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Tag Archives: racing
Advice on four ways to make money illegally in movies and sport
No 1: Become a movie producer
This morning, I was reading an old interview with famed Hollywood scriptwriter Tom Mankiewicz, in which he mentioned big-budget movie producer Alexander Salkind, one of whose productions was the 1978 Superman film starring Christopher Reeve, which Mankiewicz scripted.
If you make a big-budget international movie, you have a perfect excuse to move money, people and odd pieces of complicated props and machinery with space in which to hide things backwards-and-forwards between countries without arousing suspicion.
Salkind was a rather dodgy character who occasionally came to the attention of the authorities. I vaguely remember him once getting arrested by police – I think for fraud – and unexpectedly producing a diplomatic passport, which gave him immunity from prosecution. My memory is that it was a Panamanian diplomatic passport, but Tom Mankiewicz says Salkind, in fact, paid the government of Costa Rica to secretly make him their cultural attaché to Switzerland. This would give him, he thought, total diplomatic immunity.
But the scam did not work 100%, according to Mankiewicz. In the United States, where there was a warrant out for his arrest, the FBI said: "I'm sorry, cultural attaché from Costa Rica to Switzerland doesn't cut it with us. That's not a diplomatic passport as far as we're concerned."
Which is why Salkind did not and could not ever show up for any of his movie openings in the US.
Who knows what was happening to the money Salkind was moving from country to country in large amounts?
But it reminded me of three sporting scams which worked… mostly.
No 2: Hide the drugs inside something very high profile
I was told that one particularly creative heroin smuggling gang managed to get a man working inside the team of a Formula 1 World Champion. The heroin was transported from country to country inside the World Champion's racing car (without his knowledge). After all, which brave Customs man is going to dismantle the World Champion's hi-tech racing car to search for drugs?
Perhaps small scale for heroin smuggling, but it worked.
No 3: Steal money from people who are taking bribes
I was once also told the true story of a top British champion jockey (now dead) who was being paid to lose races (to help a betting scam). Obviously, he received the money in cash and, to avoid 'misunderstandings', he got it at the racecourse immediately after the race. On one occasion, he was paid for losing a race, then had to be helicoptered elsewhere for another high-profile race before being returned to the first racecourse. So he left the money (several thousand pounds) in the boot of his car.
A criminal who heard about this arrangement, simply stole the money from the boot while the jockey was away. When he returned, it was assumed by the jockey to be a random car theft and, of course, the theft of the bribe could not be reported to the police as a crime.
As near to a perfect crime as you can get.
No 4: Go to the dogs
On an even more admirably creative level, a British comedian with criminal links in his past told me a story about the 'wrong' dog coming round the final bend at Romford Stadium and someone throwing four footballs onto the track in front of the dogs to cause chaos and get the race abandoned.
The late comedian Malcolm Hardee, inevitably, topped this story by telling me he had once shared a prison cell with a man nicknamed 'Teddy Bear'. This odd nickname came about because the man had been paid to stand by the rail at various stadiums around the UK and, if the 'wrong' dog was winning, he would throw a teddy bear onto the track. The dogs then went crazy and tore it apart, stopping the race. "His great talent," explained Malcolm, "was that he could run very fast after he had thrown the teddy bear."
I can only presume that, on one occasion, he failed to do this fast enough.
Crime does not always pay.
Filed under Crime, Drugs, Movies, Sport, Uncategorized
Tagged as bribes, bungs, crime, diplomatic immunity, dog, drugs, films, formula 1, fraud, heroin, horse, Malcolm hardee, money laundering, movies, racing, smuggling, sport, Superman
Nov 22, 2011 · 8:50 am
Comedian Charlie Chuck gets on his bike and pulls a girl with kneepads
I got an excited call from Charlie Chuck yesterday.
"Have you seen the film Rollerball?" he asked me.
"Yup," I replied. "The original one."
"I were in this thing called Rollerburn on Saturday at Newark Showground with big bikes. It were 46 year ago the last time I rode a motorbike. I used to have a 650 Norton. This one were a big bike; I don't know what it were but it were big."
"What did it involve?" I asked.
"I knew about it ages ago," he told me. "but I didn't know exactly what it was. It were obviously something big, really big and they're going to do it in Paris next time.
"When I got there, I did me routine: I hobbled on and wrecked me drum kit and all that and then they lined me up – still in character – me and these two other blokes – to race and they all had their leathers on and their helmets on but I just had me suit on and me hair up.
"I thought it were exhilarating, I thought it were absolutely brilliant. The best thing I've done in years."
"How did you get it?" I asked
"This bloke who used to be Frank Sidebottom's base player. Now he does this."
"How did he know you could ride a motor bike?
"He must have been relieved."
"He were over the moon when I told him. I did an hour and a half rehearsal at Leicester racetrack.
"There were a girl fell over. She were being pulled by another bike in front of me and I didn't run her over but I were cracking on like I were going to go straight into her."
"A girl was being pulled along behind a bike?" I asked.
"There were these three bikes and we set off with three girls on rollerskates holding onto bars at the back of the bikes. The girls were all padded-up like in Rollerball.
"They put a string round me wrist. That way, if I fell off, it would cut the engine out. And I were in character as Chuck. And I were crying because they'd tied me to the bike and the machines were taking over. I were really playing it up.
"I rode straight out the building and the girl let go."
Charlie Chuck leads an interesting life.
Filed under Comedy, Sport, Uncategorized
Tagged as Charlie Chuck, comedian, Frank Sidebottom, motorbike, racing, Rollerball, Rollerburn, sport
True tales from the Comedians' Cricket Match?
Apparently, during filming of the new movie Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, author John Le Carré was phoned up and a key line was added. It was during a scene in which new information was assessed and the line was:
"Patently a fabrication from beginning to end. Just could be the real thing."
I have found that the more unlikely a story, the more likely it is to be true. When comedian say something likely, it is often made up; when they say something too OTT to be true… it is often a toning-down of a far more OTT truth.
Yesterday, I was at the comedians' annual cricket match against the locals at Staplefield in West Sussex. It seems to be held every six months.
Cricket is possibly the dullest game ever invented. But you certainly meet some interesting people and hear some interesting stories at the comedians' cricket match.
While theoretically watching, I got talking to a retired fireman who used to work in Slough. He told me that, occasionally, he would cycle into work to Slough from Staplefield, a journey of 54 miles. It would take him three hours but keep him fit. And he once cycled from Slough to Northampton and back – a 140 mile round trip – to see a girlfriend.
Clearly Staplefield harbours some hardy people.
One comedian at the match told me about not appearing on the Sky TV talent show Don't Stop Me Now in which contestants are ejected in various odd ways including being jerked up into the air by a rope or wire or dropped through a trapdoor.
The comic in question was told he could not use the word "Nazis" in his routine because "people might be offended". Not offended by the routine or the gag, which was inoffensive, but by any use of the word "Nazis" in any sentence. Another problem was that he turned out to be too heavy for either the rope or the trapdoor. Sky did not use him on the show.
Another comic (and it is fairly obvious to other comics who this is) told me that, in horse racing, there had been a fad a few years ago – if a fellow jockey was asleep – to drop either snot or sperm onto the unconscious person's closed eyes.
"Snot and sperm," I was told, "are both at body temperature, so the person doesn't wake up. But, when they do, they find their eyelids are stuck together for a little bit and they think they are blind… How we used to laugh!"
This story vies with another for most bizarre story of yesterday.
I heard the other story at local pub the Victory Inn from a guy of about 30 who claimed he had been in the Army and had been in Afghanistan. His tour over there is not actually relevant, but I mentioned to him the story I have blogged about before of the Irish Republican sympathiser who was put unconscious on a plane to New York.
The story I was told yesterday was a tale of a personal dispute between a couple of Army men and a non-Army person who had screwed them out of money. When the money could not be recovered, they removed him from his house one night, drugged him so he was unconscious, put him in a container lorry, drove it to the Balkans to a place they knew in a forest on a remote hillside miles from any town or village. They stripped him, gave him a tab of LSD and left him there on the hillside, naked and presuming he was still in the UK.
"What happened to him?" I asked.
"I've got no idea," the man in the pub told me. "Not interested."
He shrugged his shoulders.
The story seems unlikely but, perhaps because of that, it has the ring of truth about it.
Who can tell betwixt reality and fantasy, especially if you find yourself naked and alone on a hillside where any locals you meet will be speaking in an unknown language.
Filed under Crime, Drugs, Eastern Europe, Movies
Tagged as Balkans, bicycle, blind, comedian, comic, cricket, cycle, Don't Stop Me Now, eyes, fantasy, horse, jockey, John Le Carre, match, nazi, offensive, racing, reality, revenge, show, Sky, snot, sperm, stand up, staplefield, sussex, talent, tinker tailor soldier spy, truth, TV, word


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(Originally published in VIVA: Jordan/UAE Leisure Magazine, February 2007.)
No leg room, but a partial view afforded me a glimpse of the scenic splendour which greeted me in Tibet. Mouth agape, I peered with awe out of the scratched window as snow-capped peaks succumbed to naked brown mountains, an imposing behemoth that swallowed the aircraft which the pilot deftly manoeuvred to a safe landing within the belly of the beast.
Upon disembarking, I was instantly blinded by a glaring sun that ricocheted off the pervasive mountain range. It was unexpectedly hot and my body registered confusion, having just endured several months of rainy, bone-chilling climate that seemed to shadow me throughout my mainland China excursion. I gasped for air as the lofty elevation (at 3,650 metres, Lhasa is one of the highest cities in the world) assaulted my respiratory system, a surprise despite forewarnings… Lighting a cigarette in rebellion, I drew a deep breath and promptly choked. Not so good, I realised. Altitude sickness symptoms persisted throughout the first night – insomnia, shortness of breath, headache and a dry, relentless cough – and I discovered upon awaking the next morning that my body had fully succumbed to the malady.
In addition to the physical lethargy, my mental facilities seemed to have also fallen victim; not exactly 'brain freeze', but more like my mind was languishing in suspended animation. I noted that I didn't have the strength to explore Barkar Square, the renowned Tibetan market, which for this admitted shopaholic was not a good sign. Heeding the advice of the locals, I took it easy for a few days, allowing my body to adjust to the change in altitude and giving me time to prepare for the extraordinary impending road journey between Lhasa and Kathmandu.
Often I am asked to designate my favourite of all the many remarkable places I've visited. And while this is an impossible task, as each destination possesses its own magic and holds indelible and distinct memories, I must acknowledge that Tibet occupies a most cherished niche. I fell in love with TAR (Tibet Autonomous Region) from the gate – actually, from within the cabin of an arriving plane.
The stark dramatic terrain, all virginal white Himalayan peaks with undulating chocolate hills, the only hints of colour provided by the azure sky or sapphire lakes dotting the countryside. The vibrant regional costumes donned by the warm, gregarious people. The poignant history and resonant culture and the spiritual fervour embraced by the Tibetans despite their most celebrated maltreatment… I was consistently surprised and inspired by the faith and courage exhibited by these stalwart people, a testament to the resolve of the human spirit.
A world away from the chaos, confusion and claustrophobia which defined my overall experience in and impressions of mainland China, Tibet exuded serenity and piety. Even the hawkers in Lhasa were placid and good-natured, smiling as they tugged at my arm or playfully poked at my tattoos. An innate gentleness seemed to infuse the Tibetan nationals and, as I said, I fell in love…
Although still sluggish, on my second day I was ready to begin surveying Lhasa, the traditional capital of Tibet from where the Dalai Lama was exiled, and the current capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. Lhasa literally means 'place of the gods', although ancient Tibetan documents and inscriptions demonstrate that the place was first called Rasa, which means 'courtyard place' or 'goat place'. Home to approximately 200,000 people, including a great number of relocated Chinese, Lhasa feels more like a large town than a small city, easy to navigate and pleasant to stroll. There is a sense of segregation, however, between the Tibetan and Chinese nationals. Barkar Square, the hub of Tibetan commercial activity and home of Jokhang Temple, the significance of which is punctuated by the presence of hordes of prostrating pilgrims, exists ironically as a Tibetan ghetto within Tibet while the once grand Potala Palace, former residence of the Dalai Lama, serves as a cavernous reminder of a fractured past.
For tourists, Lhasa is a launching pad for all other points throughout the region. Although certainly not reputed as a party town, we must acknowledge that where there are travellers, there is bound to be some revelry. And as such, one evening found a group of us crashing a local club where a Michael Jackson impersonator rendered a raucous version of Thriller, and locals unabashedly danced to decades-old Western music. A karaoke bar was on the itinerary for the following evening, providing equal opportunity embarrassment where distinctions between east and west are suitably blurred as Tibetans, Chinese and foreigners alike similarly bastardised renditions of Yesterday and Hotel California. It was also my first indication of the burgeoning prostitution scene in Lhasa, a sad and inevitable result of Chinese infiltration, industrialisation and pervasive poverty in rural Tibet.
Once I started feeling stronger, I joined several other travellers for the 233-kilometre jaunt to the eminent pilgrimage site of Lake Namsto, inside which sit five holy islets said to be the incarnation of the Five Buddhas. Spectacularly beautiful, where snow-kissed mountains hug an impossibly crystalline blue lake, throngs of devotees who had caravanned from every corner of Tibet set up makeshift camps and spend their days orbiting the sacred lake. The absurdly frigid climate hindered neither their mission nor their elation. I returned after a brisk walk one day to find a woman and her infant child in our tent. The woman was crying, but as I learned, she was shedding tears of joy and appreciation after one of our crew presented her with a simple sketch of the Dalai Lama torn from a guidebook. It is illegal for locals to possess a picture of the Buddhist leader and equally illegal for tourists to bring one into the region. This was not a photo, simply a line drawing ripped from a dog-eared book, but a gift of abundance for this woman nonetheless. Another memorable moment amongst the many I experienced here.
Back to Lhasa briefly to secure permits and prepare for our arduous yet elucidating six-day journey, a route famously known as the Friendship Highway. After loading our gear into the four-wheel drive, an international quartet of travellers, the driver and a guide piled into the vehicle just past dawn in the last week of October. We were cutting it close as many mountain passes would be impenetrable in a matter of weeks or perhaps days, depending on the weather. We were going high, high up onto the Himalayas, higher still to Mt Everest base camp where we would spend a freezing night at a rudimentary, unheated monastery.
Day One: We visit Samye Monastery and continue on to Nagartse, at an elevation of 4,500 metres, where we encamp in a no-frills guesthouse. En route it begins to snow. Huge snowflake pellets obscure our vision and carpet the road.
Day Two: We descend slightly to 3,950 and 3,900 metres respectively as we foray to Gyantse and then Shigatze, where we again bunk down in most basic accommodations.
Day Three: We climb back up to Sakya's 4,280 metres and level off at 4,050 metres in Shegar, our pit stop for the night.
Day Four: The highlight! Our arrival at Everest Base Camp, at 5,200 metres. Teeth-chattering cold, hot tea in a tent, several of our group opt to walk further up. A ferocious, powerful wind barely allows me to remain erect, so I stay behind. That evening, a small fire blazes in Rongphu Monastery's kitchen around which fifteen or so hardy travellers convene. Freezing but euphoric. We're on Mt Everest! It takes me nearly an hour to comfortably ensconce myself in my sleeping bag, shrouded as I am in layers of clothes, hats and gloves, so it is an unwelcome shock to realise that I have to go to the bathroom. Lying beneath the covers, I tried to will myself to sleep. But a persistent reminder that I have to go would deny me the pleasure of slumber. Finally and begrudgingly, I extricate myself from the man-made womb and scurry outside into the elements where I am compelled to do my business. So cold. I run back to bed and remain there for better or worse until morning, when it is still so cold. But we are at the base of Mt Everest, the fabled mountain looming majestically ahead – a once in a lifetime experience!
Day Five: Regenerated by steaming coffee, we cram back into our Jeep and head to Old Tingri, where we drop off one of our posse. And then we are three as we continue down to Zhangmu (2,300 metres), the Tibetan town bordering Nepal. There we sleep in the relative warmth of a hotel room, fuelled by bad hotel restaurant food and invigorated by the journey we had just shared.
Day Six: We walk across the Nepalese border, where the brown, white and blue of Tibet is replaced by verdant lushness. We ride the roof of a local bus to Kathmandu where my next adventure awaits.

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namespace CEOFESABundle\Form\Type;

use Symfony\Component\Form\AbstractType;
use Symfony\Component\Form\FormBuilderInterface;
use Symfony\Component\Security\Core\Authorization\AuthorizationCheckerInterface;

class DashboardType extends AbstractType
{
    /**
     * @var AuthorizationCheckerInterface
     */
    private $authorizationChecker;

    /**
     * @param AuthorizationCheckerInterface $authorizationChecker
     */
    public function __construct(AuthorizationCheckerInterface $authorizationChecker)
    {
        $this->authorizationChecker = $authorizationChecker;
    }

    /**
     * @param FormBuilderInterface $builder
     * @param array $options
     */
    public function buildForm(FormBuilderInterface $builder, array $options)
    {
        $year = date('Y');

        $builder
            ->add('start', 'date', array(
                'label'  => 'Date de début:',
                'widget' => 'choice',
                'format' => 'ddMMyyyy',
                'years'  => range($year - 5, $year + 5),
                'data'   => new \DateTime(date('Y-m-01 00:00:00')),
            ))
            ->add('end', 'date', array(
                'label'  => 'Date de fin:',
                'widget' => 'choice',
                'format' => 'ddMMyyyy',
                'years'  => range($year - 5, $year + 5),
                'data'   => new \DateTime(date('Y-m-t 23:59:59')),
            ))
            ->add('save', 'submit', array('label' => 'Afficher'))
            ->add('print', 'submit', array('label' => 'Imprimer'));

        if ($this->authorizationChecker->isGranted('ROLE_USER')) {
            $builder->add('export', 'submit', array('label' => 'Exporter'));
        }
    }

    /**
     * @return string
     */
    public function getName()
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        return 'dashboard_type';
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Lifeboat Foundation Bios: Roy Christopher, M.A.
Roy Christopher, M.A. is Visiting Faculty at The University of Illinois at Chicago.
Roy's main project from 1997 to 2007 was frontwheeldrive.com. With this site, he established himself as what Disinformation called, "One of the Internet's leading interviewers of subculture and new-science icons." He was assistant editor of Paul D. Miller a.k.a. DJ Spooky's edited collection Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Culture and Music (MIT Press, 2008). His first book is an anthology interviews titled Follow for Now: Interviews with Friends and Heroes (Well-Red Bear, 2007), which Disinformation named one of the most important books published in 2007, and which Erik Davis called, "a crisp and substantial remix of the major memes of the last decade or so".
He is working on a book about how technological mediation has changed and continues to change our relationships with each other, our information, time, space, and ourselves. It's called The Medium Picture, is under contract with Zero Books, and will be out in the near future.
Roy has spent over twenty years working as a writer, editor, and designer both on- and off-line. He has written about technology, science, music, and culture for everything from glossy national magazines and regional weeklies to hometown newspapers and homegrown 'zines, and has written, edited, designed, and consulted for such diverse organizations as Microsoft, Nike, The MIT Press, WIRED, MSN Music, 21C Magazine, ESPN, DIG BMX Magazine, SLAP Skateboard Magazine, h+ Magazine, Disinformation, Reality Sandwich, Gomma, Ride BMX Magazine, The United States Army, Skateboard.com, Xbox Games, and Zero Skateboards.
He has also guest lectured at such universities as The University of Washington, San Diego State University, The University of Illinois at Chicago, and The University of Texas at Austin, as well as spoken at events like SXSW Interactive, SF MusicTech Summit, SXSW Music, Geekend's Boston Roadshow at DMA 2011, and Geekend in Savannah.
Roy earned his B.S. with a major in Social Science and Minors in Psychology and Sociology at Troy University Dothan in 1993. He earned his M.A. in Communication at San Diego State University–California State University in 2005. He is currently completing his Ph.D. in Communication Studies at The University of Texas at Austin.
Read Roy Christopher: Flip the Script. View his Facebook page. Read his LinkedIn profile. Follow his Twitter feed.


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Q: Finding match, removing the bits I don't want, and then putting it back in I'm trying to parse thru a file and find a particular match, filter it in some way, and then print that data back into the file with some of the characters removed. I've been trying different things for a couple hours with preg slits and preg replace, but my regular express knowledge is limited so I haven't made much progress.
I have a large file that has many instances like this [something]{title:value}.  I want to find everything between "[" and "}" and remove everything besides the "something" bit.
After that parts done I want to find everything between "{" and "}" on everything left like {title:value} and then remove everything besides the "value" part. I'm sure there is some simple method to do this, so even just a resource on how to get started would be helpful.

A: Not sure if I get your meaning right (and haven't touched PHP for months), what about this?
$matches = array();

preg_match_all("/\[(.*?)\]\{.*?:(.*?)\}/", $str, $matches);
$something = $matches[1]; // $something stores all texts in the "something" part
$value = $matches[2]; // $value stores all texts in the "value" part

Doc for preg_match_all
For the regex pattern \[(.*?)\]\{.*?:(.*?)\}:

*

*We escapes all the [, ], { and } with a slash because these characters have a special meaning in regex, and need an escape for the literal character.

*.*? is a lazy match all, which will match any character until the next character matches the next token. It is used instead of .* so that it won't match other symbols

*(.*?) is a capturing group, getting what we need and PHP will put those matches in $matches array

*So the entire thing is - match the [ character, then any string until getting the ] character and put it in capturing group 1, then ]{ characters, then any string until getting the : character (no capturing group because we don't care.), then match the : character, then any string until the } character and put it incapturing group 2.

A: You can do it in one shot:
$txt = preg_replace('~\[\K[^]]*(?=])|{[^:}]+:\K[^}]+(?=})~', '', $txt);

\K removes from match result all that have been matched on his left.
The lookahead (?=...) (followed by) performs a check but add nothing to the match result.

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Because my expectations were quite low, it meant I enjoyed Ant Man more than I expected.
Hmm, lots of good covers, but not worth the ridiculous amounts being charged for them.
Adam Warren has put up Volume 1 of Empowered online. I have read some previously, and most of what has been posted online now, but still not sure what to make of it. Nice art/cheesecake, regardless.


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First Student Awarded New Transportation Contract with Rondout Valley Central School District
First Student is expanding its operations in New York state through a new partnership with the Rondout Valley Central School District. The company will be providing safe and reliable transportation to students in the district beginning with the 2018-19 school year.
"Thousands of our students start and finish their school days on the yellow bus," said School Business Administrator Deb Kosinski, Rondout Valley Central School District. "First Student recognizes that student safety is our number one priority. With a team of highly-trained drivers and the industry's strongest safety record, we trust our students will be in good hands."
As part of the new five-year transportation contract, First Student will replace or update the district's fleet of nearly 75 school buses. The buses will be equipped with the latest technology, including high-definition GPS tracking systems and digital cameras.
The Rondout Valley Central School District and its families will also be able to better manage the before-and-after school rush with the FirstView® District Dashboard and Parent App, the industry's most comprehensive and secure bus tracking, communications and engagement platform. Districts can streamline daily decision-making through centralized, real-time fleet reporting and can efficiently alert parents about school delays or issues through the app.
The district will also have access to FirstACTS®. The web-based communication tool helps manage the process of tracking student conduct on the bus.
"First Student has been a pioneer in developing, designing and investing in technology to ensure a safe ride to and from school," said Joe Petrozak, First Student area general manager. "We look forward to working closely with the Rondout Valley Central School District to ensure the transportation solutions we provide represent a collective, forward-thinking response to the district's needs."
With more than 50 locations across the state, First Student is the largest operator of school buses in New York. The company recently announced a new partnership with the Watertown City School District in the state.
For this upcoming school year, more school districts have chosen First Student than any other provider. To date, more than 32,000 additional students across North America will receive safe, reliable transportation from First Student in the 2018-19 school year.
About First Student, Inc.As the leading school transportation solutions provider in North America, First Student strives to provide the best start and finish to every school day. First Student completes five million student journeys each day, moving more passengers than all U.S. airlines combined. With a team of highly-trained drivers and the industry's strongest safety record, First Student delivers reliable, quality services including full-service transportation and management, special-needs transportation, route optimization and scheduling, maintenance, and charter services for 1,100 school district contracts. For more information, please visit firststudentinc.com.
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3,000 British troops under Robert Clive defeat a 50,000 strong Indian army under Siraj Ud Daulah at Plassey. The Battle of Plassey, 23 June 1757, was a decisive British East India Company victory over the Nawab of Bengal and his French allies, establishing Company rule in South Asia which expanded over much of the Indies for the next hundred years. The battle took place at Palashi, Bengal (Plassey is the anglicised version of Palashi), on the river banks of the Bhagirathi River, about 150 km north of Calcutta, near Murshidabad, then capital of undivided Bengal. The belligerents were Siraj-ud-daulah, the last independent Nawab of Bengal, and the British East India Company.
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Anna Andreyevna Gorenko better known by the pen name Anna Akhmatova, was a Russian and Soviet modernist poet, one of the most acclaimed writers in the Russian canon.
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Wilhelm Eduard Weber was a German physicist and, together with Carl Friedrich Gauss, inventor of the first electromagnetic telegraph.
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«The only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today»
«The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice»
«Nowhere is it ordained that history moves in a straight line»
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Randolph World Ministries, Inc. is a small, non-profit 501(c)(3), Christian organization that seeks to primarily provide sustainable medical services, economic development, spiritual support and other faith-based services to the country of Haiti. This ministry was initiated in response to a call from God to share our medical laboratory expertise to established clinics in Haiti, a country considered to be one of the poorest in the world. We now offer a full-range of medical support to our clinic clients and provide economic development programs. Randolph World Ministries, Inc. is supported by both medical and non-medical individuals who share the vision of improving medical services and growing the local economy through a small Christian organization that operates with almost no overhead costs.
Randolph World Ministries, Inc. seeks to demonstrate the love of God through service to His most marginalized children. We seek to grow the kingdom of God by healing their bodies through improved medical interventions and reducing poverty through economic development whereby establishing relationships that foster the sharing of the Gospel.


The Snow Dragon centers on the relationship between Dora Marx, a jaded children's counselor who has lost her sense of direction, and Billy Binder, a physically abused foster boy whose rage is so powerful it has opened a doorway into another world called the Fallen Country. The Fallen Country is not a colorful kingdom of adventure but a place of perpetual cold, whose citizens have lost the ability to feel. Home of The Snow Dragon, Billy's guide and ally, The Fallen Country is ruled by an oppressive dictator known as the Ringmaster. Defeating the Ringmaster in the fantasy kingdom is the key to overcoming Billy's problems in the real world. Dora must put aside the comfort of her complacency and truly believe Billy's stories, so that she can follow him into the Ringmaster's kingdom and find redemption for herself as well as the boy. The opera libretto for The Snow Dragon is based on Somtow Sucharitkul's 1982 short story The Fallen Country. The short story was also adapted into a young adult novel in 1986 but stage work derives from the original short story rather than the novel.
Appropriate for ages 12 and up. Contains strongly suggested violence.
NEW! Somtow Sucharitkul re-releases his book The Fallen Country along with the libretto from the opera! Available only through Amazon.com.


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Berlin Call to Action
Friday, 24. 8. 2018
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Mayor Zoran Janković signed the Berlin Call to Action – Cultural Heritage for the Future of Europe with which the signatories express their preparedness to assume shared responsibility to unfold the cohesive power and the potential of cultural heritage, and to advance a more peaceful, prosperous, inclusive and just Europe.
The Berlin Call to Action was presented at this year's European Cultural Heritage Summit, held in Berlin, by three organisations: EUROPA NOSTRA – the Voice of Cultural Heritage in Europe, the German Cultural Heritage Committee and the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation.
The call stresses, among other things, that the right to cultural heritage is a fundamental human right and lists effective actions with tangible results for Europe and its citizens. These are:
developing a European action plan for cultural heritage,
recognising heritage as a priority for European policies and funding,
bridging local, national and European,
preserving and transmitting the irreplaceable,
investing in quality heritage-led regeneration,
promoting better knowledge and deeper understanding,
building on the momentum.
The call is in the attachment bellow, further information about it is available on the EUROPA NOSTRA web site.
Berlin Call Action Cultural Heritage Future Europe.eng (pdf, 69 KB)
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Q: Setting a path with whitespace in Cygwin I set 2 environment variables to test which one works for me, as following
.bash_profile
NODE_BIN1="/cygdrive/c/Program Files/nodejs"
NODE_BIN2=/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/nodejs
export NODE_BIN1 NODE_BIN2

then test them in Cygwin terminal
$ cd $NODE_BIN1
kevin@kevin-HP /cygdrive/c/Program  (wrong!)

$ cd $NODE_BIN2
kevin@kevin-HP /cygdrive/c/Program  (wrong!)

$ cd C:/Program Files/nodejs
kevin@kevin-HP /cygdrive/c/Program  (wrong!)

$ cd "C:/Program Files/nodejs"
kevin@kevin-HP /cygdrive/c/Program Files/nodejs

The last result is what I want but actually it's same string as $NODE_BIN1.
Any idea to fix this ?
Thanks a lot !

A: Try using cygpath?
export NODE_BIN1=`cygpath -w -s "/cygdrive/c/Program Files/nodejs"`

This also provides the same output
export NODE_BIN1=`cygpath -d "/cygdrive/c/Program Files/nodejs"`

A: Both approaches will set the environment variable correctly.  The problem you're experiencing is when you try to use it; bash will split variables on spaces by default, and you end up calling cd with two arguments: /cygdrive/c/Program and Files/nodejs.
The solution, of course, is to switch to zsh.  ;)
Okay, okay.  If your intention is to be able to switch to this directory with ease, consider writing an alias instead.
alias cdnode='cd "/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/nodejs"'

If you only want to set this for node's benefit, then don't worry; you're already good to go.  You can be absolutely sure using echo instead.
$ echo "[$NODE_BIN1]"
[/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/nodejs]


The first time I read the remarkable account in Acts 2 of how the Holy Spirit filled Jesus' disciples with miraculous power so that they could speak other languages; how Peter's passionate sermon resulted in 3,000 receiving Jesus; how all the disciples then had everything in common so that nobody had to be poor — I knew that this was good. In fact, it was awesome. Luke's point isn't that this is a tragic event that shouldn't be repeated; he's describing the best church ever!
I realized that a lot of miracles are better than a few miracles, that a lot of saved people are better than a few saved people, and that no economic inequality is better than existing economic inequality. I realized that if I were to claim that we don't "need to" make our churches look like Jerusalem, I would in fact be arguing that our churches don't need to be as good as they should.
The Jerusalem church in Acts 2 wasn't a bizarre, irrelevant cult in the middle of nowhere that we can safely ignore as followers of Jesus. It was the first church, led by apostles that Jesus himself had chosen, and it is the church from which all other churches come. It's the biblical original. I realized that it would be foolish not to view the Jerusalem church as normative and authoritative.
"Proclaim this message: 'The kingdom of heaven has come near.'" (Matt. 10:7). And they shared money (John 13:29). The only difference in Acts 2 is that now Jesus is with them through his Spirit rather than in his bodily, incarnational form.
So Pentecost isn't a mistake. Refusing to pray and work for our churches today to look like Pentecost is. It's a shame that so few contemporary churches in the Western world have the biblical level of miracles, public evangelism and community of goods. But God has put a passion in my heart to see apostolic churches as the norm, not the exception.
That's why I joined the charismatic movement nine years ago and have eagerly prayed for revival and miracles. That's also why I joined an evangelistic house church six years ago and have spent thousands of hours on the streets leading people to the Lord. As great as that has been, there has been a lack of community of goods.
Community of goods is sadly one of the hardest things to find in Western churches today. It's easy to find lots of non-biblical, wacky and unnecessary stuff, but to find something that the Bible actually talks about and describes — nobody being poor due to shared economy — you have to pray and search a lot.
Thankfully, I found the Jesus Army. I was so relieved to see that the common sharing is complete just like in biblical times, not just partial or limited. And I was thrilled to discover that the radical community life is combined with charismatic spirituality, evangelism and a bible-believing faith. This was the Jerusalem church transplanted into 21st-century Europe.
Micael Grenholm is content creator for Pentecostals & Charismatics for Peace & Justice and holds a BA in practical theology. He is from Uppsala, Sweden, and lives in a Jesus Army community in Kettering, U.K. He blogs about charismatic Anabaptism at Holy Spirit Activism, where this post first appeared.


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package com.intellij.codeInsight.daemon.lambda;

import com.intellij.JavaTestUtil;
import com.intellij.testFramework.LightProjectDescriptor;
import com.intellij.testFramework.fixtures.LightCodeInsightFixtureTestCase;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.NonNls;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;

public class Interface8MethodsHighlightingTest extends LightCodeInsightFixtureTestCase {
  @NonNls static final String BASE_PATH = "/codeInsight/daemonCodeAnalyzer/lambda/interfaceMethods";

  public void testStaticMethod() { doTest(); }
  public void testNotInheritFromUnrelatedDefault() { doTest(true, false); }
  public void testDefaultMethodVisibility() { doTest(true, false); }
  public void testInheritUnrelatedDefaults() { doTest(true, false); }
  public void testExtensionMethods() { doTest(false, false); }
  public void testInheritDefaultMethodInInterface() { doTest(false, false); }
  public void testStaticMethodsInFunctionalInterface() { doTest(false, false); }
  public void testCyclicSubstitutor() { doTest(false, false); }
  public void testThisAccessibility() { doTest(false, false); }
  public void testStaticMethodCalls() { doTest(false, false); }
  public void testStaticMethodCallsAndOverloadResolution() { doTest(false, false); }
  public void testDefaultMethodOverrideEquivalentObject() { doTest(false, false); }
  public void testModifierNativeInInterface() { doTest(false, false); }
  public void testStaticMethods() { doTest(false, false); }
  public void testFinalStaticDefaultMethods() { doTest(false, false); }
  public void testIDEA122720() { doTest(false, false); }
  public void testIDEA123839() { doTest(false, false); }
  public void testStaticOverloading() { doTest(false, false); }
  public void testDefaultSupersInStaticContext() {
    doTest(false, false);
  }
  public void testAnnotationTypeExtensionsNotSupported() {
    doTest(false, false);
  }

  public void testStaticMethodAccessibleThroughStaticImportButExplicitlyQualified() throws Exception {
    doTest(true, false);
  }

  public void testInheritanceOfStaticMethodFromDefault() throws Exception {
    doTest();
  }

  public void testStaticMethodAccessibleBothThroughStaticImportAndInheritance() throws Exception {
    myFixture.addClass("package p; public interface Foo {" +
                       "    static void foo() {}" +
                       "    static void bar() {}" +
                       "}");
    myFixture.addClass("package p; public interface Boo {" +
                       "    static void boo() {}" +
                       "}");
    doTest(false, false);
  }

  public void testSuperProtectedCalls() throws Exception {
    myFixture.addClass("package p; public class Foo {" +
                       "  protected void foo(){}" +
                       "}");
    doTest();
  }

  public void testIDEA120498() { doTest(false, false); }

  private void doTest() {
    doTest(false, false);
  }

  private void doTest(boolean checkWarnings, boolean checkInfos) {
    String filePath = BASE_PATH + "/" + getTestName(false) + ".java";
    myFixture.configureByFile(filePath);
    myFixture.checkHighlighting(checkWarnings, checkInfos, false);
  }

  @Override
  protected String getTestDataPath() {
    return JavaTestUtil.getJavaTestDataPath();
  }

  @NotNull
  @Override
  protected LightProjectDescriptor getProjectDescriptor() {
    return JAVA_8;
  }
}


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Virginia come out for Phoenix Film Festival!
Virginia Madsen is one of the celebrities scheduled to attend the ninth annual Phoenix Film Festival, which kicks off an eight-day run Thursday at the Harkins Scottsdale 101 Theaters. The movies will be shown simultaneously in seven theaters beginning at 9 a.m. Friday through Sunday. Screenings will start at 5 p.m. Monday through April 9.
Virginia, who has starred in such films as "Sideways" and "The Astronaut Farmer," will attend a 7:30 p.m. Saturday screening of "I Know a Woman Like That," a documentary directed by her mother about women over the age of 65.
When: Thursday through April 9
Where: Harkins Scottsdale 101 Theatre, 7000 E. Mayo Blvd.
Cost: Opening night $40, individual screenings $10, flex pass (four screenings) $30, festival pass $150, VIP pass $425
Information: (602) 955-6444 or www.phoenixfilmfestival.com
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Varma*, R S. AND V Namboodiri**. SOLVENT FREE OXIDATION OF ALCOHOLS USING IRON (III) NITRATE NONAHYDRATE. Presented at IUPAC CHEMRAWN XIV CONFERENCE, Boulder, CO, June 09 - 13, 2001.
Oxidation of alcohols have been conducted with metal nitrate reagents on various mineral supports such as clay, silica and zeolite etc. To circumvent the limitations of these supported reagents namely their preparation using solvents and short shelf-life, we explored the use of inexpensive neat iron(III) nitrate nonahydrate. The salient features of this solvent-free oxidative protocol that occurs at moderate temperature (50-800 C) will be described. The procedure will be exemplified by oxidation of a variety of alcohols to the corresponding aldehydes and ketones in open containers. Additionally, the utility of this reagent in nitration of styrene and phenols will also be discussed.


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Home Opinion Carbon & Climate
The new climate-inequality nexus
The interaction between inclusion and climate change throws up daunting challenges — but also opportunities to find joint solutions, say ADB director-general Vinod Thomas and Results for Development Institute president David de Ferranti.
A wooden shack destroyed by Typhoon Haiyan in Boracay, Philippines. Climate-related disasters aggravate poverty as the poor are not only most likely to locate in harm's way, but are also the most vulnerable. Image: Richard Whitcombe / Shutterstock.com
By Vinod Thomas and David de Ferranti
Two issues that add great uncertainty to the global growth picture are increasing income disparities and runaway climate change. These concerns are not new of course, as a newly released publication from Results for Development Institute makes clear. But it is striking that the International Monetary Fund now considers rising inequality to be a serious roadblock to economic growth, while some of the world's economic and spiritual leadership increasingly see global warming as a game changer for people's well-being.
It's well established that greater inclusion and better environmental care are socially beneficial in their own right. What is changing in this picture is that strong action on each of these issues would be supportive — and very likely necessary — for sustaining economic growth.
First, climate action contributes to more lasting economic growth. Studies show that the benefits in avoided climate damages far outweigh the costs of taking the needed action. One reason is that the earlier mitigation or adaptation measures are taken to confront climate change, the lower the cost of that action. This calculus applies to avoiding health damages triggered by emissions and toxic fumes or preventing death and destruction from hazards of nature such as typhoons and heat waves.
But the argument goes further. With the rising frequency and intensity of climate disasters, economic costs from the damages will be sizable enough to make an impact on growth rates. It will not be possible in that case to grow as steadily as otherwise unless climate mitigation begins to make a dent on the nature of extreme weather-related events.
Be it Brazil's or Thailand's great floods in 2011 or Super Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines in 2013, climate-related disasters aggravate poverty as the poor are not only most likely to locate in harm's way, but are also the most vulnerable.
Second, greater inclusion supports stronger growth. The arithmetic is simple: the more people are included in the growth process, the better the chances of attaining a given growth rate. The growth process can be more inclusive if disparities in education and health care are lowered. Not only are actions needed to improve access for the lower income strata to education and health, efforts need to focus on improving their quality. Social protection is also vital to making growth more inclusive.
Additionally, economic policies can foster greater inclusion, in turn favoring more sustained growth. For example, cutting subsidies for capital or reducing disincentives for exports can avoid discouraging labor intensity of growth and thus increasingly include lower-income groups in the growth process.
Third, inclusion and climate action interact to reinforce growth. Rising economic inequality and climate risks jointly threaten to roll back years of hard-won gains in poverty reduction. In many countries, inequality is aggravated by climate change and its impacts on hazards of nature. Be it Brazil's or Thailand's great floods in 2011 or Super Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines in 2013, climate-related disasters aggravate poverty as the poor are not only most likely to locate in harm's way, but are also the most vulnerable.
Hence, climate mitigation and adaptation help reduce disparities or prevent them from worsening. There is a great need to improve the resilience of transport and structures to withstand floods and storms and keep communities connected to health facilities and markets, and for water infrastructure to resist extreme flooding or water shortages, and for drainage systems to account for extreme rainfall.
Further, narrowing income inequalities helps improve the resilience of the poor to climate change. Slashing fossil fuel subsidies that are by and large regressive improves income distribution, or at least does not worsen it, while it has sizable payoffs for reducing carbon emissions. Greater energy efficiency can be both progressive for distribution and salutary for a switch to a low-carbon economy.
Social policies for reducing economic inequality can enhance the adaptability to climate change for the poor. Social safety nets and particularly conditional cash transfer programs can improve the capacity to respond to natural disasters or spikes in food and fuel prices. These interventions can be designed and targeted to address inequalities that worsen during disasters.
The interaction between inclusion and climate change throws up daunting challenges — but also opportunities to find joint solutions.
Vinod Thomas is Director-General of Independent Evaluation at the Asian Development Bank (ADB). David de Ferranti is President of Results for Development Institute. This post is republished from the Asian Development Bank.


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Is lotus root good eating?
Is water lotus Edible?
How is lotus used as medicine?
What does a lotus root taste like?
Can you grow lotus root?
How many lotus root stock photos and images are available?
What does a lotus plant look like?
This aquatic plant is almost completely edible, from flowers to seeds to roots. 1 Lotus root is common in Asian cuisine and provides a mild crunch to stir fry dishes and soups. Lotus root is high in several vitamins and minerals while being a healthy source of carbohydrates and fiber. It's free of fat and cholesterol.
Is lotus root poisonous raw?
Lotus root is popular as a vegetable throughout South and East Asia, where it is cheap and plentiful. Its texture is crisp and crunchy like a jicama. Unlike a jicama, lotus root can't be eaten raw, and must be steamed or cooked first.
Is Lotus stem good for health?
Lotus stem is a great source of Vitamin C, which helps boost the immunity of a person and fight viral infections. 3. The root also contains essential minerals like zinc, magnesium, copper and iron, which help the body in the production of red blood cells.
All parts of the lotus root plant are edible. The stems are consumed like a green vegetable and the leaves can be substituted for flour-based wraps. But the primary reason for growing lotus root is the starchy tuber. Young, fresh lotus root has a crunchy texture and sweet flavor when consumed raw.
Can diabetics eat lotus root?
If you have diabetes, choose more high-fibre foods. A type of fibre called soluble fibre may help control blood sugar levels. Try these high-fibre foods: Vegetables: mushroom, bok choy, gai lan, broccoli, corn, lotus root, sweet potato, taro, water chestnuts, squash, snow peas, baby corn.
Can you boil lotus root?
Whether it's stir-fried, boiled, braised, steamed, or deep-fried, lotus root remains crisp yet tender, with a creamy and starchy texture that's similar to taro root. Lotus seeds can be boiled and added to dessert soups or ground to make lotus seed paste, a common ingredient in sweets like mooncakes and daifuku.
Lotus is a plant that grows in lakes and rivers. The flowers, seeds, leaves, and parts of the underground stem (rhizome) are used to make medicine. People use lotus for bleeding, cough, fever, liver and stomach problems, and other conditions, but there is no scientific evidence to support these uses.
What does lotus root taste like?
What does it taste like? The lotus root is mild tasting with a pleasantly sweet flavor. It has a crunchy texture comparable to celery. When cooked for a long time, such as in a soup or stew, it becomes softer but still retains a tender bite like just-cooked potatoes.
Which part of lotus is eaten as food?
The edible part of the lotus plant is the root, seeds and young flower stalks.
What does lotus root look like?
Lotus roots are cylindrical and brown. However, once sliced crosswise, you will see a lace-like design with pea-sized holes. The root is crunchy, mild in flavor, and very delicious. They are available year-round at Japanese or other Asian grocery stores and may even be found at farmers markets.
How do you make lotus tea?
In a pot, bring water to boil, then add the dried lotus pollen and petals. Simmer for 5 minutes over low heat, and strain mixture.
Boil the mixture again and add the sugar, stirring until sugar dissolves. Leave to cool. Serve with fresh lotus pollen and petals, and some ice.
Cultivating lotus root for food is easy. These low maintenance water plants are hardy in USDA zones 4 to 10. In Northern climates the rhizomatous roots require protection from freezing temperatures. This can be accomplished by sinking roots into deeper water or storing roots inside for the winter.
What is lotus root called in English?
Nelumbo nucifera
Family: Nelumbonaceae
Genus: Nelumbo
Species: N. nucifera
Why is lotus root purple?
Sometimes, lotus root does turn purple or brown when exposed to air or when cooked. From many official scientific studies, it is due to the naturally occurring of high level of Polyphenols in lotus root oxidizing with the air when exposed. This is similar to apple and banana browning.
Browse 3,585 lotus root stock photos and images available, or search for lotus root bok choy or lotus root food to find more great stock photos and pictures.
What is a lotus root?
The lotus root is a root vegetable that is indigenous to Asia, and is found underwater. Similar in shape to a long squash, it is not uncommon for lotus roots to grow to a length of four feet. The exterior of this root is covered with a peel that is a reddish brown color in appearance, with a white interior that has the appearance of lace.
What is sacred water lotus?
The sacred water lotus is a beautiful emergent aquatic perennial plant that has long been considered a close relative of water lilies. Sacred lotus occurs in the wild but was domesticated in Asia about 7,000 years ago for its rhizomes and seeds as a food crop.
The sacred lotus plants have simple leaves that have an orbiculate (circular) shape and wavy margins. Leaf venation is palmate. Leaves are green and can reach to lengths of 45cm to 1m (18 to 36″) in length. This aquatic can grow to 2 metre tall (3′) but is generally half that.
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Failure. It's painful, it hurts, and it's also a very important part of life. In business, failure is necessary to grow and prosper. I have failed more times than I've succeeded. Some of these weren't small failures, they were the kind that put my businesses and finances on the edge. On more than one occasion, failure has almost bankrupted me and forced my businesses into receivership. Yet, at the eleventh hour, solutions and opportunities have arisen through learning from failure.
Ask any successful business person and they will most likely tell you they've failed many times. Nobody particularly enjoys failing, but failure, through its life-altering lessons, makes us into better people and better business owners. To look at it another way, failure is losing something now to win something that is bigger and better in the future. Just as a company's survival depends on revenue growth, a business owner's wellbeing depends on learning and advancement. None of that happens without failure – its symbiotic with learning.
Failure allows us to learn, it teaches us. Failure does not care about your budget, your business plan, your connections or your ego. Without failure, we'd be less capable of compassion, empathy, kindness, and great achievement; we would be less likely to reach for the moon and the stars.
Whenever Elon Musk, reaching for those stars, had another rocket blow up, he used humour as part of that learning process.
It's through failure that we learn the greatest lessons. It's through repeated failure that Elon Musk has successfully invented a reusable rocket that lands safely.
So, what does failure look like and why is it so important to fail at something before we can succeed? When we think about failure, we think of things in a negative light. We say that business failure is painful and that it causes emotional turmoil and upset, regret, and remorse.
You will find that the most successful people in life have failed the most times. If you welcome failure as a guide and teacher, you're more likely to find your way to success. Secondly, when you and your business are driven by discovery, you take a step forward, gather feedback and adapt.
We often don't realise what some businesses and the people behind them had to go through in order to get to where they are. Shoe Dog, Phil Knight's memoir about creating Nike, is a refreshingly honest reminder of what the path to business success really looks like. Shoe Dog gives an honest tale of what it takes to succeed in business.
Society tends to celebrate the successes rather than highlighting the epic journeys towards success that are filled with trials, tribulations, upsets, setbacks, and failures. It's not as glamorous to talk about those things. Accompanying this is the 'tall poppy syndrome' where people of high status are resented, attacked, cut down or criticised simply because they have been classified as superior to their peers.
So, what have I learnt from failure?
The first important lesson gained from failure is experience. It's through experience that we learn what does or doesn't work in business. Will my new product or service be well received by my customers? The experience I have had in international business allows me to pass on this knowledge to my customers as I know what works and what doesn't when entering international markets.
Knowledge is power and through failure we acquire volumes of knowledge. That knowledge can be harnessed in the future to overcome the very failure that inflicted so much pain in the first place. Nothing can replace the knowledge gained from failure. Each time I fail in a business process or selling technique, I gain important insight. I can then enhance and learn from that failure, moving confidently forward with a new approach.
The more resilience you build into your business, the more sustainable it will become. Failure signifies weak points in your business processes and strategy. You can then focus and remedy these shortcomings and build a stronger business over the long-term.
When we fail, through knowledge and resilience we grow. We reach deeper meanings and understandings about our businesses and why we're doing the things that we're doing. This helps us to reflect and take things into perspective, developing meaning from painful situations. Growth allows you to eliminate the errors and create streamlined processes in your business culture.
Value is very important. Failure not only provides feedback on what your clients value but also where to invest your time. It's through failure that you can determine the perceived and real value that you offer your clients. As the saying goes, there is no point flogging a dead horse. Failure helps you identify the dead and winning horses quickly.
'Fail fast' is a philosophy that values extensive testing and incremental development to determine whether an idea has value. An important goal of the philosophy is to cut losses when testing reveals something isn't working and quickly try something else, a concept known as pivoting. In business, when you fail, fail fast. Learn and move on quickly.
Failure will always be a part of succeeding in business. While its often difficult to enjoy failure, especially when your business is collapsing around you, do your best to acknowledge it as a learning process that you will gain strength from. Ignore the naysayers. Throughout my business career I've been told 'it can't be done', 'it won't work', 'I told you so' and 'you should have listened to me'. These words are some of the most motivational comments to hear! I then have pinpoint focus to prove those naysayers wrong.
One of the best pieces of advice I've ever received was, 'it's okay to fail but it's not okay to give up!' So fail fast, pick yourself up and reiterate – you will then succeed. Pushing forward and not giving up is quite possibly one of the best ways to recover from failure. Remember, it's not true failure unless you throw in that proverbial towel and wholeheartedly give up forever.
Graham Dockrill is an entrepreneur, investor and sales strategist and has founded several technology start-ups. Focusing on aligning international strategy and sales, www.citrustreeconsultants.com supports companies launching into new markets. Building on the successes and failures of previous endeavours Graham provides valuable insights and learnings on growing your business.


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By Carter January 8, 2020 January 8, 2020 Porsche
There are rare Porsches, and then there are rare Porsches. The 968 Turbo S is a car that very few will ever get to see and a fair amount of Porsche enthusiasts in the U.S. don't even know exists. The ultimate streetable front-engined Turbo coupe from the end of the run, the Turbo S took the old 2.5 8V turbo inline-4 to new heights of power by utilizing the newer S2/968 3.0 block with the earlier 944 Turbo S bits on top. Power reached over 300, a healthy bump over the existing 944 turbo and 968 16v. But there were only a handful made – around 14 between racing and street versions, making it one of the rarest Porsches ever made. This means you're not likely to see one anytime soon – making the prospect of owning this replica much more appealing:
CLICK FOR DETAILS: 1994 Porsche 968 Turbo S Tribute on eBay
Model: 968 Turbo S Tribute
VIN:WP0AA2961RS820772
Location: Southampton, New York
Price: $120,000 Buy It Now
This is a 1994 Porsche Turbo S Clone with 13681 miles.
Lloyd Hawkins, a well known driver and Porsche enthusiast was responsible for the build, with was executed by RennSport Porsche in Louisiana. While not a factory build car, this Turbo S Clone was constructed to an exacting standards and is the only car fitted with a RS 3.0 factory race engine.
-A Well-Executed Turbo S Conversion
-Full Turbo S interior
-Desirable Performance and appeal
-Finished in its original white paint, this car has been meticulously prepared utilizing correct factory parts. Lloyd Hawkins, a well-known driver and Porsche enthusiast, was responsible for the build, which was executed by Rennsport Porsche in Louisiana. At present, the car displays 13562 miles, figure that is believed to be original.
-An ideal candidate to track events
-Car last serviced work completed January 2020	Added:
Ownership history
Lloyd Hawkins
Mathew Drendel
Please only bid if you are absolutely serious about buying this beautiful 968Turbo S, all bids are final. If you have any questions relating to the condition please contact us before the end of the auction at Grand Prix Cafe / 631 353 3553. For more detailed pictures please go to www.grandprixcafe.com.
All due diligence must be undertaken before you commit to purchase this car.
So the original build started with an already rare, and very low-mileage, 1994 968 Coupe. RennSport added the 3.0 turbo race motor, RS aero bits and those fantastic Speedline wheels. The result is pretty convincing; this car really does look a lot like the real chassis 001 I looked at last March. Real Turbo S and Turbo RS 968s rarely come up for sale, and one in this condition would likely be double the current asking price of this replica. You could either look at this then as a very expensive 968 Coupe that's no longer original, or a worthy tribute to the legend you'll never be able to afford. As impressive as it is, I personally don't think I'd spend over $100,000 on a replica, but then I also don't have over $100,000 to spend…
Tagged 1994, 968, 968 Coupe, 968 Turbo S, Coupe, Grand Prix White, Porsche, Speedline, Turbo.
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There is a guy in my town (Gainesville) who lives down the road from me with a full turbo build 968. I've only seen the car a few times on the road and met him once briefly at a Porsche dealer reception. I think he said he was an engineering professor, and a very well known engineer/shop in Tampa did the build for him. Such a waste that Porsche didn't build a full run of these amazing cars. But then, in the early to mid 90s, economy was not robust, and Porsche's prices were escalating out of hand.
Who is the lucky new owner?!


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University of Cambridge > Talks.cam > Financial History Seminar > The Paradox of Success: Building Societies and their risk-taking behaviour in England, c. 1880-1939
The Paradox of Success: Building Societies and their risk-taking behaviour in England, c. 1880-1939
Mr Luke Samy, Winton Institute, Oxford
Monday 24 January 2011, 17:00-19:00
Lucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.
If you have a question about this talk, please contact D'Maris Coffman.
Some scholars have posited that mutual banks have fewer incentives to engage in excessive risk-taking than joint-stock banks because of the unique structure of property rights in the former. This paper uses their theory as a framework to explain the divergent risk-taking behaviour of building societies between the pre-war and inter-war periods, and between large and small societies in the latter period. It is argued in this paper that the low risk-taking behaviour predicted of mutual institutions like building societies can only be expected of small, regional societies which were less exposed to competition than their larger, city-based counterparts which competed more aggressively for investor funds and mortgage business. In the inter-war period, increased competition between societies led to levels of risk-taking hitherto unseen in the movement, leading to calls by the movement's leaders to consolidate the sector into the hands of a few large societies. This process of consolidation promised to benefit members and to improve the overall efficiency of societies in the movement. The actual experience however shows that these promises were largely unmet. Rather, it is shown that the only beneficiaries of firm growth were building society managers, who were able to extract higher pay from empire building.
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Gustavia fête la Musique -- Hosted by St Barth Harmony and the Tourism Committee, this music festival will present musicians, singers and artists of St Barth.
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Discussion in 'Mac Pro' started by glenthompson, Jul 9, 2014.
Found a deal on our local Craigslist I couldn't pass up, Bought a 2008 Mac Pro 3,1 with 2x2.8 quad processors, 16gb memory, 2x500gb drives and Radeon 5870 graphics card with a 23" ACD and full sized keyboard all for the grand price of $550.
Currently installing Mavericks + server and will be installing some larger hard drives.
It's been some time since I looked at a Mac Pro and the case is larger than I remember. Heavier than I expected.
Wow, not a bad price. 3,1 is currently my daily driver. In my experience, a PCIe SSD (Apricorn Velocity Solo x1 is what I use) was the most noticeable upgrade on my machine.
Wow! That's an awesome rig for 5 bills. I don't need another one, but if found that deal I'd buy too. Congrats on a great find!
If I was using it like you, that would be the first upgrade. I'm planning on using it as a server so it won't benefit that much from the SSD upgrade.
Congrats. Those sweet deals are why Craigslist is so tempting--glad you had a positive experience.


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Mission 2MISSION | FRIDAY, OC T. 29, 2010 PAGE 4 | THE WIRE GTMOs safe harbor A birds eye view of Guantanamo Bay that is used by recreational boaters, divers and swimmers. The Joint Operations Center monitors the bay to ensure the safety of base residents, and to track merchant vessels, Oct. 25. JTF Guantanamo photo by Army Spc. Juanita PhilipArmy Spc. Juanita PhilipJTF Guantanamo Public Affairs ___________________________At Joint Task Force Guantanamo the J-3 Directorate has many sections. Of those sections, the Joint Operations Center constantly maintains a vigilant posture at all times. posture operating on a 24-hour schedule with a full staff on watch. The staff includes civilians, JTF GTMO Troopers and Naval Station Guantanamo Bay personnel. The watch staff is a true testament of a Joint Task Force environment, said Army Staff Sgt. Lewis. We are the eyes and ears of JTF [GTMO] command. We maintain daily operational status of what goes on here [JTF GTMO]. The JOC watch sends reports to U.S. Southern Command and also can act as a liaison between SOUTHCOM and JTF GTMO. The JOC keeps higher headquarters and local headquarters apprised of activities on said Marine Maj. Rose. Naval Station was used as a staging area for personnel, supplies and cargo going in and out of Haiti. According to Rose, the JOC helped maintain SOUTHCOMs situational awareness. JOC watch is not limited to supporting JTF GTMO operations, the watch personnel also provide support to NAVSTA Port Control. One function for the center is to monitor the bay for the safety of swimmers, divers and recreational boaters. Merchant vessels they do not venture into the boundaries of Naval Station Guantanamo Bay. We keep our harbor safe, Rose said. Before any recreational boater or diver can leave the Morale, Welfare and Recreation Marina, they must communicate with watch personnel. When boaters and divers are going on the water, they must contact us on the radio, said Navy Operations Specialist 2nd Class Hale. They communicate the amount of amount of time that they will be on the number, Hale stated. If the boaters should have an emergency like a dead battery or might be in distress, they contact the watch personnel who in In the event of an emergency or destructive weather, the JOC has the capabilities to serve as a command center. The headquarters elements of JTF GTMO can operate out of the JOC, Lewis said. [The JOC] has the full capability to maintain operations for JTF-GTMO, as well as communication to SOUTHCOM.
Movie ReviewFRIDAY, OC T. 29, 2010 | MOVIE REVIE W THE WIRE | PAGE 5 Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Shane Arrington JTF Guantanamo Public Affairs_______________________________________________________Featuring an all-star cast, Red does not fail to deliver a healthy dose of awesome. Frank Moses (Bruce Willis) is a retired CIA operative who spends his days service agent Sarah Ross (Mary-Louise Parker). His life gets turned upside-down, and his house demolished when the very agency he used to kill for, sends people to kill him. Realizing Sarah may be in danger due to his phone stalking, he grabs his emergency bag, which every good ex-spy must possess, and heads to Kansas City. Things with Sarah dont go quite as smoothly as Frank anticipated. He ends up taking her bound and gagged to see an old friend of his, retired operative Joe Matheson (Morgan Freeman). After obtaining some information from Joe, Frank realizes the attempt on his life might be part of something larger. His search eventually brings him to a hit list, giving him the names of all those connected with him. He hunts down another CIA retiree, Marvin Boggs (John Malkovich), who helps him connect the dots to a 1981 black ops. mission in Guatemala. This is where the real action and hilarity, begins. The interaction between Frank and Sarah fails to excite, but the complete craziness of Marvin creates a wonderful mix of humor and explosions. I mean, how often do you see an insane assassin carry around a bright pink pig? Another combination of humor and violence comes from yet another CIA retiree, Victoria (Helen Mirren) and Russian secret agent Ivan (Brian Cox). Mirren does a great job portraying a cool, elegant assassin and Cox completely pulls off a slick, charming Russian spy. Their interaction does its part in adding a little romance to the story a job that was meant to be shared with the Frank/Sarah combination, but the latter fails to compare. Red was a bit slow in places, but overall was very entertaining. While Willis was given the top spot in this movie, Malkovich earned it. It still would have been worth watching without him, but was much better with him in it. Actors aside, the script and direction are spot on. The lines are witty, but not cheesy, and the action entertaining without going over the top. Retired, extremely dangerous is the perfect way to describe this collection of insane killers.


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17th October 2019 Bill Russell
Fast by Kate Barton. Park 90, Clifton Terrace, Finsbury Park, London N4 to 9 November. 3***. William Russell.
By Kate Barton
Park 90, Clifton Terrace, Finsbury Park, London N4 3JP to 9 November 2019.
Mon – Sat 7.45pm Mat Thu & Sat 3.15pm.
Runs 79 mins No interval.
TICKETS: 020 78706876.
www.ParkTheatre.co.uk
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Review: William Russell 16 October.
A terrific and terrifying performance by Caroline Lawrie should keep you transfixed in your seats in this play based on the true story of Linda Hazard, a quack doctor who ran a health spa at Olalla near Seattle in Washington State, where she practised a cure all starvation diet, benefiting in the will's of those who failed to survive – some 40 patients are reckoned to have died as a result of her ministrations.Two English sisters, Dora and Claire Williamson, who were interested in alternative medicine, went for treatment and Barton's play is about what happened to them. It works well as a piece of grande guignol, and all the performances are good, but without Lawrie's mesmerising turn it would work far less well. The unveiling of what is going on is done through the investigations of Horace Clayton, a reporter on a local newspaper, and his interventions are, in stage terms, rather clumsy. You need more information to explain why eventually something was done and to understand why was everyone so willing to ignore what was going on.
In the end for me this script would have worked far better as a radio play than it does in the theatre. Director Kate Valentine screws up the tension effectively and there is a nicely ominous set by Emily Bestow, which does help. But while Ms Barton has a unearthed a splendid horror story she has not quite managed to create the play to tell it – a case of back to the drawing board perhaps, maybe a few more characters to speed the plot. There were attendants at Wilderness Heights, who seem to have gone along with what Hazard was up to, and she did have a husband, for instance. But Hazard was good newspaper copy, it was an age of alternative medicine being fashionable, and it took time for anyone to question just what was going in. She was found out eventually and in 1912 was convicted of manslaughter following the death of one of the Williamson sisters, but pardoned a couple of years later by the State governor whose wife she had allegedly "cured" of something or other. The couple went to New Zealand, tried to practice there without much success, and in due course returned to the United States where they set up another treatment business in Olalla, although she was not now qualified as a doctor. The irony is that in 1938 she died as a result of taking her own course of treatments.
Lawrie is really quite something, exuding menace, but also lots of charm to conceal the ruthlessness with which Hazard kept people taking the medicine – she appears to have given them some noxious drugs as well – while existing on enemas, brutal massages and lots of water. It is a fine performance well worth catching – Joan Crawford would have played Hazard to the hilt – and Natasha Cowley and Claire Williamson make the sisters truly pitiable if extremely silly to have allowed themselves to take part in Hazard's regime. It takes a master quack to "sell" starvation as a cure all and Hazard appears to have been one of the best.Fast is a chilling three star play with a blood curdling four star performance from Lawrie.
Caroline Lawrie: Linda Hazard.
Natasha Cowley: Dora Williamson.
Jordon Stevens: Claire Williamson.
Horace Cayton Jr: Daniel Norford.
Director: Kate Valentine.
Set & Costume Designer: Emily Bestow.
Sound Designer: David Chilton.
Lighting & Projection Designer: Ben Bull.
Production Photography: Manuel Harlan.
A History of Water in the Middle East by Sabrina Mahfouz. Jerwood Upstairs, the Royal Court Theatre, Sloane Square, London SW1 to 16 November. 4****. William Russell.
Angela Hewitt, Lakeside, Nottingham, 5*****: by William Ruff
Coming Clean by Kevin Elyot – Trafalgar Studio 2, Whitehall, London – 3*** William Russell
Death of a Hunter by Rolf Hochhuth. The Finborough on line from 7 September to 7 October2020 4****. William Russell.
2nd September 2020 Bill Russell
Finishing the Picture, Finborough London, 3***: William Russell
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Murder by Choice: Clue Mystery Review
Murder by Choice: Clue Mystery Review!
"EXPERIENCE a fully interactive murder mystery adventure set in the present day – Murder by Choice! Journey through a mysterious tropical island filled with hidden objects, secrets, and MURDER! Put your detective skills to the test by hunting for clues, gathering evidence, and figuring out who's behind the horrific crime!
THE ADVENTURE BEGINS when Carla Page, a young journalist, receives an unexpected invitation from billionaire Ruben Navarro to join his yearly private party on a tropical island. When Carla gets there, she finds herself surrounded by some of the world's wealthiest, most influential people… and right in the path of the worst storm of the year. But being unable to escape the inclement weather will be the least of her problems as a mysterious murder occurs moments after she sets foot on shore. Carla puts on her detective hat and dives into solving the crime, but each new clue just raises more questions. Carla soon finds out that murder isn't the island's only secret."
iOS Link: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/murder-by-choice-clue-mystery/id1483785220
Android Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nordcurrent.murderisland&hl=en_GB&gl=US
Company: Nordcurrent
Genre: Adventure, Hidden Object
Rated: 12+
Find items!
Hidden Object games are extremely saturated and it can sometimes feel like they're all the same – which is kinda true. This is why I was impressed when I came across Murder by Choice for the first time as it has a storyline to it. In fact, similar to Choices, you get to make decisions for your character.
Aside from that, the hidden object levels are really hard – which at first I didn't like but in reality, no one wants to play a mystery game that's too easy. Where's the fun in that?
The graphics were nothing special!
The graphics remind me of the TV series, Archer, and I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not. I enjoyed how the game looked, it's not like it looked bad but it definitely had that typical hidden object look to it. I'm not sure why they all look the same…
The audio was probably my favorite part of the game. The characters talk!!! I know, I'm shocked too. When the characters talk, it makes such a better gaming experience so I was pleasantly surprised.
Tap on items when you find them!
In each scene, tap on the items that appear at the bottom of the screen when you find them. You can also tap the Hint button if you struggle to find any. The graphics are like any other hidden object game and work well with the theme of the gameplay!
Purchase energy and hints from the store!
250 energy for £2.49
1200 energy for £8.99
2500 energy for £17.99
Watch an ad to receive a hint token
10 hints for £3.49
20 hints for £6.991
What did you think?!
Murder by Choice was a pleasant experience from start to finish. The story captivated me from the moment I entered the game and the hidden object scenes were difficult enough that I actually spent a good amount of time on them. I really enjoyed this game!
If you decide to download Murder by Choice, let us know what you think and if you agree or disagree with any of the things we said. Happy gaming and stay casual!
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