Colm O'Brien's story could be your story. He started out sorting cutlery at Clerys Rooftop Restaurant in Dublin. Now he owns Carambola Kidz. Founded in 2003, the company had a turnover of £5 million in 2014 and now delivers more than 20,000 healthy lunches daily to schoolchildren across Ireland. In Feeding Johnny, O'Brien tells the story of his journey from polishing forks to running his own company. He offers lessons on how you too can build your own business and achieve your dreams, despite the inevitable roadblocks. This is not the story of one of the charmed few, one of those high-flying billionaires who make success look easy. This is the story of a kid from Dublin's Northside who sweated his way up the career ladder to a job managing Bewley's Café on Grafton Street before deciding he didn't want to be an employee for the rest of his life, working weekends and holidays. O'Brien's first attempt at building his own business did not go well. He bought a Bewley's franchise in Limerick, which was eaten by the Celtic Tiger, leaving him with massive debts. But he refused to give up. Instead, he started Carambola Kidz with an order for twenty-seven lunches, and woke each morning before dawn to make the rounds in his old delivery van, feeding 'Johnny'.

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Johnny was brought to the United States from the jungles of Africa. He was sold to a pet store in Roseville, Virginia, where he was givin the name Johhny. He is a fifteen inch yellow- headed amazon oratrix, and appears to be about four years old. Later a man named Howard Udall, {also known as Hud} purchased him. Hud is an ex- Navy Seal member ,is a forty-five years old bachelor, and works for NCIS as an investigator. His apartment is in Roseville Virginia, a quiet little town about forty miles south of Washington, DC. Hud became acquainted with Johhny, when he stopped into a pet store to buy food for his fish, Hud was thinking about stopping for pizza and beer on his way home, as he is walking past the parrot cages he hears a voice saying " pizza and beer sure sounds good to me too." Hud looks up at the parrot and thinks, what's up with this crazy bird. Johnny says back " I'm not crazy, just hungry and thirsty. " Hud asks Johnny how did you know what I was thinking?" I can read minds Johnny replies, but please don't tell the storekeeper,I don't trust him he always has bad thoughts on his mind. Hud asks, "read my again, what am I thinking?" You are thinking about buying me," Hud asks Johnny a few more questions, and realizes he has special talents. and needs to get him out of there. Hud goes to the counter and pays for Johnny, then the two of them leave with Johnny perched on Hud's shoulders.

This volume presents a social history of life in mid-19th-century Cuba as experienced by George Backhouse (and his wife, Grace), who served on the British Havana Mixed Commission for the Suppression of the Slave Trade. Documented with extracts from the Backhouse's correspondence, diaries and other contemporary papers, Martinez-Fernandez paints a detailed picture of the Cuban slave trade, its role in the sugar industry, and the interrelated contradictions within Cuba's economy, society and politics. The Backhouse story provides addition al insights into important aspects of life in the "male" city of Havana, social antagonisms between Britons and North Americans, interactions with European social circles, religious tension, and the reality of tropical disease. Drama is added to the narrative in the author's description of the tragic and mysterious murder of George Backhouse in August 1855, possibly the result of a slave traders' conspiracy.