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Here is the list of car insurance companies. You should choose the right car insurance companies according to your budget and what you really need. All the automobile insurance companies names listed here from A to Z and these companies are from around the world mainly from UK, U.S, and some other Asian countries. It is useful for people who are searching the right car insurance for their own car.

Car insurance companies

A

AA Car Insurance
AAA Car Insurnace Company
Access General
Admiral
AIG Agency Auto
AIG Casualty
AIG North America
Allstate Insurance
Alfa Mutual Inruance
American Collectors Insurance
American Family Insurance
American Hardware Mutual Insurance Company
Asda
Atto & Associates
Auto Owners Insurance Company
Auto Coverage USA
Auto Insurance
Auto Insurance Net
AVIVA
AXA

B

Barclays Motor Insurance
Balboa Insurance
BELAIRdirect
Be Wiser Car Insurance
BCAA
Bristol West
Budget Direct Car Insurance – Comprehensive Car Insurance by Budget Direct Australia.

C

Car & Auto Insurance Quotes
Capital One Auto Finance
Carnegie General
Charter Insurance Companies – automobile insurance in Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Georgia and California.
Chubb Insurnace
Churchill Car Insurance
Classic Auto Insurance Agency
Cooperative Car Insurance
COUNTRY Financial

D

Debenhams Car Insurance
Diamond Car Insurance – Diamond offers cheaper car insurance for women because usually women’s claims cost less.
Direct Line Car Insurance

E

Elephand.co.uk
Encompass
Endsleigh Car Insurance – One of the famous car insurance in UK.
Esurance
Esure
Explorer

F

Farmers Insurance – Writer of both private passenger automobile and homeowners insurance.
Foremost Insurance Company

G

GEICO Car Insurance
GMAC
Grange Car Insurance
Great West Casualty Company – Provides insurance products for truckers including auto liability, physical damage, general liability, cargo, garagekeepers, umbrella, property, inland marine, and workers compensation.
Green Flag
Greenbee

H

Hartford Insurance
HSBC Car Insurance

I

Infinity
InsureandGo

J

J.C. Taylor Antique Auto Insurance – specialist in providing insurance services to owners of antiques and modified specialty vehicles.

K

Kanetix
Kwik-Fit

L

Liberty Mutual Group
Liberty Mutual™ Car Insurance
Lloyds TSB
LV Car Insurance

M

Mars & Spencer Car Insurance
Money Expert
MetLife Auto
Metropolitan
MiWay Car Insurance and General Insurance – Car Insurance Quotes through MiWay’s state.
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N

National Indemnity Company – A member of the Berkshire Hathaway Inc. group of insurance companies. One of the car insurance companies that has the products include commercial trucks and truckers, public auto, special types, garage and dealer, prize indemnification, general liability, inland marine cargo, and reinsurance…
Nationwide Motor Insurance
National Auto Care
NetWest
NetQuote
National Warranty Insurance Group

O

Old Republic International Corporation

P

Permanent General Auto Insurance Co. – offers non-standard and standard automobile insurance to customers in Tennessee, Ohio, Georgia, Louisiana, Indiana, Mississippi, California, South Carolina, and Wisconsin.
Post Office
Primmum – car insurance for Alberta, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland.
PRIMO Car Insurance
Progressive
Provisional Marmalade

S

Safeco
Saga
Santander
Sentry
SF Fire and Casualty
Sheilas’Wheels
State Farm
SwiftCover

T

TESCO Car insurance
The Money Stop – Compare car insurance quotes from the leading insurance suppliers in the UK.
Travelers
Tri-State Consumers Insurance Company – Offers auto insurance to New York consumers and is headquartered in Jericho, New York.

U

United Automobile Insurance Company
Unitrin Direct Auto Insurance – Provider of auto insurance services for good drivers. Consumers can quote and purchase online through secure web site or by calling toll-free.
Universal Warranty
Universal Underwriters Group – Offers a range of automotive insurance products that cover much of the automotive aftermarket. Located in Overland Park, Kansas.
USAA Casualty Insurance

V

Valuadata Group – Developer of valuation solutions and insurance estimation software systems for automobile collision damage.
Virgin money – UK car insurance from Virgin.

W

Warranty Direct
Wausau Insurance Companies
Western General
Western United
Women on Wheels Insurance

Y

YES Car Insurance

Z

Zurich Connect Car Insurance

If you have other company name that is not listed here. Please contact us to complete the list of car insurance companies.

Source: Cars, Fast Cars, Cool Cars, Sports Cars

The New York Times covers a fantastic project that is attempting to track down some of the world’s most endangered languages – by scouring the streets of the Big Apple.

The Endangered Language Alliance is a project that aims to connect speakers of rare tongues but also to use the opportunity to study the languages academically potentially before they disappear.

The article notes that New York City is the most linguistically diverse place on the planet and there are often more speakers of endangered tongues there than in their place of origin:

The chances of overhearing a conversation in Vlashki, a variant of Istro-Romanian, are greater in Queens than in the remote mountain villages in Croatia that immigrants now living in New York left years ago.

At a Roman Catholic Church in the Morrisania section of the Bronx, Mass is said once a month in Garifuna, an Arawakan language that originated with descendants of African slaves shipwrecked near St. Vincent in the Caribbean and later exiled to Central America. Today, Garifuna is virtually as common in the Bronx and in Brooklyn as in Honduras and Belize.

And Rego Park, Queens, is home to Husni Husain, who, as far he knows, is the only person in New York who speaks Mamuju, the Austronesian language he learned growing up in the Indonesian province of West Sulawesi. Mr. Husain, 67, has nobody to talk to, not even his wife or children.

There’s also some good context for the piece at a post on the ever-excellent Language Log and don’t forget to watch the accompanying video

Link to NYT piece on lost languages in New York.

Filed under: Morning Scoop

Each morning, we dish out a few links we love.

Headed to the supermarket? Health.com has put together a shopping list that’s guaranteed to help you shed a few pounds.

If you’ve got an iPhone, download the hilarious and helpful Eat This Not That app from Men’s Health — it’s one of the most popular food apps out there.

It’s official: Keeping a food journal helps you slim down, as recent studies confirm. The only problem? You’ve got to be motivated to maintain it.

When it comes to eating fruit, do you enjoy it with other stuff? According to one food science theory, fruit should only be eaten on its own.

Do you love or hate cilantro? It’s an acquired taste, but seeing as it’s really good for you, maybe it’s a taste you should acquire?

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CNN reports the volume of oil spilling into the gulf of Mexico from BP’s Horizon disaster has risen to 5000 barrels per day – Oil spill from rig explosion at 5,000 barrels a day.

The oil spill from last week’s deadly rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico has increased to 5,000 barrels a day — five times more than the original estimate, said Coast Guard Rear Adm. Mary Landry.

A third underwater oil leak has been located in the pipeline that connected the rig to the oil well, said Doug Suttles, chief operating officer for BP.

The head of BP Groups said the explosion could have been prevented, and he is focusing blame on rig owner Transocean Ltd.

CEO Tony Hayward told CNN’s Brian Todd in an exclusive interview that Transocean’s “blowout preventer” failed to operate before the explosion. A blowout preventer is a large valve at the top of a well, and activating it will stop the flow of oil. The valve may be closed during drilling if underground pressure drives up oil or natural gas, threatening the rig.

“That is the ultimate fail-safe mechanism,” Hayward said. “And for whatever reason — and we don’t understand that yet, but we clearly will as a consequence of both our investigation and federal investigations — it failed to operate. …

BP owns the oil well. Before the explosion, Hayward had announced a significant discovery of at least 50 million barrels of oil. “Of course, all of that is completely irrelevant in the context of what we’re now dealing with.”

The Australian reports that attempts are being made to brun the oil slick on the surface – Controlled burn of Gulf of Mexico oil slick begins .

EMERGENCY crews have begun controlled burns of a giant oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico, but a cruel wind shift raised fears the spill could hit Louisiana’s fragile shores by the weekend. …

Two skimming vessels dispatched by the US Coast Guard and energy giant BP swept the thickest concentrations of oil into a 150m fire-resistant boom. They then towed it to a 8km “burn zone” set up inside the slick roughly 80km south of the mouth of the Mississippi where it was set alight a few hours before nightfall. “They lit it with a little float that has a fuel source on it that floats into the oil and ignites. It did successfully ignite,” Coast Guard petty officer Cory Mendenhall told AFP. …

As a back-up, engineers are frantically building a giant dome that could be placed over the leaks to trap the oil, allowing it to be pumped up to container ships on the surface.

Another Transocean drilling rig is also on stand-by to drill two relief wells that could divert the oil flow to new pipes and storage vessels.

But that would take up to three months and the dome is seen as a better interim bet even though engineers need two to four weeks to build it.

Coast Guard Rear Admiral Mary Landry, who is leading the government’s response to the disaster, warned on Tuesday that if BP fails to secure the well it could end up being “one of the most significant oil spills in US history.”

What do the top three Android phones in the United States have in common? They all feature slide-out QWERTY keyboards. The recent trend from HTC and other handset makers has been towards the slim, slate form factor, but phones with a physical keyboard have proven to sell the most units so far.

A quick look at the top smartphones from the latest AdMob report shows the most popular three Android phones are the Motorola Droid, G1 (HTC Dream), and the Motorola CLIQ. Each phone has its own appeal, but they all share similar slide-out keyboards. The majority of Android owners have no clue what firmware their device is running and make their buying decision solely on looks.

I find it most interesting that the Motorola CLIQ appears to have out sold the myTouch 3G. T-Mobile launched the myTouch 3G first, heavily promoted it, and upgraded it to Android 1.6. The CLIQ went on sale several months later and only included Android 1.5, but it looks like more customers are choosing it based entirely on the form factor.

T-Mobile recognizes keyboards are still hot and it makes sense they are gearing up to make the myTouch 3G Slide one of their flagship phones this summer. Outside of that, there are not many options for new Android phones with keyboards coming to the U.S. LG might produce a Snapdragon slider later this year, but nothing official has been announced for the U.S. at this time.

I personally switched to the Nexus One earlier this year and I have adjusted to the virtual keypad quite well, but I still wish a physical keyboard was an option. Out of all the Android devices I’ve used over the last few years, the G1 still has the best keyboard layout in my opinion (5-row, big buttons, nice feedback). If someone releases a high-powered phone with a keyboard this year, that is likely my next purchase.

Which form factor do you prefer? Physical or virtual keyboard? If you have used multiple Android phones with keyboards, which did you like the best so far?

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Filed under: Health, Healthy Eating, 30-Day Nutrition Challenge

The 30-Day Nutrition Challenge is in full swing as our participants who began this quest to remove gluten, dairy, sugar, alcohol, caffeine and processed foods from their diet are at the half way point.

Over the last few weeks I’ve received a number of questions from readers who are also interested in trying the challenge, and many of them want recipes to help them through it. If you haven’t already checked out this post I wrote a few weeks ago on recipes and resources, I recommend doing so.

And because no one can never have enough healthy recipes, in my next few posts I will share with you three recipes for a gluten, dairy and sugar-free breakfast, lunch and dinner. Let’s start with my all-time favourite way to start the day: The Smoothie.

Recipe after the jump

Continue reading Healthy Breakfast Smoothie Recipe for the 30-Day Challenge

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In a bid to save forests, designers have tried to make use of materials that can replace wood to carve your home or office furniture. Finding alternatives isn’t easy, but designers have not started trusting the strength of cardboard as a raw material for steady furniture. Cardboard designs are all the rage these days, as they not only give various interesting ways of being crafted but are also easy on the environment. In recent times, we have seen some stunning cardboard creations that can change the perception of recycled and recyclable furniture. Here are a few…

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This Opel Corsa OPC in a tuned version was spotted in tests at the Nurburgring where the prototype was being driven by Volker Strycek. It has some changes compared to the OPC currently available, with larger Brembo brakes, new front spoiler, dual exhaust and new extractor. The yellow colour with black roof is a new look too, all of which could indicate a performance version of the Corsa OPC, with a 1.6-litre turbo engine and 192 hp.

Source | Autoweek.nl

If you train around other people, you know how annoying it can be to have you heart-rate monitor pick up other watches transmissions: Oh crap! 180bpm? The Polar F6 Heart Rate Monitor watch uses coded transmissions so you’ll get accurate information from your own body instead of the person running next to you. The OwnZone training program lets you find your optimal exercise zone by running you through a warm-up routine and monitoring your heart rate. From your watch you can select an exercise program based on your goal (aerobic fitness, weight loss, etc) and your F6 will let you know how you’re performing compared to your optimal workout while you train. It’s pretty simple really. Just do whatever your watch tells you to and you’ll be in great shape.

View Polar F6 Women’s Heart Rate Monitor Watch (Green Tea) details

Filed under: Advice, Happiness, Health, Fit Yoga

As both a yoga practitioner and a yoga teacher, I have learned a few essential things along the way about how one can prepare to ensure their yoga class, and that of their fellow yogis, is enjoyable.

Yoga Class Dos and Don’ts

1. Don’t Eat Before It’s recommended that you don’t eat at least two hours before a yoga class. The main reason for this is that full stomach interferes with the postures and your breathing by restricting the space in the abdomen. Also, you want to avoid embarrassment by passing gas in a class so keep in mind, some high-fibre foods such as beans, broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage may cause more gas than other types of food.

2. Do Wear Appropriate Clothing You need clothes that give you room to move and provide space for your body to breathe. And ladies, beware of low-cut tops, particularly when practicing in a quick, moving class. I can tell you from personal experience that breasts will threaten to pop out in certain poses when not properly clothed (that exact situation ruined a class for me as my thoughts were on my breasts instead of my breath.) And gentlemen, if you’re going to wear small, loose shorts, please wear fitted underwear, it can be very distracting for teacher and students alike when your stuff is hanging out. There are shorts available with built-in underwear that will remedy this situation.

Continue reading 10 Yoga Class Dos and Don’ts

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Filed under: Happiness, Fitness, How I Stay Fit

Laughing until it hurts can certainly feel like a workout — especially in your abs — but does it actually do anything for your love handles? That’s what researchers from Loma Linda University in California set out to find when they began studying the effect a good session of the giggles has on the body.

Chief researcher Lee Berk and colleagues studied 14 individuals, testing their blood and blood pressure before and after movie clips. One clip showed a violent excerpt from Saving Private Ryan, while the other showed comedy stand-up routines.

They discovered that while the violent clip had no apparent influence on appetite, watching the funny one did — it helped decrease appetite-suppressing hormone leptin while increasing appetite-boosting hormone ghrelin. This doesn’t mean participants were hungrier — rather, the clip helped strike a more harmonious balance between the two hormones.

Continue reading Is Laughing a Workout?

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Filed under: Health, Healthy Eating, Don’t Eat This

After my KFC Double Down post earlier this week, one commenter on That’s Fit.ca’s Facebook page said she would love to try the “sandwich” and that it was “nothing 35 hours of cardio won’t fix.” This gave me a great idea for a post – let’s call it The Exercise Myth.

One of the main points of the Double Down post was that the widely disseminated means of evaluating our foods is a broken system. Measurements of calories, fat and sodium don’t actually mean anything in terms of whether or not a food is good for you, nutritious or health promoting. One of the consequences of this view point is the exercise myth.

When we deal in calories, we reduce our foods to the idea of nothing more than a number, which makes us think we’re free to manipulate these numbers within an equation. For example, a Double Down is X number of calories, therefore if I eat it, I can burn it off by burning X number of calories working out. Calories in equals calories out and the fast food indulgence is forgotten.

Continue reading OK to Eat KFC Double Down if You Exercise After?

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As a response to the high dealer demand in the U.S., MINI had confirmed that the John Cooper Works World Championship 50 Edition will immediately be available throughout the country. 50 of the hand-built vehicles will be delivered to U.S. dealers, scheduled to begin in late spring or in early summer.

Based on a MINI John Cooper Works Hardtop, the World Championship 50 Edition is painted a special color called Connaught Green, classically combined with the roof and bonnet stripes in Pepper White. For that reason, the color scheme is said to hark back to the famous color of British race cars of the 1950s and 60s era.

The 50 Edition is then equipped with the John Cooper Works Aero Kit, gloss black versions of the 17″ Challenge spoke wheels, custom numbered side scuttles, a unique Championship Red Lounge Leather interior and carbon fiber accents throughout.

In the interior, the 50 Edition also features special floormats with red stitching that matches the red stitching found on the shifter and parking brake boots. John Cooper Works’ signature adorns a special plaque that is affixed to the instrument panel trim.

MSRP for the MINI John Cooper Works World Champion 50 Edition will be $39,600; Destination and Handling costs are $700, for a total cost of $40,300.

Source: Lincah.Com – New Car and Used Car Pictures

There will be Android related announcements coming in a couple weeks at Google I/O and all signs point to the public unveiling of Android 2.2 (Froyo). We already speculated that Android 2.2 was coming and predicted Flash 10.1 would drop at I/O and now it looks like May 20th is the date. Given that Flash 10.1 is tied to Froyo, this bodes well for a joint announcement.

On the second day of Google I/O, May 20th, there are several Android sessions scheduled for the afternoon that are listed as TBA. They likely have no topic because they are related to Android features that have not been publicly announced. Google did this at last year’s I/O when they revealed Google Wave on the second day and directly followed it up with a series of sessions.

If you follow our Googlers Twitter list you might have noticed several employees tweeting the sessions link and pointing out the TBAs. Recent Google addition Tim Bray (who now runs the Android Developrs Blog) even said, “I don’t think that I’m telling any secrets when I say that there will be Android-related announcements at that event.”

Many insiders believe the Nexus One will be the first to receive Android 2.2, but we could see a simultaneous release on the Motorola Droid. Google already shipped every paid attendee a free Android phone and they were giving out the Droid and N1. Adobe has also regularly used the Droid when taunting us with all those Flash demos.

I’ll even go out on a limb and predict some first gen devices might see an upgrade as well. A new version of the Market was pictured on a myTouch 3G with Android 2.2 and we have been told all first gen U.S. phones will eventually be upgraded. Actually, Google has stopped selling their ADP1 (HTC Dream) so maybe that device is on the way out.

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En el más que interesante Salón del Automóvil de Pekín Chevrolet aprovechó para enseñarle al mundo la versión hatchback de su modelo Sail. También ha sido diseñada por Shanghai Chevrolet y presenta ineludibles referencias a Chevrolets muy europeos como el Aveo.

Este interesante vehículo solo presentará una motorización: el 4 cilindros 1.2i 16v S-Tec de 87 CV y 115Nm. Esta propulsión irá asociada a un cambio de 5 velocidades manual o manual con embrague pilotado. También se sabe que en un futuro se añadirá el 1,4 litros S-TEC III de 103 CV. Por supuesto, ambos cumplen la normativa Euro 4.

La idea de Chevrolet es sin duda llegar a la mayor cantidad de clientes posible. También en Pekín presentaron el mismo modelo en versión sedán, por lo que dejan clara su intención de copar todos los nichos posibles. No sabemos como les saldrá la jugada finalmente.

El precio del vehículo rondará los 6.000€, por lo que tenemos bastante claro que Chevrolet pretende jugar la baza de la calidad/precio. Este precio se mantiene incluso si equipamos extras de seguridad, por lo que admiten que su idea es competir con vehículos algo desfasados en esta materia.

Vía | ActualidadMotor

CNet has published a short editorial on why millions still buy Windows Mobile phones, despite the upcoming Windows Phone 7 and the presence of alternate mobile OSs.

They note that it is still the best device for native Outlook and Exchange integration, the phones come in numerous form factors, there are a huge legacy of useful 3rd party applications, the devices are cheaper due to the impending obsolescence and that for basic features the bugs have pretty much been worked out, unlike less mature platforms.

Have CNet missed any? Let us know below.

I mentioned a few days ago using osTicket, we have been using it for a while. We also have to make it public facing so our customers can use it, and so we can use it from outside of the office. The problem is that since we are using our AD credentials to login there is a major security concern since by default, osTicket is not encrypted. We opted to use SSL encryption on our ticket system.

No big deal right? Well, we also want to make it so users don’t have to remember to type in the httpS part in the address. We want them to be able to type support.companydomain.com and have it automagically go to our ticket system. Likewise, on the admin page we want to make it so that when you go to support.companydomain.com/admin it automagically gets SSL encryption too. One way to do it is to drop an index.html file in with a redirect, that works ok too, but what if you want to ensure that if the S in httpS is removed, users still get forced to use SSL without any errors? Well in this case I used a little PHP magic.

I created a file called encrypt.php with the following code:

<?
function secure_page()
{
if ( !isset($_SERVER[‘HTTPS’]) || strtolower($_SERVER[‘HTTPS’]) !== ‘on’ )
{
header (‘Location: https://’.$_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’].$_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’]);
exit();
}
}
secure_page();
?>

On any pages where I wanted to ensure SSL, I added the following line:

require(‘encrypt.php’);

Similarly, in our old ticket system (Which we are upgrading today now that Ubuntu 10.04 is out!) we added a custom reCaptcha on the ticket request page. Since we weren’t hosting the reCaptcha ourselves we couldn’t encrypt it with our SSL cert, and users would get prompted if they wanted to display the unsecure items. That confused people, so we wanted to make sure that page was not encrypted with SSL.

To do that, we did the same as above except this time we created a file called decrypt.php with the following code:

<?
function unsecure_page()
{
if ( isset($_SERVER[‘HTTPS’]) || strtolower($_SERVER[‘HTTPS’]) == ‘on’ )
{
header (‘Location: http://’.$_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’].$_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’]);
exit();
}
}
unsecure_page();
?>

And once again on that page we added the following line:

require(‘decrypt.php’);

Done, now on all the pages we want to be encrypted, it is encrypted, and on the pages we don’t want to encrypt it isn’t. Luckily in the new version of osTicket captcha is built in, so I can encrypt all pages without issue.

In both cases, since we wrote those files we can include them on any page we want, including on our phpMyAdmin page! Boom!

Do you use this method to force SSL on your LAMP servers? If not, what do you do? Let us know in the comments.

It’s beeen a while since we last heard from from homebrew coder Alekmaul, but now he’s back to release a new version of AmeDS, a Amstrad CPC 6128 emulator for the Nintendo DS.
 
 
Download:

Eco Factor: Solar-powered plug-in electric vehicle charging station.

Electric cars might only be good for reducing pollution if the electricity grid is getting powered up with renewable sources. Industrial designers have thought over the “green” credentials of electric cars and have often raised questions on their eco-friendliness. Designer Tom Miller is seeking solutions using solar energy.

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