the brilliant green (ザブリリアントグリーン; Also known as BuriGuri) is a Japanese alternative rock band from Kyoto that formed in 1995. Their major debut single under Sony Music Entertainement, "Bye Bye Mr. Mug", was released in 1997. The band are most famous for their singles "There will be love there -Ai no Aru Basho-" (dorama Love Again's theme song), "Tsumetai Hana" and "Sono Speed de" (dorama Over Time theme song). In 2001, the brilliant green were named in Time Magazine's '10 Best Bands on Planet Earth' article, alongside Radiohead and U2. All of the brilliant green's songs feature lyrics from Kawase Tomoko, while the majority songs (including all single A-sides) were composed by Okuda Shunsaku, Matsui Ryo composed the rest of the songs. Vocalist Kawase Tomoko has also released solo work under the pseudonyms Tommy february6 and Tommy heavenly6. In 2008, their contract with Sony Music Entertainment ended, and on December 1, 2009, the band announced that they had signed with Warner Music Japan.
In the summer of 1994, Okuda and Matsui met Kawase Tomoko. They saw a poster in a music store advertising that new members were needed for Kawase's band. This was a band that Kawase had been the vocalist for since the start of senior high school; they covered such artists as The Flipper's Guitar and Pizzicato Five. They went to see Kawase perform at a live house in central Kyoto and decided that Kawase was the perfect vocalist for their band. They invited her to join, and in March of 1995 the band first formed. Immediately after they formed the band started to create demo tapes. They disbanded their other bands to focus working on the brilliant green. Kawase's first recording was a cover of The Cardigans' song Rise & Shine. Kawase was asked to write the lyrics to the band's songs in English.
the brilliant green bounced back in early 1999 with another song for a popular drama, "Sono Speed de" for the drama Over Time, grabbing #1. An insert song also by the brilliant green that was featured in the drama, "Nagai Tameiki no You ni", was released later on, however did not match the success of the band's previous singles.
In 2009, it was announced that the brilliant green's contract with Sony Music Entertainment ended along with Kawase. In the same year, they singed to Warner Music Japan. In 2010, they made their comeback to the music scene after a short hiatus since their best album in February 2008 with the single "LIKE YESTERDAY". On May 11, 2010, Matsui Ryo left the group and did not reveal the reasons for his departure.
BLACKOUT is the fifth studio album released by the brilliant green. This is their first original album since 2002's THE WINTER ALBUM. It is also their first album release with Warner Music Japan.
Atmospheric boron has been separated into gaseous and particulate components for the first time by passing air through a simple impregnated filter sampling system. A Nuclepore filter for particulate boron collection preceded KOH impregnated Whatman 41 filters for gaseous boron collection. The filters were contained in a single 47 mm filter holder. Boron was determined by visible spectrophotometry with 2,4-dinitro-1,8-naphthalene dial (DNNDO) and brilliant green. This method was employed to allow short time scale variations of atmospheric boron to be measured. The goal of this work was to investigate the role of the oceans on atmospheric boron. Gaseous and particulate boron and rain water were collected at urban, rural, mid-continental, and remote island sites. Sea surface microlayer samples were collected in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
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Fecal samples will be collected by Kemin and/or Cactus personnel at 4 time points between trial initiation and harvest. Samples will be obtained from all pens from each of the 2 treatments. Convenience grab samples (n = 2; 50g minimum/sample) will be aseptically collected from fresh manure (fresh manure will be a subjective decision based on the individual collecting samples) on the floor of each pen and placed into a single sealed and labeled bag. Bags will be labeled to identify pen number and date. Individuals collecting samples should change gloves and disinfect their hands between pens following aseptic collection procedures to the extent possible. Bagged samples will be placed in coolers containing enough ice packs sufficient to keep the manure samples cool. Samples will be shipped or transported to USDA-ARS in Lubbock within 24 h of collection to ensure processing within 48 h of sample collection. Upon arrival at the USDA-ARS, 2 aliquots from each pen sample (25 g/sample) will be weighed into strainer bags and homogenized with 225 mL phosphate buffered saline (PBS) in a stomacher (230 rpm for 2 min.). From the strainer bag, 1 mL of the homogenate will be removed and placed into a 1.5 mL microcentrifuge tube and subjected to serial dilution by transferring 100 uL of homogenate to 900 uL of PBS. Then, 100 uL of selected dilutions will be plated via stick-spreading on Brilliant Green and/or XLT4 agar with or without novobiocin and incubated overnight at 37C. After incubation, phenotypical colonies will be counted to determine Salmonella concentrations defined as CFU/g based on the dilution factor. Duplicate counts will be averaged to determine the final Salmonella concentration for each pen. Phenotypic colonies from each plate will be pulled and subjected to a Salmonella latex agglutination test or other biochemical test for positive confirmation. In conjunction to quantification, 1 mL of homogenate will be placed in a 1:10 dilution of Tetrathionate Broth with iodine, and 1 mL will also be placed in Rappaport Vassiladus enrichment broth and placed in 37C and 42C incubators, respectively overnight. From the enriched cultures, a 1 uL loop will be utilized to streak the enriched media onto brilliant green and XLT4 agars. Similarly, latex agglutination tests will be performed on phenotypic colonies. Upon harvest of the subject cattle, trained personnel from West Texas A&M University will collect subiliac lymph nodes (n=300) from the carcass after hide removal and evisceration. Samples will be collected in labeled, sealable bags and packaged with ice packs and packing material. Following shipment and receipt of the lymph node samples by USDA-ARS, the lymph nodes will be denuted, the surface sanitized in boiling water, macerated, and homogenized in strainer bags with a 1:10 w/v of PBS. Isolation and quantification of Salmonella will occur as described above for the fecal samples. Following data collection, all samples and isolates will be destroyed via chemical and/or steam sterilization, and no isolates will be serotyped throughout the study.