"How many people have died is the subject of rancorous debate - but 150,000 is a low estimate in a range that some research has claimed could top 655,000. You see the bodies dumped on the streets, on rubbish dumps, in canals and in the sewers - sometimes beheaded, at other times bearing the marks of torture. "
It’s Monday and I suggest that this week we all do one nice
thing so that together we can make the world a better place.
April is National Donate Life Month so I am asking you to help
save a life by becoming an organ, tissue, marrow, and blood donor.
Here’s how you can help:
Register with your State Donor Registry, if available.
Say
YES to donation on your driver's license.
Tell
your family, friends, physician, and faith leader that you want to be a donor.
Fill
out and sign a donor card, have it witnessed, carry it with you.
As of today there are 95,998 individuals waiting for a
kidney transplant in the United
States.
Kidneys are the highest-demand organ, comprising nearly
two-thirds of the organ transplant waiting list. In 2005, nearly 15,000 kidney transplants were performed,
with nearly half of those coming from living donors.
The first kidney transplants were performed in 1954 in Boston and Paris
by Dr. Joseph E. Murray, who received the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1990.
While approximately 77 people receive an organ transplant in
the United States
each day, another 17 people on the waiting list die because there are not
enough organs available.
According the United Network for Organ Sharing and the
National Kidney Foundation, the demand for kidney transplants is continuing to
rise at a record pace. More than 73,000 people are registered on the Organ
Procurement Transplant Network waiting list. If the demand continues to
outstrip the available supply of kidneys, only about half of the 73,000 will
receive a transplant.
In 2004, 3,823 listed candidates died while awaiting a
kidney. Kidney transplantation is performed on patients with chronic kidney
failure, or end-stage renal disease. Without long-term dialysis or a kidney
transplant, end-stage renal disease is fatal.
Recent studies have shown that a typical patient will live
10-15 years longer with a kidney transplant than if they stay on dialysis.
Doobie Brothers n. ['Hind. dub; Sans. durva, a kind of pasture grass; L. frater; G. bruder, Sans. bhratar; AS. brothor, male sibling']
1. Music group known for blues based songs with a rock edge, often with lush vocal harmonies (see also rock 'n' soul).
2. Assemblage of musicians specializing in country based rock featuring instrumentation such as violin and finger-picked acoustic guitar combined with electrical instruments and drums.
3. Musical entity recognized for incorporating sophisticated jazz stylings into "popular hit" songs.
4. "Rock" band, origins circa 1970, with reputation for exciting live performances and skillful musicianship.
Don’t you feel it growin’, day by day
People gettin’ ready for the news
Some are happy, some are sad
Oh, we got to let the music play
What the people need
Is a way to make ’em smile
It ain’t so hard to do if you know how
Gotta get a message
Get it on through
Oh now mama, don’t you ask me why
Oh, oh, listen to the music
Oh, oh, listen to the music
Oh, oh, listen to the music
All the time
Well I know, you know better
Everything I say
Meet me in the country for a day
We’ll be happy
And we’ll dance
Oh, we’re gonna dance our blues away
And if I’m feelin’ good to you
And you’re feelin’ good to me
There ain’t nothin’ we can’t do or say
Feelin’ good, feeling fine
Oh, baby, let the music play
Oh, oh, listen to the music
Oh, oh, listen to the music
Oh, oh, listen to the music
All the time
Like a lazy flowing river
Surrounding castles in the sky
And the crowd is growing bigger
List’nin’ for the happy sounds
And I got to let them fly
Oh, oh, listen to the music
Oh, oh, listen to the music
Oh, oh, listen to the music
All the time
