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Flickchart: The Blog is right in the middle of the 2nd Annual Flickcharters' Choice Awards. I took part last year for the inaugural installment and wrote a post about my experience as a nominator. This year, things were done a bit differently: the nomination voting was open to the public and not just to the contributors to the Flickchart blog.
The nominees were announced last night, and with that, the voting for the eventual winners has begun (go here to cast your votes). I won't say too much about the nominations; a lot of it is for things I haven't seen yet, so while I am disappointed that so many of my nomination votes didn't go through, I can't rightfully say with certainty that they deserve to be in over stuff that did make it.
Instead of talking about what did get nominated, I thought I'd share my ballot for the nomination phase. Voting was done with a point distribution system that allowed you to give extra push to certain nominees, but I'm keeping it simple here and just sharing my five picks for each category in alphabetical order.
Entries in blue are ones that ended up making the cut for nominations.
Best Documentary Film
5 Broken Cameras
How to Survive a Plague
Indie Game: The Movie
The Invisible War
The Queen of Versailles
I didn't see a whole lot of 2012 documentaries, to be perfectly honest. The only ones I saw and didn't nominate were Mansome and Jiro Dreams of Sushi. That said, these five films are all interesting in their own rights. Three of them are Oscar nominees, one should have been, and the last is one of those narrow interest pieces that just happens to be within my field of interests.
Best Foreign Language Film
5 Broken Cameras
Eat Sleep Die
Oslo, August 31st
A Royal Affair
Four of these films are from Scandinavia, so maybe I'm biased here. I knew that Eat Sleep Die would have a hard time gaining traction with anyone else, considering how very Sweden-centric it is and its limited international distribution, but it's a great film that deserved a spot here on my ballot. This isn't the last category it shows up in.
Best Animated Film
This is the one category I had to abstain in. I've seen zero animated films from last year, and I don't have much desire to either apart from Wreck-It Ralph and Frankenweenie.
Biggest Disappointment of 2012
John Dies at the End
Moonrise Kingdom
Silent Hill: Revelation 3D
Take This Waltz
A hard category for me to fill out. I even had to put Moonrise Kingdom in here, a film that I for all intents and purposes liked. Most of what I've seen from 2012 has lived up to most of the expectations I had for it.
Biggest Surprise Film of 2012
21 Jump Street
Dark Shadows
The Grey
The counterpoint to the previous category, these were all films that ended up being better than I expected. Granted, a few here were ones that the hidden good word had gotten around about by the time I saw them, like 21 Jump Street and Chronicle. Even so, judging by the expectations I initially had, they still fit in nicely here.
Best Underranked Film
Eat Sleep Die
The Invisible War
Killer Joe
Oslo, August 31st
The Queen of Versailles
This is a Flickchart specific category that ties into the site's core mechanic of comparing and ranking films. You can think of it as Best Film Not Seen By Many. So here we have a motley crew of documentaries, foreign language films, and one "totally twisted deep-fried Texas redneck trailer park murder story". If you're looking for some hidden gems of last year, you'd do well to check out these five.
Most Anticipated Film of 2013
Before Midnight
Only God Forgives
The Place Beyond the Pines
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
Make no mistake: this category is all about Before Midnight for me. The rest is filler.
Most Underrated Film
The Grey
On the Road
The Queen of Versailles
Rock of Ages
The words "underrated" and "overrated" are ones I rarely use. Just who is it that's rating it higher or lower than me? Here, I latched onto the further guideline supplied by awards supervisor Ross Bonaime: "film you thought didn't get the audience it deserved". Loosely interpreted, this can go for all five of these films.
Most Overrated Film
American Reunion
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Moonrise Kingdom
Take This Waltz
Or "film you thought received more attention than it deserved". Like Biggest Disappointment, I had to nominate a number of films here that I actually liked: American Reunion, The Hobbit, and Moonrise Kingdom. These all got more attention than what I felt their quality warranted. Then we have the terrible Lockout, which, bafflingly, some people thought was okay, and Take This Waltz, which of the five is probably the closest to the usual interpretation of "overrated."
Worst Film of 2012
Bad Ass
Get the Gringo
Killing Them Softly
Silent Hill: Revelation 3D
I didn't like any of these films, but the first three mentions on the list are at least not terrible. I suppose I should be quite happy with the movie year of 2012 based on that.
Best Scene in a 2012 Film
The chicken scene – Killer Joe
"I Dreamed a Dream" – Les Misérables
"Valjean's Soliloquy" – Les Misérables
Pi wanting to show God to the tiger – Life of Pi
"Wanted Dead or Alive" – Rock of Ages
This is a new category for this year, and a fun one it is. There was a lot of scenes I regretfully had to leave off, and some that I just forgot outright – the surgery scene in Prometheus should probably have gotten a mention from me, for instance. Still, this is a cool list. I could have put more Les Mis on it, perhaps.
Best Writing in a 2012 Film
Rian Johnson – Looper
Amy Jump and Ben Wheatley – Kill List
Tracy Letts – Killer Joe
David Magee – Life of Pi
Gabriela Pichler – Eat Sleep Die
Ever since watching the great screenwriting documentary Tales from the Script, I've been reluctant to praise or complain about screenwriters, because you never know if that great line of dialogue was theirs or an ad-lib, or whether that weird story turn was something they wanted or if it was due to executive meddling. I also don't really know anything about screenplays, so what this category really reflect for me is well-crafted dialogue and/or interesting stories. Looper, Kill List and Killer Joe are ones I admire for their sheer ambition and out-there-ness. Life of Pi is a unique tale that must have been a real challenge to adapt. Eat Sleep Die is a marvel in Swedish film in that it actually reflects how people talk in real life, rather than the "theater on film" way of speech so common in movies in this country.
Best Directing in a 2012 Film
Joe Carnahan – The Grey
Tom Hooper – Les Misérables
Ang Lee – Life of Pi
Ridley Scott – Prometheus
Joachim Trier – Oslo, August 31st
Like writing, directing is hard to judge, and easy to confuse with cinematography, editing and so much more. What these five films have in common is that they're presented with a clear vision of what they want accomplished. A unified view, if you will. They're all films I admire, too.
Best Supporting Actress in a 2012 Film
Samantha Barks – Les Misérables
Emily Blunt – Looper
Anne Hathaway – Les Misérables
Alison Pill – Goon
Kristen Stewart – On the Road
A relatively weak slate of nominees from me, admittedly. The performances are all good, but apart from the amazing Hathaway and the novelty factor of Barks – who inside word says was very close to getting nominated – none of these are likely to be ones I remember five years from now. I should probably have put Gina Gershon and/or Juno Temple from Killer Joe in here in retrospect. Sometimes I forget things.
Best Supporting Actor in a 2012 Film
Tom Cruise – Rock of Ages
Michael Fassbender – Prometheus
Garrett Hedlund – On the Road
Matthew McConaughey – Killer Joe
Andy Serkis – The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
I wasn't sure whether McConaughey should be here or in Best Actor for the title part of Killer Joe, but ultimately, I figured that a case could be made for either, and it was easier to slot him in here. I'm a bit surprised that my fellow Flickcharters didn't spring for Fassbender here, but hey, I guess Django Unchained needed its three spots.
Best Actress in a 2012 Film
Kara Hayward – Moonrise Kingdom
Nermina Lukac – Eat Sleep Die
Noomi Rapace – Prometheus
Alicia Vikander – A Royal Affair
Michelle Williams – Take This Waltz
I did not notice this until I submitted my ballot, but there are three Swedes represented here: Lukac, Rapace, and Vikander. Cool stuff. Still, this category is proof that I really need to see more female-centric stuff from 2012. I very reluctantly put Williams here: it's a fine enough performance, but I had serious trouble buying into the character – something I ultimately attribute more to the writing.
Best Actor in a 2012 Film
Anders Danielsen Lie – Oslo, August 31st
Hugh Jackman – Les Misérables
Liam Neeson – The Grey
Seann William Scott – Goon
Suraj Sharma – Life of Pi
If you had told me just a year ago that I would put Stiffler on a ballot for Best Actor, I might have laughed at you. Still, he knocked it out of the park in Goon, so good for him.
Best Overall Cast in a 2012 Film
Jeff, Who Lives at Home
Killer Joe
Les Misérables
On the Road
A Royal Affair
A Royal Affair earned Vikander a mention in Best Actress, but I had her two co-stars Mads Mikkelsen and Mikkel Følsgaard in Actor and Supporting Actor in my initial draft of the ballot. Les Mis got in in spite of Russell Crowe. If there's one shining example here though, it's Killer Joe. Everyone in that film was at the top of their game.
2012 Outstanding Achievement in Film
Joe Carnahan
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Matthew McConaughey
Gabriela Pichler
Channing Tatum
This is a very loosely defined category. Generally, nominees tend to be actors who have been in multiple films, or writer/directors. I had three of the former, two of the latter. I did make one big omission here: Anne Hathaway. She did strong work in The Dark Knight Rises and breaks my heart over and over in Les Mis. She should definitely have been here instead of one of the male actors. Oh well.
Best Picture of 2012
The Dark Knight Rises
The Grey
Les Misérables
Life of Pi
The Queen of Versailles
Here's another thing I didn't realize until just now: this is the only category I nominated The Dark Knight Rises for. It sounds weird, but I'm fine with that. That film just worked as a whole, and was a fitting end to the trilogy. It, and the rest of the films here, represent the best of what I've seen from 2012 so far.


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I have considered myself obsessed with a lot of things in my life, from Monty Python to Stephen King to bacon, but the entertainment industry has a way of making my obsessions look like "passive disinterest." The A&E show Obsessed is more nightmarish than any Hollywood horror of the past five years.
But the above trailer for Sony's romantic comedy Austenland, courtesy of Yahoo! Movies is an altogether different take on what it means to be a fan of something. Keri Russell plays Jane Hayes, a woman who seems to have based her entire life around the 6-episode 1995 BBC adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. But it isn't exactly the film itself or even its source material that enraptures Jane's mind, but rather Colin Firth's acclaimed performance as Mr. Darcy. He encapsulates everything she wants out of a man, except he's just a fictional character. Right?
Well not at the modernity-free Austenland, the Jane Austen "theme park" run by Jane Seymour's Mrs. Wattlesbrook; this place has Mr. Darcy characters coming out the wazoo. Jane throws her life savings into taking a trip to the British attraction, only to find herself staying in the servants' quarters and fraternizing with people who don't even know what Pride and Prejudiceis. (This would be Jennifer Coolidge's character.)
And amidst all the orchestrated meals and outside events, Jane manages to find not just one dapper potential beau, but two of them. J.J. Fields (Captain America: The First Avenger) plays Henry, and Bret McKenzie (Flight of the Conchords) plays Martin, and it looks like both of these guys are going to be fighting for Jane's heart, but without any actual fighting I'd bet.
Austenland is the feature directorial debut from Jerusha Hess, the wife of Jared Hess, with whom she co-wrote Napoleon Dynamite and others. The film is adapted from the 2007 novel by Shannon Hale. It's definitely got a quirky enough premise that should allow for storytelling that is outside the usual rom-com box. Yet it still looks quite like many a film that came before it. And even though I have no real interest in Austen or her work (outside the occasional zombified reimagining anyway), I'm actively hoping that this is something I won't be ashamed to say I enjoyed. McKenzie's presence alone had me intrigued.
Speaking of Colin Firth Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy, I wonder if Jane would be enthralled by the promotional campaign that has a statue of Firth touring different sites. Check out the video below to see what I mean.
Austenland will see a very limited U.S. release on August 16, but I'd assume the U.K.'s September 27 release will be more widespread.


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The yen sank to a three-and-a-half-year low against the US dollar in Asia yesterday after the Bank of Japan unveiled a huge stimulus plan aimed at ending decades of deflation and boosting the economy.
The Japanese currency extended losses seen on Thursday immediately after the central bank made its announcement, which took investors by surprise.
However, some analysts warned the unproven measures could end up inflating the country's huge national debt with little else to show for it.
In Tokyo morning trade, the US dollar soared past ¥97 to its highest level since August 2009, good news for Japanese exporters as it makes them more competitive overseas and boosts the value of foreign income.
The greenback fetched ¥97.05 against ¥96.33 in New York late on Thursday, before settling at ¥96.35 in afternoon trade. It was way up from below the ¥92.71 level before the announcement.
The euro also jumped to ¥125.43, from ¥125.20 in US trade, and much higher than ¥119.66 on Thursday morning. It fetched ¥124.59 in the afternoon.
Shares were boosted by a tumbling yen. The Nikkei soared more than 4 percent in early trade yesterday, past 13,100 to intraday highs last seen in August 2008 just before the global financial crisis rocked markets.
It ended yesterday's session up 1.58 percent, or 199.10 points, at 12,833.64 on its biggest volume since the Tokyo Stock Exchange opened in 1949, with 6.45 billion shares changing hands.
The broader TOPIX index of all first-section shares jumped 2.74 percent, or 28.48 points, to finish at 1,066.24.
Analysts said the Japanese currency would likely face further pressure.
"The key focus has been the yen, after the Bank of Japan [BOJ] yesterday over-delivered on easing expectations," National Australia Bank said. "The BOJ's actions were supportive of yen weakness."
Market speculation had been building for weeks about what the Bank of Japan would do after its first policy meeting under new governor Haruhiko Kuroda, who earlier this week had promised bold measures.
The central bank said it would aim to double money supply and aggressively increase asset purchases, including longer-term government bonds, in a move aimed at pushing down long-term interest rates to encourage companies and individuals to borrow, instead of hoarding their cash.
The bank also said it is aiming to hit a 2 percent inflation target within two years, to reverse years of falling prices that have weighed on Japan's economy by crimping private spending and corporate investment.
Kuroda said the new-look bank is "resolved to take whatever measures we can think of" to hit the ambitious target, seen as more explicit than the bank's previous inflation "goal."
London-based Capital Economics said the central bank ushered in "bolder steps than we had thought likely."
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The US dollar was mostly higher against other Asia-Pacific currencies yesterday, firming to 1,129.03 South Korean won from 1,123.65 won a day earlier, to 54.79 Indian rupees from 54.61 rupees and to 41.19 Philippine pesos from 41.06 pesos.
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Janesville reports spike in carbon monoxide poisoning cases
Eight people in Janesville have been treated for carbon monoxide poisoning since Saturday, according to firefighters.
The Janesville Gazette reported firefighters responded to six carbon monoxide calls between Saturday and Monday. Janesville Fire Department Lt. Kent Shea told The Associated Press three of the calls were false alarms. Firefighters verified carbon monoxide in the homes in the remaining three incidents.
Two of the incidents were caused by furnace problems, Shea said. The cause of the third leak is undetermined, but Shea said readings around that home's furnace and water heater were negative and firefighters suspect carbon monoxide seeped into the house as the family's relatives warmed up their cars in the driveway on Thanksgiving.
Four people were transported to the hospital in one incident involving furnace problems. The family involved in the second furnace incident had to spend the night elsewhere but was not taken to a hospital, Shea said.
Dean Lata's family was involved in the third incident where the cause remains undetermined. He told the Janesville Gazette he woke up for work early Monday morning to find his wife already up and complaining she was hot and had a headache. He woke up the couple's daughter and son, who both complained of headaches as well.
Latka got them out of the house and called firefighters. All four family members were taken to Beloit Memorial Hospital, where they took oxygen for several hours before being released. All of them had elevated levels of carbon monoxide in their blood.
The family didn't have a carbon monoxide detector in their home. Latka said the first thing he did after getting released from the hospital was buy two detectors, one for each level of his home.
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A few months ago I was invited to a 'pre-launch' unveiling of the Tiger Explorer. It wasn't a riding test (more's the pity), it was simply a detailed look at the technology behind Triumph's new Explorer and the reasons for its creation.
During the day I spent with the Explorer's designers two things really struck me - firstly how important it is to Triumph that the Explorer is absolutely 100% from the word go and secondly the fact they have unashamedly taken BMW's GS and tried to beat it. Why do I know this? Parked in the corner of the presentation room was a GS! Yep, during a technical briefing about their new Explorer, Triumph actually brought the competition into the same room and pointed out to the assembled journalists what they had done to try and beat it! Is that bravery or fool hardiness?
The ride
Like the GS, the Explorer feels a big and solid bike. The bars seem a bit wider spread than the BMW but, just like the GS, the riding position is dominated by the petrol tank. It's a big old unit on the Explorer (20 litres) but this is actually smaller than Triumph planned. During the design stages the tank was trimmed down as the test riders thought it dominated the ride.
With the engine running, the first surprise with the Explorer is that it sounds like the GS. At low revs the Triumph's triple has that deep bark that the boxer motor also has, something I wasn't expecting. On the move the Explorer seems to shed a lot of its 259kg. Through bends it feels solid and secure, just like the GS. But when turning into corners and braking, the Explorer's conventional fork front end as opposed to the BMW Telelever/Paralever set-up gives far better feedback.
I'm not a huge fan of the BMW's front end and, while owners seem to get on with it, I reckon it muffles some of the feedback from the front tyre. It's a personal preference and I'm not saying it's a right or wrong thing, I just don't really like it.
Motor matters
The 1,215cc triple is brand new for the Explorer and it's a real beauty of an engine. On the road I didn't manage to get the traction control activating (the first time Triumph has developed such a system) but I love the torque-laden nature of the triple. I dropped the revs right down to 1,500rpm in top and the Explorer still pulled smoothly without stuttering, which was very impressive.
The throttle response is excellent, and when you get it spinning the Triumph certainly seems faster than the BMW. On an adventure bike top speed isn't much of an issue - it's more about the low-down grunt - but it's always nice to have a bit of poke at the top. Interestingly the Explorer comes with cruise control as standard (though that's something I didn't bother using as the only time I like cruise control is when you are on a Gold Wing and you can stick it on and hop in the pillion seat to scare other drivers...)
Does it beat the GS?
With bikes like this you really need to cover big miles to get under their skin and, while I have taken a GS to Moscow, I only got to try the Explorer for a few miles in the UK. So I wouldn't like to say if it is better or worse than the BMW, but it is it is certainly different. While the Explorer, to me, lacks a bit of the ruggedness of the GS, the engine is far perkier and nicer to use, while the handling is considerably more 'normal' thanks to its conventional suspension set-up.
I love the details and dedication that Triumph have put into the Explorer - stuff like the huge generator to power all your electrical gubbins, or the easy-to-use dash, but I do think the view from the riding position is a bit 'plasticky'. On the comfort side, the two bikes are much of a muchness and, when it comes to cool optional extras such as fog lights, Triumph has mimicked BMW's catalogue and you can fully load your Explorer just as you can with a GS.
So does the Explorer knock the GS off the top spot when it comes to adventure bikes? The reason the GS continues to sell so well is that it has encapsulates the adventure image and dream so perfectly. Ride one, and it says that, although you might not be about to set off around the world, you look as if you could. As well as buying a cracking bike, you are also buying into a lifestyle.
A developing lifestyle...
Triumph has yet to develop this 'lifestyle' image, but don't let that dissuade you from considering an Explorer over a GS. Especially if you want to stand out from the crowd. The BMW's ubiquity works against it, you see. Everywhere you go in the world you see a bloody GS parked on the side of the road, something you won't get (at the moment) with the Triumph.
The Explorer is every bit as good a road bike as the GS and, in some areas such as the handling and engine, is actually better. It is also a bit more exclusive and, best of all, British. My only worry with the Explorer is that as they have tried so hard to beat the GS, in some ways Triumph has almost created a GS clone. Yes, it has Triumph's own unique stamp, but it doesn't half have a lot of similarities to the GS - the split seat, the trellis frame, the singlesided swingarm, the twin lights, shaft drive... But I suppose after so many years of development, BMW has worked out exactly what riders want in an adventure bike and it is now almost the industry standard. So that is probably to be expected...
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Torque: 89lb ft at 6,400rpm
Top speed: 150mph (est)
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Epic Drives Explores the Classic Cars of Cuba
If you're a fan of salsa music, mojitos, or fine cigars, you owe a debt of gratitude to the island nation of Cuba, which has been isolated from much of the outside world, and its northern neighbor, the United States, for nearly six decades due to a trade embargo following the ascent of communist revolutionary Fidel Castro to power. But the result of that isolation is a vibrant car culture that preserves and venerates American classics in its own unique style, through hardscrabble resourcefulness, adaptation, and hand-craftsmanship.
New at the time, many of the cars have survived more than six decades, and through clever adaptation and ingenuity, have been kept running by their owners. Replacement parts are very hard to come by, due to the ongoing trade embargo between the U.S. and Cuba, with many parts either being imported by black market means, or trans-shipping through an intermediate nation that has trade relations with Cuba. The parts that can't be imported are painstakingly reverse-engineered and hand-crafted, or substituted with more readily-available parts on the island.
A common substitution on the old 1950s era cars on the island are diesel engines for the old straight-six or V-8 engines originally in the cars, due to diesel's lower cost on the island, and the better fuel efficiency of the engines.
Motor Trend's Carlos Lago, with family ties to the island nation, and Arthur St. Antoine, an aficionado of the works of Ernest Hemingway, as well as fine Cuban cigars, spend a week in the forbidden paradise exploring the classic car culture of Cuba, borne as much from necessity as passion, and come to appreciate the rustic charm and unhurried pace of the island. Watch their Caribbean adventure below! Check out Epic Drives every fourth Friday on the Motor Trend Channel.


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A winner was selected from 23 designs submitted by 12 freelance designers.
This is a new industry (about 4yrs.) and there are only a few competitors in the market all have pretty crappy sites. We are wanting something clean and professional. We have a logo that will do for now although it does not represent what we need the site to look like. The colors are probably good to use, but thats about it.
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Read and follow the instructions on plant spacing.
Picture this: You are sitting by the fireplace in January and the stack of seed catalogs is next to you. You have a cup of hot cocoa and you are looking forward to digging into the catalogs. You have your Post-It Notes right there, too, because you are going to mark everything that you want to order and plant for the vegetable garden. You place all of your orders, and then all of sudden it's planting time, and you can't quite figure out how you are going to fit all of those seeds (let alone the plants that you just picked up at the garden center) in your garden. Expanding the garden is not an option (at least that's what my husband keeps telling me every year, but somehow it just gets bigger and bigger!).
Does this sound familiar? I used to be really bad at over-purchasing seeds and plants. I figured that since I have room, it would be OK to just let the garden size creep another foot or two. Until this got out of control and I had an epiphany one summer a few years ago: A lot of the produce that I was planting was just going to waste. So I started planning my vegetable garden according to what we would consume.
Put It on Paper
To do it right, a garden plan is essential. Lay out your garden space on graph paper and know exactly how much square footage you have for planting. Then list all of the family favorites and what you think you are going to consume. I also like to try new things each year. Sometimes they become a staple, but others I don't grow again. If you plan on canning or freezing, keep in mind that you will want to plant according to your canning plans.
Refer to resources on vegetable yield amounts. Remember that these are just average amounts and will vary depending on the growing season. Narrow it down to how much you think (guess) your family might need. Keep in mind that the first year that you do this it's going to be a guessing game. You likely have no idea how many pounds of tomatoes you consume in a summer. However, it gets easier the next year because now you have something to track.
Beets spaced in the garden per seed packet directions.
Read the seed label to know how many seeds to plant per row and spacing.
Space It Out
Once you have a list of plants and how much you need of each one, determine how much space the plants are going to take up in square footage. If you have more plants than space, you have to whittle down the list (or expand your garden). Resources that list yields have the optimum spacing recommendations. For instance, 10 cabbage plants should yield 10 heads of cabbage. The spacing for 10 plants is 18-24 inches between plants and 24-36 inches between rows for best production. Figure out spacing needs for the plants and plot this on your graph paper. It is a little challenging to do this the first time you start a garden but take heart, it's not rocket science, and if you don't have enough or you have too much, you can always adjust the next year. I hear some gardeners have this down to a science and figure out every square inch, though I personally don't know of anyone. Most gardeners I know guestimate how much they will plant.
These volunteers use a string to ensure proper spacing and keep rows straight.
Shown here are potatoes that were properly spaced when planted.
Write It Down
Tomatoes – one plant yields 5 pounds
Lettuce – eight plants yield one salad per person per week
Peppers – one plant yields 3 pounds
Beets – one plant yields a ¼-pound root
Cucumbers – one plant yields 5 pounds
Zucchini –one plant yields 10 pounds
Bush beans – ¼ pound of seed gives 12 ½ pounds of green beans
Peas – ¼ pound of seed yields 10 pounds of pea pods
Corn – one to two ears per plant; 2 ounces of seed covers a 50-foot row and yields 50 ears
Potatoes – 5 pounds of seed potatoes yield 50 pounds
You can, however, make it easier for next season by maintaining a garden journal. I use a three-ring spiral binder. I am not 100 percent committed to writing everything down, but recording the basics has really helped me grow the right amounts and the specific varieties that we like. The binder is filled with loose-leaf paper, and I make all of my notes, including the layout of the garden on the paper. I have also inserted graph paper when I lay out the garden for the season. By having it in this binder, it allows me to go back to what was planted where last year. This is really important for crop rotation and pest management.
I also fill the binder with empty sheet protectors. I put all of my empty seed packets in these so that I will know which varieties I planted and how much I used. If I had too much for the season, then I know to cut back the next year. If I am going to plant a fall crop of lettuce, I put the half-empty packet in these that I know where it is in August. I use this binder to put all of the tags from any plants that I purchased so that I know what I have, especially if an annual or vegetable turns out to be exceptional. Then I will know what to purchase the next season.
As I said, it has taken me several years to get to the point where I know exactly how much to order, but I still seem to plant more than I need. When this happens, I give produce to family, neighbors, colleagues, the food bank, and of course, some to wildlife (though not willingly). The biggest step is that first year of planning how much — once you take this step, the next year is much easier.
From State-by-State Gardening May/June 2014. Photos by Pam Bennett.


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Recently Woodmorappe drew attention to recent work reinterpreting certain alleged dinosaur tracks. However, he adds several comments that appear to some to be unwarranted and open to challenge.
We did not, and do not, propose that 'most of the fossils found on the earth were buried by post-Flood catastrophes'.
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Almost exactly a year ago, on the 14th of March 2013, 33-year old Thaweesak Chomyong, a ranger working in Thailand's Pang Sida National Park was fatally shot when a group of poachers fired upon his patrol team before fleeing the scene. This was not an isolated incident. The neighbouring Thap Lan National Park (TLNP), part of the Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai Forest Complex and UNESCO World Heritage Site, is also bearing the brunt of this poaching epidemic, in particular the poaching of Siamese rosewood (Dalbergia cochinchinensis).
The high value of rosewood, fetching from US$6,000 per cubic meter on international trade markets to US$50,000 on the Chinese black market, has fueled a rapid increase in rosewood poaching in the park. Within a three month period in early 2013, the number of poachers photographed by camera traps increased by over 900 percent compared to the average over the previous two years. Groups of over 30 armed and violent poachers were laying siege to the park's rosewood, poaching wildlife and threatening the lives of enforcement rangers. Lacking equipment, patrol provisions and training, the TLNP staff has been unable to effectively neutralise this growing threat.
To address this problem before it escalates even further, SOS – Save Our Species has provided a Rapid Action Grant to the FREELAND Foundation. FREELAND works with Thailand's Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation to increase the capacity of the frontline staff to stop rosewood poaching. Project activities include:
Training forest guardians
The project is utilizing FREELAND's PROTECT enforcement ranger training to provide rangers with essential skills and knowledge to safely conduct anti-poaching patrols. Thirty TLNP forest rangers are being trained on law enforcement tactics and skills, with courses on various themes such as surveillance, hostile engagement and crime scene processing. Watch FREELAND's video about the importance of PROTECT here:
Short video showing ranger training course
"Training on navigation is used quite a lot during patrols. We've also been able to use training in the arrest of suspects through ambushes and takedowns. We've also found training in reconnaissance and first aid to be very helpful as well," remarked Salak Chairacha, Enforcement Ranger Patrol Team Leader, TLNP.
Ensuring adequate supplies
The project is also funding field food rations allowing rangers to spend more time on patrol. Extra provisions for food are increasing the number of boots on the ground, allowing for personnel from other agencies like the Royal Thai Army to join patrols and provide on-the-job training to their ranger counterparts. Participants of the PROTECT training are also receiving important equipment including custom-made backpacks, sleeping hammocks, radios, and cameras that otherwise have been lacking.
"Support from FREELAND and SOS is increasing the efficiency of patrolling in Thap Lan National Park. It is also relieving some of the expenses the rangers normally bear such as patrol provisions and equipment. We have also been able to intensify patrolling conducted to prevent the poaching of rosewood and other natural resources in the park," acknowledged Taywin Meesap, Superintendent of TNLP.
Incorporating monitoring tools
Furthermore, the project is promoting the adoption of park-based monitoring and reporting systems, leveraging a Conservation Area Management Information System called "MIST". Park-based monitoring through MIST databases are being improved dramatically by the collection of enforcement data on patrols and has now become a key tool in planning enforcement operations.
"MIST is helping us know more about the areas we patrol and where rosewood and other poaching is occurring. By bringing together this information in a format we can use we're able to intensify patrols in vulnerable areas," said Chaloaw Kotud, Enforcement Ranger Patrol Team Leader, TNLP. This tool is empowering an already motivated team of rangers whose belief in their cause is a driving force for their persistence in the face of adversity.
SOS support has improved the situation for the rangers, but challenges remain. Although enforcement capacity has increased, rosewood poachers continue to assail the park's rosewood population. The obsolescence and poor performance of the rangers' weapons remains a big challenge. Rangers would also like to see rewards given out to those who risk their lives and successfully catch poachers. Despite these challenges and threats, the rangers of Thap Lan National Park harbour a sense of pride both in their work and their park. On this International Day of Forests, join SOS in supporting the crucial yet dangerous work of our forest guardians.


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Hospital revenues fall with state, federal cuts
The bad news if you work at a hospital in Connecticut is that hospital revenues are down across the state -- the result of the imposition of a state tax minus any offsetting grants, and cuts in Medicare funding.
The really bad news is that a combination of state and federal cuts are going to get worse.
"The full impact will be this year and the next,'' said Vin Petrini, spokesman for the Yale New-Haven Health System, which includes Bridgeport, Greenwich and Yale-New Haven hospitals.
The tough times are spread across the state.
The Connecticut Hospital Association said last week that collectively, state hospitals saw their operating income decline by $175 million in 2013, based on financial reports filed with the state Office of Health Care Access.
That money, the association said, means there is less money to spend on equipment and technology, patient care, facilities maintenance, and to keep medical services are a top level. It has also meant staff layoffs in some cases.
Revenue down for most
In Bridgeport, the city's two hospitals finished fiscal year 2013 in the black, but the year wasn't without struggle for either of them. Bridgeport Hospital posted $36,447,000 in revenue in fiscal year 2013 -- an increase over the previous year's profit of $34,868,000.
St. Vincent's Medical Center posted $42,607,000 in revenue for fiscal year 2013, about half of the previous year's, when the hospital finished more than $85,000,000 in the black.
In June, St. Vincent's eliminated 100 positions and laid off about 50 workers. It was the hospital's first major round of layoffs in roughly a decade. At the time, hospital officials said the cuts were made in anticipation of a loss of state and federal funding.
The three hospitals that now comprise the Western Connecticut Health Network -- Danbury, New Milford and Norwalk -- saw their net revenues decline by $14.5 million in 2013, said Steven Rosenberg, chief financial officer for the network of Friday.
Rosenberg said that losses ranged from $1 million at Norwalk, $5 million at Danbury and $8 million at New Milford.
As a result, the network reduced its work force by about 116 workers in 2013, combining 65 layoffs with the elimination of 51 vacant positions.
Stamford Hospital saw its net revenues -- revenues minus expenses -- decline by about $15 million.
Hospital spokesman Craig Andrews said this is due to several factors: a one-time pension payout to employees; less use of the hospital services because of the area's economy; and problems caused by Superstorm Sandy.
But he also said Stamford Hospital lost $8.3 million because of the state hospital tax.
Still, the news wasn't entirely bad. Greenwich Hospital reported its net revenue was actually up by about $12 million from 2012 to 2013.
What happened in 2013 was first that Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's administration changed its financial give-and-take with hospitals.
The state tax
Beginning in 2010 state hospitals paid the state a tax under an expanded Medicaid program. In return, the state paid them a subsidy in return. In 2013, the state greatly reduced that subsidy, while continuing to collect the tax -- a cut that will cost state hospitals about $550 million over three years.
At the same time, the sequestration cuts reduced Medicare payments to hospitals by 2 percent. Things are likely to get worse in 2014 and 2015, hospital officials said.
That's because while the state budget begins on July 1, hospital budgets begin October 1.
Petrini said all the hospitals in the chain "need to be thinking proactively about how to manage costs in the future."
At Bridgeport Hospital, that has included eliminating about 60 unfilled positions, although the hospital hasn't had to lay off anyone yet.
"We are diligently exploring additional cost-saving opportunities, including outsourcing of services, shared service centers, consolidation of services and possible changes in scope of services," said Dianne Auger, president of St. Vincent's Medical Center Foundation. "Continued/sustained hospital reimbursement cuts will result in additional negative impacts to the level of associates employed within the state, levels of compensation and access to care that is currently depended on by the communities we serve."
Cutting costs
There is now an effort under way in the General Assembly to eliminate the state tax over five years.
"We believe there is growing buyers' remorse for the tax on hospital patients and that given the chance there would be overwhelming support to get rid of it," said Stephen Frayne, senior vice-president for health policy at the Connecticut Hospital Association. "A five-year phase out provides a reasonable way to undo the tax on hospital patients.''
But hospitals are also trying to find new ways to economize.
One way is the expanding number of hospitals joining larger networks.
Norwalk Hospital joined the Western Connecticut Health Network this year. The economies of scale with the larger network mean greater purchasing power.
"We expect to see a 45 million savings in purchasing supplies this year,'' Rosenberg said.
Rosenberg said the network, is looking at every way possible to deal with these losses -- greater operating efficiencies and establishing best practices to eliminate duplicate and unnecessary testing and procedures.
He said the network is also looking at what it pays its employees.
"The trick is to remain competitive,'' he said. "We want our employees to feel this is the place they want to work.''
Staff writer Amanda Cuda contributed to this story.


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"Every game is different and you take it game by game," said Hibbard, who was a key man for the British & Irish Lions last summer.
"Last year's championship is totally different to this one. I think it is going to be a physical encounter and very tough. England have had two great results since, so it is going to be a tough game against a very competent side playing well."
With three rounds played in this year's RBS 6 Nations, the championship is intriguingly set up with four teams level on points. Wales are joined by Ireland, England and France at the top of the table, Ireland leading the way courtesy of a better points difference.
On the challenge of facing Stuart Lancaster's England, Hibbard added: "They are playing very well at the moment and they were unlucky not to get a result out in France."
Hibbard has been an ever present for Wales in this year's Six Nations, helping the side to bounce back from defeat to Ireland in Dublin against France.
"We got challenged by the coaches after Ireland - they threw the gauntlet down and we had to answer it," he said.
"Right across the squad, from one to 23, it was a good performance and we showed what the coaches were looking for.
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Americans Win Nobel prize for Asset Price Forecasts
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Three American scientists won the 2013 economics Nobel prize on Monday for research that has improved the forecasting of asset prices in the long term and helped the emergence of index funds in stock markets, the award-giving body said.
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"There is no way to predict the price of stocks and bonds over the next few days or weeks," The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said in awarding the 8 million crown ($1.25 million) prize to Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Robert Shiller.
"But it is quite possible to foresee the broad course of these prices over longer periods, such as the next three to five years. These findings ... were made and analyzed by this year's Laureates," the academy said.
The behavior of asset prices are key to decisions such as savings, house buying and national economic policy, the academy said, reuters reported.
"Mispricing of assets may contribute to financial crises and, as the recent global recession illustrates, such crises can damage the overall economy," it added.
The economics prize, officially called the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, was established in 1968. It was not part of the original group of awards set out in dynamite tycoon Nobel's 1895 will.


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Like so many in Greenpeace, I love boats. Put me on water and I am happy. So when I heard back in March at one of the preparatory meetings for the Rio Earth Summit taking place in New York that our new Rainbow Warrior was there, I just had to visit. And today I made the trek again to see the Rainbow Warrior, as she had just arrived in Rio de Janeiro for the final preparatory meetings for the Earth Summit. It was an honour to brief some of our activists and volunteers about the Earth Summit tonight. The crew onboard is the one that managed to hold a "Rio+20: bla bla bla or action?" banner on an anchor chain in the Amazon just weeks ago.
It was great, though, to be able to share at least a little bit of good news with the crew. The European Union, Brazil and other countries who want to make sure that Rio+20 is the beginning of the end of the Wild West exploitation of our oceans are standing firm here in Rio. We hope that is not just talk, as future generations need healthy oceans if they are to survive. You can support marine reserves now by adding your voice to the hundreds of thousands of people who want a future of living oceans. We will be presenting these signatures to those who need to hear your voice in the coming days.
Beyond that, the negotiations were not inspiring. Some paragraphs of the text were agreed by reverting back to lowest common denominator language already used at – yes - previous meetings. Other parts of the text did not move at all as governments simply restated their well-known positions. We were not able to enter some meetings – so the Future We (allegedly) Want will for now remain the negotiators´ secret.
Walking around the Riocentro, where the 1992 Earth Summit also took place, corporate greenwash from corporate polluters was on display. There is a huge banner declaring that Petrobas, Brazil´s state-owned oil company, is sponsoring the summit - the very company that wants to drill off the coast of New Zealand and make Brazil into a major oil producer. If Brazil goes ahead with its planned oil development, it will be among the five largest oil producers in the world by 2020. This is not the Future We Want, nor the one we need.
Returning from the Rainbow Warrior tonight, I am determined to not let corporations get away with greenwash or allow governments to bow to corporate pressure and turn their backs on the Future We Want for our children.
Daniel Mittler is the Political Director of Greenpeace International
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For an irreverent, darkly comic, take on the Earth Summit, take a look at the 1996 classic, MAKING A KILLING, recently republished to mark the 20th an...
For an irreverent, darkly comic, take on the Earth Summit, take a look at the 1996 classic, MAKING A KILLING, recently republished to mark the 20th anniversary of the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, then billed as the… err… 'meeting to end all meetings'. The whole cast of characters is there, from elephant-hunting royalty to corporate chieftains on the green make; governments pandering to big business; conservation bigwigs preaching the cause of protecting wildlife by hunting, skinning and trading it. The parallels past and present are shocking; right down to the concept of everything in nature being accorded an economic value and governed by the markets, as acknowledged this week by none other than Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary- General and UN Environment Program Executive Director [http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/the-high-stakes-of-rio-20] http://www.iridescent-publishing.com
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Eu trabalho para uma associação de Business Schools de todo o mundo que se chama 50+20 (mais informação: htt...
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Eu trabalho para uma associação de Business Schools de todo o mundo que se chama 50+20 (mais informação: http://50plus20.org/).
Nós estamos actualmente em conferências da Rio+20 e gostaríamos de saber quando é a conferência de prensa da Greenpeace, que chegou no barco Rainbow Warrior hoje ao Rio de Janeiro, aqui no Rio.
Vocês têm esta informação: onde, dia e hora?
Muito obrigada pela sua ajuda.
Emilia Gamito.
Tel. no Rio de Janeiro: 8007 8340
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How convenient to caricature someone whose work you oppose by reducing them to a cartoon parody. Like I haven't had enough Helen Lovejoy clichés to last a lifetime? Oh, and look, another media studies academic watching The Simpsons. Are we impressed yet?
Where Stephen Harrington sees "a graphic critique of post-feminist female sexuality", I see Kanye West holding a woman's decapitated head. Where those like Harrington see ambiguous, complicated narrative and linear narrative fantasy, I see semi-naked dead women swinging from ropes around their necks.
When I see Rick Ross in the 'Behind the scenes' You Tube clip tucking into a plate of raw meat before a spreadeagled dead woman on the table, I see the brutalization and degradation of female sexuality. I don't think 'Oh, check out that satire'.
King Kanye has produced a carnage of female corpses, brutality and eroticized violence: torture porn. I agree with Zerlina Maxwell who described it as 'a rape scenario set to a soundtrack'.
And Ta-Nehisi Coates has asked, what if John Mayer decided to cut a video with dead black women strewn about?
But of course my readings are to be dismissed. Because Harrington is a MEDIA AUTHORITY and he knows best.
Harrington's dismissal of media interpretations other than his own as invalid, wrong, or hysterical is to buy into a predictable stereotype designed to dismiss women and their readings of culture. Only those like himself can coolly and rationally respond to culture. The rest are to be condescendingly dismissed.
Telling women who read oppression and offense into cultural representations that "they are reading it wrong" is to delegitimize their cultural interactions and ignore their perspectives.
Sharon Haywood from Argentina and I started a petition sponsored by Collective Shout, Adios Barbie, the Coalition Against Trafficking Australia and CATWA International, and Media Watch (U.S) calling on Universal Music Group to withdraw the video. That petition is hosted on two well respect global sites for activists: Care2 and Change.org. So far 10,000 have signed.
We believe that the mainstreaming of videos like this increases desensitized and callous attitudes toward violence against women. Women are reduced to sex-doll like playthings. They are slaves and bitches who can service a man's sexual needs, even when dead. Men are brutal and dominant, and have no empathy for women.
We hoped to challenge the view that women's pain and suffering is perfect fodder for entertainment.
A New York teacher, Monica R, commenting on the Care2 petition site, wrote:
…I teach [in the 'hood'] in a very rough zip code. This crap is the ONLY music these kids listen to, so it has everything to do with violence against women because it forms their opinions.
… I have to hear the high school boy say "b–ches are only good for three things, f—ing, cooking, and cleaning." I have to hear the high school girls…explain how you know a boy really loves you if he hits you.
Rappers…promote the ideas that the measure of a man is how many b–ches he can f—, or how much violence he can do, and that women's only value is what's between their legs, and as a punching bag. And that harms women and men.
Those kids just don't seem to understand that misogynist rap videos are just graphic critiques of post-feminist [read anti-feminist] culture.
While not specifically naming West, international recording artist Moby may as well have in this article from 2005. Moby asks why racism is seen as bad but misogyny seen as cool. To those creating music which glamourises misogyny he writes: "you have blood on your hands, and you should be deeply, deeply troubled at the culture that you've helped to create".
Sex is a 'source of negativity and fear' for so many women and girls. Yes. But it's not the fault of my colleagues and I. West's video is one great big dog whistle to all the women and girls who've had to put up with abusive sexuality that their pain is just good fun and entertainment. And it's a dog whistle to men who choose to be perpetrators as well.
I talk to a lot of girls every year. They tell meabout being dis-empowered by pornified imagery which conveys their power lies in their ability to pleasure men on demand. They say boys are acting in more sexually aggressive ways towards them. They share stories of coerced sex, unwanted hookups, pressure to provide oral sex at parties and to send naked images. These stories come from girls as young as 11 and 12.
Many are treated as masturbatory aids. Sex is something done to them, not about a mutually pleasurable experience. Akon perpetuates this in his latest hit "I just had sex" in which he thanks all the girls "for lettin' us f**k you."
The sexualisation of murdered women on CSI doesn't make West's video any better. Just because we haven't listed every last example of media sexualisation of female destruction, doesn't mean we don't see it elsewhere. We just choose our battles, and we've identified West's video as a significant watershed in the de-humanisation of women.
Harrington can keep watching The Simpsons and I'll keep working with my friends around the world to try to make things better for real women.
As published today in The Punch.


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Ohio killer's execution gives some closure to Michigan victim's family
Frederick Treesh accused of killing Livonia man in 1994, but never was charged after getting Ohio death sentence for another murder
LIVONIA, Mich. – The year was 1994. Two brothers were gunned down in their Livonia video store by two men.
Frank Danno was shot multiple times, but survived. His brother, Ghassan Danno, was killed.
Read more: Ohio executes 1994 crime-rampage killer
"Everybody loved him. He was like a big teddy bear," said Frank.
Eighteen years later, Frank finally finds some closure. The man suspected of killing Ghassan was executed Wednesday morning by lethal injection in an Ohio prison.
Frank wasn't there to see 48-year-old Frederick Treesh take his last breath, but his sister-in-law was.
"He came in. He didn't even look at us. Not even an eye," Deanna Danno said.
Nearly two decades ago, Treesh and a friend embarked on a violent crime spree of robbery and rape. Their destructive trail spanned several Midwest states.
Days after Ghassan was murdered, Treesh killed an Ohio security guard. He was later sentenced to death. He directed these words at the Danno family during his last statement: "I'm not saying sorry to the victims in Michigan because I was never tried. I was never charged."
"Obviously, the guy never improved over 18 years," said Frank.
Their brother left behind a wife and kids who will never be the same.
"I think the world will be a better place now that one less evil person is in it," said Steve Danno, Ghassan's other brother.
Frank said it brings closure, but it's still not going to bring their brother back.
The Dannos say Treesh never was charged with murder in Michigan because he was sentenced to death in Ohio. In the last days of his life, Treesh tried to avoid death row, but Ohio's governor denied him clemency.
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The government's effort to silence critical media has been brutally effective as politically motivated deaths, attacks, and disappearances go uninvestigated and unprosecuted. The sister websites Groundviews and Vikalpa became the last independent news sites based in Sri Lanka, after a series of attacks on Lanka eNews. Arsonists attacked the offices of Lanka eNews in January, and authorities arrested the site's Colombo-based editor Bennet Rupasinghe in March. The site continued to publish from London but was blocked domestically. Authorities have turned the notion of law enforcement on its head, obstructing justice in numerous anti-press attacks. Prime examples are the unsolved 2010 disappearance of cartoonist Prageeth Eknelygoda and the unsolved 2009 murder of prominent editor Lasantha Wickramatunga. Anti-press violence continued in 2011. In July, Gnanasundaram Kuhanathan, news editor of the Tamil-language daily Uthayan, was assaulted in northern Sri Lanka by assailants wielding iron bars. News media access to northern, predominantly Tamil areas remained severely restricted. The government and Tamil secessionists rejected allegations that they committed human rights violations during the long civil war, but independent coverage of the abuses was limited.
The 2010 disappearance of Lanka eNews cartoonist Prageeth Eknelygoda has gone virtually unexamined, according to CPJ research. Eknelygoda was also a political reporter for the opposition website.
CPJ data show that since Mahinda Rajapaksa became prime minister in April 2004, and then later president, nine journalists have been murdered in politically charged circumstances.
Sri Lanka is one of the worst nations in the world in combating anti-press violence, according to CPJ's Impunity Index. The index calculates unsolved journalist murders as a percentage of each country's population. Authorities have obtained no convictions in any of the nine murders in the past decade.
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Violence and intimidation have forced Sri Lankan journalists to flee in high numbers. Despite its small size, Sri Lanka ranks among the leading nations from which journalists have fled, CPJ research shows.
Sri Lanka's Internet usage rate tripled from 2007 to 2010, according to the International Telecommunication Union, or ITU. With the shutdown of Lanka eNews, the nation has only two domestic websites, Groundviews and its sister Vikalpa with Sinhala and Tamil content, that are critical of the government.
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By Leslie Kantor, Vice President of Education, Planned Parenthood Federation of America and Vincent Guilamos-Ramos, Co-director of the Center for Latino Adolescent and Family Health at NYU
When Planned Parenthood and the Center for Latino Adolescent and Family Health at NYU (CLAFH) began thinking about our second annual survey looking at how parents and teens talk about sex and sexuality, we couldn't think of a better partner than Family Circle. We all share a common goal of wanting to help parents and teens become comfortable talking about sex and sexuality so that young people can make good decisions. And there is no better time than October for parents to be reminded of this since it's Let's Talk Month—an annual effort to get parents and teens talking about sexuality.
Our national survey polled more than 2,000 parents and teens living in the same households, and the results quickly made one thing clear: what parents intend to say is different than what teens are hearing.
We asked parents to tell us what messages about sex they most wanted to send to their teens, and we asked teens to tell us the main message they had received about sex from their parents. Here's what one parent told us, and what her teenager heard:
Time and time again we saw similar communication breakdowns between parents and teens. The good news is most families are talking about sex and sexuality. Still, these talks aren't as productive as they could be. Parents, for example, think they are having these conversations more often than their teens think they are, and surprisingly, teens are actually much more uncomfortable talking about sex than their parents. Half of all parents and just 18 percent of teens said they feel very comfortable having these talks.
Our survey also found that 80 percent of parents of sexually active teens knew their teens were having sex. That fact alone highlights the importance of parents talking with their teens and continuing to engage them even after they become sexually active so that they know how to prevent pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and to make sure their teens' relationships are healthy. So this month Planned Parenthood, CLAFH, and Family Circle are providing tips and a story packed full of information that can help parents start the conversation with their teens.
We know that parents make a difference when they talk with their kids about sex, so let's teach them how to say no if they're not ready to have sex, and if they are, let's continue having these conversations and encourage them to make good decisions about relationships and their sexual health. Bottom line: keeping our teens healthy and safe means talking with them about sex.
So let's talk.
Leslie Kantor is Vice President of Education at Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Vincent Guilamos-Ramos is Co-director of the Center for Latino Adolescent and Family Health at NYU. Read more about having the sex talk with your teen, all month, here.


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The verdict is in; they found, of course,
With many tears and much remorse,
We have the right to deadly force
Provided it's with a gun.
If someone stalks you with their car—
Without a gun, you start to spar—
The law is clear (though quite bizarre)
He's clear to shoot you, son.
It happened in the dark of night
You both were in a state of fright;
The jury found, he simply might
Have shot while fighting back
You stood your ground, and tempers flared
He had a gun; he came prepared
He had to shoot—the man was scared….
It's just too bad you're black.
Not guilty. No surprise, really; black men are scary, apparently, and when you are afraid, and can legally stand your ground, and have a gun, there's really no other course. But when you are afraid because someone is following you with their car, and you are afraid, and can legally stand your ground, and don't have a gun–only your hands–you need to know that the rules are different.
Deadly force, or nothing.