Diatom Reduces Red Tide's Toxicity

�It's estimated that the red tide algae, Karenia brevis, costs approximately $20 million per bloom in economic price off the coast of Florida alone. Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have found that a diatom can scale down the levels of the red tide's toxicity to animals and that the same diatom can shrink red tide's toxicity to other algae as well. If scientists can watch to enjoyment this action to slim the toxicity of red tide, they could reduce the immense amount of economic damage done to the seafood and touristry industries. The research appears as articles in press for the Web sites of the journals Harmful Algae and the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B.



"We found that red tide toxins can be metabolized by other species of phytoplankton. That holds true for both the brevetoxins that damage members of the animal kingdom and the as heretofore unknown allelopathic toxins that kill other competing species of algae," said Julia Kubanek, an associate professor with a joint appointment in Georgia Tech's School of Biology and School of Chemistry and Biochemistry.



Red tide is a dramatic case of an ecosystem that's out of control. In normal seawater, K. brevis makes up about 1 per centum or less of the species, merely during a red tide, that share increases to more than 90 pct. Filter feeders such as oysters, mussels and lucre ingest the dinoflagellate and become insecure to feed. Fish killed by the red tide wash on the land, which rump be contaminated and fundamentally unusable to tourists for months at a time.



Kubanek and her researchers base in premature work that the growth of the diatom Skeletonema costatum was only moderately suppressed by the brevetoxins released by the red ink tide. So, they figured that the diatom power have a way to deal with the toxins. According to their work, they were right.



In unitary experiment, elaborated in the journal Harmful Algae, Kubanek's students grew the red tide alga along with the S. costatum diatom to test her group's hypothesis and found that the samples with both organisms had a littler concentration of brevetoxin B than samples without the diatom. They also tried the algae with quaternity different S. costatum diatom strains from around the world and came up with for the most part the same results. That suggests that evolutionary experience with the red tide algae was not necessary for the diatom to resist the toxins.



In another experiment, covered in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, they found that the red ink tide alga was able to reduce the growth of the S. costatum diatom, only that exposure of the red lunar time period organism to S. costatum makes the red tide less toxic to microscopical algae. That suggests that the diatom is somehow able to reduce the potency of red tide's toxins.



"It could be that Skeletonema is degrading Karenia's allelopathic chemicals just wish it degrades brevetoxins. Or, it could be that Skeletonema is stressing Karenia out, making it harder to farm allelopathic chemicals," said Kubanek.



What they do know is that the brevetoxins that harm oysters and other members of the beast kingdom aren't the whole story.



"We establish that when we took seawater and added purified brevetoxins to it, the live algae didn't suffer much, so there moldiness be other chemicals released by the red tide that are toxic to these alga," said Kubanek.



How that's done, isn't clear yet, but Kubanek and her radical are currently working on finding the answer to that question.



"What we do know is that this diatom, S. costatum, is able to undermine these toxins produced by the red tide, as well as the brevetoxins that are known to kill vertebrate animals like fish and dolphins," said Kubanek.



If scientists such as Kubanek and her team buns learn more about the strategies that microscopic alga use to reduce the toxicity of red tide, they power be able to economic consumption that noesis to help reduce the poisonous personal effects the tide has on the brute kingdom, non to reference the hurt it does to the seafood and tourism industries.





Kubanek's research team for these studies consisted of Tracey Myers and Emily Prince from Georgia Tech and Jerome Naar of the Center for Marine Science at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.



Source: David Terraso

Georgia Institute of Technology




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Newspapers Highlight Activities Related To World Breastfeeding Week

�This week is the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action's World Breastfeeding Week. Summaries of related stories appear at a lower place.

~ Colorado: A law requiring employers to cater reasonable time and private space for women to breastfeed their infants will take effect on Thursday, the Summit Daily News reports (Allen, Summit Daily News, 8/4). The Workplace Accommodations for Nursing Mothers Act as well requires that employers non discriminate against the breastfeeding women. Colorado is the 16th province to pass such a law. The Colorado Breastfeeding Coalition hosted a festivity Friday at the state Capitol building, where Lt. Gov. Barbara O'Brien (D) spoke almost the legislation. Coalition representatives said the law will improve the health of Colorado mothers and children by increasing breastfeeding duration and exclusivity rates. According to the Pueblo Chieftain, research has shown that employers wHO provide breastfeeding support live improved productivity and morale, greater retention, and rock-bottom health care costs and absenteeism (Sword, Pueblo Chieftain, 8/4). The coalition posted on its Web site steps employers can assume to see to it compliance with the unexampled law (Summit Daily News, 8/4).

~ Kentucky: Public health officials are vocation on employers, families and health workers to help oneself improve breastfeeding rates in the state, the Lexington Herald-Leader reports. According to the 2008 CDC account card on breastfeeding exclusivity, Louisiana is the but state that has a lower breastfeeding rate than Kentucky. Less than half of Kentucky mothers breastfed their children at least once in 2005, compared with the national average of 74%, the analysis showed. After six months -- the minimum amount of time that health professionals commend breastfeeding solely -- less than quarter of Kentucky mothers were breastfeeding, according to the report card. Breastfeeding innovation rates are higher in metropolitan areas of the state. According to the Herald-Leader, women in rural areas give less approach to certified lactation specialists and breastfeeding supplies (Vos, Lexington Herald-Leader, 8/4).

~ New York City: The New York City Breastfeeding Promotion Leadership Committee on Friday lED a demonstration during which about 24 women openly nursed their children on the city's subway organisation, the New York Daily News reports. The citizens committee began the annual monstrance in 2004 after a mother breastfeeding her fry on the subway was given a citation for indecent exposure. The grouping supports country legislation (S 1674) called the Breastfeeding Bill of Rights that would require all mothers to be informed of breastfeeding rights and options (Angelova, New York Daily News, 8/2).

~ Togo: UNICEF is working with the Togolese government to bolster community support groups and local initiatives that promote exclusive maternal breastfeeding over common traditional practices, the UN News Service reports. Pregnant and wet mothers in Togo and other West African countries face problems in trying to obtain a intelligent and well-balanced diet, according to Vincent Maku of UNICEF. About 28% of Togolese mothers exclusively lactate, and as many as 108 out of every 1,000 children in the rural area die ahead age quintuplet, often because of malnutrition, UN News Service reports. According to UN News Service, advocacy campaigns let had to address traditional Togolese alimentation practices that can

Junior Watson

   
Artist: Junior Watson

   Genre(s): 
Blues
   

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Discography:


   
 Long Overdue

   Year:    
Tracks: 17


   
 If I had a Genie

   Year:    
Tracks: 14

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Despite performing the role of perrenial sideman, often in fine bands that left field much to be coveted in the visibleness department, Mike "Junior" Watson was, and is, one of the almost influential vapors guitarists of his generation. In fact, undermentioned Robben Ford's defection into





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Lost Tribe

   
Artist: Lost Tribe

   Genre(s): 
Dance
   Jazz
   Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Gamemaster (Disc Two)

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 3


   
 Many Lifetimes

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 10


   
 Soulfish

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 11

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Lost Tribe didn't so much start up out as a band only as a collective of first-class studio musicians working on the side. Like the 1970s British mathematical group Brand X (Phil Collins' jazz spinal fusion alter ego getaway from Genesis), Lost Tribe became a melting potful of the styles popular in the 1990s, mixture rhythmical jazz and rock with regular some rap elements. Saxophonist David Binney's sparse lines and the twin-guitar rape of Adam Rogers and David Gilmore blended above the rhythmic muscle of bassist Fima Ephron and drummer Ben Perowsky on Lost Tribe's self-titled 1993 debut CD. Most of the music was instrumental, just the occasional rap data track ("Letter to the Editor") and chanted vocal ("Mofungo") provided a changeup 'tween dizzying jazz fusion pieces like "Mythology" and "Suit & Effect." The group's 1994 followup, Soulfish, was regular harder-edged without losing whatever rhythmic nidus. Perowsky's earsplitting drumming on "Whodunit" and the guitar interplay on "Minute Story," "Planet Rock," and "Blurred Logic" made for a nouveau coalition of casimir Funk and metal. But barely as a collective from the rap-jazz-opera hybrid the Screaming Headless Torsos (Ephron), jazz coalition guitar player Mike Stern (Perowsky) and African-influenced jazz saxist Steve Coleman (Gilmore) was compulsory for Lost Tribe's elementary sound, the nature of the school term musicians' wolf had to signal an eventual retardation. Binney released solo CDs and Rogers focused on self-employed work while Ephron, Perowsky, and Gilmore (ever-confused with Pink Floyd guitar player David Gilmour) toured and recorded elsewhere over the future four-spot long time. By the time Lost Tribe released Many Lifetimes in 1998, Gilmore had left hand the band, as much to pursue precept as playing. The titles unequaled ("The River," "Kyoto," "Jordan River") signaled a kinder, gentler, and more than melodic Lost Tribe -- just non without igneous moments, specially from Ephron and Perowsky. Adding pleximetry and Fender Rhodes galvanising forte-piano to his regular duties on Many Lifetimes, the regular touring drummer for Stern shows wherefore there's no route -- letdown after the guitarist records with virtuosos like Dennis Chambers or Vinnie Colaiuta. And the salient yet virtually nameless bassist is now a piece of both guitarist David Fiuczynski's vocal (Screaming Headless Torsos) and implemental (Headless Torsos) groups, so there's no tattle when Lost Tribe testament be in session (in the studio or on stage) again.

Coldplay rule U.S. charts

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Coldplay scored its first No. 1 on the U.S. singles chart Thursday, and preliminary sales data indicate the British rock band will claim the top spot on the albums tally next week.


"Viva La Vida," which has been featured prominently in commercials for iTunes, jumped one place to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, spurred by digital sales of 246,000 copies.


The group's fourth album "Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends," which was released Tuesday, will easily debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 when weeklong data are issued next Wednesday.


A source close to the new album expects the album to sellbetween 700,000 and 750,000 units through Sunday. Coldplay's previous album, 2005's "X&Y," debuted at No. 1 with 737,000 units, and spent three weeks atop the Billboard 200.


If Coldplay's album sells north of 700,000, it will be the first time since 2005 that the chart has housed back-to-back 700,000-plus sales weeks. It last happened when 50 Cent's "The Massacre" cleared more than 700,000 in its first two weeks at No. 1, the first of those clearing the 1 million mark.


At the receiving end of Coldplay's one-two punch is rapper Lil Wayne, whose album "Tha Carter III" currently leads the Billboard 200 after selling more than 1 million units through last Sunday. After five weeks at No. 1, his single "Lollipop" fell to No. 3 on the latest Hot 100. His new single "3 Peat" was the chart's top debut at No. 66.


Elsewhere on the Hot 100, rookie California singer Katy Perry jumped two places to No. 2 with "I Kissed a Girl." British reality-TV champ Leona Lewis' "Bleeding Love" slipped one to No. 4, while R&B starlet Rihanna's "Take a Bow" held at No. 5.


Reuters/Billboard

Steven Spielberg has $1 billion dream

DreamWorks seeks a deal enabling it to own its films

Steven Spielberg aims to raise more than $1 billion in third-party financing to reinvent DreamWorks as a separate company that once again owns the movies it makes.


As for distribution, Spielberg wants to bolt his roost at Paramount for Universal, which wants to land Spielberg and DreamWorks after losing out to Paramount in that quest a couple years ago. But on recommendation from his advisers, Spielberg has allowed a bidding war to begin among studios for the rights to distribute future DreamWorks movies.


The chief suitors other than Paramount: Universal, Disney and Fox.


Warner Bros. has sat out the competition so far despite previous expectations that the studio would seek a relationship with DreamWorks if Spielberg and company were to leave Paramount. Industry betting runs heavily against Spielberg's staying put at Paramount, with the related question of where he and the DreamWorks film label land considered a simple matter of who will offer sufficiently attractive terms to attract Spielberg, chief Stacey Snider and their brand.


"Stacey is the next generation, and Steven is very committed to her," said one participant in DreamWorks strategy meetings.


Spielberg's contract runs until 2010, but he can terminate it early at year's end. Snider and DreamWorks chairman David Geffen have similar escape clauses in their deals with Par, while about 100 other DreamWorks employees theoretically would be unaffected by departures among the top execs.


Yet Spielberg will wield considerable leverage in any exit negotiations with Par and could insist on taking additional execs with him as he reconstructs DreamWorks elsewhere. Although Par owns "Transformers" and other films produced by DreamWorks while at the studio, Spielberg's rights regarding involvement on sequels could trigger negotiations over which films he brings with him and which would remain under Par's control.


A window in Spielberg's personal contract with Par opened May 1, allowing him to discuss potential offers for his services from rival studios. Since then, Spielberg or such advisers as Geffen and attorney Skip Brittenham have held several meetings with prospective studio suitors and financiers.


Still, there is the argument -- offered a few months back by Par execs amid early handicapping of Spielberg's future -- that early ill-will between DreamWorks brass and their Par overlords has been smoothed over. Par boosted DreamWorks' production funding and even credit on DreamWorks/Par releases during the course of the former's residency on the lot.


But barring a complete revision of his current arrangement at Par, only bolting the studio would allow Spielberg again to stake actual ownership claim to his future films. He participated in just that through the original DreamWorks SKG, but Spielberg at Par essentially is a producer and director of films owned by others, backend deals on individual films notwithstanding.


Even the DreamWorks name is controlled neither by Spielberg nor Par but by Jeffrey Katzenberg's DreamWorks Animation. If Spielberg were to exit Paramount, DWA could withdraw rights to the name from Par and presumably grant them to Spielberg.


DWA's distribution contract with Par runs through 2012.


Meanwhile, it appears that Spielberg's hunt for financing could lead to DreamWorks securing a bank facility to fund production as well as private-equity investment.


Yet this time around, it's likely that the latter would be much more limited than the one-time majority stake in DreamWorks SKG by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. DWA went public in 2004 and DreamWorks $1.6 billion sale to Par a year later both were prompted by Allen's desire to cash out his interest in DeamWorks.

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The Seeds

   
Artist: The Seeds

   Genre(s): 
Rock: Punk-Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 The SeedsA Web Of Sound CD2

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 8


   
 The SeedsA Web Of Sound CD1

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 11

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Kenny Rogers, Randy Travis join CMA fest

Muse rock the Royal Albert Hall

Muse rock the Royal Albert Hall

IT’S rare a band will subscribe your breath off, simply Muse managed to lactate out entirely
the o from the Royal Albert Francis Charles Augustus Emmanuel Hall and fill it with wonder.

The spectacular deuce-ace left fans in veneration with their incredible and compelling
set, reminding hoi polloi wherefore they ar ace of the topper live bands in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
THE World Health Organization fable ROGER DALTREY introduced the triplet for their
charity gig in support of the Teenage Cancer Confidence.

They came onstage to rapturous applause in a venue deserving of their height.

Forthwith everyone wHO had a seated ticket stood up, with a full-to-the-brim
crowd of over 5,000 standing for the length of the gig in their honour.

Frontman Matte BELLAMY bristle into life with opening track Take A Bow,
belting come out hits as though his life depended on it.

The grandeur of their anthemic sound vibrated through the story as they roared
through New Max Born, Delirium and Starlight.

Mat, possessed of an enchanting strangeness, was mesmerising throughout.

His flair during Blissfulness – helped by the massive white balloons full of confetti
that appeared from the gods – take you curiosity if he came out the womb with a
guitar.

He couldn’t have timed it better than when the final unity landed onstage and he
popped it with his guitar at the final stage of the song.




Drummer Domingo de Guzman Catherine Howard bashed away as fans bled their throats dry out
singing along.

Feeling Good proved their mass appeal, straying from the overpowering operatic
stone crescendos.

The real handle came during the encore when Matt appeared like a man in the sky
on the Royal stag Prince Albert Asaph Hall reed organ to play Megalomania.

During Spark plug In Baby, the frontman pirouetted around, smiling to bassist CHRIS
WOLSTENHOLME with a ‘it doesn’t catch much better than this’ grinning.

Even the unremarkably burly-faced surety guards were grinning, as uniformed staff
danced about in their redness blazers.

Football team out of ten.

Williams not touring 'any time soon'

Williams not touring 'any time soon'

Vocaliser Robbie Tennessee Williams has told his fans that he will non be touring once more "any time shortly".
In a blog, posted on his official site, Williams likewise said that he believably won't release a fresh album in 2008.
The singer said in the posting: "In that respect power non be a proper album come out of the closet this year and in that location by all odds won't be a go any time shortly."
Referring to his last duty tour, he said that the nonstop flight concert dates "nearly killed" him.
He likewise said: "At that place will be just about kind of something this year. I power simply put the B-sides to the next record album out get-go online. Then put an album out in 2009. Which substance you won't be seeing a set of me on phase for a spell."
"I do have to say, the to a greater extent time I'm outlay away from public life, the to a greater extent I like it. Unluckily I feature a massive competitive recommend that wants me to position out three albums a yr."




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Geri Halliwell now dating dancer Flipz?

Geri Halliwell now dating dancer Flipz?

Spice Girls star Geri Halliwell is reportedly geological dating terpsichorean Ivan 'Flipz' Velez, wHO latterly toured with her.
The geminate attended the 'Idol Gives Back' brotherly love party together in Hollywood last weeked, posing for pictures at the event.
Onlookers said that the couple held workforce and smiled at apiece other as they walked into the party.
According to The Sun, a source said: "They're smitten."

M.E.S.S.

   
Artist: M.E.S.S.

   Genre(s): 
Rock: Punk-Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 One More Pill (EP)

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 3

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Christina Aguilera welcomes first child

Christina Aguilera welcomes first child

Isaac Bashevis Singer Christina Aguilera and her music executive director hubby Jordan River Bratman are celebrating the birth of their low child, a sister boy.
According to Citizenry mag, a instance for the couple confirmed that the singer gave birthing at close to 10:05pm on Saturday.
"Christina and Jordan River ar proud to annunciate the birthing of their word Easy lay Liron Bratman. He is a beautiful, healthy baby boy," the voice said.
The sister male child weighed 6lbs 2oz, according to the statement.
Aguilera likewise posted a message on her site, saying: "Today is a very joyful and special day for Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and I as we welcome our commencement boy into this world."

New Bond film gets first Bond girl

New Bond film gets first Bond girl

Actress Gemma Arterton is to star opposite Daniel Craig in the 22nd James Bond certificate motion-picture show.
Conglomerate Online reports that it is unknown if the 'St Trinian's' star will play the main 'Bond girl' in the plastic film.
The 22nd Bond certificate photographic film is currently in pre-production.
It is due in cinemas in November 2008.




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Potter star Watson parties with Borrell

Potter star Watson parties with Borrell

'Harry Potter' star Emma Watson has been spotted partying with Razorlight frontman Greyback Borrell in London.
They met at the Conceit Bazaar And Burberry Portraits party at the Subject Gallery. And contempt a 10-year old age crack, the 17-year-old actress reportedly seemed enthralled.
"Emma had gone all over to speak to Pyxidanthera barbulata Geldof, wHO was chatting to Johnny at the prison term. Emma and Johnny immediately hit it off," an onlooker told the Daily Telegraph.
"It was clear they had scads to talk about - even if they don't look care they deliver practically in commons."
According to the Daily Star, Borrell, 27, didn't actualise world Health Organization James Dewey Watson was until they left the political party and fans started vocation her call.
The unlikely geminate then reportedly hopped into a cabriolet to another fashion political party and from in that location, they ar believed to have gone on to a private event at the Dorchester Hotel.