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2012 was a year filled with politics and controversies, persecution and protests, tragedy and hope. Here are the stories the editors of ReligionToday.com believe most affected Christians around the world during the past 12 months.
1. The 2012 presidential election: In what some called the most consequential election in recent history, President Barack Obama won a second term as president of the United States. The election results, which drew diverse reactions from Christians around the world, revealed a deeply divided nation — not just at the political level, but at the worldview level. The results also showed fundamental changes to the American electorate: increased ethnic, cultural and ideological diversity, as well as increased secularization. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's Mormon faith was also a prominent issue during the campaign season, with many Christians questioning whether they could or should vote for a Mormon and with some ultimately abstaining from voting altogether. In the end, the moral shift of the nation was evident not just in the re-election of a pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage president, but in the results of state ballot measures, such as historic wins for gay advocates in four states.
- Obama's Re-Election Draws Diverse Reactions From Christians
- Aftermath: Lessons From the 2012 Election
- More election 2012 coverage
2. Massacre in Newtown, Connecticut: The nation and the world grieved along with the community of Newtown, Conn., after a lone gunman entered Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14 and opened fire, killing 20 first-graders and six adults before killing himself. Just five months after 12 were killed in a movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colo., Americans were once again left reeling and searching for answers in the face of tragedy. Christians once again bowed their knees in prayer and reached out to offer hope — while never forgetting to affirm the reality of human evil. "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked," Jeremiah 17:9 says. "Who can know it?"
- Rachel Weeping for Her Children: The Massacre in Connecticut
- The Answer is Evil
- School Shootings and Spiritual Warfare
- More Newtown coverage
- More Aurora coverage
3. The Chick-fil-A gay marriage controversy: When the president and CEO of Chick-fil-A expressed support for traditional marriage this summer, controversy erupted. "I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at Him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage,'" Dan Cathy said. "... We are very much supportive of the family — the biblical definition of the family." In response to a media storm and threats of boycotts from supporters of gay marriage, supporters of Chick-fil-A packed restaurants around the country on Aug. 1 for "Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day," propelling the company to a record-setting day. Chick-fil-A has continued to thrive in the months since it first came under fire.
- Squawking Over Chick-fil-A
- Chick-fil-A Day: Thousands Pack Restaurants to Show Support
- Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day and Free Speech
- Chick-fil-A Thrives in Third Quarter Despite Marriage Controversy
- More Chick-fil-A coverage
4. Christian prisoners freed: The stories of three Christians whose sagas attracted international attention had happy endings.
- Iranian pastor Youcef Nadarkhani: In September, Iranian pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, who was imprisoned for more than 1,000 days and facing a death sentence simply for being a Christian, was acquitted of apostasy and released. Nadarkhani's saga drew international attention, and his perseverance and repeated refusals to recant his faith in court inspired Christians around the world.
- Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng: In April, blind Chinese Christian human rights activist Chen Guangcheng made a dramatic escape from imprisonment and torture in his own home, finding refuge in the United States with his wife and two children. Chen was jailed and tortured for more than four years for fighting China's one-child policy and exposing more than 100,000 forced abortions, then held under house arrest for 20 more months.
- Pakistani teenager Rimsha Masih: 14-year-old Rimsha Masih was arrested in August on suspicion of desecrating Islamic texts and charged under Pakistan's controversial blasphemy laws — which carry a penalty of life imprisonment or death. After several dramatic twists and turns, a court dropped Rimsha's case in November, declaring her innocent.
5. The Middle East heats up: Now two years since the beginning of the so-called "Arab Spring," Christians in the Middle East and northern Africa are suffering more than ever amid Muslim domination and ever-increasing persecution of religious minorities. As secular regimes are one by one replaced by Islamic states, the "Christian Winter" shows no signs of ending. In Egypt, unrest continues under Muslim Brotherhood president Mohammed Morsi. In Syria, Christians — who fear for their future should President Bashar al-Assad be defeated — say the growing presence of foreign Islamic fighters and Islamist brigades among the forces opposing Assad's regime are of particular concern. In Israel, tension continues between Israelis and Palestinians in the wake of Operation Pillar of Defense and the Palestinians' successful U.N. nonmember statehood bid in November.
6. Religious objections to the Obama administration's contraception mandate: The Obama administration's Health and Human Services mandate requiring all employers to provide contraceptives and abortion-inducing drugs kicked in this summer, sparking outrage from Catholic and other Christian businesses, nonprofits, schools and hospitals — who can now face legal consequences for refusing to offer the services, even if doing so violates their consciences. There are now more than 40 lawsuits against the Obama administration over the mandate, and those fighting for their religious freedom now wait to see what — if any — relief the courts will bring.
7. Hurricane Sandy devastation and relief efforts: "Superstorm" Sandy, deemed one of the most destructive storms to hit the United States in decades, left millions without power for weeks and caused billions of dollars of damage. In the wake of the devastation, Christian ministries, churches and organizations were some of the first to step in for physical and spiritual aid.
- New York City's Churches Marshal Sandy Relief Efforts
- In Aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, Relief Organizations Offer Aid, Hope
- Pakistani Christians Pray for Americans Affected by Hurricane Sandy
- More Superstorm Sandy coverage
8. Boko Haram's war on Christians in Nigeria: The militant Islamist group Boko Haram, which has declared war on Nigeria's Christians, has been responsible for an estimated 3,000 deaths since 2009 in its deadly campaign to establish an Islamic state in northern Nigeria. The violent attacks on Christian communities — which have included bombings, shootings, hackings, mass killings and the cold-blooded assassinations of Christian families in their homes — have pushed Nigeria into seventh place on this year's ranking of nations most affected by terrorism.
- Terror Group 'Enjoys' Killing Nigerian Christians
- Boko Haram Reign of Terror Impacts Churches in Nigeria
- Nigerian-Americans Organize to Support Violence-Plagued Christians in Northern Nigeria
- More Boko Haram coverage
- More Nigeria coverage
9. U.S. colleges legislate against campus Christian groups: Christian groups on campus are being increasingly singled out with "anti-discrimination" policies that require student groups to allow anyone, regardless of beliefs or behavior, to be able to obtain membership and seek leadership positions. In other words, a Christian group could be sent off campus for requiring its leaders to be Christians and practice their faith. "This level of mandated openness ... actually diminishes diversity," says David French of the American Center for Law and Justice. "It's utterly antithetical to free expression." Though Vanderbilt's nondiscrimination policy made headlines this year, multiple schools nationwide — including Brown, Tufts and the University of North Carolina — have pursued similar policies.
- Vanderbilt University Mounts Assault on Religious Liberty
- Yale May Not Recognize Christian Fraternity
- Tufts University Reinstates Christian Group Accused of Discrimination
- Christians on Campus: Our Right to Exist
- More nondiscrimination policy coverage
10. The TBN scandal: Brittany Koper, the granddaughter of Trinity Broadcasting Network founders Paul and Jan Crouch and its chief financial officer until September 2011, accused network directors of illegally distributing "charitable assets" worth more than $50 million for their personal use. TBN, in response, filed six lawsuits nationwide accusing Koper and her husband of engaging in a smear campaign to divert attention from financial problems of their own. After a California federal judge threatened to brand TBN a "vexatious litigant" because of its lawsuits seemed designed to "overwhelm the courts ... so as to avoid a rational decision on the merits," some critics of TBN called for ministries associated with evangelical icons to pull their programming from the network. "It's increasingly awkward for the mainstream ministries to stay on the network," said Dr. Albert Mohler, president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. "Every new allegation, every new headline, makes it more difficult."
- TBN: Trouble in Paradise
- Sex, Lies and Television: World's Largest Christian Broadcasting Network Under Lawsuit
- Amid Latest TBN Drama, Ministries Face Question of Whether to Withdraw Programming
In Memoriam
Chuck Colson, the Watergate figure and Nixon "hatchet man" whose prison term and dramatic conversion to Christianity led him to dedicate more than 35 years of his life to prison ministry and evangelical leadership, died April 21 at age 80.
Thomas Kinkade, the beloved Christian artist known as the "Painter of Light," died of a drug and alcohol overdose April 6 at age 54.
Anna Kuta is the editor of ReligionToday.com.
Publication date: December 21, 2012


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Questions and criticism follow Clinton testimony
- Wisconsin Sen. Johnson asked Clinton whether the public had been %27misled%27
- Critics say Clinton%27s response raises more questions about U.S. security
- Clinton testified before Senate and House panels Wednesday
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's combative answers to Congress in hearings investigating the Sept. 11 attack on a U.S. Consulate in Libya raised questions about whether her department did all it could to safeguard diplomats overseas.
Clinton erupted when Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., asked whether, in the days following the attack, the American public was "misled" by State Department and White House officials who falsely blamed the attack on spontaneous protests.
"With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans," she said, raising her voice and waving her arms. "Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night and decided they'd go kill some Americans? What difference, at this point, does it make?"
Johnson told USA TODAY: "How do you initiate a proper response if you don't know what transpired? ... How do you tell the truth to the American people if you don't know the facts?"
ANALYSIS:Could Clinton's Benghazi comments live on?
U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed when terrorists armed with machine guns and rockets invaded the consulate compound and set it ablaze. The attack occurred as several violent protests broke out at U.S. embassies in Egypt and Tunisia over a YouTube video that denigrated Islam's prophet Mohammed. No protest preceded the attack in Benghazi.
Clinton, who testified before a Senate panel in the morning and later before a House panel, promised to improve security for State Department officials in North Africa and around the world. "I take responsibility," Clinton told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. "Nobody is more committed to getting this right. I am determined to leave the State Department and our country safer, stronger and more secure."
Democrats focused on moving forward. Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif, praised Clinton for moving quickly to implement recommendations made by the independent review board to improve security.
"Rather than point at others for those deficiencies, you stepped up," she said. "I am grateful."
Danielle Pletka, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute who has been critical of the State Department's handling of security and the dissemination of information after the attack, said that Clinton's testimony showed that the United States is still not ready to deal with the threats it's facing.
To find justice and improve security, "you have to to understand why it happened and what went wrong," Pletka said.
Stevens had repeatedly asked for more security at Benghazi, and there were several signs of trouble leading up to the attack: Security forces had reported the consulate was being watched, and the British and International Red Cross moved out of the city because of the militant threat.
Clinton has said she did not see cables from Stevens and his security chief asking for more security and did not deny the requests.
Pletka agreed that it is not unusual for a secretary of State not to see routine cables. Even so, "are terrorism and al-Qaeda priorities for this administration? Up to a point. At the time, we were being told al-Qaeda are on their heels," she said.
Clinton also suggested that a lack of funds played a role in the refusal of Stevens' requests for more security. But Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., pointed out that Assistant Secretary of State Charlene Lamb had already testified that budget cuts had no role in the denial of security requests.
Clinton said the independent board's review said budget issues had an effect on the decision.
Clinton was also asked why U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice — and not she — went on Sunday talk shows five days after the attack to explain what happened. At the time, Rice blamed the attack on a protest and said it was not terrorism.
Clinton testified Wednesday that she was busy with more important matters.
"I was focused on keeping our people safe," she said, referring to another attack on the U.S. Embassy in Yemen taking place at the time.
Clinton's answers show that the Obama administration's priorities are misplaced, Pletka said.
"Obama's priority on Sept. 11, 2012, was to get re-elected and sweep all problems or potential problems under the rug," she said. "There's a general vibe throughout the administration that the White House is not going to look kindly on anything that implies we're facing a higher threat level, that killing Osama bin Laden was not enough, that the Arab Spring is not being managed well."
At the House hearing, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., asked why no one was significantly disciplined, despite State Department claims that employees responsible for poor security in Benghazi would be disciplined.
"There has just been a shuffling of the deck chairs," Ros-Lehtinen said. "Do you find it acceptable that officials who were responsible remain employed at the State Department?"
Clinton said all four individuals have been removed from their jobs and put on administrative leave.
Clinton said the review board that looked into the incident found that under U.S. law, "unsatisfactory leadership is not satisfactory for a breach of duty. I have put forth to the Congress and Senate to fix that problem going forward."
Pletka said she found that alarming.
"When someone dies as a result of your error in judgement you're not responsible and should not be fired?" Pletka said. "This is the Washington culture. There is no accountability."


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These old slides depict some Norfolk & Western Steam power.
1. The Powhatan Arrow near Singer, VA in December, 1949
2. The Tennessean near Roanoke, VA. This may have been a Southern Railway train riding on the N&W's rails, using an N&W engine.
3. This is the N&W's Pochohontas pictured near Ripplemeade, VA.


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jb_cook brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 195 Designs von 39 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
Outdoors International
Outdoors International Pty Ltd is a start-up business, seeking distribution opportunities for adventure, camping and outdoor sporting equipment and lifestyle products via direct web-based sales in Australia and New Zealand. Once the company has proven its web-based concepts in the market place it is our intent, acting as the Australasian agent and distributor, to branch into wholesaling in the Australian and New Zealand retail markets.
Company Values
· Embrace the outdoors, outdoor sports and the thrill of adventure.
· Enhance people's access to outdoor adventure by providing innovative products at a lower cost than High St retail prices.
· Appear professional, trustworthy yet fun.
· Ensure the customer is provided with a quick, safe e-retail experience supplying a cost effective equipment solution that will build brand loyalty.
Our USP
· "Adventure is our World" - Importers of superior quality products sold online, direct to customers, at very competitive prices
· Outdoors International
(Our full company name in Australia is 'OUTDOORS INTERNATIONAL Pty Ltd, ACN 145 444 739')
This brief is to design a company logo and associated name brand design for use on the company webpage, Print· Billboard· Company Uniforms- Letterhead and Business Cards.
It is critical that during this initial start up phase the companies branding, logo and website appear completely professional, cutting edge and inspire confidence that we are capable of representing other companies brands in Australia and New Zealand.
Once we are trading the Logo must appeal to outdoor people of all age groups The design must assist in web-based retail by distinguishing the website from others and being memorable.
The Logo design must assist in web-based retail by distinguishing the website from others and being memorable.
Our initial thoughts were that the logo colours should be that of nature, earth, sea, sky and the sun being browns, greens, blues and yellows and reds. But given we will be selling equipment metallic's i.e crome/silver will be considered.
If the logo is in a primary 'enviro' colour it must be innovative to stand out from a sea of "green" themed logos or quite bold. The name and the logo can be considered two separate items or incorporated into the one design.
The logo must be general to outdoor sports but may incorporate multiple themes i.e. camping, climbing, kayaking, biking, skiing etc or Summer/ Winter or elements: Earth Air Fire Water as the intent is to seek agencies to represent multiple adventure disciplines.
We would like the logo to become a sort of icon that in time could be used in isolation of the full brand name on house-branded products.
We encourage designers to feel free to adopt their own ideas. However all the typeface should be clear, simple and bold. We want something that stands out and inspires confidence. Be creative but try and keep the design 'clean'
Please make sure there is no intellectual property infringement. We require a CMYK logo in PDF, EPS, SVG, or Adobe Illustrator AI format, as well as a JPG. (TBC with our webdesign crew).
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Thandie Newton is quickly becoming one of my favorite red carpet divas! She was spotted out in London as Jimmy Choo and Esquire celebrated the London Collections: Men opening party.
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The 40-year-old actress wore a colorful frock from London-based designer, Erdem. The pink and citrus floral embroidery halter dress debuted in their Spring 2013 collection. Of course she styled her look with a pair of hot pink open-toe booties, and a shimmery gold clutch from Jimmy Choo.
While I absolutely adore this frock, those booties are a no go. I would have opted for just a pointy-toe pump but hey that's just me. But as usual, I want to know what you're thinking.
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Christmas mood is always here with me, but, I agree with you, September has always been the time/month where I feel like Christmas coming..
Christmas mood is always here with me, but, I agree with you, September has always been the time/month where I feel like Christmas coming..
And so, as Tiny Tim observed, "God Bless us!! Everyone!!''
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (1843)
I think the mood can strike you at any time. Suddenly you just feel the need to watch a Christmas movie or play mamChristmas cd. Once I hit September, the holiday spirit is almost constant. Sometimes it feels that it's all I think about!
I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas
I just looked back and saw I originally posted in this thread last November 1st. I must have JUST joined the forum at that time. This year, I've been bitten by the Christmas bug earlier than ever. I had a bit of a "down" time in January, but by mid-Feb, I was already thinking ahead to Christmas 2011. That's mostly because of my boys. With each passing year, they are beginning to understand how magical the holiday season is. My oldest turns 5 in October, and my youngest just turned 2. The soon-to-be 5 year-old is definitely in the zone for holiday excitement. Plus, he's watched me all year as I have continually gotten things that I will be adding to my outdoor display. So...to sum up, I'm already excited for this Christmas, and it will carry through all the way until it gets here!!
I bet, this Christmas preperation will have a whole different meaning from all past years, as,your boys begin to understand more and more every year, so, every years Christmas prepearations will definitely be much much better from previous one..
You are a very lucky father, hope you have fun with your boys and as years go by, become the best Christmas Team!!!
Oh... almost forgot.. Cant wait to see them members, here...
And so, as Tiny Tim observed, "God Bless us!! Everyone!!''
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (1843)
I can't wait to be able to celebrate all my hoilday tradtions with my kids last christmas she had just been born that past november so she wasn't too sure of anything but now she'll be a year old so i'll be able to do a little bit more with her maybe start a new tradition with her... but we usually start christmas right after a thanksgiving
The kids definitely make the season sparkle! My kids are 26 and 17, so we are beyond the magical stage now! Even my youngest niece/nephew is 13 now. My grandniece is 19 months and would be so much fun at Christmas - except she is 3000 miles away in Seattle! Things are alittle toned down now, but still so much fun!
Anyway - I started to feel the holiday season yesterday as I spent about an hour making up to-do and to-buy Christms lists! I think today I may work on designing my Christmas cards!
I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas
already now a litlle bit because I'm reading at the moment Skipping Christmas
When it seems the magic slipped away...
We find it all again on Christmas Day.
*Seeing isn't believing.Believing is seeing.*
I saw Harrod's Christmas display on the news earlier. Got me thinking of Christmas
Merry Snowy Christmas
Love & Peace to the World
I start to feel it really around September.
My Christmas Blogs:
- My most popular Christmas blog: KrisKringleForSingles dot blogspot dot com
- HolidaySingleGirldot blogspot dot com
- SilverandGoldChristmas dot blogspot dot com


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Achieving Your Personal Excellence – Process Of Constant Improvement
Dear Friend,
Welcome to The Personal Excellence. If You are looking how to condition your mind and body to achieve both success and happiness in a journey of life, you came to the right place.
Improving yourself, your mind and growing your persistence is the key to become happier, healthier and more confident.
Dreams are just dreams if you don't wake up and turn them into reality. Accomplishing something is not just getting a task done; it is about giving your best shot and doing a little more than everyone else.
Personal excellence is achieving something no one before you was capable of, to grow as an individual. It is process of constant improvement to make your dreams come true and accomplish the targets you have set for yourself. It is a process of In life, you get what you deserve; not what you desire. You just need to focus on the next five big steps:
Step One: Bulls Eye!
In order to achieve something big, you need to think BIG! The goals you set for yourself should push you more than the normal everyday goals. The goals that are easily attainable wont help you in developing your skills. When you have something big to accomplish, you focus your mind and soul and give all you have to make it possible.
However, it is important not to get too attached to the outcome because if by chance you don't get what you desire, you should be able to see the brighter side – the growth you have had in the process.
Step Two: Nobody is perfect… Nobobody…
I'm not perfect. Perfection means there is no scope of improvement. If you're not perfect, it means there are a lot of ways you can enhance your skills and get better. They say you should settle at nothing but perfect but the truth is perfection is impossible to attain. However, being the best you can is not. If doing a little more can help you at being as close as perfect you could be, you should do it every waking moment of your life. Keep building your skills and welcome criticism to help you get better.
Step Three: (Formula ) Persistence + Commitment = Success
You would fail at first. You might not be as lucky as those you get what they desire at their first attempt. Some quit even before trying; some give up because they get tired of trying but others, the ones who are stubborn and immovable, fall down to get up again. Life is a climb; you stumble, you lose faith, you injure yourself. At the end of the day, the people who take a step forward get the view from the top; others just sit back and regret what they could have had.
Step Four: Make it personal
Take responsibility of your own actions. People often accuse others for their failures or give all credit to people in their lives but the fact of life is that you are what you make yourself. Your failures are only yours and you accomplished because you worked hard in your life. Though it is true that people play an important part in your victories and disappointments, you only make or break your own self.
Step Five: The Time is Now! Life is Now!
Don't procrastinate as it is the one evil to keep you from getting better. Leaving what you can do today for tomorrow is the trait of a slacker. Life is happening now. Whatever your goals are, you need to start your journey towards them right at this moment. The more you delay, the far you get from getting it done.
There is a poem by Robert Frost called "The Road Not Taken" in which he describes that in life you would always get two alternatives – one would be easy and the other would be the path of thorns. You would be tempted to walk on the easy road but the most difficult path would lead you to personal excellence – self confidence, self esteem, happiness of what you are and what you have. The choice is ultimately yours – whether you want to be one of the crowd or you want to be the one leading it.
When you aim for something bigger than materialistic possessions; when you set your targets to improve yourself, then you get the attitude to achieve the impossible. So, don't run after success, try to chase excellence and success would follow. With all my heart I wish you to make wise choice!
To Your Success!
Laimonas Lucas
Founder ThePersonalExcellence.com


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Announced at Sony's E3 presser, we're getting a white Playstation 4 bundled with Destiny for release on September 9.
Sony also revealed that the Playstation TV would finally make its way to North America, either in a standalone package or bundled with a DualShock 3, The LEGO Movie Games, and a few extras for $40 more.
Next we have three new DualShock 4 colors: blue, white, and camo.
Moving on, there's a new white variant of Sony's Gold Wireless Headset, which was one of your nominees for best in the category.
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|It's depressing as hell. Tell Matty I love him. Tell him that I watch over him...and no more knocking around with that blonde Original chick who almost got him killed.
— Vicki to Bonnie regarding her brother in 500 Years of Solitude
Victoria "Vicki" Donovan was a former main character during the first season of The Vampire Diaries. She is Matt Donovan's older sister and the first character who becomes a vampire after the Salvatore brothers returned to Mystic Falls. She was also Jeremy and Tyler's love interest. Damon Salvatore turned her and Stefan later staked her. She returns at the end of Season 2, Season 3, and Season 5 as a ghost.
Vicki was a member of the Donovan Family.
Early lifeEdit
Vicki was born on August 20, 1990 and is the older sister of Matt. The rest of her background is vague, but she mentioned that her father was never around and wasn't worth knowing. At some point, she began taking drugs to escape her domestic problems.
Season OneEdit
At the beginning of the school year, Vicki was working as a waitress at the Mystic Grill and had to deal with the problems occasioned to her by Jeremy Gilbert. A shared interest in sex and drugs led Vicki to maintain a sexual relationship with Jeremy during the summer, but this ended when Jeremy developed genuine feelings for her. She tried to avoid him as much as possible and later began dating her former boyfriend Tyler. Jeremy became angry with her because he was convinced that Tyler only wanted her for sex, and didn't really love her like he did.
After Tyler forced himself on her during a party, he and Jeremy have a very bitter encounter. Vicki takes a walk in the woods, and is attacked by Damon and her body was found by Jeremy and Elena. This is the beginning of a long term argument between Jeremy and Tyler.
Vicki survived the attack and while recovering in the hospital, she claimed that a "vampire" attacked her. Stefan used his compulsion to erase her attacker from her memory, but later that night, as a way to torment Stefan, Damon plays with Vicki's memories to make her believe that Stefan bit her. Ultimately, Damon wiped her memories of that event and his attack on her, leaving her relatively unscathed. Vicki blamed the incident on an animal attack and hallucinations from the pills she received from Jeremy.
After that, Vicki asked Tyler to take her to the town's annual Founders Party, and Jeremy reminded her that Tyler treated her like trash. Tyler wouldn't introduce her to his family and kept her away from the party, she was disappointed and broke up with him. She returned to Jeremy and resumed their former relationship.
After living at the Gilbert House with Jeremy for over three days, Vicki stole Elena's pain pills that she received from the car accident and began to crush them up. Jeremy started to feel that all they were ever doing was getting high and then she told him that he had better not be like those guys that, after they're together, tried to change everything about her.
Vicki introduced Jeremy to druggies that she hung around with in the graveyard and when Jeremy tried to get her to stop, she argued with him, saying that Jeremy was only going through a tough period in his life due to his parents' death and he'll eventually get over it. Jeremy left her and Vicki stayed in the cemetery with her drugged pals. That night, she was unfortunate to find Damon again, who attacked her, then her friends, killing them. Vicki proved to be quite stubborn, and determined to cling to life, so Damon took her back to the boarding house with him.
Damon decided to feed Vicki some of his blood in order to help her heal and to have some good times with her. Vicki found the high from Damon's blood was as addictive as drugs and then they feed off of each others blood. Vicki revealed a lot of her woes and insecurities to Damon. He decided that the best thing for solving her poor self esteem issues would be to become a vampire so he snapped her neck.
She awoke very ravenous and sought help at Jeremy's home, where Stefan realized that she was in transition to become a vampire. Stefan tried to help her but Vicki completed the transition to vampire by feeding on Logan Fell after Damon attacked him.
After becoming a vampire, Vicki struggled to follow the same moral path as Stefan, especially when Damon tried to coax her into using her powers to kill and feed from humans or at least feed and erase memories. She began to behave in a volatile manner, going as far as to attack and threaten Elena. When Damon taught her to use vampire speed, Vicki fled from the Salvatore brothers and went back to her own home. She tried to get into the house but being uninvited, she couldn't enter. Her brother Matt was relieved to see her and invited her in. Stefan showed up but when Vicki said he was bothering her, Matt told him to go away.
At the Salvatore Boarding House, Vicki text messaged Jeremy to meet her at the Halloween Party at school and when they met, Vicki took him behind the school and they kissed passionately until she lost control of her vampire side and accidentally bit his lip, causing it to bleed. Elena stepped in, leading Vicki to attack her. Stefan told them to get back to the party while he tried to control her, but Vicki ran away from him. When Elena and Jeremy attempted to get back inside, Vicki knocked Jeremy aside and bit Elena, forcing Stefan to shove a broken board through her chest, killing her. This left both Elena and Jeremy grief-stricken.
Damon erased Jeremy's memory of the incident at Elena's request, and making him believe that Vicki left town forever. Jeremy later read Elena's journal and was glad his memory of her as a vampire had been erased, because that was not how he wanted to remember her. Later Jeremy wanted Anna to change him into a vampire so he could find Vicki. When Vicki's body was accidentally discovered by Caroline when her car broke down during a storm, the news left Jeremy devastated, as well as Tyler, Matt and Kelly.
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Vicki was mentioned by Damon when he told Elena and Stefan that Caroline must die, saying that Caroline would not survive as a vampire just like Vicki before.
Months later, Matt learned what actually happened to her and began helping Sheriff Forbes to spy on the Salvatore brothers.
Sheriff Forbes accidentally shot Jeremy and he was then brought back to life by Bonnie. After that Jeremy saw Vicki's ghost, also Anna's.
Season ThreeEdit
In The Birthday, Vicki appeared briefly to Jeremy at the grill, followed closely by Anna. She later appeared to him in his car when he and Matt were about to drive home, and asked him for help, then disappeared. Anna appeared to Jeremy shortly after. In The Hybrid, Jeremy tells Matt about his encounters with Vicki, and the two search through her things hoping to find something that will allow them to communicate with her. Matt finds a photo of Vicki and himself as children, gets emotional and places the photo face down. Matt expresses to Jeremy that the memories of his sister are too painful, and he is unsure about contacting her. After Jeremy leaves, the lights flicker and Matt sees the photo face up. Later, Matt met Jeremy who has brought over some beer as an apology. They start to share their feelings and the fact that they don't remember their last moments with her before she became a vampire.
Vicki is saddened over Matt's confession, and calls out to him. Jeremy talks to her asking how he can help her and Vicki replies that she can come back but needs him to help her, and then vanishes, smashing a window. Anna appears straight after, telling Jeremy not to trust Vicki.
Pushing from the other side, Vicki is seen to be around Matt a lot in The Reckoning, even though he couldn't hear or see her, he could feel her presence. To communicate with her, Matt jumps in the pool with weights tied around his waist. Only when he is half dead and between the worlds, is he able to communicate with her. Vicki told Matt the solution to Klaus' hybrid problem. Bonnie revives Matt with CPR. At the end of the episode, Vicki appeared to Matt yet again, this time while he's alive. Vicki tricked her own brother so that she could use Esther's spell to come back to the physical world. She had made a deal with Esther to return under the condition that she would kill Elena so that no more hybrids could be made. She tried to kill her by drenching Alaric's SUV with gasoline and setting it on fire, but Bonnie and Matt used a spell to send her away back to The Other Side.
Season FourEdit
Though Vicki didn't appeared in any episodes of Season Four, she was mentioned a few times over the course of the season.
In Growing Pains, Vicki was mentioned by Jeremy when Elena was having problems adjusting to the transition into a vampire, referencing to the events of Lost Girls.
In Memorial, Vicki was mentioned when Stefan calls Elena, Caroline, Damon, Bonnie, Jeremy and Matt to have a little gathering where they remember all the people each of them lost including; Alaric, Jenna, Zach, Lexi, Bill Forbes, Mayor Richard Lockwood, Vicki, Grayson, Miranda and Grams. Both Jeremy and Matt lighted a Japanese floating lantern in memory of Vicki. Later, they let go the lanterns into the sky.
Vicki was last mentioned in Stand By Me by Matt, In The Stoner Pit, he showed Elena the writings on the wall about Jeremy and Vicki. He told Elena that hope is the thing that keeps him going when he knew about Vicki's death.
Finally, Bonnie mentions Vicki, along with Jeremy, Alaric, and other supernatural beings destroyed. Bonnie tries to motivate her friends to continue the Silas' plan, however, Elena, Caroline, Matt, Damon, and Stefan are in disagreement with the plan, and Silas manipulates Bonnie to continue alone.
Season FiveEdit
Vicki makes an appearance in 500 Years of Solitude. While everyone is waiting for Katherine's death, Bonnie answers to Matt's question that as the anchor to the other side she sees lots of people including Vicki. Vicki then appears and tells him via Bonnie that he loves him and always watching over him and to stop having sex with "that blonde Original chick". Vicki then is seen along with rest of the gang before Katherine refuses to die and makes her heart beat again.
In Resident Evil, Matt is on the Other Side looking for Vicki. When they are finally reunited, Vicki warns Matt to go back to his body as something bad was happening on the Other Side. While running, Vicki falls and the wind is trying to pull her away. Matt tries to hold on to her to save her but Vicki tells Matt that she loves him, and she lets go of him and is taken away into the sky.
- Matt and Vicki (Sibling Rivarly)
- Tyler and Vicki (Ex-Boyfriend)
- Jeremy and Vicki (Former Boyfriend)
- Elena and Vicki (Enemies)
- Vicki is a short form of Victoria. From the Latin and Spanish, meaning "victory". It was the name of a Roman Goddess, popularized during the reign of Queen Victoria of England. But the full version of the name is considered too pompous, so it is often shortened.
- The character of Vicki Donovan is based on the book character Vickie Bennett and who is not Matt's sister. In the novel, Vicki has a personality disorder due to the constant attacks of the vampires and is eventually murdered by an Old One vampire (Klaus). In the series, Vicki is converted into a vampire by Damon and is staked by Stefan to save Jeremy and Elena.
- Vicki's novel surname "Bennett", was used in the series in the series as the surname of another character Bonnie Bennett.
- Vicki is the first main female character to be killed off in the series and the first to return after dying.
- Vicki is the first main female character to be turned into a vampire, followed by Caroline, Jenna, and Elena.
- In season one, Vicki is the first to be turned into a vampire.
- In season two, Caroline is the second to be turned into a vampire, and Jenna is the third.
- In season three, Elena is the fourth to be turned into a vampire.
- According to executive producers Julie Plec and Kevin Williamson, episodes 1-7 were denominated "The Vicki Chapter".
- Vicki appears once in Season 2 as a ghost.
- Vicki was in all of the episodes up until the 7th episode Haunted where she was killed.
- Vicki has the lowest count of episode appearances out of all the main female characters and of all the main characters.
- She never shared a scene with her mother Kelly.
- Ironically, in the books, Klaus calls Vicki "Sweetheart" and she is brutally murdered, but in the series, Damon calls Vicki "Sweetheart" in the episode The Night of the Comet and she is staked by Stefan.
- Vicki holds the distinction of being the female character with the the longest span between episode appearances (36).
- Vicki is the first vampire to be killed off in the series.
- Vicki was also the show's first supernatural kill.
- Vicki has never met Klaus, Katherine, Jenna or Alaric. (However, it is possible that she might've seen Klaus in The Reckoning and Alaric in Smells Like Teen Spirit.)
- Vicki is the second character to be shown as a ghost. Emily Bennett was the first.
- Although Vicki is the first main character to do so, Alaric being the second.
- Even though her character was killed in the 7th episode Haunted, Kayla Ewell was credited in the following episodes: 162 Candles and The Turning Point.
- Vicki is the first main character to die in the series, followed by Jenna Sommers, Alaric Saltzman, Jeremy Gilbert, Bonnie Bennett, Silas, Davina Claire, Sophie Deveraux and Katherine Pierce.
- She is the first main female character to die. Jenna's the second and Bonnie's the third.
- She and Silas were killed in the 7th episode of their season as a main character, and both were killed by Stefan Salvatore.
- Ironically, Vicki's death was the October 31, the date on which Klaus was defeated by Elena and ghosts in Dark Reunion.
- Vicki and Jenna are the only main characters to never have killed someone, though Vicki unsuccessfully tried to kill Elena on two separate occasions, Jeremy (thought she was driven by her bloodlust after accidentally biting his lower lip) and Stefan.
- Her first living feed was Jeremy Gilbert, though she completed her transition by feeding on the corpse of Logan Fell.
- Although Vicki was a grade above Matt, she isn't quite a year older then him.
- Vicki is the only main character to never been featured in a mid-season finale.
- Vicki is the first main female character to never appear in Season Four, followed by Jenna.
- As shown in 500 Years of Solitude, Vicki knows about the existence of The Originals.
- Vicki was the first ghost to appear as a ghost in a different outfit than the one she died in;
- She died in a vampire costume in Haunted.
- She appeared as a ghost in a Jacket, Top and Jeans in As I Lay Dying.
- She appeared again as a ghost in Sweats in Resident Evil.
- Vicki has now supposedly been pulled to wherever Katherine's spirit went.
- Vicki was introduced as The Stoner - we are given the impression she is the one facilitating drugs to Jeremy in Season 1.
- Vicki was killed in the seventh episode - a typical 7th Episode Twist! Whenever there is a new series, this is the point when the Exposition stops and the real plot begins. On later seasons, that is also a good point to introduce a plot twist, raise the stakes or change the game.
- She was billed as a main character, yet she was Killed Off for Real.
- This was important to show the audience that Anyone Can Die.
- It is possible she was also a Sacrificial Lamb - a character created only to be killed soon, to make the point that Anyone Can Die.
- We hardly knew her...
- Vicki(To Elena) "Let's get one thing straight, you perky little bitch. You had my brother whipped for 15 years-- fifteen years and then you dumped him. When I look at you, that is all I see, just so you know. And I'm gonna see Jeremy, whenever I wanna see Jeremy because I have some fun new toys to play with, and I won't think twice about ripping your little head off. Got it?"
- --Haunted
Vicki Donovan has a photo gallery.
- ↑ "18 years old, trashy-hot, with low self-esteem, she is Matt's sister who works as a waitress at the Mystic Grill and enjoys popping pills and smoking pot. She hooked up repeatedly with lowerclassman Jeremy over the summer, but now she pointedly ignores him whenever her boyfriend, Tyler, is around. Vicki doesn't believe any guy wants her for anything other than her body, or even that they should, but her relationship with Jeremy seems to go deeper than that…" - She was 18 years old in 2009, so she was born in 1991
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I like Ridge Racer. It's a guilty pleasure. And I was actually thinking of getting the next game. That is, until I heard what madness Namco Bandai is pulling.
When the game goes on sale Dec. 17, it will come with only three tracks and five cars. That's it.
The three tracks are Harborline 765, Highland Cliffs, and Southbay Docks. All three of the tracks can be raced in reverse, and they have all appeared in previous Ridge Racer games.
Namco Bandai will release more tracks in the future—more cars, too. If that wasn't bad enough, the game will run at 30 frames per second.
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Ive been having an issue and would be greatful if I can get some help to my problem. I need to pass a primary key in the URL. I would like to encrypt it for security.
I get the following outputs after calling my encrypt() and decrypt() methods (please see below for my code):
$result = encrypt("27");
value printed to screen: z0Da0HE7BfClV0q6hoKEt%2BkYs6CJxZkwCC7zd8%2BmIWU%3D
Value passed in url: z0Da0HE7BfClV0q6hoKEt+kYs6CJxZkwCC7zd8+mIWU=
I cannot understand why the values above are different. The same variable is printed and passed in the url.
value printed to screen: z0Da0HE7BfClV0q6hoKEt kYs6CJxZkwCC7zd8 mIWU=
The + is replaces with a space. I have tried to user str_replace after decrypting but it still prints the above.
Your help will be greatly appreciated.
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function encrypt($input) {
$encrypted_result = base64_encode(mcrypt_encrypt(MCRYPT_RIJNDAEL_256, $this->securekey, $input, MCRYPT_MODE_ECB, $this->iv));
$encrypted_result = urlencode($encrypted_result);
return $encrypted_result;
function decrypt($input) {
$decrypted_result = trim(mcrypt_decrypt(MCRYPT_RIJNDAEL_256, $this->securekey, base64_decode($input), MCRYPT_MODE_ECB, $this->iv));
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Businesspeople love to talk about building "entrepreneurial cultures."The very term evokes the excitement and success of Google, Apple, and Facebook. The problem is that large established companies are often lousy at actually being entrepreneurial.
Need I remind you about New Coke? Or Crystal Pepsi? Or the Ford Edsel and other failed launches?
Unfortunately, failures such as these can make companies risk-averse, even though the entrepreneurial behaviour that leads to innovation is vital for business. But paradoxically, the very things that ensure a company's survival and success—established routines, specialisation to maintain competitive advantage, and structure and systems to ensure stable output—act as obstacles to entrepreneurship.
Four key steps
While companies can succeed with routine and structure, they will find it difficult to lead the market that way. And today's hypercompetitive globalized business environment rewards companies that get to the market first. So companies that can find, support, and nurture their own entrepreneurs are the likeliest to succeed. Here's how they do it.
1. Break the silos. It's not unusual for large corporations to limit entrepreneurship to a few departments, such as R&D and IT. This totally misses the mark. I equate it to the practice of teaching entrepreneurship only in business schools and expecting all business majors to magically turn into entrepreneurs.
Yet entrepreneurs rarely come from business schools. They arise from fields as diverse as chemistry, psychology, mathematics, history, literature, or biology. In his 2010 iPad release speech, Steve Jobs elaborated on the reason for Apple's success: "It's in Apple's DNA that technology alone is not enough. It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields the results that make our hearts sing."
Universities should cultivate an entrepreneurial culture across all faculties. Similarly, large companies should create an entrepreneurial environment across all divisions. Engage the entire company in becoming more risk-tolerant and entrepreneurial. Unleashing multidisciplinary collaborative thinking will put the company in a better place.
Furthermore, breaking silos can potentially bridge the gap between innovation and entrepreneurship. Large corporations are generally not short on great ideas; what they lack is the entrepreneurial risk taking and passion to bring the idea to the market. Uniting the genius of the idea generator and innovator with the ingenuity of the entrepreneur is what ultimately makes companies successful.
2. Identify and foster talent. Not everyone in the company will have the innate talent to excel as an entrepreneur. Identify your elite performers across the company. Once you know who they are, look for their traits in your incumbents, and screen for those talents in new hires. Then allocate appropriate financial and nonfinancial resources to support these individuals and increase the probability of extraordinary performance.
3. Create the right environment. Just identifying talent isn't enough. Companies must create the environment to foster it. The most successful entrepreneurial environments:
- Are open to risk taking. Encourage managers and employees to tolerate failure and accept change. This enhances a firm's capacity for breakthrough innovations.
- Encourage trusting relationships. This creates a culture of trust among employees and managers. Having strong relationships in the workplace also encourages employees to take risks without the fear of losing their jobs.
- Build skills and knowledge. Provide employees and managers with opportunities to learn and grow. Support new ideas and employee-driven initiatives.
- Offer management support. When senior leaders don't walk the talk, no amount of entrepreneurial efforts made by employees or middle managers will work. Senior leadership's commitment to innovation, openness to change at all levels, and most importantly, delegation of appropriate authority to managers and employees to try new ideas sends a clear message to employees that the company is serious about creating an entrepreneurial environment.
- Permit access to resources. Provide employees with resources, time, and material. Companies such as 3M and Google let employees spend 15% to 20% of their time working on side projects of their choice. Employees should know that they have resources available to embark on new and innovative projects.
- Maintain a supportive organizational structure. Complex hierarchy and elaborate policies are designed to bring order, but they also constrain entrepreneurial activity. Simplify approval procedures, cut the red tape, and keep organizational flexibility.
- Set realistic performance goals. Entrepreneurial undertakings, by their very definition, have unknown outcomes. Set realistic timelines and reliable performance measures for entrepreneurial initiatives. Design employee reward systems that accommodate failure, tolerate ambiguity, and keep the focus on long-term outcomes.
4. Continually assess the environment. Regularly monitoring and measuring a company's progress on the entrepreneurial path is crucial. Google wasn't built in a day. It takes time and effort to create an entrepreneurial culture. Annually surveying the heads of IT, R&D, and chief innovation managers about the state of the company's innovativeness or entrepreneurial ability is a good idea, but it's not enough. A leader may think the company is entrepreneurial, but for employees, the reality may be entirely different. So it's important to ask employees about how they perceive the environment. Do they believe that company leadership supports entrepreneurship? Does their day-to-day environment allow or encourage entrepreneurial thinking and action?
The right approach is to survey workers at all organizational levels. Capture each employee's opinion on the issue, and share results at the team level — that's the level at which employees and managers work together to achieve change. Continued assessment enables executives to measure progress and keep the momentum building toward an entrepreneurial environment.
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It's crucial to identify strategies that allow large firms to be entrepreneurial. Not all entrepreneurial efforts may yield benefits. But fostering an entrepreneurial environment helps companies create products and services that have significant social value, lead to business growth and wealth creation, and are sources of competitive advantage.
Just remember: Though the Edsel and New Coke linger as bad memories, Ford and Coca-Cola are still innovating, still fostering in-house entrepreneurship, and continuing to increase their market share.
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I was thinking that pulsars inside nebulae should have a plerion (pulsar wind nebula), with the equatorial shock wave being the prominent feature (along with the astrophysical jet).
As for some related stuff; from certain angles, a pulsar would be distinguishable by the rapid twinkling from the astrophysical jet due to relativistic beaming. Another idea is for hotspots to appear on the magnetic poles of the neutron star where matter falls in from the accretion disk, along with rare but sudden starquakes that makes the pulsar extremely bright. In binary systems, if the companion star of a pulsar is close enough it will form a roche lobe causing the pulsar to turn into a microquasar.
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The mysterious Baldur's Gate countdown has ended with the bang of servers exploding, but not before an email arrived announcing something called Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition for release this summer.
The servers at BaldursGate.comare down, but I think I've got a pretty good idea of what the upcoming release entails. Officially licensed by Wizards of the Coast and built by Beamdog's Overhaul Games division, Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition should be exactly what the name implies, an updated version of the original Baldur's Gate with enhanced graphics.
Last year Overhaul gave a similar treatment to MDK2, releasing MDK2 HD exclusively through its digital distribution platform.
According to Beamdog's Trent Oster, spreading information via Twitter while the fires are put out, the enhanced edition will include new content from some of the team members that worked on the original Baldur's Gate.
We'll have more info once the servers stop being such little crybabies.
Update: The server came up! Looks like there will be enhanced versions of Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate II, including expansions, lovingly enhanced by a team that includes folks that worked on the original titles. Both games will use an udated version of the Infinity Engine with "a variety of modern improvements".
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Rice, chicken meal, corn, brown rice, chicken fat, wheat gluten, natural flavors, dried beet pulp, pea fiber, fish oil, dried brewers yeast, dried egg powder, potassium chloride, soybean oil, sodium silico aluminate, calcium carbonate, salt, sodium tripolyphosphate, L-tyrosine, fructo-oligosaccharides, L-lysine, taurine, choline chloride, vitamins [DL-alphatocopherol acetate (source of vitamin E), L-ascorbyl-2-polyphosphate (source of vitamin C), biotin, d-calcium pantothenate, niacin, pyridoxine hydrochloride (vitamin B6), vitamin A acetate, vitamin D3 supplement, thiamine mononitrate (vitamin B1), vitamin B12 supplement, riboflavin (vitamin B2), folic acid], trace minerals [zinc proteinate, zinc oxide, ferrous sulfate, copper proteinate, copper sulfate, manganese proteinate, manganous oxide, sodium selenite, calcium iodate], glucosamine hydrochloride, green tea polyphenols, marigold extract, chondroitin sulfate, preserved with natural mixed tocopherols, rosemary extract and citric acid.
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Second ingredient is a named meat product
Inadequate meat content, some low quality grains, controversial filler
This product is a veterinary diet, but is not indicated for the treatment of disease. Our comments relate solely to our opinion of the ingredients used in this product and are made on equal footing with any other product not marketed under a 'veterinary diet' label.
The main ingredients in this food are grains. Even if of good quality, grains are not a natural foodstuff for a canine, and dog foods should be based on meat. The first (and only) meat product in the food does not occur until second on the ingredient list. It is a named meat product in meal form, but we have serious doubts that this product has adequate meat content.
The primary grains in the food are rice, corn and wheat. Rice is a decent quality grain, but the use of wheat and corn is a negative. Corn is a low quality grain in dog food products, that is difficult to digest and commonly associated with food allergy problems. Wheat is believed by many to be the number one cause of food allegies in dogs. In gluten form, this ingredient is a low quality filler. It is the dried residue from wheat after the removal of the larger part of the starch and germ, and the separation of the bran by the process employed in the wet milling manufacture, or by enzymatic treatment of the endosperm. In plain English, that bit of the grain leftover after most of the nutritious bits have been removed.
Beet pulp is controversial filler which appears to be used in large quantities in this food. It is a by-product, being dried residue from sugar beets which has been cleaned and extracted in the process of manufacturing sugar. It is a controversial ingredient in dog food, claimed by some manufacturers to be a good source of fibre, and derided by others as an ingredient added to slow down the transition of rancid animal fats and causing stress to kidney and liver in the process. We note that beet pulp is an ingredient that commonly causes problems for dogs, including allergies and ear infections, and prefer not to see it used in dog food. There are less controversial products around if additional fibre is required. Pea fiber is further filler.
Overall, this product appears to be primarily a collection of low quality grain fragments, with precious little meat content.
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OO is a decent free Office Suite for Windows / Linux / Mac and other platforms. This webpage provides OpenOffice.org 3.0's new features, an early look:
OpenOffice.org 3.0 is 167 days away, but who's counting? Maybe the software developers are counting because they have a whopping 2,278 issues targeted for this release. Even though OpenOffice.org 2.4 is not yet out the door, let's see how far they've come with OpenOffice.org 3.0.
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Cleanthony Early crumpled to the court clutching his left leg midway through the second half.
Wichita State was leading Ohio State by 20 points in the West Regional final, but the last thing the Shockers wanted to see was his 6-foot-8 presence missing down low.
Early writhed in pain, although it didn't appear the junior forward had collided with anybody. He soon hobbled off the court and into the locker room. Carl Hall, the team's other 6-8 forward, had already taken an elbow to the jaw in the Shockers' eventual 70-66 win that sent them to the Final Four.
Wichita State coach Gregg Marshall was worried about Hall because he thought he had sustained a concussion from the blow.
"I felt a little better about Cle because it was like the boy who cried wolf with injuries," Marshall said. "I had seen that many times this season. I thought we'd have to call the ambulance or get out a stretcher or whatnot, and the next thing I know he's back in practice.
"I heard he was getting X-rays, and next thing I know he's back in the game. He's an interesting bird. But it was great to get them both back in the game."
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sparkbox necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 109 diseños de 32 diseñadores freelance.
Geniem delivers mobile and social media services for brands, online media and marketing agencies. Our customers are worldwide known enterprises like Nokia, Audi and Pepsi.
This spring we are launching awesome social media service called sparkbox. sparkbox is a widget, which can be embedded into any website. All you have to do is to select content producers, design a look & feel of your sparkbox (widget) and publish it to your website. You will instantly add interactivity and stickiness to your website.
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Sparkbox can be used to create (e.g.):
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Text-based. Lowercase letters.
Web 2.0 style - but not too "soft" look
Wow-effect ;)
Igniting sparks could be included in someway, but do not limit your design ideas to yellow and red (fire). Actually blue-black-grey could be a better choice for colours.
Logo font/text with bold characters like Facebook.
Logo will be used both in presentations and smaller texts like "powered by sparkbox".
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Come out and commemorate the 24th anniversary of the Yonge Street Uprising that took place on 4 May 1992. The event starts at 6:00PM on May 4.
We will be facilitating a discussion on the relevance of the Yonge Street Uprising to the present experience of police/state violence, social neglect and the general economic exploitation of racialized working-class communities in Toronto.
We are going to examine the experience of that youth-led rebellion and the lessons that must be drawn from it by today's organizations and movements that are organizing or mobilizing oppressed peoples for liberation.
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Let's have a frank talk on neighbourhood uprisings in response to police violence, economic exploitation, racism and resistance in Toronto:
How are uprisings and resistance criminalized in neighbourhoods and the wider society by the state and its police?
What actions should we take to protect ourselves from police violence and economic exploitation?
What was the social climate that inspired the Afrikan youth-led Yonge Street Uprising and what were some of the achievements of this rebellion?
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Our Sustainability Actions are described here in the form of project case-studies to show, in a practical manner, just how sustainability can work in business. Although many of our case-study projects are wide-reaching in their sustainability, they are categorised into one of three headings; Social, Environmental, and Economic, depending on the strongest element within that project. On reading through these projects you will find out how a range of sustainability elements, including habitats, green travel, resource management, community, archaeology, and culture are responsibly managed as part of our business.


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"Trying to find out why you tick, why you're as right as you are, why you function at all, why you think at all, would be quite an adventure." (L. Ron Hubbard)
Your mind: It is your constant companion. You live with it 24 hours a day, every day of your life. Yet man has known practically nothing about how it works. And from marriages that end in divorce to careers that wind up in frustration, from tensions that interfere with work to conflicts that divide nations, virtually every human crisis can be traced to Man's ignorance of the mind.
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Here, then, is the adventure of discovering the workings of the most valuable commodity any individual will ever possess.
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Would I rather a security drone that blasts laser rockets? Who wouldn't! But one that makes its home in a little mailbox-shaped house ain't half bad either.
That's the joy of the Scandicraft, which automatically leaves its station when there's a perimeter breach to shoot live video (and just air out a little bit, you know?). It can also return home and start recharging itself on its own, making them just autonomous enough to straddle the line between "adorable" and "creepy". So maybe it's best they don't have those laser rockets after all. [BotJunkie via Dvice]


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Footballer Nile Ranger who is accused of raping a woman in a hotel deleted a "trophy photo" from his phone minutes before handing it in to the police because "he knew it would give the game away", a court has heard.
The 22-year-old former Newcastle United striker took the picture of some bedding, a room key and a notepad in the £30-a-night hotel after allegedly raping a woman who he had been out drinking with.
But after being arrested he removed the image from his phone just before he handed over his belongings at the police station.
Asking Ranger about why he had taken the picture, Christine Egerton, prosecuting, said: "Its not that you wanted a trophy is it?" and went on to accuse him of removing it because it was incriminating.
"You deleted that image from the phone that you had secreted on you minutes before," she said.
"You had been deleting an incriminating image because you knew you had to hand your property over. You knew that it would give the game away, you knew you had done something wrong."
Now with Swindon Town, and nursing a hamstring injury which meant he sat down to give evidence at Newcastle Crown Court, Ranger denies raping the woman and insists they had consensual sex.
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She said she could not remember anything until she woke up naked in the hotel room the next morning.
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She then visited her GP, was checked at hospital and made a rape allegation to police.
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Wednesday, January 06, 2010
the road
so, just before christmas i started reading "the road" by cormac mccarthy.
i know. what a cheery book to go into the holidays with, right?
that's exactly what sharon said..and i was already a bit down from time to time as the holidays drew nearer, so eager for the season and yet missing absent family and friends more than usual...
for those of you unfamiliar with the book, it's the story of a man trying to survive with his young boy in an absolutely lifeless post-apocalyptic world. the book gives little in the way of details, only to say that somehow all the lights went out and the earth is slowly dying under an ash-choked atmosphere of nuclear winter. no sunlight or moonlight can penetrate the miles of filth that envelops the planet. it is always cold, seemingly always raining or snowing, dirty precipitation from above. what few survivors there are have resorted to killing and cannibalism to gather food and stay alive.
and yet this is a story of love. a father's love. a son's love. i won't say any more.
i finished it saturday morning. i can't say that it's a book you can enjoy--it's even hard to say that i loved it...but i did. no wonder it won the pulitzer prize for literature--it's so wonderfully written, mccarthy showing us that words are magical things and even when describing sadness and despair, they can be beautiful.
we went to see the movie sunday afternoon at upstate films in rhinebeck. it too was well-done, well-acted, the story well-told. again, hard to say we enjoyed it, but i highly recommend it. well, read the book first. paint your own pictures first. the author is so very talented and evocative that you would be cheating yourself of a wonderful reading experience not to read it first. sharon and i talked about it and the questions it brings up all the way home...and are still talking about it today.
let me know what you think...
from the sad to the happy---
got this in an email the other day from my friend, lois--
Can you say "I love you" any better?
What Love means to a 4-8 year old. Slow down for three minutes to read this. It is so worth it.
Touching words from the mouth of babes.
A group of professional people posed this question to a group of 4 to 8 year-olds, 'What does love mean?'
The answers they got were broader and deeper than anyone could have imagined. See what you think:
'When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn't bend over and paint her toenails anymore.
So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That's love.'
Rebecca- age 8
'When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different.
You just know that your name is safe in their mouth.'
Billy - age 4
'Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other.'
Karl - age 5
'Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French fries without making them give you any of theirs.'
Chrissy - age 6
'Love is what makes you smile when you're tired.'
Terri - age 4
'Love is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip before giving it to him, to make sure the taste is OK.'
Danny - age 7
'Love is when you kiss all the time. Then when you get tired of kissing, you still want to be together and you talk more.
My Mommy and Daddy are like that.. They look gross when they kiss'
Emily - age 8
'Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.'
Bobby - age 7 (Wow!)
'If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you hate,'
Nikka - age 6
(we need a few million more Nikka's on this planet)
'Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears it everyday.'
Noelle - age 7
'Love is like a little old woman and a little old man who are still friends even after they know each other so well.'
Tommy - age 6
'During my piano recital, I was on a stage and I was scared. I looked at all the people watching me and saw my daddy waving and smiling. He was the only one doing that. I wasn't scared anymore.'
Cindy - age 8
'My mommy loves me more than anybody
You don't see anyone else kissing me to sleep at night.'
Clare - age 6
'Love is when Mommy gives Daddy the best piece of chicken.'
Elaine-age 5
'Love is when Mommy sees Daddy smelly and sweaty and still says he is handsomer than Robert Redford.'
Chris - age 7
'Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day.'
Mary Ann - age 4
'I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones.'
Lauren - age 4
'When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out of you.' (what an image)
Karen - age 7
'Love is when Mommy sees Daddy on the toilet and she doesn't think it's gross.'
Mark - age 6
'You really shouldn't say 'I love you' unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget.'
Jessica - age 8
see ya friday with more sketchbook action!
smell ya later!
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Todd, you got me crying and laughing with this blog today.
'Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.'
Bobby - age 7 (Wow!)wow! wow! :)
Thanks for taking the time to write and share!
- January 06, 2010 6:12 AM
- Christian D. Leaf said...
THE ROAD is a rough read, but well worth it. Curious about the movie, but will probably have to wait for the DVD.
'Love is when Mommy sees Daddy on the toilet and she doesn't think it's gross.'
Mark - age 6
- January 06, 2010 6:40 AM
- Matt Wieringo said...
That one was my favorite too. Cause Daddy's a guy. And guy's don't sit down to pee. That IS love.
Haven't read THE ROAD yet but Suzanne has. It's on my loooonnng list of books to read.
- January 06, 2010 9:40 AM
- Brian said...
Bobby's was my favorite as well.
Thanks for sharing those, Todd, they were great.
- January 06, 2010 12:11 PM
- Alisa B said...
got an amazon gift certificate for Christmas, so I'm going to pick up the Road. Post apocalyptic stories always fascinate me!! Thanks for the suggestion.
Love and happy new year!!
- January 06, 2010 12:33 PM
- Heywood Jablomie said...
Ha! Those were great. Thanks for sharing those.
I haven't heard anything about the book or the movie, but it's nice to know it's at least worth checking out!
- January 06, 2010 5:39 PM
- Warren said...
My son has been trying to get me to read Cormac McCarthy for years now. He recommends I start with Blood Meridian. Dunno why I haven't read him yet. Maybe I'll start with the Road.
And everytime I read the profound sayings of small children, I'm reminded of the late, great Art Linkletter and his show. I wonder if "Kids Say the Darnedest Things" is still in print?
- January 07, 2010 9:23 AM


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