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The Reverb staff lists its picks of the best songs of 2014, with Future Islands, Run the Jewels, St. Vincent and more.
List season has arrived! And to kick off the month of year end wrap-ups, Reverb brings you our picks of best songs of 2014.
Rather than spend weeks of sleepless nights screaming at each other in the Reverb offices, we opt to create our own individual lists of the 10 best songs of 2014. This, we believe, gives you a look into each writers particular taste, and also gives you a wide sample of tracks to choose from. Below youll find 130 songs (about 100 without repeats) of our favorite songs from the year. Youll notice that songs from Future Islands, Taylor Swift, St. Vincent, Run the Jewels and Ty Segall appear the most on our lists.
To give you an opportunity to hear all of these tracks, we put together a master Spotify playlist (with the exception of repeats and artists not available on Spotify *cough* Taylor Swift *cough*) of nearly six hours of the best music of 2014.
Stay tuned for our picks of best albums and best shows of 2014 later this month. See our Reverb staff lists and listen to our best songs of 2014 playlist below:
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1) Seasons (Waiting On You), Future Islands 2) Close Your Eyes (And Count to F***), Run The Jewels 3) Blank Space, Taylor Swift 4) Two Weeks, FKA twigs 5) Digital Witness, St. Vincent 6) A Simple Design, The Juan Maclean 7) Never Catch Me (feat. Kendrick Lamar), Flying Lotus 8) Avant Gardener, Courtney Barnett 9) Feel, Ty Segall 10) Fiona Coyne, Saint Pepsi
John Wenzel
1) Forget, Ben Watt 2) Somebodys Talking, The Preatures 3) Never Work for Free, Tennis 4) Volunteers of America, The Both 5) Storming the Beach, King of Prussia 6) Airborne, The Pack A.D. 7) Table at Fools Tooth, Guided by Voices 8) Dont Wanna Lose, Ex Hex 9) Seasons (Waiting on You), Future Islands 10) The Lords Favorite, Iceage
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Winston Churchill dispatched 1,700 troops to the Falkland Islands in 1942 out of concern that the Japanese were planning to invade the territory and interfere with critical sea routes in the South Atlantic.
Documents held at the National Archives, cited by Kyodo News, indicate that Churchill realised the strategic importance of the islands to Britain's war effort after Japan's attack on US forces at Pearl Harbor on December 8, 1941.
Playing on Argentina's desire to reclaim the islands, the Japanese ambassador to Buenos Aires had promised the government that Japan "would see that the Falklands are returned to Argentina," according to documents in the archive from Esmond Ovey, the British ambassador.
In a subsequent exchange dated December 26, the Admiralty had sent a coded message to the commander in chief of British forces in the South Atlantic warning that "The Japanese have given out that they will shortly be running a convoy to Argentina and that they will capture the Falkland Islands and present them to the Argentinians."
In a message to senior defence officials in London dated April 1, 1942, Churchill stated, "It would be a very serious thing to lose the Falkland Islands to the Japanese and no comfort to say that it would hurt the United States more than ourselves.
"The Falkland Islands are very well known and their loss would be a shock to the whole Empire," he wrote. "They would certainly have to be retaken."
Requests for assistance from Canada were turned down, while the United States ignored suggestions that it would be in Washington's best interests to garrison the islands.
To ensure that a seaborne invasion to recapture the islands - which Britain was ill-equipped to carry out in 1942 - was not required, 1,700 men of the 11th battalion of the West Yorkshire Regiment were posted to the Falklands.
"The object of the reinforcement would be to make it necessary for the Japanese to extend their attacking forces to a tangible size," Churchill wrote. "This might well act as a deterrent."
The Japanese threat to the islands failed to materialise and, by late 1944, the troops had been dispatched to different theatres of the conflict.
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A boat being used to transport politicians in Solomon Islands was damaged by gunshots just hours before a parliamentary vote to choose a new prime minister.
Solomon Islands held a national election almost three weeks ago and two main factions have been competing for the loyalties of MPs.
Parliamentarians aligned with Manasseh Sogavare had been taken to a resort near Honiara on Monday in an effort to stop them defecting before Tuesday's leadership vote.
Police Commissioner Frank Prendergast confirmed the boat was damaged by gunshots early on Tuesday morning.
The politicians were not on the boat at the time and no-one was injured, he said.
Police would not give details about the extent of the damage to the vessel.
The boat did make it back to the capital Honiara in time for the parliamentary vote on Tuesday.
Manasseh Sogavare won the vote 31 to 19, becoming prime minister for the third time.
The Royal Solomon Islands Police Force has formed a joint taskforce with the Participating Police Force (PPF) and is giving high priority to the investigation.
The PPF is part of the Australian-led Regional Assistant Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI), which has spent $2.6 billion over the last decade to help restore law and order after ethnic violence.
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Last spring, Dr. Danielle Martin took on a U.S. Senate committee and defended Canada #39;s health care system. While igniting pride from coast to coast, Dr. Martin also acknowledged that our health...
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Identifying opportunities to discuss multiple vaccines
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Throughout the health ecosystem new technologies and medical advancements enter the market every day. Yet, as Jonathan Bush, President and CEO of athenahealth commented during the 2014 Forbes Healthcare Summit, Only in health care can you increase the staff needed and slow productivity, costing more, by adding new technologies.
His point is well taken. Negative labor productivity is ultimately the underlying complaint of hospital leadership, providers and patients surrounding technology such as electronic health records (EHRs). Although more EHRs enter the market and mergers continue between health systems everyday, the need to actually connect care has sadly been lost in the debate about what software to use and how to use it.
As the President and CEO of Texas Medical Center Robert Robbins pointed out, Just like we are not going back to using pay phones and rotary phones over smart phones, the EHR will never be overtaken by file folders of the past. He contends that there are plenty of opportunities for improvement, but the progress of technology will not be undone because people do not like them, as they exist.
Jonathan Bush used that transition to equate the state of health care technology to the movie Blade Runner, in which a dystopian future involves hover cars and artificial intelligence, but the characters still use pay phones.
While no one can predict with certainty what the future of health analytics and scientific advancement look like, its clear that regression in one area as others surge forward is not an option. Just as we cannot go back to health care in the US before the ACA, the future of health will certainly not look like it does under the ACA.
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Health care workers have more than 100 times the risk of catching Ebola in Sierra Leone as the general public there does, according to a new report.
And it's not necessarily down to failed protective measures in hospitals. Health care workers form their own community, and when one gets sick or dies, he or she can infect fellow medics, the report finds.
The World Health Organization has been saying that health care workers such as doctors and nurses are at special risk of Ebola. It says 622 health-care workers have been infected and 346 of them have died in all the affected countries.
"They can ill afford to lose health care workers."
Sierra Leone already has far too few health care workers just about 2,400 for a country of 6 million people.
"They can ill afford to lose health care workers," said Dr. Peter Kilmarx of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who led an investigation into the high infection rate in Sierra Leone.
Ten physicians have died of Ebola in the current epidemic, including Dr. Martin Salia, who died after being evacuated to the University of Nebraska for emergency treatment last month.
Salia wasn't even treating Ebola patients. He was a primary care doctor at a Methodist hospital, probably infected, experts believe, when he was treating a patient for other symptoms without suspecting he or she had the virus.
It's a story that CDC experts found over and over in their investigation of health care worker deaths.
"We think of health care worker infections as a failure of personal protective equipment," Kilmarx told NBC News. "But there are so many different ways that they are exposed there."
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MU Health Care recently announced starting on Jan. 1, it will no longer hire nicotine users. While current employees will not be affected by the new policy, future applicants will be asked whether or not they use nicotine products and will be drug tested upon applying. Current employees who are nicotine users will be grandfathered in and exempt from the policy.
We recognize that this policy was founded in good intentions. When put into place, it might successfully help some members of our community begin to live a healthier lifestyle. However, we think its an unnecessary overreach into potential employees lives and sets a risky precedent for hiring practices and stipulations in the UM System.
Refusing to hire smokers could be construed as discrimination. With this policy, a qualified candidate applying to work at an MU Health Care facility could be denied a position if they used any nicotine products, including smokeless tobacco and e-cigarettes. Employees should be hired based on their ability to perform, not based on a personal decision they can legally make.
In the news release announcing the new policy, MU Health Care Chief Operating Officer Mitch Wasden is quoted saying that in order to improve the health of patients and the community, staff members at MU Health Care need to lead by example.
We think that employees in this institution can perform well in their positions without being role models in their personal lives. For example, if a doctor has received 12 or more years of medical training in order to diagnose, treat and give medical advice to patients, will their smoking habits really affect their ability to do their jobs?
If staff members are expected to lead by example at MU Health Care, then why is this policy only affecting future employees? The stated goal of this policy is to create an environment where employees can be seen as role models. By allowing existing employees to continue smoking, MU Health Care is contradicting its own goal.
Another noticeable problem with this policy is that nicotine products such as cigarettes, chew and e-cigarettes are legal in the United States and in the state of Missouri, which funds MU Health Care. Turning away employees who use these products opens the door to not allowing employees to use other legal unhealthy products. Alcohol has negative effects on individuals health, as does an unbalanced, unhealthy diet. By enforcing this nicotine-free policy, MU Health Care is blurring the lines concerning what are acceptable and unacceptable lifestyle and behavioral choices for employees.
All MU Health Care facilities have been smoke-free since 2006, according to the news release. MUs campus has been smoke-free since July 2013. Theoretically, if an employee of MU Health Care was to smoke, it would be within the privacy of their own home or car, or far away from MU facilities. If an employee wants to legally smoke, chew or vape, they should be able to. It doesnt directly affect patients or customers, thus allowing employees to still lead by example.
We think that there are better ways for MU Health Care to go about promoting healthy lifestyles among its staff. For example, as part of the its 2015 Wellness Incentive, the UM System has created an incentive program where taking part in healthy activities helps staff members gain points, and a certain number of points will lead to a raise. Focusing on these positive initiatives help promote healthy lifestyles without enforcing a problematic hiring policy.
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Health care workers have more than 100 times the risk of catching Ebola in Sierra Leone as the general public there does, according to a new report.
And it's not necessarily down to failed protective measures in hospitals. Health care workers form their own community, and when one gets sick or dies, he or she can infect fellow medics, the report finds.
The World Health Organization has been saying that health care workers such as doctors and nurses are at special risk of Ebola. It says 622 health-care workers have been infected and 346 of them have died in all the affected countries.
"They can ill afford to lose health care workers."
Sierra Leone already has far too few health care workers just about 2,400 for a country of 6 million people.
"They can ill afford to lose health care workers," said Dr. Peter Kilmarx of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who led an investigation into the high infection rate in Sierra Leone.
Ten physicians have died of Ebola in the current epidemic, including Dr. Martin Salia, who died after being evacuated to the University of Nebraska for emergency treatment last month.
Salia wasn't even treating Ebola patients. He was a primary care doctor at a Methodist hospital, probably infected, experts believe, when he was treating a patient for other symptoms without suspecting he or she had the virus.
It's a story that CDC experts found over and over in their investigation of health care worker deaths.
"We think of health care worker infections as a failure of personal protective equipment," Kilmarx told NBC News. "But there are so many different ways that they are exposed there."
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TIME Health medicine Genetic Screening Saved This Babys Life Researchers say sequencing genomes can lead to quicker diagnoses and effective treatments for more than half of children affected by brain disorders
Mya Burkhart was only six months old when she went into cardiac arrest. Fortunately, she was in the hospital when it happened, brought there by her parents because she had trouble breathing. It was her eighth or ninth visit to the emergency room for her respiratory problems, but each time the doctors had sent the Burkharts home with more questions than answers.
Mya wasnt developing at the normal rate. She couldnt lift her head and wasnt responding to people and things around her. Doctors thought she might have a muscle disorder, but her other symptoms did not fit with that diagnosis.
After her heart scare, Mya spent three weeks, including her first Christmas, in the ICU on a ventilator. I couldnt pick her up or anything, says her mother Holly. Still unable to solve the mystery of what was ailing her, the doctors finally suggested she have her genome tested. Maybe, they hoped, her DNA would offer some clues about why she wasnt growing normally.
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Holly knew the test was still in the research stages, and that there was a chance that even it might not yield any more answers about her daughters condition. At that point, I just wanted to try anything to find out what was wrong with her, she says. It boiled down to balancing a chance that their baby would live or die.
Genetic screening, especially whole-genome screening in which people can learn about their possible risk for certain diseases, remains controversial, since the information is neither definitive nor always accurate. In most cases, genes can only predict, with a limited amount of certainty, whether a disease such as breast cancer or Alzheimers looms in a persons future. As the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) contemplates the merits and efficacy of such screening, some doctors and researchers are using it with great success, according to a new study published in the journal Science Translational Medicine.
Researchers at Childrens Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, where Mya was treated, say that for 100 families, including the Burkharts, with children affected by either unknown disorders or brain abnormalities, genome screening helped 45% receive a new diagnosis, and guided 55% to a different treatment for their childs disorder. Of the 100 families, 85 had been going from doctor to doctor in search of a diagnosis for an average of six and a half years.
I was surprised by how many cases we found where a specific intervention can make a difference, says Sarah Soden from the Center for Pediatric Genomic Medicine at Childrens Mercy and the studys lead author. For me its compelling enough to push the envelope and get younger kids diagnosed.
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Treatment allows scientists to remodel eye cells into light receptors It uses a gene that alters eye cells and an injected chemical 'photoswitch' The photoswitch works with the gene to turn light sensitivity on in cell Blind rescue dogs could see flashing lights after treatment, study says Blind mice became as good at navigating a water maze as normal mice The treatment could be used to help people with retinitis pigmentosa -an inherited condition resulting in progressive loss of sight
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Published: 08:31 EST, 9 December 2014 | Updated: 10:03 EST, 9 December 2014
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A radical form of gene therapy that remodels eye cells into light receptors has allowed scientists to partially restore the sight of animals with inherited blindness.
Scientists say the same technique could one day be used to treat people with retinitis pigmentosa - an inherited condition resulting in progressive loss of sight.
In early tests on blind rescue dogs with a similar condition, showed they could restore sufficient light sensitivity for the animals to distinguish between flashing and non-flashing lights.
In normal mice (left), stimulating the retina produced a variety of responses, as shown by the colours. A similar response was achieved using the radical new therapy in blind mice - as shown in the colourful centre square. The right image reveals the blind mice who had the therapy in different retinal ganglion cells. The results in these types of cells were less dramatic
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SAN FRANCISCO (TheStreet) -- Bluebird Bio (BLUE) has now treated seven beta-thalassemia patients with its experimental, one-time gene therapy. Four of the patients -- all followed for longer than three months -- are producing enough oxygen-carrying hemoglobin on their own to eliminate the need for chronic blood transfusions.
Two of these super-responding beta-thalassemia patients -- followed for a year and nine months, respectively -- have hemoglobin levels of healthy adults. At this point, a single infusion of Bluebird's gene therapy has essentially cured them of this serious, inherited blood disease.
The remaining three beta-thalassemia patients were infused with Bluebird's gene therapy around one month ago so it's too early to assess their response. A single patient with sickle cell disease was also just treated within the past month.
It's still unreasonable to expect an equivalent strong response in every patient, but Bluebird is learning that as its therapy replaces the defective gene causing beta-thalassemia (or sickle cell disease) with a gene that is fully functional, the patient's ability to produce normal-functioning hemoglobin improves over time, said CEO Nick Leschly.
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Bluebird Gene Therapy Inducing Durable Cures in Blood Disorder Patients
It's been an absolute banner year so far for gene therapy developer bluebird bio Inc. (BLUE: Quote) whose share price has surged more than 130 percent year-to-date.
Before we discuss what's making news at bluebird bio today, here's what "gene therapy" means in simple terms.
Gene therapy is a technique that uses genes to treat or prevent diseases caused by defective or missing genes. This approach helps to address the underlying cause of the disease, rather than offering solutions that focus only on the disease symptoms. Though not a new field, gene therapy is still considered experimental as it faces many technical challenges and concerns regarding its safety.
Did you know the world's first commercial gene therapy was approved in China?
Gendicine, developed by SiBiono GeneTech Co., Ltd., for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma was launched in China in 2004. A year later, another gene therapy product - Oncorine for the treatment of head and neck cancer - was launched, in China, by Shanghai Sunway Biotech Co. Ltd.
Russia launched its first gene therapy drug, Neovasculgen, to treat Peripheral Arterial Disease on the market in 2011.
In the Western world too, there is one approved gene therapy - Glybera - developed by uniQure N.V. (QURE) for adult patients diagnosed with familial lipoprotein lipase deficiency. Approved by the European Commission in November of 2012, Glybera is expected to be launched in Europe this quarter or in Q1, 2015. It is currently not approved for use outside of the European Union.
Now, coming back to today's topic under consideration - bluebird bio - its stock was up more than 43% in Monday's extended trading (Dec.8, 2014), following promising results of its investigational gene therapy LentiGlobin BB305 in patients with beta-thalassemia major, a severe form of beta-thalassemia. The results were presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology yesterday.
Beta thalassemia is an inherited blood disease that reduces the production of hemoglobin. Abnormalities in a gene that is responsible for the production of beta globin (beta-T87Q-globin) causes sickle-cell disease and beta thalassemia. Depending on the severity of symptoms, beta thalassemia is classified as thalassemia major (also known as Cooley's anemia) and thalassemia intermedia.
Beta globin is one of the proteins that make up hemoglobin. Treating beta-thalassemia includes frequent and lifelong blood transfusions, which deliver red blood cells to the body to correct the anemia.
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