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http://www.eurweb.com/story/eur47952.cfm EUR has learned that after an extended illness, seminal comedian Rudy Ray Moore, better known as Dolemite, has died in Akron, Ohio. He was 81. EUR was initially informed of the news by comedienne Luenell, a friend of the family. Moore, whose actual name was Rudolph Frank Moore, passed away from complications of diabetes, his only child and daughter, Yvette "Rusty" Wesson, told us. According to Wikipedia, Moore is perhaps best known as Dolemite, the uniquely articulate pimp (“… rappin’ & tappin’ is my game!”) from the 1975 film "Dolemite," and its sequel, "The Human Tornado." The persona was developed during his earlier stand-up comedy records. Rudy Ray Moore was also known as the "king of the party records" and released many comedy records throughout the 1960s and 1970s, developing a style even more rude and explicit than contemporaries like Redd Foxx and Richard Pryor. This kept him off of television and major films, but cultivated an enduring fan base. He also guested on Big Daddy Kane's CD Taste of Chocolate, released in 1990. The 2 Live Crew used Rudy Ray Moore's records as scratch samples on their early work; most notably on "Throw The Di*k." Moore starred in "Big Money Hustlas," a movie created by and starring the Insane Clown Posse, in which he played Dolemite for the first time in over 20 years. In 2008 Rudy Ray Moore reprised the character Petey Wheatstraw for the song "I live for the Funk" Featuring Blowfly and Daniel Jordan. This marked the first time Blowfly and Rudy have collaborated on the same record together, and the 30 year anniversary since the movie was filmed. Moore began his entertainment career as an R&B singer and continued singing through his comedy career. He developed an interest in comedy in the Army after expanding on a singing performance for other servicemen. Besides his daughter, Moore also leaves behind his 98 year-old mother Lucille. Although, Wesson couldn't tell us the exact dates, funeral services will be in Akron, Ohio as well as Spokane, Washington where his mother and the rest of his immediate family lives.

http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:hvfixqlgldde Saw this used recently. Impressive list of names (Billy Taylor, Eddie Condon, Mel Torme, Chris Connor & Carmen McRae to name a few on Atlantic, of course.) How is the music?

PM sent on: Elmo Hope Trio $5 Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong Porgy and Bess $3 Gloria Coleman Soul Sisters $4

PM sent on Rivers Mosaic & King Curtis BF set.

http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/conte...008/827/2?rss=1 Credit: David Woessner, John Mitchell, and John V. Brigande Hope for Hearing Loss? By Rachel Zelkowitz ScienceNOW Daily News 27 August 2008 A cure for hearing loss could be closer, now that a team of scientists has produced key ear cells in mice--and for the first time verified that the cells work just like natural ones. The inner ear turns sound waves into electrical signals inside the organ of Corti, which is lined with rows of 15,000 to 20,000 hairlike cells. The cells respond to vibrations by producing electrical impulses that travel via nerves to the brain. It's a fragile system; loud noises can damage the hair cells and age can deplete them, resulting in hearing loss. Researchers guessed that they could restore some hearing by replacing those hair cells. Previous studies isolated a protein called Atoh1, which triggers hair-cell growth. But it wasn't clear that the engineered cells would have the same mechanical and electrical properties as normal ones when produced in an animal. To address that concern, John Brigande, a developmental neurobiologist at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, and colleagues injected embryonic mice with DNA containing several copies of Atoh1. The researchers inserted the genes about a week before birth--after they could identify tissue that would become the inner ear and before the natural development of hair cells had begun. Four days after the mice were born, the researchers examined their hair cells. Mice that produced the extra Atoh1 had almost twice as many hair cells as did control mice, the researchers report today in Nature. Electron microscopy revealed that the extra hair cells were divided into inner and outer hair cells, just like the normal ones, and they made the same proteins. Next, the researchers determined that the engineered cells responded to sound waves and turned them into electrical signals. The findings show that Atoh1 replacement therapy can produce viable hair cells in animals, Brigande says. "That's exciting because it offers a strong rationale to pursue cell-replacement strategies for hearing loss." Other auditory experts agree. Matthew Kelley, a developmental neuroscientist at the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders in Bethesda, Maryland, applauds the method of introducing the Atoh1 during the embryonic stage. "It's a brand-new technique. This has been one of the major challenges and roadblocks in inner ear research." Yehoash Raphael, an auditory neuroscientist at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, says the findings provide a new delivery model for researchers trying to use developmental genes to restore lost hearing. But before researchers can develop a treatment for humans, they have to answer questions such as how many copies of Atoh1 are necessary to stimulate hair-cell regrowth and what is the best way to deliver the gene to a human organ of Corti.

Some say five years... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/...80830005613.htm Treatment For Hearing Loss? Scientists Grow Hair Cells Involved in Hearing ScienceDaily (Aug. 30, 2008) — Oregon Health & Science University scientists have successfully produced functional auditory hair cells in the cochlea of the mouse inner ear. The breakthrough suggests that a new therapy may be developed in the future to successfully treat hearing loss. The results of this research was recently published by the journal Nature. “One approach to restore auditory function is to replace defective cells with healthy new cells,” said John Brigande, Ph.D., an assistant professor of otolaryngology at the Oregon Hearing Research Center in the OHSU School of Medicine. “Our work shows that it is possible to produce functional auditory hair cells in the mammalian cochlea.” The researchers specifically focused on the tiny hair cells located in a portion of the ear’s cochlea called the organ of Corti. It has long been understood that as these hair cells die, hearing loss occurs. Throughout a person’s life, a certain number of these cells malfunction or die naturally leading to gradual hearing loss often witnessed in aging persons. Those who are exposed to loud noises for a prolonged period or suffer from certain diseases lose more sensory hair cells than average and therefore suffer from more pronounced hearing loss. Brigande and his colleagues were able to produce hair cells by transferring a key gene, called Atoh1, into the developing inner ears of mice. The gene was inserted along with green florescent protein (GFP) which is the molecule that makes a species of jellyfish glow. GFP is often used in research as a “marker” that a scientist can use to determine, in this case, the exact location of the Atoh1 expression. Remarkably, the gene transfer technique resulted in Atoh1 expression in the organ of Corti, where the sensory hair cells form. Using this method, the researchers were able to trace how the inserted genetic material successfully led to hair cell production resulting in the appearance of more hair cells than are typically located in the ears of early postnatal mice. Crucially, Dr. Anthony Ricci, associate professor of otolaryngology at the Stanford University School of Medicine, demonstrated that the hair cells have electrophysiological properties consistent with wild type or endogenous hair cells, meaning that the hair cells appear to be functional. Based on these data, the scientists concluded that Atoh1 expression generates functional auditory hair cells in the inner ear of newborn mammals. “It remains to be determined whether gene transfer into a deaf mouse will lead to the production of healthy cells that enable hearing. However, we have made an important step toward defining an approach that may lead to therapeutic intervention for hearing loss,” Brigande said.

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1595048/2...917/story.jhtml Norman Whitfield, Legendary Motown Songwriter/ Producer, Dead At 65 Whitfield co-wrote and produced 'Heard It Through the Grapevine,' 'Just My Imagination,' 'Papa Was a Rollin' Stone' and many other classics. By Jem Aswad Norman Whitfield, one of the most successful and influential songwriter/producers to emanate from the formidable stable of Motown Records, died Tuesday at the age of 65, according to Reuters. Whitfield co-wrote and/ or produced many hits for the label, including "Heard It Through the Grapevine," "I Can't Get Next to You," "Cloud Nine," "Ball of Confusion," "Just My Imagination," "War," the Grammy-winning "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" and many others. Whitfield had struggled for months with complications from diabetes, the site reported, and had recently emerged from a coma. "It's a very sad day," Janie Bradford, who co-wrote the Temptations hit "Too Busy Thinking About My Baby" with Whitfield, told the Detroit Free Press. Their friend Clay McMurray had reportedly spoken with Whitfield on the phone last week. "It sounded like he was fighting with everything he had to get it together," McMurray said. "Just fighting back." In a statement released Wednesday (September 17), Motown great Smokey Robinson hailed Whitfield as "one of the most prolific songwriters and record producers of our time. He will live forever through his great music," according to The Associated Press. While his name has rarely appeared in lights, Whitfield was one of the driving forces of the Motown sound. He joined the label's production team in 1962 and, over the following decade, worked with virtually every major artist on the label, including the Temptations, Marvin Gaye, the Supremes, the Four Tops, Gladys Knight and the Pips and others. However, perhaps his greatest contribution was bringing Motown artists into the psychedelic era during the late 1960s. Showing the influence of Sly and the Family Stone, Whitfield led Gaye and the Temptations into rock territory with hard-hitting songs that examined the social distresses of the day ("Runaway Child, Running Wild," the drug-influenced "Cloud Nine") and matched the gritty lyrics with driving rhythms, wailing guitars and ominous string arrangements. His most frequent collaborator during this era was lyricist Barrett Strong. Whitfield left Motown in the mid-1970s and found chart success with Rose Royce and other artists — and won a Grammy Award in 1976 for his work on the "Car Wash" film soundtrack — but by the '80s, he had largely dropped off the radar, only making headlines in 2005 when he pleaded guilty to settle a tax-evasion case.

Don't blame ya. I used to be a skeptic, but recent experiences have made me a firm believer. A guy like you just described would scare me away too.

Proceed w/ caution. My mom lost sight in one eye and had chronic pain that nearly led her to kill herself after a botched cataract surgery, FWIW.

There was a guy in south Florida that ran an infomercial in which he railed about "pills, potions and surgery" and insisted that chiropractic was the way to solve all medical problems. IMHO, that makes the entire "discipline" quackery. (I was tempted to take him up on his "free consultation" just to ask him straight up, should my lymphoma-ridden brother have found a chiropractor or gone to the oncology department of Johns Hopkins?) Well, obviously, he was a loonie. Shouldn't be a reflection on the whole field though. My chiropractor makes no such claims. It's just for specific types of injuries.

Happy late B-Day, Dan!

Don't knock it til you've tried it. That stuff works. So does acupuncture. It cured a pinched nerve that was killing me after one visit to a guy that my friend swore by that multiple visits to my regular MD and painkillers for weeks couldn't do. I & many others have found Eastern medicine to be safer and more effective than much of Western medicine, but that's just me. The main issue is, can you find a good practitioner?

Hello? I made backups on an external hard drive, hello?? Is everyone here technologically impaired? Hello? Can you say your momma didn't teach you any manners? I am ashamed that you have my city in your username.

Having been through it, Lon, I know it's a process - and a very unpredictable and often convoluted one at that. The human mind and emotions are a wonderful thing - and just as often a confusing and befuddling thing. You'll know when you're ready and who the right person is. I went out with a bunch of women after my break-up. Probably around 20. I'm not ashamed to admit I was a match.com participant. Sometimes it was one date, sometimes several - but in retrospect - and thankfully - none that were more than a night out for dinner or entertainment. At first, it was just to prove to myself that I could do it - that is meet another woman and have a good time with her, open my emotions and let down my guard to some degree. Eventually it got more serious as I felt I was ready but at the same time I was meeting women who seemed to be in the "shopping around" phase. The problem was/is, there's a whole bunch of people who were/are in the same boat I was and nothing seemed to be clicking - maybe because they were just testing the water as well or more likely because the chemistry wasn't there. I got frustrated and decided to take some time off and just be with myself and my boys (when I have them) and just chill and do some crap around the house. It was on Halloween in 2005 and I was out in some bar in one of the Buffalo area's "hot spots", trying to meet someone and at the same time feeling depressed and wondering what the fuck I was doing with my life when I decided to take that aforementioned break. I had gone out that night to meet someone from match.com who had totally misrepresented herself and after that disaster was over -ended up going to another bar with the hope of meeting someone - and left feeling like it was time to relax and re-strategize. It was literally the same night that I had decided to go into hibernation when I got home to a voicemail from the guy who cuts my hair who told me about a woman who he thought would be great for me - and vice versa. Turns out that the woman was his sister. So I felt like - hey, what's one more??? And besides - he cuts my hair and hey..... and we've talked a lot about women..... and I know him.... and it's his sister..... I met her about a week later and it was instant chemistry. Our 2nd date was a Robert Cray concert and coincidentally, we went to see Robert Cray the night before we married. I guess the moral of the story is - you never know how or why or when. It is so cliche - but the right person will come along and when that happens, you will know. Your story inspires me, Ed. I too have been doing the online thing to no avail. Most women on there seem to be just shopping around for the perfect, flawless guy. I'm 32 and my time is running out, but I always try to be eternally optimistic.

Yeah, if I didn't already have this, I'd be all over it. Once again, Big Al can never be wrong, so PM sent.

Several people have told me that they cannot show them due to agreements w/ the record labels. Why would a playlist be restricted?

Ya know, you buy a box set of stuff you already have on another album(s) or purchase a remastered/deluxe edition for the bonus material/better sound or a compilation that contains songs on albums you already own... Meanwhile, you haven't gotten around to selling the extraneous copies you don't need or you want to keep the original LP or particular format around. How many examples of this type of situation do you have in your stash and does it bother you?

http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_10248586 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Matthews Band sax player LeRoi Moore dies By RAQUEL MARIA DILLON, Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES - Dave Matthews Band saxophone player LeRoi Moore, one of the group's founding members and a key part of its eclectic jazz-infused sound, died Tuesday from sudden complications stemming from injuries he sustained in an all-terrain vehicle accident in June. He was 46. Moore died at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, according to a statement released on the band's Web site. The statement did not specify what led to his death. Moore was initially hospitalized in late June after the accident on his farm outside Charlottesville, Va. He was later discharged and had recently returned to his Los Angeles home to begin a physical rehabilitation program when complications forced him back to the hospital on July 17, the band said. Galina Shinder, a nursing supervisor at Hollywood Presbyterian, said the hospital could not release any details. Ambrosia Healy, the band's publicist, said the band's show Tuesday night in Los Angeles was not canceled. Saxophonist Jeff Coffin, who played with Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, had been sitting in for Moore during the band's summer tour. Moore, who liked to wear his trademark dark sunglasses at the bands' live concerts, had classical training but said jazz was his main musical influence, according to a biography on the band's Web site. "But at this stage I don't really consider myself a jazz musician," Moore said in the biography. Playing with the Dave Matthews Band was "almost better than a jazz gig," he said. "I have plenty of space to improvise, to try new ideas." Lead singer Dave Matthews credited Moore with arranging many of his songs, which combine Cajun fiddle-playing, African-influenced rhythms and Matthews' playful but haunting voice. The band formed in 1991 in Charlottesville, Va., when Matthews was working as a bartender. He gave a demo tape of his songs to Moore, who liked what he heard and recruited his friend and fellow jazzman Carter Beauford to play drums, and other musicians. The group broke out of the local music scene with the album "Under the Table and Dreaming." The band won a Grammy Award in 1997 for its hit song "So Much to Say" off its second album "Crash." Other hits include "What Would You Say," "Crash Into Me" and "Satellite."

You can pretty much watch all replays of NBC's chopped up coverage legally only on this site: NBC Olympics What drives me crazy is the idiot commentators they have on there who obviously have no knowledge of Chinese history or culture making asinine comments. Phelps is awesome, but I am getting sick of seeing shots of him and his mom every 5 seconds.

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/lifestyle/h...NAL_BREATH_.asp --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Skatalites trumpeter Dizzy Johnny blows his final breath Sunday, August 17, 2008 Internationally recognised trumpeter 'Dizzy' Johnny Moore, a founding member of the Skatalites and ska innovator died yesterday afternoon at his home in Kingston. For the past seven months the 70-year-old Moore had been bravely battling colon cancer, but finally gave up the fight. John Arlington Moore was born in Kingston on October 5, 1938 to a family that did not consider music a favourable or viable career. But when young Johnny noticed a neighborhood lad playing the drums, he asked, "Bwoy, where did you learn to do that?" "Alpha," said the lad. "Whoa, I got to go to that place," was Moore's response. The problem with Johnny's desire was: only wayward youths were admitted to Alpha. To qualify, he purposely caused enough mischief for his mother to take him and enroll him there. As he put it, "I had to pull a couple of pranks so that they figured I was going haywire." At Alpha, Johnny Moore studied alongside other future luminaries such as Don Drummond, Lester Sterling and Rico Rodriguez. Under the tutelage of the nuns, he exhibited a sound academic aptitude, and with bandmaster Ruben Delgado's guidance, young Moore discovered his musical voice in the trumpet. He also displayed a keen interest in the harmonic refinement of musical composition, studied printing and excelled at electronics, for which he won a prize as the school's outstanding technician. On graduation, Moore went on to join the Jamaica Military Band where he earned the nickname "Johnny Blow Blow" because of his insistent practice of Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker's music, instead of Beethoven and Bach's, which was favoured by the military band. He was discharged after three years for "not [being] amenable to military discipline, though a good musician". Moore next worked with the Mapletoft Poulle Orchestra, but was soon forced to quit because of his Rastafari beliefs. According to Dizzy, Poulle "was a lawyer and leader of one of society's top bands. I stayed with his band until my hair grew too long and he figured it was time for me to get a haircut". Away from the social scene, Dizzy grew his locks, adorned himself in burlap cloth and spent his time between the Dungle in West Kingston and Count Ossie's Camp on Wareika Hill in Rockfort. Jazz sensibilities, Rastafari concepts and the drums of Count Ossie shaped Johnny Moore's mature musical personality and inspired bandleader and camp companion Tommy McCook to reason with him, encouraging him to cut his locks and join the Skatalites. It was his dazzling solos that earned Johnny his moniker "Dizzy," and it was the Skatalites through which he established himself as the leading trumpeter of the idiom. Arguably the most recorded soloist of the era, among the hundreds of recordings on which "Dizzy" Johnny is featured are Something Special, Ringo, Man in the Street, Schooling the Duke, the Wailers' Love and Affection, Lonesome Feeling, and Nice Time. Funeral arrangements will be announced. He is survived by his mother, children, grandchildren and great grandchildren.

PM sent on the two Eccentric Soul CDs.

PM sent on: "The Nat Hentoff Reader" - $3 "Making Music Make Money" (an insiders guide to becoming your own music publisher) - Eric Beall - $2 "Making it in the Music Business" - Lee Wilson - $2

Ain't that the truth. Yep, my mom just got discharged from the hospital. Further x-rays reveal no internal damage and the docs suspect it is just muscle trauma that will take several weeks to get over, so she can go home and rest. We're glad to have her back here. I'm gonna have time to start reading what everybody posted now. Thanks again guys!

Best wishes, Bruce!

Thanks for all of your kind thoughts, guys. Haven't had the time to read all them yet and have just browsed through 'em. Glad to hear that another board member has averted disaster too. Guess a lotta of us are going through tough times too. Things were not exactly cheerful for me before this, but it has given me a newfound appreciation for how fragile life can be. Thanks again, everybody. I really appreciate it.