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Too often are drivers overpaying for automobile insurance. One reason for this is that drivers simply are not educated about ways to save money on coverage. There are specific ways you can get cheap car insurance. Inexpensive insurance provides sufficient coverage without high premiums.
Too often, drivers end up paying for coverage they do not need or cannot use. This can happen when you have to purchase comprehensive coverage because your car is financed. If you do not let your insurer know you have repaid the loan, you will continue paying for comprehensive coverage even if you no longer require it. In conclusion, although not everyone should buy minimum coverage, you also shouldn?t get too much coverage.
Keep in mind that safer drivers always get the best rates. The drivers who get the very best rates will be the ones who have been driving safely 2 or more decades. One of the first things an insurance company looks at when setting rates is your driving record. The longer you are able to go without accidents or driving violations, the better rates you can get. Some insurers offer annual reductions on premiums for safe drivers. Drivers who complete an approved defensive driving course can also get lower rates.
New cars tend to get better rates because they have specific safety features that insurance companies prefer. These include anti-lock brakes, airbags, and automatic seatbelts. One easy way to get lower insurance rates is to install security measures on your vehicle. It usually costs less to repair new domestic cars because parts are readily available and technicians have the skill sets needed to work on these vehicles.
Drivers often do not realize the role their credit history plays in getting decent insurance rates. Insurance companies often include credit scores in rate calculations. The underlying assumption is that customers who have good credit scores pose less risk for the insurance company. This is not necessarily true, but there is little you can do about it. It is likely that in order to get a better rate you would have to raise your credit score.
Another way to get cheap car insurance is to qualify for as many discounts as possible. These discounts range from multiple-policy to loyalty discounts and everything in between. The more discounts you are eligible to receive, the better chance you have of getting cheap car insurance.
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Atari's celebrating 40 years of arcade classic Pong today by releasing ... another version of Pong. Pong World is being dubbed "the first-ever official new Pong game on iOS" (despite our search of the App Store dictating the contrary), but more importantly, it's totally free and it's already available on the iOS App Store (see gameplay below the break). The iPhone / iPad / iPod Touch game started life as one of many entries in Atari's "Pong Indie Developer Challenge," which pitted devs against each other for $50K and lead representation on the big four-zero celebration.
Should the free game not be enough for you, you could always vie for one of the crazy sweet portable Xbox 360s (seen above) on Atari's Facebook page. Why yes, that is a custom LCD screen attached to a modded Xbox 360, which also happens to resemble a classic Atari console. And yes, we agree, it is totally sweet.
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Soroptimist Christmas Parade, Dec. 1
Santa Claus will be on hand at the senior center immediately after the parade to meet with local children. Youngsters can have their picture taken with Santa.
There will also be treats for children, a DJ spinning holiday classics and a bake sale and See?s Candy sale from the Soroptimists.
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BEIJING (AP) ? Wang Pinghe wants the tumor in his liver removed before it becomes life-threatening. But the 28-year-old Chinese villager knows it will be hard to find a hospital that will do the operation ? because he has AIDS.
In China, hospitals routinely reject people with HIV for surgery out of fear of exposure to the virus or harm to their reputations. After years of denying AIDS was a problem in China, the country has significantly improved care for patients, but the lingering stigma sets back those advances.
"In my hometown, not a single hospital is willing to operate on people infected with HIV," said Wang, who traveled to Beijing from Runan county in the central province of Henan to try to draw the attention of central authorities to the issue by speaking to the foreign media.
"This is not discrimination by one single person but by an entire country," he told The Associated Press.
The stigma against people with HIV runs especially deep in China, from being unofficially barred from government jobs to being expelled from school.
Now, as more people rail against the myriad inequalities that plague Chinese society, people with HIV are becoming increasingly willing to assert their right to fair treatment.
One man recently claimed the spotlight by altering his medical records to hide his HIV-positive condition so he could get surgery for lung cancer. The man, who went by the pseudonym Xiaofeng, told state media he had been turned away by two hospitals.
His story sparked a firestorm of criticism directed at both the hospitals for rejecting him and the patient for exposing medical staff to risks they were not aware of.
"Xiaofeng was smart. When he felt that his life was in danger, he found a way to save himself," said Li Hu, a Tianjin-based activist who helped Xiaofeng and later publicized the case online. "But this way isn't good for anyone, be it the patient or medical workers. Now the question is: Can we find a way that is favorable for everyone?"
The incoming premier, Li Keqiang, was prompted to issue a statement saying that health facilities must not discriminate against people with HIV. During a meeting Monday with a dozen activist groups, he said such discrimination would be severely punished, according to Li Hu.
The disease is a sensitive issue for Li Keqiang, who was governor of Henan province in 1998 when tens of thousands of people contracted HIV from state-sponsored blood-buying rings with unhygienic practices. Activists have urged Li to acknowledge the government's responsibility for the disaster and provide compensation, with little success.
China has made significant strides in tackling the epidemic, with the AIDS mortality rate falling 64 percent from 2002 to last year. The government last year increased HIV treatment by 50 percent ? reaching three-quarters of the adults and children who require it, according UNAIDS.
An estimated 780,000 people have HIV in China. There has been an increasing trend of cases transmitted through sex rather than intravenously, with sex workers and gay men considered most at risk, said Guy Taylor, a communications officer for UNAIDS.
About 70,000 new cases were reported in the first 10 months of this year, largely through sexual transmission, as compared with about 93,000 for all of last year, the Health Ministry announced this week at a news conference ahead of World AIDS Day on Saturday.
With improved access to lifesaving drugs, people with HIV in China are living longer, which means more are seeking treatment for other ailments.
Chinese law bars medical facilities from refusing to treat people with HIV, but activists say discrimination continues because the law spells out no serious punishments. Many patients cannot afford the time and expense of taking hospitals to court.
In interviews with patients, their spouses and activists, The Associated Press found a half-dozen cases of people with HIV being turned away by doctors as soon as they declared their HIV-positive status or it turned up in routine pre-operation tests.
In Henan province, a county hospital refused to operate on wheat farmer Zhu Weidong's 45-year-old wife, who had cervical cancer. Zhu, who spoke on condition that his wife remain anonymous, said he had to take her to the provincial capital. Including travel and other expenses, the procedure cost 40,000 yuan ($6,500) ? a third more than at a local facility ? which Zhu had to borrow from relatives and friends.
Similarly, a 31-year-old civil servant in the central city of Chongqing said his doctor recommended a liver biopsy after he reported severe lower back pain, but declined to carry it out once he tested positive for the virus. The man ? who would only give his nickname, Xiaobai, out of concern he might lose his job ? said it was a year later when he finally was able to get a biopsy in Shanghai, and it showed he had lost half his liver function.
"I can't help but wonder if I could have found out a year ago and saved more of my liver," he said. "I worry about what I would do if one day I needed dialysis. What if I need a liver transplant?"
The China Alliance of People Living with HIV/AIDS, a Beijing-based network, said that a survey last year found dozens of patients being turned away by facilities throughout the country ? in some cases even leading to deaths.
"I feel that if a doctor refuses to treat a patient who is HIV positive, it is a crime akin to murder," said the group's coordinator, Meng Lin, who recounted being denied a CT scan by a Beijing doctor in September, after he told him he had AIDS.
Dr. Wu Zunyou, who leads the government's HIV/AIDS center, said he believes attitudes will change. He said Chinese health workers report about 700 cases of accidental contact with the every year and none have resulted in infections. He welcomed the public debate the Tianjin case triggered.
"The debate causes medical workers to think about the issue and health facilities to improve their management, so there should be fewer chances for such things to happen in the future," Wu said.
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Retiring Republicans Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchison and Jon Kyl on Tuesday introduced a bill they argue corrects the problems with the Dream Act, legislation?aimed at providing a path to citizenship for young illegal immigrants that never made it out of Congress.
Hutchison and Kyl?s bill, the Achieve Act, differs from the proposed Dream Act by limiting?application?eligibility to?young?people who entered the country before the age of 14, instead of 16.
The Achieve Act also does not provide a special pathway to?citizenship?for illegal immigrants.
?I think ours is better than the Dream Act, because it doesn?t allow [illegal immigrants] to cut in line in front of people who have come and abided by the rules of our laws today,? Hutchison said.
?It doesn?t keep them from applying under the rules today, but it doesn?t give them a special preference before those who have waited in line for years to get into the citizenship track,? she added.
If young immigrants are?eligible?under the bill, which Kyl said was difficult to draft, they would receive a W-1 nonimmigrant visa to earn a degree or serve in the U.S. military.
?There were a whole series of, I would say, sort of technical problems with the way that theirs was drafted. ? We had to literally re-write a lot of the technical provisions of [the Dream Act],? Kyl said.
Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, a rising star in the Republican Party who is often mentioned as a possible candidate for president in 2012, was instrumental to the Achieve Act, Kyl said. (RELATED: Rubio breaks fundraising record at Iowa governor?s birthday event)
?Sen. Rubio, one of his great contributions was this concept of these student and then work visas to just basically conform this to pretty much what the law is today,? Kyl said. ?You can get a student visa. You can have a work visa, and those give you significant rights being in this country.?
Kyl added that it was wrong for President Barack Obama to ?ignore current law? and unilaterally implement a deferred action program in August that mirrors parts of the stalled Dream Act.
?Those of us who strongly believe in rule of law believe that in our country, if you don?t like the law, change it or seek to change it, don?t violate it ? and for a civilian, that?s called civil disobedience. For the president, it?s called violating your oath of office, and we don?t think it?s a good idea,? Kyl said.
Not all young immigrants eligible for the president?s deferred action program would be covered by the Republican proposal.
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By TALES AZZONI
AP Sports Writer
Associated Press Sports
updated 10:25 a.m. ET Nov. 27, 2012
SAO PAULO (AP) - FIFA and Brazil World Cup organizers are trying to show unity in preparing the country to host the event in 2014.
FIFA is wrapping up an inspection tour of the host cities and will oversee the draw on Saturday for next year's Confederations Cup. There's also a board meeting of the local committee on Wednesday.
The activities come at a tumultuous time. Brazil is without a coach amid internal disputes at the federation. A local member of FIFA's executive committee was targeted in a police operation and some World Cup projects have been removed from the list of infrastructure work planned by the government.
Tighter deadlines are magnifying the challenges of getting Brazil ready for the Confederations Cup and 2014 World Cup. But FIFA and local organizers stress they are in sync.
"There's no problem with the relationship between FIFA and the LOC," FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke said. "We don't have a problem with the Brazilian government or with any of the 12 host cities. They are our representatives."
Soccer's governing body gave local organizers a big vote of confidence this month when it made an exception to approve the Confederations Cup with six host cities despite knowing that some stadiums won't be ready until just before the tournament in June.
"Two stadiums will be delivered in the middle of April, well behind schedule, though our technical team said everything was fine and we have to trust them," Valcke said. "The government has given its word the work will be finished and we have to believe people."
Valcke was responsible for igniting a controversy with the government this year after criticizing the country's preparations. FIFA President Sepp Blatter had to apologize after the government threatened not to deal with the secretary general.
But when Valcke was upset on Monday with the Rio de Janeiro government for announcing an exhibition at Maracana Stadium without FIFA's authorization, he was backed by Brazil's sports ministry.
Rio de Janeiro Gov. Sergio Cabral publicly announced that Brazil will face England to reopen the renovated stadium on June 2. However, Cabral didn't realize the stadium will be under FIFA's control from May 27 for the Confederations Cup.
"For the time being, we have not authorized the game," Valcke said on Monday.
The state said it will work with FIFA to try to gain permission.
Valcke said he was not worried about the police investigation of FIFA official Marco Polo del Nero, who was the vice president of the Brazilian federation and the president of the Sao Paulo state federation.
Police entered his home and checked information on his computers as part of a nationwide probe on the sale of confidential information and financial crimes. Thirty-three people were arrested, but Del Nero was only interrogated and denied any involvement. Police said the operation was not related to soccer, and Del Nero said he was questioned only because a company he hired for a personal business transaction was among those investigated.
Valcke called it an "internal" issue.
Del Nero was one of the top federation officials directly involved in the decision to fire coach Mano Menezes last week. The federation director who made the announcement, Andres Sanchez, said he was against the decision. Sanchez is expected to leave the entity this week, likely creating an opposing force to president Jose Maria Marin.
There is also turmoil in some of the host cities. The government in the capital of Brasilia this year removed an urban train project from the list of infrastructure work planned for the World Cup because it would not be ready in time. The same happened with a monorail project in the jungle city of Manaus.
Manaus also is considering changing its plans for the location of its Fan Fest venue because construction work may not be completed in time for the World Cup. FIFA had approved all the venues in April.
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