Happy Birthday Bez

October 25, 2010

Today is my bezfrhen's birthday. I'm supposed to create a video for her. I can Wait Forever by Simple Plan? The song and it's message is nice but I think the song is more of "for me". Far Away by Nickelback? It's one of my all time favorite songs but this song is still more of "for me. I guess the most appropriate song for her is Your Guardian Angel by Red Jumpsuit Apparatus. I know she really liked this song. But since I don't have a quality time last week, I was not able to make this. Soon, I'll finish the video and I know she'll like it. The concept is in my head. I'm still having a hard time on how can I upload this in youtube without encountering some "rights" issue.

I called her a while ago, for just a minute. I hope she's happy today, I guess she is, and I know she will be. I'm still bothered about "us", which is never true IMO. I believe she's with somebody else right now. *erase-erase-erase*.

I just wish that she'll be happy for the rest of her life and she'll find the man she deserves and that will make her feel how beautiful life is and that there's always hope after the rain. I may not be that man, but I hope I'll be the friend that will guide her and be with her as she make her dreams come true.

I really miss her. I just can't show it, but inside my mind and my heart.. I do.. When will I see you again..

Happy Birthday Bez.. :D

Europe Tour (Oct 27-Nov 23)(w/ special guest Ryan Cabrera)

I hope their next stop will be here in Philippines, here in Cebu. Boyce Avenue and Ryan Cabrera are my favorite acoustic singers.. I've already watched Boyce Avenue and Kris Allen last February.

Bruno Mars - Just The Way You Are (Boyce Avenue acoustic/piano cover)

Taio Cruz - Dynamite (Boyce Avenue acoustic piano cover/version)

The Social Network Official Trailer -In theatres Oct 1 2010

2010 Environmental Photographer of the Year Winners

National Geographic Channel named the Best Eco-Photos of 2010.

 Over all Winner: Flight of the Rays 

Flight of the Rays

This aerial image of Munk's devil rays is the winner  for the Underworld Category and the overall winner of the 2010 Environmental Photographer of the Year Awards.

Photographer Florian Schulz of Germany took this amazing picture as the Munk's devil rays crowd the Sea of Cortez off Mexico's Baja California Sur state map in 2009.

Munk's devil rays are listed as near threatened by the International Union for Conservation Union, partly because to their vulnerability to gill nets. Imagine how many devil rays could be captured with a single net.

Underwater-World Finalist: Hide And Seek

Hide and Seek

Estonian photographer Kaido Haagen took this picture of a gray seal poking its head through the clouds of plant life. 

Underwater-World Finalist: Birthplace

Birthplace 

Taken by underwater photographer Bela Nasfay, this picture shows clumps of common frog tadpole eggs on the bottom of a spring-fed Hungarian mountain lake.

Under-21 Winner: The Fortune Teller

The Fortune Teller 

Bulgarian photographer Radoslav Radoslavov Valkov won the top prize for "Under 21" category of the 2010 Young Environmental Photographer of the Year Award with this picture of a fly that rubs a bead of water, which looks like a crystal ball, in his backyard. 

Quality-of-Life Winner: Life for Rent

Life for Rent 

A man makes eye contact with Nodi, a 15-year-old sex worker at a brothel in Fardipur, Bangladesh, in G.M.B. Akash's winning picture. Nodi was sold to the brothel by her stepmother.

Innovation-in-the-Environment Winner: Bioremidiation

Bioremidiation

This winning picture by Rowan E. Bestmann captures channels and causeways in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, constructed to purify local gray water — wastewater from household activities such as bathing and laundering—for reuse.

Natural-World Winner: Fly to Eye

Fly to Eye

A green pit viper eyes a hummingbird in Hungarian photographer Bence Mate's winning picture. 

Natural-World Finalist: Backwash

Backwash 

Like an erupting Mount Fuji, a wave takes on a perfect, peaked form in a winning picture by Australian photographer Julienne Bowser, who snapped the image at Snapper Rocks on the Queensland coast.

View-of-the-Western-World Winner: Waste Not Want Not

Waste Not Want Not

Supermarket workers purge thawed food from powerless freezers in the wake of the biggest floods in decades to wash through the rural town of Charleville, Australia—as captured by Rowan E. Bestmann, who also won the "Innovation in the Environment" category.

The March 2010 floods were triggered when a monsoonal low dumped heavy rains in southwestern Queensland state, ending several years of drought.


Photo Credits: National Geographic Channel


    

Annoying Orange: No More Mr. Knife Guy

Piano stairs - TheFunTheory.com - Rolighetsteorin.se

October 2010

Welcome October! 3 more months before the year ends. Time flies. I hope this will be a better month for me.

Mike Tyson and Wayne Brady - Every Little Step (Comedy Spoof)

Who said Mike Tyson is only good in Boxing?



   

Goldilocks - New Found Planet

Goldilocks Planet - this could be next Earth. Do life also exist in this planet?

Source: news.yahoo.com

WASHINGTON – Astronomers say they have for the first time spotted a planet beyond our own in what is sometimes called the Goldilockszone for life: Not too hot, not too cold. Juuuust right.

Not too far from its star, not too close. So it could contain liquid water. The planet itself is neither too big nor too small for the proper surface, gravity and atmosphere.

It's just right. Just like Earth.

"This really is the first Goldilocks planet," said co-discoverer R. Paul Butler of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.

The new planet sits smack in the middle of what astronomers refer to as the habitable zone, unlike any of the nearly 500 other planets astronomers have found outside our solar system. And it is in our galactic neighborhood, suggesting that plenty of Earth-like planets circle other stars.

Finding a planet that could potentially support life is a major step toward answering the timeless question: Are we alone?

Scientists have jumped the gun before on proclaiming that planets outside our solar system were habitable only to have them turn out to be not quite so conducive to life. But this one is so clearly in the right zone that five outside astronomers told The Associated Press it seems to be the real thing.

"This is the first one I'm truly excited about," said Penn State University's Jim Kasting. He said this planet is a "pretty prime candidate" for harboring life.

Life on other planets doesn't mean E.T. Even a simple single-cell bacteria or the equivalent of shower mold would shake perceptions about the uniqueness of life on Earth.

But there are still many unanswered questions about this strange planet. It is about three times the mass of Earth, slightly larger in width and much closer to its star — 14 million miles away versus 93 million. It's so close to its version of the sun that it orbits every 37 days. And it doesn't rotate much, so one side is almost always bright, the other dark.

Temperatures can be as hot as 160 degrees or as frigid as 25 degrees below zero, but in between — in the land of constant sunrise — it would be "shirt-sleeve weather," said co-discoverer Steven Vogt of the University of California at Santa Cruz.

It's unknown whether water actually exists on the planet, and what kind of atmosphere it has. But because conditions are ideal for liquid water, and because there always seems to be life on Earth where there is water, Vogt believes "that chances for life on this planet are 100 percent."

The astronomers' findings are being published in Astrophysical Journal and were announced by the National Science Foundation on Wednesday.

The planet circles a star called Gliese 581. It's about 120 trillion miles away, so it would take several generations for a spaceship to get there. It may seem like a long distance, but in the scheme of the vast universe, this planet is "like right in our face, right next door to us," Vogt said in an interview.

That close proximity and the way it was found so early in astronomers' search for habitable planets hints to scientists that planets like Earth are probably not that rare.

Vogt and Butler ran some calculations, with giant fudge factors built in, and figured that as much as one out of five to 10 stars in the universe have planets that are Earth-sized and in the habitable zone.

With an estimated 200 billion stars in the universe, that means maybe 40 billion planets that have the potential for life, Vogt said. However, Ohio State University's Scott Gaudi cautioned that is too speculative about how common these planets are.

Vogt and Butler used ground-based telescopes to track the star's precise movements over 11 years and watch for wobbles that indicate planets are circling it. The newly discovered planet is actually the sixth found circling Gliese 581. Two looked promising for habitability for a while, another turned out to be too hot and the fifth is likely too cold. This sixth one bracketed right in the sweet spot in between, Vogt said.

With the star designated "a," its sixth planet is called Gliese 581g.

"It's not a very interesting name and it's a beautiful planet," Vogt said. Unofficially, he's named it after his wife: "I call it Zarmina's World."

The star Gliese 581 is a dwarf, about one-third the strength of our sun. Because of that, it can't be seen without a telescope from Earth, although it is in the Libra constellation, Vogt said.

But if you were standing on this new planet, you could easily see our sun, Butler said.

The low-energy dwarf star will live on for billions of years, much longer than our sun, he said. And that just increases the likelihood of life developing on the planet, the discoverers said.

"It's pretty hard to stop life once you give it the right conditions," Vogt said.