Abstract: A credit card is used to purchase services, such as special pay-per-view television events, when the purchaser is located remote from his or her home base. When a subscriber is in a location remote from his or her base, that is, out of his or her subscription area, and wishes to view an event that is carried by his or her subscription service but which is not carried by the carrier serving the remote location, the purchaser contacts the system that is offering the event by telephone for example and uses a credit card that is issued by the system to purchase the event.

Abstract: An accessory for a swimming pool includes pool cover means having a top surface, a bottom surface and a peripheral edge wherein the pool cover means is dimensioned to completely span and extend beyond all edges of the swimming pool; motorized water pump means having a pump input with a first hose connection and a pump output with a second hose connection adapted to threadably connect to a garden-type hose; a flexible hose portion having a hose inlet and a hose outlet wherein the hose outlet is connected to the first hose connection of the pump input; and drain cover means secured to the top surface of the pool cover means wherein the drain cover means establishes a location of the pump means on the top surface of the pool cover means such that the second hose connection of the pump output is operatively spaced in close proximity to an edge of the swimming pool, protects the pump means from the elements, and operatively locates the hose portion such that the hose inlet is spaced near the center of the swimming