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Kusinich Peels Back the Façade

by coldwarrior ( 166 Comments › )
Filed under Open thread at February 15th, 2017 - 4:37 am

Yes, Dennis Kusinich…(you may place blind squirrel anecdote here)

 

 

please take some time and watch this, i smell neocons…and globalists. There are Trillions of dollars at stake.

Who would gain from Russia and America not cooperating against islam but fighting each other. Why is it a priority for these folks to prevent closer Russian-American ties? Who would gain from war and be hurt by a prosperous peace?

There is No Joy In islam

by coldwarrior ( 83 Comments › )
Filed under Uncategorized at February 14th, 2017 - 8:58 am

There is no joy in islam

JAKARTA/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Valentine’s Day celebrations on Tuesday were banned by authorities in parts of Indonesia and Pakistan, home to Asia’s largest Muslim populations, saying the romantic tradition encouraged casual sex and ran counter to cultural norms.

In Indonesia, officials from the country’s second largest city, Surabaya, ordered schools to prohibit students from celebrating Valentine’s Day, while in Makassar, police raided minimarts and seized condoms in a bid to prevent teenagers from having sex.

“These raids were done after we received reports from residents that the minimarts were selling condoms in an unregulated way, especially on Valentine’s Day,” Makassar police official Jufri was quoted as saying in a media report.

Indonesia’s highest Islamic clerical council declared Valentine’s Day forbidden by Islamic law in 2012, saying it was contradictory to Muslim culture and teachings.

But the vast majority of Indonesia’s more than 220 million Muslims follow a moderate form of Islam in a country with sizeable Christian and Hindu minorities. Indonesia is a secular country whose state ideology enshrines religious diversity.

In Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, and other parts of the country, Valentine’s Day has grown in popularity with companies, like national flag carrier Garuda Indonesia, looking to cash in by offering special discounts and promotions.

In Pakistan, an Islamic republic, a court banned public Valentine’s Day celebrations in its capital.

The Islamabad High Court also ordered the media to “ensure that nothing about the celebration of Valentine’s Day and its promotion is spread”.

IF I FALL BACK DOWN

by coldwarrior ( 118 Comments › )
Filed under Uncategorized at February 13th, 2017 - 3:31 am

there has been a ton of shit piled upon our peeps, we bear the burden.

every day for the past 2 weeks, this blog has been heaped with  bad news, heh.

well..

new thread and a new week!  bring it, BITCH.

 

it is what it is.

Saturday Lecture Series: Hydrogel and Trauma

by coldwarrior ( 215 Comments › )
Filed under Medicine, Military, Open thread, saturday lecture series at February 11th, 2017 - 6:00 am

Good Morning all, welcome to grand rounds here at Blogmocracy General Hospital, today Trauma Team Blue will be giving the lecture on new ways to stop the hemorrhaging in a trauma situation….Even far from the battlefield, hemorrhage is a serious threat to anyone with a severe wound. Each year, it kills more Americans than those who died in the entire Vietnam war.

This is going to be a very, very important advancement in trauma and resuscitation.

 

Scientists in the US have developed a hydrogel-based wound sealant that can be easily applied to stem severe bleeding then gently and precisely removed to allow surgery.

On the 3 October 1993, Corporal James Smith, a 21-year-old US army ranger on operations in Mogadishu, bled to death from a gunshot wound to his thigh and pelvis. You might already know the story of that night, recounted in Mark Bowden’s book Black hawk down. The harrowing story of Smith’s death highlights how difficult it can be for a medic to control internal bleeding before it’s too late – especially if they are pinned down at night by enemy fire, hours from surgical help. Even far from the battlefield, hemorrhage is a serious threat to anyone with a severe wound. Each year, it kills more Americans than those who died in the entire Vietnam war.

Now, a new material could both save lives and reduce pain by combating problems that are ignored by current wound treatments. Boston University’s Mark Grinstaff, who led the work, explains that the market for wound sealants has two critical gaps. First, conventional dressings can be difficult to apply. ‘Imagine trying to pack a pre-formed piece of gauze inside a wound to your groin or neck,’ he says. Second, current wound sealants only focus on reducing blood loss, ‘but what happens when a patient reaches hospital?’ asks Grinstaff. ‘These sealants can’t easily be removed.’ After irreversibly bonding to the wound, the sealant needs to be cut out, causing yet more tissue damage. The already injured patient is further traumatized.

Mixing the dendron with the cross-linker gives a hydrogel that can be dissolved when required

Grinstaff’s laboratory’s solution combines dendrons with cross-linking molecules. When mixed together, these two components react to form a flexible, thioester-linked hydrogel. Grinstaff explains that the material can be sprayed onto a wound. ‘It gels within one second, forming a soft, clear bandage that sticks to tissue,’ significantly reducing blood loss.

The bandage can later be removed by adding a solution containing cysteine methyl ester, which dissolves the hydrogel via a thiol–thioester exchange reaction. Unlike the mechanical cutting currently necessary for sealant removal, Grinstaff’s chemistry-based approach avoids tissue damage and could offer surgeons fine control when re-exposing injuries, simplifying operations.

 


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