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Today, in a few hours .. nothing airs the first chapter of the last season of The L word, I could not stop writing a post before seeing anything.

I was reading some spoilers which I could not even believe it when thinking about the idea that Jenny was killed suddenly came out from somewhere.

After watching a video (video at the end of this post) it was confirmed that Jenny dies, is not a pleasant thing to me .. because I loved that character from the beginning.

All the 6th season will focus on "Who killed Jenny Schecter? ...
The truth is that for me, with the amount of things that went ... each season is none other but who can she be that kind of final.
It would be fair that did not even any of the other characters in the kill.

Jenny is totally the link between all these characters who lived in 6 seasons thousands of things ...

beyond what it was and hated it and this will be the 6th season I could never understand why this hate so much ... .. I understand God ... in order.

I'm not too much time to dwell much on the subject but wanted to post this today.

recently in two days I can see the 1st chapter.

America's Next Top Model Season 4 is a reality show in the U.S. that a group of young people compete to become professional models, contracts and advertising appearing in fashion magazines. The program is hosted by former supermodel Tyra Banks, who is also the creator, executive producer and president of the jury for the show.

The first season premiered in May 2003 and was one of the pilots with more rating TV channel UPN. Season casting Cycle 7 was the highest rating among regular programming on the network of successors of UPN, and so far is the most-watched series. The opening theme is sung by Tyra Banks and produced by Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins. In addition, Banks co-produces the show with Ken Mok and Anthony Dominici.

About the show

Tyra Banks puts the contestants to participate in a variety of challenges that will determine who will win a $ 100,000 contract with cosmetics company Cover Girl. The prizes for the majority of courses have included a picture on the cover of the magazine Seventeen and representation in any modeling agency.

During the first season, the judges were: Tyra Banks, Kimora Lee Simmons, Beau Quillian, and Janice Dickinson, who appointed himself "the first supermodel of the world." However, in the second season, only Tyra and Janice remained judges. In the following seasons to include as judges Nigel Barker, a former model and fashion photographer, and writer and stylist, Nole Marin. After the fourth season, Nole Marin was replaced by Jay Alexander and Janice by Twiggy, who had achieved fame as a model in the 60s. Dickinson continues to make intermittent appearances after leaving the panel decision, giving advice to the contestants. Also participating in the show, the director of photography Jay Manuel, who is known as Mr. J as opposed to Jay Alexander, who is known as Mrs A from cycle 10, Twiggy was replaced by the Czech-American supermodel Paulina Porizkova.

Rafael Nadal beat Novak Djokovic on Sunday with a partial 6-4, 6-4, 6-1 to give defending champion Spain to a 3-1 victory over Serbia in the series of first round the Davis Cup.

Djokovic was not fine with her serve and made many mistakes on the court not forced outdoor clay at the amusement park Terra Mitica.


Spain will receive the winner of the clash between Germany and Austria in the second round in July. Serbia lost the first round for the second consecutive year, so it should play a repechaje next September to follow in the World Group.

Nadal, four times French Open champion, won his party's number 121 of his last 124 clay surface in a return to the pristine courts after injuring his right leg in Rotterdam last month.


On Saturday, Nadal beat Janko Tipsarevic to put Spain ahead in the score 2-0.

Without Nadal, who was absent due to injury, Spain last November won his third crown of Davis as a visitor to beat Argentina.


The world number one highlighted the value of victory in the first round, after the Iberians suffered defeats to Holland and Slovakia twice before they started to defend the Silver Salad.

"We are totally different circumstances because we lost against Holland and Slovakia were in ultra-fast tracks and covers, but we've broken the curse," he said.


"I've been with more speed and security," he added on his game.

He also played a version of the Serbian press on the physical condition of Djokovic, the third in the world ranking.


"For two months in Dubai and has won competitions and has rooms in Australia, you do not see any problem," said Nadal. Is always at a high level, but there are more players than Novak and everyone wants to win. It is very difficult to be up and sometimes not valued. Has long been among the best in the world that appreciate and congratulate you. "

Alice Walker, author of "The Color Purple" and Pulitzer Prize winner, will travel to the Gaza Strip along with other activists to highlight the damage caused by the Israeli invasion in the territory.

"I think what is happening in the Middle East is very important because the situation is so volatile," said Walker in a telephone interview from the border crossing at Rafah, while the group was waiting to enter Gaza. "I love people and love children and I think the Palestinian child is as valuable as the child of Afro-American and Jewish children."


Walker is part of a group of about 60 women coming to Gaza to distribute aid and meet with NGOs and residents of the coastal strip. His trip, organized by the American group Code Pink (Code Pink), is designed to force Israel and Egypt to open its borders with Gaza, said Medea Benjamin, a founder of the group.

The trip coincides with the stagnation of efforts to achieve a truce between Israel and the Islamist group Hamas. The Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip to prevent rocket and mortar attacks against the Jewish state's south, was completed on January 18 with separate statements of truce from Israel and Hamas.


Group members remain in Gaza until March 11, said Benjamin. During his trip to Gaza delivered baskets full of personal feminine products such as shampoo.

Walker, on his first visit to Gaza, said it is important for Americans, who give so much military aid to Israel, to understand how their money is used.

The health system reform, the debate was opened by President Barack Obama will have a "huge impact" on communities of Hispanics and blacks, the two largest minorities in the United States on Friday said Melody Barnes , presidential adviser on domestic policy.

40% of Latino children and up to 1 in 3 Hispanics in general do not have health insurance and reform will touch not only this aspect but the cost and infrastructure of the system, Barnes said in a dialogue with journalists from Hispanic media in the House Blanca.


He said the plan aims to have a health system "affordable and accessible to all."

"It will be a tremendous impact on Latino communities, black, Asian and other sources," he said. "We are working to provide necessary assistance to each of them."


Barnes, director of domestic policy from the White House, is the third official team of advisers of the president speaking to reporters in the Hispanic work six weeks of the new Democratic administration, in an unprecedented plan developed by the office of Latino media contacts.

White House sources also reported Friday that Obama will deliver a speech on Tuesday 10 in the Chamber of Commerce Hispanic-Americans. Although not specified themes, Obama addressed, from his campaign on the issues on immigration reform and the advancement of minorities, including Hispanics, in fields that include health and education.


It will be the first occasion on which the president addresses the Democratic Hispanic community since he assumed the government.

Obama launched the campaign for health reform at a forum Thursday at the White House in which leaders of several Hispanic activist organizations, which are an "important source" for the generation of ideas, Barnes said.


Janet Murguia, president of the National Council of La Raza, one participant said that although health was an "urgency to the Hispanic community, the reform project begun 15 years ago during the administration of President Bill Clinton has found difficulties to succeed.

Barnes also acknowledged that Obama will face resistance, particularly in its attempt to universalize health care to all who live in the United States, but expressed optimism, noting that the government hoped to have draft legislation ready for debate in the final quarter of the year.


He noted that the minority of people with chronic illnesses, including diabetes, no lack of help with a system that is expected to be more effective not only with a better quality of care but with prevention programs, pharmacy and trained professionals to meet group minority.

Human rights groups on Friday asked Google, Yahoo! Microsoft and the next March 12 not censor their search engines in countries where they are obliged to, to protest against cyber-censorship.

"The Day Against Censorship Cybernetics is a day to advance and hold a free internet as a window on the world, and denounced the attacks on the free flow of information online," asked the software giant in a letter to Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and Amnesty International (AI).


"In the spirit of promoting freedom of expression, which does not ask any censor their search engines or blog platforms anywhere in the world that day," said the two organizations.

RSF and Amnesty International stressed that currently "there are more than two dozen countries that restrict Internet access."


"We understand the challenges of operating in countries that restrict Internet access, these countries seek to pressure to obey local laws that do not conform with international laws and standards that protect freedom of expression," said the organizations. "But access to local demands that violate international law does not justify their actions," said RSF and AI.

Microsoft announced that the new version of its Windows platform will allow its users to disable the Internet Explorer browser and other integrated programs, a matter of dispute with the European Union.

The group was indicted in January by the European Commission for abusing its dominant position to incorporate its browser to Windows Internet Explorer, well away from other market competitors explorers.


The Windows platform operates in more than 90% of the world's computers.

The custom of Microsoft to maintain secrecy about their programs to prevent other manufacturers create programs compatible with yours, that's what the EU's condemnation in 2004.

Most U.S. shares rose on Friday as rising oil prices encouraged the energy sector, which overshadowed a liquidation of securities in technology.




The market spent most of the session low, but financial shares recovered after the Wall Street Journal newspaper reported that Lloyds Banking Group and the British Government agreed to a scheme of protection against losses on toxic assets.

During the session, the Dow Jones and S & P set new minimum of 12 years, but erased its losses late in the session after the newspaper report on Lloyds.


The report on Lloyds' is positive news that the minor things are being cleaned. I think it is temporary, but the news is these that help the market, "said Giri Cherukuri, head trader for Oakbrook Investments LLC.

Cherukuri said that the report set off a bidding game.


JP Morgan lowered its target price for the shares of Apple Inc and its earnings forecasts, leading to a low of 4 percent in their roles and the Nasdaq sank to an intraday minimum of six years.

Shares of Exxon Mobil Corp and Chevron underpinned the Dow Jones after the oil price rose 4.38 percent, to close at about $ 45 a barrel amid expectations that OPEC could cut production again .


The roles of Chevron climbed 3.2 percent to $ 58.27 and Exxon added 2.9 percent to 64.03

The Dow Jones industrial average gained 32.50 points, or 0.49 percent to close unofficially at 6626.94. The Standard & Poor's 500 advanced 0.83 points, or 0.12 percent, to 683.38. But the Nasdaq composite index gave 5.74 points, or 0.44 percent, to 1293.85.


It was the fourth week to the bottom of all the indices, while the S & P 500 had its worst week since November.

During the week, the Dow Jones lost 6.2 percent, the S & P 500 yielded a 7 percent and the Nasdaq 6.1 percent a restaurant.


Weak economic news added to the negative tone of the market. The U.S. government reported that unemployment last month rose to 8.1 percent, its highest level since December 1983 due to 651,000 lost jobs.

Some 12,000 Americans and 4,000 British soldiers will leave Iraq in September, announced on Sunday the U.S. military, shortly after a suicide bomber detonated his explosives next to police officers who were front row at the entrance to the academy Police in Baghdad, killing 32 people and injuring dozens, authorities said.

As for the announced withdrawal of allied troops, Gen. David Perkins said it will reduce combat units in the United States from 14 to 12 brigades. He added that the U.S. military is handing over to the Army military installations in Iraq as part of the withdrawal of forces.


The U.S. president Barack Obama has said that all combat troops from Iraq will end in August 2010 and that the remaining troops will leave by the end of 2011. The 4,000 British troops will leave Iraq will be the last to remain in this Arab nation.

There are currently some 135,000 U.S. soldiers in Iraq. With the departure of 12,000, there are still 123,000 troops in the country.


Hours earlier on Sunday, a suicide bomber detonated his explosives near a side entrance of the academy, which is in a mostly Shiite area of the capital. A police officer said the attacker was on a motorcycle when he approached the row of policemen, but the Interior Ministry said that the method of attack had not yet been determined.

Three medical officers and a policeman were in the area said 32 people died, including 19 soldiers and some 60 wounded. Another police officer at the Interior Ministry said 28 died and 57 were injured.


The blast was a bloody reminder of the ability of insurgents to launch spectacular attacks in time when the U.S. begins to reduce its forces in Iraq. Extremists have targeted their attacks more and more Iraqi troops, who are trying to prove that they can take over the security of the country so that U.S. soldiers can be withdrawn.

The main police academy in Baghdad has been the target of several attacks. On January 1, another suicide bombing there killed 33 people.


Iraqi officials provided different figures of casualties, a common after attacks of this magnitude.

Nobody claimed responsibility for the attack, but usually the suicide attacks in Iraq are attributed to al-Qaida and other Sunni militias that seek to undermine public confidence in the safety improvements that have led to a considerable decline in violence.