When we talk about healthy living it means the fitness in all aspects related to human body, which emerges from all the perspectives, like physical health, mental health, emotional well being, and spiritual well being. Nowadays, people have become so very busy in their lives that they are unable to perform physical activities to keep themselves healthy and strong. In the meanwhile, masses of people are suffering form chronic obesity. This problem is alarmingly observed in teens, adults, elders and infants. Therefore, healthy living has become the most important question for all of us. So how is it possible to keep healthy and fit, devoid of obesity? Read below:
• If we want to stay fit then we have to perform 30 minutes brisk walking. This will boost up the metabolism.
• Yoga is the best exercises to keep body fit and strong. Regularly perform at least 15 minutes yoga exercises before going to bed as this will relax our body muscles. As a result, metabolism will be upgraded and we will definitely loose some pounds!
• Swimming is another good exercise to loose weight and gain lean muscle mass.
• Perform 30 minutes body building workouts in the gym daily. It contains squats, bench press, military press, dead-lifts, lunges, piles, heel raises and push ups mainly. These exercises will build muscle mass fast. Consequently, we will become completely fit and strong.
• Eat carbohydrates and proteins to stay fit. These include fresh fruits, vegetables, yogurt, egg whites, chicken, fish, honey, brown bread, nuts, beans, seeds, fibers, soya bean, milk protein, whey, amino acids, cottage cheese and salads. Don't eat plentiful carbohydrates and proteins especially while loosing the weight.
• Drink plenty of juices like orange, apple, pine apple, papaya, strawberry, watermelon, guava and pomegranate in order to stay fit.
• Drink at least 12 glasses of water daily as this helps eliminate the toxins from our bodies.
• Take two to three cups of green tea daily as it helps improve the metabolism.
• Listen to soothing music, meet people and have fun. This will help us to become relaxed and lively.
In a nut shell, we can say that those simple tactics are the best way to a healthy living. They not only make us fit, but also give us sheer spiritual soothe. Hence, we become complete healthy human.
Monday, February 2, 2009
Simple Strategy to Healthy Living
Twitter and public broadcasting issues under one mumbrella
A real breath of fresh air on the Australian blogging scene is Tim Burrowes at Mumbrella. The former editor of B&T magazine is one of the few bloggers who actually breaks stories and he broke two good ones today. Just minutes ago, he revealed that the viral Twitter messages that a plane on fire caused Melbourne airport to close this evening were a gross overreaction. While it was true that a passenger reported seeing fire from the left wing of a Boeing 767 this evening, the plane was cleared after eight minutes and there were no further consequences. But while Burrowes confirmed there was no fire with a quick phone to the airport, the Twitter world was happier just to repeat the "plane on fire" news ad infinitum in an Australian version of the Hudson plane landing incident. But in this case, the airport press office was justified telling Burrowes that “unfortunately the Internet is full of gossip.”
In scotching the rumours, Burrowes exemplified the remarks of Jason Wilson’s provocative post at Gatewatching last week by showing that “journalists use telephones”. Burrowes was also on the phone earlier today after he read one of the more contentious entries of the 2,400 submissions to the review of Australia's two national broadcasters, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and Special Broadcasting Service (SBS). The government will review the submissions ahead of the broadcasters' next funding review in July this year.
Burrowes’ interest was in the submission by Astra, the peak body representing Australia’s subscription TV industry. In their submission, Astra were critical of the plan to give six new digital channels to ABC and SBS. Astra picked on the point made by ABC’s managing director Mark Scott that the new channels (in areas of news, children’s entertainment and foreign language programming among others) addressed a “market failure”. Astra denied there was a market failure and said they were (or will be soon) delivering similar products to what ABC planned to deliver. It was a persuasive argument if you leave out the fact that just two million Australians subscribe to pay TV and that leaves a potential market failure for 19 million others.
Nevertheless the newsworthy element that Burrowes noticed was an Astra comment that the public broadcasters are doing aggressive deals that lock out pay TV from showing up-to-date content. They claim “ABC and SBS have included pursuit of commercial terms which seek to ensure longer than industry standard ‘hold back’ clauses in production and acquisition deals, and in some instances the ABC in particular has been willing to pay more for content to ensure this happens”. The result is that pay TV has to wait longer to get content for re-run and Astra says this is contrary to ABC 1983 charter goals (a charter Astra says is out of date as is the 1992 Broadcasting Act).
Once again Burrowes picked up the telephone and spoke to both SBS and ABC today for comment on Astra’s accusation. SBS firmly denied the claims and gave examples where SBS and Pay TV have cooperated in acquiring broadcast rights. Their spokesperson also told Burrowes that they often allow World Movies Channel and other pay TV channels to run content first. The ABC spokesperson was similarly dismissive: “The ABC is not sure how ASTRA can justify such claims of warehousing when there are many examples of rights sharing of programs between the ABC and the subscription channels” he said. But this controversy is not likely to go away and Burrowes may have reported on what is likely to be the opening salvo of a long running debate between the public broadcasters and the Pay TV industry for hearts, minds and control of the digital spectrum.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Diminishing Days for Emperor Penguins
No more happy feet for Emperor Penguins. According to a new study, if Antarctic ice continues to shrink at its current pace, Emperor Penguins will face extinction within the next 100 years.
Emperor Penguins are one of only two open-sea Antarctic penguin species and depend on the sea ice for survival. After breeding, Emperor Penguins feed among the coastal pack ice where stretches of water are exposed. As a result of disappearing ice, the Emperor Penguins are being forced to retreat inward and could easily become displaced by other animals, losing out on nesting space.
After examining data from the Terre Adelie penguin colony, researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts found the Emperor Penguin population is facing a quasi-extinction, equal to a 95 percent or more population drop by the year 2100. The population is expected to decline from 6000 breeding pairs to only 400 pairs in the next 100 years if sea ice continues to shrink at the rate projected by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC) models.
At this point, the probability of the quasi-extinction by the year 2100 is about 40 percent. And scientists have already begun to see a fall in the Emperor Penguin population. “The severe decrease in the small Dion Island Emperor Penguin colony, located on the northwestern Antarctic Peninsula, likely is attributable to the large-scale disappearance of sea ice in that region,” says Stephanie Jenouvrier, member of the research team from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
The researchers are hopeful the Emperor Penguins will avoid extinction by adapting to the shrinking ice. To do this, the penguins would need to migrate or change breeding patterns. Unfortunately, Emperor Penguins are known for being slow to change. “The penguin is long-lived, and climate change is happening very quickly, so there will be significant impact on the population before many generations have passed,” says Hal Caswell biologist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Thus it will be difficult for adaptation, even if possible, to happen fast enough.”
The extinction of the Emperor Penguin could mean trouble for other species in the marine ecosystem as well. Emperor Penguins do more than wear tuxedos and dance all day. The birds are at the top of their food chain and act as an ‘indicator species,’ meaning scientists monitor the birds to see changes in the rest of the environment. If the penguins disappear, observing other Antarctic animals will become more difficult.
Offshore wind could power every home in the UK by 2020
The Department for Energy and Climate Change study concluded that another 5,000-7,000 wind turbines could be built off the coast by 2020, generating 25 GW of energy, equivalent to 25 large coal-fired power stations. The new capacity would be on top of 8GW already being built or in planning, making a total of 33GW.
The results of the year-long research into the geology, birds and marine life goes even further than the Carbon Trust, a company set up by government to help businesses reduce carbon emissions, which last year said the UK could build a total 29GW of offshore wind.
However, the announcement was clouded by claims from the energy company E.ON that the economics of what is the UK's biggest current off-shore wind project, the London Array off the coast of Kent and Essex, were "on a knife edge".
Emily Highmore, a spokeswoman for the company, said they were "committed" to the London Array and another 300MW project in the Humber, but could not "guarantee" they would go ahead. A third E.ON off-shore wind project, in the Solway Firth between England and Scotland, is under construction. "Off-shore wind has always, and will always be, very expensive," she said. "We can't be confident it will go ahead, but we believe it's a cracking project and very important to helping the government meet its renewables targets."
E.ON wanted the government to double the financial support for offshore wind, said Highmore. "We think it [the 33GW target] is ambitious and it's only going to be possible if we sort out funding, grid access and planning," she added.
The Carbon Trust report also urged government to make more offshore sites available for developers at lower cost, help invest in research and development to improve efficiency, and improve the National Grid.
Yesterday Tom Jennings, the Carbon Trust's strategy manager, said many recommendations were already being put in place, but more detail was needed, for example, in planning regulations. "The economics in the short-term are looking marginal [but] in the long-term they should look attractive, as long as the costs reduce," said.
If successful, offshore and onshore wind power could cut total UK carbon dioxide emissions by 14%, and create up to 70,000 jobs in the UK, supplying both domestic and export markets, said the Carbon Trust report.
Stats for 100 Popular Registrar
Rank Domains Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 - Q4 Registrar
1 21,683,746 1,796,789 2,509,230 1,524,769 1,170,001 7,000,789 GoDaddy.com
2 8,113,940 1,762,334 162,574 304,579 294,608 2,524,095 eNom.com
3 6,678,361 -35,209 1,252 73,306 -9,398 29,951 Network Solutions
4 6,119,854 256,186 133,629 98,540 142,772 631,127 Tucows
5 4,711,440 214,928 180,706 163,703 100,475 659,812 INWW.com
6 3,931,598 223,251 214,916 282,222 180,732 901,121 Schlund.de
7 2,737,951 59,045 243,417 173,308 107,956 583,726 Wild West Domains
8 2,668,530 163,173 266,210 198,343 219,264 846,990 Moniker Online Services
9 2,573,194 4,239 -39,948 -180,617 44,283 -172,043 Register.com
10 1,361,420 111,706 110,242 101,821 61,458 385,227 DomainDiscount24
11 1,287,267 -25,388 19,993 134,712 -314,953 -185,636 Dotster
12 1,249,575 111,719 110,152 129,782 111,469 463,122 PublicDomainRegistry.com
13 1,247,301 31,021 8,300 -26,374 -15,709 -2,762 DirectNic.com
14 1,176,898 38,512 10,728 37,858 27,994 115,092 China-Channel.com
15 1,047,823 26,839 36,685 60,807 94,964 219,295 Fabulous.com
16 1,036,650 66,434 132,117 30,161 -6,128 222,584 DomainDiscover.com
17 1,008,040 57,581 88,364 96,484 57,054 299,483 Name.com aka DomainSite
18 851,069 85,102 111,586 104,262 164,504 465,454 Basic Fusion, Inc.
19 818,982 -1,082 26,336 47,688 43,630 116,572 Xin Net
20 818,962 15,872 -10,699 8,051 -26,166 -12,942 DSTR Acquistion VII, Inc
21 790,981 46,515 47,384 41,654 38,261 173,814 Cronon AG
22 778,891 -362,731 -58,865 -11,593 -45,269 -478,458 NameKing
23 693,941 28,213 85,051 -8,705 7,906 112,465 ItsYourDomain.com
24 662,694 80,743 107,276 62,262 26,558 276,839 HiChina
25 657,695 -300 -2,672 4,170 -19,023 -17,825 Compana
26 637,865 12,636 14,715 17,039 16,581 60,971 Joker.com
27 614,768 0 0 405,128 209,640 614,768 UltraRPM, Inc. dba metapredict.com
28 588,129 217,914 578,189 -408,632 -874,398 -486,927 DomainDoorman, llc
29 568,517 253,087 650,812 -405,479 -862,126 -363,706 BelgiumDomains
30 566,535 170,577 679,460 -389,435 -889,801 -429,199 CapitolDomains
31 490,814 -3,243 10,404 25,244 14,129 46,534 Gandi
32 485,144 84,141 29,632 -68,349 -109,785 -64,361 DirectI.com
33 451,992 27,764 -14,686 26,308 26,703 66,089 OVH
34 428,819 21,100 5,075 11,497 1,462 39,134 NameView
35 425,654 6,328 -10,716 29,368 5,274 30,254 PSI-USA
36 382,635 34,814 26,018 18,207 11,730 90,769 Discount-Domain.com
37 381,820 -5,952 7,280 1,630 -297 2,661 Names4Ever.com
38 368,117 3,578 5,894 2,992 -13 12,451 Domain Name Sales Corp
39 363,583 6,827 7,607 10,541 9,721 34,696 SRSplus
40 353,616 31,535 33,122 43,022 30,923 138,602 Domain People, Inc.
41 353,047 8,425 14,938 9,853 8,230 41,446 Ascio Inc.
42 349,694 0 0 0 349,694 349,694
43 348,122 -182,972 -24,631 284,624 14,634 91,655 MarkMonitor
44 332,952 59,649 56,242 101,784 59,328 277,003 FastDomain, Inc.
45 327,597 27,199 9,974 18,288 6,302 61,763 Nicline.com
46 319,486 40,425 19,807 -19,878 -9,793 30,561 Dns.com.cn
47 314,794 1,475 52,339 226,813 8,679 289,306 Corporate Domains
48 299,781 -2,697 -15,259 -2,535 1,082 -19,409 CORE
49 295,119 -55,907 23,871 -62,042 34,125 -59,953 Name.net llc
50 282,543 24,690 28,887 29,760 20,727 104,064 New Dream Network
51 273,747 15,636 17,503 8,850 2,974 44,963 Webnic.cc
52 257,979 13,710 6,264 -2,595 3,516 20,895 Bizcn.com
53 252,599 9,518 -7,808 7,945 -3,177 6,478 NameSecure.com
54 251,481 8,644 5,631 3,689 233,115 251,079 Red Register, Inc.
55 235,595 15,920 7,020 4,644 -10,485 17,099 YesNIC
56 225,558 7,215 7,260 10,071 -427 24,119 Registration Tech, Inc.
57 218,094 46,267 96,768 17,618 -86 160,567 Critical Internet, Inc.
58 205,330 20,963 20,534 24,781 13,622 79,900 NetFirms, Inc.
59 202,799 50,466 52,061 16,631 -47 119,111 AOL
60 197,286 -1,288 5,341 6,915 6,562 17,530 NetNames.com
61 183,189 313,697 885,898 -743,832 -613,601 -157,838 Deleted (purging)
62 181,420 -1,469 5,392 6,286 4,456 14,665 GKG.net
63 174,718 5,945 6,052 7,760 10,645 30,402 PlanetDomain
64 166,592 488 2,912 -151 411 3,660 Easyspace Ltd.
65 162,702 13,456 23,231 6,681 5,644 49,012 Active 24
66 158,531 -12 1,654 812 2,348 4,802 StarGate
67 157,869 3,480 14,232 -3,350 -2,465 11,897 AitDomains.com
68 148,879 -3,025 10,220 3,346 1,812 12,353 PSI Japan
69 143,712 -660 -2,588 -257 -1,356 -4,861 Gabia, Inc
70 137,519 7,863 4,002 7,790 5,253 24,908 Register.it SPA
71 136,369 1,828 2,792 188 2,592 7,400 NordNet
72 132,614 -20,238 -22,429 -26,117 -20,331 -89,115 Aaaq.com
73 132,200 -507 2,535 -665 -894 469 NameJuice.com
74 127,091 2,937 1,023 4,276 2,108 10,344 NameBay
75 123,256 1,972 142 86,136 34,037 122,287 Rebel.com
76 118,739 -48 145 -779 1,365 683 DSTR Acquistion DBA 000Domains.com
77 115,926 -5,144 -515 702 -3,444 -8,401 Dstr Acquistion - DomainBank.com
78 115,461 10,957 10,707 16,710 18,729 57,103 EstDomains, Inc
79 112,753 -96 -428 -6,234 5,858 -900 Blue Razor Domains
80 111,988 3,460 1,878 3,766 3,105 12,209 NameScout.com
81 111,131 190 1,619 -1,134 -1,348 -673 DotRegistrar.com
82 109,300 3,198 922 2,227 896 7,243 In2net
83 107,466 10,782 17,492 29,699 17,450 75,423 Dynadot, llc
84 102,074 1,243 1,160 1,831 1,137 5,371 InterDomain
85 101,925 1,761 1,782 4,524 157 8,224 Omnis, llc
86 101,660 1,758 1,812 -142 -6,828 -3,400 Deutsche
87 99,371 570,103 -465,967 -7,135 1,375 98,376 Name Perfections, Inc.
88 88,084 6,740 380 6,143 3,793 17,056 ONLINE SAS
89 86,910 1,361 2,972 1,849 198 6,380 Pair.com
90 81,418 2,577 -6,177 3,036 1,658 1,094 Nominalia
91 78,322 -25,501 -14,726 -1,400 -10,867 -52,494 Domain Contender
92 74,680 8,019 3,850 5,176 3,977 21,022 Advantage Interactive
93 72,896 18,212 16,621 17,071 8,396 60,300 DomainBullies, llc
94 71,168 0 0 53,587 17,581 71,168 DOTNAME KOREA CORP
95 71,143 9,879 -6,167 -98 -5,597 -1,983 Nicco Ltd.
96 67,226 16,009 13,511 9,467 2,437 41,424 Net 4 India limited
97 67,211 1,292 520 -2,141 -3,856 -4,185 Internetters
98 66,948 -8,372 -19,766 -17,832 -19,944 -65,914 Communi Gal
99 65,987 19 -1,591 431 -1,606 -2,747 TotalRegistrations
100 65,708 -107 -153 -70 65,551 65,221 First Instant, Inc.
Name Intelligence Awards for 2008
| Best ICANN Registrar Reseller in 2008 | ||
| Award | Recipient | Criterias |
 |  eNom | The Best ICANN Reseller
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| Best Registrar in 2008 | ||
| Award | Recipient | Criterias |
 |  Moniker | Best Registrar Moniker.com The Best Registrar is an award designed to recognize a registrar that has made huge strides in increasing industry awareness and building the overall perception and integrity of the domain industry as a whole. Areas of such advocacy include, but are not limited to: blogging, podcasting, tradeshow presence beyond the domain industry, and a willingness to participate on a regular basis to expand awareness of this great industry to other internet users. Monte Cahn of Moniker is a person who has dedicated the past 4 years of his life to evangelizing domain names in almost every tradeshow in existence, such as SES, Ad:Tech, and the Domain Roundtable. He also operates a weekly podcast on the domain industry, the first of its kind, called Domain Masters on Webmasterradio.fm, where he has star powered guests on to talk about the domain industry. Moniker.com is recognized as the 2008 'Best Registrar' |
| Best Parking Company in 2008 | ||
| Award | Recipient | Criterias |
 |  Parked.com  Sedo | Best Parking Company In terms of marking the overall metric success of this particular category, the award for Best Performing Parking Program was a tie between Parked.com and Sedo. Together, their overall market share and dominance in the US Marketplace is evidenced by information gathered by Name Intelligence's weekly internet scan, in conjunction with our data collection in the Com, Net, Org, Info, Biz, and US TLDs. The overall number of domains destined at Parked.com and Sedo was higher than any other provider, evidencing significant domain manager selection by both companies. |
| Best Forum in 2008 | ||
| Award | Recipient | Criterias |
 |  DNForum.com | Best Forum Award DNForum – "The place to talk, buy and sell domains", is an immensely popular and well visited community where domainers and the domain name industry meet to talk about domains. A recent MVP poll identified a tie for key community members who both participate and help other members and grow and support the community. We recognize DNForum as the Best Place to Talk for 2008. |
| Best Blog Community of the Year | ||
| Award | Recipient | About |
 |  Seven Mile  Domain Name News  Elliot's Blog | Best Blog Community In 2008 Name Intelligence added a new award for the Best Blog Community. In 2008 Name Intelligence added a new award for the Best Blog Community. The winners are Seven Mile by Frank Schilling, Elliot's Blog by Elliot Silver, and Domain Name News. They are being recognized for their great commentary and personal insights into the domain industry. |
| Largest Net Gain in 2008 | ||
| Award | Recipient | Criterias |
 |  GoDaddy.com | Largest Net Gain Name Intelligence operates DailyChanges.com and provides the data research and reporting for the registrarstats.com website. The sheer amount of processing and data management gives Name Intelligence a unique perspective on the domain industry, and allows us to recognize trends, events, and noteworthy milestones. One such pattern in data reporting is a continued trend of significant growth in the net quantity of domains in management at any given ICANN accredited registrar across the Com, Net, Org, Info, Biz, and US TLDs. The largest net gain award, as evidenced by statistics, went to GoDaddy.com for their continued pace of growth in overall domain registrations |
| Outstanding Drop Catcher in 2008 | ||
| Award | Recipient | Criterias |
 |  Name Jet | Outstanding Drop Catcher The awards for the outstanding Drop Catcher went to companies that displayed high levels of technical sophistication, success, and positive user experience in their systems. |
| Best Industry Coverage in 2008 | ||
| Award | Recipient | Criterias |
 |  DNJournal | Reporting domain sales and covering important events has been synonymous with DNJournal this year. |
| Outstanding Secondary Market in 2008 | ||
| Award | Recipient | Criterias |
 |  Afternic Sedo | Outstanding Secondary Market We take many factors into consideration on giving these awards. Each of the following were criteria used to narrow the recipients for 2008:
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Monday, January 26, 2009
Microsoft Unveils Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate
If you’re not participating in the Windows 7 beta, you can still kick the tires of Microsoft’s newest web browser. Internet Explorer 8, which is included in Windows 7, can be had for XP, Vista or Windows Server as well. Actually, the beta version came out last year, but the software has now graduated to the RC, or Release Candidate stage.
Microsoft appears to be straddling the fine line between simplicity and feature fullness with IE8. The browser does offer more customization and add-ons than prior, but not exactly like Firefox does with the vast array of extensions it has available. Microsoft took a customization approach with “accelerators” and “web slices”; these are definitely useful, but still limited by comparison. That could change over time, but for now it’s pretty slim pickins. I do see some useful accelerators: one for Facebook, a StumbleUpon add-on and even one for Digg. The catalog is available at http://www.ieaddons.com if you want to browse it or add features to IE8.
The flipside is the simplicity factor. IE8 looks very similar to IE7, so there’s no major learning curve to get surfing on the web. Even with the familiar look there are subtle features that we’ve already seen in Firefox and Chrome. Private browsing is in there so you don’t have to worry about the boss catching you buying WOW gold on your lunch hour. The search bar is beefed up and offers useful suggestions as well, plus Microsoft is claiming the new JavaScript engine is faster than prior versions. We’ll have to do some testing on that claim of course, but my own impressions are that IE8 is indeed generally faster that its predecessors.