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Essential tracks by the Knife, Future Islands and Motorhead

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Three recent records by artists playing at the Coachella are worthy of pre-festival attention:

The Knife, "Shaking the Habitual" (Rabid Records)

Swedish avant-pop duo the Knife have been releasing records for 15 years, confounding expectations, drawing followers, crafting a strange, visually impressive project of which music is the most prominent of many disciplines. Their videos are a trip, and their performances are legendary. Their most recent album, "Shaking the Habitual," came out in 2013 and landed on many best-of-the-year lists. If you missed it, catch up quick.

A strange, oddly affecting record with skewed rhythms, extended ambient meditations and epic workouts, and the curious singing of lead vocalist Karin Dreijer Andersson and brother-producer-backing vocalist Olof Dreijer, "Shaking" is a tough first (and second, and third) listen. But after adjusting to their musical dialect, the work blossoms.

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Future Islands, "Singles" (4AD)

Last year I had dinner with an operative at 4AD Records who enthusiastically said that the tastemaking indie had just signed Baltimore synthpop trio Future Islands. Before then, the band had teetered on the brink. Charismatic vocalist Samuel T. Herring had other creative opportunities but resolved to fully commit to Future Islands. I'd long been a fan of the band's thrilling live shows, so the 4AD signing was a good portent, one that has paid off with their breakout album sparked by a great performance of "Seasons (Waiting for You)" on "Late Show With David Letterman."

Despite its name, "Singles" isn't a greatest hits collection at least yet. But among its 10 tracks are a few that pack as much potential as "Seasons." The best, "Back in the Tall Grass" and closer "A Dream of You and Me," contain a similar channeling of emotion, one whose lyrics are as confident and borderline cheesy as the glorious "I've been waiting on you!" refrain of "Seasons."

Motrhead, "Aftershock" (UDR)

Art and nuance are fine and all, but there's something to be said for artless, cliche-heavy pummeling, and no other band has punched with as much relentless hard work and ridiculous lyricism as Motrhead, the long-running metal/punk band born in Nottingham, England, and starring the king of the Sunset Strip, Lemmy Kilmister.

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Looking to cram this weekend for the upcoming Coachella festival? The below records by artists playing at the annual festival, which begins April 11, are worthy of pre-festival focus:

The Knife, Shaking the Habitual (Rabid Records)

Swedish avant-pop duo the Knife have been releasing records for 15 years, confounding expectations, drawing followers, crafting a strange, visually impressive project of which music is the most prominent of many disciplines. Their videos are a trip, and their performances are legendary. Their most recent album, Shaking the Habitual, came out in 2013 and landed on many best-of-the-year lists. If you missed it, catch up quick.

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A strange, oddly affecting record with skewed rhythms, extended ambient meditations and epic workouts, and the curious singing of lead vocalist Karin Dreijer Andersson and brother-producer-backing vocalist Olof Dreijer, Shaking is a tough first (and second, and third) listen. But after adjusting to their musical dialect, the work blossoms.

Future Islands, Singles (4AD)

Last year I had dinner with an operative at 4AD Records who enthusiastically said that the tastemaking indie had just signed Baltimore synthpop trio Future Islands. Before then, the band had teetered on the brink. Charismatic vocalist Samuel T. Herring had other creative opportunities but resolved to fully commit to Future Islands. Id long been a fan of the bands thrilling live shows, so the 4AD signing was a good portent, one that has paid off with their breakout album sparked by a great performance of Seasons (Waiting for You) on Late Show With David Letterman.

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Despite its name, Singles isnt a greatest hits collection at least yet. But among its 10 tracks are a few that pack as much potential as Seasons. The best, Back in the Tall Grass and closer A Dream of You and Me, contain a similar channeling of emotion, one whose lyrics are as confident and borderline cheesy as the glorious Ive been waiting on you! refrain of Seasons.

Motrhead, Aftershock (UDR)

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Quake hits flooded Solomon Islands

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The flooding has left about 10,000 people homeless in Honiara alone.

The US Geological Survey reported the quake was centred about 30km west of the city of Kirakira, at a depth of 63km.

It believed the likelihood of casualties and damage was low.

At least seven have been killed in floods in the Solomon Islands, making it one of the Pacific's worst disasters of recent times.

About 30 people are believed to be missing, and there have been reports of children's bodies floating down the main river in the Solomons' capital of Honiara.

The floods, from a slow-moving tropical depression threatening last night to turn into a cyclone, have also left more than 10,000 people temporarily homeless in Honiara alone.

They are clustering in 16 evacuation centres in local schools on high ground in the city of 70,000 people, where the police have also been rounding up looters.

Aid workers fear outbreaks of diseases from polluted water.

An old bridge through Honiara's Chinatown has been swept away, carrying a young mother and her baby daughter with it, said the Solomon Times, quoting a witness to the collapse.

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Bacterial gut biome may guide colon cancer progression

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Contact: Greg Lester glester@wistar.org 215-898-3943 The Wistar Institute

PHILADELPHIA(April 4, 2014) Colorectal cancer develops in what is probably the most complex environment in the human body, a place where human cells cohabitate with a colony of approximately 10 trillion bacteria, most of which are unknown. At the 2014 American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting in San Diego, researchers from The Wistar Institute will present findings that suggest the colon "microbiome" of gut bacteria can change the tumor microenvironment in a way that promotes the growth and spread of tumors.

Their results suggest that bacterial virulence proteins may suppress DNA repair proteins within the epithelial cells that line the colon. The research opens the possibility of modifying colon cancer risk by altering the population makeup of bacteria in the intestines of people at risk due to genetics or environmental exposure.

"There is a drastic, unmet need to look at new ways to define exactly how colon cancer forms in the gut and what triggers its progression into a lethal form," said Frank Rauscher, III, Ph.D., a professor in The Wistar Institute Cancer Center. "We suggest that some bacterial proteins can promote genetic changes that create conditions in the gut that would favor the progression of colon cancer."

While colorectal cancer incidence rates have declined, likely due to more widespread screening, survival rates have not. According to the American Cancer Society, about 50,000 Americans will die from colorectal cancer this year. "While our understanding of the gene mutations involved in colon cancer has improved, this has not lead to the promised increases in overall survival," Rauscher said.

Intestinal bacteria typically provide many benefits to their human hosts, aiding in digestion and crowding out more directly pathogenic bacteria. However, both "friendly" commensal bacteria and infective, pathogenic bacteria have been shown to actively reduce inflammation, an important tool used by the human innate immune system to promote healing and prevent the spread of infection.

In these studies, Rauscher and his colleagues injected anti-inflammatory proteins produced by EPEC (Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli) bacteria into colon epithelial cells. One of these proteins, NLEE, is an enzyme that targets TAB2, a human scaffolding protein involved in the transduction of chemical signals in the NF-B pathway. Targeting TAB2 results in the inactivation of numerous inflammatory activities in the gut.

Rauscher and colleagues looked for other human proteins that could be targeted by NLEE. Remarkably, they found that NLEE also has the capability of shutting off a protein, ZRANB3 involved in DNA repair. If bacterially infected colon cells can no longer repair damage to their DNA, mutations will accumulate, which will promote cancer growth.

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Can I Still Sign Up For Obamacare?| Governement Health Care?| By GMAConusltants.net (713)973-5775 – Video

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Senator Blunt Shares More Stories From Missourians Impacted By The Flawed Health Care Law 4/2/14 – Video

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"Portability of Insurance" by George Flinn – Hangouts on Air – Healthcare Expert – Health Insurance – Video

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Editorial: Local health care community takes another big step

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The health of the local health care community just keeps improving.

The latest advancement on that front was revealed Tuesday when officials of Stormont-Vail HealthCare and the world-renown Mayo Clinic, based in Rochester, Minn., announced they had entered a partnership that will give local physicians access to the clinics physicians for consultations.

Through the partnership, local physicians will be able to send a patients relevant medical records and images, through secure connections, to specialists at the Mayo Clinic and ask questions about the patients condition and treatment options. Responses from the consulting specialist should be received within 48 hours.

Randy Peterson, president and CEO of Stormont-Vail, said the arrangement decreases the odds patients will have to travel for consultations and care.

Obviously, the connection with Mayo Clinic and its specialists will benefit Stormont-Vail, its patients and northeast Kansas. The development is the latest evidence the local health care community is being aggressive in its attempts to ensure patients receive the best possible care close to home.

Earlier developments include participation by Stormont-Vail and St. Francis Health, which cheered Stormont-Vails partnership with Mayo Clinic, in regional health care organizations and research partnerships with The University of Kansas Cancer Center, a National Cancer Institute facility.

Although the primary goal always is to improve research and patient care, such things reflect well on Topekas hospitals and the community. The latest edition of Consumer Reports gave Stormont-Vail a very good rating among the nations hospitals.

Stormont-Vails place among the Mayo Clinic Care Network wasnt earned easily, however. David Hayes, medical director of the care network, said hospital and clinic officials worked for 10 to 12 months to establish the partnership, the first of its kind in Kansas.

Hayes said the application process includes four stages during which potential partners have to show they provide quality care and put the patient first, which required visits to Stormont-Vail by Mayo Clinic officials.

In addition to the consulting service, the partnership gives Stormont-Vail physicians access to AskMayoExperts, an online tool that offers information about disease management, treatment and clinical care.

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