One organ donor can save up to eight lives.
According to the Health Resources and Services Administration’s website, organdonor.gov, as of February 2021, 107,000 individuals are on the national transplant waiting list.
In Kentucky, 345 individuals received lifesaving organs in 2020, and 943 remain on the waiting list to receive organs, said the Executive Director of Trust for Life, Shelley Snyder.
Although there are over 2 million donors registered in Kentucky alone, according to the Donate Life Kentucky website, only 3 in 1,000 people die in a way that allows for organ donation.
To become a donor, the person has to die in a specific way which would allow the organs to be viable. According to the Health Resources and Services Administration’s website, donors usually die as the result of illness or accident that leads to brain death.
iTWire Tuesday, 06 April 2021 02:37 Launch of Sky Connect will allow Sky to become a force in UK SME market: analyst
Shares Gary Barton, analyst GlobalData
Pay TV provider Sky’s launch of Sky Connect B2B gives the company the potential to become a force in the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) market, according to one analyst firm.
Gary Barton, a Principal Analyst at GlobalData says, however, that Sky should not be too cautious, noting that Sky Connect has played to Sky’s broadband strengths but it needs to do more to stand out in the market.
“Comcast offers advanced WiFi services that Sky should consider adding to its portfolio as soon as possible. GlobalData’s research indicates that poor WiFi performance is a major concern for home workers,” says Barton.
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To the editor: The two lead sentences in your editorial on green power go to the heart of our climate crisis. Limiting the damage from global warming means the survival of human civilization. If that sounds extreme, think of global food shortage resulting from disrupted agricultural production and the collapse of seafood production due to ocean acidification. More than a billion people depend on the water resources of the Himalayan mountains where the temperature is rising faster that the global average.
We humans do not have a great record of managing crises like these with humanity and pacifism.
Switching from the global fossil fueled-based energy economy will not be easy. It will require substantial political will. A powerful tool to combat climate change and build political will is carbon pricing. An economy-wide carbon fee would incentivize everyone to lower their carbon consumption. It’s doable because it is simple. No complex maze of regulations for each economic s
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R.I.P. composer and pianist Chick Corea
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Chick Corea has died. A 23-time Grammy winner, Corea’s music helped shape the sound of jazz piano from the 1960s onward, both with his work with Miles Davis including on the endlessly influential
Bitches Brew and in a series of solo and duet projects that spanned the entirety of his 60-year career. Per
Rolling Stone, Corea died on Tuesday from a rare form of cancer. He was 79.
Born in Massachusetts, and swiftly inducted into the world of jazz by his Dixieland trumpeter father, Corea slipped into the world of music early and often. He spent the 1960s touring and playing with a wide variety of notables of the day, releasing two albums