Captains Blog, 1/31/2010: <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"> Illegitimi non carborundum. "Don't let the bastards grind you down". This mock Latin phrase from WWII even today, accents the fact that determination to succeed must come from within.  Like it or not, most of our perceived friends do not really want us to be more successful than they are.  After all, "birds of a feather...." Somewhere along the line, in order to flourish