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(July 2018)
How HMOs work| HMO costs | Choosing an HMO | Denials of services, treatments, or medications | Get Help from TDI
A health maintenance organization (HMO) is a type of health insurance plan that provides care to members through a network of doctors, hospitals, and other providers. The providers in an HMO's network have agreed to treat HMO members at a discounted rate. This allows the HMO to control costs, so out-of-pocket costs are generally lower in an HMO than in other types of health insurance.
How HMOs work
HMOs contract with doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers to provide care within specific geographic service areas. To be a member of an HMO, you must live or work in its service area. Except for emergencies, you generally must use providers in your HMO's network.
To learn whether an HMO is available in your area, call the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) Consumer Help Line at 1-800-252-3439 or visit our website.
Your primary care physician
When you join an HMO, you must choose a doctor to oversee your care. This doctor is called your primary care physician, or PCP. Your HMO will give you a list of doctors to choose from.
If you need to see a specialist or another doctor, you must usually get a referral from your PCP. However, you don't need a referral for emergency care or obstetrician/gynecologist visits.
Approved prescription drugs and step therapy exception requests
Each HMO has a list of prescription drugs that its doctors may prescribe. This list is called a formulary.
If a drug isn't on your HMO's list, your doctor may prescribe a similar drug. Most HMOs must cover any prescription drug that your doctor prescribes for a chronic, disabling, or life-threatening illness, even if it's not on the list.
If an HMO drops a drug you're taking from its list, it must continue to cover the drug until your plan's next renewal date.
HMO group plans must tell you whether they use a formulary, how it works, and which drugs are on it. You can also call the plan to ask whether a specific drug is on its formulary. The HMO must answer within three business days.
Some HMO's use a step-therapy protocol for prescriptions. Under step therapy, your doctor will prescribe cheaper, less risky drugs first. The doctor will prescribe more expensive, riskier drugs only if the first drugs are ineffective. Your doctor may ask for an exception to a step-therapy protocol, however. HMOs must respond to step therapy exception requests within 72 hours for a nonlife-threatening condition or within 24 hours for a life-threatening condition. If the HMO doesn't respond within the deadlines, the step therapy exception request is automatically approved. If an HMO denies your doctor's request, your doctor may appeal the denial. Your doctor may ask that the appeal be expedited.
Coverage for mental health conditions and substance use disorders
HMOs must cover mental health conditions and substance use disorders in the same way it covers medical or surgical services. HMOs may not make it harder to get treatment for mental health conditions or substance use disorders. If you think your HMO is making it hard to get treatment, file a complaint with TDI.
HMO costs
What you pay
- Premiums are monthly fees you pay to participate in the HMO. If you belong to an HMO through your job, your employer usually takes your premium from your paycheck each month. Some employers might pay all or part of your premium.
- Copayments are amounts you pay for a covered health service, usually when you get the service. For instance, you will typically pay a copayment each time you fill a prescription. Copayments may vary by the service and are usually more expensive for emergency or specialized care. HMOs may not ask you to pay more than 50 percent of the total cost of services. If the amount of copayments you paid in a calendar year is more than 200 percent of your annual premium, the HMO can't charge you a copayment for the rest of that calendar year.
- A deductible is the amount you must pay out of pocket before your health plan will pay. Although most HMOs don't have deductibles, some do. You'll probably have a deductible if you're in a consumer choice or high-deductible health plan. You might also have to meet a deductible for any care you get outside your network.
Federal law limits the amount you have to pay out of pocket in a policy period (usually one year). In 2019, the maximum out-of-pocket limit is $7,900 for an individual plan and $15,800 for a family plan. Once you reach the limit, you won't have to pay copayments for the rest of that policy period. You still must pay premiums, and the premiums don't count toward the out-of-pocket limit.
What the HMO will pay
HMOs pay the difference between your copayment and the cost of your health care. For example, if your HMO requires a $20 copayment for a doctor visit and the doctor's rate is $80, you would pay the $20 copayment, and the HMO would pay the remaining $60.
Doctors and hospitals in the plan's network may bill you only for copayments. They may not bill you for covered services that the HMO didn't pay or only partially paid. For example, say the doctor's normal rate for an office visit is $100, but the doctor has agreed to a rate with the HMO of $75. You would pay your $20 copayment, and the HMO would pay the remaining $55 of the contracted rate. The doctor may not bill you for the $25 difference between the normal rate and the contracted rate.
However, be aware that a hospital in your network might use radiologists, anesthesiologists, pathologists, assistant surgeons, emergency room doctors, or neonatologists that aren't in your network. Out-of-network providers may bill you for their services, even if the hospital where they treated you is in your HMO's network. If you get a bill from an out-of-network provider, call your HMO. If you have to go to the hospital, find out whether the providers that will treat you are all in your network. If some are not, ask whether an in-network provider can be assigned. If not, find out in advance how much they will bill you.
If you get care from a doctor or hospital outside the HMO's network, you'll have to pay the full cost of the care yourself, except in these situations:
- You went to an emergency room for a medical emergency. Understand how your HMO defines a medical emergency and whether there are any procedures you must follow. For instance, you might have to tell your HMO within a certain amount of time after you get emergency care.
- You need a covered service that isn't available from network doctors.
- You have a point-of-service option. This allows you to go to out-of-network doctors if you're willing to pay more of the cost.
HMO members rarely have to file claims or wait for reimbursements. But sometimes, you might have to pay for services when you get them. For example, an out-of-network emergency room might require you to pay for your care up front. You'd then submit a claim to your HMO for reimbursement.
Choosing an HMO
When deciding whether to join an HMO, there are several things you should consider.
First, make sure that there's an HMO in your area. You'll have to live or work in an HMO service area to join. To search for HMOs by county, visit our Data Lookup page. Also visit TDI's Listing of HMO Profiles. You can also call TDI's Consumer Help Line.
Remember that while your overall costs will be lower in an HMO, your choices of doctors and hospitals will be limited. You must usually use doctors and hospitals in your HMO's network.
Also consider the HMO's customer service record. You can learn an HMO's complaint history by calling TDI's Consumer Help Line or by using the Company Lookup feature on our website.
Also talk to an HMO representative or your employer's benefits coordinator and ask these questions:
- Are my doctors in the HMO's network?
- Which hospitals and specialists are in the network?
- Where are the network's doctors and hospitals located?
- What will my expenses (premiums and copayments) be?
- What is the maximum amount I'll have to pay out of pocket?
- Do I have to pay a deductible for emergency care outside the HMO's network?
HMO report cards
The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) is an independent health care monitoring organization that accredits HMOs. Each year, NCQA issues a report card evaluating HMO performance. To learn more about an HMO, call NCQA at 1-888-275-7585 or visit its website at ncqa.org.
The Texas Office of Public Insurance Counsel issues two annual reports that compare and evaluate HMOs in Texas:
- Comparing Texas HMOs includes results of a survey asking members to rate their HMOs, the quality of care they receive, and their doctors. This report also provides the number of customer and doctor complaints against HMOs.
- Guide to Texas HMO Quality compares the quality of care delivered by HMOs in the state.
For more information about OPIC, call 512-322-4143 or visit opic.texas.gov.
You can view financial reports and complaint data for HMOs online.
Denials of services, treatments, or medications
HMOs will pay only for services, treatments, and prescription drugs that are medically necessary. The process they use to decide whether something is medically necessary is called utilization review.
HMOs usually do utilization reviews before you receive a service. However, an HMO may review a service after you received it if it didn't know about it beforehand.
HMOs must have a process for you to appeal decisions to deny coverage for a treatment or service. You may also appeal an HMO's decision to deny a prescription drug because it's not on the approved list.
If you lose your appeal, you can ask an independent review organization (IRO) to review the denial. The HMO must comply with the IRO's decision. If you have a life-threatening condition or need a prescription drug or intravenous infusions, you don't have to go through the HMO appeal process. You may ask for an immediate review by an IRO.
You can ask for an IRO review if the HMO decides that the covered service or treatment isn't medically necessary or is experimental or investigational. You can't ask for an IRO review if your HMO denied the treatment because the HMO doesn't cover it.
Your rights in an HMO
HMOs must have a process to resolve complaints. They may not cancel or retaliate against an employer, a doctor, or a patient who files a complaint or appeals an HMO decision.
HMOs may not prevent doctors from talking to you about your medical condition, available treatment options, and terms of your health care plan, including how to appeal an HMO's decision. An HMO also may not reward doctors for withholding necessary care.
If an HMO doesn't pay or only partially pays for a covered service, network doctors and hospitals may not bill you for the amount that the HMO didn't pay. If you think a doctor or other health care provider has billed you inappropriately, talk to your HMO. You may also call TDI's Consumer Help Line to learn your options.
Texas law requires HMOs to have adequate personnel and facilities to meet the needs of their members. HMOs also must make health care services available within a certain distance of your home and workplace. The law also requires HMOs to:
- allow referrals to out-of-network doctors and hospitals when medically necessary services aren't available within the network,
- allow members to change a PCP up to four times a year, and
- pay for emergency care if not getting immediate medical care could place your health - or the health of your unborn child if you're pregnant - in jeopardy. If you get emergency treatment at a hospital outside the HMO's network, you may be transferred to a network doctor or hospital after your condition is stabilized.
Filing a Complaint
If you have a problem with an HMO, first file a complaint through the HMO's complaint process. If you can't resolve your problem with the HMO, TDI might be able to help.
TDI investigates complaints about HMO claims, billing, enrollment, and appeals. Use the Online Complaint Portal to file a complaint online or call the Consumer Help Line for help.
Get Help from TDI
For insurance questions or for help with an insurance-related complaint, call the TDI Consumer Help Line at 1-800-252-3439 or visit our website.
Visit HelpInsure.com to shop for automobile, homeowners, condo, and renters insurance, and TexasHealthOptions.com to learn more about health insurance and your options for coverage.
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Santa is a bad person/creature/being Merry Christmas
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Anyway this is a funny debate, have fun with it. Tell me how wonderful and great Santa is while I destroy your clean image of this Jolly 'ol cookie eating philanthropist.
No rules.
Simple judge who wins.
Round 1: accept
Round 2: main argument
Round 3: Rebuttal and closing
Good luck ho ho ho Merry Christmas.
For starters, Santa is nothing more than a modern day slave owner. He is nightmare to work for. He exploits labor. Elfs are not paid, they work all hours. And as seen in the movie Elf, they have quotas that must be met. These elfs are not permitted to even leave the north pole. I have no direct evidence of the elfs not being allowed to leave other than the fact that in 500 plus years of Santa, no elf has ever come forward with claims of being an elf. In short these elves are held against their will " kidnapped for lack of a better word, and forced to work with no monetary compensation " many would call slavery.
Second, Santa engages in animal abuse. The schedule is 24- 33 hours depending on speed he moves, time he leaves, and assume an east to west travel with accomidating time zones. In the US alone there are over 1 Million miles of roads, which is how houses are connected, means this tight schedule to travel the equivelant of 1 million miles and if the same distance was covered in Asia, Africa, Europe, the Pacific islands, and Austraila, that means he must travel 6 million miles in 33 hours. Such supersonic speeds creates large amounts of heat like when the space shuttle re-enters the atmosphere. There is no evidence the reindeer have any ceramic outercoating to protect them from this intense heat. Also they are forced to pull thousands of tons of toys around the world without regards for their health.
Third, santa breaks the law. Every Christmass eve Santa routinely breaks into houses. The legal statute is "breaking and entering", were one has entered a home without authorization. Perhaps you think Santa has privileges to enter your home. This is true. But out of the 1.7 Billion homes in the world, it is illogical to imagine every single one welcomes Santa into their home without a single mistake.
Fourth,, at best he is a creepy voyer who enjoys watching children At worst santa is a petaphile who enjoys having children sit on his lap. Santa spends the better part of his life obsessed with children. He watches them, day and night. He knows when they are sleeping, and probably means he is watching them in their sleep. What else is going on?
Lastly, Santa is unfairly judgmental and bad semaritan . Santa keeps lists of naughty and good boys and girls. There is no real consensus of what makes one good or naughty. What is clear is depending on what Santa thinks is a good or naughty person, that boy or girl will or will not get a gift. Santa does not warn the children. Santa does not set the rules. Santa does not even intervene if he witnesses a problem. He is a spectator on the road of life. Santa and turns a blind eye to the naughtiness he witnesses. There is no evidence Santa has ever stepped in when a child was doing naughty things to protect person or property.
In summary, Santa is a modern day slave owner who treats his animals poorly. Santa obsesses over children, while he breaks into houses. Lastly, Santa is a judgmental being that would not even help a child he saw being abused by another. These are not hallmarks of a good person. Are these honestly the qualities of a "good person." No they are not. And no amount of gift giving will compensate for his actions - or lack of.
It seems that Santa Claus is being exclusively portrayed in his pop culture form, as a fat man with a long beard in a red suit who rides reindeer. But let's not forget that first and foremost, Nikolaos of Myra, commonly dubbed Santa Claus, is a saint. This means that he is recognised as exceptionally holy and embodies the goodness of god himself. He was known for his selfless deeds during life, and also after death.
My opponent describes St Nicholas as a "creepy voyeur" who is "obsessed with children". However, St Nicholas was sanctified for his acts of protection to children who were enslaved or needy, and this is why he is commonly associated with them today, not because he has some perverted obsession. One of the oldest stories of St Nicholas, describes a young boy called Basilios who was enslaved as the king's cupbearer. The king claimed the child as his property and Basilios' family was dismayed at having lost their child. On the next feast of St. Nicholas, Basilios was freed by the saint and returned to his family immediately. Nothing was asked in return, St Nicholas simply helps children in need because it's the right thing to do.
I must also deny the argument that St Nicholas practises "breaking and entering". The gifts delivered by 'Santa Claus' are only left in households where the family invites his involvement. No one has ever unwillingly received a gift from Santa Claus. Furthermore, St Nicholas is traditionally portrayed as throwing bags of gold through the window, not clumsily falling down a chimney, dropping gifts and struggling back up. How do you think Christmas gifts are delivered to houses without chimneys?
Lastly, the character of Santa Claus does not treat his animals poorly, but actually rescues them from oppressive social circumstances. This is easily demonstrated by referring to the song "Rudolf the rednosed reindeer". According to the lyrics, Rudolf was always bullied in his reindeer social circle, being verbally harassed and excluded from reindeer games. He could have suffered a solitary and miserable life. Instead, Santa Claus gave him purpose by requesting him, not forcing him, to pull his sleigh and help him deliver gifts. After Rudolf accepted, he was celebrated and respected in his community.
St Nicholas selflessly helps children in need, does not ask to be rewarded or thanked and rescues reindeer from oppressive social circumstances. He has been sanctified for his acts of good-will. This, of course, makes him a good and holy person.
Thank you, vote con.
My opponent had to research the annals of time back 500 years to find a case where Santa was a kind person helping out another. That one event is hardly enough to counter all the bad. This past Christmas alone it is estimated 15 people in the US and another 20 people in Europe died from injuries such as accidents. Where was Santa? He was flying overhead and did not stop. He never stops. In 500 years since, Santa has never made a stop to help change a tire, or stop a robbery, or anything. He is the oldest superhero, faster than a speeding bullet, fly through the air, never ages, knows everything" With all this power, he is a voyeur caught up in his own world of watching.
It is interesting that I make the argument Santa may be a pedophile, and my opponent injects Santa is a recognized "saint". He values Santa in the "holy" manner in the likeness of "God". This type of logic does not remove the possibility of pedophilia " in fact as the Catholic Church has taught us, it makes a child more prone to abuse by such people of trust. His argument borders on admission.
Thirdly, my opponent claims Santa does not enter a house without permission, he does not break and enter. I challenge anyone reading this to have their younger sibling tell mom and dad at 3Am that he just saw Santa is in the kitchen eating some cookies and is going towards the Christmas tree. Close your eyes and Imagine the response. Mom will be dialing 911 while Dad is grabbing his shotgun or baseball bat. If you can"t imagine that going any other way, how is that honestly a welcomed guest?
Furthermore, to answer your question about how Santa gets into a house if he is not welcomed, shimming down a chimney, tossing things or entering through open windows, or picking a door lock is not the action of a welcomed guest. Most guests knock on a door, and not at 2AM. Why can"t Santa come in the day light?
Fourth, saving a reindeer only to put him into a work camp/abuse situation is not something "good" people do. I applaud anyone willing to help out a sick animal, but saving them only for your own personal use and to exploit their disease " on foggy nights, and not take him to the vet". Again this is not something good people do.
Santa is not altruistic. He is the opposite, a megalomaniac. He picks and chooses who gets what gift. He uses his power to persuade children how to behave. Children are fearful of being seen doing something wrong, and probably would also be fearful to reporting sexual abuse from their annual gift giver. He spys on children " while they are sleeping. He does not stop and help those in need. He is judgmental, and is not a welcomed guest in any home.
Santa is at best a sweat shop owner or at worst a slave owner who keeps elfs against their will. Some may say the way he keeps the elves is a form of kidnapping. He engages in animal abuse. Santa breaks the law by entering homes that are unwelcoming to him. Santa is judgmental, as he spys on little sleeping children. And even when witnesses the "bad" things being done, he does not intervene to save life or property. These are not hallmarks of a good person.
The above things are actually hallmarks of bad people. Therefore Santa is bad and my opponent has done little to counter my specific points.
Vote Pro.
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Posted by RNG_REKT 2 years ago
It was supposed to be hilarious but the opponent went all technical on Pro
Now its just a crappy debate
Congrats on your points, though Pro
They were hilarious
Posted by AngryBlogger 2 years ago
You only need truly one argument against the pro here and it's just because you may do bad things, that does not make you a bad person, and vice versa by the way, but speaking of what Santa does in particular does not make him a bad person because he's doing it all for a greater cause which is gifting families all across the world, some of which aren't fortunate enough to buy many presents.
A homeless man may steal food to survive, does that make him a bad person? No.
Our US army kills ISIS insurgents, and others, does that make them bad? NO.
I swear a lot, does that make me a bad person? NO.
Was Robin Hood bad? I mean this entire list could just go on and on.
And this list goes on and on, and basically negates your entire argument.
As for modern day slaves... You only listed one movie. In tons of other movies, you can clearly see the elves are quite happy to be working for Santa (more movies in fact). Also, animal abuse? Get outta here with that non sense. (Again, in some animated movies, reindeer are joyful actually). Is a Kentucky derby jockey bad for whipping his horse in a race? No. Is it animal abuse? It's called discipline.. When you spank your son cause he misbehaved, is it child abuse? NO.
As for trespassing... No such thing. In the fantasy world, people openly let Santa in their homes, and leave milk and cookies for him. Due to that, he is not trespassing anyone cause he is a welcomed guest throughout the entire world. The idea of Santa being bad is just non sense.
Also, Reindeers are special cases obviously, and have the endurance, just like the elves do at the workshop. Again, more movies show they are happy to be a Santa helper. Rudolph was depressed once cause he thought he might not be helping Santa cause he had a red nose, but of course, he was encouraged and yadda yadda.
If you want to call someone bad, it's the Grinch,but he's more so misunderstood, and depressed.
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Rep Cinema This Week: Le Joli Mai, Bastards, Los Wild Ones
The best repertory and art-house screenings, special presentations, lectures, and limited engagements in Toronto.
At rep cinemas this week: Chris Marker's playful look at Paris in 1962, Claire Denis's nasty revenge thriller, and a documentary about the Latin American rockabilly scene in Los Angeles.
Le Joli Mai
Directed by Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme
Carlton Cinema (20 Carlton Street)
While Chris Marker was completing his best-known work, La Jetée, a landmark sci-fi montage on the nature of photography and memory, he was simultaneously developing Le Joli Mai, a two-part, episodic meditation on France's past and future inspired by the end of the Algerian War in 1962—the nation's first war-free moment since 1939.
Co-directed by cinematographer Pierre Lhomme, the essay filmmaker's characteristically digressive and erudite project was compiled from over 55 hours of footage, grounded in impromptu interviews on the streets of Paris, covering issues as diverse as De Gaulle's France, the cinema, and modern dating.
As in his masterpiece Sans Soleil, Marker is most at home in the startling moments that come out of uncontrolled encounters between unrehearsed subjects and the camera, among them a suit salesman's surly complaint that Last Year at Marienbad, directed by Marker's friend and collaborator Alain Resnais, sailed clean over his head. Despite the film's serious engagement with then-contemporary politics as well as its anthropological bent, Marker is less interested in crafting an encyclopedic look at a particular place and time than in attending to the odd tangential details that define it. His best subjects, to that end, are the various cats he lovingly frames throughout, their inscrutable expressions a ledger for the infinite paradoxes of France's puzzling new situation. The grin of the cheshire cat is perhaps the key motif of Marker's cinema—in later years, he was famously prone to using an image of his cat Guillaume as his avatar for director bios—and it's rarely put to better use than here, in a hysterical montage that cuts between a heady discussion of how increased automation will rob French workers of their jobs and a succession of close-up inserts of quizzical felines. For all the statistics about Paris and firsthand accounts the film compiles, it finds France's future to be as unknowable as the inner life of the most cryptic animal.
Icarus Films' newly restored version of Le Joli Mai premiered earlier this year at the Cannes Film Festival before playing at TIFF. Supervised by Lhomme, the restoration comes in at just under twenty minutes shorter than the original, as per Marker's apparent instructions.
Directed by Claire Denis
TIFF Bell Lightbox (350 King Street West)
As its almost comically direct title suggests, Claire Denis's newest is a bit of an outlier in her filmography, a plot-heavy and blunt revenge thriller. Her other films, like The Intruder, are typically more abstract. All the same, Bastards is clearly the work of one of the most deservedly celebrated auteurs in contemporary filmmaking, with its fragmented chronology, sensuous depiction of the body, and evocative score by British band Tindersticks.
Like Denis's last film, White Material, Bastards deals with some seriously thorny family history. It opens with ominous hints of a late-night death in an apartment complex and a sexual exploitation ring involving a traumatized young woman, whom we see walking naked through the streets of Paris in a daze. Without much audience handholding or explanation, the film then follows both stories through their common link, Marco (Vincent Lindon), a lone-wolf sailor who returns to Paris to right the wrongs done to his family by a business tycoon, only to find that his family matters are significantly more complicated than he'd imagined. Even more than the elliptical way in which this straightforward but complex story is told, what registers most here is Denis's righteous indignation against the well-heeled bullies and puppeteers Marco attempts to take down on behalf of his dissipated relatives—which makes the fatalistic last act the cinematic equivalent of a middle finger raised in the face of certain defeat.
Denis will be at the Lightbox to introduce Friday's screening and to participate in a Q&A afterward.
Los Wild Ones
Directed by Elise Salomon
The Royal (608 College Street)
True to its cheeky title, if light on the madness it promises, Elise Salomon's documentary Los Wild Ones examines the recent resurgence of rockabilly through the lens of a particular L.A. scene. The film profiles Reb Kennedy, founder of Wild Records, a label devoted to rock-and-roll revival acts like Lil Luis y Los Wild Teens, who put a Latin American spin on a traditionally white American genre.
Los Wild Ones is appropriately energetic and uptempo, enlivened by the Wild Records stable's reliably snappy concerts and recordings, but it isn't particularly revelatory. Though Kennedy's characterization as a Dublin punk rascal turned manager is nicely drawn, we don't get as strong a sense of the artists, who come across as gentle misfits with the garden-variety struggles of most jobbing musicians. Given the idiosyncratic makeup of the label, one might have expected a deeper portrait of the Latino community's appropriation of rockabilly, and a better sense of how this relatively small scene squares with the higher-profile revisitations of the genre by acts like the White Stripes. There's undeniable charm, though, to Salomon's depiction of Kennedy as an eccentric but devoted patriarch of a dysfunctional professional family—the rare hands-on mixer, producer, and all-purpose ringmaster who personally calls his artists when they're late for soundchecks.
Los Wild Ones kicks off the Reel Indie Film Fest, a music-based film programme organized in conjunction with indieWEEK, which is now in its tenth year. For more information and additional showtimes, see the festival's website.


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The more productions I watch set in the 1930 era, the more I am convinced it's "my era." It's the timeframe I seem to love most that once upon a time likely came in last. I'm not sure if the change came about because "bonnet" costume drama was so dominant and this is a new world to discover or if I like the sassiness that seems to accompany this era, either way, fans of this age or classy mystery will want to see the latest BBC masterpiece, which is now finally on DVD in the states.
After an unpleasant confrontation, Iris decides she's had enough of her ner-do-well friends and elects to remain behind while her party travels ahead. A day alone, wandering the countryside makes Iris realize how fragile her position is – alone with no family but money to her name, she decides to re-join her party a day prior to when all of the hotel guests are scheduled to depart.
(Parental review, the film rates a PG. there is an extra-marital affair rumor and perhaps a minor innuendo, a woman accuses a girl of flirting/sleeping with her husband. A woman is taken against her will, while drugged and another is hidden away, tied up.)


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The InSEA 2014 program will include keynote and invited presenters from all parts of the globe to ensure a most exciting and informative program. Confirmed keynote presenters include:
Professor Dennis Atkinson
Professor Emeritus at Goldsmiths, Centre for the Arts and Learning
Dennis Atkinson is currently Director of the Research Centre for The Arts and Learning in the Department of Educational Studies at Goldsmiths University of London. He taught art in secondary schools for 18 years before moving to Goldsmiths University. He was the Principal Editor of The International Journal of Art and Design Education from 2002-2009 and is an Honoury Fellow of the National Society for Education in Art and Design. Dennis has published regularly in a number of international academic journals since 1991 including The International Journal for Art and Design Education, The International Journal of Inclusive Education, Educational Philosophy and Theory, and has contributed chapters to a number of edited collections. He has published five books, Art in Education: Identity and Practice; Social and Critical Practice in Art Education, (with Paul Dash); Regulatory Practices in Education: A Lacanian Perspective, (with Tony Brown & Janice England,); Teaching Through Contemporary Art: A report on innovative practices in the classroom, (with Jeff Adams, Kelly Worwood, Paul Dash, Steve Herne, & Tara Page) and Art, Equality and Learning: Pedagogies Against the State.
Dean in the Faculty of Education
University of Wollongong
Ian Brown is an Associate Professor and Dean in the Faculty of Education at the University of Wollongong. His governance responsibility covers all the major undergraduate teacher education courses offered by the Faculty of Education, including Primary Education, Bachelor of Mathematics and Science Education, Graduate Diploma of Education, Physical and Health Education and the Early Years degree. The Faculty also offers Graduate Certificates, Graduate Diplomas, Masters and Doctoral programs in TESOL, Adult Education, Education Leadership, Special Education, Vocational Education and Training, Information Technology and Early Years Education.
Ian teaches in the area of classroom pedagogy, teacher education, visual arts and design and technology. Ian's research involves visual literacy, visualisation and multiliteracy assessment. Using visual methodology his research focuses on cross-cultural interrogation.
He is an Executive member of Art Education Australia and immediate past Editor of Australian Art Education. Ian's doctoral study explored implementation theory and policy processes for art education. He is an elected member of the Board of Directors of the International Visual Literacy Association and was a member of the Project Advisory Board for the Horizon Report for 2008 and 2009 for The New Media Consortium.
He is currently the lead investigator for a recent successful Australian Research Council Linkage Grant, titled Multiliteracy testing: a criterion-referenced tool to assess secondary students' multiliteracy learning within a technology-rich, multimodal domain.
Research Fellow, Victorian College of the Arts,
University of Melbourne
Alison Carroll has been an academic, critic, writer, curator and administrator of art exhibitions and artist exchanges with Asia for over 30 years. In 1990 she established and was Director (until June 2010) of the Arts Program at Asialink, University of Melbourne, the main program for arts exchange between Asia and Australia for visual arts, performing arts, literature and arts management practice. She published a major book on 20th century Asian art The Revolutionary Century; Art in Asia 1900-2000, (Macmillan Australia) in 2010. She has received the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council's Emeritus Medal and made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for her work at Asialink. She has spoken and written about Asian art and education at conferences and in publications in Australia and internationally (see: www.alisoncarroll.net/articles-and-reviews).
Maree Clarke, a Mutti Mutti, Yorta Yorta, BoonWrung woman from northwest Victoria, began
working as an Aboriginal Educator in 1978 in her home-town of Mildura. This work
experience, provided a solid base from which to begin her career in supporting and promoting
southeast Australian Aboriginal histories, culture and knowledge.
Maree's working life as an artist has seen her develop as a pivotal figure in the reclamation of
southeast Australian Aboriginal art practices, as well as a leader in nurturing and promoting
the diversity of contemporary southeast Aboriginal artists.
Between 2004 and 2009 Maree studied and completed a Masters of Arts titled Reflections
on Creative Practice, Place & Identity, at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
(RMIT) University, Melbourne.
Her research provided the inspiration for a series of art projects that enabled her to
reinvigorate the designs of her Ancestors in her contemporary art practice, including the
designs on shields and the processes connected with necklace making. This research
continues to be significant in providing information to the museum about the material culture
of her Ancestors.
Among the most exciting and inspirational projects to develop from this period of Maree's
artistic career has been her work in relation to reclaiming possum-skin cloaks with fellow
Koorie artists Vicki Couzens, Lee Darroch and Treahna Hamm. The artists through their
research of the designs and the practice of cloak making were involved in a State wide
Victoria, possum skin cloak making project. This resulted in a number of contemporary cloaks
being designed and worn by 35 Elders and community representatives at the opening
ceremony of the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games. The significance of the project was
in the revival not only of cloak-making skills, but it became the first time in over 150 years that
possum-skin cloaks had been worn for ceremonial purposes.
More recently Maree's continuing desire to affirm and reconnect with her cultural heritage has
also seen her exhibiting contemporary designs of kangaroo teeth necklaces, along with string
headbands, adorned with kangaroo teeth. These items, based on 19th century kangaroo teeth
necklaces and headbands held at the Melbourne Museum, were exhibited at Nga Woka,
Woka Nganin:I am the land and the land is Me. This exhibition was the culmination of
Maree's intensive work collecting kangaroo teeth and sinew, this also enabled her to
emphasise her continuing connections to Country as well as reinforcing her family and kinship
connections which included passing on knowledge of this practice to her brothers, sisters,
nieces and nephews.
The latest exhibition of Maree's work to achieve acclaim has been her creation and
installation 'Ritual and Ceremony' using kopi mourning caps. These awe inspiring caps
represent Maree's latest work researching the 'Rituals and Ceremonies' of her Ancestors.
Maree's inclusive approach to art practices – where art and culture are inseparable to all
other aspects of life, has seen her involved in working with many members of the Aboriginal
community. The capacity for art to enable people to reconnect with their cultural heritage and
to assist in their recovery remains central to Maree's philosophy concerning the power of art
to heal and inspire people to positively identify with their Aboriginality, a process that for some
continues to be difficult given the ongoing negative effects of colonisation.
Maree continues to curate exhibitions showcasing the development of contemporary
southeast Australian Aboriginal art and culture and remains one of the key figures today in
the story of southeast Australian Aboriginal art and the practice of cultural reclamation.
Patricia Piccinini is at the forefront of contemporary Australian art. From her early 'Protein Lattice' images, depicting a human ear growing on a mouse, to her recent 'Skywhale', Piccinini has continually created highly topical and engaging works which question our modern relationship to the laboratory. Exploring notions of maternity and connection through increasingly 'unnatural' scientific organisms, her work can be simultaneously unsettling yet tender.
Please click here for list of exhibitions.
Patricia Piccinini
The Skywhale 2013
Hot air balloon, commissioned for The Centenary of Canberra
Courtesy of the artist and the Australian Capital Territory Government
The Coup, 2012
silicone, fibreglass, human hair, clothing, taxidermied parrot
116cm h x 60cm x 55cm
Courtesy of the artist and Tolarno and Roslyn Oxley9 Galleries
The Carrier, 2012
Silicone, fibreglass, human hair, clothing
170cm H x 115cm x 75cm
Courtesy of the artist and Tolarno and Roslyn Oxley9 Galleries
Eulogy, 2011
silicone, fibreglass, human hair, clothing
110cm x 65cm x 60cm
Photo: Graham Baring
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As I have said many times before, I am no stranger to death. I have been at the bedside of many who are dying and who have died in my presence.
I have learned that death is not as dramatic nor as colourful as it is portrayed in the media. More often it is quiet, peaceful, with life slipping away.
It is from that framework then, that I approach the recent decision of the Supreme Court to uphold the appeal of Carter vs. Canada. Sometimes called the "Right to Die" decision, it has been controversial over the last few years as the case has wound its way through the courts.
I always try to read the actual decision before coming to any conclusions. That is aided these days by the immediate publication of all decisions of the Supreme Court electronically. Just search for the case name and you can read it, too.
Our Supreme Court writes clear and unequivocal decisions. There is a lot of legal footnoting; after all these are very serious matters. But the actual decision itself is well written and easy to understand.
First, Carter vs. Canada does not give anyone the right to request the right to die at any time, nor does it obligate a physician to perform that task. In fact, the decision is very restrictive in it's conditions, applying to a specific set of circumstances. The court also places a time line of one year on Parliament to respond to the decision of the Supreme Court.
What the court has actually done is, I believe, consistent with the movement of the framework of Canadian law away from an emphasis on "Thou shalt not.." making an act illegal, to a permissive understanding of the law, which says something is allowed except under specific circumstances.
In that way Carter vs. Canada is echoes the approach the court has taken on abortion; it is a medical matter, not a criminal matter.
The court has also acknowledged that physicians are not of one mind on the issue. The court makes clear that "...In our view, nothing in the declaration of invalidity which we propose to issue would compel physicians to provide assistance in dying."
The court goes on to say "...that a physician's decision to participate in assisted dying is a matter of conscience and, in some cases, of religious belief. They go on to say "...the Charter rights of patients and physicians will need to be reconciled."
The court has not interfered with the responsibility of Parliament. Instead they have clarified a critical issue and laid the responsibility for drafting appropriate language and legislation on the desks of our elected representatives.
The next step is really ours. We need to ask our elected representatives at both federal and provincial levels some very tough questions about end of life care.
I have seen good death through effective palliative care. Unfortunately, quality palliative care in Canada is patchy at best. Because there is no national strategy in place, we can not provide a common level of dignity and care for the dying across this country.
That has to change.
In the next year we will be facing an opportunity to have conversations with our elected representatives at the federal level as they seek re-election. I believe this issue should be raised as part of that conversation.
One day we will all die. But we can change the way we respond to death and dying right now. Carter vs. Canada gives us the opening for the conversation.
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Life Is Too Short
"Just One Lighthouse" photography and poetry by Gena Buskirk-Ford, Gateway PhotoArtistryTM. To purchase photo or photo merchandise featuring "Just One Lighthouse" go to http://www.gatewayphotoartistry.com/photowithpoetry/h4cb12212#h4cb12212.
Life is too short.
Our country has experienced so much pain through the bombings in Boston, my church pastor is facing a serious life-threatening situation in the hospital and every family has their own challenges they are facing.
Life is too short to be angry with one another,
to not extend grace,
to forget to say, "I love you,"
to withhold help to those in need,
to choose not to "walk in someone else's shoes,"
to gossip,
to assume the worst,
to seek revenge,
to hold a grudge,
to be petty,
to be prideful,
to resist the gift of forgiveness,
to refuse to forgive,
to not talk things out,
to not hear someone,
to not speak the truth with love,
to turn away from the truth that hurts,
to run from healing,
to not find the courage to do the right thing,
to be apathetic,
to hate,
to reject remorse,
to walk away from a hug,
to break up a family,
to believe we can don't need a friend,
to be too busy to pray.
Wouldn't it be great if we did unto others as we wanted them to do for us? We expect so much from others, but then when we don't choose to do what is morally right or best for ourselves or others, we wonder why we stand alone and isolated. Or, maybe, when you have done the "right thing," and you've been judged wrongly for it, you refuse to do the right thing again because the pain was too much.
I don't stand in judgment because I am guilty of choosing to do everything on that list above, but through God's grace and patience, I am learning to do them less. I will not be "perfected" until I see the Lord Jesus "face-to-face," and this place we call our temporary home will be replaced with a new earth where there are no tears, no pain, and no hate.
I have not regretted choosing to do "the right thing" even when it didn't turn out the way I expected it because I can live with myself. I wish I made those choices more often than I do.
"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control, against such things there is no law," Galatians 5:22-23.
Can you live with the decisions you've made?
Life is too short not to seek the One who never sinned. Jesus gave Himself to receive the sin of the world so that we may be forgiven and live life eternally free, even when we don't choose to "do the right thing."
Life is too short not to be a beacon of hope for someone. It only takes one lighthouse…just one lighthouse…to show someone the way home. Or better yet, point them to the Lighthouse that never goes out -- Jesus. He is the way, the truth and the LIFE.
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Latitude: 55.4015 / 55°24'5"N
Longitude: -1.8966 / 1°53'47"W
OS Eastings: 406645
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OS Grid: NU066119
Mapcode National: GBR H56Z.5K
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Entry Name: Todd Headstone Circa 3 Yards East of Church of St Bartholomew
Listing Date: 3 September 1986
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1041260
English Heritage Legacy ID: 236215
Location: Whittingham, Northumberland, NE66
County: Northumberland
Civil Parish: Whittingham
Built-Up Area: Whittingham
Traditional County: Northumberland
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Northumberland
Church of England Parish: Whittingham and Edlingham with Bolton Chapel
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The most common complaint on potted bougainvillea is that they stop flowering shortly after the plant they buy it from the nursery. It is so frustrating to see that the plant which was full of bright and attractive blossoms in the nursery has become dull. So how to keep bougainvillea blooming all year round?
No Flowers on bougainvillea? Why does bougainvillea not bloom? Why your bougainvillea not blooming? What has gone wrong?
The reasons for a bougainvillea not blooming are the following:
Not enough LightLearn how to how to keep bougainvillea blooming or how to force your potted bougainvilleas to bloom by taking proper care of light, watering, fertilizing, pruning and re-potting.
Heavy Pruning or no pruning
How to Get Bougainvillea to Flower
|Propagated Bougainvillea growing in a pot
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Light and Temperature
- The flowering of bougainvilleas depend on the amount of light the plants receive. If growing in shade, they will produce plenty of good dark green leaves, but they will not bloom.
- Put the bougainvillea plant in direct sun for at least eight hours daily for them to bloom their best.
- Cover the Bougainvillea plant with a blanket to protect it from frost, otherwise it can be damaged or killed.
- Place an indoor Bougainvillea plant in the brightest area of the house during winter - a south-facing window, and move it outside for the summer.
Watering Trick
- To force bougainvillea into bloom, nurseries often withhold water for a few months. Then they water the plant heavily. The plant which was thinking that it was dying due to drought, will now think it has one last chance to propagate itself, so it blooms heavily to produce seeds. This is the best trick to bloom your bougainvilleas.
- Bougainvillea are very drought-tolerant and thrive on neglect. So do not over-water the plant. Only water them when the leaves are withering.
- If growing in ground, you do not need to water them frequently once they are established.
- A little wilting can be used to encourage a reluctant bloomer to flower. When little colorful flower buds start to appear, water more frequently.
- Never allow a bougainvillea plant in bloom to wilt severely, as this will greatly shorten the blooming time.
- Too much frequent nitrogen fertilizer encourages a bougainvillea plant to grow lots of vegetative parts like leaves and stems at the expense of buds. Only a new plant needs a higher nitrogen fertilizer to help encourage good growth.
- Use a high-potash fertilizer, such as a hibiscus or tomato fertilizer during spring and summer.
- I feed my plants with a liquid feed high in potassium every 3-4 weeks. If the plant starts growing vigorously with big green leaves, then cut back on fertilizer.
- A tablespoon of Epsom salt can help.
- If nothing works, giving a dose of bone meals or super phosphate would produce new flowers in about 3 weeks.
Size of Container and Re-potting of Bougainvillea Plant
- Bougainvilleas bloom much better when the roots have become pot-bound or slightly crowded in the pot. Repot into a bigger pot ONLY when the health of the plant begins to suffer, otherwise shifting them into larger pots will encourage a large plant without blooms.
- I leave bougainvilleas in the same pots for many years.
- If you want to grow bougainvillea in ground, plant it in a pot and bury in the ground for root binding.
Bougainvillea Pruning and Pinching
- Bougainvillea pruning encourages new growth and blooms., pruning overgrown bougainvillea is actually a bloom booster.
- Pinch off about 1/2 inch of the stem tips and prune plants in early spring to encourage more flowers.
- When blooms finish for the season, cut it back by a few inches to force blooming. Heavy pruning will reduce the amount of blooms.
- Prune any suckers grown at the base of the plant to encourage more growth at the top.
Age of the PlantAs the plant matures, flowering will increase both in amount and duration. An older bougainvillea in a pot or ground will bloom more on and off for several months.
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Last Tuesday I met up with Lee Hite, Zan Smith, and Ron Gorley - all of whom are involved with the EWB Cincinnati Professional Chapter. Lee Hite is developing simple tools for biomass briquetting and pelletizing. His more recent work has focused on developing an appropriate 1" by 1" pellet for TLUD stoves, and he spent considerable time explaining several designs he tried to achieve this goal. Since the pellet mold is relatively small, forcing the thick and viscous biomass into it becomes a challenge. The biomass solution can be thinned with water, but this increases the number of motions required to form each pellet. He had more success with a simple press for a rectangular log, which would feed well into rocket stoves. Unless a better tool is developed for pellets, it would be more efficient to just quickly cut these logs up into small cubes. See the videos below (my apologies for the vertical orientation):
Ron Gorley, who has traveled to Haiti four times, brought in some rice husk to test its briquette-ablity. Videos of this process are below. Many of the tools Lee is using are derived from developments out of the Legacy Foundation led by Richard Stanley. They have fully documented principles of briquetting and how to make several of these presses.
In the video below, Zan Smith discusses his experiences with sugarcane bagasse, and Lee talks about composting.
I brought along my TChar-angle stove and we ended up doing a quick test with some biomass pellets. The pellets were composed of compost from Lee's yard, including hosta plants, and most likely some newspaper. We filled the stove up nearly to the secondary air holes and notably achieved a very low fuel density. Each pellet is a lot less dense than a wood pellet and does not contain any binder that may enhance burning. And with 1" by 1" pellets, they were very loosely packed in the fuel chamber. Here's a quick video of Lee's exhaust fan setup: an industrial fan in a window - simple but effective.
For a full fuel chamber, this test lasted less than a half hour. That's very short compared to a test the previous night with wood pellets burning over 2 hours with only 2/3 full. I hypothesize two causes for this disparity: 1. Burn time is more related to the mass of the fuel than other variables and 2. In this test, the fuel only gasified for about the first half of the test. We closed the primary air door for a minute, after which the stove directly combusted more of the remaining fuel. The exhaust fan could also be disturbing the stove by pulling too much of a draft through the fuel. While it was burning, some not often seen colors appeared in the flame, possibly attributed to newspaper dyes.
Most stunning was the amount of charcoal/ash left after the TLUD stage - not much at all considering the initial volume of fuel.
From this quick and dirty test, it's obvious we need to focus more on tests of actual biomass pellets or briquettes. Wood pellets don't provide a great representation of how a stove will perform with biomass. Lee generously donated some of his briquettes to us for testing, so I intend to do a more scientific comparison between the biomass briquettes and wood pellets in the near future.
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Dr. Kristin Campbell gives keynote lecture at the Canadian Association for Psychosocial Oncology annual meeting in Vancouver, BC. Dr. Campbell's presentation was titled "Making the case for physical activity and physical rehabilitation to improve the psychosocial impacts of cancer treatments."
In addition, MPT/PhD student, Stanley Hung and MSc student Kelcey Bland attended the conference. Stanley presented his poster titled: "No changes in cognitive function and quality of life observed in patients receiving adjuvant 5FU/oxaliplatin for colon cancer." Kelcey Bland presented her poster titled "Feasibility of an oncologist-referred exercise program as a part of supportive care for breast cancer: Results from the Nutrition and Exercise during adjuvant Treatment (NExT) study.


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Lyrics of Falling down
When it rains and it pours
People they try to ignore
The storm clouds that forms
Reality but these renditions
They visit from door to door
Be it taxes, bills, and transform
The caskets and pills overdosing your closest homies
On the verge of a break down
My relatives are relatively on their way now
Flowers and graves but still we stay down
Till i take a turn, a rest and lay down
Next to them in the ground
Sunshine take away the pain now
It can't rain all day
All the time, every second
Always gloomy around mine
Feeling like i wanna drop it
And plant it up in the ground
And each rain drop is another problem falling on down
Still hoping that the clouds just open and everything goes from dark to bright
Until then my world's waste deep in water
Ain't no sunlight
As it rains all day and all night
Nothing but water in my eye as i look into the sky
It can't rain all the time
My reply is, "i really don't want to die."
I'm a let the rain fall
And i let my eyes become one with the window pane
As i'm riding the crazy train
And i brought a chainsaw
Hoping to maim all
Hopeless and i'm out of my mind
But besides that we're like exactly the same y'all!
I put my hand in the sky
This ain't no game and no lie
I'm not the guy to be waiting for something to happen
I make it happen and get it crackin'
While the normal sit there and they're waiting to die
And the rain will wash it all away
I keep a look out when i'm not around
But believe me i'm just a call away
And it ain't my fault if they
Can't hang with the rain i bring
I'll just be part of day and they can fuck with one less thing
Nothing but water in my eye as i look into the sky
It can't rain all the time
My reply is, "i really don't want to die."
I'm spitting meteor showers
Spitting nuclear showers
Check my nucleolus clusters
I got the spookiest powers
I am dark and demented
I'll shoot a nuke at you cowards
And stick my dick in a groupie
And fucking puke on your flowers
Lucky that i didn't overdose
I'm a sober ghost
Mad child slither like a cobra through the coldest snow
I'm claustrophobic
But i'm locked up in a lonely room
You can look into my nine
See exploding doom
See i am twiztid
I'm totally vicious
I'll brain storm
And drain storms
With brain into ditches
Of course i am afraid of death
Do we really lay to rest?
Do we really fly up in the sky?
Feel my jaded breath
Nothing but water in my eye as i look into the sky
It can't rain all the time
My reply is, "i really don't want to die."
Come on!
Wanna see mortality?
Does it mean that your battery is never gonna die?
Giving in a duracell
Heavy like an everybody
No one is ever ready for the trip to the sky
Am i?
No not quite yet
But my flow
Over throws your cassette
Intense is just a word that i use
When i serve off crews like a dinner plate
I refuse to loose
Cruise interstate
Then i bruise and abuse and intimidate
I ain't fading away
That takes too long
My patience gone
My aim is on
Like an amazon with a boomerang
I'm ruling this thing
What school is you in?
You ain't from hard knocks
Maybe before knocks
Old school new york
Real hip hop
New school west coast
We don't shit talk
We just kick off
Tip off play up
You soft dude
So take a day off
Make a move and i'll improve the pay off
Improve the layout
I'm well designed
And i'm ahead of my time so you should stay up
Nothing but water in my eye as i look into the sky
It can't rain all the time
My reply is, "i really don't want to die."
Others tracks of Twiztid
$85 bucks an hour
1st day out
1st day out '98
Lyrics of 2nd hand smoke
2nd hand smoke (remix)
4 those of you (remix)
4 thoze of u
Lyrics of A very twiztid christmas
Afraid of me
Ain't a damned thing changed
All i ever wanted
Lyrics of All of the above
All the rest
Anotha smoke break
Lyrics of Another smoke break
Bad dream
Lyrics of Bella morte
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Telferscot is launching a new junior newspaper written and designed by children in Year 5, with contributions from children from across the juniors. It will be issued once a term.
In Telfer Newz Junior you will find:
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Hey Hey! Im Jackie- a wife and mom living in Sioux Falls, SD. Im the photographer you call if you are looking for a very relaxed and natural style. I love to capture you just being you! Late evening sessions full of that golden hour sunlight are my jam. Newborns and seniors are my thing but I love all the inbetween- maternity, fresh 48, milestone sessions, family, couples and lifestyle.
My husband and I have two crazy, cool, little boys, Bowen and Ollie- I love being a boy mama! I have been a photographer since 2011 and I love this job of mine to pieces. Being able to do what I love every day is such a blessing and I am so grateful!
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Within walking distance from the Erdene Zuu Monastery is the Kharkhorin Rock, a.k.a. the Phallic Rock. It is a 24-inch long penis raised on a concrete platform on the steppe. The question of course is: Why would anyone erect a penis just outside a Buddhist monastery? The answer comes in the form of a legend. Rumor has it that a long time ago, a monk broke his vow of celibacy with local women. The naughty monk became some sort of Mongolian Priapus who put little effort into hiding his philandering. As a consequence and to make an example of the monk, the elders castrated him to remind the monks of their vows of celibacy. And just in case the monks at the monastery failed to read the snip-snip memo, a rock in the shape of a penis was prominently engraved as a stone phallus; a reminder that they should keep things tucked under the monastic robe. No hall passes.
Mooggie, being the gentleman he is, chose not to tell me the sordid version of the penis. He favored the more mystical reason for its existence: a superstition that has to do with valleys, the mount of venus, and babies. He had me at valley. According to Mooggie, the penis points erotically to a small valley in the shape of a woman's parts. Barren women straddle the penis facing the "V-Slope," leave offerings in a little receptacle strategically located under the head of the phallus, place blue scarves on the shrine, et voila. Nine months later, they give birth to a beautiful baby.
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Nikon just announced the winners of their annual Small World Photomicrography competition, and these photos are proof that bigger isn't always better when it comes to photography.
The competition has been running for 42 years, and over 2,000 applicants from 70 countries submitted their photos for consideration this year. Photomicrography, for those who don't know, is the art of taking a photograph through a microscope (or other magnifying devices) in order to capture details that would otherwise be invisible to the human eye. These photos provide a whole new outlook on the world around us, from the wings of a butterfly to crystals of espresso coffee. Check out the top 15 below.
15th Place: Head Section Of An Orange Ladybird
Geir Drange
14th Place: Mouse Retinal Ganglion Cells
Dr. Keunyoung Kim
13th Place: Poison Fangs Of A Centipede
Walter Piorkowski
12th Place: Human Hela Cell Undergoing Cell Division
Dr. Dylan Burnette
11th Place: Scales Of A Butterfly Wing Underside
Francis Sneyers
10th Place: Frontonia (Showing Ingested Food, Cilia, Mouth And Trichocysts)
Rogelio Moreno Gill
9th Place: Espresso Coffee Crystals
Vin Kitayama & Sanae Kitayama
8th Place: Wildflower Stamens
Samuel Silberman
7th Place: Leaves Of Selaginella
Dr. David Maitland
6th Place: Air Bubbles Formed From Melted Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C) Crystals
Marek Mis
5th Place: Front Foot (Tarsus) Of A Male Diving Beetle
Dr. Igor Siwanowicz
4th Place: Butterfly Proboscis
Jochen Schroeder
3rd Place: Brain Cells From Skin Cells
Rebecca Nutbrown
2nd Place: Polished Slab Of Teepee Canyon Agate
Douglas L. Moore
1st Place: 4-Day-Old Zebrafish Embryo
Dr. Oscar Ruiz
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Ashli and Kelley next to the New Orleans sign. Photos by Michael Tortorich.
I don't miss an opportunity to go to New Orleans. It's such a unique place, and a treasure trove to explore.
I had the pleasure of meeting Ashli and Kelley in the Crescent City. They were on a special trip from Arkansas. We spent a morning together seeking out interesting photo opportunities.
We started with the shot above. We all got a kick out of the location where they were staying since it was at the corner of Bourbon Street and Esplanade. Of course, this is referenced in the popular song "New Orleans Ladies" by LeRoux, which includes the line, "From Bourbon Street to Esplanade..."
We also took some photos in front of the beautifully-colored place they stayed.
From there, we ventured to Jackson Square. We took the above photo in front of the iconic St. Louis Cathedral.
Some of my favorite photos are candid. I feel like it would be too easy to just learn a few poses and get people to smile for the camera. I enjoy capturing people as they are. To do this, I simply say, "Be yourself." I give as much direction as I can, but generally conclude with, "Don't do anything you wouldn't feel like you'd do naturally."
Ashli and Kelley both come from journalistic backgrounds, as do I, so we seemed to be of similar mindsets about how to best capture the images.
Every time I shoot around New Orleans, I feel as though I'm just scratching the surface of the possibilities. I feel as though I discover so much every time I go.
I guess you could say I know what it means to miss New Orleans. Every time I leave, I wonder when I'll be able to go back.
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