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-This- little bit of space right up here at the top of the weekly Photography Article is usually filled with a newsworthy topic, or a question. And it nearly always gets ignored!! So many of you look at this article, favourite it and comment on it - but what are you looking at it for? Are you gazing at the images? The news? The links? You're certainly not looking at the paragraph right up here that can sometimes be the juiciest bit of the whole article!! As a reader, you're important. Without your input and without positive stats, this article would dwindle - so it's here for you. Tell me what you want to see...
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Many of you will know of Gimp - and many likely use the editing program which has been considered a freee condensed version of Photoshop. Well G
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A photograph is memory in the raw. - Carrie Latet
I recently spent some time (okay maybe hours!) exploring a photographic exhibition on the Isle of Wight - England. I had known that the exhibition existed for some years, but had never really ventured over there. It was held in the home and studio of a celebrated Victorian Photography - Julia Margaret Cameron. However it did include a nice variety of works - photographs from Dorothy Bohm who put together the book A world observed and a collection of shots taken at the famed 1970s Isle of Wight Pop Festival. It included images of Jimi Hendrix who performed at the festival just three weeks before his death. The images collated and exhibited were fascinating. But what really struck me was how far we had come in terms of camera equipment.
This was donated to the Margaret Cameron Trust by Graham Ovenden and was subsequent
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"The one surefire way to get nothing is to not bother looking" - Joe McNally
Research carried out by Nikon has estimated that an amazing 332 million jubilee related photos will be taken on the day of the Thamas River Pageant on June 3rd. That's amazing. It even tops the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton last year. The upcoming Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth has sparked patriotism in the most unlikely places meaning that driving down a normal street turns into an epic photo opportunity with the various bunting, flags and other bits and pieces. So whether or not you're local to London and able to join in the four days of pomp and ceremony that the British are allegedly famed for - you might find that there are events and things local to you that will bring out the journalistic candid photographer that's screaming inside to get out! But in this day and age, when every second perso
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"If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera"
- Lewis Hine
This week I happened across a Photographer who shoots the economy - currently in the UK. If you ever wondered what Economy looks like - and what the recession looks like - in the Photographic sense then wonder no more. Simon Robert's has it captured. What really struck me though, aside from the complete normality and sometimes mundane life that made the photographs, was the comments on the Article that I read about Simon. The BBC Wrote about him yesterday and nearly all the comments were from people advocating boredom. The Irony is that Simon Robert's had, in full colour, photographed our lives. And the general consensus was that it was dull and unimaginative. How very English we are.
Copyright Simon Robert's
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"What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that's gone forever, impossible to reproduce."
Karl Lagerfeld
This week I spied an awesome topic in georgewjohnson's journal and knew instantly that it was what I would talk about for edition twenty eight. "Underground train system bosses are set to ban all photos under new proposals that have angered photographers.." You can read the full article for yourself here but I would love to get some discussion going amongst us all as to whether or not the proposed ban would effect you. I'm personally quite pleased that the latest articles report a U-turn in the proposals so it doesn't look
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"It's not always easy to stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the sufferings around one. - Robert Capa"
The Pulitzer Prize Winning Photos were announced this week and with it a debate was sparked about how best to display the controversial winners. The winning shot is Photo-journalism at it's best - and indeed humanity at its worst. The image depicts a young Afghan girl standing in the midst of the after effects of a bomb explosion. She is covered in blood, and around her lay bodies. Whilst the publication of graphic images has been a tough and much debated topic for some time - the very taking of such photos has sparked cynicism and unrest between many. Photo-journalists much of the time take their lives into their own hands when they document the horrors of this
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" What's the most obscure subject you have been asked to photograph?"
If there is one vital thing that I have learned in my years as an amateur photographer - it's that to diversify and spread yourself amongst as many outlets, ideas and topics as possible is the best way to move forward and become successful. Photography doesn't begin or end with a Wedding. Nor does it start with a fashion shoot that pays you hundreds of pounds. There are so many niches and gaps in between that people overlook as lesser known and inadequate - but that can be one of the strongest rungs on the ladder to success. (See what I did there?) It's coming to the end of a week where I've stretched myself
photographically, more so than usual, and I'm more than happy to share what I have learned in order to help out those who want to step up with their work. Last week I was recruited by an image company as a
photographer documenting ins
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"If life were a camera, I'd have the lens cap on."
― Charles M. Schulz
I lacked the inspiration for any words for the article today, so I googled Photography under News and came up with something pretty amazing. Photography, it says, can be an ideal tool to give a voice to those who need it most, people on the margins of society, or who have little access to mass modes of outside communication. Photo-journalism goes some way to documenting those who can't document themselves, but how different would it be if they could do it? What would they photograph if they were stood behind the view finder looking forwards at their own lives? And equally - what would we photograph about ourselves?
PhotoVoice is a charity that was formed about ten years ago and is now well known for its commitment to training and developing the knowledge of those members of communities who are l
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"Surrealism is embedded in the everyday, in the daily experience." - Katharine Conley
This week the general theme of the article is Infrared Photography. You may know it well for its vision into a dream like world where the trees appear to be fluffy candyfloss and the grass is blue or Orange...Infrared is not as far away from achievable as you might think. This week some wonderful Deviants have shared their infrared views and art to try and help us understand the technique a little better. I rather thought it was time that the infrared community on deviantART had a bit more recognition too!
Check out Trees-With-character who are holding the Sky is the Limit Contest and think about
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"Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be." - Duane Michals
Still Life is the theme of this weeks article given that it's Still Life Week over at projecteducate! I'm living and breathing still life works right now, and actually it's quite nice. I've discovered some fantastic talent on deviantART, conducted some awesome interviews and started up a group with the wonderful claremanson If you want a sneak peek head over to Still-Life-Stills But really the whole definition and ideal of Still Life has eluded me for quite some time and was something I deliberately avoided because I didn't believe in it. If you take an image, you have stilled life. By rights this means that everything out there is Still Life photography. Even when you're capturing movement, you're stilling it for just a few seconds. So why then, do we hav
Photography Troubleshooting: FiltersThis week we bring you another issue of Photography Troubleshooting to hopefully give you some tips and explanations behind how to make use of some photography accessories. If you have a question, query or any thoughts you wish to see discussed just drop us a comment or note!Photography Troubleshooting: Filters3 years ago in Art Features More Like This
"The use of filters, how to pick them and examples of situations where they would be helpful...."
~ moria330
Hi moria330, filters are a good way of diversifying your photographic opportunities without spending a great deal of money (though, granted, many of the better quality filters can get to be relatively expensive).
In film photography, filters were used a lot more extensively then they are today thanks to the nature of the medium.
For example colour filters were used for white balance purposes on colour films that were balanced for different light types, so, you could shoot artificial light balanced film under daylight if you had a filter that corrected for it.
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"One Signature is worth a thousand implied tones..."
-Charles Swan -
Copyright Expert
In the news this week there has been a spotlight on Karren Brady, a photographer who has won a copyright ruling. The news article itself is interesting but the cautions that it turfs up for the future and current generations of photographers are slightly more concerning. The general feeling that has started to develop is that if you have assistance with setting up a shot, making a scene, posing a model and making up a person for example, those people may well have rights to your work. This is also being debated with regards to post-production and if you get somebody else to edit your work. What are your thoughts on this? And when attributing this to the deviantART community, what
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""The eye should learn to listen before it looks."
Robert Frank
I'm quite late hopping on the discussion wagon with this one since itsfrits tells me the article has been trending for some time now. However I was eternally grateful to him for pointing me in its general direction - because what a topic!McDonalds show behind the photo-graphical scenes because a customer in Canada asked why the food looks so different in real life. If you watch the video included in the article, it's actually very insightful. And what a team they have JUST to photograph a burger. What the video does show is that everything in the photo, every ingredient you see, is exactly the sam
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"Make your lives extraordinary"
― John Keating
Lilly McElroy throws herself at men in the name of Photography. That is quite literally, what she does. And when I stumbled across the article this week I was tickled to read more into her project and the profoundness behind it all. Lilly initially started out on Craigslist, trying to find men to throw herself at but unfortunately she didn't get much response. In the end she went public, approaching men in pubs and clubs to try and recreate that social situation where so many throw themselves at strangers with such ease (and often with not much grace).
Check out her full gallery of works Here.
Copyright Lilly Mcelroy
Lilly pursues a range of socially
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"In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt."
― Margaret Atwood
In the UK Spring is most definitely here. And with it comes a plethora of Photo-graphical opportunities. Whilst there are the flowers, trees and in particular blossoms coming into bloom there are also the youngsters. Baby Animals! Birds beginning to nest and in general it seems - an influx of human babies too! There is no shortage of opportunities to take a photo at this time of year here and there are some useful tips to get you out and about making the most of the season...
Use sunrises and sunsets - the lightest part of the day at lunchtime and the dusky evenings to capture spring landscapes at their best. Utilize the foggy mornings with sun streaming through too! Avoid white light - at this time of year it's incredibly harsh and doesn't do much to enhance your photos. And also k
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"A photograph says that you were so important, I stopped everything else to come and preserve you."
This week Horacio Coppola died. Many will not know the name, but in the Photography world he was pretty awesome. He died age 105, and was famous for taking Black and White photographs of Buenos Aires in the 1930s. But he also photographed normality. Some of his works included egg and twine - quite simply an egg and a piece of twine. Others featured a typewriter, but ultimately he shot normality, the everyday things that people overlooked. He's said to be one of very few photographers who manage to capture the romance, vitality and squalor of a great city. So a legend has died, but somewhere another will rise up through the ranks. Who inspires you? Which historical Artists have provoked you to reach the place where you are now? Or who you aspire to be?
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The Tales of Beatrix PotterThe Tales of Beatrix Potter3 years ago in Deviant Events More Like This
Cold winter evenings or blustery Autumn days had the soundtrack of my Mother's voice reading Beatrix Potter books out loud when I was younger. In fact, the wonderful children's books were the epitome of my childhood. The illustrations were just perfect and the stories, whilst simple, were mysterious and adventurous in their own way. Beatrix Potter was born in 1866, South Kensington, London. She was said to live a lonely life, being educated at home by a governess and so perhaps that's why she delved into a fantasy world of rabbits, geese and other traditional animals.
Beatrix's illustrations come from her copious studies of her own pets, and the animals that roamed the gardens of the places in which she holidayed as a child. The fascinating fact was that Beatrix's illustrations became greetings cards before her books were created. I see her drawings on cards in shops now and I always thought that it had developed the other way around. Her first boo
The Beginning of MangaNarrative in art has been seen for centuries in a wide range of different forms. Now I should start off by saying the 'true origins' of manga is disputed. World War II accelerated the world of comics and manga. However we'll take a look at what has been going on before global conflict changed everything. We'll start with the actual name itself, manga, meaning 'whimsical pictures'. So this is the nature of it, satire, doodles, sketches, exaggeration and humour. The first time this term was used to describe a piece of artwork in Japan was given to Hokusai Manga (first published in 1814). So there is the term itself, but going a bit further back is where it's real history becomes debatable.The Beginning of Manga3 years ago in Art Features More Like This
Theory 1
Manga started around 12-13th century, the Japanese Fujiwara Period. Animal caricatures known seen on picture scrolls are an early form of narrative. They show mischief and fun doodles, and they are actually an early example of Japanese art that is breaking away from their Chinese
DeviantART'S 12th Birthday Gameshow: Starting soonDeviantART Birthday Gameshow is starting in just FIFTEEN MINUTES!DeviantART'S 12th Birthday Gameshow: Starting soon3 years ago in Deviant Events More Like This
We're looking for game players to come and join in our deviantART Birthday Event! In just a short while 3wyl and myself are hosting an interpretation of a British game show called Pointless. The idea of the game is that you have to guess the least popular answer to a multiple answers question. You will be awarded points accordingly, those with the most points will win - but you will have used pointless answers to get there!
We'll have pre-judged the least popular and most popular answers by asking a panel of CVs beforehand for their responses. Want an example?
Name a Film Starring Tom Cruise
Okay so Mission Impossible is a really high answer and if you said that one, you'd get lots of points. Which isn't good! If you said Rain Man - you'd possibly be getting less points. But if you said something like Endless Love or Taps, then you'd be hitting on an answer tha
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"Take Only Photographs, Leave Only Footprints." - Urban Explorers Creed
Sometimes it's easy to forget the things around us that were once iconic and useful. In everyday life that could include a multitude of household objects, bits and bobs, clothes, gadgets - all sorts. But in Photography - a specific aspect of Photography - people close doors and board up buildings sometimes with little or no notice. They erect a fence around that old asylum and ship everything out or they install security guards at the boundaries of an army camp. Those places get forgotten and one day there will be nobody left that will remember them. That's where Urban Exploration comes in.
I'm not telling you to go out and scale the wall of your nearest derelict hospital in the name of photography. It takes a certain kind of person (and agility!) to do that anyway, but there are many depths to U
Project Educate: The Traditional Still LifeProject Educate: The Traditional Still Life3 years ago in Art Features More Like This
Traditional Still Life shots are few and far between in this modern era with Photoshop
becoming a vastly popular tool to soften images with and more materials becoming available to make Still Life something adventurous and different. So it was an extremely nice surprise when I stumbled across Somebody--else's gallery to find that there were some good wholesome traditional shots there - with a few modern touches to finish it off. Somebody--else agreed to be interviewed so that I might find out a bit more...
What area of Still Life Photography do you gravitate towards the most and why?
I don't really have a preference, maybe a tiny one for flowers and books as we can use those in many ways.
What do you find are the challenges of staging your photographs to achieve still life shots?
For me, the biggest challenge while staging photographs is to be able to
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"Eyes like a Shutter, mind like a Lens" - Anon
This week the general thoughts come from Eitvys200 who brought up the topic of Too many cameras around?! It's one that baffles many from amateur to professional in deciding what we, as artists, want to use as our tools. Hopefully one of our community volunteers will cover that in greater depth next week in an article all about choosing your next or even first camera. But for now the confusion comes when you're lining up to take a shot and somebody next to you with a mobile/cell phone is taking the same one and truth be told - it might even turn out better. I broached the subject a while ago of standing at a wedding and being the 'pro' but not the only one with a £500 camera. How do you make yourself unique in a digital world that's fast developing beyond our means and capabilities? Well, you work with
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"I can't tell you how many pictures I've missed, ignored, trampled, or otherwise lost just 'cause I've been so hell bent on getting the shot I think I want."
-Joe McNally-
I recently blogged about Joe McNally and his book The Moment It Clicks. I've not yet read it but it's on my Birthday list for April. However I have read some of the quotes from inside the book - one in particular is the 'pause for thought' for this article this week. As some of you might know I'm taking part in the 365 day Photography Challenge and I would thoroughly recommend it to anybody who wishes to think outside the box and get more creative with their photography. How many times do we ignore, trample or loose the real one in a million shot bec
Photography Troubleshooting: Dull Images on dA?After a long pause in which nobody seemed to have very many questions, we've got a very intriguing one which came up during the People & Portraits projecteducate week and it's something that has always played on my mind, and no doubt on yours too. Once again sine-out has provided a fantastic answer, so hopefully that will help somewhat in clearing this issue up. Have a question? Drop it on this article and we'll work on an answer!Photography Troubleshooting: Dull Images on dA?3 years ago in Deviant Events More Like This
"It seems like colorful pictures made in adobe look good, then after
they have been uploaded on deviantART... the color is more dead.. not so
alive..is this an issue?" ~ kayjensen
"Hi kayjensen, the issue your describing is most likely a colour profile issue. Colour profiles essentially describe how each colour is represented and there are different profiles for different purpose but mostly for getting accurate colour out of a printer or a screen.
By default the internet works with and assumes that every
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"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them."
-William Shakespeare
Basking in the glory of finally getting recognised for your hard efforts and photographic skill is pretty awesome and at the start of this week I took the opportunity to enjoy georgewjohnson's after he got published in a UK Photography Magazine. It's really nice when something like that happens and the knowledge that across the country - and because of deviantART and other networks - across the world, people are looking at your work. And if you're me, smiling! I once stumbled across lauren-rabbit's work in Black and White Photography Magazine and was truly proud that somebody I had found here on deviantART was here in my mag! So have you been published? Has your work received any recognition that makes you proud? What are your tips to getting out there and having your work showcased?
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Subsidies safe in Alaska
The Supreme Court ruled on June 25 that subsidies are legal in every state, regardless of whether the exchange is run by the state or federal government. Subsidies are no longer in jeopardy for 16,000 residents in Alaska, and subsidized coverage will continue to be available when open enrollment begins again in November.
Alaska is one of a handful of states where premiums would have increased by more than 500 percent for people losing access to subsidies; the Kaiser Family Foundation estimated that premiums for people losing subsidies would have gone up by 520 percent, pushing the health insurance market into a "death spiral." Fortunately for the residents, insurers, and medical providers in Alaska, that didn't come to pass.
2016 rates
The fallout from subsidy elimination would not have been limited to those currently receiving subsidies. The Urban Institute had predicted that if subsidies had been eliminated, premiums for people who currently pay full price for their coverage would have increased by 55 percent, in addition to regular annual rate hikes.
In many of the 34 states that use the federally-run exchange, carriers would have had to scramble to file new rates if subsidies had been eliminated – assuming state regulators allowed them to refile. But Alaska required carriers to submit two sets of rates in May. The primary proposed rates (including the postings on Healthcare.gov's rate review tool for plans with proposed rate hikes of at least 10 percent), were based on the assumption that subsidies will continue to be available in Alaska. The second set of higher rates would have been used if subsidies had been struck down, but they're no longer needed.
There are six individual plans (from Moda and Premera Blue Cross Blue Shield) on the Alaska exchange that have proposed rate increases of at least 10 percent (plans with lower proposed rate hikes don't show up on Healthcare.gov's rate review tool). There are also five small group plans that have requested double digit rate increases. Time Insurance Company had proposed a 77 percent rate increase, but their parent company, Assurant, announced in early June that they will be exiting the individual insurance market, and will not be participating in the upcoming open enrollment period that begins November 1.
Rates have not yet been finalized, and the rate review process will be ongoing throughout the summer.
Enrollment grows in 2015
During 2015 open enrollment, 20,897 Alaskans selected qualified health plans (QHPs). About 24 percent of the residents who were eligible to use the marketplace signed up for QHPs for 2015. For 2014, only 15 percent of eligible residents enrolled in QHPs.
But some enrollees never paid their initial premiums, so their coverage was never effectuated. And others cancelled their coverage early in the year, for one reason or another. By the end of March, 18,320 people had in-force private plan coverage through the Alaska exchange. The attrition rate in Alaska was slightly less than the national average, and attrition is a normal part of the individual insurance market.
Even after accounting for attrition, enrollment in Alaska's exchange is nearly 40 percent higher than it was in 2014. The stronger enrollment in 2015 came despite an average 31 percent increase in marketplace premiums for 2015. The 2015 average cost for a silver plan in Alaska is higher than in any other state.
The good news is that subsidies are tempering the higher cost for most enrollees. Of the Alaska enrollees with effectuated coverage at the end of March, 90.5 percent have premium subsidies, and nearly 54 percent have cost-sharing subsidies.
higher penalties for being uninsured in 2015
While open enrollment ended in February, a special enrollment period (SEP) gave some consumers another chance to sign up for health insurance. The SEP ran from March 15 to April 30 and was available to consumers who learned – when filing their taxes – that they owe a tax penalty for not having health insurance in 2014. While these consumers will still be responsible for the 2014 penalty, they were able to minimize the penalty for 2015 by enrolling in coverage before the end of April.
That's important, as the tax penalties increase next tax season. If you don't qualify for an exemption, you'll have to pay the higher of:
- 2% of annual household income, up to a maximum of the national average premium for a bronze plan, which is over $3,000.
- $325 per adult or $162.50 per child under 18. The maximum penalty per family using this method is $975.
Use this penalty calculator to see how much you may have to pay. Note: Native Americans and Alaska Natives are exempt from the penalty.
Other opportunities to enroll
If you missed open enrollment and don't qualify for the tax-related SEP, you can still sign up for coverage before the next open enrollment period if one of the following applies:
- You experience a qualifying event. You have 60 days from the date of the event to sign up for insurance.
- You are a Native American or Alaska Native. You can sign up for health insurance at any time during the year.
- You qualify for Medicaid. Medicaid accepts applications throughout the year.
Small businesses can enroll year-round
Alaskan businesses with 50 or fewer employees can now enroll online in the Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP). Employers set up an account, and then employees enroll in coverage online. Employers can work with an agent or broker if they want help with the process.
Small businesses can sign up on the SHOP at anytime and offer coverage to their employees throughout the year. Unlike the marketplace for individuals, there is no specific open enrollment period for small businesses.
Subsidies help consumers handle increases
Alaska insurance officials announced significant premium increases for 2015: 35 to 40 percent for policies sold by Premera Blue Cross and 22 to 29 percent for policies sold by Moda Health. According to the Commonwealth Fund, Alaska had the biggest average premium increase in the nation: 31 percent. The Commonwealth Fund also found that Alaska has the highest average cost for silver plans in 2015: $583, before subsidies.
Insurance Commissioner Lori Wing-Heier said the rate increases are justified. The state's small population and limited marketplace enrollment makes for a small risk pool. With high claim costs and few people to spread those costs across, insurance companies are raising rates to cover their expenses.
While the rate increases are certainly a burden for some, the impact will be muted for most consumers. Wing-Heier pointed out that people who qualify for subsidies — 88 percent of Alaskans using the exchange in 2014 — won't bear the brunt of those increases.
A study by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services showed Alaskans who received subsidies in 2014 qualified on average for an 81 percent reduction in their premiums, resulting in an average monthly premium, after tax credits, of $94 in 2014. Forty-two percent of Alaska enrollees who received subsidies paid $50 or less per month in 2014.
2014 signups
Fewer than 13,000 Alaskans enrolled in private health insurance through the federal marketplace during the 2014 open enrollment period. Just Wyoming, the District of Columbia, North Dakota, and Hawaii had lower enrollment in private health plans. About 4,200 people qualified for Medicaid or the CHIP. Alaska's uninsured rate remains high at 16.1 percent.
Among Alaska residents selecting a QHP, 88 percent qualified for financial assistance, compared to 85 percent nationally. A report released in June by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services showed the average monthly premium, after tax credits, for Alaska consumers was $94. Among states using the federal marketplace, the average was $82. Forty-two percent of Alaska enrollees pay $50 or less per month after subsidies.
Twenty-seven percent of Alaska residents selected a bronze plan (20 percent nationally), 65 percent selected a silver plan (65 percent nationally), 8 percent selected a gold plan (9 percent nationally), 0 percent selected a platinum plan (5 percent nationally) and 1 percent selected a catastrophic plan (2 percent nationally). Twenty-nine percent of Alaska enrollees were between the ages of 18 and 34.
Alaska's position on exchange, Medicaid expansion
Alaska is among the 26 states that opted to use the federal health insurance marketplace. Alaska refused all federal funding to evaluate and implement a health insurance marketplace, and it was one of the first states to announce it would leave responsibility for its marketplace in the hands of the federal government. While former Gov. Sean Parnell officially announced his decision in July 2012, he had previously made his opposition to the Affordable Care Act well known.
Parnell also opposed expanding the Medicaid program. Medicaid expansion was originally an integral, mandatory portion of the ACA, but in 2012 the Supreme Court ruled that Medicaid expansion would be optional, paving the way for states to keep their Medicaid programs as-is and essentially condemn their low-income residents to the coverage gap. Parnell rejected an expansion in late 2013, saying that Alaska wouldn't be able to afford the program if the federal government were ever to cut funding. (The federal government will pay 100 percent of Medicaid expansion through 2016, after which the states will gradually assume a small portion of the bill – starting in 2020 the federal government will be paying 90 percent of the cost of Medicaid expansion, and it will remain at that level going forward)
In January 2014, Democrats proposed legislation to expand Medicaid, and they included a provision to return to the current eligibility standards if federal funding drops below 90 percent. Even with that safeguard, the bill did not make it out of committee before the legislature adjourned.
However, the new governor — Bill Walker, an Independent who was formerly a Republican — vowed to reverse the course on Medicaid expansion. Walker took office Dec. 1, 2014, and announced his intention to authorize expansion within his first 90 days in office. About 42,000 Alaskans would qualify for coverage under an expanded Medicaid program. The state would receive about $2.1 billion in federal funding through 2020 according to an Urban Institute study.
Valerie Davidson, Alaska's health department commissioner, appointed Chris Ashenbrenner to the new role of Medicaid expansion project director to help execute on Walker's pledge. Ashenbrenner, Davidson, and Walker need to convince the Republican-controlled legislature to help fund expansion costs and fix existing problems with the state's Medicaid systems. The recent drop in oil prices has created a huge budget problem in Alaska, so no funding requests are being warmly received, least of all one related to Obamacare.
In late February 2015, the House Finance Committee stripped Medicaid funding from Walker's budget and called for Walker to introduce legislation to expand Medicaid. The administration countered that Democratic legislators have introduced such a bill. In early March, Republican Sen. Pete Kelly announced he would introduce a bill to reform, but not expand, Medicaid. Kelly said the bill will include a managed care provision and health savings accounts.
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On July 16, Governor Walker announced that he would use his executive power to expand Medicaid, since lawmakers had rejected the inclusion of Medicaid expansion in the state budget, and had also ended the 2015 legislative session without a vote on the bill that would have expanded Medicaid. Walker noted that he had tried all of the other options for working with the Republican-controlled legislature on the issue, and had eventually run out of possibilities.
Although the Governor has expanded Medicaid under an executive order, the proposal to accept $150 million in federal funding to expand Medicaid will now be sent to the legislative Budget and Audit Committee for review. The committee has 45 days to review the proposal, although the committee chairman has said he'd like to expedite the process. Walker has made it clear that he intends to move forward with Medicaid expansion regardless of what the committee recommends.
Lawmakers could reconvene in an effort to block Walker's proposal, but assuming all goes as planned, Medicaid expansion will take effect September 1 in Alaska. With Walker's announcement, the number of states expanding Medicaid has risen to 31 (including DC).
About half of the Alaska residents who will be newly eligible for Medicaid are expected to enroll in the first year (roughly 21,000 people), and about 45 percent of the newly-eligible population is employed but with household incomes under 138 percent of the poverty level.
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In this Life with Boys promo, Tess (Torri Webster) says there's a simple trick to get boys to like you:
Do you agree with her advice (even if she doesn't seem to follow it AT ALL in that clip)? I get what she's saying, but if you act like you don't care, the person might also think you're not interested, and that's no good.
My best love advice is very similar to the classic relationship tip, "Be yourself." That can be tricky advice to follow if you have low self-esteem, so here's another way to think about it: Don't pretend to be something you're not. If you change yourself (or fake an interest in something) to impress someone else, they're going to figure it out eventually... and who wants a relationship that's based on a lie? Nobody.
What's the best love advice you've ever received? Got any tips for attracting a crush? Please share them in the comments for those of us who are love-challenged.
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House Speaker John A. Boehner offered the first olive branch Wednesday in what is expected to be a frenetic spate of postelection deal-making to avert the looming "fiscal cliff," saying the GOP will let the government collect more tax revenue if President Obama will drop his plan to raise tax rates on the wealthy.
Voters on Tuesday re-elected Mr. Obama and expanded Democrats' majority in the Senate, while keeping Republicans in charge of the House — albeit with fewer numbers.
With the needle tilting slightly but decidedly toward Democrats, Mr. Boehner's overture sets the stage for the lame-duck session of Congress, which begins next week, and for the full 113th Congress, which opens in January.
"By working together and creating a fairer, simpler, cleaner tax code, we can give our country a stronger, healthier economy. A stronger economy means more revenue, which is what the president seeks," the Republican speaker said.
A day after the election, leaders on all sides said the message they took from voters was that Congress and the White House must work together to find a solution to the tax increases and automatic spending cuts that are looming in early January.
"I know how to fight. I know how to dance. I don't dance as well as I fight, but I'd much rather dance anytime," said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat who said he approached negotiations with an open mind and wouldn't draw any lines in the sand.
Still, the outlines of stalemate were emerging.
Mr. Reid said he read Tuesday's election as a mandate for raising taxes on the wealthy — something Mr. Obama ran on as a centerpiece of his campaign.
"Look at all the polling. The vast majority of the American people — rich, poor — everybody agrees that the rich — richest of the rich — have to help a little bit," Mr. Reid said.
Mr. Boehner, though, said Republicans in the House won't accept increases in tax rates. His own proposal relies on cutting out tax loopholes, which would bring in more revenue, then using that money to lower income tax rates for everyone. He argues that the resulting tax code would be better for economic growth, which he said would produce more money for the federal government in the long run.
Missing from the public conversation Wednesday was Mr. Obama, who is once again the key player in negotiations. He placed private calls to Mr. Reid and Mr. Boehner, as well as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, in which he pleaded for a "balanced" approach to cutting the deficit.
But Mr. Obama did not make any public statements, instead leaving Vice President Joseph R. Biden to talk with reporters.
"On the issue of the tax issue, there was a clear, a clear sort of mandate about people coming much closer to our view about how to deal with tax policy," he said, adding that he expects "some real soul searching" on the part of Republicans to decide where they are willing to cooperate.
Part of the problem is that the tools for cutting big deals in Congress have calcified in recent years, and would need to be restored. The Senate hasn't passed a budget in three years, and House Republicans this year have run into trouble in trying to pass big legislation such as the farm bill. Each side seems to have concluded that dealing with the other is tantamount to political death.
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IRIScan Book 2 Executive is a portable scanner that allows you to scan books and magazines anytime: anywhere: and without ripping pages off. Simply roll your way across the document: and your scan will be saved via Bluetooth with your smartphone: tablet PC: laptop or PC. The device completes the I.R.I.S. mobile scanner family: and comes with the cutting edge OCR software Readiris Pro 12 compatible with both PC and Mac.
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By TrotFitness
January 25, 2013
Your chance to win $150 Gift Card
One awesome way to share TF Boot Camp with your circle is to mention our $29 promotion that we currently have available to all first-time campers. Because boot camp is so unique, we figured, "why not give someone a chance to experience multiple workout sessions at a low price and even throw in amazing incentives on top of them like a Fat Burning Foods Report and Fitness Consultation??!"
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Here is the really good part, whoever brings in the most friends under this promotion, up to at least 3 people, has the chance to win a $150 Gift Card AT ANY PLACE OF THEIR CHOICE!!!!!
Wow!!! Can you tell we are serious about TROTTERNIZING the Valley?! So, grab a few of the small $29 promotion cards on top of the check-in counter in our fitness studio and "hit the pavement!"
The Real Food Challenge
Processed foods, additives and chemicals are inferior to real food and are potentially harmful to your health.
So why do you still eat it?
Why do you still eat that packaged granola bar and snack on those whole grain crackers? You may think that heart healthy label means something, but it doesn't hold a candle to real food.
What is Read Food?
Here's an easy way to tell if your food is real or not: If your food can go bad, it's good for you. If your food can't go bad, it's bad for you.
Real food is fresh and unprocessed.
The Real Food Challenge
This real food challenge has the potential to change your body forever. Take the next 7 days to ONLY eat real food. One week is a very short time in the grand scheme of things, and I know you can do this.
Just try it for one week to see and feel the difference in your body.
The Rules
During the next 7 days you will avoid eating all of the following food items:
- Bread
- Grains
- Rice
- Crackers & Chips
- Packaged snacks
- Sugar & Corn Syrup
- Soda Pop
- Packaged Bars
- Baked Goods
- Candy
Here's a list of the real foods that you will eat instead:
- Seasonal, organic Vegetables
- Seasonal, organic Fruits
- Lean, organic meat, fish & eggs
- Nuts and Seeds
Those four categories of food can be combined into endless, flavorful combinations. Check out the following meal ideas:
Breakfast:Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. What you decide to eat when you first wake up will set the tone for the rest of your meals that day.
- Scrambled organic eggs, sliced tomato and a handful of seasonal berries.
- Half of a dressed avocado and a few slices of nitrate-free bacon.
- Pancakes made with coconut flour and topped with chopped nuts.
Lunch: Plan your lunch ahead of time in order to avoid turning to a fast food joint or vending machine. Pack your lunch the night before and carry it with you.
- Dark baby greens topped with chopped chicken breast and diced tomatoes.
- Albacore tuna (packed in water), mixed with finely chopped cucumber over cauliflower rice. (See recipe below)
- Turkey and Spinach Salad
Dinner: Dinner is the meal where most people splurge and eat far more calories than they should. Eating at home is the first step in reducing your dinnertime calories.
- Grilled white fish, sautéed spinach and almond bread.
- Baked chicken breast with steamed broccoli and quinoa.
- A big bowl of arugula topped with sautéed asparagus and sliced hardboiled eggs.
While healthy eating is a huge factor in achieving your ideal weight, exercise is the other (very important) half of the equation.
Your exercise routine should be challenging and should be done on a regular basis.
Call or email me today and we will get you started on the exercise program that will reshape your body in 2013.
Just 7 Days
How quickly does a week fly by? Pretty fast, right?
When you decide to eat only real food for 7 days you will be amazed at the positive improvement that you feel and see in your body.
Do this challenge for yourself.
In one short week you could be in the same, worse, or you could be leaner and excited.
The choice is yours.
To your health,
Grain-Free Rice
Just because you're giving your body a break from grains this week doesn't mean your dinner will be rice-less. Fresh, organic cauliflower makes the perfect base for grain-free rice. Serve with a side of lean meat and a fresh garden salad for a low carb, real food meal. Servings: 4
Here's what you need...
- 1 head organic cauliflower
- 1 Tablespoon coconut oil
- Salt and pepper
- Wash cauliflower, discard the leaves, and chop into small pieces. Grate the pieces with a food processor.
- In a large skillet heat the coconut oil over medium. Add the shredded cauliflower. Sauté for about 5 minutes, until tender. Season with salt and pepper. Serve as you would traditional rice.
Nutritional Analysis: One serving equals: 66 calories, 3g fat, 87mg sodium, 7g carbohydrate, 4g fiber, and 3g protein
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The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. What used to be a common colloquial phrase is now being lived out daily in the income inequity plaguing America. Stagnant wages, unemployment, productivity surges and low skilled and temp job growth has left the average worker struggling not to lose ground financially. One group appears to be doing better than ever, however, and that is our elected officials in Congress.
Congratulations, Senators and Representatives. Now over half of you are officially millionaires!
According to Open Secrets, which tracks money in politics: "Of 534 current members of Congress, at least 268 had an average net worth of $1 million or more in 2012, according to disclosures filed last year by all members of Congress and candidates. The median net worth for the 530 current lawmakers who were in Congress as of the May filing deadline was $1,008,767 — an increase from the previous year when it was $966,000. In addition, at least one of the members elected since then, Rep. Katherine Clark (D-Mass.), is a millionaire, according to forms she filed as a candidate. (There is currently one vacancy in Congress.)"
It's an increase of 11 new millionaires over last year, when only 257 members of Congress crossed the $1 million mark.
While those who are in Congress continue to do well, or those who do well are running for Congress, how's the rest of America doing? Well, we're still struggling. As Think Progress notes, the gap between our elected officials and us is growing ever wider. The median net worth for an American in 2010 didn't even crack $40,000.
"The stark disparity between the economic reality of lawmakers and their constituents may help to explain why Congress seems fixated on things that rich people care about while allowing programs for the poor to languish," writes Think Progress' Alan Pyke. "A study released over the summer concluded that while the U.S. Senate used to ignore poor peoples' concerns in favor of upper- and middle-class interests, it now disregards the middle class as well and responds almost exclusively to rich peoples' problems. That study refined previous work by other researchers that showed similar congressional tendencies to serve the rich and ignore the rest."
Responding to the rich and ignoring the poor is one thing. Running for Congress for the purpose of trying to make things more difficult for those who are struggling? That's just cruel. But that's exactly what Texas Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert claims was his own reason for seeking a run for higher office.
"If it weren't for the policies in this War on Poverty declared 50 years ago, it may well be that I would not have ever run for Congress," the Republican said on the floor last week, according to The New Civil Rights Movement. He claims he was motivated not by the plight of those less fortunate, but his utter conviction that there were single women having babies to get easy, free government money. "One women had had 15 kids, didn't even know where they all were, that was the most that I ever dealt with. It began to really eat away with me that in the 60s the federal government, desiring to help poor moms who were dealing with deadbeat dads, decided, 'We'll help, we'll give a check for every child you can have out of wedlock.'"
With so many of our elected officials literally unaware of the struggles of the average or financially struggling American, and some of them even admitting they were inspired to run not to provide a helping hand for those in need, but to dismantle the very programs created to assist the poor, it's no wonder that congressional approval still remains at near record lows.
Perhaps on election day, we can remind them of who they are really in Congress to represent: the average voter. If they choose not to do so, then they should be replaced. After all, they have quite the financial cushion to protect them while they look for new jobs.
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Dale, I don't think they care although I agree with you that the politicians should swap with the homeless and let them experience. I wonder why they have the "wife swap" show, why not "politicians swap with homeless"?
This is a major problem with this nation and of course, the world over. Humans are greedy and never get enough, therefore, we have to support ourselves by neighbors helping neighbors with various jobs. e.g. your neighbor can do oil change and fix any mechanical problems while the other clean your house or mow your lawn. Official government only care for themselves how much their income is and or dig more into the poor people's pockets. SHAME!!!!!!!
We need to vote them all out and start over. Of course not all are bad, but they go to DC with good intentions and then get corrupted by the power and money. I believe the US is the greatest country on Earth but our government is out of control and it's gotten much worse in the last 5 years.
One sure fire way to ensure there are no good people in politics is to make broad general statements that they are all crooks, and to treat them as all being crooks, and by directing incredible rage at all of them...what good man or woman would willingly go into that kind of environment.
If you want good people in politics then you have to reward the good ones with recognition and appreciation, or at least reward them by not villifying them automatically because they are in politics.
My father used to say if you have the name you might as well have the game...that is if everyone is calling you a crook anyway, even though you are not and even though you have the best of intentions, then you might as well enjoy the spoils of your position....which you can do without being a crook.
Not one poster on here even addressed that it might be a problem overall if too many people exploit a program that was intended to help people, as the program can become a burden on everyone and have negative consequences for everyone if it is expoited too much. It seems that no matter how carefully a social program is crafted there will be many many people who will expoit it by figuring out ways to extract monies from the program in ways that it was never intended. This is a problem that needs to be addressed.
So...we have rich people taking money they dont deserve...and we have poor people taking money they dont deserve...maybe there is a widespread sense of entitlement.
this is not news to anyone who lives in America.....unemployment, foreclosures on homes,people living on the streets & shelters. does anyone really think they give a damn?
These people would flunk the "as ye have done to these, the least of my brethren, so ye have done also to me" test that Jesus Himself spoke of in the Gospel of Matthew!
Seen THAT?
Oxfam reports that the world's 85 richest people have as much wealth as the poorest HALF of humans. http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jan/20/oxfam-85-richest-people-half-of-the-world?CMP=twt_gu
Where have YOU been? That's a given. They care about only one thing--money and power. They kow-tow to the sinister powers behind the government and corporate scene, and that's always how it's going to be unless the American people get smart and vote them out. Frankly, I'm not holding my breath.
The famed 1% seems to have increased dramatically thanks to Congress, how special is that?
MONKEY SEE MONKEY DO ... The Washington Bubble and its immediate and fast-growing prime real estate which houses private airports, gourmet restaurants, etc. is yet surrounded in stark contrast by outlying suburbs in need of REAL help. Enough accumulated bloat, this bubble must be popped and all relics (career politicians on the dole for a limitless number of years) released back into the real world from which they were hired and have now forgotten about. Too many have racked up and given back favors to keep them intact ... too bad so sad.
A call for term limits has been raised time and again without going anywhere, why would it? Perhaps in the 2014 elections we can handle this in our own way ... VOTE THEM OUT while we still have the power. Sounds good to me, how 'bout you
This is certainly a world wide trend where many of the politicians who run for office are very well off and often totally removed from the realities of how most people live their daily lives.
Perhaps some of the well off politicians should spend a month trading positions with some of the less well off citizenry to give them insight in how they have to live their lives.
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Great rescue! Thanks for sharing.
The Princess can take her fur coat and stuff it where the sun does not shine.
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