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If you have been in an accident during the last ten years, you could have been a guinea pig for a medical product without even being told –- and the FDA approved it. The products are artificial blood, several types produced by different pharmaceutical corporations. Perfectly good human blood could have been available, but you would have been given the artificial stuff.If you have been in an accident during the last ten years, you could have been a... more
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Wash in running water to get all slime and blood off. Dig a large hole in coarse gravel, preferably down by the sea and far from the nearest inhabited house - this is to make sure the smell doesn't bother anybody.
Hungry?Wash in running water to get all slime and blood off. Dig a large hole in coarse... more
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Giving blood is not a right.
The overriding responsibility of blood collection and distribution agencies is not to ensure all Canadians are allowed to join in this altruistic act, but to ensure the safety of blood and blood products for recipients.
To do so, agencies such as Canadian Blood Services and Héma-Québec must not focus on concerns about rights. Instead they must discriminate - in the true sense of the word.
Héma-Québec and CBS can and must exclude individuals (and sometimes entire groups) from donating to protect the integrity of the blood supply.
At the same time, these agencies must strive to ensure there is an adequate supply of blood, which saves the lives of thousands upon thousands of people each year.
This is not an easy balancing act, particularly in a country such as Canada, where the tainted blood tragedy has left us acutely sensitive to safety concerns.
There are, and always will be, restrictions on blood donors. Currently in Canada, you can't donate blood if you are under the age of 17 or over the age of 71, if you weigh less than 110 pounds (50 kilograms), if you have a cold or the flu, or if you've had a tattoo or piercing in the past six months.
There are also "indefinite deferrals" - or lifetime bans, if you prefer - on members of certain groups. These include diabetics who use insulin and people who have lived in African countries such as Cameroon, Congo and Nigeria, where rates of HIV-AIDS are exceedingly high.
Because of fears of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (the human version of mad cow), CBS excludes from blood donation anyone who has spent three months or more in Britain or France between 1980 and 1996. (Héma-Québec puts the British time limit at one month.)
Anyone who has used intravenous drugs or who has taken money for sex cannot give blood. Also facing a lifetime ban from blood donation is any man who has had sex with another man, even once, since 1977.Giving blood is not a right.
The overriding responsibility of blood collection and... more
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Metal rock band hailing from London, Die So Fluid, performing "Happy Hallowe'en" from their album 'Not Everybody Gets A Happy Ending,' on Renaissance Records, via Koch Entertainment Distribution USA. The band will be in Phoenix, Arizona shooting a new video during the last week of April 2008.Metal rock band hailing from London, Die So Fluid, performing "Happy... more
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After a long point, Mikhail Youzhny takes his aggression out on his head. A cut man comes to his rescue, and Youzhny ends up finishing the match and winning.
His opponent, no doubt, was terrified.After a long point, Mikhail Youzhny takes his aggression out on his head. A cut man... more
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$300 million a day.
On a war we don't even understand.
Nearly 4,000 dead Americans.
Over 40,000 dead Iraqis.
How many does it take?
When will you stand up?$300 million a day.
On a war we don't even understand.
Nearly 4,000 dead... more
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A short film about "gauging" or lobe stretching and it's recent mainstreaming in the U.S. The trials and tribulations of this body modification expressed through the stories of a 17 year old girl (who is at 3/4ths of an inch) a 19 year old gauging veteran, and a 20 year old who decides to punch his cartilage to a size 2. A short film about "gauging" or lobe stretching and it's recent... more
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In 1962, the CIA began a secret war in Laos that would last for 13 years. The Hmong were recruited and armed by the United States government to fight against the encroaching communists. Today, due to provisions of the Patriot Act, some Hmong are considered terrorists for their support of the CIA during the Secret War.In 1962, the CIA began a secret war in Laos that would last for 13 years. The Hmong... more
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British soldiers wounded in battle are being screened for HIV following fears they were given contaminated blood. Eighteen troopers injured in Iraq and Afghanistan are at the centre of the health scare.
They were given transfusions using blood supplied by the American military. Reports say the blood may not have been properly screened, leaving a risk it could have been contaminated with HIV, hepatitis or syphilis.British soldiers wounded in battle are being screened for HIV following fears they... more
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It's Guns Galore in this Gun Safety video gone bad. Starring the Fresh Faces of Comedy.
http://www.freshfacesofcomedy.com
It's Guns Galore in this Gun Safety video gone bad. Starring the Fresh Faces of... more
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"A woman who stabbed her tied-up lover so she could drink his blood has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. Tiffany Sutton told Maricopa County Superior Court Judge David Udall that she was sorry for the incident and said she never meant to hurt anyone, but received the stiff sentence anyway after he called the crime especially heinous."
This and other reasons to not allow your lover to tie u up."A woman who stabbed her tied-up lover so she could drink his blood has been... more
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This short film is a tribute/parody of all those special effect movies I grew up watching with over-the-top non-stop action. Inspired by movies from Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and anything that ILM and WETA are involved with.This short film is a tribute/parody of all those special effect movies I grew up... more
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In the early 1990s, villagers around central China were organized by local governments to sell their blood. But some of these village blood selling businesses were unhygenic and many villagers contracted HIV/AIDS. Angela Sun braves the wrath of local officials to visit a village in Hebei Province where 20% of the residents contracted HIV/AIDS.In the early 1990s, villagers around central China were organized by local governments... more
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