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H.A. Engineering INC. kills cab driver and calls it an "accident"
By Okke Ornstein | April 7, 2010
In any normal country, this company would be sued for damages well into the many millions of dollars for security failures and responsibility for the death of the taxi driver. But this is Panama, the country of "los groceros somos más" where rich maleantes always get away with everything.
Cocaine Cowboys
Cocaine Cowboys. How the drugs transformed Miami into something that looks a lot like Panama today. "All these banks", says one of the protagonists (which also tells you all you need to know about people like Eisenmann getting into shady banking in Miami in the eighties). "All this construction", says another.
Panama real estate comes crashing down with boom
We were already getting used to construction workers dying because they kept falling off these skyscrapers because the developers are too cheap to install proper safety measures, but the people behind Rivage Tower have come up with a new variant on the theme: Launch large pieces of metal on cars!
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Q: Mod_rewrite, 301s and slashes I want to set up a pretty url on a virtual directory. But I also want a safety net for the virtual directory just in case anyone hits that directly. Let's call the virtual directory foo
RewriteRule ^foo/(.*)$ ./foo/page.php?term=$1 [QSA]

This seems to be working fine. All pages are re-directing and displaying correctly and the pretty URL is remaining in the address bar (rather than re-directing to the physical address as with a 301)
But if I go to www.domain.com/foo I get a 404 :(
If I go to www.domain.com/foo/ (note the slash) then the script continues and an error message is displayed thanks to some extra validation in my PHP.
How can I tidy up the virtual directory (with/without a slash)? No one should ever hit that but if they do I want to be ready and re-direct them to the homepage.
After reading another users question I tried:
Redirect 301 /foo /?q=empty

But this is conflicting with my initial rule. I'm ending up with links like:
www.domain.com/?q=empty/Blah (instead of /foo/Blah)

A: Try this:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^foo/$
RewriteRule ^  /foo/page.php?q=empty [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^foo/(.*)$ foo/page.php?term=$1 [L,QSA]

A: Just add an extra rule for this case
RewriteRule ^foo/?$ ./foo/page.php [QSA, L]

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Home News New Philip Pullman novel to be released in October
New Philip Pullman novel to be released in October
Published February 27, 2019 by Charlotte Eyre
Lyra Silvertongue, the heroine of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, will return as an adult in The Secret Commonwealth: The Book of Dust Volume...
Lyra Silvertongue, the heroine of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, will return as an adult in The Secret Commonwealth: The Book of Dust Volume Two, which will be released on 3rd October this year.
The second title in the Book of Dust series is set 20 years after the events of La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One and seven years after readers left Lyra and Will Parry on a park bench in The Amber Spyglass, the final book in the His Dark Materials trilogy.
In The Secret Commonwealth Lyra ventures across Europe and into Asia in search of an elusive town, said to be haunted by daemons. She is at odds with her own daemon, Pantalaimon, after they unwittingly witness a murder. An extract is available online.
Pullman said: "Things have been biding their time, waiting for the right moment to reveal their consequences for Lyra Silvertongue. The Secret Commonwealth tells the continuing story of the impact on Lyra's life of the search for, and the fear of, Dust. I found it intriguing and deeply exciting to discover how great events can turn on a little moment, and how revenge can be nurtured and fed and watered till it grows beyond control.
"Life is not easy for Lyra. It was enthralling for me to remember how powerfully and passionately our minds and opinions can be turned by reading a particular book at the right time. Lyra, as a student, is finding that out. She is also discovering a new and difficult aspect to her relationship with Pantalaimon, and other things about dæmons that she never suspected.
"But those things are background. At the heart of the book are Lyra, the young woman we saw first as a girl of twelve and then as a baby, and Malcolm, whose life as a boy became involved with hers and who now finds their lives helplessly entangled again; and how some emotions can last a lifetime, and others change beyond recognition. It's the story of some people we know, and others we'll meet for the first time. Their journey is going to take them far from their homeland towards a mysterious desert in Central Asia, where they hope to find, at last, the secret of Dust."
The Secret Commonwealth will be published by David Fickling Books in association with Penguin Random House UK in hardback, e-book and audiobook on 3rd October. Chris Wormell is again illustrating the cover and chapter headings.
David Fickling, publisher and editor at David Fickling Books, said: "When Philip told me the next volume of The Book of Dust was about Lyra as a student I was thrilled: not because I expected Lyra to be the same as she was (Philip does not repeat himself), but because I so wanted to meet the young woman she's become. And now, amazingly, I have and I am not disappointed. The story is quite astonishing: without doubt, Philip is one of the most important writers on the planet."
The main three titles in the His Dark Materials series have sold nearly 2.4 million copies through Nielsen BookScan, but that total reaches 2.035 million when gift editions, hardbacks and film-tie-ins are taken into account. La Belle Sauvage has sold 334,884 in hardback and a further 76,813 in paperback and in total Pullman has sold 6.9 million books for £48.4m.
Filming on a TV adaptation of His Dark Materials, written by Jack Thorne and directed by Tom Hooper, has now wrapped. The cast includes Ruth Wilson, James McAvoy, Anne-Marie Duff, Clarke Peters and Lin-Manuel Miranda.
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