Looking Back After Health Insurance Reform - In Photos
April 7, 2010 |
PhotoshopHow occasionally looks at major events and relates them to our own love of editing photos - of course! Below is a look at health reform. Interspersed will be various photos from the major events in the past 18 months of bickering one might say!
H.R. 4872, our landmark health care bill has passed, but it will be years before the biggest changes to the system are enacted. Of course, people are still going bankrupt due to health care costs - and the Tar Heel State is no exception to the rule. In fact, Bureau of Labor Staistics data from the government indicates that 550,000 North Carolina residents are part of the “Education and Health Services” industry, and they rely on its largesse to support a family.
The Question Remains…
Despite all the strides that have been made in health care, the question still remains: Is health care a right or a privilege? Many believe that it is a right that every American should have access to; then again, people are required to purchase auto insurance, yet driving is considered a privilege. The rates of uninsured Americans are going up rapidly, as much as one million Americans becoming uninsured each year. This is a big problem for the U.S. and for being one of the top nations, this shouldn’t be happening. Other countries, especially in Europe have implemented national/regional health plans that offer all residents of their country health insurance, no matter their age, race or health condition. Everyone is treated equally and no one has to live with an illness or worry about not being able to afford going to the doctor.
A lot of the people in America without health insurance are those who work in the services and construction industry. They aren’t qualified as poor, so they are unable to obtain assistance from federal or state aid health programs. Approximately eighty percent of the working class is uninsured. Many of the people who do have insurance get it from their employer, either for free or for very low rates. Because of the high costs for medical services and treatments, people put off going to the doctor and end up going on with untreated ailments. This in turn causes the illness to become worse or some cases, the individual dies.
Runaway Spending - Part of the Problem & Clue to a Solution
Surprisingly, America spends twice as much on health care than other countries, yet it still has a poor health system and not to mention the 47 million who lack affordable health insurance. The reason for this is because the private insurance bureaucracy consumes 31% of the health care dollar. By streamlining payments through a non-profit payer instead would save over $350 billion annually. This would be more than enough to offer high-quality health insurance coverage for every American.
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Article and Blog Writing Can Win You Maximum Visibility
January 16, 2009 |
If you are really looking for diverting maximum online traffic towards your website, blog submissions into the web directories would be one of the highly efficient methods. Article writing and blog posting has been a great marketing strategy over a period now. Through this medium, you can reach large number of individuals with a stroke.
There are often visitors who happen to land on your website just by chance and are not more interested in looking through the content except graphics. But, there is a coterie of online visitors, who visit several sites for business, education and learning purpose. If such crowd comes across your website, they are bound to look for some informative content in the form of blogs indicating different perspectives.
Blogs and blog reviews act as a vast pool of knowledge about your company and its various services in a well structured detailed form. SEO professionals and strategists all around the world have commended blog writing. It is proved to be one of the best means to voice out and present opinions about something.
Often you have noticed that there are blogs dexterously written but hardly visited. The valuable information on such blogs gets lost in anonymity and they are stored in archives which rarely receive some clicks once in a while. Even good content may not fetch traffic unless the right strategy is employed. This is where SEO experts can be of great help to you as you can avail the valuable services of blog submissions which would make your blog more popular.
Submit elite has a convenient and easy process of blog submissions into various web authenticated and registered directories, which will contribute to the increased visibility of your blogs online. There are numerous blog submission, RSS feed directories, and general directories (where domain name, websites, articles, and blogs can be submitted collectively) available online at your service. The SEO firm that you have hired for Search Engine Optimization needs to conducts this process efficiently with great expertise in order to achieve the results sought.
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Marching to a new Era with Thrive Learning Institute
January 7, 2009 |
There is nothing that is permanent or stable in life. So is the case with the market. Not only does it change with times and technologies, but also with new entrants who play a pivotal role in determining the market trends. It is not possible to enter the industry and sustain with ideologies that do not cater to the client needs. What is required is to enter with complete knowledge of ground rules and underlying principles and absolute control over strategies. And this is exactly what the Thrive Learning Institute aims at. With state of the art facilities available at the student’s disposal -each hour, each day, each week and each month of the year- thriveli (the website) has performed its role with immense responsibility, credibility and commendability. Taking education to a new level to land success at the doorstep of willing individuals and businesses has been the core area of competence of Thrive learning.
Apart from being a premier institute in providing training to conduct efficiently online business, Thivelearninginstitute also provides round the clock expert guidance through phone, e-mails and live chat. However, this is just one side of it. The other side has to its credit, a huge establishment that is exclusively available only to those who are associated with thriveli. This is the E- Library which provides reference materials with help of visual aids, thereby ensuring better understanding of the subject. The colossal database coupled with a knowledge center managed by trained and efficient experts serve as a cherry on the cake.
Thrive learning Institute ensures that you don’t just learn- but you grasp. And this is precisely how you shall go marching towards a new era.
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The Beauty of Good (Gluten-Free) Design
November 15, 2008 |
For “Inspiration Saturday” this week, PhotoShop How? is going to take a look at a great design in the beauty products realm. NaturallyDahling, with its full range of gluten free beauty products, provides a nice, simple design that takes into consideration its audience.
The buttons are well arranged, large, and simple enough for quick perusal. Some products are illustrated with a nice, ‘cartoonish’ effect, which makes the site thematic and consistent. Even the advertising banners don’t distract from the design of the site, and match the color palate of the design.
With an effective use of CSS, and a proper balance between text and visual, Photoshop How gives NaturallyDahling a 7.5/10 on our design scale. We hope you enjoyed this week’s review, and be sure to check back next Saturday.
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Photoshop John McCain’s Campaign Poster
August 28, 2008 |
A challenge has appeared on the popular site, Fark. Simply put: These farkites want you to give it your best at Photoshopping John McCain’s campaign poster for comedic value. Needless to say, a few, interesting results ensued.
The truth is, we all might have a little fun at the expense of a bumbling politicians, and why not? Photoshopping is now America’s newest past-time. So I’m asking anybody who wishes to rise up to the challenge by submitting their own version of photoshopped campaign posters. In the spirit of neutrality and fairness, I’ve included the orginals of both John McCain’s poster and one of Barack Obama’s posters. For shites and giggles, I’ve also included a poster of presumptive green nominee, Ralph Nadar.
I will leave the comments open for hilarity. Please do include URLs to your photoshopped campaign poster!
Tags: 2008 election, barack obama, Image Manipulation, john mccain, photoshop, photoshopped, spoofs
Category: Image Manipulation, Photoshop Fun
How to Draw Hair in Photoshop
August 19, 2008 |
From tu-torial.com comes a great tutorial on how to draw hair in Photoshop. In fact, they’ll even give pointers on how to make the hair a cooooool blue.
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Photoshop Tutorial by Donny Hoyle
August 15, 2008 |
From Laughing Squid, comes the ultimate list of Photoshop Tutorials by our favorite graphics guru, Donny Hoyle. Donny is also known as the star of “You Suck at Photoshop,” a disgruntled employee of cubicle-land who lets out his angst by using the bells and whistles of our favorite photo editing program.
Donny’s antics in the land of Photoshop CS3 are a riot-of-a-laugh, and I strongly suggest taking a look at Laughing Squid’s complete compilation of videos.
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Category: Photoshop Videos
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