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From Chris Farley movies to Jane Austen novels, fictional stories about the "black sheep" of famous or wealthy families often portray them as the truly normal ones, rebelling by daring to be in touch with their fellow man. And while those people may exist, calling them black sheep does an injustice to the truly shameful, aggressively crazy members of notable families. Sponsored by Seth Meyers' new Hulu series, The Awesomes, this article takes a look at those proverbial apples that fell furthest from the tree, hitchhiked into town where all the other apples could see them, and took a highly public dump on their family's carefully cultivated legacy (still proverbial, fortunately).
5 Benson Ford Jr. -- Motor Company Shark & 4 Alfred "Alfie" Ford -- Auto/Chemical Krishna
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Detroit may have just filed for bankruptcy, but it wasn't always a charred hellhole of violence and despair where employment can only be found in positioning hats upon Kid Rock's head. That's where old time rock 'n' roll once came from. Cars, too.
The early '70s were a good time to be a wealthy heir from one of the Motor City's most prominent DNA pools, the Fords. Japan hadn't quite started kicking fuel-inefficient butt yet, and plenty of drugs and marginal religions were happy to relieve those kids of their trust funds.
The Rasta movement really blew its chances at killing two birds with one stone(d?).
Benson Ford Jr. and Alfred "Alfie" Ford are great-grandsons of Henry. Benson was born to the Ford Motor Company's top shareholder. Alfie's maternal grandfather was the famed Edsel, but his dad was ALSO a Ford from a chemical manufacturing offshoot of the clan. That's a lot of Ford in one man. Too much. Too much Ford.
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He was second only to Fordington Ford the Fordth, who could actually turn into a '57 Fairlane.
Benson (who certainly became an even greater embarrassment once the Soap butler-turned-governor character came into existence) took the low road of party boy and hot rod enthusiast. He was famously slighted in his father's will, which left him plenty of money, but didn't allow him any voting rights in connection with his Ford stock, probably so he couldn't wield his shareholder power to take over the company and insist on the production of nothing but souped-up Model-Ts run on amphetamines. This didn't sit well with Benson. He started suing the hell out of everyone and took to wearing hidden wires at family functions. He also alluded to a posse that was ready to kill to have him placed on the Ford board of directors. Probably a hot rod gang -- like the gang in the 1958 AIP film Hot Rod Gang.
But that whole agenda got sidetracked when Benson was busted at the San Francisco airport with pockets stuffed full of hash and coke. And also when people started suing the hell out of him for shady dealings. Because people will still do business with a screwed-up kid who took 10 years to finish college as long as he has a famous name.
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As proven by the multiple failures of Count Desmond Chocula Jr.
Alfie, on the other hand, let the sun shine in and joined the Hare Krishnas. He claims George Harrison introduced him to orange sheets and sitars, but it could just be that he wanted to answer the age-old question, "How can I still get attention and out-crazy my wiretapping, hot-rod-gang-leading, drug-addicted asshole cousin?" In pursuit of that answer, Alfie changed his name to "Ambarish Das," which, while translating to "servant of Krishna," phonetically sounds very much like "embarrass us" and therefore proves our point.
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Try saying it with a Connery accent and enjoy the next five minutes of your life. You're welcome.
Eventually Alfie purchased and refurbished a Detroit mansion once owned by the founder of Cadillac and transformed it into a sprawling Krishna temple and cultural center. Further twisting the knife into his family's gut, he embarked on this project in cahoots with fellow Krishna devotee Lisa Reuther, daughter of former United Auto Workers union head and Ford nemesis Walter Reuther. It was like cats and dogs -- living together! A bunch of bald cats and dogs!
Alfie likes to give away his vast wealth to Krishna causes, and Krishnas are known for luring all comers into their temples with free vegetarian suppers. So that means he's probably the only Ford left in Detroit of any practical use. Joining him may be the city residents' only hope of survival.
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... for now.
As for Benson, the family eventually let those death threats be bygones and allowed him to crawl back into their good graces through a management trainee program in Ford's parts and service division, though it is unclear whether that path was strewn with hot-rod-gang-slain corpses.
3 Patty Hearst -- Magazine Guerrilla
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In 1974, the family of publishing titan William Randolph Hearst was thrown into turmoil when his granddaughter Patricia was kidnapped by the radical Symbionese Liberation Army. For her return, the SLA demanded the release of jailed comrades. When that wasn't doable, they demanded that their propaganda be printed in Hearst publications. Done. Then they wanted the Hearsts to buy a bunch of food and distribute it to the needy. Done. But they decided the food wasn't good enough ("hog feed," they called it), so they remained angry and dissatisfied. Never let it be said that anyone gets into the liberation army business due to their level-headed consistency.
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Apparently they were a revolutionary group run by annoying house cats.
While this ransom dance was going on, things with the actual kidnapping victim took a weird turn when photos surfaced of a beret-wearing, machine-gun-toting "Tania" (Patty rechristened herself after a communist revolutionary) assisting in an SLA bank holdup. It was claimed that she was a victim of Stockholm syndrome, where a captive eventually identifies with and becomes attached to her captor, and that she was brainwashed into participating. That may have initially been the case, but she really ran with this refreshing new persona for quite some time, far longer than most "syndrome" expiration dates. This led to her being sentenced to seven years in prison (which was cut short by President Carter before she served out two years because, hey, that's what famous families are for).
But for all of Patty's criminal revolutionary play-acting, perhaps her most scandalous pursuit was to come after she did her time. In the late '80s she took up acting for real and began appearing in a number of John Waters' films. Remember, grandfather William Randolph Hearst was Citizen Kane, Orson Welles' inspiration for what many consider to be the greatest film of all time. And his heir joined the acting stable of a director perhaps best known at that time for filming an obese transvestite eating fresh dog poop on camera.
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Gender: Female
Athlete Year of Birth: 1982
Athlete Place of Birth: Christchurch, New Zealand
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I learned to swim at age 4 at the QE2 swimming pool. I became competitive very early, as I began swimming competitions at age 6. At 11, I joined the South Brighton surf lifesaving club. I first represented New Zealand in 2001 in Surf Life Saving. My first triathlon was in February 2005 in New Zealand where I qualified to represent NZ in the Triathlon World Championships for U23 Elite.
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For one night you can have sex with your biggest fantasy or your significant other
. Who are you going to choose?
The ghost of Paul WalkerReplyCancel
I totally want to get it on with Michelle Dockery… girl crush all the way!ReplyCancel
Heather Graham. Hands down.ReplyCancel
Paul LyndeReplyCancel
Unman@ Sugar I can give you most of that and substitute my little barrier island in the Atlantic for the fancy place :)))))ReplyCancel
My significant other actually. Hottest sex I've ever had.ReplyCancel
Well that's just silly. Why not have sex with the fantasy person for *One Night* and then your S.O. the other 364? Who wouldn't choose the fantasy??
Alicia Keys. or. My sexy barista blaine. Maybe both at the same time. yes, that.
RDJ. Yoooohooo 🙂 hold your hourses cowboy Im coming lolReplyCancel
Eddie Fucking VedderReplyCancel
Yes it did @Sugar! I told ya I can take care of your list didn't I ?you think all that shit is cheap?? 🙁ReplyCancel
Anyway it seems I have a better offer on the table.ReplyCancel
Christian Bale. Absolutely. Except for his "the machinist" look. Absolutely not then. I'd break him in half.ReplyCancel
Haha Sugar that's for me to know and for you to find out. Your check is in the mail. 🙂ReplyCancel
Benedict Cumberbatch. And he has to be wearing the Sherlock coat with the collar up.ReplyCancel
I need it slow and easy peasy @sugar. I'm fragile. I'm not a wham bam thank you ma'am type of gigoloReplyCancel
Colin Firth as Mark Darcy circa 2001. Love him anyway, but that look, oooof. Darling, leave on the barrister suit.ReplyCancel
Biggest fantasy, without a doubt. There would be very little actual sleeping. Need to pause occasionally to replenish electrolytes. It would be…. torrid.ReplyCancel
Does my significant other have to know? If not then Sawyer from Lost. Or maybe Halle's ex, the model one. Or maybe one of the Hemsworths. That being said, don't know why I'm married to a brown haired, brown eyed guy 😉ReplyCancel
Joe ManganielloReplyCancel
I don't currently have a significant other and my biggest fantasy changes every week. This is hrrrrd.ReplyCancel
Bruce Springsteen!ReplyCancel
Mmm your guesses are like a little mental buffet.
My answer to this redundant question was answered by last night's dream. In it I was left with tickets for a holiday in Paris via Vanuatu, so decided to take the slightly younger, tanned and gorgeous, reasonably thick, and wonderfully good natured guy from my work that is always flirting with me. I rationalised that I could put up with the dumb for a couple weeks, so long as I was numbed by the sheer volume of vigorous sex.
In that waking moment, as I smiled unrepentantly to myself, the cougar tribe claimed me.ReplyCancel
Girls:Annalynne McCord or Jessica Lowndes
Guys: Zayn Malik
Sugar Sandy is our precious. can t touch this 🙂ReplyCancel
Hahaha! One night only? I'll line up all my fantasies, they get together at the oscars, so, for one night, they will all be my one night only, rest of the year and my life, hopefully, my SO.ReplyCancel
@Violet I thought that same thing!ReplyCancel
Charlie Hunnam (sorry husband)ReplyCancel
Colin Farell. And CM Punk.
And my husband knows it!
My hubs is amazing in and out of bed but we both have our fantasy lists…I'd give hubs up for the night for Alexander Skarsgard (don't believe the blind on him for a single second) if we are talking ladytime it would have to be Emma Stone… with her talking all nasty dirty with that husky voice 😀ReplyCancel
Oooh, do tell!ReplyCancel
Colin Farrell……hangs head in shame….ReplyCancel
My significant other who passed away almost six months ago after our being married just four months.ReplyCancel
Wait, biggest fantasy can be more than one person, right? Hiddles has gotta be one of the players, specially if he's reciting poetry.
I'm so sorry to hear that, tennis peach. I hope you've got a great support networkReplyCancel
Thank you TTM – I credit my faith, family and friends! It is ebb and flow – one day at a time!ReplyCancel
Oh wow, tennis. I'm so so sorry to hear that. 🙁ReplyCancel
TTM, people round here have been worried sick about you!ReplyCancel
What, someone missed random over-posting? I don't believe that for a second. Er, nice new name?ReplyCancel
Charlie Hunnam / ASkars / Matt ScannellReplyCancel
Thank you Susan!
I am still trying to figure out why DeeNance would want to be with Scott Weiland. 🙂ReplyCancel
Okay, I know, but, ROBERT PATTINSONReplyCancel
More hugs from me @Tennis So so sorry.ReplyCancel
Clooney, Colin Farrell and Jared Leto. One at a time or all together, doesn't matter.ReplyCancel
Brad Pitt legends of the fall era
Or Charlie Hunam -SOA
Drinking wine as I type….
Women, there's more than men – ha! Let's start with
Charlize Theron, pre Peen
Uma Thurman, I don't even think I like blonds & I'm a dye job
And I told you already, Paulina Gretzky – getting drunk…
Nigel Barker, talk to me baby!
My husband, he's got an accent, so he's hot
This is easy.
Been screwing the same guy for 12years. ONE NIGHT! Definitely the fantasy fuck. NOW. Real life or celebrity? The celebrity would never happen. The real life guy COULD POSSIBLY. With TONS of coaxing with my ex. It's some one he knows.
I'm a dirty bird, I know.
Paul Walker was #1 on my celebrity fuck list for years! So I guess I'd settle now for Matthew MReplyCancel
So sorry Tennis Peach. God keep you.
I'm going with my long time love, David Morse, or David O'Hara. Well, or Liam Neeson. Canna help myself.ReplyCancel
I'm a huge long-time lurker, but this made me post! (Been wanting to post before, but I'm afraid I won't fit in)…Easy! NOT with my husband, DUH!, but with what we refer to in my house as "my other husband", Jerry Cantrell, preferably '90's Jerry Cantrell, with his long hair, when he was what I call "Dirty Jerry". But I would have no problem with 2014 Jerry Cantrell. He's my mental twin, plus, dude is HOT! (FYI, he's the guitarist/singer for Alice in Chains). I even named my cat after him…Jerry Cattrell! 🙂ReplyCancel
That's awesome, KSierra, it is fantastic when people start posting. Of course you're gonna fit in!ReplyCancel
Hmmmmm. I might have to take Option C, one more night with the ex significant other. Throwin a good hate fuck on her would do wonders for me.
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Author: Ashton B. Carter, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities
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Mr. Chairman and members of the Committee on Foreign Relations, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today to discuss the vitally important issue of preventing and countering proliferation. Proliferation has taken the place of the Soviet Union as the number one threat to the security of Americans. Your efforts to explore and promote policy solutions to proliferation are therefore much appreciated by citizens like myself.
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Dogs that don't bark. The effort to prevent proliferation is not successful in all places at all times. Policy understandably focuses on those places where the outcome seems in doubt. But to paraphrase Sherlock Holmes, we must not ignore the evidence of the "dogs that don't bark." The states that have forsworn weapons of mass destruction (WMD) far outnumber those that challenge the nonproliferation regime. Among them figure many friends and allies of the United States. Nations of great power and authority that could easily put their hands on the needed technology and funds nevertheless make the decision that their own security is best preserved without WMD. Why is this? In important measure it is because of the sense of stability, safety, and justice in their region and in the world as a whole -- a sense to which the broader foreign policies of the United States make an essential contribution. Said differently, all of U.S. foreign and defense policy contributes to nonproliferation policy.
While we are not successful at preventing proliferation in all places and times, U.S. policy has had some remarkable successes under the two administrations that have spanned this decade. As the decade opened, a reasonable person testifying to this Committee would have been justified in forecasting no fewer than six new entrants into the rolls of nuclear proliferators during the 1990s. But Ukraine, Kazakstan, and Belarus are today non-nuclear due to the farsightedness of the Nunn-Lugar program. South Africa dismantled its nuclear weapons after a change of regime. Iraq began the decade on a path that would have led to a nuclear arsenal by this time, but defeat in war and the pressure of inspections have slowed its efforts. North Korea's plutonium production program, forecasted to yield dozens of weapons worth of plutonium by decade's end, is frozen. So the effort is well worthwhile and produces results, even if not in all places and all times.
Strategy and priorities. Recently former Secretary of Defense William Perry and I wrote a book entitled Preventive Defense: A New Security Strategy for America in which we argued for an American security strategy focused on what we called the "A-List" of dangers to the very survival, way of life, and position in the world of this country. A-List problems can grow into Cold-War scale threats. Proliferation of WMD (including possibly to sub-state terrorists) was on our A-List. Also on the A-List were the future evolutions of Russia and China, which could be either beneficial or deeply dangerous for U.S. security. We contrasted the A-List problems to such problems as the tragic conflict in the Balkans, which, while important, does not threaten America''s vital interests directly. We put such problems on a strategic "C-List." The B-List contained the two Major Theater Wars (MTWs) around which much of our defense spending is organized. The MTWs do threaten American vital interests, and we do not have the option to pick and choose among them. But neither do they threaten the survival, way of life, and position in the world of the United States in the manner that A-List proliferation does.
Therefore, as the United States struggles toward a conception of strategy for the post-Cold War world, we must keep our priorities firmly before us, even though CNN makes that difficult at times. George Marshall was bothered by the same problem of priorities at America''s last great strategic transition. In an address at Princeton University in 1947, he said, "Now that an immediate peril is not plainly visible, there is a natural tendency to relax and to return to business as usual. But I feel that we are seriously failing in our attitude toward the international problems whose solution will largely determine our future." The outcome of the struggle to prevent and counter proliferation will, as Marshall said, "largely determine our future."
Counterproliferation. Because we are not successful at preventing proliferation in all places at all times, it is important that proliferation problems figure in our defense as well as our diplomacy. Desert Storm was deeply deceptive in this regard: Americans got the impression that wars in the post-Cold War era would be purely conventional affairs, won handily by our peerless conventional forces. But future opponents will pose asymmetrical counters to our forces rather than taking them on frontally with symmetrical opposing conventional forces. It was in recognition of this danger that Secretary of Defense Aspin and then Secretary Perry began the Counterproliferation Initiative in DOD. Counterproliferation has gradually assumed greater importance in U.S. defense plans and programs, though a great deal more remains to be done. Our Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) still spends more effort perfecting the hammer for a nail like Desert Storm; but the next war might be a screw instead.
The counterproliferation approach completes the nation's portfolio of counters to proliferation. In DOD briefings (and now to my class at Harvard), I used to sum up this portfolio in the "8D''s" which the United States can to apply as a given proliferation situation becomes more dangerous: dissuasion, diplomacy, disarmament, denial, defusing, deterrence, destruction, and defense. We need all eight D''s, though we could apply all of them better.
Organization and management within the government. It is remarkable that as the world has changed so profoundly in the past decade, the structure of the national security establishment has not. That structure was established in its essential design in 1947 and 1949, when Congress passed and amended the National Security Act. It is as if we were trying to manage the Internet with the corporate structure of Ma Bell. The upcoming presidential transition offers an opportunity to make basic changes in management and organization. In the American system this opportunity comes only every four or eight years. Early in a presidential transition, civilian jobs are not yet filled with new officials who might resist a change in their functions. The new administration has not yet settled into a pattern of making do with "the system" it inherited. Politically, the Congress and the voters are expecting change.
Within the structure to deal with proliferation's A-List threat, DOD has made an important initial move by creating the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), and one can only hope that further innovation will take place to give solid managerial focus to A-List problems in the Pentagon. Within the White House, from time to time a "proliferation czar" has been proposed as a replacement for the current National Security Council system of policy coordination. But the central problem at the White House is notpolicycoordination among agencies, but programcoordination. For example, early in the Nunn-Lugar program, implementation was slowed by problems coordinating spending and program engineering among departments. But the policy was perfectly clear and agreed upon by all agencies. In cases like this the White House NSC system has neither the right powers nor the right personnel, and another mechanism needs to be found. Today, the programs for counter-terrorism and cyber protection, and the programs for developing technology for the battle against proliferation would benefit from a better mechanism for programcoordination among departments.
A once-in-the-Nuclear-Age event. The disintegration of the Soviet Union and the continuing social and economic revolution in Russia is the most fateful event of the nuclear age. All the witnesses in these hearings have remarked upon the unprecedented specter of a superpower arsenal engulfed in change its designers never could have imagined, and the stunning results obtained by the innovative Nunn-Lugar program. Their warnings bear repeating. The half-life of Plutonium-239 is 24,400 years, and the half-life of Uranium-235 is 713 million years. That is a lot of election cycles for a young democracy like Russia.
The Nunn-Lugar program is the single most creative new foreign policy tool devised since the Cold War ended. Its many concrete accomplishments are well known to this Committee. But the current program's scale and scope are still much smaller than the opportunities to reduce this threat. Both the DOD and DOE programs have unfunded opportunities in the nuclear field, and much more could be done in the chemical and above all biological weapons fields.
Biological weapons. The nuclear weapon is a fearful technology, but it is at least a mature technology. In more than fifty years since the first thermonuclear explosion in 1949, the essentials of nuclear weapons effects have not changed. These terrible effects are also well understood by people all over the world. Biotechnology, by contrast, is at the dawn of a revolution that will produce a succession of dramatically new capabilities, matching and probably eventually dwarfing the nuclear revolution and the ongoing information revolution. Like all new technologies, it will be exploited for ill as well as good.
All of us who are concerned about proliferation need to move biological weapons to the top of our agenda. We need stronger diplomatic tools than the Biological Weapons Convention for prevention. Because biological proliferation has occurred at some places and times already, we also need much better counterproliferation (including counterterrorism) protections. In this connection, it is of some concern that the biotechnology revolution, unlike the nuclear revolution, is taking place outside of defense laboratories and companies. The information revolution is also spearheaded by non-defense commercial firms, but at least it had its beginning in defense-sponsored research, so DOD has a strong technological base in this field. The nonproliferation community, including DOD, will need to make a strong effort to develop a base of expertise in biotechnology.
North Korea. The nuclear weapons and ballistic missile related activities of the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK) are a triple concern. First, they occur in a theater of possible large-scale and catastrophic war in which American soldiers would be directly and immediately involved. Second, they take place in an area where a regional arms race is looming. And third, they threaten the fabric of the nonproliferation norm worldwide.
Mr. Chairman, as you know, it has been my privilege to serve the administration and Secretary William Perry as Senior Adviser to the North Korea Policy Review. The Review's recommended strategy for dealing with the DPRK was detailed in its unclassified report. I will not repeat the logic or conclusions of that report here, but I request that the report be entered into the record of this hearing along with my statement. I would be pleased to answer questions about it.
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Dear Rep. Welch:
Thank you for your hard work on the Syria/chemical weapons issue, especially for asking the president to have Congress debate the issue. I listened to your comments and answers to questions on the VPR program Vermont Edition, and you were very well spoken. Some new questions and concerns arose for me in listening to the questions and your responses that I feel need to be carefully and thoroughly explored.
1. First, it seems that the diplomatic route has not been exhausted, as it should be before going to war. Ive heard no mention of getting the 189 nations that have signed and ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention to come together in unity as a counterforce to President Bashar Assad. It seems to me, with the right diplomatic approach, even Russia and China could be our allies in this initiative.
2. I am glad you will be able to review the classified data that the president is offering to Congress. How will this strike be done without triggering more extensive use of chemical weapons by Assad? How will the strikes be done without inadvertently or accidentally releasing the chemical weapons in explosions of the missiles?
3. The classified information should be very clear on the estimated casualties and deaths that might occur from the planned missile strikes and limited action.
4. The classified information should be very clear how the missile strikes would eliminate the chemical weapons. If it is not clear this will be done, the United States will have solved nothing to eliminate what is the primary issue in the presidents planned action. From news reports I have heard, the al-Qaida forces in the Syrian opposition are gaining strength. How will missile strikes prevent al-Qaida forces from gaining access to chemical weapons? How will the chemical weapons be secured without U.S. or other forces on the ground in Syria? Unless there is a clear plan in the presidents proposal that Congress can have confidence in to secure the chemical weapons, Congress should not approve it.
5. The classified information should also be very clear how the information was obtained that chemical weapons were fired from Assads forces. And this information should be corroborated by independent sources.
6. I am very clear that I have limited knowledge of what diplomatic efforts have been made to date on the Syrian crisis. I urge you and all of Congress to insist on being given a full accounting of all the diplomatic efforts that have been made to date and why such efforts have failed. Also, Congress should press the president as to what additional diplomatic efforts could be pursued instead of war. I have heard that Russia and China are blocking attempts at the U.N. to craft and to allow a debate on a resolution on the Syrian crisis. However, it seems to me that there must be some way to have a debate in the U.N., just as there will be a debate in the U.S. Congress in the coming weeks. In this way, instead of the United States acting alone, 189 nations of the world could come together and maybe find a solution to the chemical weapons usage in Syria without going to war.
7. Lastly, it seems we are dealing with a situation where anything may happen, including the deterioration of relations between the United States and Russia and China, which now support Assad. That is why I feel that we need all 189 nations that have signed and ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention involved in a diplomatic effort to solve this problem.
Thanks again for all your efforts on this critical issue.
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The Caltrans Claims Program resolves claims filed against the Department of Transportation (Caltrans) for $10,000 or less. Government Code Section 935.7 authorizes Caltrans to adjust and pay claims not exceeding $10,000 without prior presentation and approval of the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board. If your claim is more than $10,000, please see the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board website at www.vcgcb.ca.gov/claims/default.aspx for information on filing a claim or contact them at the address and/or phone number listed below.
Time limitations for presenting a claim: Most claims must be filed within six months of the date of loss. Claimants are encouraged to consult with an attorney to determine if there are exceptions for their claim (Government Code Section 911.2). Late Claims: When a claim is not presented within the time limitations set by statue, a written application and claim in triplicate may be made to the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board for permission to submit a late claim. The application should state the reason for the delay in presenting the claim and be sent Crime Victim and Government Claims Board at the address listed below. The Department of Transportation cannot accept late claims without prior approval of the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board.
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Automotive Service Market Outlook
The automotive industry is characterized by intense competition, technological innovation, and is concentrated, with the 10 leading vehicle manufacturers representing close to 80% of global production. The automotive services industry is reliant on the automotive industry, following the same market pressures and showing the same sensitivity to general economic conditions. As the automotive industry begins to rebound following the global financial crisis, the supporting industries around it are also showing recovery. As government legislation to limit environmental harm from vehicle emissions sees specialized market segments take off, such as electric cars, the service industry will need to continue diversifying and working on technological innovation to keep up with new trends in vehicle production.
Global Automotive Service Industry
Auto service market research covers vehicle sales, leasing, and after sales services, including servicing and the sale of vehicle parts. The upkeep and repair of vehicles is becoming an increasingly complicated task for car owners as vehicles become more complex and use more advanced technology. Workers in the industry require training as the sector involves a high degree of specialization. Currently, there are more than 360,000 employees with certification across the US automotive service industry.
Safety plays a central role in the industry, which is regulated and controlled by legislation to protect workers and encourage effective risk management. There is a high degree of risk because of the amount of manual handling needed, for example welding and working with heavy loads.
Key Automotive Service Segments
Rental and Leasing: Profit from vehicle renting and leasing decreased during the financial crisis. The industry is beginning to rebound, and is expected to reach $53 billion by 2015, according to Global Industry Analysts. Growth in this market segment will come back on line as gross domestic product, employment, income and consumer confidence recover. In addition, as tourism begins to rebound along with people's discretionary income, leisure car rental will see revenue rise, reaching almost $7 billion in 2013 in the EU market. Leisure car rentals had fallen throughout the financial crisis because of corporate travel cutbacks and a dip in tourism; this segment of the market is highly competitive and includes such leading companies as Hertz, Dollar Thrifty, Avis Budget and Enterprise. The US is the leading region in terms of market share in the global car rental industry, with Europe in second place followed by other developed countries.
Automotive dealers sell new and used cars at retail outlets and can also service cars. Dealerships provide emplyment in a different regions of the world, and are now important actors in the automotive financing sector. The global automotive retail industry is estimated to grow at an annual rate greater than 5.5%, hitting in excess of $5.13 trillion by 2015, according to MarketLine. Sales from automotive dealers accounted for more than $2.04 trillion, or more than half of the total worth of the automotive retail industry.
Drivers and mechanics source car parts in automotive part stores. Such parts include plugs, batteries, brakes and tires, and are necessary for the upkeep of a vehicle, playing an important role in road safety. The fast fit industry, concerned with servicing vehicles as customers wait, is expected to grow at a yearly rate of more than 3% for the five-year period ending 2015, to come to almost $7 billion.
The global automotive repair and maintenance services industry, which keeps vehicles functioning and prolongs the product lifespan, is expected to be worth almost $306 billion by 2015, according to Global Industry Analysts. The US is the world leader in this market segment, with an estimated market value of over $41 billion in 2012. Asia-Pacific is expected to show the strongest regional growth in the automotive repair and maintenance market.
The global car washing services market is expected to reach almost $27.5 billion by 2017, according to Global Industry Analysts. As vehicle sales (and auto insurance) declined due to the financial crisis, the related global car washing services industry also declined. However, as the automotive industry recovers and sales increase, this market segment is beginning to rebound. The US and the EU lead in terms of market share, with Asia-Pacific expected to show 6% yearly growth through 2017, fuelled by developing markets such as India and China. Leading players on the market include Autobell Car Wash, Turtle Wax, IMO Car Wash, WashTec AG and Mister Car Wash.


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HNM323 - Challenges in Infant Care
Unit details
|2017 unit information
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Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), CBD*, Warrnambool, Waterfront (Geelong)
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Students must be enrolled in D355 Bachelor of Nursing/Bachelor of Midwifery to enrol in this unit
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Dolores Dooley
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Waterfront (Geelong): Margaret Pszczolkowski
Warrnambool: Erin Guiney
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8 x 2 hour seminars, 6 hours simulation, 8 x 2 hour cloud (online) classes per trimester
*CBD refers to Institute of Koorie Education – Community Based Delivery
In this unit, the first of two Year 3 units within the Clinical Studies Cluster, students will examine the physiological changes of infants at birth including the challenges of care for the pre-term, small for gestational age and term infants who develop complex health issues; and care delivered in collaboration with a multidisciplinary team of health professionals. Aims of this unit include developing the student's knowledge, skills and competencies to care for the neonate and family where a newborn requires admission to a Special Care Nursery.
Assessment task 1: Assignment (equivalent to 2000 words) 50%
This assessment will allow students to increase their knowledge and understanding of infants at risk of experiencing health challenges. Students will need to apply this knowledge in midwifery practice settings.
Assessment task 2: Examination (2 hour closed book, equivalent to 2000 words) 50%
Formal written examination will cover all aspects of the unit. The examination will consist of multiple choice and short answer questions incorporating all unit content. The examination will require students to demonstrate understanding of infants at risk of experiencing health challenges including the related care.
Assessment task 3: Midwifery Portfolio
Maintain Continuity of Care experiences with women during pregnancy, birth, and following birth (10 hours per experience).
Department of Human Services policy and Working with Children Act
In accordance with Department of Human Services policy*, all students are required to undertake a National Police Record Check prior to clinical placements in each calendar year of their course. In accordance with the Working with Children Act 2005**, all students are required to undertake a Working with Children Check at commencement of the course. Students who fail to obtain a Police Record Check and a Working with Children Check prior to the commencement of clinical placement will not be able to undertake clinical placement and this will impede progress in the course. Students may also be required to declare their immunisation status to satisfy the requirements of health organisations where they will be undertaking their clinical learning experience. A health organisation may refuse to accept a student for placement if the student's immunisation status is not satisfactory to the health organisation.
* Department of Human Services 2007, Service agreement information kit for funded organisations 2006–2009, State Government of Victoria, Melbourne, retrieved 1 July 2007.
** Department of Justice 2007, Working with Children Act 2005, Victoria, Australia retrieved April 2012
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Athlete Pipeline Philosophy And Implementation
U.S. Ski Team
The U.S. Ski Team is the sport's national team, consisting of A, B and C teams nominated annually. The objective of the U.S. Ski Team is to field teams that are capable of national and international success. This success is measured by winning at the Olympic, World Championship, World Cup, World Junior Championship, Europa Cup and NorAm Cup events. Click here for more information.
U.S. Development Team
The Development Team operates under the guidance of the U.S. Ski Team, representing the pinnacle of the junior development pipeline. Like the A, B and C teams, the D team is also nominated annually. The purpose of the Development Team is to field a team that is best in the world at the junior level. Click here for more information.
National Training Group
The National Training Groups (U16 NTG; W FIS NTG; M FIS NTG) support the development of top regional junior athletes by bringing them together from across the country to train and compete as a team. Each NTG is a self-contained group, led by a head coach with the support of an assistant coach and physical trainer. Based out of the Center of Excellence in Park City, the NTG athletes have full use of the athletic and rehabilitative facilities available to National Team athletes. The groups work collaboratively with each other, as well as with clubs, academies and regional and national teams as deemed athletically appropriate.
Selection to the NTGs is made according to criteria published annually, and posted to the USSA website in October, as are the NTG athletes named to the teams.
The transition to participation in an NTG represents a partnership between the USSA and the athlete's local club. It is handled with high levels of communication and transparency, recognizing that the best interests of the athlete are always of paramount importance.
Full-time participation is preferable to part-time, because it minimizes travel/transfer, is more consistent, and provides a better athletic environment because of peer group consistency. This is especially true of the FIS group.
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Concerned Waterbury residentAugust 22,2013
Concerned Waterbury resident
East Street is a quiet residential street zoned for only noncommercial use. However, the owners of 19 East St. are subletting to a man who is, in turn, leasing this home to a group of nine to 16 men and providing this as housing.
These owners are professing it is not a business while they allegedly stand to collect over $115,000 a year from these rentals with a potential profit of approximately $100,000. These amounts are calculated from $600 a month per one renter times 16 renters. That adds up to $115,200 for a yearly income.
The man subleasing, Andrew Gonyea, has been featured on television news expressing his wishes to create these homes as nonprofits across the nation for ex-criminals. While nonprofit businesses sound like there are no profits being produced, it is still a business that must raise revenue to maintain cost, as well as produce a salary for those who work for it.
This 19 East St. residence is allegedly the third house he has opened up in the state of Vermont, which I firmly believe is another steppingstone for his nonprofit business, which is, in this case, being placed in a noncommercial use area.
The owners are usurping zoning regulations by attempting to find loopholes to establish an undisclosed business operating in a residential zoned area. If this change of use continues to be allowed we can say goodbye to the enforcement of zoning regulations in our Vermont residential neighborhoods. Is this what we pay our taxes for and how we want to watch our neighborhoods develop?
Jan Cote
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By Sean Greene 5:39pm, March 24, 2013
VIDEO: Blue Hens on the help of their 'sixth man'Delaware's second NCAA Tournament win in program history was different than its first.
First of all, instead of a mid-major school in UALR, this time it was Big XII foe West Virginia.
But perhaps more importantly, instead of winning the game on a court in Little Rock, Arkanasas, this time it took place in front of 4,532 fans at the Bob Carpenter Center.
The Blue Hens found themselves down in the first half and a lively crowd was silenced when WVU scored the final five points to go into the break 33-26.
After a nervous start to the second half by both teams which saw the only points in the first five minutes come on an Elena Delle Donne basket, Delaware was able to spark a run thanks to an "and-one" by Delle Donne, and the crowd was lively for the rest of the game.
Danielle Parker, who finished with a game high 11 rebounds battle a tough WVU front line, noticed the fans: "I swear they warm up their vocal chords before they come here, yeah yeah!"
At times it seemed that West Virginia was struggling even to figure out their plays as they walked into the front court, "they really were like a sixth man today", according to Elena Delle Donne.
While just a few hundred fans were in Little Rock last year, the Bob is sold out for Round 2 on Tuesday night, when they hope they can cheer their Blue Hens past an ACC foe and into the Sweet 16.
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