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Thursday 28 August 2008

Bloc Party bring 'Intimacy' to Reading Festival

Bloc Party played Reading Festival tonight (August 23) just days after releasing third album 'Intimacy'.

The band released the album as a download on Thursday (21), making their Main Stage appearance their first gig since it became available.

Marking the occasion, frontman Kele Okereke started the show with a short speech saying it had been a few weeks of "new members, new babies and a newfangled record" - referring to bassist Gordon Moakes, wHO is on extended fatherhood leave and his reliever Daniel Lindegren - earlier adding that "I take in one more thing to say", and broke into the opening line of recent single 'Mercury'.

They later played 'One Month Off' from the new album, before dedicating 'This Modern Love' to their absent bandmate.

"We'd like to dedicate our next song to Gordon our usual bass player," stated Okereke. "I have no doubt he'll be observance online, can buoy we hold a vainglorious high to Gordon and his modern baby Scarlet."

A series of "Gordon" chants followed from the push with the singer noting "he'll honey that".

However, ahead of 'So Here We Are', Okereke had to rein in his consultation, after the big screens picked out a daughter on someone's shoulder and the push chanted for her to take her top off.

"Come on," cautioned the vocalist, "this is still a Bloc Party gig," before explaining the band were feeling good about tonight's show later on "a raspberry shat" on their fill-in bassist, which "must be a dependable luck sign".

"I hope you're having as much play as we are, you can show that we're all friends here," the singer by and by told the crowd as he kicked off 'Flux', working the opening lines of Prince's 'I Would Die 4 U' into his own song.

With green lasers dismissal across the site, the band then seemingly cloaked up the set with a frenzied version of 'Helicopter'.

However, Bloc Party returned for a rare Reading Festival encore.

"Thank you so much, it's a little bit nervy but we thought we have to play the song that started it all off," explained Okereke who song the vocals for 'She's Hearing Voices' from the barriers at the front of the crowd.

Bloc Party played:

'Mercury'

'Hunting For Witches'

'Song For Clay (Disappear Here)'

'Banquet'

'Two More Years'

'One Month Off'

'This Modern Love'

'The Prayer'

'So Here We Are'

'Like Eating Glass'

'I Would Die 4 U'/ 'Flux'

'Helicopter'

'She's Hearing Voices'

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Monday 18 August 2008

Health Risk Behaviors And Prostate Specific Antigen Awareness Among Men In California

�UroToday.com - In the August 2008 issue of the Journal of Urology, Dr. Firas Ahmed and associates investigated the correlation between sure health risk of infection behaviors and awareness of the PSA test among men residing in California. They hypothesized that workforce reporting health risk behaviors would have got less cognisance of the PSA test.

The study used the 2003 CHIS, a universe based, random digit-dialing telephone survey conducted between August 2003 and February 2004. It used a sampling approach to randomly blue-ribbon telephone numbers racket from 41 geographic sample strata representative of the California population. Interviews were performed in multiple languages and the interview response rate was 60%. Men with prostate cancer were excluded, going a cogitation population of 7,297 men.

PSA awareness was determined from the question "Have you ever heard of the PSA test?" Study variables included smoking status, walk, BMI, and binge intoxicant drinking. Personal confounding variables included demographics, socioeconomic condition, access to health forethought, health status and colon cancer cover. Age, race and ethnicity were also recorded.

Almost half of the subjects were between ages 50 and 60 years. Most were patrick White, married and spoke only English, were up-to-date on colorectal screening and lived most of their lives in the US. Their reported health status was good or better and income were at least 300% of the federal poverty story. Most had health insurance and some college education.

The overall prevalence of PSA awareness in the study population was 73% and the prevalence of PSA examination was 39%. PSA sentience increased with age up to 70-years and then it reduced. PSA awareness was highest in ovalbumin men and was positively associated with education, income, health status and the number of physician visits in the last year. Statistical analysis demonstrated that smoking, physical inactivity and obesity were significantly associated with lower odds of PSA awareness. The prevalence of PSA awareness decreased from 78% of men with no risk behaviors to 71%, 68%, and 55% in men with 1, 2, and 3 or more risk behaviors, respectively.

Ahmed FS, Borrell LN, Spencer BA

Urol. 2008 Aug;180(2):658-62

doi:10.1016/j.juro.2008.04.007

Reported by UroToday.com Contributing Editor Christopher P. Evans, MD, FACS

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Friday 8 August 2008

'The Dark Knight' could become biggest ever grosser

Heath Ledger in a still from The Dark Knight. Photo Credit: Warner Bros

July 27, 2008 () - The Dark Knight is headed towards becoming the biggest ever grosser, having raked in $75.6 million last weekend, to bring up its 10 day domestic gross to $314 million.

The film surpassed the record established by Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) of $300 trillion in 16 days.

Warner Bros. head of statistical distribution Dan Fellman told the Associated Press that the film may take just 18 years to exceed the criminal record established by Shrek 2 (2004) of $400 million in 43 years.

The highest ever domestic grosser so far has been Titanic (1997) with $600.8 jillion, a figure that The Dark Knight could conceivably overtake.