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"‘Man with the golden arm’ saves 2million babies in half a century of donating rare type of blood An Australian man who has been donating his extremely rare kind of blood for 56 years has saved the lives of more than two million babies. James Harrison, 74, has an antibody in his plasma that stops babies dying from Rhesus disease, a form of severe anaemia. He has enabled countless mothers to give birth to healthy babies, including his own daughter, Tracey, who had a healthy son thanks to her father’s blood. Mr Harrison has been giving blood every few weeks since he was 18 years old and has now racked up a total of 984 donations. When he started donating, his blood was deemed so special his life was insured for one million Australian dollars. He was also nicknamed the ‘man with the golden arm’ or the ‘man in two million’. His blood has since led to the development of a vaccine called Anti-D. He said: ‘I’ve never thought about stopping. Never.’ He made a pledge to be a donor aged 14 after undergoing major chest surgery in which he needed 13 litres of blood. ‘I was in hospital for three months,’ he said. ‘The blood I received saved my life so I made a pledge to give blood when I was 18.’ Just after he started donating he was found to have the rare and life-saving antibody in his blood. At the time, thousands of babies in Australia were dying each year of Rhesus disease. Other newborns suffered permanent brain damage because of the condition. The disease creates an incompatibility between the mother’s blood and her unborn baby’s blood. It stems from one having Rh-positive blood and the other Rh-negative. After his blood type was discovered, Mr Harrison volunteered to undergo a series of tests to help develop the Anti-D vaccine. ‘They insured me for a million dollars so I knew my wife Barbara would be taken care of,’ he said. ‘I wasn’t scared. I was glad to help. I had to sign every form going and basically sign my life away.’ "

Awesome.

3/23/2010 7:41:29 PM

I just killed a couple million babies

knowwhatimean

3/23/2010 7:42:21 PM

so... they juiced the dude?

3/23/2010 7:43:19 PM

man, I wish I had awesome magic blood that could save babies!

3/23/2010 7:47:54 PM

Awesome magic blood!

3/23/2010 7:50:42 PM

cool

3/23/2010 7:51:53 PM

what they hesitate to tell you is that James Harrison is, in fact, a unicorn

3/23/2010 7:53:52 PM

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"AWESOME UNICORN BLOOD"

3/23/2010 8:05:59 PM

I bet this guy pulls all kinds of vag

3/23/2010 8:11:31 PM

I hate to be the asshole but that is 2 million more people...

3/23/2010 8:48:26 PM

I realize this thread is about saving 2 million babies....which I have not. Hear me out, maybe I can offer some insight.

I am in outside sales, which is currently salary+commission, but will move into straight commission starting at the beginning of July 2010. I have been in this position since July 2009. I have competition from several direct manufacturing sales reps, large distributors, and local distributors. Here are the advantages and disadvantages of each:

Direct Advantages: Immediate knowledge of new technology, no middle man mark up, one shipping bill (paid by manufacturer or buyer of goods), access to larger range of non-commodity items, control inventory, have access to many distributors that can effectively sell their goods which increases market share, and set prices of commodity they manufacture.

Direct disadvantages: Typically have 1-3 sales reps per region (i.e. southeast, mid-atlantic, northeast, etc.) limiting the number of accounts they can successfully manage/cold-call, lack physical customer service or physical technical service available to or affordable for smaller users or altogether, are sometimes not trustworthy because they will go in behind their distributors that sell their commodity to one account in large quantities (i.e. they missed a big account, and have found out about it through a distributor selling their particular product) which leads to the distributor not selling their product anymore, have too many distributors selling the product ultimately driving the set price down through deviations, possibly rely on distributors to actually sell the product, and competition from other direct sources.

Large distributor advantages: have access to other commodities that go hand in hand with other manufacturers (poor example- grocery stores sell milk as well as cereal), get direct pricing, many locations regionally or nationally easing the shipping burden of buyers with multiple locations, personal service either customer or technical, many sales reps that are able to cover a broader territory, access to multiple manufacturers of the same commodity allowing to keep prices in check, service programs that smaller companies can't offer and direct providers can't match in price or value, and experts of many many commodities as opposed to one or a few.

Large distributor disadvantages: smaller local distributors creating price wars (think Michael Scott Paper Co vs Dunder-Mifflin), direct mfg's going in behind and stealing business, limited access to all of the mfg's (you won't find Harris Teeter name brands in Food Lion and visa versa), can't truly set prices because it's based on both supply and demand, territory management, and tough growth prospects in slower economies (this is true for direct as well really)

Local distributor advantages: Typically a good ol' boy setting where the seller and the buyer know each other for years (this does happen at all levels, but mostly at the local level), local folks are right down the street and can be used in emergencies, if the local guy buys at high enough volumes then there is no shipping charge to the end user, and access to both direct mfg's and large distributors.

Local distributor disadvantages: easily beaten in price, array of commodities, array of technology, lack of trained staff, low cash flow, etc etc etc.

This is what I have noticed in my six months, I am sure there are plenty more that need mentioning. The way I am setting myself apart as a sales person is this: I go after the big accounts right now while I am new. The big accounts, if I land them, will take care of me while I am new and building a customer base. The money made off of those allows me to focus free time on smaller accounts that get me higher margins. I build up big accounts, I would like to have 5-10 of these, then get 20-30 medium accounts. If I lose 1 or 2 big accounts, the 20-30 medium accounts keep me afloat while I go after new big accounts. I don't really waste time on small accounts simply because they basically pay for breakfast or something really small.

I will say this, if you can't get a big account in the first 6-8 months (assuming you have cash flow that you can ride this long) you could be in a world of trouble. If you can get one, it will really make going after the others a lot more enjoyable and less stressful. It's simply just very exhausting wasting any time on anything other than big accounts in the very beginning. You work just as hard on the medium sized accounts and see 1/3 to 1/36 of the money in my situation.

If you have any other questions, you can PM me. I hope this helps in the slightest!

3/23/2010 8:55:20 PM

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"I just killed a couple million babies knowwhatimean "

hahahaha

3/23/2010 8:58:29 PM

i have CMV negative blood which is kinda sorta special. well not really but it means my blood can go to babies and old people. not as cool as the baby saver though.

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" In fact, United Blood Services maintains a list of donors whose blood is CMV negative. When a patient needs CMV negative blood, a CMV negative donor with the patient's blood type can be called to donate for that patient. Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a common virus carried by more than half of the population. Most people who have the virus never know it and for the average healthy person, CMV does not cause a problem. However, for patients whose immune systems are not functioning properly(premature babies, cancer patients and others who cannot fight infection), CMV can be very serious. Testing for CMV is not required, but some donated units are tested for evidence of the virus when it is necessary to provide blood from donors who have not had CMV. "

3/23/2010 9:24:56 PM

i have one of those O bloods

3/23/2010 9:40:26 PM

I got dat 190% O+ blood.

3/23/2010 10:19:42 PM

I COULD'VE EATEN THOSE DEAD BABIES

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"I got dat 190% O+ blood."

isn't O+ the most common blood type?

3/23/2010 10:21:37 PM

Depends on the country.

3/23/2010 10:35:47 PM

my blood is green

what does that mean

i think i have too much chlorophyll

oh god i am no good at circulatory system

3/23/2010 10:37:46 PM

i can never remember if i have A- or A+. i was trying to find my donor card to check but then i got distracted checking the balance on all of my gift cards

3/23/2010 10:38:44 PM

More likely you're + than -

3/23/2010 10:39:31 PM

i'm CMV negative and AB+ (so they be wantin' my plasma but not my RBCs)

3/23/2010 10:41:46 PM

I'm O-...I can give to any type of negative blood

I have no clue about that CMV stuff...how do you find that out?

3/24/2010 12:35:39 AM

^ no, you can give to anyone. o- is the universal donor because it doesn't have any antigens.

3/24/2010 12:38:56 AM

^^ they just sent me a packet in the mail that said i was a "CMV hero" (they being the redcross)

3/24/2010 12:45:52 AM

Then I mean I'm O+....my brain is on crazy mode right now and I am O+, I can donate to only postive blood types....that's what I meant

3/24/2010 12:47:20 AM

I thought this thread was going to be about Obama and health care reform....

g'night TWW....

3/24/2010 2:35:49 AM

Well, the world is severly underpopulated so I'm glad he was around to save all two million. Out of those two million there's bound to be murderers and rapist and such so good going fuckwad. Thanks for helping to save a goddamned murder and rapist. This guy make Michael Glapion look like a super hero.

3/24/2010 7:36:23 AM

oh dear....

3/24/2010 8:02:33 AM

^lots (the long post)

How is that related in any way?

3/24/2010 10:25:35 AM

this is like some Heroes shit

3/24/2010 11:00:38 AM

^^wat?

3/24/2010 11:02:27 AM