"Cleaning blood " as a phrase can be confusing to people looking for a doctor or scientist involved in blood illnesses like ischemia, tissue death, and gangrene. If you were to ask the owner of www.blood-cleanup.com, he would verify that this statement is fact.
For our purposes, "cleaning blood" means working hard for a living. Blood is like a miracle fiber. It has an almost amazing ability to stick to anything. And why not? Blood is actually a "connective tissue" connecting thousands of miles of veins and arteries in critters. In humans, red blood cells' surface area is about 2,000 times greater than our external surface area. No wonder it's so hard to remove!
Blood consists of red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, and blood plasma. Blood plasma is a fluid. It is about 92% water and about 8% blood plasma proteins. What does this mean for a cleaner?
It means that billions of tiny red blood cells have a lot of power for their size. It means that blood cells are so numerous in blood plasma that a tiny bit of blood carries great energy for its size. Is it any wonder that it is so hard to break free, to dislodge its color from porous surfaces? The fluids in blood wick in many substances like wood, drywall, and fabrics.
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Sunday, May 27, 2007
Crazy Videos
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Saturday, May 26, 2007
Crime Scene Cleanup Explained
Crime Scene Cleanup is a phrase denoting a type of professional trauma cleaning. Popular culture plays a part in the term's usage. Television productions like Crime Scene Investigation add to the popularity of Crime Scene Cleanup. Australia, Canada, and England have added Crime Scene Cleanup to their professional cleaning terminology.
The generic terms for Crime Scene Cleanup include trauma cleaning, biohazard recovery, decontamination, and blood cleanup. The crime scene cleaners' work begins when the coroner's office or other official, government body releases the "scene" to the owner or other responsible parties. Only when the police investigation has completely terminated on the contaminated scene may the cleaning companies begin their task.
A crime scene cleanup may involve a single blood loss event following a burglary, battery, or homicide. Companies also clean suicides, unattended deaths, teargas damaged environments, and other crime and trauma scenes. Larger crime scenes involve terrorist attacks, mass murder scenes, and the cleanup of anthrax and other biochemicals. Blood-borne disease is always a safety concern and medical-like standards are invoked when cleaning soiled scenes. Minimal safety standards for cleaning crime scenes are set by OSHA because of employment considerations as well as health issues. Besides the Federal Government's OSHA standards, many state OSHA departments have created similar standards and regulations. Similarly, the Center for Disease Control establishes standards and regulations for working with blood soiled environments as well as exposure reporting.
Crime Scene Cleanup companies may also clean bird and rodent infested areas. Their experience and equipment lends itself to decontaminating areas frequented by potentially deadly viruses.
Standard operating procedures for the crime scene cleanup field often include military-like methods for the decontamination of internal and external environments. Universal precautions recognized World-wide are the cautionary rule-of-thumb for this field of professional cleaning.
Crime Scene Cleanup is a small business activity in most cases. At times small businesses, such as carpet cleaning and water damage companies add Crime Scene Cleanup to diversify their activities. Some franchise opportunities are available through Servpro and other nation-wide franchisers.
Noted authors for the field of Crime Scene Cleanup include Kent Burg and Patrick Moffett. Kent Burg's publications include Crime Scene Cleanup, a how-to paperback. Patrick Moffett's publications are often produced as academic essays and treatises. Moffett defines Crime Scene Cleanup in The Blue Book and lists general price guidelines for cleaning crime scenes. Moffett's activities are generally related to indoor environmental inspection.
Generally recognized organizations for this field of cleaning include the American Bio-recovery Association, ABRA, and the Institute of Inspection, Cleaning, and Restoration Certification, IICRC. ABRA is the largest membership organization in the USA for trauma cleaners. The IICRC is a certifying body for the cleaning trades in general.
Friday, May 25, 2007
Report says Iraq problems were expected
WASHINGTON - Intelligence analysts predicted, in secret papers circulated within the government before the Iraq invasion, that al-Qaida would see U.S. military action as an opportunity to increase its operations and that Iran would try to shape a post-Saddam Iraq.
The top analysts in government also said that establishing a stable democracy in Iraq would be a "long, difficult and probably turbulent process."
Democrats said the newly declassified documents, part of a Senate Intelligence Committee investigation released Friday, make clear that the Bush administration was warned about the very challenges it now faces as it tries to stabilize Iraq.
The top analysts in government also said that establishing a stable democracy in Iraq would be a "long, difficult and probably turbulent process."
Democrats said the newly declassified documents, part of a Senate Intelligence Committee investigation released Friday, make clear that the Bush administration was warned about the very challenges it now faces as it tries to stabilize Iraq.
Boy Scouts of America
The below is from the Boy Scouts of America and can be found HERE.
I think that Ben Franklin may have some part in these ideas.
This is an important document. It is important for a number of reasons, which I will highlight:
1. It sets obtainable goals for easily influenced learners.
2. It sets goals that almost everyone can live by and share.
3. It looks to posterity (the future).
Let's take a look at each and deconstruct as we wish.
I think that Ben Franklin may have some part in these ideas.
This is an important document. It is important for a number of reasons, which I will highlight:
1. It sets obtainable goals for easily influenced learners.
2. It sets goals that almost everyone can live by and share.
3. It looks to posterity (the future).
Let's take a look at each and deconstruct as we wish.
- The Scout Motto[8]
- Be Prepared.
- The Scout Slogan[8]
- Do a Good Turn Daily.
- The Scout Oath[8]
- On my honor, I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law; to help other people at all times; to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight.
- The Scout Law[8]
- A Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent.
- The Outdoor Code[8]
- As an American, I will do my best to be clean in my outdoor manners, be careful with fire, be considerate in the outdoors, and be conservation-minded.
- The Scout Sign[8]
- The upper arm is held horizontally out to the right side, and the forearm is held vertically. The palm of the hand faces forward, with the first three fingers extended and the tips of the little finger and thumb joined.
- The Scout Salute[8]
- A three-finger salute using the same configuration as the Scout Sign, with the tip of the index finger touching the forehead or hat brim.
- The Scout Handshake[8]
- This is the traditional handshake done with the left hand, because upon meeting the zulu king, Dinuzulu, the king removed his shield which was worn on the left arm and extended to Lord Baden-Powell a hand shake with his left hand. The left hand shake was a Zulu sign of vulnerability and respect.
The BSA Scout Oath and Law have remained unchanged since they were first developed in 1910.[9][8]
Eddie Evans
Thursday, May 24, 2007
I don't need an audience, only a desire to organize my thoughts.
"Blogging" is something that I ignored for a long time. I have read few blogs that kept my attention, and I guess that my blog is about as boring as they come.
The purpose of this blog is to help me organize my thoughts. To place some sort of structure into these random thoughts some call a "stream of consciousness." My only regret is that it is titled Crime Scene Cleanup. How limiting!
Then, of course, I don't need to play by any rules when it comes to the title. After all, it's my blog. I can write about anything that I please. And after all, I don't really need to keep Crime Scene Cleanup to a strict definition. After all, I am the owner and lawless creator of CrimeScene.info, one of my highest and proudest achievements. I know; I know that "pride" is one of the seven deadly sins, but that's OK in this context. Take a look and see if you agree.
Then, of course, life is about stories because we are the story telling animal, and perhaps a bit more, too. Like, liars? And all stories are interpreted from different perspectives and in different times and places. Things change, after all. It's so easy to lie, to make up stories that are not true. Just ask George Bush. He knows about story telling.
So any stories that I write, call them essays, I guess, any of these writings can be written as make-believe, magical, or out-and-out poor fiction. But unlike George Bush, I will not lie or tell a story to manipulate others; that's crazy! (Manipulation of others is a form of craziness by definition, by the way.) That's power, but I want to create power in good faith, and create life, nature as I want from my own stories. No injuries to others. What a blast!
I will try to avoid stories about the White House and those who frequent it. I don't stay up on that kind of stuff, anyway. So any stories that I do write about the White House will be as close to factual as I can get; I suppose that these stories will be a form of crime scene writing, too. I just do not see anything good coming out of the Bush White House. Just the same, unlike the Bush White House, I will cite my sources so that I and others can look them up soon and later. No crime in that.
I hate to dwell on George Bush, I really do, but this guy is going backwards, no question. And don't blame it on his religious beliefs because Jimmy Carter was a "born again Christian." He at least had the sense to figure out that the US's oil consumption and other natural resource requirements needed to be slimmed down and made sustainable. Remember, Jimmy Carter was so big on renewable energy.
Where would we and the rest of the world be today had Carter's plans for renewable energy survived past Ronny Raygun and those that followed? We would be some 30 years ahead of where we are today.
Gosh, I'm glad that I was privileged to forgo adding to the massive, exponentially growing human population and its ma·ni·a·cal·ly driven desire for more and more of everything. Have you heard about "snap-back"? Well, you will and you will wish that Jimmy Carter had been elected King. Such a kingship would not have been enough, anyway, but it would have been a starter. Perhaps humanity would have suffered less in the future and done the right thing by handing down more species and their habitat to future generations for the next 10,000 years.
In fact, had Jimmy Carter been elected as our King we would not have had King George nominate corporate freaks to plan the US energy policy and to run the Environmental Protection Agency. Can you imagine! Beyond belief and a genuine crime against humanity and other critters and plants, Bush does it all backwards. Now he is a criminal and cleaning up after Bush is going to take more than we have, I fear.
That's how it is. I'm getting organized here.
Eddie Evans - Story teller.
The purpose of this blog is to help me organize my thoughts. To place some sort of structure into these random thoughts some call a "stream of consciousness." My only regret is that it is titled Crime Scene Cleanup. How limiting!
Then, of course, I don't need to play by any rules when it comes to the title. After all, it's my blog. I can write about anything that I please. And after all, I don't really need to keep Crime Scene Cleanup to a strict definition. After all, I am the owner and lawless creator of CrimeScene.info, one of my highest and proudest achievements. I know; I know that "pride" is one of the seven deadly sins, but that's OK in this context. Take a look and see if you agree.
Then, of course, life is about stories because we are the story telling animal, and perhaps a bit more, too. Like, liars? And all stories are interpreted from different perspectives and in different times and places. Things change, after all. It's so easy to lie, to make up stories that are not true. Just ask George Bush. He knows about story telling.
So any stories that I write, call them essays, I guess, any of these writings can be written as make-believe, magical, or out-and-out poor fiction. But unlike George Bush, I will not lie or tell a story to manipulate others; that's crazy! (Manipulation of others is a form of craziness by definition, by the way.) That's power, but I want to create power in good faith, and create life, nature as I want from my own stories. No injuries to others. What a blast!
I will try to avoid stories about the White House and those who frequent it. I don't stay up on that kind of stuff, anyway. So any stories that I do write about the White House will be as close to factual as I can get; I suppose that these stories will be a form of crime scene writing, too. I just do not see anything good coming out of the Bush White House. Just the same, unlike the Bush White House, I will cite my sources so that I and others can look them up soon and later. No crime in that.
I hate to dwell on George Bush, I really do, but this guy is going backwards, no question. And don't blame it on his religious beliefs because Jimmy Carter was a "born again Christian." He at least had the sense to figure out that the US's oil consumption and other natural resource requirements needed to be slimmed down and made sustainable. Remember, Jimmy Carter was so big on renewable energy.
Where would we and the rest of the world be today had Carter's plans for renewable energy survived past Ronny Raygun and those that followed? We would be some 30 years ahead of where we are today.
Gosh, I'm glad that I was privileged to forgo adding to the massive, exponentially growing human population and its ma·ni·a·cal·ly driven desire for more and more of everything. Have you heard about "snap-back"? Well, you will and you will wish that Jimmy Carter had been elected King. Such a kingship would not have been enough, anyway, but it would have been a starter. Perhaps humanity would have suffered less in the future and done the right thing by handing down more species and their habitat to future generations for the next 10,000 years.
In fact, had Jimmy Carter been elected as our King we would not have had King George nominate corporate freaks to plan the US energy policy and to run the Environmental Protection Agency. Can you imagine! Beyond belief and a genuine crime against humanity and other critters and plants, Bush does it all backwards. Now he is a criminal and cleaning up after Bush is going to take more than we have, I fear.
That's how it is. I'm getting organized here.
Eddie Evans - Story teller.
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