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Dr. Charles Shepherd is the Honorary Medical Adviser to the ME Association, a patient charity in London, UK.

Dr. Ken Friedman is a retired Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology, New Jersey University of Medicine and Dentistry, Newark, New Jersey.

Following up on Paradigms February 27, 2022 with Dr. Ken Friedman and Dr. David Maughan, Drs. Friedman and Shepherd describe the current state of research regarding Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in the US and UK respectively, as well as links between ME/CFS and Long Covid.

Current Resources:

• ME/CFS Importance of Early and Accurate Diagnosis

• Long Covid and ME/CFS Overlap • DecodeME Research Results – the Genetics of ME/CFS

• Reframing Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS): Biological Basis of Disease and Recommendations for Supporting Patients

• Causes of symptoms and symptom persistence in long COVID and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome

• Leaving ME Behind: A Personal Journey Through Chronic Illness by Simon Harrison (Author), Kenneth J. Friedman Ph.D. (Foreword)

Music by: Fleetwood Mac, Peregrine, New Party Systems, Holly Near, and G. Love & Special Sauce.

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Ian Brennan and Marilena Umuhoza Delli travel the world making field recordings of traditional music, much of it in danger of being lost forever. With 50 albums to their credit, Tigray Tears – The World Stood By is the most recent.

Ian joins Baruch in a conversation about the Tigray region of Ethiopia, the people, the music, all in the context of the 2020 – 2022 civil war “that was primarily fought in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia between forces allied with the Ethiopian federal government and Eritrea on one side, and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front on the other.”  – Wikipedia

This record is a series of pleas for peace, civility, and kindness. Ian talks about the making of the record and his life as an ethnomusicologist; his motivations and what’s rewarding about doing this work.

• Ian Brennan on YouTube • Ian Brennan’s Books and Writing • Non-violent Crisis Resolution

Music by: Various Tigrinya Singers

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Emma G returns to Paradigms to share some fun easy useful tools for sparking inspiration.  Experience three creativity exercises, we’ll also be listening to some  Emma G music!

Emma G’s new book Mental Health Sounds Like This has just become available!  Musical, creative, authentic, inspired, energetic; all words that describe Emma G, a woman on a mission.

Emma G is a person who has come through fire.  Her songs tell her stories.  In addition to composing and performing her own music, Emma G works empowering young people through the vehicle of song writing.

Allow yourself to engage with the simple yet potent creativity exercises that Emma G shares with us, and then take that creativity into your life, into the world!

• Emma G on YouTube

Music by: William Augusto & Soaking in his Presence, and Emma G

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Joaquin Núñez and Habana Safari have just released a recording of music they’ve been playing together for years, souped up with the addition of a great pianist. The record is Ruta De La Clave.

Joaquin Núñez was born in Cuba where he was spotted as a talented percussionist in childhood, and educated accordingly with great teachers. He eventually moved to Canada where he lives with his family. Joaquin joins Baruch for a discussion about the music and it’s roots in many cultures; and how, through synergy, this music tells some of the human story.

• Joaquin Núñez and Habana Safari on YouTube

Music by: Joaquin Núñez and Habana Safari 

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Egberto Willies is an activist, author, blogger, radio host, software developer, mechanical engineer, and more. Egberto’s media project Politics Done Right is a website with political articles that are well researched, direct and to the point, examining current events with critical thinking. This is a site where facts actually matter!

Egberto also has a Substack newsletter, Egberto Off The Record, a YouTube channel Egberto Willies (Politics Done Right) where he regularly hosts live interactive video chats (also available on Facebook) with relevant fascinating guests “telling it like it is” from their personal experience. You can also find Egberto at 90.1 KPFT FM in Houston Texas. And more! Egberto has made it easy for people to access his political journalism, which is good because he’s doing an excellent job of exposing the Trump Administration, the Republican Party, Project 2025, and the whole fascist undermining of the United States that is currently being perpetrated.

Baruch and Egberto discuss some of today’s top concerns. “Resist is a verb with it’s sleeves rolled up.”

Music by: Tracy Grammer, Ellen McIlwaine, Jaime Ospina, Holly Near, Animal Logic, Joni Mitchell, Eljuri, Crys Matthews, and Keb’ Mo’.

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Gregg Hill is a prolific composer and writer, with 192+ compositions to his credit, and he just published his fifth book The Speckled Frog: The Music of Gregg Hill. Gregg started out with music at an early age, but didn’t go far initially.  He went on to have a life, a family, and a career as a truck driver. Time goes by and in his 50s he decided to get serious about music.  He tells us some of his story.

Gregg is the inspiration for many musicians.  There are numerous records of players playing Gregg’s compositions.

Gregg tells Baruch his story, we listen to some of Gregg Hill’s compositions, and hopefully this opens doors to new music for you!

Music by: Rodney Whitaker, Dave Sharp, Michael Dease (feat. Liany Mateo, Virginia MacDonald & Geoffrey Keezer), Technocats, Rick Roe, and Randy Napolean

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Dee Robinson has been a truck loader, a janitor, worked in a cabinet making shop, worked in a big box store, and  has an adult son and grandchildren.

Dee grew up around music. His grandfather played, his father played, and Dee noodled as a youngster, but at some point he decided to teach himself to play guitar, so he did. He also taught himself to play the banjo. The result is this record Dee from Decatur a collection of traditional music from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This is Blues roots music from which sprang Jazz, Rock’n’roll, Disco, Hip Hop, House; all the contemporary music we listen to is informed by this music, and it comes from Black people with more recent ties to our common human African ancestry than those of us whose African ancestry is more ancient. As white supremacists continue their campaign to erase the real history of the United States, this music reminds us of the history of African Americans by remembering Reconstruction and Jim Crow and more.

Dee’s playing is reminiscent of Lead Belly, Robert Johnson, “Mississippi” John Hurt, and others. His renditions may seem simple but they are complex, timeless, with the flavor of times gone by.

Music by: Dee Robinson

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Natalie Bogwalker is the founder and director of Wild Abundance, a school where people learn Earth and Community based skills from house building to renewable energy to gardening, all good stuff that humans thrive on.

Trauma can initiate a person into different awareness and a change of path.  Natalie experienced such an event when she was 19 which changed her life trajectory as she knew it at the time. You never know what life is going to put in your path. Learning this allows for more resiliency.

Natalie is also founder of Firefly Gathering a skill sharing community, precursor to Wild Abundance, which holds regular community skill sharing events.

Music by: The Byrds, Lilli Lewis, Eduard Glumov & Kate Northrup, MaMuse, Dana Lyons & John Seed, and Rising Appalachia

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Paul Asbell has been playing music for 60+ years give or take. He’s a virtuoso blues guitarist. He’s played with some of the greatest musicians of the 20th century.

In his new book Stages: Ruminations, Rants, and Reminiscences on a Life in Music Paul shares 32 stories from his past. Folks like Pete Seeger, John Lee Hooker, and Big Mama Thornton, and many more grace the pages of this well written and wonderfully illustrated volume, with original art by Lorraine Halpin Zaloom and styled by Tina Christensen.

Paul Asbell started out in Chicago where the blues scene caught his interest. He was exposed to Folk, Jazz, Rock, all of which informs his own style of Americana Blues. Paul teaches and performs in Burlington Vermont, and around New England.

In addition to discussing the book, we’ll be listening to musical selections spanning Paul’s career.

• Paul Asbell on YouTube

Music by: Paul Asbell

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Jaime Ospina brings together musics from Africa, the Caribbean, his native Columbia and surrounding countries, as well as American musics like R & B, Blues, Jazz; the music of African Americans.  His new record The Vessel explores these musical connections with traditional and modern instruments and an 18 person ensemble. The album is beautiful.

Feeding Souls is a non-profit organization Jaime founded to bring music to kids in schools.

Jaime and Baruch discuss inspiration, magic, the role of music in human life going back 200,000 years.

Jaime is also a member of the band Super Fonicos, playing Afro Cuban Funk in the Austin music scene since 2016.

Music by: Jaime Ospina

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