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One of the few pros of the pandemic is the liberty to work remotely, and ideally, combine it with DXing. So that's what I did in Aihkiniemi. It is not only the best AM DXing base, but also one of the most remote locations with a fast internet connection. Focusing full time on work and scanning the AM dial during the remaining waking hours was a very intensive experience, but well worth it. Constantly changing conditions resulted in new catches from nearly every continent.
From a DXing perspective, work was of course a major constraint. I figured it would be easier if I was up there just by myself, so I spent two weeks in solitary confinement in Aihkiniemi – except for a happy surprise encounter halfway into the expedition.
I was planning to follow propagation close enough to know which antenna azimuth would be best at any given time, but otherwise I would mostly just let my recordings accumulate, and research them more thoroughly on some later date. Hopefully that opportunity will present itself before retirement, and only then will I know how plentiful the haul turns out to be. As it turned out, however, I wasn't able to resist the urge to review the most promising DX sessions immediately either already in Aihkiniemi, or soon afterwards at home.
Waiting for the IC 265 train at Pasila station in Helsinki.
Logistics for the AIH133 DXpedition followed a time-tested routine. No flying like on the previous DXpedition AIH124, but instead I packed my Toyota Auris, drove it to Pasila Railway Station in Helsinki, and loaded it onto the train.
Normally I would have departed on Friday evening, but all car-carrier wagons for the overnight train had been sold out long ago, so I had to postpone my departure to Saturday.
Living as we are with the COVID-19 pandemic, I bought snacks to consume in the safety and comfort of my of own cabin without resorting to the overpriced goodies of the restaurant car.
Intercity 265 stayed on schedule and arrived in Rovaniemi before dawn. A private cabin in the sleeping car guaranteed a good night sleep, so I felt well rested before the 400-kilometer drive further north. Nothing seemed to be open early on a Sunday morning, but a couple of chocolate bars were enough for the first few hundred kilometers.
A deep-frozen spruce forest near Saariselkä ski resort in Inari at dusk.
One of my soundtracks on the deserted and snowy Highway 4 (E75) was "USA and Canada on the Air," a nostalgic potpourri of station identifications and iconic commercial spots from North American stations. This LP-length recording was produced by the Finnish DX Association decades ago, before the internet, and is made up of recordings collected by Finnish DXers during their travels around North America. The good old days... Originally it was sold only as a cassette tape, but I had burned it on a CD.
The airwaves – even old recordings – can be a decent substitute for real travel, as exercising wanderlust remains constrained by the pandemic. And this particular recording brought back many memories of both previous Lapland DXpeditions and roadtrips in the U.S.
As has become common, Inari served as the last pit stop to fuel the car, order a hot meal, and get groceries for the upcoming 13 days. The final stretch to Aihkiniemi was smooth driving in nice winter weather. Just before the trip I had to buy new winter tires, and traction on both icy and snowy surfaces worked like a dream.
Northern lights on February 3, shot at around 4 a.m. CLICK on the thumbnail to open a full-size version of any photo in this report.
During the entire expedition, the weather remained very predictable, with temperatures from -10 C to -30 C (30 to -20 F). Skies were mostly clear, and as the polar night was over, the sun inched slightly above the horizon, each day marginally higher up than before.
DXing in Lapland in early February was a novel experience for me, but actually in terms of daylight, the conditions were just a mirror image of early November, so a climax at dusk and dawn occurred at the same times as on AIH124.
I arrived in Aihkiniemi at 14:20 local time. The first evening was spent setting up my gear, installing a brand new router (a wireless 50 Mbit/s connection over 4G), shoveling the driveway clear of fresh snow, cleaning a bit inside, and simply getting used to this fabulous new daily cycle of following openings on the AM dial.
This is the other end of the same arch of the aurora borealis, shot towards the east.
Days in Aihkiniemi are a combination of the unexpected and the predictable. The daily cycle of propagation creates a framework for every other activity here. A surprise opening can delay a meal or any other secondary task. Then there are certain times of the day, such as the slots for local station ID on the Japanese NHK networks, which act like pacemakers, recurring at exactly the same time day to day.
Some household chores are a must. During the following days I inspected as many antennas as I could, trying to schedule online meetings so that I could spend the nicest part of the day wading in knee-deep snow, cleaning the antennas of snow and ice, and rewarding my sweaty self with a sauna afterwards. Occasionally this drudgery felt quite extreme, because in the most difficult sections it took almost an hour to cover one kilometer of antenna maintenance. What's the point, you might ask. Sometimes in the freezing forest I also questioned the sanity of this all.
Here are the directions of the 14 Beverage-type antennas at Aihkiniemi, each of them about one kilometer (3,000 ft) long. The longest one is the 270-degree wire, approximately 1,200 meters.
I wasn't the only DXer in Lapland at the time. There were parallel DX efforts 100 kilometers away in Lemmenjoki, where LEM443 (Jopi Nyman & Jussi Suokas) and LEM444 (Hannu Tikkanen) enjoyed similar mediocre or even below average propagation conditions.
The Aihkiniemi cabin on a cold night.
Most of the time the geomagnetic field was restless, which implied sudden shifts in propagation, and generally rather short useful openings. One of the highlights of the expedition was February 11, when U.S. East Coast stations were quite strong for a few hours, and I finally caught the TIS station of the season, WQFG689 from New Jersey on 1710 AM.
Another neat day was the following day, February 12, when New Zealand offered some strong signals for hours. It remains to be seen what treasures are hidden in my recordings from that afternoon.
To give an idea of how well AM stations can be heard in Aihkiniemi during the rare good conditions, here are a few examples recorded during AIH133.
Aurora like a green veil arching above the sky.
Alaskan stations are a rare treat for DXers just about anywhere in the world – except in the northern parts of the Nordic countries. And in Siberia, if there are any DXers there. Sometimes during the daylight hours KBRW (click the station names to open a sound file) from Barrow (officially called Utqiagvik) on 680 AM at a distance of 4,400 km can be the strongest station on the dial. During a solar storm, KBRW may however be totally inaudible for days.
Another classic station from Alaska is KJNP from "North Pole" (1170 AM), about 5,100 km away (BTW, the distance to the real North Pole would be less than half of that). Hearing it is always quite nostalgic, because the station ID has remained the same for decades, and back in 2007 I even visited the station during a reporting assignment in Alaska.
Here's one more Alaskan station, KAGV (1110 AM). Two years ago I made a video, which demonstrates the sound quality of stations from Alaska and Hawaii. There are also other videos from Aihkiniemi on my YouTube channel, and especially this one is a must for anyone interested in knowing more about Aihkiniemi.
Landscape around an antenna pointing at 46 degrees.
Yes, Hawaii, another pretty exclusive treat for most AM DXers. Here are samples of KLHT Honolulu (1040 AM), KKEA (1420 AM), and KREA (1540 AM), and my favorite, thanks to its fabulous Hawaiian format, KKNE (940 AM). I sometimes listen to this station just for fun, if nothing new can be heard. All of these Hawaiian stations are located almost 10,000 km away.
To put this into perspective, these aren't everyday stations even here. But as we do have a 1-km-long Beverage antenna pointing north toward Alaska and Hawaii, when the ionosphere cooperates, the results can be pretty neat.
What if a solar storm hits? During much of AIH133 conditions were quite disturbed. This is usually the best time to look for stations direct south. Here's a sample of Rádio Moçambique with local programming from Cabo Delgado (1224 AM), about 9,200 km away.
An urgent but easy repair task: Remove the fallen branch to let the antenna rise back up. Reindeer tracks on the left.
And here's another station from the same direction, Radio Free Africa (1377 AM) from Mwanza in Tanzania, about 8,000 km away.
And of course we listen to a lot of Asian stations. DXers here tend to be picky when identifying stations. Whenever a local station ID can be heard at some point, it is the preferred option to identify the station. It can take years to hear it at the rare moment when a local ID is announced, but it is much more rewarding. Here's an example from Thailand. The national broadcaster's regional outlet in Phitsanulok (1026 AM) giving a local ID just before sign-off.
Waiting for a local ID has the added benefit that you can distinguish between different local transmitters on the same frequency. This applies especially to NHK stations in Japan. We always want to catch a local ID before sending a reception report to an NHK station.
DXing solo has its benefits – less cramped in the cabin.
Even a rare target feels twice as good when you happen to hear a local ID. Newstalk ZB is a nationwide network in New Zealand, but occasionally it airs local breaks for local commercial spots. Here's the "most common" (although, no Kiwi can really be considered common at a distance of over 16,000 km) Newstalk ZB station from Wellington on 1035 AM, recorded during AIH133.
None of the above stations are personally new catches, so they are not listed in the AIH133 DXpedition Log. It would be just too much work to start listing all the hundreds and hundreds of more or less regular catches, but I still thought that these examples would be interesting enough to post here as representative samples of what can normally be heard in Aihkiniemi. Even a newcomer can expect to hear these stations and hundreds more in Aihkiniemi, if only one knows which of the 14 available Beverage antennas is the smartest choice at any given time, and if the solar weather is at least moderately favorable. And actually I made an exception for North America, listing also the more common stations by call letters in the log. This highlights how many regular catches are encountered when chasing for rarities.
Click the image to open the video about antenna cleaning on YouTube.
Overall, DXing in a location above the Arctic Circle is much more exciting than on lower latitudes. The AM band can change wildly from total silence to a great opening and back. Each day and night are different. That's what makes DXing in the Arctic highly addictive.
And finally, an educational video. If you ever think of DXing in Aihkiniemi, you need to take into account that it is physically hard labor, meaning you need to be fit. We expect every DX crew to check the Beverage antennas – since we prefer to catch radio stations to catching moose and reindeer. In the winter it means walking in deep snow on difficult terrain, and cleaning the wires of snow and ice.
Traditionally I have kept a detailed diary of developments on the dial, but this time it was more superficial. Here's a brief summary of propagation conditions day by day based on my rudimentary observations:
This is where our antenna at 46 degrees ends. Next stop: Hokkaido.
I had my receivers set up well before NHK2 sign-off at 1540 UTC. I noticed a few semi-rare stations, but no personal new ones. Some common Brazilian stations were heard after 2200 UTC.
Pretty good conditions to Brazil around 2200–0100 and again at 0400–0500 UTC, followed by the Pacific Northwest at dawn. My best catch was KAFY Bakersfield CA 1100 AM, previously unheard in Finland, and presumably running on daytime power through the night.
North American stations faded out by 0800 UTC. Some common Pacific stations during the day (such as Tonga 1017 AM, V7AB 1098 AM, and a few Kiwis around 1130-1230 UTC). Plenty of Thai stations around 1700 UTC, their typical closing time. Geomagnetic instability was reflected in the strong showing of some common African stations in the evening.
My icy appearance after a couple of hours of cleaning antennas.
Some Brazilian and Argentinian stations persisted quite long, until 0700 UTC. In the afternoon around 1400 UTC Hawaiian and Alaskan stations were pretty strong, and I was happy to nail the latest newcomer, KABN from Kenai on 960 AM. According to the Finnish DX Association rules, KABN counts as the same station as KKEN 980 AM, which I heard and verified in the late 80's, but nevertheless it was nice to hear that long dormant AM licenses can still be revived and returned on the air.
A little bit of everything. For North America, the focus shifted from the Great Lakes at 0600 UTC to the Pacific Nortwest by 0700 UTC. KSAM Whitefish MT on 1240 AM was a welcome new station for me. A couple of strong New Zealand stations in the afternoon, and NHK2 stations strong at 1540 UTC. In the evening, NHK1 was good at 2000 UTC, and WLQV Detroit MI 1500 AM was audible from 2055 UTC, two hours before local sunset. Still no real daytimers noted.
Nighttime magic in moonlight over the road to Aihkiniemi.
Overnight propagation was poor, but there was a modest peak in the morning around 0600–0700 UTC. North American signals made a decent comeback around 1300-1400 UTC, after which it was time to focus on Asia. Japanese NHK2 stations happened to be strong at the sign-off time of 1540 UTC, and this very narrow window of opportunity (local identifications can be heard only twice in 24 hours) resulted in two new catches.
The morning peak by North American stations was better than on previous days, and stations were heard on every frequency down to the lower end of the dial. It was also a welcome change to hear stations from New England, although no new ones. During the day the focus was – as usual – on the Pacific Northwest, especially Oregon. The last stations from the west faded out after 1400 UTC, when Asian stations were already quite strong. Many Thai stations were heard already around 1300 UTC and Newstalk ZB from Wellington (1035 AM) was strong around 1200 UTC.
Päivi Tahkokallio and Antti Kokkonen welcomed me over for a fabulous dinner at their stylish cottage in Partakko.
In the evening the AM band seemed to be full of stations from the Middle East, so it was a perfect timing to take a break from DXing and visit the stylish vacation home of Antti Kokkonen and Päivi Tahkokallio in the nearby village of Partakko. Antti is a colleague, he used to work as journalist at Yle, but nowadays he is the editor-in-chief of a regional newspaper, Lapin Kansa. We enjoyed sauna and a dip in the frozen Lake Inari. Antti smoked whitefish which he had caught from near the cabin in the fall. Topped off with smoked reindeer, this feast was truly made of local delicacies.
Both Antti and Päivi visited Aihkiniemi earlier in the afternoon. Antti later sent two journalists from his newspaper to cover the phenomenon of AM DXing in Aihkiniemi. They interviewed Jari Sinisalo, who arrived in Aihkiniemi right after me. Without subscribing, you can at least enjoy the drone view on the Lapin Kansa website.
During the night and in the morning reception was erratic and mostly lousy from all directions. North American stations peaked briefly at 0100 UTC, then all but vanished before reappearing around 0500 UTC. Stations faded out around 0700 UTC, and only the strongest ones from the Pacific Northwest were detected at times during the day.
Thanks to Antti, my best dinner was fillets of locally caught whitefish.
I began recording stations from the Eastern Hemisphere just before 1400 UTC. It is quite late, considering this is still fairly close to mid-winter. Surprisingly, Newstalk ZB was heard on and off during all afternoon, showing up as late as 1730 UTC, which was close to dawn in New Zealand. Some common Aussie stations were strong, such as ABC Radio National from Western Australia (1269 AM) at 1900 UTC, but at least initially I didn't find anything personally new.
Very few North American stations were audible overnight, but that was well compensated by the strong showing of stations from Brazil and Argentina. Listening live I happened to pick up La Primera from Neuquen (550 AM), thanks to our 270-degree-wire, which works very well for Argentina in the lower end of the dial. South American stations faded out just before 0700 UTC, and then the AM band was free for North American stations. Signal levels were modest, but at least stations didn't vanish right after dawn like on most previous days – they nosedived a bit later, just before 0900 UTC. Tonga and New Zealand emerged much earlier than before, at 1000 UTC, but this outburst turned out to be short, and after 1100 UTC there was hardly anything audible from either east or west.
I had to wait until 1400 UTC to get a wider selection of signals from the east. The usual suspects from the Southern Pacific were noted as well (Gold FM on 990 AM and Newstalk ZB on 1035 AM). Interestingly, Magic on 1107 AM was heard for the first time already at 1000 UTC and the last Kiwi around 1500 UTC, but still the number of stations was extremely limited.
The surrounding area is not a nature reserve, but fortunately massive old – and even dead – pine trees are still left standing.
During the night Brazilian stations emerged after 2200 UTC, and Argentinian stations followed after local nightfall. These stations peaked nicely around 0600 UTC, but afterwards only some weak signals from North America were heard. For many hours during the day, the AM band was completely devoid of stations, possibly apart from NRK Svalbard on 1485 AM and the UK on 693 AM.
Asian stations were remarkably slow to rise so that I ended up recording them only after 1530 UTC when it was already pitch dark here. Especially Chinese stations remained on the dial through the evening, but I found no new ones.
During the night a handful of Brazilian stations emerged after darkness fell, starting from the northeastern corner of the country. North American stations took longer to appear, but the Great Lakes area was dominating the dial after midnight UTC. Reception gradually improved at daybreak, but the eastern half the U.S. vanished fast in daylight. What remained were the typical stations from Washington, Oregon, Idaho and California.
Between the laptops is my antenna switcher. A Perseus receiver can be partly seen to the right of it, behind the second laptop. Perseus is the black box with a green led. The mess of wires above is where the coax cables come to the cabin.
The sun and consequently the magnetic field were calm for a change, manifested on the AM dial by the early arrival of East Asian stations. I noticed the first NHK stations soon after 0900 UTC, and V7AB (1098 AM) was heard for hours. Plenty of Chinese stations were heard for hours as well, and loads of Asian stations throughout the evening. Despite the generally good feeling on the dial, I didn't instantly make any personally new catches.
Still no daytimers during the early hours of the night, but before I went to sleep, I was happy to note the strong showing of Harbour Light (1400 AM) and some other Caribbean stations. For a change I didn't leave two antennas recording North America, but chose one (at 291 degrees) pointing to the Caribbean. Time will tell if there is anything. In any case, the morning hours offered a very nice opening to the U.S. East Coast, especially to New England. Personally new catches included stations like WXME 780 AM, WURD 900 AM, and WLIS 1420 AM. WRNY Rome NY (1350 AM) posted about my reception on its Facebook page, and WHZP Veazie ME (1400 AM) wrote a nice piece on its website. The aurora photos seem to make an impression whenever I send them along with my reception report.
Coastal stations remained on the dial until 1000 UTC, and finally I also nailed the most coveted U.S. station of the season, the Hudson County NJ TIS station WQFG689 on 1710 AM, with remarkable reception quality. The last hour of the opening was most interesting, and that's when I even identified a couple of Nicaraguan AM stations, Nueva Radio Ya on 600 AM and Radio La Sandino on 740 AM, the latter of which probably hasn't been heard in Finland before.
Beard moss requires clean air to grow like this. The air in this part of Lapland is the cleanest in the European Union.
Japanese and some common Pacific stations appeared briefly around 1000-1100 UTC, followed by a lull of several hours, when nothing much was heard from anywhere. The common Pacific Northwest was there, and from before 1500 UTC also Asian stations, but opening first to Iran and the Middle East, which wasn't very thrilling. In the evening I happened to catch live RRI Nabire on 729 AM, a long-sought target from Indonesia.
Stations from the U.S. East Coast were relatively strong in the wee hours of the night, but already before daybreak stations from the Midwest were at least equally prominent. I heard some stations from the southern states, but there were no sensational openings to any particular region. Despite a brief weakening after sunrise, North American signals remained quite strong until about 1200 UTC, by that time focusing in the Pacific Northwest. Personal new ones included KLCL 1470 AM, KCTE 1510 AM, and WISP 1570 AM.
AIH133, signing off at 13 local time on February 13.
On the Eastern front the first stations appeared before 1000 UTC, but only at around 1100 UTC it was worth recording the AM band. Luckily the most common New Zealand stations were quite strong, and it remains to be seen if there are any new ones to be found. An interesting detail is that at 1850 UTC I noticed RNE1 stations with a local break, although just a couple of months ago this local break was only on RNE5. On Friday night I had the last sauna and cleaned the new cabin for Jari.
Saturday morning was markedly poorer than Friday, but I still identified a couple of personal new ones, KMRY Cedar Rapids IA (1450 AM) and WWBG Greensboro NC (1470 AM). I cleaned the cabin, packed my belongings, and in the afternoon at 13.20 local time (1120 UTC), I was on my way driving south.
This Saturday happened to be World Radio Day, and I was asked to join live by phone on DYHB Bacolod (747 AM) in the Philippines, explaining what this radio hobby is all about. I was put on the air as soon as I left Aihkiniemi, and thanks to handsfree, racked up miles at the same time.
A slice of light
Driving south was like emerging from a barrel or a cave. Suddenly there's this whole world around me again, instead of me just listening to the airwaves day after day. Time to reflect on the past two weeks, reminisce about DXing, and muse about life in general – as there once again seems to be more to life than just DXing. As gloomy as the pandemic situation looks like, this escape proved to be a really welcome change, breaking up the monotony of identical days and weeks in the home office.
Probably for the first time ever, I didn't spot a single reindeer along the way. The weather was crisp and sunny, and apart from a couple of photo opportunities close to the Saariselkä ski resort, I drove straight down to Rovaniemi. That's where I got a hamburger at Hesburger, drove my car on the train, and met Hannu Tikkanen, who had been DXing in Lemmenjoki for the previous week. Rovaniemi offered a rare opportunity to socialize in a relatively COVID-free environment, at least compared to the capital region where we were headed. The train departed well behind its schedule, but on a return trip it doesn't matter. And unwinding over a couple of beers at the restaurant of the Rovaniemi railway station, who cares.
So, how well do working and DXing mix? If propagation conditions are at least mediocre, it soon becomes tough to handle both well, especially as antenna maintenance takes its toll. Still, I have no regrets about embarking on this remote work stint. Thanks to a few neat catches, AIH133 was well worth the trip.
Mika Mäkeläinen
Published on February 25, 2021 (slightly updated later)
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UNK women's basketball is undefeated. A big reason? Stingy defense
Gene Schinzel
UNK's Brooke Carlson averages 9.4 points and 5.8 rebounds in 19.4 minutes.
UNK ATHLETICS
A stingy defense helped UNK become one of the MIAA's top women's basketball teams last year.
That defense has been even better this season — and overall the Lopers could be, too.
Playing a conference-only schedule, UNK is off to an 8-0 start, allowing 50.1 points per game. No other MIAA team is allowing less than 58 per game.
"When you get continuity and you have players who have played together for two, three, four years, they tend to pick up where they left off the year before," said coach Carrie Eighmey, who returned everyone from last season's 26-6 team. "Defense is something that we can control with our effort and our energy. You can't always control whether the ball goes in the basket every night."
The Lopers have brought that defense to the floor every night. No opponent has scored more than 56 points and they also are among the Division II leaders in field-goal defense (33.8%) and 3-point defense (20.7%).
They opened the season with a 59-54 win over MIAA favorite Emporia State, which was ranked 11th in the preseason poll. Then last Saturday, UNK won 68-56 at No. 21 Central Missouri, snapping the Jennies' 18-game home winning streak. UNK's defense helped it outscore UCM 12-4 in the final 2:39.
Those wins helped vault the Lopers into the rankings. UNK received votes in the preseason Top 25, but jumped to No. 5 in the recent the D2SIDA poll.
"You can't get too high or too low in the MIAA because the next one on your schedule is going to be just as tough and just as important," Eighmey said. "It was a good win for us, but it just was another opponent for us to get better and keep moving our program in the right direction."
Elkhorn graduate Brooke Carlson paced the Lopers with 15 points and eight rebounds at UCM. The junior leads the team in scoring, though she's not in double figures — she averages 9.4 points and 5.8 rebounds in 19.4 minutes.
Depth is another Loper strength with 10 players averaging more than 11 minutes per game. Point guard Haley Simental averages 8.8 points and 3.5 assists; Council Bluffs Lewis Central grad Maegan Holt averages 8.1 points; Klaire Kirsch leads the team in rebounding (9.6) and steals (2.0).
"I think our team has bought in and they've embraced that it doesn't matter who gets it done as long as it gets done," Eighmey said.
UNK, atop the MIAA standings, returns home to play Missouri Western on Thursday and Northwest Missouri State on Saturday. The Lopers have had only one game postponed due to the pandemic so far, and Eighmey added that she likes how her the team handled the protocols.
"It's been a different year," Eighmey said. "I think the maturity of our team and their flexibility to take things as they come has helped."
Other Midlands notes
» The UNK men also will host Northwest Missouri on Saturday. The Bearcats lost 84-82 in overtime to Washburn last Thursday, which snapped their 28-game winning streak and 35-game homecourt run. Northwest was led that night by Lincoln East grad Wes Dreamer with 24 points.
» Omaha North graduate Anthony Laravie broke Doane's career 3-point record last Saturday. He has 258 3s, topping Brian Jakubowski's record set in 2004.
» The Nebraska Wesleyan men's basketball team was picked to finish second in the American Rivers Conference preseason poll. Wesleyan, which opens the season Jan. 20, has won the league the past four years.
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Tragedy kept Harry Kersenbrock, a 7-footer from Crete, from becoming a Jayhawk star
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Donald Trump Can't Merely Be Defeated—He and His Deplorables Must Be Crushed
Lesser of two evils? Hogwash. There's only one evil in this race, and it's the guy who makes white supremacists delirious. We must crush them.
Updated Apr. 13, 2017 2:17PM ET / Published Nov. 02, 2016 1:00AM ET
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It's not enough for Donald Trump to just lose this election. He must get crushed. Why? Simple, we need to send a message to Trump—as well as to the rest of our nation—that his sexism, bigotry, and racism have no place in America. And perhaps more importantly this would send a powerful message to Trump's white supremacist and anti-Semitic fans that we will not sit by as Trump mainstreams their hate.
Those are the stakes. Yet stunningly a Washington Post poll released Tuesday finds that enthusiasm among Hillary Clinton supporters is dropping given FBI director's James Comey's irresponsibly timed letter about emails found on Huma Abedin's computer.
Trump and the hate mongers of his base want you to lose enthusiasm. They hope good people sit home and let hate triumph. We can't allow that.
Let's be blunt: Trump has served up the most vile, despicable garbage we have seen from a major party presidential nominee ever. And that's not just my view but also people who have been active in politics for decades, such as Ralph Nader and Barney Frank, who shared that exact sentiment while guests on my SiriusXM radio show.
There's no moral equivalence between what Clinton has done—or even allegedly done—regarding emails and Trump's hate-filled fear mongering. Just on Sunday Trump claimed that Clinton would allow "650 million" immigrants "to pour" into our country. That is an absolute lie as noted by the nonpartisan Politifact. But the idea of keeping America a white majority country is red meat for Trump's xenophobic base.
In that same speech Trump went on to fear-monger about Muslims—something he has been doing since his lie last fall that "thousands" of Muslims cheered in New Jersey on 9/11. This time he claimed that allowing even one Syrian refugee in the country would mean "generations of terrorism" that soon will be "spreading to your schools and communities."
This type of rhetoric is nothing new for Trump. In fact literally day one of his campaign he began spewing hate when he lied that Mexico was sending rapists. Later he went on to mock a disabled reporter, claim that American-born Judge Gonzalo Curiel should be disqualified from presiding over the fraud lawsuit against Trump because he's a "Mexican," and defended his white supporters beating up a Black Lives Matter protester. He has claimed "Islam hates us," bragged about sexually assaulting women (in the Access Hollywood tape), and made sexist remarks about Megyn Kelly and Carly Fiorina.
And despicably, just 10 days ago he claimed that the 11 women who courageously came forward to report that Trump sexually assaulted them were "liars," telling a cheering crowd: "Every woman lied when they came forward to hurt my campaign."
Forget politics for a moment. Trump's attack on these women will no doubt make other women who are sexually assaulted less likely to come forward. Why? Well, if a major political candidate like Trump can call victims of sexual assault liars to the cheers of thousands of Americans, this sends a message to women across the nation that they may be subject to the same type of abuse.
Imagine a President Trump having the mantle of the presidency and demonizing minorities, stoking hate against Muslims, and shaming women. And if you are going to tell me he will change as president, you're being an apologist for his hate.
However, the most alarming aspect of this election is that Trump has emboldened the scum of our nation. I'm talking specifically the white supremacist and their ilk openly supporting Trump. These people have crawled out from the shadows thanks to Trump. On Tuesday the KKK's official paper dedicated its front page to express proud support for Trump noting he best represents the "white Christian Republic" they envision to make America great again.
On Monday one prominent white supremacist launched robocalls trying to help Trump in the battleground state of Utah by claiming conservative third party candidate Evan McMullin is gay. And in September other leaders of the white nationalist movement held a press conference in Washington, D.C., only blocks from the White House, where they expressed their support for Trump and their vision for making America a white homeland that will be free of Jews
These Jew-hating white supremacists have launched a wave of anti-Semitic attacks on social media. The Daily Beast's Jay Michaelson recently wrote about the Anti-Defamation League's report documenting the chilling rise in anti-Semitic tweets that the league connects to Trump's candidacy.
In fact, CNN's Jake Tapper noted Sunday while interviewing Trump's campaign manager Kellyanne Conway that a Trump supporter at a campaign event was yelling at the media "Jew-S-A." Tapper explained that anti-Semites and racists feel a "comfort level" with the Trump campaign yet Trump has alarmingly only responded with a pro forma "I disavow."
Tapper is 100 percent correct. Trump has shown no hesitation calling people like Senator Elizabeth Warren a "racist" and a "fraud" but has never used such harsh language to describe the anti-Semites and white supremacists supporting him. Indeed, when Trump was given a chance in May on CNN to point blank denounce the anti-Semitic attacks by his supporters on Jewish journalists who had criticized Trump, he responded "I have no message." Clearly Trump is sending them a message to stay on the Trump train.
Despite what some want you to believe, in the race between Trump and Clinton, Hillary is not the lesser of two evils. There's only one evil in this race and his name is Donald Trump. And we must unite to crush him come Election Day. Anything else will make Trump and his deplorables believe that their hateful views have a place in mainstream America. And we cannot let that happen.


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COVID-19 in NC: New case count sets record with nearly 45,000; another record number of patients in hospitals
by: Joedy McCreary
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RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — A data glitch led to a record number of new COVID-19 cases — nearly 45,000 of them — reported Thursday across North Carolina.
The state Department of Health and Human Services added 44,833 new cases to the quickly growing total with a disclaimer: Nearly 11,000 of those should have been recorded earlier this month.
As the omicron-driven wave continues, NCDHHS also reported a record number of patients in hospitals for the second straight day, with almost 4,300, and more than 30 percent of the most recent batch of tests confirming new cases.
NCDHHS also added its largest one-day increase in deaths since October, with those 87 pushing the total to 19,850 — just 150 shy of the 20,000 milestone.
The record case numbers we've seen routinely this month during the omicron surge actually turned out to be undercounts: NCDHHS says 10,791 new cases confirmed by the GENETWORx lab were not counted as they should have been between New Year's Eve and Tuesday.
Nevertheless, it's the sixth time this month that a single-day record was established, shattering the previous record of 29,069 set Saturday, and pushed the seven-day average to yet another record level.
The state averaged 26,812 new cases a day over the past week, reaching a record high for the 14th day in a row.
The patient count, which hit 4,000 for the first time Wednesday, continued its climb by surging to 4,275 following a daily increase of 177. The state has added more than 2,500 COVID patients to its hospitals in the past 2 1/2 weeks.
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3,993 second doses
231 single-shot J&J doses
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30,142 total doses
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RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – Between COVID-19 causing staff and product shortages and winter storm closures throughout January, Raleigh restaurants are not looking to shut down again this weekend.
Jason Smith, owner of Cantina 18, said the winter is traditionally a tougher time for small business owners.
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Officials from Virginia to Massachusetts rushed to declare snow emergencies, impose parking bans and restrict travel in advance of wet snow anticipated to fall as fast as 5 inches per hour.
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RAEFORD, N.C. (WNCN) -- Deputies in Hoke County say they nabbed three people after AR-15 style rifles were found in a car -- including one hidden in a suspect's pants.
The bust happened Wednesday when detectives made a traffic stop near the intersection of Turnpike and Mockingbird Hill roads, which is just outside Raeford, a news release from the Hoke County Sheriff's Office said.
NC man charged with child sex crimes after 10-year-old girl complains to dad, deputies say
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Q: Gradle build - not able to import org.json I have a problem where I'm trying to include org.json as a dependency in my gradle/spring boot project.  In my build.gradle I have
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    compile("org.json:json:20141113")
}

But in the editor window it looks like IntelliJ is not able to import org.json - it's unable to find the package

What's weird is that I can run the gradle 'build' task without errors in IntelliJ, and I can run
./gradlew clean build && java -jar build/libs/MyApp-0.1.0.jar

and it works fine.
Is this a 'fat jar' problem?  I'm not sure it is because org.json is definitely not in my class path on the command line.  Any advice appreciated.

A: I was able to successfully download json in my gradle dependencies:
implementation 'org.json:json:20171018'

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Steelfall – The Event Horizon (Raging Planet)
This 11-track album is the début by a Lisbon based Portuguese quintet who only formed last year. Stylistically they are quite an amalgamation of several genres, but lean rather heavily toward melodic death metal in a very Gothenburg way. Opening the album with the pretty intro "In The Dark" where David Pais whispers over the guitar that breaks into the "Open Your Eyes" riff played by Sérgio Melo and João Quintais containing both a rather heavy chromatic along with a melodious accompaniment, much like the way the clean vocals are followed by death growls then intertwined during the chorus before being drowned out by the lead solo.
Ricardo Reis's sharp snare punctuates his thumping kick drums in much the same way the David and Sérgio combine their vocals on "Your Betrayal" with the higher pitched clean being emphasised by the more guttural growls.
"Drowning In Hatred" starts off sounding as if it's going to be a brooding doom song before the drums kick in with a black metal tempo that completely throws you when they are reigned back in by the guitars allowing them the freedom to fill out the sound with plenty of rolls on the toms and cymbals.
The clean followed by death vocals on "The Unspoken" are used in a way that simulates a conversation between two very differently opining people, something the lead trade-offs continue to great effect.
The short choppy bursts of guitar on "This Fire Will Rise" sound more like rapid fireworks than the gentle flames that are the vocals as they lap up the pace and ignore any attempts to increase them.
"The Fall Of Man" opens off with a broody riff that doesn't any waste time keeping up as soon as the drums set off, but have no problem setting the tone once more as soon as they are able.
Far more soothing is "Far Away From You" with its steady rhythm, but ultra-melodic vocals that do not waver at all, even when the drums throw in the occasional blast.
"Ethereal" on the other hand is a straight up attack with Pedro Martinho's bass popping along to the kick drum as the clean and death vocals swap with the pace of the song.
The title track "The Event Horizon" is predominately-clean vocals with accompanying death, and clean for the chorus, rather than the other way around for a change.
Somehow, "No Time To Waste" has a far rockier upbeat feel than any of the other songs, and if it weren't for the odd sprinkling of death vocals, I'm pretty sure it could easily get plenty of radio play on commercial radio.
This is a really good album, with plenty of hooks to the songs that makes each listen highlight something new and interesting that you glossed over before.
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Vivian & Joshua's wedding at the Lodge at Torrey Pines in La Jolla!
Vivian: The toast my father gave. It was touching and wonderful. It meant so much to me when he said I'll always be his little girl and when he welcomed Josh into the family.
Joshua: Seeing Vivian for the first time in her wedding dress. She looked jaw-droppingly beautiful.
Vivian: Breathe. Don't let the little things get in the way and ruin the day.
Joshua: Try to relax and enjoy the moment, the day flew by after the ceremony.
Joshua: Watching Mochi, our dog flower girl, walk down the aisle with my nephew, Lucas, the ring bearer. It was very cute and she was pulling him as best as a small dog could.
Vivian: I would spend more time on the dance floor. I can't believe I missed Thriller and the Macarena!
Joshua: Not really, although the timeline might have been too packed I had fun with it all and in hindsight, I wouldn't want to take anything out.
Thanks to my older brother and his fiance, we've got a special mini honeymoon in Napa planned. Next year we've got an amazing trip planned for a cruise to Europe where we'll see the Greek Isles. Hopefully we'll spend some extra days in Barcelona and maybe see some other parts of Italy or France.


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The Southernmost Portion of the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro (Road to Santa Fe).
Rare map showing the southernmost portion of the Camino Real, proceeding north from the outskirts of Mexico City toward Santa Fe.
The map is oriented with east at the top and tracks the various towns, haciendas, and topographical features along the route. The haciendas and settlements are shown in minute detail, making the map of use to historians wishing to understand the layout of pueblos and other multi-building sites. One detail of note is at the southern (right) side of the map. A small building marked "peage" is placed next to the road. This is where travelers would have to pay the peaje, or toll, to continue north.
This map was published as part of the new Ministerio de Fomento, which was founded in 1853 to oversee public works and development projects and was headed by Manuel Siliceo. When this map was issued in ca. 1857, Siliceo was in active opposition to the new Constitution of 1857 and would soon help draft the Plan of Tacubaya and play a prominent role in the Reform Wars (1858-1860).
This is apparently one of—if not the—earliest attempt to document the route by the Mexican Government and coincides with a more general increase in government mapping in the mid-nineteenth century.
The Camino Real de Tierra Adentro
The Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, also known as the Camino a Santa Fe, was an 1,800-mile-long commercial route that ran from Mexico City to the city of Santa Fe, New Mexico. It was in constant use between the mid-sixteenth century and the nineteenth centuries.
In the central portion of the route, important silver deposits were found; the portion of the road that connected Mexico City with these deposits in Zacatecas was called the Ruta de la Plata, or the Camino de la Plata. However, all of the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro is sometimes also referred to by this name, as the entire route had access to multiple mining areas and cities in New Spain.
The route started from Mexico City and passed through important cities such as Queretaro, Guanajuato, Aguascalientes, San Luis Potosi, Zacatecas, Durango, Chihuahua, and Ciudad Juárez. It extended to El Paso in Texas and Las Cruces and Albuquerque in New Mexico before arriving in Santa Fe.
This road was used to transport silver extracted from the mines of Zacatecas, Guanajuato and San Luis Potosí, as well as mercury imported from Europe. It also allowed for the development of a travel economy based on hostels, inns and haciendas.
Today, the Camino still has a presence thanks to its important heritage forged over three centuries. There are archives, works of religious and civil art, musical events and festivities, culinary culture and oral traditions all centered around the Camino.
The largest settlement shown on this map is Cuautitlán, a city in the state of Mexico, just north of the Distrito Federal within the Greater Mexico City area. The smaller settlement has been largely engulfed by the megacity, making the two synonymous today. The name comes from Nahuatl and means "between the trees." Originally, the town was a Chichimeca settlement, founded in the fourteenth century. It was then overseen by the Tlacopan and then conquered by the Aztecs, hence the Nahuatl name.
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Pas-kaart Van de Golff de Guanaios Met 't Canaal Tusschen Yucatan en I. Cuba . . .
Fine old color example of Van Keulen's sea chart of the Yucatan and Vicinity, including Cozumel, and parts of the Coast of Belize, Nicaragua, Honduras and the western part of Cuba, from De Nieuwe Groote Lichtende Zee-Fakkel . . . .
A Map of the West Indies and of the Mexican Gulph. | Carte des Indes Occidentales et du Golfe du Mexique.
This is a rare separately issued map of the Gulf Coast and the Caribbean by Tardieu. The map was issued shortly after the Louisiana Purchase (1803) and the creation of the Mississippi Territory (1804). The map demonstrates the remarkably fine engraving characteristic of Tardieu's maps.


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Soldiers carry the photograph of former Indonesian Military Commander General Djoko Santoso during his funeral at the San Diego Hills Memorial Park in Karawang, West Java, on Sunday. Djoko died from stroke at the army's hospital earlier in the morning. (Antara Photo/M Ibnu Chazar)
Former Indonesian Military Chief Djoko Santoso Dies at 67
BY :YEREMIA SUKOYO
Jakarta. Former Indonesian Military (TNI) commander Gen. (ret) Djoko Santoso, who has led the campaign team of presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto last year, died from stroke on Sunday morning, after spending nine days at hospital. He was 67.
Djoko was admitted to the Gatot Soebroto Army Hospital in Central Jakarta on May 2 after suffering a stroke, the hospital said.
"He died after a severe stroke, not from Covid-19," hospital's deputy chairman Dr. Budi Sulistya said.
Djoko, who took command of the military in 2007-2010 during the Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono presidency, died at around 6.30 a.m. and was buried in full military honors at San Diego Hills public cemetery in Karawang, West Java, in the afternoon.
"He actually reserves the right for a burial at the Kalibata Heroes' Cemetery, but the next of kin wanted the funeral to be at San Diego Hills," Budi said.
The Indonesian flag flew at half-mast at all military offices on Sunday to honor Djoko.
"To show our respect and deepest condolence to the passing of General Djoko Santoso, all military units have been ordered to fly the flag at half-mast," Col. Nefra Firdaus, a spokesman for the Army, said. The order is in place for a week.
TNI Commander Air Chief Marshal Hadi Tjahjanto led the funeral ceremony, which was held under strict health protocol due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The number of military personnel in the funeral was reduced to 40 from normally 120.
Post-military career, Djoko took a political path by joining the Great Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra) and led the campaign team of Prabowo, who ultimately lost the presidential election to Joko Widodo.
Djoko Santoso
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26 Years Of Baazigar: Kajol Celebrates It With Not So 'Kaali Kaali Aankhen'
Featuring Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol and Shilpa Shetty in the lead roles, Baazigar was directed by Abbas-Mustan.
The 1993 Diwali release "Baazigar" was one of Shah Rukh Khan's earliest blockbusters. Abbas-Mustan's thriller, co-starring Kajol and Shilpa Shetty, is still remembered for the dialogue "Haar kar jeetne waale ko baazigar kehte hai" and its music, besides SRK's iconic antihero avatar.
And now, as Baazigar completes 26 years of release today, Kajol shared a quirky boomerang video on her Instagram handle, ushering a massive wave of nostalgia.
In the video, Kajol is seen winking her left eye to the beats of the film's superhit song, Yeh kaali kaali aankhein and has captioned the video with"Oops! still don't have black eyes… #26YearsOfBaazigar."
Oops! still don't have black eyes ? ? #26YearsOfBaazigar
A post shared by Kajol Devgan (@kajol) on Nov 11, 2019 at 10:17pm PST
Baazigar was the first of many blockbusters that SRK and Kajol would see at the box-office over the years to come, and what's more is that the film also marked Shilpa Shetty's Bollywood debut.
The film is broadly based on a 1991 British thriller titled "A Kiss Before Dying".
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The film also featured Rakhee and Johnny Lever in pivotal roles.
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Wayne: "2018 was good, but 2019 will be better. The rider list includes Beaubier, Elias, Gerloff, Herrin, Beach and Scholtz, the strongest since we began"
The engines are off and Wayne Rainey is chomping at the bit.
The three-time 500 class world champion and current president of MotoAmerica can't wait for the season to start, putting an end to the short winter hibernation period, so he can enjoy the show on the track.
Supersport will again be hard fought. Just when Hayden Gillim might have thought things would get easier with his friend Beach moving to Superbike, along comes word that PJ Jacobsen will be doing the series on a Celtic Racing/HSBK Racing Yamaha. As is always the case with racing, there's always someone who is going to step up and compete, and those two likely won't have it all their way.
Wayne is also thinking first and foremost about the paying public, the fans who come out to watch the races.


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I am not running any kind of business, I am a hobbyist sharing with others what I make for my own home and asking for costs to be covered in exchange. You do not need to pick up the soap I can bring it to any public place near you.
I put the soap in milk jugs that have only been used once, They are food grade. But, many people have offered to give the bottles back and that grade of plastic is not recommended for more than a few re-uses. So please recycle the bottles along with your other recyclables.
I make homemade laundry soap for my friends and family. But I think your family deserves to be healthy and happy too.
I make a large batch recipe so there is plenty to share. I ask for enough to cover the cost.
I am also very willing to barter for local honey, eggs, fruits, vegetables, cheese, etc.
I do not add a ton of Glycerin to the mix. So shaking the bottle is really important.
If you have physical limitations that make it difficult to shake the gallon Jug, please let me know and I will fill smaller containers for you.
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The European Union has gained member-state approval for an agreement setting the terms of the United Kingdom's exit from the bloc. But it is still unclear whether a majority of British parliamentarians will approve the deal, given that it appears to leave decision-making power over British affairs in European hands.
One can reasonably assume that the agreement will be rejected by hardline Brexiteers, who see it as even less satisfactory than the status quo. And there are of course plenty of Remainers who oppose Brexit in any form. Yet, for all of its flaws, the Brexit that Prime Minister Theresa May has negotiated with the EU is likely to happen.
A reversal of the exit process is now highly improbable. Brexit constitutes a revolution, and that means it is bound to follow a familiar historical pattern. As many French learned after 1789, and many Russians after 1917, revolutions can be neither ignored nor stopped.
To be sure, the Brexit revolution has been unfolding in a country with little revolutionary tradition. British legal experts take pride in the fact that their country's constitutional order evolved gradually over time, rather than through the kind of dramatic political ruptures that have shaped so much continental European history.
But the June 2016 referendum put an end to that strain of British exceptionalism. The vote to leave signaled, ironically, that Britain had finally caught up with the rest of Europe. At a time when most Europeans want security and stability, a narrow majority of Britons decided to do something wild and unpredictable.
Some historians see precursors to Brexit in the UK's September 1931 departure from the gold standard, or in its September 1992 withdrawal from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism. But Brexit is not merely about ending a monetary regime – a relatively easy operation that can even produce beneficial policy outcomes – or escaping some irritating feature of modern European political life. Brexit represents a systemic overhaul of everything at the same time.
After decades of membership in the European regulatory regime, achieving a clean break will require a tedious and complicated rewriting of innumerable rules. Even the smallest mistake might lead to devastating unintended consequences. For example, overlooked loopholes could open the door for dangerous or predatory practices; and, more broadly, ambiguous language could render the entire framework senseless or self-contradictory.
Put another way, the whole exercise is analogous to designing a new word-processing program from scratch. Any rational person would soon realize that it is better just to stick with the status quo. But the logic of revolution makes such reversals impossible.
Most of the arguments in favour of Brexit assume a traditional conception of sovereignty, and are grounded in English – rather than British – history. Brexiteers look back fondly at King John's defiance of Pope Innocent III in the thirteenth century. And they are even more smitten with the Tudor era, when Henry VIII wrested the Church of England from the yoke of papal authority. To this day, the Tudors enjoy a near-ubiquitous presence in British textbooks, media, films, and the popular imagination.
The defining moment of the Henrician Reformation came in April 1533, when the Parliament of England passed the Ecclesiastical Appeals Act, giving Henry the final word on all legal and religious questions. The point of the law was to free England from the authority of a papacy that answered to Charles I of Spain – that is, Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire. As long as Charles called the shots in Rome, Henry would not be able to divorce Charles's aunt, Catherine of Aragon.
Contained in the Appeals Act is the first clear legislative definition of sovereignty. "This realm of England," the law states, "is an Empire, and so hath been accepted in the world, governed by one Supreme Head and King..." But as is always the case, the measures that launched the revolution were incomplete. The laws that Parliament adopted in the 1530s did not replace Catholicism with Protestantism. But they did pave the way for religious reformers to carry the revolution into its next phase.
Still, there was much disagreement among Protestants when it came to the shape of reform. Would the revolution follow the teachings of Luther, Zwingli, or Calvin, or would it embrace an even more radical vision? In the event, different factions pushed for different approaches, and frequent and abrupt reversals were common. The man who drafted the original Appeals Act, Thomas Cromwell, was executed in 1540 on orders from the king; the architect of the English Reformation, Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, was burned at the stake in 1556.
During the 1547-1553 reign of Henry's son, Edward VI, revolutionary momentum carried England definitively in a Protestant direction. But, as the historian Eamon Duffy notes, with the systematic "stripping of the altars" throughout this period, many English subjects experienced dislocation and alienation. A great nostalgia for the old order took hold of the body politic, and after Edward's death, his sister, Mary I, set about reversing the process.
Counter-revolution, however, requires just as radical an approach as does revolution. As the English state resorted to increasingly brutal and barbaric measures, many English subjects concluded that the counter-reformation was itself deeply flawed. After Mary's death, Elizabeth I would eventually institute a compromise. But, with many theological issues left unresolved, the Reformation continued to cycle through violent revolutions and reversals for decades. It took at least a generation before the conflict subsided.
For his part, Henry VIII had always wanted to be interred in an enormous celebratory tomb where (Catholic) masses would be said in perpetuity. Neither wish was honored. The best that Britain could do was simply to forget and move on.


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Q: Cannot trigger an applescript by ssh to a network mac I face a vexing problem on my home set-up involving a Server mac advising a Client mac that a task (a back-up task) was successfully implemented. The purpose of this instruction is to trigger (through the Client mac automation software) the shut down of the backup disk power supply, to save energy. Both macs are running high Sierra and the Client mac must run the following applescript upon receipt of the appropriate instruction from Server (xtension.app is a home automation software having applescript interface but no shell script interface).
sPowerDownD2.scpt ("apple_script")
Tell application "xTension"
execute script "TurnOffD2"
end Tell

The above applescript, located in any directory of the Client mac, works when addressed manually and locally: I can trigger it (1) locally on the Client mac by hand on the applescript or (2) it works  by a local manual command to a shell script located in a directory of the same Client mac the job of which being to trigger the applescript or (3) by the below line of command in terminal ("shellScript") .
osascript /path_to_apple_script/apple_script
To trigger the applescript from the Server mac (away from the Client mac), I have first tested a ssh shell script having root privileges on both machines
ssh -i /var/root/.ssh/jxxxxxx_rsa root@iMacdexTension.local
This script works when requested to execute simple tasks on the Client mac (like listing files seen in a directory), but fails when used to trigger the applescript above, directly using osascript or indirectly.
Example: any attempt to indirectly trigger the applescript through a shell script command fails.
ssh -i /var/root/.ssh/jxxxxxx_rsa root@iMacdexTension.local /path_to_shellScript/shellScript
ERROR MESSAGE ON FAILURE
It fails with the error code : "execution error: An error of type -10829 has occurred. (-10829)
Second example: any attempt to directly trigger the applescript also fails.
ssh -i /var/root/.ssh/jxxxxxx_rsa root@iMacdexTension.local osascript /path_to_apple_script/apple_script

MY ATTEMPTS TO CORRECT
I have verified permissions on files and directories (tried different combinations as well)
I also have tried to correct possible privilege issues and, to do that, tried to use the recommended shell commmand
password "pswd" with administrator privileges
Whatever I do, the best I can get is the -10829 error message..
What could I do wrong ?
Thanks in advance for any suggestion or doubt.

A: Graphical User Session
The AppleScript is not being run within the active graphical user session and thus can not access the WindowServer. This is required for Open Scripting Architecture (OSA) languages to interact with graphical applications.
If you can perform your script without needing to interact with a graphical application, an ssh initiated approach can work.
Otherwise, consider a third party tool, such as Power Manager, which can run scripts as the active user. I am an engineer behind Power Manager, so feel free to get in touch and ask any technical questions about how it works.


My husband and I did this for the kids. By which I mean we committed ourselves to this house and the onerous mortgage that comes with it for the sake of both of them.
When Ern and I got married, we bought a three-room flat at Holland Avenue. It was cheap compared to what our friends were getting. It cost less than a fifth of what Meredith paid for her condo (which was all the way in Woodlands). Plus we received a Government housing grant. Thirty thousand dollars and another ten for staying near his parents. That gave us spare money to do some renovations, and buy some nice things for the house. There was no pressure on us. Ern is easy going. We both come from modest families so it seemed extravagant to go for anything other than public housing. Plus we were in the heart of Holland Village. With its expatriate chic, the place was as close to perfect as we could get.
After we had Qi Qi, Ern decided that we needed to move. We had already bought a car by then so we needed to be realistic about our mortgage commitments. We ought to have bought a Toyota Corolla as planned but Ern who was promoted in that same year thought that it was too sia suay for him to do so. The second-hand continental car we got eventually gave us more problems than we bargained for.
I recall a quarrel we had one night when we were having dinner at that charcoal claypot place in Geylang. People were all staring at us. It was over our present house. It's not cheap. And the conservancy charges are a killer. I know that Ern wanted it because of its "District 11" cachet or whatever. But he never admitted it. He stuck to the reason that it was good value for the location. It's close to Bukit Timah Hill and "how many hills are there in Singapore"?
Ern also said that it was good for the kids to be near nature. They would not grow up in a concrete jungle like we did. What he did was underhand. Once he used the children in his reasoning, it was difficult for me to argue.
If I argued with him, it would seem like I did not want the best for the kids. Which I did. I mean, I do.
I'm already resigned to the fact that the condominium apartment that my family and I reside in is one of the branches of zoos operated by Mother Nature. Apart from the nightly adventures of the lizards who happily slither around the walls and the dining room table and the cockroaches that roam the toilets and the kitchen, we've been visited by rats, moths and the occasional cat. A few nights ago my brother was watching television when he saw a cat casually stroll past him as though it lives here. We do not own a cat. And on Sunday night, I had to evict a slug by scooping it up on a page torn from Pioneer magazine and placing it onto a leaf outside. The zoo-like impression is reinforced by the presence of many trees, shrubbery, and a fake river directly outside our window.
Just now I was reading in bed when my mother asked me to help her with something. Apparently a lizard had been motionless on a wall in the living room since 6:45 a.m. (that's when my mother wakes up) and she thought that it was dead. She wanted me to remove it since it was out of her reach. I stood on the couch and cautiously poked the motionless creature with a roll of newspapers.
I still wasn't sure it was dead. So I poked it some more. Still no reaction. I turned to look at its eyes, which wasn't very helpful since I had no idea what a living lizard's eyes looked like.
I eventually resorted to using an umbrella. With a few hard pokes, the inert creature fell off the wall and onto a table on its back. It was definitely dead and looked kind of grotesque with its small hands and legs spread open wide as though it was protesting the undignified way in which I was administering its last rites. At first I thought of using a pair of scissors to extract the lizard from the table, but my mother said why not just use the newspaper? So I used it to push the deceased lizard into a plastic bag and threw it down the chute.
For one brief moment, I thought of sending the lizard to the people upstairs who are always throwing cigarette butts down onto the grass of our garden. But then I have no idea who they are.


This is how I look on a part of Sunday morning.
I am having problems in deciding if the small word between "edrych" and "rhan" is "ar" or "o'r".
o'r translates to "of the"
Maybe there are clues in the photo.
Diolch. 'Tref' is 18 or so and looks as if has just been woken up from his sleep on a curtained off bed in an outbuilding with straw on the floor and the sun visible through holes in the roof. So I'd guess 'on a Sunday morning' would be appropriate - the meaning would seem to be 'first thing on a Sunday morning'.


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