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A bit of an own goal today from Rafiq. Joe Root was interviewed and said he could not recall instances of racism. To which Rafiq responded "Disappointed is not even the feeling. Incredibly hurt. But uncomfortable truths are hard to accept it seems." Except that's not all that Root said! When asked if he saw it, Root responded "Not that I can recall, no... but it's clear things have happened at the club." He also said that the racism scandal at his county side has "fractured [the] game and torn lives apart" and went on to say: "I just want the sport to be a place where everyone is enjoying it for the beautiful game it is and feels equal and safe...We need to educate, unify and reset. I want to see change and actions that will see Yorkshire County Cricket Club rise from this with a culture that harnesses a diverse environment with trust across all communities that support cricket in the county." What does Rafiq want Root to do, lie for him to make the point? Instead Root's told the truth and been very supportive of the need for change. A pretty stupid move to claim to be upset by someone being so supportive...

Time to buy the place out of NZ flags, black ferns blacks caps and any other piece of Kiwi tribute we can muster. New Zealand vs Australia in the final...

Compression bandages/emergency bandages/Israeli dressings are good for venal bleeds, but they don't give enough pressure to stop an arterial bleed quickly enough. being elastic they have a certain amount of stretchiness that makes it hard to clamp down successfully, particularly if it's the femoral artery that's been severed. All that bone and muscle gets in the way and because the compression is spread out over a wider area, you don't get that direct, specific crushing needed to close the artery. They also have the disadvantage of being designed to cover the wound. That makes it harder to tell if it's still bleeding, so your patient could be bleeding out either inside the bandage or inside the body without you necessarily being aware of it. You can use them in series - one on top of the other - but that takes a lot of time and faffing and makes you one, two, three etc. dressings down should you need them for anything else. The CAT is far quicker and guarantees achieving its goal, whilst leaving you free to use your Israeli dressings for other injuries. That said, in their place, Israeli dressings are brilliant, particularly for big, messy injuries that don't include a severed artery. It's best to have both if you're thinking you'll be in a situation where you can conceivably recognise an injury occurring. The likelihood is you'll never need a CAT. but if it ever happens, they're as close to genius as something so simple can get. The company behind them claim that since its introduction in 2005, they've decreased fatalities due to extreme blood loss in the US army by 85%.

The dog was, according to The Times, 'an eight stone bulldog called beast' and had to be shot seven times. They'd only had the dog a couple of weeks and it had been advertised on FB. The previous owner had said he was rehoming because he didn't get on with other dogs but was 'great with people' and was 'about the size of a labrador.' A 52kg labrador... A pretty miserably story all round.

Well that's part of the problem, isn't it? If it boxed to come out, then her behaviour isn't necessary - unless she's doing this every time in which case she shouldn't be handling horses, let alone being a Team Leader with The Pony Club! If this is a pony that has regularly struggled with boxing, then they should get specific, specialist help - or move the pony on to a home where that's not a big issue. But my OH's yet to meet a horse she hasn't been able to get into a box, it just takes time and training with both rider and horse. Give the horse the help it needs before throwing it into the chaos that is a meet with sabs around. Beating it into submission is an idiot's solution.

The Pony Club's already acted. She's been removed from her position as Team Leader for the Cottesmore branch, which is a start. For those not aware, The Pony Club carries huge influence, particularly in the grassroots elements of riding and equestrianism. Most people riding would have had some connection to The Pony Club at some stage in their lives and that goes for elite/international competitors. One of its three fundamental objectives is 'to give instruction in riding and horsemastership and to educate Members to look after and to take proper care of their animal' - an objective she's failed at spectacularly. She's given responsible drag hunters terrible press, energised the antis and risked people calling into question the integrity of a critical grassroots organisation for horse riding and horse welfare. From the horse and riding stance, she deserves everything that's coming. That said, no one should be subjected to death threats and as we all know, sabs can be vile. Also, it shouldn't have a bearing on her role as a primary school teacher. The school suspending her seems a bit unfair. I hope they just remind her of her responsibilities and leave it at that.

No that's shoddy horsemanship. I don't think it's her horse - possibly her child's? She takes the reins off what looks like a pretty young rider. No excuses. Any rider worth their salt would be livid if they'd seen that going on to a horse. If it doesn't box well, find a solution without beating it into submission. Cruel and a sure fire way to ruin a horse. This ain't even close to the done thing. My partner teaches boxing to both riders and horses, there's a knack to it and some horses need more convincing than others, but there is a myriad of things that can be done to make this treatment unnecessary. It's about as bad a situation to try and box a difficult horse as it's possible to get and none of it's the fault of the horse.

Yeah this is what I've been taught and it makes sense. Yes, leaving it on risks losing a limb, but so be it. It's a worse risk to start the bleeding again. And it's bad that you're killing a limb, but it's far worse to allow the toxic shock to flood the system. That can lead to multiple organ failure and ultimately a fatality. I'd be able to look an amputee in the eye if I'd caused the amputation, but saved their life. I'm not sure I could do the same to their relatives if I'd saved them with a CAT, then killed them through removing it.

Ah you see that's where you're wrong! Soon the might of the Liberal Democrats led by...whats-his-name...will sweep all before them and storm to power in a mighty demonstration of third party politics! They'll lead us all into a pro-brexit, Euro-supporting promised land of green freedom and opportunity! It'll happen! Or not. They sent a flyer through the door the other day. The top half was about Tory incompetence from the County Council. The bottom half was a story that the LibDems had secured a clean up for a roundabout - led by that same council they'd just accused of being incompetent. Probably not a good idea to point out the accomplishments of the party you hope to overthrow on your own propaganda. They're comically inept sometimes.

Pah. Middle order coward

First Aid advice has changed these days and they're encouraged in the right situation; as @Hickysays it's if there's arterial bleeding but only arterial bleeding. If an artery's been cut, nothing's going to be stopping that except a correctly applied tourniquet and the CAT's a doddle to use. Place 2 or 3 inches above the wound on the passage to/from the heart, do the strap up and tighten with the windlass until the flow stops. It really is that simple. With any tourniquet there is a chance you'll kill the limb. But as my instructor said, sod the limb, save the life. Get it on and crank the pressure. Your patient is much more likely to make it to the operating table with a tourniquet than without, especially with the femoral artery. With all that muscle and tissue, getting effective pressure even with pressure bandages is difficult. Taking off a tourniquet is where it's possible to do more harm than good and should be done by a professional. With the release in pressure you run the risk of flooding the body with an awful lot of nasty toxins floating around in the dying limb, as well as the risk of undoing all the good work of stopping the massive blood loss. But if you've got your person to that point, then as first aider, you've done your job, it's up to the professionals to do theirs when it's time to take it off.

Sums almost every single thread in Other Topics, but there's still value in having the threads Yup. exactly so. I think the trouble here is that there was no apology, or recognition of the effect it caused. Then Yorks compounded it by having an enquiry, admitting the abuse, but then decided nothing needed to be done because of it and tried to sweep it all under the carpet in redacted reports and NDA's.

What I love about the CAT is it's so usable and easy to teach. If you're the casualty and need to teach someone how to use it on you, it's so straightforward and if it's an arterial cut, even Celox struggles. Venal stuff's fine, but nothing beats a tourniquet if the air's getting sprayed red. What's odd is the holders seem to be more expensive to replace than the CAT!

Nope that's not good enough. This is from team mates, it's from club officials, it's from people closely associated with the club and it was meted out on a player representing them. This was over a sustained period, not one-off comments. To say 'oh it's just Yorkshire' is a cop out. Put yourself in the players' (and it's plural now) shoes. You expect a certain level of personal abuse from opposition fans. It's unnecessary, banal and childish, but it happens. But where do you turn when it's your own club doing it? Ballance has already come out to publicly apologise for comments he's made, so Yorkshire's lamentable attempt to sweep it under the carpet looks crass and ill-judged at best. The report actually found that he had been victim of 'racial harassment and bullying' - but they decided not to do anything about it. In any business, if a report had found evidence of 'racial harassment and bullying' there would be consequences. It smacks of a club that has assumed it's got some kind of inherent special status. Putting them into the international wilderness for a bit is a start. He was there for ten seasons and played all formats. The new chair's made a difference and has brought in a lot of measures to make it transparent. The full report can be disclosed to anyone; initially Rafiq was given a heavily redacted version. The tribunal was settled with Rafiq - and the non-disclosure agreement Yorks had tried to slip in was removed. They've also set up a process for complaints to be made and there will be a review into the processes behind diversity at the club.

Depends on whether or not it's a chainsaw doing the pinch! 🤣

Anyone in the forces/emergency response or somesuch carry a CAT on their person? Do you use a case for it and if so, what type? My pouch completely disappeared, which is annoying. Any recommendations would be appreciated. I have the CAT just not the pouch. If it attaches to a belt, that'd be useful, because right now the CAT's just got to sit in my first aid kit and I'd like it more easily accessible than that.

Well this is going well! Bullying display all over the pitch, but especially in the scrum. I think we should just keep it with the forwards and beat them up a bit more

Second one about to kick off. BBC2

This is why they came home! My other half, ever the pragmatist, gave them a quick prod, thought 'ach they're fine' and bought them. No softness or discolouration, they were entirely normal carrots. More evidence of good old fashioned common sense: she was cooking Butternut squash risotto tonight, and came out with the line 'I couldn't find any sage, I'm afraid, so we'll have to replace sage with bacon'. Win.

My partner did the shopping today and came back with this bag of carrots for 9p, reduced from 35p reduced from...something. There's nothing wrong with them! What is it with people, that they'd spurn a bag of entirely fine carrots for 35p, that Morrisons felt the need to drop it to 9p, just to stop them being wasted?? They could easily have been served in their own right as veg, but they're going in soup - merged with a pumpkin that our boss swore couldn't be used for anything because it was 'only a Halloween pumpkin and couldn't be cooked with.' Or at least some of the pumpkin. A shed load is left, so that might become pumpkin pie or something. But none of that is complicated, it's not exactly finesse cooking. There should be no reason for good food to ever go to waste and yet... So, thank you Alastair Ferguson for your carrots, we appreciate them, even if idiots don't. RAHHHH Rant over.

It's taken her that long to recover from the match?! Must have been bad.

A bit like policing then: Make sure at the end of it you go home alive - anything else is a bonus! Well done for getting home and hopefully sending the kids away with at least a parent, if not the right parent!

Second best on the market and definitely the best value one! I have the MSR Windburner. It's better than the Alpkit, no question, particularly at keeping a flame even in very windy conditions - but it costs a bomb. Is it more than twice as good as the Alpkit to justify the £125? No chance! If I needed another, I'd go for the Alpkit over any of the others, including the Jetboils.

Aaaand we're back to this again. The armourer's lawyer has suggested it could have been sabotage. He also said that Hannah Gutierrez handed the weapon to the AD and had spun the chamber to show there were only dummy bullets in the gun. Somewhat different to Halls 'grabbing the gun' from a table. Apparently, 'Gutierrez took her job seriously, had given Baldwin and other actors on the film firearms training, and “did everything in her power to ensure a safe set” ' Apart from the litany of errors that have already come to light, obviously... Sabotage could be behind tragedy on Baldwin film set: Lawyer | Entertainment News | Al Jazeera

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