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This list is books and articles that I have found, over the years, supportive of my learning and growth with regards to liberation, systemic thinking, and more. Below, at the bottom, I include also some bits of my extended reading list: books and articles I haven’t yet read and why they are on my reading list.
Those marked with a (*) are more academic.
Those that are underlined are particularly useful for understanding the systemic lens that relies on historical, social, political, or economic analyses.
Sharif Abdullah. Creating a World that Works for All, San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 1999.
This book created a meme that is now deeply integrated into any movement or group that is focusing, at least in part, on deep consciousness transformation. It hasn’t become stale over the years. It was the first time I saw a list of all the world’s problems (a page that contains 50 of them!) and the assertion that none of them can be solved in isolation from the others, as they all stem from the same consciousness that needs to transform: scarcity and separation. Over time, I have added a third to this list: powerlessness.
Michelle Alexander. The New Jim Crow, NY: The New Press, 2012.
This book broke my heart permanently. Any vestige of illusion that I had held on to previously about forward movement in the nature of systemic racism was shattered in grasping, deeply, the continuity between the pre-Civil War era of slavery in the Southern US and the current practices of mass incarceration and police brutality. It is also where I most deeply learned about how forcing change without attending to the dislocation of the ones formerly in power backfires.
Tom Atlee. The Tao of Democracy: Using co-intelligence to create a world that works for all, Self-published, Booksurge Publishing, 2002.
The two chapters on citizen deliberative councils in this book are a deep introduction to the power of people coming together to solve problems. Tom connected the dots between many different social innovations to show the common features of all of them. This is a true paradigm shift compared to other ways of political governance that exist. May we live in times when this call to transformation is heeded.
(*) Zygmunt Bauman. Modernity and the Holocaust, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1989.
That the Holocaust could be a product of modern rationality rather than a regressive aberration was both sobering and affirming of my own increasing doubts about the possibility or even desirability of making rationality central to the project of being human.
Ruth Benedict. “Some Notes of Ruth Benedict” referencing a set of notes called Synergy: Patterns of the Good Culture, American Anthropologist, 72(2), 1970.
These are simply notes from a work that was lost in which Ruth Benedict identifies an aspect of cultural functioning that I have not seen discussed elsewhere: how cultures function better when the individual and society are not pitted against each other, regardless of what form of governance is used. I am grateful to Marshall Rosenberg for including this one in his bibliography.
Jessica Benjamin. The Bonds of Love: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and the Problem of Domination, NY: Pantheon, 1988.
This is one of my favorite books that I read during my years of studying sociology, and I used it extensively in the chapter in my dissertation that critiques and inverts Freud, building on this book and Alice Miller to posit relationality as core to human development. Benjamin traces some of the toughest problems we face to breakdowns in mutual recognition. While psychological, this book never loses the connection to social context and historical times.
(*) Ann Berlak. “Teaching for Outrage and Empathy in the Liberal Arts”, Educational Foundations, 3(2): 69-93, Summer 1989.
A sobering and troubling essay that helped me understand, forever, why information is rarely enough, in and of itself, to create a shift in consciousness, no matter how thorough and accurate it is. Connection with the heart, and some vision of possibility, are essential in order for the information to be meaningful.
Cristina Biaggi, ed. The Rule of Mars: Readings on the Origins, History and Impact of Patriarchy, Manchester, CT: Knowledge, Ideas & Trends, 2005.
This is a collection of essays that provide a breadth and depth of knowledge of the variety of processes that brought us here and what it has been like to live under conditions of patriarchy for so long. I found it illuminating at a time when I was searching to piece it all together.
David Bollier. Think Like a Commoner: A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons, Gabriola Island: New Society Publishers, 2014.
This book is simple and accessible, and provides an introduction to one of the lesser known chapters of the ravages of capitalism: the disintegration of the commons, the many-millennia way in which humans lived in interdependent relationship with life through community-based engagement with the resources necessary for the maintenance of all life.
(*) David Bollier and Silke Helfrich, eds., The Wealth of the Commons: A World Beyond Market and State, Massachusetts: Levellers Press, 2014.
This is a rare academic book that got me to tears. It’s an edited collection that takes the reader on a deep journey of what the commons is and was, and why our future may fully depend on restoring the commons. It changed my thinking and showed me a new level at which to work for change: restoring, at one and the same time, our relationship to each other and to the non-human world, in flow and interrelationship.
Erica Chenoweth, and Maria Stephan. Why Civil Resistance Works. NY: Columbia University
This books is the culmination of long research on the actual efficacy of nonviolence. Erica Chenoweth started out her research believing that armed struggles are the way to go, and changed her approach based on the evidence she found. This book reviewed more than 300 struggles for regime change, end of occupation, and secession, and found that those that adhered to nonviolent standards succeeded twice as often as those that employed violent means. The conclusions about why this is so are deeply affirming and clear to me.
(*) Antonio R. Damasio. Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain, NY: J. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1994.
I loved getting confirmation from the research that is described in this book for my intuitive clear sense that decisions are not a rational endeavor. As he shows in this book, when people are physiologically unable to feel, they are also unable to decide even if their cognitive faculties are intact.
(*) Patricia Dannahy. An In-Depth Exploration of the Affective Aspects of Mathematics Education in Initial Teacher Training, unpublished Doctoral thesis, London: King’s College, London University, 1999.
One of the rare pieces of research about the effectiveness of Nonviolent Communication.
Charles Eisenstein. Sacred Economics: Money, Gift and Society in the Age of Transition, Berkeley: Evolver Editions, 2011.
If you’ve never been able to understand economics and have felt a longing to make sense of it, this book may be it. It covers everything, including visionary perspectives on what can be done differently, and clear explanations of what the mess we are in is. While somewhat less radical than I would like, I find solace in its existence.
——. The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible, Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 2013.
This is a series of short chapters that taps into our yearning to live differently, now and into the future, as individuals and in our largest systems. It feeds the heart and the mind at once.
Riane Tennenhaus Eisler. The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future, San Francisco: Harper Collins, 1988.
The first of Eisler’s books. It was one of the early works that completely inspired me to believe that life could truly be different on this planet.
Silvia Federici. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation, Brooklyn: Autonomedia, 2004.
If you are going to read only one book to make sense of where we are and why, then read this. For many years I knew that capitalism has violence built into its core; how else would anyone in their right mind wake up in the morning and go do the jobs that the overwhelming majority of humans do these days? This book solved the equation for me by showing the historical roots of capitalism in Europe that, through physical force of enormous magnitude, created a world in which economic force is mostly enough to semi-enslave most of us. This is through a combination of land enclosures, witch hunts, slave trade, and colonization, all in search of cheap labor to fuel the transition.
——. Re-Enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons, Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2019.
This book is a collection of essays that pierced every bit of me as I read them. Federici has an amazing capacity to speak with simple, descriptive language about matters of such horror that I need extra breaths to take them in, sometimes. The essays cover all continents and manage to show up the resilience, strength, imagination, and sheet stubborn power of will of women around the world aiming to keep their families and communities alive as resources are siphoned further and further away from their reach. Despite the horrors documented, I left this book inspired and hungry for more rather than crushed.
Mary Parker Follett. The New State, group organization the solution of popular government. New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1918.
It was deeply humbling to finally read this book after knowing about it for many years, and to discover that 100 years ago a woman lived and wrote this book and back then worked out so many insights, conceptual distinctions, and structures and forms that, if implemented, could support a collaborative world that works for all. I copied pages and pages of quotes that inspired me no end.
——. Creative Experience, New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1924.
While The New State emphasizes structure and form, this book is a meticulous exploration into the process of humans coming together in integrative process, beyond differences, to find solutions that work. It’s based on years of experimentation, and it’s full of vignettes that deepen understanding of how we can shift practices to this other way.
Paulo Freire. Pedagogy of the Oppressed, NY: Continuum, 1993.
A classic that I still think of, all these years later, as a model for how teaching can be empowering and subversive.
Marilyn French. Beyond Power: On Women, Men, and Morals, New York: Summit Books, 1985.
The second book I read when I first woke up to feminism, and the one that truly shattered my previous unquestioned beliefs about human nature and history.
(*) Frank Furstenberg. “Family Change in Global Perspective: How and Why Family Systems Change.” University of Pennsylvania Population Center Working Paper (PSC/PARC), 2019-22.
This article provides a potent antidote to the powerful individualizing moves that make where we each end up and the struggles we face personal, and hence susceptible to pathologizing interpretations, from within or from outside. It locates phenomena, instead, within economic and political trends in the last few decades.
Mohandas K. Gandhi. All Men Are Brothers, multiple editions.
This book is a collection of quotes from Gandhi, long and short, from his entire life’s work. It serves as a thorough, simple, and deep introduction to his approach.
Carol Gilligan. In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women’s Development, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982.
This is a ground-breaking old classic that signaled a mini-revolution in the thinking about morality, moving it from the Kantian, rule-based approach to an approach based on relationship and responsibility. It became controversial, and she was taken to task for being “essentialist”, which, to me misses the point: however we get there, women and men end up being very different under conditions of patriarchy, and investigating the ramifications of making the masculine form normative is deeply subversive to the social order.
James Gilligan. Violence: Our Deadly Epidemic and Its Causes, NY: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1992.
My all time favorite analysis of what brings about violence. This book is written with so much love I could almost not believe it. It completely turns upside down any notion of punishment as the way to reduce violence.
Marija Gimbutas. The Civilization of the Goddess, San Francisco: Harper, 1991.
I am putting on this list a book I have not read because I believe her work is so vitally important that I want others to know about it. (I myself have read and heard a lot about her, just not directly read her book.) Her work is one of the foundations of the resurgence of understanding about the matriarchal societies that existed before the shift to patriarchy.
Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela. A human being died that night: a South African story of forgiveness, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003.
Written by one of the key figures in the South African Truth and Reconciliation Committee, this book chronicles her journey into understanding the life and being of Eugene De Kock, known as “Prime Evil” because of his role in torturing and killing opponenets of the Apartheid regime. It’s a mastepiece study of compassion and what distorts people sufficiently to engage in such behavior. I found especially meaningful her account of the moment in which he asked her if he had harmed any of her friends or family, and her account of what she then saw in him and what happened in her afterwards.
Heide Goettner-Abendroth, ed. Societies of Peace. Matriarchies Past, Present and Future, Toronto, Canada: Inanna Publications, 2009.
I am still chewing on this breathtaking collection from around time and place, grasping more and more deeply the calamity that has befallen us since patriarchy took root in several places in the world and then, gradually, almost everywhere. It gives us a window in how things were and could still be if we realign with life.
——. Matriarchal Societies: Studies on Indigenous Cultures Across the Globe, New York, NY: Peter Lang, 2012.
Even as patriarchy is fast encroaching on every remaining matriarchal society in the world, there are still pockets of such societies everywhere, except in Europe, the only continent where none could be found when Heide Goettner-Abendroth did her research and wrote this book. We can still learn from their ways.
David Graeber. Debt: The First 5,000 Years, Brooklyn, NY: Melville House, 2014.
Although long and heavily footnoted, this book is written by a very skilled storyteller, and is more readable than one would imagine. The scholarship of this book is breathtaking, spanning many centuries across many parts of the world. The links he makes and the conclusions he reaches are deep and transformative. My thinking will never be the same. I am sad that he didn’t mention patriarchy as a factor in all the elements he enumerates, in the production of states, creation of markets, and the rest of what he says. And, despite this, I love this book and recommend it highly regularly.
——. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, Simon and Schuster, 2018.
I wrote a review of this book: “Meaningful Work, Human Nature, and a Free Society,” in Tikkun, January 2019. I see it as a deep and short introduction through storytelling to the ways in which capitalism is taking away meaning from all of us.
Miriam Greenspan. “Befriending the Dark Emotions”, Common Boundary, 37-43, May/June 1998.
This article touched my heart deeply and supported my early thinking about how we can be present to all emotions instead of making some of them unacceptable, now a foundation of my practice and teaching.
David Grossman. On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1995.
You can hardly “accuse” a US Army colonel of being a “pacifist” and, as such, this book has a deep moral authority. Its main gist is that we have a taboo on killing, that armies now train people to overcome the taboo and thus create conditions where many more people shoot during war than ever before, and this results in enormous trauma. Passionate and courageous.
Update: In 2020 I learned that David Grossman uses what he learned here in training police officers, and that his work is implicated in police brutality. This doesn’t change the immense value I see in understanding what is in this book, and it does change my orientation towards the purpose of this book.
(*) Donna Haraway. Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature, New York: Routledge, 1991.
This book is dense and at times was irritatingly so for me. I am still glad I plowed through it and integrated some of its complex message about how science is both flawed, influenced as it is by our politics and culture, as well as necessary to provide the possibility of liberation.
Yuval Harari. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, NY: Harper, 2015.
It’s no wonder to me that this book became an international bestseller. It’s a before and after book for me, and changed my thinking. In the end, and especially after reading 3 more of his books (in the original Hebrew, my beloved first language), I am more troubled than inspired. And, still, his way of thinking, and especially how he categorizes things, and the ways he slices reality into units of meaning, have sharpened my own analytical tools. My concern is that he ultimately comes across to me as a technophile and “new optimist” that isn’t grounded in love and interdependence despite his deep Buddhist practice to which he refers often. An enigma I hope one day to make more sense of.
(*) Agnes Heller. The Theory of Need in Marx, London: Allison & Busby, 1974.
I was delighted to find this early book from a former Hungarian Marxist, in which she analyzed the way Marx understood human needs. This was essential for my own understanding of Marx and for being able to write a chapter on needs in my dissertation which provided an academic grounding to the theory of human nature that underlies the practice of Nonviolent Communication.
Jason Hickel, “Progress and Its Discontents“, New Internationalist, 7 August 2019.
This article takes on what Hickel calls the “new optimism” that argues that capitalism has created “the best of all possible worlds” and argues, instead, that neoliberal policies have intensified inequalities and increased global impoverishment, joining those, like economist Thomas Picketty, who claim that growing inequality is inherent to capitalism; not an aberration of it.
Arlie Hochschild with Anne Machung. The Second Shift, NY: Avon Books, 1989.
This book is both delightful to read and painful. It’s about how, even when both woman and man in a couple work full time, men continue to do substantially less of the housework than women. While the data may be obsolete by now, the analysis of the relationship between our ideology, our emotions, and our actions, is still priceless.
Etty Hillesum. An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1984.
Etty is one of my all-time heroes. She was a contemporary of Anne Frank, ten years her senior, living and writing in the same city at the same time. Hers is a spiritual journey to find love, compassion for everyone, and courage beyond bounds under conditions of extreme challenge.
Ivan Illich. Deschooling Society, Harper Collins, 1971.
The classic that hasn’t lost one bit of its depth and power, such that when I wrote the bits of vision in my own Reweaving Our Human Fabric I could see no reason to elaborate anything about learning, because this book completed that task of weaving clarity about how learning can happen in ways that attend to so many needs with available resources, voluntarily, for all ages. In fact, it seems to me that he imagined the internet before anyone even had email. Plus, his analysis of what happens in schools and what function they serve remains a highlight for anyone who wants to understand how our societies work.
(*) Kenneth Isaacs. Uses of Emotion: Nature’s Vital Gift, Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998.
This is a book I found by total accident and completely fell in love with when I was trying to make sense of how to write about emotions within an academic context and still honor my own experiences. It’s detailed and thorough, and the concept of “affect phobia” that it explains was crucial to my developing a clear path to freedom through mastering emotions.
(*) Alison Jaggar. “Love and Knowledge: Emotion in Feminist Epistemology”, Inquiry, 32(2): 151-176, June 1989.
This article was a simple pleasure to read for its clarity, passion, and courage to name things and ask difficult questions. Given how much of what we believe we “know” is handed down to us in ways that don’t question the practices of acquiring knowledge, I was liberated by reading it.
Robin Wall Kimmerer. Braiding Sweetgrass : Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2015.
This book continues to grow within me since I read it a year ago. I experienced it as a rare example of true integration between the scientific and the indigenous, using both of sources of knowledge. It shines a light on much that we have lost and what to notice and rest into for the possibility of reclaiming and restoring flow. The author is a botanist, and much of the book is about plants, humans, and the relationships between us. This is where I finally landed fully in how important it is to not take less than we need, in addition to not taking more than we need.
Alfie Kohn. No Contest: The Case Against Competition, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992.
This is only one of Alfie Kohn’s controversial and refreshing books. In each of them he takes a key mainstream belief and provides extensive research that questions it deeply. I was cured of any doubt that we can collaborate with each other through reading this book.
Frederic Laloux. Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage in Human Consciousness, Brussels, Belgium: Nelson Parker, 2014.
This book led to a leap in my practice and understanding of how to engage with and within organizations. The principles are simple, practical, and radical: just the way I love them. I particularly see a unique and transformative gift in the articulation of “The Advice Process” as an approach to making decisions. It rests on an integration of individual autonomy, distribution of leadership, and deep collaboration that will often bring about the most wisdom possible in a given situation.
Philip Lawn and Matthew Clarke, “The end of economic growth? A contracting threshold hypothesis“, Ecological Economics 69 (2010) 2213–2223.
This article takes Max-Neef’s Threshold Hypothesis (elsewhere in this bibliography) and examines its application to so-called emerging economies in Asia, showing, chillingly, that part of the legacy of colonization is the reality that the over-extraction of resources is now making it impossible for new economies to increase well-being sufficiently using economic growth-based strategies, as the flattening of curves happens at progressively lower levels of GDP.
Michael Lerner. Jewish Renewal: A Path to Healing and Transformation, NY: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1994.
Although I am not a practicing Jew, this book was a turning point in my ability to align with life and choose to honor its voice within me. I found, in particular, his analysis of the story of the binding of Isaac to be moving and redemptive. By far not just for Jews or even people of faith.
Jean Liedloff. The Continuum Concept, London: Duckworth, 1975.
One of the books that forever transformed my thinking about childhood and childrearing. The connection between how infants are raised and the presence or absence of violence, opened my eyes to the pervasive violence in everyday lives of children. They have never closed since.
Audre Lorde. Sister Outsider, Freedom, CA: The Crossing Press, 1984.
This collection of essays is something I come back to for inspiration. I absolutely love the boldness of naming things outside any known boxes, and the fierceness of the call to take on the entire structure of how we related to oppression, our own, and others’.
(*) Alisdair MacIntyre. “Epistemological Crises, Dramatic Narrative and the Philosophy of Science”, Monist, 60(4): 453-472, October 1977.
The idea of an epistemological crisis, which refers to a moment in which we face something that is so different from everything we have believed, that in order to integrate it we must question everything we have always believed to be true. This very academic article helped me develop compassion for how hard it is for people, sometimes, to embrace new insights.
Jeffrey Masson. The Assault on Truth: Freud’s Suppression of the Seduction Theory, Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1984.
This book is about a not very well known yet crucial turning point in the history of psychology, a moment in which psychology could have become a tool for liberation and instead ended up becoming, more often than not, a tool for supporting the status quo. The moment in question is Freud’s turning away from believing his clients when they told him about their experience of child abuse. Part of the significance of this, for me, was seeing the cost of standing up for truth against the majority, something Freud was ultimately unable to do.
Humberto Maturana Romesin and Gerda Verden-Zöller. The Origins of Humanness in the Biology of Love, Thorverton, UK: Imprint Academic, 2009.
This book is pivotal for understanding on the biological level what others, in other fields, have written in anthropological, sociological, archeological, and more recently psychological and neurological terms: that the assumption that humans have natural inclinations towards competition, separation, and aggression is, indeed, an assumption; that trust, love, and cooperation between adults and children, women and men, and people and non-humans is possible and existed for the longest time until the patriarchal turn that became anchored in accumulation and control.
(*) Manfred Max-Neef. “Economic growth and quality of life: a threshold hypothesis“, Ecological Economics 15 (1995) 115-118.
I consider this essay to be a landmark contribution to understanding why the myth of economic growth as panacea is both appealing and destructive. The main claim is that there is only so much that we can drive well-being forward through economic growth. Beyond a certain point, continued economic growth stops contributing to well-being, and in many cases even makes things worse. This is a deep call to rethink our fundamental premises on which the continued exponential destructiveness of our ways of living rests.
(*) ——. “The World on a Collision Course and the Need for a New Economy“, Contribution to the 2009 Royal Colloquium, AMBIO (2010) 39:200–210.
In this article Max-Need lays out in great simplicity and conciseness the flaws of the extractive, capitalist economy, as well as what he sees as necessary for creating an economy of well-being.
Alastair McIntosh. Soil and Soul: People Versus Corporate Power, London: Aurum Press, 2004.
This book is about Scottish history, about social activism, about personal memoir, about poetic description of natural beauty, and about much else in between. And, more than anything, is lays bare the processes that uproot people from land and make them dependent on markets, depriving them of community, connection to life, and strength. At the same time, it demonstrates how even in dark circumstances, sometimes people can come together and stand up to those with much more power and make a dent in their own lives.
Alice Miller. For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence, NY: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1983.
Reading this book was one of the pivotal moments of my life. I consider the entire section on Hitler a masterpiece of meticulous humanizing of the greatest symbol of evil in Western civilization. The thrust of the work is to make it understandable how a human person who went through what he endured in his childhood, in the cultural context in which he lived and came to power, could end up committing the horrors he did. When I learned of the horrendous experiences of Hitler’s early life in the context of child-rearing practices in Germany at the time he was growing up, and was able to experience, as a Jew from Israel, compassion for him as a child, it was pure magic.
——. “The Political Consequences of Child Abuse”, The Journal of Psychohistory, 26(2): 573-585, Fall 1998.
Alice Miller’s books are widely known and easy to find. This article is less well-known and I found it important to know this information.
(*) Elizabeth Kamarck Minnich. Transforming Knowledge, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990.
What I appreciated about this book is the way that it makes it so clear how the lens of gender affects everything in what we think we know – how things are studied, how they are presented, what counts as knowledge, and what is seen and reported. I found this exposition both devastating and inspiring in its thoroughness.
(*) Patrick Murray. Marx’s Theory of Scientific Knowledge, Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press International, 1988.
I tend to believe that despite the influence he has had on the world, for better or worse, Marx remains little understood by most. This book did a lot for me to gain a much deeper clarity about what Marx did and what he didn’t do in his analysis of capitalism and its implications. Based on this understanding, I believe that applying a systematic material analysis of any other aspect of life such as reproduction or race relations is yet to be done.
(*) Laura Nader. “Orientalism, Occidentalism and the Control of Women”, Cultural Dynamics, II(3): 323-355, 1989.
Anyone who remains interested in how women remain unfree and how world politics continues to support our unfreedom might find this article unique in what it points out: how nationalism is used, both in the West and in the Arab world, to maintain women’s status.
Michael Nagler. Is there no other way? The Search for a Nonviolent Future, Berkeley: Inner Ocean Publishing, 2001.
I met Michael through Marshall Rosenberg, and we have since become friends. Although he’s written more since, this remains my favorite book of his. It’s an introduction to the depth of what nonviolence is, debunking one myth after another about it, with countless stories and examples, filling the heart and soul, settling the weariness of aloneness. It would still be my first recommendation for understanding nonviolence fully.
Darcia Narvaez. “Baselines for virtue.” In J. Annas, D. Narvaez, & N. Snow (Eds.), Advances in virtue development: Integrating perspectives. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2016.
This chapter offers a psychological perspective that fully matches the biological one of Maturana and Verden-Zöller, and the sociological and anthropological of the matriarchal studies and gift economy groups some of whose members are in this bibliography. It provides a clear statement of what happens to each of us that mirrors what happened to all of us collectively over millennia.
(*) Justin Oakley. Morality and the Emotions, London; NY: Routledge, 1992.
When I was writing about morality for my dissertation, I found this book helpful in understanding how theories of morality that only rely on rationality, the legacy that Kant left us, fail to make sufficient sense of the pervasiveness of acts of extreme violence. Absence of morality viewed as lack of empathy rather than failure to apply moral reasoning speaks to me very deeply.
(*) Susan Moller Okin. “Thinking Like a Woman”, in Deborah L. Rhode, ed. et al, Theoretical Perspectives on Sexual Difference, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1990.
This article is one of several that helped me understanding how the experience of having a body, and a body of a certain kind, affects our perception of the world and what it means to know anything. Only for those truly interested in theories of knowledge.
Samuel P. Oliner and Pearl M. Oliner. The Altruistic Personality: What Led Ordinary Men and Women to Risk Their Lives on Behalf of Others?, NY: The Free Press, 1988.
Understanding why some people saved Jews and some didn’t provides some unexpected keys to what we can do to increase courage and reduce violence: ask for what is needed, and raise children without fear by eliminating punishment.
(*) Raimon Panikkar. Myth, Faith and Hermeneutics: Cross-Cultural Studies, NY: Paulist Press, 1979.
I am forever glad that I came across this obscure book written by someone I haven’t seen referenced anywhere apart from the probably even more obscure article that mentioned it. The author is Indian and also received a serious Western education. The combination allowed him to see some things about how we think in different places in the world and invited me to become ever more aware of the power of presuppositions, those assumptions that we don’t even know we have. This is not easy read by any means.
Joseph Chilton Pearce. Magical Child, Plume, 1992.
This is one of the books that supported my ongoing process of opening to discover how different child-rearing could be, and what radical consequences for all of us could happen as a result of giving children the room to explore and unfold their humanity in their own ways.
(*) Mark Poster. Critical Theory of the Family, NY: Seabury Press, 1978.
This book was the only work I found (though others may exist) that looked at the evolution of family through the lens of historical change and especially change in production. The little insights strewn here and there about how such changes affect who we become as people in different cultures were priceless and I remain hungry for more.
(*) James W. Prescott. “The Origins of Human Love and Violence”, Pre- and Perinatal Psychology Journal, 10(3): 143-188, Spring 1996.
Although many people remain unconvinced by this article, I was completely satisfied with this analysis and the amazing correlations between how infants are treated and the incidence of violence in difference cultures. It goes along with Liedloff’s book that I also include in this bibliography.
Minnie Bruce Pratt. “Identity: Skin, Blood, Heart”, in Elly Bulkin, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Barbara Smith , Yours in Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives on Anti-Semitism and Racism, Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, 1984.
This is one of the most moving accounts I have read of a person facing her upbringing, her privilege, and her place in society. This woman didn’t spare herself and her readers anything, and I believe that nothing is dated about her exploration. If you want to wake up to what it means to have privilege, this is a must read.
(*) Allan Rohlfs. “Fraudulent Degrees or Fraudulent Assertions?” A Reply to Frank M. Dattilio, Journal of Mental Health Counseling, January 1990.
A fellow trainer of Nonviolent Communication, Allan here looks at the disturbing evidence that suggests that the more licensing and education in psychology and therapy, the less effective the treatment that people receive. An eye-opener that was fun and distressing to read at once.
Carne Ross. The Leaderless Revolution: How ordinary people can take power and change politics in the 21st century, NY: Blue Rider Press. London: Simon & Schuster, 2011.
Having been a top UK diplomat who was in charge of sanctions against Iraq, Ross resigned from the foreign service and went on to become an accidental anarchist by his words. His rendition of what made it possible for him to sign off on the orders that created such horrors is worth the entire book. And there is boatloads of other rich information about how humans can work together.
(*) Erica Sherover-Marcuse. Emancipation and Consciousness: Dogmatic and Dialectical Perspectives in the Early Marx, London: Basil Blackwell, 1986.
This is a very dense book, most of which I wouldn’t necessarily recommend except to those who particularly delight in reading about critical theory (I personally did enjoy it, in other words). The section on a personal practice of liberation which she includes I found satisfying and it forms part of my own conclusions about how we can liberate ourselves from.
(*) Elizabeth Spelman. “Anger and Insubordination”, in Ann Garry and Marilyn Pearsall, eds., Women, Knowledge and Reality: Explorations in Feminist Philosophy, Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1989.
A refreshing and unexpected analysis about what anger does or doesn’t achieve in communication depending on who is allowed to be angry and in what circumstances. Even though I no longer do academic feminist theory, I still love it.
Matthew Stewart. “The Birth of a New American Aristocracy”, Atlantic, June 2018.
This article offers a fresh analysis I hadn’t heard of before, nor since, about class structure in the US. Positing the presence of what he calls “the 9.9” helps me understand the resilience of US society (at least before the Covid-19 pandemic): a wide band of people who end up supporting the siphoning of wealth to the very wealthy at cost to the 90%, simply because it allows them to thrive sufficiently.
Genevieve Vaughan, ed. The Maternal Roots of the Gift Economy, Toronto: Inanna Publication & Education Inc., 2019.
This edited collection is a deep dive into fully integrating why matriarchal societies function the ways they do: it’s because they anchor and embody putting mothering at the center. With that comes a deep orientation to satisfying needs, just like mothering focuses on the needs of the little ones, who cannot care for themselves. This is why gifting originates in mothering, and any theory that aims to theorize gifting from an approach that makes exchange the norm is unlikely to succeed in making visible the vibrancy and ever-presence of gifting, even within exchange economies.
(*) Patricia J. Williams. The Alchemy of Race and Rights, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991.
I was moved to the core of my being by this book, written by a passionate African-American lawyer who questions just about everything we think of in terms of both law and liberation theories.
Steve Wineman. Power-Under: Trauma and Nonviolent Social Change, Unpublished manuscript (available freely online at http://www.gis.net/~swineman/download.html).
I think of this book as a landmark in understanding a crucial dynamic that I have not seen discussed elsewhere: the interplay between actual access to power and the experience of power. Wineman makes the point that abuse is most often delivered by people who feel powerless even while being in power.
Walter Wink. The Powers That Be: Theology for a New Millennium, NY: Bantam Doubleday Dell, 2000.
This book was pivotal in my understanding of nonviolence. I had had an intuitive affinity with Jesus for some years already, and this book gave me the depth of understanding about what it means to absorb violence and not pass it on, so that there is now overall less violence rather than escalation. In particular, his reformulation of offering the other cheek was transformative. This book has loads of information about some formative moments in the solidification of patriarchy through Christianity.
Terry Winograd and Fernando Flores. Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design, Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corporation, 1986.
In an earlier incarnation, I was a Computer Science graduate student studying artificial intelligence. I left when I realized that I was trying to prove it won’t work… This book provides a refreshing path away from the either/or battles about artificial intelligence, and suggests a relationship between humans and computers that I found much more satisfying than others. From one of the early pioneers of artificial intelligence, this nuanced perspective was particularly insightful.
(*) Anna Yeatman. “A Feminist Theory of Social Differentiation”, in Linda J. Nicholson (ed.), Feminism/Postmodernism, NY and London: Routledge, 1990.
If you are not interested in social sciences or have never been exposed to postmodernist writings, this will probably be wasted on you. If, however, you have been exposed to either, and especially if you find postmodernist language depressing or annoying, you will find an exploration in this article that will likely nourish you and give you some relief and sustenance.
My intention is to gradually put here the long list of books that I am hoping to still read during whatever years remain in my life. As of November 2020, I only began putting it together here, and thus there are only two entries of several dozen.
(*) Thomas Picketty. Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Cambridge, MA: Belnap Press, 2017.
I believe this book has a wealth of information that is quite useful in seeing the historical patterns that make it such that wealth siphons upwards to the already wealthy in a way that, over time, makes capitalism more similar to feudalism than commonly assumed, in that the capitalists become a class of rentiers that pass on their wealth to their progeny.
Rebecca Solnit. A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster, Penguin Random House, 2010.
I want to read this book because it documents a phenomenon I want to understand better: that under certain conditions of calamity, people simply know how to come together to solve their problems. While I deeply have the principle of it, I believe this book contains examples I and others can learn from.


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Hello everybody!Ok I know, I know! I know I have TWO other stories that NEED to be updated but unfortunately...I CAN'T GET THIS ONE OFF MY MIND! it is a special request from a loving fan,DBZ7000! I just want to say thank you so much and the day you sent that PM really made my day,because it was one of my...upsetting days. anyways this request specifically goes out to her! Thanks so much! I hope EVERYONE enjoys! :3
Chapter 1-what really happens...(twelve years ago)
"Abigail wait,please honey can we at least talk?"
Logan,four years old,watches his mother from the ground. She is throwing articles of clothing into a suitcase and grabbing stuff from around the room. His father is standing behind her. His eyes are sad and close to tears as his beloved wife is packing. But anybody could see the large bruises on her arm and a handprint on her she stops and spins around to smack her husband. Hard.
"Save your breath,Brian!" she glares hard at her husband."I don't give a fuck what you say anymore! That's the last time!"
"don't call me that." she hisses dangerously.
"please I can stop!"
"no you can't! You said that last year! You won't stop drinking Brian and I'm tired of being there to clean you up,and all I do is hurt myself."
Tears escape her eyes. She'd been pregnant once,before Logan,and her husband ended up throwing her down the stairs in his drunken rage. She'd lost the baby. She couldn't take it anymore. She has to leave. She shut her suitcase and turned around to shove past her husband.
"Abbie please-" Brian ran after her. Logan stood slowly and toddled after them. He watched as his mother opened the door,turning around to glare at her husband,but her eyes fell upon her small baby boy. She leaned down and kissed him gently,before turning to leave. She had to leave. They'd been through so much the past seven years of marriage. They'd lost their house,which lead to her husbands alcoholic dependence,and now they lived in a trailer,which was covered in weeds,the inside nothing but horrible furniture and peeling paint. And beer bottles. An endless pile it couldn't take her kid.
He reminded her to much of his father. She just wants to forget them. Forget them and start a new life. She slams the door shut and walks briskly to her ,Brian sits and cries as he watches his wife drive away. Logan is standing by the window watching,confused. When the car is gone he looks over at his dad. He toddled to him and tugs his shirt.
"dadd-e,dadd-e where did mommy go?"Brian looks up and sees his son,standing there,eyes open confused. He shakes his head. All he can picture though is his wife standing in front of him.
"I don't know Logie,I don't know."
(time skip-twelve years later.)
Logan cowers as his dad throws a bottle at the wall,another following. He sat still and shut his eyes. Hopefully his dad wouldn't see him.
"Logan!" his dad slurs. He flinches as his dad walks to him,standing over him. Logan tried to squish himself smaller,forcing his body into the rotting drywall. His dad is still for a moment and then he throws a fist down. It strikes Logan's already bruised shoulder and he cries out. That's all it dad grabs him and throws him down behind him,where he jumps on him,his fists hitting his chest randomly,striking areas that make Logan scream,cry and writhe in pain.
"DAD PLEASE STOP!"
"I SAID SHUT UP BITCH!
"SHUT UP YOU LITTLE BITCH!"
Logan's sobs become harder as his dad wrenches him to his feet and smacks his face hard. Logan's body meets the wall and he hits it hard. He slowly falls to the ground,but his father isn't finished. He picks up a bottle and throws it hard at Logan,where it meets his naked back and smashes. The glass rips his skin,making cuts long and deep,and Logan screams.
He lays there for what feels like forever and when he looks up his dad is stumbling to the couch,where he falls face first. He lays there for a moment and then large snores erupt from him. Logan tries to stand and gives a cry of pain,slowly falling back down. He tries more slowly and succeeds. He's so tired. He's taken his fathers drunken hits before but they made him tired. He slowly makes his way down the hall,into the bathroom.
He slowly shuts the door and sits down on the ground where he opens the cabinet and takes the first aid kit out. He begins to dab at his back,the are just behind his left side. He's glad it's easy to reach but it just means more pain as he presses the alcohol-wet towel to his back,whimpering as the alcohol cleans the wound. After cleaning it,Logan is ready to put the bandages on it but his eyes start to slide close.
Despite the hunger pains shooting through his stomach,his eyes slide close with relative ease. And then he's laying on the ground,back bleeding on the ground. And as he lays there, staring up at the ceiling,he realizes he's ready to give up. He wants it to end. But before he sleeps ,one last thought revolves through his did he do to deserve this
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30 November 2005
Despite ILA's Insistence to Continue Spraying Crops Cultivated by Arab Bedouin in Unrecognized Villages in the Naqab, Supreme Court Extends Injunction Prohibiting these Operations
On 28 November 2005, the Supreme Court of Israel held a hearing on a petition submitted by Adalah in March 2004 challenging the state's operations of spraying crops belonging to Arab Bedouin living in unrecognized villages in the Naqab (Negev) with toxic chemicals. Prior to the submission of the petition, the Israel Lands Administration (ILA) regularly sprayed crops cultivated by the Arab Bedouin, accusing them of “trespassing” on “state land.” Immediately after the filing of the case, the Court issued an injunction – which was extended again at the hearing – preventing the ILA from continuing with this practice until the Court renders a final decision on the petition.
The petition was filed by Adalah Attorney Marwan Dalal in Adalah's own name and on behalf of four Palestinian Arab Bedouin citizens of Israel living in unrecognized villages in the Naqab, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, the Association of Forty, the Forum for Co-Existence in the Negev, the Negev Company for Land & Man, Ltd., Bustan for Peace, the Association for Support and Defense of Bedouin Rights in Israel, the Arab Association for Human Rights (HRA), and the Galilee Society. The petition was filed against the ILA, the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor and the Ministry of Agriculture.
Opening the hearing, Supreme Court Justice Miriam Naor stated that it is even psychologically unbearable to allow the state to spray crops with toxic chemicals. Justice Salim Jubran asked the Attorney General's (AG) representative whether she knew of any another country in the world which uses “spraying” against its own citizens in order to achieve any right to land claimed by the state.
During the hearing, the AG's representative claimed that it is necessary to spray crops in the unrecognized villages in the Naqab with toxic chemicals in order to protect state land, as it is more effective than other means of destroying the crops. She claimed that using other methods, such as digging up the crops with tractors, require a large police presence in order to prevent residents of the villages from resisting the uprooting. She added that the spraying operations are not dangerous, as the substance utilized is accepted for use on agricultural crops.
Representing the petitioners, Attorney Dalal argued that the ILA's practice lacks any authority under the law. The ILA cannot spray agricultural crops with toxic chemicals in order to realize any right claimed by the state, as the law only allows such spraying for one purpose: in order to protect the health and well-being of human beings and the environment. The ILA's spraying operations are not executed for any health-related or environmental reasons, and are thus illegal. Adalah emphasized that the substance used by the ILA is proven to be dangerous and drew the Court's attention to two expert opinions submitted by the petitioners to the Court stating that it carries reproductive and carcinogenic risks and may induce eye and skin irritations, miscarriages, nausea and breathing difficulties. The petitioners also asserted that the expert opinion submitted by the ILA to the Court, which was written by the Ministry of Health's Chief Toxicologist, Professor Gary Winston, was copied verbatim from the website of the company which manufactures the chemical, and therefore lacks credibility. During the hearing, the Supreme Court Justices agreed that the expert opinion submitted by the ILA has serious problems of credibility.
In response to Justice Naor's question regarding the ILA's claim that the Arab Bedouin living in the unrecognized villages who cultivate these crops are “trespassers” on “state land,” Adalah emphasized that it is not possible to consider these citizens of the state as trespassers, particularly since they have been cultivating their land over the course of many generations. Moreover, Adalah added that the ILA cannot make such a claim, given its discriminatory land policies pursued over decades in the area, and especially the expropriation of land belonging to the Palestinian Arab Bedouin in the Naqab.
H.C. 2887/04, Saleem Abu Medeghem, et. al. v. Israel Lands Administration, et. al. (case pending).
See also Adalah News Update: ILA Official Admits to Spraying Unauthorized Chemicals on Arab Bedouin Crops (22 February 2005)


The Path Forward: Farms for Health
Senate Bill 383: Healthy Food Crop Block Grant
The legislature is currently in session, and while many bills are being introduced, there is one bill that produce farmers like ourselves, are eager to see pass. Senate Bill 383, Healthy Food Block Grant (SB 383), grants specialty crop farmers the needed funding to expand crop production, in order to provide a greater volume and variety of produce for healthy food initiatives (HFI), working to make fresh and local produce more accessible to communities. With funding, we and other farmers can use our passion for farming for a greater impact on West Virginia.
Our passion for farming has become rooted in the community, where we started our farm, The Garden Path, 43 years ago. As long-time members of the community, we have seen the need for healthy, local produce that can be accessible to all. A few years ago, we became engaged with the HFI programs in the area and have been able to use our skills and passion to help build a bridge between having accessible locally grown produce to these programs.
One such program, the Kids Pop Up Markets brings together a collaborative mix of WVU Extension services, West Virginia Department of Agriculture, teachers, nutritionists, healthcare providers, and farmers, to bring farmers markets directly to schools. The pop-up markets have become a popular success as they promote and educate students across West Virginia about healthy food and eating habits. By participating in this program, we are able to share our love for high quality, local produce with students who may otherwise not have access and exposure to it. This program is special because you can see the immediate reactions when students get excited when trying a fruit or vegetable they've never had before. We love being a part of the program and the farming community that has evolved from within. However, there are roadblocks preventing other farmers from joining this community.
In 2018, the FARMacy in Wetzel County was designed to fight chronic diseases with a prescription of healthy, locally grown, fruits and vegetables. For ourselves and the four other farms, which primarily supplied produce for the FARMacy, we can feel the impact of these roadblocks. The program ran for 20-weeks, and we collaboratively provided produce for the 25 patients enrolled in the FARMacy. Though we were able to meet this demand, we are in desperate need for more farmers to participate in order to sustain and expand FARMacy and other HFI programs into the future.
HFI centered programs have limited growth due to the financial risk small-scale farmers have to take, in order to grow the specialty crops that are needed. Farming isn't cheap, especially when large volumes of crops are needed. Farming already comes with unavoidable risks, such as deer, weather, and insect pests, to name a few, and farmers try to control as many other variables as possible. Reducing costs when possible helps to make up for the loss that can happen. Increasing production capacity without a secured payday is a huge risk to ask farmers to take.
The extended reach that HFIs would be able to obtain with the passage of this bill and creation of this program would be helpful, not just for West Virginia’s most vulnerable populations, but farmers, like ourselves and our neighbors. This program would also bring farmers in their first years of production on to the scene, as it alleviates the strain by creating a small but mighty safety blanket to expand production.
It would also expand what happens behind the scenes to pull off these programs. In particular with Kids Pop Up Markets, there are a lot of moving parts working to ensure things go smoothly. However, without a conductor, it is difficult to ensure all the parts are moving in the same direction. Farmers need to plan plantings in the winter months, while HFIs don’t start program planning until late spring and the funding is also often not aligned with the growing season. SB 383 would have an added benefit of creating a much-needed network to help with communication, planning, and aggregation/distribution of crops.
Whether it is giving students the chance to try new foods, or helping adults change their eating habits, farmers are at the center for making these programs happen. The Trust for America's Health and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation State of Obesity report found that West Virginia is the number one state for obesity in 2018. We are focused on improving that statistic and making sure we become known for our healthy local produce that is easily accessible to our West Virginia community. We believe strongly in the healthy food initiatives and the positive change they continue to bring to our community and the rest of West Virginia. Passage of SB 383 will support agricultural growth and expansion of HFI programs. This is a perfect marriage of local farmers feeding their communities to promote a healthier West Virginia.
Lisa and Jon Dumars are owner/operators of the Garden Patch Farm in New Martinsville, WV and have worked together with nearly a dozen other farmers to provide FARMacy boxes to patients at the Health Right Clinic in Wetzel.


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Is Healthcare A Luxury?
If you wish to understand how computer systems and different know-how is utilized in Healthcare, then read on. From making the experience for the affected person far more efficient and efficient, to saving the NHS cash, and decreasing the amount of administration, healthcare systems are revolutionising the way in which that the NHS runs and the way in which that patients receive treatment. The first guideline set out by insurers is that no claim might be paid for a pre-existing situation, or any exclusion that’s said on your policy documentation unless your policy doc particularly consists of it. If you’re receiving therapy for one thing you had before becoming a member of up for health insurance, or that has been recognized as an endorsement or exclusion in your coverage, you will have to take the self-pay route and fund the therapy your self.
1 Short time period health insurance does not meet minimum important coverage necessities, meaning signing up for this protection may lead to a tax penalty. This may appear next to the premium of any plan you look at. If somebody on the plan goes to the emergency room or needs loads of health care companies, you’ll probably have to pay that amount toward care in 2018.
6 eight Such an expert would normally be a major care physician , corresponding to a normal practitioner or household physician , a licensed unbiased practitioner such as a physiotherapist , or a non-doctor main care provider resembling a physician assistant or nurse practitioner Depending on the locality, well being system organization, and sometimes at the affected person’s discretion, they could see one other health care skilled first, resembling a pharmacist or nurse Relying on the nature of the health condition, sufferers might then be referred for secondary or tertiary care.
The outcomes that matter to patients for a selected medical situation fall into three tiers. To find out value, providers must measure prices on the medical situation level, monitoring the bills concerned in treating the situation over the full cycle of care. You might be required to reconcile — or compare — these funds to the premium tax credit score you’ll compute on your tax return.
He is a practising doctor at Brigham and Ladies’s Hospital and on the faculty at Harvard Medical College, as well as the co-creator of the HBR article Engaging Medical doctors in the Well being Care Revolution and An Epidemic of Empathy in Well being Care (McGraw-Hill 2015). Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032) is a world, scientific, open entry journal on health care methods, business, expertise, coverage, and regulation, and is revealed quarterly online by MDPI.

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Olomopolo Media organised its own version of the internationally observed ‘Banned Books Week,’ with people reading from books that were ever banned anywhere in the world
September 25 through October 1 was internationally celebrated as the ‘Banned Books Week 2016,’ in recognition of the freedom and right to read. It’s an annual event, started by the American Library Association in 1982, in which a list of "top 10 most challenged books" is released each year. The titles are "based on the frequency a book has been challenged or removed from libraries or schools in the US." For the book lovers in Lahore, Olomopolo Media organised its own version.
At Olo, it was about people reading from books that had ever been banned anywhere in the world.
Walking through the gate of the event venue in Garden Town, I could feel the mood of the evening in the air, with the subtle orange lighting dominating the passages. I was amicably asked to make myself comfortable.
After I settled down in a corner where I could both observe the mild hum of the nightfall and nonchalantly eavesdrop on the sounds from the outside which were essentially composed of young children’s excited shrills and the arriving guests’ hearty chats, I felt contented.
Soon all of us were led into a softly lit room. There were cushions neatly aligned on the wooden floor. This sort of informal arrangement only added to the place’s ambience, and so did the wood panelled walls that added a homely feel to it.
I was surprised to find children no older than 10 years, seated amongst the elders. There weren’t many people in attendance anyway. The ones who came in had brought with them their books.
The evening started with a brief introduction and necessary background discussion on the Banned Books Week 2016. The initiator Reza succinctly explained the where, when, and why of it. I personally found their adaptation of the American initiative quite interesting, in terms of it being interactive. As a reading enthusiast said on the occasion, "It’s a way of celebrating works which once shocked the world."
The first reader of the night Talha Naeem, 6, read from Dr Seuss’s popular child fiction series, titled Green Eggs and Ham. It was revealed that the book was once banned in China.
Next I got to know that Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire which has not only been a best-seller but an equally successful film adaptation was once thought to create negative impact thanks to its elements of witchcraft.
Soon the focus was shifted to more serious matters pertaining to ban on writings. Reza reading out from Khawaja Ahmed Abbas’s Meri Maut kept the audience engrossed what with its satirical tone and a blissfully simple narrative of the socio-political and religious biases in a colonised setting. The readers listened intently till the very end of the story, especially because it was very relatable and relevant to the patterns we see in our postcolonial societies today.
It requires no rocket science to understand that books with strong social and political themes have always been hated by the so-called custodians of established norms. 20th century British novelist George Orwell’s most famous work 1984 was once banned for its criticism of ‘English socialism.’ For the evening, a reading of the chapter ‘Nostalgia’ was chosen. It explores a world full of disillusionment through a dream sequence which raised the basic question of breaking free from shackles of repression.
Verses by the Syrian poet Adunis made all present at the event ponder on the ever increasing violence in the world, which is causing us depression and despair. Published recently, the poem showcases the effects of incessant warfare. It also depicts how war deforms and disables humanity. The throbbing pain was palpable in every word of it.


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Growing up on a goat farm in the desertof Arizona might not be considered the typical American upbringing for the nextbig DJ and producer, but then again Ghastly isn’t your typical American artist.Many have described the genre bending musician as a partially insane young manwith a dark sense of humor. Politely abominable and casually destructive, hewields the catch phrase “born to die” as a mantra to his chaotic lifestyle. Hissets have been heralded as “Energetic and eclectic live performances which aresometimes followed by odd speeches about the abnormalities of life, regretfulsexual encounters, and well cooked food.” With such a diverse personality andrapport for his fans, it’s clear that Ghastly has one thing on his mind, andthat's to change the world.
After entering the music scene andpracticing his talents with touring metal bands such as The Irish Front, DavidLee Crow finally found his calling with dance music, and it inspired him topack up and head to Venice Beach, California to live out of his van and pursuea new career in bass-heavy music. It didn’t take long for him to find his placein the scene, as Ghastly quickly claimed himself a position as BassrushResident DJ at Exchange LA, and has also secured a number of releases on chart-toppinglabels such as OWSLA, Buygore, and Dim Mak to name a few.
Ghastly's approachable yet hard-hitting style ushers a forward-thinkingdynamic that is not often seen in today’s saturated scene, and his soloproductions and collaborations present an unequivocal level of determinationand finesse that fuses multiple styles together. Uniquely creating hybridblends of house, trap, and dubstep into a pot-pourri of bass, the youngproducer definitively pushes the boundaries of the entire EDM scene today, and ahandful of the industry’s finest have recognized his potential includingSkrillex, Diplo, Dillon Francis, Tchami, DJ Snake, Datsik, Borgore, Zomboy, andZeds Dead. With slew of mentally-stimulating originals and physically-alteringcollaborations under his belt, such as his original “Miami Connection” withJauz and single “Crank It” with Mija & Lil Jon, it’s safe to say thatGhastly is on a mission to redefine dance music for all.

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Ground Breaking Marks CFM56® MRO Growth for Pratt & Whitney
SHANGHAI China.– Pratt & Whitney, a United Technologies Corp. (NYSE:UTX) company, and its joint venture partner, China Eastern Airlines, today broke ground on a new CFM56® engine overhaul facility in Shanghai. Once fully operational, the facility is expected to overhaul 200-300 engines per year and employ 800 people.
The facility, due to induct its first engine in 2008, will comprise approximately 23,000 sq. meters (250,000 sq. feet). Its in-depth repair capabilities, 10-meter test cell with capability of up to 75,000 pounds of thrust, and state-of-the-art information technology system will provide maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services to airline customers in China and the Aisa Pacific region.
“Today we are pleased to witness the ground breaking of the facility, the largest CFM56® MRO center in the Asia Pacific region,” said Mr. Cao Jianxiong, president of China Eastern Airlines. “The facility will definitely be the milestone in the partnership of China Eastern Airlines and Pratt & Whitney.”
“This ground breaking event is of great importance to Pratt & Whitney,” said Pratt & Whitney President Steve Finger. “Pratt & Whitney, together with China Eastern Airlines, will bring state-of-the-art engine service to Shanghai and provide China Eastern Airlines and other airlines in the region an excellent alternative for their CFM56® engine overhaul and repair needs.”
Jim Keenan, senior vice president & general manager, Pratt & Whitney Global Service Partners, said, “The facility is designed to meet today’s highest environmental standards and is well-positioned to meet those expected in coming decades. We are thrilled to partner with China Eastern, a prominent airline with tremendous growth momentum. This is a great opportunity for both of our companies.”
The facility is designed to meet the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) Platinum standards. It will use extensive day lighting, a cool roof to reduce heat island effects, radiant heating in offices and the cafeteria, high performance insulation and windows, and rainwater collection for site irrigation and sanitary use. At least 12.5 percent of the site’s energy needs are expected to come from renewable energy sources. This integrated design will improve the facility’s overall environmental performance and reduce energy consumption.
China Eastern Airlines Co., Ltd., was established in June 1988 and maintained rapid growth over the past 19 years. It was successfully transformed into a shareholding company in 1997 and listed on the New York, Hong Kong and Shanghai stock exchanges. China Eastern Airlines is the largest operator of CFM56® engines in Asia Pacific, with over 270 CFM56® engines in its fleet and over 50 CFM56® engines on order through 2011.
Pratt & Whitney Global Service Partners (GSP) is a total service provider for Pratt & Whitney, International Aero Engines, General Electric, Rolls-Royce and CFMI engines. In addition to engine overhaul and repair services, GSP provides customers improved engine performance and increased asset value through a broad portfolio of services including line maintenance, engine monitoring and diagnostics, environmentally-friendly on-wing water washes, leased engines, custom engine service programs and new and repaired parts.
Pratt & Whitney is a world leader in the design, manufacture and service of aircraft engines, space propulsion systems and industrial gas turbines. United Technologies, based in Hartford, Conn., is a diversified company providing high technology products and services to the global aerospace and commercial building industries.
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Acts 15:8American Standard Version (ASV)
8 And God, who knoweth the heart, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Spirit, even as he did unto us;
Acts 15:8New English Translation (NET Bible)
8 And God, who knows the heart, has testified to them by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us,
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Organic Red Pesto - Vegan (160g)
Suma organic pesto is ready-to-use. Delicious when mixed with hot pasta, served with warmed organic breads or stirred into soups. Part of the product range 'Organic Pestos'. This product is gluten-free, is organic and is vegan.
Ingredients: *Sunflower oil, *sundried tomatoes, *basil, *cider vinegar, *cashews, water, *pine nuts,*garlic, salt, *black pepper (*denotes organically grown ingredient)


Actress Heart Evangelista has admitted that Senator Francis “Chiz” Escudero makes her happy, in an interview aired on the October 5 episode of KrisTV, the same talk show where the senator admitted that he and Heart are already in a relationship.
"Yes, he makes me laugh. All kinds of [laughter]. We are having fun," Heart was quoted as saying in an article on ABS-CBNNews.com.
"Nakakatawa siya,” she added. “He is a very funny person, pero pagdating sa serious matters, seryoso siya. Pero kapag walang nakatingin, normal siyang tao. [He is] very down to earth, cowboy [siya], ganyan (He’s funny. He is a very funny person, but when it comes to serious matters, he’s really serious. But when there’s no one looking, he’s like a normal person. He is very down to earth and is game for anything.)."
Heart also gave a special message to the senator, since the episode’s airing date coincided with his birthday, as well as his last day as a co-host of the show. "Happy, happy birthday Senator Chiz, may God bless you more. Congrats on your show, you are doing very well,” she said.
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Romantic Tour in Xining
An exclusive tour for all the romantics of the world! Together with the local professional guide, you will visit the most romantic places in the city. Qinghai Lake is the highest salt lake in the world and China’s largest lake. You will feel spellbound in a charming atmosphere. Where is considered as one of the best places to have a date in the city? Where can you take lovely photos? You will be surprised how many historical love stories there are hidden in the streets, buildings, and parks of the city. From heartbreaking and tragic, to the hilarious or spicy ones. What legend lies in the lovely and majestic Mount Laoye? What was so tragic about the love story between a pair of famous lovers- Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai? A tour especially recommended in the Saint Valentine period!Itinerary
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For my Master's thesis I worked on discontinuity detection in the outputs of computational simulations. Discontinuities often arise in computational simulations as a result of phase transitions or bifurcations. When a simulation output does not depend smoothly on its inputs, the error and convergence rate of many approximation methods deteriorate substantially. I developed a method for efficiently localizing discontinuities in the input space in order to split the input space into two separate regions. The approach involves the following ingredients
- Locating and defining the discontinuity with polynomial annihilation
- Approximating the discontinuity with kernel-based support vector machines (SVMs)
- Refining the discontinuity with active learning
The overall approach results in an anytime algorithm that avoids structured grids and exploits the geometry structure of the separating surface.
A.A. Gorodetsky and Y.M. Marzouk. (2014) Efficient Localization of Discontinuities in Complex Computational Simulations. SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing 36(6), A2584–A2610. (download)


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Integrating Larval Connectivity with Local Demography Reveals Regional Dynamics of a Marine Metapopulation
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Many ocean species exist within what are called marine metapopulations: networks of otherwise isolated local populations connected by the exchange of larval offspring. In order to manage these species as effectively as possible (e.g., by designing and implementing effective networks of marine protected areas), we must know how many offspring are produced within each local population (i.e., local demography), and where those offspring disperse (i.e., larval connectivity). Although there is much interest in estimating connectivity in the relatively simple sense of identifying the locations of spawning parents and their settling offspring, true measures of demographic connectivity that account for among-site variation in offspring production have been lacking. We combined detailed studies of local reproductive output and larval dispersal of a coral reef fish to quantify demographic connectivity within a regional metapopulation that included four widely spaced islands in the Bahamas. We present a new method for estimating demographic connectivity when the levels of dispersal among populations are inferred by the collection of genetically “tagged” offspring. We estimated that 13.3% of recruits returned to natal islands, on average (95% CI = 1.1–50.3%), that local retention was high on one of the islands (41%, 95% CI = 6.0–97.0%), and that larval connectivity was appreciable, even between islands 129 km apart (mean = 1.6%, 95% CI = 0.20–8.8%). Our results emphasize the importance of properly integrating measurements of production with measurements of connectivity. Had we not accounted for among-site variation in offspring production, our estimates of connectivity would have been inaccurate by a factor as much as 6.5. At a generational timescale, lifetime offspring production varied substantially (a fivefold difference among islands) and the importance of each island to long-term metapopulation growth was dictated by both larval production and connectivity. At the scale of our study (local populations inhabiting 5-ha reefs), the regional metapopulation could not grow without external input. However, an exploratory analysis simulating a network of four marine protected areas suggested that reserves of >65 ha each would ensure persistence of this network. Thus, integrating studies of larval connectivity and local demography hold promise for both managing and conserving marine metapopulations effectively.
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Ecological Society of America, v. 99, issue 6, p. 1419-1429
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Johnson, Darren W.; Christie, Mark R.; Pusack, Timothy J.; Stallings, Christopher D.; and Hixon, Mark A., "Integrating Larval Connectivity with Local Demography Reveals Regional Dynamics of a Marine Metapopulation" (2018). Marine Science Faculty Publications. 2304.


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Islamic insurance industry (Takaful) is achieving record growth rates in global markets, competing with their conventional counterparts due to the expanding demand for the products of this type of insurance by large segments of customers in all markets of the world.


Is There Something Wrong with Your New Rifle, Part 2
Some guns are indeed lemons. On the other hand, gun owners love to complain—and not always with good reason
“To err is human; to forgive, divine,” wrote 18th century English poet and essayist Alexander Pope. He was obviously not a gun owner. Shooters, as I’ve pointed out previously, are vengeful, long on memory, and disinclined to forgive and forget. Also, they talk to each other. The greatest stimulus to their talking is the internet, and it seethes with commentary on what’s good and what isn’t.
I’ve read loads of internet comments on defective guns, and my reaction is, I’d like to hear the other side of it. Some of the complaints sound about half-crazed.
When I visited Marlin, before they moved from North Haven, I was told that the company was sometimes sued when shooters pried .22 rimfire cartridges apart, dumped in a double powder charge, re-inserted the bullet, and then watched as their guns blew up. I’m not surprised that people did this, or that they sued, but I can’t imagine how they did it.
I once got an enraged letter from a shooter who had sawed his rifle barrel back beyond the legal 16-inch mark, and then had to send the gun back to the factory for a new barrel because he hadn’t cut the end square and the gun shot at a 45-degree angle. The company measured the barrel and called the ATF, who then had a chat with the owner. The manufacturer had no choice in the matter; they did what they were legally obliged to do. The guy who used the hacksaw was not happy about what the gun company had done. I think he should have been happy he wasn’t writing from prison.
Some of the internet complainers sound like real jerks. Back in the last century, when Griffin & Howe was part of Abercrombie & Fitch, which was right across the street from Field & Stream‘s offices, I used to hang out there, and I got to listen to plenty of jerks. They were rich jerks, which are the worst kind. Their attitude was, Since I paid a lot of money for this gun, and it doesn’t work the way I think it should, I am entitled to be very, very nasty.
They were not right, but they were wealthy, and people who have to cater to the wealthy often have to put up with a lot of poor behavior in order to stay in business.
It’s reasonable to assume, judging by what they’ve written online, that the internet whiners sent their guns back with a note dripping malice and venom. They would do well to remember that the note was read by a human being who did not appreciate malice and venom, and while their gun probably got fixed, I doubt if it got the same treatment as the gun of someone who minded his manners and kept a sense of perspective.
Sometimes the maker of the gun really is sloppy. I had a .300 Weatherby restocked by a guy who screwed up the fleurs-des-lis in the checkering pattern so that they pointed in odd directions. Then the stock split behind the tang. I didn’t bother to go back to him. The stock was sawed into knife handles, and I got it redone by someone who did it right. I did not, as I recall, lose my temper. It wouldn’t have helped.
Sometimes, quirks and shortcomings don’t make any difference. In 1985, I got a Perazzi trap gun, an economy model as Perazzis go, called the MX-3. The ejectors never really worked. I had them adjusted, and they improved, but a lot of the time the fired shell sits in the chamber waiting for me to pluck it out. I don’t mind. I’ve put several pallet loads of ammo through it in 34 years, and it has served me well and truly. If the ejectors have a sense of humor, so what?
Anyway, yanking them out by hand and throwing them in an attractive pile gives me something to do between shots.


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#1: 93 percent of women with Lymphedema were helped with LLLT April 2010
Treatment of Post-Mastectomy Lymphedema with Laser Therapy: Double Blind Placebo Control Randomized Study
Mohammed Taher Ahmed Omar PT.D.*, Corresponding Author Contact Information, E-mail The Corresponding Author, E-mail The Corresponding Author, Ahmed Mohammed El Morsy M.D. and Anwer Abd-EL-Gayed Ebid PT.D.
Consultant of Surgery, Department of General Surgery, El-Mataria Teaching Hospital, Cairo, Egypt
Lecturer Physical Therapy, Faculty of Physical Therapy. Cairo, Egypt.
* Faculty of Physical Therapy, Cairo, Egypt. Member of International Panel of Advisory Board for Indian Journal of Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy
Received 10 February 2010. ,Available online 18 April 2010.
In post-mastectomy patients, lymphedema has the potential to become a permanent progressive condition and become extremely resistant to treatment. Thus, it can results in function impairment and decrease quality of life. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of low level laser therapy (LLLT) on limb volume, shoulder mobility, and hand grip strength.
Material and Methods
Fifty women with breast cancer-related lymphedema were enrolled in a double-blind, placebo controlled trial. Patients were randomly assigned to active laser (n = 25) and placebo (n = 25) groups and received irradiation with GaAs laser device that had wavelength of 904 nm power of 5 mW, and spot size of 0.2 cm2 over the axillary and arm areas, three times a week for 12 wk. The total energy applied at each point was 300 mjoules over seven points, giving a dosage of 1.5 joules/cm2 in the active group. The placebo group received placebo therapy in which the laser had been disabled without affecting its apparent function. Limb circumference, shoulder mobility, and grip strength were measured before treatment and at 4, 8, and 12 wk.
The two groups had similar parameters at baseline. The reduction of limb volume tended to decline in both groups. The trend being more significantly pronounced in active LLLT group than placebo at 8 and 12 wk, respectively (P < 0.05). Goniometric data for shoulder mobility and hand grip strength were statistically significance for LLLT group than for placebo.
Laser treatment was found to be effective in reducing the limb volume, increase shoulder mobility, and hand grip strength in approximately 93% of patients with postmastectomy lymphedema.
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Here is a video for my song “Wild Time” that was shot on 16mm pre-Pandemic, then edited together during isolation. Felt like the right time to let this video out into the world, seeing as we’re all getting saddled down by some pretty grim realities. This song is about yearning for wildness and Mother Nature in a time of chaos. It’s for sensitive people who worry about the fate of humanity and feel powerless to do anything about it.
I’ve spent a lot of time thinking apocalyptic thoughts and realizing that won’t get you anywhere. What if the world has always been ending? What if the sprawl of our cities are just as wild as the forests? What if climate change and the destruction of our natural habitat is a reflection of the nature within us, however sublimely horrifying and hard to understand? We’re animals, we play out a very precarious drama of life, and we grasp for what’s left of the protective womb - but maybe the notion that we’re somehow separated from her is an illusion. Maybe it is, truly, a wild time to be alive. Maybe getting in touch with that as a culture and society would avert the worst case scenarios of ecological crisis and existential dread.
If you’ve gotten this far, wow, thank you for actually taking the time to read this. In other news, as you may have assumed, I am canceling all of my headline shows for 2020, but I’m beginning to work on my next album that will come out in 2021- a different time, when hopefully we can see each other face to face once again.
BEHOLD below: Sub Pop Coloring Sheet #1, the first in a series of at least one! (Avail to you, FOR FREE, as either a JPEG or TIFF.)
Simply by downloading, printing and then applying your own, unique art-like skills to this handy, Sub Pop-based, at-home coloring-fun activity, you will avail yourself of an opportunity to…
While away the hours between waking to what really seems kind of like the same day over and over again, and the sweet release of sleep!
Distract yourself from the great, yawning chasm of doubt and dread opening ever wider at our very feet!
Sharpen up your skills, in preparation for an assuredly satisfying career in the world of fine art!
Show off your individual flair and good taste!
Create something delightful to post on social media and then (OF COURSE) tag us! (@subpop #subpopcoloring) There is the distinct possibility we will be moved to feature the best/weirdest/funniest of these in our Instagram feed!
Fun, right? WE KNOW!
We have also very recently created new Sub Pop-branded “Work From Home” playlists sure to provide you with minutes upon minutes of pure listening ECSTASY through many of today’s popular music streaming services. Please access these playlists here!
(You can also listen to the playlist that the art for Sub Pop Coloring Sheet #1 normally accompanies, not at all coincidentally titled “Home Is Where All of These Bands Are,” at any of the several streaming options available to you here!)
Please note: we owe a debt of great gratitude to our Late 30’s Art Director Sasha Barr for creating the art for these playlists, the associated Coloring Sheet #1, and so much more.
Earlier this month, Bully delivered two excellent covers of Nirvana’s “About a Girl” and Orville Peck’s “Turn To Hate” via a sold-out 7” single and cassette, and now, both are available at all DSPs worldwide from Sub Pop.
Bully’s Alicia Bognanno offered this on the covers, “Normally during this time I’d be running around trying to promote the upcoming record and rehearsing to get ready to tour again but given the circumstances, I’m trying to work with what I can do at home alone. I picked a couple Sub Pop songs to cover to release something in the meantime. I played everything on these songs (for better or worse haha) and tracked them in my living room. Gotta do what ya gotta to spice it up sometimes.”
Of the “About a Girl” cover, Rolling Stone raved, “Hearing the Nashville band cover Nirvana is almost too obvious — but, good God, is it glorious. Their spin on 1989’s “About a Girl” strikes a perfect balance of raw and melodic, without ever sounding like the output of a cover band…Still, it’s not just a skilled copy of a classic. She mixes in some experimental guitar squeals on the instrumental and a truly trippy solo that keeps the sound from going thoroughly Nineties. Plus, Bognanno differentiates herself from your average karaoke crooner with her stellar delivery.
As for her take on “Turn To Hate,” Stereogum had this to say, “A song that sounds incredible in Bully’s rocket-fueled garage rock style.” Paste concurs, “Bully’s rendition is possibly even better than the original with its incredibly anthemic chorus.”
Shabazz Palaces has delivered a thoughtful new lyric video for “Thanking The Girls,” a highlight from The Don of Diamond Dreams, his acclaimed new album out now on Sub Pop.
The visual is directed by Josh Sessoms, a contemporary artist focusing on figures that encapsulate the mystery, dynamism and poetic nature of the African and Caribbean diasporas. Exemplification of grace, dignity, love, and power is a starting point from which he begins his artistic musings. Sessoms says of the video, “There is an ongoing spiritual connection among the characters which is being fortified by the full moon. Ishmael’s lyrics and vocal performance inspired a kaleidoscopic explosion of ideas. I immediately heard a palpable sense of compassion and ardor in his voice. I sense that Ishmael wants this song to be an eternal gift and a perpetual gesture of appreciation to loved ones (both near and far); those of the present moment, of yesteryear and of future generations.”
The visual saw its premiere today via Essence Magazine, who offered this, “Brimming bright with a dedication to the women in Ish’s life, ‘Thanking The Girls’ is a wonderful tribute that proves that this slick-talking, experimental rap bohemian is still a real G that should be protected at all costs (see “Playlist” premiere May 8th, 2020).”
Shabazz Palaces was also the subject of a recent interview with Frannie Kelly for NPR’s Morning Edition, where he discussed the new album, and how “musical innovation is a family legacy (see May 5th interview).”
The Don of Diamond Dreams is available worldwide from Sub Pop.
The Don of Diamond Dreams, which includes the aforementioned “Thanking The Girls,” “Fast Learner (ft. Purple Tape Nate),”“Chocolate Souffle,”“Wet,” “Bad Bitch Walking (ft. Stas THEE Boss),” features contributions from singer/keyboardist Darrius Willrich, percussionist Carlos Niño, Knife Knights collaborator OCnotes, saxophonist Carlos Overall, and bassist Evan Flory-Barnes.
The Don of Diamond Dreams was recorded throughout 2019 and produced by Shabazz Palaces at Protect and Exalt: A Black Space in Seattle, mixed and engineered by Erik Blood with mixing assistance from Andy Kravitz at Studio 4 Labs in Venice, California, and mastered by Scott Sedillo at Bernie Grundman Mastering in Los Angeles.
Shannon Lay’s Live At Zebulon, her first-ever live album, was recorded last fall while on tour in support of August, her Sub Pop debut, and is available now at all DSPs. The thirteen track effort features songs from throughout her three album catalog - August, All This Going Down, Living Water - and her covers of Karen Dalton’s “Something On Your Mind” and Black Box’s “Everybody, Everybody.”
Cover photo by: Notes from Vivace
Shannon says of Live at Zebulon, “During November of 2019 I set off on tour with three of my best friends, Shelby Jacobson, Denee Segall and Sofia Arreguin. We played all over the U.S. and then returned home for a December residency at Zebulon in Los Angeles. We were joined on stage by Ben Boye and Mikal Cronin for three nights of celebration and with the help of engineer Elizaveta Boldyreva and the mixing skills of Michael Kriebel these are the recordings that came out of it. I had never toured with a band before and the songs became brand new again. I am so happy to have captured what they were in those moments with those people. To get to play music with the friends I love so much is a very special thing and I want to sincerely thank Shelby, Denee, Sofia, Ben and Mikal for adding their magical touch. In my wildest dreams I never imagined knowing such incredible people and getting to share the stage with them.”
Shannon has also delivered a full album stream for Live At Zebulon featuring footage culled from the tour. Lay offers this on the YouTube document, “To go along with the live record we filmed footage of the U.S. tour in November 2019. Edited by Shelby Jacobson and filmed by Shelby Jacobson, Sofia Arreguin, Denee Segall and Shannon Lay it is a moment in time that we knew would be fleeting so we wanted to preserve it somehow. I hope you enjoy listening to the album while watching this film.”
Shannon Lay’s August, her acclaimed 2019 long-player, is also available from Sub Pop.
Shannon Lay Live At Zebulon Tracklisting:
1. Nowhere 2. November 3. Something On Your Mind 4. Parked 5. Wild 6. The Moon’s Detriment 7. All This Life Goin Down 8. Recording 15 9. Coast 10. Death Up Close 11. August 12. The Dream 13. Everybody, Everybody


USWNT survive huge scare against Portugal to reach World Cup last 16
Auckland, New Zealand - The USWNT survived a huge scare to reach the last 16 of the Women's World Cup on Tuesday after a 0-0 draw against Portugal, which was unlucky not to claim a sensational win at Eden Park that would have taken it through instead.
The US struggled to impose itself against opponents ranked 21st in the world and appearing at their first World Cup, and Portugal almost won the game in injury time when substitute Ana Capeta hit the post.
Holding on for the draw means Vlatko Andonovski's side finish in second place in Group E.
The Netherlands go through as group winners after a 7-0 demolition of a Vietnam side who were beaten just 3-0 by the Americans in their first match at the tournament.
That means the pre-tournament favorites will move to Australia to play a last-16 tie on Sunday against the winners of Group G, in all likelihood Olympic silver medalists Sweden.
Nothing about their performance here in front of almost 41,000 in Auckland, or in their two previous matches at the tournament, suggests the US will find it easy going against a side who finished third at the last World Cup.
It is just the second time in Women's World Cup history that the USWNT has failed to top its group, although on the last occasion, in 2011, it reached the final before losing on penalties to Japan.
USWNT struggle with Portugal's intensity and aggression
The US had never before won just one group game, and the regression from four years ago in France is striking.
That time they won all three matches in the first phase, rattling in 18 goals without reply.
Andonovski has insisted a youthful new team will need time to find its feet, but an urgent step-up will be required if they are not to be eliminated early in the knockout phase.
The coach made two changes from the 1-1 draw with the Netherlands, with Rose Lavelle rewarded for her game-changing role off the bench in that game with a first start at the tournament.
Savannah DeMelo made way for her, while Lynn Williams was brought in on the right wing as Trinity Rodman dropped out.
Portugal had to win to go through but played as if there was no pressure at all, with Andreia Norton shooting over early on and the lively Jessica Silva dragging a shot wide from a good position soon after.
The Europeans had more of the possession, higher intensity and aggression, and delivered a heart-stopping moment in the first minute of injury time when Capeta, who had just come on, smashed a shot off the upright.
Starting a World Cup match for the first time, Williams found the going tough but did have her team's best chances in the opening half, including a snap-shot in stoppage time that was saved by goalkeeper Ines Pereira.
Veteran Megan Rapinoe came on during the second half, but made little impact in a match that raised plenty of questions ahead of the knockout stage.
Cover photo: Saeed KHAN / AFP