There's a move that noise kids make at noise shows: With their heads down, feet shoulder-width apart and unmoving, they uncross their arms and lunge both fists in the air. It's commonly referred to as "awesome arms" — and it will definitely occur as the Los Angeles quartet HEALTH performs its much-anticipated set at the Billiken Club. With either electro new-wave percussion or booming war drums at the core of its songs, HEALTH then layers sparse guitars and glitchy thrift-store keyboards alongside effects-laden vocals (courtesy of the "zoothorn," a microphone/guitar pedal hybrid). But it's all more than just a big racket: The band's attention to song form and tension/release puts it more in touch with Animal Collective or Liars than with your average knob-twisting noise group. .

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Free computer classes offered in Branson

This workshop is for beginning users and will show you how to use a search engine, Internet safety, e-mail capabilities and more. (Shelly McConnell).
Thursday, March 13, Elementary Lab, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.

BEGINNING WORD - This is a workshop designed for novices who want to learn the basics of Microsoft Word. The participants will learn how to create, save, open, edit and navigate within a Word document. Basic computer knowledge or prior participation in the Beginning Workshop is required. (Instructor: Shelly McConnell)
Thursday, March 27, Elementary Lab, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.

BEGINNING PUBLISHER - Microsoft Publisher is a program designed to create newsletters, brochures, fliers, invitations, business cards, and many other communication products. There are numerous uses for this application.

LibDem leader’s call for Trump application inquiry rejected

Nicol Stephen's call for a judicial inquiry into the Scottish Government's handling of Donald Trump's application to build a £1bn golf resort was scuppered yesterday.

Africa quake toll rises as homeless add to aid crisis

The death toll from a series of earthquakes that hit central Africa rose Monday to 44 as a major aid operation for hundreds of injured and thousands of homeless gathered pace amid new aftershocks.

At least 38 people were killed in Rwanda's Western Province and six around the Democratic Republic of Congo city of Bukavu, which was near one epicentre, authorities said, while more than 450 were hurt.

Rwandan police spokesman Willy Marcel Higiro said latest reports gave 30 dead and 112 hospitalised in Rusizi district and eight killed and 180 in hospital in Nyamasheke.

"Many have been left homeless," he said. "We are still counting them."

Sunday's quakes, the biggest of which measured 6.0 on the open-ended Richter scale, caused huge communications problems after they struck close together along the western Rift Valley fault, cracking open the walls of houses and buildings.