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DESERT SAND STORMS CAN BE HAZARDOUS TO TRAFFIC
ADOT'S SAFE DRIVING TIPS

  • Do not drive into a sand storm if you can safely avoid it.
  • Turn on your headlights. Slow down to a safe speed.
  • If visibility drops and you need to pull off the road, get as far right as possible. Turn off the car and headlights, and keep your foot OFF the brake pedal – other drivers may think your vehicle is moving and "follow you".

    • Arizona Auto Insurance Almanac

    ARIZONA AUTO INSURANCE INFORMATION
    THIS WEEK'S TOPIC: AUTO THEFT

    Auto theft is usually covered under the comprehensive section of your auto insurance policy. Coverage applies not only to the loss of the vehicle or parts of the car such as hubcaps and radios. Comprehensive coverage also pays for fire, intentional vandalism and weather-related damage including damage from hail, earthquakes, and flood. Rates for comprehensive are influenced by the strength of risk, i.e. the calculated chance that an insured vehicle will be stolen or damaged, and of course taking into account the car’s blue book value. The dollar amount of comprehensive claims have been increasing, because of the ever increasing price tag for new cars, the value of cars that are frequent targets and the cost of related bodywork, including replacing stolen components.

    Advice from Service Arizona MVD
    Drivers license name change?

    You are required by law to notify MVD of a name or address change within 10 days. MVD is required to verify your Social Security Number before your record can be updated, so you must first contact the Social Security Administration online or at 800-772-1213 for information on how to change your name on their records. After you change your name with the SSA, wait two days for their computer system to be updated. You should then visit an MVD office to present identification in both your new and previous names. This must be an original or certified copy (must be certified by the issuing agency) of one of the following: Marriage Certificate/License, Divorce Decree, Certificate of Citizenship/ Naturalization or a court order.


    CONSUMER TIPS ABOUT AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE

        When making an automobile insurance purchase, consumers should know that some policies may make a Household (or Family) Exclusion, which limits bodily injury liability to family members or other household residents who might be injured as a result of the negligence of another named insured. Arizona law permits insurance companies to enact this Exclusion which limits coverage to $15k per person and $30k per occurrence, despite the amount of liability coverage otherwise purchased under the policy. Consumers have the option of purchasing additional coverage to insure that their family members or other household residents are covered for bodily injury to the amount they need.
        Consumers should also be aware that some companies in determining eligibility may obtain and evaluate your credit history. The Consumer Guide To Understanding How Insurers Use Credit Information is provided by the Arizona Department Of Insurance. Most insurers will also check your "loss history" to see if you have filed claims for other losses in the past. They typically use reports provided by such companies as the so-called ChoicePoint which researches the insurance industry supported Comprehensive Loss Underwriting Exchange (C.L.U.E.) which compiles data provided by other member insurance companies. This data is not rigorously checked for validity and is sometimes in error. Consumers who believe that the information on their C.L.U.E. (or similar report) is erroneous can take steps to correct it by contacting     ChoicePoint
    Democracy Now logo and link

    Stop the War On Democracy : heed Democracy Now!
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    Adot's favorite subject: 'Vatsyayana' - a combination of Dharma, Artha, and Kama     ... These three goals, known as the trivarga, or three-fold aims, are to be attempted in this life, according to ancient Hindu thought. All three are fairly complex concepts, but to express them simply - Dharma is the path of right action in accordance with the Holy Writ, of righteousness, of ethical principles. Artha is the pursuit of economic interests, the accumulation of wealth and material goods. Kama is the conscious enjoyment of sensual pleasures. Man must practice all three; each at the appropriate time and in such a manner that they may harmonize. Though Dharma is recognized as being superior to Artha, and that in turn to Kama, Vatsyayana enjoins the practice of all three for happiness, a nice balance between spiritual, material and sensual objectives. from this: ancient website

    Debate on Mandatory Gun Insurance

    It was truly a sight to behold. Please watch this very excellent clip of Lawrence O'Donnell shoving Rep. Trent Franks into a very tight corner on gun control. Ammunition control, actually.

    My favorite exchange comes toward the end. Franks keeps trying to pivot to the old "people kill people; guns don't" when O'Donnell is hammering on the extended clips and how irresponsible it was of Congress to allow their ban to expire. Franks, thinking he has O'Donnell cornered, asks him whether he blames the shooter or the gun.

    Lawrence's response: "I blame the shooter for the first 10 bullets. I blame the law for the next 21."

    This is what drives me crazy. Limiting ammunition clips isn't gun control. Charging a fortune for ammunition isn't gun control. If they're going to own guns, fine, but when they want to shove that piece into the gun that kills twice as many folks in half the time, they should have to pay for it. Handsomely.

    How about mandatory ammunition insurance? Or mandatory gun insurance? Own a gun; be required to own a liability policy to cover loss of life and limb if it's irresponsibly used.
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    The January 2011 Adot - Spotlight is on:

    AMERICAN DEMOCRACY ON TRIAL
    SHERIFF DUPNIK: "ARIZONA a MECCA for PREJUDICE and BIGOTRY"

    Jan 20: GIFFORDS' HUSBAND HOPEFUL FOR FULL RECOVERY !!

    a prayer for the healing both of Gabby and for our nation
    GIFFORDS FOR PRESIDENT

    Gabrielle Gifford and husband Mark April 2010 Gabby's official website - - - The Arizona Massacre: What We Know (BBC)
    President Obama visits Gifford, leads memorial (video) - - - Shooter's Videos
    Palin offers "condolences" - - - Sheriff: Arizona a 'Mecca For Prejudice & Bigotry'
    Rep. Joe Wilson's "You Lie" Shout at Obama Etched Onto Line Of Assault Rifles

    Loughner Friend Explains Gunman's Grudge Against Giffords

    Tucson Shooting Survivor: "It Looks Like Palin, Beck, Sharron Angle and the Rest Got Their First Target"
    19 min Democracy Now interview with Tucson shooting survivor, Eric Fuller. A 63-year-old disabled veteran, Fuller had campaigned for Arizona Democrat Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in her reelection campaign and was at the supermarket in Tucson on Saturday to meet with her. He was shot in the knee and also wounded in the back. "It looks like Palin, Beck, Sharron Angle and the rest got their first target," Fuller says. "Their wish for Second Amendment activism has been fulfilled.

    Christina Taylor Green Cornea Donation Saves Eyesight Of 2 Children
    TUCSON, Ariz. — Donated corneas from the young girl killed in the Arizona mass shooting have saved the eyesight of two children, the girl's father told The Associated Press on Monday. John Green said the Donor Network of Arizona told him and his wife about the successful transplants. He said he doesn't know whether any of 9-year-old Christina Taylor Green's other organs have gone to any other children, but he's under the impression that her wounds rendered her internal organs unusable. Christina was the youngest victim of the shooting that left a total of six dead and 13 others wounded – including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords – on Jan. 8. Green said he and his wife Roxanna didn't hesitate to allow doctors to use Christina's organs. "The fact that her organs were able to help people, that was an amazing thing to me," he said. "It's just another thing that this little girl has given the world." The Donor Network of Arizona declined to comment on any donation, citing confidentiality. The third-grader had just been elected to the student council and had been interested in politics from a young age, which is why she went to see Giffords. Green said knowing that other children have been helped by Christina has been a comfort during a difficult time for his family. "We really felt a lot of emotion about that," he said. "That was something that really made us feel gifted, still. We just want to make sure that her little time here in the world was well-spent."

    Other relevant information

    President Dwight D. Eisenhower Fifty Years After Eisenhower’s Farewell Address, A Look at "Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex"
    This week marks the 50th anniversary of President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s famous farewell speech to the nation in which he warned against the rise of a "military-industrial complex." We speak with William Hartung, director of the Arms and Security Initiative at the New America Foundation, who traces the rise of the military-industrial complex through the story of the nation’s largest weapons contractor, Lockheed Martin. Hartung’s new book is Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex.

    Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish Gaza Doctor Izzeldin Abuelaish Two Years After Israeli Attack that Killed 3 Daughters & Niece: "As Long as I am Breathing, They are with Me. I Will Never Forget"
    Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish was a well-known Palestinian gynecologist who spent years working in one of Israeli’s main hospitals. On January 16, 2009, two days before the end of Israel’s brutal 22-day assault on Gaza, his home was shelled twice by Israeli tanks. His three daughters and his niece were killed. He has just written a book about his life called I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor’s Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity. He joins us in our studio for an extended conversation.


    WHAT ELSE IS ADOT?.. A dot, i.e. a singularity, a point in space and time. The little round black mark, like a period, that separates computer file names in a hierarchical or nested order. 'A.D.O.T.' is also an acronym for: the Arizona Department Of Transportation; the Alaska Department of Transportation; le Fédération des Associations pour le Don d'Organes et de Tissus Humains; a US military term: Active Duty Other Than Training; a couple technical terms: a Super Recording Automatic Digital Optical Tracker and Advanced Display Optimization Tools. Take your pick, this webpage has its hands full with its promise of being a hub for all things adotish. But this was not a task voluntarily chosen, oh no, greatness is sometimes thrust upon oneself, is it not? More definitions of a dot, a singularity: Wiki: "In mathematics, a singularity is in general a point at which a given mathematical object is not defined, or a point of an exceptional set where it fails to be well-behaved in some particular way, such as differentiability". Got that? Try this one: FreeDictionary: "the quality of being one of a kind; "that singularity distinguished him from all his companions" strangeness by virtue of being remarkable or unusual...?" Had enough? Here are more from google when we asked them to "define: a dot"

    Here's why we need co-op health coverage

    America's health insurance crisis has become so bad that even the Middle Class is hurting. Those in most urgent need include the 47 million uninsured plus millions more who are soon to be ininsured, the tens of millions struggling to pay increasing insurance premiums, millions who risk medical bankruptcy, and millions more who hate their jobs but hang on to keep insurance. Co-op America Approved for People and the Planet

    Since neither government nor industry have closed this wound, co-op health plans are returning control of insurance to citizens.

    We're creating our own clinics and payment plan. The Ithaca Health Alliance seeks to set a model of Health Democracy for communities nationwide, linking with thousands of health alliances which will follow.

    It's already the best deal in the land, for the low-income un-insured. Membership costs $100/year for adults, or $50/year per child, who are covered for everyday emergencies like broken bones, ambulance rides, emergency stitches, burns, certain minor surgeries, and a little bit of dental. They've built enough equity to begin opening clinics. While the emphasis, for developing clinics and interest-free health loans is within Ithaca, they have members throughout New York state, because we make payments to any healer anywhere, within the categories above.

    Yet our agenda is broader than clinics, pills, and surgeries, however. We will also address the public foundations of personal health-- clean food, clean water, clean air. And our intent is to more effectively pressure the federal government, by example, to fund a national health system which meets organizational and therapeutic standards set by the Health Democracy movement-- much as grassroots pressure set the standards for organic foods.

    Health Democracy will emphasize standards for preventive treatment of communities and the citizens within them. We'll prescribe and fund clinics with personnel who treat the whole person-- the living conditions and emotional bases of ailments. We'll sooner prescribe warm hands to cold machines, and rely on them both. We'll prefer to prescribe natural rather than chemical remedies. We'll prescribe and finance new systems for feeding, fueling, housing and moving America's cities, investment in which will be healthier and more profitable than war.

    Co-op health plans contribute toward universal coverage, moreover, because even were universal coverage enacted there would be need for genuinely nonprofit care, to keep costs down. Members of the U.S. Health Alliance will also be ready to defend the national plan from inevitable attacks.

    Health Democracy, whose citizens are both owners and voters, begins with everyone who sees the need for immediate remedies for the un-insured.

    Here's How Health Democracy can be Structured

    this is the end of section one, and the begining of something else altogether not that much different

    CONSUMER TIPS ABOUT AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE

        When making an automobile insurance purchase, consumers should know that some policies may make a Household (or Family) Exclusion, which limits bodily injury liability to family members or other household residents who might be injured as a result of the negligence of another named insured. Arizona law permits insurance companies to enact this Exclusion which limits coverage to $15k per person and $30k per occurrence, despite the amount of liability coverage otherwise purchased under the policy. Consumers have the option of purchasing additional coverage to insure that their family members or other household residents are covered for bodily injury to the amount they need.
        Consumers should also be aware that some companies in determining eligibility may obtain and evaluate your credit history. The Consumer Guide To Understanding How Insurers Use Credit Information is provided by the Arizona Department Of Insurance. Most insurers will also check your "loss history" to see if you have filed claims for other losses in the past. They typically use reports provided by such companies as the so-called ChoicePoint which researches the insurance industry supported Comprehensive Loss Underwriting Exchange (C.L.U.E.) which compiles data provided by other member insurance companies. This data is not rigorously checked for validity and is sometimes in error. Consumers who believe that the information on their C.L.U.E. (or similar report) is erroneous can take steps to correct it by contacting     ChoicePoint
    AUTO INSURANCE EXPENDITURES, BY STATE - courtesy the Insurance Information Institute

    The table on the following pages shows estimated average expenditures for private passenger automobile insurance by state for 2002 to 2006, providing approximate measures of the relative cost of automobile insurance to consumers in each state. To calculate average expenditures the National Association of Insurance Commissioners assumes that all insured vehicles carry liability coverage but not necessarily collision or comprehensive coverage. The average expenditure measures what consumers actually spend for insurance on each vehicle. It does not equal the sum of liability, collision and comprehensive expenditures because not all policyholders purchase all three coverages.

    Expenditures are affected by the coverages purchased as well as other factors. In states where the economy is healthy, people are more likely to purchase new cars. Since new car owners are more likely to purchase physical damage coverages, these states will have a higher average expenditure. The NAIC notes that urban population, traffic density and per capita income have a significant impact on premiums. The latest report shows that high premium states tend also to be highly urban, with higher wage and price levels and greater traffic density. Tort liability and other auto laws, labor costs, liability coverage requirements, theft rates and other factors can also affect auto insurance prices.

    AVERAGE EXPENDITURES FOR AUTO INSURANCE BY STATE, 2005-2006

     
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    2005  
     

    State
    Liability
    Collision 
    Compre-
    hensive
    Average expenditure
    Rank (1)
    Average expenditure
    Rank (1)
    Average expenditure   percent change  2005-2006
    Alabama$367$318$135$68435$679370.7%
    Alaska5963811589551196811-1.3
    Arizona5073102319131492914-1.7
    Arkansas3872911616843469434-1.4
    California (2)48337611884316842190.2
    Colorado4532811887852382921-5.3
    Connecticut621335125981109939-1.2
    Delaware7062981111,02481,0288-0.3
    D.C.6104452611,16411,1871-2.0
    Florida7522871131,06951,06460.5
    Georgia42437216978822785240.4
    Hawaii54230911785315846180.8
    Idaho3392321255774858548-1.4
    Illinois4102961187402774328-0.4
    Indiana3612531116314365841-4.0
    Iowa2821991635365055550-3.6
    Kansas3002351985794758947-1.7
    Kentucky4842661327392875126-1.5
    Louisiana6603862091,09431,07851.5
    Maine3622701066344264442-1.6
    Maryland56432614694912948120.1
    Massachusetts6703271271,04261,1134-6.4
    Michigan4944151589251393113-0.6
    Minnesota4462241737532579223-4.9
    Mississippi43029416574626746270.0
    Missouri3792621466733668536-1.8
    Montana3992411976613768635-3.7
    Nebraska3272131895844661944-5.7
    Nevada6513441421,0069985102.1
    New Hampshire43530010979321792220.2
    New Jersey7473781601,15221,1852-2.8
    New Mexico45729216573729731300.8
    New York7303311531,08341,1253-3.7
    North Carolina3422511215964460246-1.0
    North Dakota2551962385305155551-4.4
    Ohio3822521046543967039-2.3
    Oklahoma3842711696593867838-2.9
    Oregon4832261037263073829-1.7
    Pennsylvania4993091258321885017-2.1
    Rhode Island6953771251,03871,0627-2.2
    South Carolina47125514975624754250.3
    South Dakota2962002025544956649-2.2
    Tennessee3632931236544065940-0.8
    Texas4543491758202085716-4.3
    Utah4242661207023170731-0.7
    Vermont3612981296873270032-1.8
    Virginia3952641186853370033-2.1
    Washington5432601278391784220-0.3
    West Virginia5102971808271985915-3.7
    Wisconsin3312041235904561545-4.1
    Wyoming3342612166394164043-0.2
    United States$489$308$140$817$831-1.7%
    (1) Ranked by average expenditure.
    (2) Preliminary.

    Note: Average expenditure=Total written premium/liability car years. A car year is equal to 365 days of insured coverage for a single vehicle. The NAIC does not rank state average expenditures and does not endorse any conclusion drawn from these data.

    Source: © 2008 National Association of Insurance Commissioners.