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You know Amber doesn't even have Jameka now I don't think. Jameka has been up Jess' butt all day, and now shes in the HOH with Dani, Eric and Jess as well. And then Jess made a comment "im glad im on this side" and Jameka said "mmm hmmm" like she is to
Maybe Eric and Jess won't break it but I have now heard two comments (one from Dick, one from Daniele) that they are ok about putting up Eric/Jess before final 4
Nick's e-bay listing of his autographed t-shirt that he wore on eviction day is currently going for $1824.00. Isn't that crazy or what?
Here's the way I see it. There is no good reason for the JEDD alliance to screw each other. They'll be the final 4 if they can (and it looks like they WILL). At the final 4 the person that wins POV is the one with the power and I think that all 4 of them are content to take their chances at that point. If I was handicapping the POV at that point, I would call it 55/45 for Jess or Eric and they probably see it that way too. D/D probably see it as the exact opposite in their favor.
of course the one night i can't sleep (baby apparently thinks she's in some sort of synchronized swimming competition in my belly tonight) no one is awake updating. oh well. hope you are all sleeping well. maybe she will calm down soon and i can go enjoy my bed
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Record Labels Angry That Hadopi Isn't Kicking People Off The Internet Fast Enough
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Think about how many mistakes are being made when you're sending 50,000 notices per day. Over the course of about five years, the RIAA apparently sued less than 20,000 people -- and still made a lot of mistakes. US Copyright Group got a lot of attention for accusing a few thousand people of file sharing particular movies -- and also appears to have made a lot of mistakes. Yet, here, with Hadopi, the labels are accusing 50,000 people per day, and are upset that Hadopi isn't just rubber stamping all the notices? It appears that the record labels don't care at all about what happens if they accuse totally innocent people.


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The poignant installation of personal and manipulated photographs by San Francisco-based artist Allan deSouza will be on display in the Collins C. Diboll Art Gallery, at Loyola University New Orleans, in an exhibit, "Courses of Empire," beginning Tuesday, Nov. 9.
The exhibit will open with a reception on Nov. 9, from 5-8 p.m. in the Gallery, which is located on the fourth floor of Loyola's Monroe Library. Admission is free and open to the public.
The artist will be on hand to give a lecture about the exhibit on Tuesday, Jan. 18, at 5 p.m. in the Audubon Room, located in the Danna Student Center. A free reception will follow the lecture in the Diboll Gallery at 7 p.m.
deSouza's works examine issues of architecture, the body, dislocation, landscape, memory and vision. In this exhibit, the artist will create a map of the Louisiana coastline using personal photographs he has gathered over a lifetime.
"Courses of Empire" also includes photographs of cityscapes. According to deSouza, these cityscapes reference Thomas Cole's 1833-36 similarly-titled painting series and borrow their color palette and initial arrangements from Giorgio Morandi's mid-20th century Natura Morta paintings.
deSouza's fiction and critical writing has been published in various artist catalogues, journals and anthologies, including "Third Text," "Amerasia Journal," "Camerawork" and "Shades of Black."
deSouza is studio faculty and chair of new genres at the San Francisco Art Institute. Born in Nairobi, Kenya and of South Asian descent, he studied in England at Goldsmith's College and Bath Academy of Art, and in the U.S. at the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York City and at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Calgary's climate - rife with wind, snow in almost every month and even giant hail -can be a challenge for even the most experienced garden enthusiasts.
Knowing she couldn't control the weather and wanting fresh vegetables year round were reasons enough for longtime Calgarian Ursula de Vries to come up with a way to grow food indoors.
And thus, Vertical Veggie Farms was born.
The mother of five wanted to give her family fresh food 12 months out of the year while trimming the grocery bill.
"One of the major expenses we have in our household is food, so I thought if I could change the way I do things with food, that it would lessen the impact," she says. "(My family) really inspired me to grow really good quality food for them."
The Vertical Veggie Farm (available for $340) is a hydroponic growing system that's comprised of a movable stand that measures 62 inches high, 20 inches deep and 45 inches wide with 15 plant spaces suspended by wire and five solution reservoirs.
It also comes with the proper light bulbs, 15 hydroponic starter cubes, growing fill, organic solution, as well as heritage seeds of beans, lettuce, chard and kale.
"I thought to go vertical for the space and it's small enough to put near windows to use free light," de Vries says, adding she also uses recycled material, such as two-litre sparkling water bottles, for the vegetable containers.
"Plus, it's pretty mobile for people who move around and there's no bolting things to the wall."
Although hydroponics hasn't been widely used at the smallscale gardening level, she says improvements in the technology and its availability make it pretty easy to master and keep the system going.
"There is a bit of a learning curve, but it's not as complicated as it may seem," she notes, adding the unit comes fully assembled.
"We're not raised around food production, so a lot of people, they have no experience. I think it's something people can really get into, home food production, whether it's in an apartment or if they've got a garden or anything like that."
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High school students will get the chance to meet representatives from 45 colleges, universities and technical schools at the 2012 Wabash Regional College Fair on Tuesday, Oct. 9.
The free event is open 6:30 to 8 p.m. on the North Manchester campus of Manchester University.
All students and their families are invited,. No reservations are necessary for the event in the Union, on the east side of campus.
School representatives will provide information about academics and areas of study, athletics, financial aid, admissions requirements, scholarships, extracurricular activities and other opportunities at their colleges and universities.
Schools sending representatives are Ancilla College, Baker College, Ball State University, Bethel College, Bluffton University, Butler University, Calvin College, Cincinnati Christian University, MU College of Pharmacy, Defiance College, Franklin College, Depauw University, Franklin College, Goshen College, Grace College, Hanover College, Huntington University, Indiana State University, Indiana Tech, Indiana University - Bloomington, Indiana University - Kokomo and Indiana Wesleyan.
Also, International Business College, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW), Ivy Tech Community College - Wabash, Ivy Tech Community College - Warsaw, Juniata College, Marian University, Ohio State Beauty College, Purdue University at West Lafayette, Saint Joseph's College, Saint Mary-Of-The-Woods College, Saint Mary's College and School of Advertising Arts.
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No longer are brine shrimp confined to the pages of your older comic books. Paramount announces Jim Carrey already attached to play the lead role as the King of Artemia...
Paramount spokesman Lance D. Boyle announced today that the movie will begin filming late summer this year. "We are very pleased to have Jim Carrey leading an all star cast in this hilarious comedy film."
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Communities exerted pressure on people to form pair-bonds in places such as Europe; in China, society "demanded people get married before having a sexual relationship" and many societies found that some formally recognized bond between a man and a woman was the best way of rearing and educating children as well as helping to avoid conflicts and misunderstandings regarding competition for mates.
For example, director Blake Edwards wanted to date singing star Julie Andrews, and he joked in parties about her persona by saying that her "endlessly cheerful governess" image from movies such as Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music gave her the image of possibly having "lilacs for pubic hair"; While the term dating has many meanings, the most common refers to a trial period in which two people explore whether to take the relationship further towards a more permanent relationship; in this sense, dating refers to the time when people are physically together in public as opposed to the earlier time period in which people are arranging the date, perhaps by corresponding by email or text or phone.
Accordingly, there was little need for a temporary trial period such as dating before a permanent community-recognized union was formed between a man and a woman.
While pair-bonds of varying forms were recognized by most societies as acceptable social arrangements, marriage was reserved for heterosexual pairings and had a transactional nature, where wives were in many cases a form of property being exchanged between father and husband, and who would have to serve the function of reproduction.
Still, dating varies considerably by nation, custom, religious upbringing, technology, and social class, and important exceptions with regards to individual freedoms remain as many countries today still practice arranged marriages, request dowries, and forbid same-sex pairings.
Although in many countries, movies, meals, and meeting in coffeehouses and other places is now popular, as are advice books suggesting various strategies for men and women, in other parts of the world, such as in South Asia and many parts of the Middle East, being alone in public as a couple with another person is not only frowned upon but can even lead to either person being socially ostracized.
From about 1700 a worldwide movement perhaps described as the "empowerment of the individual" took hold, leading towards greater emancipation of women and equality of individuals.
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Which Major Companies Actually Encrypt Your Data
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The results are a little disappointing. Only four companies -- Dropbox, Google, SpiderOak and Sonic.net -- got a perfect score on the five categories measured. Twitter is pretty close (and the only thing it's missing, STARTTLS, really would only matter if it were offering email, which it doesn't, other than to employees) while the rest still have a fair bit of work to do. The incumbent access providers -- AT&T, Verizon and Comcast -- don't appear to care nearly enough about security at all. That's why it's little surprise that the NSA's deals with at least AT&T and Verizon are a major source of information. Once again, I'm rather happy I'm a Sonic.net customer for my internet access these days.


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Academinc interdisciplinary center, meaning we work with teams from within the medical school, and the university. An abstract brain, or section of the brain, could work.. any ideas welcome. A correlation between working groups in different research areas that all pertain to brain study. Somehow show the link between brain sciences with biomedical sciences, social sciences, life sciences, physical sciences, humanities, law, business, mathematics, computer sciences and engineering. No text. Just image. How do you make a brain, that doesn't look exactly like a brain?! Thanks
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2013 NRF Adds Digital Flair to Retail Shopping
Companies at the 2013 National Retail Federation Conference in New York showed off ways to bring the interactivity of online shopping into the brick-and-mortar setting. WSJ's Andria Cheng reports via #WorldStream.
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Portland's newest urban renewal district is up and running, and the big financial winner in the upcoming fiscal year may end up being none other than Portland's own urban renewal agency.
The Portland Development Commission has proposed spending $1.2 million from the Education District's $1.9 million 2013-14 budget to reimburse the agency for start-up expenses and to transfer land from a different urban renewal zone. The spending plan is listed in the agency's requested budget, which faces the prospect of revisions before being adopted later this spring.
In 2012, the Portland City Council approved the new 144-acre district, which can borrow up to $169 million to pay for projects largely centered around Portland State University. Officials drew the boundaries to omit the site of the proposed Oregon Sustainability Center, but the new district does include neighboring land that used to be in the South Park Blocks urban renewal district.
Patrick Quinton, PDC's executive director, said the agency needs to transfer ownership of the so-called "Jasmine" block from the South Park Blocks zone to the Education District. That requires selling the land from one district to the other. Quinton said officials are waiting for an appraisal but the value is expected at somewhere between $750,000 to $950,000.
Meanwhile, the agency also fronted money toward the creation of the new Education District. Former Mayor Sam Adams called for a broad review of urban renewal that ultimately led to the new district, and there were many studies along the way.
Quinton said PDC spent about $500,000 but the agency may reimburse itself only about $250,000.
"I don't think we're likely to burden the new district for all that," he said. "But we certainly want to recoup our out of pocket expenses."
All along, the PDC has expected the first years of spending from the new district to be minimal.
Of the $13.1 million slated within the first five years, the agency projected spending about $2.1 million for administrative expenses, $3.8 million for affordable housing and $3.1 million to Multnomah County.


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Picked up all six Last Crusade figures today.I've only opened the Grail Knight, Henry Jones Sr. and Vogel.I'm not disappointed by any of these figures. Vogel's uniform has a lot of nice details. The Grail Knight is nicely detailed as well. The Henry Jones figure is really nice and comes with a lot of nice accessories. The fact that they even sculpted the umbrella to be a separate piece from the suitcase was a nice touch.
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Redding woman challenges seizure of neglected horses
REDDING -- A Redding woman charged last month with neglecting two horses is fighting to get them back.
The state Department of Agriculture seized the horses from Lisa Lind-Larsen, 75, in July after finding them badly emaciated and fly-bitten and their stalls piled with manure 8 inches deep.
The animals, once-wild mustangs Lind-Larsen obtained from the federal government, are now in a state facility in the care of an equine vet.
Lind-Larsen was charged with two criminal counts of animal cruelty, and faces two years in prison if convicted. She has pleaded not guilty to the charges in Danbury Superior Court.
The department also filed a civil suit to seize custody of the horses, which Lind-Larsen challenged in an appearance in state Superior Court in Hartford. The next hearing in that case will be Sept. 4 in Hartford.
Lind-Larsen said Wednesday she expects the criminal charges against her to be dropped.
Raymond Connors, supervisor of the department's animal control division, said the state generally does not return animals to their owners in cases of neglect.
Connors described the two horses as "walking skeletons with skin" when they were seized. They were taken to a Department of Agriculture facility in Niantic, where an equine vet declared them extremely emaciated and dehydrated, suffering from various infections and in need of dental care.
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Found in C:\Perl\lib\pods\perlfaq8.pod How do I timeout a slow event? Use the "alarm()" function, probably in conjunction with a signal handler, as documented in "Signals" in perlipc and the section on "Signals" in the Camel. You may instead use the more flexible "Sys::AlarmCall" module available from CPAN. The "alarm()" function is not implemented on all versions of Windows. Check the documentation for your specific version of Perl.
alarm SECONDS alarm Arranges to have a SIGALRM delivered to this process after the specified number of wallclock seconds has elapsed. If SECONDS is not specified, the value stored in $_ is used. (On some machines, unfortunately, the elapsed time may be up to one second less or more than you specified because of how seconds are counted, and process scheduling may delay the delivery of the signal even further.) Only one timer may be counting at once. Each call disables the previous timer, and an argument of 0 may be supplied to cancel the previous timer without starting a new one. The returned value is the amount of time remaining on the previous timer. For delays of finer granularity than one second, the Time::HiRes module (from CPAN, and starting from Perl 5.8 part of the standard distribution) provides ualarm(). You may also use Perl's four-argument version of select() leaving the first three arguments undefined, or you might be able to use the "syscall" interface to access setitimer(2) if your system supports it. See perlfaq8 for details. It is usually a mistake to intermix "alarm" and "sleep" calls, because "sleep" may be internally implemented on your system with "alarm". If you want to use "alarm" to time out a system call you need to use an "eval"/"die" pair. You can't rely on the alarm causing the system call to fail with $! set to "EINTR" because Perl sets up signal handlers to restart system calls on some systems. Using "eval"/"die" always works, modulo the caveats given in "Signals" in perlipc. eval { local $SIG{ALRM} = sub { die "alarm\n" }; # NB: \n required alarm $timeout; $nread = sysread SOCKET, $buffer, $size; alarm 0; }; if ($@) { die unless $@ eq "alarm\n"; # propagate unexpected errors # timed out } else { # didn't } For more information see perlipc.


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The bipartisan budget agreement passed by Congress Dec. 21 includes funding for several environmental projects in southwest Colorado.
The agreement proposes that Congress budget $600 million towards the Land Water Conservation Fund, a national program under the U.S. Department of Interior that distributes revenues collected from offshore oil and gas companies.
The funds go toward various conservation projects across the country.
Pending successful appropriation bills, Colorado is listed for funding on five projects, four of which are in the southwest corner of the state.
The budget proposes to have $1.5 million flow through LWCF and the Trust for Public Lands to protect open space under the Ophir Valley Project.
For the past 15 years, the tiny mountain town has been working with conservation groups to buy up private mining claims and transfer ownership to the Uncompahgre National Forest. Ophir sits in a steep valley, and many of the mining claims are perched on the valley sides.
"We're down to the last 55 acres at Iron Springs, flat land on the north side of Ophir that is very developable" said TPL's Tim Wohlgenant. "We whittled down the price from $7 million to $1.5 million and the appraisal is agreed upon so now we just need the funding to close the deal."
So far, more than 1200 acres around Ophir have been purchased through TPL and the LWCF and transferred to the forest service. The town has about 175 year-round residents.
Waterfall Canyon was slated for development of ridge top homes and a private, helicopter-access ski area until it was purchased for open space with the help of TPL. The area is coveted by locals for its pristine viewshed and epic backcountry skiing.
Ophir's proximity to swanky Telluride has put pressure on prime real-estate adjacent and above town.
The federal budget for FY 2014 also proposes to invest $1.7 million to protect 1,562 acres of in-holdings with the Canyon of the Ancients National Monument. According to LWCF policy experts, the BLM land acquisition funding has a high rating, making it likely to be fully appropriated.
The 173,000-acre BLM monument west of Cortez has the highest density of cultural resource sites in the U.S.. It is estimated that the 6,000 documented sites are only a portion of the archaeology ruins in the monument.
Preserving the views along the San Juan Skyway through conservation programs is also slated for funding for 2014, according to LWCF.
According to the Forest Legacy Program, $3 million will go towards a conservation easement and land health on the 2,448-acre Sawtooth Mountain Ranch property near Ridgway. The easement will go toward conserving timber lands, protect water supplies and wildlife habitat.
Over the last four decades, Coloradoans have invested approximately $231 million from LWCF to expand public access to streams, conserve working ranches, and protect iconic landscapes in the Rockies.


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Diving the Cape Peninsula and False Bay/Fan Reef
The dive site Fan Reef, also known as Fantastic Reef, is a small offshore rocky reef in the Castle Rocks area on the False Bay coast of the Cape Peninsula, near Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa.
The site has a large concentration of Gorgonian sea fans
The site is about half way between Miller's Point and Castle Rocks and is at the 30m depth contour. It is about 1.1 km from the shore directly to the west. North Fan Reef is about 100m to the north of Fan Reef across the sand.
This site is in a Marine Protected Area (2004). A permit is required. The site is entirely inside the Castle Rocks Restricted Zone.
The reef was originally named "Fan Reef" for the large numbers of gorgonian sea fans found there. The alternative name "Fantastic Reef" is based on the original name.
The bottom is at about 30m on the sand to the east of the reef at high tide. The top of the pinnacles to the south east is at about 19m deep at low tide
Fan Reef is the southernmost sector of the Fan Reef complex, it is a small granite corestone reef of fairly large outcrops, some of which are quite high, and some low. This section of the reef area is more or less contiguous. There is a small cluster of pinnacles in the south eastern part of this sector, which rise from the sand at about 28m to about 19m, but much of the reef is lower, and most of the edge is between 1 and 2m above the sand.
A short distance away to the north west, across a narrow sand belt, and visible from Fan Reef in good visibility, is a patch of low and fairly broken reef, the North West sector, and further north again is North Fan Reef. Most of this patch appears to be lower than 2m above the sand, and much of it below 1m. The nearest part to Fan Reef is very low , broken and sandy.
North Fan Reef is granite reef of outcrops and boulders of about 10m maximum height, and up to about 20m long. Rugged terrain, with lots of gulleys and steep walls and quite a few overhangs. There is a small swimthrough, probably on the west side, just above the sand.
There are other scattered outcrops to the west and south west of the main reefs, the largest of which is to the southeast about 100m away, and a small patch of reef to the far north, quite close to the North Fan Reef sector.
Geology: Granite of the late Pre-Cambrian Peninsula pluton
The site is moderately protected from south westerly swell. South east chop may make it unpleasant on the surface, but it may be quiet below the wave base. Generally considered a winter dive site but there are also occasional opportunities in autumn and spring.
Get in[edit]
Access to this site is only practicable by boat. The distance from Miller's Point slipway is about 1.8km.
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Marine life[edit]
The site is notable for a variety of gorgonian sea fans, Sunburst soft corals, striped and strawberry anemones, Basket stars, feather stars, sea cucumbers, coralline algae, encrusting sponges, urchins, colonial ascidians and a few species of nudibranch. You may also see Horsefish, Barred fingerfins and Shy sharks.
The site is fairly deep. Natural light will usually be poor, so a flash will be necessary. There will usually be enough particulate matter in the water to necessitate an external flash for all except close up work. Macro and wide angle lenses will usually provide good results. Subject size will range from a few millimetres to about a metre.
No routes recommended, the reef is quite small and may be comprehensively visited on a dive. Spend some time on the sand at the edge of the rock, and work your way up to the higher parts, to see the widest variety of sea life.
Boats should not anchor on the reef, and shotlines should be dropped a few metres off the reef on the sand.Divers can move the shot to within sight of the reef if they intend to return to it to surface
Stay safe[edit]
No site specific hazards have been reported.
Appropriate certification for the depth is expected. No special skills are required, though bouyancy control and finning skills should be adequate to avoid damage to the sea fans and other sensitive organisms.
No special equipment required. A DSMB and reel are recommended in case it is necessary to surface away from the shotline.
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Paddy Power takes bets on iPad shipments
'Over two million sales this year, for sure'
Paddy Power is offering short odds of 11/4 on that Apple's iPad will sell between 2-3 million units in 2010.
The Irish bookie, which knows a publicity bandwagon when its sees one, reckons the smart money is on "over two million sales this year, for sure" .
It is also offering ever-so-slightly better odds of 3/1 that Apple's unreleased tablet will sell more than six million units this year, which is kind of frothy. But unlike PC industry analysts - or journalists,come to that - Paddy Power pays up if it's wrong [and enough punters get their calcs right].
We suspect few takers will jump at this novelty bet. Paddies has already paid the paltry sum of "in excess of €5,000 to shrewd punters" who placed bets at 7/4 on the name of the Apple tablet. The iPad was the second favourite, behind the iSlate at 5/4.
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Win your Lomography Wishlistwritten by cruzron on 2011-10-12 #news
Got your eye on an LC-Wide? Longed for a Diana Mini since forever? Well you could be in luck - This week, we're giving you the opportunity to win your most wished for Lomography goodies! Read on for details on how to participate in this dream-fulfilling Rumble…3,382 642 Share Tweet
The Lomography Win Your Wishlistwritten by mayeemayee on 2012-03-09 #news
Are you desiring something so badly in our Online Shop? Is it the LomoKino? The LC-Wide perhaps? A La Sardina sounds pretty neat, too!2,388 456 Share Tweet
The Lomography Win Your Wishlist Rumblewritten by mayeemayee on 2012-11-09 #news
Lomography just celebrated its 20th birthday and we are definitely in the mood to celebrate!759 197 Share Tweet
Join The Piggy Point Raffle!written by shhquiet on 2012-06-07 #news
Do you want to win Piggies? Just say so! We're raffling off Piggy Points to registered users, so if you haven't signed up already, register now and get the chance to score these Piggies to spend in the Online Shop!781 94 Share Tweet
Complete Your Picture Competitionwritten by shhquiet on 2011-05-13 #news
Completing your photos by tagging them with information can do you a lot of good. Not only will it help other Lomographers find their way to your Lomographs, but for this competition it could win you Piggies and a Spinner 360 camera!292 280 Share Tweet
The Lomography Safari Huntwritten by tomas_bates on 2012-01-23 #news
It's time to journey into the wilds of the Lomography website - We've hidden voucher codes and want you to find them! There are codes for discounts in the Online Shop and some for free cameras, too! Travel through the pages of the Magazine and Photos section and you might find a sweet safari surprise!379 91 Share Tweet
My Best LomoWall Rumblewritten by cruzron on 2011-04-22 #news
The title says it all. Bring your best collages and mash-ups to the table because Piggies are to be won!359 43 Share Tweet
The BIG LomoKino Rumblewritten by tomas_bates on 2012-01-13 #news
If you've been waiting for a LomoKino rumble you can really dig your teeth into, this one is for you. We've got some out-of-this-world prizes, including a 1000 EUR film budget for the competition grand prize winner. This is your opportunity to turn all those movie-making dreams into a reality; so read on for full details and get submitting!261 75 Share Tweet
Make Your Prophecy Rumblewritten by tomas_bates on 2011-04-29 #news
Following on from our Shoot your Prophecy Rumble, we've upped the stakes again and have some even bigger prizes to offer you in our MEGA Make Your Prophecy Rumble!! Read on for details, you won't want to miss out on this one!226 110 Share Tweet
Your Favorite Lomograph Rumblewritten by webo29 on 2012-11-05 #news
We're celebrating Lomography's big 20th anniversary! And what sort of party would it be if it didn't have a huge rumble for our very dear community members? Interested in finding out the full details and what sort of prizes we have lined up? Read after the jump for full details of our party competition! This is going to be huge!125 185 Share Tweet
Your First Best Picture Rumblewritten by cruzron on 2011-03-25 #news
What was the photo that you consider your first and best one at that time? We're sure there's a story behind that so tell us!227 75 Share Tweet
The Lomography Advent Calenderwritten by lucasjakobsson on 2008-11-28 #news
While kids, the month of December has mainly been about two things: first of all, Christmas (presents) and then the advent calendar! When a kid (the time during which your parents still chose what you are allowed to eat (healthy stuff) while you only want candy) the advent calendar often meant a whole month of being allowed to eat a bit of candy each day!293 Share Tweet
Ultimate Paradise Rumblewritten by cruzron on 2011-04-29 #news
What is your ideal paradise? Is it a secluded beach in the Caribbean with a harem of women doing your every bidding or just relaxing at home drinking beer?232 35 Share Tweet
I Know What You Did Last Summer Rumble Winners Announcementwritten by danai on 2011-12-17 #news
That was awesome! Thanks to all you creative Lomographers who shared your last summer experiences, Croatia's biggest, sunniest and first permanent LomoWall was put up in Zagreb, part of the 3rd FLAF event!139 94 Share Tweet
Show me that you are a Malaysian rumble!written by eva_eva on 2011-05-23 #news
Hello Malaysia! Are you ready? Lomography is coming to MALAYSIA!!137 95 Share Tweet
In The Loop Piggies Flash Rumblewritten by webo29 on 2012-08-01 #news
This is possibly the easiest way to get your hands on those coveted Piggie Points. What do you have to do to get them? Read on and find out! It's super simple.188 36 Share Tweet
Time Capsule Rumblewritten by cruzron on 2011-03-18 #news
What would you put in your Time Capsule? Make a Lomowall of all the things and post the link on this rumble page. Best one wins!186 32 Share Tweet
Show Us Your True Love! Rumblewritten by shhquiet on 2011-02-02 #news
Are you feeling extra mushy? Great! Put those warm, fuzzy feelings into good use and show us the objects of your affection with this LomoWall-Love challenge!181 30 Share Tweet
Map It And Tag It Rumblewritten by tomas_bates on 2011-01-24 #news
You're only 5 steps away from winning a Spinner 360° - Here's what you've got to do!184 35 Share Tweet
Shoot Your Prophecy Rumblewritten by tomas_bates on 2011-02-25 #news
We're giving 3 people the chance to take the trip of a lifetime and visit the Lomography headquarters in Vienna! Read on to find out what you've got to do for a chance to win.104 102 Share Tweet
My Analogue Life Video Contestwritten by tomas_bates on 2013-03-11 #videos #news
We have a massive competition for you to participate in. If you love analogue as much as we do, this is the perfect opportunity to show your creativity! We are looking for the craziest, zaniest, most bombastically brilliant videos which capture the joys of analogue or your mission to take a break from digital. Trust us, you don't want to miss this rumble as we have 50 BIG prizes to treat our winners with! Head past the jump for full details!150 44 Share Tweet
Happy Accidents Rumblewritten by cruzron on 2011-03-11 #news
Photo didn't turn up the way you thought it would but still looks awesome? That's what we're looking for! Tell us in great detail what happened and win!137 49 Share Tweet
Doubles Rumblewritten by cruzron on 2011-03-30 #news
What is your favorite doubles picture of all time? Did you do it by yourself or did you collaborate with a partner? Show us and win Piggies!51 134 Share Tweet
Lomography + Ellie Goulding Present the Lights Competitionwritten by mmoya on 2011-12-07 #news
Lomography teamed up with UK superstar Ellie Goulding to present to one of the most enlightening competitions this year! Check out more information on this bright competition after the jump!52 124 Share Tweet
Uniting Smiles Rumble - LomoWall Exhibition at Fringe Festival Athens Winners Announcementwritten by cruzron on 2011-07-07 #news
Close to 50m² of colorful Lomographs delighted all the spectators of the Fringe Festival Athens and we owe it all to these individuals! Thank you!93 64 Share Tweet
Your Day In An Instant Rumble - Huge Piggy Bonus At Stake!written by shhquiet on 2013-05-01 #news
We're looking for the best collection of instant photos for this rumble! By 'best' we mean - the most amusing, most exciting, most baffling ... you get the idea. Load up your instant cameras, pick one day to document, and start taking snapshots!116 33 Share Tweet
The New York City Photo Rumble Winners Announcementwritten by cruzron on 2011-07-20 #news
It's downright hard to choose just 4 photos of New York as you can fall in love with over a dozen of them. But someone's gotta do it so here's the winners of The New York City Photo Rumble!31 17 Share Tweet
Click Click and Away Rumble! Plastic Fantastic Edition!written by fookshit on 2012-08-17 #news
Fancy getting yourself a Lomographic camera without spending a cent or even piggy? Then join in the most fun rumble ever as we start another clicking marathon that's about to begin just right now!120 24 Share Tweet
I Know What You Did Last Summer Lomowall Rumblewritten by sumsi on 2011-10-10 #news
We want to freeze your summer memories in a big LomoWall - the second one in Zagreb and the biggest LomoWall installation Croatia has seen so far! Go on a virtual journey to your past summers and choose your top 3 shots to be part of the exhibition and to win some summerlicious piggies.43 106 Share Tweet
LomoAmigo Neil Gaiman Interview Rumblewritten by cruzron on 2010-11-23 #news
The master of the Dreaming, Neil Gaiman, is one of the most popular LomoAmigos to date and we're more than excited to announce that we're doing another interview with him! But we don't want to hog all the glory so we're giving you a chance to ask the critically acclaimed author what you want!116 27 Share Tweet


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Attended by hundreds of thousands each year to watch the magnificent sound and light shows, the legendary Sound and Light shows are presented at the sites of different monuments such as the world renowned Pyramids of Giza, Temples of Karnak, Philae and Abu Simbel; their historical and cultural significance are beyond any words or description. State-of-art technologies of lighting, laser shows and projection are used to visualize and bring to life the mysteries of the Pharaonic Egyptian civilization.
MISR company for Sound, Light carries out Lighting projects for third Party, that is lighting El-Moaes Street which has added the touch of charm and fascination to the most important archeological and Islamic area in Cairo
The company, Egypt Sound, Light Co., undertakes lighting projects for others; one of its major projects is the illumination of Al Moez Street and Saladin Citadel.
The company, Egypt Sound, Light Company, rents its sound and light theaters at the monumental sites to hold the private and public partiers for famous musical and theater bands.
The reservation only for attending the first show in English language ( main language ) other languages are presented by using headphones for translation , Tickets can be purchased directly from the main entrance before attending the show
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Steven Soderbergh's Contagion
A global pandemic wreaks havoc on Oscar winners.
Steven Soderbergh's new disaster movie, Contagion (Warner Bros.), about a global pandemic that wreaks havoc on Oscar winners, may be the world's most masterly Purell advertisement. You're likely to think twice about grabbing the theater-door handle on your way out, and I can confess that one viewer found himself wondering whether he did, in fact, feel a disconcerting tightness in his throat. An early sequence depicting the spread of the virus ("The average person touches their face three to five times every waking minute," an expert claims) is enough to make you want to go all Howard Hughes. Whether this alarm is justified is a topic best left for a separate debate, but one thing is certain about Soderbergh's latest: It's a damn effective thriller.
Opening with a cough over a black screen and fading in with a title reading "Day 2," Contagion takes off in medias res and doesn't relent. The cougher, we soon learn, is Beth Emhoff (Gwyneth Paltrow), who's just returned from Hong Kong with a carry-on supervirus. As in the closing credits of another recent and effective thriller, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, the deadly virus soon begins racking up frequent flyer miles, and a wordless globe-trotting montage swiftly establishes the bird-flu-like disease as a worldwide killer. Activated to fight the plague's spread are battle-tested CDC director Ellis Cheever (Laurence Fishburne), Cheever's determined field operative Erin Mears (Kate Winslet), and World Health Organization investigator Leonora Orantes (Marion Cotillard). Meanwhile, Mitch Emhoff (Matt Damon), boards up his house against infection, a collapsing society, and (in the film's most touchy-feely subplot) his daughter's incorrigible boyfriend.
If this sounds like a lot of characters already, I haven't even mentioned the fringe blogger (a lovely-to-hate Jude Law), the vaccine hunters (a standout Jennifer Ehle and a dead-in-the-face Demetri Martin), or the virologist played, with scene-stealing puckishness, by Elliott Gould. But Soderbergh often displays the height of his powers when orchestrating ensemble casts, and Contagion is no exception. While several of these actors are able to imbue just one or two lines with a whole character, Damon is particularly affecting—beneath the latest in a series of terrible haircuts, he provides the film's relatable heart. (In the scenes where he talks with his daughter, played by promising debut actress Anna Jacoby-Heron, you may find that the tightening in your throat isn't just the lethal virus.) Kate Winslet is restrained but lives up to her head-of-the-class reputation even in an unusually small role.
Traffic employed a network narrative (think Babel, Magnolia, Crash) to demonstrate the human cost of the drug war, but in Contagion the network forms the narrative itself. Not only does our globalized world provide the web to spread a pandemic in days, but our technologies (Roger Ebert's preferred term for network narratives is "hyperlink movies") allow information to spread just as virally and with just as little vetting. Thankfully, Contagion adopts multiple views on this, too (blogging fares poorly; social media, a little better; and a texted emoticon has surprising heft) and shows how the official message can be just as narrow and unsatisfying as the hearsay spread by Facebook. While the movie never rises to the level of allegory, it's these zeitgeisty touches that make Contagion worthwhile in a genre that's already seen such serviceable predecessors as Outbreak and The Andromeda Strain.
Soderbergh has lately become something of the Brett Favre of American auteurs: He's always threatening to retire. But Contagion makes a strong case that he should stay. Contagion's highly visual storytelling shows a love of cinema in nearly every frame, from the Traffic-like crafting of different color schemes for each hot zone, to the crisp state-of-the-art digital cinematography, to Stephen Mirrione's masterclass editing. (If anyone deserves an Oscar nod, it's Mirrione.) Another returning longtime collaborator of Soderbergh's is Cliff Martinez, whose propulsive electronic score is reminiscent of the recent work of another former rocker, Trent Reznor, and is almost as forceful.
If Contagion is a "horror movie," as Soderbergh has described it, then you can think of it as the most believable zombie movie ever made. A dangerous new infection breaks out, is passed from dying victim to dying victim, and the distrust it engenders sends society from state of emergency to state of nature. Through sign of the times touches, A-grade acting, and a mostly cliché-immune script (though the genre's signature dead-monkey-in-a-cage shot does appear), Contagion elevates that well-trodden territory into something that feels both truly scary and fiercely contemporary. It's a bleak ride, but in the end Contagion finally asks us to reach out to one another, across the distrust and no matter the divide—as long as we wash our hands first.


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Executive Summary
Meat market in Philippines is projected to have higher growth during 2015-2020 over the review period i.e. 2010-2015 in US$ terms. In 2015, Fresh Meat (Counter) and Chilled Raw Packaged Meat-Whole Cuts held major volume share in the market (2015), while Cooked Meats-Counter reported the fastest volume growth during the forecast period. Meat products that are exclusively positioned on Personalization and Time Scarcity trend are driving Filipino Meat market. Halal certified and locally sourced products are expected to gain more consumer attention in coming years.
Key Findings
The Filipino Meat market is forecast to grow at a CAGR of 5.0% during 2015-2020 in value terms
Purchasing pattern of Filipino consumers remains unchanged in the Meat market
The Fresh Meat (Counter) category has the highest volume share in the overall Meat market.
Ambient Meat is the smallest value category in the Filipino Meat market
Hypermarkets & Supermarkets is the leading distribution channel in the Filipino Meat market.
Monterey is the leading brand in the Frozen Meat Category
Flexible Packaging and Rigid Plastics are the most commonly used packaging materials in the Filipino Meat market
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Leading players: Market share of brands and private labels, including private label growth analysis from 2012-2015
Distribution data: Percentage of sales within each category through distribution channels such as Hypermarkets & Supermarkets, Convenience Stores, Food & Drinks Specialists and others in 2015
Packaging data: consumption breakdown for packaging materials and containers in each category, in terms of percentage share of number of units sold. Packaging material data for Rigid Plastics, Rigid Metal, Flexible Packaging and others; container data for: Tray, Can-Food, Film, Bag/Sachet and others
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Impact of exchange rate fluctuations on the Filipino Meat market
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Winners and losers by categories with change in market share
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Leading retailers in the Filipino Food market
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Figure 1: Macro economic analysis: GDP per capita, Population, CPI (2010-2015), Age Profile (2015)
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Figure 4: Consumers purchase behavior-Trading up/down, 2015
Figure 5: Market volume share analysis by category, 2015
Figure 6: Market value growth analysis by category, 2010-2020
Figure 7: Historic and forecast value analysis by category, 2010-2020
Figure 8: Change in market share by category, 2015-2020
Figure 9: Category volume consumption by age, gender, education and urbanisation,2015
Figure 10: Leading distribution channels, overall Food, 2011-2014
Figure 11: Leading distribution channels, overall Meat market, 2015
Figure 12: Leading distribution channels by category, 2015
Figure 13: Brand share analysis by category (by value), 2015
Figure 14: Private label penetration by category, 2015
Figure 15: Private label and brand share growth, 2012-2015
Figure 16: Packaging analysis-key packaging material, container, closure and outer type, 2015
Figure 17: Growth in key packaging material, container, closure and outer type, 2015-2020
Table 1: Country Indicators-overall food value and volume, 2015
Table 2: Market value analysis in PHP and US$, 2010-2020
Table 3: Market volume growth analysis, 2010-2020
Table 4: Exchange rate fluctuations: US$ to PHP
Table 5: Market volume growth, by category, 2015-2020
Table 6: Segment level analysis by category, 2015
Table 7: Average price per kg comparison by categories
Table 8: Leading retailers
Table 9: Leading brands by category, 2015
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U.K. Banks Face Rate-Hedge Payout
Britain's banks may have to compensate thousands of small businesses who were sold interest rate-hedging products they didn't need or understand. Dow Jones's Max Colchester says an initial study suggested 90% of these products were mis-sold.
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Juan Martin del Potro collapsed after winning the final point of a match against Roger Federer that lasted more than four hours.
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NEW YORK -- The game's next big thing announced himself Monday night. But Juan Martin del Potro has been on the fast track for some time now. The 20-year-old Argentine was the youngest player in the year-end top 10 in 2008, the youngest player in the year-end top 50 in 2007, the youngest player in the year-end top 100 in 2006 and the youngest player in the year-end top 200 in 2005.
But those are merely numerical landmarks. Del Potro entered a whole new category in New York: He slayed Roger Federer at the U.S. Open.
Del Potro's stunning 3-6, 7-6 (5), 4-6, 7-6 (4), 6-2 victory -- the match lasted 4 hours and 6 minutes -- was Federer's first loss at the Open since 2003, a span of 41 matches and 2,200 days. It was also del Potro's first win over the Swiss star in seven tries. Most impressive of all, del Potro became the first player to defeat Rafael Nadal and Federer in back-to-back matches at a Grand Slam tournament.
"I thought he hung in there and gave himself chances, and in the end was the better man," Federer said.
It was a remarkable display of power tennis from del Potro, who seemingly flicked a switch in the middle of the second set after a case of nerves in the opener.
But perhaps we should have seen this coming. Del Potro is 17-1 since Wimbledon and responsible for Nadal's worst defeat in a Grand Slam, a 6-2, 6-2, 6-2 semifinal rout on Sunday. Marat Safin, who beat Pete Sampras here in 2000, was the last No. 6 seed to win the title. But that win came in a blowout; del Potro defeated Federer in one of the epic U.S. Open finals.
"It's difficult to explain this moment," del Potro said. "You know, since young I dream with this and take trophy with me. You know, I did my dream, and it's unbelievable moment. It's amazing match, amazing people. Everything is perfect."
Federer was playing in his 22nd Grand Slam final and going for his 16th major title. He was also bidding to become the first male player since Bill Tilden to win six successive U.S. titles.
"Five was great, four was great," Federer said. "Six would have been a dream, too. Can't have them all. I've had an amazing summer and a great run. I'm not too disappointed just because I thought I played another wonderful tournament. Had chances today to win, but couldn't take them."
Federer had his chances early. Del Potro was frayed with nerves from the first ball and soon possessed the body language of a patron in a Buenos Aires café following a loss by the national soccer team.
"The beginning of the match I was so nervous," del Potro said. "I can't sleep last night. I don't take a breakfast today."
And Federer had his lunch early. He broke the 20-year-old on his sixth break point in the second game, hitting an otherworldly cross-court forehand winner that prompted his father, Robert Federer, to leap from his seat. Federer dispatched del Potro in 40 minutes to win the opening set, but the two went to a tiebreak in the second when del Potro smacked a forehand winner to break Federer while trailing 4-5. Before losing the second-set tiebreak, Federer had been 18-3 in major-championship tiebreakers and 4-0 in tiebreaks in the Open final.
The crowd was filled with celebrity Fedophiles -- the guests in his friends box included rockers Gavin Rossdale and Gwen Stefani and his ultimate celebrity groupie, Vogue editor Anna Wintour -- but you could also make out plenty of del Potro supporters around Arthur Ashe Stadium, including Guillermo Vilas, the last U.S. Open champion from South America. What they all saw was a surprisingly tension-filled match. So much so that Federer cursed at chair umpire Jake Garner (on national television) after the ninth game of the third set. Upset that del Potro was taking too long to challenge a point, Federer barked, "No, no, no. I wasn't allowed to challenge after two seconds. The guy takes, like, 10. Every time. You can't allow that stuff to happen. Do you have any rules in there, or what?"
When Garner told him to settle down, Federer channeled his inner Serena Williams. "Stop showing me your hand, OK? Stop telling me to be quiet, OK?" Federer said. "When I want to talk, I talk. I don't give a s--- what you said. I say he's waiting too long."
The foul-mouthed Federer did not play as well as the clean-speaking Federer. Del Potro broke Federer at love in the fifth game of the fourth set to take a 3-2 lead. As the match progressed, del Potro continued to pound deep groundstrokes from both wings, especially from his forehand (he hit 37 winners from that side). Federer added to his misery by serving miserably throughout the match (50 percent on first serves). But he broke del Potro in the eighth game of the fourth to make it 4-4. Federer held his serve but del Potro came back with two aces on his serve to make it 5-5. The set eventually went to a tiebreak after 3 hours and 22 minutes of play. Federer opened the tiebreak with a double fault, his eighth. Del Potro ended up winning the tiebreak (7-4) to level the match.
He then ran away from Federer in the final set, taking leads of 3-0, 4-1 and 5-2 as the crowd started sensing the upset. Federer saved two championship points on his serve followed by two deuces, but then double-faulted (his 11th of the match) to give del Potro a third championship point. Del Potro finally won it when Federer sailed a backhand long. He collapsed immediately on his back. "Great tournament," Federer told him at net.
With his win, del Potro climbs to a career-high ranking of No. 5 and leaps over Andy Murray in the court of public opinion of possible Federers-in-waiting. He barely lost to Federer (in five grueling sets) in the semis at the French Open. "That match just escaped me," del Potro said then.
This one would not.
"I think the first major is always a big deal," Federer said. "Best feeling on the planet after all the hard work you put in. Especially nice when it comes when you're quite young because it comes kind of unexpected for him as well even though he put himself in a good opportunity and position. He deserves it."
After a gut-wrenching loss to Nadal at the Australian Open and questions about his dominance, Federer ultimately had a remarkable year. He finally captured the French -- a soaring win over Robin Soderling -- which earned him entry into the exclusive club of six men to complete a career Grand Slam. At Wimbledon, he passed Sampras as the sport's ultimate Grand Slam singles winner with a thrilling five-setter-for-the-ages victory against Andy Roddick. He also became the father of twin girls.
"Unbelievable run," Federer said. "Being in all major finals and winning two of those, I'm losing the other two in five sets. Sure, I would have loved to win those two as well. Being so close, I think I was two points from the match today. That's the way it goes sometimes. But the year has been amazing already and it's not over yet. Got married and had kids. Don't know how much more I want."
Federer's Grand Slam campaign began with tears and a painful admission: "God, it's killing me," he said in February, sobbing into a microphone after his five-set final loss to Nadal in Australia. It ended with his opponent crying at center court of the U.S. Open after passing along a message in Spanish to his parents back in Argentina. Somebody eventually asked del Potro if he was going to take his prize money ($1.85 million including a U.S. Open Series bonus) and splurge on something big. "No," he said. "Maybe cheesecake for my birthday."
He turns 21 in eight days.
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Nov. 1, 2013 California has improved its grade on the March of Dimes 2013 Premature Birth report card, moving from a 'B' grade in 2012 to an 'A' grade in 2013.
California is giving more babies a healthy start in life and contributing to a six-year trend of improvement nationwide. California earned the 'A' report card for lowering its preterm birth rate to 9.6 percent, which is especially impressive as one out of every eight babies is born in California, which accounts for 12 percent of all births in the United States, and the state has one of the most diverse populations.
"We're proud of California's improved grade on the report card, joining only 5 other states and the District of Columbia in receiving a better grade," said Karyn DeMartini, State Director of the California Chapter of March of Dimes. "California has been a leader in the fight to prevent premature birth, developing the toolkits to reduce medically unnecessary early elective deliveries and to assess preterm labor that healthcare providers across the country are using. While this grade is a marked improvement, we will continue our work to give all babies a healthy start in life because yearly nearly 50,000 babies in California are still born too soon, before their lungs, brains or other organs are fully developed. Partnerships with our state health officials, local hospitals, and elected representatives have helped us make newborn health a priority in California and made an incredible difference in babies' lives."
The California Chapter of the March of Dimes has been the vanguard in implementing programs, developing educational materials and resources, working closely with state health department officials, co-sponsoring effective legislation, and supporting hospital efforts to end early elective deliveries that will help women have full-term pregnancies and ensure babies get a healthy start in life.
"California is the largest and most diverse state amongst those receiving an 'A' grade on preterm birth rates from the March of Dimes," said Dr. Ron Chapman, California Department of Public Health director and state health officer. "This administration is committed to improving the health of Californians, and we are proud to partner with March of Dimes on quality improvement initiatives and public health interventions that make our state a model in preventing preterm birth nationally."
California is part of a national trend toward improved preterm birth rates. On the 2013 Report Card, 31 states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia saw improvement in their preterm birth rates between 2011 and 2012, earning seven of them, including California, better grades. Nationwide, the largest declines in premature birth occurred among babies born at 34 to 36 weeks of pregnancy (late preterm birth). Nearly every state saw its preterm birth rate decline since 2006, the national peak.
In California, the rate of late preterm births is 6.9%; the rate of women smoking is 11% and the rate of uninsured women is 23.8%. These factors contribute to improved infant health in California. The state earned a 'satisfactory' star on the report card for:
These improvements mean not just healthier babies, but also a potential savings in health care and economic costs to society. However, there is still work to be done in reducing the percentage of women of childbearing age who smoke. The rate of women in California who smoke increased from 10.4% to 11.0% during this reporting period. March of Dimes will continue to work with the state legislature and other healthcare organizations to educate women on the dangers of smoking to reduce this percentage.
March of Dimes attributes the improved preterm birth rates to an expansion of successful programs and interventions, including actions by state health officials here and every other state, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, who formally set goals to lower their preterm birth rates by 8 percent from their 2009 rate by 2014.
"We will continue to work together to improve access to health care, help women quit smoking and, through our Healthy Babies Are Worth the Wait consumer education campaign, encourage women and health care providers to avoid scheduling a delivery before 39 weeks of pregnancy unless medically necessary," DeMartini added. "Seventy five percent of the hospitals in California are currently using March of Dimes toolkits and educational materials, and that is helping us see these incredibly positive results in our preterm birth rate, and we strongly encourage the remaining twenty-five percent to partner with us in building a world of healthier moms and babies here in California."
Despite these improvements in California and other states, the United States again received a "C" on the March of Dimes Report Card. Grades are based on comparing each state's and the nation's 2012 preliminary preterm birth rates with the March of Dimes 2020 goal of 9.6 percent of all live births. The U.S. preterm birth rate is 11.5 percent, a decline of 10 percent from the peak of 12.8 percent in 2006. Although we have made great progress, the U.S. still has the highest preterm birth rate of any industrial country.
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