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in News | 15 JUN 18
How do Today's Artists Make a Living? By Getting A Part-time Job, New Study Shows
A survey of 1,016 visual artists across the world finds that the badges of professional success don't necessarily equate to financial stability
Vincent Van Gogh, Bedroom in Arles, 1889. Courtesy: Wikimedia Commons; Art Institute of Chicago
A new study finds that the path to financial stability for those working in the visual arts today 'is neither straight nor predictable'. A survey carried out by Creative Independent, Kickstarter's creatives platform, polled 1,016 visual artists across the world. 'When faced with the question of whether to seek out gallery representation, attempt to sell art on their own, or keep a day job while hustling to make art on the side, many emerging visual artists have no firm guide posts to look to on their journey,' Willa Köerner, Creative Independent's creative content director said.
32% of respondents have worked in the visual arts for more than a decade, while 37% have just begun over the last 5 years. 75% are based in the US. Of these, 12% indicated on a scale of 1 to 10 that they did not consider themselves financially stable at all (rated as a 1). Just 3% gave their financial stability rating a 9 or 10. The median income was USD$20,000 to USD$30,000 (60% made under USD$30,000). By contrast, the US median household income is USD$58,000. Just 17% of respondents made more than that.
Unsurprisingly, it appears that artists today make a living through several sources of income. 61% are freelancers, and 42% hold jobs that don't relate to their art practice. Most of the respondents see making art as a part-time job (only 10% spent over 40 hours a week making art). Nearly 50% of respondents said that under 10% of their income was related to their art, and 29% depended on family money. Just 17% artists said they were making over 75% of their income from art.
29% of the artists surveyed had gallery representation, but of these respondents, it was not clear whether it had helped them on the path to financial stability. Asked to respond on a scale of 1 to 10 on whether representation had helped financial stability, the median response was 3. 63% of the artists had an art-related degree, but felt ambivalent about whether it had helped them become more financially stable (on a scale of 1 to 10, the media response was 4). However, they were more confident that their degree had helped them build a stronger career.
The study's findings follows on from a report released by the Freelands Foundation, which says that the gender disparity in major London galleries has got worse. The Foundation's analysis of figures compiled over 2017 argues that there is a pronounced gender gap in the professional markers of an artist's career, including securing commercial representation or being recognized with a solo exhibition at a major London institution.
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Stats are for Losers, Week 1 (vs. Cal)
Your weekly look at the stats that matter, don't matter, and have no bearing on reality. If you read this, be assured that Fitz thinks you are a loser.
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Fitz responding to the press (likely deriding stats or recruiting rankings).
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Another season begins anew. As previously mentioned here, Northwestern is undefeated in season openers under Fitz, so let's explore in further detail:
NU has won 9 consecutive season openers (8 of those under Fitz) by an average margin of 16.2 points per game. Dating back to 1995, the 'Cats are 15-4 in the first game of the season. NU is 13-4 ATS during that span (2 of the games were against FCS teams and didn't have a Vegas line).
Northwestern was tied or ahead at halftime in all 15 of those games that they went on to win and was behind in the 4 games that they lost. In fact, NU was tied or ahead at the end of the first quarter in all but 5 of the games (which included the 4 aforementioned losses, plus the 2008 game versus Syracuse when NU pulled ahead for good in the second quarter).
Unfortunately for the Wildcats, the game is being shown on ABC (regional, ESPN2 reverse mirror) and NU has not fared well on the broadcast network recently, having lost their last 11 games on the network (by an average margin of defeat of 26.0). But, this will be the first time that NU is favored (current line, NU -11) when appearing on ABC since 2001 (game one of the 11 game streak). In the intervening span, NU was an underdog by an average of 12.9 points/game.
All-time, NU is 65-20-2 when opening the season at home with an average scoring margin of +11.3 points/game.
Northwestern QBs have had completion percentages above 60% in the last 11 NU season openers, including a highwater mark of 90.5% against Vanderbilt in 2010 (Dan Persa). The total completion rate over that span of games is 69.7% (with an interception rate of just 2.3%) while throwing for 19 TDs.
Back to the spread (NU -11), the 'Cats are 13-2 under Fitz when favored by double digits (FBS competition only), although NU lost the last such game (vs. Minnesota, 2013, when NU was a 12 point favorite). Northwestern's average scoring margin in those games is +12.5 points/game.
The O/U for the game is currently 61. Under Fitzgerald, NU has played in 13 games with an O/U of 60 or greater, and the 'Cats are 6-7 in those games (the last such game being NU's 2013 loss to OSU, which also had an O/U of 61). The 'Cats have averaged 32.4 points/game in these contests.
While NU is not currently ranked, the 'Cats received votes in both the preseason Coaches and AP polls. Meanwhile, Cal did not receive a vote in either. Under Fitzgerald, the Wildcats are 22-8 when receiving at least a vote in both polls and facing an opponent who did not receive votes in either poll.
Fitz was featured in an article from USA Today's Paul Myerberg about the increasing usage of statistics in college football. Yes, not only does Fitz think that stats are for losers, but he included the fact that NU follows over 40 specific stats nowadays.

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Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy Says She Consults Dave Filoni on All Star Wars' Projects
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It looks like Star Wars Rebels showrunner Dave Filoni has a whole lot of influence over the galaxy far, far away.
Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy just recently spoke in an interview with Vanity Fair about Star Wars: The Mandalorian's pilot episode director, and according to Star Wars' head honcho, Filoni has become one of the key figures in the storytelling team at Lucasfilm.
Though the Lucasfilm executive didn't really go into detail about Filoni's involvement in each of the Star Wars projects that he's been in, Kennedy says that the Star Wars: The Clone Wars producer has been an invaluable resource in shaping the future of the franchise.
"There isn't a thing that we do in the storytelling space that I don't check with Dave," Kennedy admitted in her interview with the entertainment news outlet, "What I find about Dave is you don't just sit down and have a discussion about plot or review characters inside the Star Wars world. You end up having meaningful, thoughtful discussions about what it is we're trying to say inside the storytelling. He has a lot of empathy."
Filoni first joined the Star Wars saga when he helped develop the animated Clone Wars feature film which later on turned into an entire television series. Since then, Filoni has become an important member of the franchise. Now, the producer is working as an episode director on Lucasfilm's highly anticipated Star Wars live-action series, Star Wars: The Mandalorian.
Star Wars: The Mandalorian is set to release on November 12, 2019.
Read: Disney CEO Bob Iger Says More Star Wars Shows are in Development for Disney+
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Here's how Canadian music sales and streaming stats ended (almost) for 2022
Miss your old iPod? This site will allow you to bring it back. Sort of.
Paralyzed musicians perform using nothing but brainwaves
This dude has a singing voice that extends over six octaves
Here's a trip through some rare and weird media formats
The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 927: Unsung heroes, part 1
October 8, 2021 October 7, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Grady Martin, Henry Goldrich, Jack Mullin, Malcolm Cecil, Moondog, Robert Margouleff, TONTO
Not everyone who managed to change the world is famous. It is possible to do something absolutely monumentally world-shaking and not receive any attention for it. In fact, I'll give you a name: Vasili Arkhipov. It's possible that this guy is the only reason any of us are alive today. Seriously.
It was October 27, 1962, the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Soviets had nukes in Cuba aimed at the US and more were on the way. John F. Kennedy responded by setting up a blockade around the island.
The USS Randolph was one of the ships in charge of enforcing the blockade. They spotted a Soviet sub that was sent to protect the flotilla of Russian ships loaded with missiles approaching the island. This one particular sub–a Foxtrot class B-59–was armed with its own nuclear missiles. Arkipov was the second in command.
The Randolph began dropping depth charges in an effort to get the sub to surface. B-59 suffered damage. The crew couldn't breathe. They wanted to fight back. Captain Valentin Savitsky tried to raise Soviet central command for permission to return fire, but the transmissions wouldn't go through.
Because they'd been cruising submerged for days, they hadn't anything from anyone. But they had been monitoring American civilian broadcasts which were offering non-stop coverage of the crisis. And now they were under attack. Maybe the long-feared nuclear war had finally begun. If that was the case, shouldn't they launch their missiles?
Captain Savitsky was in favour of an attack. So was political officer Ivan Maslennikov. But in order to launch the nukes, Savitsky and Maslennikov also needed agreement from Arkhipov.
"What do you say, Vasili? Do we engage the Americans with our special weapon?"
Arkipov took a deep breath and said "Nyet. We do not fire. We have no proof we are at war. What if we're wrong? If we launch, we risk starting an all-out nuclear war which will wipe out all life on the planet."
Captain Savitsky wasn't happy, but rules were rules and he ordered that the crew stand down. No nukes would be fired that day. And when the sub did surface, it was confirmed that hostilities had not commenced. This is why Vasili Arkipov is widely regarded as the man who single-handedly prevented a global nuclear catastrophe on October 27, 1962. Yet how many people know his name?
Now let's take a big pivot into music. What sort of unsung heroes might we find there?
Songs heard on this program:
David Bowie, Heroes
XTC, Real by Reel
Portishead, Glory Box
Nirvana, Lithium
Rage Against the Machine, Bulls on Parade
TONTO, Cybernaut
Depeche Mode, Just Can't Get Enough
Eric Wilhite has this playlist.
Don't forget that you can get the podcast version of this podcast through iTunes or wherever you get your on-demand audio.
The Ongoing History of New Music can be heard on the following stations:
102.1 The Edge/Toronto – Sunday night at 7
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I am so excited that there are so many people interested in blogging and working from home! If you read my post 2 Side Jobs That Make Me $3,000 Per Month as a Stay At Home Mom you can see exactly how and just how much I'm making working from home. Blogging has taken my family and I places I would have never imagined. We recently had our very first sponsored blog trips, first with Royal Caribbean, you can see our recap post here and now with Disney, which you can read about here.
I have lots of info that I want to share. Part of being a blogger is sharing your knowledge and things you have learned with others and I am so excited to talk more about this here.
Today I am going to help you get started on the very first thing that you need before you can make money from home. You NEED a website. In fact, I have several.
Everyone has websites these days and a blog is the BEST way to start. Why? Because it's simple, just start writing about topics that your target audience would be interested in and people will find you!
You can use your blog as a standalone way to make money OR you can even use your blog to help support another business, maybe you already create products or want to in the future. Blogging is the best way to build a community that trusts you and are interested in what you have to say.
Regardless of where your business takes you, working from home for your online business means that you have to create a presence online on your blog AND on social media. So why not start now?
I recommend starting with a WordPress platform and Bluehost as the hosting company.
I have used WordPress since I started building websites many moons ago. WordPress is awesome because the options to customize are endless. There are endless amounts of templates, both free and premium available to choose from. There are thousands of free plugins that will allow you to customize your site easily without any technical knowledge.
The WordPress platform itself is free, but in order to use WordPress online you will need to establish a hosting account through a hosting company. I recommend Bluehost since it's reliable and inexpensive. Hosting basically means that you are paying a company to store all of your files on their server. Your blog files have to be kept somewhere!
A WordPress website with a custom domain will cost you about $60 – $100 per year depending on how many years you purchase up front.
There are free options out there like Blogger and Squarespace. However, if you are truly serious about monetizing your site or making money from home then do not go with Blogger or Squarespace. There are limitations for both and what may happen is that you will end of switching to WordPress, in the long run, anyway which could wind up being costly and complicated.
Now let's get into the details and I will walk you through step by step in getting your first WordPress blog setup.
Step 1: Click here to register with Bluehost.
By purchasing through this link you will receive the best price of hosting + a free domain! YAY!
Once you click the link above you will see this page. You will need to select a plan. I recommend going with plus or prime just because of the options. Domain privacy is included in Prime and basically, that gives you the option to keep your personal information private and hidden from your public domain information. If it's not in your budget then go ahead and select the basic and you can always upgrade later.
If you have not purchased a domain elsewhere then choose I Need a Domain Name. Your domain name is what someone would type in to get to your site. My recommendations are to keep it simple. Try to use a .com, try to avoid intentional misspellings or symbols that could cause confusion for someone trying to find your blog.
The next step is to enter your account information. Be sure to use an email address that you check regularly because this is where all of your login/account details will be sent.
Your plan is billed for annually and I always suggest going with the 36-month price option because it's the best price and it keeps me from having to renew my account every year. Even if you are just starting out I still recommend the 36-month because it's the best value and you can cancel at any time and receive a refund if you decide you don't want to use Bluehost any longer.
The last step here is to enter your payment information.
Congrats!! You have started a blog!!
Be sure to check your email to find your welcome emails and save them. If you purchased a new domain with your hosting account then you will also need to click a link to activate your domain.
This is your blogging platform. Trust me when I say you will be very happy you started on WordPress. I know so many people who get to year 2 or 3 or even later into their blogging career and they find that they have to switch in order to make some serious money. You don't have to do anything here, Bluehost will automatically start installing WordPress for you so you can get started working on your blog right away!
After you first login, Bluehost will give you the option to search and install a free theme. Here is my suggestion….don't use a free theme. If anything, use the default theme that is already installed with WordPress until you can purchase a premium theme (premium= paid/not free). Here is why I suggest this. In 5 years of blogging, the themes that have given me the most trouble, i.e. brought my site down, slow loading, plugin conflicts etc, have all been free themes. Any theme that you pay for is considered a premium theme, you want a premium theme because the developer is typically available to help you with any issues the theme has caused. They usually are there to stand by their work and since you are a paid customer they do offer support for it.
I personally use Genesis Framework because I think it's the best. The support is amazing and you can choose from a variety of well-made child themes to go along with it. If you are looking for something feminine and soft then check out Restored316designs.com. I'm in love with them!
For now though, I'd recommend skipping this step and coming back to it later once you have had a chance to research some blog themes.
You are now ready to Start Building! Clicking the link below will take you to your WordPress dashboard.
And it looks like this. I'd recommend selecting "I don't need help" on this screen so you can bypass the Business / Personal option. I prefer to start with a clean slate than having suggestions on settings.
You will find yourself becoming very familiar with your Dashboard. Use the black sidebar menu to navigate. You will start a new post by selecting the Post option. You will also want to add Pages to your blog, like an About Me page and anything else you want to add. Feel free to use my site as a reference!
Now it's time to get to brainstorming some ideas on your first post! So much fun!! Are you ready?
Thanks for sharing your stories. I love reading your blog a lot and is interested in signing up for the mini blogging course however, there's always error message appearing whenever I tried to sign up.
Please help me sign up! ThAnks in advance.
Thank you so much for writing these kinds of informative things. my friend prefer to read your block that really helped me lot.


A murder mystery set against the stunning Scottish backdrop of the Shetland Isles. A severed hand washes up on a Shetland beach, with further body parts discovered in a holdall that has been dumped at sea. Perez (Douglas Henshall) and the team begin a complex murder investigation.
David Kane returns as lead writer for series 5 and will also exec produce, with episodes 1, 3, 5 and 6 written by him.


The title is scary isn't it. Yes, it is and in fact at times, the bathroom looked like a crime scene and I looked like a hot mess. For real.
There was dye on the toilet, dye all over the towel, dye and runny mascara streaking my face and of course the tub. It seemed like it was going to be a complete disaster at times.
Why did I submit myself and my lovely locks to this?
$10 versus $80 every 6 weeks. A savings of around $610 a year not including tips (my new hair stylist takes the non monetary kind).
A few years ago I discovered some very unwanted greys located very near the part in my hair. They had to be dealt with. I loved my hair color....it was basically the only thing I was okay with as far as my hair was concerned. It had nice natural highlights and I was totally okay with the dark brown color.
I didn't want any fancy highlights....I mean what options do you have with brown? But I didn't want to pick the wrong color by myself either so I decided to leave it to a professional. What I didn't know was how much it cost.
Prior to the discovery of my greys, I had decided to treat myself to a very nice salon with very trained stylists. My hair is difficult. No one knows how to deal with my curls and certainly no one wants to straighten them correctly. I was usually left to go home and redo my hair from scratch after spending an hour plus in the salon and it was annoying. So when I went to college I decided it was time to find someone who could deal with them correctly and for $40 a pop I found someone who could decently do just that.
When I talked to her about my newly discovered greys she assured me she could take care of them for only a mere $80 not including the $40 cut! My jaw dropped, of course, but what choice did I have?
It continued for awhile, until I started to feel really guilty. That's when I decided to go a little cheaper. I found someone who could do the whole kit and caboodle for around $50. Sold!
It was disastrous. It was the wrong color. The lady was a nut. She couldn't straighten my hair. And on top of that it didn't last.
Back to the professional I went.
She mentioned she hadn't seen me in awhile. I apologized and she left to get my color mixed. That's when the nosey assistant walked over to chat. He started looking at my hair and yelled over to my stylist. "Girl, I don't think this is 3G! Are you sure that's what you put on her last?" My stylist then came over to take a look.
She exclaimed "You've been cheating on me!"
My face was red. I swear I could feel everyone in the salon turn to look at me.
I lied. I tried to explain that I had been home over the holidays and had to resort to my hometown stylist. I professed my love to her and told her I would never cheat again.
I was totally caught. I could never leave. I was trapped by my good hair cuts.
Skip forward a few years.
The salon was growing and there were way too many clients. Assistants were doing my hair for the same ungodly prices and I wound up leaving 2.5 hours later with black dye smudged all over my face. It was the final straw. I switched completely. I found someone who could do cut and color for under $100. I was happy.
Perfect timing to do some experimenting without having to make a commitment. I can try as many colors as I like without having to feel the least bit guilty. I'm tired of the long complicated relationships I can't seem to get out of. I'm just not ready to marry anything yet. Maybe one day I'll find the one, but for now I just want to fool around!
Which led to last night.
It was nerve wrecking, it was fun, it was different. Everything turned out okay. Lessons were learned and things will be better the next time. It's definitely not as good as a professional, but for now I'm okay with my cheap fix.
All photos's were engagement photo's (just because).
That is such a good idea! I usually dye my own hair but having my hubs do it would be SO much easier!
That is hilarious! I dont think I could let hubs near my hair but I use to color it on my own all the time to save money!
lol hubs pulls my hair through the cap for me so that I can highlight! I just can't reach the back. He only helps me because he is fully aware of how much going to someone else cost instead of getting the box dye. I was talking to a friend who asked her hair stylist the difference before her and a box of dye... she said you just need to use more conditioner when you rinse it out. DONE! Hubs also got me a gift card for 150 a few years ago to treat myself and get my hair cut and highlighted. He was shocked when I told him the gc was gone!
I hate how stylists get all possessive like that. I'm a free spirit, I wanna get my hair done by whoever I want!!
When I died my hair when I was pregnant, I had the hubs do it with a semi permanent color and it turned out great!
Maybe you'll make friends with someone that does hair and they can hook you up! I would look like a cavewoman without mine.
My mom - 84 years old - has been dying her own hair for over 45 years. Me? It is the one perk I allow myself. At 53, I do spend the $120 every six weeks. I figure another few years until my kids are all grown, then I'll grow out my hair and be the old lady with the gray hair in a braid down her back. Take my $120 and buy better wine. Maybe even some makeup.


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Anda Adamsone-Fiskovica, sociologist (Dr.sc.soc.), researcher at the Baltic Studies Centre (Riga, Latvia) - a private non-profit research institute specialising in studies of sustainable rural and regional development, agro-food systems, farming and innovations. Expert in science, technology and innovation studies with a particular interest in science communication. She has been involved in many EU projects, including ERAWATCH, INNO-Policy TrendChart, MASIS, EUMIDA, TRANSMANGO, SUFISA, INNOFRUIT, SALSA, PLAID. She has acted as the national representative of Latvia at the EU FP6 Programme committee "Science and society" and the EU FP7 Programme committee "Science in society".


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Arizona At-A-Glance
Defense Favorability by County
Arizona At-A-GlanceNarinda Greene2022-01-11T13:01:33-07:00
This resource demonstrates our general experience as to verdict results in each county, and outlines 15 points on the most common questions and issues in personal injury claims.
Statute of Limitations: A one-year limitation applies to claims for malicious prosecution, false imprisonment, libel or slander, breach of employment contract, wrongful termination, workers compensation, liability created by statute, and actions against public entities or employees. A two-year limitation applies to claims for bad faith, medical malpractice, legal malpractice, injury to person, injury when death ensues, and injury to or conversion of property. A three-year statute of limitation applies to legal malpractice claims based on oral contracts. A six-year statute of limitation applies to claims for breach of contract and legal malpractice claims based on written contracts. Time limits are tolled while a person is a minor or of unsound mind. Claims made by a state or political subdivision are generally not barred by a statute of limitations.
Punitive Damages: Punitive damages are awardable in the most egregious tort cases, involving outrageous and reprehensible conduct. A plaintiff may be entitled to punitive damages if the defendant acted maliciously, wantonly, or willfully. According to the current recommended jury instructions, a plaintiff must prove, by "clear and convincing evidence," that the defendant acted with one or more of the following states of mind: (1) intended to cause injury; (2) was motivated by spite or ill will; (3) acted to serve his own interests, having reason to know and consciously disregarding a substantial risk that his conduct might significantly injure the rights of others; or (4) consciously pursued a course of conduct knowing that it created a substantial risk of significant harm to others.
Comparative Negligence: Arizona is a pure comparative fault and several liability jurisdiction, meaning each defendant is liable only for that amount of the plaintiff's damages allocated to that defendant in direct proportion to the defendant's percentage of fault. Three exceptions apply to allow joint liability: where defendants act in concert; where a person acts as an agent or servant of another; and where liability arises out of the FELA.
Assumption of the Risk: In all cases, this defense is a question of fact for the jury. Even if the jury finds that a plaintiff assumed the risk, it still has discretion to find for the plaintiff or the defendant, or assign percentages of fault to both.
Dram Shop Act: Applies to commercial vendors. The vendor can be sued by anyone, including the intoxicated individual, for injury, property damage, or death. It does not apply to a social host, so long as the person served is 21 years of age, or older.
Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress: May be sought by: (1) a bystander who witnesses bodily injury to a closely related person and suffers mental anguish at the time of the accident from witnessing that injury; or (2) an individual who develops mental anguish from a threat to his or her personal security. In both instances, the individual must be within the zone of danger when the accident occurs and the mental anguish must manifest itself with physical injury. The damages must be caused by the emotional disturbance that occurred at the time of the accident, and not thereafter.
Med Pay: None required. Purely contractual.
Collateral Source Rule: In general, a defendant may not introduce evidence that a plaintiff's damages were paid by a collateral source (e.g., insurance), or that a plaintiff's bills were satisfied by a reduced amount. However, evidence of collateral source payments is admissible in medical negligence cases, subject to the plaintiff's right to introduce evidence of any liens against the plaintiff's claim. The purpose of this exception is to prevent double recovery by medical malpractice plaintiffs. In all cases, a plaintiff must prove that billed charges are reasonable and customary in the community. The purpose of this rule is to prevent a tortfeasor from deriving any benefit from compensation or indemnity that an injured party has received from a collateral source.
Mandatory Liability Coverage: Minimum auto liability limits: $15,000 for bodily injury or death of one person in any one accident; $30,000 for bodily injury or death of two or more persons in any one accident; and $10,000 for damage or destruction of property of others in any one accident. Punitive damages are covered by a liability policy, unless specifically excluded, but they are not covered in UM/UIM policies, unless specifically included.
Uninsured and Underinsured Motorist Coverage: A carrier is required to offer UM/UIM coverage in writing, in limits not less than bodily injury liability limits. Failure to make the offer results in inclusion of UM/UIM in the policy by operation of law.
Offer of Judgment: In cases not subject to arbitration, a plaintiff or defendant can make an offer of judgment at any time more than 30 days before a trial begins. If the case is assigned to arbitration, the offer of judgment must be made more than 25 days before the arbitration. If an offer is not accepted, and the offeree does not later obtain a more favorable judgment, the offeree must pay reasonable expert witness fees and double the taxable costs incurred by the offeror after making the offer. A plaintiff offeror may also recover prejudgment interest on unliquidated claims to accrue from the date of the offer.
Seat Belt Rule: A jury may consider the plaintiff's failure to wear a seat belt if: (1) the injured party is of an age or discretion that failure to wear a seat belt could be viewed as fault; (2) the failure to use the seat belt was unreasonable under all circumstances; (3) the failure caused or enhanced the plaintiff's injuries; and (4) evidence shows, with reasonable probability, the degree of enhancement.
Courts: Lawsuits filed in the Arizona superior courts are subject to mandatory arbitration if the amount in controversy is $50,000 or less (lower limits in some outlying counties). A party not satisfied with the arbitrator's decision has a right to appeal the matter for a trial de novo in superior court. However, there are sanctions for failing to obtain at least a 23% more favorable outcome in the superior court.
Wrongful Death Cases: Action can be brought by and in the name of the surviving spouse, parents, or children. If none of them survive, a wrongful death action can be brought by the decedent's estate.
Settlement of Wrongful Death and Minor Cases: A minor lacks capacity to enter into a binding contract, including settlement agreements. Therefore, obtaining a binding settlement of a minor's claim requires court approval, regardless of the amount of the settlement. To do otherwise risks the possibility that the minor can later reopen the claim.
*This material is intended to provide a general overview of defense favorability in each County in Arizona, and should not be relied upon as the sole source of current information, nor substituted for competent professional legal advice as applied to any particular situation. Please contact an attorney at JSH if you have any questions.
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The price of gas at Shell stations in Florida is considerably higher than the regional average. Shell has the contract for the gas stations on Florida's Turnpike. Photo taken July 29, 2013.
The average price of a gallon of regular unleaded gas slipped about four cents per gallon in the past week, according to the weekly pricing survey from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, but the offset was hardly noticeable in some cities, where the price of gas kept going higher despite the numbers reflected in government pricing surveys.
In fact, Shell Oil, which has the contract for the service plazas on Florida's Turnpike, had some of the highest prices for gasoline in the South Florida Metro Area, including Fort Lauderdale, where some stations were charging more than $3.80 per gallon, even though the average for Gulf Coast and Lower Atlantic states is more than 30¢ per gallon cheaper.
Conversely, in New Jersey, where pricing controls are in place, and tied to the consumer-based Lundberg Survey, the current price gas is $3.61 per gallon, which is below the EIA survey price for the East Coast U.S.
The pain at the pump comes into focus when comparing prices to one year ago, when the average cost of a gallon of gas was hovering around the $3.50 range. Right now, the average U.S. gas price is about $3.65 per gallon, although that number is down from last week.
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For truckers, the price if diesel kept rising during the past week, with the average per gallon price, nationwide, now at about $3.92. In some states, particularly on the U.S. West Coast, the price is well above $4.00 per gallon. New England states also saw diesel prices keep rising above the 4-dollar mark.
Interestingly, the pricing charts for crude oil and gasoline closely mirror each other, primarily because of the way fuel distributors' accounting practice, which reflects a "last in, first out" inventory pricing policy. That strategy accounts – no pun intended – for the fact fuel distributors charge more for gasoline the moment crude oil prices begin to spike. The cost of existing inventories, which may have been less expensive, are not typically part of the immediate pricing equation.
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Author Danny PryorPosted on July 29, 2013 April 2, 2019 Categories Gas Prices, Trucker News
Florida and North Carolina Tag Team on SunPass and Quick Pass
Florida's Turnpike will now accept the North Carolina Quick Pass for payment on Florida's Turnpike, it was announced today. Conversely, Florida's SunPass can now be used to pay tolls on the Triangle Expressway in the North Carolina Research Triangle Park region. The announcement was made by both states' Departments of Transportation in what had been an expected union of the two electronic tolling systems.
One of the frequent questions visitors to TurnpikeInfo.com have is why E-ZPass and other state electronic toll devices do not work in Florida. Dianne Gutierrez-Scaccetti, the exective director of Florida's Turnpike Enterprise, wrote in a news release, "Interoperability between SunPass and electronic toll systems in other states is something we've bee diligently working toward for some time."
The North Carolina tolling system participates in the broader E-ZPass electronic toll system, which covers states across the entire middle and upper Atlantic regions, New England, and the Midwest. Until now, Florida had never participated in any interstate electronic tolling system.
Connecting with North Carolina is a likely first step in Florida becoming part of the larger E-ZPass network at a time when the state is making significant technology upgrades to its toll roads and toll collection systems. Florida's Turnpike Extension, located in Miami-Dade County, became the first leg of the turnpike system, in the Sunshine State, to become an all-electronic tolling system. However, no timetable has yet been posted detailing when SunPass might be accepted in other states or when E-ZPass, particularly from states like New York and New Jersey, might be accepted in Florida.
Author Danny PryorPosted on July 29, 2013 March 28, 2019 Categories Florida's Turnpike, General News
Crude Oil Prices Lead Gas Prices Higher
Gas prices are steadily heading back to $4.00 per gallon in some places, particularly California and the U.S. West Coast. The price of gas in most regions of the U.S. is now between $3.70 and $3.80.
A continual rise in crude oil prices has solidly impacted the price of gasoline at the pump, with the weekly gas price survey showing fuel costs higher from coast to coast, regardless of whether you drive a regular car or a tractor-trailer rig. The price of a gallon of regular unleaded jumped nearly a nickel per gallon during the past week, while diesel prices jumped by about four-cents per gallon. Overall, the national average gas price is up about 19-cents versus this time last year. Diesel prices are up about 12 cents per gallon, year over year.
The spike in prices has officially placed the U.S. average fuel cost higher than had been predicted by the U.S. Department of Energy. During the spring, the Energy Information Administration had predicted overall fuel prices would be around $3.63 over the summer. While prices along the lower Atlantic states and across the Gulf Coast are below that figure, most drivers across the United States are now paying anywhere from $3.71 across the Central Atlantic to nearly $4.00 across the West Coast. Diesel costs are now at or above that $4.00 per gallon threshold, with no signs of abating in the near future.
The cost of gas is being driven, to turn a phrase, by upward prices on crude oil. West Texas Intermediate crude has nearly matched up with the price of Brent Light Sweet Crude, rallying over the course of several months to keep the cost of a barrel of oil well above $100. European investors traded back some of their U.S. oil futures on Monday, July 22, in favor of profit-taking, several observers, including CNBC's Jim Cramer, say oil is likely to only go higher. A per-barrel price of about $110 is still seen as very likely, meaning the summer driving season will give way to a back-to-school season with even higher gas prices.
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Gas Prices Begin Strong Upsurge For Summer
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Julius Caesar was warned about "the Ides of March," but for modern drivers, the Ides of July brought the bad news of gasoline prices surging across the U.S., up almost a quarter per gallon in some places. The latest pricing survey from the Energy Information Administration shows the average price of one gallon of regular unleaded is now $3.64 per gallon, up an astonishing 15-cents in just one week.
Drivers in the Midwest, where weather conditions in May created gas price havoc, are reliving the price shock at the pump, only worse. Prices leaped ahead by an average of 23-cents per gallon across nearly all of the Midwest. Only the Rocky Mountain states and the broader West Coast states escaped such drastic price swings during the past week, but prices still increased by about 9-cents per gallon in most states west of the Rockies.
Cost instability also afflicted truckers, at least moreso than during most recent weeks. The avereage price of a gallon of diesel fuel ticked upward by about four cents; but areas of the Gulf Coast and U.S. West Coast saw prices rise more than a nickel per gallon.
A number of factors could be contributing to the summer gas price increases, including fresh high prices for oil futures amid very tight supplies. Brent oil neared $110 per barrel as oil inventories decline and refinery capacity remains restrained this year. As mentioned, severe weather conditions across the Midwest during May cause shipping and refinery problems, and this year's permanent closure of other refineries has also contributed to the cost pressure at the pump.
Year over year, most American drivers are paying between 18 and 25 cents per gallon more for gas. Translated to a full fill-up of a 15-gallon tank, that is the equivalent of an extra $2.70 to $3.75 per gallon more per tank.
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Gas Prices Begin Upward Climb As Crude Oil Prices Retreat Slightly
Gas prices nudged upward in some regions, and truckers, in particular, found themselves paying more at the pump during the past several days as the price of a gallon of diesel began creeping higher in the wake of a spike in commodities prices during the past week.
Overall, the price of a gallon of unleaded gasoline was fairly flat across most regions, although higher in New England and the Midwest. Diesel prices were broadly higher across the United States, but slightly lower in the New England and Rocky Mountain states. The prices are detailed in the latest weekly survey from the Energy Information Administration.
The price fluctuations come amid a spike last week in crude oil futures, which came as unrest in Egypt gave rise to concerns about global supplies. However, crude oil prices were down from last week's highs Monday. Still the summer driving season has been rocked by refinery issues and flooding problems in the Midwest, political unrest across the Middle East, and a train derailment in Quebec Saturday, July 6, that could further exacerbate supply issues, even though reserves remain fairly stable across North America.
The average price of a gallon of unleaded, nationwide, was just under $3.50; although prices along the West Coast and California remained significantly higher, with some people paying upward of $4.00 for a gallon of regular unleaded.
Prices of diesel remained at about $3.83 per gallon, on average, during the past week; however, truckers along the West Coast and in New England were paying at or above $4.00 per gallon.
Author Danny PryorPosted on July 8, 2013 April 2, 2019 Categories Gas Prices, Trucker News
July Starts With Bang Of A Decline In Gas Prices
The month of America's independence got off to an across-the-nation drop in gas prices, helping many people save anywhere from a few pennies to several dollars on a tank of gas, depending upon where they live. The decline in gas prices varied widely by region again this week, according to the EIA weekly survey, but for the first time in several weeks, drivers in every region enjoyed a drop in the cost of fuel.
The average price of a gallon of gas fell by just over eight-cents during the week, with prices in the midwest continuing to plummet as the region continues to recover from dramatic weather and refinery issues suffered during May. The average cost of gallon of unleaded fell by 15-cents across the Midwest during the past week. In all, Midwest gas prices have fallen nearly 50-cents per gallon during the past three weeks.
For most of the rest of America's drivers, the price declines were far more modest, with the average driver outside of the Midwest seeing declines of anywhere from three to seven cents per gallon. As of July 1, the average U.S. cost of a gallon of regular unleaded was down to about $3.50; with prices in California and on the West Coast averaging $3.89 and $3.70, respectively. The lowest prices for fuel are to be found along the Gulf Coast, where a gallon of gas is about $3.31.
For the truckers moving products, and in some cases gasoline, across the United States, the price of diesel dropped during the past week, as well. Price declines were seen in every region of the U.S., but compared to gas, the drop in diesel prices was very slim. Diesel prices per gallon fell by only about two cents per gallon, to a national average of about $3.82.
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Above & Beyond have shared a new EP.
Following the release of their single 'Another Angel' in November, the trance trio have dropped a six-track EP, entitled 'Out of Time'.
With highly-anticipated club edits and updates of tracks from various EPs, 'Out of Time' also follows the outfit's 'Flowstate' album, which was released earlier this year.
Listen to the EP below, which includes a Gorge Update of 'Alone Tonight' that fans first heard at A&B's Group Therapy Weekender back in July.
In October, Above & Beyond announced the full line-up for the debut edition of their new trance and progressive ski festival, Anjunabeats elevations, which takes place from the 28th March to 3rd April next year.
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Ballroom dancer | Article about Ballroom dancer by The Free Dictionary
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a dance that serves as mass recreation and is performed by a couple or by the greater part of the participants at dances or balls. Ballroom dances are also frequently called social dances. Peasant dances, city and court social dances, and stage dances, including ritual and temple dances and dances of the feudal nobility and folk entertainers, developed from primitive folk dances. This process went on simultaneously with society's development and social stratification into antagonistic classes. This process developed in a similar fashion in the countries of Western and Eastern Europe, Asia, and Africa. The folk sources of the ballroom dance insured its vitality and broad dissemination; they promoted the formation of democratic genres and forms of social dance among different peoples and creatively enriched the process of development of these genres.
The ballroom dance arose in the 14th century in Italy as a result of favorable conditions (the diverse social life of the growing cities). The theoretical development of the rules of ballroom dancing also occurred in Italy. The ballroom dance later spread to France, and in the 16th and 17th centuries France began to dictate the rules of ballroom dancing.
The ballroom dance initially had no clearly defined form. The so-called low dances (basses danses) with their bows, curtsies, and salutes predominated. Frequently they took the form of processions with candles and torches and were accompanied by the singing of the dancers themselves or by the playing of lutes, flutes, tambourines, harps, and trumpets. Folk dances were first introduced at balls through the art of the jugglers and trouvères and were adapted accordingly to the primness and etiquette of the court and the aristocracy. Dances usually merged, as, for example, the estam-pie or the basse danse with the saltarello, the pavane with the galliard, and so forth. The French ballroom dances branle and volta (14th—16th centuries) enjoyed great popularity in Italy and particularly in France.
In the 17th century, the ballroom dance spread throughout Europe. In each country it acquired different nuances and national styles; it was enriched and continually modified. The bourrée, gavotte, allemande, chaconne, gigue, and saraband became popular. The minuet was dominant. The Academy of Dance was founded in Paris in 1661. It codified the style and manner of performing the ballroom dance, which included stateliness, the prohibition of improvisation, the observance of a definite order based on the rank of the dancers, and other rules. The ballroom dance was taught by special teachers or in schools of dance.
In the 18th century, new and freer dances spread, such as the passepied, musette, rigadoon, contredanse, ecossaise, and ländler. The first public ball requiring an admission fee was held in Paris in 1715. Such balls attained great popularity; 684 public balls were held in Paris in 1797. The first premises expressly for ballroom dancing were opened in Paris in 1768.
The French Revolution greatly influenced the social and cultural life, including the ballroom dance, of all of Europe. The changes in social and public life brought by the French Revolution furthered the development of many mass ballroom dances in the 19th century. Rhythmically lively and natural, they included the tempête, the mutre dour, many forms of the French quadrilles, and the waltz with its numerous variations. The lander, ländler, galop, cancan, and finally, the polka, mazurka, and polonaise spread everywhere. The waltz became the most popular ballroom dance in the middle of the 19th century, supplanting the gavotte and minuet. The history of the waltz is inseparably linked with the works of the Viennese composers J. Strauss the Elder, J. Lanner, and J. Strauss the Younger.
The countries of North and South America began to exert considerable influence on the development of the ballroom dance in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Boston waltz, two-step, one-step, blues, fox-trot, quick step, Charleston, and other dances appeared.
The assemblies instituted by the 1718 ukase of Peter I were extremely important for the development of ballroom dancing in Russia; they can be considered as the first Russian balls.
Under the influence of Petrine ukases, ballroom dancing spread widely in Russia and by the middle of the 18th century was a compulsory subject in many schools.
The flowering of Russian ballet influenced the social dance in Russia, especially in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The social dance had always enriched the ballet. In turn, many ballroom dances created during these years by artists of the Russian ballet bore elements and stylistic features of classical dance and staged folk dancing. It was precisely during this period that such dances as the pas de grâ ce (E. Ivanov), pas de trois (A. Bychkov), pas des patineurs (N. Iakovlev and N. Gavlinkovskii), and pas d'Espagne (A. Tsarman) were created.
The Soviet ballroom dance has retained the best dances of the old Russian ballroom school, as well as the waltz, the mazurka, the polka, and the krakowiak. New dances have also appeared, including the Moldavian polka, polianka, kacheli, elechka, infiz, ter-ri-kon, russkaia liricheskaia, rid-rito, kaza-nova, lesta, kabluchki, and vechernii ritm. The fox-trot, tango, slow waltz, and such new foreign dances as the twist, sirtaki, limbo, i-kha-kha, hully-gully, and shake are also widespread. This enumeration is not fixed and is supplemented from time to time by new dances.
Contemporary ballroom dancing is marked by improvisation; the dancers, knowing the basic elements of the dance, vary them freely in contrast to such dances of a definite composition as the mignon, pas de quatre, and hully-gully. Improvisational dances were also known earlier—the mazurka, waltz, and Charleston. However, interest in improvisational dancing began to grow markedly in the second half of the 20th century. Most foreign and Soviet dances of the 1960's are of free composition, as for example, the lipsi, twist, and redlove among foreign dances and the kaza-nova and druzhba among Soviet dances.
Ballroom dances can be divided into couple and mass dances. As distinct from couple dances, such as the blues, czardas, and shake, mass dances are performed by a group of dancers formed in a circle or line, as for example the letka-jenka and sirtaki, among others. In mass dances, performers have no definite dance partners.
Ballroom dances of the 1950's and 1960's are characterized by frequent changes in fashionable dances, the growing role of mass group dances, the appearance abroad of graphic dances with plots, as for example the wash, monkey, and mashed potato, the rejection of limitations defining and establishing the positions or movements of the hands in the dance, and dancing at a distance as opposed to the "pair position" traditional for couple ballroom dancing.
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Vasil'eva-Rozhdestvenskaia, M. V. Istoriko-bytovoi tanets, Moscow, 1963. (Textbook.)
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Conté, P. Les Arts dynamiques: La Danse et ses lois. Paris, 1952.
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I have a long commute to work. This doesn't bother me too terribly much because I enjoy driving, I like playing with my navigation toys while driving, and it gives me an opportunity to listen to Pimsleur Italian on the iPod and learn some new words (ascolte e ripete).
What I don't like is getting stuck in traffic, especially for no reason whatsoever. I may enjoy driving, but as soon as the speedometer reads 0 when it should read 60, it instantly becomes too much of a good thing.
Traffic jams aren't normally a problem for me because I work somewhat irregular hours and commute in the opposite direction of most other people. I live in the city and work in the suburbs. So while my lane is zipping right along, I see the faces of frustrated drivers inching along in the other direction, and I wonder if they're asking themselves why they chose to live so far away from work and endure the commute into the city. They're probably not asking themselves that, though. They're probably thinking about what charitable acts they could do that day, how they could help the homeless and hungry, or maybe just about how much they want to hook up with that cute new chick in accounting.
Some mornings are notable exceptions to my peaceful commute. Sometimes there's a wreck on the highway, and we get stuck in blocked lanes while the emergency teams come in and do their thing. Crap happens, I understand. But what really frustrates me is when the wreck is on the other side of the divided highway. You get up to the wreck and everyone has slowed down to look, even though there's no reason for it. We've all seen it before, and there's nothing on our side of the barrier. This is such a common frustration, I can't believe people still do it.
This morning really took the cake though. I got stuck in traffic this morning because there was an accident on the access road on the other side of the divided highway. I give you that there were several firetrucks and ambulances, but still... even if you wanted to see some gory bits, we were too far away. So please people, if you want to see this kind of thing, go watch Nascar, and stop beating me down on my morning commute.
Now I need a beer.


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July 15, 2009 Tabitha Britain, Dhimmis, Dhimmitude, Islam, Islamic Jihad, Islamic Terrorism, Islamification Of UK, Islamophobia, Racism, Religion	Islam, Islamic Terrorism, Islamophobia, Lunacy, Muslims, Racism
Islamophobia' – Well, isn't this word a wonderful little weapon for Islamists the world over?
Whoever thought of it must be laughing all the way to the Mosque. Go on. Try it. Next time you're in any social situation, with any group of people, try challenging the violent ideology at the heart of Islam.
Chances are, faster than you can say 'fatwah' someone will give you a reproachful look and state: 'You're the one with the problem. You're Islamophobic'.
It shuts down all debate and leaves many decent folk feeling like racists – even when they're not. So let's just deconstruct the word 'Islamophobia' shall we?
Phobia = an extreme, irrational fear that interferes with everyday life. It is a psychological, clinical term, and this is the correct definition. We all know what a phobia looks like; most of us have seen grown adults collapse into quivering wrecks at the mere sight of a spider/wasp/snake. Above all, a phobia sufferer will go to great lengths to avoid the object of fear.
Now I don't know about you, but I'm not aware of a single soul who is huddled at home, frozen with fear, refusing to leave their house because of the existence of Islam… Nor have I seen a single person jerking to a halt in the middle of a street, shrieking in terror 'There's a Muslim! There's a Muslim! Save me! Save me! Aaaaghhhh!' before sprinting across the road and into oncoming traffic, just to avoid said member of Islam.
Indeed, often the very people accused of 'Islamophobia' are those who are extremely interested in Islam! They talk about it, read about it, blog about it, and study it – in a bid to better understand it. Hardly 'phobic' behaviour, is it…?
So let's be blunt. The term 'Islamophobia' is meaningless. It's foolish. In short – it's nothing more than a linguistic sham. Because nobody has an 'irrational fear' of Islam.
What many of us do have is a rational fear of what Muslim terrorists do in the name of Islam. We also fear the hatred that Islam inculcates in many of its followers. And who the hell can blame us?
If people with red hair continually sauntered onto buses and trains, into restaurants and schools the world over, with bombs strapped around their waists, before cheerfully blowing both themselves and any living soul around them into tiny bits, then I submit that many of us would develop a rational fear of red heads!
But 'islamophobia'? Oh, purleease. It's just a device used by *some* Muslims – and the PC-at-all-costs, liberal brigade – to shut down vital debate. And if we let them get away with it? Then shame on US.
While we're on the topic, let's just clarify what does and does not constitute 'racism': I could, if I wanted, criticise and challenge and yes, condemn Islam all day long – and it would not be 'racism'. Islam is a faith and an ideology. And no ideology is exempt from scrutiny. Nor does anyone have the right to stop me from assessing an ideology – not as long as I live in a democratic society.
But, if I then begin making unfair, negative, nasty generalisations about 'all muslims' then this would be racism. See the difference?
Critiquing and challenging and condemning an ideology = not 'racism'!
Condemning any group of people purely on the basis OF their religion = racism
Or to state it even more simply: 'All Muslims are terrorists' = racism
Clearly there are millions of peaceful Muslims.
'Most terrorists are Muslim' = not racism
Most terrorism is Islamic terrorism.
So just as I am free to condemn the beliefs of, say, the vile British National Party(BNP), or Scientologists, or the KKK, without anyone branding me a 'racist', so too am I free to condemn Islam.
Words have objective meanings. It's time we remembered that, and worked to wipe out this lunacy which even now, is pushing for Islam to be legally 'protected' from criticism. So next time anyone tries to insist you are an 'islamophobe', shut them down. Fast.
Why People Are Really Voting BNP
June 17, 2009 June 18, 2009 Tabitha Britain, Politics, Racism, Uncategorized	BNP, Britain, British National Party, Conservative, European elections, Labour, Neo Nazis, Politics, Racism, racists, Tory
Is the BNP, that party of vile wannabe Hitlers, set to become the real opposition in Britain?
It could happen, and easily. The sole reason the BNP secured any votes in the recent elections is because they are addressing one topic that no other party will: immigration.
Of course, the BNP are anti immigration because the mere idea of any more 'non whites' setting foot on the fair streets of Britain sends them into panic mode. Bad enough that there are Jews and Asians and Muslims and Black people living in the country right now! But let even more in? Perish the thought!
And so, desperate to 'cleanse' Britain, the BNP is only too happy to tackle immigration.
Meanwhile, the mainstream parties are still busy ignoring what Brits are saying on this topic. And what we're saying is pretty damn clear. Eighty per cent of people questioned in a YouGov poll for the independent think-tank MigrationWatch are 'concerned' or 'very concerned' about levels of immigration.
But this concern has nothing to do with the racist sentiments of the BNP.
Max Hastings neatly sums up the cost of chaotic immigration to Britain in his recent piece: 'BNP In Power: Immigration And This Insidious Silence'.
Consider these facts:
*In 2007, the last year for which figures are available, 333,000 more foreign nationals entered Britain than left.
* There are also an estimated 725,000 illegal immigrants in the country, 518,000 of these in London.
*On the Government's own, almost certainly understated, numbers, our population will pass 70 million by 2028. It could reach 80 million in the course of the century.
*We are the most overcrowded country in Europe, save Malta.
*Asylum-seekers now account for only 10 % of newcomers – though still 30,000 a year. Most new arrivals come from the Third World, at a rate which is increasing the national population by almost one per cent every two years.
*A report by the House of Lords' Economic Committee concluded that, contrary to Labour propaganda, immigration has had 'little or no impact' on the economic well-being of Britain and offers 'insignificant' benefits to the existing UK population.
*The argument that we need masses of immigrants to compensate for our ageing domestic workforce is nullified by the reality – obvious to all except Labour ministers – that immigrants, too, get old and become pensioners.
* There are 300 primary schools in England where more than 70 per cent of pupils – nearly half a million children – use English only as a second language
*Police officers in Cambridgeshire, for instance, must deal with cases in almost 100 languages. The county's translation costs have risen from £220,000 in 2002-3 to £800,000 in 2006-7. Its drink-drive figures show a 17-fold increase in arrests of foreigners.
And especially worrying:
*There are also heavy health costs – which seem especially relevant in a week when new figures show the NHS heading for a major financial crisis by 2011.
*A few years ago, tuberculosis was all but extinct in Britain. Today, there is a striking increase in reported cases, 65 per cent of them involving patients not born in Britain, with 21 per cent Africanborn. Hepatitis B cases have almost doubled in six years, to 325,000, 96 per cent of these involving patients born outside the UK.
Sir Andrew Green of MigrationWatch says: "The Tories decline to discuss immigration at all. The LibDems have no policy except for an attack on illegal immigration. The Government gives an appearance of activity, but has not yet taken effective action.
'We have been warning until we are blue in the face that if the major parties fail to address this issue, extremists would start to gain public support."
The recent BNP success should be a clarion call to the mainstream parties. What will it take for Labour to reform immigration? What will it take for the Conservatives to start acting like a decent Opposition party?
People want change on immigration. If the mainstream parties don't provide it, then the BNP and only the BNP will profit. So if either Labour or Conservative truly care about this country, they need to act on immigration, and fast.
USA: Shootings At Holocaust Museum
June 10, 2009 June 10, 2009 Tabitha America, Anti semitism, Uncategorized	Anti semitism, Holocaust Memorial Museum, Racism, shootings, Washington, white supremacist, white supremacist groups
At least two people have been shot at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington this afternoon. The perpetrator entered the museum just before one p.m; he was armed with a rifle and immediately shot a security guard. Other security guards returned fire. A bystander was wounded by flying glass. Reports suggest that the shooter is aged 89 and has links to a white supremacist group.
The Holocaust Memorial Museum gets roughly 1.7 million per visitors per year. At present it is shut while the FBI and local police investigate today's shootings.
Egypt Bans Marriage To Israelis
June 8, 2009 June 8, 2009 Tabitha Anti semitism, Arab Terrorism, Islam, Islamic Jihad, Islamic Terrorism, Israel, Jewish, Politics, Racism, Religion, Sharia, Uncategorized	Anti semitism, Egypt, Islam, Israel, Muslims, Racism
Here is yet more proof – if any was needed! – that Islam is inherently anti semitic. In Egypt, ostensibly on 'peaceful' terms with Israel, Islamic religious law has now been cited to ratify a ban on marrying Israelis. No doubt Egyptian Muslims are feeling empowered as a result of Obama's wooing of Islam.
One Egyptian certainly is. Here, from the World Jewish Review:
Solicitor Nabih Al-Wahsh has managed to extract a ruling from Egypt's Administrative Court — which rules in disputes between citizens and the state — that would force the Egyptian government to strip Egyptians married to Israelis of their Egyptian citizenship. The May 19 ruling was met with the cheers of millions in this populous Arab country.
After the verdict was read in the Cairo courtroom, Nabih al-Wahsh jumped for joy and received an avalanche of telephone calls from friends congratulating him on his latest legal victory.
"This is an historic ruling," al-Wahsh said to reporters after the ruling. "Egyptians married to Israelis are dangerous to Egypt's national security, acting in ways that contradict the constitution of their country and Islamic laws," he said.
Calls flooded into TV talk shows discussing the verdict and readers posted comments on Web sites of newspapers that wrote about it.
Everyone appeared united in elation at the ruling, as well as in hatred of the Jewish state and everything that related to it.
Such sentiments among a large chunk of Egypt's population of about 80 million underscores the wide chasm that distinguishes Egypt at the official level and the same country at the level of its public.
Although Egypt was the first country to sign a peace treaty with Israel, almost 30 years ago, its government and its people still walk two different paths.
Egyptian officials visit Israel, meet members of its cabinet and sign agreements secretly and openly with them, but the people on the street still view Israel as an "enemy," "imperialist" in nature, and those Egyptians who travel and get married there are seen as "traitors." These same critics have consistently attempted to abort every possibility of breaking the ice that has blocked the way between Cairo and Tel Aviv for decades now.
In this sense, it is true that Egypt is the "heart of the Arab world," as President Barack Obama and his advisers like to call it.
Egyptian analysts say the court ruling asking the government to revoke the nationality of Egyptians married to Israelis should not affect peace between the Jewish state and the country that bore arms against Israel four times in the last 60 years.
Some estimates put the number of Egyptians living in Israel between 6,000 and 7,000, although al-Wahsh believes the number could be between 30,000 and 40,000.
The reason people leave Egypt for Israel is not a secret to the people in this country, even among decision-makers themselves. In addition to the fallout from the international economic downturn, which has weighed heavily on the Egyptian economy, Egypt has been suffering its own economic deterioration for years.
In this country, which features the oldest civilization in the Arab Middle East, more than 40 percent of the population lives beneath the poverty line, according to the World Bank.
The economic reform policies of Mubarak's ruling National Democratic Party have failed to improve living conditions for the majority of the population and have even backfired at times, creating a new class of monopolistic businessmen who control the prices and availability of basic commodities.
Israel, by contrast, is a thriving multiethnic country that enjoys political pluralism and offers Egyptian job seekers a model totally different from in their own country, where jobs are rare, diversity is nonexistent and religious tolerance is scarce.
Part of the antipathy to Israel stems from what Egyptians see on their national TV and read in their newspapers every day.
A few weeks ago, TV anchor Mahmud Saad, in an on-air telephone interview, lashed out at Egypt's Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni, who is seeking election to the top post of UNESCO, for inviting Daniel Barenboim, a conductor with Israeli origins and international acclaim, to lead an orchestra at the Egyptian Opera House.
"I hate Israel," Saad, who hosts the popular talk show "al-Beit Beitak" ("Feel at Home"), shouted while speaking with the minister.
Days later, Egypt's ex-mufti — a top religious leader who advises the country's Muslim majority on religious matters — lampooned Arab countries that sign agreements with Israel in a veiled criticism of the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel."
Yet there was Obama last week, in Egypt, legitimising Islamic hatred of 'infidels' and actually claiming that Islam valued 'racial equality'.
That man wouldn't recognise integrity if it walked up and slapped him round the face.
AUSTRIAN HOTEL HAS 'NO JEWS ALLOWED' POLICY
May 11, 2009 May 11, 2009 Tabitha Anti semitism, Bias, Racism	Anti semitism, Austria, Haus Sonnenhof hotel, hotel, jews banned, Racism, Tyrol
In the best Nazi tradition, a hotel in Tyrol, Austria, has admitted that it bans Jews from making reservations. The story has been picked up by the daily newspaper Tiroler Tageszeitung, which ran details of this travesty on Sunday.
A Vienna family of seven had had tried to make a reservation at the Haus Sonnenhof apartment hotel in the village of Serfaus, but the owner replied by e-mail that although the room was free, she did not want to take in Jewish guests because of "bad experiences" in the past.
So let's translate. This hotel had, possibly, ONE difficult guest who happened to be Jewish – and on the basis of this has now banned ALL JEWS.
The particular area in question, around Serfaus, has become popular among Orthodox Jewish tourists in recent years, and several hotels in Tyrol have started offering kosher food.
Other hoteliers in the area are looking askance at this blatant racism:
At Hotel Alpenruh-Micheluzzi, owner Petra Micheluzzi told the German Press Agency DPA that the rejection by the Sonnenhof was "bad for the image" of Serfaus. One such incident could destroy all the hard work by others in the travel industry, she said. So, no condemnation of the anti semitism, just regret that it will adversely affect tourism…
Irmgard Monz, the owner of the Haus Sonnenhof apartment hotel, could not be reached for comment on Sunday. In an interview with Tiroler Tageszeitung, she offered no justification for her e-mail.
Er, perhaps because there is no 'justification' for such outrageous behaviour…?
For his part, the rejected father of five has decided to spend the summer elsewhere: "I don't want to spend my vacation in such a racist place and I will inform all my friends about what is going on in Tyrol," the unidentified man was quoted as saying.
Original source: Ha'aretz
Ilan Halimi: Anti Semitism Was The Motive
April 30, 2009 May 2, 2009 Tabitha Anti semitism, Islam, Islamic Terrorism, Media, Racism	Anti semitism, Crime, France, French, French Jews, Ilan Halimi, Islam, Islamic hatred of Jews, Islamism, Murder, Muslims, Racism, Trial
This is a follow up post to the previous one on the tragic death of Ilan Halimi at the hands of a Muslim mob. Apparently in France, the media and police tried desperately hard to hide details which revealed that anti semitism was the motive behind the murder – not, as police tried to claim, financial gain.
We have to place this horrendous murder in the context of sharply rising anti semitism within France over recent years. Indeed, hundreds of Jews have already left France precisely because of this problem.
Here are more details on the Ilan Halimi case and the motive underlying it:
Nidra Poller in The Wall Street Journal
PARIS — The police suspect the group was involved in other kidnapping attempts in the last two months that used young women as bait. Several of the targeted men worked, as Ilan did, in the small cell phone shops along Boulevard Voltaire in the mixed 11th arrondissement of Paris.
In another case, a suspicious father replaced his son for a meeting with a girl who claimed to be a singer, and fell into the hands of masked men who tried to capture him but ran away when someone called the police.
Throughout Ilan's disappearance, the police handled his case as a straightforward kidnap for ransom. The discovery of his body, bearing signs of barbaric torture over an extended period of time, raised serious doubts about this hypothesis.
Later, a policeman admitted to the press that he and his colleagues were baffled by the gang's erratic behavior. Ransom demands went up to €400,000, dropped to €100,000 one day, €5,000 another. The kidnappers called off several pickup arrangements, acting like amateurs, but were highly sophisticated in using untraceable emails and cell phones.
Yet one detail was consistently played down by the investigators and missing from the early media reporting on the killing. The victim, whose full name is Ilan Halimi, was Jewish. Most of the men targeted in other kidnapping attempts were Jewish.
Most members of the gang who allegedly carried out the crime are Muslims, whose families come from the Maghreb or sub-Saharan Africa and live in the very sort of neighborhoods that went up in flames during three weeks of nationwide rioting last fall.
Jewish community leaders like Roger Cukierman, president of the Conseil Représentatif des Institutions Juives de France, an umbrella group for the country's 600,000 Jews, cautioned against hasty conclusions and unreasonable panic. But French Jews have become sensitive to a well-documented rise in violent Muslim anti-Semitism over the past five years and saw anti-Semitism as the missing link in this senseless crime.
After all, Ilan's family is simple and modest. Ruth Halimi, works as a receptionist. Why else, people are asking, would Ilan be tortured so cruelly for so long? No other motive, aside from sheer hatred, is apparent.
After Ilan was found on Feb. 13, the pieces started to fall into place quickly. When the police put out a sketch of a blond woman who had tried to bait other young men in similar circumstances as Ilan Halimi's, Audrey Lorleach turned herself in. She led police to a housing project in Bagneux, a suburb in Hauts-de-Seine.
Fifteen suspects in the Halimi murder, who call their gang the "Barbarians," were brought into custody. Youssouf Fofana, who refers to himself (in English) as the "Brain of the Barbarians," is the apparent ringleader.
Ilan was held prisoner and abused in an apartment and later a utility room in the cellar in one of the project buildings. Both were lent to the gang by the concierge, who is also now in custody. Some in the gang were known delinquents. Mr. Fofana, who is 26, had served time for armed robbery. But another member was in on-the-job training in the IT service of a French TV station.
In initial statements to the press, Public Prosecutor Jean-Claude Marin and various police officials stuck to their hypothesis that money was the motive for the crime, not anti-Semitism.
They noted that Ilan Halimi had been tortured as if the gang were following "a known scenario." Photos of Ilan, naked, with a sack on his head and a gun pointed at his temple were emailed to family members suggesting, according to the police, "scenes of torture at Abu Ghraib." As it turns out, the beheading of Daniel Pearl or Iraqi snuff films are the better comparison.
An anonymous police detective quoted in Monday's edition of Libération said: "It's simply that, for those criminals, Jew equals money."
Later that same day, investigating magistrate Corinne Goetzmann detained seven of the suspects on charges of kidnapping, sequestration, torture, acts of barbarism and premeditated murder in an organized gang.
They will also be charged with targeting the victim on the basis of his religion, French for hate crime, which carries a stiffer penalty. Justice Minister Pascal Clément explained that the charge of anti-Semitism was based on the fact that one of the suspects had declared to the judge that they picked a Jew because Jews are 'supposed to be rich.'
But, according to reports in the French press, some of the suspects in police custody said that they tortured Ilan with particular cruelty simply because he was Jewish.
No longer able to deny or play down the racial motive, the investigation is entering a new phase. One of the most troubling aspects of this affair is the probable involvement of relatives and neighbors, beyond the immediate circle of the gang, who were told about the Jewish hostage and dropped in to participate in the torture.
Ilan's uncle Rafi Halimi told reporters that the gang phoned the family on several occasions and made them listen to the recitation of verses from the Quran, while Ilan's tortured screams could be heard in the background.
The family has publicly criticized the police for deliberately ignoring the explicit anti-Semitic motives, which were repeatedly expressed and should have dictated an entirely different approach to the case from the start. Police searches have now revealed the presence of Islamist literature in the home of at least one of the gang members.
The highest echelons of the French government are now preoccupied with the murder of Ilan Halimi. Paris is well aware that the case threatens France's international reputation, but far more than that is at stake. Once again, as in the suburban riots of 2005, the country is forced to come face to face with the criminalized, alienated and racist Muslim youth and their adult enablers in its midst.
Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin declared, in a long speech delivered at the annual dinner of the CRIF, that this heinous crime was anti-Semitic, and that anti-Semitism is not acceptable in France.
The murder of Ilan Halimi invites comparison with the November 2003 killing of a Jewish disc jockey, Sébastien Selam. His Muslim neighbor, Adel, slit his throat, nearly decapitating him, and gouged out his eyes with a carving fork in his building's underground parking garage. Adel came upstairs with bloodied hands and told his mother, "I killed my Jew, I will go to paradise."
In the two years before his murder, the Selam family was repeatedly harassed for being Jewish. The Selam case has not been re-opened by the magistrate. The murderer, who admits his guilt, was placed in a psychiatric hospital, and may be released soon.
The initial response to the kidnapping of Ilan Halimi suggested a comparably selective ignorance. But many things have changed in French society in the past two years. Then, faced with the new tide of anti-Semitism, the Jewish community was left alone with its distress and at times even accused of being justifiably targeted because of its support for Israel.
Today the government has apparently decided that the barbarous hatred unleashed against one Jewish man is a threat to all of France.
Ms. Poller is an American novelist living in Paris since 1972.
Racism On WordPress
April 25, 2009 April 26, 2009 Tabitha Anti semitism, Internet, Media, Racism, Uncategorized	Activism, Anti semitism, Cyberspace, Internet, Online, Racism
Let's face it: there's a whole lot of racism out here in cyberspace. Freedom of speech is a wonderful thing, but open to awful abuse.
Some years ago, a group calling themselves the JIDF (Jewish Internet Defence Force) decided to try and do something about it. Ever since, they've been working hard to combat some of the more extreme anti Jewish sentiments being expressed online.
On Facebook, for instance, there are numerous groups which openly advocate Jihad, which praise Hitler, and which try to whip up hatred against not just Jews but also members of other religions.
The JIDF has risen to the challenge – and now they're asking if WE are willing to do our bit! Specifically, they are asking us to:
Write to: m@wordpress.org – and explain how all of the following blogs are part of Frank Weltner's anti semitic network.
Complain about inciting hatred against Jews. (WordPress should be receptive to removing these since they have banned Frank twice now):
http://googlejewwatch.wordpress.com/
http://wesearchjewwatch.wordpress.com/
http://carpenter7117.wordpress.com/
http://eugenicschancellor.wordpress.com/
http://flagthescum.wordpress.com/
http://nottaslave.wordpress.com/
http://orangeladyheart.wordpress.com/
http://searchtodestroy.wordpress.com/
http://theaskwhychild.wordpress.com/
http://tonicipriani21.wordpress.com/
I'm just about to send my email – please add your voice by doing the same 🙂
'Islamophobia'? No Such Thing
April 17, 2009 April 23, 2009 Tabitha Islam, Islamic Terrorism, Islamophobia, Racism, Uncategorized	Islamaphobe, Islamaphobia, Islamaphobic, Islamophobe, Islamophobia, Islamophobic, Racism
'Islamophobia' – Well, isn't this word a wonderful little weapon for Islamists the world over?
Whoever thought of it must be laughing all the way to the Mosque. Because the second anyone challenges the violent ideology at the heart of Islam, and faster than you can say 'fatwah' – out comes the charge: 'You're the one with the problem. You're Islamophobic'.
It shuts down all debate and leaves many an innocent person feeling like a racist – even when they're not.
So let's just deconstruct the word 'Islamophobia' shall we?
Phobia = an extreme, irrational fear that interferes with everyday life. It is a psychological, clinical term, and this is the correct definition.
We all know what a phobia looks like; most of us have seen grown adults collapse into quivering wrecks at the mere sight of a spider/wasp/snake. Above all, a phobia sufferer will go to great lengths to *avoid* the object of fear.
Now I don't know about you, but I'm not aware of a single soul who is huddled at home, frozen with fear, refusing to leave their house because of the existence of Islam…
Nor have I seen a single person jerking to a halt in the middle of a street, shrieking in terror 'There's a Muslim! There's a Muslim! Save me! Save me! Aaaaghhhh!' before sprinting across the road and into oncoming traffic, just to avoid said member of Islam.
Indeed, often the very people accused of 'Islamophobia' are those who are extremely interested in it! They talk about it, read about it, blog about it, and study it – in a bid to better understand it.
Hardly 'phobic', is it…?
So let's be blunt. The term 'Islamophobia' meaningless. It's foolish. It's nothing more than a linguistic sham.
Nobody has an 'irrational fear' of Islam.
What many of us do have is a rational fear of what Muslim terrorists do in the name of Islam. And of the hatred that Islam promotes. Who can blame us?
But 'islamophobia'?
Oh, purleeeease.
It's just a device used by some Muslims, and many members of the PC-at-all-costs, liberal brigade, to shut down vital debate.
And if we let them get away with it? Then shame on US.
And while we're on the topic, let's just clarify what does and does not constitute 'racism':
I could, if I wanted, criticise and challenge and yes, condemn Islam – and it would not be 'racism'. Islam is a faith and an ideology. And no ideology is exempt from scrutiny. Nor does anyone have the right to stop me from assessing an ideology – not as long as I live in a democratic country.
But, if I then began making unfair, negative, nasty generalisations about 'all muslims' then this would be Racism.
So just as I am free to condemn the beliefs of, say, the vile British National Party, or Scientologists, or the KKK, without anyone branding me a 'racist', so too am I free to condemn Islam
Words do have objective meanings. It's time we remembered that, and worked to wipe out this lunacy which even now, is pushing for Islam to be legally 'protected' from criticism.
So next time anyone tries to insist you are an 'islamophobe', shut them down. And fast.