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Q: The type 'System.IDisposable' is defined in an assembly that is not referenced I created a Windows Form application in Visual Studio 2012 on Windows 8, and the target .NET framework is 4.5, and I want to use the Datagramsocket library of Windows SDK, so I changed the target OS version to 8, when I compile.
I am getting the following error:

"Error 1   The type 'System.IDisposable' is defined in an assembly that is not referenced. You must add a reference to assembly 'System.Runtime, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a'."

A: If you are targeting Windows 8, the MSDN documentation has the following instructions:

That said, your desktop app can't consume much of anything from the
  Windows Runtime until you prepare your project with one essential
  reference. The Windows Runtime defines some standard classes and
  interfaces in System.Runtime, such as IEnumerable, that are used
  throughout the Windows Runtime libraries. By default, your managed
  desktop app won't be able to find these types, and so you must
  manually reference System.Runtime before you can do anything
  meaningful with Windows Runtime classes. To create this manual
  reference:

*

*Navigate to your managed desktop app project in the Solution Explorer.

*Right-click the References node and click Add Reference.

*Click the Browse tab.

*Click Browse….

*Navigate to the System.Runtime.dll façade. You can generally find this in a path similar to: %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.5\Facades\System.Runtime.dll

Hope that helps.

A: I just ran into this issue with Windows 10, TeamCity and VS2015:
Symptoms:
Visual studio builds the project fine, but TeamCity struggles with compile issues.
Reason:
Added a new project to existing solution - Forgot to change the TargetRuntimeVersion.
Solution:
Unload project
Edit .csproj file for that project
Change:
<TargetFrameworkVersion>v4.5.1</TargetFrameworkVersion>

To whatever you other projects are, or whatever is installed on the server.
For me it was:
<TargetFrameworkVersion>v4.5</TargetFrameworkVersion>

Hope this helps anyone else experiencing this.

A: If you run into this problem with 4.5.2 and Unity, Microsoft has issued a fix, KB article:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2971005

A: It looks like your app is trying to load System.Runtime version 4.0, but that you don't have that version installed. You say you have .NET 4.5 installed, so you can provide some configuration to redirect assembly bindings at runtime.
Try adding this to your App.config or Web.config file:
<runtime>
  <assemblyBinding xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1">
    <dependentAssembly>
      <assemblyIdentity name="System.Runtime" publicKeyToken="b03f5f7f11d50a3a" />
      <bindingRedirect oldVersion="4.0.0.0" newVersion="4.5.0.0" />
    </dependentAssembly>
  </assemblyBinding>
</runtime>

I haven't tested this exact scenario, but this configuration has helped me in similar situations.

A: While working with a TFS build Agent I kept seeing this error below but only on a Windows 2012 R2 server with 4.5.2 installed. None of our Visual Studio machine ever had the compile error.

"Error 1 The type 'System.IDisposable' is defined in an assembly that
  is not referenced. You must add a reference to assembly
  'System.Runtime, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,
  PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a'."

The cause as others have pointed out has to do with Portable Class Libraries and  as others have pointed out. but as for a solution some recommend a reference to the System.Runtime.dll facade in %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.5\Facades\System.Runtime.dll I disagree as the path and version may be different on other machines.
Instead the best solution I've found was to install the Windows SDK on the build machine.
I found this solution from a post here here and a really clear description as to why this problem occurs here

A: I had this error message in TeamCity after I added Unity 4.0.1 to the project that is targeting .NET Framework 4.6.1. I ended up copying missing folders in C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework.NETFramework from my development machine to the build server. Both are running Windows 7. After that build succeeded.

A: Based on TFS 2015 Build Server
I do not know if this error message is generic and the answers/solution may be unique for each unique error. But I had similar error the type 'System.IDisposable' is defined in an assembly that is not referenced. You must add a reference to assembly 'System.Runtime, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a'
I realised that the project was using Microsoft.Practices.Unity and had interface IUnityContainer which implements IDisposable. It turned out that the TFS Build Definition NuGet Installer Build Step was not configured, which is responsible for restoring Microsoft.Practices.Unity NuGet package on the TFS Build Server. If you come across this error, please check your TFS Build Definition and point the NuGet Installer Build Step Path to your solution full path, including the .sln extension

A: As Josh mentions, I had this problem in a solution with a Web API project and several library projects, where one of the library projects was borking on build, with errors that said the Unity attributes weren't "valid" attributes, and then one of the errors said The type 'System.Attribute' is defined in an assembly that is not referenced. You must add a reference to assembly System.Runtime.
The suggested "updated" 4.5.2 Developer Pack is what I already had installed, so that didn't help me. On a hunch I thought maybe it was just a version mismatch. So I looked at the properties of every project, and one of the very base libraries was targeting 4.5 while every other one was targeting 4.5.2. I changed that one to also target 4.5.2 and the errors went away.

A: I had this problem in some solutions on VS 2015, and even in the same solution on one workstation but not on another. The errors started appeared after changing .NET version to 4.6.
The solution is simple: Close the solution and delete the hidden .vs folder in the same folder as the solution.
Adding the missing references as suggested in other answers also solves the problem, but the error remains solved even after you remove the references again.


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Agrolocomotive of Ukraine: Talking Analytics
The agrarian sector has been the locomotive of economic growth in Ukraine in recent years. Agriculture generates about 12% of the country's GDP, providing jobs for millions of Ukrainians. Let's see what experts have to say about the current rates and agrarian sector future.
The share of agricultural products in the total exports from Ukraine grows annually. Over the past 10 years, the volume of major crop exports has increased tenfold. Ukraine, which exports its products to 174 countries, takes leading positions in the world food market. In particular, it is the world leader in the production of sunflower and sunflower oil and in export of sunflower oil.
According to experts, Ukraine owes its agricultural breakthrough in the past decade to several factors. Among them are the adoption of modern technologies in production, processing and storage of products; improvement of efficiency and change of the management system at agriculture companies and so on.
Image: Structure of farmland in Ukraine, million hectares
There are 45,900 agriculture companies in Ukraine, of which 70% are farms. Most agriculture companies are clustered in Kyiv, Odesa, Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolayiv, Kirovograd, Zaporizhzhya and Vinnytsya regions. Ukrainian agrarians are not cramped as 70.8% of Ukraine's territory, or 42.7m hectares, is farmland. There are 150 companies with over 10,000 hectares in use, including 14 agro holdings which cultivate 100,000 hectares and more. Five large companies cultivate 2.3m hectares of Ukrainian black soil, or 7% of the country's arable land. These are UkrLandFarming, KERNEL, Agroprosperis (New Century Holding), Myronivskyy Hliboprodukt (MHP) and Astarta-Kyiv. The annual revenues of these players reach around $5bn. These agro holdings have a higher yield on average than independent agriculture companies (not incorporated into holdings). The EBITDA of the most effective agro holdings reach $500.
The structure of the Ukrainian agrarian market may change with the launch of the land market. At the end of 2017, parliament extended the moratorium on the sale of land by another year for the ninth time. Officials said the "unanimous" decision was taken because the issues of land consolidation, state- and community-owned land (10.5m hectares) had not been settled.
Vladyslav Ostapenko, head of corporate finance and M&A at EY Ukraine, says: "Without lifting the moratorium on the sale of land, we should not expect any truly big investments in the industry. When the land market is here, we may expect, apart from equity capital (meaning business owners' money), the market of bank loans to open and to be able to finance businesses on the security of their main asset, land." Nevertheless, the government plans last year to lift the moratorium stirred the Ukrainian agrarian market. Many investors, Ostapenko continues, started to actively increase the size of their business and buy smaller companies. "This had a strong impact on the rent per leased hectare of farmland in M & A transactions. Whereas two years ago, offers and deals in lucrative areas were based on $300-400 per hectare, in 2017 the price per hectare returned to the pre-crisis level of $1,000 and more," he explains.
Preliminary results for 2017
The country produces 2.7 times more crops in monetary terms than livestock. The most popular crops are wheat, corn and barley. In the 2016-2017 marketing year (July to June), the country had a record-high harvest of 66.1m tonnes of grain. Analysts predict 62.5m-63.3m tonnes of grain and pulse crops to be harvested in the 2017-2018 marketing year. Gross harvest of wheat is expected at the level of 26.1m-26.6m tonnes and that of maize at 25.4m-25.6m tonnes. According to agrarians, grain production costs in 2017 increased by 15-30%. The increase was mostly due to a higher price of fertilisers. Also, unfavourable weather conditions caused plant diseases and producers faced extra costs to have crops treated with protection agents.
Image: Crops production in Ukraine, million tonnes
The livestock sector is gradually overcoming negative trends. In January-November 2017, Ukrainian agriculture companies (excluding households) sold 1.83m tonnes of meat of all types of animals for slaughter (in live weight), which is almost on par with 2016. During the same period, farms increased the production of milk and eggs. In January-November 2017, they produced 25m tonnes of milk, or 1.9% more than during the same period of 2016. Egg production was 4% up to 7.7bn in 2017 (over 11 months).
Poultry is the most developed sector of Ukrainian livestock production. Due to a high inflation and the decreased purchasing power of Ukrainians, poultry meat is in great demand in the domestic market because it is relatively cheap. After pork and beef prices went up in 2017, poultry consumption in the home market continued to grow. According to the Union of Poultry Breeders of Ukraine, poultry accounted for 48.8% of meat consumption in the country, pork, 40.5%, and beef, 10.3%.
Higher demand in the domestic market as well active exports last year stimulated an increase in poultry production. In January-November 2017, compared with the same period of 2016, poultry production by agriculture companies increased by 4.7% up to 1.3m tonnes (in live weight).
Image: Livestock production in Ukraine, million tonnes
Unlike poultry, cattle and pigs are in decline. In January-November 2017, the number of cows on industrial farms went 3% down (to 470,000) while milk production, as mentioned above, increased by 1.9%. This happened thanks to an increase in production on large dairy farms.
Pork production in Ukraine is also decreasing. According to the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine, the volume of pig production (in live weight) by agriculture companies shrank by almost 10% down to 484,000 tonnes. One of the main reasons for this was a decrease in the number of pigs due to an outbreak of African swine fever.
In general, analysts predict that the share of poultry in Ukrainian livestock will continue to grow (both thanks to domestic consumption and exports) while beef and pork production will moderately recover.
Financial support promised by the government may become a certain incentive for livestock development in Ukraine. The 2018 state budget provides 4bn hryvnyas for livestock (the entire agribusiness will receive 7.3bn hryvnyas). According to First Deputy Agrarian Policy and Food Minister Maksym Martynyuk, 75% of this amount will be used to reduce the cost of loans for the construction or reconstruction of livestock farms.
Image: Production and export of certain types of foodstuffs in 2016
Foreign trade in farming produce is one of the drivers of the growth of the Ukrainian agricultural sector. In January-October last year, the exports of Ukrainian agrarian and food products reached $14.7bn. There was a 22.7% increase, or by $2.7bn, compared with the same period of 2016. Agricultural imports were 8% up to $3.6bn.
Given this dynamic and the traditional growth of grain exports during the last months of the year, Ukraine can set a historic record in 2017 by posting $18bn in revenues. By the way, Ukraine reported its highest food exports, $17.9bn, over the years of independence in 2012 when prices for grain and oilseed crops in the world market were high.
According to USDA, grain exports from Ukraine in the 2017-2018 marketing year will reach 42.6m tonnes (43.8m tonnes in the previous marketing year).
Image: Main importers of Ukrainian farm produce, billion $
Analysts expect no significant changes in the geography of Ukrainian grain exports. Andriy Kupchenko, a grain market analyst at APK-Inform, said, in particular, that this season, Ukraine is exporting more wheat to Indonesia and Egypt. In the Egyptian market, Ukraine may have to give way to Russia which will have a record grain harvest (137m tonnes) this season and increase its export potential by over 30%.
A traditional customer for Ukrainian barley is Saudi Arabia. This season China significantly increased the purchase of this crop from Ukraine too.
As for maize, its main distribution market is the EU. "Ukraine ensures 62% of maize imports to the EU. Iran will be of interest to local maize exporters as well. Last season, this country increased the purchase of Ukrainian maize more than three times, and experts say it will increase maize consumption by another 21% in the 2017-2018 marketing year," he says.
What's in sight?
Despite good achievements in agrarian production, experts say Ukraine's agribusiness has the potential to grow. In particular, if Ukraine uses its land resources and investments in the most efficient manner and optimises agricultural production costs, it can boost its gross grain harvest from the current 60m tonnes to 100m tonnes a year and further strengthen its position in the world market. There is a potential for increasing productivity in both crops and livestock production.
Experts say that, given favourable weather conditions and an increase in crop yield, Ukraine's agrarian exports can reach $20bn in the coming years.
Vladyslav Ostapenko, head of corporate finance and M&A at EY Ukraine, says: "Investments in the Ukrainian agriculture will remain at $2bn in conditions of low activity on the part of foreign investors, which are fewer than two dozen at the moment (active ones are even fewer). The absence of the land market, which would require 10 times bigger investments, is also a factor. The main areas for investment are stocking up on land by buying other agriculture businesses; updating agriculture equipment; building or improving an elevator infrastructure; establishing processing companies which will use local raw stuff to make products or by-products with added value."
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Q: HTTPlistener acess denied This is for a school project.
I have 3 parts to this project. A frontend in React, an http server in C# and a database in mysql. Up until now, they were all running locally. But because of this Covid thing, the teachers want us to host on azure so they can test it from home.
I already have the database on azure working.
Now I wanted to move the HTTP server to Azure, so I tried and deploy it from within visual studio, that created a webjob. However, checking the logs show it is throwing the "Acess Denied" exception on httplistener.start().
Keep in mind basically all http requests require the program to consult the database. I am using the standard sqlconnector from oracle.
So basically what I need to do is send http requests from react (I'm using the fetch API) to this http server.
Is a webjob even the right thing to do?
This is the code that starts the HTTP listener (port is 8080).
listener = new HttpListener();
listener.Prefixes.Add("https://trabalholi4.azurewebsites.net:" + port.ToString() + "/");

listener.Start();

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Heliophyllum est un genre éteint de coraux de la famille des Zaphrentidae (ordre des Rugosa) qui a vécu au Dévonien, soit il y a environ entre  à  millions d'années. Il possédait une vaste aire de répartition et est parfois surnommé corne de coraux.

Systématique
Le genre Heliophyllum est attribué au paléontologue américain James Hall (1811-1898) que le géologue, minéralogiste et zoologiste américain James Dwight Dana (1813-1895) mentionne dans sa publication de 1846.

Liste des espèces
Selon  :
  Heliophyllum confluens Hall, 1876
  Heliophyllum halli Edwards & Haime, 1851

Publication originale

Références taxinomiques

Notes et références

Rugosa
Genre de cnidaires préhistoriques (nom scientifique)
Cnidaire du Paléozoïque
Animal du Dévonien
Taxon fossile décrit en 1846

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COVID mutations following predictable pattern
But that's not necessarily good news
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
New research from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has shown that the mutations arising in the COVID-19-causing SARS-CoV-2 virus seem to run in the family -- or at least the genus of coronaviruses most dangerous to humans.
After comparing the early evolution of SARS-CoV-2 against that of its closest relatives, the betacoronaviruses, the Nebraska team found that SARS-CoV-2 mutations are occurring in essentially the same locations, both genetically and structurally.
The mutational similarities between SARS-CoV-2 and its predecessors, including the human-infecting SARS-CoV-1 and MERS-CoV, could help inform predictions of how the COVID-causing virus will continue to evolve, the researchers said.
"The problem of looking at only one virus at a time is that you lose the forest for the trees," said Katherine LaTourrette, a doctoral student in the Complex Biosystems program at Nebraska. "By looking at this big picture, we were able to predict the mutational nature of SARS-CoV-2.
"That gets into these questions of: Are vaccines going to be effective long term? Which variants are going to sneak by? Do we need that booster shot? Are vaccinated people going to be infected a second time?"
'You're more likely to be hitting that bull's-eye'
The genetic code of a virus determines its ability to infect cells and direct them to churn out more copies of itself. That code consists of fundamental compounds, or nucleotides, with mutations occurring wherever those nucleotides get added, subtracted or swapped for one another. Many mutations have little or no effect, in the same way that trying to hack an intricate password by changing just one character will likely fail.
But given enough chances, a virus will eventually happen upon a mutation or mutations that change the assembly of its structural joints, or amino acids, enough to help it better invade cells and replicate -- advantages that help it outcompete other strains. In some cases, a new strain can also evade the immune responses stirred by existing vaccines, necessitating the development of new vaccines to protect against it.
LaTourrette and her adviser, Hernan Garcia-Ruiz, were busy comparing mutational patterns across viruses that invade a different biological kingdom -- plants -- when the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic struck. To do it, the researchers were analyzing segments of sequenced DNA from parallel locations on the genomes of all viruses in a genus.
They were hunting specifically for single-point mutations: segments in which just one nucleotide had changed. By pinpointing them, the team was sussing out whether certain mutations pop up across related plant viruses, then tracing those mutations to functional amino acid changes in the viruses.
"A lot of times, researchers have a specific plant virus they study," LaTourrette said. "They know it really well. But our question was: Big picture, what is the genus doing? We know that variation isn't random. It accumulates in specific areas of the genome, and those areas are (sometimes) consistent across the genus. Those tend to be areas important for things like host adaptation -- basically, areas that are going to need to keep changing in order to keep co-evolving with their host.
"So when COVID-19 happened, we thought, well, we can download the (betacoronavirus) sequences and run them through the pipeline and see where the variation is occurring."
When they did, LaTourrette and her colleagues found that the so-called spike protein, which protrudes from betacoronaviruses and keys their entry into host cells by binding with receptors on the surface, mutates rapidly across all known betacoronaviruses, including SARS-CoV-2.
Despite accounting for just 17% of the SARS-CoV-2 genome, the "hyper-variable" spike protein has so far accumulated roughly 50% of the virus's total mutations, the researchers discovered. Those mutations are emerging in the same regions of the genome, and even the same sub-units of the spike protein, as they have in every other betacoronavirus to date.
"All of our analyses showed that that's really where the variation is happening," LaTourrette said. "It didn't matter when we looked at it, what variant we looked at -- the spike protein was key."
The team also concluded, as other virologists have, that the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein is disordered -- that while its amino acids assemble into the same general architecture, that architecture has what LaTourrette called "some wiggle room" to shift into slightly different configurations. That's bad news, she said, given that its structural flexibility likely gives it some functional wiggle room, too.
"Humans may have slightly different cell receptors, person to person," LaTourrette said. "So then you have to have a (spike protein) receptor that can accommodate those little shifts. If it were very ordered, and it couldn't shift, then maybe it couldn't infect everyone. But by having that flexibility, it's a much better virus.
"Basically, this area is hyper-variable, and it's flexible. So it's the double whammy."
Those qualities will continue to make SARS-CoV-2 a formidable foe that requires vigilance to stave off for the foreseeable future, LaTourrette said. But knowing its strengths, and that the evolutionary history of other betacoronaviruses might serve as a reasonable preview of that future, should help virologists and vaccinologists strategize accordingly.
Vaccines may have to continue targeting the distinctive spike protein as SARS-CoV-2 evolves, but consulting the mutational patterns of betacoronaviruses could help researchers forecast which domains of the protein are most and least likely to mutate. And that could make a moving target much easier to hit, LaTourrette said.
"If you close your eyes when you're throwing a dart at a dartboard, it could go anywhere," she said. "But by looking at the other (betacoronavirus) species, you have an idea of where it's likely to land. And you're more likely to be hitting that bull's-eye."
Though LaTourrette has already returned to the kingdom of plants, she said the opportunity to adapt her work to such a pressing purpose proved gratifying at a time when gratification was in short supply.
"For us, getting to (transition) from plants to coronaviruses was a really positive way of showing that you can take your science and your knowledge, and you can apply it to the benefit of society," LaTourrette said. "We've seen some really great examples in the past year-and-a-half of groups making that shift.
"Even though this is a very difficult time, and there's a lot of hardship, I think it's really positive to see scientists come together and be able to contribute to a cause together."
LaTourrette and Garcia-Ruiz, an associate professor of plant pathology at the Nebraska Center for Virology, conducted the research with recent master's graduate Natalie Holste, doctoral student Rosalba Rodriguez-Peña and Raquel Arruda Leme, a visiting researcher from Brazil.
The team, which received support from the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture, recently reported its findings in the Journal of Virology.
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Q: PHP call_user_func_array doesn't catch database error I am currently building a database handler. Running on PHP 5.4.16 on top of a Firebird database.
When I have made a prepared statement, I need to execute the SQL with the arguments. I made this function:
private function assignParameters($args)
{
    return call_user_func_array('ibase_execute',$args);
}

The problem is when I make an error in the args (not giving it the values that are expected), I expect the return to give false(error). ibase_execute normally returns false when an error has occurred.
But right now my PHP installation(XAMPP) simply crashes and restarts. I have tried using a try/catch without any luck. The call_user_func_array doesn't fail but I would expect it to return the result from the ibase_execute. I'm confused.
I should mention that there are no entries in PHP/Apache error logs. The only entry is that the Apache2 server have restarted.
The interbase configuration from phpinfo();
Firebird/InterBase Support  dynamic
Compile-time Client Library Version Firebird API version 25
Run-time Client Library Version WI-V6.3.2.26539 Firebird 2.5

Any ideas - is this the driver crashing?
EDIT:
As requested from Mariuz here is what I got from the debug at crash time. The crash creates two dump report from the http process witch is running the PHP code.
They both contain a lot of information. To much to dump here but here's the excetions.
Dump 1
Exception Information
In httpd__PID__10168__Date__02_21_2014__Time_03_40_11PM__949__Second_Chance_Exception_C0000008.dmp the assembly instruction at 0x76ed12c7 which does not correspond to any known native module in the process has caused an unknown exception (0xc0000008) on thread 0

Dump 2
Exception Information
MSVCR80!UNWINDUPVEC+50In httpd__PID__10064__Date__02_21_2014__Time_03_40_05PM__321__Second_Chance_Exception_C0000005.dmp the assembly instruction at msvcr80!UnwindUpVec+50 in C:\Windows\winsxs\x86_microsoft.vc80.crt_1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b_8.0.50727.6195_none_d09154e044272b9a\msvcr80.dll from Microsoft Corporation has caused an access violation exception (0xC0000005) when trying to read from memory location 0x00000000 on thread 5

A: This seems to be a segfault in php please provide the script and a backtrace to it
https://bugs.php.net/bugs-generating-backtrace-win32.php


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Clovis Oncology Receives Breakthrough Therapy Designation for Rucaparib for Monotherapy Treatment of Advanced Ovarian Cancer in Patients with BRCA-mutated Tumors (Inclusive of both Germline and Somatic BRCA Mutations)
by Damian Garde |
Apr 7, 2015 9:09am
Only PARP inhibitor to receive Breakthrough Therapy designation
Rucaparib NDA filing for treatment of advanced platinum-sensitive ovarian cancer planned for 2016
Second Breakthrough Designation granted to a Clovis Oncology drug candidate
BOULDER, Colo.--Clovis Oncology, Inc. (NASDAQ: CLVS) announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Breakthrough Therapy designation for the Company's investigational agent rucaparib as monotherapy treatment of advanced ovarian cancer in patients who have received at least two lines of prior platinum-containing therapy, with BRCA-mutated tumors, inclusive of both germline BRCA (gBRCA) and somatic BRCA (sBRCA) mutations.
Rucaparib is an oral, potent inhibitor of PARP1 and PARP2 being developed for the treatment of platinum-sensitive ovarian cancer, specifically in patients with tumors with BRCA mutations and other DNA repair deficiencies beyond BRCA, commonly referred to as "BRCA-like" or "BRCAness." The Breakthrough Therapy designation was granted based on interim efficacy and safety results from two ongoing Phase 2 studies of rucaparib in ovarian cancer, including a Phase 2 study in women with gBRCA mutations, and the ARIEL2 treatment study.
A clinical data update from the ARIEL2 study presented last week at the 2015 Annual Meeting on Women's Cancer® demonstrated that seventy percent (16/23) of evaluable BRCA-mutant patients achieved a RECIST and/or CA-125 response, and 65% (15/23) achieved a RECIST response. Responses were observed in both germline and somatic BRCA-mutant tumors.
"It is a distinct achievement for a company our size to have been granted Breakthrough Therapy designation for two separate products under development, and especially in less than one year," said Patrick J. Mahaffy, President and CEO of Clovis Oncology. "In the case of rucaparib, we believe it is in recognition of the encouraging response rate observed in women with BRCA-mutated advanced ovarian cancer treated with rucaparib, and this designation reinforces the unique profile of rucaparib among PARP inhibitors, as well as our leadership in the differentiated clinical development of a PARP inhibitor. This includes prospectively demonstrating meaningful activity in an additional group of advanced ovarian cancer patients whose tumors are not mutant BRCA, but whose tumors possess similar DNA repair deficiencies that behave like BRCA mutations. Rucaparib is the only PARP inhibitor to have shown activity in this broader, but still selected, patient population."
"Women with ovarian cancer are in need of better therapeutic options, and there is great focus on the potential of PARP inhibitors; data presented to date in mutant BRCA patients treated with rucaparib are very encouraging, as is the Breakthrough Therapy designation conferred by the FDA," said Robert L. Coleman, MD, Professor & Deputy Chairman, Vice Chair, Clinical Research, Ann Rife Cox Chair in Gynecology, Department of Gynecologic Oncology and Reproductive Medicine at University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and one of the two principal investigators of the ARIEL3 study. "I am very enthusiastic about the substantive progress made by Clovis with both rucaparib and its patient selection tool that appears to be moving beyond BRCA to efficiently identify responder versus non-responder populations. Continuing successful development of this drug and its companion diagnostic will be a huge advance for women with this disease. Importantly, these data suggest that the majority of women tested might benefit from rucaparib treatment. We hope that the ARIEL2 extension study in around 300 women, and the randomized ARIEL3 trial in 540 women, will offer definitive support both for rucaparib and the companion diagnostic."
A clinical data update from the ARIEL2 study presented last week at the 2015 Annual Meeting on Women's Cancer®demonstrates encouraging activity and safety in women with advanced, platinum-sensitive ovarian cancer with gBRCA and sBRCA mutations. Seventy percent (16/23) of evaluable BRCA-mutant patients achieved a RECIST and/or CA-125 response, and 65% (15/23) achieved a RECIST response. Responses were observed in both germline and somatic BRCA-mutant tumors. In addition, data presented last week further demonstrate that Clovis' proprietary BRCA-like DNA signature, run by its partner Foundation Medicine, successfully predicts which ovarian cancer patients respond to rucaparib therapy. In patients with normal BRCA genes, rucaparib activity was substantially higher for those with the prospectively-defined BRCA-like HRD signature versus biomarker negative patients. Forty-eight percent (12/25) of patients with the BRCA-like signature achieved a RECIST and/or CA-125 response, and 40% (10/25) achieved a RECIST response. In biomarker negative patients, few responses were observed: eight percent (1/13) of patients achieved a RECIST and/or CA-125 response.
These data also demonstrate that rucaparib is well-tolerated. At the recommended Phase Two dose of 600mg BID, the most common treatment-related adverse events (AEs) reported in ≥15 percent of all patients (n=121) included nausea, fatigue, transient ALT/AST elevations, dysgeusia, constipation, anemia/low hemoglobin, decreased appetite, vomiting and diarrhea. These events were mostly Grade 1/2; the only common grade 3/4 toxicity was anemia/low hemoglobin.
The next update of rucaparib clinical data, including outcomes data on the complete Part One ARIEL2 patient population, will be presented in an oral presentation at the 2015 American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting in late May/early June.
ARIEL Pivotal Study Program
The ARIEL (Assessment of Rucaparib in Ovarian Cancer Trial) program is a novel, integrated translational-clinical program designed to accurately and prospectively identify patients with tumor genomics associated with benefit from rucaparib therapy.
The global ARIEL2 study, initiated in Q4 2013, has completed enrollment of 206 ovarian cancer patients with relapsed, platinum-sensitive disease. The single-arm, open-label Phase 2 study is designed to prospectively test molecular features that predict sensitivity to rucaparib using DNA sequencing to evaluate each patient's tumor. ARIEL2 was recently expanded into a registration study (the ARIEL2 extension), which will include an additional approximately 300 women with recurrent disease after at least three prior lines of chemotherapy, and data from this study are planned to serve as the basis of a New Drug Application (NDA) filing for the treatment of ovarian cancer in 2016.
The global ARIEL3 pivotal study is currently enrolling a total of 540 patients, in a randomized, double-blind Phase 3 study that compares the effects of rucaparib versus placebo. The study will evaluate whether maintenance rucaparib treatment in platinum-sensitive, high-grade ovarian cancer patients can extend the period of time for which a response to a prior chemotherapy is maintained. Efficacy is assessed in a pre-specified step-down manner, first in tumor BRCA-mutant patients, then in a larger group of patients with the BRCA-like signature, and finally in all randomized patients. The Company anticipates completing enrollment in the study within the next year.
In addition to the ARIEL program in ovarian cancer, the Company is exploring rucaparib in other solid tumor types with significant BRCA and BRCA-like populations including breast, gastroesophageal and pancreatic.
About Breakthrough Therapy Designation
The Breakthrough Therapy designation was enacted as part of the 2012 FDA Safety and Innovation Act and is intended to expedite development and review of drugs to treat serious or life-threatening medical conditions when preliminary clinical evidence demonstrates that the drug may have substantial improvement on at least one clinically significant endpoint over available therapies. Breakthrough Therapy designation includes all the features of the Fast Track designation, as well as more intensive guidance from the FDA on a drug's clinical development program.
About Rucaparib
Rucaparib is an oral, potent inhibitor of PARP1 and PARP2 being developed for the treatment of platinum-sensitive ovarian cancer in patients with BRCA mutations (genes that are linked to breast and ovarian cancers) and other DNA repair deficiencies. For information about rucaparib studies in ovarian cancer, please visit www.arielstudy.com.
About Ovarian Cancer
Over 90% of ovarian cancer arises from the uncontrolled growth and replication of epithelial cells which form the surface of the ovary. Cancer involving this type of cell is known as epithelial ovarian cancer. High grade serous carcinoma is a subtype of epithelial ovarian cancer accounting for approximately 70 percent of cases. If detected at a very early stage, ovarian cancers can usually be removed surgically and this can be potentially curative. However, there are often no clearly identifiable initial symptoms and in approximately 90 percent of high grade serous ovarian cancer cases, the cancer has spread to other parts of the body before a person is diagnosed.
About Clovis Oncology
Clovis Oncology, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on acquiring, developing and commercializing innovative anti-cancer agents in the U.S., Europe and additional international markets. Clovis Oncology targets development programs at specific subsets of cancer populations, and simultaneously develops diagnostic tools that direct a compound in development to the population that is most likely to benefit from its use. Clovis Oncology is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado.
To the extent that statements contained in this press release are not descriptions of historical facts regarding Clovis Oncology, they are forward-looking statements reflecting the current beliefs and expectations of management made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements involve substantial risks and uncertainties that could cause our clinical development programs, future results, performance or achievements to differ significantly from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties include, among others, the uncertainties inherent in our clinical development programs for our drug candidates, the corresponding development pathways of our companion diagnostics, actions by the FDA, the EMA or other regulatory authorities regarding whether to approve drug applications that may be filed, as well as their decisions regarding drug labeling, and other matters that could affect the availability or commercial potential of our drug candidates or companion diagnostics, including competitive developments. Clovis Oncology does not undertake to update or revise any forward-looking statements. A further description of risks and uncertainties can be found in Clovis Oncology's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K and its reports on Form 10-Q and Form 8-K.
Clovis Oncology, Inc.
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Grief is the response to loss of something meaningful
Grief is the natural response to losing a loved one. Most people don't need grief therapists, even when the loss is sudden and unexpected and very, very sad. People have natural ways of adapting to attachment loss, usually with the support of friends and relatives, and everyone does it in their own way. You can think of healing after loss as analogous to healing after a physical wound. The loss, like the injury, triggers a pain response which can be very strong. Injuries also activate a healing process. Loss does too. However, a wound complication, like an infection, can interfere with healing. So, too, maladaptive thoughts, dysfunctional behaviors or inadequate emotion regulation can interfere with adaptation to loss.
CG is not less likely after loss of a rewarding relationship
Mental health training does not usually include learning about the syndrome of complicated grief. However, trainees often are taught that grief is complicated if there was an ambivalent relationship to the person who died. This is a misconception. Adapting to a loss is more difficult if a person can imagine how things could have been different. People might do this because the relationship was conflictual. However, this is uncommon. Most people with complicated grief have had an especially strong and rewarding relationship to the person who died.
Grief is the response to loss that contains thoughts, behaviors, emotions and physiological changed; if the loss is permanent, so too is the grief, but its form evolves and changes as a person adapts to the loss
Acute grief occurs in the early period after a loss and often dominates the life of a bereaved person; strong feelings of yearning, longing and sorrow are typical as are insistent thoughts and memories of the person who died. Other painful emotions, including anxiety, anger, remorse, guilt or shame are also common. Activities are often focused on doing or not doing things to try to deal with the loss.
Integrated grief is the lasting form of grief in which loss-related thoughts, feelings and behaviors are integrated into a bereaved person's ongoing functioning; grief has a place in the person's life without dominating.
Complicated grief is a persistent form of intense grief in which maladaptive thoughts and dysfunctional behaviors are present along with continued yearning, longing and sadness and/or preoccupation with thoughts and memories of the person who died. Grief continues to dominate life and the future seems bleak and empty. Irrational thoughts that the deceased person might reappear are common and the bereaved person feels lost and alone.
Adapting to loss entails accepting the reality of the death, including its finality, consequences and changed relationship to the person who died; adapting means seeing the future as holding possibilities for a life with purpose and meaning, joy and satisfaction.
Examples of Grief "Complications"
Maladaptive thoughts are typically counterfactual, grief-focused or catastrophizing; its natural to second guess a loved one's death, especially if it was sudden, unexpected or untimely; most people worry about whether they are grieving in "the right way" and many dread the future in a world without their deceased loved one. People with complicated grief ruminate over these kinds of thoughts.
Dysfunctional behaviors are typically related to avoiding reminders of the loss and/or escaping from the painful reality. A bereaved person may try to feel close to the person who died through sensory stimulation and day dreaming about being with them – looking at pictures, listening to their voice, smelling their clothes, trying to recall what it was like to be together. Bereaved people are often inclined to avoid places, people or activities that hold reminders of the person who died. These behaviors are problematic when they become the only way of managing painful emotions.
Inadequate emotion regulation is another common problem for people with complicated grief. Acute grief is typically highly emotional. Most people have a range of ways to regulate these emotions. They balance the pain with periods of respite, giving themselves permission to set the grief aside for a time. People with complicated grief have trouble doing this; instead, they often focus on things that increase emotional activation. Regular routines including adequate sleep, nourishing meals, adequate exercise and social contacts may be disrupted, making emotions more difficult to manage.
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Roger Federer has won a 'Big Title' in 16 different seasons.
Roger Federer extended his 'Big Titles' lead over Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal on Sunday by capturing his fourth Miami Open presented by Itau title.
If Djokovic won a record seventh trophy in Miami, he would have tied the Swiss' top mark. But instead Federer, at 37 years old, earned his 54th Big Title – a combination of Grand Slam, Nitto ATP Finals and Masters 1000 crowns — to give himself breathing room ahead of Djokovic (52) and Rafael Nadal (50).
Federer's form got better throughout his run in Miami, as he ultimately beat 2018 champion John Isner 6-1, 6-4 in the final. It is Federer's 28th Masters 1000 victory, trailing only Djokovic (33) and Nadal (32). The father of four's win marks the 16th season in which he has captured a Big Title.
While Federer has not competed on clay the past two seasons, he will have a chance to add to his Big Title total on the red dirt. The No. 1 player in the ATP Race To London is currently slated to compete at the Mutua Madrid Open and Roland Garros. The Swiss has emerged victorious in Madrid three times (twice on clay, once on hard), and he also won the Roland Garros title in 2009.
The Big Titles race will heat up on the clay as Federer, Djokovic and Nadal will all battle for the top spot. World No. 1 Djokovic will be keen to get back on track after third round and fourth round exits in Indian Wells and Miami, respectively. He has not captured a Big Title on clay courts since 2016 Roland Garros.
Nadal will be able to tie Federer's mark if he wins all four Big Titles on clay for the second time. In 2010 the lefty triumphed at Monte-Carlo, Madrid, Rome and Roland Garros. Nadal has earned 33 of his 50 Big Titles on clay.


If you suffer from frequent headaches, you may try to tough it out and just get through them. But severe headache pain is something that can cause a huge decrease in quality of life. Letting it go unchecked isn't the best way to handle the problem. In fact, severe headache pain is an indicator that your body is out of balance.
If you're having severe headache pain, your body is telling you that something is wrong. Pain is the body's way of sending a message to you. You need to take notice when you're being affected by pain. Severe headache pain can be an indicator that you need to deal with an underlying cause.
Before you get scared that you severe headache pain is life threatening, you should know that severe headache pain can be brought on my many things that are easy to treat and even prevent. For example, migraine pain is extremely severe pain but it's not life threatening. And in today's world, migraine pain is easier than ever to treat with advances in medication.
If you suffer from headaches due to sinus problems and pressure, you may be able to take antibiotics and/or decongestants to help relieve the sever headache pain you're experiencing. The key is to find out what the root cause of the pain is so that you can target that cause and eliminate your painful headache.
For some people severe headache pain can simply be the result of a stressful lifestyle. You may need to slow down and take better care of your body to avoid this type of headache. In that case, it's time that you work to improve the lifestyle you lead.
No matter what, it's important to talk to a healthcare provider. In rare, but serious cases severe headache pain is caused by disease or illness. Your healthcare provider will probably order tests to determine if you have any abnormalities. In addition, you may have an injury in your neck or back that's causing your headache pain.
Don't let fear keep you from getting to the bottom of severe headache pain. Understanding the cause can help you to get the treatment you need. If you have to deal with headaches on an ongoing basis, you'll be glad you finally dealt with them. You won't have any more days spent in bed or filled with stress caused by severe headache pain. You can get back the quality of your life.
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Returning to the past
Control is the anathema to modern-day politics and transparency, and it's a wrong message to send
Saviour Balzan 6 January 2020, 7:10am
Valletta Cultural Agency Chairman Jason Micallef
If you are looking for some signs of where this country is heading, then the signs are not great.
Instead of embracing the positives of 'Muscatian' politics, some of the boys from the Labour block are calling for more of old Labour. Indeed, that vintage of old Labour which specialised in hitting out at opponents and critics as if they were enemies that had to be decimated at all costs.
The first sign was the refusal of the party to allow the leadership candidates to face each other on television out of the comfort zone of Labour channel One TV. I asked Daniel Micallef, the president of the Labour Party, to reconsider this decision, and his reply was standard. "The decision was taken, and the format of having individual interviews was the accepted norm."
So, here we are; after having surpassed the mediocrity of the politics of Alfred Sant when he was Labour leader, we are back to the siege mentality that we knew.
The rules of engagement are no longer determined by the media but by the political parties. So here we are: it is not in the interest of the Labour Party to see how Robert Abela and Chris Fearne fare in a face-off. Instead it seems that any difference that could surface between the two should be controlled.
And we're only talking about the next prime minister of our own country. Yet the cohort of people who will determine the person who will lead Malta and Gozo is squarely in the hands of the Labour membership, and so is a proper exchange of ideas in a debate now the prerogative of the Labour Party.
Control is the anathema to modern-day politics and transparency, and it's a wrong message to send.
Much like the message sent by Jason Micallef, a former secretary-general from the Sant era who lost the 2008 election and was kept on board; his endemic habit to hit out at any sort of political adversary big or small, a relic of his old Labour days, who has hit the headlines again.
Jason Micallef represents the heart and soul of old Labour. Were it up to Keith Schembri, who took matters in his hand as Muscat's man after he was elected Labour leader, Micallef would have been completely sidelined. That is why James Piscopo was brought in as Labour CEO and the secretary-general post, which was an elected post that carried much power, was abolished. In the end, Micallef was retained as chairman of Labour's television but also given an important posting at the helm of Valletta 2018 and now the Valletta Cultural Agency.
Whatever his insistence to wade in politics in the most petty of situations, this does not justify his ballistic reaction to hit out at the artist Alexandra Alden, just because she happens to be a judge on X Factor Malta, which happens to be broadcast on TVM.
Again, this is the most rotten form of thinking: just because someone is talented enough to be picked to be a star on national broadcasting, should exempt them from having a political opinion… at least that is what Micallef seems to be suggesting.
To illustrate how retrograde this kind of thinking is, one only has to look at the politically keen landscape of artists in the United Kingdom, for example. Indeed, it would be challenging not to find one artist or singer there who does not say 'fuck Boris'; countless of singers and bands openly supported British Labour during the Red Wedge tours of the 1980s; many more are politically active in song and in art.
And to extend this spirit of freedom of thought, so are journalists in the UK not berated for holding political opinions while presenting shows on the BBC, like for example, the conservative Andrew Neill… as long as their professionalism gives viewers the value they deserve.
This Maltese assumption of ours, that anyone who partakes of some sort of national fund or participates in settings directly financed by the State, must be politically neutral and devoid of opinion, is simply dumb-witted. We have to fight this by hitting out at those who want to take away our mental space or punch down on our freedom of speech.
And speaking of punching down… is a grown adult like Jason Micallef really going to pick on a non-controversial woman half his age?
Let's be serious for once. Micallef is probably simply hitting out at Alden as a proxy for his obsessive prejudice towards the former Net TV boss Anton Attard, the producer of X Factor Malta.
But Micallef tends to forget his place – place which, given his role as Valletta 'culture boss', truly does not fit someone with such a wide mouth. If someone occupies this role they should be welcoming artistic liberation and criticism. Instead, Micallef feels free to flex his own political muscle despite being financed by the State! What a contradiction if there was ever one.
Alas, he happened to be one of the most vehement opponents for a debate between the two contenders on TV stations other than One TV.
Yet he is just the visible part of the problem. For the general feeling among Labour diehards is that the party has been deprived of their most precious leader – as if the goings-on in the corridors of Castille were catalysed by the dark forces of the PN!
Muscat's downfall is his own doing, of the blindness to the problem of greed and arrogance festering next to him. Of course, he can be faulted for many things. His sternest opponents will at least concede that he never looked at people's politics if they were read to serve the country.
So Chris Fearne and Robert Abela have a tall order. They not only have to ensure that they serve all the people, but more importantly guarantee that we do not revert to the situation we knew before 2013.
Because it has to be said, that if there was one success from the Muscat administration, it was that of treating everyone by giving them the same opportunities.
Jason Micallef knows this, so much so that his harshest words are always reserved for two of Muscat's 'beneficiaries' – Anton Attard and Lou Bondì, two former PN functionaries who found the warmth of Labour's largesse.
But the future lies with people who see beyond the hang-ups we all share. We need leaders who confront the current not swim with it. And those kinds of people do not grow on trees.
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OSU Moving Forward with Plans for Arts District
Brent Warren
The last month has seen the release of detailed plans for the next phase of the 15th and High project – designs were unveiled for WOSU's new headquarters and for a series of new buildings on the east side of North High Street, between 14th and 16th avenues.
Today, plans for the west side of High Street took center stage. Keith Myers, Vice President of Planning and Real Estate at Ohio State University, presented new renderings and site plans for the $160 million Arts District.
The main elements of the district are a new Department of Theatre building and an expanded School of Music facility. The Drake Performance and Event Center, which overlooks the Olentangy River and currently holds the Department of Theatre, is likely headed for demolition as part of the ongoing Cannon Drive relocation.
Also included in the plan is a redesigned Annie and John Glenn Avenue, which will connect High Street to College Road and serve as a gateway to the new district.
The presentation was intended to provide an update on both the Arts District and the 15th and High projects to the Master Planning and Facilities Committee of the OSU Board of Trustees.
Materials prepared for the meeting state that construction of the Arts District is scheduled to start in May of 2019 and conclude by August of 2021. The architect of record is DLR Group.
Interior of the new School of Music building.
The new buildings would line the east side of College Road.
A redesigned Annie and John Glenn Avenue would connect College Avenue and North High Street.
Also included in the presentation was this rendering of the east side of North High Street, between 14th and 16th avenues.
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Cash Is King at Heartland Motorsports Park
8October, 2018
by noprep
(September 10, 2018) Drag Racers love cash. It buys parts, pays for travel expenses and feeds their hobby. At the upcoming No Prep Nationals presented by Central Power Systems & Services at Heartland Motorsports Park, September 28 & 29, winning racers will have the option to claim their prizes in cash…up to $115,000 of it. The top two feature classes at the event pay $40,000 to each of the respective winners, and a third class pays $10,000 to win. There are also significant prize payouts to runner-up and other finishers that combine to make up the six-figure purse.
When you visit the event website (www.TheNoPrepNationals.com), among other items you see as you scroll down the home page is a stack of cash. Enthusiasts that compete in No Prep races like to see the cash option. All of the necessary tax forms are in place along with plenty of security, but it puts a smile on the racers faces when they know there is cash on the line to win. As a bonus, sponsors including Aeromotive Inc. are providing product certificates to high finishers that can claim significant awards throughout the event such as their fuel systems and accessories.
This is the inaugural year for The No Prep Nationals at Heartland Motorsports Park and the track knew they would have to post a large purse to secure the event on everyone's calendars. "Once the big money is out there it attracts participants that make a living or a lifestyle out of No Prep racing," noted track owner, Chris Payne. Having popular racers attend the event also draws out more competitors. "We have one of the most popular stars in the No Prep drag racing scene already committed to the show with Daddy Dave from Oklahoma City. His participation will draw additional racers and spectators from Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Colorado, Nebraska, and Iowa," Payne added.
Drag Racing fans will want to come out to The No Prep Nationals to see the spectacle that will have cars racing from the end of the track where the safety net is traditionally located, back toward the suite tower No Prep Racers will compete for an 1/8 mile stretch ending just before the backside of the scoreboards. The term "No Prep" means there is no traction compound or rubber applied to the racing surface before or during competition, which causes the cars to move around like they are drag racing on ice. Fans see all sides of these race cars and not just the front or rear bumpers as they get sideways going down the track trying grab ahold of the un-prepared asphalt surface.
The event falls in the middle of a several busy weekends at Heartland Motorsports Park which hosts the NHRA ET Finals September 13-16, the No Prep Nationals September 28-29, and the Ribs and Bibs Country Music Festival October 5-7, 2018.
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Two examples illustrate Mueller's goal of an ever-deepening mindfulness on the part of both performers and audience, joining the two as equal participants in the act of creation.
INITIATION is a record by Jon Mueller. Written and recorded over the winter months of 2014, using four bass drums, voice, and bells, the compositions reference ritual, trance and origins of music at a hypnotic and rhythmic bpm. This record, however, is not available on an LP, CD, DVD, or even digital format. Instead, the recorded compositions are only presented during venue-based events incorporating projected video (Chris Hefner) and live dance (Dawn Springer). In essence, each performance venue becomes a discreet, non-reproducible media format. INITIATION is intended as an exclusive live experience, a new way of living inside a record. INITIATION premiered at the 2015 Eaux Claires Festival.
From 2013-15, Mueller created and directed the multi-disciplinary project DEATH BLUES. DEATH BLUES is a multivalent project that boldly asks big questions: "What happens when we thoroughly hold and understand that our lives are finite? How does this understanding of our end shape our present? How do we become more 'present'?" DEATH BLUES utilizes a number of methods of communication, writing, recording, images, movement, video, taste, performance, and more, creating an experience that's understood in a more personal way that develops over time. At the premiere of its first iteration at Alverno Presents in November 2012, each of the audiences' five senses was consciously engaged – a menu of small, custom confections that asked, among other things, what was the taste of your first kiss – a labyrinth from the lobby to the stage with artisanal scents at each turn – all leading the audience to join 30 plus performers on stage. Mary Louise Schumacher of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel wrote "It makes such sense that a drummer, as a sort of ascetic, would offer up a meditation on the measure of time. And what it means to end. "
The project issued four critically acclaimed recordings. Rolling Stone cited Non-Fiction as one of the '20 Best Avant Albums of 2014'. Ensemble, created with multi-instrumentalist William Ryan Fritch, was featured on NPR's 'First Listen'.
In the late 1990s/early 2000s, Mueller was the drummer in the bands Pele and Collections of Colonies of Bees, both of which released numerous records and toured internationally. He later joined with band mates from these groups and vocalist Justin Vernon of Bon Iver to form Volcano Choir. Volcano Choir's 2013 record Repave debuted at number 40 on the Billboard charts. The group performed on the NBC show Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, experienced multiple sold out tours in the US, Canada, and Europe, and performed at international festivals such as Primavera and Osheaga.
In 2016, Mueller began working as part of the expanded lineup of Jaime Fennelly's Mind Over Mirrors. The initial record featuring this lineup, Undying Color, received critical acclaim from NPR, The Quietus, and more. The group toured the U.S. in support of the record throughout 2017. In 2018, they released Bellowing Sun, a large-scale performance beneath an immersive light installation that premiered in April 2018 at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
Mueller has also worked in depth with artists Jason Kahn, Asmus Tietchens, Z'EV, Aaron Turner, Faith Coloccia, Andrew McKenzie, Rhys Chatham, Jarboe, James Plotkin, Duane Pitre, and Raymond Dijkstra.
From 1999 – 2009 Mueller owned the record label and promotion company Crouton, which published and promoted over 40 releases in deluxe presentations from artists such as The Hafler Trio, Asmus Tietchens, Z'EV, Osso Exotico, Daniel Menche, Jason Kahn, Raymond Dijkstra, Richard Chartier, Lionel Marchetti, Robert Hampson, Jarboe, and more. Crouton also organized events in the Milwaukee and Chicago areas with artists from around the world. These were documented by the press and filmed as part of a PBS documentary on jazz musician Ken Vandermark.
Mueller has given talks about listening and creativity at Witching Hour Festival, Loyola University, Viva! Art Action, Wesleyan University and PechaKucha, focusing on how to think of one's work outside of the usual parameters, in other words, preaching what Mueller has long practiced.
In 1990, Mueller studied music theory at Columbia College. Private drum lessons with Hal Russell led to the frantic energy of Pele and was further distilled during Collections of Colonies of Bees. As he focused further on minimalism, repetition and overtones, with a goal of achieving ecstatic states of being, his practice led him to private voice lessons from La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela in 2018.


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A medium-format pancake? This 45mm lens is the lightest lens of its kind
By Hillary K. Grigonis	 January 16, 2020
Medium format has shrunk down thanks to mirrorless technology — and now the lenses are following suit. On Wednesday, January 15, Hasselblad launched the lightest digital medium format lens yet, the Hasselblad XCD 4/45P.
Adding only .7 pounds and 1.85 inches to the camera body, the XCD 4/45P is designed to create a portable camera system with the power of medium format when paired with the Hasselblad X1D II. While the company says it's the world's lightest digital medium format autofocus lens, it's also the most compact lens compatible with the XCD system. Hasselblad says the small size of the system makes the pair ideal for travel, as well as for street and documentary photography.
The 46.2mm lens — equivalent to 36mm on a full-frame camera — offers a maximum aperture of f/4. The lens is designed from nine elements in seven groups, including two aspherical lenses. Despite the lighter weight, Hasselblad says that the lens still offers high-end performance. The autofocus motor — quieter than previous lenses — can focus from 13.8 inches away.
Like other lenses in the XCD series, the 45P uses a leaf shutter, a design that allows photographers to sync a flash at shutter speeds up to 1/2000, much higher than the more common 1/200 sync speed. The shutter, Hasselblad says, is also quieter than many other focal plane shutter lenses, mixing quiet performance with the more discrete design.
"We're extremely proud we could produce a lens with as high optical performance as the rest of our XCD lenses in such a compact form," Per Nordlund, Hasselblad lead optical designer, said in a press release.
On the exterior, the lens is weather-sealed. A mechanical focus ring is designed for more accurate manual adjustments, the company says.
While mirrorless skips a mirror to get that smaller size, designing a smaller lens isn't as simple. The lens isn't the first 45mm lens for Hasselblad– the company also offers a 45mm f/3.5 lens that weighs .92 pounds and is almost twice as long. The lens joins a system designed for the XCD II, a 50-megapixel medium format mirrorless that, more importantly, is discounted enough from the X1D-50c to be seen as a step up from a full-frame camera.
The Hasselblad XCD 4/45P lens is expected to ship later this month, listing at $1,099.
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Away from the screens of the mainstream media, the crude 'bigger is better' narrative that has dominated economic thinking for centuries is being challenged. As people work to protect and restore their local economies, their communities and the natural world, countless diverse initiatives are demonstrating a new path forward for humanity. From restoring topsoil, to sharing traditional knowledge, to opposing free trade treaties and innovating new ways of supporting local businesses, their actions are forging a new path forward for humanity. It's a path that localizes rather than globalizes, connects rather than separates, and shows us that human beings need not be the problem – we can be the solution.
Featuring activists from every continent alongside figures like Russell Brand, Noam Chomsky, Vandana Shiva, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Naomi Klein, Jane Goodall and Gabor Maté, Planet Local: A Quiet Revolution is a timely and compelling call to action.
Released on World Localization Day, June 21, 2022.
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The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) has been described as the fourth industrial revolution. Like steam, the production line and information technology before it, the convergence of cyber and physical systems has the ability to utterly transform how factories operate. Jon Hill, business development director (pictured) , reports.
The IIoT is a collective term for the introduction of Internet of Things technology – this is, internet-enabled sensors, devices, computers and other objects that can generate, share and analyse vast quantities of digital data – to industrial settings. Thanks to these technologies, warehouses, logistics centres and above all, manufacturing floors are becoming more intelligent and more innovative.
Until recently, industrial organisations and manufacturers seeking to reduce costs would invest in automation or shift their factory operations overseas, perhaps to China, India, Thailand or Vietnam. Now, with the advent of the IIoT, process efficiencies and cost reductions can be delivered closer to home – smart factories of the future can be developed on our doorsteps.
How? At its core, the IIoT is able to bring together design, manufacture, supply and demand and maintenance, blurring the boundaries between these previously disparate elements of the factory floor. In this white paper, we're looking at each of those areas in more detail, and giving some examples of how the IIoT will – and is already – delivering smarter factories.
design for that product. So far, so simple. The interesting thing about the IIoT is that it can dramatically speed up the feedback loop between products that are out in the world, being used by customers, and new product development based on their use of those products, and their feedback. In short, the IIoT can speed up the time to market of brand new or enhanced existing products – and can help ensure that those products are more precisely tailored to customers' wants and needs.
How? It's all about being able to make individual products smarter. For example, Rolls Royce's aircraft engines are now embedded with sensors that collect performance data in-flight. This has a powerful effect on maintenance processes, as we will go on to explore, but also means that the company can learn from existing product performance in real-life, and consequently develop appropriate new products far faster and more intelligently than ever before. The IIoT can help designers understand how their customers are using their products and how those products are performing – and, in turn, make design adjustments that respond to those behaviours.
Well-managed supply chains are the absolute bedrock of efficient factory processes. It is vital that manufacturing businesses always have enough components in place to meet production demands, yet never so many that cash flow is restricted or that the business runs the risk of having a surplus of unused parts and obsolescence. Supply chains also need to be increasingly agile if manufacturing businesses are to remain competitive; they need to be able to adapt rapidly to new developments and new innovations, and switch suppliers quickly when it is appropriate.
The IIoT can help factories sense and analyse demand and material flows, and make adjustments to manufacturing processes and requests for new components accordingly. As a result, supply chains become more agile and more closely integrated with functions like sales, marketing and customer care.
There is also the potential for the IIoT to overhaul existing supply chains, by connecting manufacturers more closely with their suppliers and partners; if information is being dynamically shared between them thanks to connected devices and sensors, then components can be supplied more efficiently. In turn, this offers the possibility for better sustainability practices, and greater integration between the local and the global. Consider, for example, the so-called 'makers movement', which focuses on enabling manufacturers to choose more local suppliers, yet to supply customers both near and far. The IIoT can also power sustainable processes, such as resources being re-used or waste products being used as fuel.
A major advantage of the IIoT in terms of improving efficiencies and reducing costs is its ability to help manufacturing business to sweat their assets – that is, to maximise the performance of their hardware through proactive monitoring and maintenance. Shutting down factory floors to carry out routine maintenance or worse, to try and pinpoint a particular mechanical problem can be hugely costly, but before the advent of smart sensors and intelligent IoT analytics engines, there was no other option. Now, maintenance teams can pro- actively assess the wear and performance of each individual element on the factory floor, and even receive data suggesting the best time to undertake routine or one-off maintenance jobs. When problems do occur, they can rapidly be identified and isolated too, without necessarily interrupting the overall manufacturing process.
The maintenance issue applies to products as well as machinery on the factory floor. ThyssenKrupp, for example, now produces lifts, which include sensors that send performance information in real-time to the cloud, in turn empowering engineers to assess how long key components have left before they need replacing. Meanwhile, technologies such as augmented reality, used in conjunction with the IIoT, can help maintenance engineers assess data such as flow rates or vibration levels in more accessible, interactive ways. It all helps build a maintenance programme that is more precise, more tailored and more intelligent than ever before.
At the heart of the factory floor are the physical manufacturing processes, and this is the core of the IIoT. By retrofitting existing devices, sensors and other machinery with smart technology – or deploying newer versions with internet capabilities 'baked in' – industrial businesses can access more data than ever before on how their products are made. Here, the opportunities for innovation and enhancement are enormous.
On the simplest level, IIoT-enabled devices on the factory floor can drive manufacturing efficiencies, by tracking elements like wear on machines and levels of consumables remaining. On a more sophisticated level, technologies like augmented reality can be integrated with IIoT capabilities, to get product designers closer to the manufacturing process. Greater customisation and personalisation of products is possible too.
to learn from and inform each other, so that valuable data is harnessed for the organisation's future.
is dissolving the boundaries between different manufacturing plants, ensuring that factories no longer operate in isolation, but can share and analyse information in real-time.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution is well and truly here, and the IIoT is at the heart of it.


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Is It Illegal to Have a Monkey as a Pet?
By Michelle A. Rivera
Monkey image by Mariusz Niedzwiedzki from Fotolia.com
In the absence of a federal law on the subject of simian sidekicks, state laws prevail. So whether it is legal or illegal to have monkeys as pets depends on where you want to engage in monkey-keeping. If you live in California, you may be out of luck.
Pet Monkeys Allowed
As of 2012, 17 states have no restrictions against residents practicing the fine art of monkey-keeping. However, efforts by pro-animal groups and others are ongoing to have more states enact legislation banning monkeys as pets. Currently, Washington state, Montana, Nevada, North Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio, Alabama, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina have no restrictions on keeping monkeys as pets. However, in 2012, legislation was pending to restrict monkey-keeping in Washington state, North Carolina and South Carolina.
Partial Pet Monkey Bans
Some states have not fully banned monkeys as pets. These states have some kind of law or restriction to which those who would like to keep monkeys as pets must adhere. As of this 2012 writing, Arizona, Indiana, Mississippi and Tennessee all have partial bans on monkey possession. These bans make it illegal to own apes, but not monkeys. Tennesseans may have any kind of monkey except for a baboon, and apes are not allowed. In Arizona, all monkeys are allowed but apes are not. In Indiana, you can have monkeys and great apes but must have a permit for the apes. Mississippi allows all monkeys except baboons and macaques, and bans all kinds of apes. Florida and Texas allow some types of monkeys but prohibit others. These laws are evolutionary, so check your own state's statutes if you are considering getting a monkey as a pet.
No Monkeys Allowed
In 2012, 19 states had outright bans on private monkey ownership. They are California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont and Wyoming. If you live in one of these states and have your heart set on a monkey friend, you may have to think about moving.
Restrictions May Apply
Some states allow monkeys as pets but have restrictions on the kinds of monkey you can have, the manner of keeping, and the types of permits and insurance you must keep current in order to be in compliance with current laws. Oregon, Idaho, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Michigan and Delaware allow monkeys, but you must apply to the their divisions of wildlife to obtain permits, which may or may not be granted. In Hawaii, you can have a monkey as long as you are fully bonded. Laws are constantly changing; it's important you always check with your state authorities prior to seriously considering obtaining a monkey as a pet.
Monkeys are wild animals; they are not suitable for domestication as pets. Many of the states that allow them as pets have lengthy application processes and expensive bonding requirements. For example, Florida requires the applicant be a certain age -- at least 16 to own some monkeys and 18 for others -- and have 1,000 hours of volunteer work with monkeys under his belt, obtain letters of reference, and complete a written exam. Furthermore, specific requirements apply to the the size of the property where the habitat will be built as well as to construction of the habitat itself. Keep in mind that many municipalities and counties have their laws about pet monkeys that may prohibit monkeys even in states where no ban exists. Homeowners' associations, too, generally regulate pet possession, as do homeowner's insurance policies. It's imperative you check all your local and state laws regarding the keeping of exotic pets before you make a decision that will lead to broken hearts if the authorities come to confiscate your furry friend. Monkeys belong in the wild, a fact many lawmakers already recognize. Many more are getting on board.
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Pet Monkey: Laws Regarding Pet Monkeys
Pet Monkey Info: Why We Believe Monkeys Are Not Pets
Humane Society of the United States: Fact and Fiction: Monkeys and Apes as Pets
Michelle A. Rivera is the author of many books and articles. She attended the University of Missouri Animal Cruelty School and is certified with the Florida Animal Control Association. She is the executive director of her own nonprofit, Animals 101, Inc. Rivera is an animal-assisted therapist, humane educator, former shelter manager, rescue volunteer coordinator, dog trainer and veterinary technician.
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