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Sports betting notes, Ole Miss hoops observations, and lots, lots more
by Rick Cleveland August 8, 2018
Marvin Werkley, of Mobile, Ala., looks over the wager sheets on Friday, Aug. 3, 2018, at the IP Casino Resort & Spa in Biloxi, before making a bet. More Mississippi casinos, including Biloxi's Beau Rivage, are opening sports books.
Notes, quotes and opinion or two, while just now realizing the Mississippi college football season kicks off in 24 days…
Rick Cleveland
Speaking of which: This column recently visited Biloxi's Beau Rivage and the new sports gambling operation, where you can bet on just about anything that has a ball – and some sports, such as NASCAR, that don't. And did you know you can bet an over/under proposition on how many games Mississippi State, Ole Miss and Southern Miss will win? Well, you can. The Ole Miss number is 6, USM 6 ½, and Mississippi State 8.
Call me a homer, but I like the "over" on all those.
You can also bet the games of the opening weekend. The opening line on Ole Miss-Texas Tech has Tech a 1.5-point favorite. There's no betting line on either State's opener with Stephen F. Austin or USM's with Jackson State. Clearly, State and USM would be huge favorites. Alabama is a whopping 25.5-pick over Louisville. Auburn is favored by a field goal over Washington and Miami is a 3-point pick over LSU.
Ole Miss basketball is 2-0 on its Canadian exhibition swing. Now comes the hard part. Wednesday night, the Rebels take on Carleton University, which in Canada is like taking on Duke or Kansas. The Carleton Ravens can ever more play hoops. They were 5-1 against American teams last season, including victories over Alabama and Providence. They were 23-0 against Canadian competition. They played their first American team of this season Monday night , trouncing proud Cincinnati 86-67.
Ole Miss coach Kermit Davis and his Rebels will have their hands full with Carleton University.
When this Canadian tour was first announced last spring, I texted new Ole Miss coach Kermit Davis, Jr. about the wisdom (or lack of same) of scheduling Carleton. Davis shot back: "That might be the first time Rebel Nation says: Can this guy really coach?"
All kidding aside, the game is good for Ole Miss for three reasons: One, it's a good measuring stick for where the Rebels are and what they need to do to get better; two, it's no disgrace – at all – to lose against those guys; and, three, it doesn't count against your record.
Carleton has won 13 of the the last 15 Canadian national university championships. Duke, currently on a similar tour of Canada, reportedly chose to skip playing Carleton.
Bob "Sarge" Collins
Was so sorry to learn of the death of Bob Collins, the long-time basketball official who made the Mississippi Gulf Coast his adopted home. "Sarge," we called him, growing up in Hattiesburg, where he officiated games at both Southern Miss and William Carey. He was a character, a referee who somehow endeared himself to coaches, fans and sports media – no matter what he called.
He was a Massachusetts native and a former professional baseball player, who settled on the Gulf Coast after a stint in the Air Force at Keesler AFB. He called games all over the South in the SEC, Metro and smaller conferences and then worked as an evaluator of officials for Conference USA in later years.
He was a pistol, as this story involving The Pistol will indicate. Once, he was officiating an LSU game at Baton Rouge when Pistol Pete Maravich was the superstar and Pete's father, Press Maravich, was his coach. At one point, Press called Sarge over to the sidelines and told him that the opposition was beating up on Pete and that Sarge needed to give him some protection.
Sarge told Press Maravich he would keep an eye on it and then deadpanned, "Say, Coach, what number is Pete?"
He was a beauty. And he was also a generous man who worked for years as the director of Red Cross in south Mississippi. He was 87, and he will be missed.
As if it needed one, Mississippi State women's basketball got another big boost recently. Texas A&M standout Anriel Howard, the school's all-time leading rebounder, has transferred to State and can play immediately. She can do so because she already has graduated. She averaged 11.9 points and 12 rebounds a game last season.
Howard is a gazelle of an athlete and can jump seemingly into the rafters. Against State, in the SEC Tournament at Nashville often going against All American Teaira McCowan, she grabbed 17 rebounds. Now, she'll be teaming with McCowan, a scary thought for State foes.
One more sports betting note: The New Orleans Saints opened at 18 to 1 odds to win the Super Bowl. That's already been bet down to 14 to 1. They could do it, you know…
by Rick Cleveland, Mississippi Today

Sports betting notes, Ole Miss hoops observations, and lots, lots more

by Rick Cleveland, Mississippi Today
August 8, 2018

Notes, quotes and opinion or two, while just now realizing the Mississippi college football season kicks off in 24 days...

Speaking of which: This column recently visited Biloxi's Beau Rivage and the new sports gambling operation, where you can bet on just about anything that has a ball – and some sports, such as NASCAR, that don't. And did you know you can bet an over/under proposition on how many games Mississippi State, Ole Miss and Southern Miss will win? Well, you can. The Ole Miss number is 6, USM 6 ½, and Mississippi State 8.

Call me a homer, but I like the "over" on all those.

You can also bet the games of the opening weekend. The opening line on Ole Miss-Texas Tech has Tech a 1.5-point favorite. There's no betting line on either State's opener with Stephen F. Austin or USM's with Jackson State. Clearly, State and USM would be huge favorites. Alabama is a whopping 25.5-pick over Louisville. Auburn is favored by a field goal over Washington and Miami is a 3-point pick over LSU.

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Ole Miss basketball is 2-0 on its Canadian exhibition swing. Now comes the hard part. Wednesday night, the Rebels take on Carleton University, which in Canada is like taking on Duke or Kansas. The Carleton Ravens can ever more play hoops. They were 5-1 against American teams last season, including victories over Alabama and Providence. They were 23-0 against Canadian competition. They played their first American team of this season Monday night , trouncing proud Cincinnati 86-67.

When this Canadian tour was first announced last spring, I texted new Ole Miss coach Kermit Davis, Jr. about the wisdom (or lack of same) of scheduling Carleton. Davis shot back: "That might be the first time Rebel Nation says: Can this guy really coach?"

All kidding aside, the game is good for Ole Miss for three reasons: One, it's a good measuring stick for where the Rebels are and what they need to do to get better; two, it's no disgrace – at all – to lose against those guys; and, three, it doesn't count against your record.

Carleton has won 13 of the the last 15 Canadian national university championships. Duke, currently on a similar tour of Canada, reportedly chose to skip playing Carleton.

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Was so sorry to learn of the death of Bob Collins, the long-time basketball official who made the Mississippi Gulf Coast his adopted home. "Sarge," we called him, growing up in Hattiesburg, where he officiated games at both Southern Miss and William Carey. He was a character, a referee who somehow endeared himself to coaches, fans and sports media – no matter what he called.

He was a Massachusetts native and a former professional baseball player, who settled on the Gulf Coast after a stint in the Air Force at Keesler AFB. He called games all over the South in the SEC, Metro and smaller conferences and then worked as an evaluator of officials for Conference USA in later years.

He was a pistol, as this story involving The Pistol will indicate. Once, he was officiating an LSU game at Baton Rouge when Pistol Pete Maravich was the superstar and Pete's father, Press Maravich, was his coach. At one point, Press called Sarge over to the sidelines and told him that the opposition was beating up on Pete and that Sarge needed to give him some protection.

Sarge told Press Maravich he would keep an eye on it and then deadpanned, "Say, Coach, what number is Pete?"

He was a beauty. And he was also a generous man who worked for years as the director of Red Cross in south Mississippi. He was 87, and he will be missed.

•••

As if it needed one, Mississippi State women's basketball got another big boost recently. Texas A&M standout Anriel Howard, the school's all-time leading rebounder, has transferred to State and can play immediately. She can do so because she already has graduated. She averaged 11.9 points and 12 rebounds a game last season.

Howard is a gazelle of an athlete and can jump seemingly into the rafters. Against State, in the SEC Tournament at Nashville often going against All American Teaira McCowan, she grabbed 17 rebounds. Now, she'll be teaming with McCowan, a scary thought for State foes.

•••

One more sports betting note: The New Orleans Saints opened at 18 to 1 odds to win the Super Bowl. That's already been bet down to 14 to 1. They could do it, you know...

This article first appeared on Mississippi Today and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.
Rick Cleveland, a native of Hattiesburg and resident of Jackson, has been Mississippi Today's sports columnist since 2016. A graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi with a bachelor's in journalism, Rick has worked for the Monroe (La.) News Star World, Jackson Daily News and Clarion Ledger. He was sports editor of Hattiesburg American, executive director of the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame. His work as a syndicated columnist and celebrated sports writer has appeared in numerous magazines, periodicals and newspapers.
Rick has been recognized 12 times as Mississippi Sports Writer of the Year, and is recipient of multiple awards and honors for his reporting and writing.
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Record net business wins in the quarter of $990 million; a book to bill of 1.41.
Record closing backlog of $9.4 billion, an increase of 11.8% year on year.
Quarter 3 reported revenue of $701.7 million representing a year on year decrease of 1.2% and 13.1% increase on Quarter 2 2020.
Adjusted earnings per share attributable to the Group for the quarter of $1.72, compared to $1.74 in Quarter 3 2019. Year to date earnings per share* attributable to the group of $4.63, compared to $5.06 for the equivalent prior year period.
Strong balance sheet and liquidity position remains, exceptional cash generation delivers net cash position of $360 million. Days sales outstanding reduced to 45 days from 56 days at September 30, 2019.
Successful refinance of the existing private placement $350 million senior notes on a delayed drawdown basis.
Raising full year 2020 revenue guidance to a range of $2,750 - $2,810 million. Full Year 2020 earnings per share guidance in the range of $6.35 - $6.50.
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DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 21, 2020-- ICON plc (NASDAQ: ICLR), a global provider of outsourced drug and device development and commercialisation services to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device and government and public health organisations, today reported its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2020.
CEO Dr. Steve Cutler commented, "Driven by positive market demand in conjunction with our ability to win COVID-19 related opportunities we delivered a new record $990 million of net business wins during quarter three. This represented a quarterly book to bill of 1.41 and resulted in our backlog growing to $9.4 billion, an increase of 12% year over year. Our financial position remains robust with a strong balance sheet supplemented further by solid quarterly cash collections helping to improve days sales outstanding to 45 days.
We remain well placed to face the challenges of COVID-19 and take advantage of opportunities into the future. We are therefore increasing our 2020 revenue guidance from a range of $2,650 million - $2,750 million to $2,750 million - $2,810 million and narrowing our earnings guidance from a range of $6.00 - $6.50 to a range of $6.35 - $6.50."
Third Quarter 2020 Results
Gross business wins in the third quarter were $1.2 billion and cancellations were $190 million. This resulted in net business wins of $990 million and a book to bill of 1.41.
Reported revenue for Quarter 3 was $701.7 million. This represents a year on year decrease of 1.2% or 1.9% on a constant currency basis.
Reported income from operations in the quarter was $108.4 million or 15.4% of revenue compared to $110.0 million or 15.5% of revenue for Quarter 3 2019.
Reported net income attributable to the Group for the quarter was $91.6 million or 13.1% of revenue compared with $94.8 million or 13.3% of revenue in Quarter 3 2019.
Adjusted earnings per share attributable to the Group on a diluted basis was $1.72, compared to $1.74 per share for Quarter 3 2019. GAAP earnings per share attributable to the Group on a diluted basis was $1.72, compared to $1.72 per share for Quarter 3 2019.
On a comparative basis, non-GAAP days sales outstanding were 45 days at September 30, 2020, compared with 53 days at the end of June 2020 and 56 Days at the end of September 2019.
Cash generated from operating activities for the quarter was $112.0 million and capital expenditure was $6.9 million. As a result, at September 30, 2020, the Group had net cash of $359.8 million, compared to net cash of $244.0 million at June 30, 2020 and net cash of $121.7 million at the end of September 2019.
During the quarter the company completed the successful refinance of the existing private placement of $350 million senior notes maturing on December 15, 2020. The transaction has been successfully priced over three and five year tenors at a blended rate of 2.41% compared to the current private placement blended rate of 3.37%. The drawdown of funds will coincide with the maturity of the senior notes in December 2020.
Year to date 2020 Results
Gross business wins year to date were $3.3 billion and cancellations were $520 million. This resulted in net business wins of $2.8 billion and a book to bill of 1.36.
Year to date reported revenue was $2,037 million. This represents a year on year decrease of 2.1% or 2.0% on a constant currency basis.
Reported income from operations* year to date was $289.7 million or 14.2% of revenue compared to $318.1 million or 15.3% of revenue for the equivalent prior year period.
Reported net income* attributable to the Group year to date was $246.9 million or 12.1% of revenue compared with $275.0 million or 13.2% of revenue for the equivalent prior year period.
Adjusted earnings per share* attributable to the Group on a diluted basis was $4.63, compared to $5.06 per share for the equivalent prior year period.
During the year the company recorded a charge of $18.1 million in relation to restructuring costs. US GAAP income from operations year to date amounted to $271.6 million or 13.3% of revenue. US GAAP net income attributable to the Group year to date was $231.1 million or $4.25 per diluted share, compared to $5.03 per share for the equivalent prior year period.
ICON continues to closely monitor and assess the evolving pandemic situation. The welfare and safety of ICON's employees, customers and patients remains the Company's highest priority. ICON is taking guidance from global health authorities, such as World Health Organisation (WHO) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as well as regional health authorities and governments to ensure that ICON protects the safety and welfare of employees and abides by government directives in various jurisdictions.
COVID-19 continues to affect our global business. However, the impact has reduced in recent months as sites reopened and patient recruitment gradually improved. Where on-site monitoring is not possible we continue to use alternative approaches including remote and risk based monitoring and 'at home' services delivered through our Symphony Clinical Research group.
Since February, ICON has mobilised its vaccine resources to address the COVID-19 global threat, including its ability to conduct home-based trials to minimise infection. The company is currently providing clinical monitoring and safety oversight on more than 100 COVID-19 trials for both the private and government sectors.
In addition to the financial measures prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), this press release contains certain non-GAAP financial measures, including non-GAAP operating and net income and non-GAAP diluted earnings per share. While non-GAAP financial measures are not superior to or a substitute for the comparable GAAP measures, ICON believes certain non-GAAP information is useful to investors for historical comparison purposes.
Adjusted earnings per share attributable to the Group (Non-GAAP) has been computed by dividing non-GAAP net income attributable to the Group by the weighted average number of shares outstanding. GAAP earnings per share attributable to the Group has been computed by dividing net income attributable to the Group plus a GAAP charge associated with non-controlling interest in MeDiNova Research ("MeDiNova") by the weighted average number of shares outstanding. ICON purchased a majority shareholding in MeDiNova on May 23, 2019. ICON exercised its call on the outstanding shares in MeDiNova and derecognized the non-controlling interest effective from March 2020.
The Company entered into an agreement with a third party to jointly establish Oncacare. Oncacare will operate a specialized oncology site network in the US and EMEA regions. The Company holds a 49% interest in the voting share capital of Oncacare. The Company's investment in Oncacare is accounted for under the equity method and records its pro rata share of the earnings/losses of this investment in Share of equity method investments in the Condensed Consolidated Statement of Operations.
ICON will hold its third quarter conference call tomorrow, October 22nd, 2020 at 9:00 EDT [14:00 Ireland & UK]. This call and linked slide presentation can be accessed live from our website at http://investor.iconplc.com. A recording will also be available on the website for 90 days following the call. In addition, a calendar of company events, including upcoming conference presentations, is available on our website, under "Investors". This calendar will be updated regularly.
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Iran sends 'serious warning' with ballistic missile war games display 'Beware of mistakes'
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War games carried out in the Gulf this week by Iran's Revolutionary Guard culminated on Friday with missiles flattening a target that resembled Israel's Dimona nuclear reaction. Guard chief, General Hossein Salami, said on state TV: "These exercises had a very clear message: a serious, real … warning to threats by the Zionist regime's authorities to beware of their mistakes.
"We will cut off their hands if they make a wrong move. The distance between actual operations and military exercises is only a change in the angles of launching the missiles."
The state's semi-official news agency, Tasnim, said: "Through a simulation of the Dimona atomic facilities, the Revolutionary Guards successfully practised attacking this critical centre of the Zionist regime in its missile exercise."
The official IRNA news agency reported the names of the missiles fired across the country's south as Emad, Ghadr, Sejjil, Zalzal, Dezful and Zolfaghar.
It added that their ranges vary between 220 miles (350km) and 1,250 miles (2,000km).
Iran says it has fired 16 missiles in a series of drills inside the Gulf state (Image: IRGC/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via REUTERS)
A military trucks carries a supersonic, anti-ship ballistic missile in 2011 (Image: Getty)
Tehran's actions have come amid heightened concerns that Israel is planning to target Iranian nuclear sites.
Major General Mohammad Bagheri, Armed Forces Chief of Staff, said Iran had simultaneously fired 16 missiles of various classes, destroying a number of set targets.
The military drills, named "Great Prophet", started on Monday in three provinces which border the Persian Gulf – Bushehr, Hormozgan and Khuzestan.
Iran's actions have sparked widespread condemnation with Britain describing the actions as a threat to regional and global security.
In a statement, the Foreign Office said on Friday: "We condemn Iran's use of ballistic missiles in a test launch confirmed to have been conducted today.
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"The launch is a clear breach of UN Security Council Resolution 2231, which requires that Iran not undertake any activity related to ballistic missiles designed to be capable of delivering nuclear weapons – including launches using ballistic missile technology".
"These actions are a threat to regional and international security and we call on Iran to immediately cease its activities".
Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Saeed Khatibzadeh, rejected Britain's condemnation, accusing London of meddling in the Gulf state's defensive capacity.
Reuters reports that within the Middle East, Iran has one of the largest missile programmes, viewing such weapons as a vital deterrent and means of retaliation against adversaries, including the US, should war break out.
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Iran maintains its ballistic missiles have a range of 1,200 miles (2,000km) and are therefore capable of reaching Israel and US bases in the Middle East.
Benny Gantz, Israel's Defence Minister, has urged world powers not to let Iran play for time at negotiations aimed at reviving the 2015 Tehran nuclear deal brokered by the US, UK, France, China, Russia and Germany.
Under the accord, Iran had agreed to limit its nuclear activities and allow international inspectors to enter the country in return for the lifting of crippling economic sanctions.
Donald Trump pulled the US out the Iran nuclear deal (Image: Getty)
Talks to save the deal began in May after Joe Biden succeeded Donald Trump as US president. Mr Trump pulled the US out of the deal and reimposed sanctions in 2018.
Since then, Tehran has started to enrich uranium up to 60 percent purity – a short step away from the 90 percent required to produce an atomic bomb.
Israel opposes the negotiations, which are due to resume on Monday, and has threatened military action if diplomacy fails.
The country is widely believed to be the only country in the Middle East with a nuclear arsenal, Reuters reports.
The drills came after US national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, met with Israel's Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett, on Wednesday.
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IIHF World Junior Championships, 2014 Version
By kinot-1
August 7, 2013 in Around the League Archives
kinot-1
I know it's a long way off, but here we can discuss the WJC, and all that goes with it, whether it consists of our draftees, or the different countries involved, or videos pertaining to the WJC, pretty much anything to do with the WJC.
The 2013-2014 WJC tournament will run from Dec. 26, 2012 to Jan. 5, 2013. All preliminary-round games will be played at the 7,950-seat Ufa Arena.
Sweden will head Group A with rival Finland, the Czech Republic, Switzerland and Latvia. The Group B field includes 2012 silver medalist Russia, the United States, Canada, Slovakia and Germany.
There are seven six Montreal Canadiens prospects playing in the tournament, which is an early look at who will be representing their country at the 2014 World Junior Tournament in December and January.
Sebastian Collberg, Charles Hudon, Alex Galchenyuk, Brady Vail (did not make the 1st cut), Sebastian Collberg, Artturi Lehkonen, Michael McCarron, Jacob De La Rose, Zach Fucale, will tryout for their respective teams.
TSN and RDS will broadcast the games and, I am sure some other broadcasters will pick up the games as well.
Here is the complete schedule:
Preliminary Round
Date Game Venue CET Eastern Score
Dec. 26 Germany vs. Canada Malmö Isstadion 13:30 7:30 AM -
Dec. 26 Norway vs. Russia Malmö Arena 15:00 9:00 AM -
Dec. 26 Czech Republic vs. United States Malmö Isstadion 17:30 11:30 AM -
Dec. 26 Switzerland vs. Sweden Malmö Arena 19:00 1:00 PM -
Dec. 27 Slovakia vs. Germany Malmö Isstadion 15:00 9:00 AM -
Dec. 27 Finland vs. Norway Malmö Arena 17:30 11:30 AM -
Dec. 28 United States vs. Slovakia Malmö Isstadion 13:30 7:30 AM -
Dec. 28 Sweden vs. Finland Malmö Arena 15:00 9:00 AM -
Dec. 28 Canada vs. Czech Republic Malmö Isstadion 17:30 11:30 AM -
Dec. 28 Russia vs. Switzerland Malmö Arena 19:00 1:00 PM -
Dec. 29 Germany vs. United States Malmö Isstadion 15:00 9:00 AM -
Dec. 29 Norway vs. Sweden Malmö Arena 17:30 11:30 AM -
Dec. 30 Czech Republic vs. Germany Malmö Isstadion 13:30 7:30 AM -
Dec. 30 Russia vs. Finland Malmö Arena 15:00 9:00 AM -
Dec. 30 Canada vs. Slovakia Malmö Isstadion 17:30 11:30 AM -
Dec. 30 Switzerland vs. Norway Malmö Arena 19:00 1:00 PM -
Dec. 31 Slovakia vs. Czech Republic Malmö Isstadion 13:30 7:30 AM -
Dec. 31 Sweden vs. Russia Malmö Arena 14:00 8:00 AM -
Dec. 31 United States vs. Canada Malmö Isstadion 17:30 11:30 AM -
Dec. 31 Finland vs. Switzerland Malmö Arena 18:00 Noon -
Playoff Round
Jan. 2 Quarterfinal Malmö Isstadion 12:00 6:00 AM -
Jan. 2 Quarterfinal Malmö Arena 14:30 8:30 AM -
Jan. 2 Quarterfinal Malmö Isstadion 17:00 11:00 AM -
Jan. 2 Quarterfinal Malmö Arena 19:30 1:30 PM -
Jan. 4 Semifinal Malmö Arena 15:00 9:00 AM -
Jan. 4 Semifinal Malmö Arena 19:00 1:00 PM -
Jan. 5 Bronze Medal Game Malmö Arena 15:00 9:00 AM -
Jan. 5 Gold Medal Game Malmö Arena 19:00 1:00 PM -
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I've been looking, I'd like to land tickets for the WJC in Montreal.
Tickets must be expensive though.
Fucal and Hudon seem to have a good chance of making team Canada. Gally-A shouldn't have any issues joining the US team (pretty much a lock).
As for the other European countries, I don't know enough about the teams to comment.
i really hope Hudon makes it this year, i should rephrase, I hope he's healthy when the WJ's come around. Was really looking forward to seeing him.
Does anyone know if Malcom Subban is too old for the WJC, I think he might be?
Either way, after his last performance at the WJ's, I'm pretty sure Canada is looking for another tender even if malcom is still in the right age group. Felt bad for malcom, played well until the elimination rounds, then it all fell apart.
Good thread Kinot, gives us something to talk about in the off season.
Malcolm is 19, born in Dec.1993. Too old now.
Thanks, FS, just trying to dig up some topics to fill the void.
ColRouleBleu
Location:Laval QC
I Gally-A shouldn't have any issues joining the US team (pretty much a lock).
Will the Habs let him go though?
, never thought of that little fact, CRB . The thing is, that if he's playing really good, then the juniors will want him on the U.S.A. team, and the Habs will need him on their team. Can you say "conundrum"? I wonder when the juniors will have to finalize their rosters, my guess would be the middle of Dec.at the latest.
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Location:Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Interests:Hockey! Habs! Video games!
NHL teams usually don't let their players participate, so I doubt it.
It depends on where the player is in his development. IMO, Alex is progressing nicely, and therefore, the Habs won't let him go. Other teams have their own agenda with their rookies and may or may not let them participate.
maddienmike
Location:British Columbia
Interests:Gardening Sewing life fun friends HABS
Don't forget Chucky has been invited to the Olympic camp in August,it would be something if he could play in both,but I don't think it is likely,and if he is playing well for us,we will need him.
It might be just too much for a player to go to all these competitions and we need him for our playoff run next season,
But we will have a few prospects at the WJC,so there will be quite a bit of extra interest for us.
GO HABS GO :wub:
From HabsWorld.net. (Mods, if you feel that this site is not allowed,,, please remove this post ).
"The 2013 Lake Placid tournament, a tune-up for the World Juniors in December, was held from August 4-10. The Habs were extremely well represented in the tourney with no fewer than seven prospects getting into game action throughout the week. Here is how each prospect fared with our StatTracker "
http://www.habsworld.net/article.php?id=3163
Looking good for our prospects,lots to look forward to in the coming years,wonder how soon we can see them in the Dogs and the big team.
i thought he may be too old, too bad he screwed up his one shot at the WJC.
I don't see why they wouldn't. They've never really stood in the way of players playing for their countries, but he would miss some NHL games while the WJC are going on.
i can see the habs concern, but i don't think they'll stand in his way.
just a gut feeling.
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Ya, there's bascially no way they let him go, he's established himself as a regular and an important player on the team. It's extremely rare for an NHL team to let a player participate. I think I can remember it happening once or twice, I just can't remember with who.
I think you're right BCH, if I recall, a few Olympics ago there was 1 or 2 players that were on ELC, but weren't doing much with the big club, so the club let them go. Like you though, I don't recall who they were.


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Protect northern Australia's natural strengths, don't repeat mistakes of the south
The Federal Government should look at existing studies, not spend $200 million to investigate whether northern rivers can support new dams, as flagged in the Northern Australia white paper, the Australian Conservation Foundation said today.
A previous Federal Government Northern Australian Land and Water Taskforce, which relied on extensive CSIRO research, found that "Contrary to popular belief, water resources in the north are neither unlimited, nor wasted. Equally, the potential for northern Australia to become a 'food bowl' is not supported by evidence." (2009)
"The Government should not spend $200 million to hear again that the north's long dry season, poor soils and uncertain water availability make it unsuitable for industrial agriculture," said ACF's Northern Australia Program Officer Andrew Picone.
"ACF is concerned the White Paper's emphasis on 20th Century-style irrigated agriculture could see the north of the country repeating the mistakes of south, where over-extraction of water from the Murray-Darling river system is the subject of a $13 billion taxpayer-funded restoration plan.
"ACF is also worried the proposed $5 billion Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility could facilitate the mining industry's Galilee Basin coal fantasies, making the fund effectively a Dirty Energy Finance Corporation.
"The priority should be to protect and build on the north's strengths – its superb natural and cultural values – not repeat the same industrial mistakes of southern Australia.
"Healthy landscapes underpin tourism, which is one of the most valuable and employment-rich sectors in northern Australia.
"Keeping our national landscapes, such as the Kimberley, Kakadu and Cape York, in good health must surely be a high priority for any government seeking to invest in an economically resilient and sustainable future for the north," he said.
Analysis shows government is stifling access to information about the environment
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COVID-19 Relief Act Funds New VA Hospital
The COVID-19 pandemic has cancelled and delayed a host of new construction, renovation and upgrade projects in healthcare facilities nationwide as organizations have responded to declines in revenues and staffing challenges. One hospital project that is now full-speed ahead will bring enhanced access and services to Oklahoma.
The recently signed $2.3 trillion appropriations and COVID relief package have the go-ahead to a new Veterans Affairs hospital in Tulsa, according to the Tulsa World. The bill includes the federal government's full $120 million commitment to the facility, which also includes participation by the state, city, local philanthropists and Oklahoma State University (OSU). Plans call for two buildings, which have already been transferred from the state to Oklahoma State University, to be renovated into a 58-bed medical-surgical hospital.
In conjunction with the hospital's completion, the Jack Montgomery Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Muskogee will transition to an inpatient treatment center and outpatient clinic.
The federal funds will pay for most of the new hospital's construction, with another $10 million from private philanthropy, led by the Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation.
Topic Area: Construction
Visitor Management Takes Center Stage in COVID-19 Era
More than ever, facilities need control over patients, families, visitors, and outside contractors
COVID-19: Challenges Continue for Environmental Services, Maintenance
Praise for healthcare workers is well deserved, but it left out nursing aides, housekeepers, medical assistants and food service workers
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Providing training also is a proven strategy for engaging and motivating technical staff
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Pile of Jewish religious texts for expert testimony in court. A prosecution expert testified they sanctioned ritual murder.
Vera Cheberyak, the Dark Diva of the Beilis Affair. A notorious criminal, and likely mastermind of the boy's murder, she, astonishingly, became a star witness for the prosecution.
Zhenya Cheberyak, Vera's son. A key witness, he died suddenly and some said suspiciously.
The Defense Team. Beilis was defended by some of Russia's foremost attorneys.
Court in Session - Mendel Beilis is in the dock at right. The witness stands, facing the judges.
The jury. The peasants are recognizable by their bowl haircuts and caftans.
A Jewish brick factory clerk is falsely accused of ritually murdering a Christian boy for his blood to make Passover matzo – the age-old blood libel. His trial in 1913 becomes an international cause célèbre.
On March 20, 1911, the body of a thirteen-year-old boy named Andrei Yushchinsky was found in a cave on the outskirts of Kiev, then part of the Russian Empire. He had been stabbed some four dozen times. Four months later, Russian police arrested Mendel Beilis, a 37-year-old father of five who worked as a clerk in a brick factory nearby, and charged him not only with boy's killing but with the Jewish ritual murder of this Christian child. There was no evidence linking Beilis to the murder and he had a solid alibi, but the state had decided to charge a Jew with this horrible crime and Beilis was the most convenient choice.
As a handful of Russian officials and journalists searched for the real killer, the rabid anti-Semites known as the Black Hundreds whipped into a frenzy men and women throughout the Russian Empire who fanatically believed that this was only the latest example of centuries of Jewish ritual murders of Christian children.
Beilis was imprisoned for more than two years in horrific conditions before his trial in the fall of 1913, which made worldwide headlines.
Some of the era's most esteemed personages rallied to Beilis's defense, including Thomas Mann, H. G. Wells, Anatole France, Arthur Conan Doyle, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Jane Addams and Booker T. Washington. Pro-Beilis rallies in the U.S. drew thousands but nothing could stop the case from going forward.
With the full backing of Tsar Nicholas II's teetering government, the prosecution called an array of "expert witnesses"—pathologists, clergymen, a psychological profiler—whose laughably incompetent and, in some cases, perjured testimony horrified liberal Russians and Beilis's supporters in the West.
Among the witnesses the prosecution presented to the jury were: a pathologist who was paid a 4,000 ruble bribe; a drunken couple who had been plied with alcohol by an investigator; and a Catholic priest, pseudoscholar, and sometime con man who testified to the reality of the blood ritual. A star witness for the defense was a detective known as "Russia's Sherlock Holmes" who tried to prove Beilis's innocence and find the real killers, but was imprisoned by a vengeful state for his efforts. But the most sensational witness was the dark diva of the Beilis affair, Vera Cheberyak. A character worthy of one of the great Russian novelists, she was the leader of a criminal gang, and was very probably the mastermind behind the boy's murder. Astonishingly, the state drafted her to become a star witness against Mendel Beilis.
Beilis's fate rested in the hands of a largely peasant jury. After thirty-four days the trial came to a dramatic and ambiguous conclusion. The consequences reverberated far beyond the day of the verdict – into the Nazi era and beyond. A hundred years after the trial of Mendel Beilis, the blood libel is still with us.
Vera Cheberyak and her gang, Andrei's likely killers. One died in mysterious circumstances. The headline reads, "Who Are the Killers?"
Detective Nikolai Krasovsky, "Russia's Sherlock Holmes," who attempted to exonerate Beilis, and paid dearly for it, flanked by his two assistants.
Tsar Nicholas II's role in the case was obscure but possibly crucial. His top ministers organized the frame-up of Beilis.
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Turkey's Foreign Chief Arrives, Greece Seeks Easing of Tensions
By The National Herald
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, center, with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu, left, and the Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias during their meeting at Maximos Mansion in Athens, Monday, May 31, 2021. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
ATHENS – Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias told journalists after meeting Turkey's foreign chief Mevlut Cavusoglu that Greece wants a "gradual normalization' of relations that have frayed so badly it brought the countries to a near-conflict over disputed claims to the waters in the Aegean and East Mediterranean
But Dendias said it won't be easy, admitting both sides "hold different and, on certain serious issues, dimatetrically opposed positions," that haven't been broached despite repeated tries.
He said Greece and Turkey so far agreed only on some economic cooperation deals and accepting each other's COVID-19 vaccine certificates as resolution of the big issues remains unattainable for now.
Cavusoglu said that Athens and Ankara both seek to "increase cooperation" and find solutions to their problems "on the basis of international law and shared interests," said Kathimerini, without his noting that Turkey doesn't recognize those laws, especially concern the United Nations Law of the Sea.
The Turkish foreign minister confirmed that Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will meet with Turkish President Recept Tayyip Erdogan on the sidelines of a NATO conference in Brussels on June 14.
It's the first time Cavusoglu and Dendias had met since Greece's foreign chief ripped his counterpart in a news conference after they talked in Ankara about Turkish provocations in the Aegean and East Mediterranean.
Read also: Cavusoglu: We Agreed with Dendias That Positive Cooperation Will Continue
This time it was more cordial with both sides said to want good will and progress in their disputes, said Kathimerini, but only after Greece's Foreign Ministry fiercely objected to Cavusoglu referring to a "Turkish minority" in northern Greece.
Greece calls the Turks living there a "Muslim minority" the two sides splitting hairs after claiming to want to end divisiveness while picking it up, Greece saying Cavusoglu was distorting reality.
Amid all the talk about reducing tension, both sides ramped it up even before Cavusoglu arrived in Athens over his visit to the northern region of Trace to meet with Turks who are the Muslim minority there and who want more rights.
He tweeted he was there "to meet members of the Turkish Minority," and that Turkey would "always stand resolutely with the Turkish Minority in their struggle for their rights."
While most of the Muslim minority in Greece is comprised of Turks there are also smaller numbers of Pomaks, who speak Bulgarian, gypsies and even Greeks who converted to Islam.
Calling the Muslim minority Turkish is diplomatically sensitive and highly contentious in Greece, which recognizes the minority only as as Muslim, Greece not recognizing separate ethnicities.
Read also: Greek Diplomatic Sources: Dendias, Cavusoglu Talks Sincere and Detailed
It's said to be done to try to contain Turkish influence and any idea of seceding and aligning with neighboring Turkey with no report how that could be done.
Greek Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexandros Papaioannou responded that Greece "steadily adheres to international law and the protection of human rights. It fully implements the obligations stemming from the Treaty of Lausanne, which explicitly and clearly refers to a Muslim minority in Thrace."
He said that "Turkey's constant attempts to distort this reality, as well as the allegations of supposed non-protection of the rights of these citizens, or of alleged discrimination, are unfounded and are rejected in their entirety."
The 1923 Lausanne treaty handled the exchange of populations between Greece and Turkey in the aftermath of war, uprooting around 2 million people: approximately 1.5 million Orthodox Christians living in Turkey and half a million Muslims living in Greece. Turkey doesn't call Greeks living in Turkey an Orthodox Minority.
Greece regards the minority in Thrace as religious, pointing out the diverse ethnic backgrounds of its members, while Turkey insists on referring to it as an ethnic Turkish minority, in contravention of the Treaty of Lausanne, which the ministry reminded Turkey of its obligation to implement.
The Muslim community in Thrace and the Greek community of Constantinople were exempt but the Greek minority in that city has fallen fast from some 200,000 at one point before brutal persecution began in the 1950's.
Papaioannou said that "Greece desires the improvement of relations with Turkey. A necessary condition is the respect of international law," which Turkey doesn't accept unless invoking to its advantage at times.
Greece and Turkey have been divided for decades over a series of disputes, including territorial rights in the Aegean with Turkey claiming waters around Greek islands under a maritime deal with Libya no other country recognizes.
(Material from the Associated Press was used in this report)
Parliament Debate on Motion of Censure Tabled by SYRIZA Starts Today
ATHENS - A three-day debate on the motion of censure against the government, submitted yesterday by the leader of the main opposition, Alexis Tsipras, will start in the parliament plenary session on Friday, at 18:00.
Oikonomou: Motion of Censure a First-Class Opportunity for Greeks to Hear What Happened
Mitsotakis Speaks on the Phone with German Chancellor Scholz


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Report: Zarqawi Captured
James Joyner · Thursday, July 29, 2004 · 4 comments
Jeff Quinton passes on a Russian report that Iraq's head terrorist has been captured:
Sofia Morning News – Al-Zarqawi Captured – Report
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, head of the group suspected of beheading two Bulgarian hostages, has reportedly been arrested in Western Iraq. Al-Zarqawi has been arrested by Iraqi police and US military close to the border with Syria, Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported, citing information posted on the Internet.
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A group linked to Zarqawi is suspected of carrying out a wave of attacks in late June that killed more than 100 people and injured hundreds more in attacks in five Iraqi cities.
I agree with Jeff that the report is sketchy enough that we might ought hold off on our celebrations and that, "If it turns out to be true – bank on the timing being questioned by Democrats."
Update (1305): The same site is now issuing denials. It's apparently getting heavy traffic; neither link is loading at present.
FILED UNDER: Iraq War, Terrorism
BigFire says:
Thursday, 29 July 2004 at 11:56
schetchy doesn't began to describes it. Den Beste Rule applies for now.
Nathan Hamm says:
I managed to dig up the RIA Novosti report mentioned by Novinvite. Unfortunately, my newspaper Russian sucks. Maybe someone else can make better sense of it.
What I did see that jumped out was the mention of an Iraqi website called "Our Iraq," where it sounds like they got the information from (again, my Russian ain't great and I don't quite recall what сообщил means).
Jim Henley says:
Do you think Fafnir and Giblets tracked him down during the two weeks they were "on the road?"
Bithead says:
The report may be in error, but clearly the rumor mill is going crazy because SOMEONE got caught. CNN is up with a report that is so similar as to make one wonder if the first source didn't simply screw it up… says CNN:
"DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (Reuters) – Pakistan has arrested a senior al Qaeda figure with a bounty of up to $25 million on his head, Interior Minister Makhdoom Faisal Saleh Hayat told CNN television Thursday. He said the suspect had been captured during a raid in central Pakistan a few days ago. He did not identify the captive but said he was "a person who is most wanted internationally." …"The Pakistani president said the arrested person is Tanzanian who is married to an Uzbek woman, and who is wanted by the United States," the station said. Al Arabiya said the suspect may be Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani. Ghailani is the only Tanzanian on the FBI's most wanted "terrorists" list, for his alleged role in the 1998 bombings by al Qaeda of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
similarity of situaton, caused someone at the Rusian outlet to pop a cork.


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This Is the Most Beautiful Visualization of Global Trade You'll Ever See
Image credit: FleetMonCom | YouTube
Ben Geier
This story originally appeared on Fortune Magazine
Last week, a deal was struck at a number of ports on the West Coast to end a nine-month negotiation between labor and management. The ongoing dispute had led to significant slowdowns and jams. The new deal lasts for five years and covers 29,000 workers at 29 ports, the LA Times reported.
The shutdown had impacted major ports including the ones at Long Beach and Los Angeles, which handle around 40% of incoming container cargo for the US. Despite generating plenty of controversy and headlines, it's difficult to fathom how large and crucial such shipping hubs can be for worldwide trade. To get a sense just how important these ports are, consider this video visualizing how cargo moved through the world on a typical day in 2012 which NPR dug up today.
From NPR's blog:
The video shows satellite tracking of routes superimposed over Google Earth. It focuses on some of the main choke points for international shipping, such as the Strait of Malacca on the southern tip of Malaysia, the Suez Canal, the Strait of Gibraltar and the Panama Canal. It's a good reminder that about 90 percent of all the goods traded globally spend at least some of their transit time on a ship.
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Pera Interviewed on Alternative Litigation Financing Issue
(Article reproduced with permission from Daily Report for Executives, 179 DER (Sept. 16, 2015). Copyright 2015 by The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. (800-372-1033) http://www.bna.com)
Adams and Reese Partner Lucian Pera was interviewed in a Bloomberg BNA article, "Senators Take Aim at Litigation Finance: Could Letter Lead to Legislation?" as the controversial business of alternative (or third party) litigation financing (ALF) is drawing attention from two federal lawmakers who are concerned that the industry is largely unregulated and operating without licensing or oversight.
This expression of concern about a growth industry with little federal supervision came from Sens. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) as the issues surrounding alternative litigation financing seem to pit one traditional Republican cause — allowing industry to flourish in the absence of burdensome regulation — against another concern that consumer litigation is bad for business.
"'I can't think of any reason that the lawyer's loyalty would be to the client's funder," said Pera. "The only situation that comes close would be if the funder was funding lots of cases for the lawyer," but even then Pera said a conflict is unlikely. "That's just not how plaintiffs lawyers are wired in my experience," he said. As a part of its Ethics 20/20 project, the American Bar Association sought comments in 2011 about ALF, but determined "there was really no need for any changes in the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct to address any issues with litigation funding," Pera said.


Trials Fusion is a great game held back at every turn by its own aesthetics and the technology that powers it. The deep game we know and love is there, but to find it requires disabling options and overlooking some glaring issues.
Trials Fusion is set in the future. We know this because the intentionally cheesy opening theme song's lyrics are "Welcome to the Future! Man, Machine, The Future!" Via the equally cheesy announcers that accompany each track, you find out throughout the game that the riders are clones, that the world is full of mutant animals, and that the environment is going crazy.
The announcers, which are GlaDOS-style AI constructs, disintegrate and argue with each other over the course of the game.
The problem with this narrative is that none of it works, plain and simple. It's trying hard to be funny, but most of the jokes miss wildly. It feels like the writer was a fan of Portal and wanted to do the same thing. Except they missed the point, and none of the jokes hit the mark. Even worse, Fusion is a game where the best players will be constantly restarting, making announcers annoying and repetitive at best. Before long, I ended up turning off the announcers completely.
Levels often have audio cues that trigger at checkpoints as well, making turning off the sound effects altogether seem appealing at times. In an early level for example, a siren blares at the first checkpoint. It's not normally a problem, but if you're trying to get a perfect run or accomplish one of the side missions, it goes from cute to grating at the drop of a hat.
The problems don't stop with the audio design, either. The game also suffers – across all platforms – from painfully obvious texture pop-in. On the Xbox One version, there's some noticeable screen tearing as well. Loading times are long as well, though this becomes less of an issue as you get to more difficult tracks and try to improve your scores on earlier ones, rather than just racing through to get medals quickly.
Somehow, all of that doesn't spoil what really makes Trials work: the actual meat of the game. If you've played Trials before, this isn't going to wrinkle your brain or anything. It's simply more of the game we love, meticulously designed and tightened up.
Nearly every track is a pleasure to play, whether it's for the first time or the 100th reset. Obstacles are well placed and tuned, and the times set for achieving each new medal are set perfectly to ensure that it's easy to get close to the necessary time, but substantially tougher to shave off that extra half second to actually get that medal.
One thing Fusion gets especially right is the way levels slowly educate players on the different skills required to complete them. There are formal training levels in Fusion, which do a good job of introducing concepts like the Bunny Hop, but the levels themselves do a great job training these skills. This might sound backward, but later levels will prepare you for earlier levels. Levels that previously had seemed barely passable at a copper medal level start to look manageable and even easy when you go back to them later. What previously took half an hour and a hundred retries now takes a few attempts and a couple minutes.
Those levels that do require all the retries you have available, though, are still fun, even when they feel unpassable. You can feel that you're just one more retry away from nailing the jump, and the feeling when you do finally get it is absolutely triumphant. Until you hit the next snag. It's a rhythm that few games seem to have as good a handle on as Trials does.
The one really glaring weakness to Fusion's single player is the addition of a tricks system. By moving the right analog stick during jumps, you can pull off tricks like standing on the bike midair or flipping it upside down and hanging off it.
The system is finicky at its best moments. It's possible to pass the trick stages, but the fun of retrying and overcoming obstacles is absent and, unlike the tight, sharp physics-based controls of the main game, the tricks stages feel loose and unfinished. There are only a few trick stages, and it feels like something that could've been left on the cutting room floor.
It's important to mention that the multiplayer mode that Trials Fusion ships with is purely local. Local is probably the best way to play, but the online multiplayer that was promised isn't coming to the game for some months yet. It doesn't hurt the single player, but its absence makes the higher price tag on the game sting that much more.
Even with the price tag and without the multiplayer, though, Trials Fusion is worth the price. There's more fun and replayability to be had in any Trials game, Fusion included, than in much more expensive games. Turn off the announcers, rev your engines, and get hopping.
We purchased Trials Fusion for Xbox One with company funds. We completed the single player mode and experimented with track building and local multiplayer modes before starting this review.


text: Q: Puedo compilar aplicacion de ionic para ios usando una maquina virtual de mac? Tengo esta aplicacion de ionic 6 la cual quiero exportar a Android e Ios, en android es facil, el problema es IOS, ya que no cuento con una mac, quisiera saber si puedo descargar una maquina virtual con mac e compilarla desde alli no hay ningun problema conque haga esto o si necesito una mac fisica?


Today I slept in until 8am and then took a walk with Theresa. After breakfast I made the strawberry / angel food dessert I made for Cathy and Michael's BBQ. It's one of Kim and Kellie's favorites. Bob was off work today and he treated me, Theresa and Cathy (we picked her up from her office) to lunch at Boston Market. We all had a dinner sized portion of food. Theresa loves my pork and dumplings dinner so I made that for her and Cathy for dinner (I'm not sure they would have let me go home without making it, actually). Kim and William came over for dinner too. Kim only has one more week left at school and she is starting to look for a summer job already. She's had a couple interviews this week. I think she's had a good year. She showed us lots of her photos and talked lots about the camera she has - and the cameras she wants to buy. After dinner we had some strawberry dessert and then started some chit chat and we're still trying to finish up the Wednesday crossword puzzle - and that's where we are now actually. So I need to get back to Google to do some research! Bye all. Or should I say bye y'all. Hope you liked my blogging. I probably won't be doing anything tomorrow as I'm flying home. It's been a really, really good trip here this year. Good weather, no bugs, good eating and good family fun.
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Liberty and Responsibility in John Stuart Mill
The purpose of this colloquium was to explore a selection of less commonly read writings of Mill along with selections from his more well-known texts, such as On Liberty and Considerations on Representative Government.
Mill, John Stuart. The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume I - Autobiography and Literary Essays [1824]. Edited by John M. Robson. Toronto: Toronto University Press, 1981. http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/mill-the-collected-works-of-john-stuart-mill-volume-i-autobiography-and-literary-essays (accessed October, 2009).
Mill, John Stuart. The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume VIII - A System of Logic. Edited by John M. Robson. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1974.http://oll.libertyfund.org (accessed October, 2009).
Mill, John Stuart. The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume X - Essays on Ethics, Religion, and Society. Edited by John M. Robson. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1985. http://oll.libertyfund.org (accessed October, 2009).
Mill, John Stuart. The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XIX - Essays on Politics and Society, Part 2. Edited by John M. Robson. Toronto: Toronto University Press, 1977. http://oll.libertyfund.org (accessed October, 2009).
Mill, John Stuart. Essays on Economics and Society (The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volumes 4 and 5). Edited by J. M. Robson. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 2006.
Mill, John Stuart. The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XVIII - Essays on Politics and Society Part 1. Edited by John M. Robson. Toronto: Toronto University Press, 1977.
Mill, John Stuart. The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXI - Essays on Equality, Law, and Education. Edited by John M. Robson. Toronto: Toronto University Press, 1984. http://oll.libertyfund.org (accessed October, 2009).


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Samsung launched Galaxy J5 Prime along with Galaxy J7 Prime in India
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A Region with a view
Dimitrij Rupel
Foreign Minister of Slovenia
Governor, colleagues, friends, ladies and gentlemen,
Slovenia will assume the presidency of the EU at the beginning of 2008, after the distinguished presidencies of Austria, Finland (2006), Germany and Portugal (2007). These presidencies, including the French one - that will come immediately after Slovenia - are, and will be confronted with some challenging and vital European issues. We shall deal with environmental, energy and security problems, with multi-cultural coexistence and communication; but also with the future growth of the EU, effectiveness and democratization of its institutions. Subsidiarity will certainly figure as one of the items on our agenda.
The debate about subsidiarity is a debate about appropriate authorities and competences. Among the keywords of our debate - extracted and paraphrased from The Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe - I have found: "balance", "division of tasks" and "better achievement". So, this should be a modern debate, and I thank our Austrian friends for embarking on it. It is a privilege - and it is also refreshing - to be able to participate in this introductory debate on the future of Europe. Let me - to explain my enthusiasm - invite you for a moment back to the beginning of this future.
The debate that we participate in, and the message that I have prepared for my own statement, are rather practical. This was not always the case in European debates. As we all know very well, the European Union is a fantastic experiment inspired not by historical entitlements or military conquests by some avant-garde European (or foreign) nation, but a fundamentally practical organization governed by law and supported by common values.
In Article 9 explaining the fundamental principles of the Union competences (Title III of Part I of the Draft Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe) I read:
Under the principle of subsidiarity, in areas which do not fall within its exclusive competence the Union shall act only if and insofar as the objectives of the intended action cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States, either at central level or at regional and local level, but can rather, by reason of the scale or effects of the proposed action, be better achieved at Union level.
So far, the EU has been a formidable instrument of reconciliation. It still serves this purpose. First, it reconciled nations that had fought wars against each other. Next, the EU brought together nations from Western, Central and Eastern, old and new Europe. The EU has moved the Eastern border of the West further to the East. Internally, the situation is still quite complicated, especially after the membership has grown to 25.
Certain operations can be run more effectively by central institutions. The EU would be more successful on the global stage, if it spoke with one voice. Everybody is aware that e.g. ecological, academic, scientific and most serious security problems are best handled on a supranational level. Many cultural and linguistic issues are probably best treated on the national level, while some social and economic problems are adequately resolved on individual or local level.
We should divide our subsidiarity debate into two parts: the "big" subsidiarity debate and the "small" subsidiarity debate. The big debate is about unity and diversity, about the intergovernmental and the supranational. For the "newcomers" who have joined the EU in 2004, but also for the original member-states, these are certainly fascinating topics ideal for passionate debates on national identities, inferiorities and superiorities, on the glorious past, on old and new Europeans, on historical and cultural nations, on "more equal" members etc.
But, as we have been so dramatically reminded by the decreasing number of radical alternatives to economic growth and prosperity; by globalization and terrorism; by the referenda in France and in the Netherlands; European nations should better cooperate as closely as possible, and our Governments should pay as much attention as possible to the preoccupations of the ordinary citizens and taxpayers. This actually means that we are looking for balance, division of tasks and for better achievement. At this point, another debate - on "small subsidiarity" - might become necessary.
The "small subsidiarity" debate concerns cooperation between European regions. "Horizontal" combination and integration of parts of national territories could grow into inter-regional structures that may even exceed the size of national structures. New forms of European cooperation and association - such as the Euro-regions - might offer practical ways of solving problems.
Let me, briefly, discuss the best level and scale of cooperation, and multicultural understanding in a typical European neighborhood, containing Latin, Germanic and Slavic populations. I am referring to the project of a Euro-region, the idea of regional integration of neighboring Austrian, Croatian, Italian, Slovenian and, maybe also, Hungarian communities.
These communities (people/s) have lived together, known and helped each other in distant history, and worked together in recent times, but they have suffered from hostilities in two world wars and especially during the Cold War. Even today, in some places along the old Iron Curtain border that used to divide East and West, linguistic and other minority protection standards are ignored. Paying little attention to historic changes and to the enlargement of the EU in 2004, local nationalist politicians still prosper by spreading hostility and ethnic tension. Closer/enhanced and EU sponsored cooperation between the neighboring regions that were once divided by wars and ideologies could relax residual ethnic tensions, create new employment opportunities, integrate industrial and transportation potential… New development would build on traditional common economic and cultural patterns. No European regional integration would, of course, be possible as long as local leaders deny cultural and linguistic rights to minorities.
The Alps-Adriatic Euro-region could serve as an economic and political encouragement to a population of 10 million people of Friuli-Venezia-Giulia, Istra, Kärnten, Primorsko-Goranska (županija), Slovenija and Veneto. The region that would embrace the Adriatic and Alpine, i.e. Central-European regions, could serve as a practical instrument to clarify past misunderstandings, and to establish new ties.
For several decades, when it was still a federal unit of Yugoslavia, Slovenia maintained rather lively, one might even say, blooming cross-border cooperation with regions of all four neighboring countries. This cooperation proved to be highly positive and mutually beneficial, and it represents a solid ground on which Slovenia and the neighboring cross-border areas can promote the organization of a Euro-region.
The primary goal of the proposal is to find a comprehensive solution that would intensify cooperation in the already inter-connected and defined area. Considering the natural beauty of the Northern Adriatic and Southern Alpine countryside this is an attractive proposal. A Euro-region with a view!
The capital of Slovenia, Ljubljana, has already played an important role as a coordinator of several inter-regional transportation, cultural, political and economic projects. Moreover, Ljubljana lies at the cross-section of European Corridors V and X. And most importantly, Ljubljana is the only state capital within the proposed Euro-region, and has therefore direct access to the EU institutions and the rest of the international community. This is important for more effective representation of the Euro-region interests.
The Euro-region requires from its members to coordinate their actions, but also stimulates releasing of all potentials, creative energy and ideas. It thus creates development synergy of entrepreneurship and financing (regional and European) which together enhance overall prosperity.
Such progress would of course not affect the polycentric character of the region. Economic and other differences between individual areas within the region would gradually decrease thanks to a harmonized regional development and with the help of adequate resources from the EU structural and cohesion funds. The region would consequently become more interesting also as a potential seat of European institutions or other organizations.


in the average .lib library.
converters that operate in continuous conduction mode.
The basic CCM1 model assumes ideal switches and no transformer.
the most fit and VD and Rd of reactifying diode.
allows for a transformer with a trans ratio n.
1 to n for primary to secondary.
with switching losses related to reverse recovery of a diode.
evaluate the effect of these parameters on the losses.
continuous conduction mode or discontinuous conduction mode.
this continuance module operation and the switching frequency fs.
also allows for an isolation transformer with trans-ratio n.
within the transformer with a turns ration 1 to n.
The transformer model is also included in the average.lib library.
representing two different values of the magnetizing inductance of the transformer.
the conductor operates in this continuous conduction mode.
You're encouraged to work with average switch models provided in the library.
Construct your own examples and test those models in other converter cases.


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I have been dabbling with Scala for a few months now. And one of the things that strikes me about functional programming is the beauty of the finished code. It sometimes gives me a feeling of being just the right mix of art and science! Gone are the dirty null/empty checking *if statements*. Gone are the dumb variety *for/while loops*. I haven't progressed far enough to be using actors but the very thought that variables in my program are *not getting mutated* while being thrashed across many cores and caches is enough to sometimes give me a high!

But this blog is about something else. I just wanted to write about a small piece of code as an example of beauty, expressiveness and correctness of the functional style. I ran into this problem as part of my Scala Coursera course. First of all neither is the problem nor the solution mine. After writing a lot of imperative style ugly code to solve the problem I got fed up with myself and searched for a better way to do it. A more functional way. Here I just explain the problem and the solution.

Firstly, the problem -

**Write a method to compute all the subsets of list of tuples. For example, given this tuple list List(('a', 2), ('b', 2)) the list of all subsets is:**

List(
  List(),
  List(('a', 1)),
  List(('a', 2)),
  List(('b', 1)),
  List(('a', 1), ('b', 1)),
  List(('a', 2), ('b', 1)),
  List(('b', 2)),
  List(('a', 1), ('b', 2)),
  List(('a', 2), ('b', 2))
)

Now I request you to please try solving this. It really is not very tough. Crack up your IDE and try in the imperative style of programming. Use whatever data-structures and algorithms.

Yes, you will be able to crack it, after maybe some pain. But after you are done, give that code you wrote a hard stare. And a hard stare to the functional equivalent below. It is inevitable that you will realise, how fat our coding has grown on the unhealthy monotonous diet of pure imperative thinking all the time...

1.	def combinations(occurrences: List[(Char, Int)]): List[List[(Char, Int)]] =
2.		(occurrences foldRight List[List[(Char, Int)]](Nil))
3.		{ case ((ch,tm), acc) =>
4.    		{
5.      		acc ++ ( for {
6.      				comb <- acc;
7.      				n <- 1 to tm
8.      				} yield (ch, n) :: comb
9.      			)
10.			}
11.		}

So, there you have it. About 10 lines of thin code in all its glory. Now let me get under the skin of it to show what really is happening here...

First of all, Scala has the concept of tuples that helps in having cleaner data structures for problems like these. Secondly, this code (foldRight) uses currying. If you don't know about currying, that is okay. It just means that all items in a data-structure are applied on a *passed* function. The function *passed* in this case is the one that starts with the curly brace on line#3. Thirdly, this piece of code uses multiple anonymous functions.

Let me describe the execution flow step-by-step -

1. The Scala foldRight method applies the passed method on data items in the reverse. So, on passing the list List(('a', 2), ('b', 2)), the first data item to be used for processing is ('b', 2)
2. foldRight takes an initial accumulator. In this case it is the Nil passed in line#2
3. So the initial value of parameters on line#3 are:
	* ch = 'b'
	* tm = 2
	* acc = Nil
4. The for expression *yields* two *tuples* on being executed. The two tuples are ('b', 1) and ('b', 2). These two are appended to the Nil list and we have the result after the first pass of data structure as List(List(), List((b,1)), List((b,2)))
5. In the second pass, the data-item from our occurrences list being processed is ('a', 2). So the value of parameters this time on line#3 are:
	* ch = 'a'
	* tm = 2
	* acc = List(List(), List((b,1)), List((b,2)))
6. Its in this second pass, that things really get interesting. The for statement yields all 4 remaining subsets, which are List(List((a,1)), List((a,2)), List((a,1), (b,1)), List((a,2), (b,1)), List((a,1), (b,2)), List((a,2), (b,2))) in this single pass! It will take a little bit of mind bending to understand how this happens... but its definitely worth the effort... just reading it made my day!

Now coming to the great thing about this program - performance! Compare the number of passes on the data-structures that this piece of code has taken to the imperative code. The first thing to really digest is that this not some algorithm trickery. Now that you *know* the algorithm in *functional* programming style, try doing it the imperative style. Firstly, the code will not look this concise. Secondly, most of us will simply not be able to do it right.

But the best part - the input data structure is immutable and so are all intermediate ones. The benefit? This piece of code will **not fail if some other thread of execution changes the input variable when this piece of coding is executing**! (that is List[(Char, Int)] occurrences data structure). Why? Because it is impossible to change the input data structure! It is born immutable. It will live immutable. And it will die immutable. Nothing ever can come in its way!

Unfortunately, this algorithm implementation is such that output from the first iteration gets fed in the second iteration. So two parallel cores cannot be running it simultaneously. However, with all intermediate data structures being 100% immutable, it is not difficult to imagine other problems/algorithms which do not have this constraint thus using up more cores at once and built for distribution and performance! I hope you share my wow(!) about this piece of code and functional programming in this case.

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