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what about "Steely Dan", I thought "two against nature" was kinda jazzy, they always seemed to have a jazz influence in their music to me too, anyone agree?
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that's terrible dude, I never saw the 60 minute segment, what a shame, I think any attorney that knows the truth of a matter and doesn't act on it should be disbarred. I'll definitely add my support.
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ok, well, phil keaggy, we're talking back in the 60's he was in a group that made 1 album, Glass Harp, self titled, "can you hear me sister?" I think that was the national hit, they were local,I think that was just a loyalty addtition, and kenny wayne shepard I think is a new texas blues guitarist, similiar to tommy castro, walter trout, but I'm not familiar with him either except to hear he can cook on the guitar, will have to get something of his and take a listen. Jeff Beck was on the list, and greg allman I've only see play acoustical to "sweet melissa", and "come and go blues" he strikes me as mostly just a keyboard player that uses the guitar for composing, but what do I know! and you're right about the others, only I don't have alot of their music, I think we remember the ones that make us feel good everytime we hear them play, so it really does make a difference where you live. :)
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By ADAM LIPTAK
Published: April 19, 2004
A comprehensive study of 328 criminal cases over the last 15 years in which the convicted person was exonerated suggests that there are thousands of innocent people in prison today.
Almost all the exonerations were in murder and rape cases, and that implies, according to the study, that many innocent people have been convicted of less serious crimes. But the study says they benefited neither from the intense scrutiny that murder cases tend to receive nor from the DNA evidence that can categorically establish the innocence of people convicted of rape.
Prosecutors, however, have questioned some of the methodology used in the study, which was prepared at the University of Michigan and supervised by a law professor there, Samuel R. Gross. They say that the number of exonerations is quite small when compared with the number of convictions during the 15-year period. About 2 million people are in American prisons and jails.
The study identified 199 murder exonerations, 73 of them in capital cases. It also found 120 rape exonerations. Only nine cases involved other crimes. In more than half of the cases, the defendants had been in prison for more than 10 years.
The study's authors said they picked 1989 as a starting point because that was the year of the first DNA exoneration. Of the 328 exonerations they found in the intervening years, 145 involved DNA evidence.
In 88 percent of the rape cases in the study, DNA evidence helped free the inmate. But biological evidence is far less likely to be available or provide definitive proof in other kinds of cases. Only 20 percent of the murder exonerations involved DNA evidence, and almost all of those were rape-murders.
The study, which will be presented Friday at a conference of defense lawyers in Austin, Tex., also found that very different factors contributed to wrongful convictions in rape and murder cases.
Some 90 percent of false convictions in the rape cases involved misidentification by witnesses, very often across races. In particular, the study said black men made up a disproportionate number of exonerated rape defendants.
The racial mix of those exonerated, in general, mirrored that of the prison population, and the mix of those exonerated of murder mirrored the mix of those convicted of murder. But while 29 percent of those in prison for rape are black, 65 percent of those exonerated of the crime are.
Interracial rapes are, moreover, uncommon. Rapes of white women by black men, for instance, represent less than 10 percent of all rapes, according to the Justice Department. But in half of the rape exonerations where racial data was available, black men were falsely convicted of raping white women.
"The most obvious explanation for this racial disparity is probably also the most powerful," the study says. "White Americans are much more likely to mistake one black person for another than to do the same for members of their own race."
On the other hand, the study found that the leading causes of wrongful convictions for murder were false confessions and perjury by co- defendants, informants, police officers or forensic scientists.
A separate study considering 125 cases involving false confessions was published in the North Carolina Law Review last month and found that such confessions were most common among groups vulnerable to suggestion and intimidation.
"There are three groups of people most likely to confess," said Steven A. Drizin, a law professor at Northwestern, who conducted the study with Richard A. Leo, a professor of criminology at the University of California, Irvine. "They are the mentally retarded, the mentally ill and juveniles."
Professor Drizin, too, said that false confessions were most common in murder cases.
"Those are the cases where there is the greatest pressure to obtain confessions," he said, "and confessions are often the only way to solve those crimes."
Professor Drizin said that videotaping of police interrogations would cut down on false confessions.
The authors of the Michigan study offered dueling rationales for the murder exonerations, and both reasons, they said, were disturbing.
There may be more murder exonerations, they said, because the cases attract more attention, especially when a death sentence is imposed. Death row inmates represent a quarter of 1 percent of the prison population but 22 percent of the exonerated.
That suggests that innocent people are often convicted in run-of-the-mill cases. Indeed, the study says, "if we reviewed prison sentences with the same level of care that we devote to death sentences, there would have been over 28,500 non-death-row exonerations in the past 15 years rather than the 255 that have in fact occurred."
The study offered a competing theory, as well. Mistakes, it said, may be more likely in murder cases and far more likely in capital cases.
"The truth," the study concludes, "is clearly a combination of these two appalling possibilities."
Critics of the Michigan study questioned its methodology, saying it overstated the number of authentically innocent people. The study calls every nullification of a conviction by a governor, court or prosecutor declaring a person not guilty of a crime an exoneration.
In Astoria, Ore., Joshua Marquis, the district attorney for Clatsop County, said that many of the people exonerated under the study's definition may nonetheless have committed the crimes in question, though the evidence may have become too weak to prove that beyond a reasonably doubt.
"The real number of people on death row exonerated in the sense of being actually innocent in the modern era of the death penalty is about 25 to 30," Mr. Marquis said. The Michigan study put the number at 73.
He added that even the error rate suggested by the study was tolerable given the American prison population.
"We all agree that it is better for 10 guilty men to go free than for one innocent man to be convicted," Mr. Marquis said. "Is it better for 100,000 guilty men to walk free rather than have one innocent man convicted? The cost-benefit policy answer is no."
At the University of Michigan, Professor Gross said that was the wrong calculus.
"No rate of preventable errors that destroy people's lives and destroy the lives of those close to them is acceptable," he said.
Barry Scheck, a founder of the Innocence Project, said Mr. Marquis's analysis ignored another point.
"Every time an innocent person is convicted," Mr. Scheck said, "it means there are more guilty people out there who are still committing crimes."
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/19/national...pagewanted=2&th
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dude! gary moore is a great guitar player, blues rock, his solo on "still got the blues for you" beautiful :) I dont' know what the ? was about, but steve vai is great, he played with frank zappa, and joe satriani taught guitar to some of his contemporaries, but his music is kinda spaced out, anyways, they are both included in the G3 concert with eric johnson.
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that really is sad, these are suppose to be peacekeepers, I think the UN better re-evaluate their hiring policies :(
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Clear Channel Acquires My Soul
Brian Ferdman
2004-03-29
I don't know if you'll have the patience to read the article here, so I'll give you the link, it's a good one for jambands and I think you all will appreciate the article. :rolleyes:
http://www.jambands.com/Departments/Inaudi..._03_29.00.phtml
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By Tom Shales
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, April 17, 2004; Page C01
Chris Rock is easily the greatest stand-up comedian of his generation, the Young Turk comics, although at 38, he's about as old as a Young Turk can be. Since rising to prominence and popularity, Rock has never settled for just being funny. His comedy can be bitingly perceptive about society, race relations, politics and whatever else pops into his brilliant head.
He's in the tradition of such great commentator-comics as Dick Gregory, Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce and Sam Kinison, yet as howlingly funny as Eddie Murphy in his prime and as bluntly explicit as Redd Foxx at his raciest. Everything Rock says, though, he says for a reason. Even when he's raunchy, it's thinking man's raunch.
Partly because Rock has let himself be distracted making trivial (but, for him, lucrative) movies, it's been too long since his last comedy concert on HBO. But he comes roaring back with "Chris Rock: Never Scared," another furious tour de force, taped here in Washington last month and premiering on HBO tonight at 10, with repeats several more times in April and May.
There's one worrisome thing about the latest Rock revel, his fourth for HBO. The last topic he addresses is marriage and the war between the sexes. He launches a few cruise missiles in the direction of women, for whom, he suggests, marriage is a chance to adopt men as pets. He's okay with the idea of same-sex marriages, Rock says, because "gay people have a right to be as miserable as anybody else."
The grim reality of marriage is that "it's all about her," he says, addressing himself to men who've managed to remain single. "Here's one thing they don't tell you: You can't make a woman happy. They like [expletive] complaining." Nelson Mandela spent 27 years in a South African prison, starved and tortured, Rock notes, and when he came out he shrugged and said, "No problem." But after six months back with his wife, Mandela screamed, "I can't take this [expletive] no more!" And got a divorce.
"Nobody gets a 'soul mate,' " Rock says. "Just a mate."
Rock's ranting against women is frequently funny, and women in the audience appear to be laughing as hard as men are, but it has a disturbingly familiar ring; it's the same sort of thing that Eddie Murphy did during one of his big comedy concerts, and it signaled a sharp downward turn for Murphy's career. Murphy seemed seriously hateful against women, complaining especially about how richly they profited from divorce. Some of this sounded like creepy revenge against women that Murphy felt had done him wrong.
Similarly but not to such a vehement extreme, Rock gets awfully worked up on the subject. Then again, this is a man who is angry about almost everything and channels that anger into some of the best comedy around.
Rock can be wittily profound. He invokes NBA superstar Shaquille O'Neal in explaining the difference between being wealthy and merely being rich.
"Shaq is rich," Rock says. "The white man who signs his check is wealthy."
Rock chides some African American superstars for bad behavior -- among them Janet Jackson, in words that can't be printed here. And brother Michael? "We let the first kid slide" when Michael was suspected of molesting boys, Rock says, but "another kid?! That's like another dead white girl showing up at O.J.'s house.
"And O.J. saying, 'I know what you're thinking . . .' "
Rock toyed with the idea of hiring Johnnie Cochran as your lawyer when in trouble with the law: "People say if you have Johnnie Cochran, you look guilty. Yeah -- but you go home. Is it better to look innocent and be in prison?"The comedian is at his peak lambasting and lampooning the federal government's drug policies: "They don't want you to use your drugs. They want you to use their drugs," he contends, "their drugs" being all those advertised night and day on television. "They just keep naming symptoms until they get to one that you've [expletive] got," Rock says. "They don't even tell you what the pill does!"
They just show people dancing in the streets or frolicking in a field, Rock says, and viewers think they've got to get some of whatever made those people feel like that. The government only goes after drugs sold on the street that don't benefit corporate America, he says. He has the gift of making a lot of sense about grim realities and still inspiring laughter.
Rock doesn't mention the irony of his appearing at Constitution Hall; the DAR banned African American singer Marian Anderson from performing there in 1939, and Eleanor Roosevelt arranged for Anderson to sing for an audience of thousands at the Lincoln Memorial. Rock performing his socially conscious comedy from that stage to a largely but not exclusively black audience is a statement in itself.
Quoting Rock never really does justice to his material, because you have to hear him deliver it, his eyes wide with alarm, his voice raw with urgency, an occasional subversive "ha ha ha" of his own following a joke. An evening with Chris Rock is better than a trip to the shrink: just as therapeutic and much more amusing (unless you have the world's funniest shrink, of course).
You emerge not only entertained but also under the pleasant delusion that there's still hope in the world -- as long as there's still Rock in the world.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/artic...l?nav=headlines
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well I'm "unable to connect to server"
strange, the first time I tried I saw all the users in the list, then when I typed in my user name i lost everything, now I just get "unable to connect to server"
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Apr 15, 1:32 PM EDT
Gill to Join Clapton and Friends at Fest
By JOHN GEROME
Associated Press Writer
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- It's a good thing Eric Clapton invited Vince Gill to perform at his Crossroads Guitar Festival in Dallas this June, because Gill would have a hard time staying away if he wasn't.
"It sounds like something I'd like to go to anyway even if I wasn't invited, just to hear," Gill said Wednesday in an interview with The Associated Press.
The festival, to run June 4-6 at Fair Park, will include performances by Clapton, Buddy Guy, J.J. Cale, Robert Cray, B.B. King, Carlos Santana, Joe Walsh and many others.
But Gill and Union Station members Dan Tyminski and Jerry Douglas are the only Nashville pickers on the list.
"I was flattered beyond words that I got included," Gill said. "I listened to all of those guys. Probably as a guitar player, I tried to find more from the rock world than I ever did from the country world early on."
Known mostly for his singing and songwriting, Gill also is an accomplished guitarist whose playing reflects a variety of styles, from country and bluegrass to blues and rock.
Before his success as a solo artist, he was lead guitarist for the country-pop group Pure Prairie League and alt-country band the Cherry Bombs. He once turned down an invitation by singer-guitarist Mark Knopfler to join the English rock band Dire Straits.
"I think most people think of me as a singer, and they're kind of surprised that I can play loud," he said. "Not necessarily good, but loud."
A fund raiser for Crossroads Centre Antigua, a substance abuse treatment and education center founded by Clapton, the guitar festival will include clinics for fans and other interaction with performers.
Gill, 47, says he could not imagine having that kind of access when he was a teenager in Oklahoma. He remembers listening to Led Zeppelin and Cream records over and over, trying to learn the solos.
"In the days that I grew up you very rarely even got to see it on TV," he said. "You listen to it and all you can do is use your mind and go 'How do they do this.' The light that would go on just when you saw it done, it's amazing how much that helped."
Gill's not sure which songs he'll perform in Dallas. But he knows what he won't play.
"I don't think I'll show up and sing a bunch of ballads," he said.
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Political tensions between the United States and Cuba fade away on the CD/DVD "Bridge to Havana," which documents the cross-cultural collaboration of more than 70 American, European and Cuban musicians and songwriters.
Gladys Knight, Bonnie Raitt, Joan Osborne, Mick Fleetwood, Peter Frampton and Montell Jordan are among the stars who traveled to Cuba in 1999. Their work is captured on an album and in a DVD concert, set for July release by Pyramid Records.
Pyramid president Alan Jacoby says musicians were partnered by pulling names out of hats, and the songs were written and recorded in a week at three studios set up at Havana's historic Hotel Nacional: "Some magic happened that week."
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thanks umma! :D
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great song! I have an acoustic version, but which album contains the original track? can't seem to find it, does anyone know?
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Add financial woes to the long list of worries bedeviling rock star Courtney Love.
The trouble-prone musician claims in the upcoming issue of Blender magazine that she has been swindled out of $40 million, while a former business associate says she is in debt to the tune of at least $4 million.
Love, the 39-year-old widow of late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, is already dealing with a stack of legal and health concerns, and her music career suffered a recent blow when her long awaited debut solo album bombed.
"I'm covered with loser dust," she was quoted as telling Blender, whose May issue featuring the Love cover story will hit newsstands on April 20.
Love told Blender that "... $40 million has been stolen from me and (11-year-old daughter) Frances by a fiduciary institution."
She added, "I found out that our dog walker was making $100,000. One person put a BMW on my credit card. My daughter's trust fund has been stolen from to the point where she may have, like, nothing. I can't let this happen to Frances.
Blender said "multiple parties close to Love agree that a large sum of money is unaccounted for," while a former business associate who had access to her accounts in the past six months told Blender she is at least "... $4 million in debt."
Love faces two separate trials in Los Angeles, one for misdemeanor disorderly conduct and being under the influence of a controlled substance, and the other for two felony counts of unlawful drug possession. She also temporarily lost custody of Frances, her only child with Cobain, who shot himself in the head 10 years ago.
Love's album "America's Sweetheart," released by EMI Group Plc's Virgin Records unit, spent just four weeks on the Billboard Top 200 chart.
http://news.lycos.com/news/story.asp?secti...&storyId=851381
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MOBILE, Ala. (AP) -- The soundtrack to Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" has been certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America, according to Integrity Media Inc.
The album sold 500,000 copies in February, the Mobile-based company that publishes and distributes Christian products, said Monday. The CD was released by Integrity Music to the Christian market and by Sony Music to the general market.
The company also said Nielsen SoundScan reported that through the week ending April 4, the soundtrack had been the best-selling Christian music album for six consecutive weeks on Billboard's contemporary Christian chart.
"The success of this CD clearly illustrates the power and appeal of music, by allowing so many moviegoers to extend their experience of `The Passion of the Christ' through the purchase of the soundtrack," Integrity Music President Jerry Weimer said in a statement.
The film score was composed by John Debney. The soundtrack features vocals and chants provided by Shannon Kingsbury, the Transylvania State Philharmonic Choir, The London Voices and Gibson, who co-produced the soundtrack with Debney.
http://music.lycos.com/news/story.asp?sect...&storyId=851069
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The Associated Press
Wednesday, April 14, 2004; 9:14 AM
PHILADELPHIA - Three decades after they sang that money was "the root of all evil," The O'Jays lost a bid to block their former record label from cashing in on songs they recorded but didn't think were good enough to release.
A federal judge lifted an injunction that had briefly stopped Philadelphia International Records from distributing "Together We Are One," an album of unreleased tracks recorded by The O'Jays in the early 1980s.
O'Jays founding members Eddie Levert and Walter Williams had argued in a lawsuit filed in Philadelphia on April 2 that the songs were "stale and artistically inferior," and that releasing them would hurt their legacy and ability to tour.
U.S. District Judge R. Barclay Surrick said in an opinion signed on April 9 that a contract signed by the group in 1979 appeared to give the record company unlimited rights to release the songs.
He also expressed some doubt that the album would hurt The O'Jays, whose hits include "For the Love of Money," now being used as the theme song for Donald Trump's "The Apprentice" television show.
"It appears to us that the dispute between these parties has more to do with the financial aspects of their relationships than their professional standing," Surrick wrote.
Lawyers for Levert and Williams declined to discuss the case Tuesday, other than to say they would continue to pursue the lawsuit.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/artic...-2004Apr14.html
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As one of the early pioneers of the dynamic New York City Punk scene, Patti Smith has been creating her unique blend of poetic rock n' roll for over a quarter-century. From her first ultra-rare independent single from 1974, "Hey Joe/Piss Factory," to her 2000 Grammy-nominated "Glitter In Their Eyes," her passion for music and art has undeniably stood the test of time. The 70's witnessed a handful of seminal classic albums with guitarist Lenny Kaye including Horses ("Gloria," "Free Money") and Easter ("Because the Night," "Ghost Dance"). Throughout the late eighties and nineties, Smith not only wrote more and more beautiful music, she also authored a number of books containing original poetry and artwork. This year, Smith is releasing LAND on Arista Records, a 2-disc collection of fan favorites (voted on by over 10,000 fans), live performances, rare/unreleased works, and demos including the much sought after "Piss Factory."
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Instant Live LLC Acquires U.S. Patent
BOSTON --(Business Wire)-- April 7, 2004 -- Instant Live captures and preserves the sound and excitement of the live performance delivering concert recordings to fans immediately after the show
Instant Live LLC today announced that the company has acquired the U.S. Patent and continuation for the business method of creating and distributing digital concert recordings contemporaneously at events. The patent covers all media. Based on an application filed in 2000, the Patent is the first ever issued for the on site creation and distribution of recordings of live event
Instant Live LLC records, duplicates, packages and sells live recordings of musical artists to fans immediately following the concert. CD's are delivered to fans within 5 minutes after the end of the show. Instant Live debuted last year in clubs and theaters in the Northeast, toured with national acts and has recently announced the expansion of its operational base.
We are extremely pleased to be the owners of this recording and distribution business method, said Brian Becker, CEO of Clear Channel Entertainment. Instant Live is one of several exciting new initiatives. We are committed to continuing to grow our company in artist and fan friendly endeavors.
Steve Simon, Executive Vice President of Clear Channel Entertainment's Music Division and the Director of Instant Live, said, We are dedicated to the growth of the format. We would like to make the contemporaneous recording business as inclusive as possible and attractive to all artists. It represents a great opportunity for established acts to deliver something special to fans while enhancing their revenues. It also enables less established acts to make and distribute high quality recordings and generate additional revenue without incurring expenses.
The acquisition covers U.S. Patent No. 6,614,729 issued on September 2, 2003 and includes a continuation patent application number 10/624,077. The Patent has a priority date of September 26, 2000. The patent acquisition will make the Instant Live business method fully proprietary and adds to its existing intellectual property.
Instant Live was introduced in February 2003, in Boston and offered music fans an opportunity to purchase a CD recording of the concert they just attended before they left the venue. Instant Live concerts are recorded using state-of-the-art technology, including a combination of ambient microphones and feeds from the soundboard. By summer 2003, Instant Live was recording the legendary Allman Brothers Band and popular jam band Moe. in theaters and amphitheaters across the country. Instant Live will soon be announcing plans for digital distribution and the Summer 2004 concert season. Plans for on site digital distribution are in the works.
About Clear Channel Entertainment:
Clear Channel Entertainment, a leading producer and marketer of live entertainment events is a subsidiary of Clear Channel Communications (NYSE: CCU), a global leader in the away-from-home advertising industry. Clear Channel Entertainment currently owns, operates and/or exclusively books approximately 130 live entertainment venues, including nearly 100 in North America and more than 30 in Europe. In 2003, 69 million people attended approximately 32,000 events promoted and/or produced by the company, including live music events; Broadway, West End and touring theatrical shows; family entertainment shows; museum exhibitions, and specialized sports and motor sports events. In addition, the company's independently operated athlete representation business, SFX, provides management, marketing and financial consulting services to many of the world's top professional athletes. Clear Channel Entertainment also provides marketing services through LIVE Channel, a company dedicated to creating and executing live events for companies seeking brand promotion. Clear Channel Entertainment operates throughout North America, Europe, and Australia. More information may be found by visiting www.cc.com and www.clearchannel.com.
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Dylan 'reveals origin of anthem'
The Times They Are A-Changin' became an anthem in the 60s
Music legend Bob Dylan has admitted that one of his most famous songs was originally a Scottish folk tune, reports The Scotsman.
Dylan - set to play in Scotland this summer - revealed The Times They Are A-Changin' was copied from other songs.
"It's probably from an old Scottish folk song. That's the folk tradition. You use what's handed down," he said.
Dylan's song was adopted by millions of anti-war campaigners in the 1960s and became an anthem for a generation.
Advert debut
Last week the 62-year-old was in the news when he made his debut in a US TV commercial, promoting lingerie brand Victoria's Secret.
His face was intercut with shots of scantily-clad models.
Executives had already chosen his 1997 track Love Sick for the ad, and invited Dylan to make a cameo appearance.
The advert will air in the US over the coming weeks.
The music Hall of Fame veteran has yet to comment on why he decided to accept the offer to appear in the commercial.
It is the first time in a career spanning more than 40 years that Dylan has appeared in a TV advertisement.
But his song The Times They Are A-Changin' was used on a Bank of Montreal commercial in 1996, which prompted criticism that the singer had sold out.
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Actor Cruise backs terror detox
Cruise is a keen follower of the Church of Scientology
Hollywood star Tom Cruise helped raise $1.2m (£657,000) to provide treatment for firefighters exposed to toxic gases during the 11 September attacks.
The detox regime was designed by Ron L Hubbard, founder of the Church of Scientology, to which Cruise belongs.
"I worried about those who had survived and been exposed," said the actor at a recent fundraising dinner.
"(I) knew immediately that not only would people be getting ill... but that it would be sooner rather than later."
Alternative treatment
"Once the towers had gone down and we were faced with the aftermath of their collapse, I could not get out of my mind that huge cloud billowing across Manhattan," said Cruise, who visited Ground Zero soon after the attacks in 2001.
The cash raised will help treat around 400 emergency workers at a detox centre on New York's Long Island.
The alternative treatment, outlined in Hubbard's book Clear Body, Clear Mind, uses "exercise, sauna sweat-out, vitamins and minerals" to help rescue workers cleanse their bodies of toxic materials.
Los Angeles-based Bridge Publications, which publishes Hubbard's non-fiction works, claims it has already helped some 200 emergency workers.
The technique, from the controversial Church of Scientology, has also been used to treat drug addicts.
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that should be the next question the 9/11 committee asks (but never will) Was the President capable of interpreting the pdb?
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good one joeyz! lol
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http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/news/a..._11385909.shtml
*I hope you don't mind, I copied the pic here - Shawn
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- If music makes you smarter, and exercise helps brain function, can exercising to music really boost brainpower? Some researchers said it can.
Volunteers who listened to Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" while working out on a treadmill did much better on a test of verbal ability than when they exercised without music, a team at Ohio State University found.
"Evidence suggests that exercise improves the cognitive performance of people with coronary artery disease," said psychologist Charles Emery, who led the study.
"And listening to music is thought to enhance brainpower. We wanted to put the two results together," Emery added in a statement.
Writing in the latest issue of the journal Heart & Lung, Emery and colleagues said they studied 33 men and women taking part in a cardiac rehabilitation program after having bypass surgery, angioplasty or other procedures to treat clogged arteries.
The volunteers said they felt better emotionally and mentally after working out with or without the music. But their improvement on the verbal fluency test doubled after listening to music on the treadmills.
"Exercise seems to cause positive changes in the nervous system, and these changes may have a direct effect on cognitive ability," Emery said.
"Listening to music may influence cognitive function through different pathways in the brain. The combination of music and exercise may stimulate and increase cognitive arousal while helping to organize cognitive output."
Emery said he now wanted to test people using music of their own choice.
"We used 'The Four Seasons' because of its moderate tempo and positive effects on medical patients in previous research," Emery said. "But given the range of music preferences among patients, it's especially important to evaluate the influence of other types of music on cognitive outcomes."
Thursday, March 25, 2004 Posted: 9:28 AM EST (1428 GMT)
http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/diet.fitnes...reut/index.html
What Are You Listening To?
in Kickin' it
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rob,
I couldn't help it, when I saw what you were listening to, never heard that one.