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App Review: Picfree by Pinger, Inc.
by Dorothy on
June 26, 2009
Filed under Daily App Reviews, Utility
From the makers of the ever popular Textfree Unlimited, we now have Picfree. Much like Textfree, Picfree is aimed at allowing you to send picture messages for free. You can send pictures taken with your iPhone camera or anything in your Photo app to another mobile device or to an email address. When sending a picture to someone who cannot receive picture messages, you can opt to send them a text message with a link to the picture in it. So, for instance, when you are sending a picture message to another iPhone, you would check the box to send the message as a text with an embedded link to the picture. The person receiving the message could then tap on the link and open the picture in their Safari app. Keep in mind that if you decide to send the text with a link to the picture, that it will still count as a text for the person receiving the picture. Unfortunately, it is not free for them.
To send a picture message, you must first take the picture. The app will then give you a preview of the pic and ask if you want to use it or retake it. If you choose to use it, you move onto the next step, identifying the recipient. You can type in a name for someone in your contact list to find their email or phone number quickly. You can also just type the phone number in. Next, you can add a short text message to go with it. Then, tap send and your message is off.
I tried sending a picture message both to an email address and to an iPhone. Sending the picture to the iPhone worked very well. The text came in quickly and with a single tap on the message, I was able to pull up the picture. I had to pinch the picture to shrink it to fit the screen, but it was not a big deal. Sending the picture message to an email address worked as well, but I was not quite as happy with the result. The email that I received contained the full picture, which was great, but it was too big to view the whole thing on the screen. I would have preferred that the app shrink the picture slightly so that it would be easily viewed in an email. Overall, not a bad way to send pictures for free.
Picfree is $5.99 in the iTunes App Store.
Developer's Website: http://www.pinger.com/content/home.html

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Ludwick goes on DL; Reds promote Robinson
CINCINNATI -- The Reds officially placed left fielder Ryan Ludwick on the 15-day disabled list Wednesday after he had morning surgery to repair a torn labrum in his right shoulder. Ludwick is not expected to return until sometime around the All-Star break.
To replace Ludwick, who dislocated his shoulder sliding headfirst into third base on Opening Day, the contract of outfielder Derrick Robinson was purchased from Triple-A Louisville.
"He had a real good spring for us," Reds manager Dusty Baker said of Robinson. "He can help us in a lot of ways. He can pinch-run, pinch-hit, he's a switch-hitter, an outstanding outfielder and can give [Shin-Soo] Choo a breather in center some time. This guy is a true center fielder, a very good player and a very good outfielder. We need some speed."
Robinson, 25, batted .300 in 22 spring games after being signed in the offseason as a Minor League free agent. Although given little chance of making the Reds' 25-man roster out of Spring Training, he became the latest example of how opportunities can present themselves by doing all the right things in camp.
"Everything I did, I focused and made sure that I didn't give away an at-bat, or be lackadaisical in the outfield, or fall asleep on the basepaths. I gave it my all," said Robinson, who batted .258 in 116 games last season for the Royals' Triple-A affiliate in Omaha. "I gave it all I had. I gave it a good showing. Apparently, it worked out. I hate to see Ludwick go down like that. But I guess that's just how the game goes."
As luck would have it, Robinson had his parents in attendance at Great American Ball Park on Wednesday as the Reds played the Angels.
"My family came to Louisville," he said. "They followed me up this morning."
Robinson and fellow non-roster outfielder Denis Phipps were among the final cuts in camp. Robinson impressed Baker, and his name rose to the top among other considerations that included Phipps and a player on the 40-man roster in Donald Lutz.
"We thought about Big Lutz, but he still needs to play in Double-A," Baker said. "He's coming on, but is he ready right now? We don't think so.
"I know a lot of people want [Billy] Hamilton, but Hamilton has a lot to learn. We don't know how he's going to do at Triple-A first. Through the process of elimination, [Robinson is] the guy that looked like one of the best and the guy that we thought could help us."


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The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the jurisdictions in the Johnson Creek watershed are working together to provide hydrologic data for the Johnson Creek Basin. Real-time surface-water and ground-water data, and historic data and analyses, are critical to understanding the hydrology of the basin.
A cooperative study of the Johnson Creek basin was initiated in 1988 between the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the City of Portland Bureau of Environmental Services. It was expanded in subsequent years to include Clackamas and Multnomah Counties and the cities of Gresham and Milwaukie. This multi-year data collection project continues to respond to the needs for hydrologic data and analyses, providing answers regarding surface-water, water quality, and ground-water in the basin.
Flooding in Johnson Creek results from direct surface runoff and increased ground-water discharge and poses problems in residential, commercial, and public areas. Commercial and residential development in the basin has likely affected both the high-flow and low-flow hydrologic conditions in the basin. Johnson Creek is one of the region's last free-flowing urban streams and has received Federal listing for native fish. Water-quality standards will be established by the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality over the next several years, and will result in Total Maximum Daily Load allocations for temperature, bacteria, and pesticides.
Further data collection and study in the future will help determine the effect of land use changes on the magnitude of streamflow and water quality.


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Juanita Peaches
The man behind the famed Beatbox Kitchen, Taco Truck and All Day Donuts brings Melbourne another stellar eatery. It's called Juanita Peaches and it's a little bit of East L.A in Brunswick. For the last couple of months it's been mainly a fried chicken joint, but there's a Cheese Burger on the menu now that should get peoples' attention. Why wasn't it on the menu from the get-go? It just wasn't ready yet. Raph Rashid has been perfecting this burger for the last 5 years. He wanted to create a cheese burger that you'd keep coming back to, something you don't feel like you need a python-like jaw to eat, something with the perfect balance of bread to meat. One of the things that took the longest to craft was the bun. Raph calls it a Boogie Bun, and it's like a potato bun made love to a brioche – solid but spongey. When you order, you'll see the guys place the buns in a giant steamer, along with the cheese on the top bun creating the signature "Up-Cheese". He also minces his own Victoria Grass Fed beef, meaning that from top to bottom it's all Raph's Cheese Burger. It comes with 120gm Grass Fed beef patty, double cheese, mustard, onions, pickle all on a Boogie Bun. You can order extras like an extra patty or chilli peppers, but the chef recommends keeping it as is.


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A few days after 18-year-old Mike Brown was gunned down in Ferguson, Missouri, White House officials enlisted an unusual source for on-the-ground intelligence amid the chaos and tear gas: the Rev. Al Sharpton, a fiery activist who became a household name by provoking rather than pacifying.
Sharpton—once such a pariah that Clinton administration officials rushed through their ribbon-cuttings in Harlem for fear he'd show up and force them to, gasp, shake his hand—arrived on the scene 72 hours after the shooting at the request of Brown's grandfather, who had admired his advocacy on behalf of the family of slain Florida teen Trayvon Martin.
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But if the old Al Sharpton would have parachuted into Ferguson to rile up the masses, the Obama-era Al Sharpton trod a more gingerly path to justice. Over the years, the 59-year-old former Brooklyn protest leader turned MSNBC talk-show host has embraced a new identity, one that reflects his evolution from agitator to insider with all that implies. In Ferguson, Sharpton established himself as a de facto contact and conduit for a jittery White House seeking to negotiate a middle ground between meddling and disengagement. "There's a trust factor with The Rev from the Oval Office on down," a White House official familiar with their dealings told me. "He gets it, and he's got credibility in the community that nobody else has got. There's really no one else out there who does what he does."
And the White House, as the crisis following Brown's death seemed to flare out of control, worked extensively behind the scenes to maximize The Rev's doing what he does, using him as both a source of information and a go-between. After huddling with Brown's family and local community leaders, Sharpton connected directly with White House adviser and First Friend Valerie Jarrett, vacationing in her condo in the exclusive Oak Bluffs section of Martha's Vineyard, not far from where President Obama and his family were staying. Obama was "horrified" by the images he was seeing on TV, Jarrett told Sharpton, and proceeded to pepper him with questions as she collected information for the president: How bad was the violence? Was it being fueled by outside groups— and could Sharpton do anything to talk them down? What did the Brown family want the White House to do?
It was a heady consultation for Sharpton, who spent years on the outside dreaming of a place in the pantheon of the civil rights leaders he revered as a teenage street preacher in Brooklyn, and it's an irony lost on no one that his rise to White House adviser has come thanks to Barack Obama, whose restrained personal style couldn't be any more different from Sharpton's. If anything, the Ferguson crisis has underscored Sharpton's role as the national black leader Obama leans on most, a remarkable personal and political transformation for a man once regarded with suspicion and disdain by many in his own party. It's a status made all the more surprising given that Obama, America's first black president, ran on a platform of moving beyond the country's painful racial divisions while Sharpton is the man who once defined those divisions for many Americans.
What brought them together, according to numerous sources I've spoken with about this over the years, is a shared commitment to racial justice, and a hardheaded pragmatism that has fueled their success. "He realized I wasn't as irrational or as crazy as people thought," Sharpton told me in an interview this week, and indeed Sharpton not only visits the White House frequently, he often texts or emails with senior Obama officials such as Jarrett and Attorney General Eric Holder, the first African American to hold that job and who, like Sharpton, views the Ferguson crisis as a pivotal one in Obama's presidency.
"I've known Al since he was 12 years old, and he's arrived at the level he always wanted to arrive at, which is gratifying," the Rev. Jesse Jackson, a colleague and sometimes rival, told me. "He's the man who's the liaison to the White House, he's the one who's talking to the Justice Department."
To get where he is Sharpton not only shed 150 pounds but much of his old bullhorn-in-your-face-bombast. When we talked this week, he was preparing remarks to be delivered at the funeral for Mike Brown in Ferguson planned for Monday. Sharpton said his critics ignore just how much time and experience has matured him. "I've grown to appreciate different roles and different people, and I weigh words a little more [carefully] now. I've learned how to measure what I say," he said. "Al Sharpton in 1986 was trying to be heard. I was a local guy and was like, 'Y'all are ignoring us'... That's not the case now."
Yet the old image is indelible. Three decades ago, the overweight, track-suited, medallion-bedecked Sharpton led a rally against a white-owned clothing store in Harlem that was subsequently burned to the ground by a deranged black protester, killing eight people. Around that time, he was convicted of defaming a white upstate New York prosecutor he falsely accused of raping black teenager Tawana Brawley in the 1980s, an infamous case that made him famous as the caricature of an inflammatory inner-city preacher immortalized by Tom Wolfe in Bonfire of the Vanities. Sharpton often, regrettably, played to type: During the 1991 Crown Heights riots in Brooklyn, Sharpton stoked black rage after a Hasidic Jewish driver killed a young boy with his car. At the child's funeral, Sharpton railed against Jewish "diamond merchants" who bought their wares from apartheid South Africa, then ran down black kids in Brooklyn. There was his much-mocked stint as an FBI informer in the 1980s. There were poorly managed mayoral and presidential bids that ended in tatters, and in deep debt.


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The Shortlist, 17th May 2014
11/2 Bear's Affair paid for the five losers yesterday, and still left 10% profit on top. He returned 4/1 favourite, again again again highlighting the importance of taking an early guaranteed price.
Saturday's The Shortlist is below, and it looks a typically trappy Saturday at that.
2.20 Newm - Highland Castle - 9/1 Skybet
2.55 Newm - Miracle Of Medinah - 28/1 BetVictor
3.30 Newm - Nova Champ - 11/1 Betbright
3.40 Ban - Curzon Line - 5/1 bet365
3.50 Newb - Olympic Glory - 11/10 BetVictor
7.30 Don - Boonga Roogeta - 6/1 Betfred
The Shortlist is a simple concept: I go through the Race Analysis Reports each day to find horses which I consider to be of interest. I then publish that list of horses here. Some will win, many will lose. It is hoped that the winners will cover the losers and leave a bit of gravy on the punting platter. Now, before I go on, I need to make (labour!) a really important point. And it is this: the Race Analysis Reports are deliberately interpretive.
That is, different people will highlight different horses depending on whether they're using the win or place statistics, and which columns they sort on (based on which elements they consider most important in a given race). So, these will be the horses on MY shortlist. Feel free to do with them what you will. You may have a different shortlist, and you are most certainly encouraged to go and play with the numbers to find what works best for you.
As regular readers will know, it makes absolute sense to get the best price you can about any selection you're backing. Put another way, it makes no sense whatsoever to accept a shorter price than the best available unless you've got too much money and are keen to give some away! 😉
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Discover how Sika grew from a small, family owned business to a well respected, worldwide leader in the specialty chemicals market.
Kaspar Winkler invented the first Sika product in 1910. He had to wait several years for the breakthrough of his company, when Sika-1 was used to waterproof the Gotthard tunnel.
After World War II, the economy worldwide boomed. Sika opened businesses around the globe in countries such as Sweden and Cuba.
Sika's product range broadened over the years. A significant addition was Sikaflex. Based on this invention a whole new business - the Industry Division - was started.
Almost every year a new local subsidiary was opened. With its global presence, Sika achieved incredible growth rates in recent years.


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Insurance commissioner Dave Jones says his office has determined that Anthem Blue Cross's small group rates this year overproject health cost growth and would draw in unreasonable profit for the company.
Jones says the Affordable Care Act calls on state insurance commissioners to make recommendations about insurers in the health exchanges.
He says Anthem - and its sister company Blue Cross of California - should not be allowed in the market for small employers.
"This July 1st rate increase, is the third time that Anthem has imposed an unreasonable rate increase on small businesses this year alone," said Jones.
Anthem Blue Cross says it is one of two insurers that will be serving the entire state in the individual health insurance exchange next year. It says their rates will be affordable.
Covered California says it will consider Jones' opinion as it makes the final decision on participating insurers under the federal health law.


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The guest blog is written by Anna McConnell, a Product and Service Research Associate with Engage Business Network, Age UK. She is working on a Knowledge Transfer Partnership between Brunel University and Age UK.
For too long industry has perceived inclusive design as ugly, expensive, time consuming and complicated. It's time to stop focusing on the barriers and instead realise that demographic changes mean that inclusive design can help organisations become and remain competitive in our ageing society – by continuously assessing and interpreting the changing needs of their customers as they age in order to develop targeted and aspirational products and services to people of all ages.
Although difficult to definitively prove the economic benefits of inclusivity; design as a whole is difficult to quantify and focusing solely on the bottom may be misleading and may hide the bigger picture. Inclusive design practices can help organisations to see the world through their customers' eyes and put people of all ages and abilities at the centre of their business strategy.
"Design for the young and you exclude the old; design for the old and you include the young". Bernard Isaacs, Founding Director of the Birmingham Centre for Applied Gerontology.
Large brands are beginning to take notice of this approach. Twinings and Unilever have both recently discussed their changing strategies on the Marketing Week website; Unilever's senior vice-president of marketing, Marc Mathieu, says their strategy is more about real people rather than generic customers, "creating a brand that puts real people's lives at the centre of everything, rather than consumers".
Many companies have found significant financial success by applying Bernard Isaacs' principle to the development of products and services; the BT Big Button 100 Telephone, developed in 1998, designed with the wider needs of all users in mind, is still one of their best sellers.
Internal investment in internal design and innovation can have very positive effects of the financial performance of organisations: "Product Design and Financial Performance", "Valuing Design: Enhancing Corporate Performance through Design Effectiveness", "Design Index: The Impact of Design of Stock Market Performance", "How do Creativity and Design Enhance Business Performance? A framework for Interpreting the Evidence", and "The Economic Effects of Design" have demonstrated positive effects to higher investment in design. These effects include increased sales, cash flow and revenue, lower costs, increased productivity, greater probability of innovation and increased stock market value.
Things are starting to change; businesses are rethinking the way they see older customers, moving away from our traditional ageist approaches to product development and marketing and to understanding the real value in an inclusive corporate strategy. Here at the Engage Business Network we work with companies to explore this growing market and give older people better choice of products and services.
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- Page 1 Sony Bravia KDL-40EX43BU Review
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If 2010 proved one thing where Sony was concerned, it's that the brand is back in the innovation game. It delivered the UK's first Freeview HD TV, it took online TV to a whole new dimension, and right at end of the year it gave us the 40EX43BU: the first TV in the UK to sport a built-in Blu-ray player.
This makes plenty of sense, of course. For if there's a 'Holy Grail' of AV for your average compact living room, it's reducing clutter. What's more, with the price tag of just £571.65 that we've found online, the 40EX43BU is cheaper than getting a decently specified 40in Sony TV and Sony Blu-ray player separately, so you can feel like you're getting a genuine bargain as well as leaving your room looking neater.
Of course, there's a good chance that the performance of either the Blu-ray deck or the TV will be compromised in some way by having both crammed into a single chassis. It will be especially interesting to see what if any effort the TV makes to accommodate Blu-ray's high def audio potential. But then to be fair, it's likely that anyone buying this set will realise that some degree of performance compromise will be involved with their convenience-based decision, especially at under £600. So unless anything gets truly disastrous, we'll probably feel inclined to cut the 40EX43BU a little more slack on the performance front than normal.
Aesthetically the 40EX43BU's design hasn't been compromised provided you're looking directly at it. It wears the same mix of gloss black and smokey grey that we've seen on numerous other Sony models of late – except the relatively high-end ones that come dressed in Sony's striking, all-black 'Monolithic' design.
Aside from a small Blu-ray logo on the bottom right corner of the 40EX43BU's fascia, the main visual signs of the set's combi nature are reserved for its rear, which boasts a disc slot on the right edge, and sticks out considerably more than most modern TVs – well in excess of 100mm.
As might be expected of a combi product, the 40EX43B carries three HDMIs – one less than most of Sony's other current TVs. But there's no sign of compromise elsewhere, at least where video and multimedia connections are concerned. A USB port, for instance, can play JPEG photo, MP3 audio or DivX, AVCHD and MPEG4 video, as well as potentially making the TV Wi-Fi capable via an optional USB dongle.
There's also an Ethernet port, there first as mandatory support for a built-in Freeview HD tuner. But it also enables connectivity and file playback from a DLNA PC and, even more pleasingly, it enables you to jack into Sony's excellent Bravia Internet Video service.
Having covered BIV regularly, including in our online TV update feature a week or so ago, we won't go into detail on it again here. We'll just mention its highlights – the BBC iPlayer, Demand Five, YouTube, the LoveFilm and Qriocity movie on demand services, plus Sony World of Television – and add that for us it's currently the most consistently engaging online system currently available on a TV.
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David Mattson, President and CEO of Sandler Training and 6-Time Best-Selling Author, talks about his fifth book, Sandler Rules for Sales Leaders. The book is on sale here, as well as the companion video course.
This year, on Fridays, Dave talks about the attitude, behavior, and techniques of successful sales managers as he shares his thoughts on the 49 Sandler Rules for Sales Leaders.
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ACT! by Sage For Dummies, 9th Edition
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Author and full-time ACT! Certified Consultant and ACT! Premier Trainer Karen Fredricks walks you through tasks such as:
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Throughout the year we organise and help our partners stage a variety of brass concerts for the benefit of our local communities.
Our Chair also stages an annual charity brass band festival at Dronfield Sports Centre. This year's event will took place on 24 September and helped raise money for the Weston Park Hospital Cancer Charity.


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Plenty of people were sad when Albert Pujols bounced on the Cardinals. But only one visionary jerk thought to videotape himself making his child cry about it, and then put the video online.
The University of Houston asked three Houston-area rappers to make a fight song for their football team. This was a good idea, even though none of those rappers was Scarface.
Pujols was the mega-prize of basbeall's offseason, its climax; Battier is the most notable NBA free agent to be linked to a new team, signaling that this frantic period of player movement has begun.
Ron Artest has been Metta World Peace... well, since before the universe existed, really. But it has been official in the eyes of Los Angeles County since September. Today, it belatedly became official on NBA.com, as well.
In 2005, Houston rapper Paul Wall recorded a tribute to the World Series-bound Astros. In 2011, most of the players he shouts out are pretty seriously out of baseball. But Wall's ode to rhetorical questions, elaborately prolonged Houstonian pronunciation, and Brad Ausmus still bumps, in its way.
Columbia Journalism Review has asked me to blog about these first few weeks as part of its Launch Pad series. Today, the current state of the site.
The first in a running series on the Premier League's most bizarre figure. In this installment, Mario scores a goal with his shoulder on purpose.
Kentucky, North Carolina, and the joys of watching gangly young folk alternate between transcendence and being gangly young folk.
In which two people who did not watch VH1's Baseball Wives discuss VH1's Baseball Wives.
College football programs and the schools who support them (or vice-versa), have engaged in ludicrous Heisman campaigns for more than a decade. As far as I know, though, Stanford head coach David Shaw is the first person to create a 30-minute PowerPoint presentation and display it at his weekly press conference to unsuspecting media.


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Eric Terry of Linty Fresh fame has started a series of very informative (and funny) videos that deal with the t-shirt business. His most recent video discusses the intricacies involved in preparing for an art or craft show. His past videos have looked at the art of professionalism and how to fulfill and ship online orders. The videos themselves are very well organized and well edited. Eric offers a wealth of information for the novice and some tips that might even help the seasoned veteran.Â
Check out below video #4: Tips for Art/Craft Shows by Eric Terry! I'll be posting these as he makes them! Keep the goodies coming, Eric!
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No. 5 Southeastern will be looking to dodge rain showers and get in a four-game home series against Southern Nazarene set for March 22-23 at the Southeastern Softball Field.
The Savage Storm comes into the weekend with a 25-6 record and a 10-2 mark in Great American Conference play.
SE opened the conference schedule with a sweep of Southern Arkansas and added a sweep of Arkansas-Monticello to its resume this past weekend and sandwiched a series split on the road with Henderson State between the two.
The Storm comes in on a four-game winning streak and boasts an 8-2 record in its last 10 games.
Southeastern also maintained its No. 5 national ranking for the second-straight week and has now been ranked in the top five in the poll for five consecutive weeks.
Southeastern's pitching staff comes into the contest with a 2.78 ERA combined, but is paced by current GAC Pitcher of the Week Jacee Bennett who is 14-3 on the year with a 2.72 ERA and 104 strikeouts. She has also posted a team-high six saves and is holding opposing hitters to a .265 batting average.
Mindy McElroy leads the club with a 1.77 ERA and is 10-2 on the year with four saves and 49 strikeouts.
Offensively, Courtney Moore has pushed to the top of the stat sheet with a .386 average to go with four home runs and 24 RBI, both of which also lead the team.
Jessica Simmons checks in at .340 on the year with team-highs of 35 hits and 29 runs scored as well as a GAC leading 24 stolen bases.
Southern Nazarene comes into the weekend with a 10-18 record overall and a 4-12 mark in league play.
The Crimson Storm has lost three-straight and eight-of-its-last-10.
SNU is hitting .312 as a team on the season and is led by Kylie Lang who is batting .413 on the year, while four others are batting better than .300.
Amy Madden leads the team in home runs and RBI with 9 and 29, respectively.
The pitching staff carries a combined ERA of 5.53, led by Maci-Brooke Lambert who is at 5-9 on the year with a 4.06 ERA and 49 strikeouts.


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Juan Francisco Jara was born in Cauquenes, but moved to Santiago at a very early age. He took several courses in Fine Arts, and began his comics career at Editorial Zig Zag as Abel Romero's assistant in 1964. Jara soon became one of the most productive artists for the many Zig Zag publications, starting with the story 'Salvamento en la Antártida' in Okey in February, 1965. He drew for the science fiction mags Robot, Rocket ('El Profesor Von Hagel') and Infinito, and for the adventure and historical titles, like Mundos Fabulosos, Hazañas Históricas and Sueños Maravillosos.
He is best known for his work on the 'Mawa' series with writer Juan Marino in Jungla magazine. Also in Jungla, he illustrated several 'Elundi' episodes. He also did many covers and interiors for Guerrillero, and cover illustrations for Far West and Espía 13. When Zig Zag became Quimantú in the early 1970's, Jara contributed anonymously to Dr. Mortis. He was also present in Mampato.
In the late 1970's, he drew for educational supplements of the newspaper Las Últimas Noticias, working on series like 'Personajes legendarios de Chile'. Then in the 1980's, he did the wild west series 'El paso del Diablo' in La Tercera. Juan Jara Quiñonas eventually focused on painting.


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Work should begin this week to repair a Montegut marsh-management levee that blew out during Hurricane Isaac, officials said.
Work should begin this week to repair a Montegut marsh-management levee that blew out during Hurricane Isaac, officials said.
The storm's tidal force destroyed one of the levee's water-control structures, a type of gate that helps control salt water flowing through the Pointe-aux-Chenes Wildlife Management Area. The structure was washed away, leaving a 50-foot gap in the levee.
A $2.4 million FEMA project aimed at strengthening the levee's second water-control structure with a bridge capable of supporting heavy equipment is nearly complete, and Terrebonne Levee Director Reggie Dupre said he expects to be able to truck dirt onto the levee to begin closing the breach this week.
"We expect by Wednesday or Thursday to begin hauling dirt into the area," Dupre said. "The repairs should be complete by the end of this year."
That project was unfinished when Hurricane Isaac struck. Dupre said the modified water-control structure held up well during the storm.
The vulnerable levee, which crosses open water in the Wildlife and Fisheries' Pointe-aux-Chenes Wildlife Management Area, has caused repeated headaches for the Terrebonne Levee District.
The levee has failed during nearly every storm that has blown through the parish. Without a permanent fix, the Levee District will continue to spend millions on repeated repairs to the levee, Dupre said.
The levee will also form a future foundation for the parish's Morganza-to-the-Gulf hurricane-protection project.
Dupre said the structure has had to be repaired so many times, there's not enough suitable dirt left at the site to repair the levee, and that's why they have to haul material in.
The repairs, which will be done with in-house workers and equipment, will cost up to $500,000, Dupre said. He expects FEMA to help with the cost.
Terrebonne Parish President Michel Claudet said that the parish will lend two track trucks to the Levee District to get the work done faster.
"The higher we can get that levee up, the more protection it provides to the town of Montegut," Claudet said.
The levee, which stands about 6 feet tall, is part of a project to improve water quality and prevent saltwater intrusion into about 1,000 feet of marsh between Island Road and Point Farm. It is not meant to provide hurricane protection.
But the levee performs other important functions, Dupre said, including knocking down storm surge headed for the parish levee that protects Montegut. The levee also prevents excess salt water from getting into Montegut marshes and causing further erosion. The water-control structures can be closed and opened to regulate flow.
In the long term, the Levee District will need to gather some local or state money to armor the levee against future erosion and replace the destroyed water-control structure. Dupre said the Levee District is in discussions with FEMA and the state Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness to retrieve the old washed out structure and replace it with a new one.
But right now, Dupre said, the Levee District just wants to plug and reinforce the levee with good material to make it functional again.
Dupre said he worries that leaving the breach open for an extended time will compromise Montegut's primary protection levee and allow salt water to kill the rejuvenated freshwater wetlands that have been growing inside the marsh-management levee.
"The important thing is to stop the environmental bleeding. Right now we've got salt water coming into this fragile environment and in a few weeks you could lose what little wetland gains we've made in the past few years," Dupre said.
Staff Writer Nikki Buskey can be reached at 857-2205 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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With his fifth-inning home run Thursday, J.J. Hardy became the ninth shortstop since 1901 to have 25 home runs in three different seasons.
He is the fourth active player to achieve that as a shortstop – though I guess it depends on your definition of "active." Former Oriole Miguel Tejada, now with the Kansas City Royals and on the suspended list for violating the league's drug policy, is on the list. As is the New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez, now a third baseman and Colorado's Troy Tulowitzki.
In pure Hardy form, he sidestepped a question about reaching 25 homers and instead talked about team goals.
"For me it's not a time to think about the personal stuff," he said. "After the season I might reflect on it, but right now we need to win ballgames. And, if it helps to win the ballgame, then it is great."
Orioles manager Buck Showalter had no problem heaping praise on Hardy after the game.
"I've kind of run out of things to describe him. I think everybody knows what we think of him," Showalter said. "He's so consistent. You know what you're getting from him every day. He's such a quiet leader in his own way. His voice carries a lot of weight and he picks his words wisely. He does so many things behind the scenes that I don't even know about. Just a word here and a word there. It's so unselfish. Just the way he carries himself. It's an honor to watch him play shortstop every night. He's the most fundamentally sound shortstop I've ever had. Maybe I've ever seen."
Hardy is signed through 2014. He'd love to stay in Baltimore. It'll be interesting to see if the sides talk about an extension this offseason. They obviously have Manny Machado waiting in the wings as a shortstop. But having them both on the left side of the infield – even if they were to swap positions at some point – would help keep the Orioles' defense strong. And, without a question, the club's defense is its biggest asset right now.
** Adam Jones also hit milestones Thursday with his 30th homer and 100th RBI. One of Jones' primary goals this year, personally, was to drive in 100 runs.
Jones and hitting coach Jim Presley love to playfully jaw at each other. And every time Jones points out that Presley never hit 30 homers in a season in his career (Presley had 28 in 1985 and 27 in 1986), Presley would snap back that until Jones drove in 100 (Presley had 107 RBIs in 1986) he didn't want to hear from him.
Knowing Jones, Presley will hear plenty soon. Not only has Jones gotten to the century mark in RBIs, but he now has two more career homers than Presley. Of course, no one is happier than Presley that Jones is achieving more personal goals this year.
Showalter lauded Jones not only for getting 30 and 100, but for his toughness. Jones has homered twice since getting plunked Wednesday night.
"Adam took a 95 mph fastball just below the elbow [Wednesday]. Hit a home run next time up. I came so close to taking him out of the game. In fact, I was going to and he wanted to take one more at-bat and see how it felt," Showalter said. "He's had it wrapped up and whatever. I talked to him (Thursday). It's still sore. This guy is such a tough guy. We're lucky to have him and we're lucky to have ownership that allows us to have him."
** The Orioles now lead the majors with 188 home runs after hitting three Thursday. All three were solo shots, though, and were they only runs the Orioles scored.
I've been saying it since last year's postseason. If you rely only on the homer, you'll have trouble beating good pitchers and good teams that know how to manufacture runs.
The home runs are great, but the Orioles need to get runners in from second or third, too. They were hitless in four at-bats with runners in scoring position Thursday.
** The official announced attendance for Thursday night was 17,383. That's tickets sold. There weren't that many people in the stands, probably a few thousand less.
But, honestly, given that the Ravens opened their season on Thursday night and there was a country music concert in the Inner Harbor, it wasn't a bad turnout.
I expected much less. And the people that were there were into the game. So, I'd say it was a pretty solid showing given what else was going on.


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Three years ago and 4,300 miles away, Dr. Michael Chiariello saw something he believed the St. Bonaventure University community would cherish as much as he did.
So the longtime philosophy professor decided it couldn't hurt to ask. He invited Italian stage actor Mario Pirovano to St. Bonaventure to perform his highly acclaimed one-man interpretation of "Francis, The Holy Jester," written by Nobel Prize winner Dario Fo.
Chiariello never imagined what the invitation would launch: a two-month tour of the U.S. and Canada that begins with the North American premiere of "Holy Jester" on Tuesday, Oct. 2, at St. Bonaventure's Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts.
The 7:30 p.m. public performance is free, but seating is limited. Pirovano, who is spending a week at St. Bonaventure working with classes and faculty as part of the university's annual Francis Week celebration, will also perform for students at 3 p.m. on Oct. 2 in the Quick Center.
Pirovano has toured Great Britain, Australia, Scandinavia and Africa with "Holy Jester" — and to rave reviews.
"This production is the most entertaining and funny history lesson you could hope to see, given a captivating performance by the charismatic Pirovano," wrote critic David Chadderton of the British Theatre Guide.
Chiariello is director of the university's Franciscan Heritage Program, a semester-long study abroad program in Umbria, Italy.
"I saw an Italian performance in Perugia in 2009 and I was awed by the power of the text and Mario's passionate performance," said Chiariello. "When I learned that it had been translated into English, I arranged a performance for our study abroad students and visiting faculty. I decided right then that we had to bring Mario and 'Francesco' to SBU and America." ("Lu Santu Jullare Francesco" is the Italian name of the play.)
Chiariello asked Pirovano if he'd perform "Holy Jester" in English for his Umbra Institute students, and the actor obliged. When the performance was warmly received by students and faculty, Chiariello invited Pirovano to perform at St. Bonaventure.
"What I have learned from Mario and Dario is the extraordinary power the figure of Francis exercises over the hearts and minds of Italians today," said Chiariello, who was befriended by both Pirovano and Fo. "This applies not just to religious Catholics, but to Italians who are otherwise indifferent, if not hostile, to the established church. Everyone seems to have a different, but personally significant, idea of Francis and his meaning."
Chiariello hopes that Pirovano's visit will heighten awareness about "the depth of the university's connection to Italy."
"Of course, Francis, forever vital and relevant, is the bridge," Chiariello said. "I hope through our study abroad program, and events such as Mario's visit, to make the campus more mindful of — and energized by — this extraordinary living heritage."
"Francis, the Holy Jester" is based on several episodes from the life of Saint Francis often unknown or overlooked, but which are, according to Fo, "drawn from authentic texts and from ancient folk tales of the Umbrian countryside." Fo's Francis is portrayed as a medieval jester using elements of irony, humor, physical movement and song to convey his Gospel message.
"Holy Jester"is a one-man show, without props, without scenery and with the simplest costume creating an intimate relation between audience and performer. Pirovano often interacts with the audience during his performance, Chiariello said.
A range of characters from 13th-century Italy is brought to life — popes and cardinals, dukes and duchesses, soldiers on the battlefield, traders in the marketplace and Francis himself.
Pirovano reconstructs several episodes from the life of Francis, including his sermon in Bologna, his visit to Pope Innocent III, his encounter with the wolf of Gubbio, and his death, all performed with humor, passion and extraordinary energy.
Pirovano is not only the most proven interpreter of the theater of Dario Fo, but also an impassioned and tireless advocate of the style and language that have made Fo famous throughout the world and earned him the 1997 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Pirovano's visit is sponsored by the Franciscan Heritage Semester Study Abroad Program, the Franciscan Heritage Council, SBU's theater program, School of Arts and Sciences, Clare College, and Kay and JohnMeisch, class of 1958. Additional support is provided by the Quick Center for the Arts, and the Franciscan Friary of St. Bonaventure University.
To complement Pirovano's visit, a series of eight stunning reproductions of Fo's Francis-themed art is now on display on the second floor of the Quick Center through Oct. 2.
Pirovano's stops after St. Bonaventure include the universities of Rochester, Florida, Michigan, Oregon, Seattle, Truman State (Mo.), Washington (Mo.), and Wayne State (Mich.), and Fordham, Clemson, Harvard, and Princeton universities. He will also perform in Toronto for a week in November.
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Earlier this week, half the eligible neighborhoods in Kansas City had enough customers wanting Google's super-high-speed Internet and cable TV service.
Although Google officially launched its Gigabit Internet service in July, it is using a clever model to build it out to actual neighborhoods, which Google calls Fiberhoods. Enough residents in each of these Fiberhoods must first tell Google that they want it. When the Fiberhood reaches a certain number of pre-registrations, Google will build them the service.
That's a smart way to do it. It ensures that it is rolling out the service only to areas where demand is high enough to cover costs.
But as of a few days ago, with about two weeks left to go for the pre-registration process, about half the eligible neighborhoods still hadn't met their quota. If you are a glass half-full kind of person, you might consider that a success -- half the neighborhoods did meet their goal.
In fact, Google told TechCrunch that it was "very happy with this number as we head into the final week of pre-registrations." But it also adjusted the goals, making it easier for more Fiberhoods to qualify.
Google explained the adjusted goals in a blog post, essentially saying that the original goals were really too high. They were based on inaccurate data of how many homes actually existed in each neighborhood, Google says.
The net result is that more neighborhoods may become eligible to get Google Fiber. But it also points to another simple thought: a surprisingly large number of Kansas City residents aren't interested.
There's been a lot of discussion about how Google will turn this project into a nationwide service and that it could cost hundreds of billions of dollars to do that. If Kansas City doesn't show a lot of love for it, it's going to be hard to convince Google, or other cable companies, to make that kind of investment.
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The Kruger Park and Mozambique border town, certainly more than a stop over! Contact Us
Guardians of the ford, and center of the sugar-growing industry in Mpumalanga. Contact Us
Holiday town / nature conservancy where man and animal share the same domain. Contact Us
Komatipoort, is nestled in-between the confluence of the Komati and Crocodile Rivers. In this town nature continues to prevail at the expense of commercialism, even though facilities are excellent. Komatipoort joins Mozambique, Swaziland and the "Republic of the "Kruger National Park".
Malalane likewise Komatipoort is an agricultural combined tourist town. One origin of the name is Malalane was named after a Swazi tribe which means "guardians" of the ford in the Crocodile River. The town started as the first rest-stop between Lourenço Marques and Pretoria.
Marloth Park is a holiday town situated in the natural bushveld , adjacent to the famous Kruger National Park, nestled in a bend of the Crocodile River, which forms the southern boundary of Kruger. The town enjoys status of a nature conservancy registered with the Parks Board of Mpumalanga.
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well i know 2 ways to secure my pages:
1- is posting a variable with some value and in the next page check if the variable got the right value...doing it with Post and not Get of course...
on login page if the username and password is true the user got
and on the "secure" pages i'm checking if the user got "0" in the Session("admin")
well thats good but! too simple don't you think?
what will happend if some "very bad person" will build a page where he will give to him self Session("admin")=0 and link the page to my "secure" page


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It's funny, but you'd think there would be more of a buzz about The newest and most expansive, destination-worthy, trail project in all of New England. Well, I'm here to kick the bee hive.
In the space of a little less than two years, with the dedicated work of several different trail building smiths and their respective crews (Harold Green and crew, Jon Schaefer and his Berkshire East crew, and Bruce Lessels and his dedicated Zoar Outdoor crew), close to 30 miles of exciting, fun and at times quite challenging bike-specific single track has erupted across the long, steep hillsides of the upper deerfield river valley/ mohawk valley.
I have had the opportunity to get in three very long rides recently on these new trails with their primary architect Harold Green. Honestly, these have become some of my favorite trails anywhere. First of all, they are carved into the hills and valleys of one of the most beautiful areas in Southern New England. There are great views and landscapes to take in at almost every turn. These trails would be a pleasure to ride anywhere, but getting to ride them in this impressively lovely location is a real bonus.
Secondly, these trails serve up the longest sustained single track climbs, and the longest sustained single track descents in MA. The run up to the top of Berkshire east is an epic ride in an of itself (no lie, for those of you looking to build up to crushing the climbs at epic races like the VT 50 or the Wilderness 101, the climb to the top of Berkshire East and up Zoar and the Warfield House will give you the mettle to excel!
The long, dedicated DH descent from the Top of the B'East is a turny, techy, long thrill ride that makes the solid climb up very worth it!
The Trails on the Warfield House and Zoar Outdoor side, boast similar, challenging, impressive sustained climbs, as well as thrilling prolonged descents...plus a ton of just great crisscrossing, unique and fun singletrack to link the whole thing together.
Truthfully, These trails all started out pretty rough and raw and took some real hard work (and hard riding) to work them in (which is just the reality of working with the terrain up this way!). But now, the trails...all 30 miles of them, are riding wonderfully.
I believe Harold is organizing a monster all day Epic ride of these trails (and Hawley!) for Oct 20th or so. Navigating around this system isn't too hard, and there are online maps, and new signage going up all the time. But the best way is getting a local tour on one of Harold's thursday night rides or just getting a hold of a local.
Oh, and if you do come up, be sure to buy a beer and some good food in the Warfield House Restaurant after your ride!
Don't let the Fall end without checking out these trails.
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A Hidden Life
It's one of the year's best and most distinctive movies, though sure to be divisive, even alienating for some viewers, in the manner of nearly…
It's one of the year's best and most distinctive movies, though sure to be divisive, even alienating for some viewers, in the manner of nearly…
Bombshell is both light on its feet and a punch in the gut.
Roger Ebert on James Ivory's "Howards End".
"The Ballad of Narayama" is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. What a space it opens…
An article about today's noon premiere of a new movie about architect Benjamin Marshall at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
An article about the screening of Horace Jenkins' "Cane River" on Friday, November 1st, at the Academy Film Archive in Los Angeles.
Scout Tafoya's video essay series about maligned masterpieces celebrates Steven Soderbergh's Solaris.
An article about today's noon premiere of a new movie about architect Benjamin Marshall at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
An FFC on Gavin Hood's Official Secrets.
A celebration of Yasujiro Ozu, as written by a Far Flung Correspondent from Egypt.
A tribute to the legendary Anna Karina.
The winners of the CFCA Awards for the best of 2019.
With "Beautiful Creatures," we continue the seemingly inevitable march toward a cinematic America with a population 50 percent human, 50 percent "other," including but not limited to superheroes, mutants, vampires, zombies, werewolves, mummies, fairies, angels, witches, ghosts, demons and the undefined undead.
Though not specifically conceived to fill the void left by the merciful departure of the $2 billion "Twilight" franchise, comparisons are inevitable, as we're again presented with a story about a smart, serious, semi-loner high school student with a single parent who falls for a mysterious newcomer with powers far beyond what the mere mortal can conceive. (Not to mention a seriously dysfunctional extended family.)
One big difference: This time around it's the boy who's the human, and the girl who has the ability to make magic, both wondrous and dark. Also, "Beautiful Creatures" has a much better sense of humor about itself than the "Twilight" movies, with most of the grown-up actors delivering performances leaning more toward the devilishly campy than the straightforward and dramatic.
Oscar winners Jeremy Irons and Emma Thompson, Oscar nominee Viola Davis and the wickedly lovely Emmy Rossum are all having great fun in this movie. If only that approach extended to the two young leads, who spend so much time brooding and lamenting and trying to figure out the rules of the supernatural game they don't seem to be enjoying themselves at all.
Based on the first of the four "Caster Chronicles" young adult novels by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, and directed with considerable style by Richard LaGravenese, "Beautiful Creatures" is told mostly from the POV of teenager Ethan Wate (Alden Ehrenreich), who can't wait to escape a town so backward you'd think they'd never seen "Footloose."
Immersing himself in seminal 20th century literature by the likes of Vonnegut and Salinger, eager to shed the prayer-happy ex-girlfriend who refuses to believe they're really over, Ethan is plagued and intrigued by a recurring dream on a Civil War battlefield not far from his home. When Lena Duchannes (Alice Englert) arrives at school on the wings of a hundred rumors about her family and their devil-worshipping ways, Ethan is convinced he's met the girl of his dreams. THE dream.
The Bible-thumping townsfolk — and they come THIS CLOSE to actually thumping their Bibles — believe Lena and her clan are the spawn of Satan or at the very least witches, and you know what? They're not far off.
Turns out Lena is a "Caster," with her supernatural powers growing stronger every day as she approaches her 16th birthday, upon which she will be subjected to the Claiming, and ...
Well. Suffice to say there are many stipulations and potentially tragic land mines ahead, and "Beautiful Creatures" stops in its tracks from time to time so Lena or one of her relatives can outline the rules, as if we're all attending an elaborately costumed theme dinner party populated by actors who refuse to break character as they mill about, spinning their tale.
It would all be pretty tedious, goth-youth nonsense if not for the considerable delights provided by the aforementioned veterans in the supporting cast. Dressed in elaborate finery that does NOT look like it came off the rack, Macon Ravenwood (Jeremy Irons) lurks about the family mansion like a modern-day Boo Radley. (In case we don't get the reference, we're told flat-out he's like a modern-day Boo Radley, because of course Ethan has read "To Kill a Mockingbird," even though it's on the extensive list of the town's banned books.)
All Casters are either Dark or Light (think "Oz" and good witch/bad witch), and Macon is a Dark Caster, but he tries to keep those impulses in check as he carefully watches over Lena, who will learn her true nature on her 16th birthday.
There's no such impulse control when it comes to the evil Sarafine (Emma Thompson) and the salacious Ridley (Emmy Rossum). They are Dark Casters through and through, and they're rolling in it. Sarafine can assume the identity of humans and cause all kinds of trouble from within, while Ridley is like a temptress in a Super Bowl commercial, roaring into town in a red BMW convertible and having her way with the boys.
"Beautiful Creatures" springs to life whenever Irons, Thompson or Rossum is centerstage. (We also see fine work from Viola Davis, though she's stuck with a cliched role as a perpetually concerned mother figure who knows a lot more about the town's cursed history than anyone.) The grown-ups get to wear all the coolest costumes and spout all the juiciest lines.
Problem is, this isn't their story. It's first and foremost a semi-plodding teen romance with supernatural overtones. Ehrenreich is saddled with a character whose primary strength is his irritating persistence. As was the case with Bella and her lip-biting, shoe-staring ways, we wonder why anyone in the supernatural community would be so smitten. Alice Englert (daughter of director Jane Campion) is a promising talent, but there's not a ton of depth to Lena, either.
Maybe that's because she's 15, and even when you're a Caster, at 15 your most interesting days are still in front of you.
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"Farrah's Story" executive producer Craig J. Nevius is responding to allegations in a lawsuit filed by Richard B. Francis, trustee of the late Farrah Fawcett's Fawcett Living Trust.
According to court papers filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Friday and obtained by Access Hollywood, Francis, on behalf of Fawcett's Living Trust, is suing Nevius, claiming that he embezzled "hundreds of thousands of dollars" from the late star after she allegedly rejected his cut of the documentary "Farrah's Story," and handed over creative control to longtime love Ryan O'Neal.
But in a statement to Access Hollywood, Nevius took aim at the lawsuit.
"These accusations are nothing more than a fabricated press release disguised as a lawsuit," Nevius said in his statement to Access. "As much as I would like to answer the allegations and disprove them right here and right now in the court of public opinion, I will wait to do so in a court of law. Out of respect to Farrah, I limited the focus of my lawsuit against Richard Francis, Ryan O'Neal and Alana Stewart to issues of contract interference. But it now seems that at least one of the defendants wants to widen the scope of litigation to issues of artistic integrity and the personal relationships between parties. If that is the case, I will be happy to let the work Farrah and I did together (over years) speak for itself."
Francis further alleges in the suit on behalf of the trust, that Nevius' cut of the film was "amateurish and sensationalized," and claims O'Neal then took creative control of the documentary. The film, which chronicled the "Charlie's Angels" actress' battle with cancer, aired on NBC in 2009.
However, Nevius told Access that the footage itself would bear out the truth of his relationship with Fawcett, who died in June 2009.
"I will be more than happy to let the video tapes, documents, witnesses and Farrah's own words (both written and spoken) speak for me and defend me," he said in the statement. "Finally removing all doubt and suspicion as to what actually happened during the final months of her life and who her real exploiters are. This is a fight Francis, O'Neal and Stewart cannot win."
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Subtle flavors, minimal sugar and adult tastes, it's the new world of carbonated beverages. While these drinks are lovely to sip, take advantage of the fizzy drinks in cooking too.
For a citrusy vinaigrette, we used a grapefruit soda and mixed it with a touch of mustard, grapefruit juice and seasonings. It was perfect, drizzled over a shrimp and grapefruit salad.
Shrimp, avocado and grapefruit salad with grapefruit soda dressing
Prep: 20 minutes
Marinate: 1 hour
Cook: 3 minutes
Servings: 4 main-course servings
2 tablespoons grapefruit juice
1/4 cup grapefruit soda
1 clove garlic, minced
1/4 teaspoon Dijon mustard
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
1/2 cup canola oil
1 pound medium shrimp, peeled, deveined
1 package (8 oz) mixed spring greens
2 grapefruit, cut into segments
1 avocado, pitted, peeled, sliced
1. For dressing, combine juice, soda, garlic, mustard, salt and pepper. Slowly whisk in oil until the dressing thickens. Pour 1/2 cup of the dressing over the shrimp; marinate 1 hour. Reserve remaining dressing.
2 Remove shrimp from marinade; discard marinade. Heat a grill pan or skillet over medium-high heat. Cook the shrimp, turning once, until pink, about 3 minutes.
3 Mix the greens with some of the reserved dressing in a large bowl. Divide the greens among four plates. Top with shrimp, avocado and grapefruit segments. Drizzle more dressing to taste over the top.
Nutrition information:
Per serving: 407 calories, 62% of calories from fat, 28 g fat, 3 g saturated fat, 168 mg cholesterol, 39 g carbohydrates, 20 g protein, 429 mg sodium, 6 g fiber.
Tips for using sodas in cooking
Experiment in small batches when trying new sodas in dressings for salads.
Taste, taste, taste. Taste the soda before you start to make sure you like it. Then start with small amounts for sauces and add more if needed as the cooking progresses.
Because of the sugar in the soda, you may have to cut back on other sugars in some of your old recipes.
Reducing the soda before adding to a recipe will concentrate the flavor and reduce the carbonation.
To beef up a fruit soda, you can add a small amount of the corresponding fresh fruit to your recipe.
Sampling the sodas
Here are just a few of the sodas we found in the market:
Dry Soda Co.:
lemongrass, lavender, cucumber, juniper berry, vanilla bean and more. 14-19 grams sugar. Just a hint of flavor; cucumber and vanilla bean are great. Good mixers. drysoda.com
Fresh Ginger
: Ginger ale, pomegranate with hibiscus flavor. 37 grams sugar. Ginger ale with light fruit, floral notes and a real hot ginger kick. freshgingerale.com
Gus Dry Meyer Lemon
: 100 percent natural; "Grown Up Soda." 22 grams sugar. A light 7-Up-like flavor, but better and not as sweet. drinkgus.com
: Sparkling grapefruit, pomegranate, blackberry, tangerine flavors and more. 29 grams sugar. Blackberry has fresh berry aroma; winelike. Good berry flavor. Pomegranate: tart and refreshing. izze.com
Me sodas (Juice Creations Co.):
Flavors named after personalities: Me curious (blueberry lime); Me unavailable (dragonfruitblackberry); Me uninhibited (pink grapefruit); Me vivacious (tangerine pineapple). 17 grams sugar. The dragonfruit blackberry is dry, light, with a Juicy-Fruit-like flavor. findyourme.com Organics Italian Soda: blood orange and other flavors. 29 grams sugar. Bright orange flavor. Medium sweet. safeway.com or amazon.com


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Happy birthday The Blonde Bliss <3 <3 Happy 1st birthday!! I want to thank to all of my followers, fans, believers, friends,… You helped me to push further event when I tought it's over and here we are. One year later with blog that means a world to me. My style has changed, photos, location, spirit & I am happy to be who and where I am today! Thank you all for your support and wish you as much love as possible!!
Here are photos of my favorite looks from beggining of year 2016. Old one are a little more… Hmmm.. From today's point of view strange, but at that moment I loved that style.
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SLI technology allows using multiple Nvidia graphics cards in a single computer system with a motherboard equipped with an nForce SLI MCP. Users need an a motherboard with two PCI-Express 16x graphics slots and two matching GeForce graphics cards which are "SLI Ready". Most NVIDIA's PCI-Express graphics cards starting from the 6600 GPU can enjoy the benefits of SLI.
APS (Active Phase Switching)
Active Phase Switching, APS, technology is an intelligent design that helps to save energy on MSI's motherboards. The underlying idea is to switch off the power supply as soon as no electricity is needed, and when the system needs more resources again, APS will automatically adjust electricity supply accordingly. APS will automatically detect your processor's loading at any given time and save energy accordingly. This is only possible by means of a very advanced power controlling technology. Other than software-based solutions, APS technology stands out from MSI's own research. The specially developed IC chip can operate automatically depending on the demands of the power supply, which is to reduce the total power usage.
AMD CrossFire
AMD CrossFire is the ultimate multi-GPU performance gaming platform. Enabling game-dominatig power, AMD CrossFire technology enables two or more discrete graphics processors to work together to improve graphics performance. AMD CrossFire technology allows you to expand your system's graphics capabilities. It allows you the ability to scale your system's graphics horsepower as you need it, supporting up to four AMD Radeon™ HD graphics cards, making it the most scalable gaming platform ever. With an AMD CrossFire gaming technology, the traditional graphics limitation exists no more, allowing you to enjoy higher performance as well as visual experience.
Lossless 24-bit/192KHz HD Audio
Onboard PC audio gets better! MSI is the first to implement the most high-end HD Audio codecs available. Don't be fooled by other inferior audio solutions onboard (sometimes you can't even find the driver!) Only MSI offers the Loss-less 24-bit/192KHz HD Audio function with an incredible 109 SNR dB value to provide the most clear & vivid HD audio quality and support 7.1 channels surround sound playback with a 2-channel independent stereo output (multiple streaming) through the front panel 3.5 inch phone jack.
Super Charger
Mobile consumer appliances are getting more and more attention in current day fast moving life style, with smart phones and tablets almost becoming a fashion accessory. However, many ordinary personal computers cannot charge some of these devices, making it difficult to stay connected. The MSI Super Charger is a Windows resident program capable of revising the power supply mode of your USB port to become more powerful. Once your phone or tablet is connected to your USB port, the Super Charger sends a signal to initiate its charging circuit, making it a really smart and convenient charging solution for mobile computing needs.
Compared to the 480Mbps provided by traditional USB 2.0, the all-new USB 3.0's 5Gb/s offers 10 times the transfer bandwidth, so transferring a Blu-ray movie takes less than one minute.
SATA 6Gb/s
SATA 6Gb/s provides double the bandwidth of traditional SATA 3Gb/s, and increases the data transfer rate between your motherboard and internal storage devices, such as 7200RPM HDDs, 10000RPM HDDs and SSDs. It's also the current trend for upcoming high-speed internal storage devices to to break the existing bottleneck of a PC's performance.
3TB+ Infinity
3TB+ Infinity is not only breaking through the limit of traditional BIOS, but also enhancing the utilization of hard drives efficiently. In addition to supporting the latest 3TB hard drives, MSI 3TB+ Infinity technology can use the 3TB hard drive as boot disk when installing a 64-bit operating system. Compared to competitors, MSI 3TB+ Infinity is an industry-leading technology which substantially presents an advantage of development and application in the future.
Live Update 5
MSI Live Update 5 is a powerful and useful application for updating the latest BIOS and Drivers, saving you time and lowers the risk of updating. End-users can install and run the Live Update 5 software on their computers with the companion CD or downloading the app from the MSI website.
Compared to common motherboard which need extra BIOS chips, MSI's M-Flash has a double advantage which doesn't need extra components and secondly, all your BIOS data will be saved in the USB drive. The stored data does not only have backup and upgrade function, moreover it can also be seen as a portable BIOS chip which is actually able to boot up your PC.
Winki 3
Winki 3 is a free Linux-based O/S which is based on the Linux core. With an ultra-fast booting speed and a multi-language interface, the built-in Winki 3 provides an easy-to-use internet environment that includes the most popular functions such as internet surfing, web mail, instant messaging, picture browsing, and more. It's the most practical way to be online in the shortest time.
AMD Cool'n'Quiet™ Technology reduces heat and noise so you can experience amazing performance without distraction. Combined with core enhancements, included in the AMD processors, that can improve overall power savings, deliver better multitasking and energy efficiency. Cool'n'Quiet technology can automatically adjust processor ratio to throttle CPU speed with four modes.
OC Genie II – Overclock & Unlock CPU Core in 1 Second
OC Genie II, the most powerful and easy overclocking technology is implemented on MSI's AMD 9-Series motherboards. MSI's OC Genie II completely automates advanced overclocking functions and offers up to 248% higher performance with the simple click of a button. It does not matter if you're a first time hardware owner, or a veteran overclocker, activating MSI OC Genie II will unlock your hidden CPU cores, overclock your CPU and your memory to simply give you the best and stable performance for free on MSI AMD 9-Series motherboard available.
World's 1st UEFI and software graphical user interface
MSI Click BIOS II provides a consistent user interface both in the UEFI BIOS and in Windows, it provides the most convenient way for users to control system settings and supports touchscreen control.
All Solid CapacitorsCapacitors are the most important component for electronic product's power supply. The quality of the capacitors can impact the stability of the entire system and risk of product failure. Currently there are two types of capacitors, electrolytic capacitors and solid capacitors. Compared to electrolytic capacitors, solid capacitors have a longer lifespan, and provide a more stable power under high temperatures. More importantly, solid capacitors do not have any liquid materials inside, and thus will not suffer a leak which would infringe upon the product's stability. With such benefits is it no wonder that solid capacitors are very important for product quality's improvement.


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Tom Black Added to U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team Staff
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (March 4, 2013) – Tom Black, the current head coach of the Loyola Marymount University women's volleyball team, has accepted an assistant coach position with the U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team, as announced by head coach Karch Kiraly on Monday.
"The Olympic Games is our sport's biggest stage, and I am truly honored and humbled to work alongside Karch and his staff throughout this quad," Black said. "Karch is an iconic figure in our sport, but over the past three years I have had the privilege of getting to know him well while working closely with him as a coach, and there is no better person to lead this program toward the 2016 Games. I am so excited to learn under Karch, as well as provide my best efforts for our program and these wonderful athletes in the USA gym."
Black, who joins Kiraly and assistant coach Reed Sunahara on the U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team coaching staff, will continue in his head coach role at LMU while serving on the Team USA staff for the first two years of the Olympic quadrennial before taking a sabbatical at LMU for the 2015 season.
"Tom is a talented coach who is dedicated to being the best he can be at his craft every day, just as we ask our USA athletes to do," Kiraly said. "Serving as a consultant coach during the last quad, Tom has already made valuable contributions in the USA gym. I've enjoyed getting to know and work alongside him, and this program is blessed to have his service as it aspires to reach heights never attained before."
Black spent the last three summers as a consultant coach for the U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team as the squad prepared for the 2012 London Games. As the consultant coach, Black primarily assisted in the training sessions at the USA National Teams Center in Anaheim, Calif.
Black finished his third season as Loyola Marymount's head coach in 2012 with an 18-13 overall record and now has a 47-44 record in three seasons with the Lions. LMU advanced to the 2012 NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2005.
"There is no greater honor than to represent your country as a member of a national team in preparation for an Olympic appearance," said Dr. Bill S. Husak, LMU's athletic director. "LMU and the women on the volleyball team have benefitted from Tom's hard work and expertise. His addition to the USA staff is a sign of the great respect he has earned in the volleyball community to teach skills and coach the game at the highest level. We are all proud at LMU that Tom will be coaching the national team."
"I want to thank LMU, in particular my athletic director Bill Husak and supervisor Dan Smith for allowing me to pursue this opportunity while remaining the head coach for a program and university I have grown to love," Black said. "I am deeply committed to the success of both endeavors and very grateful for these opportunities."
Including a 115-29 record at NCAA Division II UC San Diego, Black has accumulated a 162-73 record as a head coach in women's collegiate volleyball. He was named the 2006 AVCA Pacific Region Coach of the Year after leading the Tritons to a 26-3 record.
Before arriving at UCSD, Black spent two seasons as an assistant coach for the men's volleyball program at University of Southern California. Prior to his stint with the Trojans, he spent the 2002 and 2003 seasons as the men's head coach at Pierce Junior College in Woodland Hills, Calif. He also was an assistant in 2003 with the Pierce women's team. His men's squads won the 2002 and 2003 California state junior college crowns, finishing 15-3 in 2002 and 17-2 in 2003.
On the club circuit, Black served four years as the co-director of the Santa Monica Beach Club team. He was the head coach of SMBC's boys' 18s team in 2003, 2004 and 2005 after serving as an assistant in 2002 with the 18s team that won the bronze medal at the USA Volleyball Boys' Junior National Championships. He also was the head coach of SMBC's girls' 17s team in 2005.
As a player, Black was a four-year varsity letterman for the UCSD men's volleyball program from 1993-96, setting numerous hitting records and earning All-MPSF honorable mention honors as a senior in 1996. He was Volleyball Magazine's Small College Player of the Year in 1996, while also earning Small College All-America honors that same year.
Black received his bachelor's degree in political science from UCSD in 1996.


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We couldn't find anything truly wrong with Avira Internet Security Suite 2012 (£34.99 for one year, one PC) which protects against malware adequately, and although the interface isn't perfect, it's certainly usable. But in a year when so many suites are excellent performers, being adequate isn't enough to keep pace.
In our tests, the Avira software put up decent overall scores in malware detection and blocking. It fully blocked 92.3% of brand-new malware in our real-world detection tests - a good result, though slightly below average for the products we tested. With known malware, it was able to detect 99.68% of samples; despite that better-than-average outcome, Avira's suite wasn't quite on a par with the top performers in this test, which detected over 99.99% of samples.
False positives are a nonissue: The Avira suite mistakenly flagged only a single known safe file out of a pool of over 250,000 as being potentially malicious.
It proved capable at dealing with malware infections, too, as it detected and disabled all active malware infections on our test system. That said, it did leave behind malware remnants 50% of the time - slightly worse than average compared to its rivals.
Avira's package had a moderate impact on overall PC performance as compared with the other suites we looked at. Its performance was average or slightly better than average in most tests we performed, though it seemed to struggle in two particular cases. Our test PC with the Avira suite installed completed our download test in 3 minutes, 12 seconds, which was by far our worst performance in that regard. In contrast, the average completion time for other suites was around 53 seconds; and without any antivirus installed, our test PC finished this test in 37 seconds. In addition, the Avira product slowed file-copying operations on our test PC significantly, wrapping up that test in 2 minutes, 56 seconds. Our test PC with other security software installed finished this test in 2 minutes, 2 seconds on average; without antivirus software, the PC sped through in 1 minute, 28 seconds.
Scan speeds were about average next to the other suites we evaluated. Avira's on-demand scanner - which runs when you manually start a scan - checked 4.5GB of files in 1 minute, 29 seconds, good enough for sixth place and 30 seconds faster than the mean. Meanwhile, the on-access scanner--which runs when you open or save files - finished in 4 minutes, 40 seconds (a slightly better-than-average result).
Avira's interface is usable for the most part, but it's nothing to write home about. The installation process steps you through a fairly standard wizard, though it will check for incompatible software before you install it. Avira's suite underwent a mini-makeover for 2012, with a redesigned main status screen. This new panel is a definite improvement over last year's interface: It's nicely laid out, and it gives you a clear status indicator as to whether you're protected. A 'Fix Now' button makes it easy to correct issues, and you can easily toggle suite components off and on from this main screen. Once you delve beyond the main screen, though, Avira's interface feels designed with experts in mind. I wasn't a big fan of the Avira firewall's insistence on asking me whether programs had permission to connect to the Internet when they attempted to do so the first time - especially since I had no idea what some of the programs it referred to were.
All in all, Avira Internet Security Suite 2012 is a lot like the company's 2011 offering: It isn't flashy, but it will do the job. Even so, Avira must do better if it wants to hang with the top performers in the increasingly competitive race for security supremacy.
All in all, Avira Internet Security Suite 2012 is a lot like the company's 2011 offering: It isn't flashy, but it will do the job. Even so, Avira must do better if it wants to hang with the top performers in the increasingly competitive race for security supremacy.