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The Second Coming
Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhereThe ceremony of innocence is drowned;The best lack all conviction, while the worstAre full of passionate intensity.Surely some revelation is at hand;Surely the Second Coming is at hand.The Second Coming! Hardly are those words outWhen a vast image out of Spiritus MundiTroubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desertA shape with lion body and the head of a man,A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,Is moving its slow thighs, while all about itReel shadows of the indignant desert birds.The darkness drops again; but now I knowThat twenty centuries of stony sleepWere vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
The first anniversary of the Newtown shooting crept up on me. I’ve been so overwhelmed by the relatively insignificant struggles of my own life that the rough beast slouching toward us took me by surprise. As I drove home on Thursday, I caught a radio interview with the priest who responded to the shooting. He described walking into the aftermath of the carnage, his shoes crunching broken glass. He broke down in tears as he remembered the victims and their families. He talked about how he hasn’t slept well in a year, and spoke of how his parishioners have cared for him since that day.
Last December, the best and the worst of us tangled together in one soul-shattering day. The blood-dimmed tide lapped at our foundations, the ceremony of innocence drowned, and somehow we survived it.
A year later, I wonder what we’ve learned. The thought creeps up upon me, chill as the thin layer of snow outside my window, that perhaps we are just as broken as we were before. What have we learned? How have we changed?
There are so many things I want to write about, and each one feels urgent, pressing at my subconscious and keeping me awake at night. Visions of blog posts dance in my head. I want to write about writing, about what I learned from NaNoWriMo this year. I want to write about the houses that sit empty around me because the people who built them are so busy working to pay for them that they don’t have time to live in them. I want to write about how our culture has become obsessed with zombies because they’re a metaphor for how we’re devouring ourselves, and I want to write about how angry I am that toy manufacturers think that my sons should worship muscle-bound bullies and that my friends’ girls should do nothing but mother pink babies and clean pink houses.
I want to write about all these things, because they are all important, but it seems wrong to let this day pass without sitting with the tragedy for a while, and the way I do that is by writing. And then it occurs to me that these are all the same thing. Newtown is about writing and empty houses and zombies and gendered toys.
The toys are perhaps the most obvious. After all, we live in a culture that has gendered and glorified killing. It has to mean something that mass shootings are predominantly committed by males, and I don’t believe it means that males are inherently more violent or somehow worse than females. If you think men are categorically more violent, you need to read up on the history of pacifism and nonviolent protest. If you think women are less aggressive, you have somehow managed to grow to adulthood without ever encountering anybody’s mama, including your own. We are fierce, and not always in good ways. But for some reason, the Powers that Be have decreed that guns and action figures shall be marketed to boys, and household appliances and baby dolls shall be marketed to girls. Never mind that, as Ani DiFranco says, “every tool is a weapon if you hold it right,” and that, come on, people, an action figure is exactly the same thing as a doll. But marketers are brilliant, and they have managed, in a society that is increasingly egalitarian, to bifurcate the toy market along gender lines now more than at any other time in our history. And one of the twisted messages that’s coming across loud and clear is that might makes right if you’ve got a Y-chromosome.
To be fair, you need an arsenal if you’re going to take on the Zombie Apocalypse. Girls get their own Nerf bows and guns now, too, because Katniss. However, these weapons have names like “Pink Crush” and “Heartbreaker.” You’ll want something from the impressive Nerf Zombie Strike line of weaponry if you’re serious about blowing out zombie brains. It’s okay to blow out zombie brains, because zombies aren’t people, even though they’re people. In the past, our monsters have been the Other–supernatural beings, aliens, etc.–that reflect our deepest fears. But zombies are us, engaged in the relentless, shambling consumption of ourselves and everything around us. Our need for eternal consumption eats away at us, numbing us to the real needs all around us. We spend our time and resources trying to get more things, more experiences, more money for ourselves, while all around us, people starve, both for lack of food and lack of attention. A zombie culture is perfectly poised to create Adam Lanzas and James Holmeses into infinity.
The empty houses are a fitting symbol of this culture. We want so much, here in the Land of More than Plenty, and we tell ourselves we deserve it. We work hard, so why shouldn’t we take whatever we can get? The irony of this is that we work constantly to maintain our stuff. We don’t own it–it owns us. But in the end, we run the danger of our souls becoming like our houses–mostly empty, uninhabited almost all of the time, unthought-of except when we have to make the necessary repairs to keep the roof from falling in on us. And instead of gathering around the hearth, nurturing our families and friendships, we’re out running around, bustling and zooming and accumulating more and more stuff to try to fill the empty spaces we’ve created. We’re never home. We don’t know our neighbors, so how can we be expected to see the signs of someone who’s about to break under the weight of our zombie culture?
Newtown is about all these things. They are all connected–our gendered violence, our zombie culture, our empty houses. We are broken in so many ways, both as a society and as individuals. I wonder, a year later, if anything has really changed. We all wept a year ago, we were all outraged. But a year later, our government is even more dysfunctional than it was before, the deaths of children sparking self-righteous indignation over individual rights versus the collective good on all sides rather than addressing the real problem at its root. A year later, we’re still glorifying violence. A year later, mental health still carries a stigma we’d never slap on people suffering from physical diseases (and why is mental illness not a physical disease, since the brain is part of the body?). A year later, we’re still disconnected from each other, isolating ourselves from the pain and need of others. A year later, the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
Everything is about Newtown, and Newtown is about everything. It is all connected, and we are all connected to each other and to everything else, countless filaments running from one person to the next. When we deny those connections, we all suffer deeply. If we are truly going to heal, we will have to do the work of reconnection, and it will be difficult and messy and soul-shuddering and hard.
The darkness drops again. A year later, we are still the same. A year later, I sit here, still writing, still trying to make sense of mere anarchy and twenty centuries of stony sleep. I’m still horrified, still chilled to my soul, still grieving, but I have to believe that there is hope, and so, like Yeats, I lie down where all the ladders start, and end with a question.
Where do we go from here?
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You’re absolutely right. Romero explicitly attacks our modern consumer culture in Dawn of the Dead where the protagonists find safety in a mall. They are entranced by the wealth of consumer goods to be had whenever they want but in the end find the experience meaningless. Like zombies that relentlessly consume simply because the hunger centers of the brain drive them to do so, we relentlessly buy the newest iPhone or Toyota Tacoma because, well, we don’t have it. We as a society are continually made aware of what we don’t have rather than what we do creating an endless sense of need. But satisfaction is ephemeral and we find ourselves looking for the next new thing to buy stumbling along in our daily routine without any thought to what we do (the opening montage in Shaun of the Dead captures this brilliantly). How can we hope to know others if we’ve completely lost ourselves?
I once read that if all you live for is the destination rather than embracing the richness of the journey, when you look back you’ll realize you really haven’t lived. It’s something I have to remind myself of.
Thank you for the excellent post!
Thanks, Gavin! I think you summed it all up perfectly with “How can we hope to know others if we’ve completely lost ourselves?”
That opening scene from Shaun of the Dead was playing over and over in my mind as I was writing this. It makes me think that if there ever is a Zombie Apocalypse, at least half the people on the planet just won’t even notice.
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Welcome to my blog! It feels a little strange writing to an audience that doesn’t exist yet, but I hope someone, somewhere out there finds me.
First, a bit about me. Until recently I worked full time as a software engineer. A little over a year ago I decided to stop working, so I could be a full time mom to my daughter, who has multiple special needs. That was one of the best decisions I ever made! My long term goal is to work at home designing software.
I have always enjoyed cooking. I LOVE making good food for myself and my loved ones. I feel out of balance if I go for too many days without having time to cook a decent meal. In recent years, sewing has become my hobby of choice. I prefer making clothing, mostly for myself, occasionally for my daughter and others. One thing I like about sewing is that I can be creative without being artistic. I also like that I can make things that are useful.
When thinking about what I wanted my blog to be about, I thought about my favorite blogs I like to read. What topics to I enjoy reading about? What makes one blog more enjoyable than another? I enjoy food blogs that share recipes I might actually make. I enjoy sewing blogs that not only share completed projects, but also talk about the process and other sewing-related topics. I don’t mind if a blog strays off topic once in a while. In all blogs I read, I like it when the personality of the blogger comes through.
So, for now this blog will be about my cooking and sewing adventures. I may even throw in a surprise now and then. I hope you learn a bit about me in the process.

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Here are some pictures of my sawmill that I thought you would enjoy.
We are really pleased with our amazing machine! I think it is the ultimate in portable sawmills.
“We are really pleased with our amazing machine.”
I have sawn approx 12,000 board feet of high quality lumber with it since I purchased it, in the latter part of last year. I bought it because I had property with quite a bit of timber of it and I needed a quick and inexpensive way to make it into lumber for my buildings.
“Thanks once again for making available such an excellent machine”
There were a few problems to work through but once I got it figured out it was pretty simple.
Thanks once again for making available such an excellent machine and also for the after sale support.
I like doing business with such a company.

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Ayush doctors recruited under the Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram (RBSK) scheme 2013 on Saturday staged a dharna and threatened to go on a mass leave if their jobs were not regularised by January 16, 2024.
The doctors alleged that despite doing the same work as regular doctors, they have been ignored by the government. While they have been working with a bare minimum salary for years, the doctors alleged that the government has cheated them by excluding them from its contractual employee abolishment policy.
Speaking about the strike, the president of Ayush Doctor’s Association, Prabhat Mohanty said, “We want the government to regularise RBSK Ayush doctors. We have come to know that the Health Secretary has intimated to the inter-ministerial committee about our demands. Even the Mission Director of NHM knows about our condition and demands.”
The government is saying it will hike our salaries. But it will not suffice. We need our jobs to be regularised. If the government reduces our salary, so be it. But we want regularisation at any cost,” he added.
“We will stage a cease-work strike if the government does not consider our demands on or before January 16. The government cannot threaten us with ESMA,” Mohanty said.
The doctors, who are on contract, are getting less than half the salary of regular doctors
The State has a total of 4,095 posts of AYUSH doctors in four categories, including 1,270 regular ones appointed as Class II employees. The most neglected are the contractual doctors of both Ayurveda and Homeopathy disciplines recruited under the National Health Mission (NHM) and Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram (RBSK) schemes.


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Energetic Macroscopic Representation Applied to an Electrical Urban Transport System
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An energetic description of the electric transport urban system ASTRAIK 415T is proposed according to a specific formalism. This is used to simulate the trolleybus system, equipped with a chopper and a direct current series motor. DC series motor is still used for trolleybus and metro, driven by a GTO or IGBT chopper μC-controlled, which allows the implementation of command algorithms. From this synthetically representation a complete model of the electromechanical system was implemented using the Matlab-Simulink simulation environment. A control structure was deduced through model inversion. This will allow the study of the transient phenomena and the implementation of different command laws taking into account the minimum energy losses.
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New Evidence Reveals Who ‘Jack The Ripper’ Really Was
The real identity of Jack The Ripper remains one of the biggest mysteries in history and now, the diary of a James Maybrick may have just confirmed his real name.
The diary surfaced 25 years ago, however, experts questioned its authenticity.
Maybrick, who was a cotton merchant, confessed to the murders of six women in London and Manchester.
The creepy diary reads: “I give my name that all know of me, so history do tell, what love can do to a gentleman born. Yours Truly, Jack The Ripper.”
Researchers have claimed to find evidence that the book is genuine and was brought forward by a man named Mike Barrett.
It was unclear where the diary came from, however, historians have now found it did come from Maybrick’s home.
Expert Robert Smith said: “After painstaking research, chiefly by Bruce Robinson, we can now show a trail that leads us directly to Maybrick’s home.”
In 1992, three contractors Arthur Rigby, James Coufopoulos and Eddie Lyons were working in the house of Maybrick when Barrett announced the Ripper book.
All three contractors have denied any involvement in the book, however, Robert Smith has concluded the book is genuine.
“The new and indisputable evidence, that on 9th March 1992, the diary was removed from under the floorboards of the room that had been James Maybrick’s bedroom in 1889, and offered later on the very same day to a London literary agent, overrides any other considerations regarding its authenticity,” Smith said. “It follows that James Maybrick is its most likely author. Was he Jack the Ripper? He now has to be a prime suspect, but the disputes over the Ripper’s identity may well rage for another century at least.”
In 1995 Mark Barrett made a sworn statement that he had falsified the whole thing however withdrew that statement.

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Employee’s Performance in Small and Medium Enterprises: A Human Resource Management Critical Analysis
Keywords:Functional Flexibility, Organizational Communication, Leadership Behaviors, Employee Performance, and Small and Medium Enterprises
Performance management is an important step in the organization’s human resource management because it hones and improves employee performance. Determining the extent of functional flexibility in human resource management, organizational communication, leadership behaviors, and employee performance, including their significant relationship, as well as the significant effects, is the aim of this study. A descriptive survey and correlational research design were utilized to gather the said information through a questionnaire with 498 respondents. It was revealed through weighted mean, Pearson correlation, and multiple linear regression analysis that there was a significant low positive correlation between functional flexibility in human resource management and employee performance, organizational communication and employee performance, transformational leadership behaviors and employee performance, and transactional leadership behaviors with employee performance. Given the overall results, the study concluded that all four (4) independent variables had significant effects on employee performance in Small and Medium Enterprises.
Abadilla, D. D. (2020). Physical distancing comes to factories. Inquirer.Net. Retrieved from https://business.inquirer.net/294551/physical-distancingcomes-to-factories
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There was a recent discussion of Mecole Hardman here. Personally, I'm not a big fan. I think he was drafted as a replacement for Tyreek Hill when the star's career seemed to be in jeopardy, and instead he's been a largely unnecessary accent piece. But I'm open to having my mind changed.
Most will recall Kansas City cutting Kareem Hunt in December 2018 after video surfaced of him shoving and kicking a woman. A few months later, just before the 2019 NFL Draft, there was an incident in which Hill's 3-year-old son suffered a broken arm. Hill was suspended from team activities while an investigation occurred, and the Hardman pick looked like the team preparing to move on. But Hill returned to the team, and Hardman has instead been largely a No. 3 or 4 receiver the last two years.
When Hill missed four games in 2019 due to a shoulder injury, Hardman put up his best numbers, confirming (for me) the belief that the best thing for his career would have been for Hill to move on. But since now Watkins is gone, I thought I'd look at every game in Hardman's two seasons when either Hill or Watkins missed all or most of it. There have been 13 such games; Hardman's numbers in them are below. Final row shows what they would have been projected over a full season's worth of games.
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Had those projected numbers been Hardman's full season a year ago, he would have been the 51st-ranked PPR wideout, right down by DJ Chark, Darnell Mooney and Christian Kirk. These are just receiving numbers; should he get some opportunities as a runner (8 carries thus far in his career) it could help, and he's also a returner (a punt and a kick return touchdown in his first two seasons).
For Hardman to pay off in fantasy leagues, he needs to step it up from those numbers. It's his 3rd season, and there's minimal competition to play ahead of him; Demarcus Robinson (who's put up really modest numbers when Watkins has been sidelined the last couple of years), Byron Pringle, fifth-rounder Cornell Powell. The opportunity is there.
I think he'll probably be a draft by draft proposition for me -- someone who makes it onto my team if he falls late enough, but cuttable if he doesn't show something early in the season.


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BERLIN (AP) — Authorities are investigating whether some 150 farms in northern Germany made false claims about the quality of their eggs.
Prosecutors in the city of Oldenburg suspect the farms sold the eggs as organic or free-range when in fact they didn't meet strict labeling requirements.
A spokesman for the country's consumer protection ministry said Monday that if suspicions are confirmed it would constitute "large-scale fraud."
Holger Eichele told reporters in Berlin that the investigation, which centers on whether hens were fed inappropriate feed and whether too many animals were kept in each pen, would soon be completed.
The probe comes amid heightened sensitivity in Germany about food quality, after a Europe-wide trade in horse meat labeled as beef was uncovered last month.

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5 lakes located in the hills of Uttarakhand – After going there, you will find the beauty of Switzerland less.
You must have come to Uttarakhand or heard about many lakes, but today we are going to tell you about some such lakes which are situated at a great height above sea level. There are some lakes that remain frozen for more than half the time. Here we will know about them in detail..
Uttarakhand is a beautiful state which is famous for its beautiful scenery, high mountains, lush green meadows and winding roads. Although there are many lakes in Uttarakhand, but there are also some lakes which are situated on very high mountains. Very few people know about these lakes. Today there is a blog, we tell you about similar lakes located in the mountains of Uttarakhand, after going where you will feel that you have come to Switzerland.
The name of Roopkund Lake is at number one in this list. Roopkund Lake located in Chamoli district is one of the highest lakes in Uttarakhand.
From here you can easily see Trishul Peak. This lake is also known as Mysterious Lake because human skeletons were found many years ago.
Summer is the best season to visit Roopkund Lake. What is special about the lake that this lake remains frozen in every season.
You must have heard the name of Uttarkashi many times, but Kedar Tal which is situated at an altitude of 5000 meters in Uttarkashi region, only people go about it. Whether it is a glacier lake or a lake, the Talaiyasagar peak can be easily seen.
The lake is considered very sacred as the tenth Guru of the Sikhs, Guru Gobind Singh, meditated on the banks of this lake. This lake remains frozen for 8 months of the year and is surrounded by snow-capped mountains from all sides.
Sattal Lake is located at a distance of 23 km from Nainital or its special thing is that it is a group of seven lakes. But some of these lakes have now dried up. There are very dense oak trees all around and the sound of birds can also enchant you when you come here.
Dev Tal is known as the Tal of the Gods. It is believed that the deities used to bathe in this pool. This place Mana is about three kilometers from the nearby zero point. This pool is surrounded by mountains of snow on all sides.

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By Danielle Bella Ellison
The Iron Dome, a revolutionary mobile air missile defense system, saved tens of Israeli lives last week during the barrage of rocket attacks from terrorists in Gaza. The engineers and politicians behind the installation of the Iron Dome batteries certainly deserve congratulations. Nevertheless, this success has potentially provided a misleading sense of security, particularly in light of the possibility of far more severe attacks from Iran and its proxy Hezbollah in Lebanon. Furthermore, the Iron Dome’s preventing Israeli casualties has the problematic consequence that, at least to the wider international community, the week-long military confrontation between the Israel Defense Forces and the Islamic Jihad and Popular Resistance Committees in Gaza could seem more one-sided.
The Iron Dome system, designed to intercept rockets aimed at Israeli civilians, first operated successfully on April 7, 2011. The system’s capabilities were again tested on March 9, 2012 when a rocket barrage was initiated upon southern Israel. The rocket attacks lasted more than one week, including renewed rounds when Islamic terrorists in Gaza broke the cease-fire agreement achieved after the first four days of violence. The Iron Dome successfully intercepted rockets aimed at cities in southern Israel, such as Be’er Sheva and Ashdod, with a success rate of about 70%. Since the system shoots down only rockets that are calculated to be heading towards population centers, there was still much destruction in southern Israel as rockets hit farms, factories, and other buildings.
Despite the due praise appropriate for the Iron Dome’s prevention of Israeli casualties during this most recent episode of violence, it would be dangerous to allow this success to provide too high a sense of security. This past week the Iron Dome intercepted missiles coming from a single front. Furthermore, these missiles were being fired by Islamic Jihad and the Popular Resistance Committees, two terrorist organizations with far fewer funds and far less sophisticated weapons systems than Hezbollah, Hamas, and certainly Iran itself (although some claim that Iran was encouraging the Islamic Jihadists, Tehran was reportedly not providing the terrorists with direct support). There is an increasing likelihood of an Israeli pre-emptive attack on facilities in Iran that are most likely developing nuclear weapons. Such an attack would undoubtedly lead to Iranian retaliation towards Israelis, either in the form of direct attacks or more likely, attacks by Hezbollah and Hamas, Iran’s terrorist proxies in Lebanon and the Gaza strip respectively. Unfortunately, Israeli officials and military experts speculate that the Iron Dome system is not nearly comprehensive and developed enough to stand such a multi-fronted, Iranian-backed attack. The Israel Defense Forces is working tirelessly to extend and improve the air missile defense system. Currently there are four Iron Dome batteries operating in Israel, with a fifth one scheduled to be delivered next month. However, a key problem is the geographical limitations of any single battery; a much tighter network of batteries would be necessary to provide complete coverage of a given area. The Knesset’s (Israeli Parliament) Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee estimated that about thirteen Iron Dome batteries would be needed to protect all of Israel. Even still, the Iron Dome works well only within a range of seventy kilometers. Other missile defense systems are necessary to halt longer-range missiles and rockets, which unfortunately Iran and thus Hezbollah and Hamas possess.
In addition, the success of the Iron Dome in saving Israeli lives this past week, while of course wonderful, has potentially harmful effects on the perception of Israel in the international community. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) killed tens of Palestinian terrorists who were behind the attack, while, thanks to both IDF defenses and extensive alarm warning and bomb shelter systems in southern Israeli communities, there were no Israeli casualties. The consequence of such disparate casualty outcomes is not a new one for Israelis. Despite the sinister goals of the terrorists in Gaza in contrast to the IDF’s goal of merely protecting Israeli civilians, when the Palestinians sustain far more casualties than the Israelis, they could appear the victims.
The Iron Dome is one of numerous IDF projects working to protect the lives of Israeli civilians in the face of terrorism and attacks from neighboring countries and territories. The significant recent success of the Iron Dome missile defense system is certainly encouraging, and more energy and funds are currently being put towards the building of more batteries and development of the anti-missile technology employed. Nevertheless, the Iron Dome is only a defense system, which, even if it eventually achieves a near 100% success rate, cannot achieve peace between Israelis and Palestinians or any other groups. Ultimately, other means, possibly military but hopefully primarily diplomatic, will have to be employed to achieve true peace in the region.
Danielle Bella Ellison ’15 is in Davenport College. She is a Globalist Notebook Beat Blogger on events in the Middle East. Contact her at firstname.lastname@example.org.

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The Gazette: Trump will make or break GOP in 2018
Author: The Gazette Editorial Board - February 24, 2018 - Updated: February 24, 2018
OXON HILL, Md. — Whatever happens in the 2018 midterms won’t be politics as usual for either major party. The conservative base is all in for President Donald Trump, which will help or hurt the Republican Party’s candidates this fall who will determine whether the right maintains control of Congress.
CPAC, by far the largest annual gathering of conservative politicos, has symbolized Republican dysfunction and a lack of direction since Reagan left office in 1988. The four-day convention, just outside Washington, pits centrists against purists, libertarians against “establishment” types, and fiscal conservatives against religious right activists who oppose abortion and same-sex marriage.
When Trump took the stage at CPAC in 2015 while contemplating a presidential run, he confronted a mostly skeptical crowd of college-aged conservatives who considered him a distraction. They asked him to stick with construction and reality TV. Notable factions wanted Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz or Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. No visibly significant contingent supported Trump. The next year, as an announced candidate, Trump steered clear of CPAC.
Friday, three years later almost to the day of his awkward 2015 appearance, an unscripted Trump confidently joked about his comb-over hairdo — “I try like hell to hide that bald spot” — to the largest CPAC audience in the program’s 40-year history. The crowd fell in love.
Attendees displayed no visible division. Old-timers familiar with the early years of CPAC say Reagan had less unified support than what Trump enjoys.
The president established an “us-against-the-world” atmosphere early in his talk, demonizing “fake media” in the back of the room, assuring the audience a single protester would headline Saturday’s CPAC reports.
“Remember when I first started running and I wasn’t a politician, fortunately?” Trump asked the audience, which stood through much of his 75-minute talk. “People said ‘are you a conservative?’ I think we’ve proven that one now.”
Former U.S. Rep. Bob Beauprez, R-Colo., was among a large contingent of Republicans at Friday’s talk who never thought they would see Trump as the Republican Party’s long-awaited Elvis.
“The crowd was raucous and overwhelmingly pleased with him,” Beauprez said. “You can pick Reagan, or any favorite conservative of anyone’s lifetime, and that person’s biggest supporters would be pleased at the accomplishments of this administration in just 13 months. I don’t know when I was in a room that had more energy than this. This event is a barometer of the conservative movement, and the division is just gone. There is no sign of it, at all.”
Trump brought the crowd to ovations while talking about tax cuts, judicial appointments, economic growth, gun rights, employment, the end of the Obamacare mandate, an executive order that is gutting regulation of businesses, and more.
“No president has ever cut so many regulations in their entire term,” Trump said. “And it’s my opinion that the regulations had as big an impact as these massive tax cuts.”
CPAC attendees spoke with The Gazette about results they attribute to Trump. They glossed over the president’s notorious buffoonery, cavalier tweets — even an alleged porn star tryst — with chuckles and eye rolls.
Beauprez said Trump’s cuts to regulations may become the Republican Party’s greatest asset in November. The founder of a bank chain, Beauprez and his wife, Claudia, chose to sell the business when he was in Congress in 2007.
“I’ve got big government all over my body, because I was in banking and in food production as a dairy farmer,” Beauprez said. “Regulations of both industries became crazy, extreme and unfair. The optimism you sense in the marketplace is a direct result of the assurance regulations of business activity are going down. Finally, there is someone incentivizing people to embrace opportunities they dream about, encouraging them to make their dreams happen. Instead of ‘no you won’t,’ we have someone in the White House who says you can and you should. That has unified the party and the business community like I’ve never seen before.”
Trump spoke for more than 10 minutes about school shootings, selling his audience on the need for more prosecution of gun crimes and policies to get more guns into the hands of well-trained adults in positions of trust. He contrasted the Florida security officer, who failed to defend high school students, with teachers who love students so much they take bullets for them.
An armed teacher “would have shot the hell out of him,” Trump said of the recent Florida school shooter.
Love or hate this presidency, Trump may be the most powerful source of political disruption and chaos in the history of American presidential politics. His cavalier style unifies a right-of-center political movement that functioned for the past 30 years like a herd of feral cats.
This could bode well for Republicans in November, or it could be their downfall if Trump implodes. Each side of the aisle had best understand this unforeseen phenomenon and learn to campaign without regard for obsolete rules of traditional politics. In Trump’s country, they no longer apply.
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A few months after a devastating breakup, Today show co-host and America’s sweetheart Katie Couric sat in a therapist’s office, lamenting the injustice of her former paramour’s rejection. “Have you ever considered that maybe not everyone is going to like you?” the therapist asked, unlocking a revelation for Couric.
“I found it strangely liberating, this radical idea that not everyone was going to like me,” Couric writes in Going There, her bridge-burning memoir of a life changed by monumental fame. “It was an epiphany that would come in handy.”
Clearly, the woman who was once the most famously perky person in America is no longer interested in playing that role. The press cycle that preceded her memoir’s publication has been focused solely on Couric’s supposed takedowns of various people she encountered over the course of her long career—an anonymous source told The Daily Mail, for instance, that the book should be called “Burning Bridges by Catty Couric.” But it’s not simply a burn book; it’s a Couric’s attempt to take a stand against her public perception. Couric’s smile made her career, but in Going There, a 500-page doorstopper of a memoir, Couric calls it her “resting bitch face.” She’s seizing the narrative of her life’s work to correct the record and sparing no one in her path—not even herself.
Going There was making waves even before its official publication day of October 25, thanks to a string of salacious early stories about its content. “Katie Couric is banned from promoting her toxic memoir on CBS,” screamed the Daily Mail; “Katie Couric eviscerates Diane Saywer in memoir: ‘That woman must be stopped’,” the New York Post cried. The Post has in fact been especially vicious: “Katie’s cruelty hit hard,” screamed a headline from October, some weeks before the book was published, detailing the barbs lobbed at competitors Deborah Norville and Jane Pauley. “Katie Couric reveals herself to be a misogynistic idiot—don’t buy this book!” went the headline for a scathing review by Maura Callahan, based on the limp argument that women supporting other women is inherently feminist.
But what Callahan’s review—and much of the other criticism around Couric’s book, so much of it written by the Post—truly outlines is not that Couric is a misogynist, but rather, she’s a bit of a pill. Going There purports to describe how and why she became the way she is, but doesn’t seem to care whether or not you like it or not.
Partly, the memoir is a flex, with an index that reads like a guest list for an extremely exclusive party packed with bold-faced names. It’s also a sort of workplace drama, a specific story that highlights the ways corporate culture failed women. (It’s also the story behind the story loosely depicted in The Morning Show.) Unsurprisingly, the ‘90s were a terrible time to be a woman in broadcast news, and Couric battled a fair amount of difficulty in her climb up the ladder, enduring repeated and unnecessary comments about her physical appearance. Memorably, she recalls the time Ed Tuner, an executive vice president at CNN, told a 26-year-old Couric that her success was predicated on her breast size. Another media executive told her that he never wanted to see her on camera without any makeup, after Couric had done live coverage from a riot, battling tear gas.
Couric also acknowledges various professional mistakes she’s made and shows contrition. A notable misstep involved a television segment that found Couric pretending to be an unhoused person, in a gross bit of stunt journalism that was perhaps the inspiration for Tyra Banks’s own foray into the field, when she put on a fat suit in 2006 to better understand obesity. She laments the relentless coverage of murdered white women in the press, understanding now from some distance, the role that she played in the media’s bias in prioritizing these stories.
But when it comes to thornier personal issues, Couric is a little more evasive. In a chapter titled “Gone With the Wind,” Couric details her deceased husband Jay Monahan’s passion for historical reenactments, specifically the Civil War. In his spare time, Monahan played Corporal Monahan, bugler in Company H, Fourth Virginia Cavalry. “I treated Jay’s passion for the Confederacy with amused tolerance, seeing it as a benign hobby,” she writes, before detailing an “Old South” themed surprise 40th birthday party she threw for her husband, which included a Christmas tree topped with a Scarlett O’Hara Barbie doll. Her daughter’s research for her thesis at Stanford uncovered a particularly damning speech written by her father. In 1993, the United Daughters of the Confederacy were denied a renewal of their patent for their logo, which prominently featured the Confederate flag; Senator Carol Moseley Braun called the logo both an “outrage” and an “insult.” Monahan wrote a speech delivered to the Daughters of the Confederacy condemning Braun’s comments said that the press was “obsessed with appearing politically correct.” Couric simply has this to say: “I know it sounds like an excuse to say, ‘It was a different time,’” she writes. “But—it was a different time. And Jay never got the chance to live in this one.” The anecdote is presented as just another thread in the vast tapestry of Couric’s life and is given a treatment that feels a bit too casual for the subject matter at hand.
Another incident from her recent past gets closer consideration: her professional relationship with Matt Lauer and his ultimate firing, which extends across seven chapters of the book. She recounts how when she hears the news of Lauer’s firing in the face of multiple allegations of sexual misconduct, she is genuinely confused and thrown by the idea that a man who she considers both a great friend and a valued colleague could actually be the sort of monster as in the press. As Couric learns of the depths of Lauer’s abuse of his own power and his treatment of women subordinates, her inner conflict intensifies. She grapples with reconciling the man she thought she knew—a respected colleague and literal sidekick for years—with the man he actually is. Eventually, as more of Lauer’s indiscretions come to light in all their grisly detail, she concludes: “I’ve come to realize that Matt could be an excellent professional partner, a good friend, and a predator,” she writes.
But what Couric most clearly grapples with is the concept of her own likability. In her early years as a host on TODAY, Couric wanted to be seen as a serious journalist, not knowing then that her future with the show would eventually find her reporting on serious matters as well as dressing up like Peter Pan and sprinkling confetti on a crowd of admirers for Halloween, as she did in 2014. When Bryant Gumbel called her “Katie” during one of her first broadcasts, noting that she had replaced Deborah Norville as a “member” of the TODAY show family, Katie writes: “I can hardly believe what a prescient comment it was: Katherine or Katie, the serious journalist or the smiley cutup... the tension between those two sides of my nature would run like a fault line through my career.” Throughout the memoir, it becomes clear that Couric was torn between wanting a career that felt serious, like that of her idol Edward R. Murrow, and the career she eventually had, which allowed her to use her natural congeniality to make difficult topics like school shootings and war palatable for the morning show news audience.
The scrutiny around Couric’s personal life and how it intersected with her professional one was omnipresent throughout her career; Couric writes of her return to the show after the death of her husband, Jay Monahan, saying that while a critic in Time praised her for the way she handled her return to work after loss, others called her out for attempting to earn sympathy by wearing her dead husband’s wedding ring around her neck in tribute. Couric is able to take a step back from her past and situate these reactions to her behavior as part and parcel of the entrenched sexism she faced in her career—but at times, she also acknowledges her own discomfort with her public persona, providing plentiful examples of how she really was, behind the scenes. When Diane Sawyer scored an interview with a woman who gave birth to twins at 57, Couric said “I wonder who she had to blow to get that.” She says she meant it as a joke, but it didn’t come across that way when the anecdote made it to the tabloids. Likability is a trap that many professional women fall into—a direct result of the aforementioned sexism. But what Couric really struggles with is dealing with her own definition of the term and how difficult it was to maintain the facade.
Above all, Couric’s memoir is unsparing, but she is as hard on herself at times as she is on other people. Couric doesn’t come across as likable anymore, but she’ll now be the first to admit it. At this stage in the game, she has aged out of “perky.” And as a seasoned veteran of the news media industry at 65, leaning into dismantling her own past perception now, she is essentially torching a building that’s already been condemned. (She’s also the co-owner of Katie Couric Media, along with her husband John Molner, where she helps brands package and sell inspirational content. She signs her own paycheck now.) It’s an understandable impulse, after decades spent in the public eye, where every decision one makes, good or bad, is conflated with their actual personality. Above all, Couric comes across as more than willing to play ball with her critics in a way that feels like a savvy PR move: getting in front of the bad press by saying it herself.
The experience of reading the book it in one full sitting, as I attempted to do, is similar to being at a cocktail party, trapped in a corner by the garrulous host who simply wants to tell you everything she’s ever thought about anyone she’s met and won’t let you leave until you’ve heard her out. It’s the tone of the book that specifically stands out: Couric isn’t abrasive, but in Going There, she is true to her word. In 2021, Katie Couric is tired of smiling, and clearly, she doesn’t care what anyone thinks.


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ST. MARYS — The St. Marys girls soccer team’s pivotal week in Western Buckeye League play began with a bit of a non-starter.
The Roughriders and Bath played to a scoreless tie in a rematch of last season’s district final match and a key game in the WBL season.
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Bath ousted the Roughriders from the tournament last year with a 1-0 win, and appeared to be on the cusp of pulling out the win with a string of good chances at the net in the second half against the Roughriders, but St. Marys keeper Paige Dicus and the St. Marys defense kept the Wildkittens scoreless to earn the tie.
“We definitely had a lot of chances and couldn’t capitalize on them,” Bath head coach Morgan Lashaway said. “We knew this was going to be a tough match and we come out with a tie and they’re both quality teams.”
A four-year player in net, Dicus helped salvage the tie, St. Marys head coach Paul Dingledine said.
“She’s making plays back there that we need,” he said. “We’ve had some minor breakdowns defensively and it’s good to see from her in her senior year. She’s done it before, but she’s really making good decisions this year.”
“We had some opportunities, but nothing as hard as they had,”Dingledine added. “They’re a good team. They’re undefeated coming in. I knew it’d be a battle. It’s been a battle the last couple of years. We’ll have to settle for the tie.”
Bath and St. Marys are both 2-0-1 in WBL play, with Shawnee and Celina both sitting at 3-0. St. Marys plays another top team in the league on Thursday when they travel to rival Celina.
“This is the hardest week we have all season,” Dingledine said. “Two of the top teams in our league back-to-back in one week. Thank goodness this is Monday so we have an extra day to recover and get ready for Celina.”
The Bulldogs, who are 6-2, beat Wapakoneta 10-0 on Monday.


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Clay and Sue McQuiddy were not raised with a dairy background, but through a willingness to learn, work and through steadfast perseverance, they built a dairy grazing system in Missouri that has provided for their family for the past 26 years.
They owned a laundromat. Clay was from Texas and grew up around beef cattle. Sue was from Oklahoma and lived in the city. Neither had ever milked a dairy cow. Still, that did not deter the couple from finding a farm in southwest Missouri and starting a grazing dairy operation.
However, dairy was not their first choice. They started raising sheep. Then they pasture-raised chickens until finally settling on dairy farming. In 1996, the couple began a grazing dairy.
The McQuiddys purchased 60 Jersey cows to run on their 190-acre farm in just outside the small town of Graff. They soon realized the need to expand. Instead of purchasing more Jerseys, the couple added Holstein cows. It was the start of a crossbred program that still exists on the farm.
Holstein calves are stronger and have more of an ability to thrive than Jersey calves, Clay says. However, Jersey cows have better milk quality and are better able to handle the heat. In a grazing dairy, that is a must.
The milking herd grew to 150 cows.
As the couple's son, Steve McQuiddy, entered the operation, the farm expanded. Sue and Clay purchased a new farm across the holler where they started managing 400 cows on 400 acres of grass.
The McQuiddys do not grow their own hay, so extra grass is worthless. They focus on growing forage that cows consume year-round. They have both cool-season and warm-season paddocks.
Clay is partial to two species of forage. “We like annual ryegrass and crabgrass,” he notes. And of course, there is clover. One thing not in the pasture is fescue.
“We renovate not to have fescue,” he says. They start by planting crabgrass and annual ryegrass. Then they spray to kill the fescue. Once the fescue is gone, they ramp up seeding for permanent forage.
It is an intensive grazing system, with the farm divided into roughly 40 paddocks. Given the topography of the farm, with its rolling hills, tree lines and creek beds, not all of those paddocks are the same size. The McQuiddys offer their cows roughly 3 acres per day, which allows each field to have a rest period.
Since it is a grass-based dairy system, the family also uses an irrigation system on some fields to facilitate forage growth.
Electric wire separates each section. Some wires are permanent, Clay explains, while others are temporary. Water is provided in between paddocks and is served by a well system.
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Simply put, grazing dairies are a low-cost way to get into the dairy business.
“We stay away from 'heavy metal disease,'” Sue says. The family reigns in purchases of machinery or equipment. They do not harvest hay by mechanical means. “We let the cows do that,” Clay adds.
The couple finds that any money they invest in parts that move goes down in value. So, they keep their money invested in cows and the land.
While the grazing systems require movement of cattle twice a day, it is far less laborious than other systems, Clay says. They do not spend time making silage or haylage, or feeding or cleaning barn bedding.
“It is definitely a system that allows young people or those wanting to dairy to enter the business,” Clay says. And the couple is doing their part to usher in the next generation of dairy producers.
The McQuiddys take part in a dairy grazing apprenticeship program that is a national apprenticeship program registered with the U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration. Over the years, they have had two apprentices learn the ropes at their farm.
Individuals can be any age or at any stage of life. Their current apprentice is 40 years old. “We want to help them understand what it takes to make it in the grazing dairy business,” Clay says. “From grass management, to milking to raising calves, they get it all through the program.”
The dairy grazing apprenticeship program is popular in states like Wisconsin and New York. It is just starting to get a foothold in southwest Missouri. Currently, there are three apprentices in the state. “We are looking for more,” Clay says.
The two-year program involves on-the-job-training as well as online coursework. Apprentices learn only from Master Dairy Graziers like the McQuiddys. The dairy farmer pays a wage to the apprentice for work on the farm. They work roughly 2,000 hours per year.
Clay and Sue hope that apprentices leave their farm with an understanding of what it takes to manage a dairy grazing system, including how to manage forage, keep records and raise calves.
Ultimately, they hope the next generation of dairy farmers discovers a passion for the industry. “It has been a good life for us,” Clay says. “We enjoy dairy farming,” Sue adds.

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The number of parents with college-bound teens who see value in a college education increased this year, according to a new survey from Discover Student Loans. The poll found that 87 percent of parents say college is “very important,” compared to 81 percent last year. Only 11 percent of parents say a college education is only “somewhat important,” down 3 percent from last year.
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For a car or racing enthusiast, Project Cars 3 has a lot to offer. The depth of customizing, upgrading, and tuning up cars is impressive. The track-time experience is a lot of fun and generally feels realistic. When you pause it to enter “Photo Mode,” there’s also a variety of customization options to capture the drama of a race. The only question I have is how/if they will reoptimize for the next gen consoles. If you’re big on racing games, while it doesn’t really offer much that’s new to the equation, Project Cars 3 is a buy. See you on the track.
Slightly Mad Studios returns to the fray with its simulator par excellence, Project CARS 3 arrives loaded with news, becoming a title adapted for all audiences under a gameplay mixed between simulation and arcade that may not satisfy the most purists. The title is entertaining in general lines and we are facing a good continuation of the saga although somewhat decaffeinated in the most purist simulation.
While some might balk at the fact that Project Cars 3 is designed to be accessible, under the hood is the same bone-grindingly difficult racing sim that the series has always been. There’s just more variety of modes and an easier on ramp for people to get into them. This newest title is a welcome mat for the new fans and the die hards alike. There’s always another fresh race to enjoy and a new challenge to overcome. While it isn’t perfect, Project Cars 3 is a solid entry to the series and the racing genre as a whole.
Project Cars 3 might not be the sequel you expected from the series, but its shift to a more arcade style of racing is one that makes the series approachable for the first time. It's not a clean cut from its roots, and Project Cars 3 retains just enough of its simulation options to provide enough of a challenge with all of its assists turned off. The transition isn't seamless, with some confounding racing objectives and uneven AI that takes the sting out of some events. But if you're looking for another way to get out on a virtual track, Project Cars 3 is an exhilarating new alternative.
The new cars feel individual and there's plenty of incentive to replay challenges to get the career level increased and the career achievements completed. It's just a shame then, that there's a key part that so negatively impacts the whole experience of Project CARS 3, and that is the grind. It regularly makes things so much worse and it seems like such a quick thing to fix - just increase the money paid out. Make it retrospective for those who have already invested so much time and this will instantly address the biggest issue.
Project CARS 3 suffers from a bit of an identity crisis in what it brings to the player, blending racing sim gameplay and arcade racer mechanics. Its message isn’t entirely clear without some trial and error, and while the narrator, drive-assist, and AI modifiers help ease into gameplay, there isn’t quite enough to know what everything means for the un-initiated. Driving feels wonderful and I expected nothing less given the history of Slightly Mad Studios and Codemasters, but this feels more like a racing sim for casual play over an engrossing and addictive time behind the wheel. It has a lot going for it, but its identity seems lost and with it, my drive to sink time into it.
How can one not to be disappointed at first with the usurpation of a name which had installed a new license aimed at a certain realism and insufficient core qualities to stay on track? PC3 can only find buyers with a discount in order to satisfy a certain curiosity. For everyone else, it stays on the side of the road and watches the others go by.
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The St. Malachy’s Cyber Titan team represented ASD-S at the Information
and Communications Technology Council (ICTC) National Finals. They were 1 of 10
teams who earned this honour! The team faced off against others from across
Canada and defended their systems against cyber industry experts. There also
visited some technology companies and toured the national capital region.
Congratulations to the STM Cyber Titan team, who placed fifth in Canada at the
Cyber Titan 2019 national finals!
Belleisle Regional High School, with Athletic Director Kim
Giddens, had 7 students attended the Special Olympics Unified 3 on 3 Basketball
Championships in Fredericton.
The Belleisle Bears team won the Bronze medal in
Belleisle Regional High School Grade 10 student Victoria
Hebert created the winning UCT (United Commercial Travelers) safety poster for
high schools in ASD-S. Her poster is now
off to Atlantics to compete for the east coast awards.
Congratulations to Abby Snodgrass from St. Malachys Memorial
High School who won a Senior Excellence Award at the Canada Wide Science Fair
for her project “Interoceptive Awareness and the Novel Use of VR with Arduino
Hazen White/St. Francis school recently completed a project
in conjunction with the Artist in Residency Grant and artist Sheryl Crowley. Students,
in particular the Kindergarten class, were given the opportunity to explain
through art what it means to be a community. The students created a large mural
for the entrance of the school.
Ten students from Fundy, Sir James Dunn Academy and St.
Stephen High School travelled to Halifax for the 25th Skills Canada Competition. More than 550
competitors from all regions in Canada participated in over 40 skilled trade
and technology competitions. Teacher Marla Anderson from SSHS and VP Audrey
Norman from SJDA are pictured with the kids. Shout out to Carstar in St.
Stephen for their support of this trip.
to all the students form ASD-s who participated at the National
Skills Competition in Halifax. We wish to congratulate Sydney Irvin from
Saint John High School on receiving a Gold medal in the Cooking/Cusine
competition. Sydney competed against students from across Canada and
placed first. Congratulations!
Three Kennebecasis Valley High School Science
teachers, Colleen Logan, Amy Peters and Maura Tait, have each been awarded a
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I took the back of the bike apart again, and let me tell you, it was hell the ruggedest mile getting my fat paw inside that little bitty space trying to fit a caliper in there. But I managed it. And I rechecked it four times. Even with all that contortion, I still couldn't get a depth of either the interior cavity, the exterior, or the length of the actual pins in the interior.
You've all seen the pictures of the actual connector, and the PCB it's on, so here's the very rough sketch I did of the dimensions of the tiny connector. And when I say tiny, I mean TINY. That whole thing is only about 7mm X 5mm on the exterior (not the inside cavity.) The inside cavity is only about 5mm X 3mm, and the pins are only 2mm apart! How the heck anyone can manipulate a plug connection that small is beyond me.
I'm making progress here. Now I just need to find a plug that will fit it.
One of the emails I sent out to electronics parts places has a guy who took my photos and that sketch, and compared them to the manufacturers' engineering drawings of all the two-pin connectors they have, and found it. The guy actually FOUND IT.
It's called a "ST-PH 2 pin". Comes in two parts, a male socket, which is what I have on my bike, and a female, which is the "plug". The female side of it is even pre-wired with 11" of 26AWG wire.
And get this: The guy was so intrigued by the fact that I'd gone to the trouble I've gone to, he said he would throw two of them into an envelope and send 'em off, no charge!
How's that for dumb luck?
And I couldn't have done it without you guys! A big Thank You to all of you who contributed!!
Now I just have to figure out how to determine polarity.... It's always something!
And I couldn't have done it without all you great folks on this forum.
Let me share a few photos and a bit of backstory. This is going to be a long one, so grab your favorite beverage, and sit back.
The connectors arrived Monday, and I knew that with my work schedule, today would be the first opportunity. Early this morning, I dismantled the back end of the bike, to get access to the PCBs for the rear turn signals. I had my wiring diagram handy, and the service manual. Took me a bit of wrangling to get the covers off, so I went and bought a flexible screwdriver. Made it a piece of cake.
Let me tell you, it was hell the ruggedest mile to get those plugs into those sockets. I ended up taking a Dremel tool and carving out the end of a bamboo chopstick to make a holder for the plug so that I could maneuver it into the socket. I also found that there was a very tiny rib along one side, (less than a millimeter or so) preventing the plug from seating properly, so I took an X-acto knife and shaved the rib off. Fit the plug into my homemade installation tool, and it slid right in. Seated perfectly.
I reasoned that since the pumpkin-stalk turn signals already had connectors (of the bullet variety) into the wiring harness, that I could re-use them in this application. So, I removed the stalk turn signals, and clipped off the wiring leaving about 4" of wire and the connector. It was at this point that I decided that I didn't need to leave the covers of the PCBs off any more, so I drilled a 1/10" hole in each one, and threaded the wires from the plugs through them, and reinstalled the covers. I put a bit of silicone over the holes, to prevent water ingress.
It was a simple matter of then determining exactly what the polarity was, and so I took a break, and came in to research it. I found a neat little device on Instructables that enables people to light up for test purposes, 12V LED lights. Made from a power supply from a printer, no less. A couple of alligator clips soldered on, and I was in business.
It so happened (I put it down to blind luck) that the way the plugs fit into the sockets, the red wire was the hot one, and the black wire was the neutral, so all I had to do was attach the correct colored wires with the bullet connectors to the ends of the leads. I think I did a pretty good job, even though I'm by no means an expert at soldering. For the record, I watched a dozen YouTube videos, and practiced on several different wire connections for about an hour before I felt comfortable doing it to the bike.
I kept using my little testing device to check connections at every step of the way, to make sure the LEDs would light, before I'd go to the next step. I used heat-shrink tubing and a heat gun to cover up all the soldered connections, both for added strength and for moisture protection. Can't be too careful when one really doesn't know what one is doing.
It wasn't long before I had connected up everything there was to connect, and reattach the bullet connectors of my leads into the wiring harness. I reconnected the battery, and turned the key, and it actually worked! Un-freaking-believable! And I did it! (with this forum's help and advice!)
Here's an image of the lights lit up.
I wanted to upload a short (11 second) video of the lights working, but I couldn't get it to upload.
Anyway, I wanted to thank everyone for all their advice, assistance, and for the generous and freely given expertise and knowledge.
Thank you all!
Now, on to the front signals... I am still waiting on the housings to be shipped in from Japan... I think they're using an old rowboat to send them...


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Turn turn turn again,
But ninety-nine years he just does not deserve,
Turn turn to the wind and the rain..."*
What a roller coaster ride, and I was glad to be off of it. Too many changes, too fast; the ups and downs, dizzying. My mind was filled with disjointed images and thoughts: rights and wrongs, whys and hows? Yes! and no! I felt torn by the confusion which colored every thought. I found myself flip flopping between feeling invincible, unbeatable and confident, when suddenly I'd slide into a whirlwind of worry and fear, and feeling as I'd done someone wrong somewhere.
Sorting through this chaotic line of thinking, I found myself seeking a place of stability. This grew as I continued upon a pathway. Glancing up, I saw a rather magnificent structure, not off to the side, but smack dab in the middle of the road. I could see a sign spanning the top of it. As I drew closer, the letters took shape: THE HALLS OF JUSTICE. A flashback to someother place beckoned the name, Mad Max.
All ceased when I stood before two gray granite pillars several steps above and blocking my passage. Seated upon a bench, was a figure. The impression I got was I had entered an exhibit of a wax museum. The figure was a young woman, dressed red robes, with a purple cape clasped in front by a small silver square of metal, a red gem set in the center of it. She wore a green ascot around her neck, caught, as well, in the clasp. I saw she was holding in her left hand, the hilt of a sword, with golden scales hanging from the ends of the hilt. In her other hand was a silver sword, pointing up toward the sky. Set upon her neatly quaffed hair was a wreath of green leaves, similar to the kind worn in the Roman Empire. I felt it was like an exhibit because this is a very quiet card.
For all the world, she seemed a guardian of the path which rose up behind her. This made me wonder: did the path to enlightenment require permission at this point to continue? Was I worthy to pass through these gates, to continue upon this journey? For the life of me, I could not imagine why this was here, and where was the Justice in that?
I said hello, testing the waters of reality. Was she real or memorex? My answer came as she nodded her head once, in greeting. I sighed with relief. I didn't have to ask, for I already knew I was expected. But for what? Since I'd left the Chariot, the journey had taken a decidedly abstract turn. With the exception of The Hermit, all of those I'd met represented different kinds of teachings. I was finding it harder to relate to, not to mention comprehend these last several lessons. No, that wasn't right. They are representations of ideas. I understood that. But now I had to think harder to comprehend how it applied specifically to me and to my moment in time. My mind insists on thinking of this as judgement, not justice, or are they one and the same. Doesn't Justice judge?
What is justice? This justice certainly isn't blind, like we often see in depictions of justice. And why would justice be blind anyway? To be fairminded? This lady looked fair minded enough. She would weigh our words objectively. Where upon this journey did Justice come into play?
Aha! This isn't about a separate adventure, removed from the like The Hermit has done. This is living in the world while at the same time seeking to live beautifully. It was harmonizing this and that part of life. So, what I did in that other, real world, would have an impact that would be heard around the world. Justice keeps us on the straight and narrow. BUT of whose design?
If I had created the world, would I have included justice? Would I have included judgement? Obvously I judge others; I did The Hierophant. How did Justice step in and work her magic? Justice MUST have a magic element. The Natural world has it's own sense of Justice... or is that just a man made notion?
I wanted to shake her... What do you want to tell me? What do you have to teach me? All's fair in love and war? What is one person's fair is another's injustice?
Is there a riddle here? Some test I have to pass? What's the password?
*Song for Justice: Percy's Song by Arlo Guthrie


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With the holiday season quickly approaching, many of us will be driving out of town to visit family and/or friends. Most people doing so will drive their personal vehicle. When taking a personal vehicle, it is important to keep track of any recalls pertaining to your vehicle. You do not want to risk having a car accident.
Typically, if there is a recall on your vehicle, you will be notified by mail. The letter will normally sound serous. For instance, the letter may indicate that if you do not take action under the recall, you may be killed or someone else may be killed.
As you may know, a lot of people hesitate to repair their vehicle per the recall. For instance, in California, there are at least five million people still driving vehicles that are subject to a recall.
What’s more, countless people buy vehicles that are subject to a previous recall. Most of these consumers are not aware that their vehicle is subject to a recall! So, how do you become knowledgeable of a recall on your personal vehicle? Easy, just log onto this website.
1.56 Million Jeeps Recalled by Chrysler
In one notable recall, it was found that Chrysler Jeeps could catch on fire if they are hit from behind. This is a risk because their fuel tanks were placed behind the rear axle. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reported that at least 51 people have been killed as a result of these fiery crashes. As such, the NHTSA agreed to issue a recall nearly 1.56 million Chrysler Jeeps of the 2.7 million Chrysler Jeeps sold from its lots.
The recalled Jeeps included the 1993 – 2004 Jeep Grand Cherokee and the 2002 – 2007 Jeep Liberty. For all of those not subject to the recall, Chrysler categorized those as a “customer service action”. This means that Chrysler gave the Jeep’s owner the decision to address the dangerous condition.
For those 1.56 million that were subject to the recall, Chrysler promised to install, and even pay for, Chrysler-made trailer hitches to help shield the gas tanks from forceful impacts.
How Negligence Applies
Not only is not adhering to recall instructions risky to your life, it also poses significant risks of injury, and death, to others around you. If a person fails to adhere to a recall, and that person crashes into you, or otherwise causes injury to you, you may seek compensation under grounds of negligence.
Per Illinois’ negligence law, you, as the plaintiff, must establish that, for one, the person at fault (defendant) owed you a specific duty of care. A driver owes a duty, to other drivers, of safe, reasonable travel. It is reasonable to follow recall instructions.
Second, you must show that the person breached said duty of care. If a person does not act reasonably in getting his or her car inspected, and this results in a car crash with you, this is a breach of said duty of care.
Third, you must show that the defendant’s breach was the actual, and foreseeable, cause of the accident. Finally, fourth, you must show that you incurred harm or damages.
If you are injured from a car accident at the fault of another driver, it is important that you hire an experienced personal injury attorney. Doing so will increase your chances of receiving compensation for your resulting damages/losses. The Illinois personal injury lawyers at Levin & Perconti have the experience needed to aggressively take on your case. Call us today at (312) 332-2872 or toll free (877) 374-1417 to schedule a FREE consultation.

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Is red creeping thyme invasive? In this article, we’ll delve into the nature of red creeping thyme and evaluate its growth habit.
We’ll also examine its potential spread and assess the impact it may have on native plants.
Finally, we’ll provide you with tips on managing red creeping thyme in your garden.
Get ready to discover everything you need to know about this beautiful yet potentially invasive plant.
Nature of Red Creeping Thyme
To understand the nature of red creeping thyme, you should examine its growth habits and characteristics.
Red creeping thyme is a low-growing perennial herb that forms a dense mat of foliage. It has small, aromatic leaves that release a pleasant fragrance when crushed. This thyme variety produces small, vibrant red flowers that attract pollinators like bees and butterflies.
It thrives in full sun and well-drained soil, making it suitable for rock gardens, borders, and groundcover. Red creeping thyme is drought-tolerant and requires minimal maintenance once established. It spreads by sending out runners that root and create new plants. This creeping habit allows it to effectively cover large areas and inhibit weed growth.
Growth Habit of Red Creeping Thyme
Red creeping thyme, with its low-growing habit, spreads by sending out runners that take root wherever they touch the ground. This allows the plant to form dense mats of foliage that can quickly cover large areas. The runners also help the thyme to fill in gaps and create a uniform carpet-like appearance.
As it grows, the plant produces small, aromatic leaves that are densely packed together. These leaves are typically green, but in the case of red creeping thyme, they have a reddish hue, adding a splash of color to your garden.
The plant also produces clusters of tiny pink or purple flowers in the summer, attracting pollinators and adding beauty to your landscape.
Is Red Creeping Thyme Invasive?
While red creeping thyme is generally considered a low-maintenance ground cover, its ability to rapidly spread and take over an area raises concerns about its invasiveness.
This plant has a creeping habit and sends out runners that quickly root and form new plants. If left unchecked, red creeping thyme can outcompete native plant species and disrupt the natural balance of your garden. It’s essential to monitor its growth and take appropriate measures to prevent it from becoming invasive.
Regularly trimming and removing any spreading runners can help control its spread. Additionally, consider planting it in containers or using barriers to contain its growth and protect your other plants. By being proactive, you can enjoy the beauty of red creeping thyme without worrying about its invasive tendencies.
Impact of Red Creeping Thyme on Native Plants
As red creeping thyme spreads through your garden, it can have a significant impact on native plants. This invasive plant has the potential to outcompete and suppress the growth of native species, disrupting the delicate balance of your ecosystem.
Red creeping thyme forms dense mats that can shade out native plants, preventing them from receiving adequate sunlight for photosynthesis. Furthermore, its aggressive growth habit allows it to quickly colonize large areas, reducing the available resources for other plant species.
This can lead to a decline in biodiversity and negatively affect the overall health and resilience of your garden. It’s important to carefully monitor and manage the spread of red creeping thyme to protect the native plants that contribute to the ecological diversity of your environment.
Managing Red Creeping Thyme in Your Garden
You can effectively manage red creeping thyme in your garden. To keep this beautiful plant from becoming invasive, regular maintenance is key.
Start by monitoring its growth and removing any unwanted or overgrown sections. Regularly prune the plant to maintain its shape and prevent it from spreading too aggressively.
Make sure to remove any fallen or dead leaves to keep the area clean and prevent the growth of weeds.
It’s important to water red creeping thyme properly, ensuring that the soil is moist but not waterlogged. Consider using a drip irrigation system to provide a consistent water supply without causing excessive moisture.
So, is red creeping thyme invasive? Overall, red creeping thyme can be considered invasive due to its aggressive growth habit and potential to spread rapidly. It can outcompete native plants and disrupt natural ecosystems.
Therefore, it’s important to manage red creeping thyme in your garden to prevent it from becoming a problem. Regular pruning and monitoring can help keep it under control and maintain a balanced and healthy garden environment.


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The following report was written by Samia Khan, wife of Engr. Taha Ahmed Khan who is the nephew of Saudi Aramco Ex-Employee Association member Engr. Iqbal Ahmed Khan. Samia and Taha are newlyweds and this report covers their first adventure as husband and wife.
The Adventures of Samia And Taha.
Amidst two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, PCR testing, isolation, face-mask-wearing and social distancing have now become the new way of traveling in 2022. Just like that, we went on our first backpacking trip this year to Turkey for 10 days from February 3-13. Our life's goal is to witness, experience and explore the world, in which case this was the first of our “Adventures of Samia and Taha” that we would like to share.
An outlook of Antalya City Center.
We travel to turkey from Pegasus airline; our flight was from KHI (Jinnah International Airport) to SAW (Sabiha Gokchen Airport in Istanbul). We took our 2nd flight 2 hours later from SAW to AYT (Antalya Airport). After reaching Antalya, we travel towards Murat Pasa (the City Center), and check in to Ersoy Ege Apart hotel. Later that day, we roam around the City Center, Saw Hidirlik Tower, Yivli Minaret Mosque, Hadrian's Gate, Antalya Saat Kulesi, then had Turkish all-time favorite Doner as dinner.
Antalya (Perge, Aspendos, Side):
In the outskirts of Antalya city, we visited 6 places:
Duden Waterfalls (7 km from Antalya): are a group of waterfalls formed by the recycle station water and ends where the waters of the Lower Düden Falls drop off a rocky cliff directly into the Mediterranean Sea. Also drank the most amazing freshly squeezed orange juice to remember.
Perge and Kursunlu waterfalls Near Antalya.
Next, we bought tickets for Kursunlu Waterfalls (23 km from Antalya): It is situated in the midst of a pine forest of exceptional beauty, and the environment provides a picnic spot.
Then we traveled to Perge Ancient City Museum (19 km from Antalya): Perge was an ancient Greek city in Anatolia, It returns to history as a Pamphylian Greek city, and with Pamphylia came under successive rule by Persians, Athenians, and Persians again.
Roman-Greek built Ancient City: Aspendos- Antalya.
After that, we went to Aspendos Ancient City Museum (48 km from Antalya) which was an ancient Greco-Roman city in Antalya. It is best known for having the best-preserved theatre of antiquity. With a diameter of 96 metres (315 ft), it provided seating for 12,000.
Later in Aspendos, I met two aunties whom I connected with the skill of Crochet on my journey. This was no doubt the best and most memorable moment of my trip.
Manavgat Waterfalls – Antalya.
Then we went to Manavgat Waterfalls (75 km): Its high flowing water over a wide area as it falls from a low height and is best viewed from a high altitude. The white, foaming water of the Manavgat Waterfalls flows powerfully over the rocks. Near the waterfalls are shady tea gardens providing a pleasant resting place.
Side city - Antalya.
Later we went to Side (76 km from Antalya): It is a city on the southern Mediterranean coast of Turkey. It includes the modern resort town and the ruins of the ancient city of Side, one of the best-known classical sites in the country.
Hierapolis & Pammukale:
Then we traveled to Denizile and took a minibus to reach Pamukkale. Pamukkale provides a perfect combination of natural and man-made wonders with its travertines as white as cotton stretching to the horizon standing over the ancient ruins of the spa town Hierapolis. It was -6 degrees atop the mountain, and it is was exhilarating to stand in the travertine of lukewarm water at so low a temperature. Oh, it was totally amazing.
Konya - Mevlana:
Next, we went to Konya from Denizli. From there, we went to visit the Mevlana Museum. I find inspiration from the teaching of Maulana Rumi in my daily life, and I have been following it since my teenage years. The Mevlana museum was previously Dervish Lodge, a home for wandering dervish, where they were trained for life.
Konya and Mevlana Museum.
Then we traveled to Nevsehir in Cappadocia to experience a Hot Air Balloon Ride. It was so exciting but yet a smooth takeoff and landing. We had a pilot and a co-pilot, and 28 other passengers in our hot air balloon basket. Pre-flight we were taught 2 basic rules. The first was to not attempt to go outside the basket when in the air. The second is that when we are going to land, we must be in a crouching position, putting weight in the opposite direction.
It felt as if time was in slow motion up in the air, as the beautiful valleys of Cappodocia were dancing in front of our eyes, and the radiance of our smile was shining brighter than the sun, which was peaking behind the clouds.
Hot Air balloon- Cappadocia.
The next activity in Cappadocia was to select a tour. There are basically 3 types of tours; Red Tour, Blue Tour and Green Tour.
Green Tour- Cappadocia.
We chose the Green tour, it included pick up service from the hotel and takes you to the highlights of the Southern Cappadocia:
- Göreme Panorama: Our first stop is Esentepe, the impressive panoramic viewpoint overlooking Göreme. Here the guide gives information about the history of Cappadocia and its unique rock formations, how the volcano erupted and elevated water levels have created rock surfaces, which were then, due to climate change, formed into such chimneys.
- Pigeon Valley & Onyx Factory: This is a great hiking valley near Uchisar with lots of easy walking trails that wind through the chimney rocks and cave houses.
- Derinkuyu Underground City: There are more than 200 underground cities in Cappadocia and the deepest one is Derinkuyu underground city. These troglodyte cave-cities were excavated as early as Hittite times, and expanded by early Christians and others over the centuries, as various marauding armies traversed Central Anatolia in search of captives and plunder.
- 3.5 km walk in Ihlara Valley: This is a 100-meter deep valley formed by the Melendiz River. At one time, this valley was home to 80,000 people, and thousands of their cave houses and churches can still be seen in the rock walls. It’s an amazing area that can be seen on a day trip with some light trekking. At the end of the day, I had around 25,000 steps.
All of the Turkish food we tried
- Lunch: Lentil soup, salad, Chicken, meat, trout, kofta, vegetable with bulger (main dish).
- Selime Monastery: It was considered for a Star Wars set, and you can go inside most of the buildings, which date back to the 8th or 9th centuries. Selime Monastery at the top end of the canyon. Monks carved a mountain into their place of worship and now hundreds of years later, tourists crawl all around and through it.
Green Tour Cappadocia.
Later that night we went to dinner at Evanos restaurant to have a Turkish Dinner that is showcasing Turkish Traditional dance.
Turkish Traditional Dinner- Cappadocia
When we reached Istanbul later from our flight from Kayseri airport, we then traveled towards the European Side of Istanbul. Our stop was Gulhane; near around it was areas of the Grand Bazaar, Sultan Ahmet, Hagia Sophia, Topkapi Palace.
Standing outside Topkapi Palace- Istanbul
The best part of going to Istanbul was, I bought 20 kg of yarn for my crochet business, Daajees. And it was so much fun to shop around. We stayed for around 5 days in Istanbul, it was kind of a time to relax and explore the culture, food and heritage of the city.
We returned on 13 Feb 2022. And it was the best high of all time.
SAEEA wishes both Samia and Taha to witness, experience more adventures that come ahead in exploring the world, BEST OF LUCK to you both.

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Dualta left his south coast village to be in the big city to record a podcast with me …
I experienced the dreadful moment of having a 50 minute chat and realising I didn’t press the record button.
So the sound quality on this one is not amazing so I apologies in advance!
We had a great and honest chat on this episode …
We discuss the following:
– How to start a podcast.
– Our experience in having started a podcast in 2018.
– How the podcast has helped us close deals.
– The power of content.
– How I inspired Dualta to start his podcast ….
Make sure you give this one a listen and let me know what you think!!