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California health officials give asked U.S. District Judge Christina Snyder to suspend an injunction that she issued against a 10% reduction in Medi-Cal reimbursement rates for health tutelage providers, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Medi-Cal is California's Medicaid program (Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle, 8/27).
In February, California lawmakers and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) approved the reduction as part of an sweat to address the estimated $15.2 billion state budget deficit. The reduction took gist on July 1. Snyder ordered California to reverse the decrease and issued the injunction on Aug. 18. According to Snyder, California lawmakers did non consider the effect that the step-down would have on quality and access to attention for beneficiaries, as mandatory by federal law (Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, 8/22).
In documents filed with Snyder on Monday, California attorneys wrote that a reversal of the step-down would toll at least $500 gazillion annually and would "alone worsen California's already desperate financial spot." They likewise wrote that California would require at least three weeks to reprogram computers to reverse the reduction. According to Stan Rosenstein, chief decision maker for Medi-Cal, California lawmakers might eliminate optional services, such as prescription drug and adult dental attention coverage, in the event that the injunction remains in impression during an appeal by state attorneys.
On Tuesday, attorney Lynn Carman, who represents pharmacists and Medi-Cal beneficiaries, asked Snyder to hold Sandra Shewry, director of the California Department of Health Care Services, in contempt and appoint a court representative to supervise compliance with the injunction. Snyder has scheduled a hearing for Thursday on that request (San Francisco Chronicle, 8/27).
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Wednesday 3 September 2008
Sunday 24 August 2008
Spice Girls - Mama Mel C Adding To Spice Babies
Mel C has become the last of the Spice Girls to become pregnant.
Thirty-four-year-old Melanie Chisholm confirmed to the Mirror newsprint she is with tiddler and that her cooperator of six-spot years, Thomas Starr, is the baby's father.
"Melanie is over the moon at the prospect of decorous a mamma for the first time," a source told the tabloid.
"The girls are so pleased for her and have said they're only if a telephone set call aside to return on whatsoever parenting tips."
All four other Spice Girls spent their time later on the band's initial split attempting to balance solo careers with the business of procreation.
Only Mel C had avoided parenthood by the time the 90s band reunited for last year's sell out tour.
Now she too becomes a Spice Girl Mama, confirming guess about her condition following the floaty dress worn in Liverpool last week.
"I'm sure that babies will be part of my future," Mel C said recently. "I love kids."
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Wednesday 6 August 2008
Plastic Funk Feat White Boy
Artist: Plastic Funk Feat White Boy
Genre(s):
House
Discography:
Rock Bitch-(POR001) Vinyl
Year: 2007
Tracks: 4
Friday 27 June 2008
Vatican taking guesswork out of church shoots
Setting guidelines for which films will be allowed
TAORMINA, Italy -- The Vatican said Wednesday that it is working on a set of guidelines for what it considers "good cinema." The move comes two days after the Vatican told producers of "Angels & Demons" that their film doesn't qualify.
The Vatican on Monday barred Sony Pictures' "Angels & Demons" from shooting inside any of Rome's churches. On Wednesday, the film crew said it will move a bit further south and shoot the church scenes for the film inside the former royal palace in Caserta, outside Naples, a secular building.
Priest Marco Fibbi, a spokesman for the Diocese of Rome, said Wednesday that the church was working on a set of guidelines that will determine whether a film contains the "proper" religious sentiment.
The Church staunchly opposed "The Da Vinci Code," the 2006 adaptation of the Dan Brown best-seller. "Angels & Demons," the follow-up film, also based on one of Brown's novels, is entirely set in Rome.
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Thursday 19 June 2008
First Choice
Artist: First Choice
Genre(s):
disco
Discography:
Breakaway
Year: 1980
Tracks: 9
Hold Your Horses
Year: 1978
Tracks: 6
Delusions
Year: 1977
Tracks: 9
Golden Classics (1975-1976)
Year: 1976
Tracks: 14
The '70s Philly disco music vocal radical First Choice's number one swelled breakthrough was the infectious "Armed and Extremely Dangerous" (with its urgent "calling all cars!" intro), a Top 20 R&B/Top 30 pop hit in 1973. New attending was brought to the female trio when Mary J. Blige did a faithful cover of their dance classical "Let No Man Put Asunder" in 1999. Lead vocalist Rochelle Fleming, Joyce Jones, and Chester, PA, native Annette Guest were originally known as the Debonettes and performed around Philadelphia. Radio DJ Georgie Woods introduced them to Philly soul Norman Harris, wHO produced the debut individual "This Is the House Where Loved Died," which received airplay in Philly and other markets just failed to chart nationally. Their next single, the Harris-produced "Armed and Extremely Dangerous," was their number one big strike, sledding to telephone number 11 R&B in early 1973 for Stan Watson's Philly Groove label, which was distributed by Bell Records. It was too a Top 20 U.K. make. The Armed and Extremely Dangerous album was released in fall 1973. For the mass of their records, First Choice was backed by the tight musical rhythm section of guitarist Harris, bassist Ron Baker, and drummer Earl Young wHO were part of MFSB, the house striation for Gamble & Huff's Philadelphia International Records. The next single, "The Player, Part 1," was their highest charting R&B single, hit number sevener R&B in summer 1974, though the chemical group enjoyed many high-charting hits on Billboard's discotheque charts. The Player LP was issued in fall 1974. Switching to Warner Bros., they charted with "Gotta Get Away (From You Baby)" in spring 1976 and "Let Him Go" in fall 1976, and they released an LP, So Let Us Entertain You. Around 1977, Joyce Jones left the group and was replaced by Ursula Herring. The following year, Norman Harris formed Gold Mind Records, which was distributed by dance label pioneer Salsoul Records and co-founded Baker-Harris-Young Productions with his bandmates. First Choice signed with Gold Mind and their beginning spillage for the label, the ultra-catchy "Doctor Love," went to act 23 R&B in summer 1977. Delusions followed in the fall of 1977. Generally regarded as the trio's charles Herbert Best LP, it featured lyrically rich saltation tunes as well as delicious ballads and gave Philadelphia native Fleming her charles Herbert Best showcase, displaying nonpareil of the well-nigh classifiable lead vocalists in soul/dance/pop music. Fleming's vocals are likewise nonpareil of the well-nigh sampled, heard on innumerable dance records from around the universe. Their succeeding Gold Mind LP, Hold Your Houses, was released in March 1979, with the rubric track decorous a disco music classical. That same year, Debbie Martin replaced Ursula Herring. Around 1983, Salsoul ceased operations to focus on the emerging home tV grocery by starting their First Choice Video division, and the following twelvemonth, the trio split. In 1987, Fleming reformed a rendering of First Choice with her cousin Laconya Fleming and Lawrence Cottel, world Health Organization recorded a undivided for Prelude Records, "Beloved Itch." In the '90s, Rochelle Fleming continued to disc in the U.S. and Europe.
Thursday 12 June 2008
Spiritualized Festival Warm-Up Show Announced
Spiritualized will prepare for their Glastonbury Festival appearance at the end of this month, by playing a last-minute warm-up show.
Jason Pierce and band will perform at the Brighton Concorde 2 on June 27th, two days before Spiritualized play on Glasto's John Peel Stage on June 29th. Tickets are on sale now.
Meanwhile, the group have just released their new album 'Songs In A&E' and will also be touring properly in the UK this October. Those dates are:
Newcastle Academy (9)
Leeds University (10)
Manchester Academy (11)
Oxford Academy (13)
Portsmouth Pyramids (14)
Birmingham Academy (15)
London Roundhouse (16)
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Friday 6 June 2008
James Mcavoy - Mcavoy Fights For School
Scottish actor JAMES MCAVOY is leading the fight to save an acting school from closure.
The Atonement star graduated from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (RSAMD), along with other Scottish thespians including Robert Carlyle, Alan Cumming and Dr. Who's David Tennant.
But the academy is set to close unless it can plug a $1.2 million (GBP600,000) funding gap - and MCAvoy has now written an open letter to the country's government urging officials to keep Scotland's premiere acting institution open.
He writes in the letter: "The RSAMD is the only one of its kind in Scotland and, without it our country's future teachers, actors, musicians and technical professionals would be forced to go south of the border (to England).
"Because of the RSAMD, I'm a product not only of Scotland but of Scottish training. That's something I'm proud of, and I hope the Scottish government see fit to help save the future of this national treasure."
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