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It’s a typical morning at the Dupont Veterinary Clinic in Lafayette, La. Dr. Phillip Dupont is caring for cats and dogs in the examining room while his wife, Paula, answers the phone and pet owners’ questions. Their two dogs are sleeping on the floor behind her desk.

“That’s Ken and Henry,” Paula says, pointing to the slim, midsize dogs with floppy ears and long snouts. Both dogs are tan, gray and white, with similar markings. “I put a red collar on Ken and a black collar on Henry so I can tell who’s who.”

Ken and Henry are genetically identical, though not exact replicas. They’re clones of the Duponts’ last dog, Melvin — created when scientists injected one of Melvin’s skin cells, which contained all of his DNA, into a donor egg that has been emptied of its original DNA.

Ken And Henry are two of only about 600 dogs that have been cloned since scientists at Sooam Biotech, a suburban company near Seoul, South Korea, developed the technology to create cloned canines.

Cloning Your Dog, For A Mere $100,000

Photos: Edmund D. Fountain for NPR

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Business Lessons from Strava # 1: If you think you’re working hard, someone is probably working 100 times harder than you are.

I pride myself on training regularly, I hope to end the year with at least 365 hours of training and a couple of thousand kilometres of running, cycling and swimming under my belt. To me that seems healthy and I can combine most of this training with commuting to and from work or during lunch breaks. Minimal impact on my family and my business (although my wife would probably argue otherwise). 

Each month Strava challenges it’s users to log as many miles as you can in a calendar month, what I find astonishing is that only four days in there are users with thousands of kilometres logged.

Take Kurt Searvogel for example; so far he’s logged 71 000kms for the year! That’s roughly 320kms a day, if he’s averaging 30kms/hour that’s some 10 hours a day.

Mind boggling, but also a reminder that when you’re feeling sorry for yourself and you’re working really hard there’s probably someone else out there working way, way harder.

This does pose some interesting questions for me:

Is it healthy?

What are they trying to prove?

What demons are they running away from?

What is fuelling the addiction?

Who is getting hurt in the process (family or colleagues)?

Is it smart? http://home.trainingpeaks.com/blog/article/all-about-overtraining

You can answer these questions for yourself but for me, it’s basically about self knowledge which comes through experience and then using that knowledge to find your own balance. This coupled with a contentment that you know you are putting in the best effort for yourself/your life/your family, irrespective of what the Kurt Searvogels are doing. Self-awareness balanced with life/circumstance and ambition.

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Every problem has a solution. You just have to be creative enough to find it.

- Travis Kalanick

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Why did I randomly remember this video

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Maybe… Maybe you saw your mother, maybe she’s smiling, She hears your catching laughter, she’s missed your charm, We never made it to Cooperstown But I’ve still got that glove under my bed, Maybe I’ll see you, we could shoot the shit, finally have a beer, “Have a catch,”but for now its catch my tears, its catch my breath, I can just hear you say “come on bud, get out of that funk, it’s time to move on,” It’s funny how you still apply, you still know me, I’ll try to take your tools and make something worth while, Try to make ya proud, I’ve learned nothing is spotless anymore, But I’ll let you resonate… Maybe your Heaven is that Norman Rockwell scene Where you and your friends are singing that Gordon Lightfoot song, “If you could only read my mind,” well if you could only read my mind, Well that ending, it was just too hard to take, Is it better than Clapton? Did you see your fathers eyes? I know it’s wishful thinking hoping this won’t always kill me, But If you saw yours, then I’ll see mine, You finally stretched your feet and ghosted away from me, You had to fade away, you had to leave I’m pleading for one more time with what I know now, I’m begging for the same flake to fall twice for the first time, I’m begging for what wasn’t said. That night the snow shaped the land, and I walked home, I laughed the whole way because I suppose if it hurts, It's worth it, but now that ghost is me.

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20 years after the iconic Pillars of Creation image was captured in 1995, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has revisited the Eagle Nebula (a.k.a. Messier 16) to bring us brand-new views of the breathtakingly beautiful structures formed from gas and dust.

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Yes! Nacho!

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The trouble is, you think you have time.

Buddha   (via hefuckin)

Profound.

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Cat In A Bucket - Teddy the cat decided that the best place to be was in the bucket.

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Derek Sivers, Start Now, No Funding Needed!

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Today's inspirational quote.