Friday, January 22, 2010

Top Musician Songs And Best Album Downloads






While playing around with a music project I am working on, I got the idea to try a few things one of the songs I made for Lagoona many years ago, a FastTracker-based song called "Parterial Enfino" (which it is just a made-up nonsense title that doesn't mean anything). I wanted to make the song a little longer and let it start and end with drums so that I could put it in a non-stop music mix. I fired up the music programs and started playing around, but it all went a bit further than I had planned… In the following couple of hours, I basically recorded a new version of the song!

When I was done, I realized that it was a long time since I had that kind of inspiration, and that I should celebrate that in some way. While this song is not really the style I plan to work with, I will let "Parterial Enfino (2008 edit)" represent my return to the world of music. I have uploaded the song as a demo to Swedish online music site Allears.se, and I would like to invite you all to check it out. Feel free to post a comment here, feedback is always appreciated. Don't judge me too hard from this song, it is just the first step in an adventure that will hopefully go far…

On my Allears.se artist page you'll also see the artist name I will use for the upcoming music project. It may be somewhat familiar to frequent visitors and friends, since it represents my creative work with newer templates and themes as well. I will adopt Daleri as my artist name, and the old testing site Daleri.com will soon be re-launched as a separate artist site while this site will continue to focus more on web design and my everyday life.

Edit: I have removed my music from Allears, it was definitely not the right place for my music. I have tried a whole lot of music sites over the last ten years, and it is always interesting to see that the ones that are owned or sponsored by big record labels are the ones that gives the worst member experience… Anyway, my music is now located on PureVolume.com – I hope it will work a bit better!

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

A five-point The Ocean Manifesto plan

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High-tech geoengineering might one day just be able to return atmospheric carbon dioxide to below 350 parts per million, at which level coral reefs can persist. But long before then the multiplying effects of changing climate and human pressure will have crippled marine ecosystems. For the ocean to survive, we need to throw it five lifelines by doing the following:

1: Establishing marine reserves

Less than 0.01 per cent of the ocean lies within reserves, but reserves do work: they boost biomass and biodiversity and allow ecosystems to grow resilient. Around the British-controlled Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean, for example, the seas are not part of a formal reserve but have effectively been protected since 1965 by the presence of the US base at Diego Garcia; reefs here have been able to recover quickly from bleaching events.

2: Ending the freedom of the seas

Only by zoning and controlling access to the ocean can it be rescued. The present situation has led to a depletion of the ocean’s biomass, something which is as important as biodiversity for the resilience of ecosystems. For instance, 95 per cent of filter-feeders have been removed from the ocean. The North Sea and our estuaries once had clear waters full of oyster beds; restoring even a fraction of these will lead to cleaner water and an increase in sunlight for seabed organisms.

3: Controlling fishing fleets

The fishing industry is destroying essential biodiversity and biomass because of huge subsidies and overcapacity. Ending both will mean more fish in the sea as well as on the plate, while cutting the amount of fuel used to catch them.

4: Banning bottom trawling

A widespread ban would allow seabed habitats to recover. The hidden complexity of seabed life is a key component of the ocean’s ability to recycle nutrients.

5: Controlling pollution

Agricultural fertilisers being washed into rivers are a major cause of the growth in deoxygenated dead zones in coastal waters worldwide, and plastics are pulling poisons into food webs.

Friday, January 15, 2010

Giant Ocean Earth Found In Stomach

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Which appeared on the left side of the picture above is a picture of the image seen to the right, revealing abnormalities attenuation (weakening) mesofer shock waves in the depths of 620 miles under the ground.

In between the two images, the red color layer to explain the extraordinary rock is weak and loose, and considered the interior contains water, while the blue color to explain unusual rock hard (white and yellow colors are located in the middle).

For the first time humans discovered a giant water systems in the inner Mesosphere. According to the life science com, that when memayar in the inner depths of the earth, scientists discover a giant reservoir beneath eastern Asia, the volume of water in it equal to the amount of water in the Antarctic sea or the Arctic ocean. This is the first time humans discovered a giant water system in the inner mesofer.

These findings are the result of joint research geologist at the University of Washington, namely Michael Wysession by Jesse Lawrence, a student from the University of California, and these findings will be published in the monograph published by the American geophysical institute.

They both have mengalisis with graphics almost as much a shock wave of 600,000 (record shock waves that arise when an earthquake across the earth, collected from the equipment scattered in various regions of the world).

They found, that the wave of earthquakes beneath the Asian mainland showed a weak phenomenon, but it also slightly slowed its speed, Wysession said: "The water can slow the speed of earthquake waves, a large number of signs of slowing and weakening it can predict where there is water. "

According to previous calculations, when the layer of rock that sank into the cold mesofer deep underground thousands of km, the high temperature deep underground will be out of water vapor in the rock layers.

Wysession tells us: "That's what we show here, the water in the rock layer with a layer of rock deep seabed and the water was very cold, but along with the growing level of depth, the temperature will begin to rise, and the rock began to unstable, and loses water contained in it. "then the water began to rise and go into the pile, and there be a water saturated area, but there was still like a glimpse of the rock solid, and only by putting them in your new lab can find water in it. "

Although they briefly looked like a solid rock, as much as 15% in some ocean floor rocks is water. Wysession tells us: "Concretely, the water is in the mineral structure of rock. When you heat it, it will remove the water, just like you burn a piece of clay, can remove all the water in it. "

Researchers predict that in areas of the earth's surface is covered with water, just 0.1% of rock layers deep into the mesofer could produce an equal volume of water with a sea of the North Pole.
Wysession called underground structure of this new as the "Beijing abnormal", because he found under the City of Beijing, China, the value of the largest earthquake waves recession. Wysession first used this term in an explanation at the University of Beijing.

According to Wysession: "They feel very attractive, China earthquake threat far greater than other regions in the world, so they are very interested in seismology."

As many as 70% of the earth's surface is covered by water, water, water has many advantages, one of which is playing the role of "lubricant" for the land plate movement.

Let us see Venus, which according to Wysession, the interior is very hot and extremely dry, he does not have plate structures, all of the water may have on-evaporation (yawn), no plates, and the entire system is closed.

IIDA Foundation Announced Award Recipients

IIDA Foundation  Announced Award Recipients

IIDA Foundation Announced Award Recipients
The Trustees of the IIDA Foundation announced the most recent recipients of the NCIDQ Tuition Reimbursement Fund and the Sustainable Design Education Fund.

The NCIDQ Tuition Reimbursement Fund offers IIDA Associate Members an opportunity to apply for financial assistance upon passing all three parts of the NCIDQ exam.

Thanks to the generosity of IIDA Members in the 2009 Designing for the Future Campaign, additional funds were allocated to this fund which made it possible to award reimbursements to seven individuals.

The Sustainable Design Education Fund was created to award tuition reimbursement to IIDA Professional and Associate Members who take and pass the LEED Accreditation Exam.

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

The waters surrounding the Chagos Islands

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A company belonging to the Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser is opposing plans to create the world’s biggest marine reserve. His company holds a government contract to manage fishing in the area, which would be banned if the reserve were created.

The waters surrounding the Chagos Islands — or the British Indian Ocean Territory — are among the most pristine in the world. In November David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, announced a consultation on whether to ban all fishing in the area after a campaign by a coalition of conservationists and ecological scientists. A decision is expected in the spring.

The company owned by Professor John Beddington, the Chief Scientific Adviser, and his wife, argues there is no evidence that a ban would improve the environment and would in fact drive fishing boats into other areas of the Indian Ocean where there is less control over what they catch.

The Marine Resources Assessment Group (MRAG) Ltd was established by Professor Beddington, a renowned expert on marine fisheries, in 1986.

A green turtle off the Diego Garcia atoll, Chagos Islands

A green turtle in the Chagos Islands

In 1991 a 200-mile exclusion zone was declared around the Chagos Islands and MRAG won the contract to manage the fishing. The following year Professor Beddington became special adviser to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on the fisheries around Chagos. Although the management contract must be put out for tender every five years, MRAG has always won it. Neither MRAG nor the Foreign Office will confirm its value, but MacAlister Elliott, a company that tendered for the work in 2005, put in a bid of £1.4 million for three years.

Upon taking his government position in 2008 Professor Beddington resigned his directorship but he still controls the company with a majority shareholding (50.1 per cent). The remainder are owned by his wife.

The Foreign Office earns between £700,000 and £1 million a year from licences to fish around Chagos. This income offsets the £1.7 million annual cost of running the region’s patrol boat, the Pacific Marlin. The shortfall is made up from a Foreign Office fund.

MRAG is not opposed to protecting the area’s coral reefs, but is against the proposal to ban fishing from the 544,000 sq km (210,000 sq miles) under British control. The MRAG contract ends in May, although the Government has the option of extending it for another year.

“If the whole area was declared closed there could be potentially negative consequences,” said Chris Rees, the MRAG development director. “Shark-finning is banned completely, unlike elsewhere in the Indian Ocean. If you close the fishery those boats will be displaced to areas where there is less control.”

While acknowledging the benefits of marine reserves for resident species, Mr Rees said that “for tuna fisheries the case is less strong. Unless very, very large — and the size of the waters is not sufficiently large — then reserves are not going to affect the catch of highly migratory species like tuna.”

But other marine scientists disagree. “Tuna aren’t free-swimming in a random way,” said Heather Koldewey, a marine ecologist at the Zoological Society of London. “They’re attracted to certain features and Chagos is a perfect breeding area for them.”

While scientists working on fisheries management (including those at MRAG) focus on the sustainability of harvesting key species such as tuna, those from other branches of marine science increasingly recognise that protecting the wider ecosystem is vital for the long-term health of the ocean.

“Top predators are the linchpin for the whole ecosystem. Remove them and there are knock-on effects down the food chain,” Dr Koldeway said.

A spokesman said that Professor Beddington had not been involved in the management of MRAG and had not discussed related issues with the Foreign Office. Not all science related to government business passed his office, the spokesman said, but he did oversee other chief scientific advisers.

Last July the Foreign Office hired Professor David Clary as its chief scientific adviser. If the Foreign Secretary requires guidance, it is Professor Clary that he will turn to first.

“The concern is that he [Professor Beddington] has the potential for informal influence over this decision,” said Norman Lamb, the Liberal Democrat frontbencher. “I would have thought, given his role, it is perhaps appropriate to divest himself of all financial interests while the decision is being made.”

Willie Mackenzie, an ocean campaigner for Greenpeace, said: “Scientists tell us that marine reserves are crucial to protect marine life. Unfortunately it seems that a company owned by the Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser didn’t get the memo.”

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