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A few weeks back I wrote a review of the Parker 92r, I was disappointed because everything pointed to what should have been a great match, but I just couldn't get comfortable with the razor. A few weeks on and I think I have found a place and a role for my Parker 92R.
Since my initial review of the 92R I have had the chance to use it several times. The first of these subsequent uses was after several days of growth – when I would normally have used my 37C or my Bakelite Slant. The resulting shave was extraordinarily comfortable and extremely close. A different experience than with my first experience with the 92R.
I continued to use the 92R exclusively with several days growth, and with each shave had similar results. I had, happily, found a role for my Parker. Shaves that I had reserved for my Merkur 37C and Bakelite Slant, now included the 92R.
To be sure that it wasn't simply a frame of mind I tried the razor again with a single days growth and the results were less desirable, very much like my initial experience. Of course people will have different experiences using the same razor. For me the Parker 92R is not an everyday razor, instead being reserved for those days with multiple days growth.


Saeed Yadranji-Aghdam, Christine Sorenson, Nader Sheibani; High Glucose and Diabetes Modulate Cellular Proteasome Function: Implications in the Pathogenesis of Diabetes Complications. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2013;54(15):1153.
Purpose: The precise link between hyperglycemia and its deleterious effects on the retinal and kidney microvasculature, and more specifically loss of perivascular supporting cells including smooth muscle cell/pericytes (SMC/PC), are not completely understood. We hypothesized that differential cellular proteosome activity contributes to sensitivity of PC to high glucose-mediated oxidative stress and vascular rarefaction.
Methods: Retinal endothelial cells (EC), PC, and choroidal EC were prepared and cultured as previously described. NIH3T3 and 661W cells were obtained from ATCC. These cells were cultured under various glucose conditions for 5 days prior to any analysis. Wild type or Akita/+ mice with different duration of diabetes were obtained from Jackson laboratories. For in vitro proteasome peptidase assays, the cells or tissue lysates (50µl of 1µg/µl) per assay were loaded into each well of a dark 96-well microplate and were probed with 100µM of each of the synthetic fluorogenic peptide substrates for caspase-like, trypsin-like, and chymotrypsin- and calpain-like protease activity. The expression levels and localization of various proteins were analyzed by Western blotting and immunofluorescence, respectively. The mRNA expression levels were determined by quantitative real time PCR.
Results: Here we show that retinal EC have significantly higher proteasome peptidase activity compared to PC. High glucose treatment (HGT) increased the level of total ubiquitin-conjugated proteins in cultured retinal PC and EC, but not photoreceptor cells. In addition, in vitro proteasome activity assays showed significant impairment of proteasome chymotrypsin-like peptidase activity in PC, but not EC. The HGT-mediated rise in ubiquitination was attenuated by treatment with N-acetylcysteine. Furthermore, HGT increased the half life and protein levels of the members of the 11S regulatory subunits of mammalian proteasomes (PA28-a/-b proteins) in retinal PC, but not EC or photoreceptor cells. The PA28-a/-b protein levels were also higher in the retina and kidney glomeruli of diabetic mice.
Conclusions: Together our results demonstrate that high glucose has direct biological effects on cellular proteasome function in a cell type-specific manner, and this modulation might be protective against cellular stress or damage induced by high glucose.


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The Red Cross – traders in humanity
Tue 3:59 pm +00:00, 27 Nov 2012 1
COMMENT – Very good article, but if could just point out two small errors,
the banking industry has its head in Switzerland, Rothschild decreed that his little money centre would always be neutral.
The red cross archive was copied
by Sefton delmer for the IRD,
these documents taken from the German camps show that they were not death camps but work camps, the prisoners were too valuable to kill off, they would clear after the British bombings etc.
The vatican underground library had all this documentation in the seventies, i dont know about now, but this is how bishop wiliamson knew so much about the camps.
JULIA writes –
The Red Cross is set up to benefit from Wars too. It's got a global monopoly on disaster relief. Its a huge international corporate style organisation and it's growing. The ultimate aim is human control and enslavement, and everything else is just a tool towards that goal.
It seems to me that the Red Cross is trading humans….
http://suliwrites.wordpress.com/2012/11/25/human-procurement-centres/
Human Procurement Centres
It has been bugging me for a while that NO-ONE EVER ATTACKS SWITZERLAND. This is really peculiar. Why not? International law is not normally an obstacle if your objective is to go around killing people by means of a war. So Switzerland is "neutral" and peaceful. So are billions of people and countries all over the world, but they still get attacked. All except Switzerland.
Now I've got it. And it's all linked in to the Red Cross, whose headquarters are in Geneva, Switzerland. Let's start with a quote from Wikipedia: "Thanks to permanent Swiss neutrality, conflicting parties can be sure that no one from the enemy will be setting policy in Geneva". This means that Switzerland must be declared neutral, and be perceived to be peaceful. So that every country in the world willingly allows the Red Cross in. Trojan Horse style. All they need to do is create a disaster.
The International Red Cross step in and clean up the mess whenever there are "mass casualties". Wars, climate disasters, that sort of thing. The Red Cross deals with disaster by normalising it, making it acceptable. They don't want to stop it. They want to increase it. The Red Cross is HUGE, and growing rapidly to meet the ever increasing demand for disaster relief. It looks and feels like a large international corporation. The Red Cross have a global monopoly on the disaster industry. Nearly every country has their own national branch and endless sub branches.
IFRC and ICRC….
The Red Cross is set up as many multi layered organisations, making it deliberately difficult to track. There is the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) which seems to be the more public face, and its "sister" organisation the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (ICFC), which is the more business looking side. Er, Red Crescent? Where did that come from?
Cross, Crescent and Crystal…
The Red Cross societies cover most of the world. There are also the Red Crescent societies which cover N. Africa, the Middle East and parts of Asia. And the Red Crystal Society, which seems to be just Israel! All three organisations seem to be pretty much the same thing. Why is the crystal in Israel? All the symbols are red on white, with the Crystal represented by the six pointed Star of David. The red on white theme always reminds me of blood on white cloth, such as a bandage, (required after mass casualties), or the Islaamic custom of hanging a bloodied white sheet out of the window after the first night of marriage to prove the consecration of the marriage, the taking of the virgin (possibly once a Christian custom too). Both are unpleasant things to be worshipping.
The Red Crescent symbol…
This is not a crescent moon, because the circumference is greater than half a circle. It depicts a solar eclipse, as many (perhaps all) crescent symbol do. This demonstrates the power of the Moon as it disables the almighty Sun and also the Earth Energy lines. Its like turning off the power supply for the Earth and humanity, and the Moon is deliberately set up that way. The crescent is a symbol of the power of the World Controllers.
Diplomatic Immunity….
ICRC seem to be almost a mini state. They have their own rules and issue their own passports. Their members are free to travel anywhere without question. "Switzerland does not recognize ICRC issued passports." An international agreement "protects the full sanctity of all ICRC property in Switzerland including its headquarters and archive, grants members and staff legal immunity, exempts the ICRC from all taxes and fees, guarantees the protected and duty-free transfer of goods, services, and money, provides the ICRC with secure communication privileges at the same level as foreign embassies, and simplifies Committee travel in and out of Switzerland." This is nicely set up for any kind of international trafficking.
People go missing quite easily in disasters, amongst the chaos that is created. This is one of the main activities of the Red Cross. They act as a central resource for locating missing persons. Thats the same set up as ICMEC, the Exploiting Missing Children centre. The Red Cross seems set up to traffick a different group of people, "vulnerable people", people displaced and traumatised by disaster, manufactured disaster. What better disguise than a charity?
"Our mission is to provide effective and high quality procurement services to all members of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. We are now expanding our procurement services to third parties through our status as a humanitarian procurement centre. The key objective of our logistics and procurement services is to provide best value for money for humanitarian operations". They have "Humanitarian Procurement Centres". Their main objective is value for money (great ethos). The language used on their website and on Wikipedia is very ambiguous. Rarely do they state what they're are procuring, but the word "humanitarian" is frequently used next to the word "procurement".
The Red Cross are big on blood donation and blood transfusion, which is modern day Eugenics. They set up the first blood donation service in the UK, which is now been separated off to its own organisation (it's got that big, and that normal). In Israel, one of the main activities of the Red Crystal society is to collect blood, and run blood banks. Blood is their business. And blood business is now normalised and acceptable across the world. Maybe the procurement services include blood supplies. Some blood is more favoured than others, as in Europe and the US, the prize blood being O negative.
Funding of ICRC nowadays seems to be from the Swiss and US governments. I have trouble tracking all the partners and corporates that they are involved with. It's deliberately hidden and confusing. The EU seems to fund ECHO which is linked. This EU funding is somewhat disguised by Switzerland not being in the EU. (now we know why). The American Red Cross withdrew funding when The Red Crystal of Israel was refused permission to join, so then they were allowed in after all. The funders make the rules. And then there's always the well meaning fund raisers all over the world and the donations. And the free labour of 97 million volunteers.
More on ICRC…
ICRC is a "private humanitarian organisation". Why is it private? It has 12,500 staff. Budget is about £110 million for HQ, and about £630 million for operations. This is just the HQ as far as I can gather.
More on IFRC…
The IFRC has "corporate partners". But won't name them. Not so neutral after all. The website front page shows volunteers carrying flaming torches which is the Illuminati death symbol. Very appropriate for what they are doing. Going in to disaster areas after the Illuminati have murdered the masses. They are "active in health, including extensive HIV/AIDS programming", particularly in partnership with the UN. (Handy they are all in Geneva then). They are a "world leader in supply chain management". (Chain being symbolic of slavery). In fact they are accredited. By yet another multi layered looking organisation called ECHO. If you are accredited by ECHO too, you can login to a private part of the IFRC procurement website. Otherwise you have to go another route, and I guess that way you just get to procure tents and bandages. Not humans. There is a photo of a sad little girl climbing into a box. And you can request branding on your supplies.
The Red Cross were very active in WW2. The Red Cross were allowed into concentration camps for humanitarian reasons. Since when did the Nazi regime have a humanitarian streak? They were data collecting, on the missing persons trail again, and administering medicines, and they kept the camps a secret from the world. They also had a blood program, just like the Nazis. They were part of the Nazi regime, and part of the experiment on human beings. What medicines were they administering? Why did they not want to close down the camps?
"By the end of the war, 179 delegates had conducted 12,750 visits to POW camps in 41 countries. The Central Information Agency on Prisoners-of-War had a staff of 3,000, the card index tracking prisoners contained 45 million cards, and 120 million messages were exchanged by the Agency". That's a huge data collection operation.
"Swiss historian Jean-Claude Favez, who conducted an 8-year review of the Red Cross records, says that even though the Red Cross knew by November 1942 about the Nazi's annihilation plans for the Jews – and even discussed it with U.S. officials – the group did nothing to inform the public, maintaining silence even in the face of pleas by Jewish groups"
At this time, it was largely funded by the Swiss Government, who are neutral, so that's ok.
More on Switzerland…
Switzerland is the world HQ for the International Olympic Committee, the UN and the World Health Organisation. The Vatican Swiss Guards are supplied from Switzerland. It is the centre of the banking world. It is not sounding very neutral at all.
"The ICRC prefers to engage states directly and relies on low-key and confidential negotiations to lobby for access to prisoners of war and improvement in their treatment. Its findings are not available to the general public but are shared only with the relevant government". Why does it need secrecy? Why do they not do anything to stop the atrocities, only support them?
Disaster worship…
There are 119 Red Crescent stations in Israel. They are laughing at us, eh? 119 is the 11th September, 911 in US speak. What's that then if not a mass casualty situation? The American Red Cross is helping out victims of Hurricane Sandy. First they create the disaster, then they rush in to control the human fallout, the "vulnerable" people, crying out for help. The rest of us just donate money, knowing that the Red Cross will sort out the mess, we don't have to.
There is a total acceptance of disasters as normal. The British Red Cross are big in supporting Death Worship Day, 11/11. They have a missing persons service. They celebrate International Day of the Disappeared. Their phone number, like Childline, ends in 1111, the Square Mile number representing the City of London and Jerusalem.
(See also: Know Your Blood Type, Blood Eugenics, Normalising Paedophilia, Centre For Exploiting Missing Children, Death Worship, Olympic Deaths, also many posts on The Moon)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Committee_of_the_Red_Cross
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Red_Cross_and_Red_Crescent_Movement
http://www.ifrc.org/en/who-we-are/http://procurement.ifrc.org/en/Pages/default.aspx
http://www.ifrc.org/en/get-involved/corporate-relations/
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Very good article, but if could just point out two small errors,

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


John Hempton doesn't leave much of the NYT story standing.
The New York Times has published a story (including extracts) about Donald Trump's tax returns over two decades ago. The money-quote is this: "Donald J. Trump declared a $916 million loss on his 1995 income tax returns, a tax deduction so substantial it could have allowed him to legally avoid paying any federal income taxes for up to 18 years…" According to the NYT the losses came … through mismanagement of three Atlantic City casinos, his ill-fated foray into the airline business and his ill-timed purchase of the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan. There is an issue here. Donald Trump did not repay all the debt associated with those investments.
So the alternative is the debt was forgiven in some way. But then the story the New York Times is running is wrong – because the $916 million of losses would not have survived the debt forgiveness and hence would have wiped out his NOLs and thus he would not be allowed to shelter his income for the next 18 years. Unless that is there is an avoidance scheme the New York Times has not worked out. Those schemes go by the name of "debt parking". Here is how debt parking works. Suppose the debtor (in this case The Donald) is going to get his debt cancelled for (say) 1c in the dollar. When he gets the debt wiped out the debtor (ie The Donald) will have to report assessable income equal to the debt wiped out (in this case 99% of $916 million).
The alternative though is for the debtor to set up a dummy party. The dummy party might be his wife or children or some company or trust set up by them or more likely some completely opaque offshore trust. And that dummy party goes and buys the debt for say 1.1 cents in the dollar. Then they just sit there. They don't force the debtor (ie The Donald) to repay. They don't make a profit or loss on the debt. And because the debtor never has his debt forgiven he never gets the assessment on debt forgiveness and he gets to keep his NOLs even though the losses did not come out of his pocket. Every tax system worth its salt has some rules on "effective debt forgiveness" to prevent debt parking. And – from my experience which is now over twenty years old – none of them work entirely.
Now if Donald really has all those tax losses its pretty clear that the debt must be parked somewhere. There is a vehicle out there (say an offshore trust or other undisclosed related party effectively controlled by Donald Trump) – which owns over $900 million in debt and is not bothering to collect it. I do not have the time or energy to find that vehicle. But it is there. Now that this blog has gone public journalists are going to look for it. There is a Pulitzer prize for whoever finds it. Just give me a nod at the acceptance ceremony.
Remember when the US government had "surpluses" in the years 1998-2001? Well, yes, according to the Office of Management and Budget, those four years produced a combined $559 billion in "surpluses": So did the debt fall by that amount? Nope. The debt continued to rise each year, as the government continued to borrow more and more money though it had a "surplus": over the four years of "surpluses," the government added $394 billion to its debt, as the scary chart below shows. But that was then and this is now. Now, the hole through which money disappears has gotten a lot bigger. In Fiscal 2016, the government ran a deficit of $590 billion, per the latest estimate of the Office of Management and Budget. Last year, the deficit was $438 billion. So combined over $1.0 trillion.
The $4 trillion was borrowed and the bonds were issued and the amounts are still outstanding, but the proceeds from the bond sales went out the door, off the books! We've all heard the stories of how the Pentagon's books are sordid fiction [..] But that's a different – and additional – matter. [..] With the missing $4 trillion, I'm talking about money that the government borrowed but never spent officially, that it never acknowledged even existed. This $4 trillion is on top of all the internal shenanigans at various departments, including the Department of Defense. What happened to the $700 billion in real money that the government borrowed over the past two fiscal years but never officially spent? What happened to the $4 trillion that the government borrowed but never officially spent since 2013? Where did this money go?
6 out of the 13 charged were/are Deutsche execs. And yes, it's derivatives again, i.e. attempts to hide losses from the books. Same practice, and same time period, as Goldman's dealings with the then Greek government.
Six current and former managers of Deutsche Bank – including ex-asset and wealth management head Michele Faissola – along with former executives at Nomura Holdings and Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena were charged in Milan for colluding to falsify the accounts of Italy's third-biggest bank and manipulate the market. A judge in Milan approved a request by prosecutors to try 13 bankers on charges over separate derivative transactions Paschi arranged with the securities firms, said a lawyer involved in the case, who attended the closed-door hearing Saturday, where the decision was announced.
The charges deal another blow to Deutsche Bank, which is seeking to reassure investors and clients that it will be able to withstand pending U.S. penalties over the bank's sale of mortgage-backed securities and its dealings with some Russian clients. Monte Paschi, the world's oldest bank, restated its accounts and has been forced to tap investors twice to replenish capital amid a surge in bad loans and losses on derivatives. It's now attempting to convince investors to buy billions of soured debt before a fresh stock sale. Deutsche Bank's shares have slumped 49% in Frankfurt this year, swinging wildly last week on news that hedge-fund clients withdrew some funds. Monte Paschi has dropped 84% this year amid concern it will struggle to restore profitability and strengthen its finances.
The charges culminate a three-year investigation by prosecutors that showed Monte Paschi used the transactions to hide losses, leading to a misrepresentation of its accounts between 2008 and 2012. The deals came to light in January 2013, when Bloomberg News reported that Monte Paschi used derivatives struck with Deutsche Bank to mask losses from an earlier derivative contract dubbed Santorini.
Between refugees and banks, Merkel has sure screwed up.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel cannot afford to bail out Deutsche Bank given the hard line Berlin has taken against state aid in other European nations and the risk of a political backlash at home, German media wrote on Saturday. The government denied a newspaper report on Wednesday that it was working on a rescue plan for Germany's biggest bank, as its shares went into a tailspin fueled by a demand for up to $14 billion from U.S. authorities for misselling mortgage-backed securities before the financial crisis. Germany, which has insisted Italy and others accept tough conditions in tackling their problem lenders, can ill afford to be seen to go soft on its flagship bank, the Frankfurter Allgemeine wrote. "Of course Chancellor Merkel doesn't want to give Deutsche Bank any state aid," it wrote in a front-page editorial.
Before the end of March 2017, she said this morning.
Theresa May will set Brexit in motion on Sunday , unveiling plans for a 'great repeal bill' to enshrine all EU regulations in UK law as soon as Brexit takes effect. In opening speeches at Conservative party conference in Birmingham, May and the Brexit secretary, David Davis, will announce the government's plan to repeal the 1972 European Communities Act, the law that binds EU law to the British statute book, and new legislation to transpose EU legislation into British law, in its entirety, That law will only come into force on the day Britain leaves the EU, with future governments then able to unpick those laws as desired. The bill is set to be brought forward in the next parliamentary session, but will not take effect until after the formal two-year process of leaving the EU, which begins when the government triggers article 50.
In an interview in which the prime minister repeated her decision not to hold a general election before 2020, May told the Sunday Times: "We will introduce, in the next Queen's speech, a 'great repeal' bill that will remove the European Communities Act from the statute book. "This marks the first stage in the UK becoming a sovereign and independent country once again. It will return power and authority to the elected institutions of our country. It means that the authority of EU law in Britain will end." The prime minister has rejected calls from some Eurosceptic quarters to immediately repeal the 1972 act, saying the country needed "maximum security, stability and certainty for workers, consumers, and businesses, as well as for our international allies".
A nice read, but it misses out entirely on the fact that stupefication starts in universities -if not before-, not afterwards.
Each summer, thousands of the best and brightest graduates join the workforce. Their well-above-average raw intelligence will have been carefully crafted through years at the world's best universities. After emerging from their selective undergraduate programmes and competitive graduate schools, these new recruits hope that their jobs will give them ample opportunity to put their intellectual gifts to work. But they are in for an unpleasant surprise. Smart young things joining the workforce soon discover that, although they have been selected for their intelligence, they are not expected to use it. They will be assigned routine tasks that they will consider stupid. If they happen to make the mistake of actually using their intelligence, they will be met with pained groans from colleagues and polite warnings from their bosses.
After a few years of experience, they will find that the people who get ahead are the stellar practitioners of corporate mindlessness. One well-known firm that Mats Alvesson and I studied for our book The Stupidity Paradox (2016) said it employed only the best and the brightest. When these smart new recruits arrived in the office, they expected great intellectual challenges. However, they quickly found themselves working long hours on 'boring' and 'pointless' routine work. After a few years of dull tasks, they hoped that they'd move on to more interesting things. But this did not happen. As they rose through the ranks, these ambitious young consultants realised that what was most important was not coming up with a well-thought-through solution. It was keeping clients happy with impressive PowerPoint shows.
Those who did insist on carefully thinking through their client's problems often found their ideas unwelcome. If they persisted in using their brains, they were often politely told that the office might not be the place for them. [..] For more than a decade, we've been studying dozens of organisations such as this management consultancy, employing people with high IQs and impressive educations. We have spoken with hundreds of people working for engineering firms, government departments, universities, banks, the media and pharmaceutical companies. We started out thinking it is likely to be the smartest who got ahead. But we discovered this wasn't the case.
To repeat once again: the EU is a criminal organization.
For a good eight years now, politicians, pundits and ordinary citizens have been quarreling over the merits (or lack thereof) of economic policies imposed on Greece by its lenders, notably the EU Commission. Was austerity beneficial or catastrophic? Did "reforms" help or hamper employment and growth? But while such issues are inherently contentious, the third and latest bailout agreement also provides for far less controversial policies. "Upgrade the fight against corruption"! "Strengthen the independence of institutions"! "De-politicise" the state! Insulate "financial crime and corruption investigations from political intervention"! All these are straight quotes from the third bailout agreement. Who would object to any of that?
Well, the EU, via its main institutions, does. Even the author of the bailout agreement, the EU Commission, seems to be quite allergic to all of the above, at least when it involves its own people. From the Commission's spokespersons to the president of Eurogroup himself, a crowd of EU officials have been, at least twice in the recent months, actively and proactively doing their best to stop Greek judges from delivering on their job description: prosecuting corruption cases and financial crime. In August 2016, EU Commission spokesman Margaritis Schinas reiterated the need for Greece "to depoliticise" its administration. Schinas was referring to the controversial prosecution of the former head of the Greek statistics authority Andreas Georgiou.
In a yet new twist in the "Greek Statistics" saga, Greece's Supreme Court had reopened a criminal case against Georgiou for allegedly inflating the government's budget data between 2010 and 2015 and thus overstretching the need for additional austerity measures. Mr. Georgiou had been appointed head of ELSTAT, the statistical authority, in 2010 in an attempt by the government and the country's lenders to restore credibility to Greek statistics. The revelation in late 2009 that the fiscal deficit had been grossly underestimated had largely triggered the start of the euro crisis. Since Georgiou took over, the quality of Greece's reported data was hailed by the country's lenders and Eurostat as "reliable" and "accurately reported", but contested by other ELSTAT board members, including academics and statisticians.
Turley will never be an EU member. And if Merkel tries to push through visa-free travel, she'll blow up the EU AND her own country.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday warned that Turkey had reached the "end of the game" over its decades-long EU membership bid, saying it was time for Brussels once and for all to make clear if it wanted Ankara as a member. In a hard-hitting speech marking the opening session of parliament, Erdogan also told Brussels it needed to allow Turks visa-free travel to the bloc by October, as per a previous agreement to decrease migrant flows. Relations between the EU and Turkey have strained in the wake of the July 15 failed coup, with EU officials among the most vocal critics of the relentless crackdown against the alleged plotters and supporters "If the EU is going to make Turkey a full member, we are ready. But they should know that we have came to the end of the game," Erdogan said in a televised speech in Ankara.
"There is no need to beat around the bush or engage in diplomatic acrobatics. "It's their (the EU's) choice to continue the path with or without Turkey. They should not hold us responsible," he added. Erdogan said that October would be an important month in Turkey's relations with the European Union and that "it is necessary" that visa-free travel for Turks to the Schengen Area comes into force this month. Under a March deal, Turks were to gain visa-free travel in exchange for Ankara helping reduce the flow of migrants to Europe. However the visa plan as stumbled over Turkey's anti-terror laws. Turkey's bid to join the EU dates back to the 1960s with formal talks starting in 2005. So far, only 16 chapters of the 35 chapter accession process have been opened for Turkey.
Afraid he himself will be sued. But then, so are many Americans.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan condemned Saturday a US Congress vote to override Barack Obama's veto of a bill allowing 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia, saying he expected the move to be reversed as soon as possible. Relations between Ankara and Riyadh have tightened considerably in the past months as they pursue joint interests in Syria. Erdogan had just the day earlier hosted Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef for talks at his palace. "The allowing by the US Congress of lawsuits to be opened against Saudi Arabia over the 9/11 attacks is unfortunate," Erdogan said in a speech for the opening of parliament.
"It's against the principle of individual criminal responsibility for crimes. We expect this false step to be reversed as soon as possible," he added. Families of 9/11 victims have campaigned for the law, convinced the Saudi government had a hand in the attacks that killed almost 3,000 people. Fifteen of the 19 hijackers were Saudi citizens, but no link to the government has been proven. The Saudi government denies any ties to the plotters. Obama called the vote a "dangerous precedent" while Saudi Arabia warned it risked having "disastrous consequences".
Western Europe has utterly failed to see how different eastern European, formerly Soviet-block, nations are from them.
Hungarians were voting Sunday in a referendum called by Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government to seek support for its opposition to any future, mandatory EU quotas for accepting relocated asylum seekers. The government's position is expected to find wide support among voters, though there was uncertainty whether turnout would exceed the 50% plus-one-vote threshold needed for the referendum to be valid. The referendum asks: "Do you want the European Union to be able to prescribe the mandatory settlement of non-Hungarian citizens in Hungary even without the consent of Parliament?" Orban has argued that "No" votes favor Hungary's sovereignty and independence. If that position secures a majority of ballots, Hungary's parliament would pass legislation to bolster the referendum's goal whether or not turnout was sufficient for a valid election, he said.
Czech President Milos Zeman has called for economic migrants arriving in Europe to be deported to "empty places" in North Africa or "uninhabited Greek islands." "I am for deportation of all economic migrants," Zeman said. "Of course I respect the cruelty of civil war in Syria, Iraq, and so on. But we do not speak about those people, we speak about economic migrants." "We are in Greece, and Greece has plenty of uninhabited islands, and big foreign debt. So if you have 'hotspots' in Greek islands, this would be a sort of payment of foreign debt," Zeman told the FT in an interview published on Sunday. He added that he is "sure there is a strong connection between the wave of migrants and the wave of jihadis … And those people who deny this connection are wrong." The Czech president has been condemned for making Islamophobic remarks in the past.
It was Germany that last year declared Dublin null and void. They will say that was only temporaray, but regulations like this are not light switches that selected parties can flick on and off when it suits them.
Greece is already little more than a greatly impoverished holding pen for the unwanted, and it threatens to fall much deeper into the trap. That's why the Automatic Earth effort to support the poorest people is not just still needed, but more now than ever. We will soon start a new campaign to that end. In the meantime, please do continue to donate through our Paypal widget in amounts ending in $.99 or $.37.
Germany Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere has repeated his call for Greece to implement the so-called Dublin regulations, which state that migrants must seek asylum in the EU member-state they first arrived in. Due to deficiencies in Greece's asylum processing system and the large number of migrants and refugees arriving in the country, Berlin has suspended deportations back to Greece since 2011. "The EU has since then provided financial and other support for Greek efforts, and given a lot of money to improve these conditions," de Maiziere told Kathimerini. "That is why I would like to see the Dublin Convention implemented again," he said. The German minister said Berlin recognized the burden shouldered by Greece in recent years. "But we still need a strategy to restore the legal situation," he said, adding that the issue would be discussed at a meeting of interior ministers in October.


The controversial scorecards ended into a majority draw decision.
The unified middleweight world champion Gennady Golovkin and Canelo Alvarez last fought back in 2017.
"I just want him (Alvarez) to do what he says he will do and try for a knockout", said Golovkin's trainer, Abel Sanchez.
"He's promised the fans he's going to knock him out, but in order to do that you have to be in range", Sanchez said. But both fighters seem determined not to let it be decided by the ringside judges.
Because of the controversy surrounding the drug tests and the scorecards from the first fight, which most believe Golovkin (38-0-1, 34 KOs) had won, the second fight has become a grudge match thanks to GGG's outspoken comments regarding his anger.
"Tomorrow is a real war".
Mexico's Alvarez (49-1-2, 34 knockouts) meanwhile came in at 159.4 pounds, well within the 160lb limit. But the fighters declined to hold a joint news conference when the new deal was finished, and they declined to go on a media tour or stand face to face at the final prefight news conference Wednesday.
"I'm bothered by all the stupid things they've been saying and I've been using it as motivation in my training for this fight". Both men had to restrained during a heated altercation.
Alvarez has long protested his innocence with regards to both claims, and has been irked by Golovkin's repeated and very public calls for boxing to be a fully clean sport - and punish those who are caught doping in a much more severe manner.
"This fight means a lot to me because of all that has happened and all that has been said", Alvarez said. Golovkin, 36, a Kazakhstan native fighting out of Santa Monica, California, and seeking to break the all-time middleweight defense record he shares with Bernard Hopkins by retaining his title for the 21st consecutive time, weighed in first and was 159.6 pounds.
We have a good team together so that takes time . "No one has to tell us what we have to do", the 27-year-old added. Find out by following our live matchcast. "I know the situation is not like people expected".


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Member of the Supervisory Board
Dagmar Kollmann has been a member of Unibail-Rodamco's Supervisory Board since April 23, 2014 and a member its Governance and Nomination and Remuneration Committees since January 2015. She is currently Commissioner of the Monopolies Commission in Germany; Vice-Chair of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Pfandbriefbank AG and Chair of its Audit Committee; member of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Telekom AG and Chair of its Audit Committee and a member of the Supervisory Boards of KfW IPEX Gmbh and Bank Gutmann AG and the Board of Coca-Cola European Partners plc. She previously held positions at Merrill Lynch Capital Markets in New York and UBS Philips & Drew Ltd in London. She is former Chair of the Management Board, Country Head and CEO – Germany and Austria at Morgan Stanley Bank AG in Germany; former Board member of Morgan Stanley and Co. International Ltd and Morgan Stanley International Ltd in London; and former Vice-Chair of the Supervisory Board of HRE Holding AG. She holds a Masters of Law (focus on International and Business Law) from the Universität Wien. Ms Kollmann, born in 1964, is Austrian.
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Colin DYER Chairman of the Supervisory Board and Chairman of the Governance and Nomination Committee
Philippe COLLOMBEL Member of the Supervisory Board
Jill GRANOFF Member of the Supervisory Board
Mary HARRIS Vice-Chair of the Supervisory Board and Chair of the Remuneration Committee
Dagmar KOLLMANN Member of the Supervisory Board
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Roderick MUNSTERS Member of the Supervisory Board
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Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant that generates 20% of nation's electricity cut from power grid
Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant — the largest in Europe — was completely disconnected from the country's power grid for the first time in its history Thursday, state nuclear company Energoatom said.
Energoatom said that fires broke out in the ash pits of a coal power station near the Zaporizhzhia reactor complex and interfered with power lines connecting the plant to the grid.
"As a result, the station's two working power units were disconnected from the network," Energoatom said in a statement on its Telegram channel.
"Thus, the actions of the invaders caused a complete disconnection of the (nuclear power plant) from the power grid — the first in the history of the plant," it said.
Officials with the International Atomic Energy Agency said they were told by Energoatom officials that the plant at least twice lost connection to the grid during the day, but it has since been restored.
The vast complex supplied more than 20% of Ukraine's electricity needs and its loss would pile new strain on the government, which is already bracing for a difficult wartime winter of potentially crippling energy shortages.
Russia, which invaded Ukraine in February, captured the Zaporizhzhia plant in March and has controlled it since, although it continues to be operated by Ukrainian technicians from Energoatom.
Ukraine and Russia have blamed one another for putting Europe's largest nuclear power plant at risk.
Energoatom said the nuclear plant was still being supplied with power from Ukraine's energy system through a final power line between the plant and the coal power station.
But an energy official who declined to be identified told Reuters that the two reactors that had been disconnected were being powered by diesel generators.
Each power unit, which includes a reactor, a cooling system and other equipment, has three Soviet-era diesel generators that "are not able to work for weeks," the source said.
A spokesperson for Energoatom denied the diesel generators had been switched on.
The plant supplies more than 20 percent of Ukraine's electricity needs.
Energoatom said the plant's security systems were working normally and work was under way to reconnect one of the reactor blocks to the grid.
The power plant has six reactors in total.
Russia and Ukraine have accused each other of shelling the site, fueling international fears of the potential for a nuclear catastrophe reminiscent of Chernobyl.
That has prompted calls for an urgent mission of the International Atomic Energy Agency to the site.
A Russian serviceman stands guard outside the plant in territory under Russian control.
Officials from the UN nuclear watchdog are "very, very close" to being able to visit Zaporozhzhia, IAEA Director-General Rafael Grossi said on Thursday.
Negotiations over how the mission would access the plant are complicated but advancing, he said on France-24 television after meeting in Paris with French President Emmanuel Macron, who pressed Russian President Vladimir Putin in a phone call last week to allow the U.N. agency to visit the site.
"Kyiv accepts it. Moscow accepts it. So we need to go there," Grossi said.
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All of our school-aged boys beg me to read each morning.
My oldest enjoys it as well, although he is quick to point out my mispronunciations in our current read-aloud because he is at that "know it all age" and is a history major in college. Our current read-aloud, The Lost Hero, centers around Greek and Roman gods and apparently I butcher their names.
In order for kids to fall in love with reading and writing, they often need to be shown how amazing they both can be. I strongly suggest you begin (or continue) to read aloud to them for the rest of their lives! Great stories capture their imaginations and begin to infiltrate their hearts and minds and eventually spill out in their writing.
Read aloud to your kids for the rest of their lives! Or for as long as you can hold them captive.
Great stories capture their imaginations and begin to infiltrate their hearts, minds, vocabulary, and eventually spill out in their writing.
Every family has their own set of guidelines and standard for choosing great age-appropriate literature for their kids.
I would suggest that you choose books that are just above their reading level for read-alouds.
Use dramatic voices and hand motions as you read and allow yourself to get carried away with the story.
Take "rabbit trails" as you read. A "rabbit trail" is a journey of the current topic, but leads away from it quickly. For instance, I am going to teach my boys about Greek mythology now because of their interest in the current series we are enjoying together.
Need help choosing a great story?
I relied heavily on Honey for a Child's Heart as my kids began to read.
It truly is "everything a parent needs to know to find the best books for their children. Since its publication in 1969, this has been an essential guide for parents wanting to find the best books for their children. Now in its fourth edition, Honey for a Child's Heart discusses everything from the ways reading affects both children's view of the world and their imagination to how to choose good books.
Thanks for linking up at the Homeschool Linky Party! I absolutely love this post as I have read to my children from before they were born and now that they are older still love sharing stories with them!
I have to hide from my older kids when I read aloud! They absolutely LOVE being read to! My sophomore will roam into the reading area when I am reading engaging novels. Honestly I I love it that they all enjoy the books as much as I do!!
I love reading to my daughter. Right now, since she is still in public school (we will be homeschooling soon) I don't get very many opportunities. I think that is one thing I am most excited about.
Reading and snuggling with my kids is my favorite part of our homeschool day. Right now our youngest is 8. He prepares a special reading nest for us on his bed for our reading time. He loves it as much as I do! We always has more books pulled than a I can read at one sitting:). There is something extra sweet about snuggling and sharing a good book. Enjoy every opportunity!!


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Добротица је био брат оснивача деспотовине Добруџе, Балика. Наследио га је након смрти 1347. године. Добротица 1357. године узима титулу деспота, а престоницу пренео у Калиакру. Између 1370. и 1375. године, Добротица у савезу са Млетачком републиком улази у сукоб са Ђеновљанима на Црном мору. Свога зета Михаила Палеолога покушао је поставити за цара Трапезунта. Међутим, намера му није успела. У византијском грађанском рату, Добротица је подржавао Јована V у борби против Андроника IV. Године 1379. бугарска флота учествовала је у блокади Цариграда. Добротица умире 1386. године. Наследио га је син Иванко.

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United offers more comfort and choice
Operating a newly configured Boeing 767-300ER, United offers even more comfort above the clouds on several routes between the USA and Germany and Switzerland.
What is so special about this aircraft? It has 16 additional United Polaris Business Class seats – increasing the number of seats by more than 50%, all seats having direct access to the aisle. This brings the total number of seats in Business Class to 46. The aircraft also has 22 seats in new United Premium Plus, 47 in Economy Plus and 52 in Economy.
As a very special Christmas present, the newly configured Boeing 767-300ER has been in service on the Zurich–New York/Newark route since 24 December 2019. The connection between Geneva and the Big Apple will follow on from 6 March 2020. At the launch of the new Zurich–Chicago route on 29 March 2020, United passengers can also look forward to additional premium seats. The aircraft will be arriving in Germany from 26 April 2020 on the new, second daily connection from Frankfurt to New York/Newark.


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set -o errexit

# create all needed directories
mkdir abi-compliance
mkdir abi-compliance/changes-install
mkdir abi-compliance/latest-release-install
mkdir abi-compliance/dumps

# build the current changes
export SKIP_MOCK_TESTS=ON
export EXTRA_CONFIGURE_FLAGS="-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=./abi-compliance/changes-install -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS=-g -Og"
echo $(python ./build/calc_release_version.py --next-minor) > VERSION_CURRENT
echo $(python ./build/calc_release_version.py --next-minor -p) > VERSION_RELEASED
sh .evergreen/compile.sh
make install

# checkout the newest release
newest=`cat VERSION_RELEASED`
current=`cat VERSION_CURRENT`

git checkout tags/$newest -f

# build the newest release
export SKIP_MOCK_TESTS=ON
export EXTRA_CONFIGURE_FLAGS="-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=./abi-compliance/latest-release-install -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS=-g -Og"
sh .evergreen/compile.sh
make install

cd abi-compliance

old_xml="<version>$newest</version>\n"
old_xml="${old_xml}<headers>\n"
old_xml="${old_xml}$(pwd)/latest-release-install/include/libmongoc-1.0/mongoc/mongoc.h\n"
old_xml="${old_xml}$(pwd)/latest-release-install/include/libbson-1.0/bson/bson.h\n"
old_xml="${old_xml}</headers>\n"
old_xml="${old_xml}<libs>$(pwd)/latest-release-install/lib</libs>"

printf $old_xml > old.xml

new_xml="<version>$current</version>\n"
new_xml="${new_xml}<headers>\n"
new_xml="${new_xml}$(pwd)/changes-install/include/libmongoc-1.0/mongoc/mongoc.h\n"
new_xml="${new_xml}$(pwd)/changes-install/include/libbson-1.0/bson/bson.h\n"
new_xml="${new_xml}</headers>\n"
new_xml="${new_xml}<libs>$(pwd)/changes-install/lib</libs>"

printf $new_xml > new.xml

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Drone maker SkyX plans to offer autonomous drone services to companies in the oil and gas industry, enabling them to inspect pipelines from above with its specialized SkyOne UAV.
One of the biggest challenges faced in the oil & gas industry is pipeline inspection. Leaks or damage to this critical infrastructure can be difficult to detect, especially when lines cover many miles, often crossing unwelcoming terrain. According to the International Energy Agency, energy companies spend more than $37 billion globally every year on pipeline monitoring alone.
Ontario-based SkyX is stepping up to address the challenge, with a unique aerial solution. The company claims its SkyOne drone can fly further and faster for longer than standard quadcopters, detecting leaks, vandalism, vegetation encroachment and more as it does so.
The SkyOne drone is something of a hybrid. As well as being a fixed-wing craft, propellers allow it to perform vertical take-offs and landings (VTOLs).
As a VTOL drone, it can be dispatched anywhere, anytime, without the need for a runway. There are many commercial applications for drones, but few combine the speed and range of a fixed-wing craft with the practicality of a multi-rotor UAV in this way.
As well as improving efficiency, SkyX could well turn out to be less expensive for energy companies in the long run. Manned aerial inspections using helicopters are costly, and can't match the potential 24/7, real-time data collection of the SkyOne.
Autonomous drone flight has been seen before in the world of infrastructure inspection. US railway giant BNSF is currently using a fleet of fixed-wing drones to inspect miles of railroad, for example. But SkyX has one more ace up its sleeve that will appeal to energy companies: its drone has the ability to recharge itself in the field.
Instead of returning to an operator in order to recharge, the SkyOne can be used with a series of 'xStations', weather-shielded domes that act as pit stops during a continuous inspection routine.
Though progressive, exactly how this kind of technology will fit into the energy industry depends on the view of aviation authorities around the world. Both the American Federal Aviation Administration and the UK's Civil Aviation Authority have strict rules in place regarding flights beyond the visual range of the pilot.
Considering the SkyOne can travel at 150km per hour for 70 minutes, current legislation could be a barrier to SkyX's ambitions.
SkyX was founded by Didi Horn, a former captain in the Israeli Air Force. He said: "We have built not only a fantastic, game-changing product for the oil & gas industry, but have also built a fantastic team of experts ready to get it out there. The market is, obviously, of huge global importance.
SkyX will be offering its services through a leasing model, which will allow oil & gas companies to access custom data and information without being burdened by maintenance concerns.


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Q1: Where can I find the latest FreeType/2 release?
Q2: Now that I have FreeType/2 installed, how do I actually add TrueType fonts to OS/2?
Q3: When will you add font-smoothing to the DLL? I really want that!
Q4: Why does IBM's TrueType engine do such a poor job?
Q5: But there are still differences with the glyphs produced by Windows or the Mac, right?
Q6: I've got TrueType Times New Roman installed but the system still seems to be using the original ATM (Type 1) font. Why this odd behaviour?
Q7: I noticed it takes a second or two before the Font Palette object opens for the first time. Why?
Q8: I noticed the characters sometimes have odd spacing. When will you fix it?
Q9: Could you explain the open fonts limit?
Q10: Can you recommend some fonts to use?
Q11: What's a 'broken glyph'?
Q12: Why do some fonts appear twice, once starting with an '@'?
Q13: I've got a Chinese (Japanese, Korean) font but the characters aren't there! Why?
Q14: I tried to use a DBCS font but I got an exception un UCONV.DLL. What's wrong?
Q15: My system won't boot after I installed FreeType/2 and the uninstall script won't work when I boot to command line. What now?
Q16: I'm upgrading from previous version and I don't want to uninstall and reinstall. Is there any other way?
Q17: What's this stuff about Times New Roman being aliased to Tms Rmn? Please explain this.
A1: Links to the latest release can be found at the FreeType/2 homepage at http://www.freetype.org/ft_os2/index.html.
A2: I thought everyone knew that... It's simple, really. Open the Font Palette object (in System Setup folder) then click 'Edit font' and 'Add'. Now type the directory path where your TrueType fonts reside, such as 'C:\WINDOWS\FONTS' if you have Win95 and click 'Add'. You'll be presented a list of all fonts that OS/2 found in specified directory. Simply select all fonts you wish to install click 'Add' for the last time. If you wish to remove fonts, just use the 'Delete' button in the 'Edit Font' dialog.
TIP: If you wish to add font to OS/2 but don't want to actually copy the file, just type the directory name where the font files already are instead of 'X:\PSFONTS' in the 'Add New Fonts' dialog.
A3: Short answer: We can't.
Long answer: The FreeType library already supports font-smoothing (or antialiasing or grayscaling). The problem is that OS/2's font engine, in its current incarnation, doesn't know anything about anti-aliased text and is only able to manage monochrome bitmaps. Font smoothing support would require some changes of PM/GPI/GRE components, which certainly is out of our scope, and isn't planned by IBM (to our knowledge) in foreseeable future, if ever.
If you really need font smoothing in your application, you can still use the FreeType library itself. Be warned that it is a rather low-level engine and that you'll need to add a various number of text features on top of this code to get the equivalent of PM's font API.
There is a good chance that FreeType 2.0 will ease the pain for developers when it's available.
And if you really want font smoothing in OS/2, ask IBM!
A4: It'd be easy to throw one or two stones at IBM's engineers if this was the result of lazy coding or bad software engineering. However, the problem is more complex, and PSP programmers deserve little, if any, blame.
Trouble is that the TrueType specification, which can be found both on Microsoft and Apple sites, has severe lacks, as well as particularly fuzzy definitions. Part of the TT spec is the TrueType bytecode specification. This bytecode is used to write glyph programs that are used to explicitely hint each glyph to have it rendered perfectly on the screen (and on printers). It is made of approximately 200 opcodes, which relate to moving points on a pixel grid, measuring distances in any kind of direction, keeping widths and heights consistent across a single font, etc..
Some of these opcodes are simply un-documented, or lack precise and important details related to their exact implementation. As a consequence, when FreeType started, it's first bytecode interpreter exhibited results which were very similar to OS/2's one (i.e. bad baseline, incoherent widths, "swashs" and bad serifs, etc..). There are several commercial engines which provide the same kind of "erroneous" output, like the one in the BeOS for instance.
It took FreeType developers _many_ months and experimentation to discover the real meaning of some opcodes, and incorporate it into the library. This "spelunker" work has been painful and slow, which is why few commercial companies, if any, dared to do it, but it finally pays off ! Moreover, the FreeType library is released under a BSD-like free license. This means that _anyone_ is now able to take the work that has been done to rewrite or fix his own TrueType interpreter. (Of course, another good idea is to use FreeType as your core TrueType engine, to be able to benefit to ongoing fixes and "undocumented features" discoveries, etc...)
A5: Right. Another feature of the TrueType specification is to use fixed float pixel coordinates. When measuring distances along diagonals, some rouding error usually occur. Also, some TrueType opcodes have a more or less "chaotic" behaviour, where a ridiculous difference in inputs can produce vastly different results. These factors mean that the only way to match bit-to-bit the glyphs produced by Windows or the Macintosh is to implement the _exact_ same computation routines, and reproduce all their rounding errors ! As FreeType is a clean-room implementation, this will never be possible. Note that the bitmaps match in 95% cases, at least, and that there are already differences between the Win 3.1 and Win95 TrueType renderers (i.e. look at the "m" of Arial at size 8 for example).
The FreeType team tries very hard to "catch" differences, but there is a point where this just isn't possible... However, we're very satisfied with its current quality, and we hope you'll be too :-)
A6: It seems in case of a name clash OS/2 is using the font that was installed later. Try removing and reinstalling the TrueType font. Alternately remove the ATM (Type 1) font (not recommended).
Experiments also suggest that different apps behave differently. Some apps will for example show both fonts but will use only one of them anyway. It really depends.
A7: Because FreeType/2 postpones as much work on the fonts as possible until it's really needed. This means the first opening of a font is a bit slower. But it also means no resources are unnecessarily wasted. And it's not really that bad :-) This behaviour is also noticeable when e.g. opening a document for the first time. Note that subsequent openings are OK because OS/2 caches as much information as possible.
A8: I won't. It's not really a bug, it's a feature. If they weren't spaced 'oddly', the result might look better, but only at the cost of Windows-style 'WYSIWYG', i.e. what you see on screen will almost certainly look totally different on any other device. Anyway, the spacing is controlled by OS/2 and not by the Font Driver itself, so if you still don't like it, IBM is the right one to ask :-)
This problem is particularly visible in Netscape. Most probably this happens because Netscape tries to use fractional pointsizes, but most TrueType fonts don't allow that. This means that Netscape sometimes positions characters as if they were e.g. 8.6 points while their actual size is only 8 points.
A9: Sure. If you install 50 fonts in OS/2, the system opens them all at startup and keeps them open until shutdown. While many users may want to have large number of fonts installed (like me), very few of them probably use all the fonts all the time. This of course wastes lots of memory and swap space. Just for your information, normal fonts take up 30-50 K of memory with FreeType/2, but for example Times New Roman MT 30 takes over 500K!
FreeType/2 overcomes this problem by only actually keeping in memory the last n most recently used fonts. The actual number is settable via entry in OS2.INI and there's an simple REXX script to do that. Good default might be 10-15 fonts, depending what you want to do with them.
Note that this process is totally transparent to the system. You won't have to do anything, FreeType/2 will take care of everything. The only things you will notice is dramatically reduced memory consumption and when working with large numbers of fonts there may be slight delay when reopening a font.
A10: Yes! I recommend to use Micro$oft's (oh no!) Core Fonts - Times New Roman, Arial and Courier New, plus other MS fonts. There are several reasons: the fonts have very good quality, stick to the TrueType spec prety well, support many countries and are widely available. Moreover they're free. You can certainly find some Win95 or NT machine in your neighbourhood (all too easily I'm afraid). They should also be available from MS's Web site.
Note: If you want to copy the fonts from a Win95 machine, they're in \WINDOWS\FONTS. Watch out, the directory is hidden!
A11: Some fonts contain buggy or 'broken' glyphs that cannot be reliably loaded and rendered. Those glyphs are usually very rarely used so you might never notice. There was a problem with the first Beta of FreeType/2 that if there was a single broken glyph in a font, the
whole font didn't work.
A12: It's because of DBCS systems. If you don't have one, you can safely ignore these fonts. The DBCS characters in them are rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise. It allows you to write vertical text (e.g. Chinese) with a normal word processor. You write the text horizontally but if you turn the resulting page 90 degrees clockwise, you've got vertical text.
It's not working perfectly yet.
A13: Most probably the font and your system settings don't mix. One possible cause is that your country setting is different than that of the font and the font contains no information about what language it's meant for. In that case, FreeType/2 has to guess from your country setting. This means it might try to treat e.g. Japanese font as a Korean one which means you won't be able to access the Japanese characters in it. It's all a bit more complicated but it's a result of how national language support is done in OS/2.
A14: UCONV.DLL it used for character code translation. A likely cause is that you are missing the required translation table in \LANGUAGE\CODEPAGE directory on your boot drive. Look for file named 'IBM<CP>', where <CP> is the codepage you use, e.g. IBM950 for Taiwan or IBM949 for Korea.
A15: But you've archived the key files, haven't you? If not, one way out of this mess is booting to command line and renaming or deleting FREETYPE.DLL from \OS2\DLL. Your system should boot then.
A16: Yes! There's a little utility called REPMOD.EXE which allows you to replace files that are in use. In case you don't already have it, it's included in the FreeType/2 package. You should simply run UPDATE.CMD. The new version will be used on next reboot.
A17: OS/2 contains bitmap font called Tms Rmn which is often used in dialog windows and elsewhere. The bitmap font contains only several pointsizes (8, 10, 12, 14, 18, 24). If you request a missing pointsize, OS/2's graphics engine (GRE) substitutes it from the (outline) ATM font Times New Roman which can also be referred to as Roman/Tms Rmn. Now FreeType/2 mimics this functionality and can fully replace the ATM version. I recommend to uninstall the ATM font since if both fonts are installed, some apps use the ATM one, others TrueType one, without any apparent logic. If you uninstall (via Font Palette) the ATM version, you will always get high-quality TrueType Times New Roman.