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DO SO, AT ONCE
A Tribe Called Quest - "Can I Kick It". [buy]
"But they can't do this," shrieked Lou Reed. "It's my song! They're just taking my song?"
"Are they really, Lou?" said the Buddha.
"Yes! Listen to it! It's 'Walk on the Wild Side.' It's just 'Walk on the Wild Side.'"
"Only here and there," replied the Buddha.
"It's only 'Walk on the Wild Side' here and there. The sample isn't used everywhere."
"But at the beginning and the end," Lou Reed said, "it fills up everything and--"
"It's not even 'Walk on the Wild Side,'" the Buddha went on. "It's the bassline. Did you play the bassline?"
"Herbie played the bassline."
"So it's like Herbie's playing on this song."
"But he's not! He didn't! He played on my song! Why-- Why are you putting it on again?"
"Listen Lou," said the Buddha. "Just listen."
And they listened for a while.
"Do you hear?"
"Hear what?"
"'Can I kick it?'"
Lou said nothing.
"'Can I kick it?'" the Buddha said again. The silence stretched on.
"Yes you can," Lou said finally.
"Exactly," said the Buddha. "Exactly." There was a long pause. "You can. It is not even a question, really. It is a question with an automatic response. 'Can I kick it?' 'Yes you can.'"
"So?" Lou mumbled.
"So this is life, Lou. Live it in the present, in the instant. Hear it, say yes, accept. 'Can I kick it?' 'Yes you can.' Stop trying to interject yourself between the question and the answer."
"What does this have to do with sampling?"
The Buddha stared at Lou. He stared at him with a grim stare, the stare he used when his blue children were misbehaving. Then the Buddha licked his lips. He began to dance. He answered Lou Reed with softshoe, one-step, two-step, three, soundless on the carpet.
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Duchess Says - "Time to Reiterate"
A.Dd+ - "Genocide"
"Foxy..." he grumbled, as he watched his prey evade another elaborate trap. "She just stands there," he thought, fixing his ice-maker, waxing his skis, "eating the bait like she just found it there." Skiing in the desert, flying off a cliff, rocket shoes, moving boulders, this life is shit. "It seems sometimes like the universe wants me to fail," he thought, his face turned to soot from a backfired explosion, "I'll paint a pathway on a rock, and she can use it like a tunnel, but if I try to do the same, I break my nose. It's not fair." He walked back to his cave, feeling the pebbles beneath his feet, in the carved side of a barren rock face. There's no fucking food around here.
[Buy In a Fung Day T!]
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(image of the appropriated fences after the Oakland police action via @gonzoakland)
GILLIAN WELCH - MONTREAL, OCTOBER 25
Gillian Welch - "Look at Miss Ohio" [buy]
Gillian Welch - "Revelator"
John Hartford - "In Tall Buildings" [buy]
Gillian Welch at Montreal's Le National, Tuesday October 25.
Gillian Welch came on stage a little after 8:30 pm. She wore cowboy boots and a skinny dress. Beside her, Dave Rawlings, in cowboy boots and a skinny suit. He held a little acoustic guitar. He wore a hat. Gillian Welch was carrying a guitar as well, a regular one, and each of them stood behind a microphone and then they played one of the best concerts I have ever seen.
A concert can be miraculous in several different ways. It can be about the moment, the particular-place-and-time, the way everyone rallies together during a blackout; it can be because something is happening in the interior of the musician on stage, a private stirring; it can be the hometown comeback or the faraway debut. This concert was a faraway debut - Welch's first time in Montreal - but the show was not miraculous because of this. It was not miraculous because any of these things. Its miraculous-ness, its miracle, came from somewhere else.
Welch and Rawlings sang and played guitar. There was a little banjo, a little harmonica, two perfect minutes when Welch clogged to the side of the stage. That was all. No opener, two sets, three encores. 22 songs, but who's counting. You cannot imagine the warmth, the fragility, the tenderness of these two voices in harmony, united before you, wrote Le Devoir's Sylvain Cormier. No record can give this.
The miracle was this: wonderful songs, beautifully played. Musicians who have that trick of putting soul and want and ragged years into hands, voice, glint of eye. Showmen who raise the house slowly and then bring it down; who show us one treasure and then turn and show us another. They made it seem so simple. Most songs began the same way: turning to one-another, humming and strumming a bar off-mike, then there before us, songing. Welch strummed her guitar, picked her banjo; Rawlings' fingerpicking was filigree, until it wasn't, these decorations suddenly at the centre of the room. On most songs he had a solo, and these solos were whatever he wanted them to be. Short stories, meditations, blues; on "Revelator", the notes he played made the hair stand up on my arms, made my heart shake, heavy as anything I have ever heard, as Godspeed & Low & Neil Young with Crazyhorse, on that little acoustic guitar.
They would sing together, Welch's voice at the front, Rawlings in the edges, like smoke. Cormier is right: this sounds different live than on record. In recordings, Rawlings's singing seems somehow like shading, bolstering, a pretty support. In concert, they seem like one thing. Like the two colours of a mirror.
They played "One More Dollar", clear-eyed, "Red Clay Halo", jubilant, "Rock of Ages", grim and certain, "The Way It Will Be", slow and sad. They played June and Johnny Cash's "Jackson" and a gorgeous cover of John Hartford's "In Tall Buildings". They sang "Look at Miss Ohio" and we all sang along, full throated, without being asked for a thing.
They played so well. That was all they did. So well, they played.
Sometimes a miracle can fit in a small box, a box the size of a dictionary, where you keep your picks and capos.
(Two days later, Welch came down with laryngitis! Get well soon.)
Montreal's CKUT Radio needs your help. 90.3FM is the city's best station, based at McGill but meant for all of us. They play wonderful music and thoughtful conversations, promote community events and activism, and they'll teach anyone how to be a part of radio. It's a tremendous resource and a sort of faraway friend. If you can afford to, please, please, please donate. There are even patron give-aways: beautiful t-shirts, shoulder bags, coffee, vodka, train tickets, and tickets to Black Star or Suoni Per Il Popolo. Do it.
(photo by Mark Seliger)
Singles, Psycho, Etc.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - "May This Be Love"
In the summer of 1960, Bosley Crowther's feelings about Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho were tepid. In a review in the New York Times, Crowther derided the film's pop psychology and pulp sensibility and assessed the acting as "fair". He did not hate the movie, but he didn't like it either. By December, he had made an about-face, arguing in the same paper that Hitchcock's masterpiece was among the ten best films of the year. So what happened?
It's not, I think, that he was drawn in by the gravity of a growing critical consensus that the film was a milestone. Crowther was not usually afraid to stand on his own. A few years later, he would be replaced as the Times' film critic, some say because of his unrelenting outspoken hatred for Bonnie and Clyde, another groundbreaking American movie that would eventually unite critics in celebration.
More likely, Crowther's Psycho schizophrenia came about because he rewatched the film and reconsidered his opinion; or perhaps more accurately, a different Crowther - one in a better mood or one inured to the potential shock of the new filmic possibilities on display - watched it for the first time and liked it right away.
When I watched Psycho for the second time, I couldn't believe my eyes. I had remembered the plot and the aesthetic well, but the overwhelming paranoia, the bleeding of tenderness into violence, the timeless brilliance of Anthony Perkins' performance - these were all totally new to me. Whether this was only a matter of mood or of a more profound shift, I can't say. Just as I can't say why, after I first watched Sofia Coppola's Lost In Translation, I emerged from the theatre exhilarated and proselytizing, whereas when I saw it again I thought it merely quite good.
Even as a ten-year-old classic rock aficionado, I was not an admirer of "May This Be Love". It seemed to me meandering and piecemeal (though I might not have used those words then), and continued to seem so until last week when I heard it in Cameron Crowe's Singles. While the film was much worse than I remembered, the song - wildly pretty, incoherent with romance - knocked me out.
Had I been forced to review "May This Be Love" upon its release, as Crowther was forced to review Psycho in the summer of 1960, I would likely have failed, as Crowther did, to fulfill a key part of my task: to guide readers to the pleasure in my subject. (And I don't just mean because I wasn't yet born.) Until last week, I couldn't hear that whenever Hendrix sings the word "waterfall" his band paints a waterfall with drums and bass. And I could not possibly have captured, because I could not perceive, the perfection of the final minute's guitar solo, the song's most perspicuous waterfall. But lucky for me, Said the Gramophone does not demand timeliness. I'm just now getting to Hitchcock and Hendrix; maybe next month I will write about Griffiths and Bach and Euripides. As for the new Bjork, give me twenty years. I'll get back to you.
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John Prine - "Blue Umbrella"
A crooked mouth like a painted picture, his face looked drawn in few and heavy strokes. A cigarette squint, a sunlit tilt, chin out and hair in the wind. Head pounding like a drum, he walked up to the site. The foreman came down off the scaffold, rubbed his hands on a rag. The night before was a blur, a bunch of pretty girls and a bunch of handsome men, all like mixed-up cut-outs from a kids' book. She had on his pants, and a loose tie, and he had huge curly hair and a nice pair of tits. It was all Texas Chasers and California Wasters, from seven to seven and sun to sun. It was a great time, an enormous time, that had the taste of ending to it many times over. Drinking has a way of making your appetite endless, making the horizon stretch out, it seems like the day will never come. But then it does, and you're down to your last smoke and you wake up next to a passerby, and the mirrors are calling but you don't know your own name. And you get to your job and your boss has to unhook himself from a safety harness to come talk to you. Has to climb down the scaffold and rub his hands on a dirty rag, and take a minute to squint at you, and then "Well? Should I fire you?"
John Prine - "Quiet Man" (live in 1970)
"I can't do nothing, 'cept write love songs." And the sound of a train, away in the distance, taking something to somebody somewhere.
[Buy The Singing Mailman Delivers]
(image by Daniela Sach)
NEVER LOSERS
Grimes - "Oblivion". She 1 stares into the stars, night after night, with grim concentration, and nothing changes. It is more than frustrating - it is incendiary, infuriating. She is gifted, witchy, hexed. She is more than these pinpricks. She is the dreaming changer. Her movements leave trails of light. [Visions is due Jan 31 / buy other things]
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - "We Are Unhappy". She 2 needed new rain boots, so she took the bus to the hardware store. It was so cold that day. Even the asphalt seemed tensed, seized-up. She walked in silence. Tiny pinwheeling white specks, not snow, maybe dust, maybe ash, maybe mid-autumn pollen. At the entrance, the doors opened without touching. Wide bright aisles. Copper pipes, pine planks, rows of sturdy shovels. She, with the end of a smile. A lie of an end of a smile. She found the boots. She took a pair in her size. She sat on a bench with the boots before her and knew she wouldn't try them on, boots in a hardware store. They'd be fine. Why bother. She looked up to where a man was cutting a key, this careful drilling sound. He was patient with the item and the tool. And she was so weary. She had thought once that by going wearily into life, everything would eventually become okay, like an ice-cube melting into water. Like resting your head on a pillow. But now her branches had been bare for so long, and it was so cold outside. And when the man was finished with the key he would give it to someone to buy. [buy]
(image by Charles Allan Gilbert)
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The Determinist Mouse
Bombadil - "One Whole Year"
Joel Brandt - "Lovers' Island"
animal behaviours are determined by a combination of instinct and sense perception
something's 'nature' is its instinct, its 'nurture' is the sum of its sense perceptions
Steam rises off a pond at dawn. Chlorine corrodes the skin off a palm, rubbed unknowingly. The clouds act like the sky's punctuation, denoting pauses, breaths, tone.
animal behaviour is therefore the expression of the sum total of experience up to just before the moment of that behaviour
a mouse that makes its home in a garbage pile could not have made its home in anything else except that garbage pile
They've turned the drinking fountains off for winter. A collection of CDs is suddenly like devalued currency. A single dog trots leashless down the quiet road.
an animal's behaviour is a necessary symptom of the state of the universe
animals are conceived by a parent, and breathe
music is conceived by a parent, and breathes
music is an animal
the way music sounds is a necessary symptom of the state of the universe
if you do not like it, then like the mouse, the steam, the chlorine, the clouds, the city, the cardboard box, the leashless dog, you do not understand it
there are many things I do not understand
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MARKEDLY DISAPPEAR
Travels - "Lucky". In a building in the suburbs there is a machine that generates wisdom. It is a large machine, as big as two garages. One day, its caretakers assure visitors, such machines will be small enough to fit in our pockets. The machine's operation is simple: give it data (pdf format only), and wait. The data can be anything - random weather stats, holiday emails, photographs of family-members. The machine will make sense of this information. It will take what you have told it and respond with wisdom. Sometimes this wisdom is glib, like this is a two-garage fortune cookie: Trust your own experiences, it says. Or, True love isn't hard work. Other times the machine spits out reams and reams of pages, wisdom rendered as philosophical treatise. Sometimes it offers the video of a baby eating a watermelon from the inside out. The caretakers are still arguing over whether this was a bug.
Travels' song, "Lucky", is the response of a machine to the matter of a dead dog. Lucky died. He was a good dog. The wisdom generator has rendered its opinion in oooooohs, mantras, flea-bitten guitar. It is funny, short-haired, wagging. It chases its own tail & then stops. It is a wooded thicket and bright blue sky. It has listened to Yo La Tengo and the Fall. It will bark the bracelets onto your wrists.
[this song comes with Travels' new 7"; just $7, it comes with a 7"x7" varnished still from Travels' upcoming animated film. There are only 150 copies.]
Ólöf Arnalds - "Close My Eyes". Iceland's Arnalds delivers a very un-icy version of Arthur Russell's "Close My Eyes". Despite her nordic vowel-sounds, it has much more to do with Sandy Denny or Anne Briggs than with Nico. It's one of those songs that seems of two seasons at once - the sun-skimmed summer, the clear-skied fall. Covers are so often redundant; it is strange & gratifying to hear a verison of "Close My Eyes" that is similar to the original but newly beautiful. This is not a deconstruction, a dance-pop inversion. It's voice and acoustic guitar. Arnalds singing those slightly different shades of rose and blue.
[buy other albums / Ólöf Sings is out Nov 8 / or buy this song on 7"]
Go see these gigs in Montreal:
Tonight: artful, sparkling rock'n'roll by Baby Eagle and the Proud Mothers. (Panda Bar)
Tuesday, Oct 25: the inimitable Gillian Welch, though I believe this is sold out. (Le National)
Thursday, Oct 27: very excited for the return of Blue Hawaii, long-quiet as they recorded and um Braids got famous. They are playing with (yes indeed) Braids and the young guitar sputniks in Parlovr. (Cabaret Mile End)
Sunday, Oct 30: Eerie and bottomless folk music by James Irwin & Old Believer. (Casa del Popolo)
Monday, Oct 31, Halloween: A Winged Victory for the Sullen, a ghostly side-project of Stars of the Lid. (Casa del Popolo)
(photograph is from this year's Louisiana floods, I believe)
Today, Guitars
Icarus Himself - "MCO"
Arnold and Tommy were brothers and their babysitter was a floating head. Arnold was 6 and Tommy was 4, they had talked about getting married, they only talked of that in whispers, and their babysitter was a floating head. They shared reused gum, they had a shared collection of homemade kiln-fired figurines that looked like beige blobs with arms, and their babysitter was a floating head. They slept in bunks one above the other, and it was the creaks of the strained cheap wood that would keep them up at night, not the constant murmurs and mutterings of the babysitter, the floating head. She had long blond hair that draped down around her ears like two blond banners, barrettes like insignias, her face a great dictator, her mouth the speaking podium and her eyes two eternal flames. She murmured and floated listlessly around the house, in the dim glow of the night-lights. She would sometimes move the furniture with her chin or slam the fridge with her nose. When the phone would ring, even if it were mum n dad, she would just stare at the phone, either unable or unwilling to answer, and the boys would count the rings in their room. [Buy from SOS Records]
Doom Trumpet - "Oregon and Again"
The dawn is not a quiet thing. When a city comes to life it is a raging thunder in the air and in the ground. The cars and engines blow like children deliberately into the city's microphone, making that whooshing, rapping, cracking breaking sound all through the whole air, the cold earth shakes and it feels like it will never stop. But this guitar, this true and solid guitar, threaded through everything to make it feel sane, quiets it all, like seeing a face in the lines of a foreign map. [Site]
The Nâ Hawa Doumbia album that I posted about a while ago, is available today from Awesome Tapes From Africa. It is wonderful, and only 5$ for a digital version.
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Bernard Kabanda - "Nanankya". When someone tells you a story you do not understand, you are free to interpret it however you please. Understand it as the tale of two lovers, intersecting. As the story of the fox who met the sea. As a sage of wry rebels and their sundance kid. With a song like "Nanankya", it is not just the subject-matter you can adapt, imagine (and, admittedly, appropriate): it is the message. Make this song as wise or as inane as you please. Make it matter, or don't. Do what you will with the moment at 4:31 when the whole room bursts into applause. [Uganda's Bernard Kabanda released this song in 1999.]
TEEN - "Just Another". Iris pulls another lemon from the tree and tosses it over the wall. She has been doing this forever. It is a wonder there are any lemons left on the tree. On the other side of the wall, Iris knows, a boat is waiting in the water. Iris wonders whether it is full of lemons or whether it has sunk. [bandcamp]
(photograph courtesy of Michael P)
SO-SOCIETY
Parenthetical Girls - "Don't Give Up" (Kate Bush/Peter Gabriel cover)
"They're killing us," he said, tears in his eyes. Out the window, smoke rose in plumes like the earth were a leaking balloon. Pictures rattled off the wall, in a swept pile of glassy frames, showing scenes of accomplishment and meaningless, wild glory. A servant girl, not barely a year younger than the soldier himself, felt many things as she poured two glasses of wine, from the last bottle in the case. He had asked her to join him in a drink, and despite all that was happening, all the things that were so vast and more important than love, she thought maybe this was his way of sharing his feelings. "They haven't attacked the Mission District, they haven't even been watching it," she said handing him a glass, "That means they don't know about the Secrecy." The Secrecy. What an impotent thing that was now; the forces were closing in, there would be no stopping them, no matter how surprised they might be. "Yes," he said, into his glass, where he looked and saw a little piece of cork, floating in the red. "It's not over yet, sir. Have faith." He looked at her sad apron, at her tired eyes, tired from working double shifts as a nurse in the emergency ward, and he loved her. "Yes, faith is all we have at this moment. A simple belief in the utterly unreal."
Across town, and in a different language: a meager tent sat damply in the drizzle, two men inside, talking low. Already this mission had been talked to death, but still they talked. They talked of oppression, of secret poisons in the water system, of exploding SMS bombs, of cultural persecution. A people reduced to fear and anger and retaliation. A history that would not die, that would fight for survival. Steam from the hot tea filled the air and made them sweat. The tea kettle sat on a wobbly table, on a newspaper, making a wet ring. On an unfinished crossword that had only one answer written in: "PROTEIN". One man, the older of the two, sipped his tea and shook his head, unconvinced, "I understand all that. I do. But this is not the city to capture, not like this. They are too strong, they have forces we don't yet realize." The younger man, his uniform new and beaded with droplets from the steamy air, looked deep into the eyes of the older man and gave his speech that he had given a dozen times or more before, each with its own intensity, like he were constantly rehearsing for the next time he'd perform it, "My father...was murdered...on his way home from work...for the contents of his pockets...four crown and a postage stamp. We need to finish what we've started." He looked out the slit of the tent's door, the smoke rising in plumes like the earth were a well-cooked pie, and put on his preferred capper to the speech, "They're killing us."
This song was given as part of an EP called Demos for the Dreaming for people who pre-order Privelege IV: Sympathy For Spastics which is another in their series of limited-run (and truly fantastic) EPs. As usual, they will be individually numbered in human blood.
BARE AIR
OG Melody - "OG Realness ft Felicity Williams". At first click, OG Melody are something irony-laced and mildly heinous. After all, Isla Craig and Thomas Gill are not Original Gangster. They are young, white, Torontonian. This certainly doesn't put R&B off limits, but their duo is um called OG Melody. This song is um called "OG Realness". When Craig sings, "I call up my OG crew / mixing jams old school," the first image in my head concerns strawberry, pectin, mason jars.
Despite this first impression, "OG Realness" is exquisite, gorgeous and sincere. It is bone-dry bedroom R&B, a song of love and friendship that tilts and pivots. It is full of cut flowers. The production - restrained, funky - is a perfect balance for Craig's voice. There is a vogue in chillwave R&B, but OG Melody have little of that drowsy mire. This is not a sibling of the Weeknd or How to Dress Well. It does not even feel influenced by the-Dream. Instead, this is jersey organ, bare snare, careful squonking solo. Look to the Neptunes at their warmest, or Cody ChesnuTT, or perhaps a little of the Notwist. Or rather, stop looking. Despite their look-here wink-nod band-name, despite the look-here wink-nod song-name, "OG Melody" feels utterly unconcerned with looking over shoulders, with winks or nods. It is what it is, free as indian summer.
[download at Bandcamp]
The Records - "Starry Eyes". Like running through a flurry of arrows, without any sign of the archers. Arrowheads gleaming, breathless zing, can't decide if it's jubilant bleeding joy or a death-defying sprint.
[thanks john! / buy]
The Inflatable Garden
Thank You Rosekind - "Grow!"
After it rains, in the white morning light that goes diagonal off the soft ground, the leaks begin to show. They puff out like little geysers. They spring up victorious like wet flowers. And of course the tree lies wilted in the middle of it all. A twisted mass with a rope swing somewhere in there. And somewhere in there young Marigold who should be swinging but instead is trapped. All the leaks must be sealed, carefully patched one-by-one, in order for the center tree to stand. Crawling on my belly it's my job to fix them, as I curse the squirrels and jaybirds. A spool of rubber patching the size of a vinyl record, tools fixed to a neck choker and stuffed in straps in my hat. After a drought like this, nice day after nice day, it can take a week to fix all these leaks. I slither humbly like a snake in the white morning light that goes diagonal, and I'll only be happy if the tree rises. [free]
Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments - "Fire In The Swimming Girl"
In the version of the future that could only have the name We Went Underground, where internet real estate is the most profitable and corrupt business in the world, where an uplink is a meal and a hug is an open bracket. A strung-out, scarred and dusty Lifter, a hired pair of fingers in the realm of the flipper-handed, sits down at a terminal desperate for information. He types in every note, every word of this song, and it begins to form a picture, a photocopied old picture with someone holding their hands in their sleeves, an off-the-shoulder beauty whose pixelated face still couldn't be made out. It reads "insufficient data" and the Lifter slams his palm against the side of the screen. A pain shoots up his wrist and he goes for a beer in the shower. [Buy Bait & Switch]
YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN - "Queens". A messenger arrives form the future, in a time-machine the size of a bachelor apartment. It flicks into existence on the lawn of the White House. It makes a sound like someone slapping someone else. The doors slide open, metallic, reveal a woman. She steps onto the grass. She is scared, glancing. She holds up her hand. In the years to come, this gesture will be endlessly analyzed. Was it a greeting? A warning? Was it just the sun in her eyes? But she raises her hand and this is the moment the snipers shoot. The woman is pinioned by multiple bullets, like she is dancing around a maypole.
YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN are an art-psych band from Montreal and Toronto who stand in heavy water, weeds to their hairlines; they scythe through fields with wielded guitars; they recall full summer, apocalyptic winter, the heaviest bits of Espers and Besnard Lakes, Led Zep with the Boredoms. They call it Noh-wave. This is a clever joke. Other jokes that have a bearing on Y//ST: wasps, sparks, jellyfish, ice. This music is available on a white vinyl 12" record and I imagine using this record as a plate, a moon, a circular saw through forests of birch.
[buy/listen]
Please read the beautiful, breathtaking speech by Slavoj Žižek at #OccupyWallSt, the best thing I have heard from this movement (and many times more sophisticated, yearning and true than the recent speech by Naomi Klein). An excerpt:
In an old joke from the defunct German Democratic Republic, a German worker gets a job in Siberia; aware of how all mail will be read by censors, he tells his friends: "Let's establish a code: if a letter you will get from me is written in ordinary blue ink, it is true; if it is written in red ink, it is false." After a month, his friends get the first letter written in blue ink: "Everything is wonderful here: stores are full, food is abundant, apartments are large and properly heated, movie theatres show films from the West, there are many beautiful girls ready for an affair--the only thing unavailable is red ink." And is this not our situation till now? We have all the freedoms one wants--the only thing missing is the red ink: we feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.
No Words salutes Bert Jansch.
I will be appearing as a judge at tomorrow's Literary Death Match in Montreal, alongside Jonathan Goldstein, Alexis O'Hara, Katrina Best, Byron Rempel, Jason Camlot and Zoe Page. This is also a launch for the new issue of Maisonneuve.
Later this week, I appear on Wednesday and Friday at the Montreal Improv Festival, as part of VENEZUELA.
The Most Of Our Generation, The Best Of Our Lifetime
RatTail - "Gasmask"
Ahh, wind. Finally, wind. This song carries hawks, splays Moroccan flags, wrecks '97 speed boats, spreads nature's seed, float. It dries hair, dyed, cheeks tear-stained: dried. It's the thinking point of golfers, lick their fingers, point out the sky. It's callous, unplanned plane trip, it's a bumpy ride. The carpet's either hiding a rotting floor, or magic. Hear the agh!, the end replying, "Wind! Don't forget, me too!" [coming soon from Unfamiliar Records]
Lonnie Young, Ed Young - "Chevrolet"
A retaliation against a retaliation. [more Alan Lomax] (thanks, Benjamin!)
(image: Getty)
GOOD BYE, BERT JANSCH
Bert Jansch - "Courting Blues"
Bert Jansch - "Running From Home"
These songs are from Bert Jansch's debut, released in 1965. He was 22 years old.
Almost 50 years later, so much was still the same:
My love for Bert Jansch does not just stem from his guitar-playing, rightly celebrated. It is his singing - dry, level. His heart is hidden away - inside the chest of a man. So many songwriters show too much; for Jansch, the fact of the singing said enough. The words; the fingers on strings, like light on leaves; the melody that moves closer and then far away.
This music is not theatre, a performance for a crowd. You imagine Jansch alone in a room, singing to himself.
Bert Jansch & John Renbourn - "East Wind"
And then he could also do this, making an intricate house and unmaking it, like a wolf, blowing.
[buy Bert Jansch / buy Bert and John]
Emphatic Empathy
Spank Rock - "Baby"
My hands are sparkling. My skin is separating from the bone, puffing out slightly, a gasp inhaled and held. My head is an arrow, my brain a direction, my mind a map and I can see X. Taste is shut off, touch is just clouds, smell is forgotten, don't matter, wind air. My stomach leans forward, to hear better, ears throbbing. My ribs perched like dark birds, trembling at the ready. I think I have an idea. [Buy]
The Soul Sisters - "Wreck a Buddy"
A boy of indeterminate youth checks the mail on his tip toes. He pulls out a wad of letters and makes the universal ka-ching sign for "yesssss!" and runs inside. He sneaks past his mother, chatting tea-side with her friend from down the street, and takes the stairs double-time to his room. He rips open the envelope addressed to Filipo Domenicano, in a deep, expressive cursive, and slides its contents from within. The paper smells of incense and is yellowed, most likely tired from the distance it had to travel. The letter is shorter this time; they've been getting shorter:
Filipo,
You drive me mad. Why do you not return my letters? I burn for you. Today at the market a man told me he wanted to cut my hair off to put on a statue. It was the closest I've come to coming in a year. I need you. I need you with me. I need you inside me--
Dennis stopped reading. He was losing his breath. He put a hand behind him to steady himself and accidently jostled his bookcase. His tin Jesus, from First Communion, came toppling down with a crash. He decided to pre-empt any attention: "I'M OKAY!!" He caught his breath, closed his eyes for a moment, opened them and kept reading.
Downstairs, his mother and her friend continued to have tea. [Buy]
UNWITTING MIRACLERS
Deloro - "Travelling Man". If there is an abandoned country, a man can walk the tracks, collecting rail. Imagine him, Old JR, his wagon full of rail. Imagine his nephew, Reed, riding beside. Reed has a plan: one day he will retrace the steps his uncle has taken, follow the same maps, and gather up all the pinewood ties. He will load his own wagon. Whereas Old JR's home is a thicket of leaning rail, rust-red, Reed's home will be a stately mansion made from weathered planks. He thinks of this as he rides in the wagon, chewing straw. Beside him, Old JR is walking. Old JR always walks. He does not look at his nephew; he already knows what he is thinking. When Old JR was a young man, he too imagined a house made of wood. He did not yet know the cruelty of the world, the enemies in the tundra. He did not yet know the value of a home, somewhere, on a hill, made of the same stuff as guns.
[Deloro is the singer Jennifer Castle, Dave Clarke & Paul Mortimer from $100, Dallas Wehrle from Constantines, and the artist Tony Romano. Their debut, with allegedly splendid artwork, is available now on Idée Fixe.]
Galen Hartley - "Raised Like a Glass". Biding time 'til the chorus, like the way we bide our time until the toast. Finally, we raise our glasses. Finally, the stream of wishes and hopes, cheer and fizz. Finally, that nimble guitar lick, handclaps, sloppy outcried "yeah!" This is a song full of swaggering slapstick, Hartley most of all, and while I am not always certain of the softshoe, I am certain about the messy clink of that chorus.
[Galen Hartley will release Good Dreams at Montreal's Inspecteur L'Epingle on Thursday Oct 6 / Buy or listen at Bandcamp]
Elsewhere: Adam & the Amethysts skinny-dip through the video for their exquisite song, "Dreaming" (NSFW). Catch their Montreal record launch at Phonopolis Tuesday night - 6pm.
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BLED TO WHITE
Air Review - "America's Son"
The statue talked. It looked at me and said: "I've cut the world." It was a parkette, a measly patch of grey-tipped grass on Severin and Kiln, that had a little gravel-bed bench, a few unwild flowers, leant like tired mannequins, and this statue. Sir Morgan Plank, Count of Regent Grand and its surrounding territories. All it said beneath his name and station was a one-line description of his life: "responsible for the swimsuit and the plea bargain". The swimsuit and the plea bargain. I read this and wondered which came first. But as I sat with my egg salad and salt drink, on lunch from my occupational happenstance some would call a 'job', I looked up at the patch of sky left kindly by the scrapers and thought about if I sat here all my life, like this grey-tipped grass and these blue-eyed flowers, if I would last longer than a couple of weeks. And then it spoke. "I've cut the world," it said, clear as the bell in the unseen church that rang at 4 each day. The pigeons all looked in unison. I stared blankly at the face of Sir Morgan Plank, creator of trunks and ratting out your friends, with his concave pupils and his raised right hand, and said, "Pardon?" but of course he didn't reply. I took it as a sort of apology. How lucky, I though, this ghost. At least he has an outlet. [site]
(abandoned WWII fort via Photography served)


In Winnieab's recipe for Lacto-fermented pickles are the two tablespoons of seasalt suppose to be coarse or fine? Thanks!
I ask because two Tablespoons of fine would make it saltier than 2 of coarse.
Thanks, fine salt would be saltier than coarse which is what I'm trying to figure out.
I would say fine because it will dissolve more easily. But either is probably OK.
What is the shelf life of pickled beets and pickled eggs. It is two weeks today. They look and smell fine.


I smiled and wiped a tear away !
I'll do anything for you my dear !
Know that Grandma is always near !
Make me feel rich sometime !
And I crack a smile !
I cherish you from time to time !
I am having a good time !
You fill me with delight !
What a joy that comes my way!
Starts the miracle of your charms !
For we already share so much joy !
Because you're my number one !
While we stroll and talk !
We'll be side by side !
For a very long time !
You are an angel from the sky !
I'll leave you memories that will always last !
Dedicated to my first grandchild Skylar!
I say, that's great !
I have the reason to celebrate !
Before the fall season arrival !
Who inspires the joy I feel inside !


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Analysis 17 May 2012 24 Apr 2016
Careful Balancing Act for Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia seeks an American presence to balance against China but does not want to antagonize it either.
Richard Colapinto
East Asia Economy Specialist
Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama of Japan, President Lee Myung-bak of South Korea and Premier Wen Jiabao of China deliver a press conference in Jeju, May 30, 2012 (Korea.net)
On Monday, South Korean president Lee Myung-bak visited Burma and promised to extend loans and grants to the poverty stricken country.
The surprise visit came as Japan and South Korea have stepped up their diplomatic engagement in Southeast Asia over the last month, which, in turn, comes on the heels of closer engagement by the United States since 2009.
This stems not only from a desire to gain access to the region's natural resources but more importantly, to bolster their soft power in the Mekong region, an area that is becoming increasingly important as concerns persist about Chinese foreign policy amid the rapid modernization of the People's Liberation Army. However, while the Mekong countries are interested in the economic and political benefits from closer relations with the United States, they are mindful of the risk of antagonizing China.
The Mekong countries include Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam, even though the Mekong River begins on the Tibetan Plateau in China's Yunnan Province where it is known as the Lancang River. The Mekong is revered by the locals and is considered the lifeblood of Southeast Asia with an estimated sixty million people depending on it for food, water and transportation.
Lee's visit to Burma, the first by a South Korean president in 29 years, came after a regional summit in Thailand last week where South Korea promised to double its development aid to the Mekong region by 2015. During a summit in April, Japan pledged ¥600 billion ($7.4 billion) in aid, which was a renewal of a prior commitment of ¥500 billion that expired this year. Japan also wrote off half of the ¥500 billion ($6 billion) in debt that Burma owed it.
The United States jump started their engagement back in 2009 with the Lower Mekong Initiative, targeting Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam with increased development aid. Washington also began lifting sanctions on Burma when it adopted political reforms and held what was considered by observers a mostly free and fair election in April.
Burma was cut off from Western investment and international aid for the last thirty years while it was under military rule which gave China virtually free rein over the country's resources.
The Americans have also taken more overt measures to demonstrate their presence in the region. Last month, the United States held noncombat maritime exercises with the Vietnamese navy and military maneuvers with the Philippines.
There is still tension between China and the Philippines over the Scarborough Shoal and between China and Vietnam, which have a dispute over the Paracel Islands, in addition to the other disputes with nations fronting the South China Sea.
The governments in the Mekong region are faced with a delicate balancing act. While they are open to greater engagement with the United States and their allies due to concerns over China's rise, they are careful not to embrace them too tight and alienate the Chinese.
China's long-term security plans in the region are often vague and cloaked in secrecy. On top of the lack of transparency, China has refused to submit to a multilateral forum for negotiations with its neighbors over the territorial disputes in the South China Sea.
Instead, it remains firm in demanding bilateral talks, fueling suspicion that it prefers this as a way to exercise leverage over smaller countries for a more favorable outcome for itself.
Complicating matters for a negotiated outcome to these disputes is that governments have often resorted to using the issue to stoke nationalism in their countries to rally support for the government, making it harder for them to compromise now.
Given the strategic uncertainty and the fear of being bullied, Mekong countries share an interest with the United States in balancing China's presence in the region. The Obama Administration's much heralded Asian "pivot" is clear evidence of the importance which the Americans attach to Asia, a part of the world it has identified as strategically vital to the United States in the twenty-first century.
The administration's dual approach is to reassure nervous allies about American staying power in Asia and to balance China's rising power.
The distrust, lack of transparency and outstanding territorial disagreements between China and its neighbors means that relations in Southeast Asia will remain unsettled and vulnerable to flareups. Going forward, given their size and location, the Mekong countries will remain in the difficult position of trying to accommodate both sides, while staying out of what is shaping up to be a wary relationship between China and the United States.
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Birds of America
Yesterday evening, I was watching another compelling BBC production, broadcast on Danish television: Earthflight, North America. In quite a unique way, the viewers got the rare opportunity to see through the eyes of birds such as eagles, geese, and pelicans and follow birds as they were migrating, escaping, hunting for prey, etc. It made me think of the 19th century masterpiece 'Birds of America' by John James Audubon, which can be viewed in the National History Museum in London. The book features 435 stunning hand-coloured plates that show birds life-size, in natural positions and in their natural habitat.
One of the things that I find interesting - and quite unexplored - is Blastocystis in birds. By 'unexplored' I mean that relatively little sampling has been done, and so the number of observations of Blastocystis in birds is still limited compared to other types of hosts. However, there is a brand new paper out in 'Infection, Genetics and Evolution' which includes observations on Blastocystis in birds (of America!).
You see, I was invited in on a study by colleagues in Colombia who had access to DNA from quite a few faecal samples from a number of host species, including feral birds, and what we found confirms the quite unambiguous trend seen so far: Birds - no matter where on this planet - appear to be colonised mainly by ST6 and ST7. As a matter of fact, in the present study only ST6 was seen in almost 50 Colombian passerine birds of varying species, most of which I believe are limited in geographical distribution to the Americas: Passer domesticus, Thraupis episcopus, Oryzoborus maximiliani, Sicalis flaveola, and Petrochelidon pyrrhonota. Moreover, only one allele of ST6, allele 122, was identified. Notably, the prevalence of Blastocystis in the sampled bird population was 90%. I believe that this is the first official report on Blastocystis in passeriformes. Other major groups of birds previously sampled include galliformes, anseriformes, and ratites (Stensvold et al., 2009; Alfellani et al., 2013).
Other subtypes have been reported in birds (Alfellani et al., 2013), but due to the very low number of samplings these subtypes may be more or less co-incidental/abberant findings. Of note, some samples from birds have been untypable. I have a slight recollection of detecting ST3 in Icelandic rock ptarmigans (in mixed ST infection) collected by Dr Karl Skírnission, but that certainly needs confirmation.
Bird contact/bird droppings - a significant source of Blastocystis in humans? Me feeding some 'Birds of Australia'. Photo by Dr Rebecca J Traub.
ST6 is very rarely seen in humans in Europe. In other parts of the world, for instance in Egypt and some Asian countries, ST6 appears relatively common, but we do not know much about 'bird subtypes' in those particular regions. Also, the situation in the US and Canada is more or less completely unknown (Blastocystis subtyping is something that appears not to attract research groups in North America apart from the one led by Dr Ron Fayer in Beltsville, Maryland).
ST7 is occasionally seen in humans in countries such as Sweden and Denmark. But in my - still limited - experience, individuals infected by these subtypes are not necessarily prone to 'suffer more' from intestinal symptoms than those who do not have these subtypes. While human cases of ST6 (and ST7) may represent cases of zoonotic transmission, it is far to early to draw any conclusions on this. It would be important to compare ST6 and ST7 18S alleles from humans and birds. MLST typing systems for these two subtypes are not yet available, but 18S analysis in itself may prove valuable for molecular epidemiological analyses as in the case of other subtypes (Stensvold et al., 2012).
Walton Ford: "Falling Bough" (Source). You will also see the now extinct Passenger Pigeon in 'Birds of America'.
Ramírez JD, Sánchez LV, Bautista DC, Corredor AF, Flórez AC, & Stensvold CR (2013). Blastocystis subtypes detected in humans and animals from Colombia. Infection, Genetics and Evolution: Journal of Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics in Infectious Diseases PMID: 23886615
Alfellani MA, Taner-Mulla D, Jacob AS, Imeede CA, Yoshikawa H, Stensvold CR, & Clark CG (2013). Genetic diversity of Blastocystis in livestock and zoo animals. Protist, 164 (4), 497-509 PMID: 23770574
Stensvold CR, Alfellani M, & Clark CG (2012). Levels of genetic diversity vary dramatically between Blastocystis subtypes. Infection, Genetics and Evolution: Journal of Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics in Infectious Diseases, 12 (2), 263-73 PMID: 22116021
Stensvold CR, Alfellani MA, Nørskov-Lauritsen S, Prip K, Victory EL, Maddox C, Nielsen HV, & Clark CG (2009). Subtype distribution of Blastocystis isolates from synanthropic and zoo animals and identification of a new subtype. International Journal for Parasitology, 39 (4), 473-9 PMID: 18755193
Labels: bird droppings, birds, Blastocystis, Blastocystis hominis, guano, molecular epidemiology, subtype, subtypes, transmission, Zoonosis
ICOP XIV in Vancouver 28 July to 2 August 2013
The International Congress of Protistology (ICOP) takes place every four years, and so the 14th ICOP takes place from the 28th of July to the 2nd of August in Vancouver, Canada.
Most single-celled parasites infecting humans are known as 'protozoa', but Blastocystis does not belong to this group of organisms; meanwhile, protists comprise both protozoa along with a multitude of other very diverse species, including the Stramenopiles, to which Blastocystis belong. Protists include both uni- and multi-cellular eukaryotic organisms and are distinguished from animals, fungi and plants by a simpler cellular organisation.
The conference abstract book can be downloaded here, and presents a perplexing multitude of very interesting and diverse abstracts. There are four abstracts on Blastocystis alone, and two of them are presented by Dr Roger's group in Halifax, Canada + their international colleagues.
Phylogenomic analyses of large-scale alignments enable the outlining of evolutionary relationship among major eukaryotic lineages and are highly facilitated by recent technological advances; several abstracts deal with such analyses. Eme et al. (Roger's group) present additional observations from an important phylogenomic study of Blastocystis sp. ST1 reiterating the importance of lateral gene transfer in enabling Blastocystis to adapt to a parasitic life style. Gentekaki et al. (Roger's group) present data on the draft genome of Blastocystis sp. ST1. Until recently, only one Blastocystis genome was available, namely that of ST7. The present data show remarkable differences between the ST1 draft genome and the ST7 genome. While the genome of ST7 comprises 18.8 MB, the genome of ST1 is only 14.0 MB long, and apparently there's virtually no synteny among the two genomes! Almost 30% of the 5,637 predicted ST1 genes had no homologues in ST7. What is more: 'Orthologous proteins shared by the two genomes are only 51% identical on average. The predicted secreted protein repertoire also differs significantly; ST7 possesses ~300 whereas ST1-NandII has only 129.' Indeed, it appears that Blastocystis comprises some extremely diverse organisms! We are still trying to explore the clinical implications of this...
Alison Jacob, Graham Clark, and I contribute with an abstract on comparative analyses of 8 mitochondrion-like organelle (MLO) genomes from 5 subtypes. Contrary to the nuclear genomes, there is complete synteny and homology between the subtypes at MLO level, although the sequences diverge by up to 25%.
Tamalee Roberts and colleagues present data from analysis of 438 samples from a staggering 38 species in Australia. They found Blastocystis in 18 species, including kangaroos, wallaroos, snow leopard, and ostrich, and obtained subtype data from a total 80 samples.
The genetic universe of Entamoeba is expanding quickly in these years. Silberman and colleagues (Arkansas, USA) provide data from analysis of Entamoeba from insects such as honeybees, cranefly larvae and multiple cockroach and beetle species. There is no information on any pathogenic properties of insect-infecting Entamoeba however.
The abstract book is also a place to learn that marine diatoms are responsible for about one-fifth of global photosynthesis (Armbrust, Seattle, USA) and that photosynthetic marine algae are responsible for 50% of global CO2 uptake (Worden, Moss Landing, USA).
There is quite a few abstracts on protist diversity and how NGS tools allow us to study this in a more comprehensive and exhaustive way and the need for taxonomic standardisation. Protist-barcoding includes metabarcoding (de Vargas, Roscoff, France) and some of the taxonomic challenges related to this are presented by Dr Pawlowski, Geneva, Switzerland.
Similar to Blastocystis, the trypanosomatids (Trypanosoma and Leishmania) cannot be classified according to morphology and host range, hence, molecular markers are warranted, and there's an abstract by Maslov (California, USA) on the general applicability of 'alternative barcoding', namely the use of Spliced Leader (SL) RNA gene repeats.
There is quite a few abstracts on 'rare ciliates' in harsh environments, and I bring your attention also to a previous blog post on extremophilic eukaryotes.
We also learn that free-living protozoa can tell us more about the origins of anaerobic parasites (Simpson, Halifax, Canada). And there is a group setting up a Plasmodium life cycle to study the metabolic steps critical to the malaria life cycle (McFadden, Melbourne, Australia).
There's a really teasing abstract on analysis of surface water samples from Italy, where Angelici et al. have developed a barcoding-like analysis based on ITS 2 and SSU rRNA genes to enable detection of parasites of clinical and epidemiological interest, but there is no information on how exactly the method was designed, and the authors do not list the parasites that they found... I'm not attending the congress myself, so here's hoping for some twitter updates on this...
One could go on and on, - why don't you have a look inside the abstract book yourself?!
Incidentally, Dr Tai from Vancouver, Canada, promts us to help protists getting into pop culture by wearing t-shirts silkscreened by hand using Ernst Haeckel's diagrams of phytoplankton and light micrographs of parabasalids! Don't know exactly how to get hold of these, but googling 'Ernst Haeckel' and 'phytoplankton' might get you started (go for Google images).
For those interested in protists (and art!), I recommend the blog 'The Ocelloid'.
Suggested reading:
Denoeud F, Roussel M, Noel B, Wawrzyniak I, Da Silva C, Diogon M, Viscogliosi E, Brochier-Armanet C, Couloux A, Poulain J, Segurens B, Anthouard V, Texier C, Blot N, Poirier P, Ng GC, Tan KS, Artiguenave F, Jaillon O, Aury JM, Delbac F, Wincker P, Vivarès CP, & El Alaoui H (2011). Genome sequence of the stramenopile Blastocystis, a human anaerobic parasite. Genome Biology, 12 (3) PMID: 21439036
Stensvold CR, Lebbad M, Victory EL, Verweij JJ, Tannich E, Alfellani M, Legarraga P, & Clark CG (2011). Increased sampling reveals novel lineages of Entamoeba: consequences of genetic diversity and host specificity for taxonomy and molecular detection. Protist, 162 (3), 525-41 PMID: 21295520
Labels: Conference, ICOP, parasite, protist, research
This Month In Blastocystis Research (JUL 2013)
The open access journal 'Tropical Parasitology' (published by the Indian Academy of Tropical Parasitology) has included a symposium on Blastocystis in their January-June (Vol. 3) issue (available here). The symposium comprises three papers; one is on "taxonomy, biology and virulence", the next is on genetic diversity and molecular methods for diagnosis and epidemiology, and the last one is on treatment controversies. I believe that it may take quite a while before these papers will appear in PubMed.
The first paper written by Drs Parija and Jeremiah sums up a few of the aspects related to (especially historical) taxonomic issues and very little on the actual biology of Blastocystis. Meanwhile, there is quite a substantial section on Blastocystis morphology. Regarding virulence, the authors mention the possibility that differences in virulence may be due to differences in subtypes, but that subtyping alone does not predict pathogenicity which in part may be due to varying levels of intra-subtype genetic variation. The authors also briefly mention some of the morphological and phenotypical observations that have been associated with 'pathogenic Blastocystis', such as the amoeboid stage, large cells, rough surface, slow growth rate, and increased binding to lectins. It is always interesting to speculate on such associations, but it must be kept in mind that results from in-vitro experiments may not necessarily reflect in-vivo situations.
One topic that keeps popping up in the literature - and also in two of the papers here in this symposium - is the possibility of 'amoebic forms' of Blastocystis being associated with symptomatic infection. This hypothesis was introduced in 2006 by Tan and Suresh, I believe; Scanlan (2013) speculated that amoeboid forms might be the nutrient acquiring form potentially selecting for bacterial virulence or certain bacterial communities through grazing; please go here for more thoughts from a previous blog post.
My own experience on Blastocystis morphology mainly stems from looking at cultures, and since we practically only get isolates from patients with gastrointestinal disease, I don't know what Blastocystis cultures from asymptomatic individuals look like. A dear colleague of mine - Marianne Lebbad, a brilliant Swedish parasitologist with many years in business - sent me the picture below (light microscopy of a faecal concentrate) and speculates that Blastocystis might be able to form groups/clusters of cells, maybe even with the ability to form a mono-layer on the surface of the gut mucosa? I've never observed the cluster formation in cultures, but then again, we have no idea of whether the stages seen in in vitro cultures (microaerophilic environment) are identical to the in vivo stages (strictly anaerobic), and exactly how Blastocystis lives and multiplies in the colon... Anyway, the idea of biofilm comes into mind. It would be nice to learn more from colleagues with a similar experience.
Light microscopy of Blastocystis apparently forming a cluster of cells; we wonder whether the cells are in fact 'glued' together and if so, how? Courtesy of Dr Marianne Lebbad.
Moving on to the next paper, this one was written by me and deals mostly with issues and developments within the field of diagnostics, molecular characterisation, and molecular epidemiology. The target audience comprises clinical microbiologists and those involved in Blastocystis epidemiology and genetic diversity research. Included is a table, which is basically a reproduction of the one included in the recent paper by Alfellani et al. (2013) displaying the distribution of subtypes in humans across different geographical regions. I hope that the open access feature of this paper will prompt even more researcher into Blastocystis epidemiology! At least it is currently listed on the site as 'popular'!
The third paper in the string is written by Drs Sekar and Shanthi. These authors put emphasis on the conspicuous lack of data on the metabolic processes of Blastocystis, making it difficult to establish how to best approach antibiotic intervention; we must anticipate that with more genomic and transcriptomic data analyses arriving within a foreseeable future we will soon know much more about this. They also reiterate what has been put forth by many, namely that differences in eradication may boil down to differences in drug susceptibility, which again may be due to a variety of reasons, including genetic diversity, which is extreme in Blastocystis.
According to these authors, 'therapy should be limited to patients with persistent symptoms subsequent to a complete work up for alternative etiologies'; at the present stage this appears sensible, although clinicians would probably appreciate a clearer definition of 'symptoms'!
The review goes through some of the drugs most commonly used for treating Blastocystis, including metronidazole, paromomycin and co-trimoxazole, but also includes a few data on the use of the probiotic Saccharomyces boulardii in attempts to eradicate Blastocystis. There is not very much on the mechanisms of drug action, - it's more like a summary of data coming out from different studies, including the few placebo-controlled ones.
Regarding co-trimoxazole (which is also known as 'Bactrim' or 'Septra') this drug combo is often administered to HIV-patients prophylactically against Pneumocystis. In a study of parasites in Danish HIV patients, only 6/96 patients were given co-trimoxazole (unpublished data); two of these patients had Blastocystis. Hence, one 'alternative' way of finding out about the efficacy of co-trimoxazole on Blatocystis is to test the stools from patients undergoing long-term Pneumocystis prophylaxis comparing these patients to a cohort not receiving Pneumocystis prophylaxis but otherwise similar.
I find it a bit peculiar though to go through a review on treatment data that does not at one single point mention the need for sensitive diagnostics when evaluating courses of treatment and the identification of carriers and non-carriers. Also, there are some passages which are quite difficult for me to follow, for instance p. 36, second column, bottom section.
I hope that this symposium will inspire some of our colleagues and contribute to an increased understanding of Blastocystis.
Parija SC & Jeremiah SS (2013). Blastocystis: Taxonomy, biology and virulence Tropical Parasitology DOI: 10.4103/2229-5070.113894
Stensvold CR (2013). Blastocystis: Genetic diversity and molecular methods for diagnosis and epidemiology Tropical Parasitology DOI: 10.4103/2229-5070.113896
Sekar U & Shanthi M (2013). Blastocystis: Consensus of treatment and controversies Tropical Parasitology DOI: 10.4103/2229-5070.113901
Scanlan PD (2012). Blastocystis: past pitfalls and future perspectives. Trends in parasitology, 28 (8), 327-34 PMID: 22738855
Stensvold CR, Nielsen SD, Badsberg JH, Engberg J, Friis-Møller N, Nielsen SS, Nielsen HV, & Friis-Møller A (2011). The prevalence and clinical significance of intestinal parasites in HIV-infected patients in Denmark. Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 43 (2), 129-35 PMID: 20936912
Tan TC & Suresh KG (2006). Predominance of amoeboid forms of Blastocystis hominis in isolates from symptomatic patients. Parasitology Research, 98 (3), 189-93 PMID: 16323025
Labels: Blastocystis, Blastocystis hominis, diagnosis, genetic diversity, metronidazole, molecular epidemiology, review, symposium, taxonomy, Treatment, tropical parasitology


Your invoice paid to MXF will get you everything from Phantomm and Open Builds which is everything pictured above.
On the pictures I've often seen an aluminium extrusion right behind the makerslide (X-axis), is it required? It looks like it's something that comes by default with the new version of the X-Carve, is it worth upgrading my machine with this?
Yes. It adds some rear support and holds the cable carrier.
Thanks, what about the v-wheels parts? (See this comment) , do I have the right list of parts?
I actually include the screws you will need, as 30mm is not really enough, 35 is what i include.
But yes thats sound about right.
Phantomm, I apologize. Patience is not one of my virtues. i work on it. I appreciate your effort to help out me and others.
No need for an apology, I was the one who made assumptions.
while we are looking at this, what are these two holes for?
I'm very interested in doing this to my X carve. Can you guys point me in the right direction on where to start? I have a 1000mm setup X carve.
PM the op and ask.
Out of stock again, will update when flush again.
Updated the website, should be back in stock by next week.
saw a youtube vid? maybe check the forum.
I just went to the auto repair store and bought a cheap 20 buck bearing puller. put the motor housing in a bench vice and used the puller.
A pin punch and a clamp works too.
or cut pulley in half.


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Saudi Arabia solar energy program gives massive boost to concentrated solar power industry
On 21 February 2013, K.A.CARE announced the launch of its eagerly awaited Renewable Energy Competitive Procurement Portal together with a White Paper outlining how the procurement process will take place.
King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy (K.A. CARE) announced the first details of their Renewable Energy Program, which contained a number of key takeaways that the Concentrating Solar Power industry must now consider.
The introductory round of the Competitive Procurement Process (CPP) will consist of five to seven projects utilising different technologies. The winners of this first round are expected to be announced in the next 9 to 12 months. Estimates for the CSP allocation are around 900 MW for the introductory round and 1,200 MW for the second round.
These first projects are required to feature a minimum of four hours of storage in the first round, with a nameplate capacity of no less than five megawatts.
One notable highlight of the white paper is the inclusion of high local content requirements – which start at 60% in Round 1. Interestingly, these requirements are specific to Parabolic Trough and Tower technology, making no mention of Fresnel or Dish technologies at this stage in the process.
K.A. CARE, responsible for implementing the Renewable Energy Program in Saudi Arabia, have also indicated their commitment to research and development, with 1% of revenues to be invested into R&D. These efforts will be supported by a newly-established Developer Research Advisory Council (DRAC).
Last week, K.A. CARE confirmed that they will be sending a delegation to the 5th MENASOL Conference (14-15 May, Dubai) in order to build further relationships with the CSP industry. The conference is growing fast, with over 45 speakers now confirmed to participate.
http://www.kacare.gov.sa/cpp/
David Llamas2016-12-27T15:01:00+00:0028-02-2013|Categorías: NEWS|Etiquetas: concentrated solar energy, Concentrating Solar Power, CSP, MENA, Saudi Arabia, solar energy, solar power|


Governor Rick Scott today announced the appointment of Matt Brackett to the Florida Interagency Coordinating Council for Infants and Toddlers.
Matt Brackett, 37, of Tallahassee, is a program administrator for the Florida Agency for Healthcare Administration. He succeeds LaKera Reddick and is appointed for a term beginning August 29, 2018, and ending January 1, 2021.
Governor Rick Scott today announced the reappointment of two and the appointment of one to the Columbia County Housing Authority.
Lena Lofton, 72, of Lake City, is a retired correctional counselor for Miami-Dade Corrections. She is reappointed for a term beginning August 29, 2018 and ending March 15, 2022.
Joseph Chancy, 72, of Lake City, is a retired state trooper. He is reappointed for a term beginning August 29, 2018, and ending March 15, 2021.
Michael Childs, 30, of Lake City, is a pastor at Christ Central Lake Butler. He fills a vacant seat and is appointed for a term beginning August 29, 2018, and ending March 15, 2020.
Governor Rick Scott today announced the reappointment of three and the appointment of one to the Medical Examiners Commission.
Dr. Stephen Nelson, 60, of Lakeland, is the chief medical examiner of District 10. He is reappointed for a term beginning August 29, 2018, and ending July 1, 2020.
Robin Giddens Sheppard, 59, of Ponte Vedra Beach, is a funeral director for Hardage Giddens Funeral Home. She is reappointed for a term beginning August 29, 2018, and ending July 1, 2020.
Carol Whitmore, 63, of Holmes Beach, is a county commissioner of Manatee County. She is reappointed for a term beginning August 29, 2018, and ending July 1, 2021.
Charlie Cofer, 66, of Jacksonville, is a public defender for the Fourth Judicial Circuit of Florida. He succeeds James Purdy and is appointed for a term beginning August 29, 2018, and ending July 1, 2021.
Governor Rick Scott today announced the reappointment of eight and the appointment of one to the District Medical Examiners.
Dr. Barbara Wolf, 61, of Lake County, is the chief medical examiner of District 5. She is reappointed for a term beginning August 29, 2018, and ending July 1, 2021.
Dr. Jon Thogmartin, 54, of Burlington, is the chief medical examiner of District 6. He is reappointed for a term beginning August 29, 2018, and ending July 1, 2021.
Dr. William Hamilton, 73, of Gainesville, is the chief medical examiner of District 8. He is reappointed for a term beginning August 29, 2018, and ending July 1, 2019.
Dr. Stephen Nelson, 60, of Lakeland, is the chief medical examiner of District 10. He is reappointed for a term beginning August 29, 2018, and ending July 1, 2019.
Dr. Russell Vega, 56, of Sarasota, is the chief medical examiner of District 12. He is reappointed for a term beginning August 29, 2018, and ending July 1, 2019.
Dr. Jay Radtke, 40, of Panama City, is the interim medical examiner for District 14. He is appointed for a term beginning August 29, 2018, and ending July 1, 2019.
Dr. Roger Mittleman, 70, of Palm City, is the chief medical examiner of District 19. He is reappointed for a term beginning August 29, 2018, and ending July 1, 2020.
Dr. Marta Coburn, of Naples, is the chief medical examiner of District 20. She is reappointed for a term beginning August 29, 2018, and ending July 1, 2020.
Dr. Predrag Bulic, 59, of Saint Augustine, is the chief medical examiner of District 23. He is reappointed for a term beginning August 29, 2018, and ending July 1, 2020.
Governor Rick Scott today announced the reappointment of three to Florida Concrete Masonry Education Council.
Adam Freeman, 45, of Orlando, is the president of A-1 Block Corporation. He is reappointed for a term beginning August 29, 2018, and ending June 30, 2019.
Dr. Michael Armbruster, 56, of Winter Garden, is an educator for Orange County Public Schools. He is reappointed for a term beginning August 29, 2018, and ending June 30, 2020.
Jay Snyder, 58, of Orlando, is the president of Masonry Accessories, Inc. He is reappointed for a term beginning August 29, 2018, and ending June 30, 2021.


Since leaving college, Ben gained 4 years' invaluable experience in Commercial Investment and Development agency. He then joined Landhold Developments for a period of 2 years as a key member of their acquisitions team.
We are delighted Ben has joined First Urban to focus on the expansion of the company's acquisition programme.


If you're looking for some new barroom songs to take you to last call and beyond, look no further than Newfoundland's own Dave Whitty.
Let's face it: those East Coasters do drinking better than the rest of us. And who better to bring that sound to Toronto for Canadian Music Week than Whitty, with his whiskey-soaked vocals and hard-and-heavy acoustic riffs.
Whitty's set featured commanding vocals and powerful acoustics, putting so many singer-songwriters to shame. He gets the filling crowd at Rancho Relaxo dancing with his mix of catchy riffs and growly vocals that combine to form some exhilarating hard-rocking acoustic tracks.
'Moral Hangover', for example, is a soft ballad that warps into a chastising tune about, well, a moral hangover. His East Coast twang pushes through and bursts to the forefront as his set powers on. 'Song of Pirates', meanwhile, is exactly what you'd expect from a song about pirates, complete with extra growly vocals and strong punches of guitar.
And 'Idaho', which he wrote "when I had a dream about moving to Idaho and, I don't know, growing potatoes or something", builds and builds into a power-chord-driven song with strong vocals and the energy of an Idahoian potato farmer.
Overall, Whitty is an obscenely skilled guitarist. His stellar musicianship commands the room and fills the crowd with awe – the crowd he undoubtedly helped booze up.
For more on Dave Whitty visit his Facebook page.
And click here for a photo gallery from the show!


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The real pre-draft jockeying began this week, with practice for the first of three college all-star games. The East West Shrine game kicks things off tomorrow at 3 p.m. at the Florida Citrus Bowl in Orlando.
The Shrine Game is the oldest of the games (it has 62 NFL Hall of Famers – and Tom Brady and Brett Favre – as alumnus) and has coaching staffs the NFL helps put together. This year, the West coach is 21-year vet Marty Schottenheimer, who in 2004 was the NFL's Coach of the Year. The seven Big East players in the game, meanwhile, have been put through their paces by Romeo Crennel, a five-time Super Bowl winner as an assistant coach.
NFL Network draft analyst Mike Mayock was kind enough to go over those seven prospects with me earlier. So, without further ado, here's a look at the Big East players, what folks are saying about them down in Orlando and what their NFL prospects look like right now.
Connecticut Running Back Andre Dixon (6-0, 200)
Reports out of Orlando have identified a decent buzz about Dixon. CBS Sports' Chad Reuter wrote that his quick feet have made him one of the week's risers and the experts at DraftGuys.com highlighted his efforts in each of their daily practice reports. Mayock said that will all be very important as right now, "there are a bunch of running backs that kind of fit into the same mold as him. He has average speed and there's nothing that really screams about him. It's hard to distinguish yourself when you're in that category."
Dixon does have a strong first step, he runs with good pad level and his footwork has absolutely improved. He knows where and how to cut and his production this year (1,093 yards, 14 touchdowns) was irrefutable.
Projection right now: Fifth Round
Connecticut Defensive End Lindsey Witten (6-4, 250)
ESPN draft analyst Todd McShay put Witten in his list of top players to watch at the Shrine Game. He called him the most fluid and athletic of the East squad's linemen and commended his athleticism. Mayock said the same, noting Witten's long arms, but both he and McShay questioned his ability to stop the run. McShay thinks he may be better pegged as an outside linebacker in a 3-4, Mayock disagrees and sees him as an end in a 4-3. It's probably why he's practiced only at end (Wisconsin end O'Brien Schofield has spent the week working at linebacker) in Orlando.
One more notable: Witten the younger brother of Donte Whitner, the Bills' first round pick in 2006. Mayock said bloodlines aren't irrelevant, if only because of the expectation that if parents raised one child to be hardworking, they likely did the same for the second.
Projection right now: Third Round
Pittsburgh Cornerback Aaron Berry (5-11, 180)
Berry is a two-time All-Big East pick, but he's probably still on the cusp of draftables right now. He tipped a pass away from West Virginia's Alric Arnett – who's having a great week – Wednesday and that earned him a little buzz. He'll need more of that without much separating him now.
Projection right now: Late Round/Free Agent
Pittsburgh Tight End Nate Byham (6-4, 240)
Mayock joked that if Byham and fellow Pitt tight end Dorin Dickerson – a Senior Bowl invitee – could fuse into one, "you'd have the ideal tight end." Byham can catch and showed this year that he isn't afraid to go get balls, but it's his blocking that's more notable; Mayock said he may be the best blocking tight end in the entire draft.
McShay wrote from Orlando this week that although Byham doesn't come out of his blocks in any particularly notable way, he's made crisp cuts and tracked the ball well. "He shows all the necessary skills," McShay wrote, "to develop into a productive short-to-intermediate receiver."
Projection right now: Fourth Round
Rutgers Offensive Tackle Kevin Haslam (6-7, 295)
Haslam suffered the double-edged sword of playing on Anthony Davis' line: everyone saw him as they watched the sure first-rounder, but it's hard to compare athletically when eyeballed next to Davis.
The fifth-year senior is also on McShay's list of players to watch at Saturday's game. He thinks Haslam could stand to put on a little weight and he likes that he has experience playing guard if teams would like to move him inside. The Sporting News' Russ Lande said NFL scouts are still waiting to "figure out whether he has the footwork to protect the corner against NFL speed rushers."
South Florida Linebacker Kion Wilson (6-2, 235)
He had 95 tackles this year and Mayock said every time he popped in tape to watch South Florida's superstar ends – Jason Pierre-Paul and George Selvie – Wilson kept getting in the way. "I like him," Mayock said. "He's a tough guy, he comes downhill hard and he plays hard."
Wilson has great instincts, was an excellent run stopper this year and Scouts, Inc. said he also showed strong recognition skills in pass drills this past week.
Projection right now: Fifth/Sixth Round
West Virginia Wide Receiver Alric Arnett (6-2, 190)
Arnett is definitely faster than most receivers his size, but he's also leaner and he came into this week with questions of whether he could effectively fight corners. "Arnett is the only receiver on this whole roster who can drive a defensive back off the ball," Scouts, Inc. wrote this week. Now part of that may be Arnett's wiles – he runs good quick slants and cuts sharply on angled routes.
He's caught the ball well down in Orlando, he's shown good hands and this whole year he proved he can stretch the field. He could very well rise these next few months.


This song is one of my favorite songs to sing in class with my students. I love using the song with my youngest students to keep a beat. (If I can have them clap while a friend bounces a ball, that is always a favorite!) This it around the time of year I would introduce it to them to keep a steady beat in a different way.
I will always play the game (a little differently) with my older students as well. I will have them stand in a circle and bounce the ball to the beat while they sing. On "Shiloh", they pass the ball to a friend and sing their name instead of "Shiloh", then sit down when they have had a turn with the ball. For a really big challenge, I will ask the students to line up in the order they passed the ball! This is a really great way to get them singing alone too!
This is a perfect song for Ta TiTi and La as well with older students.
I always include the slides for lyrics. Even if the students aren't reading yet, maybe they will catch a word or two!
I will show the kids the song with beat icons if we are singing the song. With preschoolers and Kindergarten, I will just show slides with the beat. (If I do at all for the preschoolers.) The older kids will get the slides with rhythm icons as well.
Slides to prep present and practice the melody. With icons, and the staff.
This is such a great song for a variety of activities.
The full set of slides is available on my TpT page. If you download any of my products, please be sure to leave feedback!


Currently on our broadcast we have a ticker at the bottom that shows racer positions... in a long line of data it either gets cut off or overlapped upon itself... Not sure what to do.
could you possibly post a little clip showing the problem, and maybe also a screengrab showing your LiveSet setup?
Here you go. If you notice, the 5th place rider's name is getting cut off. It is pulling this data from a text file that gets copied over to our system from timing/scoring ... I've tried an xml file also, and it does the same thing.
Thanks. Just how long is the source line?
I've attached a typical file we get.
Thanks. I'll look into this. I can't promise it'll be immediate, as we're in the run-up period to NAB and it's a bit nuts (as usual).
No worries... takes me long enough to respond. Our last race this season is this weekend. Then I go into R/D mode.
In all honesty I was always kind of anti-LiveText, but I have a decent workflow/setup that has been working pretty well. So that makes me happy. My only issues now are the text getting cutoff and the wish for more 'photoshop' like characteristics like inner shadow, etc.
Another issue I just noticed is that I used to be able to use some fonts, and then they randomly stopped working, which happen to be the fonts I need. I've unistalled/reinstalled a time or two also.
Maybe bug-report the font issue, with specifics.
Thank you for reporting the issue and attaching the files. We've made some adjustments and the character limit has been greatly increased for values coming in from a text file. This should allow you to have very long crawls with no issues. We will be publishing an update to LiveText(DataLink) very soon.
Will there be a beta release first as I seem to have the ability to make it crash on a regular basis and would like to give it a thorough thrashing please.
Jeremy or anyone at QA. That earlier bump was a reminder that I knew I had an event coming up later in the year.
I now have an event THIS WEEK :) and the character limit is going to seriously affect me. I am on a build that says 080313.
How can I get hold of this update urgently please ?
Thanks for the responses. We have made the patch available on our registration site for download. This patch addresses the field length limitation, and is ready to download as of right now. For anyone who needs this patch, you can get it by downloading from the link "LiveText 2.12 Update" on the registration site (http://registration.newtek.com). We'll be updating the text description and link on the website as soon as we can in order to correctly reflect this change and avoid confusion.


Conferences are usually big events. Whether it is presenting a new corporate strategy, unveiling a new product, or even just enhancing company values, conferences are a good way to present those ideas to a wide audience. Nevertheless, conferences take a lot of planning to implement. Since many things can go wrong, all the logistics should be prepared in advance. This usually includes the venue, food, décor, and seating, among others. Furthermore, if people are willing to invest in all of these, they should also choose keynote speakers carefully.
What makes a good is a keynote speaker? Generally, a keynote speakers is are someone people who sets the overall mood for the conference any event. Everything they say should serve as guides, helping the audience understand the main ideas of the event and providing some background information for subsequent talks. In a short amount of time, they must be able to present the essential points of the discussion. Additionally, they should be able to grab the interest of the audience and arouse their curiosity. They must be able to make people hungry for more ideas. Finally, they must inspire and motivate people to think deeply about the ideas to be discussed and apply them.
Research is vital for a successful keynote address. Keynote speakers must be given enough information in order to make compelling and effective speeches. They need to know about the main purpose and theme of the conference. They also need to know the values of the company, as well as its vision and mission statements. Letting them know about other keynote speakers during the event, as well as what talks they will provide, will also help keynote speakers a lot. All of these pieces of information will help keynote speakers produce speeches that are coherent with the rest of the event.
Additionally, a good keynote speakers needs to know about the nature of the audience. Specifically, they need to know about the expected number of participants, the diversity level of the audience, and the level of knowledge that the listeners have. These will help keynote speakers tailor their talks to the audience. Such customization will surely go a long way in making the conference more memorable.
Any additional information that seems useful should also be provided. Keynote speakers will use any information to make proper choices regarding various aspects of the keynote address, including use of main points, choice of words, organization of ideas, insertion of humor, and application of rich media.
In this age of modern technology, it would be common for a keynote speaker to use rich media to help convey thoughts. The use of PowerPoint slides, background music, and videos, to name a few, is an excellent way to ensure that the audience is continuously being engaged. It helps break the monotony and adds impact to your event. Of course, use of such media requires some logistics. Prior to the event, organizers should know the preferences of the speaker they hired. They should work together to facilitate proper delivery of rich media to the audience and avoid any mishaps, such as technical failures.
Finally, a good keynote speaker must be able to deliver a speech with confidence and professionalism. Such a speaker must be able to speak fluently and communicate in a clear but concise fashion. Use of non-distracting gestures, as well as good fashion sense, is also desirable.
All in all, a keynote speaker must project a strong and confident persona, but not so much as to come off as conceited. Investing in a vibrant speaker who can deliver a clear message to an audience and motivate people to embrace ideas will surely enhance your event.
motivational-speaker-success provides keynotes and break out sessions for corporate events and association meetings that are drop dead funny.


Co-Authors Interviewed Today on What's Your Bottom Line?
Co-Authors to the Veterans Day release of the Heart of a Military Woman book, Eldonna Lewis Fernandez and Sheryl Roush, are being interviewed today, Tuesday, December 22, 2009, on What's Your Bottom Line?™ Talk Radio Show by radio host Angie Strader.
In this program, listeners will discover the PINK Principles to activate your choices, plus seven Sparkle-Tude!® Boosters to invigorate your attitude and daily life.
The focus today is about having consistent success in life… both personally and professionally… and for both men and for women. Our workplace has certainly changed, with high unemployment, people making dramatic shifts in their careers, some staying unemployed, while others are creating their own businesses. Both of our guests have experience in corporate careers, military life and entrepreneurial success.
Eldonna Lewis Fernandez is a retired Air Force Master Sergeant with 23 years of honorable military service. She deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Eldonna has 29 years of extensive leadership, management and supervisory experience. She is certified at Level III Contracts in the Acquisition Professional Development Program. She is also a certified coach, and consultant. Eldonna is affectionately known as the Pink Biker Chic™, a biker and empowerment coach for women she and her "military brat" kids were just featured last week on the premier of Lisa Nichols' Breakthrough – Original Special on WE-TV.
Sheryl Roush is the President/CEO of Sparkle Presentations, Inc., based in San Diego, California. An 8-time entrepreneur since the age of 16, her background is in marketing, graphics, publishing and communication. Sheryl is an internationally top-rated female speaker with 3,000 presentations under her designer belt, and was only the 3rd woman in the world to earn the elite Accredited Speaker designation from Toastmasters International out of 4 million members in 106 countries. She has spoken on programs alongside many highly-regarded celebrities including Suze Orman, Marcus Buckingham and Olivia Newton-John. Sheryl is a 13-time published author and was interviewed December 4th by Montel Williams on his Montel Across America radio show for the Heart of a Military Woman book, co-authored by Eldonna and Sheryl. She was twice crowned "Ms. Heart of San Diego" for her contributions to women and is the creator of the Heart Book Series.
What's Your Bottom Line?™ lives its mission of straightforward discussion about what it takes to be successful in your personal and professional life. Live talk radio show with Angie Strader in on Diva Toolbox Radio every Tuesday at 2:00-3:00pm CST. Tune in from your computer at http://bit.ly/3rSPwx.
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It is not escaped. In all the levels, try to face the adverse commentaries and to arrive at the marrow matter of the. Solve, you act and it chooses. Your subconscious mind knows, is stimulated and it appears before You in the form of intuitions, that can choose to follow or no. The affirmations are propose that we become same and to the Universe that dwells in our interior. An affirmation to put in practice today: I am One divides group, of the Universal of and of the happy creation, of soul, that it look for the private road, the chosen and harmonious footpath. Ask to yourself:: Which is my true list of desires and priorities?


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Carlos Boozer Expects To Be A Starter On The Lakers
Kobe Bryant To Carlos Boozer: 'Come Ready To Surprise People'
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As far as accomplishments in the NBA, no Lakers acquisition is bigger than Carlos Boozer. A 13-year NBA veteran, Boozer has been a double-double machine throughout his NBA career.
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Boozer's play has tailed off in the last couple of years. Combined with an extremely crowded frontcourt with the Lakers and there are questions about whether Boozer will start. For his part, Boozer firmly expects to be a starter with the Lakers according to our own reporter Serena Winters:
Does Boozer see himself a starter on this team? "Absolutely"
— Serena Winters (@SerenaWinters) July 25, 2014
With Jordan Hill, Julius Randle, Ed Davis, and Ryan Kelly, the Lakers have a lot of options up front. But none of them have been regular starters in the NBA, whereas Boozer has a ton of experience. Despite that experience, Boozer still feels he has a lot to prove in LA:
Carlos Boozer: "I have a lot to prove."
Some fans may have been unhappy with the acquisition, but Boozer can provide a lot of physicality, scoring, and rebounding for the Lakers, while also mentoring the younger players.
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Boozer, much like other new acquisitions, has already talked to Kobe Bryant and Bryant's message was the same as it was to everyone else, 'come ready to play.' There is no doubt that Boozer will be ready, and if he is able to get his numbers back up to previous levels, the Lakers could surprise some teams.
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