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I'm having a baby.
I'm terrified, and excited, and all of the other emotions you'd expect.
Mostly, though, we're just excited.
I don't believe in accidents.
But a pleasant surprise? Very much so.
I'm having a baby.
I'm terrified, and excited, and all of the other emotions you'd expect.
Mostly, though, we're just excited.
I don't believe in accidents.
But a pleasant surprise? Very much so.
That I'm able to tell you this fucked up story.
I would tell you over lunch, but you'd have to come get me and buy my meal.
I mean, I would treat you, but that might be hard to do with no car keys, no cash, no credit cards, no debit card, no check book, and no ID.
You see, a couple of low-lifes (driving a fucking ESCALADE no less) decided tonight that they needed my things more than I did. They also needed my friends cell phone, his wallet, and all the money he had in his pocket. Which, by the way, was all of his money. Seriously. To his name. (What, all of a week after his girlfriend of FOREVER broke up with him (for his friend), and moved out of the apartment they shared. I'm pissed, and I'm scared, but man, CodeMaster is FUCKED.)
As much as I hate that he had to be there with me, I'm so, so thankful I wasn't alone.
Who knows what would have happened then.
But yeah, the lowdown:
Went to the bar to see my friends' band play… A few friends met me there. Had two beers, and decided to call it a night. I was planning on giving Cody a ride home, and then stopping by Berto's for a few on my way back through. (Cody came with Bert, but he was making a pit-stop, so I took Cody.) The bar is packed and there are cars EVERYWHERE. No second thought. So anyway, we get in the car, and before I even have my door shut, Cody is getting back out of the car. There's some commotion, I hear "whoa, whoa" (which makes me think that the car next to mine is about to hit my door with theirs) and then I realize what's going on. He was getting robbed. While HALF IN THE CAR. There is talk of guns, and shooting people, and yeah… A guy comes around to my side of the car, wants my cell phone, money, purse, anything I've got. I grab the cash from my pocket, tell him I have no cell phone, and this is all my money. He takes my purse and my KEYS, points a gun at me and tells me to get back in the car. The guy on the other side tells Cody the same thing. Then they left. In and out, less than five.
I saw a gun. Cody saw a gun. That makes two guns. They were wearing face masks, and they took off before we could get out of the car. I didn't get their license plate #.
Know what that means? They'll never get caught. Someone else will be in my shoes, and in fact, probably already is. At the hands of the same worthless wastes of life.
I'd like to think that they just wanted the money. The rest was a formality. I'd like to think that they aren't going to look at the address on my license and come steal my car, or let themselves inside my house… My home, where my family sleeps. But the fact that this is not the first time that this has happened to me, doesn't allow for that kind of thinking.
Point blank?
I'm kind of scared.
You're so much more than our "old boss".
Giving your support, guidance, and friendship…
You really are our "mama bear".
Thank you.
Every luxury in your life,
you've worked for.
Your beautiful marriage and children,
you've worked for.
I'm thankful for your example.
And don't ask why.
My life is perfect because it's nothing but opportunities.
Every single moment. New. Another chance.
(Yes, I am alive. Thanks for your concern. <3 )
Do you know what you were sorry for when you apologized for your father?
No? Well anyway, your words saved my life.
Please don't beat yourself up for "leaving us behind".
You're just out paving the road.
Someone has got to lead the way.
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Another double dose today. Had just a little more to say.
Eight years old, sitting on your stairs eating bubblegum on Halloween night, I realized how someone who wasn't related could be family.
We were inseparable for years. On the down low. Bike riding while the 'rents walked was my favorite. Hope you're doing well.


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Ask Dairy Queen to improve its children's meals
Earlier this year, CSPI published a report evaluating the nutritional quality of children's meals at the nation's top chain restaurants. The report found that 97% of kids' meals are of poor nutritional value — too many calories, saturated fat, and sodium, and not enough fruits, vegetables, and whole grains.
We need your help in encouraging restaurants to do better. This month we're focusing on Dairy Queen. Please tweet at Dairy Queen and ask them to improve the nutritional quality of their children's menu (see models below).
At the time of our study, none of Dairy Queen's kids' meals met CSPI's or the National Restaurant Association's (NRA) nutrition standards.
Since the study, Dairy Queen joined the NRA's Kids LiveWell program. While the Kids LiveWell nutrition standards are reasonable, restaurants only have to offer one meal and one additional item that meet the standards to participate in the program. Dairy Queen added a turkey wrap, banana, and strawberry banana smoothie to its kids' menu. However, most of Dairy Queen's kids' menu remains of poor nutritional value.
We're pleased to see Dairy Queen join Kids LiveWell, but it should do much more to improve the nutritional quality of its children's meals. It also could add more fruit and vegetable options and not offer ice cream as a default option.
Please tweet @DairyQueen and ask them to improve their children's menu. Below are model tweets, as well as a Facebook post.
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Of course @DairyQueen is a treat, but its kids' menu is one of the worst among chain restaurants. @DairyQueen, please do better by kids
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July 22, 2010, 03:13 PM
The knife to the left of the 1911.
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July 22, 2010, 03:32 PM
That is a HideAway Curvy
July 22, 2010, 06:41 PM
Looks least useful of anything there.
July 22, 2010, 10:30 PM
Seems to me like a solid "oh crap" weapon. I like the larger models better.
July 23, 2010, 02:23 AM
Looks least useful of anything there.
Yeah, I know. I've just never seen anything like it before.
July 24, 2010, 08:39 PM
Hideaways offer a discrete means of carrying an an effective edged weapon; its strength lies as much in the carry options it allows as in its design. That doesn't change because some don't "get it" or have preferred alternatives doesn't change that. The company started off strong, then faltered. Hopefully it will get itself back on track.
July 24, 2010, 11:15 PM
The company started off strong, then faltered. With those prices and wait times, I'm not surprised. I don't know how crucial the size measurement is, but it seems they could cover just about everyone with maybe three sizes. Then they could make them all out of one kind of steel and have a reasonable price and sell LOTS of them. The concept does have appeal.
You could go buy a pair of embroidery scissors for about twenty bucks or less and have something that would fill some of the same roles, and without arousing as much suspicion if found. Scissors are very handy, and I think you can even carry them on airplanes.
July 25, 2010, 08:06 PM
No. Nothing stabby is allowed on airplanes. Even nail clippers are sometimes confiscated.
July 25, 2010, 08:24 PM
The hideaway is a pretty nifty tool for police. Mounted properly to your rig it offers an excellent means of seatbelt cutting as well as a ECQ option in the rare event that something gets dicey.
I think the Hybrid is the best blade profile as it offers the straight in and straight down cutting technique.
The size thing is really not that critical I would think either. I have actually owned a few that were not fitted to me. They both were just a bit big. Nothing hockey tape could not fix though.
July 25, 2010, 08:51 PM
Just looks like a modified skinner to me........
July 26, 2010, 12:28 AM
Actually the Hideaway is a pretty cool concept. It's pretty much a single purpose knife. The utility of it is the single capsule hole that allows you to "wear" the knife on your hand while keeping your fingers free to perform other tasks. For example, if you are carrying a handgun at the ready in a two-handed grip with the hideaway on your weakside hand it makes it difficult for a goblin to grab your gun and try to disarm you. It's like a raptor claw. I have one...just to have...and never really use it much beyond the rare times wearing it in the neck sheath under a t-shirt if I'm at the pool or the beach and have no place to wear my EDC. Even though it sits in the drawer mostly it's one of things that's kind of cool to have in the collection. And the quality of both knife and sheath are really good.
Joe Demko
July 26, 2010, 11:56 AM
Looks least useful of anything there.
July 26, 2010, 12:29 PM
The bottom knife, though, looks like a very size-efficient last-ditch defensive tool.
July 26, 2010, 08:36 PM
JShirley wrote:
No. Nothing stabby is allowed on airplanes. Even nail clippers are sometimes confiscated. Check out the TSA's website here; you'll be surprised.
Scissors - metal with pointed tips and blades shorter than four inchesare allowed in both carry-on and checked baggage, but should be taped or sheathed.
July 27, 2010, 12:44 AM
Good luck meeting TSA staffers that actually know and understand the law! :mad:
July 27, 2010, 12:54 AM
Plenty of TSA agents in my travels have passed scissors through in a first aid kit or grooming kit in my carry on. Same for nail clippers as long as they don't include the "traditional" pen knife blade.
OTOH, there have been times in the early days of TSA that you weren't allowed to take these into the sterile area of an airport. Not so much a problem for the past couple of years.
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- Alabama holds off slumping No. 15 Texas A&M, 63-62 Updated: Feb-10-16 10:31 pm
TUSCALOOSA, Alabama - Texas A&M's Southeastern Conference slump continues, but the Aggies didn't go down without a fight.
- Alabama holds off slumping No. 15 Texas A&M, 63-62 Updated: Feb-10-16 10:16 pm
TUSCALOOSA, Alabama - Avery Johnson's already brought big wins to Alabama's program even during an up and down season.
- Johnson, Bama's tough run starts with No. 15 Texas A&M Updated: Feb-09-16 6:42 pm
TUSCALOOSA, Alabama - Avery Johnson's first Alabama team is used to taking on deeper, often more talented opponents.
- Thornwell, No. 25 South Carolina top No. 8 Texas A&M 81-78 Updated: Feb-06-16 8:49 pm
COLLEGE STATION, Texas - A big day from long range kept Sindarius Thornwell and No. 25 South Carolina in the mix for the Southeastern Conference title.
- Roberson helps Vanderbilt upset No. 8 Texas A&M 77-60 Updated: Feb-04-16 10:43 pm
NASHVILLE, Tennessee - Vanderbilt was tired of the constant criticism.
- Arkansas ends No. 5 Texas A&M's streak with 74-71 win Updated: Jan-27-16 10:42 pm
FAYETTEVILLE, Arkansas - Dusty Hannahs had heard just about all he could handle regarding Arkansas' woes in close games this season.
- Jones scores 20 as No. 10 A&M gets 66-53 win over Missouri Updated: Jan-23-16 7:07 pm
COLLEGE STATION, Texas - Texas A&M had trouble getting its offense going in the first half against Missouri on Saturday.
- Texas A&M rolling toward NCAA tourney after 4-year absence Updated: Jan-20-16 2:10 pm
COLLEGE STATION, Texas - Texas A&M's return to prominence has been several years in the making.
- Jones scores 20 as No. 10 Texas A&M gets 71-57 win over LSU Updated: Jan-20-16 12:12 am
COLLEGE STATION, Texas - Texas A&M's Tyler Davis doesn't command a fraction of the hype that LSU's Ben Simmons does.
- Jones, Caruso, House lead No. 15 Texas A&M's rout of Georgia Updated: Jan-16-16 5:29 pm
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My Steamroller came set up 44/19, which makes going uphill easy, going downhill a *****, and is slow everywhere else. According to Sheldon's calculator 61.1 gear inches (For 700 X 25 / 25-622 tire with 165 mm cranks). So I'm aiming to move up to around 69 gear inches and there are quite a few ways to make that happen.
The stock Andel cranks have a 130 BCD and I see rings up to 50t available, so I could go 50t up front and keep the 19t in back for 69.4 gear inches. However it seems that most here are running 46t and 48t rings, is there any reason why going to a 50t would be a bad idea in this case?


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This will be her sixth loan from Tujijenge Tanzania. She used the previous loans to buy more stock of chicken. She started with five pieces but now she can manage to buy thirty pieces. She has paid back all of her loans successfully. She used the profit to pay school fees and cover household expenses. She is doing fine and is happy with the loan which has helped her to make a living without a husband. She will use the loan to buy more chicken, cooking oil and charcoal for the business. Her dream is to one day build her own house.
Zulfa will share this loan with her loan group "Jiungeni" with nine members who will hold each other accountable for paying back the loan.
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About Tujijenge TanzaniaThis loan is administered by Tujijenge Tanzania, which was founded in 2006. It has operations in Dar es Salaam, the coastal region, and the Lake Victoria region. The organization aims to reach out to micro entrepreneurs and provide them with financial and social intermediation services because capital is one of the major barriers to development and success for micro-enterprise initiatives in Tanzania.
For more information on Tujijenge Tanzania, please visit its partner page, or join its lending team.
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So it turns out that one of the other investors in Dave Checketts' potential St. Louis Rams ownership group is George Soros, the left-leaning billionaire who once vowed to use all his wealth to help defeat George W. Bush in the 2004 Presidental election. Soros and Rush Limbaugh, on the same team? What extraordinary bedfellows NFL capitalism begets. Montagues and Capulets, living together … utter chaos!
If nothing else, it just goes to show what formidable financial interests are at stake here, and why it's no surprise that Limbaugh was left behind at the nearest bus stop once the heat was on. Whether the criticism of Limbaugh was fair or not, billionaires tend not to want a spare albatross as a necklace when trying to buy big, expensive things. Kind of ironic that the unchecked capitalism that Rush so openly worships is what ultimately did him in.
Meanwhile, Limbaugh took to the airwaves today to say that, when Checketts first approached him about being an investor, Checketts assured him that he (Limbaugh) had been "cleared by the highest levels of the NFL." Wow, somebody's lying.
From BLOOMBERG NEWS:
Limbaugh's group is led by former Madison Square Garden President and current St. Louis Blues and Real Salt Lake majority owner Dave Checketts, who brings a wealth of sports industry contacts, know-how and credibility. Checketts also brings big-time backers like George Soros, who financed the duo's failed attempt to buy the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2003.
Checketts's ownership of hockey's Blues is backed by, among others, TowerBrook Capital Partners, which was formerly known as Soros Private Equity Partners before it was spun off from Soros Asset Management Group in 2005.
Now that Limbaugh is toast, we may see his supporters pick up pieces of the wreckage and start hitting Checketts with it. For example, what will right-wing pundits say about Soros, who, in his book "The Age of Fallibility," compared the Bush administration to the Nazis? As PRO FOOTBALL TALK asked earlier today, is that as incendiary as anything Limbaugh is supposed to have said?
Meanwhile, Checketts confirmed this morning that Limbaugh was indeed out, and Rush responded via his radio show in typical, low-key fashion. From AP:
On his syndicated show Thursday, Limbaugh said he was approached by St. Louis Blues chairman Dave Checketts earlier this year about participating in a Rams bid. He also said Checketts assured him his involvement as a minority investor had been vetted by the NFL.
"I said to him at this meeting, 'Are you aware of the firestorm?' He said 'We wouldn't have approached you if we hadn't taken care of that,'" Limbaugh said.
Limbaugh added that Checketts had told him his involvement had been cleared at the "highest levels of the NFL."
Other Limbaugh quotes today:
"To make med the poster boy of racism was designed to intimidate the owners, who are really in charge of this league," Limbaugh said. "The end result of all of this, folks, is that i have lost nothing. very little little. On the other hand, our country has lost a great deal. … I am the mirror. I am the man who showed us what America is becoming."
Limbaugh said that the real reason he was dumped was because of "the blind hatred of the sportswriting community."
"These people who enabled this event for their own personal and business reasons, who told all those lies, they're going to be just as unhappy as they were before this happened."


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Back in September, Upper Darby police found 20 frozen kittens in a freezer on Ardmore Avenue. The week before, they had busted an alleged brothel across the street. Now, cops say they've arrested a woman from the same block of Ardmore Avenue who abandoned her two dogs in November, leaving them to freeze to death, starve to death, or overdose on her pills – or a combination of the three.
Patricia Ray, 40, was charged Wednesday with animal cruelty and related crimes for the death of her dogs, a tan retriever and a Pomeranian, that were found dead in her home last weekend.
"The officer went in looking for her and found these two dogs, both lying on the floor, dead," said police Superintendent Michael Chitwood Sr. The electricity was turned off in November because Ray hadn't paid the bill, and the pooches were wearing an electronic collar that prevented them from barking.


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ABSTRACT: Secondary tumors of the thyroid are very rare, being the kidney the most frequent place of the primary tumor. The majority of these metastases appear months or years after the primary renal tumor. We report the case of an asymptomatic renal carcinoma discovered after the histological analysis of a thyroidectomy piece. The treatment of the primary renal tumor was radical nephrectomy. Three years after diagnosis and treatment the patient is free of relapse.


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i'm all set to softmod and install unleashx on my xbox... primarily for movies and emulators...
is there a tutorial online anywhere with how to burn to the hard drive after i've installed unleashx , i.e. how to get the roms and emulator on there and the DVD or AVI files?
sorry to ask but never done anything like this before!
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you can either ftp your files to your xbox or you can burn whichever emus and roms to a dvdr/cdw and use your the unleashx file explorer to copy the files to your xbox hdd.
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Arizona: Climate Impact Ground Zero?
"A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest", the recent book written by William deBuys, is getting some attention. The NYTimes summed up the book by quoting the author: "The story of the West is essentially a story about water". The reporter paused then quoted deBuys again: "and its lack".
DeBuys can write and he obviously loves the area. The book is a story of how people have coped with living in the desert in the American Southwest in the distant past, the present, and how climate change complicates what they will have to cope with in the future.
DeBuys understands some climate science. Those interested in how to flesh out their case that something needs to be done about global climate change will find he has vividly described how the first big impact on a region in a rich country might develop. He lays it all out calmly and backs it with impressive references.
At one point he describes the prospects for "the Sun Corridor" of Arizona. He defines this area as: "a broad swath of central Arizona running from Prescott northwest of Phoenix to Nogales and Sierra Vista hard against the border south of Tucson". About 5 million people live there. Planners were confidently projecting 16 million for not long after 2030.
There's a roadblock up ahead for this place almost everyone pretended could not be there. Denial was so firmly entrenched the first formal study factoring climate change into the Lake Mead water calculations did not take place until 2008.
Now anyone who ever looked into the water issue in Arizona knows there was a problem before discussion of climate change came up: Arizona doesn't have solid rights to the water that makes the existence of the Sun Corridor possible. Their rights are subordinate to the rights of California. When push comes to shove, as Lake Mead dries up, at some point California gets the legal right to turn off Arizona's tap.
Before Sun Corridor development could take off, Arizona needed to build infrastructure to move water it was as entitled to at the time as California was to its water, to the area. It found it couldn't get the federal funds it needed unless it could cut a deal with California. California demanded this concession. Arizona signed its rights away. It got water where it wanted it now with no assurance that it would get water later. The plan was to get rich quick now. Maybe they thought after they were all rich they could move to La Jolla. The Sun Corridor got decades of phenomenal economic growth out of it.
Lake Mead was never supposed to dry up.
Without Colorado River Basin water, unless a magic wand turns up, the Sun Corridor starts to die. Even if you don't factor climate change into the picture, DeBuys explains, this deal is not looking good in the long term for Arizona.
The original Colorado River Basin water rights allocated in 1922 were based on invalid data. Now that the full 20th century record of actual water flows exists it is clear there isn't going to be water in the quantities they thought were assured when they decided things in 1922. Las Vegas newspaper editors sneered at that 2008 study that factored climate change into projections for the Lake Mead water level. Now the city is putting a drain into the bottom of Lake Mead, "to ensure the Las Vegas Valley's water supply" until the last drop. Well before that last drop heads to Las Vegas, Arizona gets cut off
There are tree ring studies going back 1000 years and more, all of which indicate that the 20th century, the one that was supposedly drier than they thought one could be in 1922, was a century that was wetter than the normal century in the region. The paleo studies also turned up this wild card: there were droughts of far longer duration than anything US citizens have ever seen that hit the region repeatedly. Arizona's second class water right means that in any unprecedented Colorado River Basin drought situation Arizona gets hit first.
You can't expand at the pace the Sun Corridor has been expanding for decades into an area where the supply of water is tight and diminishing. Throw climate change in on top. What will happen as the climate changes?
DeBuys says when he wrote to Tim Barnett at Scripps one time he included a sentence introducing himself which explained his purpose in writing his book: "I am not trying to write a good guys/bad guys story, just trying to understand how we got into this fix and what our chances are for getting out." Barnett took this as a question: what are our chances for getting out of this?
He wrote back: "NIL. If climate change scenarios are reasonably correct."
One interesting aspect of this situation is that, according to the NYTimes, "the region's politics tend to embrace the idea that collective action of any kind is inherently suspicious or even evil; government is the problem, never the solution; and regulation is the bane of economic growth".
People like this are the most likely to deny the obvious by declaring the preposterous: that climate scientists, worldwide, almost all of them, are corrupt or stupid, and their science is half baked or a hoax. I wonder what they'll say after the last drop in Lake Mead is gone. I expect they will be beating on the doors of Congress telling us that government-is-evil stuff wasn't meant to say they don't deserve to be bailed out. They can hope they are the first big casualty: if not, they'll have to take a number, and wait in line.
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on facebook and research methods
Twitter is, well, a-twitter with people worked up about the Facebook study. If you haven't been paying attention, FB tested whether they could affect people's status updates by showing 700,000 folks either "happier" or "sadder" updates for a week in January 2012. This did indeed cause users to post more happy or sad updates themselves. In addition, if FB showed fewer emotional posts (in either direction), people reduced their posting frequency. (PNAS article here, Atlantic summary here.)
What most people seem to be upset about (beyond a subset who are arguing about the adequacy of FB's methods for identifying happy and sad posts) is the idea that FB could experiment on them without their knowledge. One person wondered whether FB's IRB (apparently it was IRB approved — is that an internal process?) considered its effects on depressed people, for example.
While I agree that the whole idea is creepy, I had two reactions to this that seemed to differ from most.
1) Facebook is advertising! Use it, don't use it, but the entire purpose of advertising is to manipulate your emotional state. People seem to have expectations that FB should show content "neutrally," but I think it is entirely in keeping with the overall product: FB experiments with what it shows you in order to understand how you will react. That is how they stay in business. (Well, that and crazy Silicon Valley valuation dynamics.)
2) This is the least of it. I read a great post the other day at Microsoft Research's Social Media Collective Blog (here) about all the weird and misleading things FB does (and social media algorithms do more generally) to identify what kinds of content to show you and market you to advertisers. To pick one example: if you "like" one thing from a source, you are considered to "like" all future content from that source, and your friends will be shown ads that list you as "liking" it. One result is dead people "liking" current news stories.
My husband, who spent 12 years working in advertising, pointed out that this research doesn't even help FB directly, as you could imagine people responding better to ads when they're happy or when they're sad. And that the thing FB really needs to do to attract advertisers is avoid pissing off its user base. So, whoops.
Anyway, this raises interesting questions for people interested in using big data to answer sociological questions, particularly using some kind of experimental intervention. Does signing a user agreement when you create an account really constitute informed consent? And do companies that create platforms that are broadly adopted (and which become almost obligatory to use) have ethical obligations in the conduct of research that go beyond what we would expect from, say, market research firms? We're entering a brave new world here.
ten years towards big impact: david burns' feeling good
One of the awesome aspects of grad school (besides the occasional "free" pizza as you listen to the latest in research) is the sharing of resources among colleagues who are undergoing the same experiences. One grad school friend gave out copies of David Burns' seminal Feeling Good, an exercise book that explains how to practice cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT).
Back in the fall, the Stanford alumni magazine had an article about how Burns became convinced of CBT's efficacy over prescription drugs as a tool for treating depression, anxiety, perfectionism, and other paralyzing feelings:
What Burns did in Feeling Good, the first mass-market, evidence-based, self-help book for the relief of depression, was explain the tenets of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for the lay person: that depression is caused by self-defeating beliefs and negative thoughts—thoughts like "I'm not good enough," "I'll never amount to anything," or "I have no friends." Feeling Good included exercises readers could use to change how they reacted to such thoughts and to stop depression before it spiraled down into an endless abyss of despair and pain. Study after study has since demonstrated CBT's effectiveness.
Burns did not invent CBT; its philosophical underpinnings can be traced back to the Buddha or to Epictetus, the Stoic. Credit for laying the foundation of modern CBT generally goes to Philadelphia psychiatrist T. Aaron Beck and the late New York psychologist Albert Ellis. Burns remembers when he, like most psychiatrists, didn't believe that something as simple as how we think could cause depression.
Working at the University of Pennsylvania's Depression Research Unit in the 1970s, Burns researched the theory that low serotonin levels cause depression, an idea widely accepted as the "chemical imbalance theory" and conventional wisdom among popular media, many physicians and much of the public. Although Burns won the A. E. Bennett award from the Society of Biological Psychiatry in 1975 for his research on brain serotonin metabolism, he was not convinced that the chemical imbalance theory was valid. In one study, he and his colleagues gave massive daily doses of the amino acid l-Trytophan to depressed veterans in a double-blind study. L-Trytophan goes directly from the stomach to the blood to the brain, where it is transformed into serotonin. If depression results from a deficiency of brain serotonin, the massive increase should have triggered clinical improvement, but it didn't.
The study was published in a top research journal but did little to dim the growing excitement about the chemical imbalance theory. In 1988, Lilly launched the world's first blockbuster SSRI antidepressant, a drug with powerful effects on brain serotonin receptors. During its first 13 years, Prozac generated $21 billion in sales, or 30 percent of Lilly's revenues. Burns still wasn't convinced.
"I always wanted to see people's lives transformed from depression and anxiety to joy and peace," he says. In his clinical work, he didn't see that happening very often, no matter how many pills he prescribed. His department chair suggested that he sit in on one of Dr. Aaron Beck's weekly cognitive therapy seminars.
At first, Burns thought Beck's presentation sounded like "pure hucksterism"; still, he began using CBT methods if only to prove to himself that they didn't work. Soon, many patients he'd been treating with drugs and "you talk, I'll listen" therapy started to get better. A lot better.
Burns felt torn. He had just won a five-year grant to develop a brain serotonin lab at Penn. Yet he wasn't convinced serotonin played a role in depression or any other psychiatric disorder. After three agonizing months, Burns decided he'd "rather spend my life doing something that works." He left Penn and opened a private practice "in a storeroom with a window," two stories below Beck's Center for Cognitive Therapy.
Burns's doubts were vindicated by a landmark 2002 metastudy conducted by psychologist Irving Kirsch, now at Harvard, of all trials submitted to the FDA by the manufacturers of the six most widely prescribed antidepressants approved between 1987 and 1999. Not widely publicized until a 60 Minutes report in February 2012, it showed only a slight difference in patient response between the drugs and placebos.
the psychology of ivy league grads on wall street
Ezra Klein interviews Kevin Roose, who has a new book about young Ivy League graduates who work on Wall Street. The take home point is simple: people who graduate from competitive schools graduate toward these jobs not because they love business, but because they want security. Wall Street jobs are high paid, require little experience, and have a bit of prestige. On the origins of the short term Wall Street job:
Wall Street invented this new way of recruiting in the early 80s. Before that they hired like any other industry. If you wanted to be a banker you applied for a job at a bank and they hired you or they didn't. But in the early 80s Goldman Sachs and others figured out they could broaden their net and get lots of really smart people if they made it a temporary position rather than a permanent one.
So they created the two-and-out program. The idea is you're there for two years and then you move onto something else. That let them attract not just hardcore econ majors but people majoring in other subjects who had a passing interest in finance and didn't know what else to do. People now think going to a bank for two years will help prepare them for the next thing and keep them from having to make these hard decisions about the rest of their life. It made it like an extension of college. And it was genius. It led to this huge explosion in recruitment and something like a third of Ivy League graduates going to Wall Street.
Of course, it's a mixed bag for the grads:
EK: So after writing this book, what would you say to a college senior thinking of going to Wall Street?
KR: First I would ask them why they wanted to work in an investment bank. If the answer is "because I'm tremendously in debt and need to pay it out" or "I've been reading Barron's since I was 12 years old and I desperately want to be an investment banker" then those are legitimate reasons. Go ahead. But if it's just about taking risk off the table and doing the safe prestigious thing, I'd tell them first that it will make them truly miserable, the kind of miserable it could take years to recover from, and that it also no longer has that imprimatur. It can actually hinder you. I've spoken to tech recruiters who say they only hire bankers in their first year or two because after that banking ruins them.
EK: How does it ruin them?
KR: It makes them too risk conscious. It gets them used to a standard of lifestyle they may not be able to replicate in any other industry. And it has a deleterious effect on creativity. Of the eight people I followed, a few came out very damaged by the experience. And not in a way a vacation can cure. It's not about having bags under your eyes. It destroys your ability to think in creative ways about what it means to build something of value. The people I followed would admit they got a lot out of being a banker but I don't think they're all that tuned into the ways the experience changed them.
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centrism and sociology – guest post by chris martin
This guest post on the politics of sociology is written by Chris Martin, a doctoral student in sociology at Emory University.
Conservativism doesn't seem to be a unipolar thing, according to much of the social psychological research on political attitudes. Rather, you can be conservative by being high in either social dominance orientation (SD) or right-wing authoritarianism (RWA). Of course, the two dimensions are moderately correlated but they're not the same thing: high-SDO people dislike socially subordinate groups, and high RWO dislike socially deviant (or unconventional) groups. As a centrist, however, I've found that there's a lack of research on the opposite poles of these scales even though there clearly seem to be a subset of liberals who like socially subordinate groups and a subset who like socially deviant groups. Again, there's considerable overlap between these two subsets. And there's a small subset of libertarian liberals who don't lean toward either pole.
This comes across in social psychological work on religious freedom. Early research showed that high-RWA people are more supportive of Christian than Muslim mandatory prayer, while low-RWA people oppose both types of prayer equally. However, if you change "mandatory" to "voluntary," you find that low-RWA people no longer disfavor both types. Rather, they more strongly favor Muslim than Christian school prayer space.
To some degree, I've found that sociology has become so ideologically homogenous that it's now the disciplinary norm to avoid using "inequality" to describe preferential treatment of subordinate or deviant groups. In the race domain, in fact, centrists can get accused of supporting colorblind ideology or denying White privilege, even if they have a well-reasoned critique of preferential treatment. And in the gender/sexuality domain, the norm is for 50% of the research to focus on people who are deviant by conventional standards. But this skewness of focus isn't termed inequality. My point isn't about race or gender, though, but the large issue of whether there's place for centrists in sociology—people who neither valorize nor condemn subordinate and deviant groups. Psychological social scientists have begun to address this issue—see Jonathan Haidt and Lee Jussim in particular—focusing on how this political homogeneity harms science. Where does sociology stand?
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confidence, gender, and the social psychology of inequality
The Atlantic has a new article called "The Confidence Gap." Katty Kay and Claire Shipman review the academic literature to discuss one source of gender inequality – the systematic differences in confidence. Roughly speaking, Kay and Shipman suggest that one reason that men are more likely to rise faster through careers is that men are simply overconfident. The fortune cookie version of the argument is that women will apply for a job only if they are sure that they 100% qualified, while men will take a shot if they are half qualified.
A few comments: While I believe that sexism exists, the article is consistent with a "sexism without sexists" style argument as well. In other words, if A and B compose half the population but A applies for raises 66% of the time and B applies 33% of the time, you will very quickly get inequality even when bosses do not consider gender.
A policy observation from some of the experimental work. Kay and Shipman describe an experiment where men and women subjects try to solve a puzzle and initially men do better because they answer almost all questions. Women will try only when they are sure of the answer. When women are required to do the puzzles, the scores equalize. The policy implication is that raises and promotions should be routine. People are automatically considered for raises and promotions, or everyone will be considered if the situation arises.
The article has a lot to think about for folks interested in gender and inequality.
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the limits of human sociability
Are humans by nature social animals? My colleague, Adam Waytz, argues in a provocative essay for Edge.org that the idea that humans are naturally social may be more myth than reality. That is, if we define human sociability as the tendency to be cooperative with others, compassionate, and empathetic, it's hardly the case that humans will always act or think in a social way. Adam's essay is geared towards psychologists, where the trend has been to describe humans' brains, hormones, and cognition as innately social.
He points out various ways in which psychological research points out that this is just not true. Humans are as competitive as they are cooperative, and in certain situations competition overrides cooperation. Empathy isn't an automatic response. Humans may have a strong in-group bias and a tendency to treat people outside of our group with suspicion and lack of trust. Social behaviors seem to be triggered by certain situational characteristics rather than being the default. Moreover, our capacity to be social may be much more limited than we have previously recognized.
Because motivation and cognition are finite, so too is our capacity to be social. Thus, any intervention that intends to increase consideration of others in terms of empathy, benevolence, and compassion is limited in its ability to do so. At some point, the well of working memory on which our most valuable social abilities rely will run dry.
Rather than sociability being the natural response to human interaction, it may actually be an achievement of society that we have created the right institutions that enable sociability. Sociologists, of course, have a lot to say about the latter.
stop interviewing people
A recent Washington Post op-ed describes recent research showing that interviews are poor predictors of future job performance. The idea is old, but the results elaborate in new ways. From Daniel Willingham, a psychologist at the University of Virginia:
You do end feeling as though you have a richer impression of the person than that gleaned from the stark facts on a resume. But there's no evidence that interviews prompt better decisions (e.g., Huffcutt & Arthur, 1994).
A new study (Dana, Dawes, & Peterson, 2013) gives us some understanding of why.
The information on a resume is limited but mostly valuable: it reliably predicts future job performance. The information in an interview is abundant–too abundant actually. Some of it will have to be ignored. So the question is whether people ignore irrelevant information and pick out the useful. The hypothesis that they don't is called dilution. The useful information is diluted by noise.
Dana and colleagues also examined a second possible mechanism. Given people's general propensity for sense-making, they thought that interviewers might have a tendency to try to weave all information into a coherent story, rather than to discard what was quirky or incoherent.
Three experiments supported both hypothesized mechanisms.
In other words, interviews encourage people to see patterns in the data where none exist. They also distract us with irrelevant information. Toss this in the file of "we have evidence it don't work, but people will do it anyway."
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TO MY DISMAY and to the even greater dismay of all the groundhogs, gophers, and corn-fed raccoons of Brookfield, Ohio, Rube Roy Perrotta has gone back home to take care of his garden and collect unemployment. Before I tell you where all else we ate and what we thought of the waitresspersonpeople/food, I want to publicly thank Rube Roy for helping me get back on my feet, chicken farmer-wise. In his honor, and in the interest of alliteration, I hereby name my new flock of Rhode Island Reds the Rube Roys. May they live in peace until they rest in pieces on my plate this time, with no due respect whatsoever to the foxes, bobcats, and chicken-fed raccoons of Sonoma County, who, in case they are reading this, had better stand duly warned: I've got guns. I've got long-handled axes, sledgehammers, anvils, meat slicers, sausage grinders, weed whackers, and a good arm. I've got bombs. You mess with my new little cutie pies, I'm going Saturday morning cartoonish on your animal asses. Understood?
Good. Then let's get down to business: I wanted to go to Yummy Yummy because I've been hearing really really good things about it, twice. First my brother told me, then his grillfriend told me. Huge food and great food, they both agreed, and they both told me exactly where it was, but I have one of those memories that needs to be reminded three times at least before it holds on to a thing. Thus did me and Rube Roy find ourselves at Yum Yum on Valencia and 17th, working over normal-size piles of pretty good fried Chinese food, thinking something like, Yeah, so?
"The waitresses are pretty," Rube Roy noted.
He'd ordered five-spice sesame scallops ($8.95), and I'd ordered five-flavor chicken ($6.95), only after our pretty waitressperson had assured me that the five flavors were not the same five things as the five spices. Or maybe she misunderstood the question, because both dishes were certainly fried and certainly orange and sticky and somewhat spicy, somewhat sweet. If the five spices are not exactly the same as the five flavors, there's some definite overlappage.
So ... we malordered. Our bad. Yum Yum's got over a hundred items to choose from, some of them undoubtedly better than so-so. I just remembered we also had Szechuan pickle-with-pork soup ($4.50), for example, and it was good and interesting, although I'm still not sure what about it was pickled. Anyway, there's no sense discussing the matter any further than this, because we were eating at the wrong restaurant. It hit me halfway through the meal: the Sunset! Vietnamese! The Mission isn't the Sunset, and Mandarin-style Chinese food isn't Vietnamese. We packed in what was left of our orange sticky stuff, and the next thing we knew, we were eating all over again at Yummy Yummy. The Yummy Yummy. Irving and 11th. Vietnamese.
Great logo: a clip-art cow on a big pho bowl with the words Yummy Yummy Yummy Yummy! Four times! Enough times for even me to remember! Gigantic crab-cutout wall hangings! A shrimp shrine! A basket full of chickens and peeps!
Over a hundred things on the menu, and Rube Roy managed to find the plate with the longest name and therefore the most stuff: com suon bi trung cha gio tom nuong ($6.75), or shrimp, egg roll, shredded pork, charbroiled pork chops, and egg over rice. All of which was just great, but especially, of course, the pork chops.
And out of the same 100-plus choices, I managed to find one of the best and most interesting things I ever ate: bo tai chanh ($6.95), or raw beef salad, which was a big plate full of thin-sliced beef, raw and smothered in mint leaves, green onion, and peanuts, with toasted garlic, fresh lemon wedges for squeezing, and a bowl of fish sauce for dipping. The minted meat was so flavorful and fun to eat that the lemon wedges went unsqueezed and the fish sauce was put to better use sprucing up the shrimp "cold rolls" ($4.50), which needed help on account of too much noodlage in the middle.
My brother swears by the barbecued pork chop pho, and his grillfriend swears by the chicken salad. I'll swear by the whole damn restaurant, even without the spectacular food, on account of my favorite and one of the most unfortunate in fact, the most unfortunate misspellings of vermicelli I've ever seen on a menu: vermincelli. Nine times spelled that way, so it's not just a typo. Either that's how they think the word is spelled, or Yummy Yummy makes noodles out of rats and gophers and weasels. And if that's the case, then more power to them, according to me and Rube Roy, vermins being both our biggest enemies these days.
Yum Yum House. 581 Valencia (at 17th St.), S.F. (415) 861-8698. Mon.-Fri., 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sat.-Sun., 11:30 a.m.-10 p.m. Takeout available. American Express, Discover, MasterCard, Visa. Beer and wine. Wheelchair accessible. Yummy Yummy. 1015 Irving (at 11th Ave.), S.F. (415) 566-4722. Wed.-Mon., 10 a.m.-9:30 p.m. Takeout available. MasterCard, Visa. Beer and wine. Wheelchair accessible.
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Key words: Biosensor / Grating coupler /
Phosphorothioate-modified oligonucleotides /
Telomerase / TRAP assay.
The telomerase, a eukaryotic ribonucleoprotein complex,
uses a part of the bound RNA as a template for the synthe-
sis of telomeres at the end of the chromosomes. Telom-
eres protect against random fusion events of the chromo-
somes and degradation, and stabilize chromosome ends
(Koeppel et al., 2001). The extension mechanism of the
telomerase compensates for the loss of telomeric DNA as-
sociated with each round of DNA replication. Since most
somatic cells lack telomerase the telomere length declines
with every round of cell replication, thereby determining
cellular senescence (Harley et al., 1991).
This protein represents a new branch of the poly-
merase family called te
lomerase r
everse transcriptase
(TERT) and includes enzymes that are responsible for
copying the RNA of HIV and other retroviruses. The se-
quence of human telomeres synthesized by the telom-
erase is a tandem repeat (TTAGGG)
. Affinity purification
of the human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT)
detected two protein components of sizes 123 kDa and
42 kDa. The RNA in the active state of the telomerase
(Cech, 2000), the larger protein, contains the RNA sub-
unit. Intense investigations concerning the individual
tasks of the different components of the telomerase have
revealed that healthy tissue can be transformed into tu-
mor cells by introducing the hTERT, whereas the RNA
subunit also seems to be present in telomerase-negative
cells (Cech, 2000). The telomerase, consisting of the
hTERT and the RNA subunit, replicates the 3'-end of lin-
ear chromosomes, as found in human cells, using its own
RNA component as a template (Cech, 2000). The DNA
binds to telomerase by base-pairing to the RNA template
and by interaction with the primer binding site (PBS).
The telomerase is also involved in cellular immortality
and carcinogenesis. The enzyme is recognized as an im-
portant component of cancer development. There is evi-
dence that telomerase reactivation and higher enzymatic
activity are related to oncogenic transformation of human
cells. In 85 – 90% of all advanced malignant human tu-
mors an increased amount and higher activity of the
telomerase was detected (Cech, 2000). Further investi-
gations showed that the increase of telomerase activity is
correlated with an early stage of cancerogenesis as it
marks the transformation of cells (Shay et al., 1997). Re-
cent findings by Shay et al. (2001) underlined the domi-
Biol. Chem., Vol. 383, pp. 1659 – 1666, October 2002 · Copyright © by Walter de Gruyter · Berlin · New York
Peter M. Schmidt
, Eckart Matthes
, Frieder W.
, Michael Bienert
, Christine
, Angelika Ehrlich
and Frank F. Bier
Fraunhofer-Institut für Biomedizinische Technik,
Abt. Molekulare Bioanalytik und Bioelektronik,
Arthur-Scheunert-Allee 114 – 116,
D-14558 Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany
Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin,
Robert-Rössle-Str. 10, D-13125 Berlin, Germany
Universität Potsdam, Institut für Biochemie und
Biologie, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24 – 25,
D-14476 Golm, Germany
Forschungsinstitut für molekulare Pharmakologie,
Robert-Rössle-Str. 10, D-13125 Berlin, Germany
* Corresponding author
A biosensoric approach has been developed to deter-
mine the activity of telomerase in tumor cell lysates.
An optical sensor, the grating coupler, was used to
monitor the association and dissociation of unlabeled
compounds on the sensor surface in real time, by
virtue of an evanescent field.
An oligonucleotide was immobilized on the surface
of the optical biosensor and linked with two other
oligonucleotides by complementary sequences in an
overlapping manner. The 3'-end of the last one car-
ried the sequence of the telomeric substrate (TS)
primer used for elongation by telomerase in the
telomeric repeat amplification protocol (TRAP) assay.
This primer sequence was phosphorothioate (PS)-
modified, which is known to strongly increase the
affinity to the primer binding site of telomerase pro-
tein and consequently the velocity of the telomerase
reaction. We show that the PS primer binds to the
modified biosensor and is elongated effectively by
the telomerase from HL-60 cell lysates. A synthesis
rate of 1 nucleotide/min was determined. The in-
hibitory effect of peptide nucleic acid (PNA) was
shown by using immobilized TS. The velocity of the
telomerase reaction was slowed down and the signal
intensity was below the signal-to-noise ratio.
Most nucleic acid detection systems use amplifica-
tion steps such as polymerase chain reaction (PCR)
to increase the amount of the probe. Since telom-
erase is a polymerase itself amplification of DNA by
PCR is not required. Furthermore, no purification
steps were required since all measurements were
performed with crude cell extract.
Real-Time Determination of Telomerase Activity in Cell
Extracts Using an Optical Biosensor


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