 Artist: Devin Townsend: mp3 download Genre(s): Rock Metal Devin Townsend's discography:  Presents: Ziltoid the Omniscient Year: 2007 Tracks: 11  Terria Year: 2006 Tracks: 11  Accelerated Evolution Year: 2001 Tracks: 9  Ocean Machine-Biomech Year: 1997 Tracks: 13  Physicist Year: Tracks: 12  Infinity Year: Tracks: 10 Industrial metallic element singer/guitarist Devin Townsend was born May 5, 1972 in Vancouver, BC; later picking up the banjo at long time five, at 12 he affected to guitar, and inside a few old age was preeminent the set Grey Skies, later known as Noisescapes. Sending the group's demo to the Relativity label, Townsend was not only offered a solo sell plainly was likewise tapped to sing on Steve Vai's 1993 LP Sex and Religion, a coaction which further across-the-board to the guitar god's 1996 exploit Fire Garden. In betwixt, Townsend worked on a series of projects with Front Line Assembly, and in 1995 issued the solo Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing under the false name Strapping Young Lad. A stint with the satirical punk rock band Punky Bruster yielded the Cooked on Phonics LP before Townsend began work on the minute base Strapping Young Lad magnetic disk, 1997's City; he side by side formed Ocean Machine for 1999's Biomech. Ocean Machine: Biomech appeared 2 long time by and by. |
Wednesday 10 September 2008
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Thursday 21 August 2008
Drinking Water In Gaza Strip Contaminated With High Levels Of Nitrate - Manure And Wastewater Polluting The Water
�Palestinian and German scientists have recommended to the authorities in the Gaza Strip that they take immediate measures to combat excessive nitrate levels in the drink water. 90 per cent of their water samples were establish to moderate nitrate concentrations that were between iI and eighter from Decatur times higher than the limit recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO), say the researchers from the University of Heidelberg and the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) writing in the medical specialist journal Science of the Total Environment.
Over the long term they recommend that the best protection would be provided by quality direction for groundwater resources. Groundwater is the only source of imbibing water for the majority of mass living in the Gaza Strip. In babies jr. than six-spot months, nitrate can steer to methaemoglobinaemia, to looseness and to acidosis. The WHO hence recommends keeping nitrate levels to 50 milligrams per litre or less.
According to unpublished research, half of the 640 infants tested were already display signs of methaemoglobinaemia. The new Palestinian-German study confirms earlier water analyses and is the first study to pinpoint a source of the contamination. With the facilitate of isotope analyses, the researchers were able to demonstrate that the nitrate pollution tin can be traced back to manure used in farming and to wastewater.
With over 2600 people per square km, the Gaza Strip is one of the most densely populated areas on earth. Because of their isolation, the inhabitants of this country between the Mediterranean, Egypt and Israel are reliant on organism self-sufficient.
The fields are mostly fertilized with gallus gallus and cow dung. Artificial fertilizers account for only around a quarter of the fertiliser used. Because of the area's geology and the semi-arid climate, it is fairly easy for impurities to ooze down from the earth's surface into the aquifier system. Organic fertilizers and wastewater are the main causes of the nitrate taint in the groundwater, followed by sewerage sludge and artificial fertilizers. This was revealed by the isotope ratios of nitrogen (15N/14N) and o (18O/16O) in the nitrate.
Isotopes are variations of the same chemical element that have a different number of neutrons in their nuclei. 18O and 15N ar stable, i.e. nonradioactive, isotopes that are heavier than "normal" oxygen (16O) or atomic number 7 (14N) and can therefore be measured using a mass spectrometer. "The lower 15N nitrogen isotope values in the sewage sludge indicate that the nitrate in the Gaza groundwater comes in the main from manure used as fertilizer," explains Dr Karsten Osenbr�ck of the UFZ. Between 2001 and 2007 the scientists took h2O samples from 115 municipal wells and 50 individual wells on seven occasions. They measured nitrate concentrations of 'tween 31 and 452 milligrams per l. Only 10 of the 115 municipal wells examined were found to bear a nitrate level below the WHO guideline note value.
The state of affairs with the private wells was equally serious: apart from tierce, all the wells were found to have nitrate levels that were betwixt five and seven times higher than the WHO recommendations.
Publication:
Basem Shomar, Karsten Osenbr�ck, Alfred Yahya:
"Elevated nitrate levels in the groundwater of the Gaza Strip: Distribution and sources."
Science Of The Total Environment 398 (2008) 164-174
Click here to perspective abstract online
This research was funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research,BMBF, Germany.
At the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) scientists enquiry the causes and consequences of far-reaching environmental changes. They written report water resources, biological diversity, the consequences of climate change and adaptation possibilities, environmental and biotechnologies, bio energy, the behaviour of chemicals in the environment and their effect on health, as well as modelling and social science issues. Their guiding research principle is supporting the sustainable habit of natural resources and helping to secure these basic requirements of life over the long term under the influence of global change. The UFZ employs 900 people at its sites in Leipzig, Halle and Magdeburg. It is funded by the German government and by the states of Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt.
The Helmholtz Association helps solve major, pressing challenges facing fellowship, science and the economic system with summit scientific achievements in six research areas: Energy, Earth and Environment, Health, Key Technologies, Structure of Matter, Transport and Space. With 25,700 employees in 15 inquiry centres and an annual budget of around EUR 2.3 billion, the Helmholtz Association is Germany's largest scientific organisation. Its work follows in the tradition of the great natural scientist Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894).
Source - Doris Boehme
Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres
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Over the long term they recommend that the best protection would be provided by quality direction for groundwater resources. Groundwater is the only source of imbibing water for the majority of mass living in the Gaza Strip. In babies jr. than six-spot months, nitrate can steer to methaemoglobinaemia, to looseness and to acidosis. The WHO hence recommends keeping nitrate levels to 50 milligrams per litre or less.
According to unpublished research, half of the 640 infants tested were already display signs of methaemoglobinaemia. The new Palestinian-German study confirms earlier water analyses and is the first study to pinpoint a source of the contamination. With the facilitate of isotope analyses, the researchers were able to demonstrate that the nitrate pollution tin can be traced back to manure used in farming and to wastewater.
With over 2600 people per square km, the Gaza Strip is one of the most densely populated areas on earth. Because of their isolation, the inhabitants of this country between the Mediterranean, Egypt and Israel are reliant on organism self-sufficient.
The fields are mostly fertilized with gallus gallus and cow dung. Artificial fertilizers account for only around a quarter of the fertiliser used. Because of the area's geology and the semi-arid climate, it is fairly easy for impurities to ooze down from the earth's surface into the aquifier system. Organic fertilizers and wastewater are the main causes of the nitrate taint in the groundwater, followed by sewerage sludge and artificial fertilizers. This was revealed by the isotope ratios of nitrogen (15N/14N) and o (18O/16O) in the nitrate.
Isotopes are variations of the same chemical element that have a different number of neutrons in their nuclei. 18O and 15N ar stable, i.e. nonradioactive, isotopes that are heavier than "normal" oxygen (16O) or atomic number 7 (14N) and can therefore be measured using a mass spectrometer. "The lower 15N nitrogen isotope values in the sewage sludge indicate that the nitrate in the Gaza groundwater comes in the main from manure used as fertilizer," explains Dr Karsten Osenbr�ck of the UFZ. Between 2001 and 2007 the scientists took h2O samples from 115 municipal wells and 50 individual wells on seven occasions. They measured nitrate concentrations of 'tween 31 and 452 milligrams per l. Only 10 of the 115 municipal wells examined were found to bear a nitrate level below the WHO guideline note value.
The state of affairs with the private wells was equally serious: apart from tierce, all the wells were found to have nitrate levels that were betwixt five and seven times higher than the WHO recommendations.
Publication:
Basem Shomar, Karsten Osenbr�ck, Alfred Yahya:
"Elevated nitrate levels in the groundwater of the Gaza Strip: Distribution and sources."
Science Of The Total Environment 398 (2008) 164-174
Click here to perspective abstract online
This research was funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research,BMBF, Germany.
At the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) scientists enquiry the causes and consequences of far-reaching environmental changes. They written report water resources, biological diversity, the consequences of climate change and adaptation possibilities, environmental and biotechnologies, bio energy, the behaviour of chemicals in the environment and their effect on health, as well as modelling and social science issues. Their guiding research principle is supporting the sustainable habit of natural resources and helping to secure these basic requirements of life over the long term under the influence of global change. The UFZ employs 900 people at its sites in Leipzig, Halle and Magdeburg. It is funded by the German government and by the states of Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt.
The Helmholtz Association helps solve major, pressing challenges facing fellowship, science and the economic system with summit scientific achievements in six research areas: Energy, Earth and Environment, Health, Key Technologies, Structure of Matter, Transport and Space. With 25,700 employees in 15 inquiry centres and an annual budget of around EUR 2.3 billion, the Helmholtz Association is Germany's largest scientific organisation. Its work follows in the tradition of the great natural scientist Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894).
Source - Doris Boehme
Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres
More information
Monday 11 August 2008
Perry makes No.1 with 'I Kissed A Girl'
Pop singer Katy Perry has climbed to No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'I Kissed A Girl'.
'I Kissed A Girl', the first single Perry has released in the UK, has likewise spent the last seven weeks on top of the US singles chart.
Last week's No.1, 'All Summer Long' by Kid Rock, slips to two, with 'Dance Wiv Me' by Dizzee Rascal and Calvin Harris falling to three.
The highest new entry of the week comes from reformed Wigan four-piece The Verve, wHO enter the chart at five with comeback single 'Love Is Noise'.
Meanwhile, Rihanna leaps from 34 to nine with 'Disturbia' to score her eighth UK top ten hit.
The top ten in full (tick for our reviews):
1. (-) Katy Perry: 'I Kissed A Girl'
2. (1) Kid Rock: 'All Summer Long'
3. (2) Dizzee Rascal ft. Calvin Harris: 'Dance Wiv Me'
4. (3) The Script: 'The Man Who Can't Be Moved'
5. (-) The Verve: 'Love Is Noise'
6. (5) Jordin Sparks ft. Chris Brown: 'No Air'
7. (10) Noah & The Whale: '5 Years Time'
8. (6) Ne-Yo: 'Closer'
9. (34) Rihanna: 'Disturbia'
10. (7) Basshunter: 'All I Ever Wanted'
> Click here for this week's albums chart
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'I Kissed A Girl', the first single Perry has released in the UK, has likewise spent the last seven weeks on top of the US singles chart.
Last week's No.1, 'All Summer Long' by Kid Rock, slips to two, with 'Dance Wiv Me' by Dizzee Rascal and Calvin Harris falling to three.
The highest new entry of the week comes from reformed Wigan four-piece The Verve, wHO enter the chart at five with comeback single 'Love Is Noise'.
Meanwhile, Rihanna leaps from 34 to nine with 'Disturbia' to score her eighth UK top ten hit.
The top ten in full (tick for our reviews):
1. (-) Katy Perry: 'I Kissed A Girl'
2. (1) Kid Rock: 'All Summer Long'
3. (2) Dizzee Rascal ft. Calvin Harris: 'Dance Wiv Me'
4. (3) The Script: 'The Man Who Can't Be Moved'
5. (-) The Verve: 'Love Is Noise'
6. (5) Jordin Sparks ft. Chris Brown: 'No Air'
7. (10) Noah & The Whale: '5 Years Time'
8. (6) Ne-Yo: 'Closer'
9. (34) Rihanna: 'Disturbia'
10. (7) Basshunter: 'All I Ever Wanted'
> Click here for this week's albums chart
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Wednesday 6 August 2008
Thursday 26 June 2008
Melodium
Artist: Melodium
Genre(s):
Electronic
Dance
Techno
Discography:
Music for Invisible People
Year: 2006
Tracks: 13
There Is Something In The Universe
Year: 2005
Tracks: 15
La Tete Qui Flotte
Year: 2005
Tracks: 15
A Possible Way Of Spending Time
Year: 2002
Tracks: 11
Saturday 14 June 2008
Universal Music Lose Landmark Promo CD Court Battle
Universal Music Group have failed in a bid to stop an eBay seller from reselling promotional CDs.
Troy Augusto began trading by purchasing rare promos from second hand shops and then selling them on the popular online auction website eBay.
Universal claimed that Augusto was infringing copyright because some of the promotional CDs were not authorised for public sale.
However, a judge in America dismissed the case, saying that the trader had a right to sell the CDs because he was protected by the copyright law.
According to the 'First Sale' element of the law, once the copyright owner gives a CD away the recipient is entitled to sell it on.
The ruling appears to conflict with record companies claims that they continue to own the copyright of material and can ask for it to be returned at any time.
The judge told the court that such labelling as 'Promo Copy, Not For Resale', which is often attached by record companies, does not alter the copyright law.
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Benny Carter and Oscar Peterson
Artist: Benny Carter and Oscar Peterson
Genre(s):
Jazz
Discography:
Benny Carter Meets Oscar Peterson
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Tracks: 7
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Coldplay's New Album 'Viva La Vida' Sells 125,000 Copes In A Day
Coldplay's new album 'Viva La Vida' looks set to become one of the fastest-selling albums in chart history after selling 125,000 copies on its opening day.
The band's fourth album was released yesterday (June 12th) and is expected to sell upwards of 500,000 copies before the Sunday chart deadline.
The album is seen as a crucial record for the band's record label, EMI, who have lost a host of big name acts since being taken over by private equity company Terra Firma.
The company is one of a number of record labels to be affected by the growing problem of illegal downloading.
As previously reported on Gigiwse, Coldplay's frontman Chris Martin stormed out of an interview to promote the album, which was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 last night.
Martin appeared under pressured when asked about the lyrical content and imagery of the new album.
Click here to read a transcript of the interview.
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Tom Waits to play Dublin this July?
Tom Waits will play two Irish dates in Dublin's Phoenix Park this July, according to a report from Hot Press.
The legendary American songwriter is reported to be playing on 30 - 31 July in a specially designed marquee in the Phoenix Park. The shows will be promoted by Aiken Promotions.
These will be Waits' first Irish shows in 21 years. He last played Dublin in 1987, when he performed at the Olympia Theatre.
Earlier this week, Waits announced details of his 'Glitter And Doom' US tour in a bizarre press conference, snippets of which can be heard here.
During that press conference the Californian confirmed that he would appear onstage in Dublin.
Ticket details for the shows have not yet been announced.
The legendary American songwriter is reported to be playing on 30 - 31 July in a specially designed marquee in the Phoenix Park. The shows will be promoted by Aiken Promotions.
These will be Waits' first Irish shows in 21 years. He last played Dublin in 1987, when he performed at the Olympia Theatre.
Earlier this week, Waits announced details of his 'Glitter And Doom' US tour in a bizarre press conference, snippets of which can be heard here.
During that press conference the Californian confirmed that he would appear onstage in Dublin.
Ticket details for the shows have not yet been announced.
David Hudson and Steve Roach
Artist: David Hudson and Steve Roach
Genre(s):
New Age
Discography:
The Art Of The Didjeridu
Year:
Tracks: 13
Alba's Brother Coos About 'Beautiful' Baby
Latest: Jessica Alba's newborn daughter is "beautiful" reports the actress' brother Josh, who has visited mother and baby. The actress gave birth to Honor Marie - her first child with husband Cash Warren - at Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on Saturday (7Jun08). She was allowed home on Monday and has been visited by family members including Josh, 25. He tells Usmagazine.com, "I'm ecstatic. I have seen her, and she is very beautiful." When asked who the baby most resembles, he replies, "I can never tell with newborns. There are not really any features. I can't tell yet." Josh adds his sister "is doing great" and Warren "is one of the happiest men alive right now".
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Steal Vybe
Artist: Steal Vybe
Genre(s):
House
Discography:
Surface 2 The Arrival-(SVSG002)
Year: 2007
Tracks: 3
Britney Spears To Win An Emmy?
Britney Spears’ appearances on How I Met Your Mother may earn her an Emmy, according to reports.
Ratings for the show soared when the pop star played a ditzy secretary in two recent episodes and now Spears is Emmy bound after being included on the official ballot as a possible nominee.
According to OK! magazine, Spears one of 41 actresses, including Mary-Kate Olsen and Alyssa Milano in contention for a place on the shortlist.
The final ladies will then compete for Emmy gold in September.
Do you think Britney’s performance is Emmy-worthy? Be sure to leave your comments below.
Ratings for the show soared when the pop star played a ditzy secretary in two recent episodes and now Spears is Emmy bound after being included on the official ballot as a possible nominee.
According to OK! magazine, Spears one of 41 actresses, including Mary-Kate Olsen and Alyssa Milano in contention for a place on the shortlist.
The final ladies will then compete for Emmy gold in September.
Do you think Britney’s performance is Emmy-worthy? Be sure to leave your comments below.
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