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Yesterday, I met a friend for coffee. She started the discussion with a question,??How are you doing? So, what is it like to write a book? What have you learned?? I smiled.?The question brought back?so many flashbacks. My mind filled with emotion. It quickly short-circuited between the shear frustration of reading the seventh, and what I hope are the final?round of edits on Chapter 5, and my rising excitement to soon hold a finished?copy of the book?that I have been working on for the past?six months. While I have?a co-author, Charlie Chase,?it has been hard work.
The book is titled Bricks Matter and it is currently listed on Amazon to publish in January.?My answer?to her?was that ?Writing 96,000 words is easier said than done. And, it can best be summed up through sharing the story of a pig and an elephant.??We then discussed the story of the pig and the elephant.
The book is based on nine years of experience?working with supply chain leaders. I thought that it would be easy. Prior to writing the book, I had?penned over 700 articles, worked on over 80 quantitative studies and had the support administrative assistance and?a researcher that helped me identify trends on financial balance sheets and annual reports. I love to write. However, it was not easy. It is easier to talk about the book that you are writing than to write one.
I was excited to start. I remember the discussions at the start of the process?of writing this book like they were yesterday.??I had written a book abstract and energetically shopped it around.? I was naive. I thought acceptance would be easy.?I was wrong. No one was interested in a book about supply chain from an unpublished author.?I was unknown and the consensus was that a book about supply chain would be ?boring.? I have taken it as a personal mission to prove them wrong.??In the book, I have tried to make?supply chain anything but boring. So, I smiled when my friend asked the question.
For many,?writing a book?is a rite of passage; but it is not always a labor of love. For me, it has been both. In the winter, I attended a?Monitor Event (Access to Minds). It was?a gathering with other thought leaders. We were?speaking about book publishing. ?I?was naive. I was surprised how many attendees were?published authors, but?had outsourced the writing of their book to a?ghost writer.? Not so for this old gal: I have pounded the keyboard on planes, in hotel rooms?and at the end of my kitchen table for sixty hours/week for the past six months. To write the book ,we analyzed twenty-five years of annual reports and seventy-five interviews. Each chapter took six months to write, and it has now been read by four editors. We have gotten approval on forty-one case studies/quotes and written and rewritten the book chapter by chapter.
I can now?roll out of bed and not have ?write chapter X? on my to-do list.?It is gone from my desk and on its way to the printer.
So, here I thought that I would share insights?from the book based on?a question that another friend asked me at a strategy day in New Jersey last week. His question was,??So after writing your book, what is your advice for supply chain leaders?? What are the top points that you would highlight for them to consider??? This is the subject of this blog post.
I firmly believe that we do not have supply chain best practices.?Instead, I think that we have emerging practices. In the interviews for the book, I spoke to?seventy-five supply chain pioneers. It was?good for me to reflect back, to think about the evolution, and hear the energy?in the voices of the pioneers?as?they spoke of forging the processes that we know?today.?It gave me perspective.
In the building of today?s supply chain processes, I think that we ?got side-ways? in the evolution of applications.? We confused requirements for systems of record with systems of commerce and decision support.
We implemented a lot of technology and continuous improvement programs without a long-term road map. Today, companies have a lot of systems that they just don?t use.
So, in short, my advice for a supply chain leader, in advance of getting a copy of my book, are?nine points:
As for the pig and the elephant, my lips are sealed. Their stories lie deep within the book. They are?light-hearted stories?that I hope that you can use to better understand how to drive supply chain excellence.?They?enrich the story of Bricks Matter. ?To learn more,? you will just have to read?it for yourself.
On a side note, I am now building training modules that will launch with the book. Each chapter will have interactive training and will come complete with experiential exercises. The training is designed for teams that want to learn more about what drives supply chain excellence.? You can follow the development of the training modules through the Supply Chain Insights Community (http://supplychaininsights.com/services/community/)?that launches on September 5th, 2012.? Let me know if you would like to try it out with your team.
This week, I have a week at home to write reports. Look for three new reports to go up on our website this month.? We publish reports openly on slideshare.net and at www.supplychaininsights.com.? Let us know your thoughts. We would love to hear from you.
Source: http://www.supplychainshaman.com/sales-and-operations-planning-2/i-do-believe-bricks-matter-do-you/
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NEW YORK (AP) ? Zynga's stock is tanking after the online game maker reported a loss in the second quarter, with adjusted earnings and revenue below Wall Street's already-low expectations.
The company behind games such as "CityVille" and "FarmVille" also lowered its outlook for the year because of delayed games, reduced expectations for its "Draw Something" game and what it called a "more challenging environment on the Facebook Web platform."
Zynga derives nearly all of its revenue from games played on Facebook, and a growing number of Facebook users are accessing the social network using mobile devices rather than computers. That hurts Web-based games such as Zynga's.
Zynga Inc. said Wednesday that it lost $22.8 million, or 3 cents per share, in the April-June quarter. That's down from earnings of $1.4 million a year ago when it was still privately held. Its per-share results last year were at breakeven.
Adjusted earnings in the latest quarter were a penny per share, below expectations of 5 cents per share.
Zynga's revenue grew 19 percent to $332 million. Analysts surveyed by FactSet had expected $342.8 million.
Zynga had a lot riding on this quarter. Investors had been punishing its stock because of worries about declining user numbers.
But the results provided no relief. Zynga's stock sank $2.09, or 41 percent, to $2.99 in after-hours trading after the results came out. The stock had closed up 16 cents at $5.08 during the regular session.
Facebook's stock also declined after Zynga's announcement. The bad news from Zynga could hurt Facebook, which reports its earnings on Thursday. Facebook's stock fell $2.54, or 8.7 percent, to $26.80 in after-hours trading.
Zynga also said Wednesday that its chairman and CEO, Mark Pincus, became the beneficial owner of more than 50 percent of the company's voting power through stock he owns.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/zynga-stock-tanks-weak-2q-report-211304469--finance.html
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Some 50,000 people attended a concert in Oslo on Sunday evening to mark the first anniversary of the gun and bomb rampage by Norwegian right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik, which claimed 77 lives.
Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg had earlier led tributes to the victims of the massacre during ceremonies at the two attack sites on the island of Utoeya, and during a church service.
Standing in the rain, many of them carrying roses, tens of thousands of people gathered outside Oslo city hall for the tribute concert, which featured US rock star Bruce Springsteen.
Breivik's attack began in Oslo, where he set off a massive bomb outside the main government building, killing eight, before travelling to the island to carry out his shooting spree.
The tribute concert was attended by members of the royal family, including Prince Haakon and Princess Martha Louise. Police put the turn-out at around 50,000.
Stoltenberg, welcoming the crowd, hailed the emergency services and all those who had worked to heal those affected by the killings.
"We had a choice," he said.
"We could have retreated into our homes in fear. And barricaded ourselves behind a wall of mistrust.
"Instead we turned to each other and built bridges of trust...
"We made the right choice. There is no better protection against terrorism than openness, democracy and humanity."
The first to perform was Iranian-Swedish singer-songwriter Laleh, an embodiment of the multiculturalism so hated by Breivik.
Veteran performer Springsteen sang the song that in the 1960s was an anthem for the African-American civil rights movement: "We Shall Overcome," and dedicated the song to those who lost loved ones in the attacks.
Stoltenberg at a ceremony on Utoeya, where Breivik gunned down 69 people at a summer camp for members of the Labour Youth League, said: "Let us honour the dead by celebrating life."
Stoltenberg was speaking to around 1,000 members of the league, the youth section of the Labour party, several of whom were survivors of the assault.
The audience bowed their heads as he spoke.
"Even now, after a year has passed, it is impossible to fully comprehend the extent of the fear and suffering..." on the island last year, he said.
"This makes all that has happened since then even more impressive."
Earlier Sunday, Stoltenberg said that despite the great suffering Breivik had caused, he "failed to achieve what he set out to do. The people triumphed".
Young people, refusing to accept that anyone should die because of their beliefs, had responded to the attacks by becoming more politically active, he told the gathering.
Stoltenberg also met relatives of those killed and laid a wreath on the island.
The island ceremony began with a minute of silence and two songs sung by survivor Renate Taarnes, who saw her boyfriend killed.
Some of those present at the ceremony were overcome with emotion and had to leave early, but there were hugs and laughter amid the tears.
"Even though we carry a heavy burden, we are still standing," said Eskil Pedersen, leader of the party's youth wing, who was one of those who escaped the massacre.
"He took some of our loveliest roses, but he could not stop the springtime."
Earlier, dozens gathered on Utoeya to leave flowers and stones engraved with the names of Breivik's victims in a tribute to family members killed in the attack.
"I was a pastor for many years and helped many people in mourning," Roald Linaker told public television NRK.
"But I never fully understood that it hurt so much," he added. Linaker lost a son in the attack.
"We victims live with what happened on July 22 every day," said Viljar Hanssen, who lost an eye in the attack.
"Families of the victims live with July 22 every day. The absence of those taken from us will be just as intense tomorrow," he told NRK.
"Whether the calendar says it's April 20 or July 23 makes little difference to me," he added.
Stoltenberg began Sunday's commemorations by laying a wreath near the spot where the bomb went off at the government building. From there, he joined Norway's king and queen at a memorial service at Oslo's cathedral.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/norway-marks-anniversary-breiviks-massacre-021625359.html
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Aurora, Colorado, residents mourned the 12 killed in Friday's attack.
By Amy Wilkinson
Friends, family and Aurora residents gather at a vigil to mourn the victims of the "Dark Knight Rises" shooting
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Asian-Style Tempeh Burger
Alternate title: What Should I Serve My Crazy Vegan Cousin at my BBQ Next Weekend? I?ve wanted to do a recipe roundup of all my favorite vegan BBQ items for those of you looking for some new ideas, but I got to thinking about how there are probably a lot of omnis out there who have a vegan friend or two and, (if they?re nice omnis) maybe they don?t want to just throw a Boca patty at them and be done with it. Maybe they want to put some thought into it. Maybe they really have no idea what a vegan would want to eat at a BBQ, but after reading this will be so inspired they?ll become vegan themselves! Ha ha 
Below I have a nice compilation of links (and one new recipe!) divided up into food categories, but first I want to share a couple thoughts that I have on planning a successful BBQ:
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But back to the food! Here are a few of my favorites.
Appetizers
Sides
Mains
Desserts
Serve any of those dishes and I?m pretty sure you?ll be a very popular hostess!
Now let?s talk Tempeh Burgers, shall we?
I?ve been trying to create a veggie or bean burger with Asian flavors for the past month or so, but nothing was really working.? Chickpeas seemed wrong, black beans just seemed weird? What the heck was I going to make my burger with? Then, one day, I was on Slate.com and saw this article in the side bar. It seemed like the perfect starting point for my asian-style burger! I just wish I knew where they got their enormous chunk of tempeh that could be cut into burgers! My local store carries rectangle pieces that gave me leftovers -which were reincarnated as Curried Tempeh Salad.
Asian-Style Tempeh Burger?(Makes 2-4 burgers)
Recipe adapted from Slate
Note: Once your tempeh is cut into 2 equal squares you can prepare them as is, or you can slice them horizontally through the center to create 4 thinner burgers. I tried the thicker version, and it was just too much for me- but might be great for those with a larger appetite!
Ingredients:
Directions:
Enjoy!
Source: http://thatwasvegan.wordpress.com/2012/07/20/what-to-serve-at-a-vegan-bbq/
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Tonight at 10PM (ET), TBS premieres their new original comedy Sullivan & Son with two back-to-back episodes. Much like some of the recent cable TV sitcoms ? the successful ones at least ? Sullivan & Son is a bit of a throwback to a time where a comedy doesn?t necessarily have to be high-concept, but instead, provides a bunch of characters that you?d want to enjoy and welcome into your homes every week? and maybe a few that you?d like to lock your door so they can?t get in.
The show stars comedian Steve Byrne and is executive produced by Vince Vaughn (Wedding Crashers), Peter Billingsley (he?ll shoot his eye out), and Rob Long (Cheers). We had a chance to do an interview with Byrne (no relation) by phone to talk about his new series, which, as we mentioned before, premieres tonight.
The first question asked of Byrne, of course, is how he became involved with the project.
?I?m on this phone right now because of Vince Vaughn,? he explains. ?That?s where it starts, and ends, and everything in between. He?s been an incredibly supportive friend, not only in my stand-up, but with this as well. He?s just awesome. He?s been to a lot of my stand-up shows; he?s had me on his Wild West show, and he said ?Steve, you?re a great comic. Why don?t you create something for yourself? Why don?t you create a vehicle?? I?d never done anything like that before; I?d never written anything other than jokes for myself? and he just said ?you can do it!? And it was a conversation that maybe lasted two minutes, but I looked at him and I said ?Okay.? I went to a bookstore, I bought a bunch of books, I spent three months reading the books and taking notes. I spent another three months writing the pilot, and then I met Rob Long, who executive produced on Cheers, and Rob and I sat for about six months and worked on tailoring the horrible script that I had written, and made it a hell of a lot funnier, and changed it from a diner into a bar, and it?s just been an amazing experience.? Byrne points out that Vaughn and Billingsley have been involved throughout the entire process. ?All of them are so invested in this. Vince and Pete don?t just put their name on it; they?ve been there every step of the way.?
Like his character, Steve Sullivan, Byrne is originally from Pittsburgh, where the show takes place. ?I don?t live there now, but I consider it my hometown. I just love the city. I think it?s reflective of America, where it?s Midwestern values and Blue Collar mentality. I grew up saying ?please? and ?thank you? to everybody, and I hope it?s reflected in the show as well.?
Also regarding Steve Sullivan, ?I think he?s a fish out of water that?s going back into the water,? Steve laughs. ?It?s kind of a weird way to put it, but yeah. I think this show ultimately is driven by the characters. Steve is still the sane man in the insane world. He?s Dean Martin, the bar is Jerry Lewis, and the show is really driven by the scenarios and the situations that these outlandish characters get themselves into or create for themselves. So Steve?s trying to navigate the waters, and trying to kind of steer the ship and help them all get through life together. It truly is a bar that ? it?s an Island of Misfit Toys, and they?re all getting through life together, and they?re there for each other.?
Many of the ?misfit toys? were friends of Byrne?s prior to the start of the series.?The other guys on the show ? Roy Wood Jr., Owen Benjamin, Ahmed Ahmed ? these are actually my real friends in real life,? he explains. ?They?re incredible comedians. We all met each other doing stand up comedy. So when I wrote it, I wrote their names in it, not thinking they?d ever get cast in it, but they?re actually cast in it. They each bring a specific color to the palette. Roy?s the married guy who is a little unhappy with his marriage, but he loves his wife. Owen Benjamin?s kind of the town banana. Ahmed Ahmed?s a tow truck driver that loves older women.?
For every group of guys, there are always a few girls, and on Sullivan and Son, the girl Steve is most interested in would be Melanie, played by Valerie Azlynn. ?Melanie is a girl Steve grew up with. He had a crush on her in middle school. He finds out throughout the series that she had a crush on him as well, and I think we?re going to see where that relationship ends up, and we?re going to keep kicking that can down the road and see what happens with it,? Steve teases.
Essential to building Steve?s TV family was also casting the parents, who are played by Dan Lauria and Jodi Long. ?Jodi Long, who?s my mom, is actually really reflective of my real mother, or a caricature of it, where she?s just really money-conscious. My mom grew up really poor in Korea, and actually met my father like in the show, in a Korean mess hall as a waitress. My father was in the Army. My father in real life is actually a really outgoing Irishman who enjoys having a pint and hanging out with his buddies, and telling stories, and laughing out loud. Dan Lauria does an amazing job at that. He really is kind of the father of the set, where people gravitate towards him. He?s an anchor.?
As the characters, particularly Jodi Long as Steve?s mother, are a bit extreme in the caricature department, ?They?re just over the moon about it. The fact that I used my mom?s real name in it; she?s just beaming, and she can?t believe that her son is on a television show. It?s come a long way from when I started off as a stand-up comedian in New York City. In order to perform at the clubs on open mike nights, you had to bring two paying customers at the door. So, if you bring two paying customers, you?re allotted five minutes on stage. My parents were my two paying customers every weekend for four months when I first got started. So to see from the time I started with horrible jokes, which I probably still have some horrible jokes, to now, where they?re actually visiting me on the set of the Warner Bros. lot, it?s been a tremendous experience for all of us. They?re really beaming, and I?m happy that they?re able to see this.? Steve Byrne?s brother, however, might end up cursing him ? Steve Sullivan?s sister is actually a caricature of his brother. ?I made him a girl, just to further incite hatred,? he laughs, pointing out that he ?just can?t say enough? about the actress playing his sister, Vivien Bang. ?She is so eccentric, and so hilarious, and I think as we go on in these shows, America will fall in love with this girl, as this whole cast has. She is just so damn funny. I can?t glow enough about her. She?s great.?
The parents aren?t the only characters from the older generation that we?ll see. ?[The character played by] Brian Doyle-Murray says things that are off color but grew up kind of almost like that great scene in Gran Torino, where Clint Eastwood brings the young kid into the barber shop, and they just talk about the different minorities in the country but in a fun way. So Hank?s kind of that guy. And then Christine Ebersole, who happens to be Owen?s mother, is a cougar that?s always out on the prowl on our premises. So that?s her hunting grounds,? he says.
?The cast truly does get along. The chemistry you see ? that I hope people see ? is real. This is a cast that does not go off into their dressing rooms as soon as they say ?cut.? We all hang with each other. It?s been great,? he adds.
Is Sullivan and Son the kind of bar that Steve Byrne would hang out at? ?Absolutely,? he says. ?I?m a guy that sees a velvet rope and a guy in a suit with a clipboard, and a bunch of idiots standing out front, I hate those kinds of bars. I like a neighborhood bar. A juke box, a pool table? I like some warmth to it, and I like a good collection of people. Not where it?s just all people in their 20?s, but a place where you see some seniors,? you see some vets, you see some hot girls, you see some cool guys? that?s the kind of bar I like hanging out. That?s just always been my speed. I like a bar where you can have a conversation. Maybe I?m just in my 30?s, but that?s just me.?
Sullivan and Son premieres tonight, July 19, at 10PM (ET) on TBS.
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It's been called the dirtiest race in history.
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UNIDENTIFIED MAN: (Unintelligible), and Ben Johnson's got a brilliant start. It's Johnson away and clear, and Lewis is not going to catch him. Johnson wins it, Lewis second, Christie third. Christie got the bronze.
FLATOW: The Seoul Olympics in 1988, Canadian Ben Johnson has just set the world record in the men's 100 meters. Three days later, Johnson is stripped of his gold medal after he tests positive for anabolic steroids. Six of the eight athletes participating in that race that day would also test positive for banned substances.
Fast-forward to 2012, 400-meter runner Debbie Dunn resigns from the U.S. Olympic team after she tests positive for excessive testosterone. And seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong fights charges that he used systematic doping to compete.
So the story about athletes getting caught cheating is not a new one. So why do they continue to try to outfox the rules? How do these banned drugs really work, and how are they detected? Chris Cooper is author of "Run, Swim, Throw, Cheat: The Science Behind Drugs in Sport." He's also head of research at the Center for Sports and Exercise Science at University of Essex, and he joins us from Suffolk, England. Welcome to SCIENCE FRIDAY.
CHRIS COOPER: Yeah, welcome, Ira, thank you for putting me on.
FLATOW: Why do they feel like they have to cheat?
COOPER: Well, they want to win.
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COOPER: I mean I think - and we cheated - I mean we have all these financial scandals in Britain at the moment about people, you know, cheating to get more money. That's just what happens in any way of life. I mean, they're committed to win, they try and cheat. And that's true not just with doping, it's true with anything in life or in sport.
And in soccer people will sometimes handle the ball illegally to stop a goal when they're not the goalkeeper. That's cheating. There's just different kinds of cheating. But it's just cheating, yeah.
FLATOW: All right, we're going to come back, and - we take a short break, we're going to come back and talk lots more with Chris Cooper, author of "Run, Swim, Throw, Cheat: The Science Behind Drugs in Sport." Our number, 1-800-989-8255 if you'd like to talk about this. You can also tweet us @scifri, @-S-C-I-F-R-I, or go to our website at sciencefriday.com and join the discussion there. We'll be right back after this break.
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FLATOW: This is SCIENCE FRIDAY, I'm Ira Flatow. We're talking this hour about sports doping with my guest Chris Cooper, author of "Run, Swim, Throw, Cheat: The Science Behind Drugs in Sport." Chris, is it spy versus spy, as they say? Are the scientists one step behind the athletes in trying to come up with tests to see if they are cheating or not?
COOPER: I think it varies. It is spy versus spy. Sometimes the scientists are ahead, sometimes the athletes ahead. It varies. I mean I would say in some ways the scientists are a bit more ahead at the moment, but of course maybe there's something undetectable we don't know about. But it varies, yeah.
FLATOW: Well, because I asked before, I guess, you know, it's sort of a silly question, why do they cheat. Of course they cheat. But don't - can't we now - you know, look how many years after Lance Armstrong has been accused of using illegal drugs, it's caught up with him. Are we going to be able to catch up with athletes years from now after this Olympics if they were cheating?
COOPER: Well, I obviously can't comment about Lance Armstrong for a range of reasons. But in terms of catching up, yes, what's happening now is that the samples are being stored for a length of time, you know, legally, so for eight years the samples are stored, the blood samples, the urine samples are stored, and all the data is stored, and they've got new ways of capturing all the molecules, I mean with these new what are called metabolomic techniques.
So I think if you take a drug now actually at the Olympic Games that you think won't be detected, it just needs somebody in your entourage to squeal about what that undetectable drug is, which has happened in the past, and then you can be retested.
So I mean I made the flippant comment to a journalist, rather silly to say, that we should wait for eight years to give out the medals, then we know everyone's (unintelligible) tested. But I don't really mean that, but the samples are kept for eight years. We can test later on, yeah.
FLATOW: In the book, why do you say that although it's hard to say unequivocally that the fastest man on Earth will run faster on steroids, it's much easier to make this statement about the fastest woman?
COOPER: Well, put crudely, we know men run faster than women. That's - it doesn't need much science to show that. And anything that makes a woman more like a man will increase how fast they can run. And we know that androgenic anabolic steroids, which are the male sex hormone, things like testosterone, have an effect on muscle mass. In women there's a much bigger range for them to improve their muscle mass.
So it's much easier to see that. And we have really good data from the East German doping program, when the Berlin Wall came down, showing that, much bigger effects in female athletes than in male athletes.
FLATOW: Let's talk about some of the things that athletes might try to do or have done. What is blood doping?
COOPER: So blood doping covers a range of programs and cheating programs, all designed to increase the number of red blood cells in your body. And it's the red blood cells that carry the oxygen around the body. And when you're doing long-distance events, things like 5,000 meters, 10,000 meters, Tour de France, you are limited by how much oxygen physically is in your blood.
So what blood doping does, it aims to increase the number of red blood cells. It's what athletes do when they do altitude training, only taken to an extreme.
FLATOW: I just want to correct something, a misimpression I might have made before. Lance Armstrong has been charged but not convicted of any wrongdoing, and...
COOPER: And also in that first 100 meters, six people were not - did not test positive for drugs, but they all have at some point been implicated. So you have to be careful when you...
FLATOW: Thank you.
(LAUGHTER)
FLATOW: Thank you very much for making that point. But is it safe to assume with all these stories that there are athletes who are still trying, going to try to cheat?
COOPER: I'm sure there are. I mean, as you've just found, you've just given a story about the U.S. athlete, Debbie Dunn, and we just caught recently a British athlete at the Tour de France, Frank Schleck has just tested positive. So they will all still try to cheat. I think sometimes, some sports there's less cheating, and there is a culture of cheating you can reduce(ph).
So I think the Tour de France is undoubtedly, I would say, cleaner now for a range of reasons than it was, and that's partly a very aggressive and targeted expensive testing program and partly an education program. So it fluctuates. But there will always be individuals - I think when it gets really bad is when you get the sort of organized cheating, because then they get good at it because then there's a big team behind them.
The East Germans did that, and in the Tour de France, that was clearly happening in the past. So that's the real concern. Individuals will always try (unintelligible) coaches and athletes to cheat. But it's the organized stuff that's really dangerous to sport.
FLATOW: Let's talk about human growth hormone, because that's big here in the States. That was talked about a lot with baseball players. How effective is human growth hormone?
COOPER: Well, that's a really good question, and I think the answer for scientists is that we just don't know. The data that we have from the laboratory is sort of equivocal. I mean, you can show that muscle mass is - it goes up, but it doesn't appear to correlate with strength. So you get bigger muscles, but a lot of it is water retention.
So what we would say as scientists, in the limited amount we can do, is we don't see human growth hormone having effect on putting on muscle mass - which is strength, which is what people use it for, or claim to use it for. But what we can't say for sure is that we don't do - we're not allowed, obviously, to do research on elite athletes because they would be banned, and also we can't give the same levels of doses sometimes.
So it is quite difficult as a sort of - my normal scientific career, I can test things properly. In doping in sport, it's difficult to test. So - but the evidence of human growth hormone is much less strong than the evidence for anabolic steroids that it's effective.
FLATOW: So it might be much ado about nothing?
COOPER: It might be. I mean, of course, there is a very strong placebo effect in taking a drug that no one else has got and that it's banned, and you're injecting it. So there's huge importance in improved performance even if something is not having an effect on your biochemistry.
FLATOW: You say that when we talk about stimulants, take amphetamines and you feel can run faster; take caffeine and you actually will run faster.
COOPER: Yeah, well, that's, again, laboratory studies. And we've done - there's a reason, we've got a data set on amphetamines and a lot of data on caffeine. And clearly what I mean by that is that amphetamines give you - because they're a recreational drug, they give you this feeling of high. Caffeine doesn't. So if you take a lot of caffeine, just your heartbeat goes up, and you feel - but the actual effect on fatigue - by fatigue I mean what stops you really competing at the highest level - appears to be stronger in caffeine than in amphetamine, from what we can see in the laboratory.
FLATOW: So why is it not banned then?
COOPER: All sorts of potential reasons. It's - so caffeine is a drug, but it is not considered to be against the spirit of sport because it's taken - a drug, it's in society. We all take it. And one of the reasons you have to be banned is you have to be harmful to health or against the spirit of sport.
So the organization that chooses, the World Anti-doping Agency, doesn't consider caffeine now to be against the spirit of sport. They did in the past. And that's very much a judgment call, and part of the reason I wrote the book was to enable more people to understand the science and to be able to be involved in those judgment calls, which I think are important.
FLATOW: Chris Cooper, the book he's speaking about is "Run, Swim, Throw, Cheat: The Science Behind Sports in Drugs." Can altering a single gene dramatically improve sports performance? And might we just see, you know, gene-altering things happening now?
COOPER: Well, gene doping is the big sexy topic, if you like, for drugs in sports. It's one I get asked a lot about. We do know from certain individuals that gene doping, you know, a single gene can make a difference, and there's one very famous example, a guy called Eero Mantyranta, who was a Finnish cross-country skier, who had an altered gene that enabled him to have more red blood cells, and therefore it was like he was naturally blood doping. And he won five gold medals, three Olympics, two world championships.
He was, you know, a single mutant. So you're looking at sort of a mutation of one individual. But it's much more general than what you'll get in a combination of genes. We know a lot of genes, up to 200, affect performance, and it'll be some combination. So it's relatively rare to get a single gene that has an effect.
It doesn't mean you couldn't design that and work on it, but it's relatively rare.
FLATOW: But it can be done? I mean, people - you're saying people are working on this.
COOPER: Well, scientists are working on trying to improve muscle mass because there are - in certain diseases. So there are animal studies trying to improve muscle mass for a range of diseases. It turns out that that's not a very popular or sort of huge pharmaceutical need for that. So there's not a huge number of scientists working on that.
But there are some who have injected compound genes into muscle in animals and shown an increase in muscle mass, but it should be said that gene therapy works in animals, where you have people who are ill for a single gene, like cystic fibrosis, and you could cure those sorts of things in animal models. It doesn't seem to work in humans.
So I'm fairly easy about whether I think, you know, when gene doping will be effective. I think people might be trying it. I think it's unlikely. But I also think it's very unlikely to be effective, really.
FLATOW: Let me go to a quick question from Chuck in Lansing, Michigan. Hi, Chuck.
CHUCK: Yeah, hi. You actually brought this up earlier. The effect of training at altitude is to increase the number of red blood cells in your body. Taking your own blood out, saving out your cells and putting them back in later is physiologically doing exactly the same thing. Why is one legal and the other one not?
FLATOW: Yeah.
COOPER: Well, it's a rule. So it's - so there are rules in sport in the same way that there are rules in other parts of life. So you know, why are there four quarters in a football game rather than, you know, three? So it is a rule...
FLATOW: Yeah.
COOPER: Well, it's a rule. So it's - so there are rules in sport, in the same way as there are rules in other parts of life. So, you know, why there are four quarters in a football game rather than, you know, three. So it is a rule. And the question is, why is that rule there? And you have to look at historically and the ways of people who decide these things, and they generally tend to ban things that are medical. They don't like drugs, and they don't like - so blood transfusion is a medical procedure.
They don't really like that, whereas altitude training is not a medical procedure. Seems to be seen to be more in the spirit of sport. So personally, I think there's a, you know, it's an arbitrary rule. I do think altitude training, as long as you can deal with the altitude, is unlikely to be damaging to health. But if you get blood transfusions wrong, you know, you can have a problem. So there is that argument, but it is an arbitrary - a relatively arbitrary rule. Athletes do lots of - as you heard from - in the technological chapter, the discussion previously, lots of things athletes and their coach and engineers do to improve performance, you know, very, very high-tech. So you can argue, why do we do that with blood transfusion? It's just a rule that they decide they don't like it, and we can decide that, you know?
FLATOW: Yeah. We can change that if you like.
COOPER: Yeah.
FLATOW: Chris Cooper, thank you very much - author of "Run, Swim, Throw, Cheat: The Science Behind Drugs in Sport," a great book, especially now for - this Olympics coming up. Thanks, Chris, for joining us today.
COOPER: Thank you.
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