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HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt on Thursday announced plans to implement a regulation intended to protect health care providers and other workers from disciplinary measures if they refuse to provide abortions or denote patients to other providers for abortions because of personal, religious or moral reasons, the Washington Post reports. Under the proposed regulation, federal officials could withdraw federal funding from more than 584,000 hospitals, clinics, health plans, physicians and other entities if they do not accommodate employees who resist to participate in a procedure or medical service to which they physical object (Stein, Washington Post, 8/22).
If the proposed regularization takes effect, health institutions would have to certify in piece of writing that they are complying with the rule. The proposed regulating also would establish a system for enforcing moral sense protections in three fork federal laws (Alonzo-Zaldivar, AP/San Francisco Chronicle, 8/21). The rule could go into effect after a 30-day public comment period and could price more than $44 million to implement, the Post reports.
An sooner draft of the proposed regulation included language that defined abortion -- for the kickoff time in a federal law or regulation -- as anything that interferes with a fertilized egg after conception. That lyric was eliminated, but supporters and opponents maintain that the proposed regulation remains broad sufficiency to protect health caution providers world Health Organization decline to provide oral contraception, Plan B emergency contraception and other types of contraceptive method. The proposed rule besides would set aside health care providers to decline giving patients information about such treatments or services (Washington Post, 8/22).
Leavitt said HHS "did not feel it necessary to define abortion" in the rule, adding that the regulation "relies upon existing statutes and existing court decisions as to the meaning of the parole 'abortion.'" (Young, The Hill, 8/21). However, he added that some wellness workers mightiness want to "press the definition" of abortion and argue that some forms of contraception are tantamount to miscarriage (Wall Street Journal, 8/22). "This regulation does non seek to resolve whatever ambiguity" in regard to health concern workers world Health Organization consider contraception to be equivalent to abortion, Leavitt said, adding, "It focuses on miscarriage and focuses on physicians' conscience in relation to that" (Washington Post, 8/22).
According to the Journal, it is unclear how many women would be affected if the regulation takes effect as it is currently written. Advocates on both sides of the debate have said hospitals, insurers and HMOs could use the regulation to challenge state laws that require insurers to handle contraceptives or require pharmacists to fill contraceptive prescriptions (Wall Street Journal, 8/22). Advocates for women's health, family planning, abortion rights and former causes keep that the proposal could create obstacles to abortion, family planning services, end-of-life care and a broad range of scientific inquiry (Washington Post, 8/22).
Presumptive Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) signed a letter of the alphabet opposing an earlier draft copy of the regulation, and the Journal reports that Obama would reverse the regulation if he is elected. Presumptive Republican nominee Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) has non indicated his position on the proposition (Simon, Wall Street Journal, 8/22).
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Wednesday, 27 August 2008
Monday, 18 August 2008
Brady's catchy tribute to footy
MIKE Brady, writer of the footy anthem Up There Cazaly, has a new tribute to the game and Sunday Herald Sun readers can be the first to hear it.
How Australian's That! � Brady's tribute to footy on its 150th birthday � will be released in a compilation album of old and new material tomorrow, but you can hear it today on our website.
"It's more contemporary than Cazaly, but still has a big chorus," Brady said.
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Friday, 8 August 2008
Tuesday, 1 July 2008
Quo Vadis
Artist: Quo Vadis
Genre(s):
Metal: Death,Black
Rock
Discography:
Passage In Time
Year: 2001
Tracks: 9
Day Into Night
Year: 2000
Tracks: 12
Martin Matiske
Wednesday, 18 June 2008
Nas' album release date pushed back
Def Jam will release set July 15
NEW YORK -- Nas' new album has shifted on the Def Jam release schedule yet again, this time moving from July 1 to July 15. Last month, the rapper dropped the disc's original title, "N*****," and reclassified the album as an untitled project.
The first official track from the album, "Hero," was produced by Polow Da Don. It finds Nas explaining that he dropped the original controversial title so the album's message could reach his fans.
Green Lantern, DJ Toomp, Mark Ronson, Dead Prez's Stic.Man, Jay Electronica, Stargate and Cool & Dre are among the new album's producers. Green Lantern has also steered a new Nas mixtape, "The N***** Tape."
Nas' most recent album, 2006's "Hip-Hop Is Dead," has sold 758,000 copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan.
NEW YORK -- Nas' new album has shifted on the Def Jam release schedule yet again, this time moving from July 1 to July 15. Last month, the rapper dropped the disc's original title, "N*****," and reclassified the album as an untitled project.
The first official track from the album, "Hero," was produced by Polow Da Don. It finds Nas explaining that he dropped the original controversial title so the album's message could reach his fans.
Green Lantern, DJ Toomp, Mark Ronson, Dead Prez's Stic.Man, Jay Electronica, Stargate and Cool & Dre are among the new album's producers. Green Lantern has also steered a new Nas mixtape, "The N***** Tape."
Nas' most recent album, 2006's "Hip-Hop Is Dead," has sold 758,000 copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Monday, 9 June 2008
Hundreds flock to Bo Diddley's funeral
Hundreds flocked to the funeral of music legend Bo Diddley on Saturday, paying tribute with tears and songs to one of the founders of rock'n'roll. A gospel band struck up his namesake tune as family members passed the casket - and a crowd of several hundred joined in for the chorus, singing "Hey, Bo Diddley!"
"In 1955 he used to keep the crowds rocking and rolling way before Elvis Presley," said Diddley's grandson, Garry Mitchell. Like his music, the tone of Diddley's funeral was celebratory. Mitchell kicked up his heels in the air, as Diddley used to do, and mourners cheered. "I'm just telling it the way it is," he said.
Diddley was a major influence on the likes of Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly and the Rolling Stones, and his signature beat has become an essential component of rock'n'roll. Jerry Lee Lewis and Tom Petty were among those who sent flowers to the service, and the Animals' Eric Burdon was in attendance. "I've been a fan of his since I was 16. Probably one of the first records I ever owned," Burdon said. "I call it bone music, because it goes to your bone."
Friends and family tributes to Diddley continued for more than four hours - not only speaking of his Diddley's musical accomplishments but also his kindness. His brother, the Reverend Kenneth Haynes, said that Diddley was always asking how he could help and what more he could give. "There was one thing he wouldn't give me. That's his hat," Haynes said, referring to Diddley's famous black hat.
Though Diddley grew tired of relentless touring, he understood it as the role he had been given in life, Haynes said. "'This is what God gave me to feed my family,'" Haynes recalled Diddley saying. "'I have to keep doing it until God says it's enough.'"
Diddley was born Ellas Othar Bates, later taking the name Ellas McDaniel in honour of the cousin who raised him. At the time of his death, Diddley had four children, 15 grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren. His business manager, Faith Fusillo, addressed these relatives on Saturday. "Please know this, because I know Diddley," she said. "As much as you loved him, he loved you more."
Diddley's friend Roosevelt Hutchinson remembered how he would wake up early to play to the roosters at his rural Mississippi home. "He just enjoyed playing that thing under those trees," he said.
Diddley died of heart failure on Monday, June 2. He was 79.
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Tuesday, 3 June 2008
Angelina Jolie Tortured Her Pets
Angelina Jolie reveals how she used to torture her pets in footage taken at a New York drug den during her youthful days.
In the video obtained by The Sun, the reformed actress discusses the amount of different drugs she’s tried and how she loves having sado-masochist sex.
She also admits how a pet mouse ended up meeting it’s maker after she dyed it blue.
Let's hope Amy & Pete's mice don't suffer the same misfortune.
Angelina also killed a hamster by taking it into a shower and giving it pneumonia. A pet lizard met a tragic fate too after it was left in the sun too long.
She continues: “My snake I had – I tried killing him.” She recalls how at 12 she was “a bad girl – beating up my friends.”
It’s tough to believe she now has four children with two more on the way.
In the video obtained by The Sun, the reformed actress discusses the amount of different drugs she’s tried and how she loves having sado-masochist sex.
She also admits how a pet mouse ended up meeting it’s maker after she dyed it blue.
Let's hope Amy & Pete's mice don't suffer the same misfortune.
Angelina also killed a hamster by taking it into a shower and giving it pneumonia. A pet lizard met a tragic fate too after it was left in the sun too long.
She continues: “My snake I had – I tried killing him.” She recalls how at 12 she was “a bad girl – beating up my friends.”
It’s tough to believe she now has four children with two more on the way.
Tuesday, 27 May 2008
White House - White House Condemns Editing Of Bush Interview
The White House on Monday accused NBC News of "deceitful" editing of an interview
with President Bush by correspondent Richard Engel. In the interview, Engel asked
Bush about remarks he made before the Israeli Knesset last week in which he accused
his political opponents of saying "we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals,
as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along."
Engel asked Bush if he was referring to Barack Obama. As broadcast on NBC Nightly
News, Bush replied, "You know, my policies haven't changed, but evidently the political
calendar has. ... And when, you know, a leader of Iran says that they want to destroy
Israel, you've got to take those words seriously." The White House objected to the d
eletion of this passage from the president's response following the words, "the political
calendar has:" "People need to read the speech. You didn't get it exactly right,
either. What I said was that we need to take the words of people seriously." Removing tho
se words, Bush counsel Ed Gillespie said, amounted to "deceitful editing to further
a media-manufactured storyline." NBC maintained that the report accurately reflected
the president's comments and that the entire unedited interview is available on
its website. In its own report on the controversy, the Associated Press observed,
"The White House routinely pushes back against news stories it does not agree with.
The one against NBC News stands out for its angry tone and its accusation that the
news division deceptively and deceitfully edited the president's words."
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Wednesday, 21 May 2008
Voice Of Eye and Life Garden
Artist: Voice Of Eye and Life Garden
Genre(s):
Experimental
Discography:
The Hungry Void - Volume Two Air
Year: 1995
Tracks: 10
The Hungry Void - Volume One: Fire
Year: 1995
Tracks: 9
Friday, 9 May 2008
Britney Spears wins more time with sons
Britney Spears wins more time with sons
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The pronounce hearing a custody battle between pop isaac Bashevis Singer Britney Spears and her ex-husband granted her more time with their deuce sons on Tues after she was praised for trying to catch her personal living back under control.
The attorney representing Spears' ex Kevin Federline in the extended legal wrangling told reporters the try had extended her visitation rights, without providing inside information.
"We all escort indicators of procession by Ms. Spears," Federline's lawyer, Marking Vincent Kaplan, told reporters subsequently the closed door hearing, which heard a report on Spears by a mental health expert.
"What was a apparently daily state of matter of extreme magnetic field has been stabilized," Kaplan said.
Spears, 26, turned up at royal court on time, demurely dressed in a brown polka dot dress and skim off cardigan, and accompanied by her parents. It was a hit contrast to weekly courtyard roger Huntington Sessions of a few months ago when she failed to come out or left short.
Spears was stripped cobbler's last Oct of legal and physical detention of Sean Preston, 2-1/2, and Jayden James, 20 months. She lost the correctly to visit them in January only Federline agreed in Feb that Spears could now and then see the boys under oversight.
The singer has turned her life around in the past deuce months later on a class of bizarre behaviour and deuce brief hospitalizations in Los Angeles for psychiatric rating.
Spears' father Jamie Spears was granted control over her personal and business personal matters in Feb, and the singer's former self-styled manager and invariable fellow traveler, SAM Lutfi, has agreed to a restraining ordering that keeps him aside.
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Rapper The Game begins jail sentence
Rapper The Game begins jail sentence
Rapper Jayceon Taylor aka 'The Game', turned himself in yesterday to start his 60-day jail sentence for a small-arm misdemeanor.
Twenty-eight-year-old Taylor surrendered to authorities at the Twin Falls Towers Correctional Facility in Los Angeles, according to the Lieutenant of the Sheriff's Office, Oscar Butao.
On 11 February, the doorknocker was sentenced in Los Angeles County Superior Court to serve 60 days in a county clink, 150 hours of community service and trio years' probation.
He had been charged with ownership of a small-arm well-nigh a school and pleaded no competition to the felony, Butao said.
West Indian Girl
Phil Manzanera
Artist: Phil Manzanera
Genre(s):
ROck: Alternative
Rock
Discography:
50 Minutes Later
Year: 2005
Tracks: 11
6Pm
Year: 2004
Tracks: 12
Unsane
Fall Out Boy's Patrick Stump Lends His Dead-On Manager Impression To Cobra Starship Video
Fall Out Boy's Patrick Stump Lends His Dead-On Manager Impression To Cobra Starship Video
Zubaz. Rollerblades. A guitar shaped like an AK-47. Karaoke. Bar Mitsvah videographers.
That's like a Murderers' Row of awesome mighty in that location, and so far, despite the fact that all of them are conspicuously featured in Cobra Starship's newly telecasting — for the song "Guilty Joy" — none of them is yet the about awesome thing in the clip.
No, that accolade belongs to Fall Out Son frontman St. Patrick Stump's cameo as Cobra's manager, "Rob McFlynn," a quite inspired bit of scene-stealing that out-awesomes anything else in the immediate locality.
And this is because — for those wHO aren't aware — Stump is doing a dead-on mental picture of real world Watch guard (and Cobra Spaceship) managing director Bob McLynn, right fine-tune to the deep voice, manic gesturing and revenue sharing schemes (for a finisher look at the origins of Stump's McLynn mimicry, check come out this carry in our Newsroom blog). It's an inside antic that anyone who's ever been in a way with McLynn — an ultra-gregarious muckle of a man — will instantaneously get under one's skin, and i that middling much every creative person he manages (a list that also includes Panic at the Disco, Gym Class Heroes, Tyga and a host of others) has been death to see in a video for a piece now.
"Everyone on Crush [Management] does an impression of him, simply Patrick's been workings on his for a piece, and he's the lord of it, so we had to include it in the picture," Cobra Spaceship frontman Gabe Saporta laughed. "Fundamentally, Bob's this larger-than-life guy rope. ... He's hilarious and forever hustling. He's a fictitious character. I mean, he only wears stuff he gets for rid, like around band T-shirt and some JNCO jeans or something, and he looks like Mr. Clean, only he's always got business sector on his mind. He reminds me of, like, ['Aqua Teenager Crave Force' graphic symbol] Frylock or something."
Still, impersonating McLynn is an art shape, one that Stump — who's no stranger to fiber work after his guest appearance on "Law of nature & Order" before this year — has been perfecting for approximately time. So in order to get some tips, we decided to go straight to the passkey himself. Aspiring thespians look at short letter.
"Bob's a good friend, so more or less, I've barely been ribbing him for long time. The enigma to the Bob is the lurch. He's got a oceanic abyss voice, but it's not too deep. If I awake up and do a Bob right out of seam, it's really deeper than his voice," Dais explained. "Another key with totally impressions is a catchphrase. Sympathy what soul would read in a presumption situation is 90 percent of it. Bob walks into the backstage expanse, looks around at the craft-service board and goes, 'What do we got here? Little turkey? Little ham?' 'Cause he loves unloose food. That's quality study, man!
"And when he's mad, he goes, 'God sakes!' and probably grabs his head," Ambo continued. "Merely the truest manner to do a British shilling — and the easiest — is simply to pounding your clenched fist and in a deep voice read someone's refer a crowd of times. As in, 'James Lucy Maud Montgomery, William James Capital of Alabama, what you got for me?' "
As for McLynn's take on the whole thing, well, he's a man of few words, and when MTV News show e-mailed him for comment, he'd only extend quick props to Stump, earlier adding, "He freaks me come out of the closet sometimes." And spell the impression is by far the most prominent bit of insider-joking in the "Guilty Pleasure" cartridge holder, it's by no means the but. The entire picture is a four-minute savvy at the Break down universe of discourse, loaded with
Oliver making cookery show for kids
Oliver making cookery show for kids
Jamie King Oliver is devising a cookery-style TV show for children.
The chef, wHO tried to turn around the eating habits of the UK's schoolchildren with 'Jamie's School Dinners', hopes the series will get children interested in food for thought.
'Made with Magic' combines computer-generated imaging (CGI) with populate activeness and is prepare in a fantasy woodland.
King Oliver, 32, is an executive producer of the series, which is being made by his TV company Fresh One, merely is non expected to appear in the prove.
The programme, spread on Nickelodeon's preschool digital TV channel Nick Jr, is designed to take a shit children curious almost where food for thought comes from and testament be filmed in the UK this twelvemonth.
It is described as a "preschool TV read around cookery with a touch of deception".
Emerson, Lake and Palmer
Bond 22 underway as new Bond girl announced
Bond 22 underway as new Bond girl announced
The newly Epistle of James Bond motion-picture show has begun production at London's Pinewood Studios with Ukrainian actress Olga Kurylenko named as Bond's leadership lady.
School principal picture taking on the thirstily anticipated 22nd Henry James Bond hazard began yesterday with Daniel Craig reprising his part as 007.
The as-yet-untitled film will be directed by Marc Forster and follows the achiever of 'Casino Royale', the latest and highest grossing plastic film in the series.
Craig will be joined by a cast which includes critically acclaimed French worker Mathieu Amalric as the sinister baddie, and Kurylenko.
Gemma Arterton besides joins the hurtle and will play the role of MI6 Agent W. C. Fields. However, contempt recent reports, it is believed her persona in the fresh picture will be significantly smaller than that of Kurylenko.
The former framework, world Health Organization was last seen on screen in 'Hitman', volition be the film's main 'Bond girl'.
Returning to the fresh movie from 'Casino Royale' are Judi Dench in her part as M, Jeffrey Wright as Felix Leiter and Giancarlo Giannini as Mathis.
Commenting on the kickoff of production, producers Michael G. Robert Woodrow Wilson and Barbara Broccoli said: "We ar fortunate to uphold in the Bond tradition of attracting the finest international actors for our starring roles.
"Mathieu in the office of Saint Dominic Greene, a lead member of the villainous organization introduced in Gambling casino Royale', will be a mighty vis-a-vis to Daniel's portrayal of Bond paper.
"Olga Kurylenko will play the perilously alluring Camille, wHO challenges Bond paper and helps him come to footing with the emotional consequences of Vesper's treachery."
The new Chemical bond pic is scheduled for release on 07 November 2008.
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