by John M Berardi, September 15th, 2009.
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This past Sunday was opening day in the NFL. Crunch-time for 26 professional football teams and about 1400 NFL athletes.
Around PN HQ, it’s crunch-time as well. This year we have the pleasure of working with a host of these NFL super stars. And that means Sunday was opening day for us too.
So, to kick off the NFL season on a tasty note, we figured we’d share a few of our special NFL inspired Super Shakes.
Super Bowl Super Shakes (PW)
PW (Post-Workout) shakes are high in protein and carbohydrate. For this reason they’re best served after working out.
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Blueberry Blitz

Yum – Tastes Like Blueberry Ice Cream
NFL Size
2 cups unsweetened almond milk
1 cup frozen blueberries
1 frozen banana
2 scoops vanilla MRI Pro-NOS
2 teaspoons flax seeds
Nutrition Information:
660 calories
48 g protein, 90 g carbs, 20 g fat
Spectator Size
1 cup unsweetened almond milk
½ cup frozen blueberries
½ frozen banana
1 scoop vanilla MRI Pro-NOS
1 teaspoon flax seeds
Nutrition Information:
330 calories
24 g protein, 45 g carbs, 10 g fat
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Peanut Butter Point After

PB and Chocolate – You Can’t Beat It
NFL Size
2 cups unsweetened almond milk
1 frozen banana
1 tablespoons peanut butter
2 scoops chocolate MRI Pro-NOS
2 tablespoons cocoa nibs
1 cup of ice
Nutrition Information:
660 calories
52 g protein, 62 g carbs, 30 g fat
Spectator Size
1 cup unsweetened almond milk
1/2 frozen banana
1 tablespoon peanut butter
1 scoop chocolate MRI Pro-NOS
1 tablespoon cocoa nibs
1/2 cup of ice
Nutrition Information
330 calories
26 g protein, 31 g carbs, 15 g fat
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Super Bowl Super Shakes (Anytime)
Anytime shakes are high in protein and healthy fats while being low in carbohydrate. For this reason they’re best served outside of the post-workout period. In other words, any other time of the day.
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Orange Offense

A Good-For-You Creamsicle
NFL Size
2 cups unsweetened almond milk
2 tablespoons heavy whipping cream
4 tablespoons sugar free orange jello
2 scoops vanilla MRI Pro-NOS
2 teaspoons flax seeds
1 cup of ice
Nutrition Information:
580 calories
48 g protein, 30 g carbs, 34 g fat
Spectator Size
1 cup unsweetened almond milk
1 tablespoon heavy whipping cream
2 tablespoons sugar free orange jello
1 scoop vanilla MRI Pro-NOS
1 teaspoon flax seeds
1/2 cup of ice
Nutrition Information:
290 calories
24 g protein, 15 g carbs, 17 g fat
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Coconut Cut-Back

Coconut & Almond – Like A Healthy Candy Bar
NFL Size
2 cups unsweetened almond milk
2 scoops chocolate MRI Pro-NOS
2 tablespoons unsweetened almond butter
2 tablespoons unsweetened coconut
1 cup of ice
Nutrition Information:
640 calories
50 g protein, 32 g carbs, 40 g fat
Spectator Size
1 cup unsweetened almond milk
1 scoop chocolate MRI Pro-NOS
1 tablespoon unsweetened almond butter
1 tablespoon unsweetened coconut
1/2 cup of ice
Nutrition Information
320 calories
25 g protein, 16 g carbs, 20 g fat
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A Note About Protein Choice

MRI Nutrition Pro-NOS – Certified Free of Banned Substances
As you check out the shakes above, you’ll notice that each of them includes a protein supplement. Specifically, MRI Nutrition’s Pro-NOS product.
Why this supplement over all the others out there?
Well, for starters, it’s a high quality choice. Also, it tastes really good.
Yet there’s another, more important, reason for choosing MRI’s Pro-NOS. You see, it’s certified free of banned substances by NSF International.
Any product used in the NFL has to be certified by the NSF as part of their Certified for Sport Program. So, no certification, no recommendation.
Of course, there are a ton of other great protein choices out there. And, as long as you stick with a reputable brand, you should be fine.
Yet, when it comes to the NFL, the choices narrow quickly. So, for our Super Bowl Super Shakes, Pro-Nos it is.
The PW vs. Anytime Distinction
One other thing you’ll notice about the shakes above is that there are two types: PW and Anytime.
PW Shakes
PW shakes are high in protein and carbohydrates. Therefore, these shakes are best served after exercise (pw = post workout).
Anytime Shakes
These shakes are high in protein and low in carbohydrates. Therefore they can be consumed anytime during the day.
In essence, the “anytime” vs “pw” distinction is based on a concept known as nutrient timing. And if you’re not familiar with nutrient timing, I have to say, you’re totally missing out. It could be your limiting factor when it comes to improving health, body comp, and performance.
You see, traditional exercise nutrition focused on “what” to eat and “how much” of it. However, research from the last 5 years shows that “when” you eat may be equally important. In fact, if I could only recommend one habit to powerfully improve a person’s intake, it would be to adopt the Precision Nutrition principles of carbohydrate timing.
For more on nutrient timing, including carbohydrate timing, check out the Precision Nutrition System. Everything is spelled out in easy to understand language that can be applied immediately.
Categories: Advanced Diet and Sports Nutrition Blog, Food and Nutrition, Healthy Recipes, Weekly Newsletters

www.precisionnutrition.com/super-bowl-shakes

BlogEngine.NET

Short Brief About BlogEngine.NET

BlogEngine allows you to have your site instantly set up with blog easily. A small download and easy to follow instructions get you up and running in minutes. You can choose from various themes or make your own theme. Extend the functionality by creating your own custom control or add some of the many built into the system.

Blogengine.NET Frequently Asked Questions

Can BlogEngine.NET be installed within an existing website?
Yes. Install it in its your root folder and configure the directory it resides in as an application in IIS.
Some hosting providers may not allow the level of trust used in BlogEngine.NET by default. You can always consult on your hosting company regarding this matter.

Is BlogEngine.NET open source and completely free?
Yes, BlogEngine is developed by a group of passionate developers who aims to BlogEngine to give away absolutely free.

Is it hard to learn to use BlogEngine?
BlogEngine is easy to learn and use with the build in theme and setup screens.

BlogEngine runs on what type of database?
Interestingly, BlogEngine do not requirement any kinds of database to runs on it. By default, BlogEngine.NET uses XML to store all posts, pages and other data. However, some users tends to use other type of database to support the operation of BlogEngine.NET, in this case, MS SQL Server will ideal for the integration process.

What is the BlogEngine Licensed? Would I have the permission to distribute it?
BlogEngine.NET is licensed under the Microsoft Permissive License, which basically means that you can do anything you want to the source code as long as you release it under the same license.

What are the requirements to host BlogEngine
BlogEngine.NET is a web server that support ASP.NET 2.0 and above with write permissions on the App_Data folder.

SeekDotNet.com ASP hosting plan has been fully tested to ensure the compatibility with the BlogEngine.Net application.
The hosting plan are supported by dedicated client support team on 24 hours a days, 7 days per week.
Contact SeekDotNet.com clients support team at http://www.seekdotnet.com/contactus.aspx now to find out how you can entitled to receive 3 months free on BlogEngine hosting account now!

BLOGENGINE FEATURES

blogengine the simplest and most light weight ASP.NET blog

blogengine still full of features

It is a fine blog software.

There are a few features that are great and I wanted to take a moment to list down them

and make sure you are taking the benefits of them if you are a BlogEngine.NET user.

Features

Here’s a short list of all the features of BlogEngine.NET

Plug ’n play

BlogEngine.NET is very easy to setup and customize.

To make it work, just upload the files to an ASP.NET 2.0 webserver and ready to start writing.

Full featured

BlogEngine.NET comes with all the features you would expect from a modern blog engine as well as new unique features such as screenshot trackbacks.

Web 2.0

BlogEngine.NET features social bookmarks, OpenSearch support, AJAX, FOAF, Gravatars, coComments, tag cloud, Google sitemap and other so called Web 2.0 features.

Referrer stats

The referrer statistics enables you to see which websites link to you,

so you can follow up with comments or just to have fun.

Advanced comment system

Comments are a very important part of a blog, so BlogEngine.NET features a very advanced commenting system in AJAX that supports country flags, live preview,all of which can easily be modified in the admin section.

Full syndication suite

BlogEngine.NET supports syndication feeds in any possible place. You can find feeds on comments, categories, authors and a main feed.

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Blogengine.NET Version 1.4

According to Blogengine.NET development team, this version is the 5th, most stable and best version of Blogengine.net. Many users have upgraded their existing Blogengine.net and for those bloggers who haven’t upgraded their Blogengine.net, you are recommended to so in order to obtain all the latest features on Blogengine.net.

What are the latest features included in this version?

1) Not Web 2.0, But Web 3.0 improvements
BlogEngine.NET 1.4 makes full use of many semantic formats and technologies such as FOAF, SIOC and APML. It means that the content stored in your BlogEngine.NET installation will be fully portable and auto-discoverable. The interesting part is that now it can filter the RSS feeds based on the visitor’s interest defined in her APML file or do a site search with it as well.

2) Drag ‘n drop widgets Available now
Widgets are now available for bloggers to integrate the extra features and functions in Blogengine easily.. It could be a list of recent posts, latest tweets from Twitter or anything else. You can can now do this by just “drag and Drop” the widgets around in your sidebar and modify the content of them directly on the front-page. The widget works independently of the theme you are using as long as it is implemented in the theme.

3) Multiple Database Providers
For the convenience of all bloggers, Blogengine are now customized to be compatible with most of the databases. It can now supports MySql, Sql Server and many others, this will be a great advantage for different bloggers who hosted their Blogengine.net application on different web hosting providers with different platform of database.

4) Author profiles
Blogengine.net can now handle multiple author blogs to let all authors maintain their own profile. So, blogging effort will be more fun and flexible with different authors authority on the blogs.

These are just few major changes on the latest Blogengine, for more features, you can download the Blogengine.net application today and start to experience the difference of this blogging software can bring to you.

To host your blogs with Blogengine hosting providers, you can log on to http://www.seekdotnet.com or contact SeekDotNet.com at http://seekdotnet.com/contactus.aspx
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What is Blogengine?

BlogEngine.NET is an open source .NET blogging project that was born out of desire for a better blog platform. A blog platform with less complexity, easy customization, and one that takes advantage of the latest .NET features.

BlogEngine.NET was designed using the current .NET framework and focused on simplicity, ease of extendibility, and innovative features. With BlogEngine.NET, we hope to create the natural blog of choice for all .NET developers world wide.

What is the requirements of using Blogengine?

Since blogengine has been build on a .net platform, therefore you have to ensure that your hosting plan supports and does have one new MS SQL 2005 database or MS SQL 2008 database available for the installation.

Without the accessibility of the MSSQL database, the free installation will not work and hence, your BlogEngine cannot be installed. It also requires Windows 2003 hosting with IIS 6 hosting compatible, Windows 2008 hosting with IIS 7.0 hosting compatible in ASP.NET hosting plans.

What is the features that Blogengine have?

Here are some of the main features i found out on Blogengine:

1) BlogEngine features social bookmarks, OpenSearch support, XFN tags, AJAX, FOAF, SIOC, APML, Gravatars, coComments , tag cloud, Google sitemap and other so called Web 2.0 features.

2) There is a variety of cool widgets such as an AJAX post calendar or a blogroll that retrieves the latest posts from each blog and displays the title beneath the blog

3) Advanced commenting system in AJAX that supports country flags, live preview, Gravatars etc.

Where to get Blogengine hosting?

For information about obtaining your own blogengine blog, log on to your professional ASP.NET web hosting providers – SeekDotNet.com at http://www.seekdotnet.com now.

What is Weblog Software?

Weblog software (also called blog software or blogware) is a category of software which consists of a specialized form of Content Management Systems specifically designed for designing, creating and maintaining weblogs.

Benefits Of Using Weblog Software

Maintenance through the Internet is a nearly universal feature of weblog software. This is usually done through a browser-based interface, enabling authors to create and update content on the site. Most software supports the use of external client software to update content using common APIs such as the MetaWeblog API and the Atom Publishing Protocol.

Some Of Weblog Software Features

* Title, the main title, or headline, of the post.
* Body, main content of the post.
* Permalink, the URL of the full, individual article.
* Post Date, date and time the post was published.

A blog entry optionally includes the following:

* Comments

Comments are a way to provide discussion on blog entries. Readers can leave a comment on a post, which can correct errors or contain their opinion on the post or the post’s subject. Services like Comment aim to ease discussion through comments, by allowing tracking of them.

* Categories (or tags) – subjects that the entry discusses
* Trackback and or pingback – links to other sites that refer to the entry

Weblog Softwares Examples

User hosted blogs

Software packages installed by weblog authors to run on their own servers.

Free Multi-user Blogs

Software packages installed by weblog authors or domain name owners to run on their own systems available to use by the general public: Developer:

* WordPress supports multi users blogging platform.

Other Blogging Softwares:
* B2evolution - b2evolution is a multi-lingual, multi-user, multi-blog publishing system written in PHP and backed by a MySQL database.
* Blogengine - BlogEngine.NET is an open source .NET blogging project that was born out of desire for a better blog platform. A blog platform with less complexity, easy customization, and one that takes advantage of the latest .NET features.
* Nucleus CMS

- Nucleus CMS is an open-source blog management software package written in PHP, with a MySQL backend, primarily written and maintained by Wouter Demuynck

For more information about hosting and managing your own blog, log on to professional ASP.NET web hosting service provider – SeekDotNet.com at http://www.seekdotnet.com to all the blogging softwares mentioned above within few clicks of easy installations!

List of ASP.NET Software Installers That Integrated With SeekDotNet.com ASP.NET Hosting Plans:

There are many ASP.NET scripts out there which can help advance ASP.NET developers or even normal ASP.NET users to build custom website effectively and most importantly the ASP.NET scripts can be installed and functional in the shortest amount of time and the ease of efforts.

Just imagine the installation can be done in just a simple 1 or 2 clicks and you will have your blogs, forums or other ASP.NET based content management system setup for you.

While SeekDotNet.com also constantly aware about this technologies and issues, therefore, as a compliments from SeekDotNet.com to all clients, all clients can now choose from the list of ASP.NET installation scripts on their control panel to complete the installation.

Below are the list of ASP.NET software portals that can be installed very easily from hosting control panel (Note: There are more ASP.NET software installer portals will be added from time to time):

1. DotNetNuke Hosting (DotNetNuke 4.9.0 Hosting Up-to-date!)
DotNetNuke is a content management system ideal for creating and deploying projects such as commercial web sites, intranets and extranets,and online publishing portals.

2. Community Server Hosting
Community Server is the award winning platform for rapidly enabling both small and large online communities.

3. nGallery Hosting
nGallery is a FREEWARE, OPEN SOURCE implementation of a image gallery written purely in managed .NET and C#. nGallery provides a solution to store and display your image galleries on your own Web site, as well as providing means for customizing and extending nGallery to your own personal likings.

4. mojoPortal Hosting
mojoPortal is an Object Oriented web site framework written in C# that runs under ASP.NET on Windows.

5. Flexwiki Hosting
Flexwiki is a collaborative forum where people can share ideas and record any consensus reached on difficult issues, along with rebuttal.

6. Umbraco Hosting
Umbraco is an open and free alternative on the Microsoft .NET Platform. It act as web-creation tool and all content in umbraco is under version control and the publishing routines are so fast. It features a generic content structure making it possible to create any kinds of content types.

7. Rainbow Hosting
The Rainbow portal is an open source initiative to build a comprehensive CMS using Microsoft’s ASP.NET and C# technologies. Rainbow allows content authoring to be safely delegated to role-based team members who need little or no knowlege of HTML.

8. Sitefinity Hosting
Sitefinity is an innovative development platform for creation and management of professional websites, community portals, and intranets. It offers a rich set of built-in features, a unique Web 2.0 interface, and powerful development capabilities that bring developers, designers and content authors closer together.

9. BlogEngine Hosting
BlogEngine.NET is an open source .NET blogging project that was born out of desire for a better blog platform. A blog platform with less complexity, easy customization, and one that takes advantage of the latest .NET features.
BlogEngine.NET was designed using the current .NET framework 3.5 and focused on simplicity, ease of extendibility, and innovative features.

For more information about the list of supported ASP.NET Software portals and ASP.NET Hosting plans, log on to http://www.seekdotnet.com or contact SeekDotNet.com at http://www.seekdotnet.com/contactus.aspx.

While using BlogEngine.net you may run into “content encoding error” “The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an invalid or unsupported form of compression” this error, to resolve this, find

<add name=”CompressionModule” type=”BlogEngine.Core.Web.HttpModules.CompressionModule, BlogEngine.Core”/>

in your web.config file and comment this line of code. This error mostly arrives when you host blogengine.net site on GoDaddy.

vor kurzem ist ein neues blog online gegangen – free-coffee.org

in diesem berichten vorerst hauptsächlich praktikanten von microsoft österreich über das arbeitsleben bei microsoft. später sollen auch beiträge von mitarbeitern folgen, so der plan. (das blog läuft auf der hier schon öfter erwähnten blogengine.net software)

unsere cafeteria war prägend für den namen des blogs. einerseits ist die cafeteria der ort für informelle gespräche, andererseits branchenweit bekannt für den ausgezeichneten kaffee. und außerdem: der ideale ort fürs bloggen.

übrigens: alle blogs von microsoft österreich im überblick am blogs portal.

Advertencia: El ningún caso me hago responsable del mal uso que se le pueda dar a la información que a continuación voy a presentar. Se presenta “tal cual” con el objetivo de que los usuarios de la conocida plataforma de publicación que a continuación se menciona tomen medidas preventivas urgentes para evitar que sus blogs sean perjudicados.

Si hace unos meses fue BlogEngine.net 1.1 ahora es el turno para su nueva release: BlogEngine.net 1.2. En esta ocasión voy a describiros el procedimiento a seguir para subir cualquier archivo a un servidor dónde estén usando BlogEngine 1.2.

El proceso es fácil, pero uno podría perderse también con facilidad. Para llevar a cabo esta receta, necesitaremos al menos alguna versión Express de Visual Studio 2005 y un espacio dónde subir un fichero y se pueda acceder a él a través de una URL. Pues bien, buscamos la instancia de BlogEngine.net 1.2 a la cual queremos acceder y comprobamos que, en efecto, tienen el servicio web para importar blogs (http://www.ejemplo.com/api/BlogImport.asmx).

Al abrir la url del sitio que queremos comprobar, encontraremos algo del estilo de:

BlogImporter

The following operations are supported. For a formal definition, please review the Service Description.
* AddComment
* AddPost
* BlogFileHandler
* BlogImageHandler
* BlogType
* BlogVersion
* GetFile

Los iniciados en .NET WebServices reconocerán al instante este tipo de página. Así, si añadimos una referencia web a un proyecto podremos hacer uso de este WebService “previa autenticación”.

Comprobado tal cosa y que la versión ejecutándose en la 1.2.0.0, abrimos una instancia de Visual Studio (o bien cualquier cosa que os permita interactuar con servicios web SOAP, pero la costumbre es la costumbre).

De todas las funciones de este WebService, por alguna razón, GetFile no valida que el usuario esté autentificado (requerir una cabecera SOAP llamada AuthenticationHeader no autentica a nadie).

El método GetFile tiene dos parámetros: source y destination. En source especificaremos la URI completa del recurso a descargar. Por ejemplo, podríamos tener un archivo *.png en este blog y subirlo. En destination, escribimos el nombre y la ruta que queremos darle al archivo. Por defecto, se almacenará en App_Data/Files pero haciendo uso de la canonicalización podremos ponerlo en cualquiera de los directorios del sitio web o incluso la máquina.

Así, por ejemplo, con una llamada de este tipo:
GetFile("http://rafavargas.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/banner-verde.thumbnail.png", "..\..\pics\Imagen.png") subiriamos esta imagen y sería accesible desde http://www.ejemplo.com/pics/Imagen.png.

También podríamos crear un Handler, guardarlo como *.txt en cualquier servidor, subirlo al servidor ejemplo.com con el nombre cambiado a *.ashx y conseguir ejecutar lo que quisieramos en el servidor. Las ideas os la dejo a la imaginación. (Pista: las contraseñas se guardan sin encriptar).

Pregunta: ¿cómo fortifico mi BlogEngine.net 1.2.0.0? Me gusta mucho y no quiero migrar a otro sistema de publicación.
Respuesta: elimina la carpeta “~/setup” y el servicio web (si no vas a importar ningún blog) o bien corrije las siguientes lineas en el servicio:

  /// <summary>
  /// Downloads specified file to specified location
  /// </summary>
  /// <param name="source">source file path</param>
  /// <param name="destination">relative destination path</param>
  /// <returns></returns>
  [SoapHeader("AuthenticationHeader")]
  [WebMethod]
  public bool GetFile(string source, string destination)
  {
    bool response;

    //Anyade las siguientes dos lineas:
    if (!IsAuthenticated())
      throw new InvalidOperationException("Wrong credentials");

    try
    {
      string rootPath = BlogSettings.Instance.StorageLocation + "files/";
      string serverPath = Server.MapPath(rootPath);
      string saveFolder = serverPath;
      string fileName = destination;

      // Check/Create Folders & Fix fileName
      if (fileName.LastIndexOf('/') > -1)
      {
        saveFolder += fileName.Substring(0, fileName.LastIndexOf('/'));
        saveFolder = saveFolder.Replace('/', '\\');

        fileName = fileName.Substring(fileName.LastIndexOf('/') + 1);
      }
      else
      {
        if (saveFolder.EndsWith("\\"))
          saveFolder = saveFolder.Substring(0, saveFolder.Length - 1);
      }

      if (!Directory.Exists(saveFolder))
        Directory.CreateDirectory(saveFolder);
      saveFolder += "\\";

      using (WebClient client = new WebClient())
      {
        client.DownloadFile(source, saveFolder + fileName);
      }
      response = true;
    }
    catch (Exception)
    {
      // The file probably didn't exist. No action needed.
      response = false;
    }

    return response;
  }

Ahora ya conoceis los riesgos de instalar BlogEngine. Nunca pongais en producción (y menos de manera web) algo que no auditeis.