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I think I agree with Hannah that it is probably Little Boots.
I would HOPE its Xtina, because she is a fucking talent that in my opinion, is wasted on generic overproduced pop...
I think I agree with Hannah that it is probably Little Boots.
I would HOPE its Xtina, because she is a fucking talent that in my opinion, is wasted on generic overproduced pop...
"It began as a mistake" - Charles Bukowski
1. Nachos
2. Puppies
Lol, I saw all those posts
"It began as a mistake" - Charles Bukowski
1. Nachos
2. Puppies
Is this "stuff" postable, nation?
not really.
I did some searching and found this:
Obviously, it could be fake.
Being weird made Lady Gaga even more popular, so if it's catchy, it has a chance.
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I thought I read somewhere Christina Aguilera was working with Goldfrapp, Sia and Ladytron on her new album. If that is the case I think there is a high chance that CA is the one in the videos.
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And a collaboration with Le Tigre on the new album?When Christina Aguilera enlisted Ladytron to write songs for her upcoming fourth album, 'Light & Darkness,' she could have wielded her diva powers and told the British electro-pop group exactly what she was looking for. Thankfully, that's not what happened. "She just told us she wanted to enter our world," Ladytron multi-instrumentalist Reuben Wu tells Spinner. "She didn't want to give us any idea what she wanted the music to be. She wanted us to do our own thing."
Wu says Aguilera approached the group two years ago and that the surprisingly modest pop star wasn't shy about declaring herself a fan. "She said she was inspired by our music and we were one of her favorite bands," he says. Although Wu and his cohorts -- fellow keyboardist Daniel Hunt and vocalists Helen Marnie and Mira Aroyo -- were initially required to remain hush-hush about the project, they couldn't keep their secret from everyone.
"What do we do but tell our parents?" Wu says. "Christina is one of those people where you know your parents would have heard of her, so it's kind of good for us to tell our moms and dads, 'Look, mom, look, dad -- we're actually doing something you can understand.'"
Over the course of 10 years and four studio albums, Ladytron has earned praise from and toured with the likes of Nine Inch Nails and Depeche Mode, but the Aguilera collaboration marks the first time the Liverpool quartet has written for another artist. "Working with Christina was a completely different experience," Wu says. "To hear her singing on those tracks, it was pretty shocking how great her voice is. Obviously, you hear it on MTV and on the radio, but to actually listen in front of you, singing in front of you, it's a completely different thing. And quite a few of the songs, she just did one take, and that was it."
Due out early next year, 'Light & Darkness' will also feature contributions from Goldfrapp and Sia Furler -- electronic artists whose involvement suggests Aguilera is trading the retro-pop vibe of her last album for something more futuristic. "My feeling is that she got to a point in her life where she wanted to take her music to a different level," Wu says. "She was willing to take a risk and go in a completely different direction. It wasn't like, 'Oh, I want to be all electro.' It wasn't anything like that. She just wanted to evolve her music according to what she was listening to at the time."
Besides Ladytron, Aguilera has evidently been getting down to Brazilian dance rock and '90s British punk. While visiting the singer in Los Angeles recently, the members of Ladytron rode with her to a CSS show, blasting Elastica jams in the back of her limo. "She's got really good taste," Wu says.
Wu isn't sure how many of Ladytron's tracks will make the finished 'Light & Darkness,' but he says all of the songs pick up where the group's last album, 2008's 'Velocifero,' left off. In working with Aguilera, Wu and company were even inspired to write some major-key tunes, something the darkly dressed, quasi-Goth party starters aren't exactly known for.
"I'm glad to say they're still very Ladytron, and they're also very Christina, because her voice is on the tracks," he says. "We're very pleased with it."
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Christina Aguilera has come a long way from middle-school boom box jams ("Reflection," anyone?) and the "Dirrrty" music video. For her upcoming album, Bionic, tentatively scheduled for April, Aguilera has logged studio time with an interesting and talented batch of ladies—Goldfrapp, Ladytron, M.I.A., Santigold and Le Tigre.
Word of the collaborations surfaced last fall, and now Le Tigre has discussed their part via their website. Apparently, Xtina had a thing for the trio's song "Deceptacon," and asked them to work on tracks for her new album. Le Tigre member Johanna Fateman had plenty of nice things to say about working with Aguilera. "She is a technical virtuoso behind the mic, layering take after take of flawless vocals and coming up with variations, ad-libs, and harmonies on the fly," Fateman wrote.
And while Christina's positive-message songs ("Beautiful") go hand-in-hand with Le Tigre's feminist electro-rock, their sound is obviously a long way from Aguilera's glossy Top-40 sheen—not that there's anything wrong with that. "Together we tailored themes and specific references to her personality and image but found a ton of common ground in our aim to make upbeat danceable tracks celebrating female friendship, strength, and of course, PARTYING," Fateman explained. "And while the giant sound of her stacked vocals and the pop sheen she lends to the tracks might seem at odds with Le Tigre's aesthetic roots, it really works. The songs have a lot of elements we're known for, like a garage guitar sound, schoolyard chants, new wave-y synths, electro beats, and somehow it all sounds crazily right with Christina's unbelievable voice."
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Fresh off his "JUICY AUSTRALIA TOUR"
I've been following these videos for the last few months. They've been slowly coming out with several weeks in-between each one. They were sent to a lot of pop and electronic oriented sites and blogs. You can find gobs and gobs of analysis of these videos on other sites as people try to uncover who this is. The suggestions have ranged from Christina to the most unlikely of candidates like some runner up on Norwegian Idol. I kid you not. But people are really getting into solving this one online. I'm talking about people capturing frames and examining the woman's eyes to determine that she has natural blue eyes which are being covered by brown contact lenses type of stuff.
There's a lot to suggest this is Christina, but I just don't see her going this left field. As I recall other things noted were:
- The birth themes (the nature footage of which appears to have been edited out due to copyright claims.) and the sound of a fetus ultrasound match up with comments she supposedly made about this new record being about becoming a mother.
- She was spotted wearing an outfit recently with strawberry cakes all over it and as you can see, one of the videos features such a cake.
If this does turn out to be Christina, I have a feeling that although the album may feature elements of the music from these vids, that the finished songs will probably be a lot more MOR.
I don't think I'm hosting a 2016 collaborative playlist.
i dont thinkk this is christina. i almost made a thread about this yesterday but then decided against it. its too....not low fi....but just i dunno. its not something mainstream would latch onto. even though we think its really cool. i kinda feel like this may be a new artist
I really don't have a hard time believing this to be Christina, and I also don't think it will be nearly as out there or radical as it appears or sounds thus far. This type of promo shrouded in mystery is nothing new for musicians and some of the endproduct has been pretty standard fare. All that said, if this is Christina, this is going to be a fucking HUGE album when all is known.
I'm fascinated by this
From CA's official message board (one of the mods)
The vids doing the rounds are not Christina. This is OFFICIAL.
Therefore, we do not encourage discussion of them on this forum. Christina doesn't like her fans to be duped. So, please don't come into this forum and discuss the vids like they "could/might" be her. They are not.
People who persist in spreading this rumour will get a temp ban to help them cool off.
Somebody put together the whole face and put blue eyes in on another forum:Management still expect the release date to be APRIL. This has been confirmed for a while now, so despite what you've read elsewhere, this album has not been 'pushed back'.
Finally, just to add that we don't want any useless clutter going on with a discussion about the current viral videos that are doing the rounds. It isn't Christina, and that's that. If you wish to speculate, please go to another forum to do so.
Someone brightened the shit out of it and threw it on the youtoobs. I think :28 to :30 looks a lot like Christina.
isn't everyone jumping to conclusions that it's a christina or little boots or another blond singer? Couldn't it just be a model covered in dirt licking a tree? Why couldn't this be Animal Collective or yeasayer or some other band i know nothing about?
but yea, probably christina
Then I will hold you down and spit her percolations all over you until you're as greasy as the day she regrets pushing your big fat ass out her big fat cunt.
Now that i think about it, it's probably weird marketing for a new needlepoint license music collection from Killertracks or DeWolfe or something.
That would be hilarious
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Man, I was all excited this morning because I thought i had it figured out.
From the YOUTUBE channel:
What the numbers spell:
1st vid: educational
2nd vid: iam
3rd vid: itsme
4th vid: mandragora
There's a band called Mandragora..(from wikipedia)
Then I listened to their stuff.Mandragora are a space-rock/world dance-music band from Brighton, England, whose formative output can be described as psychedelic rock with ethnic sounds and tribal rhythms. Formed in 1983, the band have released 5 albums of their own, and a collaborative album with Phil Thornton. They built up a loyal following on the free festival circuit of the 1980s and '90s, and were signed to Delerium Records. In recent years Mandragora have evolved into a world music/electronic...
According to the bands official website a new album is scheduled for release in 2010. The article states: "World dance music pioneers and firm festival favorites Mandragora are back doing live shows and have a new album/film scheduled for release in 2010. The current line up features the amazing Bosnian singer Dalinda, who grew up in Libya and has released albums for ARC records. Dalinda is well known all over the Middle East and North Africa from her MTV appearances in Egypt and live performances throughout the world. Original members Simon Williams and Phil Thornton are back performing live again as Mandragora after several years concentrating on studio projects , producing other artists and performing live with other acts as well as recording musicians all over the globe!"[5]ance act featuring singers and musicians from all corners of the globe.
I find the message board stuff pretty compelling for the case of it not being Christina.
This is definitely NOT going to end up being Xtina Aguilera. Here's some more evidence against it:
"There she revealed that she worked with M.I.A., Santigold and Ladytron adding, "The overall versatility of this record is truly something special for me. The result was just crazy magic. There truly is something for everyone to enjoy on the record."[77] She also worked with Goldfrapp[78] and Tricky Stewart who revealed that the album is finished adding, "She's mixing it up again. She's singing R&B again, she's doing pop. She's doing it all, but she's found a way to make it all meet in the middle because she's so many different things. She's a real serious musician."... Glam, the first single from Bionic, is expected to hit radio airwaves in February 2010.[[79]
Yes, she worked with a lot of cool musicians that would make her sound more experimental but in the end, I think the album is going to be a clusterfuck of different sounds and not something consistent like those videos suggest. If I know my mainstream pop princesses and their songs well then "Glam" will sound like a glossy catchy pop song meant for radio play and not some ironic Knife-like song where Xtina crawls in mud lol
A friend of mine suggested Robyn the other day. She has some lower teeth issues like in the photo comparison on page 1 but her face is too strong featured to be the one above. I dunno. It's a mystery.
She has an album due out this year and she's apparently working with Diplo.


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This was one of the many posts that I had read before deciding to join IMI last year. With my background in print and new media, I felt confident that I could contribute to the Media Cell and Interface - The IMI Magazine.
Today, having selected six first year students to form a new and (hopefully) improved Media Cell with five second year guys (including yours truly), I'm thinking of the responsibilities on the shoulders of the Media Cell XI. Dhairya's post above makes me realize that a lot needs to be done. Can we do it? Yes. Will we do it? We'll find out soon enough.
Looking forward to your suggestions.
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If you're a geek for gadgets that help you live more energy efficiently, this is a glorious time. Never before has the market so overflowed with cool new kit designed to cut the amount of juice you use—for a premium price. There are LED bulbs light years ahead of Edison's incandescents. There are windows that darken automatically as the sun sweeps across the sky. There are sleek, smart thermostats that monitor your daily activity and adjust your home's systems to provide only as much heating and air conditioning as the electronic brains determine you need.
Slick as they are, these devices aren't yet making a meaningful dent in the nation's energy consumption or in its greenhouse-gas emissions. That's because they're not being deployed at a large scale. Most Americans aren't geeks for energy-efficiency gadgets. If they're aware at all that these devices exist, they've decided they're not interested in buying them—even though, over time, lower electricity bills more than pay back the extra initial expense.
There is, in short, a gap between what technologists are selling and what consumers are buying. That gap has big environmental costs, given the vast amounts of energy the United States wastes each year through leaky buildings and inefficient machines. Now, a growing cadre of savvy investors is betting there's money to be made bridging that divide. They're designing complex financial instruments to bankroll energy-efficiency improvements in houses and other buildings across the country. And they're setting themselves up as the middlemen.
This is a potential energy revolution of the back-office sort. It's about developing new business models rather than developing new metal. It's wonky, opaque, and largely untested. It's just beginning, and it still could fizzle, because scaling it up would require resolving a thicket of thorny technical and financial questions. But if it works, it could make some investors a lot of money. And, theoretically at least, it could do more for the planet than a roomful of futuristic energy-saving devices that sit, sparkling and unused, on a shelf.
Steven Vierengel, a Citigroup director and Wall Street veteran, is among the pinstriped new promoters of this energy-efficiency push. For some 15 years, he has worked at Citigroup securitizing debt, on everything from cars to industrial equipment. The drill: Citigroup finances pools of loans from the original lenders, slicing up the loans based on their different levels of default risk and then reselling the slices to institutional investors. Everyone gets a piece of the action: The original lenders receive new cash to make more loans; the institutional buyers earn interest; Citigroup gets a fee.
Earlier this year, Vierengel began eyeing the possibility of applying the securitization model to a different kind of loan: loans to consumers who invest in home energy-efficiency improvements, from better-burning furnaces to insulated windows. He expects the first round of this newfangled debt to hit the market early next year. He won't disclose the amount he's targeting for the first offering, but he says he hopes the market soon will grow to the point where, every year, it issues four or five pools of securitized energy-efficiency debt, each pool totaling between $150 million and $500 million. That still would be smaller than many new-car loan pools, but it would be big in the context of the energy-efficiency market. Ultimately, he hopes to crank out a steady stream of energy-efficiency securitizations, cookie-cutter style. His strategy: "Repeat, repeat, repeat," he says. "I want to be able to show folks across the country how to deliver scale."
Few people doubt the opportunity. For years, studies have concluded the economy is groaning under the weight of energy inefficiencies that, if fixed, would pay for themselves through reduced energy costs. In the insiders' parlance, energy efficiency is the "low-hanging fruit" that, if picked, could provide for a more economically and environmentally sustainable energy system.
A variety of messy market realities has left most of the low-hanging fruit unharvested. To cite just one, the fruit doesn't grow conveniently on a single tree. It's spread across the vast field of the national economy—a strawberry in this house's leaky walls, an orange in that apartment building's inefficient boiler. The potential efficiency gains are dispersed "across more than 100 million buildings and literally billions of devices," consultant McKinsey & Co. noted in a 2009 report. "This dispersion ensures that efficiency is the highest priority for virtually no one."
Creative financiers have tried a variety of financial tools to snag more of the fruit. In one of the more common approaches, contractors known as energy service companies guarantee commercial clients set reductions in energy use if the clients buy new energy-saving equipment. But those deals have focused on governments, schools, and hospitals—big, centralized energy users where the energy efficiencies are relatively easy to pick. The residential sector—which is massively more fragmented but, studies say, offers a collectively greater opportunity for energy-efficiency upgrades—has gone largely untouched.


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While you're frying up some eggs and bacon, we're cooking up something else: a way to celebrate today's food holiday.
Go green - August 8 is National Zucchini Day!
Though technically a fruit, zucchini are prepared like vegetables. The emerald green squash, if left to its own devices, can grow up to 3 feet long. In fact, the longest zucchini ever grown was 6 feet 4 inches long!
Courgettes, as zucchini is known in some parts of the world, are a good source of dietary fiber nutrients. They can be prepared in a variety of ways. If you're tired of the simple squash sauté, try making zucchini boats. Split the zucchini in half lengthways, and scoop out some of the flesh. Fill the hollowed out shell with whatever you'd like: Sausage, goat cheese and peppers are a popular combination. You can even incorporate the scooped out zucchini into your mixture. Top the boats off with breadcrumbs and bake in the oven until golden brown.
Zucchini really is a versatile ingredient. The same holds true for the zucchini flower, or blossom. They can be stuffed and fried and add a crunchy element to any dish. And yes, they're completely edible.
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The notification does not specify the benefits to the CAPF personnel and does not say whether they will be carved out from the ones being given to the armed forces, which is likely to evoke a strong protest from the latter.
A month ago, Shinde had announced that the Cabinet has agreed to give the status of ex-central police personnel to the CAPF personnel comprising CRPF, BSF, ITBP, SSB, NSG and CISF but had not specified the terms and conditions for the same.
The MHA notification said, Based on such designation (ex-central police personnel), the state/UT government concerned may extend suitable benefits to them on the lines of the benefits extended by the state/UT government to the ex-servicemen of defence forces.
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The MHA has not specified the benefits, they have put the onus on states. So far we dont get any kind of recognition from state or central governments. We are not civilians, we have similar duty as armed forces. Since this notification does not say much we will have to contact states to ask them about the benefits they will be extending to us. This seems to be too little too late. We have been fighting for this status for the past 12 years, said P S Nair, general secretary, All India Central Paramilitary Forces Ex-servicemen Welfare Association, a body that represents over 10 lakh retired CAPF personnel.


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Are you confused by the politics and provisions of national health care reform? If so, you're not alone.
As Positively Aware goes to press, the U.S. Senate vigorously debates its version of health care reform legislation. Passage of national health care reform would be historic, promising dramatic changes in the ways people with HIV/AIDS gain access to and afford their health care.
Unfortunately, people across the U.S. find it increasingly difficult to keep up with rapidly changing legislative drafts, the myriad reform provisions under consideration, and the political tug-of-war. For too many people, the debate is downright confusing and discouraging.
The following sections provide a framework by which to understand the debate, links to obtain the latest news and analysis, and advocacy tips to promote the strongest possible provisions for people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS.
We must raise our voices to ensure emerging legislation responds to the unique needs of people with HIV and helps put our nation on a path to end the epidemic.
Unequal access to health care and preventive services helps fuel the HIV epidemic. Despite significant medical advances, our best estimates show that an astonishing 500,000 HIV-positive people -- 50% of all those living with HIV/AIDS in the U.S. -- do not receive regular medical care. Nearly half of all people with HIV live on less than $10,000 a year. Unemployment rates are 10 times higher among people with HIV than in the general population. One-third of all people with HIV/AIDS are uninsured (twice the percentage for the general population).
Health care inequality and stigma result in late testing. Too many people diagnosed with HIV are either simultaneously diagnosed with AIDS (29% of newly diagnosed) or receive an AIDS diagnosis within 12 months (39%). And still one in five people with HIV remain unaware of their condition. An unacceptably high number of people -- 56,000 -- become HIV-infected each year.
Comprehensive reform could address many of these staggering statistics. With adequate reform, more people could receive voluntary HIV testing services and more people with HIV could gain access to the health care and support services they need to improve their lives.
Put simply, comprehensive health care reform could transform the fight against HIV/AIDS by accelerating efforts to link more people with, and at risk for, HIV to the health care services they need.
Leading bills in Congress start from a position of building on existing health care systems in the U.S. That means lawmakers have rejected a wholesale restructuring of the health care delivery and financing system -- such as single payer models -- and seek instead to reform private insurance markets (both group insurance and individual plans) and expand Medicaid and Medicare benefits in order to reduce the number of uninsured people, while strengthening benefits for those currently covered.
A central provision in both House and Senate legislation would establish new requirements mandating that most people carry health insurance coverage and most businesses provide group insurance for their employees. The federal government would play a larger role in helping low- and moderate-income individuals obtain coverage, including the provision of new subsidies and insurance spending caps (calculated on a sliding scale) to help moderate-income individuals afford coverage.
Medicaid is the nation's safety-net health insurance program, providing coverage to 59 million low-income people who are disabled, elderly, pregnant, underage, or meet other criteria.
States finance and implement Medicaid programs with matching federal funds. Given wide variability in state-level leadership and investment, Medicaid varies greatly across the country. An estimated 350,000 HIV-positive people rely on Medicaid to access health care services.
Proving disability (i.e., too sick to maintain gainful employment) is the primary way low-income people with HIV obtain Medicaid benefits. Tragically, the disability requirement puts people with HIV in a cruel Catch-22: their health must deteriorate to the point of disability in order for them to qualify for assistance in obtaining the very medications that could have prevented the onset of disability in the first place.
Provisions in health care reform legislation would end this tragic Catch-22 and expand and simplify Medicaid to cover millions more low-income people.
The House-passed bill would expand Medicaid for all low-income individuals and families at or below 150% of federal poverty (about $16,000 annual income for a single individual and $33,000 annual income for a family of four). More than 100,000 people with HIV could obtain health insurance coverage under Medicaid expansion alone.
While expanded Medicaid coverage would begin nationwide in 2013, states would be allowed to expand coverage immediately for low-income, non-disabled people with HIV. The federal government would assume a higher share of the costs for the preliminary expansion period (for those states that elect it), as well as for full Medicaid expansion beginning in 2013. Some 11 million uninsured, low-income people, including childless adults currently excluded from the program, would become eligible.
Another important Medicaid provision only in the House-passed bill would gradually increase provider reimbursement rates until they reach more generous Medicare levels. Without this provision, low-income people might find themselves with health insurance coverage that is difficult or impossible to use because health care facilities and providers cannot afford to accept Medicaid-covered patients. Meanwhile, the Senate is debating Medicaid expansion -- slated to begin in 2014 -- for citizens with incomes at or below 133% federal poverty (about $14,400 annual income for a single individual and $29,000 for a family of four). Sadly, the bill does not contain the provision allowing states to expand HIV coverage immediately.
Neither the House nor the Senate bill establishes a comprehensive minimum benefits package for Medicaid programs, which is likely to perpetuate wide Medicaid variability (in all aspects including quality) across the U.S.
House and Senate legislation would prohibit insurers from denying coverage or basing premium rates on gender, health status, or pre-existing conditions, including HIV. Lifetime expenditure caps would also be prohibited. Insurers would be allowed to set premiums based on age, family size, geography, and tobacco use, within established parameters. These reforms aim to make health coverage more affordable and accessible for millions of people, including people with chronic health conditions.
House and Senate legislation includes provisions to help individuals afford mandated coverage. While specific provisions vary across the two leading bills, and will likely continue to shift as congressional negotiations continue, the basic approach would provide individuals with a sliding scale of subsidies meant to offset the cost of insurance premiums. Subsidies would be made available to individuals with incomes above the maximum for Medicaid and below 400% of federal poverty, or approximately $40,000 in 2009 for a single individual. People with lower incomes would receive more generous subsidies.
The bills would also provide sliding-scale-based subsidies for co-pays, deductibles, and co-insurance. The House bill provides subsidies that cover up to 70-90% of cost-sharing, depending on income, for people with incomes up to 400% of federal poverty. The Senate bill provides less assistance of this kind -- it would cover 80-90% of cost-sharing for people with incomes up to 200% of federal poverty. While important, neither bill goes far enough to cap costs for people with chronic medical conditions. At the higher income levels that still qualify for subsidies (i.e., people earning annually $35,000 to $40,000) the combination of premiums and co-pays (assuming a person reaches his/her annual cap on cost-sharing) could still amount to $11,000 to $12,000 annually for health insurance costs.
House and Senate legislation would establish a new way for uninsured individuals to shop for health insurance. The so-called "exchange" would review health insurance plans against government standards and promote qualifying plans to prospective beneficiaries. Proponents forecast lower costs for consumers by standardizing and simplifying plan options and linking millions of prospective purchasers to companies selling insurance.
The House bill includes a national health insurance exchange. By contrast, the Senate bill proposes state-based exchanges. By influencing a greater share of the insurance market, a national exchange may likely go further in controlling costs than state-based exchanges.
The House-passed bill would establish a public insurance option that would compete against private insurance plans in the exchange for prospective insurance clients. A public option would offer people with complex health conditions, such as HIV, high-quality coverage for a competitive price. While unsubsidized by the federal government (claims would be paid strictly with collected premiums and co-pays), the public plan would likely spend less on operating and administrative costs and would not need to generate dividends for shareholders. An added benefit of the public option is to motivate private plans in the exchange to hold their costs to the levels of the public option or lose market share.
A strong public option is especially critical for people receiving shallow insurance subsidies or no subsidies at all. For people with incomes above $35,000, the public option is likely to provide the most affordable coverage and help contain costs for all plans in the exchange.
The House adopted legislation that took a bold step by including a national public option, considered most likely to control costs nationally and ensure people across the U.S have at least a high-quality plan available to them in the event private options are inadequate or too costly.
The Senate is expected to revise current legislative provisions establishing a national public option in each state exchange, unless barred by state law.
Since 1990, the Ryan White CARE Act has provided medical and support services for people with HIV/AIDS who lack other options. Congress passed and President Barack Obama signed legislation earlier this year continuing the CARE Act program until 2013. Health care reform legislation would require health plans to coordinate with Ryan White medical providers to ensure the availability of HIV medical specialists.
The one program that could likely see significant changes is Ryan White's AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP), which provides HIV-related medications to individuals who have no other way to obtain lifesaving HIV treatments. Health care reform could significantly decrease the number of people who turn to ADAP for their HIV-related medications, and that would be a good thing, as the need for the program is currently outstripping available funds. At this writing, 342 people languish on ADAP wait-lists across the country. The dire circumstances of ADAP are likely to get worse in 2010.
Medicare is the nation's health insurance program for an estimated 38 million retirees and disabled workers, including an estimated 100,000 people with HIV. Medicare is the federal government's single largest payer of HIV care followed by Medicaid. Most non-elder people with HIV on Medicare qualify as a result of becoming disabled after a two-year wait period.
Medicare's prescription drug benefit -- known as Part D -- is particularly complex. Most beneficiaries (with the exception of the low-income people who qualify for Medicare subsidies) assume a share of their annual prescription drug costs until their total annual expenditures exceed $3,600, after which the benefit covers 95% of prescription costs for the rest of the year. The out-of-pocket costs are especially steep for beneficiaries when their medication expenditures reach the so-called "donut hole" during which 100% of medication costs (up to nearly $3,000) are paid out-of-pocket by the beneficiary.
The House bill includes two important provisions to remedy this problem: first, medication expenditures paid by ADAP on behalf of a Medicare beneficiary would count toward the individual's annual cost-sharing requirements. Second, the House bill gradually eliminates the donut hole over time.
The Senate bill does not go as far as the House. While it would allow ADAP expenditures to count toward out-of-pocket limits, it would still subject Medicare beneficiaries to thousands of dollars in uncovered medication costs each year.
The House bill includes a controversial provision that essentially restricts coverage for abortions in the vast majority of health plans, whether paid for with federal subsidies or not. The Senate provision would restrict federal funds from abortion coverage, an extension of current law. Reproductive health and AIDS advocates will be closely monitoring negotiations on this provision to protect the reproductive rights of low-income women, including women with HIV/AIDS.
In addition, each bill includes provisions to enhance health and wellness services, including provisions to prohibit co-pays for preventative screenings, new Medicaid and Medicare requirements, and grants for public health and community-based prevention services.
Finally, myriad other provisions under consideration would help increase the supply of qualified health workers, collect better demographic data on insured individuals, and extend the same tax benefits to health benefits of same-sex partners as offered to spouses.
Congress needs to hear from you now about your current health care challenges and your aspirations for national health care reform. Stay up-to-date and learn how to amplify your advocacy voice by visiting the links below.
Treatment Access Expansion Project (TAEP)
AIDS Foundation of Chicago
Project Inform
Side-by-Side Legislative Comparison
Health Care Reform Advocacy Toolkit
Media Talking Points
Health Care Stories (and Nightmares) by HIV-Positive People
David Munar, Vice President of the AIDS Foundation of Chicago, is a local and national leader for sound public policy on HIV/AIDS. A person living with HIV, Munar serves on the board of directors of the Pediatric AIDS Chicago Prevention Initiative and the AIDS Action Council, chairing its Policy Committee. He is active on advisory committees with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Health Resources and Services Administration, and the National Institute on Allergies and Infectious Diseases. In 2007, Munar worked with other AIDS advocacy leaders to form the Campaign for a National AIDS Strategy, and remains involved with its Coordinating Committee. This year, he worked with the Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project and SisterLove to launch the Prevention Justice Alliance. Munar is bicultural, bilingual and a first-generation Colombian-American.
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Updated: October 11, 2010, 12:48 PM ETBy Jeff MacGregor | ESPN.com
Last week, I wrote this: I had a column written for today, but an hour ago I tore it up. My boss is furious. I need your help. Desperately. I'm having an existential crisis.
Bautista. Contador. Vick. Rose. From Armstrong to Landis to Zenyatta, how much of it can I believe? Can I still believe in the home runs and the yellow jerseys? What about the apologies, the accusations and the tears? What about the wins? The losses? Can I believe any of it? All of it? None of it? When did every ...
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State Sen. Brad Lager may have been unhappy and disappointed last week after Gov. Jay Nixon vetoed the "Workplace Discrimination" bill. But he wasn't surprised.
On March 7 — the day before the Senate gave final approval to the House version of the proposed law, and the Wednesday before lawmakers began this year's spring break, which ended Monday — Lager told reporters he expected the governor to "veto it much like he did last year. Hopefully, (then) we can actually sit down and have a discussion about what he'll take and what he'll sign, and we can, actually, come back after spring break and move a bill that he will actually sign, that can actually become law."
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DeMeco Ryans is the first Eagles linebacker with two interceptions and two sacks in a season since Jeremiah Trotter in 2001. (AP)
Remember how DeMeco Ryans was supposedly another Eagles linebacker bust?
Remember how one NFL Network analyst even said the Eagles should cut Ryans following a lackluster performance in a preseason game in Pittsburgh?
Remember all the talk about how he just wasn't the same player after his torn Achilles late in the 2010 season?
Remember all that?
See ya at the Pro Bowl.
Ryans is shutting up a lot of people these days.
Everybody who said his best days were far behind him. Everybody who said he couldn't play in a 3-4, and that's why the Texans got rid of him. Everybody who threw him on the failed Eagles' inside linebacker heap along with Mark Simoneau, Joe Mays, Omar Gaither, Moise Fokou and countless others.
Because right now, Ryans is giving the Eagles their best linebacker play since Jeremiah Trotter was in his prime.
He's been that good.
"DeMeco is the leader of our defense, and he's having an outstanding Pro Bowl year and we couldn't be happier with everything DeMeco is doing for us," Eagles defensive coordinator Billy Davis said.
"I cannot overstate what DeMeco means to this defense and the way he's leading the group. … We couldn't be happier with DeMeco."
The Eagles have been trying to find linebackers forever. With little success.
Only three Eagles linebackers have made the Pro Bowl in the last 30 years -- Seth Joyner in 1991 and 1993, William Thomas in 1995 and 1996 and Trotter in 2000, 2001, 2004 and 2005. Ike Reese made it in 2004 as a special teamer.
Other than that, it's been a bleak wasteland.
With his steady tackling, big plays in crucial situations and commanding presence on a young defense, Ryans is changing all that.
And putting an end to the speculation that Ryans just wasn't the same player anymore when the Texans shipped him and a third-round pick to Philly for a fourth-round pick on March 20, 2012.
"I wasn't trying to prove anything," Ryans said. "I know there was speculation and Houston made some moves, they had other players, [Brian] Cushing was playing well and they were going to make Cushing their guy, so it wasn't that I couldn't play in a 3-4 or play well in a 3-4."
Ryans has turned the page on Houston and become the linebacker the Eagles have been looking for since Trotter's last big season nearly a decade ago.
Even if his Eagles career began a little sluggishly last summer.
"I never had any doubts," Ryans said. "I was coming off an injury, I knew I still had work to put in to get back to where I wanted to be, but I never had a doubt in my mind I couldn't get back to this level."
Turns out Ryans is a perfect fit in Davis's 3-4.
On a defense loaded with first- and second-year players who have talent but are still learning the game and learning their roles, Ryans keeps the whole thing together.
"He quarterbacks the defense," Davis said. "We give him a lot of leeway. He can get us in and out of defenses. Gets us in the best defense possible. And as the season has gone on, we as a staff have gotten more and more comfortable in his ability to put us in good situations, and he has.
"And from there he's done a great job playing the middle linebacker position. From tackle to tackle, he is a force."
Asked about the luxury of having a steady veteran presence amid the youngest defensive line in the NFL, Davis says simply: "It's an extreme luxury."
Ryans represented the AFC in the Pro Bowl after the 2007 and 2009 seasons, and he was off to a good start in 2010 when he shredded his Achilles.
He wasn't bad last year, but these first 10 weeks of the 2013 season -- and really the last five games specifically -- marks the first we've seen of the All-Pro caliber Ryans.
"It's great to just be back playing at a high level, a Pro Bowl level," Ryans said. "That's what I strive for every year, and to do that coming off my injury a couple years ago, it's good to be back in that position."
Inside linebackers don't pile up huge stats, but Ryans is the first Eagle linebacker with two interceptions and two sacks in a season since Trotter in 2001.
The two INTs are a career high and the two sacks are his most since 2007.
"This is the level I was playing at [in Houston]," Ryans said. "It's fun to be back at that level, being able to make plays, and it's not just me beating my chest about myself, it all starts with the guys in front of me."
The Eagles are 5-5 after a 4-12 season, the defense has solidified after a shaky start, and Ryans is in the middle of all of it.
Will it be enough for Ryans to make his third Pro Bowl? How does he think he measures up to the other top inside backers in the NFC?
"I don't measure myself against anybody," he said. "I just measure myself against myself. I just go out to be the best that I can be. I know the type of player I can be, the type of level I can play at. So always just critiquing myself and seeing where I can get better."
The Eagles will move into sole possession of first place ahead of the idle Cowboys Sunday with a win over the Redskins at the Linc.
For the defense, it will be a very good test against the NFL's No. 5 offense.
Over the last five weeks, the Eagles are allowing only 17 points per game, sixth-best in the league during that span.
"Everybody bought into the system early," Ryans said. "It was just a matter of continuing to do the same things and get better at what we were doing.
"It was new to all of us, so all of us were trying to kind of find our way and now I feel like everybody is comfortable with what we're doing, everybody knows their role, guys are able to play fast and within their techniques and you see us start to make more plays."


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The Cutest Easter Bunny You Ever Did See: Our Weekend In ReviewSelena Mills
We had all sorts of goodness planned for the Easter weekend. Many of which didn't turn out – as the mister feel quite ill. This doesn't happen often, this getting sick business for him, but when it does, boy does it kick him on his arse! Poor dude.
We had an egg (okay, candy and chocolate) hunt and huge community feast slotted in for Friday. 1 part brunch, 1 part dinner. When I say huge, I don't mean huge by the amount of people in attendance perse (although I guess that all depends on what you consider a large amount of people to dine with) – I mean huge by the astounding, magnificent array of dishes we all prepared.
I shan't bore you with the details, given this isn't a food blog and all – and if you follow me on Facebook or Instagram then you were already tortured by visuals of the top-notch cuisine.
We didn't get much father than that when fever struck and I went on my own with our food contributions for the dinner. We had to cancel dinner on Saturday with my in-laws (technically soon-to-be in-laws), and a cherry blossom picnic at one of our favourite parks in our old Toronto neighbourhood with friends and their babies whom we don't get to see very often.
And you know what? We still had a lovely time. Just us 4, our sweet little family – lazing about at home, me getting some chores done and taking care of my brood. Sunday showed signs of the Daddio feeling better so we ventured out for an afternoon at our local beach park, which was pure bliss. All in all – it was a memorable weekend, one that was special to whom it matters most, for us anyways. The littles!
Sleepy Bunny 1 of 11Easter is hard work yo.
Daddy's Bunny 2 of 11Always ecstatic to be in his arms.
Brunch Bunny 3 of 11Here with one of her Aunties and friends.
Adoring Bunny 4 of 11Again. All about the Daddy.
Besties 5 of 11She watches everything he does like a hawk, and he in turn - won't go far without her.
Beach Bunny 6 of 11I'm sure I'm a giant nerd for constantly putting these ears on her all weekend. Although the amount of smiles which were induced upon the sight of her? #nerdsruleforthewin
My Little Clan 7 of 11A spell of warm weather on the beach.
Bedtime Play 8 of 11With bunnies of course.
Mindful… 9 of 11of her brother about to snipe her beloved bunny.
Hollering About Her Bunnies 10 of 11She does a lot of that. Especially about things she is excited about.
Pucker Up! 11 of 11Night-night smooches.
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The findings are preliminary and need further testing.
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A changed Exodus
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Timothy Kincaid
January 13th, 2012
In February 2009 we noticed that a conference was planned in Kampala, Uganda, which would address "the homosexual agenda." Further, we noted that three Americans were planned presenters, Holocaust revisionist Scott Lively, ex-gay "counselor" Caleb Brundidge, and Don Schmeirer, a board member of Exodus International, the 'ex-gay' umbrella organization.
Knowing that Uganda's culture is particularly vehement in its opposition to homosexuality, and aware of recent pogroms against gay people that had occurred, we tried to convince Exodus' leadership to back away from anything that could stir up the population. And considering that this event was featuring Scott Lively, we knew that it had the potential to be explosive.
Unfortunately, our efforts were not successful – Exodus ignored our pleas – and our worst fears were realized. The conference led to contact with the legislature, a proposed bill that would impose death on various categories of gay people, a newspaper campaign that called for execution, and eventually the murder of a prominent Ugandan gay activist.
But it also led to public awareness of American conservative evangelical involvement in foreign governments, heightened European criticism of human rights abuses in Africa, and eventually declarations by the White House and State Department that the way in which a nation treated its gay citizens would impact their relationship with the United States.
And it led to a number of religious leaders and organizations reevaluating the message that they were spreading. A number of alliances with some of the more homophobic African preachers were severed by a number of conservative American churches and individuals in influence took action to explain that their theological objection to engaging in specific acts did not equate to an invitation to abuse gay people. And quite a bit of rhetoric softened.
And in the process, Exodus did some soul searching. And has become, in my opinion, a very different organization.
And so this month when I approached Alan Chambers, President of Exodus, about an ad that had run in a newspaper in Trinidad and Tobago which seemed to speak for Exodus, he was quick to respond and to seek to distance the organization from both the implied message of the ad and from its intentions.
In short, Exodus stepped up and took responsibility not only for its name but for any confusion over its message. And, in the process, Alan took pains to explain the organization in terms that speak not about cultural dominance, nor about expectations of reorientation miracles, but in language of personal discipleship.
While I believe we share the same biblical worldview with regard to sexual expression, I do not believe we share the same philosophy on how to do public outreach or an identical message for those impacted by homosexuality. The mission and ministry of Exodus International is one focused on discipleship for those pursuing Christ amidst their same-sex attractions, support and encouragement for families impacted by same-sex attraction, restoration of marriages impacted by same-sex attraction and equipping the church to serve as an authentic community to all of the above as well as to those with whom they may disagree. We are not an organization that focuses on medical issues and we are increasingly careful with helping those we serve understand what change truly means in the context of living a human life where God gives us the ability to overcome amidst ongoing struggle.
I am encouraged that Alan clearly establishes that his organization is for those who are "amidst their same-sex attractions" and does not imply that they are seeking to become heterosexual. This is language that I believe is significantly different in both tone and implication than what we have seen in years past.
No doubt many in our community will be troubled by Exodus' continued use of language such as "change" or "overcome" or "struggle". But this is language that is a part of the Christian lexicon and has meaning within that context. Change is a theme within Scripture and is going to remain a theme in Christian ministries. We can choose to object or we can choose to understand, but it's not going away.
Change, within Christianity is a change of heart, a change of priorities, and change of purpose. It does not mean a change in orientation, a change in politics, or a change in personality.
I do not agree with Alan's biblical worldview with regard to sexual expression and he does not agree with my understanding of Leviticus and Romans in context of time, place, audience, and language selection. But we needn't agree about theology. We need only to seek to understand and respect each other.
And in Exodus's biblical worldview, sex outside of heterosexual marriage is offensive to God. Some of us will see this as inherently offensive. Some will think it discriminatory and bigoted. But if it helps any, the message that Exodus gives to its same-sex attracted participants is the same that it would give to any heterosexual that found him or herself unable to marry. Yes, for heterosexuals there is always the hope of a spouse, but- if we are very honest – we have to acknowledge that there are heterosexuals that are even less likely to ever be in a heterosexual marriage than I am. I sat next to one at lunch yesterday.
Yes, I agree that a message that seems to equate ones orientation with sinfulness can be a message that has a toxic effect on persons who have experienced a life of condemnation and rejection. It can reinforce feelings of desperation and worthlessness. And, in the past, Exodus has contributed to that toxicity.
But I believe that this is a different Exodus International than the Exodus that has appeared at political events or which has run ads suggesting that orientation "change is possible" or parading and promoting married members. I have seen a decrease in both that behavior and that attitude. Exodus no longer treats gay Christians as though they are Satan's tools of deception nor does it lend its name to dominionists who exploit them for political gain.
I see change in Exodus. A change of heart, a change of priorities and a change of purpose. And I can understand and respect the Exodus that I believe they are striving to become.
The reality is that there will be – for quite some time – young people who grow up in families and communities which share Alan's biblical worldview. And the reality is that they are not going to just joyously throw their faith out the window on their way to a Pride Parade. And as much as we may wish it to be so, they aren't going to find themselves comfortable at the Hollywood United Methodist Church.
I believe that there is a place and purpose for an organization that can give these people a place and support. Maybe they will in time come to see God differently from Alan and move on. Maybe they will remain in a place of discipleship to a conservative Christian sexual ethic and find within Exodus a fellowship and brotherhood of support. Maybe they will reject theistic belief systems altogether.
But until they come to that decision, Exodus can serve to let them know that they are not intrinsically evil or an abomination. And while I do not think that the organization is completely healthy – yet – I do have hopes for a new and improved Exodus, one that offers ministry and care to those in need.


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