Apparently there is a yarn CSA that I thought some of the community here might be interested in. I'm not affiliated or anything, just pointing.
Janet @31: According to Australian Fauna (who knows how authoritative this is), it's a common misconception that a baby platypus is a puggle - they say there is no official name but suggest 'platypup'.
So I've been following the Member's Project through American Express, which has turned out to be kind of interesting. The idea was that members submit projects, then members vote on which they want to fund. And American Express then funds it up to something like US $5 Million. (the whole shebang is at membersproject.com).
One of the finalists ended up to be an organization called Population Services International. They are providing clean water for just pennies! PSI turns out to be led by an American Express cardholder who also happens to be a P&G employee. In fact, the project is in turn funded by UNICEF, and behind them, Procter and Gamble, which apparently lists the program as its signature social marketing program. The idea is to sell Pur water filtration packets to developing countries at cost. Further they've started to sell these packets for profit in the US and use that money to plow back into PSI.
It's not quite astroturfing, a topic that continues to be pop up around here now and again. But is there a word for what's happening here, something about swooping in to capture a co-branding moment? Or does this just serve AmEx for trying to turn a credit card into a vehicle for social entrepreneurship to begin with?
[20 paragraphs of horrific information]...To treat for shock, get the patient lying down. A person in shock can’t control body temperature well, so wrap him in a blanket (under him as well as over him). Raise his feet twelve to eighteen inches. Provide oxygen if you have it. Establish two large-bore IVs in the best, most proximal veins you can find. Stay with him, hold his hand, talk to him.
James, this is the first post of yours that really upset me, in part due to its quite high danger to quite low potential assistance or response ratio. I'm not sure of what the value of spelling out this info when so few of us could have the tools to cope. It's not like your other amazing posts - this one is just a little too much like death-and-danger sadism to me. Maybe a little more on what to do?
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