available, your insurance company will require you to specifically request it as part of your coverage. Most people find out about stacking when their auto insurance agent asks them to check the box requesting stacking as they review the application.
Advantages of Stacking Auto Insurance
The primary benefit to stacking auto insurance is that if you have multiple cars, it allows you to substantially increase your policy payment limits for uninsured and underinsured bodily injury. As you add coverage for two or three or more cars, those policy benefits can become significant.
If you are involved in a serious accident with an underinsured or uninsured motorist, these additional policy limits can increase your ability to cover any damages or medical expenses related to the accident for yourself or passengers. If the person responsible for the accident does not have enough coverage, having stacked coverage can help close the gap between their coverage and the coverage you have available with your own policy.
Disadvantages of Stacking Auto Insurance
While stacking auto insurance benefits for uninsured and underinsured bodily injury can result in substantial benefits for consumers, stacking does pose a danger for the auto insurance industry as a whole.
When uninsured and underinsured bodily injury coverage was first proposed, the industry did not anticipate the ability to stack coverage for several cars into combined higher coverage limits. As more and more states have come to allow stacking, payouts for claims have the potential to be much higher than originally intended. As a result, there is the potential danger that insurance companies will attempt to recoup their losses by raising premiums for stacked coverage high enough to outweigh the benefit for consumers.
One of the arguments that the insurance industry makes against stacking is that coverage limits are too high and result in loss of profits for them. Unfortunately, if this is the case, then the danger may indeed be that stacking will result in higher uninsured and underinsured bodily injury premiums for everyone. Alternatively, there may be a push to eliminate this type of optional coverage altogether, especially since all states, except New Hampshire, now have mandatory insurance coverage requirements.


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The Maryland Public Policy Institute
From the MPPI Press:
I'll Never Forget It
Memoirs of a Political Accident from East Baltimore
By Marvin Mandel with Jeremy Lott
Published on Monday, May 3, 2010
In this frank and unadorned memoir, Maryland Governor Marvin Mandel leads us through the story of his life, from his childhood in East Baltimore to his baseball days at the University of Maryland, to law school, the House of Delegates, and the governor's office. Mandel explains how a combination of conviction and serendipity landed him in some quite intriguing situations. Marylanders can now have a more intimate look at this fascinating life.Read More »
Maryland: A Guide to the Issues
Second Edition
Edited by Alison Lake
Published on Thursday, August 31, 2006
The Maryland Public Policy Institute is pleased to announce the release of the second edition of Maryland: A Guide to the Issues. Written by some of the region's top policy experts, this book provides careful analysis of many of the key issues that now confront the state. From education to transportation, to health care to tax and spending issues and public safety, each of these policy issues require and demand a well-informed debate among lawmakers who determine solutions that guide Maryland. We hope that the Guide will advance discussion of those issues and inspire effective policy responses.Read More »
School Choice for Maryland
A Guide for Families and Voters
Edited by Alison Lake
Published on Tuesday, August 1, 2006
This School Choice for Maryland handbook is written to inform Maryland parents and taxpayers and help give them the tools they need to benefit from the school choice revolution—a movement where, thus far, Maryland has been left behind. My hope is that this handbook will help Marylanders begin a conversation about how we too can benefit from embracing policies that give parents more options for how to educate their children. The more we know and understand about school choice opportunities that currently exist in our country, the better able we will be to call for these options in the Old Line State. We Marylanders owe present and future generations of children the best opportunities possible through our public school system and elsewhere. As you read this handbook, please consider what kind of education your child is receiving, and if you are satisfied with what is being delivered in your district. I thank you for taking the time to read School Choice for Maryland and look forward to having you join the conversation.Read More »
21st Century Highways
Innovative Solutions to America's Transportation Needs
By Wendell Cox , Ronald D. Utt Ph.D., Alan Pisarski
Published on Friday, December 9, 2005
Launched in 1956 to build America's interstate highway system, today's federal highway program suffers from an identity crisis, according to a new book by the Heritage Foundation and the Maryland Public Policy Institute. In Chapter 9, "Maryland Transportation: Problems and Solutions," Peter Samuel examines highway transportation and mass transit in Maryland.Read More »
Health Care in Maryland: A Diagnosis
Edited by Alison Lake
Published on Monday, April 18, 2005
Health Care in Maryland: A Diagnosis examines crucial issues affecting Maryland's health care environment and offers fresh solutions to those problems.Read More »
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Defense and national security initiatives long championed by Senator Jim Webb will be advanced by numerous provisions adopted in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2013. The bill was reported out unanimously by the Senate Committee on Armed Services (SASC) yesterday and goes to the full Senate for consideration.
"As chair of the Personnel Subcommittee, I am gratified by the strong bipartisan support the committee demonstrated for the many important personnel measures contained in my subcommittee's markup," Senator Webb said. "Overall, the bill will sustain important quality-of-life programs for our people and their families, address the needs of our warfighters, and sharpen the Defense Department's proper focus on advancing our national-security interests in the Pacific Region. Other provisions also will strengthen the Department's stewardship of taxpayer dollars."
Personnel Provisions
The Committee's markup agreement would authorize a 1.7 percent across-the-board pay raise for all members of the uniformed services, matching the annual increase in the Employment Cost Index. It also establishes a Commission to review military pay and benefits, including the retirement benefit. The NDAA blocks a controversial proposal by the Department of Defense to establish enrollment fees for TRICARE Standard and TRICARE for Life, or to increase TRICARE deductibles or the annual catastrophic cap. Following Senator Webb's strong opposition last year to proposed increases in health care fees for military retirees, the 2012 defense bill limited the annual increases of TRICARE Prime enrollment fees to the amount equal to the percentage increase in retired pay beginning October 1, 2012, which was lower than the administration's original proposal. During a March 2012 Armed Services hearing, he demonstrated how the proposed increases would affect retirees at different income levels and warned about how such changes would be viewed by those currently serving in the military.
"As someone who grew up in the military and served in the military, I start from the presumption that lifetime health care for career military personnel is part of a moral contract between our government and those who have stepped forward to serve," said Senator Webb. "By rejecting these shortsighted and unfair new enrollment fees for TRICARE programs, the committee upheld this moral contract with our men and women in uniform, their families, and military retirees."
Provisions for Realignment of U.S. Forces in East Asia and the Pacific
The NDAA includes several provisions championed by Senator Webb regarding the realignment of U.S. military forces in East Asia to ensure a strong presence in the region, while reducing costs and impact on local communities. Last year, Senator Webb drafted a set of basing recommendations that resulted in several major reporting provisions being incorporated in the 2012 NDAA and signed into law. Subsequently, the United States and Japan adopted major adjustments this year for the realignment of U.S. forces.
Senator Webb's recommendations were based on his long-standing interaction with the Pacific region that spans more than 40 years, including service as a Marine Corps infantry officer during the Vietnam war, a defense planner who wrote a region-wide facilities analysis for the Governor of Guam in 1974, a Department of Defense official whose responsibilities included evaluating mobilization scenarios for Secretary of Defense Weinberger, and a writer and journalist who has spent a great deal of time in Asia. As chairman of the East Asian and Pacific Affairs Subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Webb has visited East and Southeast Asia regularly during his time in the U.S. Senate.
The 2013 NDAA restricts funds to implement the Department of Defense's revised basing realignment until: (1) the Commander of the U.S. Pacific Command provides an assessment of the strategic and logistical resources needed to ensure the lay-down meets contingency operations plans; (2) the Secretary of Defense submits master plans for construction of facilities and infrastructure, including description of costs and schedules; (3) the Secretary of the Navy submits a plan for proposed investments and schedules to restore facilities and infrastructure at the Marine Corps base at Futenma; and (4) a plan coordinated by all federal agencies is submitted detailing work, costs, and schedule for completing construction, improvements, and repairs to non-military facilities and infrastructure on Guam affected by the realignment.
The NDAA expresses the Senate Armed Services Committee's unwillingness to authorize funding for realignment plans until it is provided details needed to assess the strategic impact, feasibility, and affordability of the lay-down's initiatives. The Government Accountability Office was directed to report on all costs of the realignment by March 1, 2013.
The NDAA also calls for a timeline for the identification of alternatives to the proposed replacement of Marine Corps Air Station Futenma with a new facility at Camp Schwab in Henoko, including the reconsideration of existing military air bases and other airport facilities in the area, in order to allow for prudent and critical investments in the current Marine Corps air station.
"The success of U.S. diplomatic, economic, and military relationships in Asia is guaranteed by the stability our forward-deployed military forces provide and by our continuing close alliances in the region," said Senator Webb, who has visited Okinawa three times in as many years, most recently in April 2012. "The failure to resolve a 15-year dispute surrounding U.S. military bases in Okinawa has resulted in a volatile political debate in Japan. It is in our national interest that this matter be resolved both quickly and smartly, for the well-being of our alliance and the stability of the region."
Wartime Contracting Reform Provisions
The NDAA includes seven major provisions on wartime contracting drawn from legislation introduced earlier this year by Senators Webb and Claire McCaskill, and from recommendations by the U.S. Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan--an independent, bipartisan panel Senators Webb and McCaskill created through legislation introduced in 2007.
Included in these provisions is a requirement for DOD to prescribe in regulations the chain of authority and responsibility for policy, planning and execution of contract support for overseas contingency operations. It requires consideration of contract support for contingency operations in the DOD readiness reporting system, the contingency planning functions of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the curriculum for joint professional military education and the DOD structure for management of contract services. Another provision requires DOD to perform a comprehensive risk assessment and develop a risk mitigation plan for operational political risks associated with contractor performance of critical functions--including private security functions, training of foreign government personnel, and intelligence and information operations--in support of an overseas contingency operation.
"While recognizing the important work that has been done by the great majority of our wartime-support contractors, these provisions will improve government oversight, management, and accountability in the contracting processes, where past failures resulted in unacceptable costs, excessive waste, and substandard performance in far too many areas," said Senator Webb.
In addition, the NDAA includes provisions, which will directly benefit Virginians, including:
Rejecting DOD's request for two BRAC rounds in FY13 and FY15;
Repealing flawed provisions in the FY12 NDAA relating to depot-level maintenance retroactive to date of enactment; this will benefit Virginia's shipbuilding and ship-repair industries and workers;
Funding 10 U.S. Navy ships, with advance procurement funding authorized to support buying an additional Virginia-class submarine in FY 2014, and a 10-ship, multi-year procurement contract for DDG-51 guided-missile destroyers that should generate enough savings to purchase an added ship in FY 2014; and
Transferring land from Fort Lee to Petersburg National Battlefield.
Senator Webb concluded by saying, "This is last defense authorization bill that I will help to develop as a member of the Armed Services Committee. During my tenure, I believe the Personnel Subcommittee has produced legislation that has significantly enhanced the quality of life of our active duty, National Guard, and Reserve members, DOD civilian personnel, and their families who stand by them. I have fought to restore proper rotational policies for our troops and to ensure that all those who serve receive fair and adequate compensation, benefits, and the world-class health care they have earned."
Senator Webb is also the author of the Post-9/11 G.I. Bill, which provides those who have served since 9/11 the most comprehensive educational benefits since World War II. To date, Post-9/11 G.I. Bill benefits have been awarded to more than 700,000 veterans.
Source: http://webb.senate.gov/newsroom/pressreleases/2012-05-25.cfm


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Former JLS member JB Gill "they could always pick me" to be an X Factor judge
Singer seemingly fancies a spot on the judging panel alongside Cheryl Cole and Simon Cowell
The X Factor judging panel is still two judges short for this year's show – and former JLS star JB Gill fancies taking a seat alongside confirmed judges Simon Cowell and Cheryl Cole.
JB found fame on the X Factor in 2008 with JLS when the four-piece boy band took second place to Alexandra Burke. The band has since split, with JB making a move into farming. Although it looks like he's still just as excited about the music industry.
Speaking to RadioTimes.com at last night's X-Men: Days of Future Past premiere, he says of the remaining judging spots, "They could always pick me."
JB isn't the first former X Factor contestant mentioned in the same breath as the judging panel. Olly Murs, who auditioned in 2009, was an early name on people's lips after he joined Gary Barlow as a guest judge in last year's series. Having also presented ITV2 spin-off show Xtra Factor, Murs certainly knows his way around the X Factor show.
Murs has said, "I could be the new Louis Walsh".
Although perhaps Alexandra Burke could be considered the contestant that's got closest to the job, standing in for a poorly Kelly Rowland on the live shows in 2011.
There is around three weeks until the first filmed auditions are due to start in the intimate closed room format. So it won't be long until we find out for sure who the panel will be. Perhaps it's time to give Mr Cowell a call, JB?


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Copenhagen, Denmark
Shee hall table has two small storage units and an extra place for disposing often used items. It is a piece of furniture with cylinder legs made of solid wood, while the upper part – used for storage is made of MDF and plywood as door fronts. The additional plate for frequently used items is made of coated aluminum. It is placed on the two front legs and as brakes, which hold it on a determined spot, are used two steel rings.
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Sarah Thomas
The Rocks
Published: January 25 2013 - 3:00AM
Ash Grunwald is a singular talent in every sense of the word.
Aside from his unique mix of grinding blues, roots and funk peppered with hip-hop and dance beats and a voice wielding such power it could fell buildings, on stage he's a one-man band who sounds like a rockin' ensemble.
Playing up to 100 gigs in 2012 following his sixth studio album, Trouble's Door, Grunwald says it was his best tour yet as, while he's mixed things up by playing with a backing band in the past, he returned to flying solo.
''Those gigs were really important to me,'' he says from his home near Brunswick Heads. ''I probably appreciated it more than I've ever appreciated it because I had been doing band stuff for two or three years before that. I found my roots and the gigs felt very celebratory and it was kind of marking my 10th year in the business and touring and stuff. Something just clicked.''
On stage he sits at a drum kit that he works with his feet, on his lap is a guitar accompanied by numerous pedals to replicate notes four or five times through different amps, a computer triggers loops, and more filters and effects are worked with a wireless foot pedal.
''What I've done is years and years of geeking out and very nerdy kind of things,'' the 36-year-old says. ''So when I'm on stage I can lose myself and make a vast array of sounds and not have to think about it at all.
''I've refined it down to being intuitive now. I don't want to be on stage thinking about anything at all really; I just want to be playing and hearing what's being played and just be in the moment.''
Grunwald will be performing at the free Festival of the Voice on Australia Day in The Rocks, alongside another singular voice, Gurrumul, and Darwin electronic duo Sietta at Dawes Point Park (Hickson Road), with Tin Sparrow, the Preatures and more rocking out at First Fleet Park.
''Being billed with Gurrumul is an amazing thing for me,'' Grunwald says. ''We had his CD on when our daughter was born [he has a four-year-old daughter, and a new baby on the way in March with wife Danni]. He's an amazing talent, so yes, it will be really cool.''
The creative director of the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority, Michael Cohen, says the festival is focused on great Australian voices.
''The idea of sitting in the shade of the Harbour Bridge, looking out at the harbour and the Opera House and listening to Gurrumul as the sun goes down and then listening to Ash Grunwald to give it that party vibe to finish off, for me I can't think of a more beautiful way to spend Oz Day evening,'' Cohen says.
Of the overall event, which also includes homeless charity Sydney Street Choir performing in the laneways and a karaoke stage with an Aussie favourites playlist, Cohen says the winning combination is the event's diversity.
''You want something that will really pull people in all sorts of different directions, so it's about distinctive voices,'' he says. ''We're a really diverse society, so that's what we're shooting at.''
Saturday, from noon, various venues in The Rocks including First Fleet Park and George Street. Ash Grunwald is on the Harbour Song Stage at Dawes Point Park at 7pm, free. For the full program, see therocks.com.
This story was found at: http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/rockin-out-at-brthe-rocks-20130123-2d818.html


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I thought after Kona that my season was done, but when PIC told me that she was going to race Austin 70.3 I wanted to join in. I was in no way ready for this race specifically. I mean, I had more fruity drinks than workouts by the time I stepped on the line. It was a swan song. Just one more for fun.
PIC and I had way too much fun in Austin. We saw Punky in the airport before we left Denver, and we ate at this really good co-op on our first day there. We had burgers, and fries, and they were awesome. It was freezing outside and the weather seemed to get colder as the trip went on. We drove the course, partially in the dark, stopped for popsicles and junk food and ate it all. I had this chocolate banana mexican popsicle that was to die for, and slightly suspect.
We checked into our hotel and it was totally seedy. I think there was a fair amount of drugs being sold in the hallway that evening, and PIC and I spent the hours of 3-5am huddled together in bed thinking we were going to die. I can't imagine the quantity of drugs you can buy with 2 fully decked out Quintana Roo CD0.1s. Needless to say, we lived through it (barely) and we let out a huge sigh and awww when we checked into the Hilton the following day (you try fitting two built up bikes, two empty bike boxes, lots of luggage, and two women into a Nissan Altima...no easy task). Lunch with Brian was awesome, it's been years since the three of us have all been together and was great to catch up.
On race morning, which was so cold I had on every single piece of clothing I brought on top of one another, my main concern was thorns. My transition spot was a bed of those kinds of thorns that are multisided and evil. One step and my Uggs were loaded with them.
The transition was a "clean transition." That was said to us over and over. I knew my tires were good and that I would carry my bike to the mount line, it was my feet I was worried about. They wouldn't let me put a towel down. I asked, I begged, I gave sad eyes to the cute guy, nope, he was unyielding. I thought about getting an official but decided to not clip my shoes in my pedals and to just wear them through T1.
After setting up T1 we nestled ourselves into one of the cabs of the rented Rider trucks that Ironman had. Nobody ever knew, it was our secret hideaway. The water temp was like 30 degrees warmer than the air so the cold temps actually were fine during the swim.
I swam as best I could, tried to stay on feet, got a bit muddled at the end, but felt good about it. AND, I really enjoyed it. I was warm and it was a wave start so I didn't get beat to smithereens, which was so relaxing compared to Kona.
I ran to my bike, put a coat on, and started to put my shoes on. I had to wipe 20+ thorns out of each foot. They were in deep. I carried my bike out, mounted and got out of there.
I started in the next to last wave so I had a blast out there. I got to pass lots of people all day and I totally totally loved the course. It was cold when I started and my legs were quite chilly, but they warmed up about 10 miles in and I just had fun. I rode hard, but it felt good to ride hard. I just gave it what I had, and didn't worry about much else.
Into T2 I threw on the Newtons and went running. 1 mile in I pulled off my HR strap and shoved it down my pants. I just ran by feel, as hard as I could, but I enjoyed myself as well. I found a guy at one point that had a metronome. I asked him what it was set to and he said 89. I run a pretty natural 90, so I had a blast running with him and marching to the beat of his little beep. I'm not sure one of those things would make me any faster, but it was fun for a few miles.
At one point he said "I just did IM Louisville a few weeks ago" and I retorted "Oh yea, I just did Kona" and I felt immediately bad. I even said "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to rain on your parade." I didn't at all mean it to come off as arrogant, I just meant to imply that we had something in common. Total dumb bunny move there and I felt bad the rest of the day over that one.
I really liked the course. It was three loops, but not boring loops, they were exciting and I really enjoyed myself. But my feet hurt and I couldn't understand why. My heels and the balls of my feet were so sore and my Newtons never make me sore. Come to find out after the race it was the remnants of the 20+ thorns in my feet that made that pain. Talk about a prickly situation (bada-boom).
The Mile High Multisport crew was out there cheering and they made me feel like a queen the 6X I saw them out there. They cheered for me like Troy cheers for me, and I tried hard to smile every time I saw them.
The finish line was a total blast, it's inside the arena. I was glad to make it to the line, as I am every race. I had no idea what my placing or time or anything was, but I did know that I enjoyed the race and it reminded me of how I felt when I first got in the sport. Just happy to be able to race my heart out for the sheer reason of physical movement. Michelle and I have agreed that we can't ever race it again. They temps were in the 60s and this race is usually in the 90s. We had the perfect day, and don't dare temp fate. One and Done! This is probably one of my favorite pictures of all year. I love PIC.
Michelle and I both ended up 2nd in our AG. The lady who won mine was not only drop dead gorgeous, but out swam, out biked, and out ran me, was so far ahead I didn't know she existed, and put out a stellar performance (maybe? who knows how she felt, but she dominated for sure). I look forward to following her from here on out. The other lady on the podium at the awards was a Nun. Rad.
The weekend was topped off with a few drinks with Jess Smith and friends and some damn fine TexMex. Michelle and I went for ice cream, and then snuggled the night away before a 6am flight...which I slept through.
And with that, I officially put a cap on the 2012 season. It's time for some time away. The Garmin has been put away for good, and my bike is still in the box. I don't know what the future holds, but I'm not that concerned.


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A new NHS telephone service is launching in Wandsworth which will provide advice for patients.
The NHS 111 pilot is starting in Wandsworth later this year with care provider Harmoni selected to handle the service.
NHS 111 aims to make it easier for people to access non emergency local health services.
Patients calling the service will be assessed, given advice and directed to the most appropriate service that can help them.
It will be open 24 hours a day and is free to call from landline and mobile numbers.
The service will initially only be accesible to Wandsworth residents, but will be rolled out across England by April 2013. The service was successfully launched in Croydon in March this year.
Dr Tom Coffey, NHS 111 clinical lead for NHS Wandsworth said: "The NHS 111 service is vital to the development of a sustainable local urgent care system for Wandsworth."
"Harmoni bring with them a wealth of experience from other pilot areas and a real commitment to providing local residents with a high quality service."
Andrew Gardner, chief executive of Harmoni, said: "I am absolutely delighted that we have been successful in our bid to provide the NHS 111 pilot service in Wandsworth.
"We are committed to providing the residents of Wandsworth with a reliable NHS 111 service and working with the local community to develop the service over the next two years."


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Hello, I'm currently learning html > css > php and mysql > javascript/jquery/mootools specifically in that order.
I think I have sufficient knowledge in html and css to move onto php. Whichis why I bought roughly 10 different php books, and signed myself up to lynda.com to watch their video series (essential training).
This means I've learn't the following (roughly, though the light-bulb moment still hasn't happened yet):
Using PHP and HTML interchangeably Using phpinfo(), and understanding all the parameters displayedThe famous Hello World!Adding Comments i.e // /* */ hash key doesn't work on my keyboard VariablesVariable variablesStringsArraysMulti-dimensional ArraysFunctionsValidationsError CheckingLoops
And all that good stuff....
So far this has been learnt from online tutorials, going through roughly now 7 chapters of the book "Friends of ED, PHP Solutions - Dynamic Web Design Made Easy" and first few chapters of the lynda.com video series (just so you can get an idea of what I should know)
I've only been at this 4-5 days so it has been a lot to digest, but I found looking at code that I didn't understand, reading it all, going back to earlier chapters to brush up on certain things gave me clearer understanding and then the "Aha!" moment.
The problem is, I think I would progress much better knowing the answer to my specific question (and I think I may know it, but I need it explained). But the way I'm going to ask it isn't going to be short or simple at all, if anyone is willing to then answer a dummies question, I'd be forever indebted to you. I'm learning PHP first as a hobby, and a new found love for programming (scripting?), second to be able to develop solutions that I'm continuously tired of employing others to do, or buying products to achieve it, and then my most distant objective is to freelance (why not put your eventual knowledge to good use right?).
Right, first to get the skeletal part of the question out of the way:
I keep thinking that a site with PHP scripts need to all interact with each other in some way, thus meaning you have to specifically know in what order they go, for example:
Let's say a user first has to log-in (for our sake, let's say it is an E-commerce website), on login they get their details displayed somewhere on the page they are currently on (usually on the far top right in the header), and then they can also go to an accounts page to change info. Then the site has a script for validating user registration, logins and also sessions timers (don't know what to call it) so that users are logged out if left inactive for a while (no risk of others using their account). A shopping cart also exists and a few other features like a cms and so forth...
Would all these things have to go in a specific order, and do they have to somehow connect as one block of code, or can they go anywhere in the page (assuming order from top to bottom, if infact it does need ordering)?
Now, let's use a real world example so you understand my question in more depth. The site I'm going to use is specifically what I'm going to set myself as my first (and long-term project), mostly because it requires features that you can create independently and test them before adding them to a website (logging etc):
The websites are as following:
Games at King.com - Play Free GamesPlay Games Online For Cash - Solitaire, Bejeweled 2 and More Online Games - WorldWinner Cash Competitions on GSNPlay and Win Cash Games - Skill AddictionOnline Games and Free Online Games - GameDuell
but I'm only going to use one of them as an example, though they are pretty much in some way or another have the same features.
Questions will be dotted around this explanation just so you know. If I specifically would like an answer to something but it doesn't seem clear that I would like one, I will bold.
Starting with the website king.com,
the front page displays different things depending on whether a user is logged in. I suppose this is done with PHP? and if not that atleast asp or jsp or something?
For our sake, let's just say that it's done with php. Would this mean that you'd simply need an if statement to see whether a user is logged in or not, and if it results in false, the things that load are different to those if you were logged in.
For example, the right sidebar under the search bar displays as an advertisement if you are logged out, but if you are logged in it shows a user menu.
Under that if you are logged out it only shows you the games available under categories, and the jackpot for the top game in a category. If you are logged in, you instead get a whole host of other sidebars located to the right, with all games listed under each category showing the jackpot available for that game. Would these all have to go through the if statement individually or could they in some way be done in one go all together?
I think with that example in mind, you should get the type of question I'm trying to ask, which means looking at the different functions of a webpage top to bottom and asking whether they actually have to be performed in a specific order, do they have to be scripted individually, and does the block of code have to in some way connect with each other.
Aside from that question, I have one, maybe two more questions if you don't mind. The first I think has to do with both php and databases.
When a user logs in, on the top right they have a box showing amount of jewels, account balance, and a set of icons that label the following:
"My account page", a page different to the home page, sign-up and see what I mean.
"My Friends"
"My messages"
"My Games Page"
Let's consider the account balance and jewels first. This is only a guess, as I haven't move into the mysql chapters just yet. But is a database made with predefined fields? So under a users name there would be a field with jewels, and everytime a user did something to acquire more jewels, php would simply converse that to the database and update the amount of jewels a user has.
Does PHP simply go to the database, check under a users table, and look at the field jewels to grab the number of jewels that user has to display it on the page that user can see?
Guessing, if this is the case, the same would hold true for the account balance?
And would the same be for any currency, or features such as add friends etc?
Last question (I promise), a lot of wordpress themes only have 1 index.php file, yet they can create a ton of pages that can't be seen even if you log-in to your own ftp and check the public html folder. Is this because most wordpress themes layout is the same throughout most of its pages and the only thing that needs updating is the content displayed (images, text, links and so forth), and if so does that mean that all it does is communicate with a database to grab the content inserted to display?
Like a site such as [Play and Win Cash Games - Skill Addiction, when you click on my community for example, it sends you to [url=http://skilladdiction.com/blog/]Play and Win Skill Gaming - Blog](http://skilladdiction.com) but shows no extension, how is that?
I'll stop there, as I think I'm pushing it a bit I'm finding all this so fascinating yet frustrating because I feel if I knew some of these answers, a lot of the learning would come a lot easier to me.
For those who think, "who the hell is this kid and why is he asking so much as his first post", I think I, at the very least, owe you some form of background.
I've been using computers since I can remember (I'm 22), so definitely 12+ years, even back when we used floppy drives, and used windows prompt as an interface (I think that's it, I'm not really sure, as I was really young). My dad had a computer with a sports betting software that allowed him to compute several calculations. This was to bet on football teams winning, losing, and drawing in the league. Needless to say, he won quite consistently so the software can't of been that bad. Back in those days, the whole shadoodle would have been equivalent to a system worth several thousand (I think).
From there I developed a love for playing multiplayer games, and attended my first Local LAN party at the age of 15 (local meaning national really, but because this forum brings people from all walks of life, it can be considered local).
I became ridiculously good at playing games and became what is now called a PRO Gamer, earning money going to different tournaments and winning. I got sponsored by globally recognized brands such as Intel, AMD, EA GAMES, Razer, Puma, Addidas, Alienware (now DELL, so basically sponsored by DELL), and my most recently pleasing sponsor (LG), for sending me this great LG FLATRON W2252TQ, free of charge.
Though my most memorable sponsored product given to me was the XPS Gaming Laptop (I don't think this laptop needs any introduction ), though it had to be returned due to the ending of my contract, and unfortunately, my gaming career. Although I did get to keep a lot of sponsored gear, including my LG monitor which is great.
I made my yearly income doing this, and have till now enjoyed it as both a hobby and work. But I've now found another deep enthusiasm towards web development and design, and being the way I am, I become obsessive and spend a ill inducing amount of hours dedicating my time towards it (mostly because I refuse to be "just alright at something", I have to be the best, damn I'm competitive).
That, in a nutshell, is me.
My name is Jason, and anyone wanting to check out some of my gaming history can check under this username. I look forward to p*ssing incredible amounts of people of with my bombardment of questions, but on a serious note, I hope to both learn and teach eventually
Thanks, and till next time, or atleast until someone replies
Is the first set of questions.
I'm having trouble finding out what you're asking. Post a new post with ONLY the questions in it.
Sorry if posting directly after is not allowed (mostly due to bumping, but this is to segregate my questions a little)
This is the next block of questions:
Like a site such as Play and Win Cash Games - Skill Addiction, when you click on my community for example, it sends you to Play and Win Skill Gaming - Blog but shows no extension, how is that?
Is the 3rd section of my questions. Most of it is the same question, but I repeat it in other forms because I type too much and don't know when to stop
And that's it, these are the 3 sections in which I ask a few questions, though probably hard to understand what I'm trying to ask because I babble on too much
It can be done in any programming language, Python, Php, Ruby, and all other server side languages.
if ($logged){
echo "Welcome back.";
} else {
echo "Please login.";
if logged do
print "Welcome back."
print "Please login."
The account balance and jewels is stored in the same database table that stores the user information, the user table. The other tables such as messages and friends have a column called userid.
Many cms scripts use what's called a front controller which means that EVERY single page goes through index.php. It's the role of Apache extension mod_rewrite to rewrite the url, to give it a mask. Just like how the Sitepoint forum doesn't have a real folder called php-34, although on Wordpress you can use 2011/03, in the url, chopping off the post title, and see the archives. The url's are a trick, internet noobs think the real folder exists but it really doesn't.
If you cannot ask 3 simple questions without convoluting up a thread, you probrably shouldn't be learning to code.
When information needs to be passed between web pages you would use a session to keep track.
From your description of what you are trying to do it sounds like you are trying to start with one of the more complex things that you would do with PHP. You should start out with trying to learn the simpler things that work within a single web page and only once you get that all figured out move on to where your scripts start interreacting between pages.
There are two main ways all the components on all the pages you're looking at are connected. I think once you know that the majority of your questions will answer themselves.
1) Sessions. Sessions are a way to store information about the people currently using your website. When you visit any of these websites and log in, they start a session for you and write some data into the session to remember that you're logged in, like so:
$_SESSION['logged_in'] = true;
$_SESSION['username'] = "johnny";
When you start a session in PHP, PHP will generate a random unique identifier for that session, and send it to the browser as a cookie called PHPSESSID. At the same time, it creates a file on the server's hard disk linked to that identifier, and writes any data you save to the session into that file (the fact that the user has logged in, and their username, in the example).
Like all cookies, that cookie will be sent along with every subsequent request to webpages on the same domain until the cookie's expiration (which for session cookies is set to "this session", i.e. until the next time the browser window is closed). PHP will see this cookie and when you type session_start() in your code, automatically load the associated session file off the disk and restore all the data you saved about that person into the array $_SESSION for you to use again.
2) Databases. As you surmise, things like a user's login details and profile, and how many jewels they've earned playing games, are stored in a database. Typically it's a relational database like SQL Server, MySQL or Postgres. The types of data you're going to store and the relationships between it are all predefined before you start storing and retrieving anything from the database.
As an example, when a user fills in a login form, your PHP script will take the username and password provided by the form and use them to send a query to a database. You'll be asking the database if there are any records (rows in a table) with that username and password pair. If it responds that there is such a row, then you can "log in" the user by starting a session and storing the fact that the user is logged in into the session. All other pages of the site can now know the user is logged in, without checking the username and password again, by referring to the data in the session.
In this case the website is written with Java, but it's the same idea for whatever language is used.
if (isset($_SESSION['logged_in'])) {
//do something for logged in user
} else {
//do something different for not logged in user
There are many, many ways to end up with the same output. Exactly how a specific site did it only they know since you can't look at their source code.
They could have a separate "if" conditional at each point they display something different to logged in users or not. More likely they have a separate template for the whole page for logged in users and guests, and load the whole page appropriate to the current user.
I think you get the idea already, but there are ways to write things so that they have to be in specific order from top to bottom, and there are ways to write things so they are all independent. The way all your pages and all your bits of code within the same page communicate about a user are primarily sessions and databases.
Yes, that's right. There may or may not be a single field called "jewels"; they could also store how many jewels you earned in each game, and produce that single count on the webpage by adding them all up.
Essentially, yes.
Yes, the PHP code would query the database for the user's balance.
Yes. That index.php file is called a [front controller. The PHP code examines the URL the user typed and uses that to determine what template to use ([url=http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy]WordPress Template Hierarchy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_Controller_pattern)) and what data to ask the database for. It provides this data to the template file, which is also PHP code, that specifies where it should go.
There need not be any connection between HTTP request URIs (the part of the URL after the domain) and files on the server's hard drive. You can create any mapping between the two that you want. You can have requests to /blog execute spaghetti.php and requests to /forum served by steak.php, or send every request to cheese.php and have cheese.php decide what to display for that URL.
Most sites that are serving requests that don't map 1:1 to filenames use something like mod_rewrite. If you look in the .htaccess file of a WordPress blog installation, you'll see the "rewrite rules" used to send all requests that aren't for a static file to WordPress's index.php file.
Welcome to the SitePoint forums, Jason
That's unnecessarily rude and it seems obvious to me, reading Jason's post, that he is someone who will be excellent at programming.
I've been coding in php for years, and I've never used mod_rewrite, regex, or a front controller. Fegall is right.
Thank-you, you've answered 2 of my questions, though the examples above had nothing to do with what I was asking, and I know how to do them.
It's not that I can't condense what I want to say, but rather I don't stop myself from putting in as much description as possible.
The answer you gave me only validates what I already explained. I just needed clarification to know where I was right or not.
That's a bit harsh to say I shouldn't code, especially when I want to do it out of fun, and because I'm enjoying it
There is of course one example you did not answer, perhaps because my question was so long-winded that you missed it:
but here is a more "condensed version for you" :):
Do scripts have to go in a certain order on a page? i.e
A page that consists of a login form and other features. Do those have to go in a specific order?
Or does that only hold true if it has to happen on page load, or if to use one thing another thing must be declared?
I think I've answered my own question in the first post anyway. If I were logged in on king.com, and I clicked to the homepage, the code to figure out what elements of a page and data should be displayed would have to be executed first to figure out whether me being logged in is equal to true or false.
I don't think I'm not made for programming, or the fact that I like to write a lot means I can't do it that's blasphemy! Though I do welcome your input and help, do you really think I shouldn't program then? if only because I enjoy it?
My apologies, a ton of replies have appeared since my last post. Thank you for your help, and I will now continue to read them
Thank-you Dan, those are brilliant responses, and easy to understand too! Thank-you for the compliment too
Do scripts have to go in a certain order on a page?No. The only thing that should go at the top of a php page is the config.php file which connects to the database, starts the session and stuff; including class files, and then the code for logging in and out, as the setcookie() function requires that no output is echoed before that.
Apart from that, everything below setcookie() and config.php can go into any order.
Thank you.
By the way I use cookies for authentication (logging in) for my scripts. I have no need to use sessions, as using Opera web browser to change a cookie's value, won't be enough to hack into another user's account. The only ever time I've ever used sessions, is to for a shopping cart as I had to persistently store the basket data on the computer.
A session is normally just a cookie that stores a code that identifies a user as they move between pages. If someone has cookies disabled then a session passes the info in the addressbar instead.
I'm going through 10 books with practical exercises:
Building your own social networkBuilding a gallery and manipulating filesDealing with forms and bringing them to lifeFile uploadsManaging Files with phpSimple login with multi-page formsCMS in more detail and creating one Web based E-mailShopping CartWeb ForumsWeblogsUser AuthenticationUser Rating systemTrivia Game
And so forth. I don't know if those would be enough to begin to start having enough knowledge to build your own scripts (ableit simple ones), and then find ways to make them quicker, more secure and run more efficient overall with testing, asking questions and using other tutorials.
Apart from that it teaches date and time, OOP, templating, using Smarty and building PHP libraries and frameworks.
Which all sounds foreign at the moment so it has to be good
I just spent about 4 hours going over MYSQL yesterday, so now I'm as far as being able to create a database directly through MYSQL with the application CRUD, and have learnt finally (after being bedazzled for years as to what PHPMYADMIN was) to use the interface, and send, retrieve and modify data in a database.
I would hope after learning some of the above that I'd be somewhat capable (at the very least) of creating small scripts without the help of a tutorial or a ready made script, even if its really simple.
I really like the project I've set myself because if you take some of the functions of the website apart, they are based off things you are taught in these tutorials, like a login system, authentication, securing it better, adding more options to user accounts, and so forth.
This way I'd be able to create those things on their own in my own time, and as a final project later on in time, add those together to make the final piece.
Which means I'm learning to use photoshop a little too because I might want to begin to make my websites look a little more pleasing
Infact, here's my first ever attempt at creating something without following a tutorial:
Horrible right? I learnt a few things though that would help me to improve it ten-fold. I just wanted to see if I had it in me to create something simple, yet easy on the eyes and clean
*EDIT [B]It'll be interesting when the time comes to learn how to grab scores from flash games, display them according to rank on a page for each player, or store them into a database and retrieve/modify when needed.
That'll be fun, though I've heard this can be done with PHP/MYSQL and a little collaboration with the creator of the flash game.[/B]
That's good have fun.


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Just found this video. I'm assuming this is where the Granger trade idea came from. Skip to about the 2:12 mark.
Doesn't look like it's a real rumor or anything.
that plays a lot like an ESPN producer said "hey, trade deadline's this week. let's put together a spot showing how the Trade Machine works and get a bunch of traffic to the site."
Makes no sense for the Jazz..
Hayward would be perfect for our bench. As would Milsap. Frankly this trade is just a tease because it would make us clearly the best team in the East other than Miami and a front court rotation of West, Hibbert, Milsap, and Mahinmi would be absolute murder on the Heat.
The guy in the video pretty clearly said that this trade will probably not happen but they just used it as an example of what could happen as the trade deadline looms.
rather try and get bledsoe
Nothing wrong with Bledsoe, but I'd rather have the two guys from Utah - IF Millsap signs an extension.
Can Milsap signing an extension be part of the deal? Or is it required he have his free agency this summer?
I'd rather us try to get Bledsoe. Bledsoe>Hill IMO
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Pacers trade for Milsap and Hayward.
Flip Milsap + filler for Bledsoe + filler
if clippers go for granger, it would be bledsoe + someone else to make salaries work. if lac wanted a backup pg we can send them dj. i read where clippers fans are growing tired of caron butler so add him in and salaries would be pretty close.
bledsoe + butler for granger + dj + hans (if they wanted)
If we were to include DJ + Hans ($19,613,865) they would have to cut $7,379,215 off their books. So, they would need to add Lamar Odom as well to make the salaries work.
However, Danny Granger for Bledsoe + Butler + Trey Thompkins would work.
If were going to make such a deal I would look to include Orlando.
This works financially:
Pacers receives: Paul Millsap and JJ Redick
Utah receives: Danny Granger + Pacers 1st
Orlando receives: Gordon Hayward and Tyler Hansbrough
Obviously by making this deal were going all-in this year as both guys are free agents this summer and theres a good chance we won't be able to keep both. I think Orlando makes the deal. They are probably losing Redick for nothing this summer so getting Hayward on a rookie deal is a good return. Tyler is probably just a rental for them. Utah is the wildcard. If Danny was 100% healthy and had no knee concerns I think they make the deal but right now I doubt they go for it unfortunately.
If getting Bledsoe and butler meant taking on odom for a year I would be all in for that deal while only losing granger
Find the 10 differences :D
I still view Granger as the best offensive option of the package, so I still think it's good value for both teams. Wouldn't do it anymore though. We need the scoring and experience more than we need another very good allround wing who can score allright and Millsap is expiring and not that much needed with West here.


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suzstrn and o-glowI've used this product for a year now and can't say enough about it!It truely is a very natural -"just a bit flushed" look -something I love!Goes on very smooth,lasts all day for me!I play around with others from time to time but always go back to o-glow — 8 years, 12 months agosuzstrn | 1 reviews
Remember "mood lipstick"...now "mood" blush!I was quite intrigued by this product and had also received a special offer from my favorite store today- so it was hard to pass up trying this item (offer was get x amount of points to "spend" later). I get to the store and then asked about this product- it is more costly in Canada as well $34 plus 15% tax! As soon as I saw the Smashbox O Glow I was instantly reminded of the mood lipst...read moreicks that were supposed to change to an individual colour. I did notice that on the tester tube had some of the product on it and that without touching anyones skin the product was pink when exposed to air. That just lead me to think the product is definitely was more hype than anything. Still I like trying new blushes and was looking for a new product- so that fits the bill. — 9 years agoottawa00 | 22 reviews
Gimmick Gel BlushIf any of you are old enough to remember the first time "mood†lipsticks were introduced in the early 1980's you probably aren't reading this review or were smart enough to avoid this lame gimmicky "blush†from Smashbox. I am putting quote marks around the word blush when I refer to O-Glow "Blush†in this review because I don't consider it ...read moreBlush. It' more of a vile and wretched ooze that summons the evil mood lipstick nymphs of the 1980's to ruin your complexion. But I digress. I remember my first tube of that green waxy mood lipstick. It looked so "punk†(I being a suburban kid in the 80's wanted to be Punk Rock Oh so bad.) I bought it secretly so my mother wouldn't object…just like how I shaved the side of my head when she went out of town. What a rebel I was walking around the mall with half of my hair gone and combat boots purchased at the Army/Navy surplus store…but I digress again. I wanted to try this product when I saw it because I was feeling nostalgic. Perhaps it was the fact that I couldn't find it in stores or the fact that my Misfits CD had just gone missing but in a grasp to hold on to the warm and fuzzy teenage punk rock angst memories I clicked "complete order†and the "blush†was shipped to me the next day. I put a little bit of this clear gel on my cheeks and it immediately started to turn my skin a bright, gaudy, fuchsia pink. Eck! The only good thing about O-Glow is that it came off with a little makeup remover...which is more than I can so for those dang "mood†lipsticks from the 1980's. Those things were lip stain's evil twin! The fuchsia color clung to your lips like white on rice and wouldn't fade for two or more days. Chapped flakes of bright pink lip skin would remain on your lipsmackers tube for days after use. But I digress yet again. The gel was too watery and almost slid off of my face before I could rub it in. Perhaps it was trying to save me the shame of a fuchsia cheek but I think it's just a bad product. I gave this junk "blush†it to my niece as a big "phbbbtbtbtt†to my brother for making fun of my black khol eyes and shaved head whilst cracking my favorite Clash LP (The Clash first album- self titled) as he ripped it off of the record player to listen to *barf* Bruce Springsteen. Let's see HIS little girl walk around w/ "mood†cheeks & combat boots* for a change. So to bring back a catch phrase from the 80's "Just say NO†to O-Glow. It's a gimmick and not worth the HIGH price (financially and physically) I paid for this product. Oh and just so you know, red dye #27 is all that this "blush†has that makes it go from clear to crap…uh I mean pink. *Note: Combat Boots are no included with your purchase of O-Glow Blush. — 9 years agoPinkSith | 9 reviews
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I'm in the minorityBut I love this blush more than any other. In fact, I rarely wore blush until I found this one. Yes it's scary pink when you first get it out of the tube, but just a little blending and it's gorgeous. I think it DOES look different on different people too. — 4 years, 11 months agodellapina | 1 reviews
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Since I have a bit of a germ phobia these are a must have at a social gathering. They go around a wine glass and can be used in my case for remembering which wine is yours. You never know where ones mouth has been! You can also use these for wine tastings!


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Tesla Motors ( TSLA) edged higher Monday as its Model 3 unveiling draws closer this month. Netflix ( NFLX) got hit after a less-than-favorable analyst report. Facebook ( FB) gave Lyft more ammo in its fight against rival Uber. Google's ( GOOGL) cell phone service is no longer an invite-only affair. AMC ( AMCX) jumps after announcing a $500 million buyback program.
Tesla is distributing its official invites for its Model 3 unveiling, noting the Southern California event will take place on the evening of March 31. According to a posting of the invite, the company stated:
Congratulations again on winning tickets to our upcoming Model 3 unveiling! We appreciate your support and participation in our Referral Program.
We are excited to announce that the Model 3 unveiling will take place on the evening of Thursday March 31st in Southern California. As a reminder, you are permitted to bring one guest to the event and are responsible for the cost of travel, lodging and other incidentals.
At the top of the invite, however, it notes the event will be in LA, which is typically is the name folks use when referring to Los Angeles. For Tesla investors, this is the unveiling they have been waiting for because it holds out the hope that the high-end electric car manufacturer can go mainstream with its more affordable price Model 3.
The Model 3, which is expected to ship in late 2017, will carry a price of $35,000, compared with its more pricey Model S sedan that sells for $75,000 or Model X SUV that runs $80,000, before incentives for both models.
Tesla closed up 2.1% to end the day at $205.29.
Netflix took a beating after an ITG analyst issued a report that noted the streaming video company's 2016 domestic subscriber growth appear to high, according to a Forbes report.
Investors may be spooked because this same analyst in the last quarter of 2015 had predicted Netflix's domestic subscriber outlook may be weaker than what Wall Street was expecting. That turned out to be the case, with the company missing its domestic subscriber figures by a tad.
Despite ITG's prediction, other analysts at RBC Capital Markets and Pacific Crest feel more bullish about the company. On Friday, Netflix's shares advanced after RBC released survey results that showed a higher percentage are using Netflix to watch movies and TV shows than in November.
Netflix plunged 6% to finish the session at $95.49.
Alphabet's (GOOGL) Google made its Project FI cellular phone service available to users without having to score an invite, notes a TechCrunch report.


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Santos striker Neymar says he can imagine playing for Bayern Munich in the future.
The Bundesliga club became the centre of attention in January after they confirmed former Barcelona boss Pep Guardiola would be taking over from Jupp Heynckes at the end of the season.
And Neymar is the latest famous football figure to associate himself with the Bavarians.
"All leagues are interesting in the end, including the Bundesliga," he told German news outlet SID.
"Bayern are a big club with extraordinary players. Playing for Bayern is something I could imagine doing. There is nothing that speaks against this.
"(Bastian) Schweinsteiger is one of the best players I have ever seen. It is the basics that make him strong: his positioning, his passing and his presence on the field."
The 21-year-old defended his decision to remain at Santos for the short-term but reiterated his intention to move to Europe.
Although Barcelona and Real Madrid are the main candidates, he insisted a transfer to La Liga might not eventuate.
"I dreamed to play in Europe since I was a child, but it is important I feel good and adapt with the rest of the team," he said.
"(The transfer) doesn't have to be Spain necessarily."
Neymar was on the Ballon d'Or long-list this year but Cristiano Ronaldo, Andres Iniesta and (eventual winner) Lionel Messi were the trio that competed for the top prize.
And the Brazilian believes those three players are examples for other footballers to follow.
"Messi, Iniesta or Ronaldo are on another level," he said. "They are role models for us, on the field and as persons."
The Santos talent also revealed he is still trying to work on the weaker aspects of his game, as well as accepting that there is a lot of pressure on Brazil leading up to the World Cup in 2014.
"As host country we are under pressure, of course," he said. "But maybe our fans will help lead us to success at the World Cup in our own country.
"(To win it) we have to improve our link-up play, but I believe it will soon be better. Personally, I have to improve my heading, shooting and possession-play."


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He is blind but did not let that stop him from becoming one of KwaZulu-Natal's top matric achievers in 2009.
Tongaat's Nkosingiphile Nyanale, from Arthur Blaxall School in Pietermaritzburg, has emerged as one of the five top performing pupils from special schools in KZN.
What makes his achievement even more impressive is that the pupils at Arthur Blaxall write the same matric final exams as the pupils in normal state schools, even though Arthur Blaxall is classified as a "special school".
Nkosingiphile attributed his success to his grandmother, who raised him.
"I live with my grandmother," he said. "She has taken care of me since I was a year old. My mother died and I never knew my father. My grandmother is my guardian."
Nkosingiphile received As for Life Orientation, History and Religious Studies. He now intends to study law at the University of KZN.
He said he had never allowed his blindness to get him down.
"In fact it is what keeps me going," he said. "One must not allow one's disabilities to hamper one. One must overcome them and rise above them."
Nicholas Staden from Kenmont School on the Bluff said he had found a way to control his learning disability through sport.
Nicholas got two As, for Maths Literacy and Travel and Tourism. He said other pupils with learning disabilities should not let the disabilities stand in their way.
"I have a learning disability when it comes to reading and spelling," he said. "I was always very active and I had no place to channel that. So I got involved in sports to help me focus, and that worked."
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A year ago a group of Watford fans discussed the prospect of creating a new singing section aimed at improving the atmosphere at Vicarage Road. Now The 1881 have more than 400 members and have raised – with the help of Watford Supporters Trust – around £4,000 to spend on banners and flags around the stadium.
The group was the idea of lifelong supporter Roy Moore and their influence at the Hornets stadium can be seen – and heard – at each match.
"We decided Watford FC needed more noise, more colour and more collectiveness within its support," Moore said.
"As the season has progressed, we believe we have had a positive impact on the atmosphere at Vicarage Road; not just in creating vibrancy and noise from within our area, but also encouraging others to join in, something we've always been just as keen to achieve."
The 1881 meet at The Railway Arms in Oxhey prior to each match as they attempt to find their voices before the 15-minute walk to the Hornets' stadium.
The money raised has been spent on a host of banners and flags and Moore said: "We've listened to the fans and taken on ideas, resulting in new chants to be sung plus flags and banners that have been added so we can really create a brilliant display for the players when they walk out of the tunnel."
The group has paid for a banner to be placed on the East Stand ahead of this weekend's match with Ipswich Town, thanking the club's owners, the Pozzos.
Moore explained: "We are fully supportive of the Pozzos and we'll always be 100 per cent behind the team, which is why we thought it would be a fitting tribute to create a banner for all to see."
The 1881 section are always looking to expand and have forged relationships with London-based fans of Borussia Dortmund and Greek side Aris, coinciding with other Watford FC fans' blogs and programme articles. Several are planning to attend matches before the end of the season.
Moore said The 1881 have a lot planned for the final two games of the season. He added the group are also contemplating creating the biggest surfer flag in the UK for the Rookery in the future, at 1,780 square metres.
"It is all very exciting and with this season reaching its end and the new one nearly upon us, we want fans to join our area to help take it to another level," Moore said.
"In terms of thinking ahead and plans for the future, we want to continue growing on what we already have, adding numbers and getting more and more people to join in with us.
"We're going to continue to meet at the pub before games if people want to join us, we'll be looking to help co-ordinate away days in a similar fashion and ultimately we want to inject colour and enhance the atmosphere."
The 1881 are hosting a barbecue at The Railway Arms after the final game of the season against Huddersfield Town on May 3, with Moore stating all Hornets fans are welcome to join the group at the event or in the matches in the meantime.
If interested in joining The 1881 singing section inside Vicarage Road, email your name and fan ID to email@example.com.


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ARGYLE TOWNSHIP – Barry F. Weed died Nov. 13, 2012, at his home. He was born Sept. 18, 1943, in Brewer, the son of Donald E. Weed and Arline Foster Weed.
Barry graduated from Old Town High School in 1963, attended the University of Maine and then enrolled in the Air Force. Barry met his wife, Vivien I. Weed, while in the service. They made their home in Connecticut and retired to Florida. Barry lived his life devoted to his family. He was a man of few words with a great sense of humor and with an eye to the nature of mankind.
Barry was predeceased by his father, Donald; his wife, Vivien; and his brother, Douglas E. Weed. Barry is survived by his mother, Arline Weed of Bangor; his son, Brian of Kent, Conn.; his daughter, Regina of Argyle; granddaughter, Tara of Argyle; grandson, Quinn Andrews of Texas; numerous nieces and nephews. Special thanks and appreciation to New Hope Hospice.
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'Yaumati' is inspired by Hong Kong's unique vernacular architecture. Named after a popular district in Hong Kong, it is one of the most densely populated areas in the world. Residents here ingeniously construct metal extensions to their cramped living spaces. The result is a wonderful patchwork of great individuality covering otherwise bland multi-story buildings.
Add a decorative accent to your kitchen by displaying these colourful, space-saving, stackable mugs featuring our signature prints. Made of fine bone china, each set comes with four cups and a metal rack.
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We've partnered with Roadtrippers to provide a great way to plan a trip around Oregon. So start planning your next road trip to here, there or pretty much anywhere in Oregon.
Oregon Spirit Distillers is a family operated distillery focusing on quality spirits that are produced with integrity and creativity. We practice sustainable operations using local ingredients whenever possible. We want our spirits to reflect the quality of life that Oregon stands for. At Oregon Spirit Distillers we produce our own mash, ferment it and distill it ourselves. We believe that's the way it should be done.
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QCI fails to connect to HP Quality Center 11 patch 9
Technote (troubleshooting)
IBM Rational DOORS Quality Center Interface (QCI) 22.214.171.124 fails to connect to HP Quality Center (QC) 11 patch 9, which is the QC 11 version with the QCCR1J22427 fix required by QCI. QCI was installed successfully per the installation instructions.
While creating a data connection for HP Quality Center 11, you get a "Data provider failed to initialize" error during the Test Connection step.
The ALM client is not registered.
This has been seen when integrating IBM Rational DOORS Quality Center Interface 188.8.131.52 with HP Quality Center 11.
Diagnosing the problem
If you are having this problem, you will not see errors in the Microsoft Windows Event Viewer or the TDIService.log file when you reproduce this problem. Most IBM Rational DOORS Quality Center Interface connection problems send errors to the Windows Event Viewer or the TDIService.log file, if not both.
Resolving the problem
To resolve this issue, please register the HP Quality Center 11 ALM client on the IBM Rational DOORS Quality Center Interface server. This procedure is documented in the Using Rational DOORS for HP Quality Center Interface Release 3.5.1 publication on pages. 65 - 66 (pp. 73 - 74 of PDF).
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Bridal Makeup
Every one of us wants to look good and we all go for extreme measures to look good. During our marriage we want to look even more beautiful. So it is common for brides to go for a hell of a make up. To look good the women go for bridal make up which is a specialized type of make up that will enhance your appearance at the wedding function. When all the guests turn up for the function the bride must look good and the bridal makeup adds to the beauty of the bride. Bridal makeup is completely different from the day to day make up which women go for.
On an average day a woman will go for a light lipstick, eyeliner and a face powder or cream. During the wedding she has to give layers of make up in order to look attractive. The guest center of attention becomes the bride so she has to be given a proper make up.
The basic makeup gives facial toning to the skin and along with facial toning she has to be given lotions to smoothen and soften her skin. The lotions are specialized to give the skin a fresh look. This is the base for the bridal makeup. After the initial set up of the makeup base the next thing which comes in line is the detailing. The details of the face have to enhance themselves. The face has to become bright and prominent. The detailing needs to be done in such a way that the flaws of the face are completely minimized from the onlooker's vision. The face has to be flawless. The basic concept is to highlight the areas of the face which are free from any flaws. If that is done properly then what happens is that the focus from the problem areas shifts to other areas. The aim of any make up artist is to conceal the flaws of the bride and enhance the beauty of the other areas so that she looks beautiful.
The make up should be done by a proper make up artist and only branded cosmetics should be used.


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Dr. Colbert announced that he will be bringing "The Colbert Report" to the Middle East, but was not permitted to disclose this sensitive information.
Please argue for and/or against the country you'd like to see Dr. Colbert visit.
- con see Iraq below
- pro only country listed actually adjacent to the Persian Gulf
- pro Michael Jackson should not be the biggest celebrity there
- con are you kidding?
con I thought Kuwait was IN iraq?
- con this sounds way too gay for Dr. Colbert to visit
- pro you can see Iran from here!
- con there is no way this is the name of a real country
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This weekend I'm visiting a friend I haven't seen in way too long! And I can't wait! However...I have a 10 miler on my schedule and she lives in Iowa. Which means, I have to run 10 miles in Iowa...by myself, when I'm used to running (at least long ones) with my running partner. I'm hopeful that I can be awesome, but man - cornfields are boring. I've planned my route, and a decent amount is through neighborhoods, but couldn't avoid the farmers. Boo. Ok, ok, being positive here... it should be warmer where she is than where I am and I get to see new scenery/a new route.
Wish me luck. And to all others doing long runs this weekend, good luck!


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NCRA puts a hold on maintenance shut down to meet customer needs.
McPHERSON, Kan. -- The National Cooperative Refinery Association (NCRA) announced it will delay its planned five-week October maintenance shut down in order to continue operating at full capacity during the current period of tight U.S. fuel inventories.
The 80,000 barrel-per-day Kansas refinery had been scheduled to curtail operations in October for a "turnaround," a period during which routine maintenance and equipment upkeep occurs.
The McPherson, Kan.-based refinery is part of a supply network reaching 1,500 locally owned co-ops and more than 1,100 convenience stores that serve farmers, ranchers and other consumers from the Great Lakes to the Pacific Northwest and from the Canadian border south to Texas.
"We believe it's in the best interest of our nation and its fuel consumers that we delay our turnaround and maintain full production at NCRA," said James Loving, NCRA president. "Conducting our turnaround at this time would take this refinery out of production for four to six weeks at a time when fuel inventories are projected to be at record low levels. Providing a dependable supply of refined fuels to our customers is critical at this time." Loving said the turnaround has been rescheduled for October 2006.
NCRA will continue with the final stages of completing and connecting its $300 million Clean Fuels project, which will allow it to produce ultra-low sulfur fuels for both on- and off-road diesel. U.S. refiners must reduce sulfur levels in diesel fuel from 500 parts per million to 15 parts per million by June 2006. To meet the ultra low sulfur requirements, NCRA has constructed the unicracker, a new hydrogen plant and additional sulfur handling capacity, and made modifications to existing process units.


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Kunming Cloudland International Youth Hostel
Run by some friendly inveterate backpackers, Cloudland is a solid place . The staff smilesand hustles and the rooms are bright and comfy (and everything is well kept). Wi-fi equipped.To get here from the Train Station,take city bus 64 and get off at the Yunnan Daily News stop (云南日报社
'our pick' by LONELYPLANET(2009)
'This hostel is absolutely charming, with staff that makes a tremendous effort for guests, Dorms are bright, spotless and modern' Recommend by LONELY PLANET(2007)
Dear Guessts: The '8 Bed Mixed Dorm ' is member price already (30 Yuan). So if you are member of YHA already. There is no more dicount when you check-in.And if you are a non-member that a small additional fee (surcharge) must be paid on arrival at the property. Thank you !
We only have 8 beds at specail rate for 30 RMB per day and only can get it on the internet .And schedule up to 5nights at most , so Booking now and good luck to you!
1.We only accept cash at the moment.
2.Dear guests
If you have membership of YHA , booking through Hostel World , a discount you can get it when you chick in at reception ,please show it to reception .
***Please make sure your passport and Chinese visa have not passed its expiry date.In particular, the Chinese customer can only allowed to use domestic id card check in.
***Kinder reminder,there is No air conditioning in any room.Sorry for any inconvenience.
***Kinder reminder : During busy times of the year we can get very full, and groups who book into dorm rooms may have to be separated . Sorry for any inconvenience.
Hostel policy for children: only children over 12 years old can stay in dormitory rooms, children younger than 12 years old can stay in private rooms with the company of parents.
***Please make sure your passport and Chinese visa have not passed its expiry date.In particular, the Chinese customer can only allowed to use domestic id card check in.
***Kinder reminder,there is No air conditioning in any room.Sorry for any inconvenience.
***Kinder reminder : During busy times of the year we can get very full, and groups who book into dorm rooms may have to be separated . Sorry for any inconvenience.
Verfügbarkeit & PreiseWähle bitte die Termine aus und klicke auf "Daten aktualisieren", um die Verfügbarkeit zu sehen
Hostels Ausstattungen & Richtlinien
- 24 Stunden Rezeption
- 24 Stunden Sicherheitsdienst
- Adapter
- Altersbegrenzung
- Bar
- Fahrradverleih
- Fahrradkeller
- Brettspiele
- Büchertausch
- Frühstück nicht inklusive
- Kabelfernsehen
- Café
- Gemeinschaftsraum
- Kreditkarten nicht akzeptiert
- Kostenlose Stadtpläne
- Kostenloser Internet-Zugang
- Kostenloses WLAN
- Haartrockner
- Haartrockner zum Mieten
- Warmwasser-Duschen
- Internet-Zugang
- Waschmöglichkeiten
- Schließfächer
- Gepäckraum
- Speisen verfügbar:
- Mini Supermarkt
- Kein Rezeptionsschluss
- Außenterrasse
- Billardtisch
- Postdienst
- Leselicht
- Restaurant
- Safe
- Möglichkeit der Tee- und Kaffeezubereitung
- Ausflugsschalter
ReiserücktrittsversicherungDiese Unterkunft hat eine 1 Tage Stornierungsfrist. Ergeht innerhalb dieser Zeit keine Stornierung, wird eine Stornogebühr in Höhe der ersten Nacht des Aufenthalts in Rechnung gestellt.
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How to come to your hostel
* Airport (25KM, 120 RMB through taxi)
By Bus:
You can take airport Bus #1 (空港一号线)to the last stop: West INN (西驿酒店,小西门原南疆宾馆).Its 25 yuan per person and about 45 minutes drive . From here you have a couple of options.
Option 1: You can take a taxi from the bus stop. it should be no more than 15-20 RMB. This is the address #23 Zhuan Tang Lu (篆塘路23号,大脚氏国际青年旅舍,五华区卫生防疫站隔壁)
Option 2: You can walk south until you get to the very big bridge walkway intersection. There will be people walking over and under it. If you are on the right side of the road when walking to it, stay on that side and turn right when you get to the big bridge area. Walk until you get to XiChangLu (西昌路)it is a big street and there should be signs of both ways I wrote it. Cross the street and turn left. You will walk on this street for a little bit more than 5 minutes. You will see a garden to your right hand side. Walk on the street just before the garden and you should see it within a minute or two, and you will be here!
By Subway :Take subway line 6 to The New East Bus Station(新东部客运站) , then change to public bus NO.22 and get off at Zhuan Tang(篆塘)stop.Opposite the bus stop (which is you got off) you will see a small road call ZhuanTang Lu. Just walk in about 50m .You will see a yellow house. This is CLOUDLAND YHA.
The Address in Chinese is:篆塘路23号,大脚氏国际青年旅舍,五华区卫生防疫站隔壁.
The subway is cost 5 yuan per person and public bus NO.22 is 2 yuan per person.
If you are tired already from your trip and don't want to bother with the bus or directions, you can also take a taxi from the airport, but it will probably cost about 120 RMB.
If you take a taxi, you can show them this address: #23,Zhuan tang lu ( 篆塘路23号,大脚氏国际青年旅舍,五华区卫生防疫站隔壁)
* Train station (4KM, 15RMB through taxi)
No.64 bus
Out of train station ,Turn left at the stree and walk straight down until you reach the next intersection .Cross the street and turn right take bus64 and get off at Yunnan Daily bus stop(云南日报社).It takes about 20 minutes.Then walking back about 20m, you will find a small crossing,Turning left and walking 100m, you will see the elementary school of Xinwen Road and a garden during the way. Going through the garden and looking to left, you will find a yellow building appears in your sight.)
* Bus stations:
There are five bus stations in Kunming, and there are threee bus station which are the traveller always use. South Bus Station ( bus to border of Laos , Jinghong , Yuanyang ..)and the West Bus Station(bus to Dli ,Lijiang...) and The East Bus Station (bus to the Vietnam's border-Hekou).
1. The South bus Station: (20KM, 50RMB through taxi)
Take subway line 1 get off at Tang Zi Xiang station (塘子巷),Then from Tuo dong road (Tang Zi Xiang 塘子巷)take bus NO.213 get off at Xin Wen Lu Kou( 新闻路口),after across the street you will see Zhuan Tang lu (篆塘路)Just walk in about 150m .You will see a yellow house.
The Address in Chinese is:篆塘路23号,大脚氏国际青年旅舍,五华区卫生防疫站隔壁.
2. The West Station: (8 KM ,25 yuan through taxi)
No.148 bus. It takes about 40 Min.
Get out the bus station to the main road , cross the road walk to the crossing near you , cross it and turn right . You will be see the bus stop in front of you , take No148 and get off at The No.1 Affiliated Hospital of KMC(昆医附一医院), then walk back about 30m ,you will arrive at a small IRON Bridge , cross it and walk along the road about 3 minutes ,you will be see our hostel on your right hand with Yellow house . Welcome to our hostel!
The Address in Chinese is:篆塘路23号,大脚氏国际青年旅舍,五华区卫生防疫站隔壁.
3.The East Bus Station (15KM,40RMB by Taxi)
NO.22 bus.It takes about 1Hr.
Catch the bus No.22 out of the Bus Station. Than get off at the ZhuanTang bus stop (篆塘).Opposite the bus stop (which is you got off) you will see a small road call ZhuanTang Lu. Just walk in about 50m .You will see a yellow house. This is CLOUDLAND YHA.
The Address in Chinese is:篆塘路23号,大脚氏国际青年旅舍,五华区卫生防疫站隔壁.
PS.The buses of Kunming are all without conductors so that you`d better have 1yuan coins. You can only get on the bus at the front door and get off at the back door