After a long hiatus from his fans, R&B soulman Maxwell will head out on the road this
Tuesday 2 September 2008
Saturday 23 August 2008
'Better' end of life care pledge
A national plan to improve palliative care provision has been promised by the Scottish Government after concerns over treatment for the terminally ill.
The pledge came after a report from Audit Scotland highlighted "inconsistencies" in care for different illnesses and access to services.
The report said remote communities were not served as well as the central belt.
Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon said health boards were already making changes but more needed to be done.
Audit Scotland found that 90% of specialist care was delivered to cancer patients, although the disease accounted for fewer than 30% of deaths.
And it concluded that people with other conditions, such as organ or respiratory failure or dementia, may have complex palliative care needs but were less likely to get specialist palliative care.
Pointing out that more than 55,000 masses died in Scotland each year, lieutenant auditor general Caroline Gardner said: "Palliative care should be an integral part of the support apt to patients and their families and carers during the utmost months, days and hours of their lives.
"In many areas of Scotland, the voluntary sector and the health service provide fantabulous and a great deal appreciated care. But access to dependable quality alleviator care varies across the country."
The report went on to warn that generalists involved in palliative maintenance needed the support and guidance of specialists, and that good practice guidelines for alleviator care were not organism applied across the board.
The Scottish Government is due to publish its action plan in October.
Uniform approach
Speaking to BBC Scotland, Ms Sturgeon aforesaid the plan would provide better care outside the central whack of Scotland.
She said: "There are many examples crossways the country of NHS boards and the voluntary sector working together to improve services.
"This is a process that is already under way, but there's no doubtfulness we have to speed up that progress."
The report was welcomed by the cancer charities Marie Curie and Macmillan, which said the findings showed a national strategy was vital.
Labour said it would "seriously challenge" the SNP to build on advancement already made, while Conservative public health spokesman, Jackson Carlaw, aforementioned the government and health boards had to act to insure a uniform approach.
Although the full toll of providing palliative care is unsung, Audit Scotland said about �59m was spent on specialist maintenance in 2006-07 - with almost half the money coming from the voluntary sector.
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Sunday 10 August 2008
Electronic review: Marconi Union, A Lost Connection
Fresh from soundtracking an installation at the Museum of Contemporary Art in LA, Marconi Union's third gear album is centred around themes of isolation and disconnection, so it makes sense that they've self-released it through their have website (marconiunion.com). Minimal, introspective, ethereal electronica, it's arguably their strongest set to date. Gorgeous.
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Tuesday 1 July 2008
Queen, Paul Rodgers
Artist: Queen, Paul Rodgers
Genre(s):
Rock
Other
Discography:
Return Of The Champions (CD 2)
Year: 2005
Tracks: 11
Return Of The Champions (CD 1)
Year: 2005
Tracks: 16
Live In Lisboa (Bootleg) (Cd2)
Year: 2005
Tracks: 15
Live In Lisboa (Bootleg) (Cd1)
Year: 2005
Tracks: 14
Thursday 19 June 2008
Maria Rita
Artist: Maria Rita
Genre(s):
Latin
Pop
Vocal
Other
Discography:
Samba Meu
Year: 2007
Tracks: 14
Segundo
Year: 2005
Tracks: 13
Maria Rita
Year: 2004
Tracks: 13
Maria Rita ( Bonus Track )
Year: 2003
Tracks: 15
Segundo Ao Vivo - Show Claro Hall
Year:
Tracks: 19
Maria Rita took the MPB globe by storm in 2003 with her debut album, fetching all kinds of awards and crossing o'er overseas in light of her mammoth success. The beautiful and beautiful-sounding whitney Moore Young Jr. peeress is the daughter of one of Brazil's nearly (if non the nearly) fabled vocalists, the late Elis Regina, and if that unequaled weren't sufficiency to create her a star topology in wait, her father is César Camargo Mariano, one of the country's top arrangers, producers, and pianists, and her namesake is Rita Lee, notwithstanding some other MPB legend. Add to that a close musical partnership with Milton Nascimento, wHO penned "A Festa," the opening data track of her debut album, and you can escort why the MPB globe was thirstily awaiting her recording debut.
Natural September 19, 1977, in São Paulo, Rita began telling professionally at years 24. Her debut album, Calophyllum longifolium Rita, released domestically in previous 2003 and internationally in 2004, spawned deuce big hits, the aforesaid "A Festa" and "Cara Valente." On the heels of the album's smash hit winner -- both critical and commercial -- Rita released a likewise self-titled DVD that captures her 2004 lively execution at Bourbon Street in São Paulo. Among the awards won by Rita in 2004 were Latin Grammys for Best New Artist and Best MPB Album. Rita's indorsement album, Segundo (2005), was level more popular than her first (selling o'er 700,000 copies in Brazil unequaled), if non as critically acclaimed. A lively DVD, Segundo ao Vivo, followed in 2006. Rita's third album, Samba Meu (2007), was a change of style: a compendium of acoustic sambas.
Wednesday 11 June 2008
Thursday 29 May 2008
Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal to be “engaged any day now”
Hollywood couple Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal are reportedly set to be “engaged any day now”.
A source close to Brokeback Mountain star Gyllenhaal claims the actor is on the brink of proposing to the Legally Blonde actress.
The source told America’s OK! magazine: “They’ve been talking marriage for a while.
“They’ll be formally engaged any day now. They want to spend the rest of their lives together.”
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