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I'm newbie interested in shared hosting service with cPanel, being able to host more than one domain, cheap.

I was going for the - bluehost shared hosting plus plan - $6* per month or justhost $4.5*/m plus plan, but their sneaky ads turned me off. The additional info which comes with the star (bottom of the page) reads: "*The promotional price is for the first term only and renews at the regular rate.". So, I went ahead and started the process (cc ready and stuff) only to learn that with term they mean not 1 year but 3 years period, i.e you have to make one time payment of $216 to get $6/m i.e. you're getting locked for 36 months. They should make this clear in the very beginning. Same trick was played at HostGator as well. Looks like EIG mutual owner keeps all these companies separate but pushes similar tricky marketing across the board.

BlueHost.com, JustHost.com and HostGator.com were all acquired in the last few years by EIG.
Endurance International Group also bought FatCow.com, SmallOrange.com, Arvixe.com, Domain.com, iPage.com.

Dreamhost.com $3/m with LIFEHACKER295 coupon ($35/y) then $119/y - ouch.
I looked at them, looks decent co, some people complained of long CS waiting time. They don't use cPanel but their own WebPanel. Website is nice and modern, but not too clear - how much you're paying for what. Google trends shows a negative popularity trend.

Godaddy.com - $5/m for 1 year. They now have cPanel.

1and1.com - I had domains with them for many years, then I switched to google domains. Their website is very inefficient and confusing. Their hosting prices are not the best.

NameCheap.com - I had domain with them before - no problem with that. Their hosting is the cheapest. The pro plan is $20/year for the first year then $79 per year. I like how their website is very straightforward and everything is clearly explained. They give you free domain, but only can be something .website .

In my research, I figured they are so many fake (affiliate driven) reviews online. Also many of the reviews are dated. Example: many claim godaddy doesn't do cPanel, but they do now.

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Nexus One is Ugly

Is the Google phone ugly? I didn't expect Google to work with HTC on their phone. All HTC phones are ugly and Nexus One is no exception. Google made really poor choice with the Nexus One design. The only pretty Android phones as of today are Motorola Droid and Cliq.
Look at the pic and the ugly bezel.

Citi Secured MasterCard or pay $29/y fee forever

I spoke with Customer Service 3 times and Citibank doesn't want/won't convert/upgrade my Citi Secured MasterCard to any other citicard cc product. Which means, that I have to pay $29/y, if I want to keep it. I have this card since 2005. This was my first card. It will hurt my Credit Score if I close it. I don't want to close it they don't want to convert it. How evil is this. When I opened it they promised me to convert it in 2 years later. Currently my FICO score is 734. I have no balance on this card or my other 3 cards. Citi Bank are nasty that's all.

Official Info:
Citi Secured MasterCard. It charges a $29 annual fee and a variable rate, currently at 13.24 percent. Cardholders can upgrade to an unsecured Citi Platinum Select credit card after 18 months. Consumers deposit a minimum of $200 into a CD, which will earn interest. An early-withdrawal fee applies if the account is closed before 18 months pass.

Union vs Non Union @ Delta Air Lines? (for ground workers) Please Help!

I am a Delta ramp agent at JFK Airport and I'm really confused about the whole union thing. Last couple of weeks I saw union people (IAMAW) waiting in front of the employee parking 67 advertising their services.
Is it the Union option good for me and my co-workers is it good for Delta as a whole, short and long term? Somebody said GM went bankrupt because of their union really. Is it a union just a middle man who lowers the efficiency and competitiveness of business and eventually the company goes bankrupt?
Please guys let me know your experience and opinion? Thank you for the help.

Dell Mini 9 vs Dell Vostro A90

Dell Mini 9
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1.3M pixel webcam optional
Available in different colors

Dell Vostro A90
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Hard Drive not available
0.3M pixel webcam included

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Bulgaria's Hot Properties Market Turns Cold

From The International Herald Tribune
By MATTHEW BRUNWASSER
Published: April 2, 2009

SOFIA — After a decade of prodigious growth that seemed immune to global trends, the Bulgarian properties sector has fizzled out — mostly because foreigners have stopped buying and turned to selling.

Over all, the country’s residential market still looks a bit like a freak of economic nature, with the average sale price per square meter, about 10 square feet, rising 25 percent in 2008.

But recent figures show that prices in the fourth quarter of 2008 declined 4 percent over the third quarter, to €697.14 per square meter from €727.30, or about $88.40 per square foot from $92.25. The downturn was the first since the country achieved macroeconomic stability following an economic meltdown about 10 years ago.

And the volume of residential sales went down by 40 percent last year, according to the Bulgarian Properties real estate agency in Sofia.

Just as Bulgaria was the last of the East European former Communist countries to reform its economy in the late 1990s, this small country of seven million also had been a laggard in real estate. Its market developed only in recent years and was among the last in Europe to decline.

“The global financial crisis came at an early stage of the bubble here,” said Latchezar Bogdanov, of the business consultancy Industry Watch, based in Sofia. “It was a very short bubble with relatively small excesses.”

According to Mr. Bogdanov, only a few segments in the Bulgarian properties market were overvalued — mainly holiday properties on the Black Sea coast and in ski resorts, which had attracted heavy interest from investors, many from Britain and Ireland.

But rents were not high enough to cover the prices paid in 2006 and 2007, Mr. Bogdanov said, adding, “There was very high optimism because they believed the prices would go up forever.”

Brokers say the strong price growth that continued through much of last year was mainly the result of a low starting point and was helped by Bulgarians’ steadily increasing incomes.

And while corruption in the country, including claims of widespread fraud and organized crime in the real estate business, has drawn headlines in recent years, no one is saying that foreign sales or general pricing were affected.

In general, foreigners stopped buying last year, a change reflected in the 80 percent decline in sales volume, compared with 2007 levels, in the ski resorts of Bansko, Pamporovo and Borovets in southern Bulgaria.

The same study, by Bulgarian Properties, also found sales decreased by 30 percent during the same period along the Black Sea.

Just last year, the once-quaint ski resort of Bansko, crammed with new concrete hotels and vacation homes, had pubs filled with British property owners and tourists on package holidays. Construction was so intensive about 160 kilometers, or 100 miles, south of Sofia that locals joked there were two seasons: mud and dust.

“All the cranes are gone now because no one can rent them anymore,” said James Hughes, who owns the Avalon Hotel in Bansko. “There are a lot of half-finished buildings.”

Mr. Hughes says he knows Britons who are selling places for half of what they paid only two years ago, largely because the financial situation at home is driving them to take what they can get.

The situation is similar in Veliko Turnovo, a medieval town in north central Bulgaria popular with Britons.

“There was a buzz, a feeding frenzy,” said Stephane Lambert, co-owner of Stara Planina Properties in Veliko Turnovo, who sold houses to many of the Britons who came to the area. “The demand was great, and the supply was restricted.” Now he is selling many of the same houses to Bulgarian buyers; according to the National Statistical Institute, the city saw prices decline 12 percent in the fourth quarter of 2008, the worst downturn among the 27 cities surveyed.

Mr. Lambert said Britons used equity from their U.K. properties to buy in Bulgaria and, as a result of the real estate downturn at home, that equity no longer exists. But a British owner can sell a property valued in euros at a loss and still hope to come out ahead of the original price paid in pounds several years ago. (Most properties are valued in euros or in levs, the Bulgarian currency that has a fixed exchange rate with the euro , but some projects were sold to Britons in pounds.)

Over all, “the supply of properties for sale is increasing, while the demand is disappearing,” said Georgi Ridjalski, a broker in Sofia with the international agency Re/Max. He said most of his buyers now were Bulgarian and that the only foreign ones were Russian.

“Now the market will become more realistic,” he added.

Bulgarian buyers have been relatively isolated from the global credit crisis, Mr. Ridjalski said, as only about 40 percent of all residential purchases in the last three years were made with bank financing.

The conservativism of Bulgarian banks and the generally undeveloped state of the financial sector has actually helped the country’s financial stability, said Georgy Ganev, an economist at the Center for Liberal Strategies in Sofia. “The banks didn’t have a strong incentive to invest in global financial instruments because returns in Bulgaria were pretty competitive,” he said, also noting that they did not engage in risky practices like subprime loans.

However, Bulgarian banks have reined in mortgage lending, worried about clients who may have been hurt by the global downturn, Mr. Ganev said. And while interest rates have not changed much, the banks’ loan approval procedures became much stricter last autumn, he added.

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Замърсеният въздух и здравето

2009-04-15 19:06:25

Преди две години, близо 112 000 европейци - пушачи и непушачи, се съгласиха да си направят проба с тест за въглероден двуокис, за да се установи количеството въглероден оксид в кръвта им. Инициативата бе на Европейската комисия в рамките на кампания за живот без тютюнев дим - най-мащабната кампания в Европа в тази област.

Резултатите показват, че независимо дали са пушачи или не, европейците се тровят повече от цигарения дим, отколкото от замърсения въздух. «Колкото повече се пуши, толкова по-високо е нивото на отровите в кръвта», споделя Бертран Дуйценберг, президент на организация за превенция срещу тютюнопушенето във Франция. Отвъд границата от 5 цигари дневно, човек преминава и границата на отравяне, причинено от замърсяването в градовете. Често това завишение се равнява на десет пъти, но има значение какво се пуши. Непушачи, прекарали повече от 12 часа в опушено помещение също минават отвъд допустимите норми на замърсяване, все едно че самите те са изпушили 5-6 цигари през деня. Същото изследване показва, че в страните, предприели строги мерки срещу пушенето, белите дробове на непушачите са по-чисти.

Гърците продължават да са най-заклетите пушачи в Европа, показва изследване на
Европейската комисия. Според доклада трима от всеки десет европейци на възраст над 16 години са пушачи. Много малко обаче са на мнение, че надписите "Пушенето убива" на кутиите с цигари имат някакъв ефект върху пушачите. 42% от гърците отговарят, че пушат всеки ден или по някакъв повод. На "дъното" в проучването е и Швеция, където само 25% от гражданите пушат. Британците също не са привърженици на тютюна – пушачите са 28% от населението.

Най-добрите резултати в борбата с тютюнопушенето отбелязва Ирландия, следвана от Финландия, Дания, Великобритания и Франция. В дъното на тази класация са Гърция и Австрия. Австрийците все още смятат цигарите като символ на свободата и модерността. Дори и там, където все пак цигарите не са разрешени, нарушителите не се наказват. Причините за това се крият във факта, че страната произвежда много цигари, а националната компания "Аустрия табак" е пълен монополист.

Българите надминават австрийците. Те са едни от най-пристрастените пушачи в Европа. Тютюпушенето не само че не намалява, а се увеличава. Новите пушачи са основно тинейджъри. Повечето пушат не защото им харесва, а защото пушенето е начин за социално общуване, стил на живот. В една компания от пушачи непушачите рискуват да бъдат аутсайдери. Мнозина твърдят, че пушенето им действа успокоително срещу ежедневния стрес. Наредбите срещу тютюнопушене висят безполезно по стените просто защото никой не им обръща внимание и не се съобразява с тях. Има случай на уволнен служител, дръзнал да се противопостави на неспазване на заповед против тютюнопушенето. Това е Валерия Петрова, бивша вече служителка в регионалното министерство, която "заслужи" уволнението си след като направи забележка на началника си, че не спазва заповедта против цигарите, която сам е издал. Междувременно българите упорито продължават да отричат вредата от цигарения дим. Дори нещо повече - наблюдава се тютюнева агресия. Мъжете пушат стабилно, кръгът на пушачите сред жените нараства застрашително. А основната причина за исхемичната болест на сърцето, други сърдечно- съдови заболявания, са цигарите. Парадоксалната реакция на пушещите е, че те не се поддават на внушенията за вредата, защото не приемат никакви съвети за стила си на живот. Това до голяма степен се отнася до общото отношение към обкръжаваща среда и начина на живот като цяло. Затова малко са хората в България, които настояват за спазване на допустимите здравни норми, за да може да се живее нормално. Не е за пренебрегване още един факт. Към тютюневото замърсяване се прибавя и силното замърсяване на въздуха с опасна концентрация на прах и изгорели газове от колите. По последни данни въздухът у нас е над 1,5 пъти по-замърсен от този, който дишат европейците в останалите страни членки на ЕС.

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