Jazzmoose

Oops...sorry; got my terminology wrong, now that I think about it!

Aragorn Arathorn Ara Parseghian

Hmph. A bunch of technicals fans...

Elvis Costello Elvis Presley Elvis Grbac

Here's link to the KCSM-FM Jazz Datebook page that gives a great round up of all the Bay Area jazz hot spots. Sniff. Say hello to home for me... My favorite record spot was always Streetlight Records, but I know from others here and out there that there are supposed to be better spots in Berkeley.

I thought he was talking about "Catch Her in the Eye", the one about the baseball player with bad depth perception...

You're making the typical American mistake of confusing "smart" and "rich". Most professional baseball players just aren't that high up the intelligence ladder themselves. The only difference between them and the clubhouse boys is they can hit a curveball...

Tim, does this mean I'm not getting the million dollars from your account in Nigeria?

Daryl Strawberry Joe "Bananas" Bonano Don Cherry

Well, speaking as another out of touch former fan, I think this is due to the fact that a pitch even waste high seems to be called a ball nowadays. It's a lot easier to hit those low inside ones if you don't have to worry about looking for one at the belly.

I got one from Free For All asking me if I could help him transfer $73,000,000 out of Florida now that his uncle, the king of the Everglades had been eaten by an alligator!

sorry jazzman but this is a country music board, we just prefer to call it jazz Imagine my surprise when I came across a refernece to "jazz mags" and it had nothing to do with JazzTimes or Downbeat...

I won't paste-and-copy, but I thought this column in today's Washington Post by Thomas Boswell was excellent.

I agree completely. But then I think lowering the pitching mound was a mistake. Give me Hank Aaron and Bob Gibson over today's players any day.

in case anyone else needs to look it up "cor" means "oh my god" (?), hadn't seen it before and now MG uses it on several threads Don't think it's quite as strong as that - though actually, I don't know how stron "oh my god" is in American. MG 'bout like 'strooth' I think.

I remember seeing that television movie; it was pretty good. And I've got to tell you, anyone who made me smile as much (as a kid and as an adult) as those three are alright in my book.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/35045/page/1 To Treat the Dead The new science of resuscitation is changing the way doctors think about heart attacks—and death itself. By Jerry Adler | Newsweek Web Exclusive Consider someone who has just died of a heart attack. His organs are intact, he hasn't lost blood. All that's happened is his heart has stopped beating—the definition of "clinical death"—and his brain has shut down to conserve oxygen. But what has actually died? As recently as 1993, when Dr. Sherwin Nuland wrote the best seller "How We Die," the conventional answer was that it was his cells that had died. The patient couldn't be revived because the tissues of his brain and heart had suffered irreversible damage from lack of oxygen. This process was understood to begin after just four or five minutes. If the patient doesn't receive cardiopulmonary resuscitation within that time, and if his heart can't be restarted soon thereafter, he is unlikely to recover. That dogma went unquestioned until researchers actually looked at oxygen-starved heart cells under a microscope. What they saw amazed them, according to Dr. Lance Becker, an authority on emergency medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. "After one hour," he says, "we couldn't see evidence the cells had died. We thought we'd done something wrong." In fact, cells cut off from their blood supply died only hours later. But if the cells are still alive, why can't doctors revive someone who has been dead for an hour? Because once the cells have been without oxygen for more than five minutes, they die when their oxygen supply is resumed. It was that "astounding" discovery, Becker says, that led him to his post as the director of Penn's Center for Resuscitation Science, a newly created research institute operating on one of medicine's newest frontiers: treating the dead. Biologists are still grappling with the implications of this new view of cell death—not passive extinguishment, like a candle flickering out when you cover it with a glass, but an active biochemical event triggered by "reperfusion," the resumption of oxygen supply. The research takes them deep into the machinery of the cell, to the tiny membrane-enclosed structures known as mitochondria where cellular fuel is oxidized to provide energy. Mitochondria control the process known as apoptosis, the programmed death of abnormal cells that is the body's primary defense against cancer. "It looks to us," says Becker, "as if the cellular surveillance mechanism cannot tell the difference between a cancer cell and a cell being reperfused with oxygen. Something throws the switch that makes the cell die." With this realization came another: that standard emergency-room procedure has it exactly backward. When someone collapses on the street of cardiac arrest, if he's lucky he will receive immediate CPR, maintaining circulation until he can be revived in the hospital. But the rest will have gone 10 or 15 minutes or more without a heartbeat by the time they reach the emergency department. And then what happens? "We give them oxygen," Becker says. "We jolt the heart with the paddles, we pump in epinephrine to force it to beat, so it's taking up more oxygen." Blood-starved heart muscle is suddenly flooded with oxygen, precisely the situation that leads to cell death. Instead, Becker says, we should aim to reduce oxygen uptake, slow metabolism and adjust the blood chemistry for gradual and safe reperfusion. Researchers are still working out how best to do this. A study at four hospitals, published last year by the University of California, showed a remarkable rate of success in treating sudden cardiac arrest with an approach that involved, among other things, a "cardioplegic" blood infusion to keep the heart in a state of suspended animation. Patients were put on a heart-lung bypass machine to maintain circulation to the brain until the heart could be safely restarted. The study involved just 34 patients, but 80 percent of them were discharged from the hospital alive. In one study of traditional methods, the figure was about 15 percent. Becker also endorses hypothermia—lowering body temperature from 37 to 33 degrees Celsius—which appears to slow the chemical reactions touched off by reperfusion. He has developed an injectable slurry of salt and ice to cool the blood quickly that he hopes to make part of the standard emergency-response kit. "In an emergency department, you work like mad for half an hour on someone whose heart stopped, and finally someone says, 'I don't think we're going to get this guy back,' and then you just stop," Becker says. The body on the cart is dead, but its trillions of cells are all still alive. Becker wants to resolve that paradox in favor of life. © 2007 Newsweek, Inc.

Let me get this straight...you post an article criticizing the report that was written before the report was released, defended it with a statement about shark attacks, and then ask if someone read the article? What difference does it make; maybe he was bitten by a shark...

HellaSuperMegaRare, of course.

I always knew he was a sell-out!

Kitty Genovese says "spot on!"

You know, I always wondered why the artists I never heard of that had the big ads in JazzTimes were the same artists I'd never heard of that got reviewed; I was naive enough to think I was just being overly suspicious... But that Sonicbid thing sounds like a lawsuit in the making to me, assuming it's legal.

Damn it, Chris; this is the kind of gratuitious post...oh, wait; wrong thread...

People living next to a park complaining about noise? Isn't that kind of like living next to an elementary school and complaining about kids?