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Located atop a six-story 1919 warehouse, the 40,000 square foot organic Brooklyn Grange rooftop farm built by Bromley Caldari Architects is believe to be the largest of its kind in the world! The almost 1-acre farm is an oasis surrounded by little greenery and lots of concrete in Queens at 37-18 Northern Boulevard. After a successful first growing and selling season that began in the spring of 2010, the farmers at Brooklyn Grange are continuing their production of organic produce that includes 40 varietals of juicy tomatoes, peppers, fennel, salad greens, kale, swiss chard, beans of all sorts and a variety of delicious root vegetables like beets, carrots, and radishes, as well as plenty of herbs. Click through for the delicious details and pictures!

by Krista Leahy, 10/18/11

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Raytheon Missile Systems, the region's largest employer, has donated $100,000 to the University of Arizona's department of surgery.

The gift will fund research on the treatment of wounded soldiers on the battlefield and on civilian trauma victims who come into the emergency department.

A UA news release says specific research areas will include developing devices to detect and treat chest injuries, new human-based resuscitation fluids, and new treatments to stop bleeding. Studies also will focus on traumatic brain injury, tissue transplantation and a last-ditch lifesaving method of the future called suspended animation.

"Advancement for war fighters also will have an immediate impact at home as it will be just as applicable for civilian trauma," said Dr. Peter Rhee, the UA's chief of trauma, critical care and emergency surgery.

Rhee, a former battlefield surgeon for the U.S. military, has been researching suspended animation for the past 15 years and is a leading innovator in the field. The technique that Rhee developed and perfected on research animals while in the military would work by injecting a patient with a cold, potassium-rich solution used to preserve kidneys for transplant. That puts the patient in a state of suspended animation, which makes the heart stop and protects the brain.

The cold fluid takes the patient's body temperature down to severe hypothermia - about 50 degrees Fahrenheit - but it has been proved to not have long-term effects on brain function, Rhee said.

The method allows surgeons to work on repairing the patient's injuries for about 60 to 90 minutes while the body is in suspended animation, and the heart during this time is not beating. Medical researchers are trying to figure out ways to make that period last longer.

UA surgery chief Dr. Rainer Gruessner said innovative research is crucial to discovering new treatments and cures, and to retaining "the high-caliber academic trauma and surgical teams we have at the University of Arizona."

The University of Arizona Medical Center has Southern Arizona's only top-level trauma center and it's the busiest trauma center in the state.

The trauma center costs about $47 million per year to operate, and this year $3.3 million of that came from state Indian gaming revenue. Last year, $4.7 million in Indian casino profits went to UMC. The amount that trauma centers in Arizona receive in casino money each year varies depending on profit.

The local trauma center also receives about $200,000 in state tobacco tax money per year.

Tucson-based Raytheon Missile Systems employs about 10,500 people and is the largest employer in Southern Arizona, according to the Arizona Daily Star's 2010 survey of the area's top 200 employer.

Contact reporter Stephanie Innes at jspitz@azstarnet.com or 573-4134.
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The next new thing doctors are trying to do to save our lives?  Bring us that much closer to death.
Suspended animation is an experimental technique that could buy critically injured patients the crucial extra time needed for surgeons to save their lives. Dr. Peter Rhee, chief of Tucson, Arizona’s trauma center is one of several pioneers behind a growing push to graduate suspended animation from experimental vetting to common treatment. He’s getting there. The Food and Drug Administration has already approved his technique for human trials, and he has secured funding from the Army to conduct the feasibility phase. Dr. Rhee is currently lobbying for funds to conduct a full trial. If he’s successful human trials could begin as early as next year.

The idea is simple: slow a person’s metabolism to such a crawl that the process of dying from say, a gunshot wound, is held in check. Like an animal in hibernation breathing, heartbeat, brain function and general metabolic functions are slowed drastically. Talking to the Arizona Star Daily, Dr. Rhee called suspended animation “when you are no longer alive but you are not dead.”

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