Malcolm Gladwell, in his recent book The Outliers, writes about the importance of working at something for ten thousand hours in order to achieve mastery or, in Amabile's framework, expertise. He describes the circumstances that enable famous innovators or outliers, as he calls them to achieve their breakthroughs. But he doesn't talk about motivation.Lots of people stunk up the joint in week fifteen. Like a great NFL defensive back, I am going to have a very short memory and forget that horrible showing. Lets move on to bigger and better things in week sixteen, shall we?.

A victory tonight by the Pirates (8967) and a loss in St. Louis by the Washington Nationals (8472) would assure the Pirates their first postseason berth since 1992. The Pirates currently have one of the wildcard spots along with the Cincinnati Reds.Cell culture and retroviral transduction of Hut78 cellsHut78 cells were cultured in Rosewell Park Memorial Institute 1640 medium plus 10% FCS and 104 M 2mer