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Veteran Restaurant Trio Heats Up Better Burger Battle with 'Next Generation' Franchise
"We set out to lead the 'BurgerFication of the Nation' by changing how people think about burgers," said Dave Manero, BurgerFi's Chief Concept Officer and co-founder. "Every time a BurgerFi opens, the community embraces the brand. There's a huge buzz. From the high-quality food to the upbeat atmosphere to the sustainable model, wherever we open, people love everything about us," noted Manero, owner of David Manero Restaurants and Vic & Angelo's, as well as a former development manager for Wolfgang Puck and owner of numerous restaurants in his native Connecticut.
BurgerFi is clearly differentiating itself in the marketplace with a distinctive menu of flavorful gourmet burgers made from Angus beef that is certified all-natural and Humane, 100 percent grass-fed beef hot dogs with no nitrates, fresh-cut potato fries, hand cut onion rings, house-made frozen custard with no preservatives, sundaes, shakes and crafted beers and wines. (more…)
Andy Roddick limping in to Delray Beach International Tennis Championships
As legends of tennis' past entertained the Delray Beach tennis crowd on Sunday, the buzz here turned to the singles main draw for the Delray Beach International Tennis Championships.
Andy Roddick's opening-round match is slated for 9 p.m. Tuesday, immediately following the ATP Champions Tour final. Top-seeded John Isner and world No. 21 Marin Cilic, the second seed, haven't received their first match start times yet.
Last year's finalists, Juan Martin Del Potro and Janko Tipsarevic, aren't in this year's draw.
"There are still quite a few tough players in the field," said seventh seed Kevin Anderson of South Africa, who lost to Del Potro in last year's quarterfinals. "Every tournament's tough these days, but looking at this one, every match is going to be a challenge – a fun challenge."
Roddick will be the center of attention Tuesday night. Slowed by nagging hamstring and ankle injuries, he lost his opening match at Memphis' Regions Morgan Keegan Championships to Xavier Matisse on Wednesday.
Not only was it the first win in nine tries against Roddick for Matisse, who could play Roddick in the ITC quarterfinals if they both win twice, it was further damage to Roddick's stumbling reputation.
He's dropped 10 spots in the world singles rankings, down to 27th, and he won't get a chance to rest his ailments any time soon. He retired from the second round of the Australian Open because of injury, and he's scheduled to play in March tournaments at Indian Wells and Miami after Delray Beach.
"It's not easy, but he has the ability to turn it around," said former world No. 1 and French Open champion Carlos Moya, who's playing in the Champions Tour event at Delray. "The best thing is to stop if you aren't 100-percent healthy because you're hurting yourself.
"But when you're playing, you think you're OK and you want to play. One win here, one win there, maybe that changes things. But he has time to be back where he belongs, which is the top 10."
Isner, the highest-rated player in this year's ITC, only reached the third round in Australia, but helped the U.S. team beat Roger Federer's Swiss team in the opening round of the Davis Cup two weeks ago.
He's the favorite in Delray, but he has a tough bracket with Tommy Haas, Jurgen Melzer (who broke a toe in Memphis) and 19-year-old Wimbledon quarterfinalist Bernard Tomic.
"He's tough on his serve and he's an experienced player," Tomic said of Isner, adding that he's only seen the American on television. "You have to be on your game against someone like that."
Sunday's Champions Tour matches showed Moya, who retired in 2010, still has some game himself.
Moya, 36, defeated Aaron Krickstein 6-4, 6-4 in the afternoon to finish undefeated in round-robin play. He'll could play three-time U.S. Open winner Ivan Lendl, who was also a world No. 1 during his days on the singles circuit, or Johan Kriek, who played in the late match.
A final against Lendl would be a surreal, strange moment for Moya, who grew up idolizing Lendl. But he acknowledged that playing any of the players on the Champions Tour is an odd experience, especially the first meeting.
"I'm starting to get used to it, playing guys I watched as a kid," Moya said. "It's certainly interesting to see them across from you on the court."
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WHERE: Delray Beach Stadium and Tennis Center, 201 W. Atlantic Ave.
WHO: Competition is split between eight-player Champions Tour (through Tuesday) and a 32-player field in ATP competition (Monday through March 4).
PARKING: $5 at South County Courthouse at Atlantic and SW Second Avenue, and Old School Square Parking Garage on NE First Avenue. Valet parking ($20) also available.
TV: Tennis Channel for ATP semifinals and final.
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44th Annual St. Patricks Day Parade & Party
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This is like no other parade in South Florida. The parade is an International Tribute to Fire Fighters from around the world with thousands of Firefighters traveling to Delray Beach to be part of this grand event.
The complete parade route along Atlantic Ave. is decorated at five key points with fire department ladder trucks from multiple fire departments with their ladders extended tip to tip, hanging huge flags that the entire parade will march under.
Antique fire engines as well as modern day fire engines and apparatus featured. Fire department honor guard teams will march carrying flags and ornate fire axes. Fire department bagpipe band members from different fire department pipe and drum bands will march and play together.
Uniformed marching firefighters, Dalmation dog owners, and professional fire clowns have been invited to delight the spectators. Civilians and parade sponsors will ride their decorated floats.
Olio Bistro: The secrets out
"It's the best-kept secret," bubbled Dima, our irrepressible, black-clad server. That turned out to be a favored catchphrase of the restaurant, but there was no hiding the young woman's enthusiasm for her workplace, or her pride in its cuisine.
We'd heard that Olio was a little gem tucked away in an old building a block away from the carnivallike bustle of East Atlantic Avenue in Delray Beach — a neighborhood bistro with excellent food, a cozy ambience and a wine list to satisfy every taste. Thanks to the historic venue, the atmosphere didn't have to be manufactured as it would were Olio located in a shopping mall storefront. The place has three main rooms: the main dining area, which is a long, brick-lined space; a more-intimate "bistro"; and a wine cellar — perfect for parties of 40 or so — whose walls support ceiling-high stacks of bottles.
We chose the main room, which had a banquette running the length of one wall, and sat side-by-side so we could enjoy the space and the cozy bar that welcomed casual diners who perched around it on tall chairs. Sconces with pinpoint bulbs dotted the walls, and the overall light level was intimate. While we studied the menu, we enjoyed a complimentary loaf of fresh, crusty bread accompanied by a compartmentalized plate containing butter on one side and herbed olive oil for dipping on the other.
Dima, our server, is one of those professionals who doesn't have to write anything down, and she's free with her comments on customers' menu choices. Since tapas are a large part of the menu, we chose the fried calamari ($12), jumbo lump crab cocktail ($16) and — because it bore the restaurant's name — the antipasto Olio ("excellent choice," said Dima, rolling her eyes heavenward). Actually, all were very satisfying. The calamari — sweet, tender and not too greasy — was dusted with shaved Parmesan cheese. Huge chunks of crab came stuffed into a martini glass, accompanied by a Dijon-based dipping sauce. Dima was right about the antipasto. It was a tempting array of paper-thin salami, a generous amount of prosciutto, marinated vegetables, olives and chunks of farmer and blue-veined cheeses. The presentation was unique. Once we'd cleared the platter, we realized it consisted of one side of a wooden Chianti crate still stamped with the brand name "Ruffino," and complete with box joints at each end.
For entrees, we tried a pasta dish, that being an individual category on the menu. In this case, we chose the simple Italian meatballs on spaghetti ($18, "from an old family recipe"). It didn't disappoint. The sauce was rich and well herbed, and the meatballs had a delicate quality that we suspect was due to veal having been included in the mix. The spaghetti had been cooked perfectly al dente.
From the main entree list, we chose the brown-honey, crispy-roasted duck with Asian fried rice ($29). An imaginative departure from the traditional orange-sauce treatment, the honey glaze was very sweet, but succeeded because the gaminess of the meat demanded it. The duck was perfectly cooked and very moist. The bed of rice, which contained bits of chopped vegetables such as zucchini, was also sweet and might have been more appropriate as an accompaniment for a different dish. But it was delicious, nonetheless.
For dessert, Dima proudly displayed a platter of offerings ($8.50 each), many of which, she informed us, had been concocted by the pastry chef at Boheme Bistro, Olio's better-known sister restaurant in Delray. They included fruit tart with custard, a dense chocolate cake and pistachio cheesecake, which we sampled. The slice was presented with a spritz of pistachio-infused frosting, and was rich, yet subtle — the perfect ending to an excellent meal.
We decided that there was no question we would return to Olio and share the dining experience with friends. And we would be sure to request Dima as our server.
Olio Bistro
42 SE Second Ave., Delray Beach
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Cuisine: European/Asian
Cost: Expensive
Hours: Dinner Tuesday through Saturday
Reservations: Strongly suggested on Fridays and Saturdays
Bar: Full service. Extensive wine list, with wines available by the glass
Sound level: Moderate
Outside smoking: Yes
For kids: Boosters and high chairs available. No special menu items available
Credit cards accepted: V, MC, AE, Discover
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Free medical service for one day at 12 clinics in Palm Beach County for those in need
On Saturday, 12 clinics across Palm Beach County will throw open their doors to the uninsured and under-insured – no appointments needed, no payment required – as doctors, nurses and local health leaders attempt to respond to the havoc the economic downturn has wreaked on people's access to basic medical services.
On what the county is calling Medical Home Day, there will be dentists able to pull teeth in Delray Beach, and doctors, nurse practitioners and medical residents elsewhere, from Boynton Beach to Jupiter and the Glades.
Walgreens will supply flu shots at county Health Department clinics, and the agency's medical staff will be on hand to check blood sugar, offer pregnancy tests and conduct hearing and vision screening, said Tim O'Connor, spokesman for the Palm Beach County Health Department.
The county will provide a free one-day bus pass to people who show they took Palm Tran to the clinic for the event. (A ticket stub or bus pass will do.) Legal aid and insurance counselors will be on hand to help sort out whether people are eligible for safety-net insurance programs like Medicaid or the Health Care District's Vita Health, O'Connor said.
The day is unusual on many levels, but mainly because it represents the first time that health leaders from non-profit groups, for-profit hospitals, business and government have worked together to tackle the problem of the uninsured.
"It is the first time in the foundation's 15-year history that everyone is working together on a one-day event that will help the uninsured in our community find a medical home forever," said Kerry Diaz, president of the Quantum Foundation, which helped coordinate the event.
No one is quite certain how many people to expect, O'Connor said.
A consultant hired by the Palm Beach County Health Care District last summer estimated that more than 265,000 people lack health insurance locally a rate of nearly 1 in 3 people under age 65.
The number of uninsured so appalled County Commissioner Burt Aaronson that he demanded the fairgrounds be opened and doctors and dentists mobilized to offer free health care for a day. That's not happening, in part because county health director Dr. Alina Alonso objected to the lack of follow-up care associated with such high-profile mass gatherings.
"By spreading it out to multiple clinics, you will have smaller crowds," Alonso said. Having people wait in line for hour after hour only to be told they have a serious medical condition that requires follow-up care "is dangerous, and it is not good medical care," she said.
The Palm Beach County Health Care District has made $1 million available to several clinics to cover the first visit of new uninsured patients. The goal is to get them a long-term place to go for their follow-up needs.
"If you tell someone they have high blood pressure and you are not giving them medication and follow-up care, you are not giving them good care," Alonso said.
If for some reason the clinics are overwhelmed with more people than they can manage to see on Saturday, not to worry, she said.
"We will make a follow-up appointment – that's another advantage of dispersing it to all the clinics," she said.
The following clinics will open to the uninsured and under-insured this Saturday, Medical Home Day. Hours are between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m., except in Jupiter:
Palm Beach County Health Department clinics:
C.L. Brumback Health Center, 38754 State Road 80, Belle Glade.
Pahokee-Glades Health Center, 1839 East Main St., Pahokee.
Delray Beach Health Center, 225 South Congress Ave., Delray Beach; limited dental services available in addition to medical care.
Lantana/Lake Worth Health Center, 1250 Southwinds Drive, Lantana.
Northeast Health Center, 851 Avenue P, Riviera Beach.
West Palm Beach Health Center, 1150 45th St., West Palm Beach.
Other community clinics:
Jupiter Auxiliary Health Center, 6405 Indiantown Road, Jupiter; adult clinic will be open from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and other services will be offered from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
FoundCare, 2330 S. Congress Avenue, Palm Springs.
Genesis, 564 E. Woolbright Road, Boynton Beach.
Community Health Center, 2823 N. Australian Ave., West Palm Beach.
JFK Internal Medicine Faculty and Resident Practice, 160 JFK Drive, Suite 102, Atlantis.
Florida Community Health Center 170 S. Barfield Hwy., Suite 103 Pahokee.
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China finances Iran's petrochemical industry
TEHRAN, Sep. 10 (MNA) – Oil Ministry International Affairs deputy has said China agreed to finance Iran's new petrochemical projects up to $4 to 4.5bn.
Ali Majedi who was speaking to Mehr News about Iran and China new agreement where the Chinese will finance Iran's petrochemical projects, said that "the agreement covers 12 new projects; and the formal arrangements for financing 8 other projects have been coordinated."
"Some other projects would be financed by Russian resources," Mr. Majedi added.
On Tuesday, Ishaq Jahangiri, president's first deputy told reporters that during the upcoming third meeting between Iran and China presidents on the sidelines of Shanghai Summit, "we will secure billions of dollars from China for private sector projects which top agenda."
In his interview to Mehr News, Mohammad Hassan Peivandi, NIOC deputy-director said that the Chinese finance of the petrochemical project was being finalized in Iran's Central Bank.
"We need a number of notes of understanding between the Central Bank and China, where it would take into account the Bank's conditions," he added.
Abbas She'ri, managing director of the National Petrochemical Company (NPC), a subsidiary to the Iranian Petroleum Ministry, has recently announced that petrochemical industry demanded $13bn of Chinese investments as finance for Sabalan, Bushehr, Masjed-e-Soleiman and Lordegan complexes, which have been realized.
He also emphasized that "some issues, however, rose in securing Chinese finance such as approving repayment safeguards and code of good practice by the Central Bank, which is still to be addressed."
Mehr News has been informed that following opening of Chinese finance for the project underway in Lordegan petrochemical complex worth of $610mn, 4 other new projects entered operation in last May. In June, Chinese finance helped Sabalan and Sadaf complexes start operation.
Rouhani's government has projected rises in Iran's petrochemical products to 100 million tons worth $40bn annually.
In line with this projection, Namdar Zanganeh had criticized the slow pace of development in petrochemical industry in past few years, promising second leap forward in Rouhani's present cabinet.
By Mehr News Agency
Ali Majedi, China, Iran's deputy petroleum minister, Iran's petrochemical industry, Iran's petrochemical projects, Quoted	September 10, 2014
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Kai Ryssdal: Hedge Funds. You hear about 'em all the time. How they're these giant, mostly unregulated, piles of investment capital that make rich people richer. In theory, it'd be great to get in on some of that action, right? Who doesn't like double digit returns? But maybe it's just as well most of us can't because once you're in a hedge fund, it's tough to get your money back out.
After fund mangers lock up your cash, you can only get at it a few days during the year. They're called redemption days. And thanks to the fallout from the financial crisis, there is a big one coming up tomorrow. Sally Herships reports.
Sally Herships: You and I may not be able to invest in hedge funds, but our pension funds and endowments can. And they do. That was fine during the boom years when everything was going up, and hedge funds made jaw-dropping returns. But now everything from stocks to soybeans is trading down, and hedge funds are losing money like everyone else. The average fund is down 15 percent this year.
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Chris Geczy teaches finance at Wharton. He says the people and institutions who invest in hedge funds are spooked by the losses. And they want their money back.
Chris Geczy: An investor will call a fund and say look, I'm really scared, I want to go to cash. And the fund manager says, "Well, OK, but I need to get the money first.
But that can take a while. Investors in stock and bond funds are used to getting their money back any time they want it. Hedge funds don't play that way.
Marc Freed is managing director for investment advisers Lyster Watson. He buys shares of hedge funds. He says hedge funds are only loosely regulated. And they don't have to give investors their money back immediately, even when they're asked.
Marc Freed: If our clients ask for their money back from us, we're caught in the middle a bit, because we will ask, but [laughs] we may find out that some of the funds don't want to honor our requests.
That's because honoring those requests means selling assets. Something hedge funds only like to do if they're making money on the deal. With the markets down, they're more likely to lose money if they sell now.
Still, many investors want to cut their losses. And hedge funds say they're getting an unusually high number of redemption requests ahead of tomorrow's deadline. So many, says Chris Geczy, that fund managers are calling it D-Day.
Geczy: Spread out over a longer point of time, that kind of liquidity demand may not matter, but isolated at a point in time in the short run it can matter a lot. Because you may see some fire sales.
As the economy deteriorates and the markets fall, the assets the hedge funds own are worth less and less.
The more investors that ask for their money back, the more assets the hedge funds have to sell to raise that cash. And the more they sell, the more they push the price of everything down even further. Including their own profits.
Lyster Watson's Marc Freed says this spiral of selling means everyone loses, whether they invested in hedge funds or not. He says many people and institutions didn't understand what they were getting into when they put money into hedge funds.
Freed: What people should understand about hedge funds is that they are not short-term trading vehicles.
Freed says hedge funds take risks that pay out over time. They often move against the market, buying when everyone else is selling. Wharton's Chris Geczy says they want to buy now and make the most of a down market. But they're tearing their hair out because investors are forcing them to sell instead.
Geczy: Now's the time that I'm finding the best investments of my lifetime, of an entire century, and now you're asking for your money back?
Lyster Watson's Marc Freed says Hedge funds are going to lose about $600 billion this year, but that doesn't mean they're extinct. Yes, the average hedge fund is down 15 percent so far since January.
But the stock market is down double that. So for those investors with a strong stomach, hedge funds still look like a pretty good bet.
In New York, I'm Sally Herships for Marketplace.
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Connecticut town reverses course on 'pandemic drones' amid privacy concerns
The Westport Police Department has chosen to opt out of a program that would use drones to detect person with a fever or cough from afar.
A police drone in Westport, Conn.NBC Connecticut
April 23, 2020, 8:42 PM UTC / Updated April 23, 2020, 8:43 PM UTC
By Doha Madani
A Connecticut police force is grounding its plans to test a "pandemic drone" that would detect a person with a fever or cough, after privacy concerns were raised.
The town of Westport has chosen to opt out of the '"Flatten the Curve Pilot Program" from drone manufacturer Draganfly, according to NBC Connecticut. Westport Police Chief Foti Koskinas said Thursday that while he was thankful for the opportunity to participate, he also wanted to be responsive to citizens' concerns.
"We thank Draganfly for offering the pilot program to Westport and sincerely hope to be included in future innovations once we are convinced the program is appropriate for Westport," Koskinas said, according to NBC Connecticut.
A number of people and organizations raised privacy concerns after the town announced its intentions to partner with Draganfly. People from around the country responded to the police department's Facebook post Tuesday with criticism over the decision.
"An extreme and disgusting over reach of government," one Facebook user wrote. "Big brother is watching indeed."
The state's chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union issued a statement against the program Wednesday and argued that technology is "no magic pill" to the coronavirus pandemic.
"Towns and the state should be wary of self-interested, privacy-invading companies using COVID-19 as a chance to market their products and create future business opportunities," David McGuire, executive director of the ACLU of Connecticut, wrote in his statement.
The Westport Police Department launched a drone program in 2016 to help dive teams in locating submerged objects and victims. It later expanded the program for assistance in accident investigations, documentation of scenes and search-and-rescue.
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Michael joined Henning Larsen in 2006 and was appointed partner in 2016. His extensive international profile includes design direction of projects in Sweden, Germany, Ireland, the United States and Canada. Henning Larsen's internationalization efforts include the establishment of a stronger presence in the North American market. Michael is playing a key role in the realization of this ambition. He has headed competition victories for Etobicoke Civic Center in Toronto, Carl H. Lindner College of Business in Cincinnati and Minneapolis City Hall.
The idea of interaction between teachers and students is a core aspect in all of Henning Larsen's educational buildings. Michael has a strong understanding of the demands that will be faced by the workforce of tomorrow. At Lindner College, this insight is evident in the synergy between education, innovation, and research made possible by the college's West Campus. Michael has also been instrumental in the Danish-based educational building projects, Lillebælt Business Academy in Odense and Campus Roskilde.
His expertise also includes a thorough understanding of the current evolution of municipal institutions such as city halls. The Scandinavian ideals of transparency, democracy, and civic engagement are clear in projects where Michael has served as Design Director, including Uppsala City Hall (Sweden) and Etobicoke Civic Center (Toronto). All of Henning Larsen's municipal buildings seek to engage in dialog with members of the local community, inviting them into the heart of municipal government. Public passages, exhibition spaces, and cafes makes these buildings attractive destinations in the city.
Michael studied architecture in Aarhus. In 2016, he was selected to join the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts' prestigious Society of Artists.


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The crash happened around 7:30 p.m. on River Road, near East River Road. Kimberly Sobczak, 57, of Englewood and Thomas Thole, 56, of Rotunda West were both killed.
Investigators remained at the scene for hours, trying to determine what caused the crash. At this time, they are still working to figure out what happened and are looking to see if drugs or alcohol played any role in the accident.


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Welcome to the ninth volume of Hortulus and our special themed issue, Wounds, Torture, and the Grotesque. This issue is the second one we have made available as an e-book, so check it out and let us know what you think.
Last year Hortulus readers voted for the theme of wounds, torture and the grotesque. Although ideas of the grotesque have been associated with medieval studies for years, recent scholarship encourages rethinking these concepts in relation to race, gender, medicine, and changing ways of conceptualizing the body. The three articles in this issue expand our ideas of what wounds and the grotesque accomplish in three strikingly different sources, including a Japanese vernacular tale, an English epic, and a story from an English sermon. All three authors argue, however, that the ambiguity of wounds and the grotesque enable the sources' key purposes.
In "Rhetorics of Subversion in Medieval Japanese Popular Prose: Grotesque, Carnivalesque, and Ambivalent Laughter in Morokado monogatari," Raechel Dumas examines a warrior tale produced in late medieval Japan which has usually been understood as frivolous popular prose. She argues that Morokado monogatari deploys the grotesque to articulate "unofficial" perspectives that both legitimized and undermined standard literary, social, and religious discourses. The ambivalent nature of the grotesque in this work is essential to the work's participation in and subversion of pre-modern Japanese literary genres.
Ambivalence is also key to Erin Wagner's explanation of monstrosity in Beowulf. In "Keeping it in the Family: Beowulf and the Tradition of Familicide in the Kin of Cain," she expands on the comparison of Grendel to Cain, arguing that Beowulf must also be seen as taking on signs of Cain. The acknowledgment of this relationship to Grendel allows Beowulf to kill the monster, but makes the hero monstrous himself.
Kathryn Loveridge takes on monstrous transformation as well in "The Curse of Christ's Wound: Christ's Blood as 'Anti-relic.'" Loveridge considers the implications of an episode in John Mirk's Festial in which the touch of Christ's blood condemns a heretical merchant. This 'anti-relic' changes from marking Christ's sacrifice to marking the merchant as a monstrous sacrifice.
In addition to these articles, we are pleased to offer you six reviews of recent publications on subjects of interest to medieval scholars and teachers. The success of Hortulus' reviews section has encouraged us to inaugurate a new "rolling reviews" section, which will be available on the website between issues. We hope that this will allow us to include a greater variety of reviews and to make those reviews available to our readers as quickly as possible.
The breadth of this issue would not have been possible without the careful and incisive work of our assistant editors, Amiri Ayanna, Elisabeth Mincin, and Alexandra Verini. Many thanks also to Melissa Ridley Elmes for organizing and presiding over the Hortulus-sponsored session at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, which was held in Kalamazoo, Michigan earlier this month. This session was timed to coincide with our spring issue and also had the topic of wounds, torture and the grotesque. Those of you who were able to attend know what a success this session was, with two excellent presentations: Rachel Levinson-Emley from the University of California at Santa Barbara presented "Holy Blood, Holey Body" and Susan Anderson from Arizona State University presented "'Food for the Beasts': Broken Human Bodies in Medieval Bestiary Illuminations."
On a sadder note, this issue marks the end of Meghan Glass' tenure as co-editor of Hortulus. During Meghan's time here, she has guided Hortulus toward greater prominence in medieval studies, including instituting the Hortulus-sponsored session at Kalamazoo, increasing publication of the journal to twice a year, and helping oversee the revamping of the website including the addition of interactive footnotes and links to relevant sources and encouraging greater reader participation. We wish her the best of luck as she goes on to submit her PhD thesis at the end of the summer.
We hope you enjoy this issue, and we look forward to hearing your comments. Please take a moment and contribute to the discussion in the comments sections below each article, or by sending us an email at hortulus@hortulus-journal.com.
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It doesn't include the normal process of headhunting or advertising to find a suitable candidate for a position that a recruitment agency would carry out.
You're not covered by the rules if you're just called a director as part of your job title without being formally appointed.
An express trust is an arrangement where there is a clear and expressed intention to create a trust. An express trust is usually created by a written document - a trust deed.
Nominee services are used to keep the true ownership or control of a company confidential. Nominee directors and secretaries may do little to manage or administer the company, or they may play an active role - but acting on the instructions of others.
Nominee shareholders are the registered holders of the shares in a company but they hold them on behalf of others.
A discretionary trust isn't a low-risk trust.
In most cases you'll know whether you're carrying out a relevant activity by way of business but there may be some circumstances where you might not be sure. You don't need to consider this any further if you already know that you're in business.
If you do all of these things then you are carrying out the activity by way of business and you need to register with HMRC.
If you don't do any of these things then you aren't carrying out the activity by way of business and you don't need to register with HMRC.
If you do some but not all of these things, and you're still not sure, you can contact HMRC by email or in writing for guidance, letting them know which activities do and don't apply to you.
You don't need to register with HMRC under the Money Laundering Regulations if your business is already supervised for money laundering purposes by the Financial Conduct Authority or another supervisory body.
To register with HMRC you'll need to fill in a registration form and provide all the information requested. You'll also need to apply for a fit and proper test.


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Armed conflict in NW, SW:
Gunshots mar Sunday plans of Mbengwi, Alakuma residents
Residents of Mbengwi road in Momo division, North West Region of Cameroon have reported gunshots this morning in their neighborhood.
Similar reports have come in from Chideh and Alakuma close to Bamenda, capital town of the North West Region, where a Separatist conflict has prevailed for over five years.
Talking to MMI, a local said from the sound of the gunshots, they believe it is an exchange of gunfire between those fighting for a breakaway state called Ambazonia, and government forces.
"It started at about 5:40 AM with a very loud explosion that woke everyone up…everyone is scared and worried," revealed a source.
The gunshots have since restricted residents of the affected neighborhoods from stepping out or going to church like they do every Sunday mornings.
To one of them, today's exchange is the "… most thunderous gunshots with multiple explosions since this crisis started…" Majority of them are now indoors.
Today's gun battles are among hundreds recorded since the start of the bloody armed conflict.
The conflict broke out in 2016 after government used force to suppress peaceful protests by Anglophone teachers and lawyers seeking the preservation of Anglo-saxon culture and education.
Till date, thousands are believed to have died and millions affected in one way or the other. Thousands have also been arrested.
(C) Mimi Mefo Info
'50k' Presidential Grant Controversy rocks University of Bamenda
Tiko: At Least 20 Persons Missing after Boat Capsize


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Waveline Wavepuck II Water Pump
by Afishionado | Dec 27, 2017 | Equipment, Opinion
Waveline recently released their 2nd version of water pump. (Whatever happened to the first one?) To be completely honest, I loved their initial design concept from MACNA 2015. It had a incredibly sleek and low profile design, and when the finished product was...
The Importance of Water Movement in the Reef Aquarium
by Afishionado | Oct 27, 2017 | Equipment, Tanks, Technology
I recently read an excellent article by Coral Magazine's Matt Pedersen; in it, he and Reefbuilder's Jake Adams discussed the idea that waves are as important as lights in our tanks, if not more, and after reading Ecotech's Coralab report where Lou...
SICCE Voyager Nano Unboxing
by Marcin Smok | Nov 2, 2015 | Equipment, Industry, Opinion, Technology
Sicce is making a "big splash in a small package" with their line of nano pumps and propeller powerheads. I've recently had the opportunity to test the tiny Syncra Nano return pump (you can read the review here), and today we're going to visit another Sicce...
Gearing Up Was No Minor Challenge for our Marine Aquarium Forebears
by Saltwater Smarts | Oct 17, 2015 | Equipment, Fish, Science, Tanks
The Avant-Garde Marine Aquarist – now available in print and eBook formatsThink you've got equipment woes? Imagine what it would have been like trying to equip a marine system back at the dawn of marine fishkeeping! Well, hobby pioneer Paul "Paul B" Baldassano doesn't have to imagine that because he was there to witness it. (Actually, he may have been there when our first human ancestor slithered out of the primordial ooze—we're looking into it.) To get a sense of the equipment challenges early hobbyists faced, check out this excerpt from the first chapter of Paul's new book, The Avant-Garde Marine Aquarist: A 60-Year History of Fishkeeping, now available in both electronic and print formats:Equipment limitations Early tanks had other concerns besides parasites, and the majority of those concerns were due to the aquarium hardware at the time. As I said, tanks had metal corners up until the early 60s, which was when all-glass tanks were sold. That led the way for larger tanks to be manufactured. My first all-glass tank was a 40-gallon, which was considered large then
Reef Octopus Sharkman Pumps Announced at MACNA
by AquaNerd | Sep 20, 2013 | Equipment, Industry, MACNA
The CoralVue booth was full of all sorts of goodies at this year's MACNA. Besides all of the sweet Maxspect and Elos products (some of which we haven't even gotten to yet), they are showing off a brand new Sharkman controllable powerhead, which will be Reef Octopus' flagship powerhead. Like many controllable powerheads on the market, the Sharkman produces a strong stream of water flow at a relavitvely low energy consumption. A two-channel controller allows users to modify the flow rates for a pair of pumps, which includes a pulse mode that can create significant wave action. Only one model was on demo at MACNA, which we believe is an 8,000 LPH (approximately 2100 gph) model, but it won't be the only one available to this new line of controllable pumps. The Sharkman pumps aren't wholly dissimilar to other powerheads on the market except in two key areas, their controller and their mounting system. The Sharkman Wave Controller is simple and easy to use, providing a digital readout for the selected speed of the pumps and a countdown timer for the food timer function. Both the speed of the pumps and the frequency of the pulse can be independently adjusted to allow for whatever sort of wave action is desired


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by Aim Admin | Jul 19, 2019 | Legislators, Media, Members
Chris Watts, President, Indiana Fiscal Policy Institute
First off, my sincere apologies if the title of this column has you humming 'We built this city on rock…and…roll!" the rest of the day. But like cheesy '80s lyrics, the plight of Indiana's cities and towns has been stuck in my head lately.
Maybe it's that 2019 is a municipal election year, giving local issues a more prominent spot under the political spotlight (along with the presidential ambitions of a certain northern Indiana mayor). And who could forget that July is national 'Small Cities Month?'
What really got me thinking was a new report from the Brookings Institution released last month finding that larger cities are becoming denser employment hubs, confirming that proximity to industry clusters, anchor institutions and a concentrated workforce create a competitive advantage around urban cores.
Indianapolis was featured in this study, increasing job density 42% from 2004 to 2015 (with the clustering of technology, hospitality and healthcare jobs around downtown boosting the metropolitan average).
In today's talent-driven economy, employment and investment trends are tied to population. It's no surprise that Indianapolis (again) boasted the state's largest numeric increase in residents last year. Thanks to an analysis by the Indiana Business Research Center, we know that Indiana's cities and towns collectively accounted for 80% of our population growth last year.
For a different perspective on economic urbanization, I looked at Marion County and the 25 other counties where at least 60% of the population lives in a city or town, jurisdictions that are also home to 22 of Indiana's 23 largest cities.
These counties make up less than a third of Indiana's area in square miles. But they hold nearly two-thirds of all Hoosiers, more than two-thirds of the state's jobs, and account for two-thirds of our recent population growth.
Any way you measure it, there's a clear migration of human capital and business opportunities to cities and more urbanized areas across Indiana. On a state level, it mirrors the 'metropolitan revolution' that Brookings finds nationally.
State policymakers have recognized the significance of this trend. The Regional Cities initiative was a $126 million effort launched in 2015 to stoke population growth and economic development in Indiana's metro regions with competitive funding for 'transformative' projects.
Regional Cities was an early salvo in an onslaught of quality of life programs, with community development initiatives like 'Stellar Communities' and 'Indiana Main Streets' along with grants for specific purposes, like 'Next Level Trails.' Indiana's Office of Community and Rural Affairs (OCRA) is leading the charge to empower more areas to make the same sorts of livability enhancements that draw new residents to larger cities, like rural broadband deployment through Governor Holcomb's 'Next Level Connections' fund.
Tax policies have shifted too. In recent legislative sessions, housing incentives, local financing options for culture and hospitality initiatives and redevelopment credits have joined traditional business tax breaks, as lawmakers acknowledge that appealing to potential employees is critical to attracting growing employers.
But these efforts to help Indiana's cities and towns are undermined by deeper fiscal challenges. The places that represent our broadest economic potential are also clearly disadvantaged by our local tax structure.
More urbanized areas of the state lose more of their property tax revenues to our constitutional tax caps because they tend to have more overlapping units of government dividing up levies under the caps. The 26 counties mentioned earlier, for example, lose twice as much of their levy to circuit breaker credits as the 92-county average.
Fast-growing communities also lose out, as tax levies and revenue formulas are calculated based on historic – and static – budget assumptions. Growth in assessed property values (critical to the local tax base) typically lags behind the trajectory of population and employment.
Indiana thrives when our cities and towns succeed alongside their rural neighbors. Purdue economist Larry DeBoer notes that the fiscal climate of rural counties is lent some stability by the 2% assessment of farmland under the property tax caps; this is small comfort against the broader challenge of rural population decline, with weather-related crop delays and market-limiting tariffs emerging as recent threats.
But supporting dynamic cities is the surest way to grow our economy provide a tax base that sustains Indiana's diverse urban, suburban and rural communities.
A blueprint for boosting Indiana's cities and towns may include more state aid, and grant programs like Regional Cities. But realistically, it starts with a hard look at our local revenue system, and whether governments have the 'own source' capacity to keep up with service costs and infrastructure demands. For more ambitious quality of life programs and capital projects, we may need to rethink structures for interlocal cooperation, revenue distribution and regional investment.
Simply put, if economic trends point towards cities as the cornerstone of Indiana's future, it's up to state policymakers to provide a fiscal foundation solid enough to aim higher and build taller.


You have a listing in the "Plumbers" subcategory but feel like your Listing should really be in the "Plumbing Contractors" subcategory.
Follow these simple steps to change which subcategory you are listed in.
Once you have signed into Centrepointe you should be looking at your Account Overview, unless you have signed in using pencils that link you directly to a specific section in Centrepointe.
Select the "view/edit/remove" link for your Enhanced or Basic Listing, depending on which one you want to change.
Select the "view/edit/remove" link for the particular listing that you would like to change.
This will take you to the preview of the Listing that you are about to edit. You will need to select the 'edit/remove' link one more time.
Once you have selected the 'edit/remove' link or have signed into this location by using pencils, you can select both your Section, and based on that Section, what Subcategory your Listing will appear in.
Don't forget to include a headline for all basic listings, and a headline and summary for Enhanced Listings.
Listings are divided and broken down into more than one page.
Before: all of the listings were on one page. Enhanced at the top, followed by Basic and Prospects listed in alphabetical order.
The change: Depending on the number of listings, the Directory Subcategories will be broken down into more than one page.
The pages will be divided into listings of 25 per page. Page one: 1 to 25, page two: 26-50 and so on.
All of the Business Member listings will be placed on page 1- no matter how many. Then the Prospect Listings will start on page 2 and follow the 25 listings per page format. In the case that the Basic Listings fall under 10 listings, fill the page with Prospect Listings and start page 2 at number 11.
All Enhanced and Basic Listings will be places on page 1, and page 2 will only hold Prospects. In the case that the Enhanced and Basic Listings fall under 10 listings, the page will be filled with Prospect Listings and start page 2 at number 11.
All the Business Member's Listings are placed on page 1. Prospects will be placed on the 2nd page, again following the 25 Listings per page division. In the case that the Enhanced and Basic Listings for Business Members fall under 10 listings, fill the page with Prospect Listings and start page 2 at number 11.
"Verified Listing Published by Owner" label placed on Listings managed by actual businesses or organizations.
By placing a "Verified Listing Published by Owner" label on your Listing, we are showing that you are involved. Visitors see that you support this Listing, and in turn, makes it a more trustworthy, reliable and credible source of information.


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Quote from: Tom62 on June 19, 2020, 05:52:18 AM
The whole George Floyd thing has now become so politicized that I've lost my appetite.
Just watch him being murdered. The politics fall away then.
Quote from: Tank on June 19, 2020, 08:44:32 AM
I've seen that, and I was disgusted by it. I'm even more disgusted by all these politicians and celebrities, who haven't done anything against police brutality in all those decades and are now acting as moral, virtuous, hypocritical dipshits.
The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
Learned everything from cartoons.
Let's not forget the companies who are taking advantage of this whole thing. An example is Amazon Prime Video where the top row of films is in dedication to BLM. I haven't checked to see if any of them are for rent. In any case, to me it seems they are exploiting this for their gain.
"Maybe it's just a bunch of stuff that happens." -- Homer Simpson
"Some people focus on the destination. Atheists focus on the journey." -- Barry Goldberg
Obama had the Justice Department overseeing police departments. Most Democrats supported it, most Republicans were against it. Jeff Sessions, under Trump, put a stop to it and the police departments lost all oversight with the power to fix things.
Recusant
Miscreant Erendrake
infidel barbarian
On Candace Owens. Not an encomium.
"Candace Owens Is a Willing Tool of Republican Racists" | The Daily Beast
Owens gets trotted out when white conservatives want to illustrate their idea of a "good" Black— willing to label Black culture pathologically "broken," claim Black people are "pretending to be oppressed," and smear Black Lives Matter as "domestic terrorists." (And also, to misquote Harriet Tubman in a glorious display of historical ignorance and white supremacist revisionism intent on construing Black folks as their own oppressors.) Owens is the tokenized Black messenger white racists rely on to discredit millions of other Black voices demanding racial justice, whom they had no interest in hearing or heeding anyway. Her transformation into Republicans' Black mascot just proves that their gestures toward Black voters are always made in bad faith.
None of this is to suggest Owens is without agency or a naive victim of the Republican party. Rather, she seems to eagerly and proactively do white racists' dirty work, often in ways that conflict with her own past actions. As a teen in 2007, Owens sued and settled with the Stamford Board of Education after charging the district with failing to protect her from racist hate crimes by white classmates. But at a 2019 House hearing on hate crimes and the rise of white nationalism, Owens described the proceedings as Democratic "fearmongering, power and control." She has called the NAACP, the same group that helped generate the press that likely helped her secure her settlement, "one of the worst groups for Black people."
[Continues . . .]
"Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration — courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and above all, love of the truth."
Way of the Mister: The Judeo/Christian West
Quote from: Recusant on October 12, 2020, 07:00:10 AM
She doesn't come across as a victim to me. That just wonder makes who the author of that article considers to be racists? Anyone who is not on the left?
Yeah, pretty much nails it on the head.
Quote from: Tom62 on October 12, 2020, 12:23:32 PM
If you're honestly interested, I can help.
The author names one prominent white racist Republican early in the article. The evidence of that racism has been readily available for decades.
We can look at Candace Owens in action, using an example provided in the article. The Central Park Five were shown to be innocent of the charges that they were convicted of. The actual perpetrator confessed, and DNA evidence recovered by investigators from the victim and the crime scene show that the confession is legitimate--the DNA is from the man who confessed. That man had no association with the Central Park Five until he met one of them in prison.
Yet Donald Trump continues to insist that the Central Park Five were and are guilty. In Donald Trump's world that's the way it has to be because Trump made a very big production at the time of calling for the Central Park Five to be executed. Trump is incapable of admitting he was so hugely wrong, so he carries on with his egregious falsehood, claiming that somehow the Five are guilty despite the evidence to the contrary.
What motivation might Candace Owens have for pushing the same false narrative as Donald Trump about the Central Park Five?
Sandra Craft
Surprisingly OK
Quote from: Recusant on October 12, 2020, 10:29:43 PM
My guess is she wants to ride a gravy train and is betting everything that Trump is it.
"Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet." Sarah Louise Delany
I don't know much about Candace Owens and why she would be a willing tool of racists, her being a black woman herself, but this fascinates me. Why on Earth would anyone do that? Do they really wallow in so much self-loathing?
I don't think we have a black perspective to speak of here, so I'd have to guess that she is just hitching her wagon to the "leading" political party. Maybe it's just to make money? I personally can't see selling myself out like that.
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Two new brands – E-TAG and MaxTAG – were launched yesterday for motorists to continue using the SmartTAG lanes on Malaysia's toll highways.
"Both E-TAG and MaxTAG feature new microprocessors and enhanced display for even better performance and reliability," said Helmuth Blasch, the director of EFKON Asia Sdn Bhd.
EFKON GmbH is one of the world's leading providers of electronic toll collection systems and the technology provider of the infra-red toll collection system on Malaysian highways.
"These proven infra-red TAG devices provide peace of mind to users by providing secure transactions with the exact toll amount paid immediately visible.
"Most importantly, there is no possibility of cloning and no risk of losing control of your finances through incorrect deductions," he said at the launching of the E-TAG and MaxTAG in Kuala Lumpur yesterday.
Blasch also pointed out that both the E-TAG and the MaxTAG are convenient buy-and-use devices that are portable and easily transferred for use in another vehicle without the need for specialized installation.
"Infra-red TAG devices are cost-effective solutions for frequent highway users. Each device is robustly built for with a high impact-resistant casing. As it can be kept inside a vehicle and not subject to external environment conditions and vandalism, the device can easily last for 15 years or more," he added.
At the media briefing, Blasch also shared case studies from Germany and Netherlands on successful multi-lane free-flow systems using the company's infra-red dedicated short-range communication system.
"In Germany, the nationwide truck tolling system that EFKON installed on all highways in a multi-lane free-flow configuration has proven to be highly effective, catering to more than two million trucks travelling at up to 100 km/h.
" In the Netherlands' Westerschelde tunnel, an initial plan to replace the infra-red system with Radio Frequency Identification Device (RFID) was scrapped after it was proven difficult to accurately direct microwaves at specific stickers, especially with the presence of large reflective metal surfaces such as tankers and containers in close proximity," he said.
EFKON also plans to make its built-in infra-red devices, now found on Perodua Myvi and certain Toyota models, available as another convenient option for motorists.
Currently, EFKON's E-TAG are available at off-line channels such as accessory shops and petrol stations while on-line sales of the MaxTAG by Sigma Technology Sdn Bhd are on Lazada.com.my, 11Street.com.my and Shoppe.com.my.
Consumer response to the MaxTAG has been encouraging with more than 1,500 units sold in just four days after its availability on-line.


I Due Casali Farmhouse has an indoor dining room that can seat up to 50 people. The outdoor lounge hosts up to 70 guests and is warm and inviting, be it summer or winter. The dining rooms overlook the beautiful garden with a large open lawn where children can play. In addition, the restaurant is surrounded with an olive grove with secular olive trees that can be admired from the dining rooms. This place provides the perfect setting to spend your child's First Holy Communion or Confirmation day.
A range of dishes is carefully selected and prepared by the owners of I Due Casali Farmhouse. Here, the guests are offered to taste the typical flavours of Tuscia traditional cuisine: ravioli with ricotta cheese and spinach all'etrusca, lombrichi all'amatriciana or all'arrabbiata, mixed grilled meat, and many other homemade specialties. All of our homemade pastries are made with local, high-quality ingredients such as Tuscia hazelnuts. Our guests can taste and buy brutti ma buoni, tozzetti, amaretti, as well as cakes and desserts: zuppa inglese (similar to English trifle), cortina, tiramisu etc.


The NSW government has given parking inspectors the power to issue demerit points for certain parking offences, in addition to the fines that apply to those offences. The move has led to fierce debate about whether council rangers should be able to wield such powers, and whether illegal parking should attract demerit points at all.
• it is a T-intersection without traffic lights and the driver stops along the continuous side of the continuing road at the intersection.
Rule 170(2) provides that "A driver must not stop on a road within 20 metres from the nearest point of an intersecting road at an intersection with traffic lights, unless the driver stops at a place on a length of road, or in an area, to which a parking control sign applies and the driver is permitted to" do so.
Rule 171(1) states that "A driver must not stop on a children's crossing, or on the road within 20 metres before the crossing and 10 metres after the crossing, unless the driver stops at a place on a length of road, or in an area, to which a parking control sign applies and the driver is permitted to stop at that place" by other road rules.
Rule 175(1) prescribes a fine of $337, 1 demerit point and a maximum court-imposed fine of $2,200 for a driver who "stop(s) on a level crossing, or on a road within 20 metres before the nearest rail or track to the driver approaching the crossing and 20 metres after the nearest rail or track to the driver leaving the crossing, unless the driver stops at a place on a length of road, or in an area, to which a parking control sign applies and the driver is permitted to stop" by the road rules.
And section 650(1) of the Local Government Act 1993 also prescribes a fine of $561 and 1 demerit point for parking in a "free parking area" which is a disabled parking area, "otherwise than as permitted by a notice or sign erected by the council".
Motorists took to social media to vent their frustrations about the new powers, expressing the view that demerit points should be reserved for moving traffic violations such as speeding and running red lights, foreshadowing a rise in tensions between inspectors and members of the public.


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Q: Change Rails session for tests with Capybara I need to test a page in my Rails 5.2 app that displays the current cart if the user is not logged with Capybara system test. The app retrieves the cart by the card_id saved in the rails session (session[:cart_id] = @cart.id)
My test looks like this:
require 'application_system_test_case'

class CartUiTest < ApplicationSystemTestCase
  def setup
    @cart = create(:cart)
  end

  test 'show cart also if user is not logged' do
    visit edit_cart_path

    assert_text "Some text"
  end
end

How can I set the session in this test? I've tried the gem rack_session_access but I'm looking for another solution that not use this gem because it conflicts with other tests.

A: You shouldn't be directly accessing the session in system tests. If you want a user that has a session that has logged out, start by logging in the user and then log them out.  That way the browser will have the cookie that corresponds to a logged out session just like a real user would.

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Q: A string that eats up whatever is in front? I know this is a weird question but I have a string inside a RKResponse (from RestKit) that is eating whatever I add after it.
I want to know what is inside the "response.bodyAsString" that causes this behavior.
This is the code:
    NSLog(@"--- refreshFriendsList callback ---");

    NSLog(@"Status Code: %i",response.statusCode);
    NSLog(@"Response Contents: 54321%@12345",response.bodyAsString);

    NSLog(@"Response Contents length: %@",response.contentLength);

    if ([response isOK])
    {
        NSLog(@"RESPONSE OK");

        NSLog(@"length %lu",(unsigned long)response.bodyAsString.length);
        NSLog(@"trimmed lenght %lu",(unsigned long)[response.bodyAsString stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet:[NSCharacterSet whitespaceAndNewlineCharacterSet]].length);

        NSLog(@"IS IT EMPTY? %@",[response.bodyAsString isEqualToString:@""]?@"YES":@"NO");

     .
     .
     .

And this is the output:
2013-09-04 15:26:31.958 AppName[5658:707] --- refreshFriendsList callback ---
2013-09-04 15:26:31.965 AppName[5658:707] Status Code: 200
2013-09-04 15:26:31.980 AppName[5658:707] Response Contents: 54321
2013-09-04 15:26:31.986 AppName[5658:707] Response Contents length: 4
2013-09-04 15:26:31.990 AppName[5658:707] RESPONSE OK
2013-09-04 15:26:31.997 AppName[5658:707] length 4
2013-09-04 15:26:32.002 AppName[5658:707] trimmed lenght 4
2013-09-04 15:26:32.014 AppName[5658:707] IS IT EMPTY? NO

As you can see the later 12345 disappeared and I have no idea why, neither why the length of the string is 4.
The server should be returning an empty string which is created from having found no results
JSONObject friendsAndFamilyInfo = manager.getFriendsAndFamilyList(userID);

if (friendsAndFamilyInfo != null)
{
     resp.getWriter().print(friendsAndFamilyInfo.toString());
     resp.setStatus(200);
} else
{
     resp.getWriter().print("ERROR");
     resp.setStatus(500);
}

UPDATE:
This is what I get when i print the response as raw data:
2013-09-04 15:47:59.930 AppName[5701:707] Response as Data: <007b007d>

And this is how restkit coverts data into a string:
- (NSString *)bodyAsString {
    return [[[NSString alloc] initWithData:self.body encoding:[self bodyEncoding]] autorelease];
}

A: This looks like an encoding problem: From your output
AppName[5701:707] Response as Data: <007b007d>

one can see that the returned data is the string {} in UTF-16 (big-endian) encoding.
If this is converted to an NSString using e.g. UTF-8 or ASCII encoding then the
first character of the converted string will be the NUL character.
Then in
NSLog(@"Response Contents: 54321%@12345",response.bodyAsString);

the NUL character acts as a string terminator.
It would also explain why the length of the string is 4: Each byte of the data is converted
to one Unicode.
Example:
uint8_t bytes[] = { 0x00, 0x7B, 0x00, 0x7D };
NSData *data = [NSData dataWithBytes:bytes length:sizeof(bytes)];
NSLog(@"%@", data);
// Output: <007b007d>
NSString *str = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:data encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSLog(@"Contents: >>>%@<<<",str);
// Output: Contents: >>>
NSLog(@"Length: %d",[str length]);
// Output: 4

But if the correct encoding is used:
NSString *str = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:data encoding:NSUTF16BigEndianStringEncoding];
NSLog(@"Contents: >>>%@<<<",str);
// Output: Contents: >>>{}<<<
NSLog(@"Length: %d",[str length]);
// Output: 2


Bryon is one of more than 100,000 patients in Florida approved to use medical marijuana. He says it wasn't the doctor, but the dispensary who told him to start with a small dose to see how he would function throughout the day.
The rules for medical marijuana differ from most pharmaceuticals. Dr. David Berger of Wholistic Pediatrics and Family Care blogs about the fact medical cannabis physicians do not have to undergo any training on strains of cannabis or dosing before authorizing it for patient use.
Doctors often issue a general approval and certain quantity for 70 days. Then it is up to the dispensary to guide that patient when it comes to how much to use and what type to use.
So uninformed patients can wind up with a strain that makes them drowsy all day or keeps them up all night. In other cases people end up with a product high in THC which give them a high they may not be looking for.
Victoria Walker with Trulieve showed us some of the 100 different products the dispensary carries in multiple forms like vaporization, oil drops and capsules. The dispensary advises patients to start with low doses and keep a journal to figure out what works and what doesn't.
Bryon, who has used medical marijuana for 6 months says that is the path that worked for him. He claims medical cannabis has relieved him of crippling anxiety that he once suffered on a daily basis.
Leafly is an educational website loaded with information for anyone looking to learn more about medical cannabis.


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With the long weekend fast approaching, time to dust off the tent and book a powered or un-powered site here at Lakes Entrance Tourist Park. We also have 2 bedroom family cabins that will accommodate up to 6 persons. On a budget? We have a standard cabin that you can also bring your small dog available also.
Give us a call on 5155 1159 or email lakesentrancetouristpark.com.au today and reserve your preference.
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President Mahinda Rajapaksa successfully completed his state visits to Tanzania and Seychelles yesterday (July 01) evening and returned to Sri Lanka from Victoria, Seychelles early in the morning today.
Sri Lanka President was on a three day state visit to Tanzania followed by a two day visit to Seychelles.
Sri Lanka Government is on the move to strengthen diplomatic ties with several African countries.
In Seychelles, Country's President James Michel gave Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa an official sendoff at the airport during the departure ceremony.
Sri Lanka and Seychelles signed three agreements. The agreements signed were MOU on vocational training and youth development and MOU on defense cooperation between the two countries.
Sri Lanka also signed an Air services agreement with Seychelles.The establishment of air links will be a catalyst for further strengthening the economic partnership between the two countries.
President Mahinda Rajapaksa's visit to Tanzania has laid a solid foundation to further enhance cooperation in all sectors between Sri Lanka and the African Continent, Tanzanian President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete said.
In the recent past he also visited Uganda. During this visit Sri Lanka entered into several bilateral agreements with both the countries.


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Walking is the new get fit exercise thanks to Skechers Shape Ups. We examine Shape Ups more closely and assess the health benefits of barefoot walking from Skechers' new shoe. Normally at Walking.org we talk about traditional walking boots and taking in the rolling hills of the beautiful British countryside while highlighting the benefits of a well balanced diet as part of your walking fitness.
So it feels rather strange to talk about something as commercial and colourful as Skechers Shape Ups, especially when it's for people who don't normally embrace the outdoors.
But, using a soft insole, soft midsole and a 'dynamic rolling bottom', Shape Ups combined all the benefits of barefoot walking with the soft cushioning needed for safely walking the concrete paths and high streets of our urban environment.
Mother nature intended for us to walk in bare feet on soft surfaces. But after we flattened the earth and covered it in concrete, the ground was suddenly too hard for our feet to take, which is why we wear shoes. Since then, our urban environment has increased, causing the need for soft, cushioned shoes to lessen the impact on our feet and joints as we walk.
While we love the look and feel of Vibram Five Fingers, which are like a grippy rubber glove for your feet, they're not ideally suited to walking on hard surfaces and are far better for country walks and water sports.
Skechers Shape Ups on the other hand combine the benefits of barefoot walking with the soft cushioning and protection needed for walking in the 'concrete jungle'.
There are already Skechers Shape Ups advice sites springing up all over the web, but ff we can forget for a moment that Skechers is a colourful, American, marketing machine with a shiny new shoe with one foot in fashion and the other foot in fitness and focus purely on the technology behind it; then we have something very special for anyone interested in the health benefits of walking.
So while Skechers have marketed their Shape Ups shoes for people with hectic lifestyles who are far too busy to take a leisurely stroll, there are many benefits to be had by all.
Because Shape Ups are essentially a Skechers trainer, they're soft and cushioned to reduce the impact on your feet and joints when walking. But with their soft insole, dual density midsole and 'dynamic rolling bottom', they perfect mimic the effects of barefoot walking on soft sand.
So as you step in your Shape Ups, your heel sinks into the soft insole in the same way you would walk on soft sand. The dynamic rolling bottom then helps your foot to smoothly roll across the midfoot and onto the forefoot, before pushing off with your toes to take another step. By walking in this way, Shape Ups utilise the full flexibility of the foot while employing more muscles in the legs, buttocks, back and core to not only provide mobility, but to help stabilise your steps.
So if we compared someone walking in a pair of regular trainers to someone walking in a pair of Skechers Shape Ups, the person wearing Shape Ups would get better exercise because their shoes are mimicking the effects of barefoot walking.
To substantiate their marketing statements, Skechers have commissioned an independent study for their Shape Ups shoe to monitor the health and fitness benefits of their new product.
The case study was to evaluate the weight loss, body composition, glutei strength and lower back strength of 10 women taking part who would wear Skechers Shape Ups in increasing amounts over the course of 6 weeks.
The end results were quite impressive with all participants seeing a loss in weight and body composition while gaining glutei strength, lower back endurance and a noticeable improvement in posture.
You can read the clinical case study here.
So if you're looking to increase your health and fitness through diet and walking, why not give a pair of Skechers Shape Ups a try when walking to work? If you're spending 10 minutes walking to walk from the train station or going for a stroll at lunchtime, imagine how much extra exercise you could be getting by effectively walking barefoot in a pair of Shape Ups instead of your usual shoes.
There are now Skechers Shape Ups for men in a number of shoe like styles. So any men who are interested in harnessing the benefits of barefoot walking as a quick and convenient exercise, can also where Shape Ups. Fortunately the designs are quite discrete too.
However, Skechers advise that you taking things slowly at first. Even for someone who may be used to walking long distances, using your feet properly and walking barefoot will still take some practice. We've been walking in cushioned trainers and hiking boots for generations, so going back to nature could come as quite a shock.


With the Moen S6320 Shower Head you get to enjoy a unique experience of a rain shower in your bathroom. The shower head has a huge 8-inch surface and has an innovative system called immersion technology. This allows it to give you 300% more spray power than you would get from most of the rain shower heads in the market. This ensures that you get a through rinse of your body.
You can adjust the water flow with a flip of a lever with this shower head. You can decide on a concentrated rinse or a full spray so that you get the experience of your choice.
The Moen S6320 Shower Head is very attractive and has chrome finish which is very reflective. This allows it to complement other accessories in your bathroom.
You get amazing coverage with the Moen S6320 Shower Head. This is because the shower head is 8-inch in diameter and you also can customize the water flow. The shower head has a two-spray mode which allows you to customize the water flow as per your preference.
You get an option to choose from four different finishes. This allows you to choose the finish which will go perfectly with the rest of your bathroom. This enhances the look of your bathroom.
The design of the Moen S6320 Shower Head is timeless and modern. It will fit perfectly in any bathroom regardless of the look. You can choose from dark-brown rich bronze finish if you want a look of old-world charm and if that's the décor of the rest of your bathroom. You can opt for the bright metallic chrome if you want the classic look. You can go for a sophisticated and warm gold finish if you are going for a luxurious look and finally you can even opt for a brushed warm nickel finish.
The rain shower head is an ultimate in luxury. You get 100 nozzles and great water flow of 2.5 gallons per minute. This ensures that you get a spa-like experience.
Moen S6320 Shower Head gives you an amazing rain shower experience since its shower head is wide. You can go from a calm rinse to a high-pressure spray with a flick of a lever. The shower head is beautiful and long lasting. You can control the velocity of the water easily with the patented immersion technology. Moen is a reputed brand in home products and you are assured of a high-quality shower head when you buy the Moen S6320 Shower Head. The thing I love most about the Moen S6320 Shower Head is the finish and the look. It literally enhances the look of your bathroom to another level.


Morley Construction Company provided concrete subcontractor services and reinforcing steel for the new FBI Field Office in San Diego, California. Previously working throughout multiple office locations, this new six-story facility will centralize government staff needed to support intelligence and investigative matters in Southern California.
Included in this Design-Build project (Clark Construction was the general contractor) was construction of a long-span 480-car parking structure, connected to the main building by a pedestrian bridge. The structure was designed to span over an s-curve of a site access road, with future potential for expansion to 600 parking spaces.
Inviting green spaces were incorporated for visitors and employees to enjoy. Sustainable elements include bike racks, low-flow plumbing fixtures, drought-tolerant landscaping, covered parking with photovoltaic array, construction waste diversion and recycled materials.


The practice of yoga is a large practice composed of smaller specific practices such as but not limited to meditation, breathing and movement. As Emile chose to write about meditation recently I thought I would attempt to tell you a bit about movement. "Asana" has for the longest time been the title of the yoga movement practice. Most yoga practitioners probably don't know the word asana and many who do might not know what it means. Asana is generally thought of as a seat or perhaps posture. Seat or posture never quite satisfied me as a definition of asana. These movements breathe. Finding the stillness of the mind in it is the only true seat, but the movements themselves are alive and thus are subject to growth and evolution. This is where we truely find movement.
I found my asana practice was no longer limited to Yoga Alliance's five classifications of asana: (standing poses, forward bends, back-bends, twists, and inversions), rather my movement practice evolved into hand-balancing, gymnastics, locomotive (various gait) patterns and is continuing to expand thanks to the help of my friends and fellow teachers at Yoga Movement Sanctuary. The new asana that we propose, the movement practice, is recognition that our bodies crave more and thrive from more than anything that can be classified into 5 categories. That the complexity that our bodies are capable of, requires our attention and is a source of the greatest rewards one can have in this incarnation.
The fountain of youth is here my friends, a place where the temporary aches and pains of hard work are differentiated from the chronic pain of a sedentary existence. A fountain that makes sleep better, your senses sharper and allows you to be more in touch with your own existence, in a modern world that seems to put up barriers from this awesome relationship you can have with yourself. An old Chinese Proverb says: "You are as old as your spine". We will take special attention to mobilizing one's musculo-skeletal system but we will also focus on complex movements that have the added benefit of exercising one's neurology and isn't the youth and vibrancy of one's brain even more important?
The beauty is, you don't need to choose. Just as you can never truly isolate any muscle from the rest of the system, you can never truly isolate a system from the others that support the organism. Movement doesn't discriminate, it allows a thorough and complete approach because, it as a practice is never finished evolving. Movement grows from learning from experts in their respective fields, pooling the information and utilizing it. We as an institution are responsible for communicating this information and fostering a supportive environment where the infinite well of movement information can be experienced and expressed.
Yoga means Union. Union may be similar to the idea of Enlightenment, or Oneness. Movement is in my summation a synthesis or union of life in motion, of all the possibilities and capabilities of one's physical vehicle. Movement is more than asana, and yoga is more than movement, but the practice of movement will bring one closer to Union.


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US, UK & France launch 'precision strikes' in Syria — RT US News
Apr 14, 2018: 9:37 am
US President Donald Trump has approved military strikes in Syria in retaliation for the alleged chemical attack by the Assad government in Douma, near Damascus, last week. The UK and France joined the operation.
"A short time ago, I ordered the United States Armed Forces to launch precision strikes on targets associated with the chemical weapons capabilities of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad," Trump said in a televised address from the White House. He added that a combined military operation by the US, the UK and France is already underway in Syria.
READ MORE: Explosions heard in east Damascus after Trump announces Syria strikes – witnesses
The US-led intervention in Syria comes just hours before the UN's Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) experts were scheduled to visit the Damascus suburb of Douma on Saturday to determine whether chemical weapons had been used there last week.
Shortly after Trump's announcement, a statement from UK Prime Minister Theresa May said she had authorized British forces to conduct "coordinated and targeted strikes to degrade the Syrian regime's chemical weapons capability."
French President Emmanuel Macron confirmed that he ordered French forces to carry out a military action against Syria in coalition with the US and the UK. "The facts and the responsibility of the Syrian regime are beyond doubt," he said in a statement issued by his office, accusing Damascus of crossing "a red line" set by France in May of last year.
Macron said that France's response was "limited" and solely aimed at "the capabilities of the Syrian regime for the production and use of chemical weapons."
According to Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph Dunford, the US did not notify Russian forces in Syria ahead of the strikes. "We did not do any coordination with the Russians on the strikes, nor did we pre-notify them." The Pentagon said the strikes were a "one time shot" to send a strong message to Syrian President Bashar Assad.
The combined decision by the US and its allies to strike Syria comes just after Russian defense ministry spokesman Major-General Igor Konashenkov presented evidence claiming that last Saturday's alleged chemical attack in Douma was orchestrated. The general also noted that London was "directly involved in the provocation."
The UK defense ministry stated that the strike was executed by four Royal Air Force Tornado GR4s, that launched Storm Shadow missiles at what the UK military claims was a former missile base, some 15 miles west of Homs. The ministry claimed that the Syrian government keeps a stockpile of chemical weapons precursors at the site, thus violating the Chemical Weapons Convention, of which it is a party.
Trump had a special message for Russia and Iran, who he said were "most responsible for supporting, equipping and financing" the Syrian government.
"What kind of a nation wants to be associated with the mass murderer of innocent men, women and children? The nations of the world can be judged by the friends they keep. No nation can succeed, in the long run, by promoting rogue states, brutal tyrants, and murderous dictators," Trump said.
He also blamed "Russia's failure" to keep the 2013 promise that Syria would get rid of its chemical weapons, which was negotiated in good faith with the US. Syria's compliance with the promise was certified by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in 2014. The only remaining chemical weapons caches in Syria were in territories held by the Western-backed militants, such as Jaysh al-Islam (Army of Islam), who controlled Douma until their surrender on Monday.
Weeks ago, Russia warned that the militants in the east Ghouta enclave might stage a chemical weapons attack to win over Western public opinion. The Russian Foreign Ministry called the reports of Saturday's chemical attack "fake news," while the Russian military investigating the area found no traces of chlorine or nerve agents, any eyewitnesses who could confirm their use or anyone who might have been affected.
An OPCW investigative mission was supposed to arrive in Douma on Saturday. It is unclear what will happen to the probe, in light of the US, UK and French bombing.
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S. Sudan's Kiir concerned by UN civilian protection focus
He complained that the U.N. mission was no longer helping the authorities of South Sudan with capacity building, peace-building, security sector reforms, recovery and development.
27 Eylül 2014 Cumartesi 22:47
World Bulletin/News Desk
South Sudan's President Salva Kiir raised concerns on Saturday about U.N. peacekeepers focusing on protecting civilians amid renewed violence - as instructed by the U.N. Security Council - instead of state-building in the world's newest nation.
Fighting erupted in South Sudan in December after months of tension sparked by Kiir's decision to fire rival and former Vice President Riek Machar. Deep ethnic divisions have also fueled the violence, pitting Kiir's Dinka people against Machar's Nuer.
"My government would like to raise its concern regarding the recent mandate of UNMISS (the U.N. mission) which has serious implications in service delivery to my people," Kiir told the 193-member United Nations General Assembly.
He complained that the U.N. mission was no longer helping the authorities of South Sudan, which declared independence from Sudan in 2011, with capacity building, peace-building, security sector reforms, recovery and development.
The U.N. Security Council authorized peacekeepers in May to give priority to the protection of civilians in decisions about the use of available capacity and resources within the mission. The council doubled the number of peacekeepers in late December to 12,500 troops when fighting broke out.
Kiir asked the 15-member Security Council to reconsider the changes it made to the U.N. peacekeeping mission when it renews the mission at the end of November.
But U.N. peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous said "now is not the time to think about building state institutions," which he said often had ties to human rights violations.
"It has been abundantly clear since this crisis started that we could not continue with the original mandate of state building. We have to concentrate on alleviating the main consequences of the drama, that is to protect the civilians," he told reporters on Saturday after Kiir's speech.
"We have to monitor human rights abuses and act upon them because there has been massive violations by all sides, including the government," Ladsous said.
At least 10,000 people have been killed and more than 1.1 million displaced, with tens of thousands of civilians seeking shelter and protection at United Nations peacekeeping bases. The United Nations and aid agencies have accused both sides of ethnic-based massacres and grave human rights violations.
"UNMISS needs to protect civilians in their neighborhoods and not in camps in a huge country like ours, which is bigger than the size of France," said Kiir, adding that his government had launched an investigation of rights abuses.
Kiir blamed Machar for the violence, which he described as a failed coup because Machar was "too impatient in his thirst for power," and stated that the conflict was "purely a political struggle for power - not an ethnic conflict as reported."
With his country on the brink of famine, Kiir failed to attend a high-level meeting on the humanitarian crisis on Thursday - organized by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon - at which pledges of help were made.
Kiir said on Saturday that South Sudan "deeply appreciated and welcomed" the aid meeting.
The United States, frustrated with slow progress in South Sudan's peace process, said on Thursday it was ready to expand sanctions against political and military figures unless warring parties end the violence quickly.
The U.N. Security Council has long been threatening sanctions against the warring parties, but has yet to act.
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Composting leaders recognized at USCC's COMPOST2019
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US Composting Council
Composter of the Year-Small Scale award went to The Compost Company, a 5,000 ton per year facility in Nashville, TN. The company provides both manufacturing and collection from locations such as Music City Center, Nashville's LEED Gold convention center, as well as The Country Music Hall of Fame which houses three restaurants and caters around 550 events annually, as well as numerous locations around the city through a contract with Metropolitan Nashville.
Mayor's Food Saver Challenge Seeks to Cut Local Food Waste
Nashville Scene | Margaret Littman
Taking a look at programs and organizations that cut waste and redirect food to the hungry
Imagine the entire space of Nissan Stadium filled to the top with uneaten produce. The lettuce you forgot about in the back of your crisper. Those melon-sphere garnishes served with your omelet at brunch last week. Imagine an arena's worth of that, piled layer upon layer, rotting away every day.
The stats are mind-blowing: Up to 40 percent of all food in the U.S. is thrown away. Every single day, Americans toss out enough food to fill the Titans' stadium. About 20 percent of all waste in this country's landfills is food.
And the wasteful part isn't just the perfectly good food going unused. Every time we toss those leftovers, every time stale bagels from a craft-services table get thrown out, we're also wasting the natural resources (such as fresh water and crop land) used to produce that food. When organic matter is put into a landfill, it produces methane gas — because oxygen isn't reaching the organic material, it goes through anaerobic decomposition. And methane is a greenhouse gas.
What's more, we're wasting cash. The average family of four throws away about $1,800 in edible food annually. That's the equivalent of walking into Kroger, buying five bags of groceries and dropping two in the parking lot as you leave, explains Linda Breggin, an environmental lawyer and project coordinator for the Nashville Food Waste Initiative.
OK, so all that waste is bad. But here's what makes it worse: At least 1 in 8 people in the U.S. is food insecure, meaning they don't have access to enough to eat due to lack of resources at some point during the year, according to the USDA. Some estimates put the number as high as 1 in 6. In Davidson County, about 100,000 people are food insecure, 25,000 of whom are children, Breggin says.
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Ashland City, Tennessee: Good Year For The Compost Company
The Compost Company took in 5,412 tons of organics in 2018, due in part to partnerships with Marriott Hotels, HCA Hospitals, the Nashville Farmer's Market, Metro Nashville and Vanderbilt University. It also was named the US Composting Council's Compost Manufacturer of the Year for 2018. Grant proceeds from the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation helped The Compost Company acquire a Brown Industrial food waste collection truck, a Rotochopper grinder and Komptech screen.
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To me, being the best means proving it in different countries and championships.
There is no harm in dreaming of becoming the world's best player. It is all about trying to be the best. I will keep working hard to achieve it but it is within my capabilities.
For me Sir Alex was my father in football. He was crucial in my career and, outside football, was a great human being with me. Talent isn't everything. You can have it from the cradle, but it is necessary to learn the trade to be the best.
If I can have the chance to be the best ever, then that would be perfect.
Dreams are not what you see in your sleep, dreams are things which do not let you sleep.
I dont want to tell my dreams, I want to show them!
When I win awards, I think of my father.
Your love makes me strong, Your hate makes me unstoppable".
Some fans keep booing and whistling at me because I'm handsome, rich and a great player. They envy me.
The one thing that I really dislike, is being alone.
I do my profession, my job, I give me all for my club…the rest doesn't matter to me. I don't care what happens on the outside.
It gives me the happiest feeling in the world. I just love scoring. It doesn't matter if it's a simple goal from close range, a long shot or a dribble around several players, I just love to score all goals.
Scoring goals is a great feeling, but the most important thing to me is that the team is successful – it doesn't matter who scores the goals as long as we're winning.
He is as tough as anything. You can crack him once, but he won't let it bother him. He's back on his feet in no time and getting on with it. He is a strong character and a great sight when he's heading for goal.
Manchester United is still in my heart. Disappointed they didn't win the title but they are still the kings of Premier League.
We saw that he plays with his heart too. He obviously loves the game so much and was distraught to lose in the final. Seeing him cry nearly got me going too.
I have two Golden Boot awards at home. It would be nice to win another, but I wouldn't mind it if I didn't.
It's very important for me to be distinguished in my own home.
I'm proud to play for Real Madrid because I have fun; when you no longer have fun it's a sign that it's time to leave. For now though, I'm happy here at the greatest club in the world.
No one did what I did last season and for this I deserve the Golden Boot and why not the best World Player.
My free-kick secret? I just look at the net and say take the kick, Cristiano.