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Friday, June 29, 2012

Who did NFL players vote as league's No. 1?

Who is the NFL's best player?

It's a difficult question given the scores of stars in the league, the vastly differing and incomparable positions they play, and the interminable debates centered on stats vs. rings.

Yet when it comes to numbers and hardware, Green Bay Packers QB Aaron Rodgers has both. So it came as little surprise that the NFL's reigning MVP was voted No. 1 to cap The Top 100 Players of 2012, a 10-part NFL Network series determined by the votes of active players.

"It's very humbling, it's a great honor," Rodgers said Wednesday night on NFLN after his ranking was revealed (he was No. 11 last year).

"Any time you're recognized with that professional respect from your peers, that really means a lot to me. So I gotta thank them for the votes."

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After earning Super Bowl XLV MVP honors to finish the 2010 season, Rodgers led the Packers to a league-best 15-1 ledger in 2011 and set a single-season record for passer rating (122.5) after throwing for 4,643 yards and 45 TDs (vs. just 6 INTs) in only 15 games. He didn't set as many new marks as New Orleans Saints QB Drew Brees did in 2011 but again came out on top (NFL writers selected him as last year's MVP) after the players ranked Brees at No. 2.

Though Rodgers was unable to lead the Pack to a Super Bowl repeat, he did bag another honor that further differentiates his expanding resume from that of Brett Favre, the legendary predecessor many thought Rodgers could never successfully replace in Titletown.

But the current top dog in the NFL has a reasonable shot to become the best quarterback, if not best the best player, in the storied history of the Packers.

Other noteworthy items include Detroit Lions WR Calvin "Megatron" Johnson finishing as the top non-quarterback, New York Jets CB Darrelle Revis ranking as the top defender, and Minnesota Vikings RB Adrian Peterson earning top tailback honors despite his rash of injuries (including a torn ACL and MCL) in 2011.

One Hall of Famer who wasn't necessarily on board with the series' outcome was NFLN analyst Deion Sanders, who said: "Why are the quarterbacks always in the front of the line? For everything? I don't understand that."

Here's the entire top 10:

1. Aaron Rodgers, QB, Packers
2. Drew Brees, QB, Saints
3. Calvin Johnson, WR, Lions
4. Tom Brady, QB, Patriots
5. Darrelle Revis, CB, Jets
6. DeMarcus Ware, OLB, Cowboys
7. Larry Fitzgerald, WR, Cardinals
8. Adrian Peterson, RB, Vikings
9. Haloti Ngata, DL, Ravens
10. Patrick Willis, ILB, 49ers

And here's the remainder of the top 100:

11. Terrell Suggs, OLB, Ravens
12. Maurice Jones-Drew, RB, Jaguars
13. Jared Allen, DE, Vikings
14. Jimmy Graham, TE, Saints
15. Andre Johnson, WR, Texans
16. Ed Reed, FS, Ravens
17. Justin Smith, DL, 49ers
18. LeSean McCoy, RB, Eagles
19. Troy Polamalu, SS, Steelers
20. Ray Lewis, ILB, Ravens
21. Rob Gronkowski, TE, Patriots
22. Ray Rice, RB, Ravens
23. Wes Welker, WR, Patriots
24. Jason Pierre-Paul, DE, Giants
25. Arian Foster, RB, Texans
26. Julius Peppers, DE, Bears
27. Clay Matthews, OLB, Packers
28. Frank Gore, RB, 49ers
29. James Harrison, OLB, Steelers
30. Ben Roethlisberger, QB, Steelers
31. Eli Manning, QB, Giants
32. Jahri Evans, G, Saints
33. Matt Forte, RB, Bears
34. Tamba Hali, OLB, Chiefs
35. Steve Smith, WR, Panthers
36. Charles Woodson, CB, Packers
37. Steven Jackson, RB, Rams
38. Ndamukong Suh, DT, Lions
39. Victor Cruz, WR, Giants
40. Cam Newton, QB, Panthers
41. Matthew Stafford, QB, Lions
42. Jason Peters, LT, Eagles
43. Vernon Davis, TE, 49ers
44. Jason Babin, DE, Eagles
45. Vonta Leach, FB, Ravens
46. Champ Bailey, CB, Broncos
47. Mike Wallace, WR, Steelers
48. Devin Hester, KR/WR, Bears
49. Maurkice Pouncey, C, Steelers
50. Peyton Manning, QB, Broncos
51. Brian Urlacher, MLB, Bears
52. Von Miller, OLB, Broncos
53. Tony Gonzalez, TE, Falcons
54. Brian Cushing, ILB, Texans
55. Patrick Peterson, CB/PR, Cardinals
56. Greg Jennings, WR, Packers
57. Trent Cole, DE, Eagles
58. Jonathan Vilma, MLB, Saints
59. Jake Long, LT, Dolphins
60. Darren McFadden, RB, Raiders
61. Philip Rivers, QB, Chargers
62. Justin Tuck, DE, Giants
63. LaMarr Woodley, OLB, Steelers
64. Logan Mankins, G, Patriots
65. Roddy White, WR, Falcons
66. Earl Thomas, S, Seahawks
67. Joe Staley, T, 49ers
68. Elvis Dumervil, DE, Broncos
69. Carlos Rogers, CB, 49ers
70. Michael Vick, QB, Eagles
71. DeSean Jackson, WR, Eagles
72. Lance Briggs, OLB, Bears
73. Johnathan Joseph, CB, Texans
74. Joe Flacco, QB, Ravens
75. Jason Witten, TE, Cowboys
76. Carl Nicks, G, Buccaneers
77. A.J. Green, WR, Bengals
78. Derrick Johnson, ILB, Chiefs
79. Nnamdi Asomugha, CB, Eagles
80. Jordy Nelson, WR Packers
81. Vince Wilfork, DL, Patriots
82. Joe Thomas, LT, Browns
83. Fred Jackson, RB, Bills
84. Chris Long, DE, Rams
85. NaVorro Bowman, ILB, 49ers
86. Darren Sproles, RB/KR, Saints
87. London Fletcher, ILB, Redskins
88. Michael Turner, RB, Falcons
89. Dwight Freeney, DE, Colts
90. Hakeem Nicks, WR, Giants
91. Tony Romo, QB, Cowboys
92. John Kuhn, FB, Packers
93. Cortland Finnegan, CB, Rams
94. Marshawn Lynch, RB, Seahawks
95. Tim Tebow, QB, Jets
96. D'Qwell Jackson, ILB, Browns
97. Donald Penn, LT, Buccaneers
98. Willis McGahee, RB, Broncos
99. Ryan Kalil, C, Panthers
100. Chris Johnson, RB, Titans

Source: http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/UsatodaycomNfl-TopStories/~3/32F6yB3VHtY/1

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What Is A Domain Name? | www ... - Online Success Path

Word Wide Web Most of you probably already know what a domain name is, but I don?t want to make assumptions as to what everyone knows at this point, so I?m going to assume that we will have some complete beginners here.? And that?s quite all right to be a beginner.? Everyone must start at the beginning.

I?ll share with you information about a domain name ? what it is, how to choose a domain name, and where to get one.? A domain is one of the required elements of a website.

A domain name is the address of a website ? such as yoursite.com ? it?s like a house address and represents the address of your home on the World Wide Web.? Your domain name is the way in which people can find your website.? For example, the domain of the site you are on right now is onlinesuccesspath.com.

The Internet will automatically assume it needs to add http:// in front of a domain name that you type into a browser.? So when you type in www. followed by a domain name, you may notice that your web browser displays it as http://www.yoursite.com.? You don?t have to literally type in the http://, as the browser will insert that by default.

Either way, whether you see this automatically included in your web browser or not, whatever browser you are using (such as Firefox or Internet Explorer) will assume the protocol is http:// followed by the www address you have typed in.? You simply type in www. followed by the site name you want to view.

Http stands for Hypter Text Transfer Protocol, and it is the way in which browsers and web servers exchange data, allowing you to surf the web and find what you are looking for.

web home page name Your domain represents the ?home? page of your website, but as you add new pages to your site, the URL structure will change to reflect where to find a particular page on your site within the internet.? For example, a URL could look like this:? www.yoursite.com/articles/gardening.html.

URL stands for ?Uniform Resource Locator.? In the example above, we see the home page of the website as www.yoursitename.com.??The domain is yoursitename.com.? We also see a folder called ?articles? which is being used to house articles for that site.? We see a gardening article from the ?articles? folder called gardening.html.

HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language.? This is simply computer code.? It?s the language used to write content on the Web.? But not to worry ? as we get into web editors, you?ll see how your editor will take care of the special coding for you.? So there won?t be a lot that you?ll have to know about this computer language when you get ready to build your website pages.

A URL consists of various sections (including the domain name) that, when combined, will point to a specific page of a website. Obviously, there will be more than just a home page with the domain name for a website ? unless one is simply using a one-page website, also referred to as a squeeze page.

A website can consist of as many pages as your hosting account will support in terms of the web space that your combined pages utilize.? In today?s times, even a small hosting package will almost always support as many pages as you need.

dot com extension When choosing a domain name, you?ll also pick an extension to go with that name ? such as .com (the most popular extension).?

Here are just a few types of domain name extensions ? but keep in mind that for business purposes, you can?t go wrong with a .com extension.? The reason is that it?s the first extension that comes to mind when people type in a domain in their web browser.

.com ? Stands for ?commercial? and is the most widely used extension.? Businesses generally prefer a .com domain because it?s the most highly recognized symbol for an online presence.

.net ? Stands for ?network? and is commonly used by Internet service providers, web hosting companies, or other businesses that are involved in the infrastructure of the Internet.? Some businesses may choose this extension for intranet websites.

.org ? Stands for ?organization? and is primary used by non-profit organizations.

.biz ? Stands for ?business? and is used for small business sites in some cases (However, the .com choice is still the preferred option for a business, regardless of the size of that business.)

.info ? Stands for ?information? and is used for credible resources on the web which provide information.

.tv ? Stands for ?television? and is used in the entertainment or media industries.

.edu ? Stands for ?education? and is limited to educational institutions such as colleges and universities or other accredited schools.

.gov ? Stands for ?government? and is limited to government agencies in the U.S.

You can explore other domain extensions at Wikipedia.

In the next post, I?ll cover tips for choosing a domain name . . . followed by how to purchase your domain.

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Margaret Paul, Ph.D.: Is This Love or Emotional Dependency?

One of my clients, whose ex-girlfriend recently broke up with him, asked me the following question:

I think I still love her, but is this love or just emotional dependency? Many times I ask myself if falling in love comes from the wounded self because (for me at least) it feels as if I can't live without the other person. When I give love from the heart, I don't expect anything back, but when I "fall in love" I think this is a different energy.

Which Part of You Is In Love?

Falling in love can come from two different inner states. When you fall in love from the wounded self -- the ego self -- it is not so much the person you love, but how he or she loves you. You are handing over to the other person the responsibility for your self-worth and wellbeing, and if he or she does a good job of attending to you in the way you want to be attended to, then you may say you are "in love."

When it feels as if you can't live without the other person, it is emotional dependency. The part of you that is "in love" is really a child or adolescent who is needy for love because you are not giving love to yourself or to others. There is an emptiness inside that you expect someone else to fill, because you are not taking responsibility for your own feelings of self-worth. You are attaching your worth to another's love, which is why you can't live without that person.

When you fall in love as a loving adult instead of as a wounded, needy child or adolescent, your need for the relationship is totally different. As a loving adult, you have learned how to fill yourself with love and define your own worth. Instead of needing someone to fill you and make you feel lovable and worthy, you already feel worthy and full of love. You experience this inner fullness because you have learned how to take full responsibility for your own feelings and needs, and you have learned to fill yourself with love from a spiritual source. This fullness overflows and you want to share this love with another person, another loving adult who is also filled with love. Your desire is to share love rather than to get love.

Choosing From Your Wounded Self or Your Loving Adult

The kind of person you will pick will be totally different when a loving adult is choosing, than when your wounded self is choosing. The people we pick have a similar level of woundedness and a similar level of emotional health. Obviously, the more you have done your inner healing work to bring love within, and the more you have learned to take loving care of yourself, the more you will be attracted to someone who also does this.

When you pick someone from your wounded self, you will pick someone whom you believe wants the job of filling you up. The problem is that the other person may be attempting to fill you up in the hopes that you will also fill up him or her. Two people who each want to get love rather than share love will eventually find themselves very disappointed with each other. They will each blame the other for not loving them in the way they want to be loved. When relationships break up, it is often because one or both partners are not taking responsibility for their own feelings and self-worth and are blaming the other for their resulting unhappiness.

If you are so attached to someone that you feel you can't live without that person, try learning to give to yourself and others what it is you want from this person. Your job is to become the person to yourself that you want the other person to be. Then you will be able to be "in love" rather than "in need." You will be able to love another person for who he or she is, rather than for what this person can do for you. Instead of needing to get love, you can give love from the heart for the joy of it, and feel filled in the giving.

To begin learning how to love and connect with yourself so that you can connect with others, take advantage of our free Inner Bonding eCourse, receive Free Help, and take our 12-Week eCourse, "The Intimate Relationship Toolbox" - the first two weeks are free!

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Thursday, June 28, 2012

Windows Phone 7.8 update gets shown off

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Users of Windows Phone might have felt a bit put out at the news that Windows Phone 8, with all its fancy new features, would not be coming to their hardware ? even the flagship Nokia Lumia 900. But all is not lost: one of the cooler pieces, the customizable start screen, will in fact be coming to older handsets. And Microsoft has just put up a little demo of it on video.

(Msnbc.com is a joint venture of Microsoft and NBC Universal, but that doesn't mean we get privileged information about Microsoft's products and services, nor does it influence our opinion of them.)

No doubt it's a cool feature for homescreen customization, more straightforward than Android's widgets and more robust than iOS's... nothing. Most users will be happy to have the extra functionality.

But there's still consternation among purchasers of the much-hyped Lumia 900: many feel it was little more than a bait and switch to sell the device as a top-of-the-line one only to make it obsolete almost instantly with a new OS it can't use. There's truth to that, and Android and iOS customers know the sting of seeing a new version of their favored OS debut with no plans to bring it to older devices.

The update should come to any phone currently running Windows?7.5 "Mango." There's a little more info here at the page for the update, but at the moment there are only a couple features listed, and no date for release.

Devin Coldewey is a contributing writer for msnbc.com. His personal website is?coldewey.cc.

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Judge Koh stops US sales of Galaxy Tab 10.1, puts a smack down on Samsung (updated)

Judge Koh stops US sales of Galaxy Tab 101, puts a smack down on Samsung updated

Thought Samsung was out of the woods when it defeated Apple's attempt to prevent it from selling the Galaxy Tab 10.1 stateside? Well, Apple appealed that decision and was given a second crack at banning Sammy's slate last month -- and it looks like Cupertino made the most of the opportunity, as Reuters reports that Judge Koh has granted Cupertino's request to enjoin the sales of the Galaxy Tab 10.1. Details are scarce at the moment, but we do know it's only a preliminary injunction, meaning if Samsung's ultimately victorious in the case, the injunction will lift and it'll be free to peddle its wares once again. Still, it's certainly bad news for the Korean company, but given its expansive stable of other slates still on sale combined with its recent economic performance, we're sure Samsung can weather the storm while the courtroom fireworks continue.

Update 1: All Things D got a copy of Koh's order, and we just gave it a quick read. Turns out that she granted the injunction due to the strength of the merits of Apple's case and the unlikelihood that Samsung would invalidate Apple's design patent -- the court already held that the 10.1 is "virtually indistinguishable" from the iPad's design and likely infringes Apple's IP. Furthermore, Judge Koh held that, because Apple and Samsung are direct competitors in the tablet space and "design mattered more to customers in making tablet purchases," Apple would be irreparably harmed by further 10.1 sales. Those two factors outweighed any hardship suffered by Samsung, and thus, the Galaxy Tab 10.1 was stricken from US shelves.

Update 2: Well, that didn't take long -- a mere five hours after Judge Koh's order, Samsung filed an appeal, according to Foss Patents.

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Building with the Boys: Tim and Justin Are Building, AGAIN, This ...

The boys are back, this time I think they are just stalking me.

You may recall Tim Loecker and Justin Kettler when I wrote for D Home Mag, when I lauded them for saving North Dallas ranches one house at a time. It seems these two can never be satisfied with their home, which is why I love them.

It all began with a 2,400-square-foot cottage on Cromwell Drive, just a couple of blocks from our 3550 Ainsworth, which was our very first Dallas dirt. They flipped Cromwell and followed it up with three more projects, including a 2,500-square foot rancher near Forest and Midway, and a 4,000-square-foot fairy tale on Princess Lane that had, when they bought it, ADA-approved wide doorways and handlebars in all showers. Seriously: the place was a halfway home for people recovering from who knows what. After selling Princess, the two bought and renovated an original owner mid-century modern on Bobbitt Drive. This is where it got a little freaky for me: we also had lived about half a block away, at 4307 Melissa Lane. They lived on Bobbitt a couple of years, sold it, and now ? you?ve got it ? the boys are moving CTC: Closer to Candy! But this time, they have ditched the remodel and are building from scratch. As in, they scraped a post-WWII mini rancher on Azalea built in 1949 and are in the process of building a new home. And they are going to share the entire experience with you right here on CandysDirt.com.

It must have been hard for the guys to scrape that ranch, because I know how much they love them. Ranches have good bones, they once told me. They were built with an infrastructure of slow-grown, sturdy wood and easy-to-open floor plans.?Well, so was I but someday we all gotta go, right? ?Both guys always participated in their too-many-now-to count renovations, digging in with sledgehammers, getting knee-deep in sawdust, changing the floor plan, and staying hands-on with every last detail from designing cabinetry to choosing outlet covers. ?Despite the bruises, gashes, black toenails, and occasional (or frequent) difference of opinion, the guys consider this a side hobby.? Loecker is a senior vice president for a global public relations firm. Kettler is a regional manager for a financial services company.? Building new has a whole new spin as they are no longer going to be managing the project, though no doubt they will be hands on.

?Now we are letting our builder do the contracting while we can focus on researching design and materials, giving input, and documenting the process in pictures.? says Justin.? ?This approach is a much better fit with our day job demands, and better for our sanity.?

?All of our friends seem to be getting married and having babies,? says Tim. ?We?d rather just do another house together.? It?s our version of renewing our vows and giving birth?every couple of years!?

Stay tuned for Building with the Boys. First episode: The big decision: Choosing a builder to create your next home.

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Rand Paul Trying To Add ?Personhood? Amendment To Flood ...

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul is?trying to attach an amendment that would define personhood as beginning at fertilization?to a bill regarding flood insurance:

WASHINGTON ? Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) moved this week to hold a noncontroversial flood insurance bill hostage until the Senate agrees that life begins at fertilization.

The bill, which would financially boost the National Flood Insurance Program on the cusp of hurricane season, had been expected to pass easily in the Senate. But since Paul on Monday offered an unrelated ?fetal personhood? amendment, which would give legal protections to fetuses from the moment of fertilization, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is threatening to halt progress on the legislation.

?I?m told last night that one of our Republican senators wants to offer an amendment ? listen to this one ? wants to offer an amendment on when life begins,? Reid said on the Senate floor Tuesday. ?I am not going to put up with that on flood insurance. I can be condemned by outside sources; my friends can say, ?Let them have a vote on it.? There will not be a vote on that on flood insurance. We?ll either do flood insurance with the amendments that deal with flood insurance, or we won?t do it. We?ll have an extension.?

Reid has allowed Republicans to attach unrelated amendments to other important bills in the past few months. Most notably, he?let the Senate vote?on a contraception-related amendment, proposed by Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), to a transportation bill. But Reid called Paul?s measure ?ridiculous? and ?outlandish,? and asked Republicans to deal with him on ?their side of the aisle.?

Paul told reporters on Tuesday afternoon that he is ?just trying to get a vote for people who elected me.?

?Can you believe that they?re exasperated with me?? he said, responding to criticism of his attempt to attach the unrelated amendment. ?If [Reid will] give me a freestanding vote, I?ll take a freestanding vote any time.?

Yea, whatever Senator. What I want to know is the answer to a very simple question which, as a member of the Paul family, you ought to be very familiar with ?-?which part of the Constitution authorizes Congress to determine that life begins at fertilization?

Notwithstanding, and giving him due credit for, his foreign policy positions, my patience with Senator Paul is nearing an end.

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How the CCNA Certification Relates to IPv6 | Academy of Computer ...

Before taking the Cisco Certified Network Associate exam, or CCNA, it is absolutely essential to understand both the ?why? and the ?how? of the new and emerging IPv6 technology. This is a crucial part of the exam and, as the future of the internet in generally, it?s pretty important to understand how it works. Before that, though, it?s even more important to understand why there is even a need for IPv6 technologies, as well as how they?re be implemented in a world that has largely been completely constructed based on the IPv4 specification.

Looking at the Origins of the IPv4 Specification

Even though the actual use of IPv6 in real world applications is relatively new, its roots begin more than two decades ago in 1990. That was the first year when tech experts began to predict that IPv4 address space would actually run out do the explosive growth of connected devices. Even in a world that couldn?t foresee the coming smartphone and tablet revolution that enabled ?everything everywhere? connectivity, this was a real concern.

In 1992, IPv4 classes A, B, and C, were joined by CIDR, or Classless Internet Domain Routing. This technology was essentially developed to promote greater efficiency within IPv4 environments, allowing blocks to be assigned more slowly and preventing the IP catastrophe that many analysts were predicting at the time. While this was a great way to ?kick the can down the road,? it was not a permanent solution.

Steps toward a more lasting solution began in 1993, when the Internet Engineering Task Force recognized the need for an entirely new protocol that would highly scalable in a world full of connected devices. In response, the IETF created the IP Next Generation Group to study, analyze, and plan the deployment of a new IP protocol that would last far longer than the aging IPv4. The group became known as IPng, and it got to work pretty quickly. By 1994, the group?s work was being approved and standardized by a number of internet standards committees, and it was officially given the IPv6 designation later that year.

Test implementations followed fork the next half-decade and, in 1999, regional internet registries assigned the first block of IPv6 addresses for non-experimental uses. This followed the releasing of patches and operating system updates to enable the parsing and processing of IPv6 address blocks just a few years earlier, and the technology was officially on its way.

Examining the Need for a New IP Address Specification

It was more than 20 years ago that experts first predicted that IPv4 address blocks would run out. The assignment of these addresses, and the relative lack of new ones to assign, has increased exponentially in the last decade alone. In 2002, a full 28 percent of IPv4 address blocks were still available for use around the world. By the present decade, that number had dropped by nearly two-thirds to just 10 percent. Without the development of the IPv6 specification, the future of the internet would currently be experiencing a real threat to its continued viability and use.

The IPv4 specification is a 32-bit construction, which allows for a grand total of 4,294,967,296 address blocks before the system simply runs out of options and capacity. Comparatively, IPv6 specification employes a 128-bit structure which permits for a vastly larger sea of potential address blocks. Indeed, the total number of IPv6 address blocks available for allocation around the world is 3.4 x1038, which experts believe can last anywhere from a few decades up to a half-century before a more advanced standard needs to once again be developed due to rising demand and a dearth of available blocks.

The IPv6 specification is also far more engaged with advanced hierarchies that make internet routing more efficient. This is seen as one of the main problems with IPv4, especially given the exponential growth of the internet and connected devices over the past two decades. The technology is not only much more vast and available, but actually faster at doing the exact same tasks that the IPv4 table is currently charged with handling.

A Commitment to Global Fairness with IPv6 Technologies

One of the interesting things about IPv4 is that the technology was actually split among several global governing bodies that served specific regions of the planet. Each governing authority managed the granting and distribution of IPv4 blocks to every country within its purview, and the structure still being used looks like this:

- ARIN, for North America, the Caribbean, and some North Atlantic locations
- AfriNIC, serving the African continent and Indian Ocean island nations
- APNIC, for the Asia-Pacific region and Oceania
- LACNIC, for South America and non-ARIN parts of the Caribbean
- RIPE NCC, for Europe and the Middle East

Despite these five organizations and their relatively equal holdings around the world, the ARIN organization is responsible for granting a full 74 percent of the IPv4 address blocks currently in use. That?s an astounding disparity between the regions, and it?s something that IPv6 has aimed to fix with the way it is deployed. Unlike IPv4, the technology has a single and global granting body, as well as a global prefix structure, that is designed to promote greater fairness in the assignment of addresses.

Where is IPv6 Now, and Where Will it Go in the Future?

Presently, much of the world is still stuck on the IPv4 standard as governments and internet service providers slowly migrate to the newer standard. While much of China and Korea are both running on the IPv6 standard for both traditional and mobile internet devices, the United States has lagged behind in implementation. The federal government announced a goal to be compatible with the technology by 2008, and has largely met that standard; the wireless provider T-Mobile has deployed IPv6 to its mobile networks; but other than these two major developments, the United States still relies heavily on IPv4. This partially makes sense, however, given that the continent is responsible for 74 percent of the specification?s allocation around the world.

Looking to the future, IPv6 adoption will increase because it has to. While it is currently ?dual stacked? with IPv4 address blocks, that will change as IPv4 addresses simply run out and people around the world are forced to migrate to the newer standard. Given the fast rate of IPv4 address disbursement, this is likely to happen within the present decade.

For more information on the CCNA Certification go here: http://www.trainace.com/courses/ccna/

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Muzak redivivus? Streaming subscription audio - eluyiirut's Space

By Jon Jermey

The following paragraphs are extracted from an article published in the June 2012 issue of Online Currents.*

THE FALL AND RISE OF MUZAK

In 1934 the Muzak Holdings company was established in the US to pipe soothing recorded music via cables into offices, department stores and other public places in many US cities. Seventy-eight years later, having staved off bankruptcy in 2009, Muzak Holdings is still with us, though its delivery methods have changed to embrace new technologies, and it now offers its clients a much broader range of ?channels?. Small wonder, then, that internet entrepreneurs have decided to take a leaf from its book and offer their clients what essentially amounts to the same service (though primped, polished and jazzed-up for the web) ? an endless stream of recorded music, matched to your specifications and delivered on demand.

?INTERNET RADIO

The more immediate roots of streaming audio lie in the internet radio movement. There are currently tens of thousands of internet ?radio? stations, accessible via the web, which broadcast not through the airwaves but over internet cables and connections. Some provide just one ?channel? of music, while others like SomaFM offer more than a dozen. Despite regular skirmishes with recording industry bodies over royalty fees and the potential for copyright infringement, internet radio has become a large industry. Internet radio stations are typically free for the user to access. Some are supported by advertising, others by donations, while public broadcasters, like the BBC in Britain and the ABC in Australia, typically maintain internet radio channels as adjuncts to their free-to-air broadcast activities.

?STREAMING SUBSCRIPTION AUDIO

The user of internet radio can choose from a vast range of channels, offering a huge variety of performers and types of music from baroque to heavy metal. From here it is a relatively small step to allowing users to select, in advance, the exact tracks they want to hear. This is the domain of streaming subscription audio. Originally offered almost as an afterthought by providers selling downloadable music tracks, the subscription audio model has grown to a level of size and sophistication which challenges the ownership model. Now there are many companies offering similar facilities, so prices are going down and the level of service ? and the number of tracks available ? has risen steadily over time. Audio streaming is the recording industry?s latest and best response to the threat of music piracy. Though relatively new in Australia, it is becoming big business in the US.

The basic model is simple: a provider acquires the necessary licences to offer a vast number of high-quality music tracks to its clients on a streaming basis, in return for a monthly or yearly fee: subscribers are permitted to play any track but not to retain the track on their system, so that when the subscription ends, so does their legal access to the music. Subscribers can search the provider?s database for music or performers, and select tracks they want to hear. These are ?queued? on the server and sent to the subscriber?s PC, usually via a web browser. Subscribers can play any track as often as they want to hear it, exactly as if they owned the music. Their choices are saved when they go offline, and they can log in from any other browser and access their music queue from there, though only one user can be logged in to a particular account at any time. Some providers extend the same functionality to mobile devices like mobile phones and Android tablets.

Because the service on offer is essentially the same from each provider, competition is mainly on price, the number of tracks available, and the range of mobile devices supported.

* These extracted paragraphs have been reproduced without footnotes. To read the full article and the author?s discussion of three streaming subscription audio services currently available in Australia, see (2012) 26 OLC 131.

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BCS gets boot in favor of 4-team playoff

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The best way to determine a major college football champion seemed so obvious to so many for so long. Just have a playoff.

Now the people in charge of making that decision are on board, too.

Come 2014, the BCS is out. Playoffs are in.

A committee of university presidents approved a plan Tuesday for a four-team playoff put forward by commissioners of the top football conferences.

For years, the decision-makers had balked at any type of playoff because they said it would diminish the importance of the regular season. If only two teams had a chance to win a championship in the postseason, even one loss could be too many. That made for some high stakes regular-season matchups. As recently as 2008, Southeastern Conference Commissioner Mike Slive proposed the type of plan adopted Tuesday, and it was quickly shot down.

Four years later, minds changed.

"It's a great day for college football," BCS Executive Director Bill Hancock said. "As soon as the commissioners realized they could do this and protect the regular season, the light went on for everybody."

The move completes a six-month process for the commissioners, who have been working on a new way to determine a major college football champ after years of griping from fans. The latest configuration is certain to make even more money for the schools than the old system ? and it still won't satisfy everyone. Some will think it's too small and, yes, there are some who liked things just the way they are.

"There were differences of views," Virginia Tech President Charles Steger said. "I think it would be a serious mistake to assume it was a rubber stamp."

Nebraska Chancellor Harvey Perlman was the most notable holdout. He had said that he preferred the status quo or a tweak of the Bowl Championship Series. Perlman said the playoff still wouldn't be his first choice, but he was not going to stand in the way of progress. After the commissioners presented their proposal to the presidents, it took the CEOs about an hour and a half to come to a decision.

"This is the package that was put forth and we will strongly support it," Perlman said.

Instead of simply matching the nation's No. 1 and No. 2 teams in a title game after the regular season, the way the BCS has done since 1998, the new format will create a pair of national semifinals.

The BCS has been a constant target for criticism. Lawmakers have railed against it. A political action committee was formed dedicated to its destruction. The Justice Department looked into whether it broke antitrust laws. Even President Obama said he wanted a playoff.

Now it's a reality.

No. 1 will play No. 4, and No. 2 will play No. 3 on Dec. 31 and Jan. 1. The sites of those games will rotate among six bowls. The Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., is guaranteed a spot, and the to-be-determined site of the newly formed bowl created by the SEC and Big 12 is likely to be another, Slive said.

The other current BCS bowls ? the Orange, Sugar and Fiesta ? are not yet guaranteed spots in the rotation, but will get first crack at bidding for them. The Cotton Bowl, played at the $1.1 billion Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, has long wanted to be part of the BCS and will no doubt push to be a part of the rotation, possibly as host to the Big 12-SEC game.

The winners of the semis will advance to the championship on the first Monday in January that is six or more days after the last semifinal. The first "Championship Monday" is set for Jan. 12, 2015.

The site of the title game will move around the way the Super Bowl does, with cities bidding for the right to host.

The teams will be selected by a committee, similar to the way the NCAA basketball tournament field is set. The men's tournament has 68 teams, and 37 at-large bids.

The football committee will have a much tougher task, trying to whittle the field down to four. This season, 125 schools will play at the highest level of college football.

Among the factors the committee will consider is won-loss record, strength of schedule, head-to-head results and whether a team is a conference champion. The selection committee will also play a part in creating matchups for games at the four sites that do not hold a semifinal in a given year.

"I think it's tremendous progress," said Washington State coach Mike Leach, a playoff proponent. "Five years ago there wasn't even dialogue about a playoff. Instead of diving in the water, they dipped their toes in. I think it's' going to be ridiculously exciting and it's going to generate a bunch of money. I wish they dived in."

Leach predicted that the playoff field would eventually grow.

Arizona coach Rich Rodriguez, on the other hand, was happy to keep it small, and wants it to stay that way.

"I may be in the minority. I think we had a pretty good thing going," he said. "If it stays at four I think it will be fine. Think it will be pretty exciting."

No one has put a hard number on it yet, but this new format figures to more than double the TV revenue of the current BCS and Rose Bowl contracts. Those pay out about $155 million annually.

The commissioners want to lock in this format for 12 years with a television partner. The current BCS deal with ESPN runs through the 2013 season. The new format will be presented to potential TV partners in the fall, starting with ESPN.

There are still some details to work out, such as who will be on the committee and how exactly the money will be distributed among the conferences. But everybody in charge is on board.

While lower divisions of college football already have a playoff, the highest level has for decades used bowls and polls to determine its champion. Those days are coming to an end.

"A milestone that's good for college football," Atlantic Coast Conference Commissioner John Swofford called it.

And a long time coming.

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Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Today in History

Today is Tuesday, June 26, the 178th day of 2012. There are 188 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History:

On June 26, 1912, Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 9 in D major premiered in Vienna more than a year after the composer's death; Bruno Walter conducted the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.

On this date:

In 1483, Richard III began his reign as King of England (he was crowned the following month at Westminster Abbey).

In 1870, the first section of Atlantic City, N.J.'s Boardwalk was opened to the public.

In 1911, John J. McDermott became the first American-born golf player to win the U.S. Open, played in Chicago.

In 1936, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was nominated for a second term of office by delegates to the Democratic national convention in Philadelphia.

In 1945, the charter of the United Nations was signed by 50 countries in San Francisco.

In 1948, the Berlin Airlift began in earnest after the Soviet Union cut off land and water routes to the isolated western sector of Berlin.

In 1950, President Harry S. Truman authorized the Air Force and Navy to enter the Korean conflict.

In 1963, President John F. Kennedy visited West Berlin, where he famously declared, "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner).

In 1973, former White House counsel John W. Dean told the Senate Watergate Committee about an "enemies list" kept by the Nixon White House.

In 1987, Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. announced his retirement, leaving a vacancy that was filled by Anthony M. Kennedy.

In 1988, three people were killed when a new Airbus A320 jetliner carrying more than 130 people crashed into a forest during a demonstration at an air show in Mulhouse (muh-LOOZ'), France.

In 1990, President George H.W. Bush went back on his "no-new-taxes" campaign pledge, conceding that tax increases would have to be included in any deficit-reduction package worked out with congressional negotiators.

Ten years ago: The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools was unconstitutional because the words "under God" had been inserted by Congress in 1954. (The U.S. Supreme Court overturned the decision in 2004 on a technicality.) The Group of Eight nations, meeting in Canada, announced that Russia would be made a full-fledged member of the elite group. Chinese basketball star Yao Ming was selected first overall by the Houston Rockets in the NBA draft.

Five years ago: Conservative commentator Ann Coulter, appearing on MSNBC's "Hardball," got into a verbal fracas with Elizabeth Edwards, who had called into the program to ask Coulter to stop making personal attacks on her husband, Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards. Paris Hilton left the Los Angeles County jail after a bizarre, three-week stay for a probation violation. Fashion designer Liz Claiborne died in New York at age 78.

One year ago: New York City's gay pride parade turned into a carnival-like celebration of same-sex marriage as hundreds of thousands of revelers rejoiced at the state's new law giving gay couples the same marital rights as everyone else. In Senegal, hundreds of Muslim protesters descended on a Jehovah's Witness temple and a bar in Dakar, setting the buildings on fire in a rare instance of religious extremism in the normally moderate Islamic republic. Top-ranked Yani Tseng won the LPGA Championship at Locust Hill Country Club in Pittsford, N.Y., by 10 strokes.

Today's Birthdays: Actress Eleanor Parker is 90. Jazz musician-film composer Dave Grusin is 78. Actor Josef Sommer is 78. Singer Billy Davis Jr. is 72. Rock singer Georgie Fame is 69. Actor Clive Francis is 66. Rhythm-and-blues singer Brenda Holloway is 66. Actor Michael Paul Chan is 62. Actor Robert Davi is 61. Singer-musician Mick Jones is 57. Actor Gedde Watanabe (GEH'-dee wah-tah-NAH'-bee) is 57. Rock singer Chris Isaak is 56. Rock singer Patty Smyth is 55. Singer Terri Nunn (Berlin) is 51. Rock singer Harriet Wheeler (The Sundays) is 49. Rock musician Colin Greenwood (Radiohead) is 43. Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson is 42. Actor Sean Hayes is 42. Actor Matt Letscher is 42. Actor Chris O'Donnell is 42. Actor Nick Offerman is 42. Actress Rebecca Budig is 39. MLB All-Star player Derek Jeter is 38. Country singer Gretchen Wilson is 38. Rock musician Nathan Followill (Kings of Leon) is 33. Pop-rock singer-musician Ryan Tedder (OneRepublic) is 33. Actor-musician Jason Schwartzman is 32. Actress-singer Jennette McCurdy is 20.

Thought for Today: "You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea." ? Pearl S. Buck, American author (born this date in 1892, died in 1973).

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Letsrenovate.com has #334,631 traffic rank in world by Alexa. This domain registered on 1999-01-07. It gets 1,374 internet visitors per day. Visitors to the site view an average of 2.1 unique pages per day. Estimated daily time on site 01:48 seconds. There are an average of 833 links pointing back to letsrenovate.com from other websites.
The estimated daily revenue is $27 USD. If the site was up for sale, it would be worth approximately $9,893 USD. Out of the 30 unique keywords found on letsrenovate.com, "home remodeling ideas" was the most dense. The primary web hosting server where letsrenovate.com is hosted resolves to the IP address 173.201.41.191 and is located at Scottsdale AZ in United States. This site has Google PageRank? 4 of 10.

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Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Police stations attacked in restive northern Nigeria

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Mind reading from brain recordings? 'Neural fingerprints' of memory associations decoded

ScienceDaily (June 26, 2012) ? Researchers have long been interested in discovering the ways that human brains represent thoughts through a complex interplay of electrical signals. Recent improvements in brain recording and statistical methods have given researchers unprecedented insight into the physical processes under-lying thoughts. For example, researchers have begun to show that it is possible to use brain recordings to reconstruct aspects of an image or movie clip someone is viewing, a sound someone is hearing or even the text someone is reading.

A new study by University of Pennsylvania and Thomas Jefferson University scientists brings this work one step closer to actual mind reading by using brain recordings to infer the way people organize associations between words in their memories.

The research was conducted by professor Michael J. Kahana of the Department of Psychology in Penn's School of Arts and Sciences and graduate student Jere-my R. Manning, then a member of the Neuroscience Graduate Group in Penn's Perelman School of Medicine. They collaborated with other members of Kahana's laboratory, as well as with research faculty at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.

Their study was published in The Journal of Neuroscience.

The brain recordings necessary for the study were made possible by the fact that the participants were epilepsy patients who volunteered for the study while awaiting brain surgery. These participants had tiny electrodes implanted in their brains, which allowed researchers to precisely observe electrical signals that would not have been possible to measure outside the skull. While recording these electrical signals, the researchers asked the participants to study lists of 15 randomly chosen words and, a minute later, to repeat the words back in which-ever order they came to mind.

The researchers examined the brain recordings as the participants studied each word to home in on signals in the participant' brains that reflected the meanings of the words. About a second before the participants recalled each word, these same "meaning signals" that were identified during the study phase were spontaneously reactivated in the participants' brains.

Because the participants were not seeing, hearing or speaking any words at the times these patterns were reactivated, the researchers could be sure they were observing the neural signatures of the participants' self-generated, internal thoughts.

Critically, differences across participants in the way these meaning signals were reactivated predicted the order in which the participants would recall the words. In particular, the degree to which the meaning signals were reactivated before recalling each word reflected each participant's tendency to group similar words (like "duck" and "goose") together in their recall sequence. Since the participants were instructed to say the words in the order they came to mind, the specific se-quence of recalls a participant makes provides insights into how the words were organized in that participant's memory.

In an earlier study, Manning and Kahana used a similar technique to predict participants' tendencies to organize learned information according to the time in which it was learned. Their new study adds to this research by elucidating the neural signature of organizing learned information by meaning.

"Each person's brain patterns form a sort of 'neural fingerprint' that can be used to read out the ways they organize their memories through associations between words," Manning said.

The techniques the researchers developed in this study could also be adapted to analyze many different ways of mentally organizing studied information.

"In addition to looking at memories organized by time, as in our previous study, or by meaning, as in our current study, one could use our technique to identify neural signatures of how individuals organize learned information according to appearance, size, texture, sound, taste, location or any other measurable property," Manning said.

Such studies would paint a more complete picture of a fundamental aspect of human behavior.

"Spontaneous verbal recall is a form of memory that is both pervasive in our lives and unique to the human species," Kahana said. "Yet, this aspect of human memory is the least well understood in terms of brain mechanisms. Our data show a direct correspondence between patterns of brain activity and the meanings of individual words and show how this neural representation of meaning predicts the way in which one item cues another during spontaneous recall.

"Given the critical role of language in human thought and communication, identifying a neural representation that reflects the meanings of words as they are spontaneously recalled brings us one step closer to the elusive goal of mapping thoughts in the human brain."

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Flavored Water: Cucumber Lemongrass and Blackberry Ginger ...

There?s something rustic and romantic about a cool pitcher of water adorning a summer picnic table and the ice cubes rattling about the glass jug. ?There is also something relaxing about drinking those fruit and vegetable flavored waters on a spa visit that seems so?luxurious. ?Thanks to Denise, now I can have both, at home. -Maggie

During the cold winter months, I drink tons of hot tea.? After my two cups of coffee that I allow myself during the morning, I switch over to grassy green teas or calming herbal blends. ?It?s guaranteed if you walk into my office on a blistery day there will be a cup of tea sitting on my desk.

Now that things are warming up, however, I am searching for alternatives to replace that misty hot cup.? We are not soda drinkers, we feel that there is just too much sugar involved.? And we normally don?t keep juice around the house, unless we are squeezing it ourselves.? So, I have been playing with the elixir of life: ?water.

Any given day the past month, if you walked into our house, you would have seen a big pitcher of sparkling water on the counter. ? A big pitcher of flavored?sparkling water, that is.? It has been great fun playing with different fruits, vegetables and even herbs to create just the right flavor combination.? Some of them work perfectly, and some don?t.? For instance, strawberries, despite what you might envision, are not my favorite floating around a pitcher of water.

Making your own flavored waters at home is quick and easy. ?An added bonus: ?a big glass of flavored water is much healthier, than say a soda, since I don?t mix in any added sugars or artificial flavorings.

It?s also an ideal kitchen project to get the kids involved.? They will love experimenting with different flavors so much that they will want to guzzle down the finished product. ?I tested this theory when we had friends over with the little ones while I was trying different flavors.? I told them mint is what is used for making gum and before I knew it they were drinking glass after glass of minty water.

I?ve definitely decided on a few of my own favorite flavor combinations. Cucumber with lemongrass ? a big glass of it makes me feel like I just walked out of the spa. ?Blackberries with lemon and ginger ? ?slightly sweet and zingy, a great pick-me-up on a hot day.? Other favorites:? watermelon and rosemary, orange and thyme, and cucumber and mint.

Cucumber Lemongrass Water

Ingredients:

1/2 cucumber
1 stalk lemongrass
4 cups of water
ice

Directions:

Wash the cucumber.? Using a vegetable peeler remove some of the waxy peel from the cucumber.? Proceed to peel the cucumber into ribbons using the vegetable peeler.? Put the ribbons into the pitcher.
Using your hands, peel away the rough outer edge of the lemongrass.? Cut the lemongrass in half, lengthwise.? Place the lemongrass onto a cutting board.? Using a rolling pin, gently smash the lemongrass.? Add to the pitcher of ice and cucumber ribbons.
Fill with water. ?Give a stir.? Let chill in the fridge at least an hour.
Fill about 1/4 of the pitcher with ice, stir, and enjoy.

Blackberry Lemon Ginger Water

Ingredients:

1/2 pint blackberries, washed
1 knob of ginger
1 small lemon
4 cups of water
ice

Directions:

Pour the blackberries into a pitcher.
Wash the knob of ginger, then slice into thin slices, leaving the peel on.
Slice the lemon into thin slices.? Put the ginger and lemon into the pitcher of blackberries.? Fill with water.
Using the back of a wooden spoon gently smash some of the blackberries while stirring the water.
Let sit in the fridge at least an hour.
Fill with some ice, stir and enjoy.

All photos styled and taken by Denise Woodward.

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Monday, June 25, 2012

Galaxy S3 Sales: Samsung Estimates 10 Million In July

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ? Samsung Electronics Co., the world's top mobile phone maker, said Monday it expects global sales of the latest Galaxy smartphone to surpass 10 million in July even as it struggles to keep up with demand because of component shortages.

Shin Jong-kyun, president of Samsung's mobile communications business, said the Galaxy S III will hit the 10-million milestone within two months of its launch.

"It has been tough to keep up with demand," Shin told reporters.

Samsung's failure to procure sufficient mobile components for its latest smartphone has stoked concerns that its second-quarter smartphone sales could be much lower than expected. Shin said the company expects to resolve the supply issues with mobile components sometime in the next week.

"Despite the tough economic situation in Europe and problems with supplying components for the Galaxy S III, the second-quarter earnings will be better than the first quarter," he said.

Shares of Samsung tumbled 4.2 percent on the Seoul bourse on Monday, closing at a four-month low. The benchmark Kospi index fell 1.2 percent.

Samsung began sales of the Galaxy S III in Europe on May 29 and released the smartphone through all major mobile U.S. carriers last week. In its home market, the company started sales of the latest iteration of Galaxy earlier Monday.

Samsung's sales estimate for the S III reflects robust demand from mobile operators. Unlike Apple Inc., Samsung does not disclose sales figures to consumers.

The South Korean company said the S III will be released by around 300 mobile carriers in 147 countries by the end of July, aiming for an early start before rival Apple announces a new version of the iPhone in the third quarter.

The third version of the Galaxy S features a bigger screen ? measured 4.8-inch diagonally ? but is thinner and lighter than its predecessors and the iPhone 4S.

Samsung packed the high-end smartphone with a legion of new features including eye-recognition technology that keeps the screen from dimming. It also has voice command functions that let users schedule an alarm or adjust volume by speaking to their device.

Its near-field communication technology enables sharing of data heavy multimedia content among Galaxy S III users quickly. But activating the function ? called S Beam ? takes multiple steps.

Because Samsung customizes its flagship smartphone based on Google's Android operating system, some of Samsung's features overlap with those made by Google.

Separately, Samsung's mobile president said it is still investigating the explosion of a Galaxy S III in Ireland. He said the battery wasn't the cause.

Samsung overtook Nokia as the world's biggest mobile-phone maker in 2011 and competes with Apple for the top smartphone maker position. It aims to double its smartphone sales this year to nearly 200 million phones.

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