Nasogastric feeding tubes can save lives
By Julie Damron December 24, 2011 12:00 AM Anorexia (not eating) can lead to serious health issues in dogs and cats. when animals don’t eat, they break down their muscle tissue to provide energy for their bodies. Over time, anorexia can lead to organ dysfunction. Cats, especially portly ones, will send fat from their body [...]
Our Most-Read Stories of the Year (and a Few Personal Favorites)
I’m proud of our team here at the Atlantic Technology Channel. Our writers and editors have grown the site’s impact by an order of magnitude since we launched back in September of 2010. more importantly, I think we’ve told stories that are unique in the technology blogging realm. We’ve looked at technology as an inextricable [...]
Community Voices
By Mark Ritchie | Friday, Dec. 23, 2011 On Thanksgiving weekend 11 years ago, we lost our almost 21-year-old daughter, Rachel, to a drunk driver. thanks to incredibly skilled emergency responders and Hennepin County Medical Center nurses and doctors, she was able to be a donor. With the help of a LifeSource counselor, my wife, [...]
Funeral Services Set For Wade Jernigan; His Organ Donation Allows Others To Live
A heart of gold, always a smile, always positive, always there, and always giving of himself. Those are just some of the ways Wade Jernigan’s friends described him in the hours following a tragic wreck Wednesday morning not far from Northview High School. and, even in his death, he continued to give of himself. “Wade [...]
8 Colorado churches highlight support for organ donations
Eight Colorado churches are participating in National Donor Sabbath on Sunday, which spreads the message that all major U.S. denominations support organ donation. This year Colorado becomes the first state to focus on living donor donation, such as the donation of a kidney by Pastor David Baca of Westminster’s Crossing Church of the Nazarene to [...]
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Don’t panic! Take a deep breath and clear your senses, we can get through this together! Maybe it’s somewhere close by that you’re not looking, perhaps we moved the link to a better location, it’s even a slight possibility we messed up and lost the page. If you were trying to open the www.standard.net homepage, [...]
Inside Pulse
Guitar Hero will be adding 6 more Linkin Park songs this week, as you can get the Linkin Park Track Pack on October 19. Linkin Park Track Pack-”Blackout”-”Burning In the Skies”-”the Catalyst”-”the Messenger”-”Waiting For the End”-”Wretches And Kings” The whole track pack will be available for $12 (960 XBL points, 1200 Nintendo Points, $11.99 on [...]
Events calendar
Today The 13th annual Monterey Cowboy Poetry and Music Festival. Various times and events todayat Monterey Conference Center, 1 Portola Plaza, Monterey. Event celebrates Monterey’s contribution to Western heritage with cowboy poetry, song and a western art and gear show. $25-$240. 1-800-722-9652, www.montereycowboy.org. Friends of the Monterey Public Library Giant Book Sale. 10a.m.-4p.m. today at [...]
Can you ‘buy’ an organ for transplant?
Dear J.P.: both of you and neither of you are completely right. it is true that you cannot “buy” an organ by donating a wing to a hospital or paying off a surgeon, but there are ways that the very wealthy have an advantage when trying to secure an organ. Each state has an organ [...]
C-Ville: News Extra – A profile of Barbara Taylor Moore
Barbara Taylor Moore—organist, piano teacher, and volunteer firefighter—was born in Charlottesville to a family that goes back several generations in the area. if that makes her a rare bird, it also gives her a trove of ancestors and anecdotes. In true Southern style, she regales me with this oral history for a full hour before [...]