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How To: Properly Control Bleeding (and when NOT to use a tourniquet)

Basic First Aid courses are widely available and highly encouraged. Often times it’s what happens before first responders arrive that can make the most difference to those involved in a serious accident. Knowing a little first aid, and the proper way to do CPR, can and does save lives.

When we think of uncontrollable bleeding, the first word out of our mouths is often “tourniquet!” but in fact, they are a last resort.

1. Apply direct pressure to the wound. If you have some kind of sterile dressing to work with, all the better — otherwise, just look for something clean.

2. As you’re applying pressure, elevate the extremity. If you have another set of hands to help you, they can be doing this while you apply pressure. Otherwise, apply pressure first then find a way to lift the extremity above the level of the heart. This will help slow the amount of blood exiting the body. If the injured person is not already lying down and in shock position, you may want to ease them down.

3. Keep applying pressure and change the dressings if you can, with whatever you have on hand. If you can create a rigid splint to keep the extremity from moving, do so. Pretty much anything strong that’s the length of the extremity will work.

When to apply a tourniquet:

If the injured person’s bleeding does not slow and stop, or if they begin to show signs and symptoms of hypovolemic shock — such as loss of consciousness, blue lips, a weak pulse and shallow breathing — you may need to apply a tourniquet. This should always be your last resort to stop bleeding. If the limb has been entirely amputated, a tourniquet should be applied.

1. Use what you have available (but never wire or anything that will cut into the skin) to first tie a half-knot around the limb, then place something atop the knot (like a small stick) before finishing off the knot.

2. Positionally, it should be above the site of the bleeding but not at the joint. It should ideally be between 2 to 4 inches from the site of the wound.

3. Place the tourniquet itself over the fabric of the person’s clothing if you can; a little padding is helpful and will reduce the likelihood of skin damage. Remember the time you applied it.

4. Use the stick as a handle to twist the tourniquet tight around the limb until the bleeding has stopped.

Other tips:

Do not cover the tourniquet, it should remain visible at all times.
Let the first responders know that you have fastened one and keep track of how long it remains on.
If limbs have been amputated but are nearby, retrieve them.
Once a tourniquet has been applied do not remove it — only a physician or trained medical professional should remove the tourniquet, which requires specific technique and support to reduce the chance of shock.

How To: Escape Your Car If It’s Submerged In Water

1. Leave everything behind. Time is of the essence here, so do not reach for your cell phone, or unplug your AUX cable, or reach for your Garmin. Just get out of the car.

2. Do not open the door (it’s harder to do and speeds up the sinking process) — roll down your windows instead. You’ll have about thirty seconds to a minute before the car fills with water. This is what’s called the “floating period” and it’ll be the most crucial for your escape. Once this period of time elapses, the water pressure will push the car down faster — taking you with it.

3. Got electric windows so the circuits shorted the minute you hit the water? Break the window instead. You can actually buy tools specifically for this purpose. They even come in keychain size.

4. Once the window is open, you should be able to swim up and out — if you can’t open the window, you still have a chance once the pressure has equalized to open the door. The catch being, in order to get to the surface, you’ll need the near super-human ability to hold your breath.

Cc: yemibayo, jopretty, Acecube

How To: Survive An Avalanche


1. It might seem obvious, but the most important thing you can do to avoid perishing in an avalanche is to thrash around, effectively swimming, above the cascade of snow.

2. If you can manage it, keep one arm above your head as you thrash about — this helps alert rescuers to your location for one and, two, should you end up beneath the surface, it will help you orient yourself.

3. Speaking of orienting yourself amid the snow, another way to figure out which direction you want to dig (read: UP) is to spit. Figure out what direction your spit is falling in — and dig the other way.

4. Unlike being buried in a coffin, your air supply under mounds of snow is considerably less; about fifteen minutes. So again, don’t panic — and use your energy for digging.

Whether you’re a closet doomsday planner or a disaster film addict, knowing what to do in the worst-case scenario should be at the top of your reading list. Why? Well, you never know when you might find yourself in a serious pickle, and sometimes the only thing between you and death is what you know — only the savvy survive!


1 How To: Get Out Of A Coffin If You’ve Been Buried Alive.

Once upon a time, graves had bells attached to them so that in the event of a premature burial, the not-dead-yets could ring it to alert the gravekeeper that they were, in fact, alive. That’s where the term saved by the bell originates.
In modern times, if your family is clever enough, you might find yourself buried with a ringer of a different kind — a cellphone. Yes, some people have actually buried loved ones with a cell phone. You know. Just in case. But if you find yourself buried alive and either 1. without a cellphone or 2. without full bars, here are a few tips for escaping.

1. Firstly, don’t panic. If you panic, you’ll start to hyperventilate and suck up what little oxygen you have to work with. In a typical coffin, you’ll have enough air to last an hour or two at most, so be conservative.

2. Hope that your family has been relatively cheap in choosing your afterlife accommodations. If the lid of your coffin is pine, it should be fairly light and easy to either lift up or break through. If it’s hardwood or, God forbid, metal, you’re probably screwed (unless you’d like to use morse code to tap out an S.O.S).

3. Take stock of your possessions — were you buried with any tokens? Are any of them helpful? Are you wearing jewelry of any kind, or even have a ballpoint pen? In these instances, being the kind of person who always leaves random things in your suit jacket pockets for years and years may be your saving grace.

4. Remove your shirt. In a small enclosure it won’t be easy, but your goal is to get it off and tied over your head. No, you’re not going to smother yourself — you’re going to prevent the cascade of inbound dirt from smothering you. Pray that your family didn’t bury you in your ‘80s roller rink mesh top.

5. Kick the coffin lid upward until you make an opening — the closer to your head, the better. If the coffin was cheaply made, you may not have much work ahead of you, as the weight of the dirt above may have cracked it.

6. As the dirt fills in, use your hands to push it away from your face, toward your feet. Again, work quickly but calmly so to conserve your strength and your air.
When you’ve cleared enough space to sit up, do so and continue pushing dirt down until you can stand. At this point, you should be able to climb out. Or, alternatively, have caused enough of a show that someone above ground has heard you and is rushing to your aid.

For everyone who feels like the world is going to hell, and has been for some time, the results of this year’s Global Peace Index can certainly provide grist for the mill.



Each year for the last ten years, the Institute for Economics & Peace, an Australian NGO, has produced the Global Peace Index.

This systematic investigation uses data from sources like The World Bank and the United Nations to analyze 23 qualitative and quantitative indicators, primarily based around safety within a given state, level of domestic and international conflict, and degree of militarization.

In analyzing all this information across 163 independent states and territories covering 99.7 percent of the world’s population, the Global Peace Index creates what is perhaps the most widely cited and comprehensive worldwide ranking of peacefulness.

And this year’s results are rather dispiriting.

First and foremost, the latest findings reveal a continuation of two major ten-year trends: world peace overall is declining, and the gap between the least and most peaceful nations is widening.

More specifically, when compared with last year’s results, 81 countries became more peaceful, while 79 became less peaceful. But those two groups did not offset each other because the decreases were significantly larger than the increases.

Although many countries (particularly in Europe, the world’s most peaceful region) now sit at all-time highs in terms of peacefulness, most of the Middle East and north and central Africa has deteriorated so badly that the global average is down (the five least peaceful nations, in order, are: Syria, South Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Somalia).

What’s chiefly fueling this deterioration — in the Middle East and Africa specifically but certainly across the world at large as well — is no surprise: terrorism.

With an 80 percent increase from last year, the worldwide level of terrorism has now reached an all-time high. Over the last year, the number of countries with terrorist attacks causing more than 500 deaths doubled, and only 69 countries worldwide did not record a terrorist incident.

Beyond terrorism, battle deaths in conflict are the highest they’ve been in 25 years, and the number of refugees is the highest it’s been in 60 years.

Furthermore, the economic impact of this violence is staggering, no matter how you look at it: it comes in at a total cost of $13.6 trillion, equaling 13.3 percent of the entire world economy — or $1,876 for every person on Earth.

All this violence has left us with just 11 nations landing in the Global Peace Index’s top tier denoting “very high” peacefulness. The top five most peaceful nations, in order, are: Iceland, Denmark, Austria, New Zealand, and Portugal.

Joining these nations on the bright side, Central America and the Caribbean — widely (and justly) reviled as the worldwide leaders in homicide — actually saw the largest improvement in peacefulness of any region on Earth.

And just to the north, the United States — with a slightly lower score than last year, fueled largely by a very high incarceration rate — placed near the bottom of the middle, ranking 103 out of 163.


When will Nigeria be Peaceful? See as our own RED

Source: http://economicsandpeace.org/
http://www.visionofhumanity.org/#/page/our-gpi-findings
http://static.visionofhumanity.org/sites/default/files/GPI2016_map_canvasizingwithlegend%28highres%29.pdf

easrael:
Apologies for that

The newly bought Camon C9, not extremely used to it already

Lol...... This one you don`t want to get used to it, you no like am? abi you wan sell am?

Chai

If this happened in the eastern part of Nigeria now, the thread would have been filled with name checkers association

Shame on them.

They don't want the child to rest in peace

Hmmm

E concern them o

When they'll be sharing money in private they won't invite any of us. So guys chill and leave them to settle themselves

Janet101:
Very educative

Sure, but it won't get much audience cos I didn't include snake pic or story in it. If you know what I mean

Cc: lalasticlala

Mtcheew... When you need thunder to fire some herdsman u no go see am.

Y na.


And yet someone is telling me some people won't die miserably? They must.

I hope he didn't "touch" the little girl?

This looks fetish and more of rituals to me. Reason being that there are many girls out there, but instead they're raping elderly women there. Even over 60yrs old?? Na Na Na. They're doing something with them. Especially the part where they use white handkie to wipe the private part..

It's rituals

Sorry for the loss... And what is Hell-Roof-Eye doing about drainage in his state? He should start work already jorrrr. They just wanted power by all means without knowing how to lead. Mtcheeeew.... Rip to them

Children learn differently. But please be very sure that he's not being victimized by his teachers. Cos sometimes the way teachers scold at children who are "quiet" like yours makes them even quiet the more. It makes them hide in their "shell" just the way I see your child is doing. If he was generally quiet everywhere and dull, the child won't be playing at home and reciting all he learns in school.... Op, to solve your problem, look first at the school before anywhere else. ... And hope the teacher isn't one frustrated Aunty who has been looking for a husband and can't get because of her bad character??

Ok the guy in the middle is doing pick-pocket

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You’ve been doing it since you were 17, will do it with four to six people in your lifetime, and, even if you’re married, will still do it at least once a week. But how much do you really know about sex?



The answer to that question may very well be “not a lot,” and perhaps that’s because there are plenty of weird sex facts that you just don’t want to know. Here are a handful that may keep you out of the bedroom for a while — or maybe not:


Na so dem ban me for no reason.

So thread has been moved.

easrael:
I presently use three mobile phones

1) Iphone 6s Plus
2) Phantom 5

I am indeed a lover of premium brands and phones

This phones makes me stand out everywhere I step my feet into.

And what is the third phone?? I thought you said you use 3 and you even started numbering them.

No Resolution


The case’s sole break came almost a year later, when two men were shot while trying to break into the home of a judge in Bay Ridge, New York. The men, Bill Mosher and Joe Douglas, were career criminals who had just been released from prison and decided to celebrate by robbing the home of a well-known judge. What they had not anticipated was that the judge’s neighbors would hear them break in and come to the judge’s defense armed with rifles, which they used immediately to shoot down the intruders.

Douglas died immediately, but Mosher stayed alive for a short time after being shot. He knew, however, that he would die from his wounds and told witnesses in the room that he had abducted Charley Ross. What he told them exactly has always been up for debate: he either said that the pair had killed the child or that he at the very least knew where the child was. He gave no further clues and died minutes later.

Upon news of Mosher’s death-bed confession, then six-year-old Walter Ross was brought to the New York City morgue to view the bodies of Douglas and Mosher, and possibly identify them as the men in the carriage. Walter said they were. He specifically remembered Mosher, who had a peculiar nose (either from syphilis or cancer) which the child had remarked a year earlier as being “a monkey nose.”

While Walter may have identified the abductors, the whereabouts of Charley Ross remained unknown. Since both suspects were dead, the only other arrest made was that of a Philadelphia police officer who had apparently been a confidant of Mosher. Authorities believed that he had known about Charley Ross’ abduction and insisted otherwise. The officer was tried and convicted of a lesser conspiracy charge, not kidnapping, and spent six years in prison.

The Ross’s search for their son did not end. Over the course of their lives, they spent more than $60,000 (what would be equal to $1.2 million today) trying to find their son. Mr. Ross published a book, The Father’s Story of Charley Ross, and often spoke about the case, even after the media’s interest dwindled.

More than a century later, the name Charley Ross has not been entirely forgotten. An online database for missing children, The Charley Project, was named in his honor. And in the years that would follow, many high-profile child abductions were brought into light through the media’s interest in the case. The faces of missing children were put on milk cartons, circulated through PR wires and, later, on television screens. Perhaps most of all, Charley Ross’s legacy lives on through the lesson we instill in our children from a very young age: don’t take candy from strangers.

Learn about the real-life tragedy that inspired the phrase “Don’t take candy sweets from strangers.


Each year in the United States, upwards of 800,000 children under the age of 18 disappear — and that’s just counting reported missing persons cases.

While these cases often make fine fodder for evening news, for most of history they did not garner popular attention. Indeed, it wasn’t until the disappearance of Etan Patz and later, Adam Walsh, that mass media became a tool to crack the cases as well as pass legislation meant to curb the number of them that end in death. But almost 200 years before Etan Patz and Adam Walsh inspired the concern of millions came a little boy named Charley Ross, who would become the first missing child in American history to make headlines.


The Kidnapping of Charley Ross


It was mid-summer of 1874 in Philadelphia. Charles Brewster Ross and his older brother, Walter, were playing in the front yard of their home in the city’s well-to-do Germantown neighborhood. In spite of their neighborhood’s reputation, the Ross’s were not particularly affluent: the previous year’s stock market crash had sent the family into financial hardship, but four year old Charley and Walter, age five, were blissfully unaware. At the time, they concerned themselves most with seeing their mother, who had gone to Atlantic City with the Ross’s eldest daughter to recuperate from an illness.

One day in late June, Walter told Ross that two men in a horse-drawn carriage had approached the boys when they were playing and offered them some candy. A bit unnerved by this encounter, Ross told his son that should the men return, the boys were not to take candy from them — or any other stranger, for that matter.

The boys agreed.

Over the next few days leading up to the 4th of July, Ross heard nothing more of the strangers; instead, he had to tend to the cries of his sons, who wanted to buy firecrackers before the holiday. Ross explained that he would accompany them to the store and buy them firecrackers on the 4th — but not before — as he feared they’d burn the house down playing with them unsupervised. The boys persisted, and he relented, coming home from work early on the evening of July 1st to surprise them.

When he arrived home, he did not see the boys and asked the servants where they were. The servants replied that the children had been out front on the sidewalk playing with the neighborhood children. Not seeing them in the front yard, Ross soon dispatched his help into the neighborhood to knock on doors, inquiring on the boys’ whereabouts. He was not yet terribly concerned, thinking they had just gone to a friend’s house. But as he passed through the neighborhood, a neighbor asked him if he thought the boys would have taken a ride with strangers.

It seemed that several hours earlier, Ross’s neighbor had seen the boys take off in a horse-drawn carriage with two men she did not recognize. Ross, thinking about the men who offered his sons candy, went immediately to the police.



Ross Finds One Son — And Frustration With The Police

On his way, he encountered Walter. Relieved, he asked the boy where he had been — and where his brother was. Walter was so frightened that he couldn’t respond. When pressed, Walter told his father that the men promised the boys that they would get firecrackers if they entered the wagon. When they arrived, Charley began to cry and asked to go home. The men sent Walter into the store, and when he left the wagon had gone. Afraid and unsure how to get home, Walter began to cry, at which time a neighbor picked him up and brought him back to the neighborhood.

Several people corroborated Walter’s story.

Ross gave a description of his son to the police, who sent it out via wire to all the precincts around the city. The police were not altogether worried, thinking that perhaps Charley had been picked up by some “drunkards” who would soon tire of him, and leave him on a sidewalk for retrieval.

Ross grew increasingly impatient with the police and interviewed people on his own. The more the community heard of the missing boy, the more invested they became in his safe return — so much so that the news of the missing boy hit the front pages of newspapers across the country. That unprecedented event was also how Mrs. Ross found out her son had likely been kidnapped.


While his wife scrambled to get home, Ross received the first of several ransom notes, indicating that this was an intentional kidnapping, not a drunken mistake. The poorly penned note demanded $20,000 (about $420,000 today), which Ross could simply not pay, both physically and morally. Ross was in no position to offer that kind of money in exchange for his son, nor did he want to incentivize others to kidnap children for financial gain.

Instead, Ross — now reunited with his distraught wife — employed the famous Pinkerton Detective Agency, hoping that their expertise would make up for local police’ lackadaisical response. The detectives searched everywhere to no avail: Charley Ross could not be found.

The Ross’s continued to receive ransom letters, and once they had come up with the $20,000, made several attempts to pay the kidnappers. But every time they went to the agreed upon meet-up place to make the exchange, the kidnappers never showed.

A few more weeks went by, and eventually the ransom letters just stopped coming.

to be cont`d


source(s): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charley_Ross
http://www.ushistory.org/germantown/upper/charley.htm
https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/history/famous-cases/charles-ross-kidnapping

So much for the religion of piss peace.

When they were stoning her, wasn`t he there? Abegi he should answer for his crimes.

A novel that unsuspectedly described the spy next door

When Norman Mailer began his novel Barbary Shore, there was no plan to have a Russian spy as a character. As he worked on it, he introduced a Russian spy in the U.S. as a minor character. As the work progressed, the spy became the dominant character in the novel. After the novel was completed, the U.S. Immigration Service arrested a man who lived just one floor above Mailer in the same apartment building. He was Colonel Rudolf Abel, alleged to be the top Russian spy working in the U.S. at that time. (Source: Science Digest)

Twins brothers, same heart attack

John and Arthur Mowforth were twins who lived about 80 miles apart in Great Britain. On the evening of May 22, 1975, both fell severely ill from chest pains. The families of both men were completely unaware of the other's illness. Both men were rushed to separate hospitals at approximately the same time. And both died of heart attacks shortly after arrival. (Source: Chronogenetics: The Inheretance of Biological Time, Luigi Gedda and Gianni Brenci)

(Source: Chronogenetics: The Inheretance of Biological Time, Luigi Gedda and Gianni Brenci)

frankline5:
your own no sweet

Lol... You no get joy o


Meanwhile


A novel that predicted the Titanic's destiny, and another ship that almost followed

Morgan Robertson, in 1898, wrote "Futility". It described the maiden voyage of a transatlantic luxury liner named the Titan. Although it was touted as being unsinkable, it strikes an iceberg and sinks with much loss of life. In 1912 the Titanic, a transatlantic luxury liner widely touted as unsinkable strikes an iceberg and sinks with great loss of life on her maiden voyage. In the Book, the Month of the Wreck was April, same as in the real event. There were 3,000 passengers on the book; in reality, 2,207. In the Book, there were 24 Lifeboats; in reality, 20.
Months after the Titanic sank, a tramp steamer was traveling through the foggy Atlantic with only a young boy on watch. It came into his head that it had been thereabouts that the Titanic had sunk, and he was suddenly terrified by the thought of the name of his ship - the Titanian. Panic-stricken, he sounded the warning. The ship stopped, just in time: a huge iceberg loomed out of the fog directly in their path. The Titanian was saved.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futility,_or_the_Wreck_of_the_Titan

A pair of twins separated at birth went on to live remarkably similar lives.

Both were given the name James by their adoptive parents. Both grew up to become a police officer and marry a woman named Linda. Both gave their sons the same name (spelled slightly differently): James Allan and James Alan. Both men’s families had a dog named Toy. And both divorced their first wife and then married a woman named Betty.

Joseph Figlock was walking down a Detroit street in the 1930s, minding his own business, when a baby fell from a fourth floor window straight onto his head. A year later, the same child fell from the same window, again landing on Figlock. Luckily, in both cases, Figlock and the infant survived their unexpected meetings.

Edgar Allan Poe had but one novel published: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, released in 1838. The novel tells of a doomed Antarctic journey in which four shipwrecked crewmen decide to eat cabin boy Richard Parker in order to survive.

In 1884, four crewmembers survived the ship wreckage of a vessel named the Mignonette. The survivors decided to eat their cabin boy in order to live. As fate would have it, that cabin boy's name was Richard Parker.

In 1974, a taxi in Bermuda struck a man riding his and killed him. Exactly one year later, the man’s brother died while driving the very same moped -- after he had been struck by the same taxi driver, carrying the same passenger, on the same street where his brother perished.

On February 13, 1746, a Frenchman named Jean Marie Dubarry was executed for the murder of his father. Exactly 100 years later — to the day — an unrelated man also named Jean Marie Dubarry was put to death. His crime? Patricide.

Adolf Hitler was born 129 years after Napoleon Bonaparte. Hitler’s rise to power took place 129 years after Napoleon's; he invaded Russia 129 years after Napoleon, and he was ultimately defeated 129 years after the defeat of Napoleon.

Author Mark Twain was born in 1835, a year that Halley’s Comet was visible from the Earth, a phenomenon that occurs just once every 76 years. The day after the next appearance of the comet, in 1910, Twain died.

Perhaps this alone is not a huge coincidence, but the year before his death, Twain had actually predicted (and hoped for) this very outcome, stating “I came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don’t go out with Halley’s Comet.”

After finding a copy of Jack Frost and Other Stories in a 1920s Paris bookshop, children’s author Anne Parrish told her husband about how much she had loved the book as a child. When he opened the book, the couple found the following inscription: “Anne Parrish, 209 N. Weber Street, Colorado Springs.”

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The first man to die during the building of the Hoover Dam was J.G. Tierney, on December 20, 1922. The final man to die during the project was Patrick W. Tierney, his son, in 1935 -- also on December 20.