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May is National Stroke Awareness Month
Larissa B.
Thursday, June 20, 2013
By: Larissa Barnes
On April 29th 2013, I got up at 5:45 AM to get ready for work and by 3 PM I was a state away; in a Seattle Hospital ER being treated for a stroke. I was a healthy 23 year old that morning, or so I thought, and then my entire life was flipped upside down in a matter of hours.
What I didn't know was that there was a blood clot that had formed on the left side of my brain, and it had built up enough pressure and started to bleed out. Unfortunately my body gave me warning signs that I ignored for about 4 days prior, they came in the form of headaches that woke me up every single morning around the exact same time. I had always had headaches, but I had never ever been woken up by one. The headache usually went away in the mornings after I took ibuprofen and went back to bed, but the 2 days before my stroke it hung around all day, but at a dull pain.
So that morning I woke up, took a shower, and started to put on my makeup like usual. I know the exact moment the stroke hit, because I couldn't figure out which brush to use to put on my eye shadow. I ended up using my concealer brush and was absolutely confused because I KNEW I had done it wrong, but I had no idea WHY it was wrong. Then I got scared. By now it's probably around 6:45 and I go downstairs to my Fiancé and I try to tell him something is wrong, but I can't speak. I don't know what I managed to tell him, but it was intelligible. Then he got scared, but he didn't want to think that anything bad was actually going on, and I don't blame him. So he goes upstairs to eat breakfast and get ready for work and I call the people I know might be able to help. My parents. Now my Dad just happens to be a Physician's Assistant and he said that as soon as I told him "I can't think" and he remembered that I had discussed those weird headaches a few days before he knew that I was probably having a stroke. I distinctly remember him telling me "Get your Fiancé and tell him to drive you to the ER". But I couldn't explain my situation; I couldn't say what I wanted to say so badly. So my mother got on the phone and instructed me to take the phone to my Fiancé. Once I handed the phone over I dropped down and tried to curl myself into a ball while still standing on my feet. I was so confused and scared; I didn't know what to do.
We get out to his truck and he hands me his keys to turn it on because it's diesel and he wants it to warm up, and he has to go drop off the trash bag at the can. So I get in the truck and just stare at his keys, I know that I can turn the truck on but I just don't know how. So he comes back over and is standing outside his door looking at me while I'm looking at the keys and he asks me to unlock his door. So I look at the unlock button but I just don't know how to press it. My thought process is so jumbled, I watch him start to walk around to my side, open the door and press the unlock button. Then I finally manage to start the truck, incredibly. I know I need to call my work and tell them I can't open. So I search through my phone to find my boss's cell number and dial, no answer. I keep telling my Fiancé I need to call "Stephanie" but he knows I haven't worked with a Stephanie in over 2 years so he calmly tells me who I need to call instead. So, I call the right coworker and she answers and all I can say is "dude" then I start sobbing because I'm not able to say anything else no matter how hard I try. I hand the phone over to my Fiancé and he explains what's going on and that I won't be coming in. Phew, so at least my work knows I might be a little late today, at least that stress is gone. Oh how little I knew what was about to transpire.
I sobbed the entire way to the hospital and he was very quiet. I apologized to him, because I didn't know what else to do. I had absolutely no idea what was happening. We get to the parking lot of the hospital and get out, and then I see my mom. My mom had no idea what was going on either, my father elected not to tell her (wise decision believe me) and she said she just knew she had to meet me up there. My father was not able to for another 30 minutes. As soon as I see her another huge wave of tears hits me, and she looks worried. She puts her arms around me and starts to lead me away, then I remember my Fiancé and turn back around and wave and probably said goodbye.My mother leads me into the ER and the lady at the desk asks for my name, too bad I can't say it. So she asks me to write my name down on the sign in sheet, can't do that either, I start writing an "S" and my name starts with an "L". So I give up. We go sit down and she comes over with some papers for my mom to fill out and tells me I have a cute purse, and then I get pissed. I think I can sense my whole world is changing and all she cares about is my purse. Of course now in hindsight, I realize that was very nice of her to say, she didn't know what was going on! Then a doctor comes out and says he's ready for us, we happened to be the only people in the ER that morning, which was pretty awesome now that I think about it. We follow the doctor through the back doors and all the sudden everything goes black. I was conscious, but I was not aware of anything. Nothing at all. The next solid memory I have is all the sudden being in a hospital room in Seattle hearing the words 'stroke' and 'birth control' being tossed around. But there were a few flashes I have of the in-between.
The first flash is in my local ER and I can see my mom to my left, my fiancé to my upper left and my father to my right. I believe this is the moment that they told me I had my seizure. My fiancé described me as being conscious but not being able to follow any instructions. The doctor had wanted me to hold up two fingers and I just smiled at him. He wanted me to answer questions and I just smiled at him still. So my family was taking turns holding my hands trying to get me to respond in any way. My father stepped up and grabbed my hands and got nothing so he stepped to my right and motioned for my fiancé to try. This is where I believe my flash is from. My fiancé told me in the split second when my dad asked him to come forward and try to hold my hands I had looked at him and he said he could have sworn he saw recognition in my eyes. He stepped up, grabbed my hands, and immediately I had a seizure. I think it was me coming out of my weird stasis and recognizing him that triggered it. Of course the poor guy had a front row seat in probably one of the worst things you could watch someone you love do. Then I was out again until I had a flash of being on a plane.
The second flash is on what I learned was a Mercy Flight from my town to Seattle. The doctor in my town had decided that it would be better to send me to specialist and have them care for me. So I was put on an ambulance and driven to a Mercy Flight plane that whisked me, my fiancé, and some nurses a state away. The flash is once again of my fiancé. I distinctly remember coming to and looking at him from my position on my little bed they had me on, he was up ahead of me in a seat turned around looking me straight in the eyes. I was so happy to see him I remember thinking "hey baby!" Then I look to my right and there are some people sitting next to me and one of them says "yeah it's a bumpy ride!" Apparently there was a ton of turbulence on the flight over, which probably woke me up! Then I was out again, until the ER in Seattle.
The last flash is of one of my doctors standing in front of me and my fiancé standing to my right. I don't remember anything he said, or anything that happened in that moment, just that tiny screen shot stuck in my head. Then I was upstairs being told I had a stroke and birth control was most likely the cause.
During the time I was "out" I had numerous head scans and blood tests. When I officially came to I had an IV in both arms and my own little room on the stroke/seizure floor. I was actually in really good spirits for a few days, better than my family because I hadn't actually gone through anything. Plus we had an amazing view of the Seahawks stadium and I love football!
I made the first joke about having a stroke, I thought it was funny, but my parents (who had driven the 10 hours to the hospital while I was out) and my man just looked at me like I was nuts. They were so exhausted and emotionally spent, I had to apologize! So I gave it a few more days until I tried to joke around again, then they were a little more prepared to handle it. Still didn't laugh though.
It didn't actually hit me that something major had happened until Wednesday, which was 2 days after the initial stroke. Then I cried again. The hospital stay was so miserable, and my head hurt so bad I was overwhelmed. I was constantly taking oxycodone, throwing up from it, and getting blood drawn every 4 hours like clock work, I was miserable. But I tried to stay in good spirits, because what else can you do!?
By the 4th day I was there I had realized a few things. My math skills had taken a huge hit, my speech quality and word finding had deflated, and I was so weak. That day my father and fiancé drove home leaving my mother and me, two overly emotional women to deal with everything else! This makes me laugh now but at the time we mostly cried each time the other cried! The nurses were incredible though, I loved each and every one of them. The doctors were great too, but I didn't see as much of them as I did those awesome nurses. Everyone that ended up sitting down and talking with us about all the things we'd need to do when we left was incredible. The speech and physical therapists were so nice, so was the occupational therapist. Luckily by the time I saw them all I was doing much better, and was able to walk on my own and talk almost like normal. They cleared me in the hospital but said I'd need to see a physical therapist and a speech therapist when I got back home, just to check up.
So Saturday May 6th I got on a plane with my mom and went back home. I can't lie; my mother and I were both terrified for what the future held. I didn't know if I had to be extra careful to make sure I didn't jostle my brain or what... even though the doctors had said I'd be fine as long as I didn't over-exert myself. And then... life went on as normal... sort of.
The first couple of weeks back home were bad, but that was due to headaches and an allergic reaction to the seizure medicine they put me on in the hospital. Did you know that an allergic reaction to Dilantin looks a lot like a normal viral infection? Neither did I. Three different doctors looked at me and said the same thing, but I was getting progressively worse so I went to emergent care and my smart father had been doing some research and asked the doctor at emergent care to check my Dilantin levels, turns out they were WAY too high. I was weaned off the medicine and immediately felt better.After that I didn't really have anything scary really happen again. My blood levels were inconsistent so my Coumadin dose kept changing but that's not really a huge issue unless it goes on for too long without treatment. I was told I couldn't drive for a bout 3 months due to that seizure, and so far it's going okay. My neurologist had met with me about 2 weeks after I got home and he had ordered and EEG for me to take to see if I was going to have any more problems with seizures. I had really figured I was fine, everyone had pretty much said so because the seizure was caused by that bleed. Then I went in for my monthly checkup and he had told me that the stroke did in fact harm my brain. I was seizure prone. So now I'm stuck on the seizure medicine for 2 more years, then a repeat test and hopefully I'm better, if not then I'll be seizure prone indefinitely. That hurt because I thought I wouldn't have any permanent damage, I thought I was good! But oh well, you take these things as they come right? Right.
So here I stand today, 52 days since I had my stroke. In those 52 days I turned 24, kissed my fiancé so many times, hugged my family and friends, cried, laughed, and changed. I changed a lot. I'm off birth control, and will never be allowed to go back on it again. I am cutting back on drinking alcohol when I get off this medicine; I haven't drunk more than a tiny sip since the stroke. Overall I'm thankful for the life that I was given. Everyone looks for a purpose in their lives; I believe a part of my purpose is to be an advocate towards educating young people that strokes don't just happen to older people. Strokes can hit you at any age. Know the signs and symptoms and get help fast! I also feel the need to warn young women like me that birth control can harm you. We see the commercials all the time about lawsuits but assume nothing will ever happen to us, and we are wrong. There have been days where I've been angry because I'm different, my life was one way for 23 years and in the blink of an eye it'll be different forever. I'm now a "Survivor".
So now I'm 24, going to school to be an elementary school teacher, and getting married in August of 2014. My life has just begun, or as I've seen people call it, my "second life", because God gave me another chance to be greater than I was and I intend to not let him down.
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Let's say that someone is relatively new to the genre, what would you recommend? These are some of my suggestions:
Earth's Mightiest Heroes (#1-8, 2006) and Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes II (#1-8, 2007). Set during the first few years of the original 60's series, these two miniseries do a great job of making sense of some of the often baffling character motivations of the time, believably explaining why certain characters either sought out or were granted membership in the first place.
Astonishing X-Men Omnibus (2009) collects Whedon and Cassaday's classic 2004-2008 run (issues 1-24). It's a pretty good place to start reading X-men, and just a really solid run in itself. I could probably do a top 10 just for X-men, but if I were to recommend just one it would be this one.
Black Panther: The Client is a really good story, and if you like that, Black Panther: Enemy of the State is pretty good too..
Peter David's Madrox (2004) Marvel Knights miniseries was really, really good, if you can find that. It came out just before his 2006 X-Factor series started, so it sort of sets up that (and if you're interested it's also collected in the X-Factor By Peter David: The Complete Collection #1 - Volume 1, along with the first 12 issues of that series), but it stands pretty well on it's own too.
She-Hulk: Single Green Female (2004) is a pretty fun read and the beginning of a great run for She-Hulk. If you're looking for some more light-hearted superhero fare, this is a good place to look.
The Cage (2002) Max series was really good. It's not in continuity, in fact it's not even really a superhero comic, but it's definitely the series that made me first like Luke Cage.
I guess that's maybe more than 5, but I'd recommend all of these quite highly, depending on what you're looking for..
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I haven't read a huge amount of comics, especially any in Marvel continuity, but Runaways leaps to mind as being particularly good and relatively stand alone.
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OK, how's this for a plan: We all go on a buying binge — I'm personally thinking a sporty new $75k Jaguar, a $500k McMansion in an exclusive community, an extended vacation at a ritzy St. Lucia resort from November through February while wintry winds blow, maybe a Rolex or two, a fancy boat, and well, you get the picture.
You can doubtless come up with a similar list.
Then when the payment notices come in, we'll just say collectively: Oh, my generous Uncle Sam will take care of it. Send the bills to Ben Bernanke over at the Fed; he'll bail us out. Gotta protect the financial system, after all.
Which is pretty much what we've done in the ongoing subprime mortgage fiasco, wherein brokerages and banks were lending money willy-nilly to people who couldn't afford the houses and other real estate they were buying.
But hey, who cares, it was bringing business in the door, generating millions of dollars in commissions and bonuses for company execs and, wow, is free enterprise America great or what?
Following the meltdown of Bear Sterns — which had brokered subprime mortgages for anyone who could put an X on the dotted line, regardless of repayment ability — and what was shaping up to be a financial crisis of monumental proportions, the Fed stepped in with $29 billion to keep the house of cards from collapsing.
This, when Bear Sterns' CEO got $132 million in compensation over five years (ranking in the top 25 in the entire U.S.) and five top executives of the company got payments totaling $381 million. Plus millions more in bonuses. In a fiddling-while-Rome-burns scenario, the Wall Street Journal reported that Bear Sterns' CEO was playing in a bridge tournament in Nashville and was out of touch by phone or e-mail during 10 critical days when his firm was going down the tubes. Hey, one must have priorities.
The repercussions rocked financial markets worldwide, and a sector that had been flying high, with basically little scrutiny or oversight — market forces at work, don'tcha know — was suddenly under the microscope and the Fed was scrambling to try and prevent a financial panic that was spreading globally.
In addition to the $29 billion to bail out Bear Sterns, the Senate proposed $25 billion in tax breaks for home builders and other affected businesses.
A large share of the blame for the subprime fiasco has been laid at the doorstep of high-roller hedge funds that were making billions of dollars by, in effect, betting that the mortgages wouldn't be paid off. One hedge fund owner is reported to have made $3 billion doing just that.
Shades of Enron!
And while there is something inherently obscene about taxpayers picking up the tab for these high-flying gamblers, the Treasury Department, professing to bring more "transparency" to the operation of 8,000-plus hedge funds, allowed a handful of the funds to write "regulations" for the industry — which is kinda like handing the fox the keys to the henhouse. Analysts say the regs are a sham, basically unenforceable.
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As with its tablet counterpart, the iPhone version of RockMelt is more focused on helping you find new and interesting stories. But the process by which you do that is shaped by which device you're using, and iPhone is most often used with thumbs in landscape or portrait mode.
RockMelt for iPhone is quite intuitive, and its major functions can all be performed with your opposable digit. Tap on a story to read it, swipe to the left to close it, and swipe to the right to save it for later. Tap the RockMelt "R" logo to return to your home stream.
Sharing is much more popular on the iPad version of RockMelt than the old desktop version, and Vishria said he expects similar behavior on the iPhone. "People on RockMelt for desktop are sharing once every 36 hours. On the iPad, it's four times a day." While the desktop versions of RockMelt will continue to function for the foreseeable future, they are no longer available to download for new users.
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My research examines ecosystem restoration projects—looking at how such efforts also restore various kinds of "ecosystem functions," such as absorbing nutrients and preventing erosion. More specifically, my colleagues and I have been looking at stream restoration in urban and agricultural ecosystems. Stream restoration uses various approaches to reconstruct or redesign streams that have been heavily impacted by urbanization, agricultural practices, or past land use.
With stream restoration, we're looking at nutrient uptake, especially nitrogen. Excess nitrogen is one of the ecological stressors that EPA is most interested in because it can cause human health and ecological problems. High levels of nitrate nitrogen in drinking water prevent your body from taking in oxygen efficiently. My work is helping us learn how to "supercharge ecosystems" and enhance their ability to process excess nitrogen.
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I knew I wanted to be a scientist when I was five years-old. My earliest memory is standing in the front yard of my house with my mom and being fascinated by all the birds flying around us. I asked her what kind of birds they were. I knew then, even though I didn't yet know what a scientist was, that I wanted to know more about the world around me.
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I received a B.S. in Zoology from North Dakota State University in Fargo. My undergraduate research focused on raptors in western North Dakota, which was the adventure of a lifetime. Over three years, we camped in the badlands of western North Dakota, hiking around and rappelling down mountains in search of eagles and falcons.
I received an M.S. in Wildlife Biology from the University of Missouri-Columbia where I studied the nesting behavior of an endangered bird called the piping plover. I continued studying endangered birds when I worked for the Fish and Wildlife Service. Later, I earned Ph.D. in Conservation Biology from the university of Minnesota-Twin Cities where my work focused on using chemical and biological indicators of recovery in restored prairie wetlands in South Dakota.
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I got started as a postdoctoral fellow. I came directly from the University of Minnesota to Ada, Oklahoma, where I worked at the Ground Water and Ecosystems Restoration Division. After 14 years there, I relocated to Corvallis, Oregon, where I'm the Chief of the Ecological Effects Branch of the Western Ecology Division.
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For me, it's fascinating to do these large-scale field studies. We collaborate with cities, state agencies, and other resource management agencies that have the capacity, interest and desire to restore a stream. For example, our stream restoration project started in Baltimore where Baltimore County already had a stream restoration project underway. We used that as an opportunity to measure the condition of the stream before and after the restoration.
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US health care could shrink for illegal immigrants (Update)
The law envisions that 32 million uninsured Americans will get access to health coverage by 2019. Because that should mean fewer uninsured patients showing up at hospitals, the program slashed the federal reimbursement for uncompensated care.
The hurts the people who have found care through the country's expansion of community health clinics, which offer free or low-cost care with help from the federal government.
Sonia Limas feels the shift. For years, she would take her daughters to the emergency room whenever they fell sick. As an illegal immigrant, she had no health insurance, and the only place she knew to seek treatment was the hospital or community health clinics.
When the reform has been fully implemented, illegal immigrants will make up the nation's second-largest population of uninsured, or about 25 percent. The only larger group will be people who qualify for insurance but fail to enroll, according to a 2012 study by the Washington-based Urban Institute.
And since about two-thirds of illegal immigrants live in just eight states, those areas will have a disproportionate share of the uninsured to care for.
In communities "where the number of undocumented immigrants is greatest, the strain has reached the breaking point," Rich Umbdenstock, president of the American Hospital Association, wrote last year in a letter to Obama, asking him to keep in mind the uncompensated care hospitals gave to that group. "In response, many hospitals have had to curtail services, delay implementing services, or close beds."
The federal government has offered to expand Medicaid, the joint state-federal health program for the poor and disabled, but states must decide whether to take the deal. And in some of those eight states—including Texas, Florida and New Jersey—hospitals are scrambling to determine whether they will still have enough money to treat the remaining uninsured.
Realistically, taxpayers are already paying for some of the treatment provided to illegal immigrants because hospitals are required by law to stabilize and treat any patients that arrive in an emergency room, regardless of their ability to pay. The money to cover the costs typically comes from federal, state and local taxes.
A solid accounting of money spent treating illegal immigrants is elusive because most hospitals do not ask for immigration status. But some states have tried.
California, which is home to the nation's largest population of illegal immigrants, spent an estimated $1.2 billion last year through Medicaid to care for 822,500 illegal immigrants.
The New Jersey Hospital Association in 2010 estimated that it cost between $600 million and $650 million annually to treat 550,000 illegal immigrants.
And in Texas, a 2010 analysis by the Health and Human Services Commission found that the agency had provided $96 million in benefits to illegal immigrants, up from $81 million two years earlier. The state's public hospital districts spent an additional $717 million in uncompensated care to treat that population.
If large states such as Florida and Texas make good on their intention to forgo federal money to expand Medicaid, the decision "basically eviscerates" the effects of the health care overhaul in those areas because of "who lives there and what they're eligible for," said Lisa Clemans-Cope, a senior researcher at the Urban Institute.
Seeking to curb expenses, hospitals might change what qualifies as an emergency or cap the number of uninsured patients they treat. And although it's believed states with the most illegal immigrants will face a smaller cut, they will still lose money.
Community clinics are a key part of the reform plan and were supposed to take up some of the slack for hospitals. But there is concern that clinics could be inundated with newly insured patients, forcing many illegal immigrants back to emergency rooms.
If necessary, Limas will return to the emergency room, where the attendants help her fill out paperwork to ensure the government covers the bills she cannot afford.
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Something I found funny during this trip - After our cemetery visits I looked across the room to see my son using his laptop to view the cemetery photos he had taken. Since both his and my husband's eyes glaze over when the subject of genealogy, cemeteries & family history come up, I was tickled he found this piece of history interesting enough to take photos in the cemeteries. His graduation gift from basic combat training was a new digital camera and he used it to take some really nice panoramic photos of the cemetery and landscape. I'll share one later if he remembers to email it to his Mom.


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USDA continued to fine tune old crop production, supply and exports in its April 10 World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates, including raising exports for cotton and rice. Here's more:
USDA reduced projected U.S. cotton production by 119,000 based on ginning reports, while raising exports by 400,000 bales, reflecting very strong shipments in recent weeks. Ending stocks are now forecast 500,000 bales lower than last month, to 3.4 million bales, equivalent to an ending stocks-to-use ratio of 23 percent.
Forecast world cotton ending stocks were raised sharply this month, to a record 66.1 million bales, due partly to adjustments for India. In addition, the government of China's accumulation of cotton in the national reserve is constraining free supplies, thereby boosting its imports while limiting consumption. China's forecast ending stocks now account for 35 percent of world stocks.
World production for 2011-12 was reduced about 500,000 bales while world consumption was reduced 1 million bales.
Projected rice imports were raised 500,000 hundredweight to 20.5 million (in long-grain) based on the pace of imports. Rice domestic and residual use is estimated at 123 million hundredweight, down 1 million (in long grain) from last month, and a decrease of 11 percent from the previous year record.
Projected exports were raised 3 million hundredweight to 92 million as net sales for March picked up significantly, and totaled over 325,000 tons, compared to less than 200,000 tons in February.
The long-grain export forecast was raised 1 million hundredweight to 58 million, largely due to increased sales to Venezuela. The combined medium- and short-grain export projection was raised 2 million to 34 million primarily due to increased sales to Turkey and South Korea.
Rough rice exports are projected at 32 million hundredweight, up 1 million from a month ago, and combined milled- and brown-rice were increased 2 million (rough-equivalent basis) to 60 million.
U.S. rice ending stocks were projected at 39 million hundredweight, 1.5 million below last month, and 9.5 million below the previous year. Projected long-grain ending stocks were lowered 500,000 hundredweight to 24.1 million, and combined medium- and short-grain rice stocks were lowered 2 million hundredweight to 12.2 million.
World rice production was reduced 1.7 million tons to 463.7 million tons, still a record, largely due to lower projections for Burma, Colombia, Egypt, and Indonesia. Global consumption was reduced 4.1 million tons to 458.8 million, still a record. Forecast global exports for 2011-12 were raised 800,000 tons to 33.9 million tons, down nearly a million tons from 2010-11.
Corn for ethanol in 2011-12 is projected at 5 billion bushels, which was unchanged from the previous month. According to the Energy Information Administration, the average daily ethanol disappearance fell to a 23-month low in January pushing ethanol stocks to a new record high.
According to USDA, the quick start to corn planting this spring and more intended acres across the South raises the potential for a substantial increase in new-crop corn use.
Projected U.S. soybean exports for 2011-12 were increased 15 million bushels this month to 1.29 billion. U.S. soybean ending stocks are projected at 250 million bushels, down 25 million from last month.
Brazil soybean production is forecast at 66 million tons, down 2.5 million from last month as warm temperatures and a lack of rainfall since late February in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul further reduced yield and production prospects. Argentina and Paraguay soybean production estimates also are further reduced this month, reflecting the damaging effects of this year's drought.
Lower soybean exports are forecast for Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Global soybean ending stocks are projected at 55.5 million tons, down 1.8 million from last month, and down 13.6 million tons from last year.
U.S. wheat ending stocks for 2011-12 are projected 32 million bushels lower. Projected feed and residual use were raised 35 million bushels reflecting higher-than-expected disappearance during December-February.
Global wheat supplies for 2011-12 were lowered 500,000 tons as reductions in beginning stocks for a number of countries more than offset a 300,000-ton increase in global production. Global wheat imports for 2011-12 are projected 1.6 million tons higher. Global wheat consumption for 2011-12 was raised 2.8 million tons on higher expected feed and residual usage.


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'Pompeii' Trailer: Civilization Falls Under the Shadow of a Greater Power
Posted on Wednesday, December 4th, 2013 by Russ Fischer
At this point you probably have a pretty good handle on the style of a Paul WS Anderson movie — he turns out one b-movie after another that use affordable effects, attractive stars and genre concepts to lure in audiences. And the audiences always seem to show up, making Anderson one of the more reliable directors from a business perspective.
Here, he changes things up a bit for Pompeii. The attractive cast is there (Kit Harinton, Carrie-Anne Moss, Emily Browning, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Paz Vega) as are the big digital effects and gritty but pretty violence. But there's also a real historic backdrop — the destruction of the ancient city of Pompeii after the explosion of the volcano Vesuvius — giving the story a real weight. Will it work? Get some idea via the new trailer below. Read More »


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This is my first GeekList and I wanted to share some useful information (in my point of view) with you.
Probably most of you already know about Book Depository, a website where you can buy lots of books without paying a penny for shipping. As a frequent (and compulsive ) buyer, I've been ordering lots of products from them (mainly books, but also stationery stuff) since I found them, around one year ago.
Of course, the purpouse of this GeekList is to let you know about the board games they sell, and how to get them. As Book Depository doesn't have a specific section for board games, sometimes you have to search for them in weird ways.
Therefore, with this GeekList I hope the people who didn't know about Book Depository to find a place where to buy cheap games, and for the ones that already knew it, to show them titles they might have overlooked.
Note1: English is not my first language, so even if I did my best to not make a mistake, sure it could have happened. Please don't hesitate to let me know!
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Note4: Let me recommend you another great list, where you can find some of this titles in other website similar to Book Depository (WITH FREE SHIPPING ALSO).
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CALGARY — Talisman Energy Inc. is weeks away from introducing layoffs and other administrative cutting that will chop $260-million from annual costs, a conference in Whistler, B.C., heard Thursday.
Helen Wesley, executive vice-president of corporate services for the Calgary-based international oil and gas producer, said the downsizing of corporate ambition under Hal Kvisle, appointed chief executive four months ago, means fewer staff will be required going forward.
She said the company spends about $1.3-billion annually on gross general and administrative costs — people, offices, transportation — and is aiming to cut at least 20% of that.
"We are focused on a run rate by the end of 2013 that is significantly different than where we are today," she said.
"I think probably at least 20%, overall, and that's a combination of people and indirect costs, that's what our $1.3 (billion) is made up of."
In October, Kvisle announced that Talisman would cut its capital budget this year by $1-billion to $3-billion, exit unprofitable regions and use proceeds from a $1.5-billion North Sea joint venture deal with China's Sinopec to pay down debt rather than buy back shares as previously planned.
He said Talisman will concentrate on boosting cash flow from lower-risk operations in the Americas, Southeast Asia and the North Sea.
Kvisle, the former CEO of TransCanada Corp., replaced John Manzoni in September.
Talisman spokeswoman Phoebe Buckland said in an e-mail the company announced internally this month that Tony Meggs, executive vice-president of special projects since May 2011, will be leaving as part of the cuts.
Richard Herbert, executive vice-president of exploration, said Thursday at the CIBC conference the company is moving cautiously on asset sales.
"I think we'll see some action in 2013 … there's an urgency to look at this hard," said Herbert.
The sales could include assets in Peru, which Talisman announced it would sell last year, and in Poland, he said.
"Of our three core regions, only one of them (Southeast Asia) is generating free cash flow today and supporting the totality," he said.
He said there are "intangible considerations" when looking at asset sales.
"One of them is that some of the very important relationships we have as a company are with state oil companies like Petronas in Malaysia, or Pertomina in Indonesia, Ecopetrol in Colombia," said Herbert.
"I think those relationships to some extent depend on Talisman being a global player and being of the scale and size that it is."


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Anniversary of Chilean coup brings renewed calls for justice
The Chilean military officer put a pistol to folksinger Victor Jara's head in a game of Russian roulette, twirled the chamber and shot him point blank. Then he ordered a group of conscripts to fire into his corpse.
Now, four decades after Jara's death, a civil lawsuit has been filed in federal court in Jacksonville, claiming that Pedro Pablo Barrientos Nuñez — a man now living in Florida — is responsible for those events as well as the torture of Jara in the days after the democratically elected Marxist President Salvador Allende was toppled and a military dictatorship installed.
Chile marks the 40th anniversary of the bloody coup Wednesday and it is still struggling to come to terms with the legacy of Gen. Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship that stretched from 1973 to 1990.
More than 3,000 people were killed by state agents or disappeared during that era, according to government estimates, and more than 27,000 were tortured. All told, the government now recognizes that more than 40,000 people were killed, imprisoned for political reasons or tortured.
Chile's Supreme Court President Ruben Ballesteros acknowledged Friday that the court was responsible for "serious actions and omissions" during the military dictatorship. And a few days earlier the Association of Magistrates issued a public apology for not doing enough to prevent abuses during the Pinochet years.
But through the years, Jara's widow, Joan, has kept up a steady drumbeat to find those responsible for the death of her husband — not only a singer but also a social icon, university professor, theater director and political activist.
As with many victims of the dictatorship, justice has proven elusive.
For decades it wasn't even clear what went on behind the closed locker-room door at the stadium where Jara, a faculty member at State Technical University, was taken after he and nearly 1,000 students, professors and others were picked up on campus on Sept. 11, 1973.
It was the same day fighter jets flew over La Moneda, the presidential palace, and bombed the parliament — and Allende shot himself after recording a farewell radio address to the nation. At the time of the coup Chile had one of the longest-running, democratic traditions in the Americas.
Lawyers working on the case had complained that Chile's military was stonewalling, still denying it had information about which officers were assigned to the stadium.
In late December 2012, eight retired army officers, including Barrientos, were indicted in Chile in connection with the murder and torture of Jara.
Barrientos was a lieutenant and a section commander in the Tejas Verdes regiment in 1973, according to the civil suit.
Barrientos, who has been living in a modest home in Deltona — a city of 85,000 residents midway between Daytona Beach and Orlando — and Hugo Sánchez, a lieutenant colonel who was second in command at the stadium and lives in Chile, were charged with committing the murder. The six other officers were charged as accomplices.
But the civil suit filed Wednesday in Jacksonville goes a step further, alleging that Barrientos was the triggerman and the officer who instigated the torture of Jara.
"We believe Barrientos was the shooter,'' said Almudena Bernabeu, a lawyer with the San Francisco-based Center for Justice and Accountability, a human-rights organization.
The center and the Chadbourne & Parke law firm filed the civil suit on behalf of Jara's widow, his daughter Amanda Jara Turner, and his step-daughter Manuela Bunster. Attempts to reach Barrientos were unsuccessful. One of his two listed phone numbers has been disconnected; another is out of service.
Last year, he denied any involvement and told Chilevisión TV: "I do not need to face justice because I have not killed anyone.''
Barrientos, 64, was served notice of the civil suit Wednesday evening when he opened the door of his home, according to the Jara family legal team.
Now a U.S. citizen, he has been working in the auto parts business and has lived in the United States since 1989, said Bernabeu.
Property records show that he bought his two-bedroom fixer-upper in a distress sale for $24,900 in April 2012. Previously he had lived in the communities of Winter Springs, Longwood and Altamonte Springs.
The civil complaint against Barrientos includes claims of torture, extrajudicial killing, crimes against humanity, arbitrary detention, and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. It seeks unspecified compensatory and punitive damages.
But Bernabeu said the case isn't as much about money as it is about justice for Jara and perhaps providing an impetus for the murder case in Chile.
"Victor's pursuit of democracy and human rights remains an inspiration to people around the world and his memory is ever present as we mark the 40th anniversary of the military coup and Victor's murder,'' said Joan Jara in a statement.
Jara was one of the most popular proponents of nueva canción, a movement that mixed traditional Latin American folk music with revolutionary themes. His song Venceremos (We shall overcome) was widely used at Allende rallies.
But to the military, Jara was a communist, a dangerous voice who was too close to Allende and needed to be silenced.
According to the complaint, Jara was in the physical custody of Barrientos and the soldiers under his command when he was held at an underground locker room at the stadium.
For decades the sequence of events at the stadium was murky. Jara was hastily buried in secret after a civil servant, who recognized his body at the morgue, summoned his wife to identify him. Joan Jara, a British dancer, and her daughters then fled to her homeland. Now all are Chilean citizens.
Jara's body was exhumed in 2009 and that helped the investigation. It showed he had been shot in the head and later riddled with shots. There were at least 40 bullet wounds in his body.
But the investigation really advanced when conscripts, rather than just high-ranking military officers, were interviewed, said Bernabeu. "The conscripts don't have the same silence code or loyalty as the officers,'' she said. "What we didn't have before was information about who was directly involved."
The testimony of the conscripts helped build the case against Barrientos, she said.
For the case to go forward in Chile, Barrientos would have to be extradited. Chile's Supreme Court has already signed off on extradition, but the foreign ministry needs to issue the request and that hasn't happened.
Bernabeu said with the Chilean presidential election approaching, the government may not be highly motivated to move on requesting extradition.
"What the civil suit also does is add a wider sense of justice that the family has been seeking for so long,'' she said.
Meanwhile, the 40th anniversary of the coup has prompted soul-searching and even self-recrimination in Chile , a country still divided over Pinochet and the past.
There are those who view Pinochet, who died in 2006, as the man who saved Chile from communism, from becoming the Cuba of the Southern Cone.
But for others he remains a perpetrator of state terrorism and rampant disregard for human rights.
Chilean President Sebastián Piñera asked for help in healing the country last week and made a plea for anyone with information about those who "disappeared'' during the Pinochet era to come forward.
"Truth is lacking,'' he said, "when it comes to knowing the circumstances of how they died and the places where the people who are disappeared are buried.'' Knowing, the president said, "will bring relief not only to their family members but to all of society.''
"One of the strongest impacts of the dictatorship, even more so than the killing of people and the disappearance of people, was how a whole society became more fearful,'' said Javiera Parada, who remembers as a 11-year-old hearing a police helicopter from her classroom. It turned out to be the helicopter that took away her father, who had just dropped her off at school.
The next day her father, a teacher and another person were found near the airport with their throats slit, said the 39-year-old producer and artist.
"An entire society was living for 17 years with fear: fear of neighbor, fear about everyone,'' she said. "What matters now is how we can start to dialogue with a country where never, never, never again will this type of thing happen.''
Ariel Nuñez Castaneda, 24, was just an infant when the military dictatorship ended, but he said his generation still feels very close to the subject of the coup. "I believe the coup is something that should not be forgotten,'' said the graphic artist. "I really think that Chile may evolve into a better country. What I hope for is a fair and equitable Chile, in education, in the economy and in opportunities."
Now Jara's memory is kept alive at the stadium where he died. Today it is known as Estadio Victor Jara and is used as a homeless shelter.
On the wall is a plaque engraved with some of the last lines Jara ever wrote: "How hard it is to sing, when I must sing of horror. Horror in which I'm living, horror in which I'm dying.''
Correspondent MaryRose Fison contributed to this story from Santiago, Chile.


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In 2012, Earth Day was observed by more than 1 billion people in 192 countries. This worldwide event, celebrated today, inspires people to come together in an effort to reduce environmental destruction, and provide for an Earth that future generations can enjoy.
But, for many, sustainability is something to be celebrated throughout the year. Hope-Geneva Bookstore at Hope College is one such store, who believes they should initiate eco-friendly solutions as often as possible.
So, for the past three years, they've offered students the option to recycle their textbooks through OnePlanet Books. Bonnie Washburn, MBS Representative, clued the store into the offering and they were eager to implement it.
"The best part about the program is that it's easy," explained Mary Deenik, textbook manager. "We explored other options, but so much of the money was lost in administrative costs. This program allows us to gain the most revenue, so we can have the most significant impact on the causes that we support. Plus, we've worked with MBS for years and it's a company we trust, so can say without a doubt where the money comes from and where it goes."
For the first couple terms, the store reinvested the funds earned through OnePlanet Books into the store. But, when a student approached them with the idea of donating to Rwanda, an area of the world that is desperately in need of support, the store's staff was eager to help in any way they could.
In 1994, Rwanda was the site of genocide. Tragically, approximately one million individuals were killed in a little over three months. This terrifying event decimated the country's economic base, impoverishing the population. As a result, many children were left without families to raise them.
Daniel Owens, senior at Hope College, is an active member of the Be Hope project, an on-campus organization that has worked in conjunction with the Nibakure Children's Village (NCV) , a nonprofit dedicated to providing resources to the orphaned children of Rwanda, since 2008 to build and support an orphanage.
In 2011, Owens joined the cause as an intern and began searching for new ways to generate resources for the orphanage.
"I got to thinking, our school always has book buyback, but sometimes, the books can't be bought back and students are upset that they have nowhere to take their book," he explained. "What if we gave students the opportunity to do something positive with it?"
From there, Owens approached Deenik and pitched his idea. OnePlanet Books immediately came to mind and a partnership was quickly formed.
"Daniel and other members of the organization setup the table near our buyback, and staffed the whole thing," Deenik said. "They were very proactive about it; for instance, they contacted different professors on campus, and many showed up with boxes full of books! It's amazing what they're able to collect, while still juggling finals during the same week."
According to Deenik, the whole campus came together to show their support for the cause.
"The cooperation we've received is amazing," she described. "Our deans, faculty, staff and students have really stepped up and gotten involved. For example, one of our custodians finds unclaimed books, which she collects and brings to the store throughout the year. The way everyone unites is truly wonderful."
The Book Drive has raised well over $1000 to contribute to the cause during the bi-annual events hosted during buyback. A large part of that success is due to the fact that the store has offered to match any funds that Owens and the Be Hope project raise, dollar for dollar.
"Mary has been generous and supportive throughout the process; we're very grateful," Owens emphasized. "The Book Drive is a mutually beneficial experience because it fills a need at the bookstore and for our organization. It's a great way for us to spread awareness to students about the work that we're doing and the store is able to offer a positive alternative to throwing away textbooks. It helps the store, it helps the students and, most importantly, it helps Rwanda."
"We feel good about it! It gives me peace of mind knowing that I am disposing of no value books in a responsible manner and helping a great cause at the same time," Deenik added. "The best part is that the orphanage receives every penny that is raised. I hope the Book Drive only continues to grow from here."
"Our mission isn't to save an orphanage, it's to empower the children there with opportunities," he explained. "We allocate the money we raise to suit their specific needs. For instance, the money from this year's Book Drive went to support Internet access."
Unsurprisingly, Owens says the experience of living alongside the 17 children who reside in the orphanage was a life-changing one.
"It was a truly fascinating experience," he said. "I learned far more by going there than I could ever give back; it was amazing."
And, it all started with a book.


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Steel Point development moves ahead
BRIDGEPORT -- If the city's long-awaited Steel Point redevelopment suffers additional delays, Mayor Bill Finch is lining up scapegoats -- United Illuminating's suburban electric customers.
Hearst Connecticut Newspapers last Sunday reported the roadwork scheduled for the harbor project is stalled while the city and UI fight about burying the power lines.
Bids on the road construction were sought in the spring and the hope had been to break ground in August, with work continuing through the winter.
The Finch administration says it put $1.3 million on the table and UI unfairly wants the city and/or developer, Robert Christoph, of Florida, to foot the full, $3.6 million bill.
UI argues that the request to install equipment underground goes beyond its usual responsibilities to customers and the costs should not be shared by all ratepayers.
In subsequent interviews last week, Finch and his head of economic development, David Kooris, refined their arguments, claiming the city has not only the moral high ground but is planning for the future.
Finch weighed in while chatting with residents of Bridgeport Elderly Housing on North Avenue last week.
As the mayor touted his efforts to move Steel Point forward after 30 years of fits and starts, one woman mentioned the reported delays, which have pushed off the much-ballyhooed opening of anchor tenant Bass Pro Shops to mid-2014, from Christmas 2013.
"It's really unfair to our city," the mayor said, making a case that too often the suburbs take advantage of Bridgeport without returning the favor.
Asked afterward to elaborate, Finch said, "Urban ratepayers paid to develop the suburban and urban electrical grid, and now everybody wants to put the cost of the electrical grid on each project."
"That's not fair. That's sort of like changing the rules midstream. We want everybody to pay for the electric grids, not just the people in Bridgeport," Finch said. "We want the widest base of people to pay for development that's going to be beneficial to the entire state of Connecticut."
Bass Pro, a leading outdoor recreation retailer, is being enticed to open its first Connecticut location with unspecified financial incentives still being negotiated by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's administration.
Kooris, in a separate interview, said the entire state is talking about burying power lines in reaction to more incidents of severe weather and longer blackouts.
"We're going to be designing Steel Point for the next 50 years, not the next five years," Kooris said. "It's a little ironic we've talked about undergrounding every line in the state so every cul-de-sac with five houses isn't vulnerable from wind and storm damage, but when it comes to a 50-acre peninsula next to a train station on Long Island Sound that's going to have millions of square feet of development, all of a sudden undergrounding is for questionable purposes."
The issue is likely heading to the state Public Utilities Regulatory Authority for mediation.
"We're aware the city, developer and UI are discussing the issue," PURA spokesman Dennis Schain said. "Taking it to PURA is an option that they have ... Realistically, if UI were asked to pay for it, it would probably need to go to the rate base."
But Schain said that historically such issues have been settled without PURA's involvement.
If Bridgeport is forced to pay the full $3.6 million, it will mean cuts in other areas of the budget, Kooris and Finch said.
"The general idea is, it's going to have to be diverted from other projects elsewhere," Kooris said.
UI spokesman Michael West reiterated that the company is not treating the Steel Point project any differently than others.
"This is what we do with every project, no matter if it's in Ansonia or Bridgeport or New Haven or wherever," he said. "If you just want service, this is not even a discussion ... `Yes, I want service, but this way' -- those are extra costs."
And West said the benefits of burying electrical infrastructure are still being debated.
"Certainly you reduce your exposure to the elements, but this is a nationwide discussion many utilities across the country are engaging in at the moment," West said. "The question becomes, `how do you pay for it and are customers willing to pay for it?' "
He said a post-Hurricane Sandy survey of customers by UI found only 15 percent were "very willing" to pay higher rates to bury power lines, with 25 percent of respondents "somewhat willing."
West said an additional 20 percent said it depended on the amount their bills would increase, and 25 percent were completely against the proposal.
Joseph McGee, of the Business Council of Fairfield County, said he was shocked by UI's position on Steel Point. McGee has been closely involved with economic development in Bridgeport for decades, and earlier this year co-chaired a statewide task force examining better storm preparation.
"In most commercial centers, the utilities are already underground," he said.
McGee acknowledged that in an ideal world, the dispute would have been settled before the city sought bids in the spring for the Steel Point roadwork.
He said the silver lining is that it appears after so many decades the project is finally moving forward with Bass Pro's arrival.
"It's telling me this is real, with real money involved here," McGee said. "That's a great discussion to be having."
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Zigby lives in a tree house in Mudwater Creek, located on a lush, tropical island. In a typical episode, the enthusiastic zebra "trots into trouble" through his slightly eccentric behavior. He is followed by his friends, McMeer, the cheeky and silly meerkat, and Bertie Bird, the anxious guinea fowl.


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Lamb and Mutton
Best to Buy
Look for fresh lamb that has creamy white fat and firm, pinkish red meat.
Prep & Store
Refrigerate fresh lamb and mutton in its original wrapping, over-wrapped with foil, for no more than four days, two days for stew meat or ground lamb or mutton.
Quick & Easy Recipe
Grill steaks, chops, or ribs for about 5 minutes per side and brush with barbecue sauce (or other glaze).
Nutrition Notes
Lamb is an excellent source of vitamin B12 and a good source of iron.
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