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ACC needs to be a fair system that is there for all New Zealanders to get help when they need it.
The Green Party supports equitable and adequate rehabilitation and compensation as part of a system that focuses on promoting good health, reducing the risk and impact of illness, impairment and injury, and improving quality of life.
It is vital that all of ACC remains a public body. Privatisation will lead to reduced services for accident victims and increased costs.
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Key Principles
- Equitable rehabilitation for all people suffering impairment caused by injury, illness or other disability.
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ACC Cover for Personal Injury
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- Ensure that all people who receive unexpected and unintended injuries as a consequence of medical treatment can access ACC cover.
- Restore cover to all people who suffer mental injury by accident regardless of whether they were at work or whether there was a physical injury.
Adequate Rehabilitation and Fair Compensation
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- Ensure Vocational Independence Assessments are reoriented so that their primary purpose is to help claimants plan how best to return as much as possible to their pre-injury life.
- Ensure a fairer assessment of income earned by temporary and seasonal workers.
- Ensure ACC payments are treated the same way as earned income when considering eligibility for income tested benefits e.g. working for families.
Culture of ACC
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- Put the emphasis back on obtaining the best outcome for clients, rather than the best financial outcome for ACC.
- Support the development and funding of a strong network of skilled claimant advocates operating across the country to ensure that claimants receive their entitlements.


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Eloise started her first day of preschool today!
We didn't know for sure that she would be starting this fall since she was on the waitlist since last spring, but we found out a few weeks ago and have been pretty excited about it. Her school is a small, 12 student school that is run by a former school teacher out of her home in our neighborhood. It is geared specifically for 2 to 4 year olds to attend for one or two years before spending their final year before kindergarten in a pre-K program. And this is exactly what we wanted for Eloise! She will spend Monday and Wednesday mornings (9 AM to 1 PM) at The Birch School with two teachers where she will play outside, have crafting time, singing, etc. It's great for Eloise to have some social time with kids her age & be in the care of other adults, and it is great for me to have some time to work on the Shop or get things done around the house or have one-on-one time with Baby Foot come February!
Eloise was SO excited about taking her lunch in her new lunchbox, having a new ladybug water bottle (thanks Grammie!), and having a new outfit to wear on her first day. She was a little nervous in the car this morning when she realized she was actually going (I asked her if she was excited about going to school and she said "No!" and shook her head…) but she started playing as soon as we got to school and didn't make a huge deal when I left. Not even any tears (from either of us)!
Happy first day of preschool E!
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For as long as he can remember, John Holzapfel of Orient has been interested in the New England Hurricane of 1938 and its impact on the North Fork.
A retired Shoreham-Wading River High School science teacher with a master's in marine studies, the self-proclaimed history buff has done his fair share of research on the "Long Island Express."
His fascination with the storm heightened in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, which devastated the region last year.
Special Report: Remembering the 'L.I. Express hurricane of 1938'
Now, 75 years after that early storm struck, Mr. Holzapfel is preparing to present "The Hurricane of '38," a talk co-sponsored by the Oysterponds Historical Society and Peconic Landing, on Saturday, Sept. 21. The presentation will start at 4 p.m. at Peconic Landing's community center in Greenport.
The program will begin with a brief description of how hurricanes form, followed by a discussion of the special conditions that made the 1938 storm so disastrous for the East End.
The highlight, Mr. Holzapfel said, will be firsthand recollections of the storm. He'll also show photos of damage sustained from Orient to Greenport.
To Mr. Holzapfel, one of the most noteworthy facts about the hurricane was that locals didn't see it coming.
"They didn't expect it," he said. "It should have gone out to sea."
The talk is free of charge and no registration is necessary. For more information, visit oysterpondshistoricalsociety.org or call 323-2480.
The estate sale at the home of the late Gertrude Vail Rich, a longtime Orient resident whose mother was a founder of the Oysterponds Historical Society, opened last weekend, giving buyers the chance to own a piece of North Fork history.
Ms. Rich had the Youngs Road estate built in 1972, according to family. She acquired a vast collection of valuables over her lifetime. Items on sale, some of which had belonged to her mother, born Alma Jane Miller, dated back to the 18th century.
Robert Barker and Sherron Francis of the Long Island Tag Sale Company spent seven days preparing and pricing items, Within the first 90 minutes of the sale, which ran Friday through Sunday, over 250 people combed through the collection.
"It's like a wonderfully full treasure chest," said Linda Burke of Mattituck. "There is such a history of people's lives here."
That history connects back to the 17th century, when the Vail family helped settle Orient, which was then known as Oysterponds.
Vail family heirlooms were sprinkled throughout the three-story home; even Ms. Rich's school report cards from East Marion and Friends Academy were for sale.
"This is the best thing in the whole house," said Mr. Barker, pointing to a large portrait prominently displayed over a sofa in the living room. The painting, of young Daniel Shotwell Vail playing with his dog, dates back to approximately 1848. A view of boats sailing the Hudson River at sunset is seen off to his right. The boy was born in 1843 and is about 5 years old in the painting, Mr. Barker said. The artist is unknown. It sold within the first hour of the sale.
"I saw it online, but I didn't know it was a Vail," said Jeff Hoffman, who bought the painting with his wife, Sue. "When we turned it around and saw it was of a Vail, we got excited." The couple is from the mid-Hudson Valley but also has a home in Greenport. They found out about the estate sale through a Suffolk Times classified ad.
"Sales like this are rare," Ms. Hoffman said. "It is interesting to find Hudson Valley stuff out here."
Mr. Hoffman said the Vails also spent a lot of time in the Hudson Valley. They declined to say how much they paid for the painting.
A 1930s Charak-brand secretary desk, priced at $895, stood in the corner of the living room. It was filled with books; titles like "Napoleon's Letters to Josephine" and "Shakespeare's Works" were held up by brass bookends of former U.S. presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
Book collectors like Dennis Massa of Peconic took their time perusing the collection. Mr. Massa said he also sells books, and decided to purchase a few for resale.
A marble bust, dating to 1910 and priced at $950, sat in another living room corner. It was signed by its Italian sculptor. The family had purchased it while on a tour of Europe, Mr. Barker said.
A seascape by local Orient artist William Steeple Davis hung in the dining room, while multiple smaller seascapes by local artist Elliot A. Brooks hung elsewhere around the house.
Fine china filled cabinets in the dining room, with dishes and crystal displayed across the dining room table. Silver cutlery, cut glass candleholders and lace tablecloths were abundant.
Hung above the front door was an antique mirror with a cornucopia inlay, circa 1800. It was priced at $750.
"It certainly is a beautiful collection," said Janet Zenk of West Islip, standing next to several boxes filled with items. "I'd like to stay longer, but I ran out of money," she joked.
Members of the Oysterponds and Southold historical societies visited the house prior to the public sale and acquired a number of paintings and photographs for their collections, ensuring that some Vail family history will remain on the North Fork.
It's easy to be intrigued by Plum Island's current status as a secret federal animal disease research laboratory, but that's just one chapter in the island's rich history.
East Marion resident Ruth Ann Bramson, also board president of the Oysterponds Historical Society, has been researching the island's pre-lab history for several years and is working on a book on the subject with Southold Historical Society director Geoffrey Fleming and collections manager Amy Folk, a Long Island historian who has worked on some of the society's other books.
She'll give a presentation on the island's past at the Peconic Landing auditorium in Greenport at 8 p.m. tonight.
In an interview this week, Ms. Bramson said Plum Island's history has "not really been collected anyplace. The island has a very rich history of exploration, changing ownership and government acquisition. It's an interesting lens, I think, to look at American history."
She said the island was known by Native Americans as Manittuwond, meaning "the island to which we go to plant corn," and that the first map was prepared by Adriaen Block, a Dutch trader employed by the Dutch East India Company, who also is credited with discovering Block Island.
"He prepared a map in 1614 based on his last voyage, which includes Plum Island," said Ms. Bramson. "We know that he saw Plum Island."
Later, between 1637 and 1639, the island played a major role in the Pequot War, the first armed conflict between Europeans and Native Americans.
The island is mentioned in a letter from Rhode Island founder Roger Williams. He wrote that the Pequots, who were "scarce of provision," made their way to Manittuwond and Munnatawket, their name for Fishers Island, "to take sturgeon and other fish and to grow new fields of corn in case the English destroy their fields."
The waters between Fishers Island, Block Island and Plum Island later became a "great center of trade between English and Indian tribes," Ms. Bramson added. "It's interesting to think of that area as being a center of trade."
The island also provided the setting of the first engagement between the newly formed Continental Army and the British during the American Revolution.
"On Aug. 11, 1775, shots were heard on the island," Ms. Bramson said. "We can't say it changed the course of history. It was just a footnote in history. But it was the first exchange of cannon fire and the first amphibious assault by the U.S. Army."
She said Plum Island also abounds with stories from the War of 1812, of shipwrecks and efforts by local residents and seamen to build lighthouses on both Plum Island and neighboring Little Gull Island.
During the late 1800s, the island became a well-known place for sportsmen.
"Very famous people came out to Plum Island to stay in the home of the lighthouse keeper, on farms and in barns," she said. "Grover Cleveland visited frequently aboard the ship Oneida, owned by his very close friend Commodore Elias Benedict."
Fort Terry was built on the island in 1897 as an artillery post to protect the U.S. coast from enemy ships during the Spanish-American War and later served as a lookout site for German U-boats and planes during World War II, though the fort never saw conflict and was declared surplus in 1948.
Ms. Bramson hopes to explore all these topics in more depth in both her lecture and the book, which the Southold Historical Society hopes to release in mid-2013.
The historical society received a $15,000 grant from the Gerry Charitable Trust, which must be matched by the end of this year, to complete the book, Mr. Fleming said this week.
"We hope that anyone interested in the fascinating history of Plum Island will consider making a donation," he said.
"We are also currently looking for original documents and images relating to the historic structures and families that once occupied Plum Island. If you are a descendant of the Beebe, Tuthill or other notable families that once called the island home, please consider sharing the material you have with us. It will help make this project much richer and more interesting."
To make a donation or to reserve a seat for Ms. Bramson's lecture, call the Southold Historical Society at 765-5500.
In the days of wind-borne shipping, the waters surrounding Orient played host to scores of schooners en route throughout the northeast laden with coal and commodities.
The Oysterponds Historical Society is sponsoring two lectures at Peconic Landing in Greenport over the next two Saturdays on the history of the ships whose owners and captains lived in Orient more than a century ago.
Orient resident Ret Millis, a member of OHS and a former field reporter and producer for NBC News, will recount the voyages of the three-masted schooner Lavinia Campbell. Mr. Millis became interested in the ship after seeing a painting of it in the historical society's collection.
"I think it's by far the finest of our marine paintings," he said of the moody painting depicting the ship with all sails reefed as it fights off a gale. "It's unbelievable that such a beautiful thing turned out to be a coal carrier."
While researching the ship's history Mr. Millis discovered that he lives in the Orient house that once belonged to the Lavinia Campbell's first captain, Charles N. Franklin.
Mr. Franklin ran the ship for Cicero King, a notable Orient businessman who had the 197-foot-long Lavinia Campbell built in Kennebunkport, Maine in 1883.
"She was a three-masted schooner and a good-looking one," said Mr. Millis. "She was fast and apparently Franklin was a bit of a driver. He could really push her."
He added that captains at the time were paid with a percentage of the cargo, leading them to drive their ships hard.
The Lavinia Campbell, which Mr. Millis says was likely berthed in Greenport, also had the distinction of having more accidents than most other vessels.
Not long after she was launched, she ran aground off Block Island on a dark night. Later, when anchored outside of Baltimore with a load of coal, she was rammed by a British steamer and began to sink. Refloated and repaired in Baltimore, the ship completed its voyage and delivered the coal several months late, said Mr. Millis.
He'll reveal her ultimate — and harrowing — fate at his lecture, "Schooner Rigged and Rakish: The Story of Orient's Lavinia Campbell" at 4 p.m. on April 2 in the Peconic Landing auditorium.
Clyde Mellinger, who will give the lecture "A Schooner in the Offing" this Saturday, March 26, at 4 p.m. in the same location, married into Orient's schooner history.
His wife, Roxanna Mellinger, is descended from a long line of Potters of Orient who were involved in shipping under sail.
She's the granddaughter of Captain William Harper Potter of Orient of the Louise B. Crary, which sank after a collision off the Stellwagen Bank in Massachusetts in 1902. Captain Potter was one of 10 of the 21 crew members who survived.
Mr. Mellinger has lectured extensively on the wreck of the Crary. Saturday's talk will focus on her sister ships, many of which were piloted by members of his wife's family over the course of more than a century.
"I'll be filling in the areas which have not really been covered that much by the historical society, the four, five and six masted schooners. They're the big boys," he said.
Mr. Mellinger said that the Orient wharf likely could not accommodate ships bigger than three-masted schooners. Larger vessels would have been berthed in Greenport while their captains were home with their families in Orient.
He takes the title of his lecture from the poem "The Sea Gypsy" by Richard Hovey: "There's a schooner in the offing, with her topsail shot with fire/My heart has gone aboard her for the islands of desire."
"That's rather romantic," Mr. Mellinger said. "These guys were merchants. I'm sure they'd like to dream they were on a yacht, but they were mostly businessmen."
Mr. Mellinger documented the rise of the big ships in the early 1880s, when merchants realized that three-masted schooners weren't big enough to transport coal up and down the coastline.
"It was around the kitchen tables in these houses around here that they planned these things and started raising money for building these ships," said Mr. Mellinger. "Then they became owners and captains."
One five-masted schooner built at that time and often seen off the coast of Orient was the Jennie French Potter, whose captain, Joseph R. Potter, named the ship after his brother's wife, since his brother helped to finance her construction.
"She was launched in 1899. She was 257 feet long and weighed almost 2,000 tons," said Mr. Mellinger. "She carried coal, mainly. They needed bituminous coal in New England so they would run from the rail heads all along the coast."
The Jennie French Potter's role was typical of big schooners of that era, which provided the north-south counterpart to east-to-west shipping routes along the nation's railroad lines.
Large schooners carried everything from pickled pork and seed potatoes to street sweepings full of horse droppings used as fertilizer. They even picked up guano, birds' and bats' droppings, from islands off the coast of Peru and carried munitions during the Spanish-American War and World War I.
"If you think of the three-masters as the tandem trucks of the area, the five-masters were container ships or supertankers," said Mr. Mellinger. "They weren't quite as romantic, but they were far more contributory to the wealth and prosperity of the nation."
Schooner lectures
• Saturday, March 26, 4 p.m.: 'A Schooner in the Offing' by Clyde Mellinger
• Saturday, April 2, 4 p.m.: 'Schooner Rigged and Rakish: The Story of Orient's Lavinia Campbell' by Ret Millis
Presented by Oysterponds Historical Society at Peconic Landing auditorium, 1500 Brecknock Road, Greenport. Free. 323-2480, oysterpondshistoricalsociety.org.


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Davidson was looking for a win against an ACC team. They didn't get it done against UNC or Duke, but they had the Wolfpack square in their sights.
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North Carolina State's Brandon Costner (33) drives to the basket as Davidson's Thomas Sander (15) defends during the second half. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)


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NEW YORK, NY — July 22, 2010 — Young Photographers Alliance (YPA), a 501(c)3 educational foundation dedicated to developing the talent of young photographers, has launched an international mentoring initiative that pairs talented college students and recent graduates with leading photographers from the US, Canada and England to collaborate on a photo essay around a compelling social theme. This year's theme is "Answering Adversity."
"The world is facing economic hardship not seen since the Great Depression," explained Deborah Free, YPA co-founder. "Unemployment, home foreclosures, and the loss of savings and retirement funds are leaving communities, businesses, families and individuals with tough choices. This initiative will send teams of photographers and their mentors into the field to photograph stories of innovation, determination and courage during hard times—much like the WPA and FSA photographers did during the Great Depression."
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Bernie Finkelstein has been one of the leading figures in both the Canadian and worldwide music industry for over 45 years.
He began his career managing two of Canada's earliest internationally known groups, The Paupers and Kensington Market. Later he handled management for Bruce Cockburn, Murray McLauchlan, Dan Hill, Barney Bentall, Stephen Fearing and Blackie & The Rodeo Kings. Currently he continues to manage Bruce Cockburn.
In 1969 he founded True North Records Canada's oldest and one of it's largest independent record companies. Over the years the label has released recordings by Bruce Cockburn, Murray McLauchlan, Stephen Fearing, Carole Pope & Rough Trade, Randy Bachman, The Rheostatics, Lynn Miles, Lenny Breau, 54-40, Moxy Fruvous, Lighthouse and Lorraine Segato, to name only a few. With over 500 releases, 40 Juno Awards and 40 gold and platinum records to its credit, True North is an incredible Canadian success story.
In 2007 Bernie sold True North and began to wind down his management and publishing activities. Prior to selling, True North had licensing ventures with UK-based Cooking Vinyl, Denver based Sci-Fidelity, New York-based Plump Records, Los Angeles-based Fuel 2000, Boston-based Tone Cool, Vancouver's Guitarchives and distributed recordings by many artists including The Guess Who, Shawn Colvin, Richard Thompson, Oysterband, Susan Tedeschi, Kelly Joe Phelps and the North Mississippi Allstars.
In addition, Finkelstein started The True North Publishing Group which had extensive interests in music publishing and overseeing a rich catalogue of works by song-writers including Bruce Cockburn, Murray McLauchlan, Barney Bentall and Rough Trade. Other copyrights include various film and television soundtracks (Going Down The Road, Waterwalker, Franklin...) and covers by artists as diverse as Anne Murray, The Barenaked Ladies, Jerry Garcia, kd Lang, The Rankins, Maria Muldaur, Jimmy Buffett, Judy Collins, Elbow, Dan Fogelberg and The Barra MacNeils, to name a few.
Finkelstein's industry involvement has been varied and extensive. It includes a one-year term as Chairman of the Ontario Film Development Corporation and a total of six years on their Executive Committee and Board. He has also been on the Board of Massey and Roy Thomson Halls as well as the board of the SOCAN Foundation. He is also a past Chairman of the Canadian Independent Record Production Association (CIRPA) now known as CIMA, of which he was also one of the original founding members. Bernie has served as a board member of the Canadian Association Of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS) and the board of The Toronto Arts Awards. He was also the Chairman of MUCHFact for 26 years (which he also founded), and has served on the board of Starmaker.
In 2003 he was acknowledged by his peers, with his election to the Canadian Music Hall Of Fame.
Further on April 2, 2006 Bernie was given the Walt Grealis Special Achievement Award at the Juno Awards held in Halifax NS. This is the highest honour given to a non-musician by the music industry.
In 2008 he was presented with the Estelle Klein Award awarded annually by the Ontario Council of Folk Festivals.
On February 9, 2007 Bernie was awarded the Order Of Canada in a ceremony held at Rideau Hall in Ottawa.
On April 17, 2012 his memoir True North (A Life In The Music Business) was released on the McClelland & Stewart imprint.
On October 10, 2012 Bernie received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from York University in Toronto and on June 18, 2012 he was awarded the Queen's Diamond Jubilee medal.
Bernie Finkelstein was born in Toronto, Ontario, where he still lives and works when not at his country home in Prince Edward County.
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Lee, who is currently in the tvN megahit drama "Guardian: The Lonely and Great God," will star in JTBC's new drama series "Life (Working title)."
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"Lee will star in JTBC's new medical drama series," his management agency King Kong by Starship Entertainment said Monday. Lee will play the role of an emergency room doctor.
"Life" is not a typical medical drama show, as its plot centers on a power struggle in a hospital, rather than surgeries and medical treatments.
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|Archived February 20, 2019
Samples on the Move at the Woods Hole Science Center
The long-awaited move of samples archived by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)'s Woods Hole Science Center (WHSC) took place in mid-November 2007, when the samples were transferred to their new home in the K.O. Emery Geotechnical Wing. This new storage wing is part of an addition of new offices and a conference room to the WHSC facilities on the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's Quissett Campus in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. The new storage facility now houses geologic and biologic samples collected from around the world by WHSC researchers during the course of their marine geologic and habitat investigations.
The new geotechnical wing comprises a refrigerated unit for core and sample storage kept at 4°C (approx 39°F) and a unit for frozen samples maintained at a chilly -22°C (approx -8°F). Adjacent to these cold rooms is a new core lab, which provides short-term storage for dried sediment samples and serves as a staging area for core splitting and sample description and analysis.
The monumental task of moving the entire collection of samples from their old home in outdoor trailers (locally referred to as the "Freezer Farm") to their new location would not have been possible without the back-breaking (and potentially toe-breaking) efforts of Brian Buczkowski, Elizabeth Pendleton, Bill Winters, Ellyn Montgomery, Dann Blackwood, Kate McMullen, Adrian Green, Erin Twomey, John Bratton, Greg Miller, Laura Erban, Sandy Baldwin, P.J. Bernard, Rick Rendigs, Michael Casso, Matt Arsenault, John Crusius, Kevin Kroeger, and Bene Ferre (all USGS).
Many thanks to all those who helped with the "big sample roundup," as well as to those involved in the planning, design and construction of this new addition, including Dave Nichols, Bill Schwab, Janet Paquette (USGS), and Ellen Mecray (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration).
in this issue:
Coastal Processes Affect a Restored Tidal Wetland
Coral-Reef Investigation Featured in Molokai Times
Open House at FISC St. Petersburg
Workshop on Impacts of Sea Level Rise
International Delta Roundtable Meeting
2007 SACNAS National Conference
Ocean and Coastal Mapping Inventory Workshop
Biologists Honored for Polar Bear Research
Brian Atwater Receives Award, Elected to National Academy of Sciences
Peter Barnes Receives Scientist Emeritus Best Publication Award
Ralph Cheng Receives Distinguished Service Award
Janet Thompson Receives Diversity Award
Samples on the Move
G.K. Gilbert Helps Celebrate Alumni Reunion
New Book on Tidal Freshwater Forested Wetlands
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Plansmith is a 35-year-old software company with products that help community banks develop risk analysis and budgeting. The company underwent an initiative (using their own software), and repositioned the business as a strategic planning consulting firm. Community banks face many challenges, including larger regional and national competitors who can out-invest in online and mobile banking services. Plansmith's new business purpose is to provide strategy and execution consulting and services to community banks, helping them maximize their unique opportunities in the communities they serve.
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Clever Coiled Reclaimed Rings...They're Electrifying! (Photos)
Image courtesy of Grain Design.
Since it's the 4th of July and many of our stateside readers are gearing up for a day of fireworks--otherwise known as pretty pollutants--and meatless barbecues, we'll keep this post short and simple. From Grain Design, a design consultancy and studio based in Seattle, Washington, comes a cute, tactile curly-cue of a ring called "Electrifying love." The name is derived from its sole material: 100% reclaimed electrical wire sourced from a local used building materials supplier. More photos:According to Chelsea Green, partner at Grain Design, the accessory was born out of excess materials (and extra time): "James [Minola, designer of Electric Love] made the first ring while waiting for me to finish a class. He was just killing time, playing with some old wire, in a room full of art supplies."
Image courtesy of Grain Design.
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Matchbox-inspired packaging design. Image courtesy of Grain Design.
The ring is made entirely in the US-of-A and manufacturing waste is minimal and recycled. The colorful accessory is available in both men's and women's sizes and is available for $19 at Grain Design. And when the ring no longer suits your fancy it can be recycled by unwinding the knot, stripping the wire of its plastic coating, and recycling accordingly.
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Things to do in your havaianas….
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Just baked a whole bunch of mini- madeleines for mini- sassy to snack on after school today. I can't believe I used to fork over my hard-earned money to buy this really easy- to- make treat!!!
If your kids like madeleines, get yourself a mould ( or two) and get them to help you make it.
I adapted a recipe from the Le Cordon Bleu at Home cookbook (basically put in less butter and added more lemon zest). I also forgo fancy gadgets like electric mixers and piping bag. I imagine French mamans didn't have those either when this recipe was invented:-)
Madeleines de Commercy ( Le Cordon Bleu at Home)
250 g. sugar
175 g. Butter, softened
4 eggs
60 ml milk
360 g. flour
Grated zest of 1 lemon
10 g. Baking powder
A few drops of vanilla essence
Softened butter and flour for Madeleine moulds
Thoroughly brush the Madeleine moulds with softened butter. Dust with flour, then invert the mould to tap out excess.
Combine the sugar, and eggs in a bowl and beat with whisk or electric beater until pale yellow and creamy.
*** I've tried this recipe whisked by hand and by electric beater and can't tell the difference , so I just whisk by hand to keep it simple.
Add the zest, flour, baking powder and vanilla and beat until blended. Beat in softened butter and then milk. Set aside for 15 minutes.
Preheat oven to 200C ( 400F) mark 6.
Fit the piping bag with the medium plain tube and fill with madeleine batter. Pipe the batter into the moulds, filling each indentation to the rim.
*** I don't own a piping bag, so I just spooned the batter into the mould. Worked fine.
Bake the Madeleines for 12-15 minutes , until golden ( mine were a little too brown at 12 minutes, so I baked the succeeding batches at 10 minutes).
Unmould immediately onto a wire rack and leave to cool completely.
( Madeleines can be stored up to a week in an airtight container).
Yummy served with a cup of tea or dipped in chocolate or served with poached fruit and some vanilla custard for dessert.
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Welcome to the Cambridge Shrine Club's website. We are a unit of Mocha Shrine Centre out of London ON. Our club is located in Cambridge ON. This is where you can find the latest information and upcoming events for the club.
The members of the Cambridge Shrine club are devoted to raising money to support our Shrine hospitals. Shrine hospitals help children regardless of the parents ability to pay. The money earned from pop cans left at our club gate goes directly to our Canadian Shrine hospital.
Through the local bingo we also help out in a variety of local charitable causes.
Those interested in becoming a Shriner may want to visit: www.beashrinernow.com
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Headline: ASB Polyfest celebrates 43 years of talentThe 2018 ASB Polyfest continues to highlight the raw talent of our young people, with this year marking 43 years of successful festivals, Pacific Peoples Minister Aupito William Sio says.
"I had the privilege of introducing the Prime Minister and a number of my parliamentary colleagues on the stages we visited, and we were so impressed of how gifted and talented our young people are in their performances.
The ASB Polyfest has grown in 43 years to become the largest Maori and Pacific students' cultural festival in the world. More than 10,000 secondary school students attended, with 242 performing groups entered by 69 schools.
"I see the festival as a symbol for New Zealand that we can celebrate the strength of our youth and their diversity of languages and cultures. That this diversity of languages & cultures is a strength we need to all fully embrace.
"When our young people display their awesome talents at the ASB Polyfest they reflect for our enjoyment a richness of Maori & Pasifika languages and cultures, a historic heritage, a love for our people and their mana as something we should all value and protect for future generations.
"I am so proud of our young people and I wish them every success beyond the festival and their performances. Winning at the ASB Polyfest is a fantastic achievement, but learning from your participation and using it as a stepping stone to succeed beyond high school with your goals for further education will enable you to achieve great things.
"Congratulations to all the winning schools and students. Thank you also to all the schools and teachers who took part and supported your students. You are truly all excellent ambassadors for your schools and a credit to the success of the ASB Polyfest," Aupito William Sio said.MIL OSI New Zealand –


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Ron Paul, the Christ of the pod people; photo from his campaign Web site.
What is it about Congressman Ron Paul that draws nearly every Klan member, Hitler-worshipper, tax-resister, John Bircher and 9/11 tin-foil hatter to his camp? I have to say, when Paul talks about the war in Iraq or closing down GITMO, he can make sense. But then you read a little bit of the guy's background and you realize he believes the Civil War was unnecessary and that he regurgitates these staid, old "states' rights" arguments that you thought were buried with the corpses of George Wallace and Strom Thurmond. You find out that he's practically a regular on moon-howler extraordinaire Alex Jones' radio show; that he's said in the past that he agrees with much of what the John Birchers say; and that he's worried about certain wing nut-conspiracy theories such as the paleocon nightmare fantasy of a so-called "North American Union." And you begin to realize that Paul's the crackpot king of conservatism. No wonder gatherings of his supporters seem oddly cult-like when you run across them, like at First Friday in Phoenix or the recent gun show at the fairgrounds. They remind me, vaguely, of the ultra-left supporters of Lyndon LaRouche who were so prevalent in the late '70s and early '80s. Pod people with a fixation on Paul as their messiah figure.
At this point, it's almost a cliche. Whenever I'm taking a peek at some white-supremacist Web site, like Stormfront.org, or some Klan site like the Empire Knights of the KKK, there's either a page, or a banner or a declaration from a member, touting Ron Paul as the savior of America. Former KKK Grand Wizard Don Black, webmaster of white supremacist message board Stormfront.org, has donated $500 to Paul's campaign for President. Even when informed of who Black was, Paul's campaign refused to return the money, saying that Paul planned to use the filthy lucre towards positive ends, so the evil-doer's ill-intent had therefore been trumped. Stormfront.org still offers a link for members who want to donate to Paul, and shows a U.S. map of meet-up groups in support of a Paul candidacy. Also, it's worth noting that one of Black's good friends, former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke is constantly trumpeting Paul's cause.
Locally, I spoke to the Grand Kleagle of the PHX KKK, a guy named Joseph Parkton, who has AZkkk.org, the Web page for the AZ Empire Knights of the KKK, registered in his name. Parkton, who may have recently added the title of Grand Dragon to judge from his site, told me why he supports Paul and plans to vote for him.
"He stands for America, you know?" said Parkton. "He wants to do away with the tax systems. He wants to fight against illegal immigration. He has a bunch of very good ideals that we can align ourselves with."
Parkton, who's in his 30s and is employed in private security, tells me that there are a lot of different Klan organizations, but that the chapter he's in charge of is more politically motivated.
"We want to bring our troops back home and secure our borders," he said. "So our troops are not over [in Iraq] and being killed for useless reasons."
In this way, Paul and his supporters remind me of some sort of throwback to the America First Committee that wanted to prevent our involvement in the conflict that became WW II. At some point, the far left and the far right meet, and they meet, in our time, in the person of Ron Paul, which explains the enthusiasm of some lefty college kids for his message as well as the Ronulan loyalty of many 9/11 conspiranuts who believe the attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon in 2001 were part of an inside job by the Bush administration.
(For more on the connections between the Paulites and the 9/11 Troofers, check this link to posts of interest on the Screw Loose Change blogspot.)
Two-ton turd reicher from Mesa, white supremacist J.T. Ready, has opined on his NewSaxon.org page that, "The Jews are afraid of Ron Paul." Local NSM organizer Scott Hume has expressed support for the Texas congressman. And during the Constitution Week festivities in Gilbert, there was great overlap in those who supported Ron Paul and those manning the booths for the local John Birch Society.
On the other hand, at the recent gun show in Phoenix, the Ron Paul table featured volunteers and organizers who were Jewish and gay. So is it unfair to hold Paul accountable for all the racist nutbars who support him?
Erstwhile AZ gubernatorial candidate Barry Hess is responsible along with fellow libertarian activist Ernie Hancock for those Ron Paul Revolution stencils you see all over. You know, the ones that have LOVE emphasized as part of rEVOLution. Yep, those started here in P-town, and Hess and Hancock take the credit or blame depending on your P.O.V.
Hess explained that he and Paul are the best of pals. He stated that Paul's message resonated with a lot of folks, not just the Sand Land schutzstaffel.
"The unifying theme is `get government out of our lives,'" claimed Hess. "That's why he's getting the support of groups that normally wouldn't support anybody. And that's much to his credit. If you look at a list of all the wacko groups that are supporting him, that's just a very small segment of his support. The main support is from main street."
But then, as much as I like Hess on a personal basis, he's capable of slipping into some of that 9/11 nuttiness himself.
"He (Paul) feels the same way on 9/11 as I do, and I don't know what happened," he explained. "I find it extraordinarily suspicious that there are 19 pictures [of the 9/11 hijackers] on television some 4 hours after an incident -- supposedly these were all the people involved. Then we found out at least 5 of them are still physically alive and have never had anything to do with it."
Ooooh-kay, Barry, step away slowly from the exhaust nozzle. That happens to be one of the most debunked myths propagated by the 9/11 tinfoilers -- supposedly that some of the hijackers were/are still alive -- a canard based on some initial misreporting by the BBC, which the BBC later corrected.
Moving right along, James Kirchick of The New Republic currently has an article out on the subject, titled, "Angry White Man: The bigoted past of Ron Paul," which details all of these racist newsletters written under the Ron Paul imprimatur, if not penned by the great OB-GYN himself. Since the TNR article was published earlier this week, Paul's campaign has issued a statement denying that the good Doctor actually wrote the newsletters in question, and denouncing their content.
But Kirchick writes,
...whoever actually wrote them, the newsletters I saw all had one thing in common: They were published under a banner containing Paul's name, and the articles (except for one special edition of a newsletter that contained the byline of another writer) seem designed to create the impression that they were written by him--and reflected his views. What they reveal are decades worth of obsession with conspiracies, sympathy for the right-wing militia movement, and deeply held bigotry against blacks, Jews, and gays. In short, they suggest that Ron Paul is not the plain-speaking antiwar activist his supporters believe they are backing--but rather a member in good standing of some of the oldest and ugliest traditions in American politics.
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TNR has selections from Paul's newsletters online. They contain trash like this:
In June 1991, an entry on racial disturbances in Washington, DC's Adams Morgan neighborhood was titled, "Animals Take Over the D.C. Zoo." "This is only the first skirmish in the race war of the 1990s," the newsletter predicted. In an October 1992 item about urban crime, the newsletter's author--presumably Paul--wrote, "I've urged everyone in my family to know how to use a gun in self defense. For the animals are coming." That same year, a newsletter described the aftermath of a basketball game in which "blacks poured into the streets of Chicago in celebration. How to celebrate? How else? They broke the windows of stores to loot." The newsletter inveighed against liberals who "want to keep white America from taking action against black crime and welfare," adding, "Jury verdicts, basketball games, and even music are enough to set off black rage, it seems."
Should we care? I mean, the guy's not gonna win the Republican nomination, and he'll be lucky to win a primary. But there's also the ton of money he's raised, and his increasing acceptance by many as some sort of wing-nut Jimmy Stewart riding a white horse into the political arena. Bill Maher's been a long-time fan, though I wonder if he'll change his mind given the TNR report. And Paul was recently on Jay Leno, with Leno coming to his defense on being excluded from a FOX News debate, saying: "You seem like a gentleman. You don't seem like that type. But it seems like you should be kicking somebody's ass right now."
Whenever a marginal moonbat extremist like Paul begins to gain mainstream acceptance, then we at the very least should call him on his less savory connections. I was happy to see that Paul distanced himself from these newsletters, but how can he completely wash his hands of them when they were penned under the banner of his name for decades? I think he should also give Don Black back his $500, and tell these racists openly that their support is not welcome, in any form. Otherwise, he has nothing to complain about when people criticize him for his wing-nut ways.


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- Concord, CA (CCR-Buchanan Field) - 35 min drive
- Novato, CA (NOT-Gnoss Field) - 42 min drive
- San Francisco 4th and King Station - 19 min walk
- San Francisco 22nd Street Station - 8 min drive
- San Francisco Bayshore Station - 12 min drive
- Powell St. Station - 3 min walk
- Civic Center Station - 10 min walk
- Montgomery St. Station - 11 min walk
At a glance
Key facts
Hotel size
- This hotel has 116 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 8 floors
- Check-in time starts at 3 PM
- Check-out time is noon
Required at check-in
- Credit card or cash deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
Travelling with others
- Babysitting/childcare *
- Pets allowed (dogs only) *
- 1 per room
- Free WiFi in public areas
- WiFi in rooms *
- Valet parking *
Payment types at the property
Other information
- Smoke-free property
In the hotel
- Cooked-to-order breakfast daily (surcharge)
- Restaurant
- Bar/lounge
- Room service
- Coffee/tea in a common area
- Fitness facilities
- Billiards or pool table
- 24-hour business center
- Number of meeting rooms - 3
- Meeting rooms
- Conference center
- 24-hour front desk
- Concierge services
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Laundry facilities
- Luggage storage
- Multilingual staff
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Year Built - 2013
- Elevator
- ATM/banking
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
- Wheelchair-accessible path of travel
- Chinese
- English
- Filipino
- French
- Spanish
- Vietnamese
In the room
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Air conditioning
- Minibar
- Espresso maker
- Bathrobes
- Slippers
- Iron/ironing board
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Down comforter
- Premium bedding
- Pillowtop mattress
- Private bathroom
- Shower only
- Designer toiletries
- Hair dryer
- 46-inch LCD TV
- Premium TV channels
- Desk
- Free newspaper
- WiFi (surcharge)
- Phone
- Refrigerator
- Daily housekeeping
- In-room safe (laptop compatible)
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
Also popular with travellers from Canada
Special features
DiningS and R Lounge - This lobby lounge specializes in American cuisine and serves light fare only.
The Cavalier - This restaurant specializes in American cuisine and serves dinner only. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar.
Hotel Zetta San Francisco, San Francisco's small print
Also known as
- Hotel Zetta
- Milano Hotel San Francisco
- Zetta Francisco Francisco
- Hotel Zetta San Francisco Hotel
- Hotel Zetta San Francisco San Francisco
- Hotel Zetta San Francisco Hotel San Francisco
- Hotel Zetta San Francisco
- San Francisco Hotel Zetta
- San Francisco Zetta
- San Francisco Zetta Hotel
- Zetta Hotel
- Zetta Hotel San Francisco
- Zetta San Francisco
- Hotel Milano San Francisco
The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.
Mandatory fees
You'll be asked to pay the following charges at check-in or check-out:
- Resort fee: USD 33.77 per accommodation, per night
Resort fee inclusions:
- Fitness center access
- Business center/computer access
- Internet access (may be limited)
- Phone calls (may be limited)
- In-room coffee
- Concierge/valet service
- Additional inclusions
Inclusions may be listed elsewhere on the page as free or for a surcharge.
Optional extras
Late check-out can be arranged for an extra charge (subject to availability)
Valet parking costs USD 67 per night with in/out privileges
Rollaway beds are available for USD 25.0 per day
Breakfast costs between USD 10 and USD 20 per person (approximately)
Babysitting/childcare is available for an extra charge
Pets are allowed for an extra charge of USD 75 per accommodation (may vary based on length of stay)
WiFi is available in guestrooms for USD 0 per night (rates may vary)
We have included all charges provided to us by this property. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the unit you book.
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Recent reviews
Fabulous 8.8 From 407 reviews
Amazingly friendly staff. Room was clean and spacious, amenities were great, location was perfect. Would definitely return.
Great hotel. Nice bar and common area. Rooms were comfortable and great amenities.
Stayed in a small king size room at 8th floor facing wall (no view). In respect to the rating shown on the internet my expectations were much higher. Disappointing
I asked a half an hour late check out and I was not given. Other than that, it was a good stay.
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Everyone said it already…
… and I am late to the party, but KDE SC 4.5.1 is an awesome release. Looking absolutely gorgeous, rock stable and fast for me so far. Kudos and thanks to everyone involved!
There is no alias like home
I use
open a lot when on my Mac, so
alias open="gnome-open 2>/dev/null >/dev/null" or
alias open="kde-open 2>/dev/null >/dev/null"
makes me feel more at home when in a Linux environment. It makes your desktop environment of choice open the associated application when you
open <filename> from the console.
Using Dropbox in a KDE environment
Even though the Dropbox Service I seriously can't live without anymore is basically designed to work with Nautilus and therefore Gnome, it works very well in a KDE environment.
Register with the service and then
cd $HOME # download dropbox x86 wget -O dropbox_x86.tar.gz http://www.getdropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86 # or, if you are running x86_64 wget -O dropbox_x86_64.tar.gz http://www.getdropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64 # unpack it tar xfvz dropbox_<x86 or x86_64>.tar.gz # start dropboxd - the initial Wizard will be coming up to enter you account data .dropbox-dist/dropboxd # put the Dropbox daemon into your autostart, so it begins its job once KDE comes up ln -s $HOME/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd $HOME/.kde/Autostart/dropboxd
KDE pictures of awesomeness+1
Reading Aaron's latest Blog entry I was totally blown away by the graphics he had in his post – to the point that I was so blown away I posted a comment asking where to get them when Aaron actually linked to them *cough*.
Anyway, check out Wade's Blog and his public Picasa gallery for some awesome, awesome KDE related material. His stuff just rocks.
KDE 4.1 RC1+ on OpenSuSE 11.0
Edit: Thanks Miguel, it's indeed RC1+. 🙂
I was bored over the weekend. Really bored. Kinda had a little flu, so couldn't go outside… What does one do then? Yeah, check out another distribution.
Decided to give OpenSuSE 11.0 a spin – wasn't terribly amazed by the 10.3 release, but really curious to see what they did with KDE 4.x. Long story short, they did quite a nice job polishing it to look familiar to KDE 3.5.x users. Too 'familiar' and not enough 4.x'ish for my liking, but kudos to them – almost everything worked like you would expect it to work. Played around with it for like an hour, then decided to give KDE 4.1 Beta 2 a spin. What really, really rocks about OpenSuSE these days is their one-click installs. Went to the KDE4 Wiki page, clicked on KDE 4.1 Factory and off it went to download and install. One logout later I was greeted by Beta 2 – and it even lost the greenish SuSE polish, which I wasn't terribly sorry about. 🙂
I don't really get what people like about the Aya theme over Oxygen – the latter looks totally gorgeous. Transparent Plasma Panels? Check. Eye Candy everywhere? Check. Maybe it's just me, but I just dig the black style of the Oxygen theme. Probably Aya just looks a bit more familiar. Check out this screenshot (click for full size). The only thing that's kinda messed up are some of the Tray icons. Some of them are … garbled at the bottom. Didn't have time to check why.
As far as functionality goes, I switched to 4.1 fulltime now. Everything I need for my daily work is there and stability – at least with this SuSE build – was really nice. Ok, I had some Plasma crashes here and there (maybe two over a full day worth of work?) and when I tried to download new widgets via DXS they … well… downloaded, then crashed Plasma and were nowhere to be seen again. Only had the option to uninstall, but they would never show up in the 'Add Widgets' menu. No biggie and didn't investigate further, probably some version mismatch stuff or something.
Speaking about OpenSuSE in general… 11.0 seems like a solid release to me. In 10.3 Zypper just sucked. Totally. Waiting 5 minutes before it had even pulled together it's repository caches was unbearable. It's a lot better in 11.0, not as fast as apt, but almost there. The new installer looks really nice, even though functionality hasn't changed much. But I guess there wasn't much to change, it always just worked. After installation you don't have to fiddle around much with repositories, the first time you order it to fetch upgrades Yast automatically asks you to configure repos. Packman is there, Nvidia/ATI are there and also Build Service repositories are just one click away. Pretty cool.
What wasn't so cool was that I had to dust off ye'olde ethernet cable since the installed kernel came with the ath5k module for Atheros WiFi Connectivity, which seems borked. It loaded ok, recognized the card, but refused to find any accesspoint in range, let alone connect to anything. One blacklisting and installing the MadWifi drivers later WiFi was back up. Small annoyance, still I hate to throw cables around my appartment.
But actually these days… It doesn't really matter anymore whether you choose OpenSuSE, Ubuntu, Fedora, Mandriva or any other 'big' distribution, seems like they all pretty much work outta the box. Personal choice I guess and the how and why they chose to polish/brand their desktops. For me personally it'll be pretty hard to choose once the final KDE 4.1 editions of Mandriva and OpenSuSE come out. Or will I go for the – if they choose the path they did with the 3.5.x editions – pretty vanilla Kubuntu desktop? We'll see.
Followup: 11 Myths about KDE 4.x
Will comment on it tomorrow, it's late now… But this is well worth a read, well written and well adressed article by Sebastian Kügler on KDE 4.x.
KDE 4.1 is teh awesome
Writing this post under KDE 4.1 Beta 2.
Downloaded the new Mandriva 2009.0 to test out their implementation of KDE 4.1 Beta 2 and boy… It rocks. Plasma is coming along and is useable now. Folderview rocks. Nepomuk integration rocks. Font rendering rocks. General looks is sexy. The whole thing flies even when under a Live CD environment on my lame old T41 laptop.
I seriously can't wait to replace my current Gentoo 3.5.9 installation with 4.1 once the final comes out and it gets to Portage Trees. Might even replace the Kubuntu installation on this work laptop with the final Mandriva. Sorry Kubuntu guys, but your distribution just feels…. not so sexy when comparing it to the works of Mandriva. Maybe it's time for Canonical to fully embrace Kubuntu and lent Jonathan Riddell more than just one hand – and maybe be a bit less conversative in terms of styling and finish? Just look at the default Mandriva Screensaver, it's a piece of art really.
In one sentence – KDE 4.1… Bloody looking forward to it. Kudos to Aaron and all the other developers. You guys rock!


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Essential Opinion: Burning Blue
Despite its sincere intentions and strong political background, Burning Blue lacks originality and has a hard time maintaining a credible plot line. The 2013 indie film attempts to accurately document the cruel code of conduct regarding homosexual men in the military, but ends up conveying only a caricatural depiction of this far-reaching social issue. The movie is seemingly based on raw, solid facts concerning President Bill Clinton's "don't ask, don't tell" policy. However, the harrowing reality of the 1990s witch-hunt for gay naval aviators is mostly overshadowed by the film's overly-didactic approach.
Prior to September 2011, when President Barrack Obama requested the repeal of Clinton's policy, gay men who were enrolled in the military had to keep their sexual orientation hidden in order to avoid animosity and discharge. This imposed code deeply affected the lives and careers of over 14,000 LGBT individuals who rejected traditional dogma and refused to adhere to ungrounded social conduct. Set in 1992, Burning Blue tells the story of two such servicemen, Matthew Blackwood (Rob Mayes) and Daniel Lynch (Trent Ford), who are stigmatized and face daunting consequences when their romantic relationship is revealed.
Daniel Lynch and William Stephensen (Morgan Spector) are two U.S. Navy aircraft pilots who become involved in a series of accidents, where aviators keep dying on flight maneuvers. The first scene of the movie reveals to the viewer that William is the one who is behind some of these incidents – he has issues with his vision but refuses to come forward because it would halt his aspirations to go into the space program. The officers are looking for a gay man as their scapegoat, William is in fact straight and his homosexual co-pilot Daniel takes the blame in order to protect him. The relationship between the two men is central to the film's storyline and often eclipses Daniel and Matthew's romantic affair, whereas the latter is mostly ambiguous. Both Matthew and Daniel have devoted women in their lives, which only makes it harder for the two servicemen to be open about their love for each other. The men are also competing for a spot on the Pilot School and want to become renowned Navy chopper pilots. On a weekend leave to New York City, they visit a gay club in the city and sleep together. Things take a turn for the worse when rumors about the two arise and a compromising photo of William and his squadron surfaces. The men in the picture, including Daniel and Matthew, are depicted naked, drunk and in rather suggestive positions, prompting the NCIS investigator to presume that the ostensibly unrelated accidents are in fact casualties of a subversive "gay cult".
Although the movie's director and co-writer, D.M.W. Greer, has honorable intentions and an earnest approach, Burning Blue is drawn back by its rather conservative tone. Despite its controversial topic, the film is very cautious and reserved when it comes to portraying homosexual men and their relationships. The gay club scene is rather tame and the scenes with Daniel and Matthew seem overdrawn and at times too distant and abstract both sexually and romantically, making it hard for the viewer to relate. This lack of chemistry has more to do with the modest script than with the acting – the two characters barely have any physical interaction throughout the movie. Aside from a kiss and a timid sex scene that also involves a woman, their relationship is tacit.
The film's purported villains – the NCIS investigators – are overblown and unrealistic at best, while the interrogation scenes are drawn-out and lack any real suspense. Burning Blue also pushes for a forced reconciliation with these "villains" and other bigoted individuals. After harassing and maltreating Daniel throughout the entire film, Special Agent Jones' (Chris Chalk) final confession is a failed attempt at turning a patently one-dimensional character into more of a complex figure. This is also the case for Daniel's homophobic friend, William, with whom the main character tries to make peace. The movie also has a hard time preserving its originality – as both the characters and the plot noticeably resemble those in Brokeback Mountain and Top Gun.
In spite of its failings, Burning Blue is noble and sincere at its heart, attempting to bring awareness to the unjustified and relentless persecution that went on in the military during the 1990s. Although the film may be lacking at times in discourse and verisimilitude, there is a certain candid, heartfelt warmth to it that atones for its shortcomings. Altogether, Greer's endeavor is genuine and compassionate and certainly deserves credit for disclosing the corrosive, intolerant environment in which military LGBT individuals had to serve their country 30 years ago.


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Does the state of West Virginia require minors under the age of eighteen to obtain a permit of any kind to run errands, babysit, or mow grass for a neighbor?Not unless the neighbor is acting in the capacity of an employer and is hiring the minor as an actual employee of their business. Such casual work outside of an employment relationship is not covered by state child labor laws.As a business owner, may I employ my own child without having to obtain a work permit?A parent or legal guardian may hire his or her own children to work for his or her solely owned business at any age without having to obtain a work permit in this state. However, should there be additional owners such as partners, corporate officers, or limited liability members involved, the exemption for obtaining a work permit would no longer apply.What is the minimum age that a child may go to work?Fourteen is the minimum age that a minor may be legally employed unless that minor is working for a business solely owned by a parent or guardian, or the type of work being performed is not covered by state child labor laws. Some examples of work that is not covered include agriculture and horticulture occupations that have not been declared hazardous by the United States Department of Labor, domestic services performed within the residence of the employer, acting, work relating to television, radio and other theatrical work, and the delivery of newspapers.What types of permits are required in West Virginia before a minor may accept employment?Fourteen and fifteen year olds must obtain a work permit before accepting any type of gainful employment in West Virginia. Age certificates are only required by law when related to junior volunteer firefighting activities but may be required by employers as proof of age for sixteen and seventeen year olds.How does a minor start the process of obtaining a work permit or certificate?All work permits and age certificates are processed and issued by the Board of Education in the county where the minor child resides. As the county superintendent of schools has the authority to authorize issuing officers throughout the school system, it's possible someone within the minor's own school has been authorized to issue such permits. If not, the minor should contact the Board of Education in the county in which he or she resides to obtain forms and start the process. Work permit and age certificate forms are available from both the County Boards of Education and the Division of Labor's website @ www.labor.wv.gov. Do age certificates have the same requirements as work permits?Except for situations involving volunteer firefighting activities, age certificates are only issued when required by the employer. When issued, they only require the promise of a job and proof of the minor's age. A work permit, however, is required before a fourteen or fifteen year old may be legally employed and requires the promise of a job, parental consent, verification the minor is attending school, and proof of age.How do I obtain an application for a work permit or age certificate?Instead of having two separate forms, work permit and age certificate forms now serve as both the application and the issued permit and/or certificate. For work permits, Sections A, B, and C of the form are to be completed by the employer, parent, and school registrar. Once that information is obtained, the minor takes the completed form, along with proof of age, to someone authorized to issue work permits. Once the form is reviewed by an issuing officer and approved, that individual will complete Section D and issue the work permit using the same form. The same applies to age certificates. The form is completed by the prospective employer and the minor. Once completed, the minor takes the completed form, along with proof of age, to someone authorized to issue age certificates. Once reviewed and approved, that individual will issue the age certificate using the same form.Are there different requirements for minors that live out-of-state?West Virginia child labor laws apply the same to all minors working in this state, regardless of where they reside. That includes the requirement of having the work permit or age certificate issued by the superintendent of schools in the county in which the minor resides. Those minors that live out-of-state are required to take a completed West Virginia work permit or age certificate form to the superintendent of schools in their home state and county for issuance. Should that request be denied, the minor will not be eligible to work in West Virginia until the minor reaches the age where a work permit or age certificate is no longer required.Does a minor have to be attending school to accept employment?Unless already graduated from high school, fourteen and fifteen year olds must be attending school or be enrolled in a home school program in order to obtain a work permit. Sixteen and seventeen year olds do not have to be attending school to obtain an age certificate.Are there limitations concerning the type of work that a minor may be employed to perform?There are many limitations concerning the type of work that can be performed by minors under the age of eighteen. While the majority relate to fourteen and fifteen year olds, certain restrictions apply to sixteen and seventeen year olds as well. For those occupations that are permissible for fourteen and fifteen year olds, it is easier to consider the occupations that are permissible than to look for those occupations that are not permitted. A listing of permissible occupations for fourteen and fifteen year olds is provided in the General Reference Information for Child Labor and Child Labor Fact Sheet #3. The United States Department of Labor has established seventeen occupations that are considered hazardous for all minors under the age of eighteen. (See General Reference Information for Child Labor & Child Labor Fact Sheet # 4) In addition to these seventeen hazardous occupations, West Virginia state law also restricts minors under the age of eighteen from working in a bar or to be permitted, employed or suffered to sell, dispense or serve alcoholic beverages in any place where the consumption of alcoholic beverages is permitted by law.What are the hours a minor is permitted to work?Sixteen and seventeen year olds are permitted to work the same hours as an adult. There are no restrictions. The permissible hours of work for fourteen and fifteen year olds are outlined as follows:
14 & 15 Year Olds May Not Work
Is there a process to request permission for a fourteen or fifteen year old to work past 7:00pm during the school term or after 9:00 pm during the summer when school is not in session?No, as the permissible hours of work for this age group are the same under both state and federal law, the Commissioner of the West Virginia Division of Labor will no longer issue a supervision permit allowing minors to work later hours.Do homeschooled children have to follow the same guidelines for obtaining employment as those that attend public or private school?Yes, home schooled children are required to follow the same requirements as any other minor that chooses to accept employment. That includes obtaining the necessary permits, working age appropriate hours, and avoiding hazardous occupations. Home schooled children may obtain a work permit or age certificate from the superintendent of schools in the county in which he or she resides. Instead of the school registrar, the parent or guardian overseeing the minor's curriculum may complete Section C of the work permit application relating to school attendance.If a fourteen or fifteen year old has already graduated from high school or its equivalent, do state child labor laws still apply?Fourteen and fifteen year olds that have graduated from high school are not required to obtain a work permit or adhere to the standards relating to hours of work for this age group. However, hazardous occupation restrictions will still apply. May a minor child work as a lifeguard or be employed to give swimming lessons?Yes, fifteen year olds may be employed as life guards when properly trained and certified in aquatics and water safety by the American Red Cross or a similar certifying organization. For the purpose of giving swimming lessons, the minor must obtain additional certification as a swimming instructor. Fourteen year olds may not serve as either a lifeguard or swimming instructor in any capacity. (See Child Labor Fact Sheet # 3)Are minor's permitted to serve as junior volunteer firefighters?Sixteen and seventeen year olds may register as a junior volunteer fireman after meeting the following conditions. He or she must first complete the minimum training requirements of the WVU Fire Service Extension Firefighter Training Section One (or its equivalent), obtain the written consent of his or her parent or guardian to perform such duties, and obtain an age certificate from the superintendent of schools in the county where he or she resides. (See Child Labor Fact Sheet # 7)Are there any occupations that are exempt from West Virginia child labor requirements?Yes, all of the following occupations and/or situations are exempt. 1.) Casual work performed outside of an employment relationship such as babysitting, running errands, etc. 2.) Work defined as agricultural or horticultural. 3.) The delivering of newspapers. 4.) Acting or theatrical work for TV or radio. 5.) Domestic employment performed in the home of the employer. 6.) Work performed for a business solely owned by a parent or guardian. Although these occupations are generally exempt, federal child labor hazardous occupation restrictions may still apply.If a minor child resides in West Virginia and wishes to work in another state, what requirements apply?In order for state child labor laws to apply, the minor must actually work in West Virginia. Should a minor child residing in West Virginia seek employment outside of West Virginia, the child labor laws that apply in the state where the minor will be working will apply.


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630 Horseshoe Bend Rd,
Doyline, LA 71023
Property Description
Take a scenic drive to Wilson's on Lake Bistineau for an evening of fun and good food! They have great catfish, shrimp, seafood platters, steak and more. While you are waiting for your food, enjoy the pinto beans, hush puppies, slaw and green tomato relish. You won't be disappointed!
From Bossier City, travel Hwy. 71 South to 527. Turn left on 527 and travel to Green Park Rd. Turn right on Green Park Rd. which will become Horseshoe Bend Dr. and you are there!
Cuisine Served
- American
- Louisiana Cuisine
- Seafood
Dining Type
- Casual Dining
Facility Amenities
- Bus Parking
Guest Information
- Family Friendly
Meals Served
- Dinner
Restaurant Features
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