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In celebration of Arizona's centennial, the Star is featuring our picks for the 100 best athletes, moments and teams. Throughout the summer, we have been showcasing our list. Here is the third of Greg Hansen's top 10.
Hi Corbett, Roy Drachman and Bill Veeck
Before they died - Hi Corbett in 1967; Bill Veeck in 1986; Roy Drachman in 2002 - none came forward to claim to be The Father of the Cactus League.
I heard Veeck say that Drachman made spring training happen in Arizona.
I heard Drachman say that it couldn't have been done without Corbett.
The true story is that it required all three.
So here's the narrative that will spin forward for the next 64 years of Cactus League baseball: Veeck provided the entrepreneurial initiative (the money); Corbett supplied the political clout; Drachman worked the room and put everybody together.
Spring training games were periodically played in Tucson, and to a lesser extent, Phoenix, in the 1930s and early 1940s. But the genesis of the 1947 arrival of the New York Giants to Phoenix and the Cleveland Indians to Tucson began innocently enough in a doctor's office in Florida, 1945.
That's when Veeck, whose right leg would soon be amputated because of a World War II accident, was advised by a doctor that Arizona's drier climate would benefit his rehabilitation. A year later, Veeck bought the Cleveland Indians and the Lazy V Ranch near the Rincon Mountains.
In his book "Just Memories,'' Drachman wrote: "Bill wanted to see some Arizona spring weather charts, which I obtained for him, and we began talking seriously about trying to convince a couple of the teams to move into Arizona for their spring training.
"Bill and I drove to Phoenix to meet with (Giants owner) Horace Stoneham. At this time, Phoenix and Tucson had reached population levels to support the spring games, and since both Bill and Horace knew that the weather was dependable and acceptable, it didn't take much of a selling job to get agreement that in 1947 the Indians and Giants would launch big-league baseball in Arizona."
The Indians would leave Clearwater, Fla. The Giants abandoned Miami. The moves were not without comedy.
In a 1989 article in Spring Training magazine, Stoneham said, "I told Bill he could take Phoenix and I would take Tucson. After giving me the OK, Bill called the next day and said, 'I'm a little slow. It just came to me that I have a ranch near Tucson. How about we switch? Me, Tucson; you, Phoenix.' "
The Indians played their first game at what was then Randolph Park on March 6, 1947. Hall of Famer-to-be Bob Feller was the starting pitcher and a crowd of 5,500 overflowed into a park with a capacity listed at 4,934.
Since then, roughly 1,100 spring training games have been played in Tucson involving the Indians, who stayed through 1992, followed by the Rockies, the White Sox and the Diamondbacks.
In effect, the Veeck-Drachman-Corbett partnership lasted for 63 years until the D-backs and Rockies left Tucson after the 2010 spring training season.
Their legacy is not just that 14 teams train in the greater Phoenix area, but that over those 63 years Yuma and Casa Grande were also home to spring training teams. And there is little doubt that the Cactus League changed the nation's sleepy image of Arizona.
In '47, for example, major news outlets such as Fox-Movietone, Holiday Magazine, Sunset Magazine, Popular Science Films, the New York Times and Life magazine, among others, came to Tucson to follow spring training. It was Tucson's first experience as a destination for something other than a cure for asthma.
Corbett, who was chairman of the then-powerful Tucson Baseball Commission, persuaded city officials and the city Parks Department to spend about $300,000 to turn Randolph Park into a big-league caliber facility.
Mickey Mantle played here. So did Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams and Willie Mays.
Veeck's Lazy V Ranch became the unofficial party headquarters of spring training. It wasn't unusual to see movie stars such as John Wayne or William "Hopalong Cassidy" Boyd at the ranch, drinking beer and telling stories late into the night next to baseball legends such as Tris Speaker and Honus Wagner.
In 1998, Drachman, a wealthy real estate broker, was invited to throw out the first pitch when the Diamondbacks opened their initial spring training camp at Tucson Electric Park.
"It was quite special," he said that night. "We brought the Indians here 51 years ago and today we have three teams here and many more in Phoenix. Can you imagine the millions and millions of dollars spring training has brought to Arizona?
"And all because Bill liked our weather.''


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Rumer Willis and Jayson Blair's Miami Beach Date
Enjoying a sunny day at the beach, Rumer Willis and her boyfriend Jayson Blair were spotted in Miami, Florida on Thursday (November 8).
The daughter of Bruce Willis wore a black cardigan, white tank top, and green floral skirt before revealing a blue and white bikini top in the sand. Her boyfriend sported some blue swim trunks as he gave his gal a smooch.
Spending the day relaxing before a big night, the 24-year-old tweeted Thursday afternoon, "On this stage; I'm playing my first real deal gig tonight sls Hotel in Miami...so Stoked" with a photo of the setup behind the hotel pool.
The couple have been dating since early June and have been spotted cozying up on film sets and rocking out at a Prince concert in Hollywood.
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daylight sensor: how to make it more sensitive?
My question is, how does the sensor work? Does it detect angle of rays or overall brightness or what?
I do most of my driving between Salinas and Monterey, CA, so that means lots of marine-layer days, with low lying cloud cover or high fog, however you want to picture it. These gray, dark days need headlights for safe driving, but my daylight sensor seems to think there's enough light that headlights are not needed.
What can I do* ... short of taping it over completely dark with a swath of duct tape ... to encourage the headlights to turn on, on these gray days?
Anyone have useful ideas?
*Yes, I know I can just manually turn the headlights on and off, but I'm trying to find a workaround.
[EDIT: I should have titled/asked about how to make it LESS sensitive!]
I agree, the auto headlights suck. It gets way too dark before they turn on. The easiest thing is probably to find something semi-transparent and stick it over the sensor, like you said. The translucent Scotch tape might work, or a bit of window tint... Let us know if you find something good.
square post-its?
Currently I have the sensor covered with 2" x 2" Post-it notes.
A single layer was definitely not enough, so now I have a double layer of pink post-its and they happen to be sort of tweaked so they lie almost cupped around it, even though they are only stuck at the very front. It helps, but isn't quite enough yet.
I'm afraid to try anything more permanent ... I read somewhere a suggestion of marking it up with a black permanent marker! ... but I'm not prepared to try that yet.
There are enough people who are frustrated with it that I don't understand why the engineers haven't found a workable solution yet!
More like the opposite. We want them to come on automatically "sooner," i.e., before it gets even darker.
Yes, of course we can turn them on and off manually (as mentioned in my OP), but we're looking for something to make them do it automatically.
I, like many here, have noticed that they come on way too late when it's way too dark. A few times i've found myself wondering why peoples lights arent on in storms and realizing mine arent either >.<
I cut a 3/8 square of black electrical tape for mine. It seems to work well and does not stick out like a sore thumb.
The hard part is getting your arm up there.
Tell me about it. I have to kneel sideways on the driver's seat, brace myself with one hand on the passenger seat, and then reach to the full extent in the opposite direction. What were they thinking?
I think I can do that to get a piece of black electrical tape up there, but a sharpie marker? Not so much (even though I'd rather try this, using removable tape . . . the tacky kind that doesn't leave any residue).
Where is the sensor located?
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Dr. Carl June, Cancer Buster
During a 20-year career in the U.S. Navy, immunologist Carl H. June studied radioactivity, HIV, and bone marrow transplants. But it was the 1996 diagnosis of his wife, Cynthia, with ovarian cancer that galvanized him to look beyond the lab. She died of the disease in 2001. "It gave me a real impetus to make something happen clinically, which is a lot harder than research in mice," he says. Now a researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, June is drawing on his lifetime of laboratory work to perfect a gene therapy that has drawn attention in the oncology field because it eradicated cancer in two patients with terminal leukemia.
The disease is often treated with a bone marrow transplant, but many patients' bodies reject the foreign matter. The side effects are "horrendous," says June, 58, and kill about 20 percent of people who undergo the procedure.
June's therapy avoids such complications because it uses a patient's own genetic material—with a few modifications. A doctor first takes the patient's blood and separates out T-cells, an important immune system component that kills such invaders as cancer cells but is easily overwhelmed by the fast-growing disease. June adds new DNA to the cells, which help them identify CD-19, a molecule that lies on the outside surface of leukemia cells. The foreign DNA is introduced through an inactive HIV virus, which is good at infiltrating T-cells. A separate molecule helps outsmart a signal from the tumor that keeps the T-cells from dividing and creating more attackers.
The first human trial of the therapy—one of three required for regulatory approval—involved three patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Other treatments had failed them, but after the new gene therapy two are in full remission and the third is in partial remission. June and his co-researcher, Bruce L. Levine, reported the results in the New England Journal of Medicine last month. It will be years before the treatment is available to the public, though, and the next step is to have the work replicated by other scientists. The approach is "extremely powerful," says Stephen M. Gottschalk, a cancer doctor at June's alma mater, Baylor College of Medicine. "The real challenge is, can you do it in other diseases?"
After obtaining his medical degree from Baylor, June became a researcher at the Naval hospital in Bethesda, Md., where he experimented with new bone marrow transplant techniques to help sailors injured by radioactivity during, say, a nuclear submarine accident. Studying radiation, which kills T-cells, helped him better understand the body's immune system; observing the difficulty of marrow transplants convinced him there must be a better way to treat certain cancers. He may have found it. "It was clear right away that this new therapy was not a little bit better, it was exponentially better," he says.
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Spinnaker Changes

I keep hearing about spinnaker peels, but I don't know what one is. Can you define this and tell me how to perform a spinnaker peel?

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Thanks for your question about spinnaker peels. A peel in the case of a spinnaker is a sail change. Unlike a bare-headed change where you would take one kite down before hoisting the other, a peel involves keeping at least one spinnaker up and drawing so that the speed of the boat never suffers. Some folks also refer to this procedure as "skinning."

Performing a spinnaker peel is actually not that difficult a maneuver, but it does have a reputation as the most complex sail change you can conduct on a boat, and considering that you have to use duplicate sail controls to make it happen, and some fairly well orchestrated crew work, that reputation is somewhat well deserved.

You have to first decide if you're going to hoist the new spinnaker inside or outside the old one. I favor hoisting the new kite inside, and this turns out to be the most common practice, but it really depends upon the halyard arrangement your boat has.

To do a spinnaker peel properly, you'll need on piece of additional gear besides your new spinnaker. You'll need what some sailors call a tag line, it's somewhat akin to a short sheet for changing headsails. You'll want the tag line to be about 10 feet long, fit with a snap shackle at one end. Tie the tag line around your headstay at about shoulder or head height using a clove hitch, and leave about a foot or so of the snap shackle end of it suspended there. Then lead the other end of the line down to a bow cleat or fitting on deck and make it fast. This will keep the tack of the new spinnaker from sliding up the headstay once it's drawing and under load.

Now pull the new spinnaker on deck (if it's in a bag) or pull the tack of it out of the forward hatch and attach the snap shackle of the tag line to the new spinnaker. Then attach your spare spinnaker halyard to the head of the sail and prepare to hoist it inside the chute that's currently flying. Part of that preparation is to make sure that you've already led a new spinnaker sheet, or if you intend to use the lazy guy temporarily to trim the kite, you've got that attached to the other clew of the new spinnaker.

Now hoist the new spinnaker quickly but carefully, and then get it trimmed. Now you can trip the shackle attaching the afterguy on the old chute and the kite will fold away from the new spinnaker and flutter out to leeward, attached only at the head and at the old sheet. Before you gather the old kite into the boat, ease the topping lift and the afterguy so that the guy can be attached to clew of the new sail where the tag line is also attached. Then trim the afterguy and the topping lift and you can then trip the snap shackle on the tag line. Get the new kite trimmed properly, and you can then douse the old kite and get it below. The only thing remaining after that will be to make sure that your halyards are straight up top.

Here's hoping that this information helps lead you through the maneuver.

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Keith Edelman is convinced that Arsenal's Board has the 'formula for success' - despite the recent share purchases of Alisher Usmanov.
The Uzbeki's Red&White Holdings group has increased its stake in the Club to 24.2 per cent, overtaking Danny Fiszman as Arsenal's largest individual shareholder. However Edelman was quick to allay any fears among Arsenal supporters, pointing out that the Board's 'lockdown agreement', which safeguards their shares until 2012, means the Club is in safe hands.
"[Usmanov's share purchase] has no impact on the business because the Board is totally agreed to a lockdown, no selling of shares, so the Board as a total entity is the largest shareholder with 45 per cent," said Edelman. "That makes us bullet-proof.
"If there were six per cent of other shareholders who voted with the Board, Usmanov could not get control of the Club. I think there would be more than six per cent who would support us. Our business model is working well and the lockdown goes on until 2012 which is a long way away.
"We've always said that the way we are constituted and the way that the Board are running the company and the Club is a formula for success. We don't see any reason to change that formula and I think the fans see that as well.
"The stadium is a testament to the Club's ambitions, I think the team is too, and so is the way we play football. We are in good shape so why change it? The fans want to see the Club run like this. There are examples of clubs who have been taken over and they are not having as smooth a ride as we are having."
With pre-tax profits up, operating profits up and a profit of £19.6 million on player sales, Arsenal look as solid off the pitch as they do on the field of play at the moment. Edelman believes the two success stories are connected.
"We've made satisfactory progress in the six-month period," he said. "We have two objectives - one is to play good football and the other is to make a profit. On both of those fronts we've achieved that objective this year.
"Arsène Wenger always says that if you have a Board where there are no conflicts or tensions, it doesn't distract the team.
That is one reason why we entered into the lockdown because we wanted there to be calm waters at the Club. I think that has had an impact on the pitch."Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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I like Crystal ponies!) So I decided to draw Octavia in this style
Found It
May i use her to a project on pc ? Its a little drawing and this one is perfect to it
She's a beautiful Crystal Pony :3
She's very beautiful <3
love it
she look dazzling
She looks really pretty. I love how you put her mane up like!
I don't know why, but for some reason my favorite part of the Crystal Pony design is the eyes.
so that's how octavia looks like if she enters the crystal empire! nicely done.
wow.. that's just... too amazing!!!!!!!!!
oh can i commission u for points. my friends bday is comig up and she has a crystal pony but can't do the crystal effect
This is my favorite vector of time and not just cause Octavia is best pony
It's so awesome!
Quite love the look you've got going here. It's beautiful!
Sooo pretty!
so amazing
I was wondering if it would be okay that I use this image to make a folder icon for people to download. I will give you credit.
I'm sorry, but it wouldn't be okay. This present gor my good friends and I don't want it's used in other cases.
I respect your decision and will not upload it. I already converted it into an icon in the case that you did say yes though. If you would like I could e-mail it to you, maybe you could send it to your friend. By the way, you did a truly wonderful job making it.
Octavia is best (crystal) pony.
I like the Crystal Pony look as well, and it fits Octavia very well! I want to see Crystal Ponies made out of everypony~!
Very beautiful! I think Octavia is my fav Background pony...or maybe Lyra.
Oh my god she is fabulous!
This is exceptionally awesome, but your crystal effect is bleeding into the outline-- Not sure if that was intended or not.
Somepony create a new club for Crystal Ponies!
nice work
Just wondering... how did you do the crystal texture? I can't figure it out ;-;
This is gorgeous, by the way.
This is gorgeous, by the way.
This is amazing, she needs a Vinyl to go along side her
I love the crystal ponies. This is wonderful.
Beautifully done! o.o
this came out quite accurate good job
Yes lord yes God yes this is wunderbar!
I've just wanted to draw her and Princess Cadanse in this style)
Shes glorious!
Shes glorious!
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Citation: Beltran-Przekurat, A., Peilke, R.A., Peters, D.C., Snyder, K.A., Rango, A. 2008. Modeling the effects of historical vegetation change on near-surface atmosphere in the northern Chihuahuan Desert. Journal of Arid Environments. 72:1897-1910. Interpretive Summary: We used a fully coupled atmosphere-biosphere simulation model (RAMS) to examine the effects of a broad scale shift from grasslands to shrublands on weather and climate. The model was parameterized using vegetation and soils maps from the Jornada Experimental Range in 1858 when grasslands dominated the site and in 1998 when shrublands dominated the site. Overall, the site became cooler and wetter as a result of the broad scale shift from black grama grasslands to shrublands dominated by honey mesquite. However, spatial variation in surface fluxes was also evident: conversion from black grama to creosotebush resulted in a warmer surface. Our results show that shrub encroachment can have important effects on the energy budget with feedbacks to the vegetation.
Technical Abstract: Our goal was to evaluate the effects of a broad-scale change in vegetation from grasslands in the mid-1800s to shrublands in the late 1900's on weather and climate. Vegetation and soil maps for 1858 and 1998 were used to run a fully coupled atmospheric-biospheric model for two times during the growing season. Model simulations were conducted for the Jornada Experimental Range, a site located in the northern Chihuahuan Desert. Overall, the shift from a grass-dominated vegetation cover in 1858 to shrub-dominated cover in 1998 led to a small change in sensible heat and a pronounced increase in latent heat. Changes in surface fluxes and the associated changes in near-surface temperature were spatially heterogeneous: conversion from grass to mesquite cools the near-surface atmosphere and from grass to creosotebush warms it. Albedo was the dominant parameter controlling the energy budget. The shift from grassland to shrubland observed in this area led to complex interactions between biophysical and physiological characteristics of the land and surface fluxes. These results clearly demonstrate that vegetation itself is a weather and climate variable as it significantly influences temperature and humidity, which then feedbacks to and affects the vegetation.


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Posted by Peter O'Neill on July 29, 2010
Continuing my musings about the impact of cloud on our industry (see last week's blog), I'm in the middle of a cloud project where we are identifying and profiling potential channel partners for an ISV that is about to launch a systems management product for cloud environments. I must say, I'm surprised by the number of channel partners already talking about cloud.
It reminds me of a conversation with staff at Nimsoft, a company recently acquired by CA, about how they were promoting their cloud offerings. My personal view is that Nimsoft managed to complete their exit strategy so quickly and successfully because they focused all of their new product announcements and general positioning toward the cloud. Coincidentally, CA had decided to turn up the heat on its own cloud campaign and promptly bought three technology companies to strengthen the cloud offering and show their commitment — Nimsoft, Cassat, and 3Tera.
While Cassat and 3Tera were cloud-specific solutions, Nimsoft was already successful as a provider of systems monitoring software to enterprises and managed service providers. My theory is that their cloud image was the result of a considered repositioning exercise that culminated in their placement on CA's wish list. Here's another example: Yesterday, Adobe announced its intention to acquire Day Software, the Swiss content management ISV. Day Software had a consistent ECM business with modest growth, but I notice that they turned up the cloud messaging over the last months — I suspect this is what got them into Adobe's sights.
Posted by Peter O'Neill on July 15, 2010
This week, I was at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in Washington, D.C., and it was all about THE CLOUD. Now, many colleagues argue that Microsoft will be the second-to-last major vendor to show a 100% cloud commitment, saying that "it's too embedded in its traditional software business," "it doesn't understand the new world," and "it'd be scared of cannibalizing existing and predictable maintenance revenues." But I remember Stephen Elop, president of Microsoft Business Systems, tell me with a mischievous grin that he'll probably earn more money from Exchange Online than the on-premise version — "firstly, it's mainly new business from other platforms like Lotus Notes, and second, I even generate revenues by charging for things like the data center buildings, the infrastructure, even the electricity I use." That was in Berlin last November. I suspected then that Microsoft did get it but was just getting its platform ready. This week, I am convinced — Microsoft is "all in," as they say.
And at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, it was driving its partners to the cloud as aggressively as any vendor has ever talked to its partners at such an event. All of the Microsoft executives preached a consistent mantra: "MOVE to the cloud, or you may not be around in five years."
Microsoft's cloud-based Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) is already being promoted by 16,000 partners that either get referral incentives for Microsoft-billed BPOS fees or bundle it into their own offerings (mainly telcos). There are nearly 5,000 certified Azure-ready partners. This week, Microsoft turned up the heat with these announcements:
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By Peter O'Neill
Last week, in addition to presenting at my quarterly Forrester Teleconference, I spoke at a Webinar hosted by the IT Services Marketing Association (ITSMA). I was in illustrious company: David Edelman, partner for the marketing and sales practice at McKinsey; John Lenzen, VP and global head of marketing at TCS; plus our host, Richard Seymour, managing director at ITSMA EMEA. We talked about the emerging organization model and competencies for marketing organizations in the tech industry.
Richard opened with this really interesting data slide, which shows that service providers are actually reducing their marketing spend in a dramatic fashion (see below).
Our recent survey confirms the 2010 increase in marketing budgets and reveals much more about how service provider marketing differs from other industries (see this report). Richard then listed some of the challenges that marketing is facing and postulated that "marketing has to change."
David talked about the impact of the digital marketing challenge and discussed four critical questions that marketers should be asking themselves:
Posted by Peter O'Neill on July 5, 2010
Last week, I held my quarterly Forrester Teleconference and discussed my April report on how European tech buyers use social media. Usually, we Europeans are asked to speak twice in the day - once at a convenient time for European audiences and once for our clients in North America. Unusually for an analyst, I hate repeating myself. So I elected to present the European slot in German and present specifically about Germany. This was, I think, a first for Forrester. Of course, we also leveraged the opportunity to get a few prospects listening in and even had several journalists collecting information. Now, not every Forrester analyst can present in German, so don't expect all of us to do this, but the fact is: We actually have more German-speaking analysts than that other research company.
Our B2B Social Technographics data shows that German social media activity is really quite heavy: In some categories, the numbers we report show more aggressive behavior than in the US or other countries. After several client meetings where our data was questioned - especially by more experienced marketing executives who themselves are not using social media and expect the same backwardness from their peers - I am now well equipped with backup data that proves our points. So here is what I told the audience about German social media usage by tech buyers:


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Part of the series Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology pp 201-220
Urban and Rural Dimensions of the Contact Period
- Thomas H. CharltonAffiliated withDepartment of Anthropology, University of Iowa
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The conquest and transformation of Mesoamerican civilizations during the Colonial and Republican periods provide one of the most dynamic and widespread examples of acculturation known to anthropology. Ethnologists, ethnohistorians, and historians have studied in some detail both the processes and the results of this acculturation (e.g., Farriss 1984; Foster 1960; Gibson 1964, 1981; Hassig 1985; Lovell 1985; MacLeod 1973). Archaeologists, despite statements about interest in processes of culture change and cultural evolution (e.g., Blanton et al. 1981; Sanders, Parsons, and Santley 1979; Wolf 1976), with few exceptions (e.g., Gasco 1987), have either neglected or oversimplified the processes and the results of the postconquest changes. This is most unfortunate.
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- Urban and Rural Dimensions of the Contact Period
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- Approaches to Postcontact Change in the Americas
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8. Children
It can be hard to encourage children to be their own person and go against the grain when peer pressure is so entrenched in school life. How much intervention do you have in how your children develop? Do you take an active role or let them make their own mistakes and come to their own conclusions?
My children are still very young (ages 2 and 6), so peer pressure isn't a big factor yet.
My degree of intervention depends on the particular situation my kids are in and how serious I perceive it to be. For example, if my daughter fell into doing illegal drugs, I'd intervene hard and fast and get her out of that situation ASAP, even if it required breaking her ties with her peer group and putting her in a different environment. In the short run, she might hate me for it, but I can accept that. However, if she falls into a peer group that wears weird clothes or listens to freakish music or is mildly rebellious, I'd probably support that behavior. I don't want my kids to be clones of me. I want them to explore their own uniqueness, as long as they aren't taking foolish risks.
I recognize what a big deal peer pressure can be, not just for children but for adults too. I think the best I can do is to lead by example. How do my children see me handling peer pressure? Do they see me violating my own values to conform? Do they see me rebelling haphazardly? Or do they see me choosing friends consciously based on my values?
Children are great teachers. If your moral compass is off kilter, kids will pick up on any hypocrisy and ask questions to expose it. But if your values are honorable, then it is more likely your children will find them worthy of modeling.
Values are a big deal in our family. For example, all of us our vegan. We do not have to force our daughter to eat vegan. In her own way, she understands why we chose this lifestyle and willingly adopts it too. She loves animals and understands that non-vegan foods contribute to animal suffering. Consequently, she often challenges adults who eat meat and will say to them, "That's not vegan! You're eating animals, and that hurts them. Why are you hurting animals?†It's really interesting to see how certain adults react to having their values challenged by a six-year-old.
I want to encourage my children to make conscious decisions, even if they don't make the same ones I would. When my daughter becomes a teenager and starts going out with friends a lot, if she wants to eat animal products, that's her choice. My role is to see that she makes such choices consciously.
9. Community Vs Individualism
In western cultures we are brought up to work towards individual self development and achievement. We are taught to seek self-satisfaction and work mostly on self-serving, materialistic goals. In other cultures community comes before the individual, people are considered part of a group and 'family', which in many circumstances results in a very
harmonious and happy existence. Do you think our current western culture is lacking in community values and places too much emphasis on individual gratification?
Yes, I'd say that's accurate. The way I resolved this issue for myself was to create a life that achieves congruency between service to self (STS) and service to others (STO). I've written about this previously in my blog here:
Certain individuals have a tendency to favor either STS or STO, but if you favor one side at the cost of the other, your life becomes unbalanced. On the STS side, you may choose to harm others or the environment for personal gain. And on the STO side, you may sacrifice too much for the benefit of others. Either you damage others, or you damage yourself. Both extremes are unsustainable. In the past my personal tendency was to error on the STO side. I would give to the point of burning myself out until I was forced to withdraw and restore my energy.
I do not recommend compromise either. Compromise means being half-STS and half-STO, with neither side being fully satisfied. Often this involves compartmentalizing different parts of your life. Perhaps you follow a selfish career path working for a company whose primary goal is profit, and know your work isn't serving the highest good of all or filling an important human need. However, in your personal life, you attempt to give your best to your family, foster good friendships, and do some community service. You're selfish in some ways and selfless in others. But this is not the ideal path for fully conscious humans.
The conscious path is to create congruency, where STS and STO actually become the same thing. There's no compromise or compartmentalization, and balance is achieved in all parts of your life.
I was able to achieve this situation for myself by consciously deciding to build a business that would balance STS and STO. On the STS side, I run a for-profit personal development business. I'm not much of a materialist, but I do want this business to generate abundance and to provide me with lots of freedom. I also want a business that challenges me and helps me grow. On the STO side, the primary goal for my business is to serve the highest good of all. That purpose is actually written into my LLC's formal operating agreement. This is a higher goal than generating a profit, but in order to sustainably fulfill this purpose, the business must be fiscally sound. However, if there's ever a serious conflict between serving the highest good and earning profits, then profits will be sacrificed. This is not the kind of business a typical venture capital firm would find attractive.
In practice, I've set up the business so the actual activities I perform are both STS and STO. For example, when I write a new article, it helps build traffic, generates revenue from advertising, and puts money in my pocket. It also generates feedback that helps me refine my ideas, so I experience growth as well. But when I write, I do so with the primary intention of helping others grow. I don't concern myself with how much ad revenue a particular article will bring in or whether it will generate a lot of traffic and links. I just ask myself, "What can I write today that will genuinely help people?†The business is structured such that I can focus the bulk of my energy on the STO side (which is my preference), and the STS side largely takes care of itself.
The hardest part for me has been to allow myself to receive and not just give, give, give. For a long time I felt uneasy about getting paid for this type of work at all. I just wanted to give everything away for free. But I soon found that wasn't sustainable. I also questioned the belief that I should sacrifice my needs to serve others when some of them expressed a clear willingness to help support me financially.
It took a while, but eventually I came to understand that because I was focusing on serving the highest good of all, then serving my own needs was entirely congruent with serving the highest good of all. If I achieve financial abundance, then I can turn around and teach that to others. And greater abundance means I can expand my service and hopefully do even more good. Any good that comes to me simply flows back out again as a way to serve others. So it's just as important for me to receive as it is to give.
Even when I work on components of the business that seem purely STS, I recognize now that there is an STO component to them. For example, last year I put some serious effort into optimizing my site to make it generate more income. More income means more money available to improve the service I provide. That money allowed me to buy podcasting equipment, so I could offer a free podcast. I also upgraded my web server twice (I currently pay $149/month for hosting), so the site is very fast and responsive. The more money I make, the more I'm able to increase my service. And the better my service, the more money I make. So my situation is such that STS = STO. This is a wonderful place to be.
If you base your life around genuine service to the highest good of all, then serving your own self interest also serves the highest good. The more abundance you have, the greater your capacity to give. This is the way to balance traditional Eastern and Western values. There's a space where they overlap, so you just need to find a way to live and work in that space. If you devote your life to serving to the highest good of all, then enjoying abundance in your own life will become an equally honorable pursuit.
10. Finding Purpose and Meaning
One of the benefits of living in a western culture is our abundance of choice. People can choose what they do with their life and enjoy tremendous personal freedoms, yet many have difficulty finding a true calling, an occupation that motivates. Many people suffer due to lack of purpose despite so much opportunity. For readers who have yet to find their personal legend, what advice would you offer to help them find it?
The reason your purpose is fuzzy is because your understanding of reality is fuzzy. If you experience confusion about your purpose, then forget about purpose for a while. Instead, focus on developing an accurate model of reality. Once you understand reality accurately enough, your purpose will become clear.
Increasing your accuracy means facing those parts of your life you don't want to face, looking them square in the eye, and accepting the truth about them. The more truth you're capable of accepting, the more accurate your model of reality will be.
Often when people start on this path, they're in deep denial about the true status of their existence. They may refuse to accept many things about themselves that others would readily acknowledge, such as: I'm out of shape, I'm stingy, I'm in debt, I eat poorly, I'm dishonest, I have many bad habits that I'm ashamed of, I feel powerless, I'm not contributing, I'm afraid, my work is unsatisfying, my marriage is unfulfilling, etc. Too often people lie to themselves and refuse to accept the problems that surround them. But when they finally accept that their life isn't what they want it to be, that becomes the seed for future change. Problems are transformed into challenges.
It's very difficult to accept the full truth of your situation when you've been lying to yourself for so long. But you won't find your real purpose under a blanket of lies. It's only when you start facing the unfaceable parts of your life that your purpose will become visible.
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This series are amongst the best posts on your website.
The Steve Pavlina website has been very important for my personal development, but I'm sad that comments have been disabled.
Let's hope Steve might one day be persuaded to add a forum or reenable the comments.
Hi Phi – glad you liked the interview. I've heard some good feedback already. Steve knows what he is talking about and has a knack for teaching well with words.
In my opinion, peer pressure no matter how old you are is a challenge. If you let it control you, you will have big problems and limit your success.
I agree with you that with kids this is a major influence. If they get pressured to do the wrong things they could harm their lives forever.
I believe that we must all be aware of who we are listening to and examine the information we receive and decide what is useful and what is harmful.
To Your Success,
Andy Fuehl
Great series, Yaro. Steve has a lot of wonderful and inspiring insights. Thanks for giving him such a prominent forum for him to share them! -Tom
Steve and Yaro,
Thanks for laying on this exceellent interview. I purposely chose a time when I could sit down (without interruptions) and absord all the pearls of wisdom.
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The key to succeeding in business isn't some particular technique or strategy. It's the why that drives the business. When the purpose behind your business is truly important to you, you'll be driven to learn the skills and take the actions necessary to succeed.
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Great job Yaro! Steve has been a great inspiration to me and it's wonderful you did an interview with him to help us get to know the man behind the blog better.
Thanks for this interview Steve and Yaro. These were great questions.
There is a great book about peer pressure and parenthood: Hold on to your Kids, by Gordon Neufeld. I highly recommend it to all parents.
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Steve's insights have been really eye-opening to me, especially those concerning the "ready-fire-aim" approach. 🙂
But I still have a problem with "serving the highest good of all". What it boils down to, basically, is that you have to find the lowest common denominator, right? And this isn't always possible without sacrificing value. I'm thinking primarily artists (writers) and scholarly types now – these people don't necessarily provide what interests the masses. Steve's website is so successful because he managed to hit upon a topic that is of potential interest to many people from different walks of life. What about those whose vision doesn't have such large following? Does it mean they either have to starve or give up what's meaningful to them for something else that might be more "useful" to others, settle with an unsatisfying job in order to pursue their real passion in spare time? Where's the balance?
Thats nice to present Steve's Interview here.
I liked his opinion about 'Peer pressure'.
This is spreading like anything and at times parents feel helpless.
Steve + Yaro: Thank you for an inspiring series of articles.
Johanka: I think that Steve's point, in much of his writing, is to find that balance between STO and STS. Creative types such as artists have been finding that balance in innovative ways. Just look at http://creaturesinmyhead.com/ and http://postsecret.blogspot.com/. Although I'm not sure how the latter is being monetized. (A new book, I think.)
Here's something to consider, if you are indeed an artist: Art therapy is starting to pick up momentum. It is in fact a great way to get out some frustrations, provided there is no imposed structure. So what about a website that teaches freedom of expression through drawing and painting techniques? There seems to be some implied balance between STS and STO.
"But I still have a problem with Òserving the highest good of allÓ. What it boils down to, basically, is that you have to find the lowest common denominator, right?"
Johanko, no. Seeking the LCD is only cheating yourself. Find your passion, master with persistence and watch the universe make a place for you. Of course, the universe asks that you give of yourself in return, but only of the dead things which you didn't need anyway. Go forth & prosper.
This is a fabulous piece.
It's great that you asked Steve Pavlina questions that aren't on his blog. It gives us a greater understanding of who Steve is, and provide us all with more ways to improve ourselves.
Steve's been an great inspiration to a lot of individuals. I wish more people would take the time to read this interview and his blog-the world could be a greater place
I believe the "law of attraction" lead me to Steve Pavlina's blog, which then inspired me to create a blog of my own (actually two blogs).
Congratulations to you for landing this interview. Great job!
Wow this is great. Steve Pavlina is one of my all time favorites. There was a time when I'd make it a point to read at least 4 articles a day from his website. He writes so well. Everything is right on spot!
This is such a great interview. I have been reading Steve's site a lot lately and found it really inspiring.


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There is a 'No Pouching' contract between the company A and B. But I never worked on any of those related projects in Company A and never interacted with Company B through A. How can I show that I approached Company B and they are not pouching me ?*'No Poaching'
Generally in CA, non-compete contracts aren't enforceable, and employees are free tp change jobs, start their own businesses to compete with former employers, etc. Exceptions to this general rule are when someone sells a company to someone else --then, they can't compete with their buyer.
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I don't know how you would know about the "no poaching" agreement between Company A and Company B [generally referred to as a "no solicitation agreement"]. But assuming there is one, and its operative and enforceable, then if Company B solicited you to join the company, and therefore leave Company A, that would breach the no solicitation agreement. Where it gets squirrely is if YOU approached Company B and asked for a job. To evaluate if Company B violates the no solicitation agreement in that situation [because it benefits from what you've learned at Company A] requires an analysis of the terms of the provision -- they are not all the same. You need to speak with a California-licensed employment attorney.
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You must mean "poaching" not "pouching". A "non-poaching" agreement is an agreement that the companies will not try to steal each other's employees.
It is not up to you to prove anything because you are not a party to the agreement, unless they had you acknowledge it, in which case your acknowledgment will be interpreted as a non-compete clause attempting to restrict you from switching from A to B in response to any inquiry from B to you. Whether, and to what extent, such a restriction is legal is a matter of CA law and I am not licensed in CA so I cannot advise you.
As to how you prove you were not approached by B, you can do so by merely so stating, preferably under oath, such as in an affidavit signed by a notary. If you wanted to tie this up further, you would have an authorized knowledgeable representative of B sign an affidavit that B did not solicit you but rather you solicited them. Once you affirm you were not solicited, it is up to A to prove you are lieing and you were solicited, which is next to impossible because the only proof is likely to be in the possession of you and B unknown to A. A might have to find an employee of B to testify, whether truthfully or not, that B solicited you. You should plan for the worst, namely that A can find someone disloyal at B to throw you under the bus, and document as well as you in each piece of correspondence with B each step of the way that YOU asked B for a job and not vice versa.
California looks with disfavor on non-compete and non-solicitation agreements, so you need to see a California-licensed employment law attorney to confirm or correct the above information.
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toy, but even though I said I "had to have it," I didn't really.
I could have done without it. In fact, when I was your age, I did
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Monique T. Kramer , BS, MS; Kenneth S. Latimer, DVM, PhD; Pauline M. Rakich, DVM, PhD; Royce E. Roberts, DVM, MS; Nicole C. Northrup, DVM; and Perry J. Bain, DVM, PhD
Class of 2003 (Kramer), Department of Pathology (Bain, Latimer), Athens Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (Rakich), Department of Anatomy and Radiology (Roberts), and Oncology Service, Department of Small Animal Medicine (Northrup), College of Veterinary Medicine, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602-7388
Osteosarcoma (OSA) is a rapidly growing, destructive neoplasm of bone that accounts for 80% of all malignant bone tumors in dogs.9,10 Neoplasms of the skeleton are more common in dogs than in any other species. Primary bone tumors such as OSA are five times more common than metastatic skeletal neoplasms, and malignant tumors are more common than benign neoplasms.12
Breed, Age, and Sex Predisposition
Osteosarcoma is most common in giant and large breed dogs (90%) and is uncommon in small and medium breeds.13 Breeds especially predisposed to development of OSA include Saint Bernards, Rottweilers, Great Danes, Golden Retrievers, Irish setters, Doberman Pinschers, and Labrador retrievers. The mean age of occurrence is 7-1/2 years and incidence of OSA is slightly more common in males than females (1.2:1).10,13
Factors Influencing Tumor Development
Ionizing radiation, chemical carcinogens, foreign bodies (including metal implants, such as internal fixators, bullets, and bone transplants), and pre-existing skeletal abnormalities such as sites of healed fractures contribute to the development of OSA. In addition, there have been correlations with genetic predisposition to tumor development in certain family lines. Dogs with OSA have been found to have aberrations of the p53 tumor suppressor gene.11 In laboratory animals, both DNA viruses (polyomavirus and SV-40 virus) and RNA viruses (type C retroviruses) have been found to induce OSA.13
Sites of Origin and Metastasis
OSA can be found in both the appendicular and axial skeleton with the former being 3-4 times more common.10 This neoplasm originates most commonly in the metaphyses of the long bones of forelimbs, especially the distal radius and proximal humerus. These areas are especially active during skeletal development and predominate in weight bearing. OSA also can be found in the distal ulna, proximal and distal tibia, and femur. OSA usually arises in the medullary cavity, penetrates the cortex, and extends into the subperiosteum, causing the formation of a large soft tissue mass contiguous to the bone. Axial skeletal OSA is less common and can involve the ribs, vertebrae, and skull. Most neoplasms of the skull arise in the cranial vault, zygomatic arch, and jaw, but occasionally may originate within the nasal cavity. OSA originating in the skull is usually of the multilobular type and is observed more commonly in middle-aged dogs. Axial OSA is more common in females.9 Extraskeletal OSA is rare but may originate in the spleen, adrenal gland, eye, testicle, vagina, kidney, intestine, mesentery, liver, skin, and mammary gland.
OSA metastasizes primarily via hematogenous routes and rarely through lymphatics. The lung is the most common site for visceral metastases. Other metastatic sites include liver, kidneys, amputation stump, and, rarely, adjacent bones.
Clinical Signs
The most common clinical signs of OSA involving the appendicular skeleton are lameness, swelling, and pain. The considerable soft tissue swelling is predominantly due to edema and reactive fibroplasia caused by impaired circulation in the subcutaneous and intramuscular tissue proximal and distal to the tumor.
Congestion, edema, fibroplasia, and periosteal new bone formation accompany continued tumor expansion. Muscle atrophy of the affected limb may occur from disuse. Pathological fractures may occur later in the disease as the neoplasm weakens the cortical bone. Osteolytic neoplasms are larger, more aggressive, exhibit rapid growth, and cause pathological fractures. Neoplasms involving the skull and nasal cavity can result in neurological deficits, dyspnea, nasal obstruction, and a bloody to purulent nasal discharge.
Lymphadenopathy occasionally can be observed in sites distal to the tumor. Pulmonary metastases may be associated with the development of hypertrophic osteopathy where space occupying lesions of the lung incite subperiosteal formation of new bone. Lymph nodes draining the neoplastic site may become enlarged and firm following tumor mestastasis.
Radiographic Findings
Radiographically, primary bone neoplasms have a lytic, productive, or mixed appearance. Characteristic radiographic findings in OSA include the sunburst pattern, Codmans triangle, irregular osteolysis that does not cross joint spaces, and variable degrees of periosteal new bone formation.
The sunburst appearance is the result of tumor extension, mineralization, and formation of periosteal spicules in the surrounding tissue (Figs. 1 and 2). OSA is poorly delimited radiographically because there is a wide zone of transition between abnormal and normal bone that lacks a sclerotic border at the margin of the lesion. Normal metaphyseal architecture is lost and the cortical shadow is partially or completely effaced.
|Figure 1. Osteosarcoma of the distal radius in a dog. The extent of the neoplasm is delineated by the arrows (dorsoventral radiograph).
|Figure 2. Osteosarcoma of the distal radius in a dog. Codmans triangle is formed by the elevation of the periosteal reaction (arrows, lateral radiograph).
Codmans triangle is the regular periosteal elevation on either side of the lesion that appears irregular and discontinuous (Fig. 2). Spicular or amorphous patterns of mineralized matrix may fill the breach in the periosteal response. The adjacent soft tissue swelling may show neoplastic invasion.
There is little correlation between the type of radiographic pattern and the biological age of the neoplasm or its degree of malignancy. Nuclear scintigraphy overestimates tumor margins but may provide a larger margin of safety when determining the site of proximal osteotomy during limb-salvage techniques.4
The radiographic differential diagnosis for proliferative and lytic bone lesions may include bony proliferation secondary to healing fractures as well as fungal and bacterial osteomyelitis.
Biochemical Findings
Alkaline phosphatase activity may be within the reference interval or increased.2,3 Decreased total iron binding capacity and increased ferritin concentration may be observed.3 Serum concentrations of zinc, chromium, and iron also may be decreased. Dogs with OSA have decreased rates of protein synthesis, increased urinary nitrogen loss, and increased postoperative glucose flux.7 Concentration of prostaglandin E2 may be increased in dogs with OSA.8 Resting energy expenditure also has been found to be higher in dogs with OSA.8
Fine-needle aspirates of OSA contain mesenchymal cells that appear round, plump, or fusiform (Fig. 3). These cells are scattered singly or in small clusters. Individual neoplastic cells may display anisocytosis, anisokaryosis, karyomegaly, eccentrically located nuclei, large nucleoli, and basophilic, vacuolated cytoplasm with fine pink granules (Fig. 3). More well differentiated osteoblasts may have a plasmacytoid appearance (Fig. 4).
|Figure 3. Pleomorphic population of mesenchymal cells that are round, plump, or fusiform (dog, osteosarcoma, Wright stain).
|Figure 4. Neoplastic cells exhibit anisocytosis and anisokaryosis. A few cells have a plasmacytoid appearance. A mitotic figure is present at the upper left of the image (dog, osteosarcoma, Wright-Leishman stain).
Osteoclasts are large cells that are multinucleate (Fig. 5). Scattered mitoses also may be observed. Islands of osteoid may be observed within some clusters of neoplastic cells or within the background of the smear. Osteoid is amorphous to fibrillar and bright pink in Wrights-stained cytology specimens (Fig. 6).
|Figure 5. Osteoclasts are large cells that are multinucleate (dog, osteosarcoma, Wright-Leishman stain).
|Figure 6. Pleomorphic population of neoplastic osteoblasts are surrounded by pink osteoid matrix (dog, osteosarcoma, Wright-Leishman stain).
Biopsy is often necessary for the definitive diagnosis of OSA (Fig. 7). The biopsy can be obtained with a Jamshidi needle that removes a core of the osseous neoplasm. A core biopsy taken from the center of the lesion is preferred for preoperative diagnostic purposes. However, initial biopsies often reveal reactive bone and inflammation. Therefore, multiple core samples may be necessary for a definitive diagnosis. Most OSAs exhibit three common properties: 1) destruction of normal bony architecture, 2) stimulation of reactive bone production by endosteum and periosteum, and 3) deposition of osteoid. OSA may have a heterogeneous appearance histologically and have been classified as poorly differentiated, fibroblastic, osteoblastic, telangectatic, giant cell, or chondroblastic based upon the character of the neoplastic cell population and the type(s) of matrix produced.12 OSA also may have a combined or mixed appearance (e.g., a mixture of chondroid and osteoid matrix), but newer classification schems place these neoplasms within the osteoblastic subtype.
Figure 7. Poorly differentiated osteosarcoma with a homogeneous population of spindle cells, scattered mitoses, and a few pink deposits of osteoid (dog, osteosarcoma, hematoxylin and eosin stain).
Poorly differentiated and fibroblastic OSAs have a pleomorphic to fusiform cell population with minimal deposition of osteoid or production of bony spicules. Poorly differentiated OSA is a highly aggressive neoplasm. Fibroblastic OSA begins as a lytic tumor. Approximately 50% of these neoplasms transition onto a combined type as the neoplastic spindle cells begin to form matrix material. The fibroblastic type of OSA has the most favorable prognosis.
Osteoblastic OSA is characterized by anaplastic osteoblasts admixed with plump to spindle shaped osteogenic precursor cells. Evidence of osteoid deposition or formation of bony spicules is usually evident; however, these neoplasms occasionally may be lytic or non-productive.
Telangectatic OSA is a rare neoplasm characterized by variably sized blood-filled spaces that are lined by tumor cells rather than endothelial cells; mitoses are frequently observed. This form of OSA is lytic, destructive, and rapidly fatal. Telangectatic OSA exhibits rapid growth, widespread metastasis, and may be difficult to differentiate from hemangiosarcoma.
Giant cell OSA appear as expansive and lytic bone lesions. Histologically, they resemble non-productive osteoblastic OSA except that the neoplasm may contain large areas in which tumor giant cells predominate.
The combined or mixed type of OSA has no dominant matrix pattern. Tumor matrix usually consists of osteoid in combination with chondroid matrix and/or collagen fibers. This form of OSA is more common in dogs than any of the other subtypes.10 Chondroblastic OSA is characterized by a mesenchymal cell population that produces both osteoid and chondroid matrix.
Treatment of OSA can include surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy. Survival without treatment is ~ 2-6 months.10 Amputation is palliative but rarely increases survival time. Chemotherapy administered after amputation helps to control metastatic disease and may increase survival time significantly. The most successful chemotherapy protocol is a combination of cisplatin and doxorubicin that is administered following amputation.
The clinical prognosis for OSA is variable. A poor prognosis is associated with high serum alkaline phosphatase activity, tumor extension into soft tissue, tumor origin in a hindlimb, and the presence of pulmonary metastases. The best prognosis is associated with the fibroblastic subtype of OSA that has the lowest grade of malignancy. Dogs between 7 and 10 years of age have greater survival times than younger and older dogs.9
1. Chun R, Kurzman ID, Couto CG, Klausner J, Henry C, MacEwen EG: Cisplatin and doxorubicin combination chemotherapy for the treatment of canine osteosarcoma: A pilot study. J Vet Intern Med 14:495-498, 2000.
2. Garzotto CK, Berg J, Hoffmann WE, Rand WM: Prognostic significance of serum alkaline phosphatase activity in canine appendicular osteosarcoma. J Vet Intern Med 14:587-592, 2000.
3. Kazmierski KJ, Ogilvie GK, Fettman MJ, Lana SE, Walton JA, Hansen RA, Richardson KL, Hamar DW, Bedwell CL, Andrews G, Chavey S: Serum zinc, chromium, and iron concentrations in dogs with lymphoma and osteosarcoma. J Vet Intern Med 15:585-588, 2001.
4. Leibman NF, Kuntz CA, Steyn PF, Fettman MJ, Powers BE, Withrow SJ, Dernell WS: Accuracy of radiography, nuclear scintigraphy and histopathology for determining the proximal extent of distal radius osteosarcoma in dogs. Vet Surg 30:240-245, 2001.
5. MacEwen EG, Kurzman ID: Canine osteosarcoma: amputation and chemotherapy. Vet Clin N Am Small Anim Pract 26:123-133, 1996.
6. Mahaffey EA: Cytology of the musculoskeletal System. In: Cowell RL, Tyler RD, Meinkoth JH (eds): Diagnostic Cytology and Hematology of the Dog and Cat, 2nd ed. St. Louis, Mosby Inc., 1999, pp. 120-124.
7. Mazzaferro EM, Hackett TB, Stein TP, Ogilvie GK, Wingfield WE, Walton J, Turner AS, Fettman MJ: Metabolic alterations in dogs with osteosarcoma. Am J Vet Res 62:1234-1239, 2001.
8. Mohammed SI, Coffman K, Glickman NW, Hayek MG, Waters DJ, Schlittler D, DeNicola DB, Knapp DW: Prostaglandin E2 concentrations in naturally occurring canine cancer. Prostaglandins, Leukotrienes, and Essential Fatty Acids 64:1-4, 2001.
9. Ogilvie GK: Bone tumors. In: Rosenthal R (ed): Veterinary Oncology Secrets. Philadelphia, Hanley and Belfus Inc., 2001, pp. 139-146.
10. Pool RR: Tumors of bone and cartilage. In: Moulton JE (ed.): Tumors in Domestic Animals. Berkley, University of California Press, 1990, pp. 157-230.
11. Setoguchi A, Sakai T, Okuda M, Minehata K, Yazawa M, Ishizaka T, Watari T, Nishimura R, Sasaki N, Hasegawa A, Tsujimoto H: Aberrations of the P53 tumor suppressor gene in various tumors in dogs. Am J Vet Res 62:433-439, 2001.
12. Slayter MV, Boosinger TR, Pool RR, D�mmerich K, Misdorp W, Larsen S: Histological Classification of Bone and Joint Tumors of Domestic Animals. American Registry of Pathology and the World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Comparative Oncology, Washington, D.C., Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, 1994.
13. Theilen GH, Madewell BR: Tumors of the skeleton. In: Theilen GH, Madewell BR (eds.): Veterinary Cancer Medicine. Philadelphia, Lea and Febiger, 1987, pp.471-493.


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4 Helpful Sites for Planning Your Next Family Hiking Trip
A hiking adventure can provide your family with an exciting bonding experience. It will also give everyone in the family memories that will last for years to come. There are as many tips for hiking and things to remember as there are places and ways to go hiking. When you're planning on putting on your boots, strapping on your backpacks and heading out on your way, it is important you know as much as you can about your destination, including the basics of hiking in your desired area.
Here are 4 helpful sites for planning your next family hiking trip:
Kids Can Travel offers some good information on traveling with children – from babies to teenagers. On their site you'll find tips and information regarding hiking and walking trips with kids and as a family. Along with hiking and walking destinations around the world, Kids Can Travel also offers a laundry list of tips for hiking with the family; topics like selecting the right trip, plotting your route, travel gear, packing tips and health and safety.
The Wildland Trekking Company is a travel company that sets up guided tours throughout the Grand Canyon, Havasu Falls, Utah, Yellowstone, Yosemite and the Rocky Mountains. This site is great for anyone planning a hiking trip, even if you don't plan on purchasing a guided tour from the company. You'll find great descriptions of some of the premiere hiking destinations in the United States, plus a lot of great pictures and videos to keep your imagination churning.
BackRoads is a company offering active tour expeditions around the world. They have locations throughout the world that offer cycling, hiking and anything else in the way of an active travel agenda. Similar to Wildland Trekking, you do not have to purchase anything from this site to get some helpful family hiking tips. Browsing around the BackRoads site will give you an idea of all the different types of hiking adventures that are out there waiting for you. They also have a section of guest reviews, where you can read the adventures of other travelers and get some good ideas.
TripAdvisor is a great site for reviews from real travelers who have been to the places you are going and can offer genuine advice and criticism regarding these places. This is a great resource for researching areas to hike as well as a great place to find companies you're thinking about going to for your hiking necessities and read their customer reviews. TripAdvisor is known worldwide and there are several (sometimes in the hundreds) reviews on places and companies throughout the world.
Isaac Sanger is a writer for Cascade Healthcare Solutions, an online seller of medical supplies for individuals and medical professionals. Visit Cascadehealthcaresolutions.com to learn more.


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Here I wanna show you my work of the last 8 month in my hobbyroom...
Props are from:
helmet - Don Post ´95
EE3 Blaster - self made
gauntlet kit (a lot of work) - little monkey
boots - evolution toy shop
gloves - evolution toy shop
shin tools - man of war
jumpsuit, flak vest - evolution toy shop
armor - fettpride
Braids - self made
chest display - tk409
pouches - self made
=> trimming, weathering, paintjob, etc. of me...


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occasionally i argue with strangers on the internet, but mostly i just try to convince my friends to cook me dinner.
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6. using way too many unnecessary parentheses in my writing
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FRANKFORT - Kentucky's two U.S. Senate candidates shattered their own fundraising records on Tuesday as they collectively raised more than $7 million heading into the November election.
McConnell raised $3.1 million from April to June this year, the best showing of his Senate career. But it still wasn't enough to top Alison Lundergan Grimes, his Democratic challenger who raised more than $4 million in her bid to unseat the 30-year incumbent.
The fundraising hauls dwarfed those of the other competitive Senate races across the country, cementing Kentucky's status as a focal point of the 2014 midterm elections.
In the four fundraising quarters that Grimes has been a candidate, she has outraised McConnell in three of them. But July was her biggest victory yet, where she bested McConnell by nearly $1 million.
"We went form Sen. McConnell having a 10 to 1 cash advantage over us to now just a little bit over 1.5," Grimes campaign manager Jonathan Hurst said. "We have closed the gap to something that is very manageable."
The McConnell campaign has $9.8 million in the bank compared to Grimes' $6.2 million, a $3.6 million advantage with less than four months to go before the Nov. 4 general election. That's despite McConnell having to traverse a bruising primary election in which Louisville businessman Matt Bevin spent more than $3.5 million against him.
Grimes, meanwhile, had no serious primary opposition.
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…the tough get going. Guess I am not one of the tough then.
Last summer Crunluath's cabin port side warped, probably owing to sun exposure on the same side for the last 15 plus years. A nasty split opened up and I was for some time at a loss to know what to do about it. It is one of the disadvantages of a marina mooring, on a swinging mooring the boat is never exposed to the sun on one side only.
After attempting various temporary cures I decided a spell ashore and some serious woodwork was required. I set off with good intentions but the job did not go smoothly and time marched on. Other jobs cropped up, real life got in the way of boat maintenance and before I knew it the summer was gone, autumn set in and the winter loomed.
At this point the tough would have got going; I lost heart, let things slide and got thoroughly depressed. Wooden boats to not suffer things sliding and have no sympathy at all for depression. A plan had to be put in place.
Varnished wood had to be reduced to a minimum. Keeping a boat more than two hours drive from home has always been a problem, old age is setting in, me and the boat, this was no time for further procrastination. A coat of white paint on the cabin and cockpit sides didn't look half so bad as I feared. It should make maintenance easier and may, as my son pointed out, reflect sunlight and reduce further warping.
A year has passed but we are afloat again, upgraded pumping systems have cleared the post launch leaks and the prospect of actually sailing before too long is cheering. Most things work, the boat is still work in progress but aren't all wooden boats and at least there is progress.
Right now the rain has eased but the wind is howling, marina's are noisy places in a blow, Wales has just lost a miserable game of football and the country is on a leaderless course to the dogs but hey my boat floats and doesn't leak… much…the pump has just kicked in! The Clyde looks as glorious as it ever did and there is sailing to be enjoyed. What's not to like as the modern generation says?
When the going gets tough…
…the tough get going. Guess I am not one of the tough then.


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Am I drunk or am I really seeing this headline?
Here it is, though I suspect it'll be gone sooner rather than later.
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