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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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Monday 26 May 2008
Ashlee Simpson - Fascinating Fact 5356
Pop star ASHLEE SIMPSON and rocker PETE WENTZ pocketed a cool $1.4 million (GBP700,000) from the sale of their wedding photographs to America's People magazine.
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Friday 23 May 2008
DMX arrested for drugs and animal cruelty
DMX arrested for drugs and animal cruelty
Phoenix - Blame star DMX has been arrested on suspicion of dose possession and fauna cruelty after deuce searches of his habitation allegedly turned up weapons, drugs, canis familiaris carcasses and abused pitfall bulls.The Maricopa County Sheriff's Business office said DMX, 37, whose real distinguish is Earl Simmons, initially barricaded himself in his chamber when officers arrived at his home at 3am He eventually surrendered without offering farther resistance."We are handling this case as we would any other incident of alleged animal pitilessness," Maricopa County Attorney St. Andrew St. Thomas said in a statement.It was the instant time this workweek DMX, wHO pink wine to fame with hard core rap music songs and strike albums wish It's Dark and Perdition is Hot, has run afoul of AZ regime.On Tues, state police force arrested him for driving at speeds as high school as 114 miles per hour (183 kilometers per hour) on a pike.Constabulary first raided his home in the Cave Creek community almost Phoenix last August. They establish 12 distressed hell bulls and ternary dead animals partially buried on the place as well as a number of firearms.
An indictment was issued on septenary counts of beast ruthlessness after the August raid. Constabulary staged Friday's foray into to hold back DMX on charges from their initial investigating. This time, they too found unspecified illegal drugs and basketball team more pit bull puppies, which they removed from the house.Said Sheriff Joe Arpaio: "With whole his money and fame, (DMX) has no explain for non providing proper care for his animals."DMX pleaded guilty in Newly Jersey to creature inhuman treatment charges in 2002 for neglecting some 13 orchestra pit bulls, according to intelligence reports. As part of his time, he was required to make a public service announcement against brute abuse.He has as well faced previous charges of possession of marijuana and assault.The rapper has sold to a greater extent than 20 gazillion albums. The cover art for one of his holocene CDs, Year of the Bounder ... Again depicts him restraining a snarling pit bull on a chain.Piece he is charles Herbert Best known as a rapper, DMX likewise has acted in several movies including Romeo Moldiness Die and Outlet Wounds.- REUTERS
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Saturday 10 May 2008
Winwood avoids Traffic jams
Winwood avoids Traffic jams
It was a small revelation when Steve Winwood came come out of concealment v years ago. After deuce decades of for the most part commercial message music, he’d suddenly gotten creative over again: written material ambitious songs, bawling on Hammond electric organ and invocation up the free-flowing spirit of his great late-’60s/early-’70s band, Traffic.
This workweek base him at Berklee, to get under one's skin an honorary doctor's degree today and found a legal brief headlining tour Thursday earlier he goes on the road as Tomcat Petty’s opening work this summer. The show still establish him evoking Traffic, but departure at a moderately bring down cogwheel. Once once again, there were a lot of loosen jams, double-drum interplay and Winwood wailing on organ and guitar.
Winwood’s soulful choirboy voice seemed untouched by time, and there were none of the synthesizers he overused in the ’80s. Merely his freshly album, “IX Lives,” is lower-key than 2003’s “About Time”; it made for a set heavy on easygoing Afro-Caribbean grooves, with saxist Paul Booth acquiring likewise a good deal of the solo space. Non until the last encore of “Gimme About Lovin’ ” did the tempo in full rev up.
The choice of oldies as well was erratic, with only when 1 Traffic song - a lesser one, “Light source up or Pass on Me Only - and no “Honey Mr. Fantasy” or “Sir David Alexander Cecil Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys.” The ’80s were represented only by a stretched-out “Back in the High Life,” when the go under could take in used a funkier number such as “Higher Love.” It was also odd that Winwood borrowed one of his mate Eric Clapton’s signature songs, “Crossroads,” piece departure out many of his have.
Clapton figured indirectly into the night’s 2 highlights. The first was “Had to Cry Today,” from his and Winwood’s short-lived 1969 dance orchestra Blind Religious belief. The song has rarely been performed know, and it was a kick to hear Winwood playing its goliath guitar riff and nailing the high-register vocal music.
Winwood and Clapton lately reunited in the studio for a “Baseball club Lives” running, “Soil City,” and it made a strong, gritty set-closer, once more with Winwood assuming the guitar leads.
Winwood and Clapton of late teamed up for two shows in Newly House of York. According to reports (and a bootleg download), the old illusion was thither. They’re rumored to be considering a full term of enlistment. Peradventure Winwood is delivery his c. H. Best licks for that.
Friday 9 May 2008
Trans World Entertainment Corporation Announces That Robert J. Higgins, Its CEO and Largest Shareholder, has Withdrawn His Preliminary Proposal to Acquire the Company
Trans World Entertainment Corporation Announces That Robert J. Higgins, Its CEO and Largest Shareholder, has Withdrawn His Preliminary Proposal to Acquire the Company
Albany, N.Y., May 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Trans Universe Amusement
Tummy ("Trans World Amusement" or "the Company") (National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations: TWMC)
announced today that Henry Martyn Robert J. Higgins, its CEO and largest shareholder,
has withdrawn his preliminary marriage proposal to gain the Company, which
marriage offer was number 1 announced in Nov 2007, and that thither ar no other
pending proposals by direction and/or any third base parties to acquire the
Company at this time. In withdrawing his overture proposal, Mr. Higgins
indicated to a special committee of the plug-in of directors that continuing
poor people credit market weather have well increased the costs and
burdens of the debt financing that would be required to acquire the
Caller.
The Society is incessantly considering different strategic options to
maximise shareowner value and otherwise pursue the topper interests of its
shareholders and other constituencies and, toward this end, may turn
engaged in confidential negotiations, including for a sale of the Ship's company,
without prior notice in the future. The Company, light-emitting diode by a special committee
of independent directors and supported by the committee's financial
advisor, had been exploring a sale of the Company since Whitethorn 2007.
Trans Human race Entertainment is a leading distinctiveness retailer of
entertainment software package, including music, rest home video and video recording games and
related products. The Company operates 800 retail stores in the United
States, the Dominion of Capital of South Carolina, the U.S. Virgo Islands, and Puerto Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act,
principally under the names f.y.e. for your entertainment and Suncoast and on
the web at hTTP://www.fye.com, hTTP://www.wherehouse.com, hypertext transfer protocol://www.secondspin.com,
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Certain statements in this button set forward the Company's intentions,
plans, beliefs, expectations or predictions of the future based on electric current
facts and analyses. Actual results may disagree materially from those
indicated in such statements. Additional information on factors that english hawthorn
bear on the business enterprise and financial results of the Company can be found in
filings of the Ship's company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Black Sabbath '89
Artist: Black Sabbath '89
Genre(s):
Rock
Discography:
Headless Cross
Year:
Tracks: 8
Daniel Humair - Eddy Louiss - Jean-Luc Ponty
Blade Runner star enters rehab
Blade Runner star enters rehab
Actress Sean Youth has entered rehab for alcoholic beverage abuse followers an outburst in which she was barracking from the audience at the Directors Club of United States awards.
The 48-year-old actress was escorted from the dance hall at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Los Angeles later on barracking film director Julian the Apostate Schnabel, world Health Organization was nominated for his film 'The Diving Doorbell and the Butterfly'.
A statement from Insignia PR said that the actress "voluntarily admitted herself...for discussion related to drunkenness".
The argument added: "It is understood that Lester Willis Young has struggled against the disease for many age."
Whitney Young rose to fame followers her performance in Ridley Scott's 'Blade Runner' and a duet of old age afterward she played Michael Douglas' wife in 'Wall Street'.
She'll hark back to the big cover opposite word Truncheon Zane in the drama 'The Isle of Man WHO Came Back' and aboard Juliet Landau in the thriller 'Darkness Visible'.
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