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MK Dons Football Club have been saddened to hear of Chief Scout Andy King's sudden passing at the age of 58.
He made 248 appearances for the Toffees and scored 67 goals, including a stunning winner in the Merseyside derby against Liverpool in October 1978 – a strike which ended the Goodison Park outfit's seven-year wait for a win over their rivals.
In 1980, King signed for Queens Park Rangers where he became the first professional footballer to score on a synthetic surface. He spent just one season in London before moving to West Bromwich Albion and then re-joining Everton in 1982.
After leaving Merseyside two seasons later, King would go on to feature for a number of clubs across Europe, including Dutch side Cambuur Leeuwarden and Swedish outfit Orebro SK. He ended his playing career at Southport.
In 1993, King was appointed manager of Mansfield Town and he led them to the Third Division play-offs in his second season before taking up the assistant manager's job at Swindon Town.
King then took over as manager at the County Ground and guided the Robins to the play-offs in 2004. He later took charge of Grays Athletic and Northampton Town – the latter on a caretaker basis.
He moved to the Dons in February 2014 to help with recruiting players for Karl Robinson – playing his role in the side's promotion-winning campaign.
Andy was a much loved and respected figure throughout football, a magnificent individual and friend to so many at the Club. His contribution to MK Dons will never be forgotten and he will be greatly missed.
The thoughts of everyone at MK Dons are with Andy's wife Barbara, his family and his friends at this sad and difficult time.


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Cal Poly's Polyrhythmics to Perform on Campus May 18
SAN LUIS OBISPO — Polyrhythmics, Cal Poly's percussion ensemble, will give its annual concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 18, in the Performing Arts Center Pavilion.
This year's concert will include new works that combine African polyrhythmic drumming with American minimalism to create a kaleidoscope of rhythm and color, said music faculty member John Astaire, director of Polyrhythmics.
Daniel Levitan's "Marimba Quartet" will also be featured during the concert, which will conclude with Sven-David Sandström's massive and virtuosic powerhouse, the rarely performed and appropriately titled "Drums." The ensemble also has a few surprises in store for the program.
The recital is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by Cal Poly's College of Liberal Arts and Music Department. For more information, call the Music Department at 805-756-2406 or visit the department's calendar website at music.calpoly.edu/calendar/.
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The Yankees, IMO, have been in a mid-season funk. They split a 4-game series with the Red Sox when they really should have won 3 or 4. This came after losing 2 of 3 to the Rays AND 2 of 3 to the Jays.
In that stretch of 10 games, the Yankees scored more than 3 runs only twice. More frustrating was the fact that they loaded the bases a number of times, but couldn't push runs across.
Fast-forward to a 2-game series in Texas, against a team I haven't seen play this year. With the addition of Cliff Lee to their rotation, they could prove to be a daunting foe in the playoffs.
In the first game, AJ Burnett pitched a respectful 7 innings, giving up only 3 runs. But, with two opportunities late in the game with men on base and less than 2 outs, the Yankees couldn't push another run across to pull ahead. Then, the Rangers got to Mariano Rivera in the 10th, and the Yankees lost 4-3. We've had something of a patchwork lineup in Texas, with Mark Texeira staying behind for the birth of his son.
In the second game of the series, Cliff Lee battled the Yankees. The Yankees have traditionally had problems with Cliff, dating back to last year's World Series. Lee got off to a fabulous start, holding the Yankees to 1 run, taking a 6-1 lead into the 7th. And, then, the Yankees started to play opportunistic baseball. A base hit here and there, an opportunistic home run by Marcus Thames. The Yankees said goodbye to Lee in the 7th, trailing 6-4.
In the 9th, trailing by 1, the Yankees used another walk to get things started. By the time Marcus Thames saw the plate again, he was hitting a single past the third baseman for a 7-6 lead, which would be the final score. But, not until Rivera gave up a triple to start the bottom of the 9th, and then need only a handful of pitches to dispense the next 3 batters.
Leaving Texas, there really was no change in the standings. But, the Yankees now know they can beat the Rangers, and a bit of offense showed up last night to boot. And, the Rangers now know the Yankees can beat their newly acquired secret weapon. That's the best news of all.


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You might have heard of funny stories about translation mistakes caused by machine translators. There are two particularly famous jokes about the CIA and machine translation:
1) When the CIA inaugurated its first English-Russian-English translation computer, one of the participants asked how one could check and see that the translation was the way it should be. The developers of the translation engine answered: "Type in an expression in English and see the translation". So the questioner typed in the expression "Out of sight, out of mind", and he received an answer in Russian. Someone else asked: "How do we know that this is the correct translation?". He answered: "Type the result back into the machine". The translation was not long in coming: "Invisible idiot".
2) The Russian translation of "the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak" (Matthew 26) changed into "the vodka is good but the meat is rotten".
I tried these translations just for fun. The result was less fun, though, as you can see from this screenshot:
While machine translation has been evolving for years and years now, the next source for these funny jokes may come from speech-to-speech translator apps. While waiting for those, enjoy the stories about the unlucky Hilary Clinton and a famous Chinese restaurant.


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Alex Stewart, a heavyweight contender who fought Mike Tyson and nearly beat George Foreman, has died. He was 52.
Stewart died last week after being rushed to a hospital in Mount Vernon, New York, said Mike Gilberg, a close friend of the former fighter. He had a blood clot in his lung, Gilberg said.
"One day he wasn't feeling good, the next this happened," Gilberg said.
Stewart fought in a golden time for heavyweight boxing, and he fought almost all the big names of his time. A perennial contender, he was never able to win the big fights of his career but had a reputation as a smart and tough fighter.
Stewart lost twice to Evander Holyfield, and was knocked out in the first round of his December 1990 fight with Tyson. But it was his April 1992 fight with Foreman in Las Vegas that was the highlight of his career.
Foreman was in the middle of a comeback that he would cap two years later by knocking out Michael Moorer to become the oldest man to win the heavyweight championship at age 45 when he met Stewart in a scheduled 10-round bout.
Foreman knocked Stewart down twice in the second round and was battering him in the third, when Foreman motioned to referee Richard Steele to stop the fight. But Steele let it continue, and Stewart began pummeling Foreman around the ring.
"I thought I had him in the third round, but the referee let it go on," Foreman said. "I didn't want to hurt the kid and now the kid hurt me."
Stewart would lose a controversial majority decision, but it was Foreman who looked like the loser after the fight with his face hidden behind large sunglasses.
"Was that a fight or was that a fight?" Stewart asked reporters afterward.
Stewart lost his second fight to Holyfield the next year, then spent the remainder of his career mostly as an opponent for younger fighters to measure themselves against. He retired with a record of 43-10 with 40 knockouts after losing his last fight in 1999 to Jorge Luis Gonzalez by second-round knockout.
Stewart was born in London and raised in Jamaica and competed for Jamaica in the 1984 Olympics before turning pro.
Gilberg said after retiring from boxing Stewart was a driver for a liquor distributor in the New York City area, and later worked in a factory making boxes for the same company.
Gilberg said the fighter is survived by his wife, Angella, and a daughter, Ajay-Tenille. Services will be held Nov. 29 at the Pelham Funeral Home in Pelham, New York.


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Funny Cake Topper Ideas for Weddings
If flowers, hearts, and ribbons are too traditional and cliché for your wedding cake design we have other ideas. There are plenty of other unique ideas to choose from to help display more personality on your special day. Below are just a few ideas to spark some creativity in your mind before deciding on a fun cake topper.
Wedding Cake
Prior to heading to your favorite local bakery and ordering a wedding cake is whether you have a special theme. For example, if you're hosting a beach-themed wedding, then the cake should also share the same motif. There's a wide array of cake toppers that'd work for a tropical wedding. Ideas like:
- The couple riding a wave on a surfboard
- Jumping into the water with a banner that says, "Diving into our Happily Ever After!".
- Pink flamingos
- The newlyweds fishing off a pier
- Sitting on beach chairs overlooking a sunset with cocktails in hand
Think about what you enjoy doing with your partner, or perhaps where your honeymoon will be, and go from there.
Your Fiancé
Another idea to base your cake topper upon is a common interest you share with your fiancé. Do you both have an affinity for Disneyland or old movies? You can easily transfer those pastimes into the perfect funny cake topper. If your significant other proposed in Story Book Land, wouldn't it be magical to include a Snow White wedding cake topper on your cake? Or if your first date was at a local drive-in movie theater, that image can easily be recreated in fondant and placed atop your wedding cake for the sake of nostalgia. Think about meaningful dates or fun vacations you've taken together for a spark of creativity when choosing your topper.
Wedding Cake Topper
Something else to keep in mind when deciding on a fun wedding cake topper is a shared interest and passion for sports or certain teams. There is a multitude of angles you can go with regarding sports and cakes – whether you're into bowling, golf, basketball, baseball or football, a local baker can accommodate your love for athletics with a number of fun cake toppers. There are also a variety of ways to show a divided interest in favorite teams by splitting the cake down the middle and decorating one half with Raiders-themed gear and the other half with Chargers paraphernalia, for example.
Superhero Style Cakes
Finally, if you really want to go big, bold and colorful there are several superhero style cakes and toppers you could choose from. From Superman to Wonder Woman, Captain America and more, this theme is perfect for Marvel or DC comic book fans and can really come to life on a multi-tiered cake. On the same hand, those who love playing video games together can utilize an array of really fun characters from popular games, such as Super Mario Bros., Pac Man or Legend of Zelda on their cake – whatever common interest brought the happy couple together and has meaning behind is a novel idea for a fun cake topper.
Regardless of what you choose, a wedding cake topper, when executed correctly can be a showstopper and focal point at your reception. So, take your time, jot down a list of your hobbies, interests, and passions, and then discuss your ideas with a highly recommended baker in your neighborhood so he or she can bring your vision to life.


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Secret A-gent man! Secret A-gent man! Our mission has continue with Act 2….
Act 2 of the Secret Agent Event rolled out to our devices early this morning and with it arrived, not only a half naked lady in our premium stores, but a whole new questline to work our way through!
As was mentioned on the rundown post Act 2 runs until April 25th, and you'll need Homer to get things started.
Remember, the questline can help you yield additional intel. So be sure to complete the Act 2 main questline in order to earn an additional 900 intel…
So let's take a look at the questline to see just what happens when Springfield goes covert….
The Worn Identity Pt. 1
Homer starts
Make Homer Become a Sleeper Agent- 4hrs, Earns $175, 45xp
The Worn Identity Pt. 2
Homer starts
Make Homer Go Undercover- 4hrs, Earns $175, 45xp
The Worn Identity Pt. 3
Homer starts
Make Homer Run From Bees- 4hrs, Earns $175, 45xp
No Rest for the Wicked
Marge starts
Make Homer Practice His Evil Laugh- 4hrs, Earns $175, 45xp
Make Sea Captain Feed the Mutant Sharks- 4hrs, Earns $175, 45xp
Make Willie Clean the Death Traps- 4hrs, Earns $175, 45xp
Secret Agent Moe
Moe starts
Make Moe Retrieve Preserves of Mass Destruction- 4hrs, Earns $175, 45xp
And that completes the Act 2 questline! A bit short, but some funny dialogue to get you into Act 2…
What are your thoughts on the Act 2 questline? Pretty straight forward? How about Act 2 in general? Any prizes you're looking forward to? Sound off in the comments below, you know we love hearing from you!


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Denmark is hosting the Eurovision
2 semi-finals and a grand final
Tonight the first of 2 semi-finals are held. On Thursday the next semi-finale takes place and finally on Saturday May 10th the grand final of the Eurovision is held. Everything takes place in B&W Hallerne n Copenhagen, Denmark.
A worldwide popular show
The Eurovision Song Contest is not only very popular in Europe, but also in many other countries around the world. A total of 125 million people watch the show every year. Enjoy the show!


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With the biggest GSM carrier in US having a committed relationship with the iPhone, it seems the best Windows Mobile devices are going to CDMA networks (usually Verizon) rather than AT&T.
It looks like the latest to join the list is the Toshiba TG01, which was just approved by the FCC with an EVDO modem in situ. Further good news if that WIFI is still in place, suggesting that the device will pass more or less unchanged to the CDMA side.
See the FCC documentation here.
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I will be getting some shell scripts that I, kind of, dont know what they will be doing. But I need to know what I/O operations the script performs (e.g. files they read/access,files they write, folders created...etc).
An example is using strace as follows:
INPUT script:
g++ -Wall a.cpp -o hello
I will run it as:
sudo strace -f -e trace=open g++ -Wall a.cpp -o hello 2> output.txt
*WHAT I WANT: * output.txt will have the trace and which files had been accessed (a.cpp and b.h which is used in a.cpp, and output hello)
[pid 13871] open("a.cpp", O_RDONLY|O_NOCTTY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
[pid 13871] open("b.h", O_RDONLY|O_NOCTTY|O_LARGEFILE) = 4
[pid 13874] open("hello", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC|O_LARGEFILE, 0666) = 3
strace doesnt handle pipe so if I get a command like
mkdir d2 | cp *.c d2/ it will only detect the first command
mkdir d2.
strace provide too much info which is fine but if something is more concrete that would be great!
I searched for other tools and utils, and most of them would list info for a running process and I dont want that since the script will be executed immediately and nothing would be in the process list in Ubuntu.
Any ideas on how can I achieve this in Ubuntu?


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Midsummer's eve, 2040, nightfall
Some kind of darkness came even to this strange country in the north. It was slow in coming, but it did.
Yukio had gone looking for his wife earlier, but when he found Kyoko she sat in a sofa with an extra blanket folded in her lap. It wasn't for him. He knew her too well to make such an assumption.
She's still your most important friend. You two should have this time alone my love.
He returned and looked for Urufu instead. There was a lot to be said about spending time with your best friend. He'd still be married tomorrow, or the next week or in ten years time if he behaved in a way to deserve it.
Friends though, the best he had or others for that matter, weren't as easy to meet every day in the week, and for that reason alone he should value the time he got. Maybe now more than ever before.
"Urufu, there you are, what about checking on the kids discreetly?"
Urufu looked over his shoulder and shot him a grin in the growing darkness. "There's nothing discreet to their party. They'll be going on until morning. Let them have their fun."
Yukio smiled. "You don't think we should see what they're doing?"
Urufu slapped his hands to his ears in an exaggerated gesture to block out the rhythmic music that hammered its way up the hillside. "Thank you but I have a pretty good idea about what they're doing even standing up here. Don't worry, a lot of them are older than we were back then, and we even had to plan our parties all on our own."
Yukio laughed at the memory. Madness, it had been madness, and even though Urufu had done most of the planning Yukio still took pride in having been there to cover his back.
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On the off chance that you don't follow me on any social networks, then you should know that Michael and I got a puppy on Wednesday! She has been all over my Twitter and Instagram, and also all over my house and heart. She is such a darling little thing, so happy and loving, loves to play and nap with M and I. It is too sweet how much he loves her! She's pretty much been the center of our world lately, so I thought I'd take the chance to share her with you, so without further ado, I present to you, Chai!
Lady Foot is still a bit hesitant about her, but is getting friendlier and more curious with each passing day, so I'm sure they'll be friends in no time. Life is pretty much great, and that's all I really have to say.
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Reclamation Petrified Wood Table
Petrified wood table has now become very popular, because of the great benefits users get. Currently, pieces of furniture with which one can create a friendly atmosphere in interior unavoidable interior decoration pieces, a reclaimed wood table is one of the group; You can place it anywhere in your home, including the living room and make eye-catching area.
The main point of appeal that drives the modern consumer to buy petrified wood table is a novelty, antique appearance, and generous nature of the item. You can easily choose pretty model that will provide an added attraction to areas in your room from the websites of leading online merchants.
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However, you have to confirm the quality of the old timers used to manufacture items, before buying the same. At some sites, there will not be any serious description, you want to read. In such cases, you should contact the seller and had to ask for additional data. If you can find the right place to put petrified wood table, the space in question would be gripping. You will be able to phase in the typical ancient shade (which, of course, interesting), even if all the other items were modern. Contrasting styles will appear attractive and this arrangement will give an interesting characteristic.
Way to Cutting Petrified Wood Table
Petrified wood table – Petrified wood is unique in nature that scientists are still trying to understand. As wood falling from a tree, rather than decline as normal, in specific circumstances create an oxygen-free area around the wood and minerals fill the gaps in the wood. Over time, the wood changes its woody structure to a rock structure. Cut into petrified wood requires saws that can withstand the harshness of the minerals that make petrified wood, quartz more often.
Situate a light source close to the work surface, directing light to shine on the mountains. If you can, work out of the sunlight for more effective lighting. Set the petrified wood table in vise to hold constant during the cutting process. Hold the timber by tightening the wing nuts.
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- The Egg Bowl: Mississippi Stat vs. Ole Miss (2011)
- A Time to Speak: Speeches of Jack Reed (2009)
- Matters of the Spirit: Human, Holy, and Otherwise (1998)
Biography of Danny McKenzie
Danny McKenzie attended the University of Mississippi where he earned a bachelor's degree in Journalism in 1970. He worked at the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal for thirteen years, at two different times. He worked for the Clarion Ledger in Jackson, Mississippi ,for thirteen years and the Messenger-Inquirer in Owensboro, Kentucky, for five years. He currently lives in north Mississippi and works as an Assistant P.R. Director and Golf Coach at Blue Mountain College.


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Higher attendance standards needed
Kudos to the many dedicated and passionate JCPS teachers who show up to school every day and make such a difference in our children's lives. However, I take no comfort in the fact that JCPS teachers miss an average of 8 days of work a school year as compared to the average absenteeism of 11 days for other districts studied. In addition three out of 10 teachers in the district miss 11 to 17 days and more. If we are going to expect some sort of excellence we have to set higher standards than this.
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Q&A with Richard Bosworth
In this week's Q&A, Professor Richard Bosworth reflects on a long and distinguished career as an historian of Italy, which has taken him from Sydney University to Jesus College, Oxford, via UWA and Reading University. He muses on the 'great man' view of the past and the value of history, and delivers a scathing assessment of the state of Australian historiography. On a brighter note, he reminds ECRs to enjoy teaching when it arises and to aim for the world.
Richard Bosworth did his undergraduate, Honours and Masters of Arts at the University of Sydney, then a PhD at Cambridge (St John's College). He taught at Sydney University in 1965-66 and from 1969 to 1986, the University of Western Australia from 1987 to 2011 and Reading University from 2007-2011 (shared with UWA). He has been a Visiting Fellow at St. John's College and Clare Hall, Cambridge, Balliol and All Souls Colleges in Oxford. He was also a Visiting Professor at Trento University in Italy. He was a Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford 2011-7 and has just been made an Emeritus Fellow there. Richard's last three books have been Whispering City: Rome and its Histories (2011), Venice: an Italian History (2014), and Claretta: Mussolini's last mover (2017). His next book will be Eclipse: The Waning of Benito Mussolini 1932-8 (submission due 2020). In 2015, he edited with Joe Maiolo volume II of the Cambridge University Press History of the Second World War (3 volumes).
1. Was there a moment when you discovered your love of history?
When I was about five, my mother gave me her South Australian school text from the 1910s, T.F. Tout's History of the Kings and Queens of England, and it remained my favourite childhood read and re-read. I had a fine history teacher at the unlovely Sydney Church of England Grammar School ('Shore'), Jackie Colebrook, and then at university I was taught most notably by Ernest Bramsted in Second Year Honours, and by Neville Meaney as my supervisor for an American topic in my fourth-year thesis. My interest in history was also reinforced by my lifetime partner, Michal, whom I met when we were 18 in Bramsted's Honours class and then greatly strengthened as we had to endure the worst history course in the world, taught, if that is the right word, by Duncan MacCallum on colonial Australia in third year. The story needed topping off with our discovery of Rome in 1967. Our first guide there was Edward Gibbon, on whom, to my immense pleasure, I had done my 'Method Essay' in History IV, and whose Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Mike had given me for my 21st birthday. Gibbon is my most re-read historian in adulthood. Among many other things he is a model of a historian working on the world.
2. Why did you become an academic historian?
I am a hereditary academic. I did my Cambridge PhD in the 1960s, my father his in chemistry in the 1930s and my daughter, Mary, in the 1990s, in criminology, so she is now a professor of the subject in Oxford (following an undergraduate history degree at UWA). Can it be inevitable that, every 30 years, a Bosworth does a Cambridge PhD? There were moments when I could have become a lawyer or a diplomat but they were turning points when history failed to turn. I was never likely to become an administrator.
3. Can you explain what draws you to Italian history?
A mixture of accident and Mike's and my discovery of Rome, so much more fascinating than Cambridge, which, in 1966-9, had little to offer the married graduate student. I was doing a doctorate on Britain and Italy but our first time in Rome convinced me that Italy would be more fun. So I started working on Italy and the world, thus my first book, Italy, the Least of the Great Powers (1979). Once appointed to Sydney University, with its cosmopolitan interests and keeping of Australian history under control, unlike Stuart Macintyre, I had little difficulty as a young lecturer in enhancing my experience and knowledge of a country outside Australia, in my case, Italy. I was helped quite a bit by the establishment of the cross disciplinary F. May Foundation for Italian Studies of which I soon became Deputy Director. When my children were in their teens and it was a little more difficult than it had been to visit Italy, I did for a time drift into migration history but I always taught Europe and so was saved from an Australian fate and, by the 1990s, was back with Italy again following the diversion of my historiographical (and teaching) book, Explaining Auschwitz and Hiroshima.
4. Your philosophy of history has been to reject the 'great man' view. And yet you are a renowned biographer of Mussolini. Can you explain the seeming disjuncture?
I wrote a biography of Mussolini because I was commissioned to do so, just before my quadruple cardiac by-pass in 1999 (my surgeon had aimed at five, but said encouragingly that he couldn't find a fifth vein). I certainly did not place a focus in my study on Mussolini and Mussolini alone, just as my latest book, Claretta: Mussolini's Last Lover, combines a biography of Claretta Petacci, with study of such matters as the Italian family, Catholicism, Rome and my longstanding themes on the multiplicity of histories eddying through Fascist Italy, despite its theoretical totalitarianism. So, no great men (or women) really.
5. Our research often becomes more blatantly autobiographical as we get older. How do you think your choice of research topics has reflected your personal preoccupations, and how have they changed over time?
I'm not sure that I agree with the thesis. Isn't our research always a little autobiographical? Anyway, in my case, after my by-pass and my settling down to write the biography of Mussolini, in my second life as it were, I changed from being essentially a teacher of undergraduates, especially first years, in Australia, an activity which I loved, into a global 'trade' historian. Perhaps Nick Stargardt of Magdalen College is to blame, because, when I was a visiting fellow at Balliol College in 2001, he introduced me to my agent, the excellent Clare Alexander. Under her aegis, I wrote Mussolini's Italy for Penguin and then Rome, Venice and Claretta for Yale University Press. I have a new contract with Yale for a book called The Eclipse, due 2020 (when I shall be 77), about how Mussolini turned from being a 'good'(ish) dictator in 1932 into the worst of them in 1938 and what the change tells us more generally about dictators and attitudes and approaches to them. In between my successive trade books, of course I kept writing quite a number of more academic articles, chapters and book reviews and edited the Oxford Handbook on Fascism and volume II of the Cambridge History of the Second World War. Such activity allowed me to make my now treasured move from UWA to Jesus College, via Reading, eventually resulting in my newly minted British citizenship.
6. Do you have a favourite historian of Australia?
I rather liked my thesis on Manning Clark that Clark became an Australianist of his idiosyncratic kind because he was dropped from the Oxford cricket team for a notably incompetent public school wicket-keeper and never forgot the resentment. Tony Cahill (what a wonderful man and great, virtually unpublished, historian), and I first introduced Clark to our Late Modern European History unit to annoy our parochial Sydney University Australianists, just beginning to get out of hand in Sydney, too, to try to show them that the chief themes of Australian history, were, and of course, are universal. I rarely read Australian history any more. Too parochial.
The new Cambridge University Press History of Australia is a case study of such dire parochialism. Italian-, Greek- and Lebanese-Australians etc do not appear in its index but cane toads do. The portentously entitled 'The History Anxiety' final chapter by Mark McKenna assumes that the only history ever taught in the country is national. Maybe McKenna should do a case study of the practice over most of the years after 1945 at Sydney's universities in remedy. He might also like to write out a hundred times that Chris Clark (Sydney) and Lyndal Roper (Melbourne) are the Australians who currently hold the Regius chairs at Cambridge and Oxford, arguably the most prestigious in the discipline in the world.
7. History rose in the academy as a publicist for the nation-state. It no longer plays this role. Indeed, many academic historians in Australia are critics of the national project. Have we outlived our usefulness? Has the nation outlived its own usefulness?
History of a modern kind rose first in the Enlightenment (although Ammianus Marcellinus in the 4th century, for example, wasn't too bad), celebrating humanity and rationality (see Gibbon). Grovelling service to the nation came later. My commitment has always been to the Enlightenment version and to the Dutch historian Pieter Geyl's view, after he almost fell for fascist-style Dutch nationalism in the 1930s, that a historian must be devoted to 'criticism, again criticism and criticism once more'. Both the nation and the anti-nation need to be made thus subject to review.
We live under neoliberal hegemony. I am sometimes tempted to think of it as neoliberal totalitarianism, which prefers the global to the national but can still drum up nationalist chat (viz Trump, Brexit and I fear almost all Australian historians). I am simply a rootless cosmopolitan and always have been, now very cheerfully in sanctuary at Oxford, an oasis of old-fashioned academic independence. I am especially happy to range free in the Bodleian library, go to the theatre, here, in London and Stratford and see brilliant British actors, and visit Italy when I want to. I also like still being an artisanal historian who writes his books without the 'help' of research assistants and ARC grants.
8. Do you feel confident about the importance of history to the well-being of humanity?
Yes of course, although history is only one of the crucially humane humanities. I always thought university teaching in history should purvey criticism and thus encourage a critical society. In 2017, the dire state of the world (and my old age) make confidence wear thin on occasion. But the only way to be a serious human being is to follow Gramsci's advice and combine optimism of the will with (a critical) pessimism of the intellect.
9. Have you had mentors over the course of your career? How important are they?
I've always been someone who bit the hand that fed me (until I came to Jesus College of which I am unnaturally fond) and so the first answer is no. I am also no fan of bureaucratised mentoring of the currently fashionable kind. It fosters that horrible creature located in Australian universities and called a Dean. However, I have had a number of helpful colleagues over the years, some senior, some technically junior, who have stimulated me as a historian. If I had to choose one, it would be Tony Cahill. I should add though, in my usual failure to fit national norms (if I am meant to be 'Australian'), I have never had a mate and never wanted one. Mike (my wife) filled that role and many more. I have also never been to the beach, never enjoyed a BBQ, never been to the 'Bush' and no member of my family has ever served in the national armed forces.
10. You have said that there is a clear difference between a beautiful sentence and an awful sentence. What significance do you attach to the beauty of an historian's prose?
I love writing and feel ill and diminished without doing it most days. However, beauty is of course in the eye of the beholder and, as I have recently seen in a hostile review of Claretta in the Wall Street Journal, there are at least some people, well, one, who think(s) I cannot write at all. I am certainly chuffed to have sold more than 100,000 books and to have published well over one million words since my by-pass and second life.
11. Do you conceive academic history primarily as an art or a social science? Do you endeavour to convince people with rational argument or by weaving an emotional spell?
I'm not hostile to social sciences, despite having found up-to-second-year-university psychology a joke in 1961-2. After all, my daughter is a criminologist. However, I guess my native scepticism extends to almost any theory, for example, about Fascist totalitarianism, and that attitude leaves me more in the art camp. I certainly aspire to rationality, although I do think that in a democracy, historians must be wrong, too (whatever right and wrong mean). I do not believe in a single Truth.
12. What advice can you give to early career historians about their careers?
Aim for the world and enjoy teaching when you can do it.


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Paine's Christianity: Part 1
Of all the attempts to affix to the Founding Father's the faithless brand, "non-Christian secularist," the only Founder who appears to deserve such a burning indictment is Thomas Paine.
After all, Tom Paine was responsible for that infamous shadowboxing match with the Bible called The Age of Reason, wasn't he? As a result, a host of so-called scholars declare Paine an Atheist, and/or the founder of secular humanism; and to these claims they add: "here's another layer of proof that America was not founded upon nor influenced in its founding by Christian men and Christian principles."
It's true enough; Paine wrote the "nasty little book."
And here it ought to end.
As for the supposition that the other founders embraced The Age of Reason, or its mindset, Jefferson advised Paine never to publish the book. Benjamin Franklin, Paine's patron and friend, gave his protégé the same advice; after reading a draft, Franklin warned, "He who spits against the wind spits in his own face. If men are wicked with religion, what would they be without it?" Enthusiasts of the French Revolution, e.g., Marx, Lenin, Mao, Castro, Pol Pot, et al., supply the answer. John Adams, once a fan of Tom Paine's, having received his copy, proceeded to call Paine a "blackguard," who writes out of the depths of "a malignant heart." And Washington, previously one of Paine's fiercest advocates (he often read Paine's writings to his troops to inspire them), attacked Tom Paine's principles in his Farewell Address (without reference to his name) as unpatriotic and subversive.
Despite sending pleas for help to his former brethren in America, Thomas Paine, unaided, rotted in a French prison awaiting the guillotine. Gouverneur Morris, observing Paine's activities, reported to Jefferson that the fallen angel was now a drunk who amused himself writing essays against Christ. And although James Monroe eventually rescued Paine, Paine came back to America in disgrace. He was denied citizenship in his home state, and buried, upon his death, with no monument to mark the spot, no memorial to remember the man who previously had united a country under the inspirational sway of "Common Sense" and "The Crisis." His grave was desecrated.
This might seem cruel; but Paine's treatment by his former friends provides a clear cut, unequivocal message for our time-which is this: It is flat out deception to claim that Paine's Bible-bashing Age of Reason is representative of America's Founding Era. Those who do so are at best, ill informed, and at worst, liars and scoundrels.
Mr. Paine's conduct after having left America, spit on her sacred Christian beginnings. And so this former patriot returned from the bloodthirsty turbulence of France without honor. A sad and pathetic ending that scarred and grounded a soaring past.
That said, there is much to learn from the former Paine—a man whose writings brimmed and bristled with Christianity. As for the latter Paine, "all men sin and fall short of the glory of God," we read. The Bible, itself, is full of individuals who rose and fell-some repenting and rising to fight another day—others failing to beat the count. Yet, we study their inspired words and works with interest and benefit.
Get your copy of Steve Farrell's Christian classic, Dark Rose.
Besides, on Paine's worst day, he was far from being the modern founder of atheism or secular humanism that many claim.
I ask; shall the claimants take Mr. Paine on his own word as to why he wrote The Age of Reason?
In a letter to Samuel Adams, he explained: "[T]he people of France were running headlong into Atheism, and I had the work translated and published in their own language to stop them in that career, and fix them to the first article of every man's creed, who has any creed at all-I believe in God."
In the first paragraphs of The Age of Reason, Paine restates this purpose:
- The circumstance that has now taken place in France, of the total abolition of the whole national order of priesthood, and of everything appertaining to compulsive systems of religion, and compulsive articles of faith, has not only precipitated my intention, but rendered a work of this kind exceedingly necessary, lest, in the general wreck of superstition, of false systems of government, and false theology, we lose sight of morality, of humanity, and of the theology that is true.
Is it sinking in? Thomas Paine—though he failed in this attempt—sought to rescue the French Revolution from the extremes of atheism and secularism, lest France's new found freedom would be precisely as opponent Edmund Burke had predicted, "[like] a madman", or else "a highwayman and murderer who has broke prison upon the recovery of his natural rights."
As for "the theology that is true" that Paine pled for, much has been said by others about its Deism; and yet oddly, Paine's Deism incorporated Jesus' grand summary of the law and the prophets as its founding and nearly, only principle.
Wrote Paine "with sincerity and frankness":
- I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life.
- I believe the equality of man, and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.
Or in other words, love of God and love of neighbor, a belief in the equality of every man as a child of God (the basis of Paine's rejection of monarchy), and lastly, a belief in immortality and final judgment, which belief instills a sense of moral accountability in every man and every nation.
It is true, Mr. Paine rejected the divinity of Christ, and yet, which of his proponents will admit that Paine said of Jesus in The Age of Reason, "Nothing that is here said can apply, even with the real character of Jesus Christ. He was a virtuous and amiable man. The morality that he preached and practiced was of the most benevolent kind; and though similar systems of morality had been preached … it has not been exceeded by any."
Paine's concerns about Christ's divinity were focused on a not too uncommon concern about the Bible having passed through the hands of corrupt national churches and other manmade institutions. How much of the Bible had been tainted? How much of it was mixed with Greek mythology? Jefferson expressed similar concerns, the difference being Jefferson kept them private and attempted to mine for the gems in the Bible while pushing away the gravel. Jefferson was not in the business of tearing down Christianity, for he believed himself a Christian.
By contrast, a bitter and embattled Paine bragged he could write a better book than the Bible.
This was Paine's greatest mistake. In his efforts to reclaim a people who Burke accurately said, had "total contempt … [for] all ancient institutions", Paine, ironically, did just that, ripping out the very foundation of morality and law he sought to save, which foundation was found in the Bible.
And yet, the dark brush with which the author of The Age of Reason painted Christianity as then constituted, wasn't all dark. The book opening (paragraph 11) offered a ray of hope for the future, a prophetic remark characteristic of his earlier Christian days — FOR THIS THOUGHT CAME FROM HIS EARLIER CHRISTIAN DAYS.
Said he:
- Soon after I had published the pamphlet COMMON SENSE, in America, I saw the exceeding probability that a revolution in the system of government would be followed by a revolution in the system of religion. The adulterous connection of church and state, wherever it had taken place, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, had so effectually prohibited, by pains and penalties, every discussion upon established creeds, and upon first principles of religion, that until the system of government should be changed, those subjects could not be brought fairly and openly before the world; but that whenever this should be done, a revolution in the system of religion would follow. Human inventions and priest-craft would be detected; and man would return to the pure, unmixed, and unadulterated belief of one God, and no more.
That is, out of the religious reformation and the religious and political liberty it spawned would come a people enlightened and prepared for a new dispensation of gospel light. This would occur in the United States. Millions believe it so.
Paine's involvement in the French Revolution and in the writing of The Age of Reason was a dreadful mistake and an ugly scar on an otherwise illustrious life. His learning, his pride, his new associations with false friends of liberty turned out the light on a formerly Christian heart.
Yet, I prefer to remember Thomas Paine when he was still every whit a Christian, when he was where God intended him to be, when the destiny of America and humanity hung in the balance. In those better days, Heaven spoke, Thomas Paine listened, Thomas Paine wrote, and all the world is a better place for him having done so.
Part 2: The Interview
Part 3: No Kings In America! A Biblical Appeal
Steve Farrell is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of Self-Educated American, one of the original and most popular pundits at NewsMax.com pundit (1999-2007), and the author of the highly praised inspirational novel, Dark Rose


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Obama tries to checkmate GOP
President Barack Obama stepped firmly onto Republican turf Friday, announcing that he wants to merge a half-dozen agencies to cut spending and streamline the federal government.
Obama's plan would merge the Commerce Department, the Small Business Administration, the Office of the U.S. Trade representative and other independent business agencies into a new, unnamed Cabinet agency.
The president would need congressional approval to consolidate the agencies, and he virtually dared Republicans to vote against it, putting the GOP on the defensive for the second time in a month. The payroll tax cut fight forced Republicans lawmakers to choose whether to support the president or a tax increase. This would force them to support the president or the status quo — a tangled web of regulatory agencies that Republicans have held up as a barrier to job creation.
"This is an area that should receive bipartisan support because making our government more responsive and strategic and leaner shouldn't be a partisan issue," Obama said as he announced the initiative at the White House. "We can do this better. We can provide taxpayers better value."
White House officials estimated the consolidation would save $3 billion during the next 10 years and eliminate 1,000 to 2,000 jobs through attrition — as employees leave, they would not be replaced. The savings represent a tiny fraction of the overall federal budget of nearly $4 trillion annually.
The plan, aside from potentially checkmating the GOP in Congress, positions the president as business-friendly in an election year when the economy is a central factor. His potential opponents have made "job creators" buzzwords de rigueur, and some have even made similar proposals. Texas Gov. Rick Perry famously couldn't remember the names of all three departments he wanted to eliminate, but the first one he mentioned was Commerce.
Reaction from Republicans in Congress was swift but measured, dinging the president for previous big spending and for failing to act sooner, but pledging to give Obama's plan careful consideration.
"[A]fter presiding over one of the largest expansions of government in history, and a year after raising the issue in his last State of the the Union, it's interesting to see the president finally acknowledge that Washington is out of control," said Don Stewart, spokesman for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)
House Speaker John Boehner's office also expressed skepticism about whether the president's plans are actually what they seem.
"We hope the president isn't simply proposing new packaging for the same burdensome approach," Boehner spokesman Brendan Buck said. "However, eliminating duplicative programs and making the federal government more simple, streamlined, and business-friendly is always an idea worth exploring. We look forward to hearing more about his proposal."
Under the plan, the president would request fast-track consolidation authority that would allow him to propose agency mergers. Those would be subject to an up-or-down vote from Congress within 90 days. Lawmakers would need to grant the president the fast-track authority and approve each of his requests for consolidation.
During his remarks, the president said that previous presidents — Republican and Democrat — had such authority to reshape the executive branch.
"For the past 52 years, presidents were able to streamline or consolidate the executive branch by submitting a proposal to Congress that was guaranteed a simple up or down vote," Obama said. "But in 1984, while Ronald Reagan was president, Congress stopped granting that authority."
Despite the focus on reducing the size of government, it's unclear whether Capitol Hill will cooperate. Republicans, who control the House and can block votes in the Senate, are fuming about four recess appointments last week, including Richard Cordray to head the nation's new consumer watchdog agency, and reeling from the December battle over the payroll tax cut extension.
Rep. Darrell Issa, another frequent critic of Obama's, said he stands "ready to work with President Obama" on the consolidation proposal. Issa, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which oversees governmental reorganization, added: "While I have been disappointed that the White House has not embraced earlier bipartisan congressional efforts seeking collaborative engagement on proposals to reorganize government, I hope this announcement represents the beginning of a sincere and dedicated effort to enact meaningful reforms."
Democrats, meanwhile, hailed Obama's plan, saying it would make government more efficient and effective.
"The president's proposal reflects the concerns House Democrats have heard from the thousands of small business entrepreneurs we have met with in the last few months," House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said in a statement, adding that she hopes "Congress acts without delay … in a bipartisan way."
Before Obama spoke, White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters, "We want this to happen as soon as possible."
The streamlining effort is part of a broader rethinking of government functions that Obama announced last year in his State of the Union address. It gives the president a ready-made response against GOP critics who say he wants to expand the reach of government beyond its traditional role.
"The Interior Department is in charge of salmon while they're in fresh water, but the Commerce Department handles them when they're in salt water. And I hear it gets even more complicated once they're smoked," the president said last January.
Jeff Zients, deputy director at the Office of Management and Budget, told reporters that Obama will decide later, after he gets authority to act, whether Commerce Secretary John Bryson will head the new agency.
Bryson endorsed the move in a Friday afternoon blog post for the Commerce Department, despite the uncertainty of his own fate.
"As a former CEO, I fully support this approach and know the considerable merits to having all of the economic functions in one department," wrote Bryson, who previously ran the utility company Edison International. "This move would be of enormous benefit to U.S. businesses of all sizes. We will have more resources and less red tape. There will be fewer hurdles in our way to provide faster services and answers to businesses."
In addition to the commerce and business portfolio changes and the creation of a new Cabinet-level department, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration would move into the Interior Department.
Josh Boak contributed to this report.


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Katie Maternity Session – Franklin TN Maternity Photographer
Meet Katie! Such a beautiful mommy! It was such a blast photographing her maternity session! She and her husband are so fun! I love their sunset shot that reminds me of Wendy and Peter Pan! She brought some beautiful maternity dresses with her for the shoot. I think my favorite is the one with black lace at the top and pink at the bottom. Looked absolutely stunning on this mommy to be! I am getting so excited for the arrival of their little one along with them!
I think my favorite image might be the one of him standing behind her and hugging and almost kissing. Such a beautiful moment between these two. But there are so many beautiful shots! Take a look below and comment with your favorite!


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The Prestige is a critically acclaimed 2006 film by Christopher Nolan, based on the 1995 Christopher Priest novel of the same name.
The story follows the wealthy showman Robert Angier (played by Hugh Jackman) and a working-class magician Alfred Borden (played by Christian Bale) , competitive masters of illusion at the turn of the 19th and 20th century London. With a lot of history between them, and both of them obsessed with devising the best trick, they embark on a relentless rivalry with tragic consequences.
The film is divided into three stories, each representing the three acts of a magic trick. The first is "The Pledge," where the magician shows the audience something that seems ordinary, but probably does not lead the audience to the wrong conclusion. The second act is "The Turn" where the magician usually does something outlandish. Finally, the third act is called "Prestige" in which the effect of illusion is seen.
Alfred Borden and Robert Angier are two assistants to Milton the Magician, for whom John Cutter (played by Michael Caine), a theater engineer also works. During a trick, Angier's wife drowns as she makes her way out of the water tank, and Angier suspects that Borden had her hands tied in the new knot she had suggested before – a knot more complicated than she was used to. This tragedy ultimately drives them apart, and once friends and colleagues, they become not just rivals, but bitter enemies. They keep trying to outsmart each other with each new trick, and expose the other one as a fraud to the audience, as the stakes become higher and higher, leading up to the ultimate trick that overshadows everything.
Angier travels to Colorado Springs to meet Nikola Tesla (played by David Bowie) and learn the secret of Borden's mindblowing and hugely popular trick. This is the first point at which the magic is implied to be not just the art of fraud and illusion, but a scientific process, complex enough to completely confuse those of us with less than rudimentary knowledge of it. In a way, Tesla and Edison, were after all the wizards of their time, and their rivalry paralleled that of Borden and Angier, which dominates the movie. Obsession, secrecy and sacrifice fuel their conflict. Angier's obsession to outwit Borden stands in the way of Cutter's friendship, while Borden's obsession with keeping a secret results in his wife's suicide. They fight for the love of Olivia (played by Scarlet Johansson), but they both show to be more dedicated to each other and their craft, than they do to other people.. Their struggle is also portrayed through the prism of class conflict, with the two of them having nothing in common but their strong commitment to their shared obsession.
This movie with its amazing script, effects, costumes, and acting takes us straight to the heart of Victorian London. Themes of duality, secrecy, illusions, and obsession are presented in a non-linear fashion, which instantly turns every good movie into a good movie with high rewatch value, since it is impossible to catch all the subtle details on the first, or even first couple of viewings.


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I have created a range of range of prints, postcards, notebooks and badges based on some of my favourite drawings and paintings. I have also recently started developing prints for fabric and have created a range of 100% cotton tea towels – I find drying dishes is just the worst job so hopefully these jolly designs make a tiresome job a bit more cheerful!
A selection of prints and other bits and bobs are available to view and purchase at my Etsy shop at http://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/CatherineChalmersArt
You can also contact me with any queries, thoughts, commissions or ideas for working together by sending a message on my 'saying hello' page.


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The Korean wave finally hit me.
And this is the after-effect...writing my FIRST card on Kpop hairstyle. Red Velvet (girl group pictured above) debuted last year and their hairstyle is no longer dip-dye but I think it's one of their best looks. It's fun, vibrant and colorful just like their debut single - Happiness. And it's perfect for summer! Check out @jimberlykemp's version.
Anyone can achieve a similar dip-dye style with kool-aid.
No bleach. No harsh chemical.
Step 1: Choose Your Color
Above is a color chart to help you get the right color. Don't see a color you like? Experiment with different mixes.
Step 2: Boil and Dip-Dye
It's as simple as it sounds. Refer to the video for specific instructions.
Step 3: Enjoy this music video while you style your new dip-dye hair.
This is just the beginning, so stick around for more KPop hairstyle inspiration!!! :) Also, which Red Velvet dip-dye hairstyle is your favorite?


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Doughnuts are gorgeous. If it were not for the deep-fried ring of glutinous happiness, "dunkin'" would have a totally different meaning today. Also custard filled anything isn't half as delicious as a custard filled doughnut. Also glazed ones. Glazed and sugar-dusted donuts are the best thing one can do with sugar and flour.
Basically, we love all kinds of doughnuts and are the ones ahead of you in line who can't make up their mind on which six donuts go in the box. But if you're slightly more decisive and have a favourite kind of doughnut, vote for it below!
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Shree Airlines second Aircraft landed at TIA
30th Apr, 2017 | Tourism Mail Crew
KATHMANDU, April 30 : Nepal's largest helicopter operator Shree Airlines newly established fixed wing company, has received the delivery of its second aircraft on Saturday.
The new aircraft of Shree Airlines, Bombardier CRJ-200 landed on Tribhuwan International Airport of Nepal on Saturday night at 7 PM. The plane touched the land of Nepal after it took off from europe.
The aircraft, with the registration number '9N-AMA'.
The Airlines has also plans to jerk its international flight after six months operation of its domestic flight with CRJ-200 and CRJ-700. The airline also has made plans to acquire three 110 seated Embraer ERJ-190 for starting the international flight operation.
The airlines said its other one jets—78-seater CRJ-700 will arrive next week.
Shree has been allotted six sectors—Bhadrapur, Biratnagar, Bhairahawa, Nepalgunj, Dhangadhi and mountain flight.
Shree will be hiring at least 200 more personnel for its expansion project. Started in 1999, it currently has six MI-17 and four Eurocopter AS350 B3e helicopters.
Although, The airline said it would be spending Rs2 billion on its expansion project that is expected to shake up the domestic aviation sector which seems to have quietened down of late.
According to Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA), Nepal's domestic air passenger movement jumped 28.85 percent to 1.75 million in 2016, as travellers chose to fly rather than drive over bone-jarring national highways.


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Division Rehearsal #2 at Allan Tomorrow – September 23rd
Looking forward to the second division hub rehearsal of the year at Allan tomorrow. Remember your instruments and music and bring a friend 🙂
Recordings of the Senior Band piece have been added to the senior page.
Until then.. Clap on…


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Private equity deals
CVC Capital Partners has agreed to acquire acquire turnaround consultancy AlixPartners from Hellman & Friedman. No financial terms were disclosed, although an earlier press report pegged the price in excess of $1 billion. Deutsche Bank, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, Jefferies and UBS committed debt financing for the transaction. www.alixpartners.com
Aspire Financial Services, a St. Petersburg, Fla.–based provider of retirement plan solutions, has secured a $25 million private equity commitment from FTV Capital. www.aspirefinserv.com
The Comvest Group has acquired the U.S. fire and security branch operations of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX). No financial terms were disclosed. The newly-independent company will operate under the name Red Hawk Fire and Security, and employs more than 1,350 people at around 40 locations. www.comvest.com
Graycliff Partners has acquired a majority interest in Skandia Inc., a David Junction, Ill.–based provider of interior products and services to the aviation market. No pricing terms were disclosed. East West Bank and Brookside Mezzanine Partners provided leveraged financing. www.skandiainc.com
Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI) has agreed to sell its healthcare unit to Veritas Capital for $1.25 billion. www.thomsonreuters.com
Promus Equity Partners has acquired QCC LLC, a Harwood Heights, Ill.-based provider of manufacturing services with a focus on precision machining and assembly. No financial terms were disclosed.
The Riverside Company has acquired Baby Jogger LLC, a Richmond, Va.–based maker of baby strollers, bicycle trailers, and related accessories. No financial terms were disclosed. Harris Williams & Co. managed the process. www.riversidecompany.com
Validas, a Houston-based provider of mobile intelligence solutions, has raised an undisclosed amount of private equity funding from Huntsman Gay Global Capital. www.validas.com
Water Street Healthcare Partners has agreed to acquire Breg Inc., the sports medicine business of Orthofix International NV (Nasdaq: OFIX). The deal is valued at approximately $140 million. www.orthofix.com
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Looking for a new smoky eye look to throw into your makeup rotation? Well, then let me introduce you to your potential new best friend: The emerald smoky eye (as seen here on the lovely Jewel).
And how here it is closer:
Looks like she's got a dark almost-black green pencil along the insides with a shimmery dusty dark emerald shadow all around it. Simple, but lovely.
If you want to play around with this look, here are some shade suggestions below.
I might actually give this a try myself soon—sometimes forest-y shadow makes my green eyes pop. What about you guys? Wanna go for it? Have a color suggestion to throw in? Been doing green shadow for awhile now? Not really feeling the emerald thing? Let your feelings be known.
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Why VR Escapism? during the game?
VR Escapism is one of the first escape company that combines Virtual Reality with Escape Room in North America! Not only that, you will be able to play virtual reality in group with friends! The "Real Life Escape Room Games" and "Virtual Reality Adventure Games" are awesome group activities. We also have massive selection of board games, food and drinks in house! Come experience this unique adventure like no other, you will be impress with our technology and the amount of fun from our themes!
Is it safe to play? Can I exit the room during the game?
Your safety is our top priority! You will be provided with a walkie-talkie as you enter the room, if you feel uncomfortable anytime during the game, let our staff know immediately and someone will come and bring you out. Participants with heart conditions, anxiety disorders, pregnancy, and other physical disability are not recommended.
What is the appropriate age for the game?
Our escape games are designed for adults over the age of 16. Adult participation will be required if your party includes participants who are the age of 13 or younger (adult participant must be the age of 18 or older and subject to admission charge). Participant under the age of 16 will need a guardian/parent's signature on a waiver form in order to play the game.
What if we are stuck during a game and run out of ideas?
You will be provided with a walkie-talkie before entering the game, and we do set limited hints for each room.
How do I qualify for the birthday free admission promotion?
VR Escapism offers free game play on your legal birthday ( + or - 3 days from your birthday). Please remember to bring a government issued ID with your birth date stated for verification. We also host birthday party and have birthday special for group over 15 people!
What should I wear?
Comfortable casual or sport clothing are highly recommended. We recommend to avoid high heels, short skirts or anything that is inconvenience to move/action.
Where can I put my belongings?
We provide lockers and hangers for your jacket while you enjoy the game.
Can I take photos or video in the game room?
No photos and videos are allowed as we need to keep all the puzzles in secret! Cameras/Cellphones are not allowed in the room. Lockers will be provided for your personal belongings.
Can we bring in outside food to cater in-house?
We do sell in house food and drinks. Please contact email@example.com or call 905-604-1287 for special event arrangement. Bringing in birthday cake are welcome without any charge.


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Ring In the New Year With Live Music
We can't think of a better way to kick 2017 off with a bang than some live music. Click here for our featured musical act, Nashville band Judah & The Lion, who opens for Grammy-nominated duo Twenty One Pilots' "Emotional Roadshow" tour coming to Barclays Center January 20 and the Prudential Center on the 21st (along with Jon Bellion). Grammy-nominated Danish band Lukas Graham inspires fans at Hammerstein Ballroom January 28 while dubstep DJ Datsik mesmerizes at Playstation Theater on January 27. Americana trio The Devil Makes Three harmonize January 27 at Terminal 5, synthpop duo Great Good Fine OK shine January 6 at Irving Plaza, American Idol Season 14 favorite JAX rocks Bar Nine on January 10, and country singer-songwriter Frankie Ballard delights January 12 at Bowery Ballroom. Read further for our other resolutions for January…
City of the Sun – January 6 – Blue Note Jazz Club
New York trio City of the Sun formed in 2011 and are a special act to watch because they are instrumental-only artists, with a captivating take on modern music with melodies and rhythms that are global in their sound and appeal. The flamenco-driven, guitar- blasting "Everything" is one of the stand-out tracks on City of the Sun's roster, one to listen up for when they play the Blue Note Jazz Club January 6 (it's actually a late show at 12:30 AM on 1/7). Comprised of John Pita and Avi Snow on guitar along with percussionist Zach Para, the City of the Sun trio has already opened for Gregg Allman, Matisyahu and Peter Bjorn & John, and funk singer Charles Bradley, performing at the Beacon Theatre, Rockwood Music Hall, Mercury Lounge, and Gramercy Theatre. City of the Sun has a truly beautiful form of acoustic music that blends elements of flamenco, folk, indie rock, and pop into something memorable along the lines of what Miri Ben-Ari and Lindsay Stirling achieved with violin and Rodrigo y Gabriela created on dueling acoustic guitars. Listen up for another favorite, the cinematic-sounding "What Took You So Long?" with a simple call-and-response chant, "hey!"
Kings of Leon – January 20 – Madison Square Garden
Nashville band Kings of Leon, who released their seventh album, the Billboard #1 "WALLS" this past fall, light up Madison Square Garden January 20. The Southern rock Followill brothers and cousin have won four Grammys out of seven career nominations including Record of the Year for their signature anthem "Use Somebody" and have sold more than 18 million albums worldwide. Having headlined major festivals such as Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits and Glastonbury, Kings of Leon have perfected the arena and stadium show, so expect to hear all of their major guitar- thrashing hits like "Sex On Fire," "Notion," "Radioactive," and "Supersoaker," as well as new tunes "Waste A Moment" and "WALLS" and the ballad "Beautiful War" and the twangy steel guitar tune "Back Down South." Kings of Leon remain one of the most consistent rock acts out there.
G. Love & Special Sauce – January 25 – Bowery Ballroom
Hip-hop blues band G. Love & Special Sauce, led by singer/rapper Garrett Dutton, Jeffrey Clemens on drums, and Jim Prescott on bass turn up Bowery Ballroom January 25 and at Brooklyn Bowl on January 26. The Philadelphia trio's 10th studio album "Love Saves The Day" was out this past October, featuring a range of talent including Los Lobos guitarist David Hidalgo, Lucinda Williams, Citizen Cope on trumpet-blasting lead single "Muse," Ozomatli, DJ Logic, Money Mark, Zach Gill, and Adam Topol, and even have a new rockabilly song called "New York City." With a blend of strong, sometimes Southern rock-meets-swampy- sounding instrumentation, G. Love & Special Sauce have over 20 years of material to pull from including Jack Johnson- penned "Rodeo Clowns," organ-heavy "Weekend Dance," the playful "Baby's Got Sauce," the suggestive "Booty Call," and crowd favorite "Stepping Stones."
Eric Church – January 27 – Barclays Center
Reigning Album of the Year CMA winner Eric Church (for Mr. Misunderstood in 2016 and Chief in 2013) heads to Barclays Center on January 27 for a night of hits and storytelling. Church has seven #1 singles to his name including most recent single "Record Year," a song he performed at the 2016 ACM Awards poignantly honoring fallen music stars David Bowie, Glenn Frey, Lemmy Kilmister, and Scott Weiland. The country rocker and seven-time Grammy nominee has become a fixture in the genre, weaving relatable and oftentimes heartfelt storytelling with blues and Americana on songs like the rowdy "Drink In My Hand," piano ballad "Springsteen," feel-good "Hell On The Heart," the nostalgic "Give Me Back My Hometown," folk-rock tune "Talladega," the melancholy "Like A Wrecking Ball," and recent hit "Mr. Misunderstood." From his guitar abilities to the slight drawl in his inviting voice, Eric Church's "Holdin' My Own Tour" is sure to impress.


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New Pre-Service training class begins
Training classes for our new Advocates will begin in August. If you are interested in becoming a CASA Advocate visit the volunteer page of our website or call our office at 254-283-5082.
swearing in Ceremony
On March 29, 2019, Judge Matt Crain officiated the swearing in of the newest Advocates for CASA of Hill County Texas. These are the newest voices for abused and neglected children in Hill County. Congratulations to our newest Advocates!
First Graduating class of Volunteers
On March 21st, CASA of Hill County Texas graduated its first class of volunteers. Six individuals completed the 30 hours of pre-service training and will be sworn in as Advocates for abused and neglected children in Hill County. We are proud of the hard work of these volunteers and thank them for making a difference in the lives of children. They are the new voice for children in foster care in Hill County. If you would like to know more about becoming a CASA visit www.casaofhillcountytexas.org or give us a call at 254-283-5082.
Thank you to the George G. and Alva Hudson Smith Foundation
CASA of Hill County is pleased to announce we have been selected to receive a grant of $3,700 from the George G. and Alva Hudson Smith Foundation. The grant will go towards helping us purchase computers and other technology for employees and volunteers. We are so appreciative of their support of CASA and the children we serve!
Stay informed
Want to learn more about the life-changing work that Texas CASA, the 71 local CASA volunteer advocacy programs, our child welfare partners, sponsors and supporters are doing to ensure a safe, positive future for all Texas children? Visit The CASA Voice blog to learn more about the difference CASA makes in the lives of abused and neglected children. Get all the up-to-date information on the CASA community, public policy, our community partners and more!


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Entrepreneurial Law Firm Creates Mindfulness App For Financiers With Windbreakerphobia
Are you a hedge funder with something to hide?
Have you been involved in some dark edge stuff that you fear the world knowing about?
When you hear the words "Mathew Martoma," are you filled with the nauseous dread of associative guilt?
Do you lie in bed at night covered in a thin sheen of sweat whilst pondering the possibility of a Virginia farmboy in a blue windbreaker demanding that you step away from your workstation?
Well, friend, we bring good news! Thanks to the good folks over at the law firm of Murphy & McGonigle, there is - quite fucking literally - an app for that.
An agent from the Federal Bureau of Investigation approaches a hedge fund trader as he leaves the office, wanting to ask a few questions. Nervous about saying no to an official, the trader dishes, and information he provides is later used against him.
Steven Feldman, a white collar attorney in New York, has seen too many clients caught off-guard in such situations. His solution? The Murphy & McGonigle Surprise Law Enforcement Response App.
"The agents are trained to get you to talk," Feldman said. "There's no warning of any kind, even though everything you say will be used against you."
The app features a "Surprise Interview" button, as well as guides for handling a search warrant - think a raid by the FBI -or grand jury subpoena.
So relax. If you download it now - and the layout of your office allows it - you have a plan for your next SEC or FBI raid. When you see those windbreakers coming, just calmly pick up your phone, open the Surprise Law Enforcement App and go over next steps while your secretary weeps and your colleagues cry out for mercy.
Best practices for responding to someone with a badge who unexpectedly knocks at the door include "do not panic," "be polite" and "be prepared to assert your rights."
There is also a proverbial panic button: cell phone numbers for Feldman and three of his colleagues at Murphy & McGonigle, white-collar defense attorneys happy to take on new clients.
So sleep tight, you rascals, everything is gonna be just fine.
Hedge fund raided by the FBI? There's an app for that [Reuters]