Tonight Friday Lincoln Center Out Doors in what I call the Peoples Park (Damrosch Park ) HAL WILNER is presenting a program Amarcord Nino Rota to honor the Italian film composer Nino Rota featuring an orchestra conducted by Steven Bernstein and featuring two of my very favorite singers Teddy Thompson and Jennifer Charles (Elysian Fields )Hal Willner's Amarcord Nino Rota. Here WNYC's Sara Fishko finds out who Hal Wilner is and what he has been influenced by.... fascinating .. Hope to see you in Lincoln Center's Peoples Park between the high art palaces the Met and the Dance... Damn but Jill Sternheimer and her team is doing a great job. with a diverse selection of eclectic and diverse music and artist .. the sleeper in her programming is the show coming up featuring rocker Peter Wolf.
Friday, July 27, 2018
LEAVE NO TRACE | "We Didn't Need to Be Rescued" Official Clip
There are many good films in theaters right now...Debra Granicks" LEAVE NO TRACE will stay with you long after you leave the theater,,,, when I saw it one afternoon about 8 people gathered at the bar inside the theater that I went to see it They grabbed a glass of wine or expensive water and sat chatting for an hour talking about the film. Interestingly most of them seemed not to know each other prior to watching the same film.. I was the fly on the wall! See it now .. in a THEATER please, now.
Thursday, July 26, 2018
WTF!!!! Report: Trump Administration Is Using Federal HIV/AIDS Treatment Money to Pay for Border Family Separation
Report: Trump Administration Is Using Federal HIV/AIDS Treatment Money to Pay for Border Family Separation
https://www.intomore.com/impact/report-trump-administration-is-using-federal-hiv-aids-treatment-money-to-pay-for-border-family-separation
https://www.intomore.com/impact/report-trump-administration-is-using-federal-hiv-aids-treatment-money-to-pay-for-border-family-separation
Americans with HIV may be the ones paying the price for this administration’s desire to separate immigrant children from their parents at the border.
According to a new report in Slate, internal documents obtained from the Office of Refugee Resettlement show that the agency, which was caught off guard by the Trump administration’s family separation policy, had to find a way to budget for a surge of potential immigrant minors being detained in the coming months. The budgeting exercise called for at least 25,400 beds — ORR currently has about 11,800 children in its care.
How will the agency pay to care for all these children? According to Slate, to help cover this budget shortfall of $585 million, the Department of Health and Human Services, which houses ORR, will reallocate money from the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program, which provides essential and comprehensive care for people living with HIV who are uninsured or underinsured. According to the documents, Slate reports, the process of transferring funds away from Ryan White has already started.
The budgeting exercise doesn’t take into account a federal court decision demanding the administration reunite families separated at the border. Slate indicated that the documents do, however, take into account Trump’s June 20 executive order purportedly ending family border separations, though the budget seems to operate under the assumption that the policy hasn’t really ended.
In a tweet, California Democrat Barbara Lee called the office’s decision to transfer funds away from Ryan White programs “unacceptable on so many levels.”
“I don’t even know where to start,” she wrote.
This is so unacceptable on so many levels. I don’t even know where to start. https://t.co/sDI2OTWxee pic.twitter.com/dv0TZR1H7f— Rep. Barbara Lee (@RepBarbaraLee) July 10, 2018
The decision to reallocate Ryan White HIV/AIDS funding comes after Trump’s original proposed FY18 budget cut over $800 millionin funding for HIV programs domestically and abroad. Trump’s proposed 2019 budget includes millions in cuts to the Ryan White HIV/AIDS program, AIDS housing programs, and the CDC’s HIV programs, according to POZ.
Trump signaled that his administration wouldn’t make HIV/AIDS a priority when he appointed Mike Pence, who was the architect of a major HIV outbreak in his home state of Indiana, as his vice president. Pence has also previously indicated that he would be in favor of rerouting federal HIV/AIDS funds away from “organizations that celebrate and encourage the types of behaviors that facilitate the spreading of the HIV virus” and into “institutions which provide assistance to those seeking to change their sexual behavior” — AKA using HIV/AIDS money to fund conversion therapy.
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