Leviathan, Divination and the Slanderer!
This will take you more than a minute to read, but will be well worth it.
In the past week and a half to two weeks, I have endured an assault after coming back from teaching in Ohio.
I am very used to the enemy's attacks in backlash after a meeting, which sole purpose is to get you to quit ministry.
In the Saturday morning meeting I did a workshop with 2 classes on spiritual warfare, as ministers from different churches and ministries attended, some from Ohio, others from West Virginia and one from New York.
The first class of the workshop was over 1 hour and 50 minutes and taught on Jezebel, Leviathan and Divination.
The second class in that workshop was a question and answer (Q & A), and it was over 1 hour and 6 minutes.
This particular workshop was by far the best workshop the LORD has let me do and the teachings and equipping was off the chain!
Those who receive our monthly CDs have sent me testimonies of how much these particular workshop CDs have helped them.
Therefore, I knew that I made satan mad, because of exposing his tactics and equipping ministers to stand on guard and overcome these assaults by the power of the Word of God and with my own testimonies.
The week I got back I saw a personalized car tag "NOTRUST" and within a day of seeing that car tag, an assault of the enemy came my way, where a message was sent to attack me.
I know this well and share in my CDs as well as other teachings I do, about how sensitive I am spiritually, which is why I guard myself so much against anyone giving me messages or prophetic words and even dreams.
People do not understand that you have to test the spirit to know what is operating, so that you are not a messenger of the wrong spirit.
During the week and a half after the message the enemy's assault was so insane that it made me feel mental and was telling me to end my life, which he knows will NEVER happen and does not work.
On top of this attack was the assault of the accuser of the brethren where God gave me a dream that I shared about the accuser getting people to speak against me.
I had a dream of this man who was rough looking, and had a lot of muscle and facial hair, was on Facebook, coming against many people.
Most of the people on Facebook were giving their attention to him, almost as if it were a news report that was continually flowing and the only news he was giving was accusations.
Rich [my husband] and I were having a big meeting, with a huge turnout of young people and as I was sitting at the back of the meeting getting ready for it to start.
Then this man came on Facebook, and someone said he was targeting me. I listened for a moment and this man was speaking absolute lies that were blatantly obvious, but still, as the people listened to this man, it was as though they were under his spell and that they believed it.
In the dream I blocked him from my account and then the young girl who was listening and brought it to my attention, was tormented and vexed as she listened to him and almost believed him.
But I got her phone and blocked him from her account and then she was at peace.
I say all of that to say this: Right now the enemy, satan, (which means slanderer and accuser) is operating abundantly on Facebook.
I have experienced this and asked God what was going on, and to give me a dream about the issue, and sure enough it showed up, as Holy Spirit revealed this attack.
Thus, I said all of that to get to other things that have occurred to strengthen the saints.
With that said after I saw the NOTRUST tag, immediately John 2:25 came to me where Jesus did not trust Himself to man; He knew what was in their hearts. He discerned the hearts of the Pharisees.
"and had no need that anyone should testify of man, for He knew what was in man," John 2:25.
Going further, throughout the week and a half that this attack was going on, God would go through times where He would flood me with this incredible love and peace, bringing me such strength that I felt like I could run a marathon.
In the midst of this week and a half, the enemy would attack my mind, like poison being released into my soul of the devil's voice, which I continued to resist.
I enlisted the help of my husband and three of my closest friends, the ones whom are in my inner circle, because I knew I needed prayer.
"This is so crazy; Rich and I just went walking and there was a snake on the sidewalk, had a yellow color like in my notes on THE WORM!
WE live in downtown Birmingham. Where in the world does a snake come from?
I knew divination was working and it was God confirming Isaiah 59 of the adders eggs. But this is what is wild!
Finally, on Sunday of this past weekend June 17th the attack totally broke and God flooded me with Love!
I talked to my friend Sherri the day before (June 16th), who is one of my closest friends.
God had me call her to assist in this attack. Well that Saturday that I talked to Sherri, she went to bed and had a dream about me. In the dream I had a spider bite on my hand and had come to her for help, at which time she and I went to an elderly man on a park bench who had an Epi pen and injected the healing agent into my body, at which time the bite mark went away.
This made complete sense of all that I had gone through; when the message came to me at the onset of the enemy's tactics trying to attack me, all I could do was react because I felt traumatized by the incident.
What is crazy is that last week the personalized tag I saw was TRAUM for TRAUMA!
God told me that the enemy's tactics was to come against me in order to TRAUMATIZE ME, and that is what the bite represented from the spider, was a traumatic reaction.
The Epi-Pen represents Psalm 45:1, the tongue of a pen of a ready writer, which is what I also taught that weekend in Ohio to the public; it is the increase of the anointing of the Word!
"My heart is overflowing with a good theme; I recite my composition concerning the King; my tongue is the pen of a ready writer," Psalm 45:1.
Moreover, I had taught that weekend with Leviathan, that he operates through the spider's web in Isaiah 59, where the adders' eggs are laid, which is why Leviathan and Divination always operate together.
God showed me that the message came through the spirit of Leviathan in order to traumatize me with the spirit of Divination!
Its sole purpose is to get you out of the will of God and traumatized to the place where you feel paralyzed to move forward in the call.
God wanted me to share all of this because with that attack going on, simultaneously the other attack of the accuser of the brethren has taken place, to get those who are DECEIVED under FALSE TEACHERS to listen to that spirit, and these are the ones who are being used by leviathan and divination to attack the saints.
Be on guard and keep your circle small and do not let everyone speak into your life.
Moreover, be at peace when you need to rebuke someone when they are in error, so that they will not release the venom of the enemy to attack another person.
You can always do it in love and firmness but regardless it needs to be done to stop the attack.
Be strong in the LORD and the power of His might knowing that He is giving you strength to overcome this attack!
"None sues or calls in righteousness [but for the sake of doing injury to others — to take some undue advantage]; no one goes to law honestly and pleads [his case] in truth; they trust in emptiness, worthlessness and futility, and speaking lies! They conceive mischief and bring forth evil!
They hatch adders' eggs and weave the spider's web; he who eats of their eggs dies, and [from an egg] which is crushed a viper breaks out [for their nature is ruinous, deadly, evil].
Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths and highways," Isaiah 59:4-7 AMP.
I take the Sword of God's Word and cut the cords of heaviness off of you and command the lying serpents that have attacked your mind, to be lifted off, and I command the cloak of heaviness to be lifted off of you in Jesus' Name!
I take the Sword of the Word of Psalm 74:13-14 and declare God cuts the heads off of leviathan, the serpent and dragon that is operating through divination curses and command it to loose you and go into the wilderness! IN Jesus' Name!
I come against every issue of Trauma that has been assigned to your person, and I command fear to be uprooted like a mountain cast into the sea, as God brings His great love in your person, driving out the devil, in Jesus' Name!
I bind the spirit of trauma and command each assignment tied to his house to be destroyed, In Jesus' Name!
I take the Sword of the Word of God, the Sword of the Spirit and cut the cords of Trauma and every word that has come from divination, assignment from leviathan and command it to loose you and go into the wilderness. in Jesus' Name!
I declare the Spirit of the LORD God be upon you, the infilling of the righteousness of Christ Jesus, as you are in overflow by Holy Spirit from the Father in order to move and transition into the NEW SEASON! IN JESUS' NAME!
"You divided the sea by Your strength; You broke the heads of the [a]sea serpents in the waters. You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces, and gave him as food to the people inhabiting the wilderness," Psalm 74:13-14.
I thank you!! God is mightily with you!! I have gleaned much off your prophetic understanding and words of knowledge. I have gone through much this year… Betrayal, loss and torment, subject to the attacks have come like a torrent…trauma with a capital T! I know I am not alone and praise the Almighty for getting me through. I have felt the intensity of push back at every turn, as even Christians surrounding me cannot fathom how I'm even standing. Only Jesus! May our Rock keep us firm in His Truth to keep our eyes and ears open, His Faithfulness keep us and His Love to guide us…as His Unending Love is the the key to everything. God bless you!! Thank you for your obedience to share!!
God is mightly with you, dear sister. I also was asked how I survived all the most worse TI attacks. I responded: Only with the Holy Bible, only with GOD's Words and help and through prayers. Own prayers AND prayers of brothers and sisters. Our good LORD hears, He has sent intercessors, both – human and supernatural.
The evildoers do everything to traumatize true believers. Snakes, dead animals on the roads and sidewalks. Sticks, strings, stones, and always handkerchiefs on places where usually never people would throw their trash. They practice witchcraft and curses. Hair on private things, hairbonds everywhere, parts of oranges as well. They drive over fruits and place the smashed tomatoes, grapefruits and pieces of oranges around every place I go. They know where we are and when. It is really insane how much time and money some have to torture others. Sister, I have much compassion and love for you. Stay strong.
Trying to be brought. Thanks for sharing.
Such an important teaching for now!! Blesdings n hugs Robin!


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Extremely Creative and Incredibly Destructive
Sarah Skwire
Donald E. Westlake. The Ax. New York: The Mysterious Press, 1997 (273 pages).
As the economist Joseph Schumpeter famously observed, the "essential fact about capitalism" is creative destruction—the process "that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one." In times of great economic downturn, however, it is easy to see the destruction of the old and just as easy to overlook the creation of the new.
Written during the years that followed 1987's Black Monday crash, Donald E. Westlake's crime novel The Ax takes on the question of creative destruction. Dark satire carries the story of a middle-aged middle manager driven to extremes by 18 months of unemployment. Having spent his post-Vietnam career in sales and management at a paper mill, Burke Devore is on the wrong side of 50 to be job hunting in an ever-tightening job market and an ever-less-prosperous industry. Fortunately, Devore is an entrepreneurial type. He responds creatively.
Devore takes an ad out in some trade journals for an imaginary job that would ideally suit him. This ad allows him to collect an enormous stack of resumes from the competition, against which to assess and rate himself.
But it is not until he reads an interview in a trade journal with Ralph Fallon, production line manager at Arcadia Processing—a paper mill that specializes in precisely the kind of polymer paper that is Devore's particular area—that a plan begins to form. Reading about Fallon, he realizes that "'Ralph' Fallon had my job. I read the piece, and I read it again, and there was no doubt in my mind. He had my job, and in a fair contest I'd get it, not him. . . . I was better than him. I knew I was. It was obvious. And yet, he had my job." The solution is obvious.
The solution is murder.
Daydream. I'd drive over to Arcadia, New York, the Luger beside me in the car. Find the mill, find Fallon . . . find him, and follow him, and wait for the opportunity, and kill him. And apply for his job. Which is where the daydream broke down, and came crashing down at my feet. . . . Of course I'm better than he is, in any contest between us for the job, it would be my job, no question. But the contest isn't between us, and never can be. The contest, once Fallon is out of the way, is between me and that stack of resumes over there.
Realizing the nature of the problem allows Devore to pull out the six most likely competitors from the pile of resumes he has collected. He then sets out to remove the competition. With a Luger.
I realize that many Freeman readers may feel that serial murder is not a reasonable response to unemployment. But they are forgetting the standard advice given to the buggy whip makers, following Theodore Levitt in his article "Marketing Myopia." Levitt wrote that in many industries, "The industry has its eyes so firmly on its own specific product that it does not see how it is being made obsolete. The classical example of this is the buggy whip industry. No amount of product improvement could stave off its death sentence. But had the industry defined itself as being in the transportation business rather than the buggy whip business, it might have survived." In other words, buggy whip makers needed to understand that their job was not just making buggy whips. They needed to take a broader view. They needed to redefine themselves. And this is exactly what Devore does when he creates a whole new job opening for himself through his entrepreneurial murders.
Some readers may want to argue that The Ax contains the kind of anti-business bias of which literature is often accused. After all, the narrator is a businessman and a murderer, and he blames business for his decision to become a murderer. "What I'm doing now I was forced into, by the logic of events; the shareholders' logic, and the executives' logic, and the logic of the marketplace, and the logic of the workforce, and the logic of the millennium, and finally by my own logic. Show me an alternative and I'll take it." But it may be wise for those who want to make that argument to consider how seriously we ought to take the economic arguments made by a man who kills four people and insists, "I'm not a killer. I'm not a murderer, I never was, I don't want to be such a thing, soulless and ruthless and empty."
The Ax is, like the best satires, a darkly funny and deeply uncomfortable read. Killing off the competition is, of course, insanity. But Devore's observations about job hunting in a declining industry will be grimly familiar to those who are facing today's job market. Devore says, "Fallon is my competition, all right. And the six resumes I've pulled out of the stack are my competition. But this is a sea change taking place in our civilization right now, and all of middle management is my competition. A million hungry faces will be at the window soon, peering in. Well educated, middle-aged, middle class. I have to be firmly in place, before the flood becomes overwhelming." We read. We nod slowly. And we look over our shoulders and out our windows. And we update our resumes.
Sarah Skwire is a senior fellow at Liberty Fund, Inc. She is a poet and author of the writing textbook Writing with a Thesis. She is a member of the FEE Faculty Network. Email

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When I was asked to re-engineer the 'wizards UI', I paused my coding to design something clean from scratch. It worked quite well at first : the overall code was a lot simpler and contained a lot less duplication than before. Seeing this new shiny UI, product people asked for new features. Unfortunately, I hadn't thought of them when designing this little framework. I was almost back at my initial situation.
That's how I started to look for another way to design software. At about the same time the eXtreme Programming book fell into my hands. That's where I discovered the idea of incremental design and architecture.
The term "Architecture Astronaut" was coined by Joel Spolsky back in 2001. If you haven't read this classic post yet, I strongly encourage you to do so. Basically, he explains that we should not be impressed by architects going over their heads talking about too abstract stuff.
Traditional architecture is about taking up-front choices that will be difficult to change. Incremental architecture is about preparing for non-stop change and taking decisions as late as possible.
The idea in incremental architecture is really simple : keep your code simple, clean and automatically tested in order to be able to simply adapt your code and architecture when definitely needed.
Common thought is that distributed processing, persistence, internationalization, security, and transaction structure are so complex that you must consider them from the start of your project. I disagree; I've dealt with all of them incrementally.
Two issues that remain difficult to change are choice of programming language and platform. I wouldn't want to make those decisions incrementally!
I would add published APIs to this list.
Granted, there are situations that incremental architecture alone cannot handle, what about its good points then ?
As change is built-in, you'll be able to improve your architecture in ways you could not have imagined from the start !
If you cannot see how this could possibly work ? Read on !
As I said earlier, incremental architecture emerged from eXtreme Programming. It won't come as a surprise that in order to work well incremental architecture requires the XP practices to be in place. In particular, the code base should be automatically tested, the continuous integration cycle should take less than 10 minutes, the design should be simple. The team should be good at doing refactoring.
Don't expect to be able to do incremental architecture without these practices in place. But this alone might be enough already !
At work, where our team consists of 9 developers, it's not always that simple to coordinate and all pull in the same direction. That's why we find it useful to share a very long term architecture vision (Enabling Incremental Design and Evolutionary Architecture). This will help people to make coherent decisions when hesitating between 2 alternate designs.
The vision can be the result of the work of a pair, or a mob brainstorming or whatever. Building this vision is typically an activity where experienced programmers can contribute a lot of value.
Once this vision is shared and understood by the team, every time a pair has to work on a story, they can orient the design towards it. But always as little as possible to finish the work at hand, remember the XP motos KISS (Keep It Simple & Stupid) & YAGNI (You Ain't Gonna Need It.
One final word … a vision is just that : a vision ! It might turn out true, or false, be ready to change it as circumstances change.
At times, even with a story in your hands and a long term architecture sketch on the whiteboard, you might have difficulties to know how to change your design to fulfill both.
As always in XP, in case of uncertainty, use Spikes ! Spikes are short time-boxed experiments of throwaway code, which goal is to answer a specific design question.
What about these topics that don't yield to incremental architecture ? What if you discover late that you need to change your platform ? Or your API ?
Obviously, you should think about these questions up-front. Hopefully, there are usually not that difficult to answer. But, over time, Non-Functional-Requirements and technologies change. Large and long living systems are particularly likely to need to change to a new platform someday.
Unix had the answer : build your system out of small tools, that do only one thing well, and that communicate through a standard protocol. Systems built that way can be re-written one piece at a time.
The modern version of this is the micro-services architecture. Incremental architecture allows you to start with a monolith, split it when you need to, and replace micro-services as needed. With the safety of simple code and a great automated test harness. Interestingly, successful software systems that were architectured up-front also take this road … without the safety !
To delegate as much as possible to the team. However smart the architect, the team as a whole is smarter ! Delegating architecture increases motivation and the quality of the outcome.
I've been practicing incremental architecture and design for a long time now. It made my life a lot simpler ! Most architecture questions become backlog items to prioritize.


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Beckley Police Department offers advice on how to travel safely for Thanksgiving weekend
Jake Karalexis
BECKLEY, WV (WOAY) – Despite COVID numbers increasing, there will still be plenty of traveling done this Thanksgiving, in multiple capacities.
Having students on breaks from college, and families and friends reuniting often leads to more people on the roads.
"There's going to be increased traffic on the roadways," said Beckley Police Department Sergeant Jamie Wilhite. "There's going to be more vehicles, maybe less experienced drivers coming to and from college. So the main thing is drive defensive, avoid distractions and be careful. Give yourself plenty of time to get to wherever you're going."
Despite an increase in COVID numbers, Wilhite expects a typically large amount of Thanksgiving travel. It remains important to stay attentive and drive safely.
"My main concern right now would be we don't want you to be involved in a crash," Wilhite said. "We don't want any fatalities. Certainly not on holiday travel. That makes it more tough than it already is."
For those staying local, you can expect a number of departments, including Beckley PD, to maintain a constant presence around the area this weekend.
"They can expect more officers out on the road," Wilhite said. "Whether it's solely overtime for traffic enforcement to ensure the roadways are safer.
"That's just not for Beckley, Raleigh County, that's for, really, the entire state and certainly Southern West Virginia."
Warner announces conviction in Morgantown election fraud case
More than 32,000 West Virginians fully vaccinated
Man charged with attempt to commit a felony in Greenbrier County


- Choi Joonyong(w. Jin Sangtae): "bounce.befall", Lee Hangjun/Kim Tae-yong: "L'Anticoncept", Phil Minton's "Feral Choir"
Listening to the extreme vol.5 : Choi Joonyong's solo performance "break. believe"
Dotolim Concert_16: For Tomorrow : Whose Silence Is Darker? Whose White Frame Is Louder?


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ATW060. NSW State Archives
By Dr Penny Stannard Tuesday 25 August 2020
This innovative exhibition, on display online and at the Museum of Sydney, provides a space for the public to interpret historical images through the lens of their own knowledge, background, values and life experience. Prompted by the selection of 100 compelling photographs from the Sydney Living Museums and NSW State Archives collections, visitors have generously shared their thoughts on a wide variety of topics, from the difficulties of performing rescues on telegraph poles to historical details about rail travel, and even provided the names of previously unidentified people. Responses range from one-word contributions that capture the feel of the image, to detailed explanations revealing specialist knowledge, and delightfully personal reminiscences. Some of the comments are topical, touching on COVID-19 and the royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse. Established and emerging writers and artists have also responded to the photographs from their own unique viewpoint. This interweaving of social history and individual memory has created a new perspective from which to view each image.
Treats and trains
One photograph (ATW060) inspired a particularly large number of nostalgic responses from the public. From the NSW State Archives Collection, it depicts the Railway Refreshment Rooms (or 'RRR') on the platform at Granville Railway Station in Sydney's western suburbs. Some contributors recalled that the best part of changing trains at Granville was this cafe, a fixture on the platform from the 1960s. They remember meeting friends here on the way to school or work – one commenter shared memories of couples who first met at the RRR and later married. Others recollect stopping here to purchase Mars Bars, potato scallops or meat pies. Memories of summer afternoons at the nearby Granville swimming pool resurfaced as contributors recall buying ice-cream and lime-flavoured soft drinks on their way home from a day spent poolside. The RRR was also an important signpost on the daily commute: travellers who'd lost track of their whereabouts were alerted to their arrival at Granville station by the distinctive shape of the refreshment room. Other commenters recalled the apparently 'terrible' taste of RRR coffee.
Generating word clouds
The responses contributed to all of the images on social media have been harvested and incorporated in word clouds that can be viewed both online and at the Museum of Sydney. The largest word in the 'cloud' represents the most common one-word response, and the smallest the most unique.
Initially launching online, the exhibition opened on site at the Museum of Sydney in July, and both online and museum visitors continue to share their responses to the images. Visitors to the museum can also see the culturally charged artwork Truism Australia by Blak Douglas, who responded to a powerful 1950s photo of three Aboriginal boys.
View A Thousand Words at atwonline.com.au or at the Museum of Sydney.
Dr Penny Stannard
Head, Curatorial
Penelope (Penny) Stannard grew up learning about the stories, memories and mysteries of her family, and the places and events that defined the artists, writers, diplomats and scientists who make up her ancestral tree.
Justice & Police Museum, Museum of Sydney, Susannah Place Museum
Nerida's passion for history was influenced by childhood holidays spent at her grandmother's farm, happily rifling through chests brimming with family photographs, generations of clothing and things she still can't identify.
This summer Sydney Living Museums will join other major arts and cultural institutions for Culture Up Late, a NSW Government initiative aimed at revitalizing Sydney's cultural life.
Explore our museums and make the most of your summer holidays.
Play along with us: House Music at Your HouseMonday 17 August 2020
We invite you to join us in a new musical experiment, bringing the music of the 19th century into the 21st century. We've delved into the hundreds of popular songs that survive in the collection at Rouse Hill Estate and we've also asked some brilliant musicians to help you explore these pieces of music from their homes and in our historic houses.
Summer Membership Offer Friday 6 December 2019
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Hello mystery cyber readers! I am not dead. I am not even in bed. I know. I'm as surprised as you are. I still find it perilous to venture more than a few steps away from a box of Kleenex, but I am nearly well. The hot question around the school has been "Was it the flu?" Because, of course, we've been led to believe that we will all die of flu this year. No! It wasn't the flu. My life never hung in the balance. I never even had a fever. But I did feel lousy for days and days and surely that should be enough to satisfy everyone.
Now then. Here's a little list of things I intended to do and then stayed in bed instead. I'm not sure what purpose such a list serves. Hmmm. To prove that my life would be fascinating if I could just manage to participate in it? Maybe.
1. My lovely friend Katy Stephan doing her thing at the piano at Martuni's. Not to worry! It's a steady gig. I haven't missed it forever; it just seemed so clever to go on a Sunday night that was followed by a Monday holiday. 'Twas not to be.
2. A day off that was fun in any way.
3. A reading of the epilogue to The Laramie Project at the Magic.
4. Fancy cocktails at Alembic to bid farewell to my friend Liz who is moving to Canada. She came over instead and we had soup. Because, you know, when your friend is moving out of the country, you can't cancel altogether. She didn't even laugh at my weird laryngitisy voice. In all ways, she's the sort of person you wish wouldn't move away.
5. The National Theatre of London's cinema broadcast of All's Well. Isn't that cool? I'll definitely be there for the Bennett play in the spring. I was sorry to miss it, but I couldn't rally for three hours of Shakespeare punctuated by coughing (my own, of course. I'm not implying that it was an avant garde interpretation of the play.) It was also a twenty-dollar ticket out the window. Sigh.
6. Howard Wiley and the Angola Project at the de Young. They played at school once upon a time (what? How is it that famous people play in this tiny school's gym? We are lucky round here.) and I was all agog.
7. Basically all of Litquake.
On the bright side, I did see about 200 movies on Netflix instant viewing and I drank 700 cups of tea. Something like that.


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We Can Take Care of Each Other
Daw Aye Min sat on the plastic mat on the floor of her bamboo house as the savings group members filed in. Normally, these meetings were exuberant affairs where the members talked, laughed, and shared snacks. Today was different. Everyone was subdued. The reality of their situation was beginning to sink in. Several more people had just lost their jobs.
It was the same everywhere, in all the migrant communities. One day they had work. The next day the factories closed, the restaurants shut down, the boss told them not to come back. At the same time, the borders closed. No one was permitted to leave, or enter, the country. Entire communities were locked down. In some cases, they were literally barricaded in. No one was allowed in or out. Food and water were getting scarce.
"At least we're not like some of the communities who can't even buy drinking water," Daw Aye Min thought. She picked up her cell phone and started a video call on Facebook. Seyama Ching San would help lead this meeting from her own home, instead of coming to their community and risking the spread of infection.
They all wanted the meetings to continue. Savings groups had changed their lives. Not only had it helped most of them get out of debt, and save for the future or invest in a business, the encouragement they all got from each other to hope, to plan, to even dream, was the most important. Even if the meeting took 5 hours because of the difficulties of doing parts of it over video call, they were all there for it. But now, with so few of them having work, how would they be able to keep bringing the minimum amount to buy their shares every week?
After the meeting, Daw Aye Min lay in bed worrying. How would her neighbors feed their families? What would they do to survive until the restrictions are lifted and they can work again? What would become of them?
"Maybe I can contact an aid organization and ask them if they will help us," she thought. "Maybe someone would be willing to give us rice."
She did calculations in her head. Most people would run out of rice and dry food, like beans or canned fish, in a week, two weeks at the most. Migrant worker homes don't have fridges in them. They buy their fresh food every day, from the small shops and markets that are everywhere in Thailand. Most workers stop at these markets on their way home, after they are paid for the day, and buy just enough for the evening and morning meal. Any more than that would be wasted, because there is no way to keep it from going bad if there are leftovers.
In two weeks, people would start going hungry. "We need to do something," she decided, before falling asleep.
The next day, she called several other community leaders, most of whom were also members of a savings group. "What can we do can help our community?" she asked. "How can we help the families that don't have work?"
After some conversation, they had an idea. They presented this idea in turn to the savings groups that Daw Aye Min hosted in her house. Three groups agreed to their idea.
They called Ching San. "We want to use the profits from the savings groups and buy rice for all of the members who don't have work, especially the families that have small children. Can we do that?"
Usually, at the end of each savings cycle, the members are paid out a portion of the profits from the service fees in proportion to the number of shares they purchased. But all of them had agreed to give up their profits from this cycle, and use them to buy rice for those members who were most in need! "Of course you can," Ching San told them, "If you've all agreed to it."
Daw Aye Min hands rice to an unemployed savings group member.
Daw Aye Min asked if we could help transport the rice back to the community after they purchased it. But all of the Charis vehicles have been very busy transporting teams to each community to teach them about how to keep each other healthy and protect their neighbors through hand washing, mask wearing, coughing into their elbows instead of their hands, keeping their distance from their elders, etc.
So they asked around to find out who else they knew who had a car instead of waiting for us to have time to help them. They purchased 4500baht($150USD) worth of rice and gave it to the members most in need. They were able to give 10kg of rice to 24 families.
In this unexpected crisis, this community has responded to the challenges they face together with strength and generosity and has shown us just how strong they have become.
None of this would have been possible without you! Because you have supported our Family Enterprise Program, this community has the ability to help each other and take care of their own. Your committed investment in strengthening families and communities is paying off. Literally. You have made this moment possible.
Daw Aye Min's son helps give away rice.


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New JGT Series, Finding Jazz…With Zack Devine
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Guitarist Zack Devine looks at 'jazz' as compared to other styles of music and examines the contrasts and similarities. Part 1, Progressive Rock.
Zack Devine: My goal is to show you how playing other styles has helped me transition to jazz, and also how jazz can help to influence the way you approach other styles as well.
The main thing that has always drawn me to music, whether it be jazz, progressive rock, singer/songwriter, or any musical sound at all, is harmony. I consider it to be one of the most important aspects of learning how to express oneself in a sonic context. It is no wonder then, that I have always been so drawn to jazz. In my youth, I yearned to explore styles that had more aggression, overdriven guitars, and blazing fast solos. I quickly grew tired of power chords and monochromatic sounding songs and riffs that seemed to me to have a lack of substance, and always left me wanting something deeper to sink my teeth into.
It was then that I began delving into lots of different artists, including Steve Vai, Yngwie Malmsteen and Dream Theater, as well as older jazz like John Coltrane and even as far back as the incomparable Django Reinhardt. I noticed that I was expanding as a listener almost entirely because I was being drawn to the harmonic structures on top of which these artists were painting their sonic masterpieces. It was only once I seriously started studying jazz that I found out just how deep the rabbit hole of harmony can go.
In this article, we're going to be looking at two small solo excerpts from the song Erotomania from Dream Theater's 1994 album entitled Awake. I have chosen to show you these for two distinct reasons. The first solo section is in a major tonality and is about as simple as a chord progression can get. The melody is elegant and soaring, with characteristic rock vocabulary. The entire section is completely diatonic from start to finish.
We are in the key of B Major, and the progression is as follows; B Major (I) – C#min (ii) – E (IV) – F# (V). This progression repeats, with the only difference being an increase in the harmonic rhythm of the IV and V chords in bar seven. The phrase ends with a modulation up a minor 3rd to D Major, where the song continues, but we're stopping here for our purposes. This I – ii – IV – V progression is very easy to understand and easy to improvise over, as you never have to leave your home key.
The second solo section is in a minor tonality, and the progression makes abundant use of diminished substitute chords. This has the effect of making an otherwise simple progression seem far more interesting and propulsive. We need to understand how fully diminished 7th chords can be used as substitutes for dominant chords. By spelling any diminished 7th chord from any chord tone of a dominant chord, other than the root, you will have the same notes as the dominant chord, only with the addition of the b9. For example, in measure one, we see a Bo7. This chord is spelled B D F Ab. If we consider the Ab as being a b9, we can easily see how this chord can be used as a substitute for a G7b9, save for the fact that we're excluding the root note G. Now, whereas that diminished chord might otherwise cause some confusion, it's now very easy to understand and navigate, as we can just think about the whole measure as a ii – V that resolves to the I, C, on the first downbeat of the following measure.
Measure three then makes use of the Bo7 again, but this time, it's being used as a substitute for a different dominant chord! Since we can build a fully diminished 7th from any chord tone, and chord tones can exist in multiple chords, that means that we can use any diminished chord to substitute for four dominant chords each. The B acted as the 3rd of the G7, but now it's serving as the 5th of the E7. The Ab will now be thought of as a G#, the 3rd of the E7, the D the b7, and the F the b9. And it will now make sense that when we see the G#o7, it's still serving as the substitute for the E7, only now we're a half-step below our resolution, which is A minor. And finally, we see the A minor become an A7/C#, which again pushes us to a half-step below our next resolution, which is D minor. For our final example, I have taken the chord progression from Ex. 2 and written an etude over it that would be more indicative of a jazz-style approach. I feel that it can really give you a good indication of how this harmonic structure is fairly universal and can be used in any genre, be it rock, classical, jazz, or otherwise.
Erotomania, Ex. 3
This song is a beautiful example of progressive rock utilizing more advanced harmonic concepts to break out of the simplistic ideologies commonly found in rock and its sub-genres. It's examples like these that propelled me into new territories musically when I was discovering what I liked to listen to and what I wanted to achieve as an artist.
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NEW REPORT: Legalizing undocumented immigrants benefits countries
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NEW IZA World of Labor Report: Surprising economic effects of climate change-related disasters – on health, employment, and migration
NEW IZA World of Labor Report: Childhood refugees grow up to contribute significantly to economy of adopted country – when offered correct support
NEW IZA World of Labor Report: Rise of 'Helicopter' parenting increasing economic inequality
NEW IZA World of Labor Report: US earnings inequality marks biggest difficulty in the US labor market
NEW IZA World of Labor Report: The use of noncompete agreements and how to ensure that they can benefit both employers and employees
NEW IZA World of Labor Report Use of ICT and artificial intelligence systems has improved the job recruitment process but exclusive reliance on it can result in low-quality hirings
NEW IZA World of Labor Report: Statistical Profiling of Unemployed Jobseekers
NEW REPORT: Individual and family labor market impacts of chronic diseases
NEW REPORT: The European migration crisis of 2015–2016 exposed significant weaknesses in the asylum system
NEW REPORT: The Share of Labor Income is Declining Globally Leading to Greater Inequality
It benefits countries to legalize undocumented immigrants
A new report, publishing tomorrow (Thursday, 31 March), on IZA World of Labor, finds that legalizing illegal immigrants can boost tax revenues, prevent worker exploitation, reduce crime, and support national security.
Millions of migrants cross borders without authorization each year. The global stock of illegal immigrants has been estimated in the tens of millions, and the refugee crisis is adding to this number. Governments struggle when it comes to dealing with undocumented immigrants. Mass deportation programs violate human rights and are impractical, but legalization is contentious; many people believe that immigrants can hurt the job prospects of native-born workers and impose costs on government and society. However in a new IZA World of Labor report Cynthia Bansak, of St Lawrence University, presents the latest research which shows that countries ultimately benefit from legalizing immigrants.
Legalization allows undocumented immigrants greater mobility, the ability to work, access to health and social services, and equal protection under the law. Research conducted in the US and in Europe indicates that legalization often increases tax revenues, as more immigrants pay taxes or pay higher taxes when incomes rise due to their legal status. Research has also begun to document links between legalization and remittances, consumption decisions, educational investment, and criminal behavior.
To minimize costs to the receiving country, regularization programs can impose waiting periods on eligibility for certain government services. Programs could be phased in so that individuals are initially granted temporary legal status to work and reside in the host country. In a second stage, immigrants who meet specific requirements could then move on to legal permanent residency. Comprehensive legislation can bring undocumented immigrants into the mainstream and deter new unauthorized immigration.
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The effective home remedies for baldness and hair loss in men include oil massages and including coconut milk, eggs, avocados, orange juice, aloe vera, neem paste, henna, mayonnaise, honey, black pepper, vinegar, and lemon juice in their diet. The remedies also include cutting back on red meat, eating nuts and brown rice, boosting B-complex vitamin intake, and maintaining good thyroid health. For millions of men across the world, regardless of culture, class, nationality, religion, or color, hair loss is an unavoidable aspect of growing older. Fortunate are those who do not face hair loss problems even in their old age. However, a majority of men face this issue in their 40s, 50s, or even earlier. Causes of Baldness or Hair Loss in Men.
There are a number of causes of male hair loss, including: Male pattern baldness Alopecia Fungal infections Psychological disorders Chemotherapy side effects Nutrient deficiencies Hormonal imbalances Lack of circulation on the scalp Stress. It is important to note that hair loss occurs in women as well, for some similar reasons, and some different ones. We will cover hair loss in women in a separate article. Men predominantly suffer from this health condition, particularly male pattern baldness and early onset hair loss from age 20-40. However, there are ways to slow down the rate of male hair loss or baldness, and even stimulating the hair follicles to reproduce hair. A few home remedies for hair loss and baldness issue are discussed below.


After the excitement of the evening's entertainment, it was time to find out where I was sleeping. Fortunately Chef had taken it on himself to wander off earlier in the evening to find our beds. And it is just as well he did because we were sleeping on the boat we were to be taking out the following day, and that was birthed half a mile away from the toilet and shower block.
This meant the sensible people in our party decided to refrain from drinking in the latter part of the evening. There was no way we wanted to get up in the middle of the night and trek all that way back when we were desperate!
It was not only a trek, but our boat was not the closest to the pontoon to which they were moored, which meant we would have to clamber over other boats to get to dry land. And, as the day had been hot, and the sky was now clear, there was a very heavy dew settling, making the decks very slippery. I for one didn't fancy trying to negotiate crossing over boats in the middle of the night. Boats which were liable to rock on the water when ever someone moved!
There were seven of us all expecting to get some sleep, but we weren't expecting to share the same boat. In previous years, hardly anyone has stayed on the boats; they have either used a local hotel or not come to port until the day of the regatta. But this year, the majority of people taking part had decided to stay over. This meant we were all staying on our respective boats.
There were eight beds. I call them beds, but they were really just flat surfaces on which one could lay ones head! The skipper had his own room. Unfortunately, we woke him up. He never said a word to us, he just came out of his cabin, switched off a few lights we had turned on and returned to his bed!
That left seven of us. In the mid section of the boat there were two bench seats. One could sleep two people, providing they didn't mind getting cosy, and the other would sleep one. Chef chose the single, whilst two of his customers opted for the double.
That left four. At the rear of the boat was another room which had a double shelf! This was close to the engine and smelt a bit because of the fuel. At the pointy end (you can tell I'm a sailor, can't you!), was another room. As I was standing at this end, I volunteered to take this room. Inside was another shelf, but this one was coffin shaped. It would take two people, again as long as they didn't mind being cosy.
The only person I knew, apart from Chef, who by now was sorting his bunk out, was The Kid, so we opted to share. Getting into bed was a real challenge. It really was like a coffin shaped shelf, albeit a double coffin. It was about four feet high. One had to get ones sleeping bag in place, climb up, and then attempt to slide into the sleeping bag whilst keeping it in place.
Once in bed, one had to remember that the ceiling was only inches from ones head. So no strange dreams which would cause one to sit upright were needed!
I didn't have to worry about strange dreams because The Kid would win an Olympic medal for snoring! I did manage to get a few minutes sleep when The Kid turned on to his side, because he only snored on his back. Unfortunately he chose to sleep on his back for most of the night!
I doubt it would have mattered whether The Kid snored anyway, because the boat creaked every time any of its occupants turned in their beds. Not only that, but our cabin had no blinds or curtains, so the light was streaming in as dawn broke.
I figured 6am was late enough to get out of bed and head back towards the showers. If anyone was still asleep at that time, it was time they were woken; we had a days sailing to look forward to. So I creaked my way out of my cabin and clonked my way up through the hatch and over the decks to the pontoon. Once on dry land I made straight for the showers.
And what showers they were! Classic FM piped in. It's not often I listen to a bit of Beethoven or Mozart whilst showering!
With breakfast looming, I made my way to the marquee to grab a strong coffee and await the rest of the crew. Breakfast and sailing follow in part three!
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First to start things of, let's get one fact straight "We are all human beings." Sure we have different tastes and opinions that create the outcomes for our decisions. However the reality is that nobody in the world is better than anybody. No matter how rich, how smart, or how pretty/handsome you are, you should have no right to think you are better than anybody. Are you different from others? Yes, we are all unique in our own way, just like fingerprints, and will never be exactly the same.
Life is a short journey not to create who we are, but to actually find out who we are. I don't want to sound like some wise old man from the Himalayan Mountains, but I strongly feel it's the truth. We spend our lifetime learning, hanging out with friends, working, doing our favorite hobbies, helping others, and much more. We are living creatures that want to express ourselves and let everybody know who we really are. You cannot judge a person by their looks or the way they're dressed, because you would be extremely foolish to do so. Remember one thing, Never judge a book by it's cover.
Why is "About Me" Important?
So now you are probably wondering how does this gibberish tie up with an About Me page. The internet is a brilliant tool that we are blessed to have, judging by how addicted I am to it, I could not see myself living without it. Clearly there are millions of people that feel the same way. Refering back to my previous statement of us wanting to express ourselves, we do a poor job of it online. Maybe you don't want people to know your favorite color, that fine and I completely understand that you want to keep some things private. However if I'm a business owner looking for a developer or a designer for my next project, how in the world do I know who you really are? Keep in mind that this doesn't just go for designers or developer. This should go for everybody who runs a website, business, or a blog.
List your skills – What kinds of things are you good at? People won't know unless you tell them.
Offer your name – It's obvious, but some people still don't do it. If you want to protect your identity you can create an online only alias that you use for everything.
Keep the information up to date – Update your page frequently. Got a new skill you've learned? Share it!
Offer your location – This one can be very arguable. Don't literally list you address, just the city you're from. If you are a professional agency however, you should list your address.
Include a photo of yourself – This is completely optional and self explanatory. Obviously if you run a business, a professional picture with a business suit is very proper. I don't think people want to see you doing a keg stand.
Be personal and friendly – Be yourself not a robot!
Keep it professional – If you run a business be very clear, descriptive, and accurate on the info you provide.
Consider adding a video – This one is very web 2.0 ish. You could in theory describe yourself and let people know who you are.
Call to action – Consider listing social networks were people can connect with you like Twitter, Facebook, or Linkedin.
Be Honest – Don't ever lie about anything, sooner or later people will find out the truth.
Now that you have some knowledge about an about me page, here are some of the best examples for your inspiration!


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Rich Perry (Tenor Sax) // Gary Versace (Piano) // Ugonna Okegwo (Bass) // John Riley (Drums)
The Anthony Wilson Nonet
Anthony Wilson (Guitar) // Shane Endsley (Trumpet) // Loren Stillman (Alto Sax) // Jerome Sabbagh (Tenor Sax) // Adam Schroeder (Baritone Sax) // Alan Ferber (Trombone) // Larry Goldings (Piano) // Danton Boller (Bass) // John Riley (Drums)
The Michael Weiss Quartet featuring Dick Oatts
Michael Weiss (Piano) // Dick Oatts (Alto Sax) // Paul Gill (Bass) // John Riley (Drums)
John began playing drums at age eight, after receiving a snare drum as a gift. With the support, encouragement and patience of his parents, John and Mary Ann, he played in the school band and began drum lessons with a good local teacher, Tom Sicola. While under Tom's guidance, he gained control of the snare drum through work on the rudiments and reading. Eventually, he acquired a complete drumset and lessons expanded to include "beats of the day," coordination and reading studies for the drumset. At age twelve, John began playing in rock bands and heard his first jazz recordings, the soundtrack to The Gene Krupa Story and Max Roach's Conversation. Two years later, he played his first "professional" gig, which he obtained through an audition played over the telephone. John began studying with Joe Morello in 1971, after meeting him at a drum symposium. John went on to attend the University of North Texas, where he was introduced to a larger world of music and percussion. While at UNT, he played in, toured, and recorded with the famed One O'clock Lab Band. In 1976, he moved to New York City and was soon called to join the Woody Herman Band. Following that great experience, John returned to New York and began freelancing with a wide spectrum of world class musicians including Stan Getz, Milt Jackson, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, John Scofield, Bob Mintzer, Gary Peacock, Mike Stern, Joe Lovano, the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band, John Patitucci, Bob Berg, and many others.
John has a Bachelor of Music degree in jazz education from the University of North Texas and a Master of Music in jazz studies from Manhattan School of Music. He is on the faculty of Manhattan School of Music, and SUNY Purchase, and is an Artist in Residence at Amsterdam Conservatory, Holland. John is also the author of The Art of Bop Drumming, Beyond Bop Drumming, The Jazz Drummer's Workshop, and has taught master classes around the world.
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Utah can finally say "Bottoms up!"
Residents and visitors to Utah who are fond of a drink or two just got some good news: There's no longer a need to be a member of a 'private club' to have a drink in a Utah bar.
For about 40 years, the Mormon view of alcohol - that is, don't have any... - has dominated the alcohol regulations in the state, meaning anyone who was thirsty for anything more than lemonade would have to:
Find a private membership bar
Pay a fee
Now, in reality that was a lot less taxing than it sounds, as you could just turn up, the bartender would ask if you were a member, and if not sign you up on the spot. Meaning your first drink would cost you about $16 instead of $4 for the bottle. Every venue required a separate membership, so tourists didn't do much bar hopping!
As Utah is a big tourist destination, and trying to be even more so with some of the world's best ski areas, this is great news for the state's tourism industry. It'll also be a welcome change during the Sundance film festival that takes place every January.
This follows on the relaxation of laws regarding homebrewed beer. Homebrewing was legalized back in March 2009.
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Martinaitis is the masculine form of a Lithuanian family name. Its feminine forms  are: Martinaitienė (married woman or widow) and Martinaitytė (unmarried woman).

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Bob Dylan, Christian Anarchist
Michael Hogue
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A century ago Henry Adams announced himself founder of the "conservative Christian anarchist" party, and if that first adjective has been blighted perhaps beyond reclamation, "Christian anarchist," calling to mind Tolstoy and Dorothy Day and brave Anabaptists and nude Doukhobors, has a calming and pacific ring. We could use a few in our post-Christian empire.
Jeff Taylor, gentle soul and wise political scientist, has coauthored (with Chad Israelson) a new book, The Political World of Bob Dylan: Freedom and Justice, Power and Sin, locating Hibbing, Minnesota's favorite (well, maybe tied with Celtic Kevin McHale) son within the regional and Christian anarchist traditions.
Like Dylan, the authors are "sons of the Upper Midwest," the land of hand-calloused isolationists and Non-Partisan Leaguers. The singer has said that being raised along the Iron Range "gave me a sense of simplicity," steeping him in a culture of community cohesiveness against which bright lads often rebel, but later come to treasure. As a good Minnesotan, young Robert Zimmerman imbibed populist suspicion of the vultures that would pick Hibbing clean and leave it as carrion unless they got pushback, whether from co-ops or strikers or even Reds.
Taylor and Israelson understand that only louts—New Masses propagandists, neoconservative think-tank martinets—subordinate art to politics, so they eschew tortured exegeses of elliptical lyrics and attempt merely to understand, and celebrate, Bob Dylan's music and Christian witness.
Nonetheless, they detect a Minnesota accent and anarchist bent throughout Dylan's career, from "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" in 1962 to his Christian conversion circa 1979 to his memoir Chronicles, Volume One (in which he revealed that Barry Goldwater was his favorite '60s politician) to his recent AARP interview, in which he expatiated on plutocrats who find international philanthropy so much more glamorous than helping the single mom in the trailer park or the homeless vet in the ghetto: "Does it make him happy giving his money away to foreign countries? Is there more contentment in that than in giving it here to the inner cities and creating jobs? … These multibillionaires can create industries right here in America. But no one can tell them what to do. God's got to lead them."
When I read of Dylan playing before a huge American flag on his 1965 tour of England, and his confession that "England is OK, but I prefer America," which is "what I know. … It's all there for me," I thought of another patriot of the Land of 10,000 Lakes, Sinclair Lewis, who memorized Minnesota's 87 counties and county seats. When an English magician made a snide crack about America, George Babbitt's creator stood up and shouted "Take it back! Take it back!" until the flustered thaumaturge apologized and left the stage.
Taylor and Israelson write, "Bob Dylan's political philosophy since 1979 has been that of Woody Guthrie supplemented by the Gospels of the New Testament, of C. Wright Mills supplemented by the prophet Isaiah, of Merchants of Death supplemented by the Book of Revelation." Not exactly Rising to the Challenge by Carly Fiorina or A Time for Truth by Ted Cruz.
During his lustrum as an outspoken Christian—he seems to have retained the faith but canned the proselytizing—Dylan told an audience that "politics is an instrument of the Devil. … Politics is what kills; it doesn't bring anything alive."
Very Adamsian, for the aforementioned Henry called politics "the systematic organization of hatreds."
Looking for "Dylanesque politicians," Taylor and Israelson instance the Vietnam-era Protestant evangelical Sens. Mark Hatfield (R-Ore.) and Harold Hughes (D-Iowa), both "extreme" in their refusal to countenance "mammon and empire," abortion or war.
Hatfield was the real McCoy. Right-wingers despised him as a craggy anachronism, a "liberal Republican," but who else within spitting distance of the White House has ever praised Murray Rothbard, proposed the radical dispersion of power to neighborhood governments, and echoed Sen. Robert Taft in skepticism of a hegemonic America?
Okay, Ron Paul. And I recall a lovely Dylanesque Minnesota moment when Aimee Allen serenaded Paul with his favorite song, Buffy Saint-Marie's "Universal Soldier," at the 2008 Rally for the Republic in Minneapolis. (Over in St. Paul, Lee Greenwood was croaking "I'm Proud to be an American" at the GOP convention. There's no stoppin' the cretins from hoppin'.)
Jeff Taylor's native Iowa (he teaches at Dordt College in Sioux Center) is about to be flooded by operatives and vote-seekers, with nary a Christian anarchist among them. I've heard rumors that a Paul offspring is running, though this filial apple seems to have fallen far enough from the tree that by early fall it had been pressed into cider.
One of the Hawkeye State sojourners writes well (James Webb), one pisses off the right people (Donald Trump), and Rand has a noble father, but by caucus day the sager Iowans may have discovered the truism of a homesick subterranean Christian anarchist: "Don't follow leaders."
Bill Kauffman is the author of ten books, among them Dispatches from the Muckdog Gazette and Ain't My America.