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Tiro (novice) or not, brandishing a sizeable arma lusoria (wooden sword) and aiming strategically at the stomach of his lanista (trainer), my 12-year-old son Theo cuts an impressive swath as a gladiator-in-training. Far more real than reading a textbook about life in classical Rome, taking a two-hour course in the rigors of gladiatorial combat was a brilliant way for an enthusiastic Latin student to get the most from a school-holiday visit to Rome...
...hotel collaborates with Nero (real name Sergio Iacomoni), chief trainer and president of the Scuola Gladiatori Roma, so it can provide guests with something more original than a gym. The courses are proving just as popular as corporate team-building exercises as they are for young classicists and their parents...
...gauge it can befuddle dilettantes, good fortune can smile on the persistent. In 2003, following the Garden Party disappointment, Lo and his partners from various corners of Hong Kong's professional world - manufacturing, movies and modeling - located another 2-year-old gelding named Pocket Money in Ireland through a trainer's connections. They bought him and shipped him to Hong Kong. After two seasons with little consistent success racing the horse at various distances and in differing weight classes, they switched to another trainer, who guessed Pocket Money was best suited to the 1,400-m run at Hong Kong...
...city for a program that trains local alcohol servers and sellers to prevent underage drinking. The initiative, called “21 Proof,” is unique in “the collaboration between the licensees and the license commission,” according to Frank W. Connelly, trainer and community organizer of the Cambridge Prevention Coalition (CPC), one of the three organizations that oversees 21 Proof. 21 Proof, Connelly added, educates not only managers and servers, but also retailers and wholesalers in identifying behavioral cues of intoxication and developing intervention strategies. Alan Moghul, director of prevention at NASADAD...
...trainer had this little neon-orange toy that he would show to the dog, and the dog would start slavering and get unbelievably agitated and would do anything to get the toy. So the dog would be restrained, and Josh, before each take, would show the dog that he had the toy, he'd put it in his pants and jump into the river...