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Plans for Goose Creek's new fire station headquarters show it will be one of the city's largest public buildings.
The station will be on about five acres of land on the east side of North Goose Creek Boulevard, on the other side of Brandywine Boulevard from the city's public works building.
The current headquarters station on Brandywine Boulevard has become outdated.
Architect Herman Denzinger of Thomas & Denzinger spoke to Goose Creek City Council at a workshop on Jan. 22 at the council chambers.
Denzinger said it's not only a fire station but also an inspection center and training facility that has bunkrooms and office spaces on the second floor. There are plans for a kitchen area, outdoor dining area and an exercise room.
The two bunkrooms have four beds each, Denzinger said. Each captain will have an office, desk, closet and storage room. There are plans for large windows and an interior courtyard arch that will bring in natural light.
"You want as much natural light as possible," Denzinger said. "Light is the biggest use of power in a building."
"I really like the way that looks with a courtyard arch," Mayor Michael Heitzler said. "You break up the lines and arch them out. I think you're a genius."
Councilmember Franklin Moore asked how many fire engines the new headquarters is set to hold.
"The same as Station One now," Goose Creek Fire Chief Steve Chapman said.
"What if you want to add another engine?" Moore asked.
"We don't plan to there," the chief said. "We would like to eventually separate our rescue trucks and our engineer trucks. There is room to expand. I don't think we'll add another station company. It can hold eight large vehicles.
"It will hold everything we have now and two more large vehicles we expect in the future."
Moore asked if there would be a fire pole.
Chapman said he discussed that with insurance experts and said it is a sore spot for insurance companies. He added that he visited several stations in coastal South Carolina, Florida and even Arizona. The Isle of Palms fire stations have poles.
"They said it was kind of a novelty at first," Chapman said. "Now they don't use it. We made a conscious decision not to have one."
Mayor pro-tem Kimo Esarey asked if the arched design would cost extra, and if so how much.
"It's hard to say," Denzinger said. "It's similar to either buildings we've done. In the long run it pays for itself. It's a visible building."
The firm also designed the Marguerite H. Brown Municipal Center and the fire substation in Crowfield.
Moore said the design sets the stage for the city of the future.
The cost, based on preliminary drawings, is still being analyzed, Paulette Myers of Thomas & Denzinger said.
"It's a series of rectangles, but shifted," she said. "There are more exterior walls. Glass costs money. This might change as we go forward."
Denzinger also went over preliminary plans for Station Three, a substation that will be located off Old Mt. Holly Road near St. James Avenue. He said this station functions only as a fire station and is staffed by fewer people. It too is a two-story building.
Chapman said he does not see the need for expansion at this station once it is complete.
"If we annex further up Hwy. 52 we could need another substation there. This should stay a one-engine company for some time."
Councilmember Jerry Tekac asked about timeframes.
Myers said it would be August until the firm can calculate the cost of all the systems that will go in the buildings and could take bids as early as October and begin construction in November.
Both stations would take about a year and a half to build, Myers said, adding that the stations would be complete by March 2015 at the earliest. "Both stations are planned to open at the same time."
"I love the way they look," Heitzler said. "I think the people of Goose Creek deserve it. They've come a long way."
Chapman said he's been planning the new station for five years. In that time he's read everything there is to read about building a fire station, he said. He also went to a class on the subject and talked to firefighters, many who have moved to the area from other states, about what works and what does not.
"We've tried to plan this station for future growth," Chapman said. "It's designed to last 40 years."
He said everything in the current fire station was measured and planned to fit into the designs of the new station. "I don't know of any space in the station we can cut without cutting into our operational efficiency," Chapman said.
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ActionController::ActionControllerError in LineItemsController#create
19 Mar 2013, 10:48
Mr H (8 posts)
Hi guys, After I have fixed the NameError in LineItemsController#create I have got this weird issue:
Which is in app/controllers/line_items_controller.rb line 50
I thought cart is built in her in app/controllers/line_items_controller.rb
Apparently not. Any solution? Cheers and thank you in advance
19 Mar 2013, 13:19
Sam Ruby (584 posts)
The following line does indeed correctly create a line item in the cart:
Unfortunately, the next line creates a new line item, without a cart:
Delete that line, and the code should work.
20 Mar 2013, 10:39
Mr H (8 posts)
Hmmm. This is indeed fixed the problem.
Can you have a quick explanation for it. I am a bit confused now. I understand this one:
Dont we need this line to add a new line to it though?
Thank you for your help in advance.
20 Mar 2013, 11:19
Sam Ruby (584 posts)
The short answer is that build calls new for you. And automatically sets up one column for you (in addition to the columns it sets up based on the arguments you pass to the method).
In other words, the following two statements are equivalent:
If you take a look at the form, you will see that the only parameter (params) you are passing for :line_item is a single parameter: product_id. Given this, a third way to accomplish the same thing would be:
Which one you chose to use comes down to a matter of personal preference. The point of this exercise was to expose you to another choice.
20 Mar 2013, 21:05
Adrian Swarzyński (1 post)
It seems that:
does the same thing because "build" is an alias of "new" in Rails 4. Link: https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/activerecord/lib/active_record/relation.rb#L101 In Rails 3.0 behaviour of "build" and "new" was different - link: http://stackoverflow.com/a/4954542/2074966
20 Mar 2013, 21:23
Sam Ruby (584 posts)
Adrian: that's a /slightly/ different discussion…
LineItem.new is a class method for classes derived from ActiveRecord.
@cart.line_items.new is an instance method for classes derived from ActiveRecord::Relation.
(I'll also note that Mr H appears to be using Rails 3.1 or earlier as the instructions provided in the book targeting Rails 3.2 are different.)
21 Mar 2013, 02:42
Mr H (8 posts)
@Sam Ruby Thanks mate. I still have long way to fully understand on this logic. Anyway thank you for your help. Also I am using Rails 3.2.12
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Margaret Bradham Thornton, a Charleston native, is an expert on the great playwright Tennessee Williams. She edited his abundant letters and gained extraordinary insights into the writer's style and psyche.
If you go
WHAT: "Charleston" book release party
WHEN: 5-7 p.m. Thursday
WHERE: Blue Bicycle Books, 420 King St., downtown Charleston
COST: Free
MORE INFO: Call 843-722-2666 or go to bluebicyclebooks.com.
Now she has written a fiction of her own, a novel called "Charleston." It is much more than a romance, for it delves into issues of identity, place, memory and more.
The novel, published by Ecco, is out this month. The book tour brings Thornton back home. The Post and Courier took the opportunity to ask her a few questions.
Q: You are from Charleston, but you have not lived in Charleston for a while. Was writing your novel a way for you to return home again (in your imagination)?
A: I suppose, in part, yes, but I try to come back to Charleston as much as I can. Every time I come back, there is something about the landscape that gets a hold of me. I suppose, too, I wanted to write about Charleston out of a sense of loyalty. I often feel that the ways in which the South is portrayed in literature, drama and film often skates close to caricature. I wanted to write a novel that showed Charleston from the inside out and revealed the nuances of a small, but in many ways, cultured Southern town.
Q: The idea of "returning home" assumes large proportions in your book, but it appears to mean much more than merely coming back to the place of one's youth. You are exploring the way memory works, as well as the way our choices forge our path through life. Is "Charleston" in some sense about the conflict between choice and destiny?
A: "Charleston" very much deals with the idea of how we see with memory. Eliza is an art historian, and while she finds safety in art and beauty, she feels vulnerable going back home because she knows she won't be able to control what she encounters, she won't be able to shake the past from familiar images. She is fearful of giving up the freedom that her anonymity in other places provides. And even with freedom, the way forward is never straight and may not offer as many choices as assumed. What is behind you is sometimes more controlling than what is in front of you.
Q: How much of yourself, your own experiences, is in the book, and how much is pure invention?
A: It's all pure invention, but I, of course, drew on a world I knew well. Henry represents the world I experienced growing up in Charleston. We all had a lot of freedom and spent much of our time outdoors. My grandfather was a very knowledgeable woodsman, and when we were little, he would take us for long walks through the woods and swamps and rice fields.
When we restored our house, we found on the original paint layer of a door jamb the names and heights of the Heyward children who had lived in the house in the 1830s. I liked the idea of taking the name of one of the children for one of the main characters. In Shaw's "Pygmalion," Henry Higgins brings Eliza Doolittle into the mannered world of aristocratic London. In "Charleston," Henry goes in the opposite direction and brings Eliza into the untamed world of Lowcountry swamps.
Q: Another dichotomy you present is that of the insider-outsider. In "Charleston" especially, this is a palpable issue for most residents. You seem to be maneuvering through this concept in your book. What are the larger points you are trying to make?
A: I used the insider-outsider conflict to illuminate some of the values of the Charleston I knew growing up, specifically the lack of emphasis on money and material possessions. I suppose, too, I wanted to document the shift, which is probably here to stay, in the area south of Broad from a quiet neighborhood where everyone knew everyone else to one with a significant number of second homes. I wanted to give a sense of what no longer exists. The city was much quieter then and the sounds were different; the clank of a bicycle chain could mean a friend was coming down the street.
Q: How did the idea of the novel first arise?
A: It was the collision of a line from Tennessee Williams' "Summer and Smoke" with a discussion by the Brazilian filmmaker Walter Salles about second chances.
At the end of Williams' play, John says to Alma, "It's only been three or four times that we've come face to face. And each of those times - we seemed to be trying to find something in each other without knowing what it was that we wanted to find."
In discussing the common denominator of his films, Salles spoke about second chances and how they have always intrigued him. I started thinking about second chances, especially in affairs of the heart, and how fragile and unstable they are partly because of the loss of innocence and partly because nothing is static or visible.
I thought it would be interesting to take two characters who should have been together and explore what they would be willing to risk for a second chance.
Q: You have edited the notebooks of Tennessee Williams and become well-acquainted with the (Southern) mindset and attitudes. To what extent has that work influenced the writing of "Charleston"?
A: I wrote about Eliza as a counterweight to what I perceive as cliches about Southern women. I admire Eliza's strength and willingness to take risks. Maybe she is in some ways a progression of many of Williams' women - Amanda, Laura, Blanche, Stella, Maggie - they all have aspects that are strong, but they are, in some ways, trapped inside the South. I think there is a new way to write about Southern women, which is more in line with who they are now.
I also think agrarian communities are steeped in humility as they are controlled and humbled by the seasons. I hoped to portray that sense of humility in both Eliza and Henry and in the description of the work of the slave potter Dave, to whom Eliza is drawn.
Q: What's next on your plate?
A: I am now working on a novel set almost exclusively in Europe. The spark for it arose from a story a taxi driver told me on the way to the airport in Paris. It has no Southern characters, or at least no Southerner has yet appeared.
Reach Adam Parker at 937-5902.
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Lukas Meyer wrote:
Lukas Meyer wrote:
Tero Ripattila wrote:
I've added the cups flavor to net/samba too. This new net/samba port will reside in my ports tree until the maintainer could add this to his port. Is there actually anyone who maintains this port?-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hello Lukas,
Wednesday, February 25, 2004, 10:52:55 AM, you [LK] wrote:
LM> I'm looking for the maintainer of net/samba. I needed ldap support in
LM> samba so I added a flavor ldap to the Makefile.
Good point, I needed to do the very same thing day before yesterday. I
also needed to get a cups-enabled version of samba, because cups support
is disabled by default.
I think something like as follows should be added to the Makefile too:
.if ${FLAVOR:L:Mcups} CONFIGURE_ARGS+= --enable-cups .else CONFIGURE_ARGS+= --disable-cups .endif
Best regards, Tero
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP SDK 3.0.3 Comment: ""
regards Lukas
34,37d33 < FLAVORS= ldap cups < FLAVOR?= < < 55,64d50 < < .if ${FLAVOR:L:Mldap} < CONFIGURE_ARGS+= --with-ldapsam < .endif < < .if ${FLAVOR:L:Mcups} < CONFIGURE_ARGS+= --enable-cups < .else < CONFIGURE_ARGS+= --disable-cups < .endif
ldap FLAVOR is missing deps, it should read:
.if ${FLAVOR:L:Mldapsam} LIB_DEPENDS+= ldap.2,lber:openldap-client-2.*:databases/openldap CONFIGURE_ARGS+= --with-ldapsam .endif


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Former Unicoi County sheriff Kent Harris and attorney Jim Bowman listen as District Attorney General Tony Clark conveys his wishes to retry Harris on the theft charge he was on trial for in this August 2012 file photo.
ERWIN — Former Unicoi County sheriff Kent Harris was set to face trial on a single count of official misconduct beginning July 8, but a motions hearing in the case that was originally scheduled for Monday has been canceled and Harris will first face trial on other charges.
District Attorney General Tony Clark said Tuesday that he and Harris' defense attorney, Jim Bowman, previously discussed the matter of trying Harris on other charges prior to trying him on the single official misconduct charge. Clark said both sides were agreeable to this, and Clark previously contacted the office of Senior Judge Jon Kerry Blackwood, who is overseeing Harris' criminal court proceedings, to ask about the change. Clark said he was advised by Blackwood's office that this could be done, as long as Harris was tried on the same offense.
Now, beginning July 8, Harris will instead be tried in Criminal Court on six counts of official misconduct, six of the 10 felonies a county grand jury charged Harris with in October 2011. It is alleged that on several dates in June and July of 2010, then-sheriff Harris had county inmates perform labor on property he owned at 604 N. Mohawk Drive in Erwin.
Clark said Blackwood's office has advised attorneys that if motions in the trial are filed prior to the trial date, a motions hearing will be scheduled.
Harris was set to be tried on one count of official misconduct in July. It is alleged that in November 2011, then-sheriff Harris directed an sheriff's department employee to use departmental supplies and equipment to prepare a letter soliciting funds to pay Harris' defense attorneys' fees during the employee's working hours. Harris was indicted on this charge in February 2012.
In October 2011, a month prior to this alleged act, a grand jury indicted Harris on 10 felonies, including the six counts of official misconduct he will now be tried on and one count each of theft over $1,000, criminal simulation, attempted aggravated assault and tampering with evidence.
Late last month, Bowman filed two motions in Criminal Court seeking dismissal of Harris' most-recent official misconduct charge. In the one motion, Bowman cites "vagueness" in the presentment document filed in Criminal Court and said the document fails to state an offense.
In the other motion, Bowman alleges "selective prosecution," as he alleges that current Unicoi County Sheriff Mike Hensley carried out an action similar to what Harris is charged with just months after Harris' March 2012 resignation. The motion said that on June 19, Hensley, who was named interim sheriff after Harris' resignation, directed a sheriff's department employee or employees to assist in preparing and typing an affidavit from former Carter County sheriff John Henson. Henson's statement was used as a political campaign advertisement as Hensley sought the office in the August election.
A motions hearing on these matters scheduled for Monday has been canceled due to Harris being first tried on other charges. Clark said he spoke with Bowman about trying Harris on other charges prior to Bowman's filing of these motions. Clark also said the trial on the official misconduct charge Harris was indicted on in February 2012 has been continued, and he would file answers to Bowman's motions if the trial on this charge moves forward.
"As far as the motions, they will not need to be heard until that trial takes place," Clark said.
Harris has already faced trial twice, first on the charges of criminal simulation and theft over $1,000. That trial ended in August with a hung jury, as jurors failed to reach a unanimous verdict. Harris was subsequently retried on the theft charge, and this trial ended in December with a hung jury when jurors again failed to reach a unanimous verdict. Read more on those trials here.
Bowman could not be reached Tuesday for comment.


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According to reports provided by the Aiken Department of Public Safety:
An unknown person took about $4,300 of wire from a trailer parked on Marlboro Street on Monday.
An attempted burglary was reported at a home on South Boundary Avenue on Monday. The 83-year-old victim reported finding muddy footprints on a side door, which she said was difficult to open.
According to reports provide by the Aiken County Sheriffs Office:
A 26-year-old Aiken man was detained for criminal domestic violence on Tuesday after he allegedly struck his girlfriend in the face with her cellphone during an argument.
A Warrenville man reported vandalism on Monday after an unknown person allegedly damaged several vehicles parked outside his home, resulting in them being unable to start.
A 31-year-old Aiken woman reported fraud on Monday after someone gave her two checks to deposit, which her bank later determined were fake.
A burglary was reported on Hutto Pond Road in Aiken on Monday. The owner reported a weed eater and a vacuum missing.
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NRL is equipped with a wide variety of sample irradiation facilities, with fast and slow neutron fluxes up to 1014 and 5x1013 per cm2 per second; temperature-controlled in-pile facilities, a neutron diffractometer; and a fission converter facility. In-pile loops that closely simulate the environment in light water power reactors are available for corrosion and irradiation damage testing. An in-pile high-temperature irradiation facility for advanced materials studies has been successfully demonstrated to operate up to 1500 ºC. An excellent medical irradiation facility with a clinically useful epithermal beam is available for patient and animal irradiations.
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4-bedroom RAF Kirton officers' home goes on sale
Posted: May 22, 2014|
A company which specialises in Ministry of Defence properties is marketing what it describes as a unique detached house in Kirton-in-Lindsey - ideally suited to families.
The large double-fronted property offers generous living accommodation and has a sizeable rear garden backing onto open fields.
It was previously home to officers from RAF Kirton-in-Lindsey and is on the market for £189,950.
One similar four bed, and a five bed, have now been reserved.
Angela Walsh, head of sales and marketing at Annington, said: "This is the first time large properties such as these have come onto the market in Kirton-in-Lindsey."
They all have off-street parking, a garage and large gardens.
Christopher Bell, director of local estate agent Your Move, said: "The market has shown definite signs of improvement with levels of activity increasing, and we're currently seeing most demand from families. It's very rare for houses this large to come onto the local market, and they present a unique opportunity for a family looking to settle down in the area. Properties currently on the market have been attracting a significant level of interest, and the outlook for the rest of the year is good, and we can only see it improving further."
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The Tory Succession: A London Letter
Caligula made his horse a Consul; Mr. Macmillan has made Lord Home—or Sir Alexander Douglas-Home, as he is henceforth to be known—Prime Minister. That, more or less, sums up the reaction of the more cynical commentators to the surprising outcome of our latest political upheaval. The joke is perhaps getting a little stale, but it will do for an occasion so heavily flavored with traditionalism. No doubt we shall also be hearing the other one, about the empty taxi that drew up in front of No. 10 Downing Street—"and then the Prime Minister got out." (This one was originally coined during the Attlee administration.)
Speaking of horses, a Tory newspaper normally loyal to the party recalls the story of the pre-1914 cavalry lieutenant who was told by his instructor: "The role of cavalry in wartime is to give tone to what would otherwise be a vulgar brawl." Tone is what this new government has plenty of. Whether it also has the drive to get on with the country's urgently necessary modernization is a question now much debated. The initial reactions are not favorable. The Opposition is scornful; many of the younger Conservatives are resentful; even the Times is tepid. The independent (and pro-Butler) Sunday Times, organ of the New Conservatism, is furious. Its star commentator, William Rees-Mogg, has been wringing his hands and predicting disaster. So, on television, has Mr. Henry Fairlie, the most bellicose of Tory journalists, who called the new Prime Minister a "silly ass."
If I appear to be lighthearted about so grave a matter as the future of the Tory party, the explanation doubtless is that an outsider can always afford to take the long view. On this view—but then Keynes warned us against long runs—the Conservatives are quite likely to bounce back (after losing the coming election) when the electorate has got bored with Mr. Wilson and his crew, who now look like a dead certainty for the years 1964—8. But they will need to come back in the later 60's with a different kind of leadership: one clad in a boiler suit, or perhaps an astronaut's outfit, clutching a computer and babbling wildly about electronics. If they are really going to stick to tradition, they are sunk. New Frontiers are all the rage now—at least for conversational purposes—and Labor is dead set to win the technologists. Since Harold Wilson's public bid for the allegiance of the scientific community at this month's Labor party conference (just a week before Macmillan's sudden resignation started the crisis), it has been clear that a new vocabulary has come into existence. The fourteenth Earl of Home, for all his patrician good looks and his undoubted good qualities, is no match for C. P. Snow's "New Men."
(Note to the historian: in last July's Encounter, Mr. Fairlie, who is now so upset about the Conservatives missing the bus, contributed a complacent little piece dismissing as nonsense all the alarmist talk about Britain needing a drastic overhaul, and censuring his fellow-writers for being ready to sell their historic birthright for a mess of technocratic pottage.)
How did it all happen? The insiders and the gossip columnists, with their unfailing eye for the trivial and the unimportant, have an explanation: it was Macmillan's doing. Determined to stop Butler, against whom—so the story runs—he nursed an obscure grudge, he pulled every possible string from his hospital bed to prevent his Deputy Premier from succeeding him. (The post of Deputy has now been abolished, although Butler himself remains as Foreign Secretary: there is to be no officially designated Pretender on the next occasion, whenever that may be.)
That Macmillan precipitated the upheaval is undeniable. He could, after all, have postponed his resignation until the annual party conference had been wound up, and the 4,000 delegates representing the Tory constituency members had streamed back to their suburban homes. By timing his long-awaited departure to fall plumb into the center of the annual whirlpool, he set off a tidal wave which could only result in his Deputy Premier being washed overboard. For Richard Austen Butler, though the strongest man in the Cabinet and the biggest brain of Conservatism, was unpopular with most of the delegates at the annual jamboree. To imagine that Macmillan did not know this would be excessively naïve. It is no argument to say he could not have foreseen his own sudden illness (he was in fact ready to announce his determination to carry on, when the doctors stopped him). The point is that, having at last made up his mind to resign, he might have waited another week before making the announcement. It was the timing that doomed Butler and almost threw the succession to his chief rival, the able but demagogic Quintin Hogg, alias Lord Hailsham: darling of the party regulars, though far from popular with his Cabinet colleagues. And it was the strategy of allowing Butler, Hailsham, and Maudling (the third contender), to knock each other out that determined the ultimate choice of Home as the only possible compromise candidate.
So far one may agree with the insiders. One may also detect the characteristic flavor of the Macmillan reign in the touch of frivolity which dictated the final choice. The fourteenth Earl, though personally likable and far from incompetent, was a ready-made target for Mr. Wilson's shafts. Already the Labor leader has pulled out of his capacious vocabulary all the Lloyd-Georgian clichés most likely to appeal to voters torn between Liberal and Labor sentiments. The new Prime Minister is being depicted as an effete nobleman, the titled leader of an aristocratic cabal, a living anachronism, the embodiment of all that is keeping the country safe for the elderly and the incompetent. Tears are being shed for Mr. Butler; it is broadly hinted that the Conservative party is split down the middle since the resignation from the Cabinet of Messrs. Powell and Macleod, standard-bearers of the progressive wing. Much of this is the ordinary cant of politics, but some of it is going to stick. With the election less than a year away, the Conservatives will now need a near miracle to pull off a fourth successive victory. They will not be helped by the impression that the Establishment has tightened its death-grip on the country. When Wilson talks about "so many of our young men in industry" being held down by "the dead hand of family and hereditary appointments," he is hitting a sensitive nerve (and incidentally serving notice that Socialism is becoming ever less distinguishable from the New Frontier). Labor is now committed to efficiency and the career open to the talents: meritocrats please note. Mr. Wilson, a clever boy from a lower-middle-class home (his father was a chemist), knows his audience. So do Macleod and Powell, the two Tory rebels, who like Wilson came up the hard way (well, almost).
There is, then, something in the contention that Macmillan imposed his personal choice (and that of his family circle, once it was realized that Hail-sham's bandwagon had run out of steam), in contemptuous disregard of wider issues. But this is only half the story. If the fourteenth Earl represents the dying kick of the Tory aristocracy—a caste now largely made up of elderly noblemen who hire their castles out to sightseers, including American tourists—he was nonetheless Foreign Secretary in a government that arranged the liquidation of Britain's residual African empire, contrived to let South Africa retire from the Commonwealth, and carried out no more than a rearguard action in defense of Belgian interests in Katanga and Portuguese interests in Angola. At home, the Macmillan government was committed to the welfare state and, in the end, even (though very reluctantly) to economic planning. Abroad it consistently followed the American lead, and—less consistently—the Commonwealth line it had inherited from the postwar Labor government. It also tried—belatedly and unsuccessfully—to get into the Common Market, and in the process flouted old-fashioned imperialists like Beaverbrook. None of this was exactly to the taste of the really deep-blue Tories; in fact, to many of them Macmillan began to look like a renegade from the true faith. If, after last December's Skybolt fiasco, he had not brought back at least the Polaris deal from his Nassau meeting with President Kennedy, they might have revolted. Nassau, it is true, gave de Gaulle the excuse he needed for barring Britain from "Europe," but to the right-wing Tories this did not seem a major disaster. Most of them had never fancied the idea of association with all those foreigners anyway.
But if the right wing was still just barely able to tag along behind Macmillan—largely because from time to time the fourteenth Earl spoke up in the brave old accents, though with little practical result—it was determined not to have Butler. The legend that it was his support of Munich which wrecked Butler's chance dies hard. No doubt Churchill, Salisbury, and Macmillan combined against him in 1957—when Eden's throne was vacant—partly on that basis. But after all the Earl of Home had been the greatest Municheer of all: he was Chamberlain's parliamentary private secretary in 1938, and a determined champion of Appeasement at almost any cost. No, Munich had little to do with Butler's discomfiture on this—probably the final—occasion. It was rather his evasiveness over Suez that rankled with the embattled gentlemen and ladies from the local Tory party organizations. That, and his record as a reformer at the Home Office after 1955 (he was against flogging, and only doubtfully for the death penalty), and his general air of caring more for welfare policies and domestic progress than for imperial greatness: his very latest act as Deputy Premier was to arrange for the quiet liquidation of the Central African Federation, thereby making it virtually certain that Northern Rhodesia at least will soon come under African majority rule.
There is a well-authenticated suspicion in the minds of some observers that if Britain had managed to get into the Common Market, Mr. Butler—helped by Messrs. Powell and Macleod, who refused to take office when his rival prevailed—would have turned his subtle mind to the problem of transforming the Conservative party into something resembling Dr. Adenauer's Christian-Democratic Union. This would have necessitated better relations with the trade unions (if they could be prized loose from the Labor party) and an ideological shift away from traditional Toryism. On the other hand, he is probably equally ready—and this is the gravamen of the charge against him—to promote an "Atlantic" and pro-American orientation if it turns out that Britain's road into Europe is permanently barred. In fact, there are those who complain that Butler's flexibility amounts almost to opportunism. In a party where anti-American feeling runs strongly beneath the surface, this suspicion is a handicap. It was also noticed that the Economist never wavered in its allegiance to Butler, and the Economist is the foremost champion of Atlanticism and unconditional loyalty to the United States (where a good half of its influential readership resides). None of this was of much use to Butler when the Tory regulars met at Blackpool. His strongest support lay in the Cabinet room, and the Cabinet let him down: only half his colleagues—instead of two-thirds, as was expected—came down strongly on his side, while others wavered or divided their support among his rivals. The chief of these, Reginald Maudling—with over a hundred parliamentary backbenchers cheering him like a matinee star—foolishly held out for the supreme prize, instead of throwing his support to Butler while there was still time. And so the dark horse won the race, and the public was treated to the spectacle of the Tory succession being decided by the outgoing Prime Minister, who told the Queen that only the Earl of Home could hold the government together.
For all the inevitable talk of "feudalism," the whole affair is no more than a rear-guard action so far as the Tory aristocracy is concerned. That class is now almost extinct, and the disappearance of the Empire has removed its last raison d'être. The real problem is what sort of response the Conservative party is going to make to Mr. Wilson's renovated Labor Socialism, with its faith in Planning, Automation, and Efficiency; not to mention the Liberals, who are busy like termites eating into the loyal Conservative following in the middle-class suburbs. It would have been difficult enough even with Butler or Maudling at the helm; with Home it is going to be next to impossible. Yet Home was needed if the true-blue Tories—already cheated of their darling Hailsham—were to be kept quiet, or rather busy working for the party in next year's election. It has been the misfortune of Conservatism that Macmillan did good by stealth, instead of providing the party and the country with a broad political education. The public was never told more than half the truth about Britain's changed position in the world; major departures, such as the liquidation of the African empire, or the unsuccessful takeover bid for the leadership of Western Europe, were presented as business-like moves, instead of being dramatized; and even the retreat from uninhibited market liberalism à la Erhard to planning à la française, was so carefully camouflaged that hardly anyone but the experts noticed it. The result was that the modernization of the Conservative party got stuck halfway, while the public never realized that something important was happening.
All this was part of the Macmillan style—a habit of making unobtrusive moves in the Edwardian manner, when what was wanted was a grand Churchillian or Gaullist confrontation. It is perhaps the most serious charge against Macmillan as Prime Minister and party leader that he tried to conduct policy behind the backs of his own followers. The word "trickster" was always close to the surface when Tories grumbled about him in private. No doubt he was right in thinking that a head-on clash with the Old Guard might have split the party; no doubt, too, the process of unobtrusive accommodation to reality will continue under Home (and would have continued under Hogg-Hailsham, for all his frenzied ringing of ideological and other bells). But there is all the difference between welcoming the future, and backing into it in a half-hearted fashion. Wilson's Laborites—even Grimond's Liberals, for all the intellectual windiness which seems to be part of the modern Liberal makeup—do convey the impression of being enthusiastic about the age of technology, and willing to dispense with traditional symbols such as unrestricted national sovereignty. No one can suspect the Tories of enthusiasm for any of these things. Their appeal now is bound to be to the elderly and the tradition-bound.
This is the danger the Conservative left-wingers have sensed. With Butler or Maudling in charge, they would have shed their traditionalist image and come forward as the British counterpart if not of the New Frontier (that image has been grabbed by Wilson), at least of liberal Republicanism à la Rockefeller. As matters stand, they are bound, in their hearts, to concede the 1964 election to Labor, whatever they may say in public. The problem for them lies in capturing the party after the almost inevitable defeat. Here a grotesque irrelevancy adds to their discomfort: if the Tory representation in Parliament is sharply reduced, their supporters are likely to be the heaviest sufferers, since most of them entered the House in 1955 and 1959, and their seats are less well protected than those of the Old Guard. The hundred or so backbenchers who form Maudling's personal bodyguard—as well as being the vanguard of "managerial" neo-Conservatism—are the most likely victims of a Labor landslide. Since the leadership is heavily dependent on the Parliamentary party—though we have just seen that other factors can also intervene—this might leave the right wing in control after a shattering defeat brought on by its own ineptitude. In that case civil war is quite likely to break out among the Conservatives, along the lines of Labor's internal split in the 1950's. Since at the moment it looks as though the Conservatives will poll no more than ten million votes in 1964, against fifteen million for Labor and about five million for the Liberals, the massacre at the polls might be large enough to halve their parliamentary strength; and it is the liberal wing which would suffer most.
It is thus with complete disaster staring them in the face that the Conservative "reformers" now contemplate the political upheaval brought about by Macmillan's last-minute surrender to the Old Guard. Already there is talk of Macleod playing the part of a Tory Aneurin Bevan and, Samson-like, bringing the pillars of the Temple down upon the heads of the oligarchy in possession. In fact, the "modernists" face a task more nearly akin to that of Gaitskell and his friends after Labor's defeat in 1959. They must somehow take their party away from the Old Guard and recast it in their own image, if Conservatism is not to dwindle away into the powerless rump it has become in Social-Democratic Sweden. The danger is very real, for a few years of Labor government—if not dogged by economic trouble—might easily accustom the electorate to the idea that Conservatism is out of fashion. Mr. Wilson is doing what he can to spread this notion, and unless he is very badly let down by his colleagues when he gets into office (unfortunately for him, the Labor front-bench at the moment looks pretty weak), he might just pull it off. The scales are certainly much more narrowly balanced than they were a couple of years ago: before the Labor party had modernized itself, and before the great psychological gear-shift in the public's attitude had occurred.
This shift is something of a mystery. Who, a few years ago, would have expected a solid Conservative newspaper like the Sunday Times to go into raptures over technology, and to warn its readers that in view of the vastly accelerating pace of technical and social change, "the whole of government is . . . based on an almost heroic effort to foresee the course of a technological explosion and plot its needs . . . any Conservative Government now has to prove that it understands and can deal with the process. . . . This is vital because revolutions do not give one much time . . . any government which lacks an understanding of the revolution in which it is living is bound to fail" (October 20, editorial) ? Strange language for a Tory organ. The paper's star columnist, writing the day after the fourteenth Earl of Home became Prime Minister, had this to say: "I now know of no convincing argument which I could put to a young scientist or university teacher to persuade him that the Conservative Party was both the best way of fulfilling his political ideas and a party in which he would be at home, an equal in his own natural environment." Well, it never was. But the whole point is that the Young Turks had almost got to the point of persuading themselves that they could pull it off. With Macleod entrenched as head of the party machine—he has now been shoved out—and Macmillan apparently favoring the palace revolution, they saw themselves with victory in their grasp. Disappointment is now acute, but the real fight has only begun. It is going to get really savage if Sir Alexander next year leads Toryism to its electoral Waterloo.
Perhaps all this commotion up and down the country is evidence that there is life in the old lion yet. Materially he is in fairly good shape just now—for a change the economy is booming, even exports are going up—and getting a new set of technological teeth. The obstacles to genuine modernization are institutional and social rather than economic. Some of them were discussed in Encounter's special "crisis" issue last July. Unfortunately, most of the contributions were so amateurish as to underscore the editorial complaint that professional competence was not wanted. There is certainly plenty of amateurism about, and even more blinkered insularity: notably in the educational Establishment and the Civil Service, neither of which exactly corresponds to the needs of an industrial society (there is still not a single institution of higher learning of the standing of MIT or the Polytechnique, and no immediate plans to create one). It is sometimes odd to see what passes for radicalism in this tradition-bound country. Thus the Labor party is now committed to the creation of two dozen small arts colleges on the existing pattern, and this is trumpeted as a great step forward, when what is needed is half a dozen large new universities, with a minimum of ten to fifteen thousand students each, located in industrial cities, and with enormously enlarged science faculties in part subsidized by the surrounding industries, whose employees should be compulsorily educated to the age of eighteen and beyond. Notwithstanding official acceptance of the controversial Robbins Report on higher education, this is still a long way off. Yet progress is on its way, however reluctantly. All three political parties are now publicly committed to the idea that science, though nasty, is important, and that efficiency, though ungentlemanly, is a good thing.
Lest I sound too enamored of C. P. Snow and his cult of scientism, let me hasten to add that I never thought much of the notion of Two Cultures (he has now raised the number to three). There is only one culture, and Shakespeare is infinitely more important to it than the Second Law of Thermodynamics. In fact, thermodynamics has nothing whatever to do with culture, and can safely be ignored by anyone in search of a liberal education. It is, however, important to the educational infrastructure, and will have to be taught on a large scale to the hundreds of thousands of working-class and lower-middle-class boys and girls who—if all goes well—may find school places by 1975. This is now the real issue, compared with which all others shrink, for automation is a real chance for a country that is short of raw materials and has to make use of its brains. It is to the credit of all concerned that this truth is no longer strenuously resisted. In their different ways, Socialists, Liberals, and Conservatives have learned to speak the same language—even Lord Hailsham styles himself Minister of Science (though why a lawyer had to be given this post is one of those British mysteries) and talks earnestly of bringing the country up to date. With so much unanimity about what ought to be the goal, it seems almost inevitable that something or other is in fact going to be done.


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An expansion-minded national insurance company has snapped up a longtime North Charleston brokerage as it looks to beef up its South Carolina presence.
Huntington Beach, Calif.-based Confie Seguros said it recently finalized the purchase of Alliance Insurance Agency Inc. Financial terms of the sale were not disclosed.
Alliance operates two businesses: Van Robinson Insurance, which has been selling automobile, home and commerical policies in the Charleston region for more than 43 years, and Coastal Insurance, a provider of specialized personal coverage lines.
Confie Seguros said the deal brings to 12 its number of South Carolina locations. Previously, the company has concentrated mostly on selling auto policies under the name Drivers Choice.
Mordy Rothberg, the New Jersey-based cofounder and president of Confie Seguros, said the market for home and small business coverage is "very fragmented and is ripe for consolidation."
The goal is to expand the company's presence in the Palmetto State to 30 offices over the next 18 months, Rothberg said.
"We really believe there's tremendous opportunity for growth in South Carolina," he said.
Rothberg added that Jim Norman, CEO of the newly acquired agencies, is "not only staying on board, he will be managing the whole state for us." Norman did not respond to a request for comment.
The Alliance purchase preceded a larger insurance industry acquisition announced last week.
BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina is shedding a Columbia-based subsidiary that sells workers compensation policies and insures homes, businesses and automobiles. The $218 million sale of Companion Property and Casualty Insurance Co. to Bermuda-based Enstar Group Ltd. is expected to close by the end of the year.
BlueCross BlueShield formed the subsidiary in 1984. Companion operates in 49 states.
A spokeswoman said the South Carolina parent company is exiting the property-and-casualty business because it is highly competitive and capital intensive. Also. Companion no longer fits with the strategic growth plan for BlueCross BlueShield, which is best known for selling health insurance.
Contact John McDermott at 937-5572.
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I have a friend whose son has Mississippi Medicaid bc of a congenital heart condition. Her husband might get transferred to Texas. I heard that you can only use Medicaid in the state it's granted in. Is that true?
Yeah. My ignorant ass cousin-in-law skipped town pregnant, with a heart condition and was bitching that FL would not accept her OH medicaid.
Yes he would have to get on Texas Medical Assistance
She will Have to apply in the new state.
is it the same if you get in a accident or something while out of state?
If you move it's really easy to change states with no lapse in coverage and it will always cover emergencies.
Medicaid will work in anther state, as long as your going to the emergency room because accidents do happen. If you try to use it for the birth of your child, they will deny it and you will be responsible for the cost.
Quoting Chuck Bass:" I have a friend whose son has Mississippi Medicaid bc of a congenital heart condition. Her husband might ... [snip!] ... Her husband might get transferred to Texas. I heard that you can only use Medicaid in the state it's granted in. Is that true?"
You "sort of" can use it in another state. They will usually take it but it will not cover the full expense and it's only for like emergency care. Like if you need to go to the ER or walk in clinic. If you are moving you need to re apply for that states medicaid. This is what I have been told, it could be out of date now...
Quoting Bad {MAM} -A- Jamma:" is it the same if you get in a accident or something while out of state?"
Emergencies are the only things covered.
Quoting mama gee.:" Emergencies are the only things covered."
Oh I see, thanks! I was actually wondering about that recently
Soon after i moved to south carolina from another state, i had to go to the hospital for severe pain in my abdomen, and they did not accept my medicaid.
Although this conversation is quite dated still thought of giving an update about my most recent experience with Mississippi medicaid. We were on a trip to DC and my 11 month old son had to go to the emergency room there where we gave all his medicaid info in order for them to make the claim. After several months last week we got a bill from the hospital. United healthcare (the company managing MS medicaid) has declined it citing that the hospital doesn't have a MS medicaid ID number. When I spoke with the insurance company what they said was that the provider has to have a MS medicaid ID number in order to process the claim. I then spoke with MS medicaid and they confirmed that if the provider is not registered no payment will be made. I have two options: one is to get the hospital in VA to register with MS medicaid so they can get the payment or pay $1100+ bill by myself. Since the option one is highly unlikely I would go with the second. The lesson is if you're in MS medicaid make sure you get into emergencies while you're in the state not elsewhere. I would appreciate if anyone had a different experience while being in a similar condition as me so I can be aware. About me and the family, we moved here about two years ago from northeast and already looking for ways to get out. The circumstances that led to come here were somewhat unavoidable situation I faced at the time and complete lack of knowledge about the place. It's not just medicaid but everything is screwed here. This place can never get better with the attitude of the people. So if you're someone who is looking for coming down here I would say think again and again. It's not just because I was denied this payment but because of many things that I and my family being through.
how about option 3 do what every illegal immigrant or smart city person with no health care does and have done for years
give them a fake name or fake socal sec num and address by law they have to treat u anyway so u will get your care and they can get reimbursed from the feds this country needs universal health care anyway so do feel bad doing it millions of people do.


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May 13, 2008
Northridge, Calif. - The first 7-foot center to ever enroll at Cal State Northridge will be part of the Matadors basketball program in 2008-09 along with a strong rebounding forward from Alabama, the 2007-08 Big Sky Freshman of the Year and a top transfer from Tulsa University.
Xavier Crawford, a 7-foot, 220-pound center from Yuba College (Marysville, Ca) and Vincent Cordell, a 6-foot-6, 210-pound forward from Northwest Shoals College in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, have signed national letters of intent to play basketball at Cal State Northridge starting in 2008-09.
In addition, Vinnie McGhee, who earned Big Sky Conference Freshman of the Year honors during his freshman season (2007-08) at Sacramento State, will enroll at CSUN in the fall of 2008. Mark Hill, a guard from Tulsa University, has transferred to Cal State Northridge.
In two seasons at Yuba College, Crawford helped the 49ers to a 59-12 record. During the 2007-08 campaign, Yuba College chalked up a 32-4 record (only two other JC teams won 30 or more games), won the Bay Valley Conference title for a second straight season and advanced to the California Community College State Championship "Elite Eight" for the second straight year. For several months during the 2007-08 season, Yuba College was ranked #1 in the state.
Crawford averaged 6.1 points, 3.8 rebounds and 1.3 blocks per game. Crawford, who gained all-league honorable mention honors, hit .595 from the floor. This past season, Crawford scored 25 points against Mendocino, and chalked up 15 points and 17 rebounds against Napa Valley.
Crawford hails from Richfield, Minnesota, but graduated from Mount Zion Christian Academy in Durham, North Carolina. Crawford had originally signed with Bradley University after graduating from Mt. Zion, but decided to head west to play at Yuba College. Other schools to recruit Crawford included Bradley, Wyoming, St. Louis and Boise State.
"We felt like we needed to get a little bit bigger on the inside; someone to take up space, block shots, and score around the basket," said Matador head coach Bobby Braswell. "Xavier can get up and down the floor really well, and we are looking forward to him being a key component on the defensive end of the floor in addition to rebounding the basketball. Xavier also has a soft touch around the basket and is a good passer. He can score facing the basket from 12 to 15 feet."
Cordell, who hails from Huntsville, Alabama, averaged 12.9 points and 9.4 rebounds per game this past year at Northwest Shoals Community College in Muscle Shoals, Alabama.
Cordell scored in double figures 23 of the 32 games this past season, including a season-high 35 points (15-for-21 from the floor) against Dyersburg State Community College. In the season finale against Chattahoochee Valley, Cordell scored 25 points (8-for-10 from the floor). For the season, Cordell shot .517 from the floor. Cordell also hit 37 percent from three-point territory. For his efforts, Cordell was a first team all-league selection.
Cordell's exploits were exhibited around the basket where he averaged 9.4 rebounds per game. In 18 games, Cordell grabbed ten or more rebounds including a season-high 17 boards against Chattahoochee Valley, and 16 each in games against Columbia State Community College and Faulkner State College.
Cordell gained numerous honors at Butler High School in Huntsville, Al.
"This is the first time we have recruited a player out of Alabama," said Braswell. "Vincent is the type of player we think can make up for the loss of Jonathan Heard. He is a small forward who can shoot the three-pointer, and can also rebound the ball. He can play several positions. Vincent is strong, has a great attitude, and can really lock into you defensively."
McGhee captured Big Sky Conference Freshman of the Year honors in addition to being an honorable mention all-league choice at Sacramento State. McGhee, who is 6-0, 165-pounds, started 27 of 28 games. McGhee averaged 12.1 points (#2 on the Hornets) and 5.1 assists per game (142). McGhee was also among the team leaders in steals (38) and three-point goals (50). McGhee's success earned him a spot on the All Freshman Mid-Major team by College Basketball Insider.
McGhee hails from McClymonds High School in Oakland where he was a two-time first team All-Oakland Athletic League selection. During his senior season, McGhee led his team to a 28-4 overall record, a league title, the northern California Division I championship, and the school's first appearance in the state championship.
Because of NCAA transfer rules, McGhee, who had also considered transferring to Santa Clara, USF, Wyoming and Creighton, will redshirt during the 2008-09 season.
"We have picked up an outstanding point-guard," said Braswell. "As he proved last year in the Big Sky Conference, Vinnie is a great shooter, a great ball handler and a great passer. He makes good decisions and is extremely competitive. He really wants to win. He works hard at the game. He embodies the characteristics that we want in our basketball players."
Hill, who played in 34 games in two seasons at Tulsa University, transferred to Cal State Northridge during the 2007-08 campaign.
During the 2006-07 season at Tulsa, Hill played in all 31 games and started ten contests. Passing the ball was Hill's expertise. Hill, who is 5-10, 175-pounds, dished out 92 assists, and led Tulsa in assists a team-high 13 times. His career-best ten assists came against Tulane.
Hill could also score when called upon. In 22 minutes of play at Arkansas (2006-07), Hill scored a career-best 17 points. Hill also collected 16 points along with eight assists and two steals against SMU.
"We had originally recruited Mark out of high school in Los Angeles, but he initially decided on Tulsa," said Braswell. "When he decided it was time to come home, he contacted us. We were very interested in him becoming a part of our basketball program. He is quick-on-quick. He is strong, handles the ball really well along with being a great passer. It's going to be hard for people to stay in front of him because he is so quick. Defensively Mark can pick you up full court and keep pressure on you all the way up the floor. We're very excited to have Marc join the Matador program."
Hill was a three-year letter winner and starter at Fremont High School in Los Angeles. Hill, who averaged 15 points, ten assists, four steals and three rebounds as a senior, was a two-time first team all-city selection in Los Angeles as a junior and senior. As a senior, Hill earned conference co-MVP honors while leading his team to a 22-3 record.
During the 2005-06 season, Hill played at Genesis Prep School in Mississippi.
Cal State Northridge, which ended the 2007-08 season with a 20-10 record and a share of the Big West title, returns all the key components for another successful season in 2008-09. Deon Tresvant, the team's leading scorer returns, along with Tremaine Townsend, the league's top rebounder and blocked shot leader, and Josh Jenkins, who led the conference in assists all return. However, five seniors, including Tresvant, Townsend, Jenkins and three-year starter Rob Haynes, will be graduating, and a new influx of talented players needed to be recruited.
"Our goal was to get deeper at every position," said Braswell. "But we also realize that we have an upcoming senior class with five players who will graduate. We wanted to be in a position where we would have players already in the program that would replace those seniors. We feel like we have improved the program in a lot of different ways. This was an important class for the future of Northridge basketball."


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Becca Tangerine Dream Nail Lacquer
Becca Tangerine Dream Nail Lacquer ($15.00 for 0.51 fl. oz.) is described as a "bright sunset coral." It originally debuted in last summer's Halcylon Days collection (yes, really, I'm that behind!). It's still available within a very limited color range of polishes (six, to be exact).
It's mostly orange, but there's a tinge of coral to it. MAC Oriele Orange is more orange, deeper. China Glaze Life Preserver is darker, redder. SpaRitual Love & Happiness is redder. China Glaze High Hopes is more coral, redder.
The color applied evenly and easily without streaking or bubbling, and Tangerine Dream was opaque in two coats (almost one coat–I did just one coat on the pinky so you could see; OK, more because I forgot!). When I tested out the wear of this particular shade (first Becca polish for me!), it wore really well. I will caution you that I can't think of a brand of polish that does chip on me; they all wear to varying degrees of tip wear. I had minor tip wear after seven days but no other issues. It wasn't too thick or thin and flowed well across the nail. A nice touch is that the bottle cap is rubberized, so it's easy to grip and open.
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Gay Lyons' People & Parties: Farm-to-table supper raises funds for ESK
The eighth annual Saints' Gala "Feast in the Field" benefiting The Episcopal School of Knoxville was held recently at the school. The farm-to-table supper featuring locally raised beef tenderloin and chicken, organic vegetables and cheeses and an auction of luxury items and children's artwork raised more than $150,000. About 386 guests attended the event to benefit ESK.
"Feast in the Field" gave guests a chance to try out ESK's all-natural, farm-to-table dining program, now ending a successful first year. In addition to a revamped dining hall menu complete with organic food and all homemade bread, the school has maintained a student-tended garden and weekly Lower School gardening classes.
A favorite feature of the annual benefit is the auction of artwork created by Lower School classes. Items included a French country settee bench with two throw pillows hand-painted with rainforest scenes, a garden bench decorated with mosaic art depicting ladybugs, a quilt featuring kindergarteners' paintings of campus scenes, and a rendition of Van Gogh's "Starry Night" which depicted the ESK campus.
Guests were seated at white linen covered tables with pink flower bundles in soup cans, votives, and fresh mint in small mason jars while dining on foods from local and area vendors, such as Sweetwater Valley Farm, Laurel Creek Meats, Benton's Smoky Mountain Country Hams, and Cruze Dairy. The menu included beef tenderloin, orange blossom chicken, deviled eggs, Grainger County tomatoes, BLT bites in tomato cups, grilled vegetables, homemade rolls baked by the ESK kitchen, dessert shooters of chocolate and raspberry mousse, mini strawberry shortcake biscuits, and buttermilk sorbet served in silver ramekins. Signature drinks included a lemonade champagne cosmo and a red sangria with wine from the Tennessee Valley Winery, along with a choice of beer and wines.
Alice Smith was the event chair with the help of Steve and Lori Robinson. ASAP LLC, a division of Rodefer Moss and Company LLC, was the presenting sponsor. Oliver Smith, of Oliver Smith Reality and Auction, was the auctioneer for the evening. Among the guests were Jimmy and Shelley Rodefer, Scott and Gini Batey, David and Amy Schumaker, Bob and Karen Gilbertson, Joe and Ruth Fielden, David Gilbert and Cynthia Gibson, Joey and Leslie Grubb, Charlie and Jane Gouffon, Sarah Stowers, Adam and Ginny Brock, Bob and Diana Samples and David Cadigan and Rosalind Cadigan Schroder.
n Random Acts of Flowers celebrated the season with a fundraising garden party and a thank you party for the organization's volunteers. The Sequoyah Hills garden of Ann and Steve Bailey came alive with the 4th annual Art in the Garden event. Guests were treated to music by The Early Morning String Dusters, food by Holly's Eventful Dining, and live art creations by featured artists Neranza Noel Blount, Ben Jay, Cynthia Markert, Chris McAdoo, Matt Sally and Chris Szaton of Marble City Glassworks, Nick Skally and Regina Turner. Random Acts of Flowers' Founder and Executive Director Larsen Jay and wife Adrian Jay welcomed the crowd as they raised awareness and funds for the organization which collects donated flowers and repurposes them into bouquets for delivery to patients in area hospitals, nursing homes, and hospice care centers.
Guests included David Butler and Ted Smith, Channing and Whitney Dawson, J.W. and Whitney Johnson, Vicki Baumgartner, Michael Strickland, Maggie Erickson, Malinda Flynn, John and Tricia Becker, Todd and Laura Green, Julie and Layne Morris, Keith and Anna Ottaviano, Paul and Cheryl Ottaviano, Branson and Sarah Ward, George Hashbarger, Ed Shouse, Joe and Ruth Fielden, Jim Harness and Rick Kennedy, Sharon Lord, Teresa Hatmaker, Bruce and Brandy Pearl, Drew and Dara Taylor, Sam and Susie McCamey, James and Candy Wansley, Bill and Helen Chenault, John and Connie Wallace, Brian and Gerry Donaldson, Melissa and Ron Feinbaum, Brandon Herrenbruck, Andy and Kahren White, Greg and Melissa Isaacs, Hugh and Angelia Nystrom, Tim and Amy Williams and Raja and Michelle Jubran.
On another evening, Random Acts of Flowers held its first Vol-A-Bration, an annual Volunteer Appreciation Party, hosted by Stanley's Greenhouses & Plant Farm in South Knoxville. A bar-b-que and potluck dinner was dished up, and volunteers were given an appreciation gift in honor of their work on behalf of Random Acts of Flowers. Among the guests were Random Acts of Flowers founder and CEO Larsen Jay, Donna Alexander, Jackie Barineau, Claire Bauman, Pat and Glenn Baxmann, Kay Bell, Sarah and Ethan Brudecki, Margaret Burdge, Susan and Paul Campbell, Sharon and Madison Chan, Lori and Charles Chmielewski, Valerie Coleman, Bernie Cutlip, Jan and Rodger Frazee, Ellie Gardner, Toni Gaylord, Nancy and Phillip Guertin, Janet Hopson, Priscilla and Tom Hungerford, Nancy and David Irwin, Liz and Michael Jennings, Robin and Ned Kiser, Sage Morgan, Andrea Murphy, Anna and Keith Ottaviano, Kristina Pleiss, Chris and John Scurlock, Robin and Chad Tindell, Delores and Hiram Tipton, Robyn Townsend, Denise Vermeulin, Carla and Lou Werner, Eileen Wilson, Sally and Tim Wirtz, Evelyn and Frank Weiskopf, Kate and Kenny Carter, Melissa and Ron Feinbaum, Chad Harrison and Sandy Gabbard.
nSusan French, 2010 Beta Sigma Phi First Lady of Knoxville, celebrated her birthday with gifts for others. More than 70 guests, who dropped by and enjoyed hors d'oeuvres prepared by Susan and her friend, Doris Gibson, and music by pianist Jerry Douglas brought more than 250 items for Thompson Cancer Survival Center's "Comfort Care" Basket program. The mission of the program is to help ease the path for new chemotherapy patients. As they begin treatment, each patient is given a basket filled with items to help them through their journey and ease the side effects of their treatment. This type of party is not unusual for French. Last year, she requested items for the poor of Belize which she took with her on a mission trip there. Before that she had a "girlfriend" Christmas party and asked guests to bring a stuffed animal for Thompson Cancer Survival Center's pediatric radiation program.


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In Christ Alone: Living the Gospel-Centered Life
Book by Sinclair Ferguson
Noted theologian, pastor, and educator Dr. Sinclair B. Ferguson explores aspects of the person and work of Jesus in his latest book, In Christ Alone: Living the Gospel-Centered Life. This collection of articles, published earlier in Tabletalk magazine and Eternity … Learn MoreHardcover $18.00 $14.40 Add to Cart
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Celebrating the Sabbath: Finding Rest in a Restless World
Book by Bruce Ray
The Sabbath. Just another day? Or a special gift from God…a gift worth "keeping," as he commands? This positive look at the Sabbath explains why and how to delight in that day as the opportunity reserved by God for his … Learn MorePaperback $10.00 $8.00 Add to Cart
The Pursuit of Holiness
Book by Jerry Bridges
What does holiness look like? For starters, it doesn't look anything like perfection. And it doesn't necessarily look like victory. Mostly, it consists of effort, prayer, grace, and obedience. "Scripture speaks of both a holiness we have in Christ before … Learn MorePaperback $13.00 $10.40 Add to Cart
When the Darkness Will Not Lift
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John Piper examines depression from a spiritual perspective, guiding and encouraging those for whom joy seems to stay out of reach. "It is utterly crucial that in our darkness we affirm the wise, strong hand of God to hold us, … Learn MorePaperback $8.00 $6.40 Add to Cart
Is Jesus the Only Savior?
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Today many question the idea that there is only one way to heaven (or that Christianity is the only true faith) — even some people who identify themselves as Christians. In a world where we are likely to have neighbors … Learn MorePaperback - out of stock $17.00 $13.60 Backorder
Truths We Confess: A Layman's Guide to the Westminster Confession of Faith (Vol. 1-3 Set)
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Almighty Over All: Understanding the Sovereignty of God
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The Valley of Vision
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In this classic volume, edited by Arthur Bennett, the prayers of the Puritans are brought to life. Including prayers of Richard Baxter, John Bunyan, Isaac Watts, Charles Spurgeon, and others, The Valley of Vision is a selection of petitions and … Learn MoreBonded Leather $26.00 $20.80 Add to Cart
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Genesis Debate: Three Views on the Days of Creation
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Great minds run in Star Trek circles ...
A big time newspaper columnist ended his Sunday column by quoting a Star Trek movie.
So did I.
Abramson's Exit at The Times Puts Tensions on Display — David Carr | The New York Times
" ... Before I came to work here, Gerald Boyd, the crusty — or should I say "pushy"? — managing editor who would eventually be swept up in the Jayson Blair affair, was interviewing me. I could tell it was not going well. He was skeptical of my lack of daily experience and my more noisy tendencies. I finally realized what he was waiting to hear.
" 'I understand that if I come to work at The New York Times, the needs of the many will frequently supersede the needs of the one,' I said.
"I meant it when I said it and I learn the truth of it with each passing day."
Truth about public land gets lost in translation — George Pyle | The Salt Lake Tribune
" ... George Pyle, a Tribune editorial writer, was the only one in the theater who laughed when the Klingon prosecutor said, 'Don't wait for the translation,' in 'Star Trek VI'."
Probably not enough to get me a gig at The Times. But kinda cool anyway.


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You see, I work every weekend. It's kind of awful because I feel like I miss out on fun things and Dustin has weekends off so I miss out on time with him. However, weekend mornings is when I make the most money so I try really hard to not be too upset about it. After all the money issues we've had I'm thankful for the income.
The thing is, summer is coming up. I want to DO things. I was to go to baseball games and the drive in and spend the day in the pool drinking drink with my husband and brother and friends. I don't want to spend my entire summer working.
I've already requested off a weekend and a day this summer. The first weekend is in June for the pool party we're throwing for Dustin and Ryan's birthdays. The other day is a Sunday in August when I'm doing my boudoir shoot. And all I can think is how much money I'm going to be missing out on. Which is kind of awful.
So what do I do? Life is short. Money isn't everything. I want to have fun this summer. I mean, who knows how many summers I have left before we can have kids? But at the same time the idea of missing out on that money makes me feel so stressed out.
What would you do? How do you decide when enough is enough, when you just need to stop working so hard and have fun?


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Live life in the present! This is the motto of Jokkmokk Winter Market which is held annually in early February. Jokkmokk's Market is the perfect occasion in which to be exposed to all kinds of handicraft, including newly created designs, made by the Sámi people native to the artic regions of Scandinavia. The Sámi profile is important for the market. Their culture and traditions, art and handicraft and music attract people. The reindeer caravan is a yearly cultural happening as well as the reindeer festival. Other things on the program are the reindeer race, the reindeer taxi, tasting reindeer meat delicacies, multi-media shows and much more. The atmosphere is always positive, open and familiar and even though it may be cold, you will be met with warm smiles! You can look forward to market days full of cultural happenings from morning to night. Undoubtedly you will find many things to buy so leave space in your luggage.
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Boehner: I 'absolutely' trust Obama
House Speaker John Boehner says President Barack Obama's outreach to House Republicans has been helpful, but it won't make up for the deep policy differences between the White House and the congressional GOP.
"Well, it's always a good thing to engage in more conversation - engage more members in the conversation that - have not been involved up to this point," the Ohio Republican said in an interview airing Sunday ABC's "This Week." "But when you get down the-- the-- the bottom line, the president believes that we have to have more taxes from the American people, we're not gonna get very far."
"If the president doesn't believe that the goal oughta be to balance the budget over the next ten years - I don't - not sure we're gonna get very far," he continued. "And this is the whole issue. We have a spending problem here in Washington and it's time to solve the problem."
Asked if he trusted Obama, Boehner said "absolutely."
"The president and I, as I have made very clear, have a very good relationship," he said. "We're open with each other. We're honest with each other. But we're trying to bridge some big differences."
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Apprentice star Stuart 'The Brand' Baggs dies aged 27
Apprentice star Stuart Baggs has died aged 27, police have confirmed.
25 August 2010
After seven albums, it's pretty clear that the big time and Portland's Laura Veirs will never be soulmates but she's built an adoring cult following for her wry but thoughtful songs and at 37 she's a new mother. Just to keep things snug, her partner is her drummer, her other two band members were her support acts and she brought her parents to London for babysitting duties.
18 August 2010
Stockhausen and Schumann are both reputed to spell death at the box office, so last night's three-parter Prom, bookended by the two, was a brave gesture that failed to disprove the theory.
29 July 2010
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02 July 2010
No film about the more ravaged parts of post-colonial Africa seems more truthful than this fractured, sometimes puzzling French-language drama from Claire Denis. It is very different from Chocolat, her impressive 1988 debut, which was built around her own experience growing up in French colonial times.
02 July 2010
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing, as the old aphorism has it, but Wynton Marsalis is pushing it a stage further. United in Swing, described as the Barbican's first international residency, involves his orchestra in a hectic schedule of concerts, jam sessions and education projects in east London, based on the notion that, given encouragement and expert tuition, any kind of people can swing. And there, reluctantly, we must part company.
18 June 2010
Gillet Square launched a patriotic cheer as England kicked off against the United States on Saturday, watched on the giant screen by jazz fans and a colourful section of the wider Dalston community.
14 June 2010
There were 12 concerts in Nigel Kennedy's Polish Weekend, and the violinist-curator (if that's not too incongruous a description of Kennedy) was onstage for most of them. His appetite for all things Polish is profound, his energy unflagging.
01 June 2010
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"I want to tell you a story about a story," intoned the familiar, gamine figure standing at a lectern, jacket sleeves rolled up. And for the next 90 minutes, Laurie Anderson drew us into her dream-like world and fed us stories, poetic anecdotes, observations and meditations.
15 April 2010
15 April 2010
Britain's Got Talent finalist Faryl Smith will rub shoulders with opera star Bryn Terfel and composer Howard Goodall at this year's Classical Brits.
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18 January 2010
You've got to applaud the audacity. Tom Stoppard and André Previn's 1977 play deploys a complete orchestra and the full force of Stoppard's wit to explore the plight of Russian dissidents who were then being locked up in mental hospitals.
14 January 2010
Jonathan Miller's position as both a doctor and arts polymath makes him particularly qualified to reflect on the physiology and philosophy behind the documentation of human and animal movement.
14 January 2010
13 January 2010
The Park Lane Group's annual Young Artists series should warm the coldest January but there's always a chill factor.
12 January 2010
A hotel dining room seemed the obvious choice for eating out in the lull between Christmas and New Year - and what hotel is more obvious than The Ritz?
07 January 2010
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Whatever else it may be about — and the work is as protean as any of Mahler's symphonies — the Ninth certainly encompasses life and death. There are passages expressing a deep love of life but shot through with intimations of mortality; finally there is acceptance of the end, though not without a struggle.
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Plenty of people would have Nigel Kennedy thrown into the Tower of London for alleged crimes against classical music decorum: grievous hairstyle, false laddishness, flagrant irreverence etc.
11 September 2009
On Tuesday night the chill winds of the Hebrides blew through Peter Maxwell Davies's account of Mendelssohn's Fingal's Cave Overture.
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SECOP Opens Doors to SuccessLoyola Marymount University's efforts to attract and retain female students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) majors are paying off. By partnering with local high schools, LMU has developed a program that leads females and minority youth to go to college and choose promising STEM careers.
"More women are studying science as a result of LMU's extensive outreach efforts," says Richard G. Plumb, dean of LMU's Frank R. Seaver College of Science and Engineering. Programs such as the Science and Engineering Community Outreach Program (SECOP) are changing the gender ratio in STEM courses at LMU.
SECOP is a pre-college program that is supported in part by the California Education Facilities Authority and brings about 30 underrepresented low-income minority high school students to LMU for a two-week residential "boot camp" to improve their STEM skills. The students experience campus life and are mentored by science and engineering undergraduates as well as professors. The program leaders also inform students about SATs, college admission and scholarships.
SECOP identifies high school students through partnerships with several local academic enrichment programs serving the minority community of Los Angeles, including Young Black Scholars, College Bound, Blazer Youth Services Community Club and American Indian Clubhouse. Since 2001, a total of 154 students from 54 local high schools have participated in SECOP.
During their two weeks on campus, SECOP students attend pre-engineering, computer and advanced math classes taught by LMU professors. They take field trips to engineering and science corporations such as Disney's Imagineering and Northrop Grumman. Other activities, including an annual Career Day, help prepare students for life after high school graduation. Students are also provided with important information about the SATs, college admission, and scholarships.
According to Barbara Christie, director of SECOP, providing such an opportunity at the end of the sophomore year gives students a new purpose when they return to their high schools. "Their teachers really see an improvement with them. Students recognize that the purpose of finishing high school is to attend and graduate from college, because they have been acclimated to the whole college experience," Christie explained.
Sacred Heart Chapel High School (SHCHS), an all-girl Catholic school located in Los Angeles with a predominant Latino population, has become a regular SECOP participant. In the last seven year, 27 of their students have graduated from SECOP. According to Christie, good connections have been developed at SHCHS and the results are promising.
"We reach out to kids who have little access to information about careers in science and engineering," Christie says. "The results are amazing. The students realize that being strong in math and science can lead to lucrative and rewarding careers in engineering, biomedical research or a health-related field."
SECOP's track record is worthy of note: 100 percent of the students have gone on to attend college, some at LMU, and other top universities around the nation.
"LMU is committed to helping underrepresented minorities pursue and complete degrees in science and engineering," Plumb says. "The only way to lead a vibrant future in science is by taking a vested interest in seeing all students succeed."
In summer of 2008, Christie expects to enroll 36 sophomores in the program. "It's really rewarding to watch them grow up … giving them the right push at the right time makes a difference," she says. "When we began this seven years ago, I never imagined the extent of our success or that it would last so long."
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