Actions Taken By Safety-Net Hospitals To Remain Financially Viable Could Compromise Not-For-Profit Mission, Study Says

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Steps taken by safety net hospitals to attract insured patients to offset the costs of providing no-cost care to the indigent could compromise a hospital's mission, according to a study promulgated online on Tuesday in the journal Health Affairs, the Seattle Times reports. The study was conducted by the Center for Studying Health System Change and funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Ostrom, Seattle Times, 8/12). Researchers victimized data from the Community Tracking Study, which tracked health system changes in 12 every which way selected metropolitan areas since 1996 via telephone and on-site interviews with about 500 respondents (Cunningham et al., Health Affairs, 8/12).

In general, safety-net hospitals are not as financially stable as other hospitals, according to the Times. The written report noted that maintaining a balance 'tween providing brotherly love care and staying financially secure has always been a challenge for safety net hospitals and it is "becoming level more so in a marketplace that is seemly more competitive and profit-driven" (Seattle Times, 8/12). In response, many are attempting to pull in paying patients by building, renovating and advertising specialty services to insured patients (Reichard, CQ HealthBeat, 8/12).

However, some of the "steps they are taking to maintain their margins rear end threaten their mission," Peter Cunningham, lead author of the study, said. "Safety-net providers truly are caught in the competitive crossfire of an increasingly profit-driven health precaution marketplace," he said (Seattle Times, 8/12). Larry Gage, president of the National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems, aforementioned, "No safety net hospital wants to limit access or ration care, but, faced with a growing demand for unsalaried care and increasingly limited funding options at every level of government, some are left with no choice" (Martinez, "Health Blog," Wall Street Journal, 8/12).

An abstract of the study is available online.


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Nelly And Ashanti 'still Together'

Rapper NELLY is soundless dating isaac Bashevis Singer ASHANTI despite recent rumours of a split.

The couple has been romantically involved since 2003, but they were rumoured to have foregone their divide ways sooner this month (Jul08) after the New York Daily News quoted Ashanti as saying, "I'm dating my new album, and no one else."

However, according to site Usmagazine.com, their relationship is still sledding strong.

A source says, "(They) are definitely selfsame much still together."

R+B star Ashanti recently collaborated with her beau for a sung dynasty on her album The Declaration, which was released last calendar month (Jun08). She returned the favour by lending vocals to Nelly's new raceway Body On Me, from his forthcoming album Brass Knuckles.

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Gregor Tresher and Monika Kruse

   
Artist: Gregor Tresher and Monika Kruse

   Genre(s): 
Techno
   

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Discography:


   
 Panchakarma / Mosquito

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 2

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Deben Bhattacharya

Bobby Darin

   
Artist: Bobby Darin

   Genre(s): 
Other
   Vocal
   

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Discography:


   
 Beyond The Sea: The Very Best Of [CD 2]

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 19


   
 Beyond The Sea: The Very Best Of [CD 1]

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 21


   
 18 Yellow Roses and 11 Other Hits

   Year: 1942   
Tracks: 12

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There's been considerable word about whether Bobby Darin should be classified as a rock music & roll isaac Bashevis Singer, a Vegas hippy cat, an interpreter of popular standards, or regular a folk-rocker. He was all of these and none of these. Throughout his career he made a point of non seemly committed to whatsoever one style at the exclusion of others; at the altitude of his nightspot fame he incorporated a folk determine into his act. When it appeared he could own gone on indefinitely as a sort of junior variant of Frank Sinatra, he would periodically record pop/rock and folk-rock singles whose dealer appeal lay outside of the adult pop grocery. At one spot he started career himself Bob Darin and recorded songs with vague anti-establishment overtones that could be aforesaid to be bitter the for the most part bourgeois hands that federal Reserve System his highest-paying gigs. It may be most accurate to say that Darin was, supra all, a singer wHO wanted to do a good deal of things, quite than make his saint Mark as a particular hairdresser. That may deliver price him some points as far as making it to the very circus tent of sealed genres, but also makes his work more versatile than nearly whatsoever other vocalizer of his era.


When Darin had his offset hits in the later '50s, he was a teenager beau ideal of sorts, albeit a teen matinee idol with often more talent and mature bidding than the typical isaac Bashevis Singer in that style. The novelty-tinged "Splish Splash" was his breakthrough smash, followed by "Queen of the Hop" and the lay "Dreaming Lover." There was a slight R&B sense to Bobby's delivery that english hawthorn well get influenced R&B-pop/rock singers such as Dion, though it would be an exaggeration to call Darin a blue-eyed soulfulness human being. In late 1959, he found a new instruction when the vacillation "Mackintosh the Knife," a tune from Brecht-Weill's Threepenny Opera musical, made phone number one. The strain came from an album of crop up standards, heralding his move toward light big isthmus jazz, which was consolidated by the Top Ten success of "Beyond the Sea" in 1960.


In the early '60s, Darin had largely abandoned rock 'n' roll for the adult pop grocery, comme il faut a huge success on the Vegas-nightclub circuit, and moving into the all-around entertainer musical mode with prima roles in movies (including unrivalled as a non-singing jazz musician in John Cassavetes' Overly Young Blues). He as well continued to score regular hits with the likes of "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby," "Things," and "Work-shy River." To sustain people guess, thither was besides a hit breed of "What'd I Say" and some country tunes (one of which, "You're the Reason I'm Living," made it to number trey on the pop charts). Around 1963, he set up a folk part into his nightspot act that employed guitarist Roger McGuinn, then a couple of days aside from renown as the drawing card of the Byrds.


Darin didn't make the expected retreat into Rat Pack din Land when his records stopped-up making the upper reaches of the charts in the mid-'60s. In 1965, at that place was a rather nice self-penned jangling folk-rocker, "When I Get Home," that become a British stumble for the Searchers. Another 1965 dud, "We Didn't Ask to Be Brought Here," was an unexpected antiwar tune. When he made his come back to the Top Ten in late 1966, it was with a cover of a blue Tim Hardin folk-rock birdsong, "If I Were a Carpenter." His last Top 40 stumble the following year, "Lovin' You," opted for material by some other major folk-rock composer, John Sebastian.


Darin crataegus laevigata indeed bear been far hipper and more politically mindful than the average club move, covering tunes by Dylan and the Rolling Stones, active in a 1965 civil rights march to Alabama, and composition some Dylan-influenced songs of his have in the late '60s. It doesn't appear exact to say that this was the reliable Bobby Darin, peeling his show business skin for something that came to him more naturally; in 1967, the same class he covered Jagger-Richards' "Back Street Girl," he likewise recorded material for an album entitled Bobby Darin Sings Doctor Dolittle. By the early '70s he was working Vegas and similar joints over again, exchanging his down in the mouth jeans for a tuxedo, and hosting a TV variety show series. In a much odder turn of events, he was now recording for Motown, though these efforts met little success.


Afflicted with a rheumatic heart, Darin was always aware that his time mightiness be special, and he died nigh the destruction of 1973 during open-heart operating theatre. He leftfield behind a considerable quantity (and diversity) of recorded sour, and underwent a critical reevaluation of sorts, peculiarly among rock critics, which power experience aided his election to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990. A 1996 four-CD corner set, shared into thematic discs, attempted to put his varied efforts into view. In 2004, doer Kevin Spacey asterisked as Bobby Darin in the feature film life story Beyond the Sea. Spacey likewise directed the picture and sang Darin's songs for the film, which were released as the film's soundtrack.

Nusound

   
Artist: Nusound

   Genre(s): 
New Age
   

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Discography:


   
 Erotic Moods (Vol 2)

   Year:    
Tracks: 12

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David Oistrakh - violin, Sviatoslav Richter - pian

   
Artist: David Oistrakh - violin, Sviatoslav Richter - pian

   Genre(s): 
Classical
   

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Discography:


   
 Violin Sonata No.2, Op.100

   Year: 1972   
Tracks: 3


   
 Violin Sonata No. 1, Sz.75

   Year: 1972   
Tracks: 3


   
 Violin Sonata, Op.134

   Year: 1969   
Tracks: 3


   
 Violin Sonata No.3, Op.108

   Year: 1969   
Tracks: 4


   
 Violin Sonata in A major

   Year: 1969   
Tracks: 4

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Tim Vincent leaves Dancing on Ice

Former 'Blue Peter' presenter Tim Vincent has been voted off the skating show 'Dancing on Ice'.
Vincent was placed in the bottom two alongside Olympic javelin medallist Steve Backley as a result of the public vote last night.
Following the skate-off the judging panel opted to save Backley.
Speaking after his eviction from the show, Vincent said: "It's been fantastic. Every week has been fantastic, but I've found my level this week, everyone has been brilliant."

Former Lost star back on big screen

Former 'Lost' star Dominic Monaghan has agreed a deal to play the lead role in a new psychological thriller called 'Pet'.
The Hollywood Reporter says the film tells the story of a man who becomes obsessed with his former school crush and takes her captive.
But he then discovers that the woman is not whom she seems to be.
Shooting on the film is due to begin in the coming months.
For more on 'Lost', read our TV blog here.

D-12 Mark Second Anniversary Of Proof's Death

The life of slain D-12 rapper PROOF has been commemorated in Michigan on the second anniversary of his death.
The Detroit rapper - real name DeShaun Dupree Holton - was shot dead on the infamous 8 Mile Road on 11 April 2006.
On Friday (11Apr08), family, friends and fans gathered in Detroit for a candlelit vigil.
D-12 star Denaun Porter - also known as Kon Artis - paid tribute to his late pal.
He tells AllHipHop.com, "Since he's been gone he was the head of everything, so I'm trying to straighten things up and it's hard. No one can fill those shoes."

Kiwi's one night in LA with Paris

Meeting Paris Hilton and mingling with paparazzi in the United States has given two Auckland teenagers a taste of celebrity.

Depp, Farrell and Law to complete Ledger film

Heath Ledger's last film will go ahead with Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell and Jude Law as the late actor's replacements, director Terry Gilliam confirmed yesterday.
Ledger was working on fantasy adventure 'The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus' when he died of an accidental overdose in January.
Gilliam said in a statement: "I am grateful to Johnny, Colin and Jude for coming on board and to everyone else who has made it possible for us to finish the film.
"I am delighted that Heath's brilliant performance can be shared with the world. We are looking forward to finishing the movie and, through the film, with a modicum of humility, being able to touch people's hearts and souls as Heath was able to do."
It had been suggested that Ledger's role would be completed using CGI (computer generated imagery) special effects, as happened when Oliver Reed died during the making of 'Gladiator'.
But the film's producers said: "Since the format of the story allows for the preservation of his entire performance, at no point will Heath's work be modified or altered through the use of digital technology. Each of the parts played by Johnny, Colin and Jude is representative of the many aspects of the character that Heath was playing."
The project is going ahead with the blessing and support of Ledger's family, the producers added.
Filming has resumed in Vancouver, Canada, and the movie is likely to be released early next year.
Ledger was found dead in his New York apartment on 22 January after taking an accidental overdose of prescription drugs.
Three days earlier he had filmed scenes for 'The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus' in London.
He left a two-year-old daughter, Matilda, by former partner Michelle Williams.

Lazard and O.H.P.

   
Artist: Lazard and O.H.P.

   Genre(s): 
Dance
   

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Discography:


   
 Living on Video

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 9

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