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Washington Basic Health which is a state-sponsored program to help eligible Washington residents pay for health care using income from state subsidies, is feeling the wrath of the troubled economy.
Back in February 2009, Basic Health took the necessary steps to decrease enrollment by only enrolling one new applicant for every 2 applicants that left the plan. The decline in the economy has prompted Basic Health to reduce overall enrollment by 43% for the ‘09-’11 budget. In ‘07-’09 Basic Health covered about 107,000 residents and by January 1st of 2010 the enrollment must be within the new budget.
This has created a lengthy waiting list for the plan, but there are numerous groups that are allowed to bypass the waiting list because of their need. Some examples of these groups are Foster parents, personal care workers, and Tribal sponsored accounts. Plans such iCan benefits also provides access to valuable benefits to improve the health of their members.
Krysten Ritter (Lucy on Gilmore Girls) was enjoying a frosty martini at the Bailey’s Holiday Shoe Shop Launch in New York City earlier this month. She’s got a good reason to enjoy a drink; per her IMDB page, Krysten has recently completed 4 movies and has another, “Vamps” currently in pre-production! The most high-profile appears to be “Margaret,” a dram starring Anna Paquin, Matthew Broderick and Allison Janney. Unfortunately, the page for the film says it’s “tied up in a legal dispute.”
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It happened…Suzumiya Haruhi gets the Japanese Adult Video treatment in the form of a full episode. They chose the Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody story and made a JAV of this. The DVD appeared in Akihabara shelves and We got a preview, thanks to the people at Akibablog…
If you dream of a live action version of Suzumiya [...]
 Blogger: Monster Scholar
Blog: Monster Land
I’m an aspiring Ph.D. student in English with a penchant for monsters and horror films. I wanted to be Anne Baxter as Nefertiri in the Ten Commandments when I grew up, but when that didn’t work out I turned to studying literature. I teach composition to college freshmen, and in my spare time I watch horror movies, blog, lurk and write seminar papers.
 What initially drew you to the horror genre?
I’ve always been drawn to monsters ever since I was little and Where the Wild Things Are was one of my favorite books as a child. I began identifying with monsters in high school when the rigor of social pressure made me feel like an outcast. It wasn’t until later that I realized monsters are powerful in their difference. No one can stop Frankenstein, and the Phantom of the Opera will have his revenge. Monsters and horror helped me to see my own difference as a strength, and it’s something that has empowered me ever since.
Are significant others generally freaked out or psyched by your horror proclivities?
I am blessed with a husband who gets me and supports my fanaticism for the genre. After we started dating, he took a class with me on monsters in literature, which earned him brownie points from the beginning. We have an agreement: If he watches horror movies with me, I’ll watch kung fu movies with him.
 What made you decide to blog?
I was doing research for a bibliography paper on Frankenstein when I stumbled across Pierre Fournier’s blog Frankensteinia. Before then, I thought blogs were for lonely people who wanted to update the world on what their cat had coughed up that morning. It wasn’t until I saw Frankensteinia that I realized a blog could be a medium for something more serious than the vagaries of day-to-day human existence. I blog about horror because it forces me to watch horror films and have an opinion about them. Also, there are few horror blogs that look at the genre from a critical and/or academic standpoint. Some that come to mind are I Love Horror, The Gore Gore Girl and the Tomb of the Headless Werewolf. I saw a niche where I could contribute my own point of view, and jumped at the chance.
Who is your biggest inspiration?
My best friend Stacy. We met when I was a senior in high school and she was in college during a production of Major Barbara. We were backstage and she was reading a copy of Poppy Z. Brite’s Lost Souls. The director of the play took an interest, and asked to see what she was reading. Stacy handed over the book, calm as anything, at a time when I was ashamed to be seen reading Laurell K. Hamilton in public. The director was promptly horrified at the detailed description of some guy’s throat being torn out, to which Stacy replied nonchalantly “Yeah, they’re vampires. It’s what they do.” She was so fearless, and that inspired me to be out in the open about my love of monsters.
How would you best describe your blog?
My blog is a critical examination of monsters with a feminist slant. I am by no means a feminazi, but I can’t ignore how being a woman affects my reading of horror texts. I’m primarily interested in how monsters function as an expression of society’s fears. Horror is a unique genre, because it embodies a return of what is consciously repressed in mainstream culture, from the sci-fi horror films of the 1950’s that represent fears of communism during the Red Scare, to the horrors of Vietnam represented in the monstrous family of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Bang, Marry or Kill: Freddy, Jason, Michael. Please explain your answer.
I would have to marry Freddy because he has the most personality of the bunch. I appreciate his flair for the theatrical, and I could see myself having long conversations with him about Freud and the meaning of dreams. I would kill Jason because he’s been brought back from the dead one too many times and he has mommy issues. That leaves Michael. He’s the strong silent type, and I think I could help him overcome his psycho-sexual issues with a little sexual healing.
It seems Manga is getting a proper recognition around the world…A 250 year old British Museum will exhibit a manga called Munakata Kyoju.
As home to one of the world’s finest collections of historic artifacts, it seems fitting that the British Museum will feature a comic book series about a professor who studies ancient civilizations in [...]
In ‘A Tale of Poes and Fire‘, Rory begins one of her classic pro-con lists about going to Harvard vs Princeton vs Yale, though we know Princeton is pretty much out of the running. After the meeting at Yale, I think Lorelai and Rory both know that they need to re-evaluate their assumption that Harvard is the school for Rory.
I’m not really sure why Harvard was “the” school to begin with. Why that dream, that school? Was it just thought “the best” by them? Or was it something else? Did Lorelai in some way sway Rory away from thinking [...]
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Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz joined Simon Young of Kerrang! in London to talk about his band’s “hiatus”, touring with blink-182, their greatest hits album and future plans….
BOP and Tiger Beat went behind-the-scenes with Tokio Hotel when they recently filmed ‘It’s On with Alexa Chung’ at MTV studios in New York City. Watch the guys playing ping pong,…
 Blogger: Tara Judah
Blog: Midnight Movie Reviews
I’m a film librarian at 20th Century Flicks in Bristol, UK and also a columnist (known as Videodrone) for DVD Snapshot, as well as a reviewer for The 405. I holds a BA in English Literature & Language with Film Studies, and a Masters degree in Contemporary Cinema Cultures (both from King’s College London). Prior to entering the world of academia, I tried my hand at acting and have appeared in a small number of shorts, features and television.
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What initially drew you to the horror genre? Though this may sound strange, it probably begins with gangster films. As a child I wasn’t allowed to watch horror films and, as a direct result of my parents’ paranoia, was too scared to watch them with my friends at sleepover parties. But as my love for film grew, I developed a small passion for American gangster films. After a while I decided that if I could enjoy watching that level of violence in the gangster genre without compromising my ability to disavow, then horror really couldn’t be all too different.
Are significant others generally freaked out or psyched by your horror proclivities? No, I don’t think so. I’m of the opinion that viewing is an active cognitive process, and as my significant other knows, it doesn’t necessarily mean that I’m personally interested in acting out any of the things I take pleasure in watching.
 Why is it that there seems to be more female horror fans than ever before? Are more women watching horror, or are more women admitting to watching horror?
I don’t actually think that it’s specific to women. I think the overarching change is that the horror genre is enjoying a revival right now. Horror has a strange and complex history, and there have certainly been times when horror fit into a cult cinema category. But as the mainstream broadens its conditions and envelops much of what once was cult, people feel more at ease in enjoying, or perhaps just admitting to enjoying, what it has to offer. Similarly, as genres change and adapt to their audiences over time, crossing into genre hybridity, as we see with the emergence of many horror/comedies, horror/thrillers, horror/dramas and so on, it is only natural that horror would enjoy a wider and more popular reception–though I do think this is relevant to both male and female viewers.
What made you decide to blog? I was so enraged when I saw Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire at the cinema earlier this year that I felt the need to write it down. I had a lot of time on my hands, so I thought I might as well start up a blog and see what happened with it.
How does it feel to be a female horror blogger in a world where it seems necessary to have a beard to write about horror movies? Do you find that you’re not taken as seriously? I have no interest in writing for people who are concerned about my gender, or any other personal identity politics, for that matter. Assessment of written material should always be based on that which is written first and foremost, so if people don’t take me seriously because of my genitals or lack of facial hair, then I can’t say I’d be interested in how they might respond to my work anyway.
Is image more important for female horror bloggers than male? If so, why? I don’t think image is at all an important factor in blogging, though I imagine a great deal of other people do. Personally, I think the content is what matters.
The Dead Weather are out with the video to their new single ‘I Cut Like A Buffalo’, the third release from the American alternative rock supergroup’s debut album…
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