![]() The rest of his world collapsed shortly after that.īetween a divorce and some bad investments, he lost more than $1 million. Richard rehabilitated but wasn’t the same. I guess I was going in and out.”ĭoctors would tell Richard that he suffered three strokes that night. “I remember having cold towels on my forehead,” he said. His next memory fast-forwards to seeing doctors and nurses tending to him in the hospital hours later. “I remember I heard a high pitch tone ringing in my left ear,” he said. Richard has vague memories of what transpired that night. He was rushed to a hospital, where doctors performed emergency surgery to remove a blood clot in his arm. On July 30, while practicing before a game against the Cubs, the 30-year-old Richard collapsed on the Astrodome field. Sportswriters, fans, and team management at the time viewed him as petulant and bitter. They said I was unhappy, pouting about Nolan Ryan.” “I had been complaining to the Houston Astros staff for a month or two about not feeling well,” Richard told me last week. Richard continued to complain of pain, even though there was nothing specific he could tell trainers or doctors.Īnother checkup and a battery of tests again turned up nothing. A team doctor gave Richard a clean bill of health, and he was put back in the rotation. He didn’t make a July 15 start against the Phillies in the Astrodome, telling coaches that his stomach was upset. A kinder, gentler Richard might not have been ignored. Richards has always maintained that what happened next - or didn’t happen in some instances - was a direct reaction to those comments. Richard was having a great season, winning 10 of his first 14 starts with a 1.89 ERA, but it didn’t matter. ![]() With those comments, Richard had dashed any goodwill he had created. This is where Richards’ life began to unravel. ![]() Richards argued that he was worth more than Ryan. Richard complained, publicly and privately, about what he perceived to be a snub. McMullen, desperate to win a pennant, then signed future Hall of Famer Nolan Ryan and made him baseball’s first $1 million player. It’s not clear if anyone ever put a radar gun on Richard’s pitches, but it’s believed his fastball hit 105 mph.Īfter those three great years, Richard was re-signed by then-Astros owner John McMullen before the 1980 season for $850,000. The next year, he struck out a Koufax-like 313. In Richard’s three best seasons, the 6-foot-8, 240-pound right-hander averaged 18 wins, 261 strikeouts and had a 2.88 ERA. God, as it turns out, was willing to go to great lengths to get J.R. God wouldn’t do things to hurt you, but he will do things to get your attention.” “That’s where I really met God and turned my life around. A few years later, he was out of baseball, out of money and living under a freeway bridge.īut if given the chance, Richard told me last week, he wouldn’t change a thing. Richard was one of the most dangerous pitchers in the mid- to late-1970s, blasting hitters out of the box. Richard began not with a stroke, as you may have read, but with hubris. The heroic rise and slow, painful fall of Houston Astros pitching legend J.R. File photo / Houston Post Show More Show Less Richard was taken off the Astrodome field on a stretcher after suffering a stroke before a Jgame. Richard Focus On Sport, Contributor / Getty Images Show More Show Less 6 of6 J.R. (Photo by Focus on Sport/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** J.R. Richard played for the Astros from 1971-80. Richard #50 of the Houston Astros pitches against the New York Mets during a Major League Baseball game circa 1975 at Shea Stadium in the Queens borough of New York City. Tom Reel, Staff / San Antonio Express-News Show More Show Less 5 of6 NEW YORK - CIRCA 1975: Pitcher J.R. Richard as Houston Astros players Jose Altuve and Brett Wallace sign autographs with Richard and broadcaster Bill Brown at the Academy Sports and Outdoors store at 1604 near Gold Canyon on January 24, 2013. file Show More Show Less 4 of6 Brooke Crowl gets to chat with J.R. Richard's imposing presence on the mound - he stood 6-8 and weighed 230 - helped make him one of the top pitchers in the game in the late '70s. Tom Reel, Staff / San Antonio Express-News Show More Show Less 3 of6 James Rodney ( J. ![]() Richard Rich Pilling, Contributor / MLB Photos via Getty Images Show More Show Less 2 of6 Carter Herrera gets some bunny ears from J.R. (Photo by Rich Pilling/MLB Photos via Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** J.R. Richard played for the Astros from 1971-1980. Richard #50 of the Houston Astros poses for a photo.
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![]() And once we have the device, that’s it, we can simply start assembling our cloud storage at home.Īlthough there are some characteristics in the installation and configuration of each NAS, in all we will start based on connecting the NAS to the router with an Ethernet cable. However, the best thing is that before making the purchase decision, is to review a guide to know what NAS to buy. With a simple search, we will find dozens of NAS devices that we can buy, from just $100. In this second case, we will only have to spend some money if we want to expand the storage of the computer so that our ‘domestic cloud’ has greater capacity. ![]() If we want to do it in a simple way it is best to buy a NAS, but if we want to use the resources that we already have available, then we can use our own computer, and simply take advantage of a completely free software. To mount cloud storage at home we have different options, the main ones are two, a PC either with specific software, or a NAS dedicated specifically to it. How to assemble your own cloud storage at home? Hence, in the long-term savings, we have an important advantage over all these paid third-party services. But once we have done the installation and complete configuration, which we probably already have partially by the simple fact of having a computer at home, we will not have to suffer the recurring costs of other third-party cloud storage services. Advantages: Personal cloud storage vs Third party cloud storage services Image Source: Malwarebytesīasically, we have to carry out an initial investment, and we need a storage system, obviously, a network that connects you to the internet and some other resources. However, we can create our own local cloud storage system at home, and combine the advantages of ‘cloud storage’ with full control, while the system will be managed by us only. Hence, services like Google Drive, Dropbox, iCloud, are the well-known cloud storage systems, but they are maintained by third parties. When we talk about storage in the cloud we simply refer to a storage system accessible through the internet. What is a local storage system in the cloud? ![]() ![]() Calcium signal imaging following ischemic stroke found that the magnitude of spreading depolarizations were significantly smaller in awake mice (Balbi et al., 2017) while laser speckle contrast imaging (LSCI) of photothrombotic stroke observed larger infarct sizes in awake rats compared to their isoflurane-anesthetized counterparts (Lu et al., 2017). ![]() Two-photon phosphorescence lifetime microscopy showed that tissue oxygenation is twice as high under isoflurane anesthesia compared to the awake state and exhibited large layer-specific differences within the cortical vasculature (Lyons et al., 2016). Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), laser Doppler flowmetry, and intrinsic signal optical imaging have all established that isoflurane increases basal cerebral blood flow (CBF) while attenuating and delaying the hemodynamic response to local neural activity via neurovascular coupling (Desai et al., 2011 Aksenov et al., 2015 Takuwa et al., 2012 Pisauro et al., 2013). There have been numerous imaging modalities used to examine the effects of isoflurane on cerebral hemodynamics. For these reasons and more (Gao et al., 2017), there is a growing effort within the neuroscience community to transition to un-anesthetized awake animal models in order to more accurately interpret neurophysiological and behavioral experiments and more readily translate findings to awake human physiology. These effects can mask the benefits of prospective neuroprotective therapeutics or interventions and confound the outcomes of long-term studies (Kapinya et al., 2002 Seto et al., 2014). Isoflurane also conveys potential neuroprotective effects that reduce and delay the severity of cerebral ischemia (Kitano et al., 2006 Kawaguchi et al., 2000 Sakai et al., 2007 Li et al., 2013 Lu et al., 2017). However, isoflurane has been shown to reduce neuronal activity (Aksenov et al., 2015), interfere with functional connectivity at higher doses (Xie et al., 2019), and suppress the magnitude and speed of neurovascular coupling (Masamoto and Kanno, 2012 Takuwa et al., 2012 Pisauro et al., 2013). Volatile inhalation anesthetics, such as the halogenated ether isoflurane (Eger, 1981), are commonly utilized to immobilize animals during imaging while allowing for fine control over the depth of anesthesia and consciousness. The use of general anesthesia during neuroimaging is ubiquitous across many animal models despite systemic effects on neurophysiological state and cardiovascular function (Slupe and Kirsch, 2018). |