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Would things be different today if not for the Malleus Maleficarum supported by a Papal Bull, other wise known as the Catholic Inquisition
Between 1487 and 1520 over 5 million women were put to death for a myrid of reasons by the catholic church. Prior to this there was a balance of the male and female Isis the left and Amon the right. This was a purge of the materical and the advent of the patericial exclusive. Women were excluded from any leadersip positions and the left was thereafter considered bad and the right was considered good.
This one simple act by the church left women out of any equality for over 500 years and is still having a impact.
Would things have developed differently had women remained equals and the balance maintained between Isis and Amon ... the left and the right.
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Slave Pianos, New Cathaysia, Institutional (Catalogue)
Slave Pianos, The Execution Protocol (II), Institutional (Catalogue Essay)
Tomorrow Will Be the Same but Not as This Is
By Angela Goddard and Robert Leonard
IMA Catalogue Essay (Extract)
Artists don't always seek to unveil reality through their reconstructions. The Melbourne-based group Slave Pianos use reenactment to honour and dishonour father-figures. A collaboration between two artists, Danius Kesminas and Michael Stevenson, and two musicologists, Rohan Drape and Neil Kelly, Slave Pianos has gathered an archive of obscure recordings of sound and music works by artists, including canonical international figures like George Maciunas and Louise Bourgeois and local heroes like Peter Tyndall and John Nixon. While much of the material is avant-garde fare, like George Brecht's Comb Music, some is more traditional, like Domenico de Clario's ECM-esque 'Pensive Piano Moods'. Slave Pianos transcribed the recordings into standard Western musical notation, producing printed sheet music like grandma used to play. (This patient endeavour recalls the work of ethnomusicologists documenting 'other' musics by transcribing them into Western notation, as if it were a neutral form.) Adding insult to injury, Slave Pianos has these scores mechanically performed by a robotic 'slave' on a grand piano (typically, for these musics, a most inappropriate instrument). In the project's latest iteration, The Execution Protocol, the piano sits in a giant electric chair—recalling the one at Sing-Sing, immortalised by Andy Warhol. An arcing Tesla Coil hums along in selected pieces. 1 Perhaps it is an in-joke about 'executing' experimental music. Danius Kesminas argues, with a straight face, that the work has educational value, introducing new audiences to the avant-garde tradition. Some of the artists whose works are covered, especially those who have written cease-and-desist letters, would disagree. Slave Pianos's cover versions productively miss the point of the originals and insert one of their own. Thus, the group enacts a measure of revenge on the historical avant-garde, although one suspects they may be belated avant-gardists themselves, sadly doomed to repeat the unrepeatable.
Slave Pianos's The Same River Twice installation reenacts a 2007 Slave Pianos installation The Execution Protocol: A War of Currents: Floating Paintings / Piano Execution—On Andy Warhol's Electric Chair at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, in which their electric chair was surrounded by Andy Warhol's Silver Clouds. ↩
To come out touching nothing but a piano, or Coding Down, by John C. Welchman
To come out touching nothing but a piano, or Coding Down
by John C. Welchman
He had a perfervidly morbid sense of music and especially of what a piano can do as a co-conspirator in the production of imaginative improvisation: "it was the piano, the instrument of solitary intimacy that was and that in the future would often be his principal confidant."1 But more than this, his piano improvisations occasioned frenzied, oracular outbursts, and wild hallucinations "conjuring up the underworld," for example, in the company of Richard Wagner's capaciously superstitious wife.2 Recalling musical compositions from his early teens, he referred to their dark ethos as"the blackest and most radical things I know in raven-black music." He wrote of the "torturing" of the piano by the despondent possession of youth— "to the point of drawing from it cries of despair"—hands 'heaving up'"the mire of the most dismal gray-brown harmonies." To what might this give rise? Well, surely, inevitably, the sense of "how one is recognized, as a pessimist."3
More surprisingly, Nietzsche also thought about the redistribution of music in small, corporeal increments ("truly everything good in music should be able to be whistled"); about the specific gravity and sheer mass of the piano ("Germans have never known how to sing and lug their pianos along with them everywhere");4 about the converting power of re-scoring for piano ("from the moment there was a piano score of Tristan … I was a Wagnerian");5 about the prophylactic capacity of the piano ward off sexual depredations (of a visit to a brothel in Bonn during his college years he famously remarked that he "came out touching nothing but a piano");6 and even about the forms of servitude to which, rightly or wrongly, music might be given: "Modern music is just the progressive withering away of the melodic sense. Melody, as the ultimate and most sublime art of art, obeys logical principles that our anarchists would like to decry as slavery."7
Writing somewhat in the gap between the era of the piano and the new age of its mechanical surrogate, the pianola, Nietzsche offers us an almost alarmingly perspicacious critical panorama of the defaults, seductions and dangers of the instrument and of its place in the history of both music and modernity. Almost everything that attaches to or will befall the piano as well as the possible fate of its removal from the sphere of touch is hinted at here—along with a few untimely meditations that venture much further afield such as those referring to sexuality, darkness, pessimism and slavery itself. One of the lessons I want to draw out here concerns the reconfiguration of "originality" that underwrites the philosopher's relationship to a musical "master," which he recalibrates as a form of incorporation. Prompted by the piano redaction of Parsifal in July 1882, Nietzsche realizes "how deeply under Wagner's influence he has come, and how difficult it is for him to shake it off"—a realization that gives rise to "true shock" at the extent of the closeness of their musical relation. Nietzsche's reaction is not to "rid" himself of some unwanted over-determination but to work through and beyond the "incorporation" by digesting it into a form of resistance.8 The lineaments of this move—reduction (or recoding), influence, incorporation, and resistance—provide a model, it seems to me, of the negotiation of Slave Pianos with the double bind of avant-garde mastery and improvisation—with the difference, perhaps, that Nietzsche's pessimism is replaced by humor and irony (not that they are lacking in Nietzsche elsewhere—or, for that matter, that they aren't sometimes "dark" in the work of Slave Pianos).
Nietzsche gives us something more urgent and discutable than those who railed against (or more rarely advocated for) the pianola during its popular ascendancy in the first decades of the twentieth century. In the context of his tart lamentation that "The pianola 'replaces' Sappho's barbitos,"9 Ezra Pound, for example, asserted his general distaste for the lack of 'dignity' engendered by those forms of art that depend "on too great a mechanical element in [their] execution." "I think the organ has given way to the piano," he continued, "largely because the organ is too mechanical. The pianola is worse, and should be relegated to seaside dance halls … ."10 But Pound also notices an important continuity between technique, repetition and mechanical destiny in which the piano is also implicated: for "the more a piano is 'played,' and perhaps the better it is played, the more it resembles a railroad train or a pianola."11
If Pound is a—somewhat exceptionalist—critic of what one commentator referred to as "the pianola's place in the emerging culture of simulation,"12 the creative annexation of the pianola for avant-garde purposes is a distinctively minoritarian enthusiasm, whose rare proponents in the first three decades of the 20th century include Igor Stravinsky, George Antheil, and Paul Hindemith. Stravinsky's commitment to mechanically reproduced pianistic effects can be dated to his first attendance at the Aeolian Hall in London in 1914, which was followed by his composition in 1917 of a study for pianola for the Aeolian Company in the same city, performed in October 1921 at the Aeolian Hall and "subsequently published as roll #T–967B." As Thomas Y Levin notes, "in 1923 … he signed a six-year contract with Pleyel in Paris to record his entire opus on pianola rolls." Stravinsky's essay, "My Position on the Phonograph Record" (1930) "calls not only for recording practices that take advantage of the plastic capabilities of phonographic reproduction, as the composer claims to have done in his records for the Columbia label … [but] also insists that 'it would be a of the greatest interest to produce music specifically for photographic reproduction, a music which would only attain its true image—its original sound—through mechanical reproduction. This is probably the ultimate goal for the gramophonic composer of the future'"13 Another method of experimental mechanical composition involved direct marking on the pianola scrolls and was "demonstrated as early as 1926 at a 'Festival of Mechnical Music' in Donaueschingen where Ernst Toch and Gerhard Münch had composed pieces in this manner for a Welte-Mignon pianola. These works were 'performed' by Paul Hindemith (who serviced the machine) together with a similarly generated work by Hindemith that served as an accompaniment to Oskar Schlemmer's 'Triadic Ballet.'"14
Nietzsche's thought burrows right under the bookends of disavowal and appropriation—and the popular approbation between them—that mark out the signifying territory of the pianola in the first half of the 20th century. When it surfaces, if, in fact, it does, it has the uncanny capacity to undermine what is probably the only other profound philosophical engagement with these coordinates—in the writings of Theodor Adorno. One dimension of Adorno's thought departs, conceptually, from where Stravinsky and others left off—in practices that committed themselves to the materiality of reproduction. Slave Pianos, of course, would add the conceptual to the material, and in this sense stand on Adorno's shoulders. What he argues offers to redefine the very conditions of music: "Anyone who has ever recognized the steadily growing compulsion that, at least during the last fifty years, both musical notation and the configuration of the musical score have imposed on compositions (the pejorative expression 'paper music' betrays this dramatically) will not be surprised if one day a reversal of the following sort occurs: music, previously conveyed by writing, suddenly itself turns into writing." There are costs associated with this move, of course, the most evident of which is music's vaunted "immediacy"; but there is also "the hope that, once fixed in this way, it will some day become readable as the 'last remaining universal language since the construction of the tower,' a language whose determined yet encrypted expressions are contained in each of its 'phrases' [satz]."15 Adorno's misplaced musico-linguistic utopianism, notwithstanding, the encrypted expression that resounds from each of the associative units of a re-encoded music offers a new mode for the 'standing-in' of sound, which in its way revolutionizes the whole process of 'sounding-out.'
This innovative place can redescribed as the antithesis of a competitive musical universalism—based in fact on the overlay of multiple immediacies—that also reached fever pitch around the same time as the pianola: synaesthesia. The cross-over between color and sound (grapheme-color and tone-color synaesthesia are the dominant couplets in the literature on synaesthetic experience) negotiated by Wassily Kandinsky, the Lithuanian Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis and others is dependent on a deeply internalized reinflection of perceptual information that recent research has related to connective re-sequencing at the neural level.16 The operational scene of synaesthesia is, therefore, paralinguistic in the sense that its switching system is activated prior to the subject's eventuation through socially coded expressions such as language. The work of Slave Pianos reverses this apparent order, so that their recouplings of sound and image are staged in the coded spaces of language and its traditions, thus deflecting, even parodying, the experiential short-circuiting, and psychological innatism of modernist (or clinical) synaesthesia. To the legacy, then, of iconographic and compositional interaction, and the inheritance of synaesthetic re-envisioning, Slavepianos helps to create a new formation for the system of exchanges between the visual, the musical and linguistic based on the scrambling, repetition, and spacing of their collision as codification.17
It has to be said that Adorno sometimes turns back on himself—perhaps so far back that he risks morphing into the alter persona of Pound—when he impugns the depersonalization or dehumanization of mechanical and later electronic music in the genealogy that reaches from Stravinsky to Stockhausen. But, yes, Slave Pianos is an apparatus of capture in the guise of a tintinnabulating Trojan Horse. Its captivity narrative is literal in multiple dimensions—in the sense that the pianos are enslaved, transported, condemned and hung; in the sense that pianos are made up of plural lengths of lethal wire, that they are both highly strung and strung up; and in the sense that the slave piano is defined by its taking, or being taken: by the capacity of the project to produce capacity through appropriation or archival redistribution or nomadic replay.
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I was excited to drive downtown to the W Hotel to interview the cast of Ruby Sparks. I had to redeem myself.
You see, I sat in a cabana by the pool and interviewed Marisa Tomei there. It was the only interview I've ever done that I consider a disaster. Oh wait…there was a time Country Joe yelled at me for working at a classic rock radio station that didn't play his music. Another story for another time.
I walked in and went up to a guy in a sports coat sipping a pina colada near the pool. I shook his hand as he smiled, and I exclaimed "I loved you in There Will Be Blood, and I can't believe more people didn't see The Extra Man. You and Kevin Kline were so great in that."
He replied, "I wasn't in that."
Just as I was about to argue the point, he said "I've never done a movie in my life. I'm a businessman from Toledo. Perhaps you have me mistaken for somebody else."
I looked around and saw two other cabanas set up, and that's where the cast of the movie was. Unfortunately, the real Paul Dano wasn't there, either.
I did get to talk to his girlfriend – the beautiful and talented Zoe Kazan. She wrote and starred in Ruby Sparks.
As we were sitting down to start the interview, I mentioned how she must hate all the critics that just want to compare the movie to Stranger Than Fiction. She said "Yeah, that and Weird Science."
I replied "I actually found a few elements reminded me more of Groundhog Day."
She let out an excited scream, grabbed my arm, and said "Thank you! Exactly! Thank you so much! You got it!"
I put my notepad down as she fixed her dress. She told me she liked my shirt [Pulp Fiction], I told her I loved her dress, and we started the interview.
Since her parents are both in the film industry, I thought I'd ask one question about that.
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Print money to pay for healthcare. Money that does not need to be repaid.
Every government should be allowed to print free money to pay for healthcare.
Why should people pay for healthcare? Why should taxpayers pay for healthcare? Print free money to pay for healthcare. Print money to pay all expenses hospitals incur from maintenance to payrolls to medicines to equipment to everything. Money is printed and used to pay hospital bills. That money then circulates in the economy.
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Jan 10 2014: On a philosophical level, maybe.
On a practical one however, printing money reduces its value, and healthcare in the US already has enough opposition without it increasing inflation.
If you make "free money" to pay for healthcare, what's to stop you from printing the same "free money" to pay for anything else?
Its in quotations because printing money isn't actually free. Printing costs aside (negligible), by printing more currency, you're de-valuing all the currency you've already got. The economy would break otherwise--if everyone has as much money as they want, what's the money good for? No one would want to trade for it.
Jan 14 2014: In response to below, by the way I loved your Bilbo Baggins statement. but....
Did you give Adam Smith his royalty payment for use of his flawed concepts? The paradox does not describe immediate needs. In that context it falls apart.
For the price of anything is based on the needs of the seller. What is the price of a cure for (substitute any lethal disease here) to you. If you possessed a pant load of diamonds what would you do. Donate to family and find a grave? Or start shelling out the bling?
I would get a rash from digging for diamonds!
Jan 14 2014: calm down, or you will develop heart disease, and/or present yourself as uncivilized.
if the price is determined by the seller, why don't they raise the price to earn more money? maybe studying the law of supply and demand helps. hint: all the buyers and the sellers together determine the price.
Jan 14 2014: Sorry for coming across as growling dog, I will temper my passion in the future.
I find it interesting that folks can argue economics and health in the same breath.
My misguided point was that in life or death situations economics does not play a position to the sick or injured.
The seller of the services brings economics into play, until the role is reversed. Then they lie in bed because their fortunes have run out.
Why do we allow this paradox to continue?
Jan 14 2014: on the other hand, i find it interesting that folks can simply dismiss an idea because boo. either you put up an actual argument why would health be any different than many other needs human beings desire, or you risk looking not very serious in the debate.
the truth is, health is exactly like many other goals. we want shelter, heating, cloths, food, better shelter, better heating, better food, better cloths, entertainment and all sort of things. and valuations (preferences) are largely subjective and personal.
economics is the science of allocating scarce resources. the input of the economy is the set of wants (preferences) of people. the output is a plan that starts with ores, wood, sand, coal, oil and above all, time, and builds up gradually to products and services. if you provide something, it means you don't provide another thing. if we allocate one engineer hour to build an xbox, that is an engineering hour missing from building an x-ray device. or one piece of metal used in the x-ray device is a piece of metal not used in a bridge or aircraft.
the only one thing that can successfully control this enormous system of intertwined production procedures is money. money measures what is needed, and how badly it is needed. the price controls production by balancing the supply and demand, driving the economy toward optimum output.
by taking money out of the picture, or messing with it, hindering its function is nothing short of blinding the economy. it will lead to overproduction of some goods, and underproduction of others. at the end, the created satisfaction is less than the destroyed satisfaction. it only looks good if you only look at the created goods, and forget about the goods forgone.
Jan 14 2014: I am a bit confused by your first sentences, are we not seeking common ground and meaningfull discourse?
Then I am very amused by the "economics is a science" statement. Could you elaborate on where that comes from.
The equivalent of tossing chicken bones on the pavement and gleaming the future, does not meet the rigours of scientific methods.
Jan 14 2014: it is funny that you talked about meaningful discourse, then presented none. i, unlike you, actually studied austrian economics for a year. during this, i read thousands of pages and listened to 100+ hours of video and audio lectures. if i need to choose whether i want to rely on my economics knowledge, or your naive 99% crypto-marxist sentiments, no question what the choice will be.
Jan 15 2014: Beautiful! Now we are talking! I had you down for a Chicago man.
Back to topic…… Due to a much higher self worth the individual will always choose health over wealth. We are programmed to view loss as the greater threat .
Could you expand why you chose to lump health ( "better clothes, entertainment") into a macro model. It appears to fall squarely into micro theories
While you were studying Austrian economics I was developing adaptive devices and autistic learning aids. I see where we differ so much, Homo Economicus meet Homo Reciprocan not neo-Marxist
Jan 15 2014: "any chance you are using other names on these forums as well?"
Nope, those are the other voices of reason you hear.
"on the other hand, i find it interesting that folks can simply dismiss an idea because boo. either you put up an actual argument why would health be any different than many other needs human beings desire, or you risk looking not very serious in the debate."
Remember your writing above, I pasted it for continuity
As I stated health is a micro economic factor, you grouped it into macro. I asked why, you dismissed via cognitive bias so here we are.
Examples are not reasons.
Jan 15 2014: Yes you did not supply that distinction, priori economics, I keep forgetting. Sorry
Now that I have reached into the back corners of my brain and dug up Hayek, I am very surprised that you are not jumping mad at the lack of market forces in health care.
We have the right!, as the ambulance dumps are mangled bodies at the nearest hospital, to peruse the price list and walk our besodden carcass to the next available hospital. Free market forces at work!
No economic theory can be applied when the life and death needs of people force the behavior into an irrational economic choice. You and I wish to go the least expensive yet most effective hospital, but that is not a rational choice when your life is on the line.
Make health care a priority in society. Simple.
Jan 15 2014: but market forces can be trusted to deliver food? or you want "free money" to buy food too?
don't be too much surprised if i don't reply to one or more of your posts in the future. for example this time you just reiterated your previous points. unfortunately, repeating statements does not make them any more true.
everything is economics. not applying economics to a problem is pretty much the same thing as not applying mathematics, physics or logic. you can, obviously, move something out of the realm of logic. but the consequences will be, as it happens from time to time, dire. for economics is a descriptive science, not a normative one. you don't decide what does it apply to.
you also can't make something a priority. something either is a priority or not. all you can do is to ignore the priorities of the people. that strategy has many faces, socialism, fascism, corporatism, interventionism, mercantilism. the name is not important. the catastrophic consequences are.
Jan 15 2014: you can place yourself on the argument pyramid
Jan 15 2014: Food delivery and emergency room visits are the same from a personal economic view?
I did not see compositional fallacy on the pyramid.
I respect your opinions and look forward to reading from your future post. Yet on this issue we are too far apart to come to any understanding.
I learned a little more about Austrian economic theories and for that, Thanks!
Jan 10 2014: Human perception of value is directly linked to availability, the more available is a resource the less value it has, the less available resources are the most valuable ones, that is why many cultures old and current use gold to measure value and not water, gold is scarce and hard to get so it has a huge economic value, water is abundant and easy to obtain so it has very title economic value. Which means, if you print money to pay for medical care, and then that money is introduced in the global economy, you will be automatically reducing its value, depending on the amount of money you printed. If every body would do that, money would become worthless sooner than you read this.
Jan 13 2014: Hi Demetrius , water is by far the most valuable commodity, but you know this.Perhaps we can discuss fictionalized value?
Taken in economic terms waters value is diminished due to the fact that it is a very difficult resource to contain and control. I think the value we place on items are due to who has control of them. Control water and you are extremely powerful.
Control gold and you can be marginalized, unless you artificially increase its value, by making it a means of trade or a symbol of power.
Then to maintain that power gold's value must be constantly inflated and dispersed to a select minority.
Hmmm history of man?
Jan 13 2014: Water is indeed and undeniably the most valuable RESOURCE we have, however it is not a commodity. Don't get confused, one thing is a resource and another very different a commodity.
Let's think a little bit about the bottling companies, if you think they are selling you water then you are absolutely wrong... why should I buy a bottle of water when I have plenty of it just by opening the faucet? they simply cannot compete with the faucet!!!... instead they put lots of money on the media in order to make you believe that if you drink from the faucet you'll get sick and that their purification process is the only way to keep you healthy, so what they really sell you is a purification process, not the water itself!!!! Now, water has no expiration date but the containers do, so if you think of water as a commodity then it is a commodity with an expiration date, which means you better sell it fast or risk to loose your investment, which implies you cannot push the price too much.
You say: "Control water and you are extremely powerful"... Please, tell me how such a thing can be accomplished, how do you plan to prevent the rain from falling? or the rivers from flowing? how do you plan to own the lakes in order to prevent access to them?... although true, it's a silly idea, so come on, let's be realistic.
Although I agree gold price is subject to manipulation at some degree, most of its value is subject to its availability, like I said before. Find a huge gold mine and the gold price will plunge.
If you want to discuss more on this subject it's ok, but that is not the main issue of this conversation.
Jan 14 2014: Exactly as I described you would need to be very powerful indeed to control water. Has it been done yes..
"or the rivers from flowing"
Ever heard of damns on rivers? Wow seriously damning of the Colorado river is unrealistic LOL
In several states in the US it is illegal to capture rainwater.
Water is a commodity! Palisades water index strike a bell.
And this is very relevant to the conversation, where both water and life are commodities.
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Dorell Wright added 15 points and six rebounds while Spencer Hawes chipped in 12 points and 11 caroms for the 76ers, who won their third straight game on the road after losing twice to the New York Knicks in a home-and-home series.
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Bargnani waxed hot in the third, scoring eight points and the Raptors outscored the 76ers, 29-17, to trim the gap to 69-62.
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My plan is to finish up Resident Evil 4, so I guess we'll marathon until it's done.
First off, I'd like to give a shout out to everyone who viewed last week's stream. It. Was. Long. Like, really long. Six hours long. Some of you wacky guys stayed the entire time, which totally blew me away. You folks make me love doing these things.
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For some reason my livestream channel didn't save the recording, so I just put it up on Youtube. You might notice that the title is "Let's Play Resident Evil 4 (part 3)" and that there's no part one or two up yet... yeah... I'll get those up soon.
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Those of you who've read through the archives/watched a bunch of the livestreams might already be aware that I have a mild connective tissue problem; roughly two or three times day, my toes dislocate and I pop them back in. So when my middle toe went AWOL during the stream, it wasn't a big deal.
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Gabriel Burt, desktop developer at Novell, has reported progress with his PDF Mod tool. The new GNOME program allows for switching pages and other useful trickery with PDF documents.
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Long-term Treatment Study of CDP870 as Add-on Medication to MTX in Japanese Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) Patients
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First received: February 23, 2009
Last updated: June 26, 2013
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The objectives of this study is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of CDP870 as add-on medication to MTX over the long term in Japanese RA patients who are transferred from the Study 275-08-001, as well as to evaluate the effects of dosing regimens on the safety and efficacy of CDP870 in the ACR20 responders who completed Study 275-08-001.
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Drug: CDP870 200 mg
Drug: CDP870 400 mg
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|Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
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|A Multicenter, Open-label, Long-term Safety Study of CDP870 to Evaluate the Safety and Efficacy of CDP870 Administered in Combination With Methotrexate (MTX) Over the Long Term in Patients With Active Rheumatoid Arthritis Transferred From the Efficacy Confirmatory Study (Study 275-08-001)
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Further study details as provided by Astellas Pharma Inc:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Adverse events [ Time Frame: At any time ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- American College of Rheumatology (ACR) 20/50/70 responder rate [ Time Frame: Week 24, 52 ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
- Disease Activity Score (DAS) 28 (ESR) [ Time Frame: Week 24, 52 ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
- Modified Total Sharp Score [ Time Frame: Week 24 ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
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Drug: CDP870 200 mg
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Drug: CDP870 400 mg
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- Patients who did not reach ACR20, and prematurely discontinued Study 275-08-001 at Week 16 or completed Study 275-08-001 by Week 24.
- Patients who are able to receive treatment with MTX, by Week 52.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients who experienced an important protocol deviation as mentioned below during Study 275-08-001.
- Patients who received live or attenuated vaccines during Study 275-08-001(Except for influenza or pneumococcal vaccines).
- Patients who were found to have tuberculosis on a chest X-ray during Study 275-08-001.
- Patients who required treatment for the same infection at two or more different times during Study 275-08-001
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Keywords provided by Astellas Pharma Inc:
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Certolizumab Pegol
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Arthritis, Rheumatoid
Joint Diseases
Musculoskeletal Diseases
Rheumatic Diseases
Connective Tissue Diseases
Autoimmune Diseases
Immune System Diseases
Certolizumab pegol
Immunosuppressive Agents
Immunologic Factors
Physiological Effects of Drugs
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check your next pair of levi's for "a care tag for our planet" with some practical tips on how to reduce the climate/environmental impact of caring for your jeans. these tags will also have a message that encourages consumers to donate their unwanted clothing.
the idea was created by ddbo west, goodwill of san francisco's pro bono agency, after goodwill estimated that about 23.8 billion pounds of clothing ended up in US landfills each year. and on a side note: it's really refreshing to hear that a huge agency like ddbo is doing pro bono work. that makes all of this soo much better, especially when you think about just how extensive this initiative really is.
something you might not have already known is why levi strauss & co. was the prefect fit for all of this. the truth is the company has been all about sustainability for over 20 year, constantly coming up with ways to reduce the environmental impact of its product and has studied every stage in the life cycle of a typical pair of 501 jeans. wow. learn something new every day i suppose.
i like what i'm seeing.
I already own a pair of Levi's that's partly composed of recycled cotton, but I had no idea that they strived that hard to be sustainable. I also just Googled Goodwill and found out that they're funded by their thrift stores? They actually provide job training and employment placement services. Whoops. Now they need an advertising campaign.


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New and/or updated Matrox Extio F2208/F2408 features include:
• Enhanced Windows operating environment support for Microsoft Windows 7 (32/64 bit), Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista® (32/64 bit), Windows Server 2008 (32/64 bit) with SP2, Windows XP (32/64 bit), Windows Server 2003 (32/64 bit);
• Enable two PCIe interface cards, Extio F2208 and Extio F2408 KVM extenders, plus Extio F2408E Expander units to drive up to 16 DisplayPort and/or DVI displays, keyboard, mouse, audio and have eight additional USB 2.0 ports at up to 1 km from the PC;
• Clone multiple displays in two separate remote locations across two fiber-optic cables, while also stretching desktops;
• Extio Setup Utility (BIOS Level Configuration & Diagnostics) to verify and/or configure the fiber-optic transceiver, link status, USB ports, hardware mapping and device password protection;
• A Matrox Appliance Integrity Scanner to log device hardware/firmware configurations;
• A Matrox Appliance Configuration Utility to field upgrade firmware to take advantage of the latest features;
• Wake from sleep/standby by pressing any keyboard key with select systems.
Via: Newswire Today | News Archive | Tags: display, Matrox, Enterprise, kvm, extender
Wow... 16 displays.
Now that's definitely overkill!
16 displays, wow that is a lot of displays. When I saw the title I was thinking April fools carry over. I guess it could be useful in several professional situations though that I can think of. Personal I think it would be overwhelming though.
UM HH, next contest??? 16 monitors and one of these units? :D
Haha that would be sweet. Notice you can drive the monitor up to 1 Km away from the KVM so roughly 3000 feet. Could you see one PC driving 16 of those new transparent flat screens showing ads.
Whats the advantage of Matrox's product over a pair of high end AMD cards in crossfire with eyefinity?
16 monitors? wow, i guess if you have like a security system or something, this can come in handy?
Yeah-Man!,......Super Spider Solitaire!!
ridiculous. you might as well turn your office into an ESPN zone and charge employees to watch games at lunch.
There's gonna be a lot of people buying into this though,..........security centers maybe?
We actually have these where I work at. It is rather strange having your computers on the other side of the building.
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