From: owner-mad-mission-digest@smoe.org (mad-mission-digest) To: mad-mission-digest@smoe.org Subject: mad-mission-digest V3 #156 Reply-To: mad-mission@smoe.org Sender: owner-mad-mission-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-mad-mission-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk * If you ever wish to unsubscribe, send an email to * mad-mission-digest-request@smoe.org * with ONLY the word unsubscribe in the body of the email * . * For the latest information on Patty's tour dates, go to: * http://www.spectra.net/~ducksoup/pattyg/patttyg.htm * OR * go to http://www.amrecords.com * then click "tour" and fill in the blanks :) * . * PLEASE :) when you reply to this digest to send a post TO the list, * change the subject to reflect what your post is about. A subject * of Re: mad-mission-digest V3 #xxx or the like gives readers no clue * as to what your message is about. mad-mission-digest Sunday, May 23 1999 Volume 03 : Number 156 Today's Subjects: ----------------- MM: NPC (Tinnitus) [Woolphie@aol.com] MM: Re: Validity of that Suicide Note ["Victoria Chenevey" ] MM: Tape of Second 328 Show. [John Deaderick ] MM: Kris Delmhorst [AloanStar@webtv.net (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jean=F1e_Pugh?=)] MM: Re: Tape of Second 328 Show. ["James P" ] MM: favor =] [Father Virgil ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 01:59:18 EDT From: Woolphie@aol.com Subject: MM: NPC (Tinnitus) Saw this headline...remembered one of our members suffered from the ailment, but couldn't remember which member... But as we're all concert goers, I thought everyone might be interested in taking a look. - --> Sound Therapy For Ear Ringing By LAURAN NEERGAARD .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's commonly called ringing in the ears, but for millions of people who suffer tinnitus, the sound that plagues them may instead be a buzz or hiss or chirp or high-pitched whistle. An estimated 50 million Americans hear those phantom sounds continuously, although for most it's just an annoyance. But for 12 million people, the incessant noise becomes debilitating enough to seek medical help, according to the American Tinnitus Association. They can suffer sleep deprivation or depression. Tinnitus can ruin family relationships. Occasionally, it even pushes sufferers to suicide. There is no cure -- and tinnitus is on the rise, due in part to ear damage from our increasingly noisy society. Loud noise is a chief culprit in tinnitus, as anyone whose ears have rung at least temporarily after a rock concert can attest. But an Emory University professor says many patients can retrain their brains to recognize their ear-ringing as no more annoying than the refrigerator humming in the background of your home. It's called tinnitus retraining therapy, and the key is using other faint sounds, sometimes called ``white noise,'' to adjust how patients' brains perceive and react to the abnormal sound. ``It's very simple,'' explains Pawel Jastreboff, who introduced the approach in the early 1990s but now, as director of Emory's new tinnitus center, is training numerous doctors to use it. ``All of our senses, including hearing, are based on contrast from background. ... If you introduce another sound, then the first sound seems to be not as loud.'' He fits severe patients with small hearing aid-like devices to deliver faint sounds, like running water or a low hum, for up to 18 months. Over that time, their brains are supposed to become so used to focusing on the new sounds that they're not paying attention to the ringing. Doctors don't understand what causes tinnitus. But they do know that the most common trigger is loud noise, like an explosion, a concert or pulsating boom box, a plane taking off, lawn mowers and other power tools. Even one-time exposure to a really loud noise commonly causes temporary tinnitus. But chronic exposure risks persistent ringing in the ears. Experts say the best protection is prevention -- turn down the volume or wear earplugs. But tinnitus isn't a novelty of the super-loud 20th century. It's been described for hundreds for years. And it can be a side effect of numerous medications, or the consequence of a blow to the head or an ear infection. Scientists are studying an area of the brain called the auditory cortex that helps process signals from the ears and behaves abnormally in tinnitus sufferers, in hopes of understanding what makes the ringing continue so maybe it could be blocked. But Jastreboff says for now, ``it's possible to help really a majority of patients'' with sound therapy. Patients who have a strong emotional response to the ringing seem to suffer most, so he teaches them about how the brain processes sound and ways to cope, helping them to relax. Then Jastreboff introduces sound therapy. Some people try to mask tinnitus with louder noise, but he stresses very faint sounds, too low to interfere even with a telephone conversation. ``You'll never achieve habituation if you block tinnitus,'' he contends. In fact, the noise is so faint some people forget they're wearing the devices. ``I've had some people jump in a swimming pool and make a total mess of their sound generators,'' Jastreboff said. The patient's severity determines the sound. Some succeed with hearing aids to amplify everyday sounds over the ear ringing. But the majority get the behind-the-ear sound generators, emitting just enough noise for the brain to sense. Jastreboff has published studies suggesting the approach helps up to 80 percent of patients get significant relief. Studies from Britain and Australia also suggest it helps, although not quite as much. EDITOR'S NOTE -- Lauran Neergaard covers health and medical issues for The Associated Press in Washington. AP-NY-05-21-99 0307EDT Copyright 1999 The Associated Press. The information contained in the AP news report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or otherwise distributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press. All active hyperlinks have been inserted by AOL. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 23:10:11 -0700 From: "Victoria Chenevey" Subject: MM: Re: Validity of that Suicide Note Gosh, Alan, I wasn't offended. Just didn't want to be duped, you know? I will say, with no offense intended, that I still question the authenticity of the note, even after your post. Not that the media is the best source of information, but I don't recall seeing anything reported that an actual note was found, and if so, published. And, wouldn't those awful *rag* newspapers have that on their front page? It has been awhile since I've been in the grocery store (the cupboards are bare), but I don't remember seeing anything in those headlines while in line for the checker. There's been way too many times where people have used the web to scam, not to tell the truth, and many trusting, unsuspecting people have accepted what was written for fact. Just 'cause it's posted don't make it true. Vickie ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 23:15:51 -0700 From: "Victoria Chenevey" Subject: MM: Re: question Certainly NOT long enough!!! My experience has been that she plays for no more than 45 minutes, and every little minute is worth being there. Vickie ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 08:59:29 -0400 From: John Deaderick Subject: MM: Tape of Second 328 Show. Does anyone have a tape of the second 328 show in Nashville? The date would have been Wednesday, May 19th. I would like a copy if anyone has one. Thanks. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 10:49:41 -0400 (EDT) From: AloanStar@webtv.net (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jean=F1e_Pugh?=) Subject: MM: Kris Delmhorst I just wanted to add to Judy's introduction of Kris. I haven't had a conversation with Kris, but I have had the chance to see her perform twice. Once at a benefit concert for Respond, an organization in the Boston area for battered women and their children....which also has put out a "must have" cd full of songs by many incredible local female singer/songwriters. (ask Elaine and Dana, we went to the concert together) Anyway, I also saw Kris at Club Passim in Cambridge not long ago. She is amazing and her cd "Apetite" is so good that I've gathered enough copies to send to my friends in the south who love music as much as I do. The Boston area has opened my eyes to alot of great talent. One, being Lori McKenna who won the Lilith Fair talent search for the area and another is Meg Hutchinson, who opened for Kris at Club Passim. Meg's cd reminds me alot of Patty's LWG. It's very raw, and just pulls you into it more and more with each listen. Lori's is like a day of therapy. I feel very connected to her lyrics and the feelings they evoke. Great cds by all 3 artists and not one song that I don't like on either. Anyway, I am rambling now, but everyone adds names of artists to the long list of "favorites" they have besides Patty...and these are 3 of mine. Jean=F1e ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 18:39:36 -0500 From: "James P" Subject: MM: Re: Tape of Second 328 Show. I guess this was a great show. Damn! I should have gone but I figured she'd sing the same setlist as the night before. Oh well.... -Cristina - -----Original Message----- From: John Deaderick To: mad-mission@smoe.org Date: Saturday, May 22, 1999 9:00 AM Subject: MM: Tape of Second 328 Show. >Does anyone have a tape of the second 328 show in Nashville? The date >would have been Wednesday, May 19th. I would like a copy if anyone has >one. Thanks. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 22:53:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Father Virgil Subject: MM: favor =] I'm new to the list so I figure I may have missed out on some boot offers...I would LOVE to have somethin live besides Patty's Lilith Fair track. If anyone would be willing to send me a CDR or a tape I would be sooooo grateful. I don't have any trades to offer, but I'd be open to suggestions. Thanks! =] Greg ------------------------------ End of mad-mission-digest V3 #156 *********************************