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Bacteremic typhoid fever in children in an urban slum, Bangladesh.
ABSTRACT We confirmed a bacteremic typhoid fever incidence of 3.9 episodes/1,000 person-years during fever surveillance in a Dhaka urban slum. The relative risk for preschool children compared with older persons was 8.9. Our regression model showed that these children were clinically ill, which suggests a role for preschool immunization.
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ABSTRACT: Typhoid fever remains an important cause of morbidity and mortality in the developing countries. Vi capsular polysaccharide conjugate vaccine demonstrated safety and efficacy in young children in high endemic regions. A novel typhoid conjugate vaccine based on plant polysaccharide pectin was studied in a phase I trial.. Fruit pectin, having the same carbohydrate backbone structure as Vi, was purified from citrus peel and used as the polysaccharide source to prepare a semi-synthetic typhoid conjugate vaccine. Pectin was chemically O-acetylated (OAcPec) to antigenically resemble Vi and conjugated to carrier protein rEPA, a recombinant exoprotein A from Pseudomonas aeruginosa. 25 healthy volunteers, 18-45 years old, were injected once with OAcPec-rEPA. Safety and IgG antibodies reactive with Vi and pectin were analyzed. No vaccine associated serious adverse reaction was reported. Six weeks after the injection of OAcPec-rEPA, 64% of the volunteers elicited >4-fold rise of anti-Vi IgG. At 26 weeks the level declined, but the difference between the levels at 6 and 26 weeks are not statistically significant. There is a direct correlation between the level of anti-Vi IgG before and after the injection (R(2)=0.96). The anti-Vi IgG can be absorbed by Vi, but not by pectin. There was no corresponding increase of anti-pectin after the injection, indicating the antibody response to OAcPec-rEPA was specific to Vi. There is no Vi-rEPA data in US adults for comparison of immune responses. The OAcPec-rEPA elicited significantly less IgG anti-Vi in US adults than those by Vi-rEPA in Vietnamese adults. The O-acetylated pectin conjugate, a plant based typhoid vaccine, is safe and immunogenic in adult volunteers. ClinicalTrial.gov identifier: NCT00277147, NIH Protocol ID number: OH06-CH-0070, FDA BB Investigation New Drug (IND) number 6989.Vaccine 03/2014; · 3.77 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: In malaria-endemic regions any febrile case is likely to be classified as malaria based on presumptive diagnosis largely caused by a lack of diagnostic resources. A district-wide prevalence study assessing etiologies of fever in 659 patients recruited in rural and semi-urban areas of Bandarban district in southeastern Bangladesh revealed high proportions of seropositivity for selected infectious diseases (leptospirosis, typhoid fever) potentially being misdiagnosed as malaria because of similarities in the clinical presentation. In an area with point prevalences of more than 40% for malaria among fever cases, even higher seroprevalence rates of leptospirosis and typhoid fever provide evidence of a major persistent reservoir of these pathogens.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 01/2014; · 2.53 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: Young children are very susceptible to typhoid fever, emphasizing the need for vaccination in under five age groups. The parenteral Vi polysaccharide vaccine is not immunogenic in children under 2 years and the oral Ty21a vaccine (Vivotif) available in capsular formulation is only recommended for those over 5 years. We studied immune responses to a liquid formulation of Ty21a in children 2-5 years of age. Since children in developing countries are in general hypo responsive to oral vaccines, the study was designed to determine if anti-helminthic treatment prior to vaccination, improves responses. In a pilot study in 20 children aged 4-5 years, the immune responses in plasma and in antibody in lymphocyte secretions (ALS) to the enteric coated capsule formulation of Ty21a was found to be comparable to a liquid formulation (P>0.05). Based on this, children (n=252) aged ≥2-<3 years and ≥3-<5 years were randomized to receive a liquid formulation of Ty21a with and without previous anti-helminthic treatment. The vaccine was well tolerated with only a few mild adverse events recorded in <1% of the children. De-worming did not improve immune responses and both age groups developed 32-71% IgA, IgG, and IgM responses in plasma and 63-86% IgA responses in ALS and stool specimens to a membrane preparation (MP) of Ty21a. An early MP specific proliferative T cell response was also seen. We recommend that safety and efficacy studies with a liquid formulation of the vaccine are carried out in children under five, including those less than two years of age to determine if Ty21a is protective in these age groups and applicable as a public health tool for controlling typhoid fever in high prevalence areas of typhoid fever including Bangladesh.Vaccine 01/2014; · 3.77 Impact Factor
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Bac teremic
Typhoid Fever in
Children in an
Urban S lum,
W. Abdullah Brooks,* Anowar Hossain,*
Doli Goswami,* Amina Tahia Sharmeen,*
Kamrun Nahar,* Khorshed Alam,* Noor Ahmed,*
Aliya Naheed,* G. Balakrish Nair,* Stephen Luby,*
and Robert F. Breiman*
We confirmed a bacteremic typhoid fever incidence of
3.9 episodes/1,000 person-years during fever surveillance
in a Dhaka urban slum. The relative risk for preschool chil-
dren compared with older persons was 8.9. Our regression
model showed that these children were clinically ill, which
suggests a role for preschool immunization.
with 216,510 deaths (1). The cause of typhoid fever,
Salmonella enterica subspecies enterica serotype Typhi (S.
Typhi), is both waterborne and foodborne, with an annual
incidence approaching 1% in disease-endemic areas (2–4).
Peak incidence is reported to occur in children 5–15 years
of age; however, in regions where the disease is highly
endemic, children <5 years of age may have among the
highest infection rates (1,4–6). Population-based data are
limited (1) and would be helpful for refining estimates of
the impact of disease and for identifying age groups at
highest risk, thereby making it possible to optimize vacci-
nation strategies (7,8).
Data on disease severity and sequelae can contribute to
estimating the impact of disease. Most complications—
including intestinal perforation
encephalopathy, intestinal hemorrhage, hepatospleno-
megaly, vomiting, and diarrhea (4,9)—are late onset.
Whether children <5 years of age (preschool children)
have silent infection or clinical disease is controversial
(4,5,10), which has important implications for both case
management and prevention. We report our findings from
prospective, population-based active surveillance.
yphoid fever is a major cause of illness; the global
incidence in 2000 was an estimated 21,650,974 cases
and peritonitis,
The Study
Since 1998, the ICDDR,B Centre for Health and
Population Research has operated a surveillance and inter-
vention site in Kamalapur, an urban slum in Dhaka,
Bangladesh. We initiated fever surveillance for dengue
fever and dengue hemorrhagic fever in August 2000. To
identify treatable causes of fever, we obtained blood cul-
tures from December 6, 2000, to October 8, 2001.
The community comprises 7 geographic strata, repre-
senting 379 clusters. We selected the surveillance cohort
by using stratified cluster randomization and obtained
informed written consent from all households.
Field research assistants screened household members
for fever in their homes once weekly with a standardized
questionnaire. We defined fever as >3 consecutive febrile
days (reported) for persons >5 years of age, or any duration
of fever for preschool children (<5 years of age). This def-
inition facilitated detection of dengue fever. Field research
assistants referred febrile participants to our field clinic,
where study physicians confirmed fever and collected clin-
ical data by using a standard form. Patients with an axillary
temperature of >38°C were designated as febrile. After col-
lecting blood for serologic tests of dengue and dengue
hemorrhagic fever, we collected an additional 1 mL of
blood from preschool children and >3 mL from older
persons for culture.
Blood cultures were transported within 2 hours to our
clinical microbiology laboratory (12 km from the field
clinic). Specimens were processed by using standard meth-
ods with in-tube lysis centrifugation (Wampole isolator
1.5, Carter-Wallace, Inc., Cranbury, NJ, USA), plated on
blood, chocolate, and MacConkey agar and incubated at
37°C for 16 to 18 hours. Colonies were evaluated with bio-
chemical tests and confirmed by serologic identification
with commercial antisera (Denka, Sieken, Co., Ltd.,
Tokyo, Japan). Antimicrobial susceptibility was deter-
mined by disk diffusion using standard NCCLS methods
We confirmed typhoid fever if we isolated S. Typhi
from blood during a febrile episode. Febrile controls were
culture-negative for S. Typhi, Paratyphi, or Salmonella
group D during fever.
If S. Typhi was isolated, then we treated the infection
with 14 days of standard therapy, adjusting for antimicro-
bial susceptibility. First-line drugs were amoxicillin (40
mg/kg up to 1,500 mg orally divided 3 times daily) or cot-
rimoxazole (10 mg/kg trimethoprim divided into 2 daily
doses). When patients remained febrile after 72 hours or
new danger signs (e.g., lethargy, inability to drink,
cyanosis, convulsions), developed, treatment was consid-
ered to have failed. We treated treatment failure in persons
>12 years of age with ciprofloxacin (500 mg orally twice a
day) and referred younger patients to the hospital. We
defined recovery as >7 consecutive afebrile days after
completing therapy.
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*ICDDR,B Centre for Health and Population Research, Dhaka,
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Statistical analysis was performed by using Stata/SE
Release 8.2 (Stata Statistical Software: Release 8.0. 2003,
Stata Corporation, College Station, TX, USA). Incidence
was determined by dividing the number of cases by per-
son-years of observation, with calculation of exact 95%
confidence intervals (CIs). Univariate analysis was per-
formed by using 2-by-2 tables for relative odds (RO) and
95% CIs. We obtained p values by using the Fisher 2-tailed
exact test. Multivariate modeling was conducted by step-
wise forward logistic regression, using all covariates sig-
nificantly associated with typhoid fever in univariate
analysis. Covariates that were significant when age, sex,
and geographic location were controlled for, were retained
in the final model. We adjusted models for clustering of
repeat patient visits and tested for goodness-of-fit with
either Pearson or Hosmer-Lemeshow methods (12).
Research Review and Ethical Review Committees of
ICDDR,B approved this study.
During the study period, we took blood for culture from
888 (99.9%) of 889 eligible study participants; 54 (6.1%)
reported prior medication exposure. All specimens had
adequate volume. A microorganism was isolated from 65
(7.3%) cultures. Isolation rates were highest in winter. No
positive culture reported >1 organism (Table 1), nor did
any culture-positive patient have laboratory-confirmed
S. Typhi was isolated from 26 preschool children
(Figure 1) and 23 older study participants (age range 10
months–50 years, median 4.0 years [95% CI 3.0–8.0]).
There were 1,393 person-years of observation for pre-
school children and 11,014 for others. Overall, typhoid
fever incidence was 3.9 episodes/1,000 person-years.
Typhoid fever incidence among preschool children was
18.7 episodes/1,000 person-years and 2.1 episodes/1,000
person-years among older participants. The incidence rate
difference between the 2 age groups was 16.6 cases/1,000
person-years (95% CI 9.4–23.8; p < 0.001). Preschool chil-
dren's relative risk for typhoid fever was thus 8.9 (95% CI
4.9–16.4). Typhoid fever among preschool children varied
by age, with 4% in the first year of life and 85% occurring
in those 2 to 4 years of age (Figure 2).
We investigated surveillance bias resulting from fever
definition differences between age groups (4). Preschool
children's mean fever duration (days) prior to visiting the
clinic was 4.0 (95% CI 3.2–4.8) and other patients' mean
duration was 4.9 (95% CI 2.9–6.8, p = 0.37). We collected
84.6% of preschool specimens and 78.3% of others'after 3
febrile days, and 96.2% and 86.7%, respectively, by day 7.
Amultivariate model showed that typhoid fever patients
were more likely than febrile controls to be preschool age
(RO 2.04; 95% CI 1.09–3.82; p = 0.03), have >3 days of
fever (RO 2.55; 95% CI 1.16–5.63; p = 0.02), have temper-
ature >39°C (RO 1.95; CI 1.01–3.80; p = 0.04), and have
mental status changes (RO 3.94; CI 1.98–7.81; p < 0.02).
Another model indicated preschool typhoid fever patients
were significantly more likely than older patients to have
fever >39°C (RO 1.62; CI 1.21– 2.17), mental status
changes (RO 3.54; CI 2.25–5.55), and crepitations (rales)
on auscultation (RO 4.44; CI 3.11–6.33).
All patients with culture-confirmed typhoid fever
recovered, except for 1 child with tuberculosis. Four adults
required ciprofloxacin. No hospitalizations, complications,
or deaths occurred among confirmed typhoid fever
In vitro antimicrobial susceptibility testing (Table 2)
showed a high prevalence of ampicillin, cotrimoxazole,
and chloramphenicol resistance, with 27 isolates (55.1%)
resistant to all 3; ceftriaxone resistance was found in iso-
lates from 1 preschool child. Routine nalidixic acid testing
was not performed, following NCCLS 2000 guidelines.
Our data indicate a high infection ratio in this urban
population, which is highest among preschool children.
These ratios are comparable to recent regional reports
(4,6,13) and indicate that typhoid fever in preschool chil-
dren may be underappreciated. That preschool children
have 8.9 times the risk for S. Typhi infection as older per-
sons corroborates age-specific rates in highly disease-
endemic areas (1). The antimicrobial susceptibility data
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Figure 1. Distribution of typhoid fever by age.
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indicate high ratios of in vitro resistance to standard
antimicrobial agents, with a high prevalence of multidrug
The degree of illness of preschool children is controver-
sial; some report benign bacteremia (5,14) and others have
found clinical illness (4,13). Our multivariate model shows
that preschool children are clinically ill. Coexisting condi-
tions, particularly pneumonia, are not only more common
in preschool typhoid fever patients but also may result in
misclassification and underreporting, as well as contribute
to a worsening cycle of repeated infection and deaths.
Future studies should explore these issues in this age
Substantial clinical illness among preschool children
argues the need for them to be enrolled in vaccination pro-
grams. The age-specific infection rates suggest vaccination
in the first year of life, integrating with existing Expanded
Programme on Immunization (EPI) schedules. This prac-
tice would require either a polysaccharide protein-conju-
gate vaccine to stimulate T-cell–dependent responses (15)
or a live attenuated oral vaccine, since T-cell–independent
responses do not mature until the child is 18–24 months of
The limitations of this study could result in an underes-
timate of the incidence of typhoid fever. First, this study
was not designed to measure typhoid fever incidence or
disease impact. The surveillance program was designed to
identify dengue. Thus, febrile episodes for young children
were defined differently than for older persons. Although
we did not find evidence of preferential selection for
young children, future studies may adopt a common fever
definition. Second, the blood volume examined, though
not inadequate, may not have been optimal. Third, blood
culture sensitivity is relatively low, estimated at 25%–50%
(1). Fourth, the 6.1% estimate of earlier medicine exposure
may be an underestimate, as we did not validate these
reports. If these agents were antimicrobial, the number of
serovar Typhi isolates recovered from peripheral blood
would be reduced. Fifth, we had only 10 months of obser-
vation and therefore did not attempt an estimate of disease
impact, adjustments for blood culture sensitivity, or expo-
sure to antimicrobial agents. Ours is thus a conservative
estimate of incidence. Further observation should allow
the impact of disease to be estimated.
We gratefully acknowledge Eric Mintz and Pavani Kalluri for
their suggestions and assistance with the manuscript preparation.
This study was funded by the International Centre for
Tropical Disease Research (ICIDR) of the National Institutes of
Health, by a cooperative agreement from the U.S. Agency for
International Development (HRN-A-00-96-90005-00), and by
core donors to the ICDDR,B Centre for Health and Population
Research. The funding sources had no involvement in the study
design, interpretation, or decision to submit this paper.
Author participation in this article was as follows: W.A.
Brooks was the principal investigator and provided the concep-
tion, design, execution, and principal data analysis of this study,
as well as preparing the manuscript. A. Hossain and K. Alam per-
formed the blood cultures and determined sensitivities. D.
Goswami and A. Naheed provided overall supervision of the
project operation. A.T. Sharmeen and K. Nahar were responsible
for the clinical staff. N. Ahmed supervised field operations. B.
Nair, S. Luby, and R. Breiman were senior team members who
contributed to the design, interim discussions of the project's
progress, data analysis, and manuscript preparation.
Dr. Brooks is a specialist in pediatrics and preventive medi-
cine. He is on faculty at the Bloomberg School of Public Health
at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, from where
he was seconded to ICDDR,B. He established an urban field site
in 1998, from which he conducts surveillance and intervention
studies on a variety of infectious diseases, primarily but not
exclusively in children, including acute respiratory disease,
dengue, typhoid fever, and shigellosis.
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Address for correspondence: W. Abdullah Brooks, ICDDR,B: Centre for
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Bangladesh; fax:503.210.0453; email: email@example.com
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Nestled at the base of the San Bernardino Mountains, Le Rendez-Vous Restaurant's scenic locale certainly lends the restaurant the romantic edge. But Le Rendez-Vous still strives to match its idyllic surroundings with an equally picturesque dining room?glittering chandeliers glint off dark wooden flourishes, and crisp white tablecloths furnish coy games of peek-a-boo. Once dining companions have honed in on an award-winning entree from the French-inspired menu, servers can happily recommend wine pairings such as chenin blanc, gew?rztraminer, and Bordeaux.
Frostbites Crepes & Frozen Delights' freshly made delectable desserts have garnered this ice creamery several accolades: MyFOXla voted Frostbites the best ice-cream parlor, while The Tonight Show granted it a custom-made jingle. Loosen up with the 16 flavors of sorbet chill (starting at $2.59), made with authentic italian ice, or dive taste buds into creamy chocolate frozen custard (starting at $2.79), made from natural ingredients such as egg yolk. Commitment-phobic customers can combine the two with the sorbet cream (starting at $2.89), where fruity flavors such as watermelon, coconut, and orange merge with rich vanilla custard. Those in the mood for pancake-esque desserts can fill up with a sweet crêpe ($3.29) hot off the griddle and topped with a choice of sauces (each $.69) and accoutrements (each $.89). Buck traditional notions of French cuisine with a sandwich crêpe (starting at $3.99), stuffed with a choice of meat, cheese, condiments, and fresh vegetables.
French Market Grille, a charming sister restaurant to downtown San Diego's Hexagone, celebrates the rich culinary heritage of France with an elegant spread of braised meats, local market vegetables, Mediterranean seafood, and tasty French and Californian wines. The impressive bill of fare treats guests to bistro lunches of salad niçoise and eggplant sandwiches, dinners of roasted rack of lamb and coq au vin, and desserts of crème brulée and apple tarte tatin. It also delights with its bouillabaisse—a fish stew that the San Diego Union Tribune once called "too perfect to pass up."
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Simply Fondue's intimate, chandelier-lit dining room plays host to tabletop pots that bubble with warm imported cheeses, oils, and broths. The restaurant's cheese fondues from Switzerland, the Mediterranean, and England allow diners to taste the world's flavors without having to lick every country's flag. The eatery also simmers traditional canola and broth fondue using individual "fondue grills," which sear each morsel for lighter munching. For each entree, chefs pair simmering helpings with platters of meat, seafood, or veggies, all of which can be altered upon request.
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Sony's BDP-S300 Blu-ray player was announced last year with a $600 price tag.
So many of us (including me) have complained about the price of Blu-ray hardware. Well, now it's time to clam up and start clamoring for your credit card.
According to GeekTonic, Sony's BDP-S300 Blu-ray player is currently available on Amazon for just $199. The deal also seems to be extended to SonyStyle, the company's own store.
Just last year, Sony launched the BDP-S300 with a $600 price tag. It's gotten plenty of nice reviews and seems to have all of the options we love, including Dolby Digital Plus support, 1080p upscaling, and BRAVIA Theatre Sync. However, one thing the unit doesn't seem to have is an Ethernet port, which means no firmware updates for you. Still, it's a nice starter player.
You'd better act fast though. Engadget HD had reported about the Samsung BD-P1500 going for the same price at RadioShack (with a rebate). However, now RadioShack page is gone, and the model no longer appears to be on the site at all. We're guessing they have sold out. Get one on Amazon before they are gone!


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Ryan Leslie made his official debut earlier this year with his self titled LP, which managed to help him carve a few slots in commercial radio playlists. Songs like "Diamond Girl", "Addiction", and "How It Was Supposed To Be" all proved to be quality, lukewarm hits for the budding R&B singer / producer / rapper / songwriter. Yes, R-Les does it all, which is why it's not surprising that he was able to churn out his second LP within the same year. Of course, when you don't need to rely on anyone else to make your music for you, it simplifies things a bit….
The multi-talented Leslie's first album was decent, but problematic, as his music was melodic, catchy, and well produced, but lacked substance. As touched upon in our last review, this point couldn't have been driven home better than on the album's closing track, "Gibberish". Despite being a song with no actual words, you still couldn't help but nod your head, as all of the other elements were in place. Unfortunately, much of the album carried this same sentiment…
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"Sometimes I wonder if because I make a lot of jokes here, people might think we don't take our music seriously…" Tweeted Jesse Cohen from his band Tanlines' account earlier this month, in anticipation of the Brooklyn synth-pop duo's debut full-length release, Mixed Emotions. "Simply put, neither Eric [Emm] nor I have ever taken anything in our whole lives more seriously than the work we put into this album," Cohen continued. "It couldn't possibly mean more to us. I don't think I need to be super pretentious for you to know that, but sometimes I just want to say it."
Part of the reason Cohen felt the need to clarify was likely because @Tanlines doesn't look like your typical musician's Twitter feed, focusing more on clever observational jokes rather than self-promotion. In turn, it has gained them more than a few followers who are clearly unaware that the Tanlines account belongs to a working band and not a comedian. Cohen's message contained a surprisingly heartfelt sentiment coming from a handle usually known for material like, "Just had a landline-to-landline conversation #90s." But try as he might to separate his Twitter account from his band's music, the truth is Mixed Emotions and @Tanlines have more in common with each other than Cohen would likely admit. Mixed Emotions contains some truly great tracks that work terrifically as standalone singles, as carefully composed and satisfying as a well-constructed quip, almost always augmented by a good-natured undercurrent of earnest, welcome sentimentality. And while everything in between may feel like a contextually empty @-reply or obligatory retweet, it makes for an uneven listen that still amounts to more than what that ever-present winky-sad emoticon might suggest.
Tanlines are clearly capable of writing great songs. Between a few singles and 2010's Settings EP, we were given a handful of warm, Balearic-tinged tracks with an extra dancefloor-ready boost thanks to Afro-pop and Tropicália detailing. One of the more notable standouts, "Real Life", shows up again on Mixed Emotions, and while its replay value makes its inclusion seem perfectly logical, it does reveal what some might consider to be a strike against the band. There is little denying that Tanlines' sound is, for all intents and purposes, beholden to a place and a time (see: Brooklyn, 2010). With "Real Life" fitting in so well with the rest of the new material, it's pretty clear that Mixed Emotions has been an immersive project, so much so that it uses the same building blocks on which Cohen and Emm propped up the Tanlines project a few years ago.
But being hard on Tanlines for not being progressive is a waste of time when, pretty frequently, the pair is able to use gratifying sonic details, big choruses, and large pop pleasure-center targets, all of which help manage to occasionally hit emotionally rich sweet spots. Opener and lead single "Brothers" is as good a place to start as any, with the amniotic warmth of its bass and New Order-styled synth flourishes. "Brothers" takes its name from the first studio Tanlines ever recorded in, but it also works when translated as a reflection of a friendship over the years. "I'm just the same as I ever been/ But I'm the only one who doesn't notice it," goes the chorus. A lot of Mixed Emotions contains similar thematic elements in its lyrics, full of vague, open-ended questions that seem most applicable for people verging on a mid-mid-life crisis. But because of their opaqeuness, the simplest turns of phrase-- when left open for interpretation-- give the album a sort of emotional adaptability. For such a rhythmically-oriented affair, these smears of melancholy offer necessary balance.
Mixed Emotions aims for the heart and the gut (though aside from "Real Life", not so much the hips, which is a bit disappointing), but in missing easy opportunities to connect with either lies the record's biggest problems. In the way most of these songs are structured, there's a real need for some kind of release, a way to tip things over the edge and open the songs up. You get a wonderfully redemptive feel from tracks like the gigantic, aching "Not the Same", and it's largely because there's some very tangible emotional payoff in the chorus. "All of Me" and the saccharine "Lost Somewhere" both fall victim to simply not being big enough, which is especially hard to overlook when there's evidence that these guys can pull off big. By presenting itself as being a vivid and borderline-anthemic kind of album, you can't help but feel a bit frustrated when the songs fail to make good on the promise. Exemplified by the driving "Green Grass", it means to give you a charge and push you forward, but instead creates the sensation of running in place.
Which is, in some ways, preferable to the songs that never even have a chance to get off the ground. A lot of Mixed Emotion's direct influence lies in a very specific corner of classic rock radio, plucking rather indiscriminately from the Police, Peter Gabriel, and Paul Simon. A number of acts over the past few years have been paid substantial dividends in channeling these names, but Cohen and Emm seem bent on rendering out the most honeyed details, leaving some of these tracks nauseously buoyant. Had they been a bit more inconspicuous with the references (the lovely "Abby" being a nice example), Vitamin D-enriched tracks like "Lost Somewhere" and the unnecessarily stripped-down "Yes Way" wouldn't begin to reek like so much potpourri.
Fortunately, the record's second half really picks things up, with the appealingly straightforward, new romantic-shaded rock track "Rain Delay" and the spatial new wave ballad "Nonesuch" at the close. These tracks don't hit the same highs that "Not the Same" or "Brothers" do, and that's okay. It can be easy to forget that, while you're constantly waiting for that big payoff, most of these songs are really pretty damn good. Tanlines have never had a problem with the set-up, but it's in the delivery where the occasionally falter.
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On my 16th birthday, in an indigenous village in southern Mexico, I translated for a church group of white Americans from my hometown in eastern Washington state. In their one-room hut, I asked an indigenous Mexican family what they wanted to know about the United States. The daughter replied in Spanish, "Nothing." The conversation moved back to their lives, their work, how they grew their food as indigenous subsistence farmers.
Most of us assume the American dream is universal, that everyone wants the specifically American rags-to-riches story told ubiquitously from Horatio Alger in the 19th century to contemporary soap operas. This assumption provides a backdrop to the current immigration debates, fears of the "tide" of Latin American immigrants assumed to be wanting to come in, and desires to "secure" the southern border through increasingly dangerous means. Yet, on this 4th of July, we might do well to spend a moment thinking critically. Who dreams this American dream and who does not?
Over the past several years, I have lived in labor camps with, picked berries with, and interviewed many indigenous Mexican migrants in the United States and Mexico. I have followed the work of other scholars (Michael Kearney, Lynn Stephen, Jonathan Fox, Bonnie Bade, Konane Martinze, Rick Mines, Ed Kissam and Jennifer Burrell, to name only a few) interested in this group as well. The indigenous Mexican migrant farmworkers I have come to know do not dream the American dream as such. They do not hope to become U.S. citizens, leaving behind their hometowns in Mexico. They do not dream of becoming American business owners or entrepreneurs. They do not imagine that, if they work hard enough picking berries in Washington state or pruning vineyards in rural California, they could become wealthy.
Rather, the indigenous Mexican migrant farmworkers I know want to be Mexican citizens, living primarily in their hometowns in the southern Mexican states of Oaxaca, Chiapas, and Guerrero. They want Mexico to be their home. They do not want to have to cross a mortally dangerous desert in order for them and their families to have a chance to survive. They want to live in their ancestral lands with their relatives.
Sadly, the Border Patrol policies (such as "prevention through deterrence") that encourage migrants to cross in increasingly dangerous areas have increased risk and death on the border. And ironically, the increasing border enforcement is encouraging those who have crossed in the past to stay longer and longer in the United States, instead of doing what they would have chosen to do: return home after the harvest season each year.
I spent this past New Year's Eve with some of my indigenous Mexican migrant companions in central California. As the current debates on immigration reform were just beginning, I asked my migrant friends what they hoped for. First and foremost, the young man nicknamed "El Gordo" explained, they need legal permission to work in the United States. His friend, Samuel, whose leg was recently run over by a farm truck, added that they need basic legal protections as workers that have long been ignored or broken in the agriculture sector and they need health care while they are working in the United States. Finally, Samuel and "El Gordo" intimated a hope that at some point in the future they might be able to stay in their hometown in Mexico without having to migrate to the United States at all.
It is important that immigrants have the opportunity for legalization in the United States and we must fully support immigration reform in this direction. At the same time, politicians would do well to remember the diversity of immigrants and their dreams. We must work toward fair enforcement of worker protections for those already here, regardless of their immigration status. Finally, the most basic (and long-term) solution for many immigrants would be transnational development so that those who so desire are able to stay in their home countries. This should include renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA, enacted a few years after my 16th birthday in southern Mexico) in ways that foster the ability of Mexican subsistence farmers to survive at home. In this way, more rural Mexicans would not have to say, like my indigenous Mexican friend Macario while crossing the desert border, "There is no other option left for us."
Seth M. Holmes, Ph.D., M.D. is an assistant professor in the School of Public Health and Graduate Program in Medical Anthropology at the University of California Berkeley. He is the author of Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States (UC Press 2013).
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