Talk to me about sengstaken blakemore tubes smart gastro docs please. Who puts them in? ED regs? or gastro only? When you put them in, is it all the way then inflate in the stomach and pull back? Is it only done in intubated patients? At what stage of bleed would you consider sticking one down? TIA
The lieutenant governor of Texas cut the check on his first bounty for voter fraud evidence to a poll worker in Pennsylvania, but it wasn't the proof he was expecting.
Almost a year after Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick announced that he would pay for evidence of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, someone has received their payout. Patrick sent a $25,000 check to Eric Frank, a Democratic poll worker from Chester County, Pennsylvania, who reported a 72-year-old Republican for voting twice.
"It's my belief that they were trying to get cases of Democrats doing voter fraud. And that just wasn't the case," Frank told the Dallas Morning News. "This kind of blew up in their face."
THREE MICHIGAN WOMEN FACE VOTER FRAUD CHARGES TIED TO 2020 ELECTION
Patrick announced in December 2020 that he had set aside $1 million of his campaign funds for tipsters who could turn over credible evidence of voter fraud that would lead to an arrest and conviction. Anyone who did so would receive $25,000. While several incidents were forwarded to Patrick's office, none of them led to a conviction and sentence.
Frank decided to use Patrick's offer to make a profit — he had previously reported local voter Frank Thurman for casting a ballot twice, once for himself and once for his son.
Frank forwarded evidence of Thurman's conviction to Patrick's spokesman, Allen Blakemore. The poll worker received a payout of $25,000 and was told he didn't receive more because Blakemore was saving the higher payments for "bigger fish."
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In August 1940, a Russian expatriate worked in his well-sheltered garden in Mexico City. He surrounded himself with chickens, rabbits, and peaceful trees. But the man was no vacationing grandpa—he was one of the most famous political exiles in the world, and his home in Coyoacan was surrounded by armed guards and fortress-like walls.
Leon Trotsky had been a political liability in Russia for years before his hasty expulsion. Though he had helped lead the Communist Party to power in Russia during the Bolshevik revolution in 1917, Trotsky quickly became persona non grata to Joseph Stalin. Trotsky’s opposition to Stalin's bloated bureaucracy and his publicly-stated belief that Stalinism wasn’t taking Communism far enough toward permanent world revolution cost him everything.
When Vladimir Lenin died in 1924, it was thought that Trotsky, who had endured a long marriage of political convenience with Lenin, might come to power. But Stalin helped drum up and took advantage of anti-Trotsky sentiment to seize Soviet control instead. Stalin acted swiftly against the former hero, and he swept Trotsky out of his political positions, the Communist Party, and eventually the USSR itself.
As Trotsky looked for a new state to call home, Stalin scrubbed him from photographs and published texts, but Trotsky was more concerned about preserving his actual life. Though he managed to find political asylum in Mexico, he survived multiple assassination attempts over the years and a raid on his compound.
However, on August 20, 1940, Trotsky’s luck ran out. A man who called himself Jacques Mornard had become friends with Trotsky and his armed guards. They exchanged sympathetic political views and chatted about trivial matters, but Mornard was actually Ramón Mercader, a Soviet agent.
After drinking tea with Trotsky, Mercader found his chance. He used an ice axe intended for mountaineering to hack a hole into Trotsky’s skull. But the revolutionary wouldn’t die without a fight. He apparently grappled with Mercader, shouted for help, and even spat in his face and bit his hand during their altercation. Mercader was beaten by Trotsky’s guards and taken to prison.
Trotsky was removed from the scene of the crime and operated on, but he died some 25 hours after the attack. Mercader (as "Mornard") was swiftly arrested and tried, claiming he had murdered Trotsky because he would not allow "Mornard" to marry a woman he loved. He served 20 years in prison under his assumed identity, though
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Hi Reddit,
My name is Colin Blakemore. I’m Professor of Neuroscience and Philosophy at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, and Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Oxford (where I worked in the medical school for 33 years). From 2003-2007 I was the Chief Executive of the British Medical Research Council, which provides hundreds of millions of pounds for medical research each year.
My current research is on human perception, and especially on how our brains put together information from the different senses. But in the past I've also worked on the early development of the brain, on “plasticity”, and on neurodegenerative disease (Huntington’s Disease in particular). A list of most of my publications can be found here.
To my amazement, I was I knighted in 2014 and I was particularly pleased that it was given for contributions to scientific policy and public communication, as well as for research. For the whole of my career, I’ve been a strong advocate for better engagement between the scientific community and the public about how we use science. In particular, I’ve campaigned for openness and proper debate about the use of animals, which was vital for much of my own research in the past.
I recently gave the 79th Annual Paget Lecture, organised by Understanding Animal Research. My talk, entitled “Four Stories about Understanding the Brain”, covered the development of the cerebral cortex, language, Huntingdon’s Disease and Stroke. Watch it here.
This is my first AMA, I’m here to talk about neuroscience, animal research, philosophy and public outreach, but, well, Ask Me Anything! I’m here from 4 – 5pm UTC (EST 11 – noon / PST 8 – 9 am)
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I recently learned about Minnesota or Blakemore tubes in a podcast on massive GI bleeds. The procedure doesn't seem that much more complicated than placing an NG/OG. Does anyone know of services that are allowing or training paramedics to place Minnesota tubes or Blakemore tubes? Seems like this could come in handy, albeit infrequently, in the massive GI bleeder that is circling the drain in the back of the ambulance.
