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Markelle Fultz and Orlando Will be a Perfect Match
By Coggin Toboggan
Photo credit: Eric Hartline-USA TODAY Sports
An old Chinese riddle has puzzled philosophers and seekers of truth for decades.
"If the first overall pick of the NBA draft takes a parting shot at the city and the coach that supported him for two angst-filled years, does anyone care?"
All apologies to Danny Watkins, but the biggest draft bust in Philadelphia history just couldn't help himself. Markelle Fultz couldn't resist taking one last passive aggressive shot at the coaching staff, fans, and city that cheered every awkward attempted three pointer, every herky jerky free throw, and every head-scratching excuse for an ever-devolving jump shot the cherubic cheeked failure could throw at us.
At least this time he said it to reporters instead of posting it on social media like a 16-year-old girl who was just dumped by her boyfriend before the big Spring Fling Dance.
"You really can't trust NO ONE !! How could he have done this to me?!" We get it, Emma, enough already.
Talking to the assembled Orlando Magic media for the first time since being traded for a case of floor wax and Jonathon Simmons, Fultz decided it would be the perfect opportunity to toss a molotov cocktail at the franchise that went to exorbitant lengths to protect him and his delicate psyche at every turn.
During his introductory press conference, Fultz pontificated on what excited him about the change of scenery from Philadelphia and what would enable him to be a better player for Orlando:
"It just excites me to know that I have a coach that's going to push you to be better and not just going to tell you what you want to hear," Fultz said.
Oh, so that's what Fultz needed….he just needed some tough love to reach the dizzying heights of a so far wasted professional career. He wasn't held back by a mysterious pseudo-injury, or the yips, or a domineering mother, or his inability to ride a BMX bike…no no no, it was the yes men in Philadelphia that didn't challenge him enough who held him back from truly being great.
Like an elementary school student who acts out in class because the curriculum is too easy, the young lad just needed more of a challenge to BLOSSOM as an athlete. Orlando and its rabid fan base of octogenarians looking to get out of the heat will surely give him the push he needs to successfully shoot a 15-foot jump shot without dislocating both shoulders.
The level of expectations for Fultz in Orlando is the perfect amount because there are NO expectations for playing in Orlando. There are no expectations for anyone in Orlando other than not being eaten by an alligator. That's it. As long as Fultz isn't dragged into the murky runoff of a canal and death-rolled by a 15-foot gator, his tenure in Orlando will be considered quite the success. The bar isn't too high.
It's perfect for him. He can make all of the passive aggressive tweets he wants, all the excuses he wants, and the fans won't care. The Magic aren't going anywhere in the next five years and the fans don't care. They're too worried about getting their Fast Pass tickets all lined up for the Rock 'n' Roller Coaster, starring Aerosmith, to care what a baby-faced shooting guard with tremendously wasted talent has to say.
So God bless this unholy union between a coddled professional athlete who will never understand how easy he had it in Philadelphia and the swamp he now finds himself playing in. I'm sure he'll enjoy touring Disney World with his mother and taking awkward pictures on Splash Mountain where he's the only rider who's incapable of fully extending his arms over his head for the final big drop.
Enjoy it Markelle. We all eagerly await your Magic debut in game 78 of the 2025 season. Your road to obscurity begins now.
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Coggin Toboggan
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Bob Thornton says:
So glad that dude and big momma are out of town . Sixers fans better not cheer him when he comes back . I still cringe at that stupid fultz Vikings chant . Pussy never deserved that cheer
Dan Griffoni says:
Why would you expect fans to care about the details of a team that is playing great and in first place? But two years ago most fans could tell you "ten guys" who were on team, because those of us who supported and followed the "Process" were quite tuned in to CBS. So you picked the right year and if people wanted to throw their money away during the tear down (which was 2016), that's their mumbo jumbo. And if it meant the hope of having movie tickets when the potential time magazine came, good for them. They hit the crockpot.
For the record, off the top of my head: Meow
So Taguchi - Phillies Legend says:
Look, I will say that I was one of his more vocal supporters. Did he deserve the cheers? No. I can't speak for everyone, but I just wanted him to come back and meet expectations. I just wanted pump up the #1 pick to become what we expected him to be – the 3rd star on this team, who we proactively traded assets to get (which I can't shit on, because I was all for it when normal collars made the trade and I may be an asshole but i'm not a hypocrite). I won't boo him on his return though…if he comes back and plays well, its more an indictment on the ability of the Sixers medical staff to diagnose a medical ailment than his mental capacity.
Hextall's Glasses says:
It's cringy now looking back at it yeah. People just didn't want that pick to be a bust. Nobody is going to cheer for him if and when he comes back around here. Some will probably boo him for his shitty little coaching comments.
If you actually read the quote in context it seems more like a boring platitude than an actual calculated shot at the sixers or Brett Brown, but I guess that doesn't generate the clicks. I hope the kid does figure it out eventually but he wore out his welcome here and had to be moved. Nothing personnel, kid
delco soccer dad says:
Nothing Personnel? what do you work in HR?
Wow, so edgy, so Philly says:
and so original. Nothing like a "Let's take shots at another city and their fans, because we are Philly and we are just so darn passionate" post. Let's just completely ignore the fact that about 75% of the current "Sixers fans" are total bandwagon types that couldn't have named three guys on the team 2 years ago
That guy says:
Are you like this with your favorite bands too?
Ken Kaplan says:
Why would you expect fans to care about the details of a team that was designed to lose? And lose badly. But two years ago most fans could tell you "three guys" who were on team, because those of us who supported and followed the "Process" were quite tuned in t o the team. So you picked the wrong year and if people wanted to throw their money away during the tear down (which was NOT 2016), that's their business. And if it meant the hope of having season tickets when the potential good times came, good for them. They hit the jack pot.
For the record, off the top of my head.
Joel Embiid Ben Simmons, Robert Covington, Dario Saric, TJ Mcconell ,Richaun Holmes, Sergio Rodriguez, Jerami Grant (Until Traded). Irsan Iyasova, Jeryd Bayless, Jahlil Okafor, Nick Stauskas
OneManWolfpack says:
" Orlando and its rabid fan base of octogenarians looking to get out of the heat will surely give him the push he needs to successfully shoot a 15-foot jump shot without dislocating both shoulders."
This was good. Fultz is garbage
SH says:
It's easy to dump on the guy after he left. That being said, there is a LOT of weird shit going on around this guy and they shouldn't have drafted him in the first place. Adam Silver and the Colangelos fucked us.
Well Said!! says:
Yes Sliver and Colangelo's did fuck us!
BigShot says:
FUCK HIM…PU$$Y….
Hoax says:
Fultz is a Jussie.
Chicago Philly Phan says:
Sixers should have drafted my boy Lonzo. Its ok, we didn't want to play for that trash team anyway.
I don't have high expectations for the kid but w/that being said after reading this blog i really hope that he turns out to be one of those guys that for whatever reason always seems to have massive games against his former team but even if he just devolops into a solid role player that would be ok. The cold hard truth is that its not like the sixers are actually gonna win a championship anyways. The truth hurts sometimes.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
He will fit perfectly down here. It will be magic if he ever sees the court.


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package com.intellij.lang.javascript.psi.impl;

import java.io.File;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.List;

import com.intellij.openapi.module.Module;
import com.intellij.openapi.module.ModuleUtil;
import com.intellij.openapi.project.Project;
import com.intellij.openapi.roots.ModuleRootManager;
import com.intellij.openapi.roots.OrderEntry;
import com.intellij.openapi.roots.OrderRootType;
import com.intellij.openapi.roots.ProjectFileIndex;
import com.intellij.openapi.roots.ProjectRootManager;
import com.intellij.openapi.util.SystemInfo;
import com.intellij.openapi.util.text.StringUtil;
import com.intellij.openapi.vfs.LocalFileSystem;
import com.intellij.openapi.vfs.VirtualFile;
import com.intellij.openapi.vfs.newvfs.ManagingFS;
import com.intellij.psi.PsiDirectory;
import com.intellij.psi.PsiElement;
import com.intellij.psi.PsiFile;
import com.intellij.psi.PsiFileSystemItem;
import com.intellij.psi.PsiLanguageInjectionHost;
import com.intellij.psi.PsiManager;
import com.intellij.psi.PsiReference;
import com.intellij.psi.impl.source.resolve.reference.impl.providers.FileReferenceSet;
import com.intellij.util.Function;
import consulo.roots.OrderEntryWithTracking;

/**
 * Created by IntelliJ IDEA.
 * User: Maxim.Mossienko
 * Date: 08.04.2009
 * Time: 20:48:38
 * To change this template use File | Settings | File Templates.
 */
public class ReferenceSupport
{

	public static PsiReference[] getFileRefs(final PsiElement elt, final PsiElement valueNode, final int offset, final LookupOptions lookupOptions)
	{
		String str = StringUtil.stripQuotesAroundValue(valueNode.getText());
		return getFileRefs(elt, offset, str, lookupOptions);
	}

	public static PsiReference[] getFileRefs(final PsiElement elt, final int offset, String str, final LookupOptions lookupOptions)
	{

		if(lookupOptions.IGNORE_TEXT_ARTER_HASH)
		{
			int hashIndex = str.indexOf('#');
			if(hashIndex != -1)
			{
				str = str.substring(0, hashIndex);
			}
		}

		final FileReferenceSet base = new FileReferenceSet(str, elt, offset, null, SystemInfo.isFileSystemCaseSensitive);

		final boolean lookForAbsolutePath = lookupOptions.ABSOLUTE && new File(str).isAbsolute();
		final boolean startsWithSlash = str.startsWith("/");

		base.addCustomization(FileReferenceSet.DEFAULT_PATH_EVALUATOR_OPTION, new Function<PsiFile, Collection<PsiFileSystemItem>>()
		{
			@Override
			public Collection<PsiFileSystemItem> fun(PsiFile psiFile)
			{
				final PsiElement context = psiFile.getContext();
				if(context instanceof PsiLanguageInjectionHost)
				{
					psiFile = context.getContainingFile();
				}
				PsiFile originalFile = psiFile.getOriginalFile();
				if(originalFile != null)
				{
					psiFile = originalFile;
				}

				final List<VirtualFile> dirs = new ArrayList<VirtualFile>();

				// paths relative to file should not start with slash
				if(lookupOptions.RELATIVE_TO_FILE && !startsWithSlash)
				{
					appendFileLocation(dirs, psiFile);
				}

				if((lookupOptions.RELATIVE_TO_SOURCE_ROOTS_START_WITH_SLASH && startsWithSlash) || (lookupOptions.RELATIVE_TO_SOURCE_ROOTS_START_WITHOUT_SLASH
						&& !startsWithSlash))
				{
					appendSourceRoots(dirs, psiFile);
				}

				if(lookForAbsolutePath)
				{
					appendFileSystemRoot(dirs, psiFile.getProject());
				}

				if(lookupOptions.RELATIVE_TO_PROJECT_BASE_DIR)
				{
					dirs.add(psiFile.getProject().getBaseDir());
				}

				if(lookupOptions.IN_SDK_AND_LIBRARY_CLASS_ROOTS)
				{
					appendSdkAndLibraryClassRoots(dirs, psiFile);
				}

				final Collection<PsiFileSystemItem> result = new ArrayList<PsiFileSystemItem>();
				final PsiManager psiManager = PsiManager.getInstance(psiFile.getProject());
				for(final VirtualFile dir : dirs)
				{
					if(dir != null)
					{
						final PsiDirectory psiDir = psiManager.findDirectory(dir);
						if(psiDir != null)
						{
							result.add(psiDir);
						}
					}
				}
				return result;
			}
		});
		return base.getAllReferences();
	}

	private static void appendFileLocation(final List<VirtualFile> dirs, final PsiFile psiFile)
	{
		final VirtualFile file = psiFile.getVirtualFile();
		if(file != null)
		{
			dirs.add(file.getParent());
		}
	}

	private static void appendSourceRoots(final Collection<VirtualFile> dirs, final PsiFile psiFile)
	{
		final VirtualFile file = psiFile.getVirtualFile();
		if(file == null)
		{
			return;
		}
		final Project project = psiFile.getProject();
		final ProjectFileIndex index = ProjectRootManager.getInstance(project).getFileIndex();
		final Module module = index.getModuleForFile(file);
		if(module != null && index.getSourceRootForFile(file) != null)
		{
			dirs.addAll(Arrays.asList(ModuleRootManager.getInstance(module).getSourceRoots()));
		}
	}

	private static void appendFileSystemRoot(final Collection<VirtualFile> dirs, final Project project)
	{
		final VirtualFile fileSystemRoot;
		if(SystemInfo.isWindows)
		{
			fileSystemRoot = ManagingFS.getInstance().findRoot("", LocalFileSystem.getInstance());
		}
		else
		{
			fileSystemRoot = LocalFileSystem.getInstance().findFileByPath("/");
		}
		dirs.add(fileSystemRoot);
	}

	private static void appendSdkAndLibraryClassRoots(List<VirtualFile> dirs, PsiFile psiFile)
	{
		final Module module = ModuleUtil.findModuleForPsiElement(psiFile);
		if(module != null)
		{
			final OrderEntry[] orderEntries = ModuleRootManager.getInstance(module).getOrderEntries();
			for(final OrderEntry orderEntry : orderEntries)
			{
				if(orderEntry instanceof OrderEntryWithTracking)
				{
					dirs.addAll(Arrays.asList(orderEntry.getFiles(OrderRootType.CLASSES)));
				}
			}
		}
	}

	public static class LookupOptions
	{

		// default is absolute or relative to current file
		public static final LookupOptions DEFAULT = new LookupOptions(false, true, true, false, false, false, false);
		public static final LookupOptions MX_STYLE_SOURCE = new LookupOptions(false, true, true, true, true, false, true);
		public static final LookupOptions EMBEDDED_ASSET = new LookupOptions(true, true, true, true, true, false, true);
		public static final LookupOptions NON_EMBEDDED_ASSET = new LookupOptions(false, true, false, false, true, false, false);
		public static final LookupOptions FLEX_COMPILER_CONFIG_PATH_ELEMENT = new LookupOptions(false, true, true, false, false, true, false);

		public final boolean IGNORE_TEXT_ARTER_HASH;
		public final boolean ABSOLUTE;
		public final boolean RELATIVE_TO_FILE;
		public final boolean RELATIVE_TO_SOURCE_ROOTS_START_WITH_SLASH;
		public final boolean RELATIVE_TO_SOURCE_ROOTS_START_WITHOUT_SLASH;
		public final boolean RELATIVE_TO_PROJECT_BASE_DIR; // better name would be RELATIVE_TO_FCSH_START_DIR but FlexUtils.getFlexCompilerStartDirectory
		// () is not accessible from this class
		public final boolean IN_SDK_AND_LIBRARY_CLASS_ROOTS;

		public LookupOptions(boolean IGNORE_TEXT_ARTER_HASH, boolean ABSOLUTE, boolean RELATIVE_TO_FILE,
				boolean RELATIVE_TO_SOURCE_ROOTS_START_WITH_SLASH, boolean RELATIVE_TO_SOURCE_ROOTS_START_WITHOUT_SLASH, boolean RELATIVE_TO_PROJECT_BASE_DIR,
				boolean IN_SDK_AND_LIBRARY_CLASS_ROOTS)
		{
			this.IGNORE_TEXT_ARTER_HASH = IGNORE_TEXT_ARTER_HASH;
			this.ABSOLUTE = ABSOLUTE;
			this.RELATIVE_TO_FILE = RELATIVE_TO_FILE;
			this.RELATIVE_TO_SOURCE_ROOTS_START_WITH_SLASH = RELATIVE_TO_SOURCE_ROOTS_START_WITH_SLASH;
			this.RELATIVE_TO_SOURCE_ROOTS_START_WITHOUT_SLASH = RELATIVE_TO_SOURCE_ROOTS_START_WITHOUT_SLASH;
			this.RELATIVE_TO_PROJECT_BASE_DIR = RELATIVE_TO_PROJECT_BASE_DIR;
			this.IN_SDK_AND_LIBRARY_CLASS_ROOTS = IN_SDK_AND_LIBRARY_CLASS_ROOTS;
		}
	}
}

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Halifax, Vermont > Committees > Broadband Committee > Broadband Committee Minutes > October 12, 2011 Minutes
The Halifax Broadband Committee was called to order at 6:30pm Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at the Halifax Town Office. Present were committee members Edee Edwards, Curtis Carroll, Earl Holtz, Gretchen Becker, and Jessica Bruno. Member of the public present was Margo Avakian.
Edwards moved and Becker seconded that the minutes of the September 28, 2011 meeting be approved as amended, and the motion passed 5-0-0.
Visit to the School Board meeting:
Carroll attended the last school board meeting. Carroll believes the School Board is planning on making a contract with FairPoint for a 1.5 mbps DSL connection. He believes this will be a 36 month contract. Carroll informed them that in 2013 VTel will have a 10 mbps connection available in Halifax. The School Board said they were not aware of that. Carroll tried to discourage the School Board from signing a contract. Carroll called Sovernet and stated they have a 1.5mbps connection (T1 line) and asked whether they could get off contract and pay monthly- their response was yes. Carroll spoke with Greg Noble at Sovernet who stated that we could still get fiber here as the school is an anchor institution. As long as the school gets e-rate funding for it, they should be able to get it. If the school were to sign up now, they would have 6 weeks to file for e-rate funding (5 weeks as of the broadband committee meeting today).
Becker noted that the Public Service Board will be making a decision the 25th of October whether Halifax will be on their list for funding.
Edwards proposed that we continue to go to every School Board meeting over the next 5-6 weeks until the school board makes a decision regarding which internet service option they will choose.
Holtz will contact the school secretary to obtain a list of all upcoming school board meetings and distribute to the Broadband Committee. The Broadband Committee intends to have 2 or more members at all meetings over the upcoming weeks. Holtz will also contact the School Board and ask which meeting they plan on making their decision, and inform them that we have an interest in this decision and would like to be present at that meeting.
Carroll later reported that Sovernet provides a 1mb link to other schools.
Broadband Survey:
Holtz started putting our survey results into a database. Everyone surveyed so far wants to be able to do a wide variety of things via the internet even if they don't have the ability yet (banking, health, data, movies etc).
Edwards noted that if we are going to do a mailing of the survey, we need to have a list of property tied to a mailing address further split into groups of landowners, second homeowners, and full-time residents.
Holtz took the information from Patricia Dow's survey, collated it and gave her a database of that survey. One hundred forty-eight people responded to that survey. Of those, 44% indicated they had internet service and 51% indicated they did not. Of those who have internet service, 21% have dial-up, 23% have satellite, and 21% have DSL. Edwards noted that as compared to the survey they did during Old Home Days, 9% had no service, 35% had dial-up, 26% had satellite, 17% had DSL, 9% did not specify and 1 person had cellular access.
Carroll reported that he is currently doing a survey of students at work that focuses on the school noting that some students don't even have computers. The Committee discussed the possibility of adding additional questions to our survey but agreed that the questions we currently regarding children's usage would give us enough information.
Edwards reported that she attended the webinar for town government websites and it was very well done and provided a lot of useful information as to how to get processes up to date etc. Edwards was able to watch the webinar using her HughesNet business connection. She also found a website where you can demonstrate and test your website at different speeds. She noted that no Website Committee meetings are scheduled at this time.
The Committee discussed the possibility of adding the url to town trucks, documents, or property, but it was agreed that the website should be dependable, reliable and accurate before the town starts advertising it.
Each member of the committee reported on their further research and discussion with their assigned vendors:
Edwards did not have any further communication with Sovernet as Carroll communicated with them last week.
Becker did not have further communication with Fairpoint.
Holtz did not get any new information from GAW.
Bruno did not have any additional information regarding wireless vendors. However, Edwards reported that she got an e-mail from Hans Hammerquist stating that he gets 4G service from an AT&T mobile hotspot device (though he needs to be on a high floor of his house). Edwards will invite him to a broadband committee meeting and also ask him if he can test his bandwith and report the results.
Becker reported that FairPoint communicated that the Public Service Board meeting will be October 25-26 and they will keep us posted. Becker was concerned because the grant doesn't specifically say it's for fiber. Edwards noted that if you said to Fairpoint that you wanted a specific speed (for fiber to be necessary), you would have to prove your business case that you could support it. This could mean no fiber here. Fairpoint indicated they are offering the school 1.5mbps which would be DSL.
Recent Broadband News:
Edwards reported there will be an e-communities in a digital age conference, covering ideas and best practices, to be held November 19th at Lyndon State College. The registration fee is $20.
Bruno reported on the formation of a coalition targeting the US broadband adoption gap. Companies such as Best Buy, Monster.com, and Microsoft will be attempting to show the benefits of broadband by training people in computer skills and matching them to jobs that require digital literacy.
Edwards reported that the town will be having an After Action Review meeting October 22. Edwards is going to follow up with HughesNet regarding the issue where they exceeded their bandwith limit Imposed by HughesNet to see what our other options are.
Hearing from visitors:
Avakian inquired whether the recent buffeting corona mass ejections affect satellite service. Though the committee had no specific evidence to offer, Holtz indicated that he has had issues with satellite television service due to sunspots.
It was discussed whether we can obtain copies of the school board meeting minutes along with the information provided by Fairpoint regarding the cost proposal presented.
Agenda items for the next meeting November 9, 2011:
-Broadband Survey
-At the next Select Board meeting, Holtz will ask the Select Board for clarification of our mandate and report the results.
Holtz moved and Edwards seconded to adjourn the meeting at 8:45pm and the motion passed 5-0-0.

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#include "wx/fontutil.h"

#ifndef WX_PRECOMP
    #include "wx/string.h"
    #include "wx/log.h"
    #include "wx/intl.h"
    #include "wx/wxcrtvararg.h"
    #include "wx/msw/private.h"
#endif //WX_PRECOMP

#include "wx/encinfo.h"
#include "wx/fontmap.h"
#include "wx/tokenzr.h"

// for MSVC5 and old w32api
#ifndef HANGUL_CHARSET
#    define HANGUL_CHARSET  129
#endif

// ============================================================================
// implementation
// ============================================================================

// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// wxNativeEncodingInfo
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

// convert to/from the string representation: format is
//      encodingid;facename[;charset]

bool wxNativeEncodingInfo::FromString(const wxString& s)
{
    wxStringTokenizer tokenizer(s, wxT(";"));

    wxString encid = tokenizer.GetNextToken();

    // we support 2 formats: the old one (and still used if !wxUSE_FONTMAP)
    // used the raw encoding values but the new one uses the encoding names
    long enc;
    if ( encid.ToLong(&enc) )
    {
        // old format, intepret as encoding -- but after minimal checks
        if ( enc < 0 || enc >= wxFONTENCODING_MAX )
            return false;

        encoding = (wxFontEncoding)enc;
    }
    else // not a number, interpret as an encoding name
    {
#if wxUSE_FONTMAP
        encoding = wxFontMapper::GetEncodingFromName(encid);
        if ( encoding == wxFONTENCODING_MAX )
#endif // wxUSE_FONTMAP
        {
            // failed to parse the name (or couldn't even try...)
            return false;
        }
    }

    facename = tokenizer.GetNextToken();

    wxString tmp = tokenizer.GetNextToken();
    if ( tmp.empty() )
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        // default charset: but don't use DEFAULT_CHARSET here because it might
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        // encoding desc from was created
        charset = ANSI_CHARSET;
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    {
        if ( wxSscanf(tmp, wxT("%u"), &charset) != 1 )
        {
            // should be a number!
            return false;
        }
    }

    return true;
}

wxString wxNativeEncodingInfo::ToString() const
{
    wxString s;

    s
#if wxUSE_FONTMAP
      // use the encoding names as this is safer than using the numerical
      // values which may change with time (because new encodings are
      // inserted...)
      << wxFontMapper::GetEncodingName(encoding)
#else // !wxUSE_FONTMAP
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#endif // wxUSE_FONTMAP/!wxUSE_FONTMAP
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    }

    return s;
}

// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// helper functions
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

bool wxGetNativeFontEncoding(wxFontEncoding encoding,
                             wxNativeEncodingInfo *info)
{
    wxCHECK_MSG( info, false, wxT("bad pointer in wxGetNativeFontEncoding") );

    if ( encoding == wxFONTENCODING_DEFAULT )
    {
        encoding = wxFont::GetDefaultEncoding();
    }

    extern WXDLLIMPEXP_BASE long wxEncodingToCharset(wxFontEncoding encoding);
    info->charset = wxEncodingToCharset(encoding);
    if ( info->charset == -1 )
        return false;

    info->encoding = encoding;

    return true;
}

bool wxTestFontEncoding(const wxNativeEncodingInfo& info)
{
    // try to create such font
    LOGFONT lf;
    wxZeroMemory(lf);       // all default values

    lf.lfCharSet = (BYTE)info.charset;
    wxStrlcpy(lf.lfFaceName, info.facename.c_str(), WXSIZEOF(lf.lfFaceName));

    HFONT hfont = ::CreateFontIndirect(&lf);
    if ( !hfont )
    {
        // no such font
        return false;
    }

    ::DeleteObject((HGDIOBJ)hfont);

    return true;
}

// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// wxFontEncoding <-> CHARSET_XXX
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

wxFontEncoding wxGetFontEncFromCharSet(int cs)
{
    wxFontEncoding fontEncoding;

    switch ( cs )
    {
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            wxFAIL_MSG( wxT("unexpected Win32 charset") );
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        case DEFAULT_CHARSET:
            fontEncoding = wxFONTENCODING_SYSTEM;
            break;

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            break;

        case SYMBOL_CHARSET:
            // what can we do here?
            fontEncoding = wxFONTENCODING_MAX;
            break;

#if defined(__WIN32__) && !defined(__WXMICROWIN__)
        case EASTEUROPE_CHARSET:
            fontEncoding = wxFONTENCODING_CP1250;
            break;

        case BALTIC_CHARSET:
            fontEncoding = wxFONTENCODING_CP1257;
            break;

        case RUSSIAN_CHARSET:
            fontEncoding = wxFONTENCODING_CP1251;
            break;

        case ARABIC_CHARSET:
            fontEncoding = wxFONTENCODING_CP1256;
            break;

        case GREEK_CHARSET:
            fontEncoding = wxFONTENCODING_CP1253;
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Best New Music: Asake taps Olamide for celebratory jam, "Omo Ope"
One of the best songs in Nigerian pop music this early year.
Written by Dennis Ade Peter - 02.Feb.2022
Nigerian pop music is largely defined by whatever trends are embraced and championed by the streets of mainland Lagos. It's a fact that's impossible to overstate, especially at a time of rampant inventiveness that involves meshing external influences with the innate, percussive bombast of street-hop. In 2020, Asake became known for his breakout single, "Mr Money," a hype track that paired the airy, propulsive vibe of South African House music with local drums from folksy Nigerian genres, Fuji and Juju.
It would be indefinite to claim that "Mr Money" set the trend, but it surely played an integral role in the uniquely captivating style of DJ mixes running Lagos' streets at the moment, where popular songs are re-upped with the addition of Fuji and Juju-inspired percussion. On his part, Asake has followed up with a slew of guest features and a handful of follow-up singles, mostly playing into his sensibilities as a caption-ready writer, energetic vocal performance and production leaning into the gimmick of his biggest song yet. Listening to these singles and features, however, it felt like there was more to Asake's craft than these specific type of cruddy bangers.
Starting out the year on a phenomenal note, Asake taps Nigerian pop mainstay Olamide for "Omo Ope," a euphoric new single that successfully expands the singer's musical purview without sacrificing one bit of his boisterous persona. In fact, it amplifies his powers as a potentially prolific pop hit-maker.
On the song, Asake leans into a common advocacy in street pop: living the good life and indulging in whatever material and hedonistic excesses you deem fit. While many songs with this theme try to be substantive by adding an inspirational undertone to the festive mood, "Omo Ope" is solely focused on the enjoyment that's happening in the moment. "Mo s'are f'owo mi s'aye/gbomo mefa l'ole/emi omo ope o," Asake sings in self-congratulation on the hook. The first two parts of that lyric line roughly translates to: "I used up my money on flexing/bringing home six women."
Singing in a tone that exudes utmost satisfaction, Asake is lively without being loud, pulling off an instantly memorable melodic performance rooted in glaring conviction. Asake's verse runs for about six bars, a proclamation of his party-starting prowess, keeping it rather simple before running into the bridge, and eventually the song's hook. His showing on the hook is complimented by choral embellishments, a creative touch that pays off mightily.
Produced by Magicsticks, "Omo Ope" is a masterclass in song arrangement, combining a light two-chord piano riff and a full-bodied percussion groove as its foundational elements, a perfect backdrop for Asake to flaunt his singing. As the song progresses, guitar plucks and log drums—'Omopiano' for the win!—are infused, especially on Olamide's verse. Even though he's mellowed out his sound significantly over his last two albums, Olamide has ensured his connection with street pop and its younger generation has remained intact. Unlike song-defining contributions to recent collaborations, Portable and Poco Lee's "ZaZoo Zehh" and TI Blaze's "Sometimes (Remix)," his appearance on "Omo Ope" is mostly additive as a function of his ever-effective star power.
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It's not every day we get an Olamide verse as the cherry on top, rather than as the attention-holding show-stopper. It's a testament to Asake and his improvements as a pop artist in the two years since gaining his first hit. With over two million streams on Audiomack already, in just over a week of release, "Omo Ope" looks like Asake's next big hit. Besides that, it's one of the best songs in Nigerian pop music this early into the new year.
Listen to "Omo Ope" here.
SOUNDS FROM THIS SIDE: STREET POP


This week at the Games Developers Confab in San Francisco the big news was all about the new Vulkan™ graphics and compute API, destined to displace the fabled and industry graphics work-horse OpenGL.
At the conference, gaming developer stalwarts got on stage to demo and boast the virtues of the new Vulkan API showing early apps work on early drivers. In some demos a 5x speed up over OpenGL was achieved with Vulkan.
Over the past week the announcement of Vulkan has spurred on dozens and dozens of questions and even more heated commentary and speculations, the vast majority of it not really that focused on Apple's platforms. But this clearly affects Apple and there are five key issues or questions we want to map out for you now.
Will Vulkan not just replace OpenGL but inadvertently fork developers, thereby hurting Mac OS X users in particular?
OpenCL and CUDA compete in the compute space, will Vulkan unify, displace or affect these standards?
Apple has its new explicit graphics API in Metal, will Vulkan kill off developer interest in Apple's proprietary Metal?
Khronos says it will continue to supporting OpenGL, but if its development stagnates what might become of graphics on Mac OS X for the non-gaming side of the market?
If Apple's Metal is successful on iOS might Apple bring it to OS X, and if so what affect might that have on Vulkan's success on the desktop?
Actually, it's OS specific API's that typically fork development, as in Microsoft DirectX or Apple's new Metal. Vulkan™ will be the only cross platform explicit (low-level) GPU API.
Vulkan looks much more like a "unification force" acting in the GPU-API market, regardless of Vulkan's effects on OpenGL. For Pro apps on the desktop, some specific apps may quickly take advantage of Vulkan, displacing OpenGL or even OpenCL and CUDA. Since the trend line in the CAD market has been on supporting more platforms, there likely be significant pressure on the Khronos Group to advance OpenGL despite Vulkan.
CUDA and OpenCL and Vulkan are all quite unique APIs with distinct advantages. OpenCL being related to Vulkan both through the same group (Khronos) and via SPIR-V shared core technology, each support each other. They will both benefit from SPIR-V related technology and advancements. This will include kernels and shaders in C++ and other high-level languages, front-ends, and backend compiler technologies.
In short, Vulkan and OpenCL should be seen as siblings of a sort when it comes to compute. The key difference, or one of them, is that OpenCL is heterogeneous, meaning it can be executed over CPUs as well as GPUs and both at the same time. Vulkan may displace OpenCL for applications that can gain from both compute and graphics at the same time.
Vulkan isn't likely to displace CUDA quickly either, as CUDA is a matured and entrenched technology. When it comes to forking, developers in the CAD and DCC space have often chosen one over the other, forking users over the proprietary Nvidia hardware support with CUDA. This is the issue at the moment, for some folks, with the new Mac Pros, which do not support CUDA.
On both desktop and mobile, new battle lines for graphics API supremacy are being drawn, with the ambitions of developer alliance and "first to my OS" goals for leading apps always at stake.
For Apple, who thoroughly dominates mobile games and mobile app earnings, beating chief rival Android, Metal for iOS offers huge developer incentives for performance of games over OpenGL ES, but at the cost of portability.Apple is a member of the Vulkan working group. Yet, everyone knows about Metal. (see image 01) It has been put forth that Metal may act like Microsoft's DirectX technology (on desktop) by providing a similar advantage for Apple in the mobile world—that is, in making mobile game development all about "iOS first" with rival platforms having to wait.
Every Mac gamer knows how crappy such a strategy is if you are on the losing end of that. So do many console gamers, who have had to wait for games they hunger for because of a "first to my OS" strategy not working in their favor. Neil Trevett, president of Khronos, says that the group is always about giving developers (and thus users) choice, thus open standards.
Vulkan could very much be Microsoft's "OpenGL" in mobile. Much as Apple leveraged a key open standard in OpenGL to gain the Mac a seat at the table in the pro apps markets, so too could Microsoft gain a seat at the table for the mobile gaming market if it made sure that game developers embraced Vulkan rather than Apple's proprietary Metal. The beauty of that strategy is it might further Vulkan as heir apparent to OpenGL and OpenGL ES, thus further assuring Vulkan the ascendency across desktop as well. Doing so would likely be good for the Mac.
It is totally unclear if Vulkan will be embraced by either Microsoft or Apple. Microsoft is not on the working group, despite its Khronos Group member status. Apple is.
Metal's shader language is C++11 based and implemented using clang and LLVM. LLVM to SPIR-V translators are already in the works. SPIR-V itself is derivative of LLVM, which is a compiler infrastructure project that is open source and largely influenced by Apple. Swift has a compiler that uses LLVM.
The bottom line is only time will tell what kind of impact Vulkan will have on Apple's own Metal API and how game developers in particular will respond to both options in the market.
Khronos says it will continue to support OpenGL, but if its development stagnates what might become of graphics on Mac OS X for the non-gaming side of the market?
It is hard to imagine going back to the days when Apple essentially used its own graphics API in QuickDraw 3D. Yet, with Metal for iOS here we are again with Apple offering its own platform a superior solution. The difference this time is that Apple has near total control of the technology stack—authoring the operating system (iOS), having special licensing with ARM and Imagination to architect its own chips (A-series CPU and PowerVR version technology for the graphics processing), and the ability to author its own graphics API.
That is a unique advantage that nobody else shares with Apple. So Apple's Metal is aptly named, for the company can not only program for the metal with its explicit API but it can architect the "metal" to fit its software API as well. However, unlike iOS the Mac platform doesn't offer Apple that unique controlling advantage. Macs—like Windows PCs—rely on CPUs and GPUs architected by others, with associated and linked software technologies.
If OpenGL stagnates on the desktop market, for any reason, the Mac desktop market may find itself back where it was in the late 1990's. A GPU API split between Microsoft Windows and the rest of the desktop industry isn't a good thing. For its part, Neil Trevett, President of the Khronos Group, said that OpenGL (and OpenGL ES) APIs will continue to be advanced by the consortium, yet he also shared what possible benefits from Vulkan's efforts may come to OpenGL.
The convergence of some technologies from Vulkan touching down on the older open standard will help them potentially stick around longer for those types of developers who need them. As someone said in a comment on another site, they can see OpenGL sticking with the market for another ten years. On the other hand, Steve Jobs killed Apple's high-level QuickDraw 3D graphics API just three years into its promising life.
So this begs the last question. What if Apple ends up with such success with its own graphics API—just like Microsoft—and decides to develop such an API for Mac OS X? This is a good question because Vulkan was aided by AMD's Mantle API which AMD ushered into the industry consortium last year.
AMD's Mantle was created to give AMD GPUs unique advantages over Nvidia GPUs and to finally have the dream low-level, explicit GPU API the game community had been waiting for. Mantle was available for the Windows desktop system. And initially folks got very excited. Mantle would compete with DirectX 12 technology. And if AMD's plans ultimately took Mantle to OS X, it would have competed with OpenGL on both platforms.
If AMD can get Mantle running on Windows so can Apple get Metal running on Mac OS X. Traditionally, Microsoft had the clout to get unique focus from the hardware vendors so that DirectX technology was optimal. But Apple these days has that clout as well. Through agreements that span both mobile and desktop, a range of possible scenarios could be imagined. If both Microsoft and Apple brought proprietary GPU APIs to the desktop market the effect on the Vulkan API might be pretty bad for the new open standard.
Let's hope Apple doesn't do that, but instead puts its weight behind "open standards" and the new Vulkan.
Over the course of the past few days I have been in contact with Khronos Group president, Neil Trevett, who is a wealth of knowledge in all things GPU related and of course in what the group hopes for Vulkan and the other standards. Here are few more nuggets worth knowing about.
While Vulkan is not backward compatible with OpenGL API architecture, Trevett explained that Vulkan utilizes the same shader language—GLSL. "Existing [OpenGL] shaders will continue to work." Additionally—and relieving concern about this transition or cross-over of APIs—there will be layered utility libraries over Vulkan that will make things easier on developers. Out on the Net some have wondered if it might be possible to implement fully conformant OpenGL drivers over Vulkan, Trevett said Khronos does not have that as a primary design goal and such a thing could be tricky.


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By Earth Touch News January 04 2018
By Jacqueline Litzgus, Laurentian University
I could tell you where I work, but then I'd have to kill you.
OK, not really; that seems extreme. But I might blindfold you if I took you there. Now you're wondering what kind of work could justify such secrecy.
I bet you aren't thinking "turtles".
Turtles are in trouble. Some researchers have even used the term "crisis" to describe their plight. This turtle decline is a global issue, affecting freshwater turtles, tortoises and sea turtles. Two-thirds of turtle species are at risk of extinction.
After more than 200 million years of plodding around the globe unchallenged and anatomically unchanged, turtles could now be facing their final lap.
Habitat lost
We're their biggest threat. Turtles are crushed by cars and buried alive by bulldozers. Their habitats are whittled away by our insatiable appetite for big box stores and waterfront condos.
Their otherwise formidable shells were not designed to withstand these human assaults, because humans weren't a threat when this turtle armour was first making its appearance in evolutionary time.
The World Wildlife Fund Living Planet Report asserts that populations of vertebrate animals have decreased in abundance by 58 percent in the past 50 years. Over-exploitation, second only to habitat loss and degradation, is a major threat to animal populations.
Turtles are not excused from such exploitation, which includes unsustainable harvesting and bycatch during other resource extraction activities such as fishing. Turtles and tortoises are eaten with religious zeal, their eggs and body parts consumed under false promises of improved health, greater longevity and a better sex life.
Spotted turtles concentrate at breeding sites in the spring, making them an easy target for poachers. Image: D Coetzee/Flickr
Many species are collected for the pet trade. Their generally passive demeanour and amazing beauty have contributed to turtle declines, as these traits are highly valued in pets.
The reproductive adults collected from the wild for the pet trade are essentially dead, as far as the population is concerned. Take one from its habitat and the potential for future babies is gone. No babies means, eventually, no population.
Old-timer turtles
Turtles are bet-hedgers. Once an individual gets past the dicey egg and juvenile stages, it is essentially immortal – barring encounters with any human threats. Individual turtles can live for decades, some for more than a century.
But the persistence of the population relies on adult females. A female's reproductive lifespan is unencumbered by menopause; in fact, she gets better with age. Older females produce bigger and better clutches of eggs. But those eggs and juveniles are tasty morsels for numerous predators – most turtles don't make it to adulthood, although they do contribute to food webs in an important way.
But that's OK. As long as the adult females survive, they can hedge their bets by producing clutches of eggs every year, banking on a payoff in a good year, so that each female replaces herself and the population continues on according to natural processes.
So that's why I can't tell you where I work. You see, you might be a turtle poacher. I trust no one, and I want my turtles to remain safe and sound in the wild.
Two of the species that my research group works on, spotted turtles (Clemmys guttata) and wood turtles (Glyptemys insculpta), are listed as endangered in Ontario, and are highly sought after by the pet trade.
Poachers are threatening the survival of Ontario's endangered wood turtles. Image: Shutterstock
One of the wood turtle populations in Ontario was hit by a suspected poaching event in the 1990s. I say "suspected" because no one has yet been able to prove it.
Here's the story: 70 percent of the turtles disappeared in a blink of time, and we didn't find their bodies. The evidence suggested that their vanishing was not due to a mass predation event or a disease outbreak.
Word on the street is that some of those turtles are still alive in a basement in Ottawa, where they are being used to pump out offspring to be sold in the pet trade.
What remains of that Ontario population has been subjected to intensive and expensive management for 15 years in an attempt to bring it back from the brink of its projected extinction.
Into the poachers' arms
So how did the alleged poacher find out about the population? Good question, but hard to answer. Research began at the site in the late 1980s. The scientists thought their data reports would be safe in their desk drawers and bookshelves. But then came the internet and the digital age, and it became easier for the general public to access such documents.
The turtle trade has been compared to the gun and drug trades; it is that networked, clandestine and lucrative. Young, purportedly captive-bred wood turtles sell for hundreds of dollars a piece on the internet. Adults are hard to find for sale: they are often the wild-caught individuals and kept as breeders.
Within just a few years, two turtles can become dozens, and can net a poacher thousands of dollars in the legal trade.
Captured female wood turtles may be kept by poachers to lay eggs for years. Image: Jacqueline Litzgus, author provided
I recently attended a scientific conference focused, not surprisingly, on turtles. Even in this situation, surrounded by like-minded scientists and conservation professionals, my students and I keep our study site information under our hats.
Good thing. As I listened to other conference presenters reveal too much, I learned that there was, in fact, a previously convicted turtle poacher attending the conference. My MO of secrecy was unfortunately justified.
You just never know what lengths unscrupulous people will go to, so it's best not to make things easy for them, especially when turtles already face a host of other harder-to-control threats.
So, I could tell you where our research sites are located, but then, of course, I'd have to kill you.
Top header image: Pixabay
By Jacqueline Litzgus, Professor, Department of Biology, Laurentian University
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ACT Davao City President Reynaldo Pardillo assailed the move of party-list group Tao Muna to block ACT members from serving in the elections.
"There's no such kind of law that will prohibit any teacher in the public school whether (or not) she/he is a member of ACT union. It is a sort of discrimination to the part of the teachers who are willing to serve in the history of Philippine Election," Pardillo told TIMES.
On Monday, Tao Muna Secretary General Mohammad Fajardo submitted a petition to the Commission on Elections to disallow members of ACT to serve as Board of Election Inspectors in the May 13 elections.
Fajardo, in his letter, said ACT teachers might influence the voters that would result an advantage in favor to their own party-list and disadvantage to other party-lists as well as to the running candidates whose campaign platforms contradict ACT advocacies.
"No such records that teachers were involved in the election cheating. Wala sa among hanay ang manikas og magbinuang sa election (Our ranks do not cheat or sabotage the election)," Pardillo said.
According to Pardillo, the schedule of elections is supposedly a vacation time for teachers, but they, as "the prime movers in mobilizing the Philippines election," will willingly do their part as members of the Board of Election Inspectors (BEIs).
"We urged the Comelec to please don't allow this petition to be approved since there is no legal and substantial reasons why the ACT teachers should not serve in the election. Do not label us. Our mission is to protect, to serve a clean and honest election, this is our clamor," Pardillo added.
ACT started in 1982 as a progressive, militant, and nationalist organization of teachers, academic non-teaching personnel and non-academic non-teaching personnel in the country.
In 2008, ACT members and affiliates formed ACT Teachers Partylist for the 2010 congressional partylist elections. They won a seat in both 2010 and 2013 elections. In 2016, they won two seats.
ACT Teachers Party-list is part of the Makabayan Bloc in the Congress.
Antonio Tinio, ACT national chair, represented the party-list since 2010. In 2016, Frances Castro was added.
Castro is the congresswoman who was implicated by the military and police authorities to have allegedly abducted school children in Talaingod, Davao del Norte.
Aside from ACT Teachers, at least two other teachers part-lists are seeking congressional seat in this year's elections.


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Hadschim al-Hasani (; * 1954 in Kirkuk) ist ein Sunnit und ein irakischer Politiker.
Er war von 2005 bis 2006 der Parlamentspräsident des Irak.

Ausbildung
Al-Hasani war an der Universität von Mosul, bevor er 1979 in die USA auswanderte. Dort studierte er Landwirtschaft und Wirtschaft an der Universität von Nebraska und an der Universität von Connecticut. Danach arbeitete er 12 Jahre in Los Angeles, wo er Chef einer Handels- und Investmentgesellschaft wurde. Während er sich in den USA aufhielt, wurde er in der Anti-Saddam-Opposition aktiv und Mitglied der Irakischen Islamischen Partei (IIP), die der Muslimbruderschaft Bewegung zugerechnet wird.

Politik
Nach dem Irak-Krieg kehrte al-Hasani 2003 in den Irak zurück und arbeitete im von den Koalitionskräften eingesetzten irakischen Regierungsrat. In dieser Zeit erarbeitete sich die IIP in der sunnitischen Provinz al-Anbar, die eine Hochburg der Terroristen ist, großen Einfluss. 2004 half al-Hasani  mit, einen vorübergehenden Waffenstillstand mit Aufständischen in Falludscha auszuhandeln.

In der Übergangsregierung, die auf den irakischen Regierungsrat folgte, und in der der säkulare Schiit Iyad Allawi Ministerpräsident war, bekam al-Hasani den Posten des Industrieministers. Das Privatisierungsprogramm seines Ministeriums hatte nicht viel Erfolg.
Als er US-Offensiven in Falludscha unterstützte, wurde er aus der IIP ausgeschlossen, da sich die Partei aus Protest gegen die amerikanischen Militäraktionen aus der Übergangsregierung zurückgezogen und al-Hasani sich geweigert hatte, seinen Ministerposten aufzugeben.

Nach den irakischen Parlamentswahlen vom 30. Januar 2005, bei denen al-Hasani auf der vom damaligen Übergangspräsidenten Ghazi al-Yawar geführten Liste The Iraqis antrat, gab es zähe Verhandlungen um den Posten des Parlamentspräsidenten. Da seine Gegenkandidaten entweder Verbindungen zum Regime von Saddam Hussein hatten, was für die Schiiten inakzeptabel war, Mitglieder der überwiegend schiitischen Vereinigten Irakischen Allianz waren, was für die Sunniten nicht akzeptabel war, oder den Posten ablehnten (dies tat Ghazi al-Yawar), wurde al-Hasani als Kompromisskandidat von der neuen Nationalversammlung des Irak zum Parlamentspräsidenten gewählt.

Al-Hasani gilt bei vielen Sunniten als Außenstehender, doch er ist ein gemäßigter Islamist. Direkt nach seiner Ernennung nannte er "Sicherheit und eine funktionierende Wirtschaft" als wichtigste Ziele der neuen irakischen Regierung.

Im September 2007 verließ al-Hasani die Regierungskoalition von Allawi, dem er diktatorisches Verhalten vorwarf.

Einzelnachweise

Industrieminister (Irak)
Geboren 1954
Iraker
Mann

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University of Bremen
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University of Bremen or Universität Bremen (UB) - public higher education institution in Germany. UB was officially founded in 1971. Thanks to its quite favourable location inside Bremen, students can enjoy an active city life with a rural serenity.
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With 290 professors and 19,000 students, the University of Bremen offers a large spectrum of subjects; 100 different study programs organized in 30 academic disciplines. The University of Bremen was founded in 1971. In the course of its relatively short history it has developed into the science center of North West Germany. When it was founded it broke new ground in many ways, earning the label "Bremen Model". Some of these breakthroughs have now become standard features of modern universities. For instance: interdisciplinarity, research-based learning in projects, and social commitment. STRENGTH IN RESEARCH For many years now, the University of Bremen has been among the top league of German universities in the area of research. Since June 2012, the University of Bremen is entitled 'University of Excellence', given its success in the Excellence Initiative, a competition launched by the German government to promote top-level university research. Research conducted at the University of Bremen is interdisciplinary. In other words: Bremen research transcends the borders of traditional disciplines and is embedded within six research concentrations, also known as high-profile areas: Ocean and Climate Research, Materials Science, Information-Cognition-Communication, Social Sciences, Health Science, and Logistics. The University of Bremen numbers among the most successful...
Description of University of Bremen
The University of Bremen is a mid-sized university with 250 professorships and 18,000 students, offering a broad range of disciplines with a large spectrum of subjects; 100 different study programs organized in 30 academic disciplines and producing internationally competitive top-level research. Just forty years after it was founded, the University of Bremen has risen to the top tier of German universities, ranking especially high in the volume of third-party funding for cutting-edge research. The University of Bremen was founded in 1971. In the course of its relatively short history it has developed into the science center of North West Germany. For many years now, the University of Bremen has been among the top league of German universities in the area of research. The University performed extremely well in the first two rounds of the Excellence Initiative supported by the German Ministry of Education and Research and the federal states, being awarded recognition for the excellence of three of its institutions: Two graduate schools (Bremen International Graduate School for Marine Sciences – Global Change in the Marine Realm; Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences) and a cluster of excellence (MARUM –The Ocean in the Earth System). Since November 2012 the University of Bremen has been awarded the coveted title "University of Excellence" in the third round of the Excellence Initiative. It is accompanied by the institutional Strategy "Ambitious and Agile", which is a strategy for the development of the whole of the University. The nine measures it contains have been designed to enable the University to pursue its guiding principles and to strengthen the whole of the University. The underlying idea is to reinforce networking and strategic coordination between the high-profile areas and non-university research partners (strengthening the high-profile areas), to support new research ideas and creative groups in all subjects with suitable offers of funding (support for new ideas), to provide innovative young researchers with attractive career opportunities (promoting talent). The University's Institutional Strategy has been successful in acquiring the funding needed to continue its work of profile building even more energetically, enabling it to become even more firmly established in the arena of top-notch international research and to strengthen the innovative capacity of the whole University. Ever since it was founded, the University of Bremen has purposefully pursued a policy of creating close links between its teaching and research activities. A good example is its approach to studying in projects ("Bremen Model"), which fosters elements of independent research-based learning oriented to societal issues. Today, this is underscored in a number of study elements, the strong orientation to interdisciplinary studies, and the University's guiding principles. Various surveys, measures, and discussion processes illustrate and confirm that both teaching staff as well as students share a high level of willingness to participate in research-based learning: implementation is facilitated by this culture of internal consensus. Especially characteristic for its teaching profile is the University's focus on research-based learning at an early stage of studies, the anchoring of a comprehensive program of General Studies in the curriculum, and the supportive integration of e-learning components. The young University of Bremen is always open to new developments. For example, within the context of support for young researchers, in 2001 it was the very first university in Germany to introduce a so-called competitive tenure track for "junior professors" (assistant professors), which became known as the "Bremen Perspective". Research and finding solutions to pressing social issues has a long tradition at the University of Bremen. This encompasses both fundamental as well as applied research. The University meets its commitment to education and research in the interest of society by entering into close cooperation with public institutions and enterprise, as well as by offering a broad spectrum of services to the community. In order to facilitate cutting edge international research it relies on a home-made tradition of close internal networking across the faculties and with several excellent non-university institutions in the region. Moreover, it has always been essential to be open to innovative research ideas and to provide support for outstanding young researchers from the start. The university's recent successes in the Excellence Initiative and the high rate of third-party funding it receives are both tangible evidence that it is on the right track. The university's high flexibility, its concentration of resources, status-transcending flat hierarchies, and a pronounced propensity for cooperation will continue to serve the University in the achievement of its high ambitions. The University of Bremen has twelve faculties (Physics/Electrical Engineering, Biology/Chemistry, Mathematics/Computer Science, Production Engineering, Geosciences, Law, Business Studies/Economics, Social Sciences, Cultural Studies, Linguistic and Literary Studies, Human and Health Studies, Pedagogical and Educational Sciences). 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SPDY: Google HTTP Protocol
By Oliver Frommel
When Tim Berners-Lee specified the first version of the HTTP protocol in 1991, the Internet was still quaintly simple. On just one page, he described in a few words how a server was to respond to a GET request, and this description laid the foundation for the World Wide Web. One year later, he produced a draft that eventually led to RFC 1945, "Hypertext Transfer Protocol," which was finally standardized as HTTP 1.0 in May 1996.
Just three years later, HTTP 1.1 was standardized to reflect the increasing load on the web. The revised protocol reduced the number of connection attempts required for a website by introducing keepalive connections, and HTTP pipelining allowed for multiple requests in sequence, without the need to wait for a response. HTTP hasn't changed much since then, even though the web landscape has changed fundamentally. Realtime applications like Google+ and Facebook were unimaginable at the time HTTP 1.1 appeared, and features such as Ajax, real-time updates, and the appearance of 10Gb networks (or even some 100Gbps backbones) have changed the shape of the web.
The IETF Working Group "Hypertext Transfer Protocol Bis (httpbis)" is looking into the topic of how to fix HTTP, and it is assigned the role of revising RFC 2616 (Hypertext Transfer Protocol – HTTP/1.1). This group only intends to clear up current misunderstandings. On the mailing list, Mark Nottingham, the chair of the group recently tripped a discussion relating to HTTP 2.0, the first draft of which is due May 2012. One year later, the changes are to be implemented in the scope of the "last call" before the standard is submitted to the IESG.
Thus far, very few tangible facts exist on HTTP 2.0; however, the requirements for the future web protocol do include good performance for conventional and mobile browsers and a wide degree of downward compatibility. One new protocol that might find its way into the HTTP 2.0 specifications is SPDY (pronounced "speedy"), which is promoted by Google and has been implemented in working code, thus improving its chance for general acceptance. Google has added SPDY capabilities to its Chrome browser, and the protocol is already implemented in the developer version of Firefox. In just a few months, the final Version 11 of Firefox could include the SPDY code. The Google Chrome 11 browser uses SPDY by default if users access Google's servers via SSL. To discover whether or not your own version of Chrome supports SPDY, type in the URL chrome://net-internals/#spdy (Figure 1).
Figure 1: Recent versions of Chrome already use the SPDY protocol for SSL connections to Google servers.
In December, the developers – including Google Apache developers – updated Apache to provide more or less state-of-the-art SPDY support. The mod_spdy module for Apache 2.2 attempts to add the SPDY protocol to the Apache server.
The hard-working and innovative developers of the JavaScript web framework Node.js have also produced a SPDY module available from GitHub. Additional implementations of the (experimental) protocol exist for Python, Java, Ruby, Go, Erlang, and C, providing sufficient potential for experiments of your own. Google will be releasing the source code for the server implementation sometime in the near future.
The recent appearance of SPDY in the wild means that you might be bumping into this innovative new protocol sooner than you think.
Meet SPDY
According to Google, "SPDY adds a session layer atop of SSL that allows for multiple concurrent, interleaved streams over a single TCP connection."
Because of the complex interaction between HTTP and the underlying TCP Transport layer protocol, browsers often have to open multiple concurrent connections (see the box titled "HTTP Issues"). Managing multiple TCP sessions to support these simultaneous connections increases overhead and latency. SPDY addresses this problem by managing multiple concurrent connections through a single TCP connection. In essence, SPDY is actually a protocol that sits between SSL and HTTP. SPDY plays the role of multiplexing multiple HTTP connections through a single TCP session.
By slipping an additional protocol between HTTP and SSL, the SPDY developers provide significant latency improvements while requiring minimal change to existing infrastructures. The Transport layer and lower layers operate without the need for modification. More importantly, existing webpages and web applications do not have to be aware of this new protocol below HTTP.
SPDY aims to retain compatibility and keep the basic structure of HTTP, such as the semantics of requests and responses. In the SPDY whitepaper, the authors report up to 64 percent improvements in load times; the declared objective is an average of 50 percent. In addition to stream multiplexing, SPDY also provides additional benefits. Prioritization of requests ensures that important requests are given priority over less important ones. And SPDY compresses the HTTP header to reduce data traffic. SPDY also allows connections initiated by the server, which will make past hacks such as Comet obsolete. Along with performance improvements, Google wants to make HTTP more secure, and to this end, SPDY will rely on SSL-protected connections.
TCP Improvements
Google is not satisfied with just contributing a new protocol and is also working on optimizing TCP. As connections grow faster, say the Google techies, a faster TCP protocol will remove the need to close the initial congestion window in TCP after four packets, as required by RFC 3390. In some tests, increasing the window to a value of 10 packets achieved substantial latency reductions, and this goal is also reflected in an IETF draft. A patch that implements this change within the Linux kernel already exists. Also planned is an effort to reduce the initial timeout when opening a TCP connection from three seconds to one second.
The idea of sending the payload data in the form of HTTP requests when opening a connection with a TCP SYN packet is also interesting; this change reduces load time by an average of 10 percent. Look online for more about how to make the web faster.
Suddenly HTTP 2.0 is just around the corner; the first draft is due in May, and Google's SPDY protocol could be a part of it. SPDY has the advantage of already being implemented on Google's own servers and the Chrome and Firefox browsers. Implementations of the draft protocol in various programming languages let users experiment. You will even find a book on SPDY available in electronic form.
More than 20 years have passed since its introduction, and HTTP certainly shows some signs of age. Google's new SPDY protocol solves some problems with HTTP without breaking existing websites.
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HTTP/2 introduced multiplexing, resulting in superior bandwidth utilization over HTTP/1.1, and HTTP/3 solves the problem of transmission delays from packet loss by replacing TCP with QUIC.
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HTTP/2 offers reduced website load times and other performance benefits, along with the promise of server push.
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HTTP/2, the current representative of the HTTP family, offers several advantages for website operators and their users if the protocol is correctly adapted to the individual scenario.


Ollie Taylor is an international award winning landscape photographer based in Dorset on the south coast of the UK. He has practiced landscape photographer most of his adult life but spent the last three to four years plying his trade as a nightscape photographer. Ollie slowly fine-tuned his style within this field to create diverse and eye catching night landscapes complimented by the night sky "Dreamscapes".


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CAP national strategic plans will fail to deliver on EU Green Deal environmental and climate objectives
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The overwhelming majority of Common Agricultural Policy strategic plans delivered by Member States to the European Commission fail to adequately address the urgent crises of biodiversity loss and climate change.
This is the conclusion of a new assessment conducted by the European Environmental Bureau and BirdLife Europe, which found that the national strategic plans fall short on proclaimed ambitions and lack clear targets, measures, and funding to halt biodiversity loss and cut greenhouse gas emissions[1].
The assessment scored 18 out of the 23 strategic plans submitted to date as either poor or very poor across the dimensions explored, which covered: space for nature, protection of grasslands, peatlands and wetlands, money for biodiversity protection and climate action, harmful subsidies, and the involvement of environmental NGOs.
The strategic plans detail how EU Member States will implement the reformed Common Agricultural Policy, which the European Commission intends to be fairer, greener, and more flexible.
At a critical period in which the national strategic plans are being negotiated between the Member States and the Commission, the assessment indicates that they are severely misaligned with the targets of the European Green Deal and the environmental and climate commitments made in the EU Farm to Fork and Biodiversity Strategies.
"The CAP makes up 31% of the total EU budget – it is unacceptable and irrational to use public money to continue to fuel the destruction of nature. The Commission must push Member States to use this money to improve the state of nature, and bring back biodiversity across Europe," said Tatiana Nemcova, EU Agriculture Expert, BirdLife Europe.
"These plans are neither green nor fair. Member States are failing to live up to Green Deal targets and need to beef up their plans with adequate funding and measures to deliver for the climate and nature," said Sophia Caiati, Policy Assistant for Agriculture, EEB.
As the scorecards below show, 18 out of 23 plans score only poor or very poor across the different dimensions, indicating that the overwhelming majority of CSPs will fall short of what has been promised with regards to environmental and climate objectives.
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Protection of grassland
Protection of peatlands and wetlands
Money for biodiversity protection
Money for climate action
Harmful subsidies
Involvement of environmental NGOs
The EEB and BirdLife Europe urge the European Commission to send Member States robust and ambitious observations to revise their strategic plans and make these observations and consequent responses available for public scrutiny.
Furthermore, the Commission must not approve any strategic plans failing to deliver on the environmental objectives of the CAP or breaching EU legislation.
Notes for editors:
[1] The assessment was conducted by national experts screening the 23 available draft plans against seven key criteria of the EEB's 10 Tests for a Green Deal Compatible CAP, using multiple choice questions. The analysis was then translated into a traffic light benchmarking system. This work was built upon a preliminary assessment conducted in November 2021 using the same methodology.
[2] Further information on environmentally harmful subsidies can be found here: Reform $1.8 trillion yearly environmentally harmful subsidies to deliver a nature-positive economy.
Tatiana Nemcova, BirdLife Europe, [email protected]
Sophia Caiati, European Environmental Bureau, [email protected]
Press release: New NGO report: CAP national strategic plans will not deliver on EU Green Deal
Both nature and food security under threat as Member States cave in to misguided farm lobby agenda.
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CAP Strategic Plans: New assessment shows Member States fall short of saving nature
After more than three years of co-decision processes where the European Council, Commission, and Parliament worked on the new the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), the legislative process is finally coming to a close. The European Parliament is set to vote to approve the CAP on the 23th of November and the Council early in December.
Read articleCAP Strategic Plans: New assessment shows Member States fall short of saving nature
New report: CAP Strategic Plans fail to deliver for farmers and nature, and jeopardise long-term food security – NGOs analyse 17 EU national strategies.
Almost all EU Member States' national strategic plans (CSPs) have now been submitted and approved by the European Commission, and the rollout of the EU's new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), adopted in 2021, is underway.
Read articleNew report: CAP Strategic Plans fail to deliver for farmers and nature, and jeopardise long-term food security – NGOs analyse 17 EU national strategies.
Stichting BirdLife Europe gratefully acknowledges financial support from the European Commission. All content and opinions expressed on these pages are solely those of Stichting BirdLife Europe. The European Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.
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Updated ACEP Member Survey Finds Changes in Ethical Issues in Emergency Medicine
By	Catherine Marco, MD, FACEP, Arvind Venkat, MD, FACEP, Gregory L. Larkin, MD, MPH, FACEP, Jay Brenner, MD, FACEP, Shehni Nadeem, Walter Limehouse, MD, FACEP, Heidi Knowles, MD, FACEP, and Kenneth Iserson, MD, FACEP | on June 24, 2016 | 0 Comment
Ethical issues are a common challenge for practicing emergency physicians. The ACEP Ethics Committee first surveyed ACEP members in 2006 on their views of the most common and challenging ethical issues they faced in clinical practice. Given the passage of time and the evolving nature of emergency medicine, the ACEP Board of Directors set an objective for the committee to reassess members' views of the current application of the ACEP Code of Ethics and to discover what changing or additional ethical challenges confront practicing emergency physicians today.
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The survey instrument was originally developed in 2006 by a panel of emergency physicians who are members of the ACEP Ethics Committee. To update the original survey, it was piloted among a focus group of 34 emergency physicians and revised based on their feedback. This updated survey reflects current issues and was delivered to 26,102 ACEP members by email on Feb. 12, 2016; it was available online until March 17, 2016. Reminders were published March 1–5, 2016, in ACEP's Emergency Medicine Today eNewsBriefing.
The email survey had a total of 7,040 unique opens, representing a 27 percent open rate. A total of 1,006 participated (3.9 percent). Most participants were male (73 percent), and the most common practice environment was community (53 percent), followed by urban (32 percent), university affiliate (16 percent), university (12 percent), and rural (13 percent).
Respondents identified the most important ethical issues in their practice, in order, as access to care, end-of-life issues, psychiatric care, and third-party interference into the practice of medicine (see table below, uses the Likert Scale of 1=Not Important to 5=Most Important).
Ethical Issue
Weighted Average
(Based on Likert Scale)
Access to care 4.35
End-of-life issues/resuscitation/advance directives 4.30
Psychiatric care 4.19
Third-party interference into the practice of medicine 4.16
Decisional capacity/patient autonomy 3.96
Professional issues/interactions with colleagues/consultants 3.94
Stewardship of health care resources/costs of care 3.89
Medical errors and disclosure 3.87
Business ethics 3.80
Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) 3.74
Technology/EMRs 3.74
Societal expectation and portrayal of physicians 3.63
Workplace relationships 3.60
Confidentiality/privacy/HIPAA 3.59
Cultural issues 3.56
Informed consent 3.55
Impaired colleagues 3.50
Against medical advice 3.45
Scope of practice issues 3.38
Expert witness testimony 3.36
Interpreters/scribes 3.35
Minors 3.27
Pharmaceutical industry 3.21
Research ethics 3.15
Respondents were also asked to comment in general on ethical issues in the practice of emergency medicine. The most common issues included the inappropriate influence of money, patient satisfaction driving patient care, end-of-life care, and disagreements with consulting physicians. The most common issues that have made respondents question their career choice or consider a career change or early retirement were third-party interference (hospital administration, regulations), patient satisfaction demands, and increased volume/complexity.
Most respondents indicated that they're aware that ACEP has a Code of Ethics (see sidebar below) (n = 788; 79 percent). The elements they find the most challenging to implement are Principle 10 ("Support societal efforts to improve public health and safety, reduce the effects of injury and illness, and secure access to emergency and other basic health care for all") and Principle 9 ("Act as responsible stewards of the health care resources entrusted to them"). Respondents indicated that they use ACEP Now articles, ACEP information papers, ACEP legislative advocacy issues, ACEP educational courses, and ACEP policies for assistance or education regarding ethical issues.
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Save the Last Dance for Me ~ When Lady Honoria Maitland reunites with her old friend Benedict Grey, she proposes an arrangement: a faux courtship that will smooth wallflower Benedict's re-entry into society and appease her dying father. But Honoria's clever plan failed to account for Benedict's heart…or her own.
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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — In Minnesota, Gene Glynn is so much more than a coach for the Twins — he was the first-ever Mr. Basketball in the state, out of Waseca in 1975.
"It meant a lot, because there were a lot of really good players there. Any one of them could've won it," he said. "It's a great honor, and it's one you carry with you the rest of your life because you kind of helped that Mr. Basketball award be passed down, and hopefully it's something that they can always look up to you. And hopefully you carried that banner well while you related to it."
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Ciprian Gălățanu (n. 17 noiembrie 1989, Brașov) este un scrimer român  specializat pe sabie, vicecampion mondial pe echipe în 2013.

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Ciprian Gălățanu a început să practice scrima la Tractorul Brasov cu antrenorul Dan Costache. A fost selecționat în lotul olimpic in anul 2009, iar in echipa națională de sabie in anul 2012, după ce trei din cele patru membri s-au retras în urmă Jocurilor Olimpice din 2012.

A ajuns în sferturile la Campionatul European din 2013 de la Zagreb, fiind învins de colegul său Tiberiu Dolniceanu. La proba pe echipe, România a pierdut succesiv cu Italia și cu Ucraina și s-a clasat pe locul patru. La Campionatul Mondial din 2013 de la Budapesta, Gălățanu a fost învins în al doilea tur de campionul olimpic, Áron Szilágyi. La proba pe echipe, România a trecut strâns în semifinală de echipa gazdă, Ungaria, dar nu a putut s-a impună în finală în fața Rusiei și s-a mulțumit cu argintul. Gălățanu a terminat sezonul 2012-2013 pe locul 47, la cea mai bună poziție din carieră sa de până acum.

În sezonul 2013-2014 s-a transferat la Dinamo București, unde sunt legitimați și colegii săi de lot olimpic Tiberiu Dolniceanu și Iulian Teodosiu. Cu Dinamo a participat la Cupa Europei la Gödöllő. Dinamoviștii au trecut în finală de echipa franceză Pau și au păstrat medalia de aur. La Campionatul European din 2014 de la Strasbourg a fost eliminat în primul tur de cvadruplul campion olimpic Aldo Montano. La proba pe echipe, România a pierdut cu Belarus în sferturi de finală și s-a clasat pe locul cinci.

Gălățanu nu a putut ajunge în tabloul final de 64 la Campionatul Mondial din 2014, fiind învins în calificările de americanul Benjamin Igoe. La proba pe echipe, România a cedat în fața echipei campioană olimpică, Coreea de Sud, și a încheiat competiția pe locul șapte.

Palmares
Clasamentul la Cupa Mondială

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Legături externe

Prezentare  la Confederația Europeană de Scrimă

Scrimeri români
Sportivi români în viață
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