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LEETON'S Josie Werner is now a face many around the nation will recognise after she made it all the way to the grand finale of reality television show Beauty and the Geek. While Josie and her "geek" George didn't win the $100,000 on offer during last week's finale, she said the experience was one she will remember forever. Filming for the program took place in March, with Josie watching it from the comfort of her family home in Leeton while it was on air. Josie has been back in Leeton for the last month or so after being granted an exemption to leave Sydney for a family funeral and then deciding to extend her stay. In other news She said being able to share her onscreen moments with her family and friends in Leeton was a blessing. "I loved every minute of taking part ... I was a bit hesitant going in and wondering how I would be portrayed, but I was just myself and that was what came across," Josie said. "All in all I was pretty happy with my 'edit' - there were a few things that you could see when watching that were chopped and changed about, but I can't complain. "I've come away with so many friends from the experience and it was a lot of fun." Josie and George were one of the few couples on the show who had a romantic connection, but with Josie living in Sydney and George in Melbourne - the distance between them didn't help after filming wrapped up. "We did try to give it a go after we finished filming, but it just didn't work out unfortunately," Josie said. "We're still really good friends and I wouldn't have wanted to have gone through that experience with anyone else. "George is a wonderful person and I'm lucky to have met him." Josie said she remained friends with many of the other "beauties" and "geeks" saying she spoke most days with several of the cast members. Now that the show has finished airing on screens across the country, she is also spending time getting used to being recognised. Her social media following his growing and she was even asked to take a "selfie" in Leeton recently. "It's a bit strange, but it's all part of the fun," Josie laughed. "I've loved being able to learn and grow as a person through my time on the show. It was a great experience. "I'm glad I've been here in Leeton while it's airing, it's made it all a bit easier to deal with, especially with all the media attention that we've all had." For now Josie is firmly focused on completing her university degree and her dream of becoming a primary school teacher. "There have been some other opportunities that have come up as a result of the show, so I'm exploring those and just seeing what happens really, you have to take a chance sometimes," Josie said. Our journalists work hard to provide local, up-to-date news to the community. This is how you can continue to access our trusted content:
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Leeton's Josie Werner made it to the grand finale of Beauty and the Geek 2021
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REFLECT: Leeton's Josie Werner said she enjoyed her experience on the reality television program Beauty and the Geek. Photo: Talia Pattison
LEETON'S Josie Werner is now a face many around the nation will recognise after she made it all the way to the grand finale of reality television show Beauty and the Geek.
While Josie and her "geek" George didn't win the $100,000 on offer during last week's finale, she said the experience was one she will remember forever.
Filming for the program took place in March, with Josie watching it from the comfort of her family home in Leeton while it was on air.
Josie has been back in Leeton for the last month or so after being granted an exemption to leave Sydney for a family funeral and then deciding to extend her stay.
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She said being able to share her onscreen moments with her family and friends in Leeton was a blessing.
"I loved every minute of taking part ... I was a bit hesitant going in and wondering how I would be portrayed, but I was just myself and that was what came across," Josie said.
"All in all I was pretty happy with my 'edit' - there were a few things that you could see when watching that were chopped and changed about, but I can't complain.
"I've come away with so many friends from the experience and it was a lot of fun."
Josie and George were one of the few couples on the show who had a romantic connection, but with Josie living in Sydney and George in Melbourne - the distance between them didn't help after filming wrapped up.
"We did try to give it a go after we finished filming, but it just didn't work out unfortunately," Josie said.
"We're still really good friends and I wouldn't have wanted to have gone through that experience with anyone else.
"George is a wonderful person and I'm lucky to have met him."
Josie said she remained friends with many of the other "beauties" and "geeks" saying she spoke most days with several of the cast members.
Now that the show has finished airing on screens across the country, she is also spending time getting used to being recognised.
Her social media following his growing and she was even asked to take a "selfie" in Leeton recently.
"It's a bit strange, but it's all part of the fun," Josie laughed.
"I've loved being able to learn and grow as a person through my time on the show. It was a great experience.
"I'm glad I've been here in Leeton while it's airing, it's made it all a bit easier to deal with, especially with all the media attention that we've all had."
For now Josie is firmly focused on completing her university degree and her dream of becoming a primary school teacher.
"There have been some other opportunities that have come up as a result of the show, so I'm exploring those and just seeing what happens really, you have to take a chance sometimes," Josie said.
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Agata Ewa Wróbel, född 28 augusti 1981 i Żywiec i Polen, är en före detta polsk tyngdlyftare. I olympiska sommarspelen 2000 i Sydney vann hon en silvermedalj i tyngdlyftningens +75-kilosklass och i Aten 2004 tog hon ett brons. Wróbel har också tagit ett VM-guld och tre EM-guld, samt satt 13 världsrekord.

Karriär
Agata Wróbel började med tyngdlyftning 1996, den första tävlingsframgången kom 1997 då hon vann junior-EM i Tatabánya. Året efter vann hon brons vid EM i Riesa och silver vid junior-VM i Sofia.

Det första guldet på internationella tävlingar på seniornivå tog Wróbel vid EM i La Coruña 1999, där hon också satte världsrekord i ryck med 120,5 kg. Senare samma år tog hon sin första medalj i ett senior-VM i Aten där det blev en silvermedalj efter att Ding Meiyuan tagit fem kilo mer i stöt.

Inför OS i Sydney 2000 var Wróbel och Ding favoriter, Wróbel slog världsrekordet i ryck genom ett lyft på 132,5 kg, men Ding slog det med sitt lyft på 135 kg. Samma sak hände i stöt där Wróbel lyfte 162,5 kg och Ding 165 kg, också de resultaten nya världsrekord.

Även i VM i Antalya 2001 blev det ett silver. 2002 tog hon guld i EM i Antalya, och på hemmaplan i Warszawa tog hon en guldmedalj även i VM. I de olympiska sommarspelen 2004 i Aten låg Wróbel på en delad förstaplats efter att ha tagit 130 kg i ryck, men hon blev slagen av Tang Gonghong och Jang Mi-Ran i stöt och blev bronsmedaljör.

Efter en sjätteplats på VM i Doha 2005 och en tiondeplats på VM i Santo Domingo 2006 lade Wróbel av med tyngdlyftningen. 2009 bestämde hon sig för att komma tillbaka och 2010 ställde hon upp i EM i Minsk där hon slutade på en åttonde plats. Efter det tog Wróbel sitt åttonde guld i polska mästerskapen i juni 2010, och i januari 2011 meddelade hon att karriären officiellt var över.

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"""
    Test property inheritance, isinstance() and issubclass()
"""

from unittest import TestCase

from rdflib import Graph, RDFS, URIRef, BNode, Literal

from oldman.model.ancestry import ClassAncestry
from oldman.vocabulary import MODEL_PRIORITY_IRI, MODEL_HAS_PRIORITY_IRI, MODEL_PRIORITY_CLASS_IRI

EXAMPLE = "http://localhost/vocab#"

schema_ttl = """
@prefix ex: <{0}> .
@prefix hydra: <http://www.w3.org/ns/hydra/core#> .
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .

ex:Branch1GrandParentClass a hydra:Class .

ex:Branch1ParentClass a hydra:Class ;
    rdfs:subClassOf ex:Branch1GrandParentClass .

ex:Branch2GrandParentClass a hydra:Class .

ex:Branch2ParentClass a hydra:Class ;
    rdfs:subClassOf ex:Branch2GrandParentClass .

ex:Branch3ParentClass a hydra:Class .

ex:ChildClass a hydra:Class ;
    rdfs:subClassOf ex:Branch1ParentClass, ex:Branch1GrandParentClass .
""".format(EXAMPLE)

CHILD_CLS = "ChildClass"
B1P_CLS = "Branch1ParentClass"
B1GP_CLS = "Branch1GrandParentClass"
B2P_CLS = "Branch2ParentClass"
B2GP_CLS = "Branch2GrandParentClass"
B3P_CLS = "Branch3ParentClass"

child_cls_iri = EXAMPLE + CHILD_CLS
b1p_cls_iri = EXAMPLE + B1P_CLS
b1gp_cls_iri = EXAMPLE + B1GP_CLS
b2p_cls_iri = EXAMPLE + B2P_CLS
b2gp_cls_iri = EXAMPLE + B2GP_CLS
b3p_cls_iri = EXAMPLE + B3P_CLS

class AncestryTest(TestCase):

    def setUp(self):
        self.schema_graph = Graph().parse(data=schema_ttl, format="turtle")

    def test_single_branch_ancestry(self):
        child_ancestry = ClassAncestry(child_cls_iri, self.schema_graph)
        self.assertEquals(child_ancestry.bottom_up, [child_cls_iri, b1p_cls_iri, b1gp_cls_iri])
        self.assertEquals(child_ancestry.child, child_cls_iri)
        self.assertEquals(child_ancestry.top_down, [b1gp_cls_iri, b1p_cls_iri, child_cls_iri])
        self.assertEquals(child_ancestry.parents(child_cls_iri), [b1p_cls_iri])
        self.assertEquals(child_ancestry.parents(b1p_cls_iri), [b1gp_cls_iri])
        self.assertEquals(child_ancestry.parents(b1gp_cls_iri), [])

    def test_two_branch_ancestry_without_priority(self):
        self.schema_graph.add((URIRef(child_cls_iri), RDFS.subClassOf, URIRef(b2p_cls_iri)))
        self.schema_graph.add((URIRef(child_cls_iri), RDFS.subClassOf, URIRef(b2gp_cls_iri)))
        child_ancestry = ClassAncestry(child_cls_iri, self.schema_graph)
        self.assertEquals(child_ancestry.bottom_up[0], child_cls_iri)
        self.assertEquals(set(child_ancestry.bottom_up[1:3]), {b1p_cls_iri, b2p_cls_iri})
        self.assertEquals(set(child_ancestry.bottom_up[3:]), {b1gp_cls_iri, b2gp_cls_iri})
        self.assertEquals(child_ancestry.child, child_cls_iri)
        self.assertEquals(set(child_ancestry.parents(child_cls_iri)), {b1p_cls_iri, b2p_cls_iri})
        self.assertEquals(child_ancestry.parents(b1p_cls_iri), [b1gp_cls_iri])
        self.assertEquals(child_ancestry.parents(b1gp_cls_iri), [])
        self.assertEquals(child_ancestry.parents(b2p_cls_iri), [b2gp_cls_iri])
        self.assertEquals(child_ancestry.parents(b2gp_cls_iri), [])

    def test_three_branch_ancestry_with_priority(self):
        child_ref = URIRef(child_cls_iri)
        self.schema_graph.add((child_ref, RDFS.subClassOf, URIRef(b2p_cls_iri)))
        self.schema_graph.add((child_ref, RDFS.subClassOf, URIRef(b2gp_cls_iri)))
        self.schema_graph.add((child_ref, RDFS.subClassOf, URIRef(b3p_cls_iri)))

        priority_b1 = BNode()
        self.schema_graph.add((child_ref, URIRef(MODEL_HAS_PRIORITY_IRI), priority_b1))
        self.schema_graph.add((priority_b1, URIRef(MODEL_PRIORITY_CLASS_IRI), URIRef(b1p_cls_iri)))
        self.schema_graph.add((priority_b1, URIRef(MODEL_PRIORITY_IRI), Literal(1)))

        priority_b2 = BNode()
        self.schema_graph.add((child_ref, URIRef(MODEL_HAS_PRIORITY_IRI), priority_b2))
        self.schema_graph.add((priority_b2, URIRef(MODEL_PRIORITY_CLASS_IRI), URIRef(b2p_cls_iri)))
        self.schema_graph.add((priority_b2, URIRef(MODEL_PRIORITY_IRI), Literal(2)))

        child_ancestry = ClassAncestry(child_cls_iri, self.schema_graph)

        self.assertEquals(child_ancestry.bottom_up[0], child_cls_iri)
        self.assertEquals(child_ancestry.bottom_up[1:3], [b2p_cls_iri, b2gp_cls_iri])
        self.assertEquals(child_ancestry.bottom_up[3:5], [b1p_cls_iri, b1gp_cls_iri])
        # b3p_cls_iri is the last because has no priority (nothing declared)
        self.assertEquals(child_ancestry.bottom_up[-1], b3p_cls_iri)
        self.assertEquals(child_ancestry.child, child_cls_iri)
        self.assertEquals(child_ancestry.parents(child_cls_iri), [b2p_cls_iri, b1p_cls_iri, b3p_cls_iri])
        self.assertEquals(child_ancestry.parents(b1p_cls_iri), [b1gp_cls_iri])
        self.assertEquals(child_ancestry.parents(b1gp_cls_iri), [])
        self.assertEquals(child_ancestry.parents(b2p_cls_iri), [b2gp_cls_iri])
        self.assertEquals(child_ancestry.parents(b2gp_cls_iri), [])

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What are the different positions of a lift chair?
What is the difference of a 2-way, 3-way, Wall Hugger and Sleeper (Infinite) Lift Chair?
The difference is the degree that the lift chairs can recline.
2-Way / 2 position lift chairs recline about thirty to thirty-five degrees past center sitting upright position. There are two positions on this chair; sitting upright and slightly reclining. They also lift you to a standing position. These chairs are very comfortable for watching TV or reading. They do not recline all they way back, and are not well suited for sleeping.
3-Way / 3 position lift chairs recline about seventy to seventy-five degrees past center sitting upright position. There are three positions on this chair. Upright sitting position, tv recline, and fully reclined. They also lift you to a standing position.
Infinite Position (Sleeper) Lift Chairs recline slightly farther than a 3 position lift chair. This chair lies flat and if need be, allows the foot rest to be elevated higher. This chair runs on two low-volt motors. One motor controls the back and the other controls the footrest allowing the chair to run each independently.
The Wall Hugger (wall away or zero wall) lift chairs can be placed about four inches from a wall. This lift chair glides forward into the room to fully recline. The motion of the chair brings the ottoman (foot rest) up to your feet before it reclines, allowing you to sit with your feet elevated comfortably. This type of chair is perfect for small living spaces.


International Pre-University College is an independent school registered with the Gauteng Department of Education (South Africa) and a member of Independent Schools Association of Southern Africa (ISASA). The College was formerly known as St Stithians A Level College and was awarded Cambridge Fellowship Status in 2003. The focus of the school is to develop learners who have strong academic ability. The College prides itself on excellence while providing an affordable, relevant and rigorous education. We offer a unique educational experience and a packed academic program which provides students with skills, direction and qualifications that allow our students to beat the high university drop-out rate.
Welcome to International Pre-University College!
International Pre-University College is an independent school registered with the Gauteng Department of Education (South Africa) and a member of Independent Schools Association of Southern Africa (ISASA). The College was formerly known as St Stithians A Level College and was awarded Cambridge Fellowship Status in 2003.
The focus of the school is to develop learners who have strong academic ability. The College prides itself on excellence while providing an affordable, relevant and rigorous education.
We offer a unique educational experience and a packed academic program which provides students with skills, direction and qualifications that allow our students to beat the high university drop-out rate.
The Pre-University College is a University of Cambridge International Examinations Centre which offers IGCSE, AS and A Level Courses.
University of Cambridge International A Level qualifications are recognised worldwide and the international examinations are offered in over 150 countries. This enables students to continue with their studies uninterrupted when relocating to other countries.
The curriculum is also ideally suited to students wishing to attain a valid NSC Exemption for University Entrance as well as a fully recognized international qualification that will give access to institutions of Higher Education throughout the world.
Students from as many as 20 countries have completed their Cambridge A Level studies in our centre. Many of these students have qualified for Matriculation exemption which has enabled them to complete their studies either at South African Universities or abroad. Some of our past students who have achieved good grades in full A levels have been awarded advanced credits in certain courses at Universities in South Africa and The United States of America. This has resulted in them being given exemption from the first year of study.
The centre encourages academic excellence in a structured environment with a strict dress code.
Our curriculum includes a series of Special Interest Lectures delivered by experts in their fields. Students are encouraged to take part in the President's Award program that focuses on self-development.
Provide a Pre-University program which is world class and at the leading edge of international educational trends.
Provide young people with skills essential to enable them to cope with tertiary studies. There is a particular emphasis on enhancing Mathematics, Science, Language and Business skills.
Provide an education to broaden the educational experiences of each student.
Provide an excellent affordable education. Fees are kept as low as possible without affecting the quality of the product provided.
Psychology is offered at AS and A Level only.


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Gidudu is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

 Patrick Gidudu, Anglican bishop in Uganda
 Samuel Gidudu (born 1968), Anglican bishop in Uganda

Surnames of African origin


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Having a sound retirement drawdown strategy and keeping to it is crucial if you want to be able to live comfortably in retirement and not spend time worrying about outliving your savings. Most of the financial services industry has been focused on helping people Accumulate or save invest (and their business models are built on this).
Optimize Your Lifestyle Expenses: Take a hard look at your expenses and find ways to get as efficient as possible – this is a huge driver of how much you need in retirement. Build a budget, go through all of your expenses – especially recurring expenses. Get rid of bad debt (credit card, car payments, student loans – ideally pay off your mortgage). Consider where you want to live, since that is a huge driver of taxes and expenses in retirement – here are some lower cost/higher quality of life places in the US – and here are some places to retire abroad.
Step 1 – Understand how drawing assets from different kinds of account will impact the taxes you'll need to pay when you draw down in retirement. There are essentially three places to hold your retirement savings which are covered below. Ideally prepare for your draw down by positioning your savings investments into the appropriate accounts so they can can be drawn down tax efficiently. The reality for most people is that most of their savings are in Qualified Accounts. How this money is held goes to the next item – tax efficiently drawdowns of these assets.
It is always interesting to see how other people are planning. Here is my retirement drawdown strategy: I'm still under 50 and more on the accumulation side of things and also facing 10 years of college tuition, but here's how I look at our situation.
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Patrick Johnston: Some real talk about the 2020-21 AHL/ECHL seasons
Patrick Johnston, Postmedia News ([email protected])
Published: Oct 27, 2020 at 8:04 p.m.
Olli Juolevi (right) celebrates with his Utica teammates after Brogan Rafferty (left) scored a goal in early January.
Whether the American Hockey League is actually going to play games this season remains a bit of an open question.
If the AHL doesn't operate in 2020-21, there's been chatter among minor leaguers that NHL teams will mimic the set-up Major League Baseball teams used this year to stay prepared for injuries on the big league roster: host a large group of players who would normally play in the AHL in a nearby locale, not playing games but at least keeping something close to game fit.
Each NHL team's training group could number as many as 15 skaters and goalies, one source told Postmedia News.
That would still leave a large number of AHLers looking for work. In other years, that might mean looking for work in the ECHL, the minor league that sits a level below the AHL.
Unlike the AHL, the ECHL is getting ready to actually play games in the coming months.
On the same day as the opening of NHL free agency, Oct. 9, the ECHL announced that they were going to have a two-pronged launch to the season.
Allen (Tx.), Florida, Greenville (S.C.), Indy (Ind.), Jacksonville (Fla.), Kansas City (Mo.), Orlando (Fla.), Rapid City (S.D.), South Carolina, Tulsa (Ok.), Utah, Wheeling (W.Va.) and Wichita (Kan.) all will start the season Dec. 11.
You'll note those teams all play in states with Republican governors, where pro sports have been authorized to have limited — or in Florida's case, full — capacity crowds in attendance.
Apparently an ECHL team needs about 30 per cent capacity, give or take, to break even on a season. That depends on the size of the arena for instance: Tulsa's barn, the BOK Center, seats 19,199, while Idaho's CenturyLink Arena in Boise seats just 5,002 for hockey.
The rest of the league remains up in the air. Teams are being allowed to opt-out — two already have, Atlanta and Norfolk (Va.) — and those that chose to play will begin their season Jan. 15.
Alongside Idaho in the still-to-decide pile are Kalamazoo — the Canucks' Michigan-based ECHL affiliate, where prospects Jake Kielly, Josh Teves and Mitch Eliot made appearances last season — Fort Wayne, Toledo, Cincinnati, Worcester, Adirondack, Maine, Brampton, Reading and Newfoundland.
Given everything we know, it seems unlikely either Brampton or Newfoundland will play in Canada this season, meaning either they opt-out completely or perhaps end up playing in an American locale for the season.
Worcester is in Massacheusetts, Adirondack is in New York and Maine is in, well, Maine. All three of those states aren't allowing large gatherings indoors, so it feels safe to say that those three teams won't play either. Same for Reading, in Pennsylvania.
Those six teams make up the ECHL's North Division, by the way.
Idaho, you'd assume, would need approval for at least 50-per-cent capacity, given the size of their arena. And even then you wonder if they could really operate with just 2,500 fans in attendance.
Kalamazoo, which plays in the Central Division, along with rivals in Fort Wayne, Toledo and Cincinnati, all in Ohio, face similar uncertainty over their ability to play. As it stands both those states aren't allowing large gatherings. ( If football fans can't attend Ohio State games , what chance does minor-league hockey have in Ohio!?)
Teams have been signing players all the while, but the players on the teams who haven't yet opted in are surely nervous. Players who were signed to contracts by Atlanta and Norfolk have been made free agents, but there aren't many jobs left on other teams.
And the uncertainty surrounding the AHL's start to the season only complicates the player pool: ECHL teams are going to be interested in bringing in AHLers if the can, for obvious competitive purposes.
That said, ECHL teams are only allowed to dress four players with more than 260 games in professional hockey, so even if an AHLer came looking for a contract, there aren't likely to be many spots available.
That's going to put a lot of players in a real bind this season. The window to find a place to play in Europe is rapidly closing, if not already closed.
These guys play the game for the love of it. And they could be stuck with nowhere to go.
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Home wwwhive Leonard legend grows with Raptors' Game 6 triumph over Bucks
Leonard legend grows with Raptors' Game 6 triumph over Bucks
The Four Bouncer was something else and fortuitous to a degree.
The Dunk? It was power and nastiness, an emphatic finish.
It was all the things Kawhi Leonard has done in his year in Toronto, and it might be the one play they will eventually remember him for.
It came after a brilliant dump pass from Kyle Lowry midway through the fourth quarter, and with the imposing presence of Giannis Antetokounmpo at the rim. And there came Leonard, leaping and exploding and throwing down a dunk that reverberated for the rest of the night.
The play only gave the Raptors a six-point lead — and there were many more nervous moments to get through — but, man, it was a play.
"It was great," Leonard said. "The building exploded after that dunk and it kind of got us a little more adrenalin."
Lowry knew precisely what he was doing and for whom.
"It was a momentum kind of capper," Lowry said. "Why not feed the big dog? Let the big dog eat."
And it was brilliance, the likes of which haven't been seen around here ever.
Carving out legendary status on a team he has been with for just one season, Leonard had 27 points and a career-high 17 rebounds as Toronto beat the Milwaukee Bucks 100-94 to win the Eastern Conference final in six games.
With a crowd of more than 20,000 screaming in the arena — and countless thousands of other fans standing on the streets, living and dying with each basket — the Raptors moved on to face the Golden State Warriors in the NBA final beginning Thursday night in Toronto.
It is the first time a Raptors team has been in such rarefied air and it will end a truly wondrous post-season that Leonard has put together.
Yes, the shot that bounced and bounced and bounced and bounced to eliminate the Philadelphia 76ers in the conference semifinal was something else, but Leonard's play from that point has gotten even better and he's never been more impactful that he was on Saturday.
Making shots, drawing fouls — rebounding his own missed free throw and getting fouled again, for goodness sake — Leonard almost single-handedly lifted the Raptors to the win.
They had scuffled on offence and been bad on defence, losing 50-50 balls and being beaten on the backboards and just enough out of sync to find themselves in a 15-point hole. It was Leonard time.
He had a three-point play and then another basket. He made two of three free throws after goading Eric Bledsoe into a foul and the one he missed, he rebounded by blasting down the lane to get the ball and two more free throws.
That binge, with a Serge Ibaka basket sandwiched in between, got the Raptors within five points to start the fourth quarter and breathed some life into a crowd that had gone quiet. And then, the dunk.
And later the conference title and, soon, the NBA final.
"It's still surreal to me right now," Leonard said. "But this is what we've been striving for all season. It's not over yet."
Leonard was uncharacteristically spotty in the first half, committing four turnovers with managing just eight points and three assists.
It's not that he was nervous or taken aback by the situation and the stakes, because those traits are not in his nature. But the mistakes were costly as the Bucks got out to a 31-18 lead after a quarter before a 21-12 Toronto run late in the second quarter gave Milwaukee a 50-43 advantage at halftime.
But when Leonard got going, so did his team. He did not panic or get ruffled, and it transferred to his teammates.
"I don't know how many more good things I can say about him, he's just so good," Raptors coach Nick Nurse said. "I'm seeing a level of competitive greatness out of him, it's just his willing us to win and grabbing those rebounds and willing those shots in, it seems. Going down and locking someone up and taking the ball from him. It's what it is, it's great competitive desire."
Doug Smith is a sports reporter based in Toronto. Follow him on Twitter: @smithraps
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Ethiopia's economy is predominantly agricultural where the livestock sub-sector plays substantial role. Hides and skin is an important strategic sector for the economic and industrial development of Ethiopia. Though the country has very good potential for supplying finished skins and hides products to the world market, the quality of skins and hides supplied has rather deteriorated over time. Therefore, this seminar was conducted to review hide and skin value chain in Ethiopia, to review hide and skin value chain actors, maps and its value addition in Ethiopia, to review the major constraints and opportunities of hide and skin in Ethiopia ,to review hides and skins production ,utilization and its constraint in Ethiopia and to review hide and skin marketing and its constraints in Ethiopia . Poor quality of hides and skins , Poor animal husbandry ,Improper preserved hides and skins ,Lack of price incentives ,absence of quality grading, reflections of the economic policy, market information, and requirements from the tanneries and end market are main challenge observed hide and skin value chain . Creation of awareness among extension staff, butchers, collectors, tanners and other stakeholders and the general public of the economic importance of hides and skins are very important. Developing Clear pricing system based on grading and standard of hide and skin and improving access to market information As well as Clear policy and strategy for the development of hide and skin sector should be developed by Member State that have not done so far.
1. Addis Ababa Agricultural Bureau, (1998): Hide and skin is balance collected from the remaining regions of the country.
2. Abebayhu T. and Kibrom M. (2010): Study on Ectoparasitic defect of processed skin at Sheba tannery, Tigray, Northern Ethiopia. Tropical Animal Heath Production, DOI 10.1007/s11250-010-9625-z.
3. Adugna A. (2004): Guideline document for hides and skins quality and marketing improvement survey of Sheba Tannery in Tigray, unpublished. Addis Ababa.
5. Ahmed M. (2000): Development potential and constraints of hides and skins market in Ethiopia.
6. Arunga R. (1995): The role of hides, skins, leather and leather products for sustainable economic growth. Proceeding on Regional Workshop 28-30July 2010, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
8. Asfaw A. (2002): Challenges and Prospects of the Leather Industry in Relation to Export promotion. In: Parenti, A. (ed.) Proceedings of Challenges and Solutions for Ethiopian Leather Industry, 10December 2002, UNIDO and Addis Ababa.
9. Ayele S., Assegid W., Jabbar M.A., Ahmed M. and Belachew H. (2003): Livestock marketing in Ethiopia: A review of structure, performance and development initiatives.
13. Bezabih A. (2014): The Leather Sector Growth strategies through Integrated Value Chain. Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
14. CSA (2007): Ethiopia Agricultural sample enumeration, statistical report on livestock population Central Statistical Authority (CSA), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
16. CSA (Central Statistical Authority), (2016): Report on Livestock and livestock characteristics in Dendi district.
17. CSA (2009): Review to improve estimation of livestock contribution to the national GDP. Central Statics Agency, Addis Ababa Ethiopia CSA (2011): Ethiopian Agricultural Sample Enumeration, 2011/2012, Central Statistic Authority, Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
18. Darge A. (1995): The Feature of the Ethiopian Hides, Skins, Leather and Leather Products Development. General Report. Addis Ababa.
19. Dawit.(2010) and Marshal, (2011): concept of profit margin that deducts operating expense from marketing margin.
21. EIA. Fortune. September 19, 2011. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Gonzalez, V.M. 1981. Hides and skins improvement manual.
25. EIA. Fortune. September 19, 2011. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Gonzalez, V.M. 1981. Hides and skins improvement manual.
27. Ethiopia individual households, rural slaughter slabs, municipal slaughter houses and mechanized, modern abattoirs.
28. FAO (1995): Hides and skins for the tannery industry, FAO agricultural service bulletin,123, By, Lan, Leach, consultant, Rome, Italy,1995.
29. FAO (2011): Livestock and livestock characteristics .Rep 2.Addis Ababa: Federaldemocratic republic of Ethiopia, 2011.
30. Girma A. (2002): The performance of hides and skins marketing in the Amhara national regional state; MSc. Thesis .Alemaya university, Alemaya, Ethiopia. Girma M. (2003): Opportunities and Challenges of Hides and skins Trade opportunities and Challenges of Livestock Marketing in Ethiopia.
33. Hadush B., Abdulkadir K., Alula G. and Mengstu A. (2013): investigation of farmers onthe value chain of leather industry in northern Ethiopia; challenges, constraints andopportunities for linking small holder farmers to markets. International Journal ofsocial relevance and concern.1:17-20.
34. ILCA (1990): Annual report and program high light ILCA, Addisababa and Ethiopia.International livestock center for Africa (ILCA).
36. ISO (2000): International Organization for Standardization Test Methods of Tear strengthand Tear load, Leather and Leather products Technology Institute, Addis Ababa,Ethiopia, International Organization for Standardization (ISO 33762).
37. Jabbar M.A. and Benin S. (2002): Trader behavior and transaction costs. In: Live animalmarketing in Ethiopia. Paper presented at the workshop on improved landmanagement and agricultural market development in the Ethiopian highlands.Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 19–20 February 2004. Pp. 23.
38. Kebede, N. and Fetene, T. 2012. Population dynamics of cattle ectoparasites in Western Amhara National Regional State, Ethiopia. Journal of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Health 4(1):22–26. LLPI (Leather and Leather Products Institute). 2002.
39. Koloka O. and Morek J. C. (2010): Performance of hides and skins subsector inBotswana: A critical review Livestock Research for Rural Development, 22:150175.
40. Kotler P. and Armstrong G. (2003): Principles of Marketing, 10th Edition, Hall of IndiaPrivate limited, New Delhi, Pp. 5-12.
41. Leather and Leather Products Institute – Prospectus. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: LLPI. MoFED. 2010. Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP) of Ethiopia. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: MoFED.
43. MOA: Livestock development master plan study. Phase II Volume 1a. Executive summary of main report and sub master plans, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
44. MoARD (2009): The effect of skin and hide quality on domestic and export market andevaluation of the campaign against ectoparasitic of sheep and goat in Amhara,Tigray, and Afar region, official report to Region and other sector s, Addis Ababa ,Ethiopia, Ministry of agriculture and rural development (MoARD).
45. Mohammad A., Jabbar S., Berhanu G. and Simeon E. (2002):Essential Actions to MeetQuality Requirements of Hides, Skins and Semi-Processed Leather from Africa. AReport Prepared for the Common Fund for Commodities Amsterdam, Netherlands.
47. Porter. E. Micheal, 1985. Competitive Advantage-Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance, New York.
50. Zewdu K. (1995): Hide and skins in Ethiopia. pp. 6-14. Preceding the 2nd AnnualConference of Ethiopian Society Animal Production (ESAP) 26-27 May1982,Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.


I've always had an interest – actually more of an intense fascination for far-away exotic peoples from long-ago. One of those peoples exerting a draw to my curiosity are the so-called Scythians, an ancient wildly nomadic peoples located roughly north of the Persians in that vast expanse of land from the Danube river across the north shores of the Black Sea to the River Don in present day Russia. A huge land expanse.
Maybe it's just me, but I'm thinking Heracles may have stumbled upon the original Starbucks where he had a bizarre match-up. As Herodotus tells it: "Having seen her and marveled at her, he asked her then whether she had seen any mares straying anywhere; and she said that she had them herself and would not give them up until he lay with her; and Heracles lay with her on condition of receiving them. She then tried to put off the giving back of the mares, desiring to have Heracles with her as long as possible, while he on the other hand desired to get his mares and depart. At last she gave them back and said: "These mares when they came hither I saved for you, and you rewarded me for saving them; for I have by you three sons…" . Starbucks then asks how she should raise his three sons, Agathyrsos, Gelonos, and the youngest Skythes. Heracles leaves behind one of his bows and the boy that grows up and is able to string the bow shall be king. It's the youngest, Skythes, and thus Scythia. Hmmm. Again, not too likely.
Book IV 28. This whole land is so exceedingly severe in climate, that for eight months of the year there is frost so hard as to be intolerable; and during these if you pour out water you will not be able to make mud, bu only if you kindle a fire can you make it. The sea also is frozen and the whole of Kimmerian Bosphorus, so that the Scythians who are settled within the trench (modern Crimea) make expeditions and drive their wagons over into the Sindians. (I assume what he is describing is a large body of water frozen-solid enough to drive wagons over…). Thus it continues to be winter for eight months, and even for the remaining four it is cold in those parts. This winter is distinguished in its character from all the winters in other parts of the world; for there is no rain to speak of at the usual season for rain, whereas in summer it rains continually; and thunder does not come at the time when it comes in other countries, but is very frequent in the summer; and if thunder comes in winter, it is marveled at as a prodigy… 31. As to the feathers, the Scythians say that the air is full of them, and that they render them unable either to see or to pass through the further parts of the continent, but I think this: – in the parts beyond this land it snows continuously, though less in summer than in winter, as might be supposed. Now whosoever has seen close at hand snow falling thickly, knows what I mean without further explanation, for the snow is like feathers. On account of this wintry weather, the Northern parts of this continent are uninhabitable. I think therefore that by the feathers the Scythians and those who dwell near them mean to suggest the snow. This then goes to the furthest reaches of the accounts given.
Of their religion, Herodotus relates that it is similar to the Greek polytheist religion which came as a surprise to me; I would have guessed they were pagan naturalists with charms and shamans et al; but apparently they worshiped and sacrificed to specific gods much as the Greeks did. And they were highly defensive of their customs and way of life. Apostasy meant death. Merely dressing in foreign clothes could get you killed – there's no mention of cross-dressing but I would assume it was frowned upon. Herodotus relates several examples of Scythians who strayed and their subsequent treatment – death in all cases.
Scythian art is amazing, stunning, and worthy of a separate posting. Google around and check it out – it's gorgeous!
Gold Plaque with Panther. 13 inches long(!). Circa 7th century BC.
Darius' campaign against the Scythians was inconclusive – actually the Persians were fortunate to have been able to get out of Scythia with the forces largely intact. He had attacked the western portion of Scythia with help from Greeks and their navy so was campaigning pretty much due north of Greece and ancient Thrace.
While inconclusive, the campaign against the Scythians let them know the Persians were no trifling force to contend with; so they went after easier game making the campaign a sort of strategic victory for the Persians who could now focus on other problems. Like the Ionian Greeks settled in Asia Minor, the focus of his next book, the actual beginning of the Greco-Persian wars.
WOW— that is the best history of Starbucks I've ever read!


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Celebrating off‑the‑charts success
The annual CVCA Awards is our opportunity to shine a spotlight on the year's biggest over-achievers in deal making, returns, community service and more. Let's celebrate the best of the best in Canada's private equity and venture capital landscape, as we recognize those who have pushed Canada's business economy to bold new horizons.
Private Equity Deal of the Year Award Venture Capital Deal of the Year Award Canadian Private Equity Global Dealmaker Award Canadian Venture Capital Global Dealmaker Award Community Leadership Award Regional Impact Award
2020 Private Equity Deal of the Year Award
Canada's biggest deal in PE
Know of a private equity deal that made huge waves in 2019? Get your nomination in. This award recognizes the PE firm that put pen to paper and realized superior investment returns, effectively driving our investment ecosystem forward by setting new benchmarks for success.
Judgement Criteria
Open to CVCA member private equity investment firms in good standing.
Cash realization value, with consideration to also include total realization value (including any deferred, escrowed, or non-cash consideration), and;
Multiple of invested capital returned, with consideration to also include IRR achieved.
*Nomination details are treated as confidential and will not be publicly disclosed without consent of selected award recipient.
Meet Our Past Winner
Novacap Management Inc.
Montreal-based Novacap Management Inc. is the recipient of CVCA's 2018 Private Equity Deal of the Year Award for its investment in Montreal-based Chemical Computing Group. This deal was selected for the 2018 award for outstanding cash realization value, and multiple of invested capital returned.
2020 Venture Capital Deal of the Year Award
Canada's biggest deal in VC
We want to hear about the venture capital deal that ventured further than the rest. This prestigious award recognizes the VC firm that pushed the needle on actual realizations in 2018, essentially establishing a new paradigm in deal-making for the industry as a whole.
Open to CVCA member venture capital investment firms in good standing.
TVM Life Sciences
Montreal-based TVM Capital Life Science was awarded the 2019 Venture Capital Deal of the Year award for its investment in Montreal-based AurKa Pharma
2020 Canadian Private Equity Global Dealmaker Award
Best Canadian PE deal on the world stage
This new award recognizes the Canadian PE firm that realized superior investment returns on a global PE investment, driving the ecosystem forward by establishing new definitions of success.
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2020 Canadian Venture Capital Global Dealmaker Award
Best Canadian VC deal on the world stage
This new CVCA award recognizes a Canadian VC firm that achieved exceptional realization on a global VC investment in 2019, establishing a new standard in deal-making.
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By giving back, we all win
You don't give back to the community for the recognition or awards, but one very special, passionate and caring individual is going to win one anyway. The esteemed Ted Anderson Community Leadership Award recognizes an individual's remarkable commitment of time and effort to a community organization or cause. This individual will have made a profound impact upon the organization or cause, thereby contributing to a greater quality of life for the people their generosity has touched.
Open to CVCA members in good standing.
Substantial value to a not-for-profit organization/cause;
Commitment of time and effort over a number of years to an organization/cause;
Individual impact on the organization/cause;
Raising and personal commitment of money;
Active commitment to community engagement; and,
Leadership across a variety of organizations.
Jeff Parr, Clairvest Group
Parr's contributions in business and beyond that earned him the CVCA's 2019 Ted Anderson Community Leadership Award.
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Percentage of women and visible minorities on the portfolio company's executive team
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Kevin Smith Confirms Warner Bros' DC Stage I Line Up As Accurate
By Mike Reyes published 17 June 14
Last week, we reported that DC Comics films planned to launch Stage I of their own cinematic continuum. Despite her own reporting, even Ms. Finke herself admitted that the schedule wasn't exactly set in stone, and could change between now and Comic Con. Well, that possibility is looking less and less true, as another source has stepped forward to confirm that the list is indeed valid. That source is none other than the ultimate fanboy and Fatman on Batman host himself - Kevin Smith.
MStarz News reports that in Kevin Smith, in his latest episode of his Hollywood Babble-On podcast, admits that not only was Nikki Finke's scoop accurate, he's known about it for quite a while. His claim seems pretty accurate, as he's gone record as early as the beginning of this month stating that he knew Batman v. Superman: Dawn Of Justice was the beginning of things to come. Apparently, Warner Bros trusts Smith enough to let him in on all of the inner workings of the DC Comics movie machine. This is kind of funny, considering that Kevin Smith's only film with the studio was the classically maligned Cop Out, but if he can start saying nice things about Bruce Willis while interviewing Rian Johnson, then maybe his relationship with Warner Bros has been mended to a good enough point that they trust him.
Now keep in mind, Kevin Smith was also trusted with seeing the new Batsuit before any news outlets even got a whiff of the story, so obviously the man is connected thanks to his filmmaking and geek connections. Which begs the ultimate question: besides his massive fan cred, why is Warner Bros keeping Smith, of all people, in the loop? Two reasons come to mind, one more grounded than the other.
The first, more grounded, answer is that Kevin Smith is pretty much an unofficial press agent for DC. His love of Batman led him to create the Fatman On Batman podcast, where he's had persons involved with various iterations of the franchise in his office to discuss the Caped Crusader. Keeping him updated just means that DC's groundwork for setting up a new series of films will be that much more solidified, considering that Kevin Smith is a snarky, take no prisoners fan. If he hates something you've done, he'll let you know. Also, it helps that Smith still owes comic geeks everywhere Batman: Bellicosity (pictured in the header), the concluding arc to his run of writing Batman comics. Knowing he still works with DC could mean he's just heard this information through the office grapevine, and isn't especially connected.
More outlandishly, I'd like to think that Warner Bros is keeping Kevin Smith in the information pool not only because of his ability to drum up fan interest, but also because they'll eventually want to offer him the chance to direct a DC Comics film. Think about it: Zack Snyder is the DC equivalent of Jon Favreau, the man who kickstarts everything and lays down a solid couple of films for the rest to take off from. Kevin Smith is the Joss Whedon of DC, the man with the knowledge and the passion to take the groundwork and push it to the next level, weaving everything into one gigantic arc of awesome. Bringing Smith into the fold, even if it was just for a movie or two, would benefit Warner Bros/DC, and would almost guarantee box office and fan credibility. It's the type of shot to the arm the DC cinematic continuum needs, and it's not too out of the realm of possibility. Unless Kevin Smith has progressed to the point where he'd turn down the chance to direct Ben Affleck in a standalone Batman movie, in which case all this is for naught.
Batman v. Superman: Dawn Of Justice kicks off the expanding DC cinematic continuum on May 6th, 2016.
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Thomas Jefferson Withers (1804 – November 7, 1865) was an American politician from South Carolina who served in the Confederate States Congress during the American Civil War. Scholar Martin Duberman tells of his long struggle to unearth the sexually explicit 1826 letters of James Henry Hammond and Thomas Jefferson Withers, important conservative figures in the pre–Civil War South, in the face of massive opposition from the South Caroliniana Library. The 1826 letters of Thomas Jefferson Withers to James H. Hammond—who both went on to become southern pro-slavery and states' rights advocates—reveal a forthright eroticism that seems at odds with the chaste youthful bed sharing associated with male romantic friendship. "I feel some inclination to learn whether you yet sleep in your Shirt-tail," the twenty-two-year-old Withers wrote, "and whether you yet have the extravagant delight of poking and punching a writhing Bedfellow with your long fleshen pole—the exquisite touches of which I have often had the honor of feeling? . . . Sir, you roughen the downy Slumbers of your Bedfellow—by such hostile—furious lunges as you are in the habit of making at him—when he is least prepared for defence against the crushing force of a Battering Ram."
Withers was born in York County, South Carolina, and served as a state court judge in 1846. He represented the state in the Provisional Confederate Congress in 1861 and signed the Confederate States Constitution. Withers is also notable for the sexually explicit letters he wrote in 1826 to a college friend, future governor James Henry Hammond, with whom Withers had a homosexual relationship. The letters, which are housed among the Hammond Papers at the South Caroliniana Library, were first published by researcher Martin Duberman in 1981, and are remarkable for being rare documentary evidence of same-sex relationships in the antebellum United States.[1]
In 1826 Jeff Withers was studying law at South Carolina College. In 1828 he became editor of the Columbia Telescope, an organ of the powerful nullification movement that had arisen in South Carolina to protest and defy the recent federal tariff. He completed his law studies in 1833. The same year he married Elizabeth Boykin, whose niece, Mary Boykin Chestnut, later won enduring fame for her Civil War journals, published as Diary from Dixie. Elected a common-law judge soon after, Withers later moved up to the state Court of Appeals, where he served until his death in 1866. His moement of greatest public prominence came in 1861, when he was chosen to be one of the fifty delegates sent by the seven seceded states of the lower South to meet in Montgomery, Alabama, there to draw up a provisional goverment for the pending new Confederacy. Withers died at Camden in Kershaw County, South Carolina and was interred at the Quaker Cemetery in the same city.
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New details on Windows Blue and how it brings Windows Phone to tablets and desktops
By Michael H.
We have heard a couple rumors about Windows Blue, which is the reported update to Windows that is planned for mid-2013. What we had heard before was that the update was planned to be the universal version of Windows, and could possibly be offered for free to accomplish that goal. We also heard that it could bring support for 7 and 8 inch tablets, and now we're getting new details on how Blue will bridge the gap between tablets, desktops, and Windows Phone.
According to a PCBeta forum member, Windows Blue is also being referred to as "Windows 9 Dev", and one of the main visual updates to Windows 8 (and theoretically RT as well) will be bringing the WP8 resizable Live Tiles to tablets and desktops. Additionally, the update will retain the "legacy" desktop mode, but will update the UI on the desktop mode to be more flattened and in line with the Metro UI aesthetic.
Under the hood, the Blue update is said to be using a new version of the Windows kernel, version 6.3, which should make everything smoother and more polished.
All in all, that's a lot of rumors surrounding this update, and a few of them are quite believable. We're hoping Microsoft unveils some real info soon.
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Q: Is this a good layout for a large PHP site? The whole MVC design confuses me a little bit as I have never used it.  Below is the general layout of my current project...
The account folder holds basicly all my core files for my user system

root/account/login.php
  root/account/home.php
  root/account/logout.php
  root/account/settings.php

Then I have a seperate folder for each "module" (forums, blogs, etc)

root/forums/   root/blogs/
  root/mail/

Then any functions and classes and config files are loaded from an includes directory like this

root/includes/classes/
  root/includes/bootstrap.php  //this file autoloads the class files needed and ensures a DB connection sitewide

Most of the "work" is done inside the class files.  Obviously I left out hundreds of files  and several other folders ( css/ js/ images/ )
So I am wondering, does this seem like a good design for a large scale site?  This isn't considered MVC is it?  And Please do not refer me to a Framework.

A: No, it doesn't seem like you are necessarily using MVC. Most of the time they are grouped by their real MVC names:
If I had to guess how you are splitting your files, your structure could look like this
views/
  account/
    login.php
    home.php
    settings.php
    logout.php
controllers/  #maybe what you call modules
  account.php
  blog.php
  mail.php
models/       #maybe what you call "classes" are models
  account.php
  blog_entry.php
  comment.php

Just a quick reference:

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*M odel = Class that handles all interaction with the database for a specific object/function and normally has a 1 to 1 ratio with a database record (And of course has relationships to other models).

*V iew  = Handles displaying content to the user. No business code (or very little) should be contained in these files. Database access, for example, should not be performed in the view.

*C ontroller = Script that receives the requests from the user, decides which models to get involved, performs the necessary action (passing off as much as makes sense to individual models), then prepares the data to show the user and sends that to the view for display.

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This man has serious anger management issues!
Donald Trump has truly hired the most unhinged, unpleasant, and dishonest people to be in his administration — people who reminded him of himself. And when you watch one of his least likable advisors, Stephen Miller, that couldn't be more obvious.
Last time he appeared on the show, Miller was practically shouting at CBS Face The Nation's host, Margaret Brennan, as he grew increasingly frustrated with the hard questions she was throwing at him about the Affordable Care Act and border security.
They DO NOT want you reading that report.


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> > My fresh copy of the calendar (as of 12:30 (gmt -7)) has the typo.
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Alabama head coach Nick Saban said both quarterbacks, Jalen Hurts and Tua Tagovailoa, will play in Saturday's season opener against Louisville.
Alabama head coach Nick Saban said both his quarterbacks, Jalen Hurts and Tua Tagovailoa, will play in Saturday's season opener against Louisville.
"I think we have two guys that are weapons and they've both played well, so the plan is to play both guys in the game," Saban said in an interview with ESPN's Chris Fowler that will air on College Gameday on Saturday. "So the only issue is who plays first, and we'll decide that when the time comes."
Saban hinted at the move on August 21, saying both quarterbacks were playing well and that "there could be a role for both of them," according to USA TODAY.
But earlier this week, he declined to give specifics on which quarterback would start or whether both signal-callers would play.
Asked Monday if the public should assume they'll find out who will start when the Alabama offense takes the field, Saban said, "I wouldn't assume anything."
Louisville head coach Bobby Petrino said earlier this week that his team was preparing for both quarterbacks.
Alabama and Louisville kick off the season at 8 p.m. Saturday in Orlando, Florida. The game will be broadcast on ABC.


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European Territorial Cooperation Programmes 2021-2027: consultation report
Economic Development Directorate, +1 more … External Affairs Directorate
Brexit, Business, industry and innovation, Environment and climate change, +1 more … International
This report summarises the responses that the Scottish Government received to its consultation on European Territorial Cooperation Programmes for the period 2021-2027. The results of this consultation show that there is an overwhelming appetite from public sector organisations in Scotland for continued participation.
Executive Summary and Findings
Programme Specific Responses
Scotland's Participation in Future ETC Programmes and Brexit
Appendix 1 - Consultation Publish Response With or Without Name
European Territorial Cooperation (ETC) Programmes, also known as Interreg, have been a strand of EU Cohesion Policy supported by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) for the past 30 years. These programmes fund projects in which people from different countries come together to solve shared problems and develop innovative ideas. These projects cover a wider range of topics, contributing to a number of different Scottish Government policy priorities, with projects ranging from supporting people with Alzheimer's living in rural areas, to enabling businesses to develop innovative solutions in renewable energy. The majority of priorities of ETC programmes fall under devolved competencies.
Within ETC there are three strands
Interreg V-A – Cross Border Programmes
Interreg V-B – Transnational Programmes
Interreg V-C – Pan European Programmes
Scotland is currently part of one cross border programme (Interreg VA – United Kingdom-Ireland (Ireland-Northern Ireland-Scotland)), four Transnational Programmes (The Atlantic Area, North West Europe, North Sea Region and Northern Periphery and Arctic) and two Pan European Programmes (Interreg Europe and URBACT).
A total of 75 Scottish organisations have and are participating in 198 territorial cooperation projects across ETC programmes in the current programming period. To date, they have been awarded around £70 million under the 2014-2020 programmes. The biggest recipients of ERDF awards are the private sector (30%), followed by higher and further education institutions (28%), then Scottish Government and agencies (23%), Local Authorities (11%) and; NGO (7%).
In the 2016 referendum on the United Kingdom's continued membership of the EU, Scotland clearly and decisively voted to Remain. The Scottish Government values the joint work done with our European neighbours and we are therefore committed to continued participation in ETC, along with a number of other EU Programmes which greatly benefit many sections of Scottish society.
As the current programmes come to a close we wished to inform our own thinking on the design of the future programmes (2021-2027), so that we can work together with partner countries in the programmes to meet our shared needs. In the Third Quarter of 2019 the Scottish Government ran four workshops throughout Scotland to understand stakeholder views on priorities for the next programming period and ways that the programmes could be improved. The findings from these workshops were reported in European Territorial Cooperation in Scotland Post 2020 report which was published in October 2019[4].
Following this, the Scottish Government took the decision to launch an online consultation to further inform our position on the post 2020 programmes. This report details the responses to this consultation which ran from 10th January 2020 to 24th April 2020.
There were a total of 21 responses to the consultation, largely from representative organisations, public sector organisations, including local authorities, and business support organisations. A breakdown of this can be seen in Figure 1. A majority of respondents had been involved in at least one programme, as shown in Figure 2.
Figure 1 - Response from Individual or Organisation
Figure 2 - Which ETC programmes have you been involved in?
This report will look at respondents views on each programme as well as views on the administration of the programmes in general. It will then briefly touch on the potential for Scottish participation in ETC in light of the UK leaving the EU.
Email: ESF_Interreg@gov.scot


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Q: Objective-C on iPhone - tab bar crash I'm relatively new to Objective-C and coding. I've tried doing a little dev on my own but have now become stuck on what is probably a rookie error.
I've created a tab bar controller with 5 views, one such view is a UIWebView. I've got the Webview working and it loads, but when I select a different tab, the app crashes. Please find my code below and any help would be appreciated!
#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>

@interface LiveViewController : UIViewController {

IBOutlet UIWebView *liveView;

}

@property (nonatomic, retain) UIWebView *liveView;

@end

    #import "LiveViewController.h"

@implementation LiveViewController

@synthesize liveView;

// The designated initializer.  Override if you create the controller programmatically and want to perform customization that is not appropriate for viewDidLoad.
/*
- (id)initWithNibName:(NSString *)nibNameOrNil bundle:(NSBundle *)nibBundleOrNil {
    self = [super initWithNibName:nibNameOrNil bundle:nibBundleOrNil];
    if (self) {
        // Custom initialization.
    }
    return self;
}
*/

/*
// Implement loadView to create a view hierarchy programmatically, without using a nib.
- (void)loadView {
}
*/

// Implement viewDidLoad to do additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib.
- (void)viewDidLoad {
    [self.liveView loadRequest:[NSURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.britishseapower.co.uk/live/"]]];
[super viewDidLoad];
}

- (void)webViewDidStartLoad:(UIWebView *)liveView
{
    // starting the load, show the activity indicator in the status bar
    [UIApplication sharedApplication].networkActivityIndicatorVisible = YES;
}

- (void)webViewDidFinishLoad:(UIWebView *)liveView
{
    // finished loading, hide the activity indicator in the status bar
    [UIApplication sharedApplication].networkActivityIndicatorVisible = NO;
}

- (void)liveView:(UIWebView *)liveView didFailLoadWithError:(NSError *)error
{
    // load error, hide the activity indicator in the status bar
    [UIApplication sharedApplication].networkActivityIndicatorVisible = NO;

    // report the error inside the webview
    NSString* errorString = [NSString stringWithFormat:
                             @"An error occurred:
%@",
                             error.localizedDescription];
    [self.liveView loadHTMLString:errorString baseURL:nil];
}

- (void)viewWillDisappear:(BOOL)animated
{
    if ( [self.liveView loading] ) {
        [self.liveView stopLoading];
    }
    self.liveView.delegate = nil;    // disconnect the delegate as the webview is hidden
    [UIApplication sharedApplication].networkActivityIndicatorVisible = NO;
}

- (void)dealloc {
    [liveView release];
    [UIWebView release];
    [LiveViewController release];
    [super dealloc];
}

@end

Many thanks,
Ryan

A: [UIWebView release]; [LiveViewController release];

This is what make your app crash.
It's not valid to send a release message to a class itself.
What you've done with [liveView release]; is enough (with the call to [super dealloc];.)
You should also set the delegate to nil in the dealloc method as in the viewWillDisappear method self.liveView.delegate = nil;. This way you're sure to avoid any further message sent to the LiveViewController from the UIWebView.
You should read a bit more of documentation on Objective-C to better understand how it works.

A: Not sure if this is related but I noticed that you aren't setting yourself as the delegate anywhere in code which means that it must be connected in Interface Builder. Now when the view disappears, you are breaking that connection, but if the view were to re-appear and wasn't previously unloaded that connection will remain broken.

A: One of the most common reasons why an app may crash is to refer to or send a message to an object that has been already released from the memory. And this type of bug can be easily located using NSZombieEnabled and looking into the console message. So if you haven't already tried that, that's the first thing you must do.
The problem could be in LiveViewController but could be in the other view controllers as well. I wouldn't believe the problem is 100% in LiveViewController because the view controller wouldn't try releasing its view when the view is not shown unless it gets a memory warning. And you run the app using the simulator, it's unlikely it will have a memory warning unless you simulate one.
You would probably know that a view controller never create a view unless the view is used by an object. One of the other view controllers may have a silly bug in its view loading process which causes a crash. Or, you might have released another view controller by mistake. Make 100% sure that the other view controllers have no problem showing their views on their own, when you keep changing between their views (without showing LiveViewController).
So what I would do is to try NSZombieEnabled and check if it accesses a released object, and if it does, what the object is. Also, I will make a double check that the problem is related to LiveViewController. If it doesn't help I would log a message when LiveViewController and its liveView is deallocated (for liveView you need to subclass it). Because delegate property almost always does not retain an object, if the LiveViewController object is released (which shouldn't happen) and liveView still has a reference to it in the delegate property it will make a crash.

A: Crashes like this are almost always related to releasing an object that has already been released and deallocated.
Let XCode help you find the error. In XCode 4:
- In the toolbar, select the scheme list, and select 'Edit Scheme'
- Select the 'Run Your.app' in the list on the left.
- Under 'Environment Variables', add the following name/value pairs in the appropriate columns:
CFZombieLevel 3
NSZombieEnabled YES
Now when debug your app, you will get a message telling when -release is called on an object that already has a -retainCount of zero. Now you have a good clue to start your investigation.
Note that these flags prevent objects from being deallocated, so it is best to turn them on as needed to prevent out of memory errors.