From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2011 #196 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Archives: http://www.smoe.org/lists/onlyjoni Websites: http://www.jmdl.com http://www.jonimitchell.com Unsubscribe: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe onlyJMDL Digest Saturday, July 16 2011 Volume 2011 : Number 196 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- June Tabor [Gordon MacKie ] Downloads with Joni Content,easily downloadable and great outcome! [Anita] Graham Nash - what he whispered to Joni in THAT picture [Corey Blake ] New Library item: Bob Dylan's Not Really a Plagiarist (He's a Conceptual Artist) [TheStaff@JoniMit] More on Morgellons Disease [Joe Jones ] Re: Downloads with Joni Content,easily downloadable and great outcome! [D] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 08:15:14 +0100 From: Gordon MacKie Subject: June Tabor Hi All Laurent - I've been a big fan of June for many years and have heard her perform live - she really does sound good in concert. If any of you on the list have not heard her voice, it is quite a treat. There...that's my annual posting over ! Gordon in sunny Glasgow ( even though its the local 'fair' holiday when it traditionally rains !) Gordon Mackie Lecturer in Community Education University of Strathclyde Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences School of Applied Social Sciences 76 Southbrae Drive Glasgow G13 1PP Tel : 0141 950 3378 ( secretary) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 10:17:48 +0100 From: Anita G Subject: Downloads with Joni Content,easily downloadable and great outcome! Having just returned from a month touring British Columbia and Alberta, I was delighted to get back on list and see that this year's Joni Covers Album, put together by our dear Dave Blackburn to help raise funds for Joni.com was available. I am loathe to admit that I prefer this year's album, especially as I contributed to the album last year! Maybe it's the way the songs hang together as a whole, maybe it's the way Dave has ordered them or maybe the spread of songs is different or (through my very gritted teeth this one) perhaps the performances are just better or more varied. Whatever it is, for me it's a super listen. Hear 'Trouble Child' played acoustically, 'Song for Sharon' electrically and without a vocal, a bright elusive butterfly version of 'Song of the Midway', 'The Magdalene Laundries' sung with an Irish lilt by a man, 'Carnival in Kenora' straight out of the Beatles '68 with a vocal reminiscent of Joni's earliest days, the smokiest version of 'Blue Motel Room' I've ever heard,a real live party version of 'People's Parties', a very English 'Edith and the Kingpin', a very American Dixie Chick 'Big Yellow Taxi' and a rocking Harlem in Havana with a guitar sound that could have been played by Joni herself. Well, How Do You Stop? And that's a great number on this album too. All done for the Love of Joni Mitchell Dot Com by people whom you know and love, right here on this site. My hope is that everyone's digging into their credit cards and supporting all the work that our dear Les undertakes every day and that Dave Blackburn has given hours of time to putting together. Thanks to them both. Particular thanks to everyone who contributed to the album,too. It's a great thing you've done. We get a great selection of music and get to feel good about ourselves,too! If you haven't got it yet, get on it now.You can't lose. Anita x ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 08:14:34 -0700 From: Corey Blake Subject: Graham Nash - what he whispered to Joni in THAT picture I haven't watched the interview yet, but supposedly he gets a little emotional when explaining what he was whispering to Joni in that often-seen picture of them from the early '70s. Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4fL_2A2WsU - -Corey ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 19:23:04 +0100 From: Paul Castle Subject: Re: 2011 Joni covers download Thanks for the download, Dave - loaded the tracks into my iPod and listened to them all a couple of times yesterday on my weekly 3-hour drive from London up into the Cotswolds to visit my 96 year old father. It kept me in such a good mood singing along - and even air-guitaring along in the usual M25 jam - which didn't stress me at all this week. Thanks so much to all who contributed. Makes me wonder where others are listening to theirs - would love to hear best to all PaulC ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 12:52:42 -0600 (MDT) From: TheStaff@JoniMitchell.com Subject: New Library item: Bob Dylan's Not Really a Plagiarist (He's a Conceptual Artist) Title: Bob Dylan's Not Really a Plagiarist (He's a Conceptual Artist) Publication: Huffington Post Date: 2011.7.15 http://jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=2390 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 21:40:38 +0100 From: Joe Jones Subject: More on Morgellons Disease Hi, may be of interest to some. Joe, St. Asaph, UK np - Pacific Ocean Blue - Dennis Wilson http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/8626767/Morgellons-Disease-continues-to-defeat-scientists.html Morgellons Disease continues to defeat scientists - Burrowing bugs, delusions or a nervous disorder? Why can't medical scientists get to the bottom of Morgellons Disease - By Will Storr Nick Mann was convinced that something was burrowing into his skin. The 48-year-old father of two had been for a walk in the beautiful grounds of Abney Park Cemetery, down the road from his home in Hackney, east London. It was sunny and he'd been wearing shorts and sandals. That evening, his legs began itching. Marks sprang up all over his body. "I just knew something was on me," he remembers. "Something digging or biting into my skin." Over the coming days, lesions opened up on his body. Running his fingertips over them, he could feel something inside: it felt like spines or fibres, he says. He began to feel tormented. What were these bugs? How many were there? Would he ever be rid of them? One afternoon, in desperation, Nick stripped naked in his kitchen and determined to dig one out as soon as felt it 'bite'. "I stood there for three or four hours, waiting," he says. "As soon as it did, I went for it with a hypodermic needle. There was one on my nipple." He pales slightly. "You know, I can't get that out of my head. It was so painful. I dug the needle in and felt it flicking against something that wasn't me. And I just carried on digging and scooping." It took nearly four hours. "At one point my wife came in and saw blood dripping down my leg." By the end of the afternoon, Nick had dug out three of the mysterious entities from his body. They were so small, he says, you could only see them when they moved. Having managed to transfer them into a jar, he proudly showed his wife. Karen peered into the pot. She could see nothing. Nick, however, knew he was on the verge of discovering what this strange and maddening condition was. It was back in 2001 that the first modern-day reports of a mysterious "fibre disease" began to emerge from the US. When Mary Leitao's two-year-old son complained of "bugs in his skin" and subsequently broke out in lesions, the worried mother examined him with a toy microscope. Under the lens, she found bizarre, many-coloured fibres. Leitao christened the condition Morgellons Disease, after a similar bizarre outbreak of "harsh hairs" on children that was reported in the 17th century. She was compelled to name it herself for a simple, but surprising reason: doctor after doctor dismissed her concerns. They said she was neurotic; that it was a figment of her imagination. A decade later, Leitao's Morgellons Research Foundation claims to have been contacted by more than 12,000 families from all over the world. All of them claim to have the itch, the lesions and the fibres. But the vast majority of sufferers had been dismissed by medical professionals as being mentally ill, with a condition known as Delusions of Parasitosis, in which sufferers are falsely convinced that they are infested. Despite this, in 2006, there was enough pressure put on the American government for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] to form a task force to look into the matter. "We're not ready to concede there's a new disease," a spokesman said at the time. "But the volume of concern has stepped up because a lot of people are writing or calling their congressmen about it." One of the few academics to accept that Morgellons might be real is Randy Wymore, associate professor of pharmacology at Oklahoma State University. "I thought it sounded crazy," he remembers. "I knew it was thought to be delusional, so I asked some Morgellons sufferers to send samples of the fibres, figuring if it was delusional, they would never show up. But 48 hours later, Fed Ex packages started arriving. I borrowed a microscope to examine them. And they looked a little odd." Wymore asked agents in the forensics department of the Tulsa police department for a second opinion. "Within about 30 seconds, one of them said, 'Uh, I don't think I've ever seen anything like this'." The fibres didn't match any of the 85,000 organic substances they had on their files. "I was both shocked and not shocked," recalls Wymore. "I already thought these fibres were kind of unusual, and this just validated it." Wymore has now been working on the DNA of the fibres for five years. So far, none of the samples he has sent into the laboratory has proved to be anything mysterious. Results have included nylon, cotton, a human hair, a fungal fibre and a rodent hair. Yet more evidence that Morgellons patients are merely delusional? World-renowned neurologist Dr Anne Louise Oaklander is not so sure. Oaklander, an associate professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, is an expert in itching. She believes that sufferers might have developed nerve disorders that are being misdiagnosed. "Morgellons is not a disease with a unifying cause, but a constellation of symptoms that can be caused by different underlying diagnoses," she says. "In my experience, these patients have a severe itch disorder that's unexplained, and because itch is the sensation that we feel when an insect lands on our skin, or grubbing about among the hairs of our body, these patients make a logical conclusion: which is that there must be insects here, causing these insect-like sensations." She explains that the brain can mistakenly experience the feeling of insects if the nervous system was damaged following shingles and sciatica, or by the growth of spinal cord tumours. "What often happens, though, is a physician does not find a skin disorder, so jumps to a psychiatric conclusion. But what they should be doing is looking for underlying neurological explanations." So what all does this mean for Nick Mann? Are the fibres in his skin real? Is he delusional? Or does he have an undiagnosed nerve disorder? In fact, Nick turned out to be an extraordinary case. While it's common for GPs to diagnose patients claiming to suffer from unexplained itching as delusional, this was unlikely in his case, because Nick himself is a GP. "I took the three mites I'd caught to our local Homerton Hospital," he says. "A technician mounted one on a slide, put it under a microscope and said 'Beautiful'. Everyone gathered around saying 'Ooh, look at that'." It was definitely something. But they didn't know what. "They sent it to the Natural History Museum, which identified it within a day," says Nick, "as a Tropical Rat Mite." Although museum experts doubted the mites could live on the skin, the GP has no doubt that is what they were doing. "What these mites do is go in through the hair follicles and find a blood vessel at the bottom. That's where they sit and that's what the 'fibres' are  their legs folded back." Nick, who treated himself with an antiparasitic drug to eradicate the infection, can only guess that he picked up the mites walking in the cemetery. Despite the name, they are not exclusive to hot climates. Nick believes it likely that many patients who claim to have Morgellons are actually infected by Tropical Rat Mites. However, he agrees with Dr Oaklander that this diagnosis is unlikely to explain all cases. "There doesn't appear to be a single explanation for it," he says. Perhaps the mystery will finally be solved when the Centers for Disease Control release their report. Currently in the peer-review process, publication is thought to be imminent. Causes and cures: starting from scratch Itching is a common symptom but can be severe and frustrating. It can be localised, or all over the body and there are numerous causes and various treatments. Causes A non-infectious skin condition  eczema, psoriasis or prurigo (fluid filled blisters). Allergies  nickel, medication, washing powder, cosmetics or food. An insect or parasite  bites, scabies, head lice, bed bugs or ticks. Fungal and viral infections, such as measles, athletes foot, ringworm and thrush. Chronic conditions Some types of cancer, thyroid problems, hepatitis and liver disease. Hormonal changes in the body during the menopause and pregnancy. Diagnosis Visit your GP for a diagnosis if your itching is severe, prolonged or recurring. Seek medical advice if itching is associated with other symptoms, such as breathing problems, inflammation or yellowing of the skin and eyes. A physical assessment may be able to determine the cause of the itching, but your doctor may also carry out a blood test, skin scraping, swab or biopsy to diagnose the underlying cause of the problem. Treatment Treatment will depend on the cause of the itching. Bathing skin in lukewarm water and avoiding skin irritants, such as certain fabrics, tight fitting clothing and perfumed cosmetics. Medication or creams may be prescribed. Antihistamines may be advisable for insect bites or if an allergy has been diagnosed. For more information, see, http://www.cdc.gov/unexplaineddermopathy/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 14:24:59 -0700 From: Dave Blackburn Subject: Re: Downloads with Joni Content,easily downloadable and great outcome! I'd have to agree with Anita that this year's covers submissions were outstanding in terms of variety, ingenuity and production value. I'll take a little credit for sequencing the songs in the order presented and mastering them to be a good listen one to the next but the rest is all due to the talent and artistry of the members of this wonderful list. Everyone who submitted songs, without exception, sent me high quality uncompressed files which made this possible, (ie no mp3s) so my thanks to all for that. If anyone who has not heard this vaunted collection would like to, all you have to do is make a donation in some amount that works for you to http://jonimitchell.com/donate.cfm and your email will be forwarded to me by Les. I will promptly share the link to download the eleven songs. Dave On Jul 15, 2011, at 2:17 AM, Anita G wrote: > Having just returned from a month touring British Columbia and > Alberta, I was delighted to get back on list and see that this year's > Joni Covers Album, put together by our dear Dave Blackburn to help > raise funds for Joni.com was available. > > I am loathe to admit that I prefer this year's album, especially as I > contributed to the album last year! Maybe it's the way the songs hang > together as a whole, maybe it's the way Dave has ordered them or maybe > the spread of songs is different or (through my very gritted teeth > this one) perhaps the performances are just better or more varied. > Whatever it is, for me it's a super listen. > > Hear 'Trouble Child' played acoustically, 'Song for Sharon' > electrically and without a vocal, a bright elusive butterfly version > of 'Song of the Midway', 'The Magdalene Laundries' sung with an Irish > lilt by a man, 'Carnival in Kenora' straight out of the Beatles '68 > with a vocal reminiscent of Joni's earliest days, the smokiest version > of 'Blue Motel Room' I've ever heard,a real live party version of > 'People's Parties', a very English 'Edith and the Kingpin', a very > American Dixie Chick 'Big Yellow Taxi' and a rocking Harlem in Havana > with a guitar sound that could have been played by Joni herself. Well, > How Do You Stop? And that's a great number on this album too. All done > for the Love of Joni Mitchell Dot Com by people whom you know and > love, right here on this site. > > My hope is that everyone's digging into their credit cards and > supporting all the work that our dear Les undertakes every day and > that Dave Blackburn has given hours of time to putting together. > Thanks to them both. Particular thanks to everyone who contributed to > the album,too. It's a great thing you've done. > > We get a great selection of music and get to feel good about > ourselves,too! If you haven't got it yet, get on it now.You can't > lose. > Anita x ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2011 #196 ********************************* ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe