Our training session in Florida was well-attended, with the entire staff of Suspended Animation and other local cryonicists bringing the number of students to fifteen. Course curriculum included our biohazard and communicable disease lecture, airway management (including Combi-tube), medications, intraosseous IV placement training, and manual cardiopulmonary support practice. Our next stabilization training session will be […]
During this month Focus Telecommunications, our emergency answering service, relocated their offices. No interruption of service was experienced for the emergency line, just the answering service. Our call forwarding to Focus was offline for less than a day during which we answered directly, and the new service was initiated from the new location with no […]
Alcor News, July 2006 Your source for insider’s info July 2006, #53 Alcor Welcomes Intern Chana Williford Chana Williford will be working as an intern at Alcor for a few months to build a whole body vitrification laboratory. Chana attends school in Texas and has a B.S. in Psychology, a M.S. in Cognition and Neuroscience […]
Alcor News, June 2006 Your source for insider’s info June 2006, #52 Michelle Fry Joins Alcor as Readiness Coordinator We are pleased to announce the hiring of a new Readiness Coordinator. Michelle Fry comes to us from a group of EMTs based in Laughlin, Nevada. She has participated in several standbys and one cryoprotection over […]
Alcor News, May 2006 Your source for insider’s info May 2006, #51 Barbara Walters Visits Alcor Barbara Walters interviewed Tanya Jones in Alcor’s conference room on April 29. This bulletin is sent via email to anyone who requested it. Please do not reply to this message. Send comments, suggestions, or complaints to the editor, Mike […]
Alcor News, April 2006 Your source for insider’s info April 2006, #50 Patients Moved After literally years of effort, finally everything was in readiness and our patients were moved into a new, much roomier location in our building on April 19. (Actually, all but one patient, who was moved over the following morning, April 20.) […]
Okay, maybe the patients themselves didn’t move so well, but the staff and the hired crane and forklift operators moved them nicely. As mentioned also in a brief Alcor United post, “no dewars were dropped, dinged, banged or otherwise harmed” in the changing of locations. The old patient care bay is holding the two single-person […]
On the April 2006 move of Alcor’s cryopreserved patients to their new care facility.
Alcor acquires, tests and deploys a new bulk nitrogen storage tank.
A record number of distinct computers visited Alcor’s website in February (30,270). Media participation this past month includes: Zig Zag: The cryopreservation filming for this documentary took place in February as did sit-down interviews of Alcor representatives and members. The producers informed us that they intend to include Arthur Rowe in the documentary as a […]