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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Is it a viable plan for Microsoft (MSFT) to spinoff the Xbox division via an IPO? TheStreet's Debra Borchardt and Chris Ciaccia explore the idea.
While Xbox brought in $7 billion last year, that's down from $8 billion in 2011. However, a new console should revitalize sales, according to Ciaccia.
While hardware companies tend to trade with lower valuations, an IPO could unlock value for the Xbox division, while allowing Microsoft's stock to trade with a higher multiple -- since software companies tend to have higher valuations.
However, Ciaccia went on to say that if the next CEO was promoted from within Microsoft, an IPO would seem unlikely.There's a small window for such an event to occur. He said the economic data has not been very good as of late, making it appear as though consumer spending might be a little light this holiday season. Not helping matters is Sony's (SNE) upcoming Playstation 4, which will cost $100 less than the Xbox One. Ciaccia added that if the IPO were to happen -- which he doesn't expect -- the company would want to do it with good publicity, and positive remarks, something that has so far, evaded the new product.
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Damara, Central African Republic • More than 30 truckloads of troops from Chad line the two-lane highway just outside of Damara, supporting Central African Republic government forces who want to block a new rebel coalition from reaching the capital.
In a display of force, the turbaned fighters hold their rocket-propelled grenades and other weapons they threaten to use if the rebels seeking to oust President Francois Bozize push this far south.
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Gen. Jean Felix Akaga, who heads the regional force known as FOMAC, says a push on Damara, just 45 miles north of the capital, would be "a declaration of war" on the 10 Central African states.
"For us, Damara is the red line that the rebels cannot cross," Akaga said Wednesday. "If they attack Damara, we will attack."
The United Nations called for talks between the government and rebels and the Security Council scheduled closed consultations on the Central African Republic on Thursday afternoon.
The multinational force brought journalists up to Damara, where they touted the strength of the Chadian troops, who along with forces from Republic of Congo and Gabon are helping to stabilize the area.
The rebels, though, appear to be holding their positions after taking a string of towns including Sibut, which is 70 miles further north from Damara.
Back in 2003, troops under Bozize seized the capital amid volleys of machine-gun and mortar fire, and he then dissolved the constitution and parliament. Now a decade later it is Bozize who himself could be ousted from power.
On Wednesday, he announced through a decree read on state radio that he was dismissing his son, Francis, as defense minister. Chief of Staff Guillaume Lapo also was being replaced.
The president already has promised to form a coalition government with rebels and to negotiate without conditions. It's a sign of how seriously Bozize is threatened by the rebel groups who call themselves Seleka, which means alliance in the Sango language.
Bozize says there's one point not up for negotiation: he does not intend to leave office before his term ends in 2016.
"We can't destroy the country. I don't think that a transition is a good solution for the rebels, for Central African Republic or for the international community," said Cyriaque Gonda, a spokesman for the political coalition behind Bozize.
But mediators for the government and others note the rebels — an alphabet soup of acronyms in French, UFDR, CPJP, FDPC and CPSK — want Bozize gone. And that's the only issue the disparate group seems unified on. Seleka is a shaky alliance that lumps together former enemies.
In September 2011, fighting between the CPJP and the UFDR left at least 50 people dead in the town of Bria and more than 700 homes destroyed.
"Even if they show unity in the military action, we know that they are politically very disunited, the only thing that holds them together is the opposition to the current president," said Roland Marchal, a Paris-based expert on Central African Republic. "If they take control of the capital I think that divisions would appear quickly."
Gonda, who has negotiated on behalf of the government with the rebels, says some of them couldn't even accept sitting together as recently as 2008.
Meanwhile, in some parts of the capital, Bangui, a city of 700,000, life continued as normal, while in others the military buildup was evident.
Trucks full of soldiers bounced on rutted roads dotted with shacks where people can charge mobile phones. Police officers stopped vehicles at intersections. Troops from neighboring nations have arrived including about 120 soldiers each from Republic of Congo and Gabon to help stabilize the area between rebel and the government forces.
In the Bimbo neighborhood, traders went about their business, selling everything from leafy greens to meat at roadside stands.
"We don't support what the rebels are doing," said banana farmer Narcisse Ngo, as a young boy played nearby with a monkey corpse for sale along with other meat. "They should be at the table negotiating without weapons. We are all Central Africans."
Bozize, who seized power while the democratically elected president was traveling outside the country, managed to win elections in 2005 but in the years since he has faced multiple low-level rebellions that have shattered security across the northern part of this large but desperately poor country.Next Page >
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Tuvan Throat Singers Bring Unusual Musical Sounds to MLS Libraries
What is throat singing? If you've never heard it, it is nearly impossible to imagine.
The Metropolitan Library System takes pleasure in presenting Huun Huur Tu, Tuvan Throat Singers in a series of nine concerts at nine libraries. The first program will be on Sunday, November 9, and the last on Friday, November 14. See below for a complete schedule of times and locations.
Huun Huur Tu is a quartette from Tuva, a republic in southern Siberia, populated by a mere 150,000 Turkic people. Throat singing is native to the area, and it has been described this way:
"Try to imagine an instrument plucked like a guitar with a series of deep, droning throat solos which evolves into a three-tone whistling drone. If you didn't see it yourself, it'd be easy to think overdubbing was involved. You can scarcely believe the three notes could drone simultaneously from a single throat—but they do."
"Huun Huur Tu's songs are reminders of the natural sounds of their homeland," said MLS Director of Outreach Services Dana Morrow. "When they perform, audiences see the mountains and hear the wind and the beasts.
"'Unique' is a word that gets tossed around a lot, but there is no other way to describe the sound of Huun Huur Tu."
The Tuvan Throat Singer concerts are:
Huun Huur Tu is co-sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Oklahoma Arts Council, and the Friends of the Metropolitan Library System.
The Metropolitan Library System of Oklahoma County includes 12 libraries and five extension libraries. Libraries include Belle Isle, Capitol Hill, Ralph Ellison, Ronald J. Norick Downtown Library and Southern Oaks in Oklahoma City, as well as Bethany, Choctaw, Del City, Edmond, Midwest City, Village and Warr Acres. Extensions are located in the communities of Harrah, Jones, Luther and Nicoma Park and include Wright Library in Oklahoma City. You can also reach us at www.metrolibrary.org.


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Katie Ries: This Land is Your Land
Feb. 17-March 14, 2014
Bear Gallery, Bush Art Center
Public Reception: Thursday, Feb. 20, 5-7 p.m.
Katie Ries is an interdisciplinary artist who uses drawing, humor, and viewer participation to look critically at ideas of land, labor, and community. This exhibition features three projects by Ries: Costumes to Save Your Life, the Land Scouts, and LAND BOOTS. Visitors are invited to try on, handle, and otherwise participate in many of the pieces.
Katie Ries joined the St. Norbert College faculty as Assistant Professor of Art in Fall 2013. Her website is whoshareswins.com.


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Recently I read Stephen Totilo's piece on God of War: Ascension on Kotaku and how his initial response to a particular scene caused him to exclaim, "That's too much." David Hewlitt, the game's design director, gives an explanation of why God of War is a perfect example of how violence is appropriately done.
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I live in the Beaties Ford neighborhood of Charlotte. It's not a bad neighborhood. There's never very much crime or anything going on, but it's mainly lower-income minorities…
In trying to please the former group, you'll inevitably also please the latter.
This isn't necessarily true, but sitcoms are a special case compared to typical stand-up because of its use of characters to tell a narrative.
Humor and irony. Of what for and how are these things we speak of?
Before I start, there are a few details to get into about humor and irony.
First, Helga Kotthoff of the Frieburg University of Education did a study showing that humor is an act of aggression meant to communicate dominance and/or defiance. Another scientist had a very amusing version of this experiment (worth reading) with an incredibly biotruthy conclusion that quite clearly disregards the effect of society on gender and female displays of aggression in order to rely on Freud and Roman priapic mythology.
Second, when we talk about irony, there are actually two types that are important with regard to humor. The first isdramatic irony, in which the audience holds a superior position of knowledge to the subject or characters. The second is the looser verbal irony, in which the subject expresses meaning contrary to the literal meaning of the words used to convey it. In the latter case, I can say, "I hate gay people," and chances are I'm being ironic. However, the audience can only be sure that I'm being ironic by my tone and somatic expressions (such as body language) and the context of the statement. The most important thing to note from a discursive standpoint is thatverbal irony is not the same as lying. Verbal irony tries to convey contrary meaning through the non-literal use of words while lying tries to convey contrary facts.
In Alanis Morisette's "Ironic," a death row pardon 2 minutes too late is dramatic irony while a plane crashing down as a passenger thinks, "Well, isn't this nice" is verbal irony. The first is dramatic irony because there is a tension between the audience's elevated awareness of the condition of the convicted and that of the pardoner, while the second is verbal irony because we doubt the passenger actually wanted to die when they got on the plane.
On sitcoms, characters, and dramatic irony.
Now, back to sitcoms. The primary form of ironic humor present in sitcoms is that derived from the audience's superior position over the characters and the tension between these two points of knowledge. All in the Family had a laugh track. But just because you hear laughter at Archie Bunker's comments doesn't mean he was telling jokes. As a character, Archie Bunker wasn't a humorist but a plain-speaking, ignorant, working-class, depression-era white guy. What was funny to progressives is that he didn't realize how ridiculously ignorant his honest, straight-forward statements were — dramatic ironic humor. What was funny to bigots is that they often found themselves saying or wanting to say the same things in those situations. That's not dramatic nor ironic, it's just funny.
So clearly audience reaction is not an accurate way of gauging the level of racism in a joke, nor is it even a measure of whether the thing laughed at was actually a joke. Things can be funny without them intentionally being so. This is the "subjective" nature of humor that Reddit relies on as both gospel and sanctuary. This doesn't mean that the reason you laughed is always a justifiable one, it just means that the reason you laughed is because of yourpersonal beliefs. Morality is commonly held to be subjective, but that doesn't mean everything you do is justifiable.
Reddit, and why it probably doesn't know what irony means.
Where Reddit is quagmired is verbal irony, or the expression of a statement different than its literal intention, particularly when it comes to bigotry. For instance, "I hate gay people" as a statement is not ironic by default. But if I were in person saying it, there are many contexts in which a contrary meaning would be obvious, and there are many verbal and non-verbal cues I could use to translate the true meaning behind the words. Of course, as the speaker, I'm the one responsible for conveying meaning, not the audience.
And that's where Reddit fails in its attempts at convincing people that its racism is ironic. You're an anonymous voice on the internet devoid of context, tone, and nonverbal cues. Everything you say on the internet is literal *unless you say that it isn't.* And while many Redditors attempt to abuse the concept of ambiguity in order to convince people that they can never assume someone is racist, that's like asking people to believe that a gun pointed at them isn't loaded just because they weren't shot in the last five minutes.
Default communication is an unironic conveyance of information — the burden of proving a speaker means something other than what they said is never on the audience. The burden of proving that the words coming out of their mouths are being used in ways for which they were not actually designed is always on the speaker. If you don'tcommunicate an alternate meaning then you're just saying what you mean. Even if it's not what you believe. Saying what you mean but not what you believe is lying, not verbal irony.
Hint, if you're trolling for dollars, you're not ironic, you're lying.
Now, I'm not saying that putting /s after every racist comment meant to be an expression of verbal irony is effective, but at least it's actual irony. Adding 2+2 isn't calculus, but at least it's math.
Dramatic irony, straw men, and the aggression of humor.
As cited before, humor is aggressive. A communicative jousting for dominance. This is why SRS circlejerks so hard at Reddit's expense and why Reddit hates SRS so much in response.
Sitcoms use dramatic irony to create characters upon which the audience targets their dominance and vents their aggression while these characters are unaware of how supposedly "worthy" of derision they are. Carroll O'Connor, who played Archie Bunker, grew up in a liberal household and half of the producing team, Norman Lear, was a civil rights activist who founded "People for the American Way." However, the collusion between audience and artist provides a lot of leeway within a dramatic narrative giving cover for personal views. For stand-up comedians and humorists, there is less access to the catharsis of burning straw men and more focus on the artist themself.
There is, however, a way around it. When humorists adopt characters for their performances, they can create living narratives that serve the same function. By feigning ignorance and obvious fault, they can direct the aggression of the audience on themselves while caricaturing the people they want the audience to focus their aggression on.
An example is Larry the Cable Guy, who doesn't actually have a strong Southern accent and found success portraying an exaggerated caricature of uneducated Good Old Boyism.
But the most successful example (in terms of personality cults) is progressive Stephen Colbert (the T is hard) who despite growing up in the household of a wiely-connected civil rights activist portrays Stephen Colbert (the T is soft) with fiery, wide-eyed, finger-waving gusto as a ludicrously uninformed conservative commentator with such targeted fidelity that a plurality of his audience doesn't realize that he's pretending. The character itself is derived from The Daily Show, a fake news show reporting on actual news where the only humorist who actually plays himself is the host Jon Stewart.
In this regard, the most technically capable Redditors when it comes to the use of irony, in fact dramatic irony, are those on novelty accounts whose sole purpose is to portray characters who say and do horrible things. But these novelty accounts are actually few and far between. And even more telling is the proportion of these characters who portray minorities as offensive racial stereotypes.
tl;dr Humor is a form of aggression the purpose of which to establish dominance or subvert it through transgression. Ironic humor mocks a person or character lacking the audience's knowledge or creates humor out of the juxtaposition of words to create contrary meaning through established tone and context. When light is made of bigotry, one needs to either 1) target a specific bigot for the audience to mock, 2) establish a bigoted caricature for the audience to mock, or at the bare minimum 3) establish clearly that one does not mean what one is saying or else one is just being a bigot.
Yves Smith takes the hammer to Adam Davidson's defense of the economic exploitation of college graduates.
It's not racist if I act like i don't mean it, right?
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This past week, many Demon's Souls fans were irate when they heard a candid interview with Sony's product development head Shuhei Yoshida in which his initial impression of the game was, "This is crap."
Now, while that statement was really about the difference between Japan's parallel areas of product development and the United States' linear product development cycles, as well as the differing expectations about demos and development progress, many fans of the Atlus-published game mocked the developer for what he took away from his 2-hour experience. The largest of these complaints was that he was somehow not "hardcore" enough and that his lack of talent was the reason he disliked the game.
I own a copy of Demon's Souls. I actually enjoyed my time with the game. But, admittedly, I have played only a few hours of it during the entire time that I have owned it. While I would never say that the game is "crap" (and I doubt I have even heard someone say anything of the sort), I can see why many people, often apologetically, have never gotten far into it. (Hint: it has nothing to do with being hardcore or not.)


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2x Division I NCAA national champion comes to Lew-Port for wrestling campby jmaloni
Sat, Jul 21st 2012 08:50 am
Two-time NCAA Division I national champion Matt Valenti of Pennsylvania University will headline the first "State Champ Boot Camp" hosted by Lewiston-Porter. The camp will consist of seven, two hour sessions from Thursday, July 26, to Sunday, July 29. It will be directed by University at Buffalo NCAA D1 All-American and Lew-Port's own state champion Kyle Cerminara, and Lew-Port Head Assistant Varsity coach David Hockenberry.
The cost is $150 (discounts available for teams and siblings). Registration and more information can be found athttp://tinyurl.com/scbc12.
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How does Facebook measure up to past IPOs?
Investors buying Facebook shares are betting that the company will find a way to monetize its 900 million users effectively.
Facebook (FB) hype has reached a new status. Thursday, the world's largest social networking company priced its initial public offering at $38, up from the $28 to $35 range set at the beginning of the month.
Facebook also decided to sell an additional 84 million shares, raising the total to more than 421 million shares. With the IPO finally pricing Thursday evening, how does Facebook stack up against other popular Internet names?
Facebook will raise over $16 billion in the offering. At that amount, it would become the third-largest IPO ever on an U.S. exchange, only following Visa (V) at $19.65 billion and General Motors (GM) at $18.15 billion. Facebook would also become the largest technology IPO in history.
"This is much more a spectacle, a media event and a cultural moment than it is an IPO," said Max Wolff, an analyst at GreenCrest Capital, according to Reuters. "This is not a game of models and fundamentals at this point."
Nearly eight years ago, Google (GOOG) raised $1.67 billion in its IPO, far below Facebook's haul. The king of search engines priced its IPO at $85 per share. On the first day of trading, shares closed at $100. Since then, shares have experienced their fair share of ups and downs, but are currently above $600. While Google shares remain above their IPO price, not all recent Internet companies have been able to do so.
As the chart above shows, Pandora Media (P) and Zynga (ZNGA) shares have both fallen below their IPO price of $16 and $10, respectively. Pandora has dropped almost 30% from its IPO in June 2011, while Zynga is down 18% from last December. One of the surprising internet companies to trade higher than its IPO price is LinkedIn (LNKD). The professional networking company received an IPO price of $45 in May 2011 and now trades above $110.
Facebook's IPO price values the company at $104 billion. In comparison, Google's valuation was only $23 billion when it went public in 2004. Although Facebook is often compared to Google, the two companies could not be more different. Google has a tried and proven advertising system, while Facebook has yet to fully cash-in on its advertising model.
Investors buying Facebook shares this week are betting that the company will find a way to monetize its 900 million users more effectively. At a $100 billion valuation, Facebook would trade at almost 27 times 2011 sales, while Google trades at only 5 times. "That hope and potential is exactly why it's potentially a $100 billion deal," said Tim Cunningham at Thornburg Investment Management, according to Bloomberg.
On Tuesday, General Motors added to the Facebook advertising debate by announcing plans to stop advertising on Facebook. America's largest automaker met with Facebook managers to discuss concerns, but GM was not convinced that paid advertising on the social-media giant's website was beneficial. The move is unlikely to temper demand for Facebook shares, though, as Ford (F) said it is doing more advertising on Facebook and is using the site as a critical part of the company's media mix.
Eric McWhinnie is an editor at Wall St. Cheat Sheet. As of this writing, he did not own a position in any of the aforementioned stocks.
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Jim Calhoun officially announced his retirement Thursday as head coach of the 's men's basketball team.
"I always said that I would know when it was time, whenever that might be," said Calhoun, in a prepared statement. "The hip injury really didn't enter into the decision, except that it gave me more time to think about it and the more I thought about it, the more I became convinced that this was the right time to move on to the next phase of my life," he said.
Over on the Storrs campus, students reacted to the news.
"I'm actually a little surprised of it," said UConn senior Lisette Espinal. "I wasn't even aware he was retiring," she said.
Calhoun, 70, finishes his career with 873 career wins, and three national titles in 1999, 2004 and 2011.
"He made my freshmen experience totally different when we won the national championship," Christy Barre, a UConn junior from Fairfield said. "It was a blast. I was really happy to be a part of UConn then."
Calhoun will continue with the university as a Special Assistant to Athletic Director Warde Manuel, university officials said Thursday.
Upon his full retirement in March of 2013, Calhoun will become Head Coach Emeritus, the university said.
Kevin Ollie, a former UConn student-athlete and men's basketball assistant coach for the past two seasons, has been named the new head coach - the 18th in UConn history.
"I am very honored and humbled to become the UConn men's basketball coach," Ollie said in a prepared statement Thursday. "I cannot put into words how grateful I am to Coach Jim Calhoun, who retires today as one of the most legendary coaches in the history of college basketball. Coach Calhoun brought me here to Connecticut as a person right out of high school and has mentored me into the person I have become today."
UConn students seemed pleased with the news.
"I don't think the program will skip a beat," said freshmen Owen McMahon, of Thomaston.
Although students appeared to have confidence in Ollie, many said the absence of Calhoun would take some getting used to.
"[Calhoun] was definitely an asset to the UConn team," Alexis Ruiz, a senior from Bergenfield, NJ, said. "He contributed a lot," she said.
"He was a phenomenal, phenomenal coach and it's a shame to see him go," David Friedman, a junior from Dix Hills, NY, said.
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Pine Creek Golf Course was the site of last Thursday's La Crescent Invitational cross-country meet. Also known as the Crazy Buffalo Invite, the event drew athletes from 10 girls programs and 11 boys teams. Temperatures were in the low 80s, with a light southwest breeze.
The Fillmore Central volleyball team picked up its second win of the season in La Crescent, downing the Lancers in three sets: 25-6, 25-9, 25-11. The Lady Falcons are now 2-0, overall, and 2-0 in the Three Rivers Conference.
The Fillmore Central Falcons football team dropped to 0-3 on the season after losing to Wabasha-Kellogg (1-2) last Friday night, 26-7.
The Burros traveled to Spring Grove on Tuesday, Sept. 2, suffering their first loss of the year — three sets to one (18-25, 25-22, 17-25, 20-25).
Lanesboro couldn't corral the Rockets of Randolph last Friday, suffering a 49-16 loss in football following a long road trip.
The Fillmore Central volleyball team opened the 2014 season with a 3-0 win over the visiting Wabasha-Kellogg Falcons, a great step towards defending its 2013 Three Rivers Conference crown.
"I thought we played a great first quarter," said Fillmore Central head coach Chris Mensink about Friday's football game with Caledonia. "We executed on special teams and gave our offense a shorter field to work with. I thought we played three quarters of pretty good football."
The Lanesboro/Fillmore Central girls cross-country team opened the 2014 season with a huge win last week, defeating the best of the best in the massive Stewartville Invitational.
The Lanesboro volleyball squad won a pair of five-set marathon matches last week.
The Canton Men's Softball League's postseason tournament crown came down to regular season champion Larson Well Drilling and runner-up Steuart Labs.
It's bad enough to have to open the new football season against the defending state champion (Chatfield), but to turn around and play a team that has been the powerhouse of Class AA, in the state (Caledonia), is more than any coach would want. But, as the saying goes, "It is what it is!"
The Lanesboro/Fillmore Central boys and girls cross-country squads are already running this week as they were scheduled to participate in the Stewartville Invitational at Bear Creek Park on Tuesday, Aug. 28.
The Lanesboro gridiron squad decimated Glenville-Emmons during the Aug. 22 opener, 76-0.
The Burro volleyball team opened play at Schaeffer Academy on Thursday, Aug. 21, winning in straight sets.
Last year the Falcons finished the season with a 4-6 record, 3-5 in the Blue Division of the Southern Football Alliance (SFA). This season, in the last year of the SFA, Fillmore Central hopes to improve on that record, although it will have a tough start, traveling to Chatfield to take on the defending state champion Gophers.


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LA CROSSE, Wisconsin (WXOW) - A La Crosse restaurant is heavily damaged in a fire Wednesday afternoon.
Photos from the scene from WXOW viewers during the fire show heavy black smoke from the Super Buffet at 206 Copeland Avenue.
Crews were called to the restaurant shortly before 4:30 p.m.
La Crosse Fire Chief Gregg Cleveland said that the building posed problems for firefighters given the age and design of the building. Chief Cleveland said remodeling to the building over the years left open areas that can help spread the fire. Crews needed to cut into the roof above and attack the fire from below in order to put it out.
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Poor Bryce Molder's two experiences in Walker Cups was losing both matches – a record, Molder says, being the only American to lose back-to-back Cups.
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Molder still stays in close touch with teammates with James Driscoll and Lucas Glover on the PGA Tour, as well as others playing on different tours.
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MINT I Multi- Institutional Neo-adjuvant Therapy MammaPrint Project I
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Genomics assays that measure specific gene expression patterns in a patient's primary tumor have become important prognostic tools for breast cancer patients. This study is designed to test the ability of MammaPrint® in combination with TargetPrint®, BluePrint®, and TheraPrint®, as well as traditional pathologic and clinical prognostic factors, to predict responsiveness to neo-adjuvant chemotherapy in patients with locally advanced breast cancer (LABC).
Breast Cancer
Drug: TAC chemotherapy
Drug: TC chemotherapy
Drug: Dose Dense AC or FEC100 followed by paclitaxel or docetaxel chemotherapy
Drug: TCH chemotherapy
Phase 4
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|Allocation: Non-Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Diagnostic
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|MINT I Multi- Institutional Neo-adjuvant Therapy MammaPrint Project I
- Difference in response rate in the molecular subtype categories. [ Time Frame: 6-12 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Difference between single gene read out of ER, PR and HER2 and local and centralized immunohistochemistry (IHC) and/or CISH/FISH assessment of ER, PR and HER2. [ Time Frame: Baseline. First study visit. ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Identification and/or validation of predictive gene expression profiles of clinical response/resistance to chemotherapy. [ Time Frame: 6-12 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Response rate of TheraPrint Research Gene Panel. [ Time Frame: 6-9 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Difference between molecular subtype classification (BluePrint) and immunohistochemistry based subtype classification. [ Time Frame: Baseline. First study visit. ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
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|Study Start Date:
|October 2011
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|December 2015
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|December 2015 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Active Comparator: HER2 negative patients
In order to provide some consistency in management and have a treatment policy in place only recommended therapy with several well accepted and presumed equivalent chemotherapy regimens will be used. The proposed neo-adjuvant chemotherapy regimens for HER2 negative patients include:
Drug: TAC chemotherapy
Docetaxel 75 mg/m2 IV day 1, Doxorubicin 50 mg/m2 IV day 1, Cyclophosphamide 500 mg/m2 IV day 1; Cycled every 21 days for 6 cyclesDrug: TC chemotherapy
Docetaxel 75 mg/m2 IV day 1, Cyclophosphamide 600 mg/m2 IV day 1; Cycled every 21 days for 6 cyclesDrug: Dose Dense AC or FEC100 followed by paclitaxel or docetaxel chemotherapy
Active Comparator: Her2 positive patients
The proposed neo-adjuvant chemotherapy regimens for HER2 negative patients is TCH chemotherapy.
Drug: TCH chemotherapy
Detailed Description:
Patients with suspected primary breast cancer on mammography and clinical examination will be assessed for eligibility by having a needle core biopsy to confirm invasive carcinoma.
A fresh unfixed tumor specimen, incisional or core biopsy will be sent to Agendia to determine the MammaPrint risk profile, the BluePrint molecular subtyping profile, the TargetPrint ER, PR and HER2 single gene readout, the 56-geneTheraPrint Research Gene Panel and the additional genes as measured on the whole genome (44k) array.
Surgical Protocol:
Determination of nodal status:
- For clinically node-negative patients: Axillary ultra sound, followed by Sentinel Lymph Node (SLN) biopsy
- For clinically node-positive patients: ultra sound-guided Fine Needle Aspirate (FNA), followed by core biopsy
- Neo-adjuvant chemotherapy
Definitive surgery:
- For node-positive patients: lumpectomy, repeat SLN biopsy, Axillary Lymph Node Dissection (ALND)
- For node-negative patients: lumpectomy, repeat SLN biopsy (optional), no ALND
Response will be measured by pathological Complete Responce (pCR) and by centrally assessed Residual Cancer Burden (RCB).
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Women with histologically proven invasive breast cancer and no distant metastases and;
- lymphnode negative and a clinical tumor classification of T2 (≥3.5cm)-T4 or with 1-3 positive lymph nodes and a clinical tumor classification of T2-T4 DCIS or LCIS are allowed in addition to invasive cancer at T2 or T3 level.
- Age ≥ 18 years. At least one lesion that can be accurately measured in two dimensions utilizing mammogram, ultrasound, or MRI images to define specific size and validate complete pathologic response.
- Adequate bone marrow reserves (neutrophil count >1.5 x109 /l and platelet count >100 x109/l), adequate renal function (serum creatinine ≤ 1.5 x upper limit of normal) and hepatic function (ALAT, ASAT ≤ 2.5 x upper limit of normal, alkaline phosphatase ≤ 2.5 x upper limit of normal and total bilirubin ≤ 2.0 x upper limit of normal).
- Signed informed consent of the patient
Exclusion Criteria:
- Any patient with confirmed metastatic disease. Patients with inflammatory breast cancer.
- Tumor sample shipped to Agendia with ≤ 30% tumor cells or that fails Quality Assurance or Quality Control criteria.
- Patients who have had any prior chemotherapy, radiotherapy, or endocrine therapy for the treatment of breast cancer.
- Any serious uncontrolled intercurrent infections, or other serious uncontrolled concomitant disease.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01501487
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Keywords provided by Agendia:
breast cancer
neo adjuvant therapy
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Breast Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Breast Diseases
Skin Diseases
Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic
Antineoplastic Agents
Therapeutic Uses
Pharmacologic Actions
Tubulin Modulators
Antimitotic Agents
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With Iran, What Happens After July?
Washington this week added another seven countries to the list of those exempt from sanctions that target the Iranian energy sector. The U.S. government and its allies believe Tehran is using revenue generated from the sale of its massive natural resource base to help finance a nuclear program that could be considered cover for a weapons effort. While some of those countries might be considered mid-market buyers, collectively, it appears sanctions are finally starting to have an impact. Oil markets are well supplied, prices are low and Iran is starting to talk.
There are now 18 countries exempt from U.S. sanctions targeting the Iranian energy sector, ranging from Turkey and India to Malaysia and the United Kingdom. The European community in early 2012 announced existing crude oil contracts with Iran would be phased out by July 1. Similar U.S. measures go into force later this month. Iran had already hit back at its European counterparts by banning exports. Apart from jitters early this year, however, the situation isn't turning out like last year's war with Libya. At least not yet.
Civil war in 2011 shut down most of the oil production in Libya, leaving one of the world's top oil producers out of commission. That prompted the International Energy Agency to call for the release of strategic petroleum reserves to offset liquidity concerns. With global markets last year cautiously peeking out from behind the curtain of recession, the IEA worried high energy prices would erase any hopes of an economic recovery. Given the slow, methodical pace at which sanctions are tightening on Iranian crude, however, it appears markets in 2012 have had ample time to adjust.
Decisions from countries like Malaysia to cut back on Iranian crude might not make a major splash in terms of the global oil balance. Others, like EU members and Japan, however, have left Iran somewhat isolated from international markets. To get sanctions exemptions, though, countries need only to "significantly" reduce Iranian crude oil purchases and there's no set definition for what constitutes "significant." Nevertheless, the IEA said Iran last year exported about 2.5 million bpd but was delivering roughly 1.5 million bpd this year. Despite that, oil markets in mid-2012 are said to be "well supplied."
Iran may or may not be actually pursuing a nuclear weapon. The smart move from Tehran would be to get to the point that it could if it wanted to, but stop just short of actual production. That being said, Iran has met twice with the IAEA and held two rounds of negotiations with members of the P5+1. Another round of talks is scheduled at a later date in Moscow, suggesting Iran is either getting what it wants or is truly feeling the pinch from international sanctions.
By July 2, U.S. and European sanctions will have kicked in, just in time for the surging demand during the summer as U.S. consumers head out for vacation. Another scenario for Iran is that it's stalling to see what happens to oil markets after July. Tehran is notorious for its diplomatic manoeuvring and with the global economy wobbling tentatively on the edge, what happens this summer when sanctions kick in could be a make-or-break situation, geopolitically and economically speaking.
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In response to a comment made on another thread, following is an article I wrote several years ago that pretty much expresses my own feelings about ostrich meat. Dissenting opinions are, of course, invited.
Ostrich Meat - The Limits of Optimism
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I have written on several occasions about ostrich meat. To tell the simple truth, although I find the ostrich a bird full of charm, its meat has never succeeded in wooing me. Despite that, when I recently received an invitation to attend a broad tasting of ostrich-based dishes that were to be prepared by talented chef Idan Halperin, my curiosity and my optimism were aroused. Among the dishes I sampled were ostrich carpaccio, ostrich that had been prepared in the oven, ostrich liver, ostrich meatballs, ostrich fillet in demi-glace sauce, ostrich goulash, and even ostrich Strogonov.
To the credit of the chef, the sauces prepared were exquisite, the side dishes were as tasty as I could have wanted, the wine served was extremely pleasant, and the two double espressos with which I concluded my tastings were excellent. Despite the efforts of the chef, however, this was a tasting that took me to the limits of my optimism and I am more convinced than ever that the very best place for ostrich meat is in the bowls of pet cats and dogs.
For those not in the know, ostrich meat is produced primarily in Canada, Australia, South Africa, Israel and Brazil. There are even a few ostrich ranches in Texas and Japan. A bit of research reveals that most farmers started raising these birds for the valuable leather that can be made from their skins as well as for their feathers which are used in many ornamental ways. Somewhere along the way, came the realization that there was a profit to be made from the thirty or so kilos of meat underneath that skin.
The simple truth is that the meat of the ostrich has always been considered edible. Until now, however, few have claimed that ostrich meat was tasty, and to the best of my knowledge, no one ever considered a delicacy. In fact, the only time ostrich meat attained a high level of popularity was during the most decadent days of the Roman Empire. In the third century, for example, Emperor Elagabalus is said to have served 600 ostrich brains at a single meal (despite its charms, the ostrich has a rather small brain). According to a recipe by Roman cookbook author Apicius, the best way to cook this "ugly and unappetizing bird" was to boil it in stock that was heavily flavored with pepper, mint, cumin, leeks, celery seed, thyme, mustard, dates, honey, vinegar, raisin wine and oil. Modern chefs shudder when they think of this combination.
Personally, after many tastings during the ten years during which this meat has begun to appear
on European, American and Middle-Eastern menus, I find it quite easy to understand why some North African Bedouins and Australian Aborigines refuse to eat the ostrich but use its fat to rub on their bodies in order to treat rheumatism and other ailments. My problems with the meat are several. First of all, in the raw state its bright red color does little to trigger my appetite. Far more serious is that regardless of whether we are talking about the most expensive or cheapest cuts, the meat is too sinewy and lacks flavor. Without sauce the meat has a taste that falls somewhere between that of boiled turkey and beef that has been left in the open air for just a while too long. To add to my problems, the meat has the nasty habit of sticking between the teeth and to the roof of the mouth.
The liver of the ostrich gives me a special set of problems partly because it has a texture that is too grainy, a consistency that is a bit mushy, and an aroma that I find a bit too strong. Comparing this product to goose liver, which the producers would like us to do, takes a great deal of imagination and a certain level of culinary illiteracy.
Despite my objections, ostrich meat now has more than 2,200 entries on the Internet; it is being served to members of the United States Army; and, largely because of the fright over Mad Cow Disease has attained an increasing level of acceptance in France, Italy, Switzerland and Belgium and is being touted by its producers as the prestigious "meat of the 21st century". There is a lot of ostrich meat about these days and it is clear that someone is trying to sell it to us.
It is true that much of the ostrich meat making its way to the international market is processed in modern and sanitary conditions. It is equally true that the meat is lower in fat, cholesterol and calories than beef, pork, chicken or turkey. I even acknowledge that the meat is high in protein and iron. Unfortunately, those reasons are not nearly enough to tempt me to eat this stuff. In fact, so much do I dislike this meat that I have promised myself that this would be the last time in this lifetime that I either taste or write about it.


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Yunus Social Business
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Is Social Business the future of capitalism ?
Social business, as the term is commonly used, was first defined by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Prof. Muhammad Yunus and is described in his books Creating a world without poverty—Social Business and the future of capitalism and Building Social Business—The new kind of capitalism that serves humanity's most pressing needs.
In Yunus' definition, a social business is a non-loss, non-dividend company designed to address a social objective within the highly regulated marketplace of today. It is distinct from a non-profit because the business should seek to generate a modest profit but this will be used to expand the company's reach, improve the product or service or in other ways to subsidise the social mission.
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May 16 2012: I think this is the best approach to our economies at this time in our history. I coined the term socio-capitalism a few years ago to describe this phenomenon. To me it combines the best of both worlds. A person works for a fair salary and profit re-invested into the community. Status would come from working with the company that was able to leverage the most positive social and environmental change, rather than from being a shareholder or money trader concerned only with profit and the quarterly return as a dividend to gold plate the toilet fixtures in the yacht, or some of the other useless and opulent shenanigans the not-so-creative ultra-rich get up to.
And as for work and production, I'd have to say those are extremely over-rated and almost always involve exploitation of labour or resources if you trace it far enough. No one ever lay on their death-bed wishing they had worked more. A return to frugality and a reluctance to indebtedness allows much more free time for some of the finer things in life like art, music, conversation, philosophy, bio-remediation, cleaning up beaches, reading, dancing, play, exercise, family and friends; all those things you do when not coerced into participating in the crazy hierarchical game of monopoly we've gotten ourselves into. Work less, consume less, live more is my motto. Material possessions require responsibility and have hidden costs of maintenance, protection, energy, etc. I am reminded of the old Sanskrit saying that applies to all material possessions. "Does the man own the cow, or does the cow own the man?"
So yes I am on board with the idea of Social Business!
Mitch SMith 100+May 16 2012: Hi Mike,
Nicely said!
I am more into social capital than socail business - one without the other does not work.
I have had "jobs" in numerous fortune 500 companies where the majority convert existing social capital into money at t return rate of 10 to 1 - in ohter words, corporations mine the advances of humanity for a 10% return on what they destroy in the process.
On the other hand, I have been engaged in social capital works where it costs 1 to 10 in voluntary labour to reinstate what was already ours, but hidden from us from those who seek to charge us for what we already do.
Humanity at its default creates value - it is all commons. At its worst, there are thieves - there is a word for these thieves - "psychopath".
May 16 2012: capitalism with added state-control in order to increase "social" value is as old as 50 years, and called social democracy. practiced in all europe, and US and many other parts of the world. it does not work for several reasons.
first, mises already described in 1920's that socialism is an all-or-nothing kind of system. if you implement partial socialism, you need to add more and more to fix the problems it causes. the resulting red tape chokes our lives.
second, as the socialist part grows, the economy stops progressing, and starts shrinking.
third, as the decisions getting more detached from people's every day lives, demagogy takes over, and the result is crazy credit expansion, national debt, impossible promises and all that stuff. all this accompanied by outrageous reduction of personal liberties (war on drugs, fda, patriot act, sopa, etc)
May 16 2012: But the social democracy in Europe is working! All the quality of life indexes prove that assertion. Your personal preference is irrelevant in the bigger picture. The trouble with the idea that capitalism can solve our problems is that it relies on unlimited growth, an idea that is not credible.
I will use the example of sealing (hunting seals) as an example of how profiteers will not stop exploitation until a government stops them. When sperm whales became too scarce to hunt profitably men turned to elephant seals and within 15 years had decimated the population to about 100 individuals. Only the Mexican government's protection allowed this magnificent animal to survive.
Greed blinds men to their narrow self-interests. If we don't have a holistic worldview that values the complexity and inter-connectedness of life we will continue to make grievous mistakes related to economic growth.
We are in the middle of a crisis but because it is taking hundreds of years to play out it is difficult to see in our daily lives. But in the same way that over-zealous fishing destroyed the cod stocks, our daily actions have long-term effects that may only affect you grand-children. Until we can accept responsibility for our actions and their effects leading forward we cannot consider ourselves as legitimate stewards of this planet.
May 16 2012: quality of life in europe is high because the great economic progress of the 19th century and before. we are eating the fruits of their hard labor. if we continued that path, we would be in much better shape today.
i have no idea how did we end up at seals. we were talking about economic progress and socialism. what that's got to do with seals? but okay, lets talk about seals. today, government is supposed to take care of the environment. how good they are at it? not very, i must say. the free market solution would be private ownership. if i own the fishing rights or a particular area, i'm not going to kill that zone in a decade. i destroy my own property.
also. how would social democracy solve the problem of greed? do you think socialist politicians are not greedy? do you think voters are not greedy? greed can be best combated by private ownership. if i own a forest, i can be greedy, but then i will not own a forest. greedy people soon get poor people, if they are also dumb. but if a greedy person is smart, and takes good care of his property, why would i care if he is greedy? look at greece. do you think it is not greed that's going on there? they stockpiled huge debt. they lived beyond their means for decades. and now they are about to vote people into power that denies this, and want to continue spending more than they have. do you think all this is not motivated by greed? states don't moderate greed. states unleash it.
May 17 2012: Hi Mike
Reading thru your posts (that enjoyed) it seems you need to re-coin your term socio-capitalism to environmento-socio-capitalism..:) I liked it....
Good discussion going on between you and other friends......let me share a story which I shared sometime back here in some other post......that may shed some light in to the topic.....
Once a BIG shot business consultant (we can imagine say from Wall Street) after successfully concluding a few hundred million dollars consulatncy deal.....wanted to have some break from his high flying high earning job for a few days.....
So he had chosen an exotic remote not so popular island as his vacation destination.....he could rent a very natural bamboo house there as that's not a popular destination for travellers there were Star studded hotel....and he has conciously chosen it to have some rest in pure natural environment.....
After a couple days of good time when he also observed a poor fisherman every day....& got confused how lazy or dumb this poor guy is !!!
He saw everyday this guy goes into sea with his small boat for fishing....but he is not utilizing his full potential... some day the guy catch fishes for 3-4 hours some other day he just comes back after half an hour.
So consultant wanted to do some "social work" by giving free consultancy to that "lazy / dumb" poor fisherman
He called that guy and asked why his fishing is so erratic in terms of timing?
Fisherman : whenever I have enough fish I come back , what so erratic in it ?
Consultant : You see that's why you are so poor....you are wasting potential like a fool.
F'man: What should I do then?
Consul: Catch fish as long as you can
F'man: But I don't need so much
Consul: You will sell rest to others
F'man: Ok, then
Consul: After doing such for sometime you will have enough money to buy bigger boats , better fishing gears so you can catch more fish
F'man : But my island people don't need so many fishes altogether what I will do with those ?
Cond..part 2
May 17 2012: Part-2
Consul: Look I am big consultant , I am giving you free consultancy....you will open a small company and start selling fish to other island..
F'man: Then
Consul : you will have more and more money, but you have to be careful about other fishermen so that they can't be a threat to your business...and I am here to give advise how to do tha
tF'man: Then
Consul : By this time your life will be improved , you will have nice modern villa , better costly food, your kids will go to very good schools..
F'man: There is no school here or no material to build a villa..
Consul : You have money , you will bring those from any place...send kids to any school you like anywhere....but be aware you will not stop fishing business , well after sometime you need not to fish yourself , rather you will hire fishermen for you
F'man: That means I can't stop, but I ...so what I will do
Consul : You will expand your business from islands to countries to continents...no worry I will still give you advise but that time you need to pay..
F'man : Ok , then how big will be my comapny
Consul: Sky is limit..you can grow into huge fishing giant listed in a great place named Wall Street
F'man : But I am uneducated man how I will run that?
Consul : Come on , you have money ...so you will hire Best Graduates from Top universities they will work for you
F'man: What I will do then
Consul : Well you need not work much as you already worked too much by this time & have lot of money by now....so you can start some social work..
F'man: What does that mean
Consul : That means you will strat giving a small part of your profit to some poor people so that they can have minmum livlihood....time to time you can come to such exotic place like this with full family to spend leisure in natural way....
F'man : Ok you are telling me I will end up here for few days only , why should I need to do all those trouble to come for fews days to live in a bamboo house , when I am here all the time ?
Cond.. Part-3
May 17 2012: Part-3
Consul : That's why you are poor , I spent my valuable time to improve your life and you came up with a dumb question
F'man : Let me tell my view to you......why I need to give a small part of what I have after so many years of enormous work & earning of amount that I don't need? Am I not doing that every day ?
Consul : What do you mean?
F'man: Now everday I catch fishes just what I need and keep rest fishes for others who need those ......am I not doing social work everyday ?
Consul : What about your leisure & quality time spent?
F'man: Now as I work only for what me and my family need so I have plenty time to spend with my kids , wife, friends playing & roaming around
Consul : What about education of your kids ?
F'man : I saw everyday for last couple of days , you lying in beach staring at stars I don't know what you think that time...but that I have been doing same for years with my kids....telling which star means what...how they can understand when the strom or rain will come...how to live a good life....is not that what a person need ?
Consul : You live in a mere bamboo house
F'man : But you are telling me to come only for couple of days like you to stay in bamboo house...that means it's good and you like it ......so when for year long I am enjoying bamboo house with my family , why I need to do such huge kind of unnecessary for years to spent only couple days like you in a bamboo house in an heavenly island like this where all the time I am here now......
Consul: There is no point giving free consultancy...because anything comes free people don't understand it's value.....I am leaving you...
F'man : Sir , have a nice stay in my heavenly island, whenever you need anything I can do for you please call me, I will be happy to do that for you....and many thanks for your advise...
May 16 2012: You don't really believe that ultra-right wing nonsense about owning nature do you Krisztian? Who gets to own the fishing rights for example? The ones with the most money? Perhaps the ones who used the resource for generations? Do "4th world" people have a say in this? They tend not to have capital. Who would an entrepreneur buy a forest from? The government? What would the government do with the money? But the biggest flaw in your argument is that I (presumably a profit-oriented business person) would protect my assets for the long-term. Doesn't it make more sense from a purely capitalistic perspective to use the profits from my over-exploitation to simply buy the next patch of productive fishing grounds from the moron who saw value in it's existence as an intact eco-system sequestering carbon and providing habitat, and continue to profit at the expense of those people or animals that can't claim ownership? Or I could ask, "If you own a forest how can you not be greedy?" What gave you the right? Ownership is so human centric. Ostensibly indigenous populations "own" their land but I haven't witnessed much support for their legitimacy. Especially from business interests that would profit from the lands riches. You are advocating a race to the bottom, for a "benefit" of the few. As the corporate charter is inherently sociopathic (see Joel Bakian's The Corporation) with legal mandates to maximize profit it is hard to see how a truly sustainable capitalist model could exist for the long term. But to play your way I guess I want to own the air and charge people for breathing it. Would you accept my claim? Why should I accept the claim of a person who says they own the water or the fish? In my opinion there is no ethical ground to stand on with your argument , though I recognize that you are as interested has I in seeing the world become a better place.
May 16 2012: it is not a good way to start a debate if you call the opposing position nonsense. but let's just overlook that for now.
all these problems are practical problems. originally, the first to arrive would have the fishing rights. but since we had this statist nightmare for hundreds of years, natural development was stalled, and now we have to figure out a way to transition to a free society. probably some sort of fishing guild would have fishing rights. but if i told it, wouldn't it be entirely self-defeating? i'm not condemning the central planning to then step up and be the new central planner. i don't have to tell how each and every business would operate without a state.
i saw the corporation movie, and i have no objection to the conclusions. however, in that sense, a crocodile or even a deer is also psychopath. we don't want companies to be conscious responsible individuals. companies are just tools, like a hammer. they don't have consciousness. responsibility must be present in the owners, customers, workers and so on. that argument is nothing but a denial of responsibility. we blame companies of being irresponsible, while continue to buy their products. what is this if not hypocrisy? the real "bad guy" of course are people that prefers a cheaper pair of shoes and just don't care. the company is the scapegoat.
you can't own the air, i'm already using it. homesteading only possible for unused objects. so sorry, but you are late.
May 20 2012: Krisztian, I am not convinced of your assertion that people are the real "bad guy" since the reason MANY companies can operate irresponsibly is because people (their customers) need tools to exist in a society that has been constructed to require such tools. The tools within classical capitalism amount to a buy-sell spiral that makes no mind of the actual effect on people.
Corporations are made from people and are designed to serve their interests. The reason you blame people is the same reason one might blame companies: if neither care about consumption/production effects on society than the default effect is the one that is built into the system - people seen to merely exist as a trade unit.
Are you nothing more than a commodity for someone to buy and sell?
If you don't believe that then are you the real "bad guy"?
As a tool, we need corporations to reflect the optimal standard of human interest rather than some minimal standard otherwise their operations will serve to demean humanity. Do you use a knife or a spoon to cut your food: using the wrong tool for a given purpose seems foolish.
I suspect that were everyone to live in abject poverty, even only briefly, then the argument trying to generally blame people would reflect on more relevant means.
May 16 2012: I do apologize for getting a bit worked up by your perspectives! Thanks for that. You help me sharpen and clarify my opinion, and allow me to better understand the paradigms of those who see the world differently than I. I think we are both Idealists in that neither of our "best practices for convivial existence" will ever come to be; we can never truly know what is best or consider all the variables.
I am a conservationist by employ, so I have a tendency to see the world as a whole. My concerns are the long-term well-being of the animals and eco-systems around me. Because I view humans as animals first and foremost, I fret about the risks that a materialistic and consumer society places on future generations. This could be from the squandering of non-renewable resources, pollution, loss of biodiversity, etc. Maybe Natural Capitalism where we respect the triple bottom line could be a point of commonality for the two of us...
It is true too that you are using the air, so I can't own it all because presumably you own the air that you are using, or are we sharing? Can we share the water and fish and forests too? If I can own a river but not the air, what are we going to do about clouds and rain?
May 17 2012: i'm not a conservationist. i certainly don't support mindless destruction of the environment, nor rapid exhaustion of some natural resource. but i think nature itself is not conservative, so why would i? but i doubt that it is the source of our disagreement.
our disagreement stems in the way we want to achieve goals. you seem to follow the engineer approach. that is, you want to design what everyone have to do in order to achieve something. while i believe in some sort of swarm intelligence, a cooperative self organizing structure of freely interacting individuals. i believe if people care, we don't need central planning. if people don't care, no central planning will help.
ownership is a complex problem. in modern libertarian theory, you don't own objects. you own uses of objects. if you own a hammer, you own the usage rights of that hammer, all known and unknown, at any time. but if i can do something with it, through magic or quantum whatnot theory, i can do it as long as i don't disturb your use of it. it is a difficult question whether i homesteaded the "backpacking" rights of a nearby forest just by going there backpacking every now and then. it is quite logical to say yes. an even more difficult problem is the atmosphere. i'm using it for many reasons. what if a company emits some pollutant? in what degree they damaged my atmosphere using? should they ask for a permit? should they pay compensation? we need solutions to these answers. but i claim solutions can be found.
as a side note, as i'm told, it worked like that in the past. of course, things were a lot simpler back then. but for example if you wanted to pour waste water in a river, you had to get a permit from everyone living downriver. i would like that concept modernized. do you want to build deepwater horizon? cool. get a permit from each and every fisher and beach owner in the gulf.
May 17 2012: Salim your story reflects both the fallacious circular reasoning of your average free enterprise profiteer, and illustrates that when we honestly reflect on the things that give us the most satisfaction in life it turns out that wealth, status and production are not that important. The average male, if given the choice, would favour a life spent pursuing the things we like to do when we aren't working for money. Sport, music, art, hobbies, playing with one's kids, hunting and fishing, messing about in boats, romancing our lady friends, appreciating nature, helping out a neighbour, etc. Industrial productivity is not our default setting; it is a response to a paradigm or set of values manufactured by the economic model. As Senge writes, "Structure dictates behaviour". If we create better structures/models to live with our behaviour will change to reflect those values and goals.... I am listening to some fisherman on the VHF. One just said, "Lousy fishing today but it sure beats working!"
You are absolutely right about my philosophy having "environmento" in its title. I can't see how we can ignore the most fundamental building block of our entire existence. Economists have been ignoring the intrinsic value of an intact eco-system for as long as people have practiced that form of religion or pseudo-science.
Krisztian you are right that I think an engineered approach is better, but there are lots of caveats that need to be applied. I am a bit of a technocrat in that I think we should elect or ask people who are qualified to apply their skills towards a more just and sustainable society, rather than allow political parties to nominate lawyers or salesmen... I exaggerate of course...
You are right also that people need to care for societies to work. Capitalism says: If I prosper, society will benefit." Socialism says, "If society does well, the individual will thrive." Neither will work in the 21st century without consideration of the planet's carrying capacity.
May 19 2012: I encourage you or anyone reading to consider how the biological wealth of the planet contributes directly to our quality of life and our economies. There is a direct link between prosperity and ecological health. As we impoverish the natural world we diminish the natural capitol laid down by 3.8 billion years of evolution. Stable ecosystems are fragile and loss of keystone species can cause catastrophic cascades ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascade_effect_(ecology) ). Nature is a system and doesn't operate purely on cause and effect.
Also Krisztian you mention the wealth of Europe and America in the19th, "quality of life in europe is high because the great economic progress of the 19th century and before. we are eating the fruits of their hard labor." I would argue that the wealth of Europe came primarily from pillaging or being "subsidized" by the New World and Africa. Slavery (free labour) is great for the bottom line, and if those slaves can be forced to strip their own nations of resources to send back to Europe it is extra-great, if your moral paradigm allows it. Without guns, ships and germs, Europe would be a backward, environmentally impoverished corner of the planet.
A quote for you to ponder: "Today we have a temporary aberration called "industrial capitalism" which is inadvertently liquidating its two most important sources of capital.. the natural world and properly functioning societies. No sensible capitalist would do that." Amory Lovins
May 19 2012: mankind is dependent on nature, that is granted. but some believe that the effects of humans are greatly exaggerated. but it does not follow from it that the state is the right organization to defend natural resources. i would not trust such an important issue on such a cumbersome, rigid and slow institution.
the fact is that the wealth of 18th and 19th century europe has nothing to do with the rest of the world. you can see many evidence for it. goods didn't travel, only luxury goods. not until the late 20th century, world trade was significant. it was easier to move people than food. slavery didn't really exist in europe. in the US, you can see that the northern states that didn't allow slavery were economically more advanced. every evidence, and logic too, tells that the wealth of europe came from the inside. and it was the factor that allowed them to conquer the world, not vice versa.
May 28 2012: Comment: Hi Krisztian,
I respect all you say .. and I respect all others who have spoken.
It has occured to me that there is a missing factor in the whole socialist/capitalist continuum.
Look, I'm going to have to read every word presented in this thread .. this will take a while, and I hope you (and others) will add to my analysis to advance our mutual understanding.
OK - I'll start with the obvious - Australia, as a social democratic system is making the rest of the world look like loosers at this point in history. THis is a process of social adaptation to economic and political reality - we ride the waves as a people .. most other nations seem to prefer plunging into the drowning depths of outdated ideology before they realise their perril .. too slow is the same as dead.
OK - next. If you are trapped by a job, you are giving your whole life-force to a thing called "money" at the expense of your family and community. I do NOT subscribe to a central social controler - that is as obscene as giving your life up to money - all human life has its root and expression in family and community. We are defined by communication - all the etamological variants of "comm" apply - this is prime in the species "homo sapiens".
Please consider. I see you have the capacity to give more.
Adam Sid
May 20 2012: I totaly agree with your comment,because you hit the point on the right spot.
The world became global and we have to change our way of thinking in a concern for everyone on this planet and have to look what we really need instead a exploitative behavour.with all our desire for more and more luxury we destroy this planet from their sources and in about 30 years we are running out of clean water,oil,steel and so on.
I think the current crisis shows us that we have to be aware that the world becomes every day more interconnected and that we have to become world citizens.
A new kind of education is needed for our children.To foster understanding the integral system we live in, our role in this new global society of which we are all members and learn how to educate ourselves and our youth to better be in balance with our integral world.Think another mindset will change everything for the benefit of everyone......
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