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Amgen to Highlight 19 Abstracts on Osteoporosis Disease State and Treatment at American Society for Bone and Mineral Research Annual Meeting
Results From Phase 3 FRAME Study of Romosozumab Evaluate Fracture Risk Reduction in Women With Postmenopausal Osteoporosis
Real-World and Clinical Data Focus on Long-Term Efficacy and Safety of Prolia® (Denosumab), Provide Insights on Therapy Compliance in Patients With Postmenopausal Osteoporosis
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., Sept. 7, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Amgen (NASDAQ:AMGN) today announced that it will present data from multiple studies for its investigational agent romosozumab and for Prolia® (denosumab) at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR) in Atlanta on Sept. 16-19, 2016. At the congress, Amgen will highlight a diverse set of data across its osteoporosis clinical programs, as well as real-world data that provide important insights on living with osteoporosis and underscore the Company's commitment to pioneering novel treatment options that can help reduce fracture risk.
"As a leader in bone biology, Amgen is committed to translating innovative science into treatments that make a difference in the lives of people," said Sean E. Harper, M.D., executive vice president of Research and Development at Amgen. "The breadth and depth of clinical and real-world data we're presenting at ASBMR demonstrates our commitment to finding potential options for patients with osteoporosis. We look forward to sharing detailed data from our Phase 3 FRAME study of romosozumab, along with new clinical data and real-world research on Prolia."
The romosozumab FRAME abstract, "Fracture Risk Reduction With Romosozumab: Results of the Phase 3 FRAME Study (FRActure study in postmenopausal woMen with ostEoporosis)," has been awarded the 2016 ASBMR Most Outstanding Clinical Abstract Award, which is given to the lead investigator of the highest ranking abstract submitted to a clinical category for presentation at the ASBMR Annual Meeting. Lead author Dr. Felicia Cosman, medical director of the Clinical Research Center at Helen Hayes Hospital, professor of Medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, will be presented with the award on Sunday, Sept. 18.
Prolia presentations will include additional analyses from the three-year FREEDOM trial and its seven-year extension, further characterizing the long-term (up to 10 years) efficacy and safety of Prolia in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis, as well as real-world data showing long-term (two-year) persistence rates for Prolia and other osteoporosis therapies among postmenopausal women.
Osteoporosis disease-state study presentations will provide key insights on unmet needs among patients at high risk for fracture.
Romosozumab is being co-developed by Amgen and UCB.
SELECTED ABSTRACTS OF INTEREST
Romosozumab Oral Presentation
Fracture Risk Reduction With Romosozumab: Results of the Phase 3 FRAME Study (FRActure study in postmenopausal woMen with ostEoporosis)
Abstract 1096, Oral Presentation, Sunday, Sept. 18, 9:45 a.m.-10 a.m. ET (Sidney Marcus Auditorium – Building A)
Romosozumab Pre-clinical Oral Presentation
Effects of Romosozumab on Remodeling and Bone Strength at the Distal Radius in Ovariectomized Cynomolgus Monkeys
Abstract 1024, Oral Presentation, Friday, Sept. 16, 3:45 p.m.-4 p.m. ET (Room A411/412)
Romosozumab Abstract of Interest
Romosozumab Blocks the Binding of Sclerostin to the Two Key Wnt Signaling Co-receptors, LRP5 and LRP6, but not to LRP4
Abstract MO0300, Poster Presentation, Monday, Sept. 19, 12:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m. ET (ASBMR Discovery Hall – Expo Hall A1)
Prolia Late-Breaking Abstract of Interest
Effects of Up to 10 Years of Denosumab Treatment on Bone Matrix Mineralization: Results From the FREEDOM Extension
Abstract LB-1163, Late-Breaking Oral Presentation, Monday, Sept. 19, 11:48 a.m.-noon ET (Room A404/405)
Prolia Oral Presentations
Effect of 10 Years of Denosumab Treatment on Bone Histology and Histomorphometry in the FREEDOM Extension Study
Abstract 1005, Oral Presentation, Friday, Sept. 16, 1:45 p.m.-2 p.m. ET (Sidney Marcus Auditorium – Building A)
Discontinuation of Denosumab and Associated Fracture Incidence: Analysis From FREEDOM and its Extension
Abstract 1100, Oral Presentation, Sunday, Sept. 18, 10:45 a.m.-11 a.m. ET (Sidney Marcus Auditorium – Building A)
Prolia Abstracts of Interest
The Risk of Subsequent Osteoporotic Fractures Is Decreased in Patients Experiencing Fracture While on Denosumab: Results From the FREEDOM and FREEDOM Extension Studies
Abstract FR0288 and SA0288, Plenary Poster, Friday, Sept. 16, 5:30 p.m.-7 p.m. ET and Saturday, Sept. 17, 12:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m. ET (ASBMR Discovery Hall – Expo Hall A1)
Denosumab Treatment for 10 Years in Postmenopausal Women With Osteoporosis Was Associated With Substantially Lower Fracture Incidence Relative to Their Baseline FRAX-Predicted Probability
Fracture Risk After Discontinuation of Denosumab
Bone Microarchitecture After Discontinuation of Denosumab in Postmenopausal Women With Low Bone Mass
Abstract SU0285, Poster Presentation, Sunday, Sept. 18, 12:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m. ET (ASBMR Discovery Hall – Expo Hall A1)
Denosumab (DMAb) and Total Lean Body Mass: Exploratory Analyses from the FREEDOM Study
Persistence with Osteoporosis Therapies in Postmenopausal Women in a Large US National Health Plan
Long-Term Persistence with Osteoporosis Therapies Among Postmenopausal Women in a Commercially-Insured Population in the United States
Osteoporosis Disease State Abstracts of Interest
Estimating the Long-Term Functional Burden of Osteoporosis-Related Fractures
High Risk of Second Fracture Within 1, 2, 5 Years After Prior Fracture Among Women 65 years or Older
Abstract FR0233 and SA0233, Plenary Poster, Friday, Sept. 16, 5:30 p.m.-7 p.m. ET and Saturday, Sept. 17, 12:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m. ET (Room ASBMR Discovery Hall – Expo Hall A1)
Prediction of Two-Year Risk of Fracture Among Older US Women
Predictors of Imminent Fracture Risk in Medicare-Enrolled Men and Women
Predictors of Imminent Risk of Non-Vertebral Fracture in Older Women: The Framingham Osteoporosis Study
Characteristics of Patients at High One-Year Fracture Risk
Amgen Webcast Investor Call
Amgen will host a webcast call for the investment community on Monday, Sept. 19, 2016, at 11:30 a.m. ET. Sean E. Harper, M.D., executive vice president of Research and Development at Amgen, along with members of Amgen's clinical development team and clinical investigators, will participate in the call to discuss Amgen's clinical data presented at ASBMR, including the romosozumab Phase 3 study (FRAME).
Live audio of the investor call will be simultaneously broadcast over the Internet and will be available to members of the news media, investors and the general public.
The webcast, as with other selected presentations regarding developments in Amgen's business given by management at certain investor and medical conferences, can be found on Amgen's website, www.amgen.com, under Investors. Information regarding presentation times, webcast availability and webcast links are noted on Amgen's Investor Relations Events Calendar. The webcast will be archived and available for replay for at least 90 days after the event.
About Osteoporosis
Osteoporosis affects many women after menopause as their ability to form new bone cannot counter balance the rate at which bone is being removed.1,2 This bone loss leads to weakened bones over time, increasing the potential for a break.3
It is estimated that one in three women over the age of 50 will experience an osteoporotic fracture.4,5 Patients who experience an osteoporosis-related fracture are twice as likely to experience a future fracture.6
The World Health Organization has officially declared osteoporosis a public health crisis,7,8 and the International Osteoporosis Foundation urges governments worldwide to make osteoporosis a healthcare priority.9
About Prolia® (denosumab)
Prolia® is indicated for the treatment of postmenopausal women with osteoporosis at high risk for fracture, defined as a history of osteoporotic fracture, or multiple risk factors for fracture; or patients who have failed or are intolerant to other available osteoporosis therapy. In postmenopausal women with osteoporosis, Prolia reduces the incidence of vertebral, nonvertebral, and hip fractures.
Prolia is indicated for treatment to increase bone mass in men with osteoporosis at high risk for fracture, defined as a history of osteoporotic fracture, or multiple risk factors for fracture; or patients who have failed or are intolerant to other available osteoporosis therapy.
Prolia is indicated as a treatment to increase bone mass in men at high risk for fracture receiving androgen deprivation therapy for nonmetastatic prostate cancer. In these patients Prolia also reduced the incidence of vertebral fractures.
Prolia is indicated as a treatment to increase bone mass in women at high risk for fracture receiving adjuvant aromatase inhibitor therapy for breast cancer.
Important Safety Information (U.S.)
Prolia® is contraindicated in patients with hypocalcemia. Pre‐existing hypocalcemia must be corrected prior to initiating Prolia®. Prolia® is contraindicated in women who are pregnant and may cause fetal harm. Prolia® is contraindicated in patients with a history of systemic hypersensitivity to any component of the product. Reactions have included anaphylaxis, facial swelling and urticaria.
Same Active Ingredient
Prolia® contains the same active ingredient (denosumab) found in XGEVA®. Patients receiving Prolia® should not receive XGEVA®.
Clinically significant hypersensitivity including anaphylaxis has been reported with Prolia®. Symptoms have included hypotension, dyspnea, throat tightness, facial and upper airway edema, pruritus, and urticaria. If an anaphylactic or other clinically significant allergic reaction occurs, initiate appropriate therapy and discontinue further use of Prolia®.
Hypocalcemia may worsen with the use of Prolia®, especially in patients with severe renal impairment. In patients predisposed to hypocalcemia and disturbances of mineral metabolism, clinical monitoring of calcium and mineral levels is highly recommended within 14 days of Prolia® injection. Adequately supplement all patients with calcium and vitamin D.
Osteonecrosis of the Jaw (ONJ)
ONJ, which can occur spontaneously, is generally associated with tooth extraction and/or local infection with delayed healing, and has been reported in patients receiving Prolia®. An oral exam should be performed by the prescriber prior to initiation of Prolia®. A dental examination with appropriate preventive dentistry is recommended prior to treatment in patients with risk factors for ONJ such as invasive dental procedures, diagnosis of cancer, concomitant therapies (e.g., chemotherapy, corticosteroids, angiogenesis inhibitors), poor oral hygiene, and co‐morbid disorders. Good oral hygiene practices should be maintained during treatment with Prolia®. The risk of ONJ may increase with duration of exposure to Prolia®.
For patients requiring invasive dental procedures, clinical judgment should guide the management plan of each patient. Patients who are suspected of having or who develop ONJ should receive care by a dentist or an oral surgeon. Extensive dental surgery to treat ONJ may exacerbate the condition. Discontinuation of Prolia® should be considered based on individual benefit‐risk assessment.
Atypical Femoral Fractures
Atypical low-energy, or low trauma fractures of the shaft have been reported in patients receiving Prolia®. Causality has not been established as these fractures also occur in osteoporotic patients who have not been treated with anti-resorptive agents.
During Prolia® treatment, patients should be advised to report new or unusual thigh, hip, or groin pain. Any patient who presents with thigh or groin pain should be evaluated to rule out an incomplete femur fracture. Interruption of Prolia® therapy should be considered, pending a risk/benefit assessment, on an individual basis.
Serious Infections
In a clinical trial (N= 7808) in women with postmenopausal osteoporosis, serious infections leading to hospitalization were reported more frequently in the Prolia® group than in the placebo group. Serious skin infections, as well as infections of the abdomen, urinary tract and ear were more frequent in patients treated with Prolia®.
Endocarditis was also reported more frequently in Prolia®-treated patients. The incidence of opportunistic infections and the overall incidence of infections were similar between the treatment groups. Advise patients to seek prompt medical attention if they develop signs or symptoms of severe infection, including cellulitis.
Patients on concomitant immunosuppressant agents or with impaired immune systems may be at increased risk for serious infections. In patients who develop serious infections while on Prolia®, prescribers should assess the need for continued Prolia® therapy.
Dermatologic Adverse Reactions
In the same clinical trial in women with postmenopausal osteoporosis, epidermal and dermal adverse events such as dermatitis, eczema and rashes occurred at a significantly higher rate with Prolia® compared to placebo. Most of these events were not specific to the injection site. Consider discontinuing Prolia® if severe symptoms develop.
Severe and occasionally incapacitating bone, joint, and/or muscle pain has been reported in patients taking Prolia®. Consider discontinuing use if severe symptoms develop.
Suppression of Bone Turnover
In clinical trials in women with postmenopausal osteoporosis, Prolia® resulted in significant suppression of bone remodeling as evidenced by markers of bone turnover and bone histomorphometry. The significance of these findings and the effect of long-term treatment are unknown. Monitor patients for these consequences, including ONJ, atypical fractures, and delayed fracture healing.
The most common adverse reactions (>5% and more common than placebo) in women with postmenopausal osteoporosis are back pain, pain in extremity, musculoskeletal pain, hypercholesterolemia, and cystitis. The most common adverse reactions (> 5% and more common than placebo) in men with osteoporosis are back pain, arthralgia, and nasopharyngitis. Pancreatitis has been reported with Prolia®.
In women with postmenopausal osteoporosis, the overall incidence of new malignancies was 4.3% in the placebo group and 4.8% in the Prolia® group. In men with osteoporosis, new malignancies were reported in no patients in the placebo group and 4 (3.3%) patients in the Prolia® group. A causal relationship to drug exposure has not been established.
The most common (per patient incidence ≥ 10%) adverse reactions reported with Prolia® in patients with bone loss receiving ADT for prostate cancer or adjuvant AI therapy for breast cancer are arthralgia and back pain. Pain in extremity and musculoskeletal pain have also been reported in clinical trials. Additionally, in Prolia®‐treated men with nonmetastatic prostate cancer receiving ADT, a greater incidence of cataracts was observed.
Denosumab is a human monoclonal antibody. As with all therapeutic proteins, there is potential for immunogenicity.
Prolia® Postmarketing Active Safety Surveillance Program
The surveillance program is available to collect information from prescribers on specific adverse events. Please see www.proliasafety.com or call 1‐800‐772‐6436 for more information.
For more information, please see the Prolia Important Safety Information, Prescribing Information, and Medication Guide.
About Romosozumab
Romosozumab is an investigational bone-forming agent and is not approved by any regulatory authority for the treatment of osteoporosis. It is designed to work by inhibiting the protein sclerostin, and has a dual effect on bone, both increasing bone formation and decreasing bone breakdown. Romosozumab is being studied for its potential to reduce the risk of fractures in an extensive global Phase 3 program. This program includes two large fracture trials comparing romosozumab to either placebo or active comparator in more than 10,000 postmenopausal women with osteoporosis. Amgen and UCB are co-developing romosozumab.
About the Amgen and UCB Collaboration
Since 2004, Amgen and UCB have been working together under a collaboration and license agreement to research, develop and market antibody products targeting the sclerostin protein. As part of this agreement, the two companies continue to collaborate on the development of romosozumab for the treatment of osteoporosis. This gene-to-drug project demonstrates how Amgen and UCB are joining forces to turn genetic discoveries into new medicine, turning conceptual science into a reality. If approved, Amgen will lead romosozumab commercialization in the United states, Canada, Mexico and Japan, and UCB will lead commercialization in all EU member countries, as well as Switzerland, Norway, Australia and New Zealand.
Amgen focuses on areas of high unmet medical need and leverages its biologics manufacturing expertise to strive for solutions that improve health outcomes and dramatically improve people's lives. A biotechnology pioneer since 1980, Amgen has grown to be one of the world's leading independent biotechnology companies, has reached millions of patients around the world and is developing a pipeline of medicines with breakaway potential.
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1 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Surgeon General. The 2004 Surgeon General's Report on Bone Health and Osteoporosis: What It Means to You. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK45513/pdf/Bookshelf_NBK45513.pdf. Published October 14, 2004. Accessed February 2016.
2 Cosman F et al. Clinician's Guide to Prevention and Treatment of Osteoporosis. Osteoporos Int. 2014; 25: 2359–2381.
3 International Osteoporosis Foundation. What Is Osteoporosis? 2015. Available at: http://www.iofbonehealth.org/what-is-osteoporosis. Accessed February 2016.
4 International Osteoporosis Foundation. The Global Burden of Osteoporosis. What you need to know. Available at: http://www.iofbonehealth.org/data-publications/fact-sheets/what-you-need-know-about-osteoporosis. Accessed February 2016.
5 International Osteoporosis Foundation. Osteoporosis in the European Union in 2008: Ten years of progress and ongoing challenges (October 2008). Available at: http://www.iofbonehealth.org/sites/default/files/PDFs/EU%20Reports/eu_report_2008.pdf. Accessed February 2016.
6 International Osteoporosis Foundation. Stop at One. One Fracture Leads to Another. http://share.iofbonehealth.org/WOD/2012/patient_brochure/WOD12-patient_brochure.pdf. Accessed February 2016.
7 International Osteoporosis Foundation. The National Coalition for Osteoporosis and Related Bone Diseases Briefed Congress on Action Plan for a National Vision for Bone Health. Available at http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-national-coalition-for-osteoporosis-and-related-bone-diseases-briefed-congress-on-action-plan-for-a-national-vision-for-bone-health-61945017.html. Accessed September 2016.
8 The World Health Organization. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. Exercise interventions: defusing the world's osteoporosis time bomb. Available at: http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/81/11/mingchanwa1103.pdf. Accessed February 2016.
9 International Osteoporosis Foundation. Global Initiatives. Available at http://www.iofbonehealth.org/global-initiatives-0. Accessed February 2016.
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Q: How to call events when we have a class and interface This code consists of an interface delegate and a class hard disk the code is working perfectly but I am trying to understand on how delegates, classes, interfaces and events work quite frankly this is not my code but I want to learn from it, my question is strictly on how to call events and where did the programmer write them or declare them them in this code below please correct me if I'm wrong
This is a class sendevent or delegate though I'm not sure
namespace ConsoleApplication4
{
    delegate void SendEventHandler(object sender, SendEventArgs args);
    class SendEventArgs : EventArgs
    {
        public byte[] Buf;
        public int ByteCount;
        public object whom;
        public SendEventArgs(byte[] Buf, int ByteCount, object whom)
        {
            this.Buf = Buf;
            this.ByteCount = ByteCount;
            this.whom = whom;
        }
    }
}

In my own understanding this is an interface name isata
interface ISata
    {
        //voltage +12В, +5В или +3.3В
        Double Voltage { get; }
        //transfer rate (bytes / sec)
        Int64 DataTransferRate { get; }
        event SendEventHandler SendEvent;
        void Send(byte[] Buf, int ByteCount, object whom);
        void OnReceive(object sender, SendEventArgs args);
        void ConnectWith(ISata Device);
        void Disconnect(ISata Device);

This is a class hardisk
namespace ConsoleApplication4
{
    class HardDisk : ISata
    {
        string Id = "no id";

        public Double Voltage
        {
            get
            {
                return 12;
            }
        }

        public Int64 DataTransferRate
        {
            get
            {
                return 629145600;
            }
        }

        public event SendEventHandler SendEvent;

        public HardDisk(string Id)
        {
            this.Id = Id;
        }

        public override string ToString()
        {
            return "HD{" + Id + "}";
        }

        public void ConnectWith(ISata Device)
        {
            Device.SendEvent += OnReceive;
            this.SendEvent += Device.OnReceive;
            Console.WriteLine(this + " connected with device " + Device);
        }

        public void Disconnect(ISata ConnDev)
        {
            if (ConnDev != null)
            {
                this.SendEvent -= ConnDev.OnReceive;
                ConnDev.SendEvent -= OnReceive;
                Console.WriteLine(this + " disconnected from device " + ConnDev);
            }
        }

        public void Send(byte[] Buf, int ByteCount, object whom)
        {
            if (SendEvent != null)
            {
                SendEvent(this, new SendEventArgs(Buf, ByteCount, whom));
            }
        }

        public void OnReceive(object sender, SendEventArgs args)
        {
            if(args.whom == this)
                Console.WriteLine(this + " received data from " + sender);
        }
    }
}

My question is that where did he declare the events and where was the event called?

A: In the interface you can see:
event SendEventHandler SendEvent;

That is the declaration. It says that there is a event called SendEvent and the signature of that should be SendEventHandler
(which is declared in the main file:
SendEventHandler(object sender, SendEventArgs args);

)
The event is invoked by using SendEvent(this, new SendEventArgs(Buf, ByteCount, whom)); in the Harddisk class.
I think you should read up on events. A event is just a multicast delegate (MSDN).

A: This is where the event is declared:
public event SendEventHandler SendEvent;

This is where the event is subscribed to; when the event occurs, the Device's OnReceive method will be called:
this.SendEvent += Device.OnReceive

This is where the event is unsubscribed from; it stops the method from being called when the event occurs:
this.SendEvent -= ConnDev.OnReceive

This is where the event is "called":
if (SendEvent != null)
{
    SendEvent(this, new SendEventArgs(Buf, ByteCount, whom));
}

A: In HardDisk, he hooked up the events in ConnectWith.  He fired the event in Send.  The += and -= operators are used to add event handlers to an event.

A: Long time ago i found a book online, it is free, and perfect for learning.
i would suggest that u take a peek into it, you will find alot of good explaning in it, including event handlers/ multicast delegates.
http://www.programmersheaven.com/ebooks/csharp_ebook.pdf

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namespace pedroac\url\normalization\rule;

use PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase;
use pedroac\url\URL;

class SortParametersRuleTest extends TestCase
{
    /**
     * @covers pedroac\url\normalization\rule\SortParametersRule::apply
     */
    public function testApply()
    {
        $rule = new SortParametersRule;

        $components = (new URL('http://test.com/path/?c=1&b=3&a=2'))
                      ->parse()->toComponents();
        $rule->apply($components);
        $this->assertEquals('http://test.com/path/?a=2&b=3&c=1', (string)$components);

        $components = (new URL('http://test.com/path/?b[e]=3&b[d]=4'))
                      ->parse()->toComponents();
        $rule->apply($components);
        $this->assertEquals('http://test.com/path/?b%5Bd%5D=4&b%5Be%5D=3',
                            (string)$components);
    }
}

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When I got out of college, my first professional job was as a juvenile probation officer. It was both awful and potentially dangerous. I briefly enrolled in a judo class just to have a skill that might help me protect myself. As it transpired, a very troubled kid happened to grab me in exactly the place on my neck we had practiced the night before. Completely by instinct, I flipped him—into one of those old-fashioned, free-standing, cast iron steam registers. He was taken to the hospital (for what turned out to be bad bruises and a small fracture), I gained an instant reputation for being badass, and I never went to another judo class because I didn't want to be the kind of person who injured another.
This cannot be the standard of guilt
This brings me to Ferguson, Missouri. I've not beaten my chest over the shooting of Michael Brown on August 9, 2014, nor have I attended rallies demanding justice for him. It's not that I think Brown deserved to die or that Officer Darren Wilson is innocent; it's because I can't be certain one way or the other. I wasn't there. I got lucky when I had my little incident: my door was open and three people witnessed what happened. I also got lucky because if the kid had fallen in a different direction, he could have died.
Was Wilson a racist who seized an opportunity to kill a black kid? That could have been the case—not just because it took place in Missouri, a state with a deplorable racist past, but anywhere. I've worked with police and I've seen enough to assert that you should not automatically respect the uniform—some cops are little Nazis hiding behind a badge. But many of them are what we want them to be: fine (underpaid) public servants trying to do their jobs the best they know how.
Here's another factor: Missouri isn't Florida, a state in which criminal oversight is nearly as bad as its crooked-as-a-dog's hind leg electoral laws. I've seen analogies between Ferguson and the George Zimmerman case. Just stop. They are not analogous. Florida's stand-your-ground law was a disaster waiting to happen and it did. In Missouri, a grand jury is deciding whether or not to indict Officer Wilson for Michael Brown's murder. That's as it should be. Officer Wilson can only be tried in a court of law, not the court of public opinion.
As I said, it's entirely possible that Wilson is a racist murderer. It's also possible, though, that like me he was in the wrong place at the wrong time and reacted in a way he wishes he had not. It's also possible that Michael Brown attacked Wilson. He wouldn't be the first kid to let his temper get the better of him, nor would he be the first to try to get some quick street cred by going rogue on a cop. There's a video that raises doubts about Brown as an innocent victim. There is also blood evidence that needs to be sorted.
Speaking of doubt, that's the standard by which Wilson should be judged. He cannot be convicted for being a racist or overreacting; he's only a murderer if the prosecution can convince a jury that the preponderance of evidence proves beyond a reasonable doubt that Wilson's actions were either premeditated or reckless. If Brown grabbed Wilson, or if the blood on his uniform shows smear patterns consistent with being assaulted rather than splatter from a gun blast, Wilson's defense team will have cast doubt on his guilt.
Count me among the last people who think we live in a post-racial society. America tragically remains a nation of stark black/white racial divides. It's understandable that millions of African Americans would assume Wilson's guilt. But I must remind everyone that the law presumes he is innocent until proven guilty. Michael Brown's death was tragic. It's also a reminder of how far we've yet to travel down the road to equality. But we cannot erase past injustices by perpetrating a modern-day miscarriage.
I know that my plea to allow the legal system to run its course raises the cynical hackles of many. How, they will ask, can one expect a justice system stained by institutional racism to give a black man a fair shake vis-à-vis a white man? I get that. But what's the alternative? To throw Wilson under the bus to prevent angry riots? To make him personally responsible for centuries of racism? To allow public opinion polls to determine his fate? Do we do this even if he's innocent?
Here's what I know: I don't! I wasn't there. Neither were you. Here's another thing I know: sometimes things don't go as you intended them to go. That makes one unlucky, not necessarily a bigot. And still one more: American racism is alive and well. Who can judge which actually occurred in Ferguson? Not I. Not you.
The Alt Makes Old Music Excitingly New
THE ALT
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The Alt is an accidental trio that came together with a glorious result. Irish-born musician/vocalists John Doyle (guitar/bouzouki/mandola), Nuala Kennedy (flute/whistles), and Eamon O'Leary (guitar/bouzouki) have assembled a well-crafted album bookended by songs that highlight the glories of a capella three-part harmonies. The first is a thorough remaking of the well-known "Lovely Nancy," with vocals acting as prelude to Doyle's bell-like guitar cadences and O'Leary's lead vocal. The album closes with a surprising voices-only cover of "The Letter Song," a 1930's Kentucky ballad. Stuffed between these are nine wonderful tracks in which each musician deals from strength. O'Leary has the most 'traditional' voice of the three and you'll hear his hint-of-a-rasp tenor on "Lovely Nancy" and "Willie Angler," the latter recorded by Silly Wizard as "The Banks of the Bann." Doyle's voice is lighter and his tones such that he naturally imbues songs with melancholia, no matter the subject. You'll hear this to fine effect on "Going for a Solider" and "The Eighteenth of June." Nearly everything on this album has been mined from old songbooks and Doyle's songs are no exception. The first is one of many reluctant warrior songs in the Irish tradition, but The Alt give it a faintly maritime feel, with Kennedy's rolling flute enhancing the mood. "Eighteenth of June" is a Battle of Waterloo song in which lyrics, instrumentation, and feel inhabit the sadness, madness, hope, and tragedy of war. Kennedy has the most delicate voice of the three, perfect for slower material such as "One Morning in May" and the Scots Gaelic "Cha Tig Mór Mo Bhean Dhachaigh," a man's lament for his deceased wife.
Today's challenges to covering traditional material include making it fresh enough for younger folks with less experience with non-processed music whilst making it different enough so that diehards aren't tempted to draw comparisons. The Alt negotiates those slippery slopes with great aplomb. For example, "The Geese in the Bog" set is two jigs in F# minor that Ms. Kennedy soups up to the degree that her flute commands you to dance. She does this by smoothing out the edges so that the cadences flow and meld. Later, on "The Green Gowned Lass" set, she, O'Leary, and Doyle take three already fast reels and slow them ever so slightly to give them the punctuated feel of jigs. Nice touch–and very typical of the best accidents I've witnessed in some time.
PS—The Alt moniker is not an attempt to be hip; it's lifted from a Yeats poem.
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The depiction of the tomb owner in the Old Kingdom cemetery of El-Hawawish in Upper Egypt: a documentation and analysis of the representations of tomb owners at El-Hawawish and other provincial sites
posted on 2022-03-28, 15:00 authored by Elizabeth M. Thompson
The area chosen as the focus of the study was the Old Kingdom necropolis of El-Hawawish at Akhmim. This provincial cemetery was selected because of the large number of decorated tombs available for study within a single nome and the breadth of the dating span from the mid-Fifth to the Eighth Dynasties. -- The aim of this study was to closely examine the wall scenes in which the tomb owner was the principal focus, to identify the activities in which he chose to portray himself and to make a detailed analysis of the manner in which these activities were depicted. While the primary focus was the tombs at El-Hawawish, attention was also given to comparisons with other similarly dated provincial sites and with the capital, Memphis. Five principal occupations, or activities, of the tomb owner were scrutinised and similarities and differences noted. -- A number of specific questions, relating to the tomb owner's choice of his depictions were posed, such as the effect of the physical isolation of El-Hawawish from the capital, the impact of the status of the tomb owner and the importance of family relationships. Consideration was also given to the extent to which the tomb owners and/or the artists developed a distinct provincial style or incorporated features from tombs in other provinces or the capital. Finally, an attempt was made to identify specific aspects of the data which could provide reliable dating criteria. By this detailed observation, the thesis aimed to gain a greater understanding of the intention of the tomb owner in decorating his tomb and in presenting himself in his social milieu, particularly within his family setting and his province. -- As a result the study of the depictions of the tomb owner and the artistic style of his chosen themes and motifs has provided an understanding of the importance placed on the tomb owner's role and status in society. Comparative analysis of the interaction between the provinces and the capital indicated areas and periods where the traditional forms of the capital were preserved while still allowing the provincial tomb owners the opportunity for individual input. -- The stylistic study and analysis of the scenes was found to provide a useful method of cataloguing information and, through observing changes and developments, assist in suggesting appropriate dating criteria.
PART I -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The standing tomb owner at El-Hawawish: depictions in tombs and on stelae: -- Part A. The tomb owner depicted as a youthful figure -- Part B. The tomb owner depicted as a mature figure -- Part C. The viewing tomb owner -- 3. The seated tomb owner at El-Hawawish: depictions in tombs and on stelae -- 4. The tomb owner at El-Hawawish: spear-fishing in the marshes -- 5. The tomb owner at El-Hawawish: travelling in a palanquin -- 6. The tomb owner travelling in a sailing ship or a papyrus boat -- 7. Conclusions -- PART II -- Map of Egypt showing Old Kingdom sites -- Catalogue of tombs, stelae and other stone fragments -- List of tomb owners at El-Hawawish (Akhmim) and other Upper Egyptian provinces by chapter -- Tables -- Illustrations -- Appendix I: The major groups of El-Hawawish officials in the Sixth Dynasty -- Appendix II: Themes depicted at El-Hawawish.
Bibliography: pages [235]-251 A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy
PhD, Macquarie University, Faculty of Arts, Department of Ancient History
Department of Ancient History
Naguib Kanawati
Copyright disclaimer: http://www.copyright.mq.edu.au Copyright Elizabeth M. Thompson 2010.
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Personnel of Charlie Love's Cado Jazz Band were CHARLIE LOVE, trumpet, ALBERT WARNER, trombone, EMILE BARNES, clarinet, LOUIS GALLAUD, piano, EMMANUEL SAYLES, banjo, ALBERT GILES, drums. KID SHEIK COLA joins the band and plays trumpet on tracks 8, 10-14. He replaces Charlie Love on tracks 4 9.
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The quest to understand how great bacon is made takes me around the world and through epic adventures. I tell the story by changing the setting from the 2000's to late 1800's when much of the technology behind bacon curing was unraveled. I weave into the mix beautiful stories of Cape Town and use mostly my family as the other characters besides me and Oscar and Uncle Jeppe from Denmark, a good friend and someone to whom I owe much gratitude! A man who knows bacon! Most other characters have a real basis in history and I describe actual events and personal experiences set in a different historical context.
I had an amazing childhood. Once a year, every winter, we would go to my grandfather, Oupa Eben's farm. The adult men would hunt game for biltong and we would slaughter a pig and make our own bacon. My grandfather's full name was Ebenhaezer and his surname was Kok. Kok is the Dutch word for chef or kook. The occupation of a very distant relative is certainly the historical roots of the surname. My mom insisted that I be christened Ebenhaezer Kok van Tonder, after my grandfather, despite her dad's opposition to using his full name and surname as my names. "Just call the boy, Eben," he told her, but she did not and I was stuck with a long name of biblical and Dutch origins.
All the kids helped to make the biltong, droe wors, and bacon. It was an exciting time for the entire family to work together and each child got a chance to help with the different aspects of butchering and curing. From as early as I can remember I was fascinated by the curing process. In Cape Town, I never missed going with my dad to visit Uncle Jacobus. They would discuss politics and bacon and in those days it was not always two different subjects. Often producing bacon had its own politics. For years we made our bacon the same way that Uncle Jacobus and most of the other butchers in Cape Town cured theirs.
The basic process was simple. It started with selecting the right pig and preparing it with the right feed. The pigs used for bacon should not be too big so that the salt strike through the meat more equally and the smoke penetrate more perfectly. In Johannesburg, Uncle Jacobus told my dad once, the pigs should be fed maize four to five weeks before they are slaughtered to ensure that the meat is nice and compact, but in the Cape Colony, I know it is wheat or young barley. Besides firming the meat up, it makes the kidney fat not to be greasy and runny like lard, but hard like beef or mutton fat or suet around the kidneys.
The curing salt was mixed by ourselves. It was 27 kg of the finest Cape salt from the West Coast, mixed with 500g of Saltpeter for every 500kg pork to be cured. Salt quality is related to its purity. Contaminated salt doesn't cure meat well.
The next step is salting. The mixture of salt and saltpeter is rubbed into the meat and spread liberally over the outside. Butchers are never concerned with oversalting, but rather not giving the meat enough time to cure. The three curing ingredients, any good butcher will tell you, are salt, saltpeter and time. In the Kok and Van Tonder household we followed the same philosophy.
The well-trained Cape or Johannesburg butcher sprinkle salt in the bottom of the caskets where the meat was kept during the process and lay it skin down on top of the salt, beginning with hams and shoulders and then placing the small pieces on top.
Four or five days later the meat was removed and thoroughly rubbed with salt again. Some butchers, at this point, add a teaspoon of red pepper to each piece. We never did. Blood and meat juices that drained out into the casket were cleared out before the meat is put back. The meat had to be dried out through the process of salting.
After the first week of salting, the meat was rested to allow the salt to completely penetrate through the meat. How long the meat rested depends on the size of the piece. The small pieces, placed at the top will be done two weeks later and can be removed. Small pieces can, therefore, be salted and rested in 19 days. The casket is repacked with only the large pieces. It is important to now rotate the larger pieces so that the ones that were at the bottom be placed at the top and those from the top, at the bottom. The reason for this is because pressure interferes with the spread of salt through the meat. Shoulders will be thoroughly salted in about three weeks and hams in four.
The colonies became used to smoked bacon because smoking was always done on bacon for exports from England. Smoked bacon lasts longer. In South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, America and in Canada, bacon is almost always smoked because this is what people became used to eating. At that time butchers started building smokehouses and it was important that the bacon should not touch the sides of the smokehouse or that it is not too crowded when hanged so that the meat pieces touch. There had to be a good circulation of smoke and air in the smokehouse.
The smoking time and resting time was the same. Four weeks for hams, three weeks for shoulders and two weeks for small pieces. Humidity is the main reasons why it has always been difficult to make good bacon in the Cape Colony. The Cape has winter rainfall and dampness is not good for smoking bacon. Dampness that settles on the meat gives the bacon a sour taste. This is the reason why we do not cure our bacon at home but instead trek to my grandparent's farm into the interior where winters are dry.
Oakwood is good enough for smoking but good American or European bacon is smoked with maple chips or hickory logs. Two fires a day is enough if they are well made. I know that some butchers occasionally throw some red pepper on the fire. It is said by some that it keeps insects away after smoking and improves the flavour somewhat.
The meat was salty, for sure and as my parents did not listen to my Oupa Eben's advice on naming me, so they did not stick to Uncle Jacobus' recipe. My dad never told me where he got the new recipe from, but when I was in my early teens him and Oupa Eben changed the recipe. I am sure he got it from an immigrant or a traveler who stayed over at the Cape. He was not a butcher and would not have come up with it himself.
The new recipe was a major change. Ouma Susan and my mom were very skeptical. I heard them in the kitchen complaining that we are about to waste a very nice pig. I don't think my dad even discussed it with Uncle Jacobus who was a very conservative man when it came to meat. He was sure to have talked my dad out of such a wild scheme, I am sure!
The pig was selected in the usual way and prepared by feeding it wheat by Oupa. We waited for a very cold morning when the pig was killed and the hams and sides were left to dry in the breeze outside and then placed in the cooler. The cooler was a new addition to the farm. It was a square construction, similar to the smokehouse, built from with two layers of brick, filled in with charcoal in the middle. Water was trickled down from its roof over the sides and onto the charcoal. After the meat dried, it was cooled down in this manner for 24 hours or so.
The major change was that my dad used molasses. After the cooling and drying, the hams and sides were rubbed with it. They handled the preparation of the salt completely differently. The salt was put in a cast iron pan and fried till it was red hot and a dry fine powder formed. The hot salt was then quickly spread over the smeared pork sides and hams. When it cooled down sufficiently, it was thoroughly mixed in by hand. The meat was returned to the cooler and after three days the process was repeated. My dad gave thick hams an extra treatment by making small cuts in the meat all the way to the joints and filling it with hot salt.
This was the new "Van Tonder" Salting and Drying steps. It was repacked in the cooler and left for a couple of weeks. They made sure that the cooler was dry. After two or three weeks, it was ready for smoking.
During smoking, great care was taken to ensure the heat stays as low as possible by not making more than two fires per day. As always, my dad used oak wood, but he told me that in the Transvaal they would probably use corn cobs if they tried to imitate our new recipe. Apparently, the Germans also use hickory.
The new recipe called for one to calculate the time that the meat is totally surrounded by smoke which had to be a total of 100 to 120 hours. This worked out to around 15 days if the smoke was kept up for 8 hours in the day and the meat was left in the smokehouse overnight with no fire. As kids, it was our job to regularly inspect the smokehouse to see if the smoke is still thick enough and the temperature still low. Any deviation was immediately reported and later years the entire process was left to us.
After smoking the meat was hung up in a dry and cool place to mature for two or three weeks as we have always done. The day when my dad walked into the large farmhouse with a piece of bacon in his one hand for testing, that day I learned a valuable lesson about success. You know it when you, in this instance, taste it and triumph was literally sweet. My mom, Ouma Susan, and all the kids came into the kitchen. My Oupa Eben followed close on my dads heels. I knew they tested it in the cooler already and this was my dad's victory parade. My mom took a large pan and placed it on the coal stove. She dropped a small piece of butter into it and as soon as it started to bubble, she placed the thinly sliced rashers of bacon onto it.
A soft, sweet, delicious aroma filled the kitchen. It slowly and gently crept through the entire house. I saw the bacon rashers in the thick black pan change colour from a soft pale white to a dark golden brown as the sugar caramelised. She took a fork and picked each rasher up with care, placing them on a plate. We each had some.
The flavour exploded in my mouth, expecting the salty taste of our old recipe. This was also salty, but in between every experience of salt was a cascade of delightful soft sweetness delivered by the molasses. The pork, molasses, and salt proved to be perfect dance partners. That day I learned a second lesson which I will never forget. Good food elicits a powerful physical sensation. I tasted the bacon with my entire body. It was heavenly!
So, a legend was born. When we got home my dad took some of the bacon to Uncle Jacobus. We sat under the enormous trees around his Woodstock house talking bacon till late that night. He loved it. To say that bacon was a deeply entrenched subject in our family is not an understatement.
Combrink & Co. soon started selling bacon cured with my dad's recipe. Strangers would stop him in the street and congratulate him on it. The mayor once proposed a toast to him and wished that he would grace the Cape Colony with much more similar inspirations. We kept going to the farm every year to make our own. When the process was done we would roll the bacon in newspapers and tightly pack it in caskets, covering the packed meat with a thick layer of wood ash. We kept making small changes every year and the process of making it remained as enjoyable as eating it.
It is strange that even as a child, being on the farm with my parents, grandparents, brothers, cousins, uncles, and aunts, I knew that these days would not last. That knowledge did not make me sad. It created in me a desire, on the one hand, to tell the story and on the other hand to start on a lifelong quest of creating many similar experiences. One day, I knew, it would all end, for me also, but until that day it became a lifelong quest to never stop making delicious bacon and insatiable experiences. I was happy.
One day we were on a neighbor's farm playing in the mulberry trees when my dad called us to the house. Oupa Eben passed away from a heart attack that morning on the doctor's table during a checkup. Back on their farm, I was crying in the kitchen and my mom held me saying that there is now only one Eben left in our family.
I remember how my grandmom cried when she cleared his razor from the bathroom which he used that morning. Soon my dear grandmom herself would follow him to their eternal home as would my grandparents on my dad's side. Eventually, my mom and dad also departed and in the end, I knew that life is as life always was and is meant to be.
As I sit here, years later, in a small apartment in Johannesburg I know that even though they are all gone we have their memories and our amazing stories. We forever will have the sweet smell of delicious bacon cured with salt and molasses, cold smoked to perfection over two weeks on my grandparent's farm. Their stories and the soft, gentle aroma of bacon lingering in the old farmhouse remains as vivid to me as the day it was created.
I am glad my mom did not listen to my Oupa and shorten my names.
Making Bacon, New England Farmer (Boston, Massachusettes), 29 Jan 1840, p3.
Dry curing pork and beef (with molasses), The Indiana Herald, 17 December 1879, page 6, recipe by Mr. Gilette as told by an American Agriculturalist.
Meat Curing and Smokehouse – Built in Goria after plans by the United States Dep of Agriculture. Photo – 1919 from Woodford County Journal (Eureka, Illinois), 20 Jan 1919, p 3.


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Traditional Chinese medicine classes introduced to elementary-school children in Zhejiang – China's latest society and culture news
A summary of the top news in Chinese society and culture for September 12, 2017. Part of the daily SupChina newsletter, a convenient package of China's business, political, and cultural news delivered to your inbox for free. Subscribe here.
Jiayun Feng	 Published September 12, 2017
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"When Koreans attempted to get traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) on the UNESCO lists of intangible cultural heritage, you guys were furious. But now as China started to attach importance to TCM, you guys criticized the practice with contempt. So what's your exact stance on this?"
"Disastrous! Can we offer kids something useful like proper sex education?"
These two comments indicate how online opinions (in Chinese) split in response to the news that starting from this year's fall semester, fifth-grade students in Zhejiang Province will take compulsory classes about traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), being the first generation of children in China who are required to have TCM knowledge.
According to Qianjiang Evening News (in Chinese), 100,000 textbooks are already on their way to local schools, and 600,000 more copies are being printed on an urgent timeline. The course comprises 36 hours evenly distributed throughout the entire semester, said Fang Jianqiao 方剑乔, president of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University (ZJMU) and chief editor of the textbook. The content taught in the classes, as Fang told the newspaper, will basically cover every aspect of TCM, including basic methods, exercise, sports, diet, mood, and special treatments such as acupuncture and massage. Fang also said that elementary-school teachers received trainings from professors at ZJMU at the end of August, and that textbooks for middle-school students are scheduled to come.
Starting this year, China has been aggressive in its revival of TCM, the Economist reports (paywall). In July, China's cabinet, the State Council, released new guidelines on the reform and development of medical education in China, which called for doctors trained in Western medicine to shift in their careers and pivot to TCM. Statistics quoted by the Economist's article suggest that the number of Chinese hospitals where TCM treatments are available climbed from about 2,500 in 2003 to 4,000 at the end of 2015. Meanwhile, the number of licensed practitioners of TCM also reached 452,000, an almost 50 percent increase from 2011.
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Why Shanghai is perfect launch pad for creative women entrepreneurs / SCMP
Socially conscious cinema: Fifth annual China Women's Film Festival comes to Beijing, Sep 16-24 / The Beijinger
The world needs to hear China's feminist voices / WAGIC
Chongqing's 3-D printing companies asked to register with police / Sixth Tone
Jiayun Feng was born in Shanghai, where she spent her first 20 years and earned a bachelor's degree in journalism at Fudan University. Interested in writing for a global audience, she attended the NYU Graduate School of Journalism for its Global & Joint Program Studies, which allowed her to pursue a journalism career along with her interest in international relations. She has previously interned for Sixth Tone and Shanghai Daily. Read more


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Jaakko Roppola, senior designer at Jolla, writes:
I get asked this a lot so I did a post about it.
A Sailfish application has a much higher UX potential than any other platform counterpart. The whole operating system is designed around an unobstructed and efficient use of applications. What you as a user want to do.
That's all well and fine, and we all know why native applications are superior to less-than-native counterparts – which in the case of Sailfish comes down specifically to Android applications, which it supports quite well. The reality, however, is that these reasons are not even remotely enough to draw developers of native applications to Sailfish.
Early this year, I wrote a comprehensive review of Jolla and Sailfish. Since then, a lot of people have been asking me to revisit that review, and go into the current state of the platform. It's something that I've been wanting to do for a while now, but I've been putting it off because to be honest – there is very little to tell.
The general conclusion of the review was that Sailfish was a good operating system considering its age, with a comprehensive user interface that was a joy to use, and that was both fast, smooth, and intuitive. Being a new platform, its biggest issue was of course the lack of third party applications – but even there, the platform got off on a good start with a few high-quality applications such a WhatsApp client, a great Twitter client, a barebones but decent Facebook client, and a few others. For a platform that was only a few weeks or months old at the time, that was a great running start.
Sadly, even though we're almost a year down the line, the state of the platform is still pretty much exactly the same. The operating system itself has improved even further, and continues to do so at a decent pace. Every time I boot my Jolla, Sailfish delights me with its intuitive and smooth, one-handed interface. Between the review and now, we've seen like 10 proper operating system updates, and each of them have improved the operating system in noticeable ways. It's nowhere near as complete or full-featured as Android, iOS and WP, but it will certainly cover users of those platforms just fine.
As far as third-party applications go, however, the situation is – and let's not sugar-coat it – dire. The applications I highlighted in my review and again a few paragraphs above are still pretty much the only proper Sailfish applications today, with the note that the Facebook client hasn't seen any development in months and is, as far as I can tell, abandoned. Other than that, virtually every time I get my hopes up when I see tweets about "new" Sailfish applications, it's yet another Android application that also works on Sailfish.
Of course, we all knew this was going to be the hardest – and largest – piece of the Sailfish puzzle. However, I did expect more than what we have now. I'm sure the lack of support for paid applications plays a role here, discouraging more professional, non-hobby developers from joining in on the fun as a side-project. Whatever the cause, we're still looking at a third-party applications landscape that isn't much better than what I saw back in January.
It could be that there's a lot of stuff going on behind the scenes to get developers interested, but so far, we haven't seen much sign of that. I'm obviously not going to write off the platform or anything like that – the operating system is too good and fun for that – but progress on the application front is sorely, sorely needed.
Right now, my Jolla spends most of its time in my device drawer, only to be booted up when there's an update or when I'm bored. Sailfish deserves more, but I'm not sure how they're going to get it.
Almindor
I'm the developer of the Lighthouse process monitoring app for Jolla and I can only agree with your conclusion.
Jolla has built and missed it's own boat. It's a really sad story and I can't even tell what caused them to go to sleep mode. I guess they tried hard to get into the eastern markets or something.
There has been 0 activity for the past 1-2 months, all the new regressions are still there (like the bug where CPU activity is reported wrong) and nothing new and exciting is happening. I have lost all interest in putting my time into developing for the platform. It's still my main phone, but given how it's limiting me to 2G only here in Canada I don't see using it for much longer.
drcouzelis
There has been 0 activity for the past 1-2 months
You mean from Jolla? I think there was a long holiday break in the month of August in Finland. After that, there was supposed to be a big update in September, but it was pushed back a bit due to, among other things, the recent Bash vulnerabilities.
I've been itching for my first big Sailfish update.
It's still my main phone, but given how it's limiting me to 2G only here in Canada I don't see using it for much longer.
So, you'll be selling it then?
Unfortunately it takes more than a few good ideas or good people to bootstrap an entire mobile ecosystem.
Here's me in 2013:
Its the path of least resistance. When you let developers cut corners, they most likely will.
Easier to repackage an existing app than to write a new one from scratch.
And that seems to be what's happened. It takes a lot of money to spin the fly wheel so to speak, and patience, and time. Microsoft, who is beyond well capitalized is having a hell of a time cracking this particular nut.
While some of you have gone all "LOL METRO" as the reasoning why MSFT is having trouble in mobile, I think the overarching reason is that it is a tough market to get into. Especially if you're late. Especially if you're trying to be different.
So kudos to the Jolla team for getting as far as they give, I wish them nothing but the best. I installed the Jolla launcher on my N5 and was blown away by how nice it is.
thulfram
Yes, Microsoft still seems having trouble filling their store with quality apps. However, when I talk to people trying to build apps for Microsoft, they say the same things:
1. They can't figure out how to do this or that. The API seems underdocumented, contradictory, or just plain confusing.
2. The ad API doesn't seem to work. Nobody wants to develop apps if they can't do some kind of advertising, preferably Google's. Charging money for apps seems like a thing of the past.
3. The programming model(s) seem to be endlessly confusing. .NET? Win32/64? DirectX? HTML5? Silverlight? Half of those, if they're not dead, smell funny. Android and iOS have simple models and tools (Java and Objective-C).
I'm sorry that something that sounds so cool as Sailfish isn't moving forward. My own main interest is Firefox OS, which still seems to be moving fast and furious. Unfortunately people in the USA don't know about it because it's not available. But their latest info speaks of "15 countries with 4 hardware partners, 7 operators and 16 launches." The programming model is … HTML5, making it easy for people to create apps easily. I can't tell if there's any money in apps yet, the app-to-market time is pretty short, especially if you use engines like Construct 2.
I think the main problem with Sailfish is that there isn't room for many more players. I think Firefox OS is smart in aiming at markets that aren't yet dominated. #1 in Ecuador might sound silly, but it's a toe-hold, and Sailfish doesn't seem to have even a toenail-hold.
That's unfortunate. I mean, I've found some parts of it to be under documented. At worst though its been a matter of digging through a Sample App. Doesn't happen often, at least to me.
dev.windows.com and MSDN in general have pretty good documentation.
Absolutely not true. There's nothing wrong with the Ad API, there's even support for AdMob.
WinRT is the underlying platform. That defines the types, the sandboxed environment, the capabilities, etc.
DirectX is a COM API, so its native code. WinRT is a variant (in some ways) of COM.
.NET sits on top of WinRT and interops pretty well with it. They share a common metadata format, so you can write WinRT types in .NET and expose them to non .NET environments (HTML5 and C++).
This is why WinRT is the unified programming model, and why there are so many buzzwords.
Win32 really only exists in the sense that some APIs are made available to ease porting of native libraries. Silverlight only exists for pre WP8.1 apps.
Not only that. WinRT is actually quite similar to Ext-VOS, the genesis of .NET, when they were still thinking of doing everything native.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dsyme/archive/2012/07/05/more-c-net-generic…
With the going native wave, Microsoft is just going full circle.
Thanks for laying out a roadmap. I'll pass it along.
Just promise me they won't change it all again!
I just saw some headline saying that Satya says that the Office API is the most important to the future. The summary for that is easier:
1. Underneath almost everything is COM and OLE.
2. .NET is glued onto that. Loosly.
Anyway, myself, I prefer HTML5, which is somewhat supported by Windows. I used to do assembler, C, and COM.
Why do you say loosely? WinRT's metadata format is the same one that .NET uses precisely to enable a better mapping between them. Compositional inheritance was added to WinRT to map better to .NET semantics as well.
If you look at the interop for .NET, it's actually quite lightweight:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/jj651569.aspx
And its actually faster to interop between C# and WinRT components than it is to interop between C++ and a WinRT component due to the way the JIT optimizes code. Its hardly bolted on.
The programming model(s) seem to be endlessly confusing. .NET? Win32/64? DirectX? HTML5? Silverlight? Half of those, if they're not dead, smell funny. Android and iOS have simple models and tools (Java and Objective-C).
Confusing only for wannabes that don't care about reading documentation.
There are enough Build sessions, MSDN articles and Channel 9 videos explaining when to use what.
Sounds like a lot of work! Apple, Android, not so much. Firefox OS, hardly any work at all!
Yeah, say that to anyone who's tried the unintuitive mess that is Interface Builder. Or had to pour through Android documentation.
Come on, this type of thing exists to varying degrees on every platform.
Jolla DID solve the problem of not having many applications: by having very good Android application support, and by making Android applications extremely easy to install (they're included in the Jolla store).
Is it bad to run Android applications on Sailfish? Why?
You say that the WhatsApp and Twitter applications are good, but that the Facebook application is poor. Does any mobile operating system have a good Facebook application? (Serious question. I seem to remember hearing that all Facebook applications are lousy and that they expect you to just use the mobile version of facebook.com…)
What functionality is missing on Sailfish that you can't get from either a native or Android application?
As for me, I chose not to install any Android applications on my Jolla mobile. It does everything I need with the native applications.
In the past year, the places that the Jolla mobile can be officially purchase has expanded to all of the EU, Hong Kong, India, and a few other countries. Have there been any reports on how many mobile devices they've sold? They only need to make enough money to keep their small company going. I like to think they are, but I have nothing to back that up.
NicePics13
Have a handful of android apps installed myself, (unfortunately) Skype being the one I run the most. Quite the battery hog.
I have said this before and I will say it again…
It is way to hard to build your OS/app ecosystem share just by selling phones. I own a Nexus 5… Why is there not a official build for that phone? A lot of people install 3rd party Android ROMs on dozens of different phones. I think many of them would give Sailfish a try.
You need to increase the number of people using the OS, whether you are looking to sell apps or push ads. Trying to market a phone and a unproven OS is to damn hard. Their phones aren't even available in the US!
Damnshock
I own a Nexus 5… Why is there not a official build for that phone? A lot of people install 3rd party Android ROMs on dozens of different phones. I think many of them would give Sailfish a try.
I own a One Plus One and I would install Jolla on it for sure if there was a ROM available…
If a platform provides an emulation API for one of the major competing platforms it will never get anyone targeting their native API.
As consequence, it will loose any appeal for both developers and users to switch to it.
This has never succeeded.
japh
This is a valid point. If Qt would become popular as a cross-platform toolkit, then people might put in the effort to make native sailfish apps there as well.
Unfortunately, I don't really see that happening.
They still have a lot of catching up to do.
For example, only the upcoming 5.4 version will support Android native controls, and you need to use QML for it. Not C++ Widgets.
http://qt-project.org/wiki/New-Features-in-Qt-5.4
Currently if you try to use a file picker for example, you will get the desktop version.
adkilla
I'd rather use Xamarin/AppMethod than Qt at this point. They have been taking way too long to come up with a mobile cross platform toolkit.
Xamarin also has its own set of issues.
Personally I would rather use C++, as it is available in all vendor SDKs.
But it surely feels like a stepchild on Android.
testadura
Well, it all starts with device availability. I really would have liked to buy one, but they are hard to find. And besides, I am not a big fan of the design of the device. Or just release a version that runs on a nexus 5.
I am really bored with ios and android and wanted something else.
Now I have just bought me a blackberry z30. What a joy to use. A great device relying on gestures for user interaction a lot like the jolla does. Android apps run great, so I'm not missing anything. And the keyboard is magnificent. But now I'm getting off topic
I bought one and really like it, but I can't deny that the hardware is a drawback. It isn't really that inspiring at the end of 2014. Comparing it to my LG G2 just makes me wish they'd make sure I could run sailfish on that instead.
Next time I can't help buying new hardware, I might also opt for blackberry if I'm still feeling adventurous.
Leszek Lesner
What concrete apps do you miss ?
I mean currently we developers are a little bit binded by the strict rules of the harbour jolla store and missing of some api elements like for example a standard file open dialog.
So almost all devs are now waiting for Qt 5.2 to arrive.
On the multimedia front we are waiting for gstreamer 1.x as 0.10 has lots of problems with certain codecs.
When it comes to structural changes there were discussions about paid apps, other third party repos (which are controlled in contrast to openrepos) and so on.
So pretty much its just a matter of time.
With getting their Jolla Phone to other countries and parts of the world more and more users and also potential developers are getting involved.
So I guess there will be more applications in the near future.
But its true that premium apps (a.k.a. apps known from other plattforms) won't come to it as sailfish os first needs to get a wider user base for them to recognize a need for it.
And of course there are some who will just say: Use our android app it works fine with the jolla anyways.
shmerl
ts biggest issue was of course the lack of third party applications
For me the biggest issue is that it's still not fully open source. I don't care about junk like Whatsapp.
Of course, we all knew this was going to be the hardest – and largest – piece of the Sailfish puzzle.
I don't think so. The main barrier now is not the lack of applications, but the lack of Jolla's push for spreading the platform. So far they were extremely cautious to avoid Northern American market because of patent trolls and racketeers like MS and Apple (a concrete example how patent racket stifles innovation and reduces choice).
However may be the latest Alice ruling will encourage them to do bolder moves. Until then the situation won't change much.
I don't think the NA market would make much difference…
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Stacked earthen construction that uses clay-based soil in the form of a cohesive paste. The material is first kneaded and then shaped into large balls, which are either stacked (piled) on top of one another or thrown forcefully onto the wall. A layer is left to dry before adding the next layer to build up walls. It is not rammed after placement, as with Rammed Earth. It is possible to build very thick walls (thickness varies from 40 to 200 cm) using this technique. The earthen mixture may contain fibres, usually straw, grass, or twigs, but that is not an universal practice. Straw is often used as an additive for cob wall construction in Europe.


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Vineland to upgrade vehicle fleet
Joseph P. Smith
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VINELAND – The city's emergency services are in line for millions of dollars in funds to modernize their creaky vehicle fleets.
The spending spree would result in new police SUVs, fire trucks and ambulances to replace equipment that's showing its age.
The money would come out of an approximately $4.8 million bond issue. Minus down payment costs, the actual value of bonds to be issued would be about $4.57 million. City Council this week unanimously introduced an ordinance authorizing the bonds.
Officials say the major impact would be on vehicle availability and efficiency for police, fire and ambulance services covering the 69 square miles the encompass New Jersey' biggest city.
All of the services are behind on their optimal timetables for regular vehicle replacements. The reason: a lack of funding in recent years.
"We have really held ourselves at bay for a number of years with equipment," city Comptroller Roxanne Tosto said. "Some of our equipment — we really haven't kept up with the standards."
The ordinance comes up for a hearing and possible approval in August. But actual delivery of the equipment could take more than a year for the most specialized vehicles, officials said.
The Police Department is allocated about $1.25 million in bonds.
Its money would go toward purchasing sport utility vehicles. A police SUV, when fully outfitted, costs almost $50,000, so the authorization should cover more than 20 new vehicles.
"The bulk will go to patrols," Police Chief Timothy Codispoti said. "We do have some specialty units that have vehicle issues."
Codispoti said he doesn't expect to see delivery of the first vehicles until late spring 2015.
Tosto said the bond ordinance specifies the purchase of SUVs for the police, but not cruisers, because local governments are banned from using bonds to buy sedans.
Codispoti said the SUVs are very comparable to traditional cruisers in initial cost and fuel economy, which is a major consideration.
The Police Department this year got eight new vehicles — five Ford Explorers and three Dodge Chargers. Its vehicle fleet strength is about 100.
"Based on our feedback from our Ford Explorers, that'll probably be the vehicle we go with," Codispoti said. "We've gotten really good reviews. The ones we've put in the fleet are holding up."
The bond issue's Fire Department allocation is $1 million, enough to buy two new water pumping vehicles. They would replace two pumpers the city purchased in the early 1990s.
Fire Chief Robert Pagnini estimated it will take a year to 18 months to fill the orders. The city needs to draw up specifications and solicit bids, and then manufacturing will takes a while, he said.
"It's not something we get a check cut and can pick something off a lot," Pagnini said.
"In order to maintain a 20-year use life, we need to replace a pumper about every 18 to 20 months," he said. "So we're behind."
The department is allotted another $1.01 million to buy breathing equipment and power tools.
EMS Division
The city's Department of Health, which incorporates the Emergency Medical Services Division, would receive $521,800 toward two ambulances and a replacement command vehicle for use by the division chief.
The two new ambulances will replace vehicles lost to fires in 2013 and give the division a total of 10, according to Dale Jones, the department's director.
A division "power shift" relies on having four ambulances available. A new ambulance, funded two years ago, was delivered in June.
Jones said the division hopes to get the two new ambulances by spring 2015. The vehicles consist of a custom-built "box" mounted on a standard chassis, he said.
Tosto said she hopes to see every department make its authorized purchases within two years of the bond ordinance's adoption.
The ordinance also covers lesser-cost purchases as well. Those include an automatic license plate reading system for police, grinding equipment and pickup trucks for the Road Department, and a sound system for Municipal Court.


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Criminally Gifted Hackers Are In High Demand By The Best Recruiters
Vivian Giang
If companies didn't get the hint that they should up the ante on security when LinkedIn announced that 6.5 million user passwords were stolen, they should be convinced now.
What's been dubbed as the "Operation High Roller" attack is said to have transferred as much as $2.5 billion from American, European and Colombian bank accounts.
Instead of prosecuting these criminals, top companies are trying a different tactic: getting them to switch sides and play for the "good team."
Joseph Walker at The WSJ FINS reports that "government and company representatives are going to unusual lengths to hire white hat hackers — facile programmers who delight in breaking into networks to expose security weaknesses — to help defend their data."
Recruiters are spending their time visiting 11-hour hackathons to find "long-haired men in their early 20s" with the ability to "skip reading the manual when they get their hands on a new gadget," Olivier Franchi of Sysdream told Marie Mawad and Jonathan Browning at Bloomberg News.
Mawad and Browning say:
"Employers from Facebook Inc. (FB) to the U.K. government have put up "wanted" signs looking for so-called white-hat hackers — computer geeks who probe networks and pry into private data for recognition or just plain fun, not for money or criminal purposes. The U.K. Ministry of Defence said last year it planned to hire hundreds of security specialists."
Not only can gifted hackers do what they're good at, but they can now do it without repercussion. And the best part is that they don't need any kind of diploma or certificate to have recruiters knocking down their doors.
The only requirement is that they can hack away into all hours of the night.
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Broadway history comes to Tulsa stage
Songs from Les Miserables, Jekyll & Hyde, CATS, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Phantom of the Opera
By Nicole Burgin
It's billed as a concert of Broadway classics from hit shows like Les Miserables and Jesus Christ Superstar. 100 Years of Broadway opened Tuesday night and will be at the downtown Tulsa PAC through Sunday.
"It makes sense because it is the greatest American music with the greatest American Broadway stars in one night. What�s not to love?" says Neil Berg, the show�s producer.
Listen to KRMG's interview with Neil Berg and Chuck Wagner
He tells KRMG the show brings together Broadway performers and the songs they made famous, like Chuck Wagner, a 30 year Broadway veteran, who originated the title roles in Jekyll and Hyde on the stage.
"So, since Chuck was the original star of Jekyll and Hyde, the very first person to ever play the role, people will get to see him sing the biggest hit from that show which Chuck was the very first person to ever sing it, This is the moment,"says Berg.
"It is a great show and it is a great song," says Wagner.
But the two during an interview at KRMG explain Wagner knew the songs before he landed the role because of his relationship with the writer.
"Chuck actually sang it before then even. Chuck was friends in college with Frank Wildhorn, the writer at UCLA," says Berg.
"So, a lot of the songs were written for me," adds Wagner. The evening includes songs from famous like Les Miserables, The Phantom of the Opera, CATS, Jesus Christ Superstar and Jekyll and Hyde.


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Q: Why does dph3205 have 2 inputs? I bought a dph3205 module and I see that it has 2 inputs (2+ and 2-). What will be the point for this?
What it will happen if I connect both inputs from different sources?

Thanks

A: To elaborate on what people have already said in the comments, it's not really two inputs; rather, it's one input with two connections to it.
There's a simple reason for doing this: Any connector is going to be rated for a certain amount of current, probably somewhere on the order of 5~10 A for a terminal block like that. If you want to have a 20 A input or output, it's often easier and cheaper to just use multiple contacts on your connector rather than get a larger (and more expensive) single connector. Likewise, wires have current ratings as well, and you might want to use two smaller wires rather than one larger one.
The two IN+ contacts are shorted together on the board, or possibly even inside the connector, so if you try to connect two different power supplies to them you'll be putting the power supplies in parallel. Unless your supplies are made for that and you know what you're doing, don't do that. Likewise for the IN-, OUT+, and OUT- contacts.


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Seth Raynor, who was very active as an architect (though relatively uninterested in playing the game), created the original design at Camargo Club in Cincinnati in 1925, and the course for the most part retains his classic lines, though Tom Doak was brought in later to restore the bunkering. The fine clubhouse certainly preserves the vintage feel of the historic club. The course is easily one of the ten best in Ohio—though it never seems to garner the recognition it deserves from golfing authorities—with an enjoyable layout that accommodates less accomplished players. The course boasts an outstanding group of par 3s with such evocative names as Biarritz, Eden and Redan that is among the best anywhere in the US. Another outstanding feature at Camargo are the rectangular, concave greens that feature large putting areas. The club is so exclusive that even its website is inaccessible to non-members.
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I have had the pleasure of playing this course several times, but most recently twice in the last 18 months or so. It is kept in a truly impeccable condition and is a significant challenge for an older course. I liken it to playing in your grandmother's living room. It is so nice that you hate taking a divot or hate making a ball mark on the green.
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Soojipara is one of the beautiful places in Wayanad. The water falls from 100 FT to 300ft heights is the uniqueness. Largely un-noticed and secluded in location, Sojjipara waterfalls form a spectacular attraction near Meppady. To reach the waterfall, one has to trek down 2 km approximately over steep rocks. Another attraction of the place is the tree top huts which will give a unique view of the valley of the western ghats. The natural scenic beauty of Wayanad and its rich natural resources offer several opportunities for adventure tourism. The hills, rocks and valley which make the very unique character of Wayanad, provide a lot catering to the ever increasing demand of adventure tourists. Soojipara refers to Needle Rocks and the falls are called so because they fall from a narrow opening. Tourists must trek downhill for a distance of 2 km and must cross vast tea plantation areas to reach the falls. Water rafting, swimming and viewing from tree-top huts are common activities amongst visitors at Soojipara waterfalls.


One of the challenges that is common to face when you're starting your own business is effectively managing your time. As the business founder, you have the vision for how you want your business to be. However, when you're tied to the day-to-day tasks that are necessary, it can be difficult to take a step back and assess how you're working toward that vision. Even if you're a little tight on funds, it can be a good idea to think about your needs and then contact a staffing agency for professional staffing. Hiring a contract worker, even if it's just for a short amount of time, can help you to focus on the vision of your business. Here are some tasks that contract workers can help you with.
The administrative side of starting your own business can be a time-consuming process that threatens to eat up your time. A contract worker who is experienced with administrative duties can be a valuable asset to you. He or she can perform tasks such as setting up email accounts for your business, having business cards made, and even taking care of the filing of hard-copy business-related documents that you'll need to keep organized so that you can quickly retrieve things when needed.
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