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  2. RIP Merl Saunders

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    Very sad news indeed. I feel lucky that I had the chance to see Merl so many times over the years (and meet and party with him and One Step on one occasion).

    RIP and thanks for all the smiles.

    Ditto...I just posted virtually this same msg to another board.

  4. Isiah Thomas ODs

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    Source: Isiah Thomas Overdoses On Sleeping Pills

    Former Knicks President Taken To White Plains Hospital

    Reports: Thomas Took 10 Lunesta Pills, But Is 'Fine'

    PURCHASE, N.Y. (CBS) ― Harrison police were sent to the home of former New York Knicks president Isiah Thomas early Friday morning in response to a call that he had overdosed on sleeping pills, a source confirmed to CBS 2.

    Thomas was rushed to White Plains Hospital for treatment, but his condition is not yet known.

    Sources tell CBS 2 that police arrived at Thomas' home shortly after midnight in response to a 911 call from a cell phone and that Thomas' condition was being classified as an overdose.

    According to the Daily News, police say the victim consumed "roughly 10 Lunesta sleeping pills."

    Barry Watkins, vice president of communications for Madison Square Garden, told The Journal News newspaper, "Isiah is fine."

    Thomas was fired by the Knicks on April 18 after the team's seventh straight losing season. The team finished a miserable 23-59, tying a franchise record for most losses in a season, and fans had long been calling, if not screaming, for Thomas' dismissal.

    He was replaced by Donnie Walsh as team president, but has remained with the club as a consultant.

    Last season was as troubling for Thomas off the court as it was on.

    Thomas was found to have sexually harassed a former team employee, feuded with point guard Stephon Marbury and benched center Eddy Curry — the players Thomas acquired in the two biggest of a number of moves that never panned out.

    In the sexual harassment case, a jury found Thomas and MSG sexually harassed former team executive Anucha Browne Sanders and ordered the company to pay $11.6 million in damages. Criticized by Al Sharpton and Rutgers women's coach C. Vivian Stringer for comments he made in his taped deposition, Thomas seemed downcast during most of training camp—and never had much reason for better spirits when the season began.

    The Knicks started 2-1, then dropped eight in a row as the Thomas-Marbury feud sent the season spiraling out of control. Marbury responded to Thomas' plans to bench him by skipping a game in Phoenix, and the players reportedly voted to make Marbury sit out a game when he returned. Instead, Thomas played the point guard more than 33 minutes off the bench in a game in Los Angeles against the Clippers.

    It soon became obvious that Thomas' draft night acquisition of Zach Randolph had set back Curry, who lost his confidence and later his starting job. Speculation was rampant by Thanksgiving that Thomas' job was in jeopardy, and it only heated up after the Knicks' nationally televised 104-59 loss at Boston on Nov. 29.

    Chants of "Fire Isiah!" sometimes started minutes after home games, and even Dolan's strong relationship with Thomas couldn't convince people the coach would last.

  13. More Good News (Medical Butt Info)

    in Soundboard

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    Basher, this will be of particular interest to you:

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27343876/

    Stinky farts may help regulate blood pressure

    A smelly rotten-egg gas in farts controls blood pressure in mice, a new study finds.

    The unpleasant aroma of the gas, called hydrogen sulfide (H2S), can be a little too familiar, as it is expelled by bacteria living in the human colon and eventually makes its way, well, out.

    The new research found that cells lining mice’s blood vessels naturally make the gas and this action can help keep the rodents’ blood pressure low by relaxing the blood vessels to prevent hypertension (high blood pressure). This gas is “no doubt†produced in cells lining human blood vessels too, the researchers said.

    “Now that we know hydrogen sulfide’s role in regulating blood pressure, it may be possible to design drug therapies that enhance its formation as an alternative to the current methods of treatment for hypertension,†said Johns Hopkins neuroscientist Solomon H. Snyder, M.D., a co-author of the study detailed in the Oct. 24th issue of the journal Science.

    Snyder and his colleagues compared normal mice to mice that were missing a gene for an enzyme known as CSE, long suspected as being responsible for making hydrogen sulfide. As they measured hydrogen sulfide levels taken from tissues of the CSE-deficient mice, the scientists found that the gas was depleted in the cardiovascular systems of the altered mice. By contrast, normal mice had higher levels of the gas, thereby showing that hydrogen sulfide is naturally made by mammalian tissues using CSE.

    Next, the mice were subjected to higher blood pressures comparable to serious hypertension in humans. Scientists had them respond to a chemical called methacholine that relaxes normal blood vessels. The blood vessels of the CSE-lacking mice hardly relaxed, indicating that hydrogen sulfide is a huge contender for regulating blood pressure.

    Hydrogen sulfide is the most recently discovered member of a family of gasotransmitters, small molecules inside our bodies with important physiological functions.

    This study is the first to reveal that the CSE enzyme that triggers hydrogen sulfide is activated itself in the same way as other enzymes when they trigger their respective gasotransmitter, such as a nitric oxide-forming enzyme that also regulates blood pressure, Dr. Snyder said.

    Because gasotransmitters are common in mammals all over the evolutionary tree, these findings on the importance of hydrogen sulfide are thought to have broad applications to human diseases, such as diabetes and neurodegenerative diseases.

    The research was supported by grants from the U.S. Public Health Service and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research as well as a Research Scientist Award.

  16. News from the North

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    Different Way to Fill Up

    It appears some are turning to alternative measures to fight the high price of gas.

    Dryden Police say charges are pending after officers were called to a local parking lot with regard to the theft of gas from a vehicle.

    Police say a Dryden man was seen siphoning gasoline from a vehicle and when he was confronted by the owner, the man left the area.

    Police are still investigating.

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