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The Mývatn region is a world of adventure and natural wonders. Among places of particular interest are Dimmuborgir (Dark Castles), volcanic rock formations to the east of the lake. The area is characterised by numerous forms of mystery and imagination, carved in lava. The road to Dimmuborgir is by Geiteyjarströnd farm, 8 km south of village Reykjahlíð. A service centre with bathroom facilities store and a restaurant is located in the parking lot overlooking this magnificent nature pearl.
The Mývatn area is right on the boundaries between the American and the Eurasian tectonic plates which are drifting apart, causing the high volcanic activity in the area. Dimmuborgir were created in about 2300 years ago the violent throes of an extensive volcanic eruption. Tremendous volume of lava flowed from a 12 km long fissure south of Hverfjall (Hverfell) and ran through Laxárdalur and Aðaldalur valleys all the way down to sea in Skjálfandi bay.
Geologists believe that during this eruption something blocked the flow of lava causing the formation of a lake of lava. As the lava in the lake had started to solidify the blockage gave way and the molten lava flowed out leaving behind the parts which had solidified. These unique conditions created geological formations which have not been found above water anywhere else in the world.
There are a number of well marked walking trails in Dimmuborgir of different lenths and level of difficulty, so everyone should find one that suits their need. The Little Circle walk takes only 15-20 minutes and the Big Circle about half an hour. Krókastígur, the Crooked Path, is a little more demanding walk which takes about 40 minutes. The Church Path, leads to the best known formation in Dimmuborgir which is a cave open at both ends with a high dome-shaped roof, appropriately named the Church.
In recent years, there has been concern about the landscape and flora of Dimmuborgir being threatened by build up of sand due to erosion east of Mývatn. In order to combat this, soil conservation is ongoing. The erosion and the soil conservation are clearly evident from the Mellandahringur trail which extends from the Church Path and takes an additional half hour.
The Icelandic Yule Lads
Dimmuborgir are an enchanting area to explore on a nice summer day. Visiting Dimmuborgir at Christmas time, however, is truly magical. The landscape takes on a different look in its winter garb and that is the time when the Icelandic Yule Lads who reside in Dimmuborgir become active. Visiting them in their natural habitat is an unforgettable experience children of all ages.
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Protestors Escalate Violence to Bodily Harm
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The turmoil in Dominica continues as constituents of Salisbury, an Opposition stronghold on the west of the island have escalated the violence related to protest action.
The highway has been blocked and re-barred since Monday December 2 when the leader of the Opposition, Lennox Linton and former Prime Minister Edison James were allegedly issued bench warrants following failure to appear in court for a pending matter.
Over the past few days the violence has also escalated in the communities of Marigot on the east, a seat held by the leader of the Opposition.
The road blockages have been cleared but reports of stones being hurled at commuters passing through Salisbury on Thursday morning and travellers being extorted on their way to and from the Douglas-Charles airport near Marigot have surfaced on social media.
The police have released tear gas in the communities and in one video, one protestor is seen with a leg injury. The recording suggests he had been shot.
Seaborne Airlines cancelled Wednesday's evening flight and passengers travelling to and from the Douglas-Charles Airport are reportedly harassed, abused, pelted with stones and extorted. Unable to drive through roadblocks, video shows travellers lugging suitcases on footpaths to get to the airport.
Hon skerrit says the work of years of building Dominica's brand is being destroyed in a matter of days by one group.
Last night, December 4, the Prime Minister addressed the nation saying that "the lawlessness shall end and it shall not be permitted to interfere in the democratic expression of will by registered electors in this country".
The Regional Security System is here on island to assist local authorities maintain the peace.
General elections are scheduled to be held tomorrow Friday, December 6.
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And still no comments from the Opposition leader? What do you expect will happen if you win the election and the people get disappointed with you in the future? The violence will escalate quickly then. And what will you be able to do? If all the people are angry with the PM why is the protests only in certain areas ? And why are you silent? Have you seen what's going on? Or are you hiding your head in the sand? What about the fact that you signed paperwork insuring that you will seek a peaceful time leading to and after the election?

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Robert De Niro is Rodrigo Mendoza, a wealthy adventurer who makes a fortune as a mid-eighteenth-century slave trader, capturing Guarani Indians in Paraguay and selling them for a huge profit to the local governor. Mendoza's life takes a turn for the worse, however, when he learns that the woman he loves, Carlotta (Cherie Lunghi), has fallen in love with his younger brother, Felipe (Aidan Quinn). And when he discovers them in bed together, he loses control and kills his brother in a swordfight. Afterwards, however, Mendoza is consumed with extreme guilt and he becomes a Jesuit postulant after meeting Father Gabriel (Jeremy Irons). But Father Gabriel, who has always cared for the natives and resented the slave traders, is at first unsure if Mendoza's desire to do penance and achieve redemption is sincere. Mendoza finally completes his penance after suffering many hardships, and he helps Gabriel teach the Indians about Christianity. As the years pass, Mendoza and Gabriel become close if somewhat wary companions, running the isolated mission above Iguacu Falls together while allowing each other plenty of personal space.
Everything changes, though, when in 1750 Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Madrid, which redefines their territorial borders in the Americas. The end result of the treaty is that Spain (which has forsaken slavery) delivers the Indian land to Portugal (where slavery remains legal). To avoid the Jesuit order being expelled from Portugal, all Jesuit missions in South America are ordered closed by the Pope, which means the Indians living there will be abandoned to the slave traders. The Guarani Indians are determined to stay and fight for the mission they've come to love, and this deeply troubles Mendoza. Despite his Jesuit vow of practicing nonviolence, he knows that with his past fighting skills as a mercenary he's the only one who can teach the Guaranis to defend themselves. Gabriel also stays, but for a different reason. The end result of the inevitable battle is predictable but nevertheless is devastating to watch.
"The Mission" is without a doubt one of the most breathtaking masterpieces I've ever seen. It is simply stunning, both in a visual and spiritual way that few films can achieve. Robert De Niro, although boldy cast against type, gave one of his finest performances and certainly deserved an oscar. Jeremy Irons was also outstanding, and the supporting cast (including Aidan Quinn and Liam Neeson) was wonderful. The scenery was incredible, as was the cinematography. And who can forget the beautiful music by one of the greatest composers of all time, Ennio Morricone? In short, to call this one of the greatest movies of all time is an understatement. The DVD has an awesome picture and sound quality that even improve the viewing experience, and the in-depth making-of documentary was very informative and entertaining. If you enjoy watching movies at all, then do yourself a favor and add this treasure to your collection!


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Declining enrollments lead to rash of Catholic school closings
February 9, 2004 at 1:51 PM EST - Updated June 26 at 4:50 AM
By THOMAS J. SHEERAN, Associated Press Writer
EUCLID, Ohio (AP) - Frank Stachnik's family has a two-generation connection to St. Paul School that will end June 4 when the Catholic elementary school closes.
The school, located in a gritty neighborhood among a water plant, railroad tracks and industrial buildings one block from Cleveland, fell victim to a familiar litany of problems: a tough economy, declining enrollment and people moving to nicer suburbs.
It's one of several Catholic schools across Ohio and the nation that is closing because of the challenges.
The closures are changing the landscape of city neighborhoods and intensifying the call by some to expand school voucher programs that have saved some parochial schools from the fate of shutting down.
Stachnik, 66, saw his children and grandchildren attend the 94-year-old St. Paul and watched tuition climb to $4,500 for two grandchildren this year, with enrollment at 150. Next year's projected enrollment was 127.
Through it all, school families raised money with Easter candy sales, raffles, wholesale food sales and racing nights.
Volunteering at concession stands at a Cleveland Indians game knocked $50 off the tuition bill.
Across town, St. Christine School in Euclid also will close at the end of the year, another example of Catholic schools jeopardized by finances and outflanked by suburban sprawl.
Pending closings include the 106-year-old Immaculate Conception in Ravenna east of Akron, Lorain Catholic High School and, elsewhere, three schools in the Mobile, Ala., area, St. Ann in Somerville, Mass., and St. Philomena in Beaver Falls, Pa.
The shutdown numbers will grow as shrinking schools merge to survive, including three in suburban Bedford and Maple Heights and three in Columbus.
In the Youngstown Catholic Diocese, which includes the Ravenna school, total enrollment has dropped 6.9 percent in the past year and 13 percent in two years. The diocese said needy students are the first to leave parochial schools, with enrollment down 31 percent among youngsters from poor families.
The National Catholic Education Association, representing Catholic school teachers, said there was a net loss of 45 Catholic elementary and secondary schools last year, with 123 closing or consolidating for a total of 7,955. Overall enrollment dipped 2.7 percent to 2.5 million.
Catholic schools in Cleveland avoided the recent rash of shutdown announcements, in part because they have been able to attract students who get state-paid tuition vouchers in the Cleveland-only program.
Overall enrollment has declined 22 percent to 7,738 in the 30 Cleveland Catholic elementary schools that accept vouchers. Still, the number of voucher students in the 8-year-old program has risen to 4,504, or nearly 60 percent of the 30-school total.
Michael J. Guerra, president of the 200,000-member NCEA, said some closings reflect population changes, but said other Catholic schools would have a better chance of survival if vouchers spread like the federally approved program for Washington, D.C., schools.
He said in the annual NCEA report in March that families unable to afford private school tuition or a move to a better school district "deserve an opportunity to choose schools."
Stachnik, whose sixth-grade grandson and third-grade granddaughter must enroll elsewhere when St. Paul closes, said Cleveland public schools weren't an option, in part because of safety concerns.
"You read all the time about them having fights," he said.
Byron D. Weems, 43, who has sold real estate in the Euclid area for 18 years, said the availability of nonpublic schools can be a factor in a neighborhood's attractiveness to buyers.
"You may have people relocating and they find out you don't have a private or parochial school in the community, then they may not be interested," he said.
Cleveland Councilman Mike Polensek, who has represented an area including part of St. Paul parish for more than two decades, fears the loss of the school will have a domino affect.
Without alternatives to public schools, people "might pick up and leave," said Polensek, who attended St. Paul briefly but left for public school because his family couldn't afford the tuition.
In other Cleveland neighborhoods, there was a pattern of parochial schools closing followed by churches locking their doors, he said. "As these schools go, so does the community," he said.
Lorain Catholic High School backers have threatened to appeal the shutdown to the Vatican.
Kara Afrates, 32, a 1989 alumna of Lorain Catholic, said the school survived massive steel industry layoffs in the city and other economic hardships. She's angry that the school now faces shutdown just one year after it became independent of the Cleveland diocese, which had pumped $2 million in subsidies into the school between 1992-2003.
The diocese and the lay-dominated Lorain Catholic board said it would be unconscionable to begin another school year and risk a midyear shutdown when the projected freshman class would have 26 students. Enrollment has dropped for 10 years to the current 202.


We develop a prototype network forensics analysis tool that integrates presentation, manipulation and automated reasoning of intrusion evidence. We propose the evidence graph as a novel graph model to facilitate the presentation and manipulation of intrusion evidence. For automated evidence analysis, we develop a hierarchical reasoning framework that includes local reasoning and global reasoning. In local reasoning, we apply Rule-based Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (RBFCM) to model the state evolution of suspicious hosts. In global reasoning, we aim to identify group of strongly correlated hosts in the attack and derive their relationships in the attack scenario. Our analysis mechanism effectively integrates analyst feedbacks into the automated reasoning process. Experimental results demonstrate the potential of our proposed techniques.


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L'inuktitut (en syllabaire inuktitut : , ), aussi appelé inuktitut de l'Est canadien, est une des principales langues inuites du Canada. Elle est parlée dans toutes les zones au nord de la limite des arbres, y compris dans des zones de Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador, du Québec, des Territoires du Nord-Ouest et au Nunavut. C'est une des langues écrites à l'aide du syllabaire autochtone canadien.

Il s'agit d'un des quatre grands ensembles dialectaux des langues inuites, les trois autres ensembles étant l'inupiaq, parlé en Alaska, l'inuvialuktun, parlé dans le Nord-Ouest canadien, et le groenlandais, parlé au Groenland.

En 2016, Statistique Canada recense , ce qui fait de l'inuktitut la deuxième langue autochtone la plus parlée du Canada.

Dans le recensement de la population 2021,  déclarent que l'inuktitut est leur langue maternelle.

L'inuktitut est une des quatre langues officielles du Nunavut, où il est la principale langue maternelle. C'est aussi une des onze langues officielles des Territoires du Nord-Ouest.

Phonologie

Voyelles
L'inuktitut a trois voyelles de base : ,  et , qui peuvent être courtes ou longues. Le système phonologique comprend donc six phonèmes vocaliques.

Écriture

D'abord traditionnellement orale, cette langue a la particularité d'avoir été transcrite à partir du  dans un système de notation syllabique, contrairement aux autres langues traditionnellement orales qui sont généralement transcrites en caractères latins.

Des missionnaires venus d'Europe incitèrent les peuples de l'Arctique à adopter un système d'écriture afin de les initier au christianisme et à la Bible. Les Inuits de l'Arctique canadien utilisent soit l'alphabet latin () soit les caractères syllabiques (). Le premier système d'écriture utilisé parmi les Inuits utilisait l'alphabet latin, au Groenland, au cours des années 1760.

Il s'agit d'une adaptation, dans les années 1880, de l'écriture mise au point pour le cri par le révérend Evans vers la fin des années 1830. Cette écriture n'est donc pas propre à l'inuktitut : elle note aussi d'autres langues amérindiennes, comme le naskapi, mais en revanche elle ne note pas tous les parlers eskimos ; en pratique, l'usage de ce syllabaire est limité à l'inuktitut. Le groenlandais, le dialecte le plus important avec près de  et le plus solidement implanté, a adopté une orthographe normée en caractères latins.

Les Yupiks et les Inupiat de l'Alaska et les Yupik de la Sibérie employaient également les caractères latins. Par contre, les Netsilik de Pelly Bay et l'île de Baffin ont adopté l'écriture syllabique au cours des années 1920 quand ils sont devenus les derniers peuples nordiques à rencontrer les missionnaires.

Ce système de notation est également exceptionnel en ce qu'il présente des séries de correspondances terme à terme entre la configuration du signe graphique et la forme du signe phonétique (le signe graphique est systématiquement orienté dans une direction précise en fonction de la nature de la voyelle centrale de la syllabe). Pour être plus précis, le graphème pour une syllabe contenant u pivote de 90° à droite ou de 180° par rapport au graphème représentant la syllabe contenant i, et pour a le graphème est le symétrique du graphème u. La partie en haut à gauche du graphème, – pour les quelques graphèmes composés à consonne initiale q, ng –, reste toujours invariable.

Ce syllabaire fait maintenant partie intégrante de la société inuit, qui y voit une marque de son identité. Les Inuits le considèrent même comme un don de Dieu, par allusion au fait que c'est un missionnaire qui le leur a transmis.

Dialectes

Au Canada, il y a six dialectes de l'inuktitut :
 Au Nunavut :
  (ou kivalliq)
  (ou aivilik)
  (ou iglulingmiut)
 Qikiqtaaluk nigiani
 Au Nunavik (Québec) :
 Nunavimmiutitut
 Au Nunatsiavut (Labrador) :
 Inuttitut (ou nunatsiavummiutut)

Un dialecte est parlé au nord du Groenland :
 Inuktun

Prénoms inuktituts
Les prénoms prennent souvent ancrage dans la nature qui les entoure, dans les forces surnaturelles qu'ils perçoivent, dans les qualités des personnes, ou bien dans d'autres événements de la vie, souvent liés à la naissance. Tout comme les prénoms des peuples nord-amérindiens dont l'étymologie est similaire.

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Bibliographie
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Articles connexes
 Linguistique
 Liste de langues
 Langues par famille
 Langues eskimo-aléoutes
 Langues inuites
 Nanouk l'Esquimau, film documentaire.

Liens externes

 http://www.native-languages.org/inuktitut.htm Liste de liens dédiés à l'inuktitut
 UQAUSIIT en ligne, dictionnaire français - inuktitut
 Inuktitut Linguistics for Technocrats, Mallon, Mick
  Inuktitut: A multi-dialectal outline dictionary (with an Aivilingmiutaq base), Spalding, Alex (1998),

Inventaire de langues
Inventaire de langues amérindiennes
Langue inuite
Langue amérindienne en Amérique du Nord
Langue amérindienne au Canada
Langue amérindienne dans les Territoires du Nord-Ouest
Langue dans les Territoires du Nord-Ouest
Langue amérindienne au Nunavut
Langue au Nunavut
Langue amérindienne au Québec
Langue amérindienne à Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador
Labrador
Langue officielle

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Ages and ages ago D and I went to Bar Esteban in Crouch End. Anybody that knows me knows that I LOVE tapas. Infact, I think tapas might be my favourite thing. There's just something about Spanish food - the flavours, the smokiness, the way it's cooked and well, I just like the idea of sharing food. You get a little bit of everything, it's a sociable dinner and also, a great first date for those debating the 'where's a good date spot?' question.
I'd said to D - 'right, I'm coming down for the weekend - get to work on restaurant research. TAPAS!' and he drummed up this beautiful little spot.
We had a quick drink in The Anthologist before making our way over to eat our body weight in Spanish goodness.
When we arrived our table unfortunately wasn't ready BUT that meant time for Sangria. There's ALWAYS time for Sangria.
It didn't take too long for our table to become available so we got right to it with the menu.
I ordered a feast fit for kings.
First up - jamon iberico bellota. There is nothing nicer than Spanish cured ham. Nu-uh!
Next up - jamon croquetas. I love any form of croquettes. They're such an underrated side/meal accompaniment. These were the perfect amount of crispy outside with melt in the mouth middle.
Now, the next one is unexpected for me. For as long as I can remember, I've never been a fan of lamb. I'm not sure what it is that doesn't lure me in but I've just always stayed away from it.
Until I came to Bar Esteban.
The special board had a slow roasted lamb, cooked in garlic and oil with a side of crispy potatoes and rocket drizzled in oil.
The lamb was absolutely out of this world. It fell apart with barely a touch and *dribbles*.
Tapas isn't tapas without a round of Patatas Bravas. Perfectly seasoned, perfect crisp to the potatoes and a little bit of a kick without being overpowering.
I could eat Paella any time of day, everyday. It's one of those dishes that I will never tire of.
Some Paella can be served to 'dry' in restaurants but this really didn't suffer the mistake that so many chefs often make.
The only way I can describe it - the right amount of slop.
The spices were spot on, the rice soft and the consistency was faaaabulous.
I love a tapas-style prawn. There's just something about them that makes them extra delicious.
These were did not disappoint - cooked perfectly (SO easy to overcook a prawn!) seasoned in the right amount of garlic and a generous serving of herbs.
Naturally, the dinner involved olives, more Sangria and a whole lot of mmm's and ahhh's. Noises are the sign of a good meal.
As well as the traditional style of tapas, the daily specials offered have a more contemporary feel whilst staying true to the Spanish style of cooking.
I would recommend Bar Esteban down to the ground. Friendly staff, fast service, prices to match the quality and a really cool, authentic atmosphere.
They're open until 10 Monday to Thursday, 11 Friday and Saturday and 9.30 on a Sunday.
Go check out the rest of their menu and get booking your table!
DROOL. So much drool. And hunger.


The "Midnight Sail" sculpture award connotes motion, progress and a bias for action. The design shows a very aspect representation of a sailboat in the heat of a race. The award design uses sleek lines and curves to depict power and movement. This unique award, designed by artist Bob Bennett, stands 16" tall when mounted on its standard 3x3x3" base. The Midnight Sail sculpture award is available in both bronze (shown here) and pewter. The bronze award features a high-polished finish. The pewter award available in one of three finishes: 1) a natural brushed pewter finish; 2) bronze plating; and 3) gold plating. Achieve's black marble base can be customized with an engraving of your choice for a small additional charge. Midnight Sail's black marble base can be customized with an engraving of your choice.


The Baylor University journal Christian Reflection has just published its latest issue, in print and on the web here, focused on the Book of Acts. I was delighted to be asked to contribute an article on the spirituality of Acts, and it's nice to see it in print.
There are other interesting and helpful articles too, by luminaries of Acts studies, plus some good discussion study guides for individual articles (click on links below for individual pieces—or you can download the whole issue here). It's particularly nice for me to see the article by my former doctoral student Tim Churchill, now Dean of The Theological College of Central Africa, Ndola, Zambia. Enjoy!


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Haverhill Farms Has Horse Fun for Southeast Michigan Kids
By Kim Kovelle
There's very little kids can't learn from a bit of time in the saddle. They've been getting that experience at Haverhill Farms in White Lake for decades now.
"Horses are big and strong," says Harry Klentner, founder of Michigan's "oldest and largest riding school" – who, at age 82, still runs this equestrian spot. From brushing and tacking to feeding these creatures, there's lots of responsibility.
"It teaches kids how to handle something bigger than they are."
That's a pretty apt analogy for life, wouldn't you say? "You will be able to get through," Klentner says, "whether that's in school, you might have a tough class, or anything."
Horses with a history
His school, set on 35 serene acres of rolling meadows and woods, has found a home in local family's hearts since it opened in 1950.
Horse riding is a quintessentially summer activity for many southeast Michigan kids. For Klentner, the bug also bit young, when he was an 8-year-old refugee from Austria.
Haverhill Farms
Address: 2986 McKeachie Road, White Lake
Hours: vary by appointments/events; call for details
"When Hitler came – I'm Jewish – we came to New York," he recalls. "We were poor. I had to work, so I worked at the Claremont Riding Academy."
At the historic Manhattan stable, which closed in 2007, Klentner got hooked. Simply put: "I liked animals. I liked horses. That's how it all got started."
An Air Force stint landed him at the Selfridge base in Mount Clemens. After his service ended, he and wife Kim founded the farm (they still live on the grounds).
Today, it houses 40 "school horses" and 20 ponies for wee ones, as young as 5. Gentle "old timers" offer smooth rides – like Dotty, who's 36.
"He follows directions very well," Klentner says of the beloved white horse with black spots. "He likes kids and he takes care of them." For the get-up-and-go set, there's chestnut mare Ariel, 7, and others peppier horses.
Offerings for everyone
Group, semi-private and private classes offer unlimited flexibility. "That's the idea: You can take lessons any time, any day," Klentner says. "People have schedules, and we try to fit into their schedules."
Covering all skill levels, basic lessons run $25 an hour. Two-week camps, which kick off in mid-June (there are five two-week sessions), also are open to ages 6-16.
From jumping to dressage, advanced riders thrive here, too (those lessons run $30 an hour). Another 40 horses board at the farm, which also hosts horse training, leasing and shows. Birthday parties and Scout badge-earning programs are popular, as well.
What's changed over time? Not much, though smaller riders are on the rise.
"They seem to start earlier, as far as I can see," Klentner says – especially those 5-year-olds. "We have a lot mothers and daughters riding," too.
And the goal is steady as ever. "It's a relaxing place," Klentner says. "What I hope (kids) take away from it is confidence."
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Q: Typescript: how to combine complex types given following object:
const myConfig = {
  'keyA': { provider: 'Country', validators: [] }, // see RuleDetailsFormBuilderConfiguration type
  'myGroup': [
    {
      'keyB': { provider: 'Country', validators: [] },
      'keyC': { provider: 'Country', validators: [] },
      'keyD': { provider: 'Country', validators: [] },
    }
  ]
};

interface Test  {
  keyA: any;
  keyB: any;
  keyC: any;
  keyD: any
}

How would the type/interface for myConfig look like in TypeScript?
Basically I want to have a combination of [key of generic] : RuleDetailFieldConfig. Additionally it should be possible to define a arbitrary key (in my example myGroup and give an array of the combination [key of generic] : RuleDetailFieldConfig.
For a concrete example of a generic see the above mentioned interface Test
I'm able to make a type definition for the first line in the object ('keyA': { provider: 'Country', validators: [] })
For this my type looks like this:
export interface RuleDetailFieldConfig {
  provider: string;
  validators: string[];
}

export type RuleDetailsFormBuilderConfiguration<Type> = {
  [Property in keyof Type ]: RuleDetailFieldConfig
};

For this part:
'myGroup': [
    {
      'keyB': { provider: 'Country', validators: [] },
      'keyC': { provider: 'Country', validators: [] },
      'keyD': { provider: 'Country', validators: [] },
    }
  ] // see RuleDetailsFormGroupBuilderConfiguration

My type looks like this:
export type RuleDetailsFormGroupBuilderConfiguration<Type> = {
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El murciélago frutero enano, (Rhinophylla pumilio) es una especie de quiróptero de Sudamérica, que se encuentra en Bolivia, Perú, Brasil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guayana Francesa, Guyana, Surinam y Venezuela.

Descripción
El color de pelaje es gris o marrón, más claro en la base y un poco más oscuro en la punta. La hembra es ligeramente más grande que el macho. El peso promedio alcanza 10,4 g en la hembra y 9,4 g en el macho. La longitud del cuerpo con a cabeza alcanza 5 cm en la hembra y 4,8 cm en el macho. La alas son negruzcas, en contraste con los metacarpianos y las falanges más claras. La longitud media del antebrazo es de 3,5 cm. Las orejas son redondeadas, más cortas que la cabeza, y de color rosado-marrón. El trago se extiende de un tercio de la longitud de la oreja y es pequeño y ancho.

Hábitat y comportamiento
Se encuentra generalmente en áreas húmedas tropicales, cerca de los ríos, ricas en frutales. Se durante el día en tiendas que construyen, a 1,5 m a 15 m del suelo, con hojas de palmeras, formando grupos de un macho y dos a tres hembras. Nocturno, se activa inmediatamente después de ponerse el sol y antes del amanecer, con un período de inactividad en medio de la noche. Se alimenta principalmente de frutos de arbustos del sotobosque, aunque también consume insectos.

Referencias

Murciélagos de América del Sur
pumilio
Animales descritos en 1865


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No. 3 Illinois tangles with No. 9 Ohio State to decide Big Ten
Associated PressMar 14, 2021, 11:57 AM EDT
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Whether it wins Sunday's Big Ten tournament title game in Indianapolis against No. 9 Ohio State, No. 3 Illinois has likely clinched a No. 1 seed for next week's NCAA Tournament.
An 82-71 win over No. 5 Iowa Saturday in the semifinals was the Fighting Illini's 12th Quad 1 win of the season — more than any other Division I team. And with a 1-2 punch of Ayo Dosunmu and Kofi Cockburn, it's easy to forget this is a program that was spinning its wheels for about a decade before coming to life last year.
"When I came on my (official) visit, I saw this program as a losing program," Cockburn said Saturday after scoring 26 points. "They lost to a really bad team when I came here. I keep saying that every time because that motivated me to come here and be a part of this change."
With 13 wins in 14 games, Illinois (22-6) is as hot as any team not named Gonzaga. While Dosunmu (20.9 ppg, 6.2 rebounds, 5.4 assists) and Cockburn (17.6 ppg, 9.6 rebounds) are the leaders, there are enough good players around them to burn opponents who get too conscious of the two big guns.
Andre Curbelo was the third big gun on Saturday, finishing with 12 points and seven rebounds. More important, he disrupted Iowa's potent halfcourt offense by controlling point guard Jordan Bohannon and making it harder for Big Ten Player of the Year Luka Garza to get the ball where he wanted it.
"Curbelo was outstanding on both ends of the court — again," Illini coach Brad Underwood said.
Curbelo, Trent Frazier and freshman Adam Miller combine to score 27.6 points per game while allowing Illinois to play at a lightning-fast pace. It scored 26 first-half points inside the first seven seconds of the shot clock, using their superior speed to beat the slower Hawkeyes down the floor.
Meanwhile, Ohio State (21-8) is trying to win this the hard way. After squeaking past Minnesota 79-75 Thursday in its tourney opener, the Buckeyes blew a late lead Friday but recovered to eliminate Purdue in overtime, then edged Michigan on Saturday, 68-67, after leading by 13 with 4:19 left.
Ohio State couldn't exhale until Michigan's Mike Smith clanged a potential game-winning jumper off the back iron with two seconds left. The result, though, was exhilarating for a team that entered the conference tournament with a four-game losing streak.
"Every game here has been a challenge," said Buckeyes coach Chris Holtmann. "We certainly could have dropped any of them, but we also know that we dropped one or two we certainly could have won. So I give our guys credit for a phenomenal experience."
Duane Washington Jr. scored a game-high 24 points for Ohio State, connecting on 5 of 10 3-pointers. He hit a pair from long range during a 14-2 run that gave OSU a 56-45 lead at the 8:17 mark of the second half. Washington (15.8 ppg), first team All-Big Ten pick E.J. Liddell (16.1 ppg, 6.4 rebounds) and Cal transfer Justice Sueing (10.5 ppg) provide most of the scoring punch.


Lyriciss releases the visual for his record 'Big Gold Chain', taken from his latest full-length effort The Balance. The visual was directed by Dante Bailey of Knowledgeable Ent. You can stream the full album below (and then make your purchase on iTunes).


Sometimes it hits me just how much I've failed, fallen short, messed up, hurt others and disappointed You.
It's so difficult to deal with this reality. So I do a really good job of explaining it away, looking for the upside, making excuses and doing everything I can to convince myself it could have been worse. But what I really need to do is just admit what You and I both know – I've done it yet again.
When I'm willing to get this honest, the most amazing thing happens. I am overwhelmed by Your love, I experience Your forgiveness, I receive second, third, fourth and one-hundredth chances and I experience the miracle of how You never give up on me.
Thank You, Lord, thank You for love that is so real, powerful and transforming it even works on me!
Are We Willing to Pray First?
We love to react, analyze and figure out what we are going to do next when something happens. And in a world characterized by division and demonization, our reacting, analyzing and figuring out often can become quite emotional. But the fact of the matter is that God wants more from us. God wants us to pray before we do anything else. Pray for a deeper understanding of what's going on. Pray for wisdom and compassion. And most of all pray that God's Will may be done. So the question each one of us must answer is really very simple – Are we willing to pray first?
Some days your soul aches. Maybe it's because you've messed up. Or maybe you have no idea why. All you know is you don't like yourself very much, you're convinced others don't either and you're seriously wondering exactly how God feels about you. So what can you do? Run into the arms of God and experience God's love that is so wide, deep and broad that you experience again you are unconditionally loved just the way you are. Because when you don't trust yourself, you can always trust God.
What do you want from God? Getting a miracle, fixing things so that you are comfortable, happy and carefree, and giving you wonderful promises about the 'sweet bye-and-bye when you die'. And while God sometimes may give you the things you want, what is God actually giving you all the time? Cherishing you as a precious child, reaching out to you in your real life, saving and healing you, transforming you into a more loving person and inviting you into an eternal relationship. Which means today is a great day to go beyond what you are convinced you want and receive what God is giving.
You're afraid of something. In fact, you're probably afraid of a number of things. And sometimes they make you feel so weak, vulnerable and incompetent that you'll do almost anything to avoid having to face them. That's why you need to discover how much God wants to take your fears and turn them into strengths, use them to learn more about God or discover how they can put you in touch with someone you can help. So grab hold of your fears, give them to God and see what God's going to do with them.


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On makin, when you start as the imperial army (not relivant) you start near a big house on the edge of the map. Go inside the left side of this house, run and jump onto the banister, always looking up. If you are lucky, your character will grab the bar above, and you can jump into the roof of this house. Inside here you are about 99.9% invisiable - only visable when you go forward to shoot.
Aim your sniper rifle out the house and fire away. This is also how you get out the map.
When you start as The Red Army (I Think) you start near the train(s). The first big building were you all go to snipe has an unseen glitch. Climb out the window onto the ledge, and walk across. Jump onto the scafolding (SAP) and around the house. Then walk up the planks (burnt out building incase your wondering) and up onto the roof. Here you can sniper people (be sniped!!) or wait for someone to go into the building below before you nail them with your MG.
When you start as the Japanese empire, you start near a building popular for sniping, run past this building to the bigger one near were the Marines start. Once in that room, go out onto the ledge and jump onto the Arch way, from here walk along to the 'L' shaped building's roof and up onto it. Here you can snipe, or wait for someone to go into the popular sniping locations and shoot them.
Glitch Type: Machine Gunner/Sub-Machine Gunner/Possable Sniping Location.
When you start as the Japanese, go to the building on your left, go to the far (right) window, and stand next to it. Repetadly Jump and Crouch and eventualy your character will fall through the window. Its a fun glitch.
** Please correct any error I have made via PM. I will edit them and if you have your own glitches, send them too me for me to publish here.
THIS GLITCH HAS BEEN PATCHED UP.
Glitch Type: OMG WTF HE UNDER DA MAP!
Run to the garage, and jump up and down always looking upwards, you eventually fall under the map..


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The Washtenaw Chapter calls mid-morning to ask if I'm available for a ten day deployment starting immediately. Spend the rest of the morning finishing up a few things around the office, then arrive at the Chapter for a briefing and an assignment. Another volunteer and I will be driving our ERV (Emergency Response Vehicle) #2172 to Harrisburg Pennsylvania.
We leave Ann Arbor in the morning. The trip should be about 490 miles. By the time we arrive in Harrisburg, the local headquarters has shut down for the night. Luckily we meet up with ERV #1113. Their crew has already checked in to a hotel, and leads us to it. There are four ERV crews checked in, along with half a dozen other volunteers.
The local headquarters is set up in a shopping mall about half an hour down the road. Given how quiet the town seems to be-this isn't what we should be hearing if operations are underway locally-the two of us pack all our luggage back onto the ERV. I don't think we'll be staying here.
The Harrisburg headquarters is manned by two people whose task it is to reassign us to Wilkes-Barre. We get on the road and arrive in Wilkes-Barre a few hours later. #2172 is taken out of service due to a leak in the filler tube for the fuel tank. We spend a good part of the early afternoon trying to locate a service center open on a July 4th weekend. No such luck, so we are reassigned to other crews. I join #1125 from Atlanta. Four ERVs, including ours, are being sent with full loads to Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania to join the ERV already operating there.
We arrive in Bloomsburg after hours and are sent to our hotel. Like most of the area, the hotel is without drinkable water. The water treatment plant was damaged by the floods, and it will be some days before water is restored. Fortunately, our hotel had a well on the property as well, and while it wasn't certified by the Health Department, it was safe to shower with. Hand washing and tooth brushing would be done with bottled water.
Our five feedings ERVs begin feeding in the Bloomsburg/Espy area. We are operating out of the Bingo hall of the Espey volunteer fire department, and using their well-equipped commercial kitchen, staffed by local volunteers. The ERV crews divide the area and begin to collect information about the areas of greatest need as they drive around.
We are joined by five more ERVs (including #2172) which will be used to distribute cleaning supplies. The ERVs will travel in pairs, one feeding, one with cleaning supplies. I'm promoted to ERV coordinator (aka "Yard Dog") and tasked with route assignments and generally organizing the flow of traffic and supplies as well as keeping track of staff whereabouts. Today's task is balancing the routes and broadening our area of coverage in response to information gathered during the first day's operations.
Today Wilkes-Barre sent only 2 ERVs for bulk distribution.
Last day of bulk distribution of cleaning supplies.
Today the ERVs returned supplies and equipment to warehouses and the chapters from which they'd been borrowed. I drive with #1168 to Montrose with 160 cases of heater meals. Make travel arrangements for the flight home.
The crews depart with their ERVs or by rental car to the Wilkes-Barre headquarters. #2172 is already back in Ann Arbor. At headquarters I run into several people I know. One is from our chapter. One was my suite-mate during a training week in Grand Rapids, and another was my instructor for one of the classes that week.


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April 3, 2021 by Graeme MacKay
Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Saturday March 27, 2021
Week in Review: Stuck things
Crews are working to clear a traffic jam at Egypt's Suez Canal, the world's busiest trade route, after the massive container ship "Ever Given" ran aground. Global News explains what this could mean for oil prices.
Meanwhile, Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole is sticking with his long-standing view that a federal carbon price is not the way to tackle the growing threat of climate change across the country, following a decision by the Supreme Court of Canada authorizing its constitutionality.
In an interview on CTV News Channel's Power Play on Thursday, O'Toole said his approach would focus instead on partnering with provinces and bolstering the economy to get emissions down, though he didn't provide exact details about how doing so would achieve his stated goal.
"The court said what we all know — that climate change is real and it's important for us to have a serious approach," he said.
"I want to have a plan that Canada can meet its targets. I've also said I'd like to see a net-zero approach plan, a made-in-Canada net-zero approach plan over the longer term, which is the 2050 timeline, but to do it without taxing people. As I said the carbon tax impacts our competitiveness and it hurts people in the margins the most. I think it's backwards to be honest."
In a 6-3 decision, the top court decided on Thursday that a price on pollution is entirely constitutional and that Ottawa has a right to set minimum pricing standards for greenhouse gas emissions in the provinces.
"The undisputed existence of a threat to the future of humanity cannot be ignored," wrote Chief Justice Richard Wagner.
The case brings a legal end to a years-long battle between Ottawa and many provinces over the carbon price, and prompted Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe to start looking at a homegrown carbon-pricing mechanism and Alberta Premier Jason Kenney to nudge open the door to doing so too.
Saskatchewan, Ontario and Alberta challenged the Liberal government's 2018 Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act in court, arguing it was a federal overreach into provincial jurisdiction over everything from taxes and the environment to natural-resource development.
O'Toole said his party would target large emitters of greenhouse gas emissions and respect the individual carbon reducing frameworks already in place in some provinces.
During the party's policy convention over the weekend, delegates notably voted against a resolution that would have included the line "climate change is real" in the party's official policy document.
Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said the Supreme Court's decision on carbon pricing is a "good day for Canada."
"Read the academic literature, go talk to an economist. They will tell you it's the most efficient and effective way to reduce emissions and to incentivize innovation," he told Power Play. (CTV)
"That cargo ship wedged in the Suez Canal may be a disaster for international trade, but it's been a boon for political cartoonists. And it being an international incident, lots of people get to chip in, like Canadian Graeme Mackay, who likens it to the Conservative Party's environmental stance"
Posted in: Canada	Tagged: 2021-12, carbon pricing, climate change, climate change denial, Conservative, container ship, Daily Cartoonist, Egypt, Erin O'Toole, hoax, party, Price on Carbon, ship, Suez canal
May 10, 2018 by Graeme MacKay
Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Friday May 11, 2018
The world is nervously watching as the gloves come off between Iran and Israel
Israel says that it's done with strikes on Iran — for now. France fears an escalation. Iran has its finger on the trigger. But, really, it's Russian President Vladimir Putin who sits in the hot seat.
Where once the US would have been the brake on spikes in Syrian violence, there is a real possibility President Donald Trump's withdrawal from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal is greasing the wheels towards a wider regional war.
In recent months, the world's top diplomat, UN Secretary-General António Guterres, has warned that Israeli and Iranian tit-for-tat strikes in Syria could quickly boil over to a regional conflagration.
Overnight, rockets fired by Iranian forces from inside Syria toward Israel triggered a forewarned robust response from Israel's military — targeting Iranian military assets in Syria.
Since early February, when Israel says it shot down an Iranian drone laden with explosives that was launched from Syria, the Israeli Defense Forces have increased retaliatory strikes in Syria at Iranian targets.
Some of those strikes are reported to have killed several Iranian fighters. Yet until this point there had been no Iranian retaliation.
The sudden surge in the exchange of rockets Wednesday night — on the heels of Trump's exit from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action — hints that Iran has suspended its strategic restraint.
If so, the likelihood that the Iranian-Israeli confrontation will escalate increases. (Source: CNN)
Posted in: International, USA	Tagged: China, diplomacy, Donald Trump, Egypt, Europe, Iran, Iran Nuclear deal, Israel, Lebanon, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Syria, turkey, USA
June 25, 2014 by Graeme MacKay
By Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Wednesday June 25, 2014
Family of jailed Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy blames Harper for outcome of 'sham' trial in Egypt
Fadel and Wafaa Fahmy entered a courtroom in Cairo Monday to hear the verdict on their son, journalist Mohamed Fahmy, expecting an acquittal and a prompt return to their home in Montreal where the family has lived for 23 years.
Instead, a surprise finding of guilt on terrorism-related charges and a sentence of seven years in a harsh prison sent Mrs. Fahmy into turmoil, bursting into tears and stomping her feet on the floor.
The entire family was stunned, most of all Mohamed Fahmy himself, the Cairo bureau chief with broadcaster Al Jazeera English. The dual Canadian-Egyptian citizen was found guilty along with two journalist colleagues, an Australian and an Egyptian, of supporting the Muslim Brotherhood, which is outlawed in Egypt, and with fabricating news reports that undermine Egypt's security.
On Tuesday, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi said he will not interfere in court rulings, despite an international landslide of condemnation and calls for el-Sissi to intervene. Egypt's constitution gives the president the right to issue a pardon or commute the sentences.
He said he called the justice minister late Monday to repeat that sentiment, despite what he described as debate over the rulings against the journalists.
After a trial and verdict, declared by Amnesty International to be "a complete sham" where no evidence of a nefarious conspiracy was heard, Mr. Fahmy was instead declared guilty and returned to his cell, but not before he angrily called out from behind the bars of the prisoners' cage: "I swear they will pay for this."
The anger was a reflection of how crushed his brother was by the verdict, said Mr. Fahmy's brother, Sherif.
"It's insane. There is nothing that makes any kind of sense at all. The evidence is insane," Sherif said in an interview from Kuwait. "It was a very, very heartbreaking scene. We were very optimistic. We never thought this was coming."
Sherif said he holds Stephen Harper, the Prime Minister, responsible for the outcome because the Canadian government failed to aggressively address the case.
"If you compare what Canada has done to what the Australian, English and Dutch have done, it is not much. [Mr. Harper] did not mention Mohammed once," Sherif said. (Source: National Post)
Posted in: Canada	Tagged: Canada, Editorial Cartoon, Egypt, freedom of expression, Journalism, justice, Mohammed Fahmy, Stephen Harper
February 8, 2014 by Graeme MacKay
Editorial cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Saturday, February 8, 2014
Internal memo shows concern over Hudak's 'right-to-work' plan
Alarm over Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak's controversial "right-to-work" policy is spreading among party activists, MPPs and increasingly skittish new candidates.
In an unusually candid memo obtained by The Toronto Star, 11 would-be MPPs express concern that Hudak's U.S.-style anti-union measures could hurt them in a provincial election expected as early as spring.
Echoing fears raised in a Jan. 22 conference call of 300 party stalwarts and earlier by MPP John O'Toole at last September's Tory convention, the candidates worry that radical labour reforms will be a tough sell to voters.
"Part of being smarter means we should recognize that campaign policies need to be flexible in order to allow for the type (of) precision needed to maximize regional support," says the draft memo, written by Timiskaming-Cochrane Tory hopeful Peter Politis with input from the 10 other Northern Ontario nominees.
"I'm sure we agree that messaging of policies and being prepared for the counter-message is the most important aspect of our campaign going forward," he writes.
Politis warns that "critical wedge issues" must be "messaged effectively in order to maximize the impact in our region while not hurting the impact of other PC seats in other regions."
"The 'right-to-work' policy also needs to be messaged effectively to maximize its impact in the south without sacrificing 11 seats in the North that can very well be the difference between a majority or minority government."
The candidates' memo is the latest sign of an internal PC schism over a pledge to eliminate the Rand Formula, which requires all workers in a unionized workplace to pay dues, regardless of whether they join the union.
Harking back to the party's heyday, the PC standard bearers urge Hudak to follow the centrist footsteps of former premier Bill Davis, who governed from 1971 until 1985 and remains popular to this day. (Source: Hamilton Spectator)
Posted in: Ontario, Uncategorized	Tagged: Egypt, Ontario, pharoah, print sale, right to work, Tim Hudak, Unions
August 15, 2013 by Graeme MacKay
By Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Thursday, August 15, 2013
Egypt in state of emergency
Riot police backed by armoured vehicles, bulldozers and helicopters Wednesday swept away two encampments of supporters of ousted president Mohammed Morsi, setting off running street battles in Cairo and other Egyptian cities. At least 278 people were killed nationwide, many of them in the crackdown on the protest sites.
Vice President Mohamed ElBaradei, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and pro-reform leader in the interim government, resigned in protest over the assaults as the military-backed leadership imposed a monthlong state of emergency and nighttime curfew.
Clashes broke out elsewhere in the capital and other provinces as Islamist anger spread over the dispersal of the six-week-old sit-ins by Morsi's Islamist supporters that divided Egypt.
It was the highest single day death toll since the 18-day uprising that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak in 2011.
The Health Ministry said 235 civilians were killed and more than 2,000 injured, while Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim said 43 policemen died in the assault. He said Morsi supporters attacked 21 police stations and seven Coptic Christian churches across the nation, and assaulted the Finance Ministry in Cairo, occupying its ground floor.
The violence drew condemnation from other predominantly Muslim countries, but also from the West, with Secretary of State John Kerry saying it had dealt a "serious blow" to Egypt's political reconciliation efforts.
The assault to take control of the two sit-in sites came after days of warnings by the interim administration that replaced Morsi after he was ousted in a July 3 coup. The camps on opposite sides of the capital began in late June to show support for Morsi. (Source: CBC News)
Posted in: International	Tagged: Arab Spring, coup d'etat, Democracy, Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, Islamic Brotherhood, Mohamed Morsi


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Condemn the FBI raids in St Louis, MO and St Petersburg, FL!
Defend our rights to speak and organize! Stop political repression!
By Committee to Stop FBI Repression and National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression |
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Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Committee to Stop FBI Repression and the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression.
On the morning of Friday, July 29th, the FBI conducted raids at multiple locations, including the Uhuru House in St. Petersburg, Florida, the private residence of Omali Yeshitela in St. Louis, Missouri, as well as the Uhuru Solidarity Center, also in St. Louis. The FBI employed flashbang grenades and handcuffed Yeshitela and his wife while the house was raided. The FBI says that the raids are connected to the federal indictment of a Russian man, Aleksandr Ionov, alleging that he has been working to spread "Russian propaganda" in the United States.
The Committee to Stop FBI Repression and the National Alliance Against Racist and Pollical Repression unequivocally condemn these raids. We oppose all efforts by the U.S. government to target activists in any progressive movement in this country. We call for an end to investigations, political harassment, and threats against activists and our movements.
The DOJ is alleging that those raided collaborated with a "Russian asset" to spread "Russian propaganda." At a time when the US is engaged in an imperialist proxy war with Russia in the Ukraine, these raids have all the makings of a witch hunt. All progressive people should oppose any attempt by the FBI and police to attack people's movements and organizations. We must always be vigilant about defending our democratic rights to organize and speak out against injustice - including communicating with activists in other countries and building international solidarity. It should also be said this repression come in the context of upsurge of struggle in the Black community.
The National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression and the Committee to Stop FBI Repression are committed to pushing back against this repression and we stand in solidarity with those under attack.
We know from experience how importance resistance to repression is. On September 24, 2010 the FBI raided seven homes of anti-war activists and the office of the Twin Cities Anti-War committee. Twenty-three activists were subpoenaed to a Chicago-based grand jury that claimed to be investigating "material support for terrorism." As time went on, the FBI continued their attack on anti-war and international solidarity activists by targeting important veterans of the movement who worked with the Anti-war 23, including Chicano activist Carlos Montes in Los Angeles and Palestinian organizer Rasmea Odeh in Chicago. A national defense campaign defeated most of these attacks.
All those active in the movements for peace and justice should use this moment as a reminder to never speak with agents of the federal government prying into your activism or the activism of others. "I have nothing to say, please speak with my lawyer," are all that need to be said. If you are being taken into custody, all you are required by law to do is confirm your name and tell them that you would like to speak with your lawyer. If federal or local agents show up at your home or organizing office, do not let them in without a warrant, and if they have a warrant, inspect the details of the warrant closely - if any detail is incorrect, such as the spelling of a name or address, point out the error and do not permit entry onto the premises.
Don't talk to the FBI!
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Logistics, i.e. getting them to meet you for some kind of date, is one of the 3 purposes of texting. But while every logistics text is an opportunity to get closer to a real-life date, it's also an opportunity to get rejected.
This is what a typical invitation from a texting amateur looks like. It has a number of problems, which we'll point out.
But these all have a low chance of working. And when these don't work, you screw yourself more because now it comes off like you're pushy and desperate and they still shot you down.
This kind of slippery back-and-forth negotiation is pretty awkward, and it gives you a vibe of incompetence. But how can you do better?
Here are two tactics for smooth logistics texts. They both work on the same principle: stick your neck out just a little bit at a time, so that it's always impossible for you to get a big rejection.
The more logistical details you package together into one text, the more likely your invite is to get rejected for legitimate logistical reasons.
Therefore an effective tactic for your logistics texts is what we call the The Tightening Lasso: start with a vague low-detail logistics text, and gradually get them to agree on one detail at a time until you tie down a fully specified meeting plan.
Low-detail logistics texts also make a rejection easier to handle because it sounds like you didn't put too much thought into your original proposal, which comes off chill and low-pressure. It seems like you haven't even thought through all the details of a plan yet; rather, you're just uninhibitedly sharing the seed of an idea as it's forming in your mind.
Instead of framing the situation like you're making a proposal and it's up to them to give it a thumbs up or thumbs down, the low-detail logistics text naturally helps you frame it more like they're your brainstorming partner and the two of you are thinking up a fun activity together.
Without The Tightening Lasso, if they reject your proposal, then every premature detail you provided makes you look ridiculous for having jumped the gun. The Tightening Lasso tactic keeps the two of you in sync at every step of the planning.
The weakness is a failure to communicate a Best Alternative To A Negotiated Agreement (BATNA). The BATNA is a well-known concept in negotiation theory, with its own Wikipedia page and everything.
If they don't sense that your BATNA is strong, they'll sense that turning down your invite will create a big status gap between the two of you – because it'll imply that they have a better use for their time while you have to settle for a worse use of yours, maybe even settling for something totally pathetic like crying or jerking off.
With this text, they get the sense that if they say no, you have a good enough BATNA that has to do with your plan to head into the city. E.g. you might head out to the city earlier, or you might just take your time and watch a TV show while you're getting ready to head out.
Logically, it's still possible that you'll end up crying or jerking off during your proposed timeslot. But psychologically, they won't form that mental image because you've given them a mental image of you getting ready to go out in the city.
To make progress in dating, you have to stick your neck out. But it's not socially savvy to stick your neck out a big distance at once – you have to stick it out a little at a time.
With these two tactics, the Tightening Lasso and the BATNA, you never set yourself up to be able to get a big dramatic rejection; at any point in the conversation, the worst you can get is a small incremental rejection.
You may be wondering, does it pay to spend so much effort crafting ultra-smooth logistics texts? We claim it does.
Sure, if the other person likes you, they'll have a high tolerance for your crude amateurish logistics texts because they're eager to make things work. And if they don't like you, they won't say yes (or reply at all) to a logistics text no matter how smooth it is. But if they're in the middle where they kinda maybe like you – the most common situation when you're texting someone you haven't slept with yet – then a smooth logistics text can absolutely make the difference in whether they'll meet up with you or not.
When you use the Tightening Lasso or the BATNA, the other person might not consciously realize how smooth your logistics game is, but they'll naturally find that it's easier to say yes to meeting up with you. Before they say yes, they'll feel more chill and comfortable with the back-and-forth logistics negotiation process. After they say yes, they'll look forward to it more because your logistics texts made a positive impression on them.
You also get a bonus benefit that goes beyond the scope of the encounter you're currently planning. Whether they realize it consciously or subconsciously, your smooth logistics texts are a reliable signal that you're socially savvy, which immediately makes you more attractive to them.


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"I was planning on staying 4 months, but after just a couple of weeks at the Father Ray Foundation I realized that it was not going to be nearly enough."
"Everyone with the time and the passion to work with all those wonderful students and kids, should just pack a bag and buy a ticket to Thailand!"
For more information, contact our Volunteer Co-ordinator, Luke Woodcraft using the following form.
Anyone who is fit enough, has enthusiasm and is fluent in English!
As the mini bus drove us away through the barrier of Mahatai, it seemed like it was only 5 minutes ago when we were arriving, eager to begin this incredible adventure. My heart was pounding as we got further and further away and a million memories flashed through my mind like an unforgettable film. 6 months back we had no idea how we would spend this time and now we were leaving with our hearts full of experiences, gratitude and love for these wonderful inspirational kids.
We learned early on, that being here was a gift and the students taught and gave us so much more than we could ever give them.
Among the many projects we were involved in, i.e: teaching English at the Vocational College for People with Disabilities, helping them on swim days, organizing speaking English courses, spending time at the Children's Village, Children's Home, various fund raising activities and summer camp, was one project that I'll never forget and one which filled my heart to overflow.
When the 'Songtaew' full of us inexperienced fresh, new volunteers drove through the wide open gates for the first time, I wondered how this could be possible as the busy main road was scarily just meters away from where the blind kids played. I also wondered how it could be possible that there was a play park with slides and steps, a small football field and pool and that we were supposed to interact with these kids not knowing a word of Thai and with absolutely no experience working with the blind! Fear, curiosity and wonder as we lugged the sack of toys toward the group of kids who sat waiting for the new volunteers. Some were timid, some reserved, some just wanted to feel the toys but some were curious about us and allowed us to take them by their hands and take us for walks or allow us to sing to them and play with them.
They taught us how to interact, how they liked to play and allowed us to teach them what we could.
I'm ever grateful for the love I received from these wonderful inspirational students and children. Thank you all, I hope to return for more smiles and fun soon.
My volunteer experience started in September 2017. I was planning on staying 4 months but after just a couple of weeks at the Father Ray Foundation I realized that it was not going to be nearly enough. I worked at the Day Care Centre teaching English, and I loved it! I was able to spend time with each group of children, and even though they are so young, they were excited to learn – most of the time. Apart from having English classes and teaching them the ABCs, animals, food, and colors etc., I helped with other things like preparing meals and snack, helping them during lunchtime, dancing during morning exercise and of course playing with the kids when it was play time.
I can, from the bottom of my heart, say that going to the Father Ray Foundation and volunteer was the best decision I have ever made. I truly loved it and enjoyed every minute of it. That is reason I decided to stay longer than 4 months, I ended up being there 6 months and 2 weeks and I could not be happier that I stayed that long.
You get to do so many things at the foundation. Even though I was working mostly at the Day Care Center I was still was able to meet and hang out with the students from the Technological College in the evenings when we had swimming and Speaking English Club, and each Monday I went to the School for the Blind and played with the kinds there. I just loved everything. There is so much joy at the Father Ray Foundation. You learn so much and meet so many amazing people. I hope and wish everyone gets to go there so they can understand what I am talking about.
I love all kids in Day Care Center, they are all so cute! Every single moment I shared with them was enjoyable and I felt so happy. Also enjoyed the time with the children at the School for the Blind, the Children's Home & Village, and had a good time in helping to teach at the Technological College for People with Disabilities.
I would consider my experience here at the Father Ray Foundation as one of the most rich and fulfilling experiences I have ever had. I know the time I spent here was still not long enough and I will come back and do it all again.
Taking a gap year between my undergraduate and graduate studies, I learned about the opportunity to volunteer with the Father Ray Foundation in Pattaya. Within a couple of weeks, I had applied, interviewed, and was on a plane to Thailand. Despite having volunteered before and teaching chemistry as a college student, I had little to no experience with many of the challenges that soon faced me.
of my time there, I had developed strong bonds with many of these students who now recognized my voice and called for me by name.
Similarly, while teaching at the vocational school I initially came prepared with only basic lesson plans and my students and I struggled to communicate with the help of Thai-English dictionaries and Google Translate. Thankfully, they were stellar students who persisted, helped me improve as a teacher, and made me look forward to every day. With time, I got better at lesson planning and learned important tricks like bribing my students with candy. Getting to know each of them better and competing alongside them at events like Sports Day was a truly inspiring experience that taught me just as much as I taught them.
Over a year later, I still think about my time at the Father Ray Foundation on a daily basis and keep in touch with former students and volunteers. My time volunteering remains the most impactful and one of the most joy-filled times of my life – I can't wait until I can come back!
My name is Jan and I am a former volunteer at the Father Ray Foundation, Pattaya. I am from Germany and worked in Thailand for one year after I graduated High School in 2016.
I did not know what to expect when my plane landed in Thailand but in the end, it turned out to be one of the best things I have ever done in my life. Why is that?
As soon as I arrived at the Foundation I could tell that this upcoming year will be something special, filled with many experiences and new challenges.
The FRF consists of many parts like the Vocational School, the Special Needs Centre, the Children's Home or Village and the School for the Blind. That means working as a volunteer never gets boring. You get to know so many different young adults, kids or students and you accomplish things you have never done before. I have never taught at a school before or even thought about doing it in the future, but here at the foundation that was my main task. And I have to admit, two weeks in, I loved it! Every day I tried to teach my students something new and prepared them for their big exams after every term.Preparing classes, teaching and grading exams were my daily business from breakfast to lunch.
After that all volunteers went to the School for the Blind. We played with the small ones and showed the older kids that studying English isn't that boring if you do it with funny games.
On Saturdays, we drove out of town to visit the kids in the Children's Village and Home. I can't really say that these days were "work", because I think I enjoyed playing football, basketball or little games as much as the kids did.
Working at FRF does not mean working alone. There is something special about the volunteering program: we were a group of different volunteers from all over the world and with different ages, all living together in one building. We worked together, helped each other and spend most of our free time together. This community wasn't just a "group", it was your family for the time you worked at FRF and even after that.
I met so many amazing people from all around the world during that year and I kept in touch with most of them even after I went back to Germany.
I am glad I could be a part of that great foundation and help preserving what Father Ray build up in the past.
All in all, I can say that this year has been the greatest experience I have had so far and I can recommend working at FRF with all my heart. Everyone with the time and the passion to work with these wonderful students and kids, should just pack a bag and buy a ticket to Thailand! I can promise you that you won't want to leave the Foundation, even if you have been there for just one day!
I've always had a dream to take care of some poor child somewhere in the world, and I got my dream fulfilled in Thailand at Father Ray Foundation. In April 2015 I arrived to Pattaya, where I was working as a volunteer for 3 months at the Father Ray Day Care Center. I enjoyed every second I've been away.
It was an indescribable feeling to arrive at the Day Care Center each morning where 5-6 young kids come running into my arms. I felt so valuable every day. These kids are so grateful and happy for so little, and every time I made the children to laugh and smile, that made my work even more meaningful.
I was facing many exciting challenges through my volunteer work, which has developed me on a personal level, and many things where put in perspective in relation to my own life and the culture I come from. You live in a kind of bubble where the kids are 100 percent your focus, and the rest of the surrounding/world problems is indifferent.
I think it was fascinating to be part of the different projects, each and every one has made an impression on me. You give so little that means so much.
I came to give these kids and students some love and security, and that I had the opportunity to do every day. I like to work with all types of people, and therefore it was fascinating to work with blind autistic children, disabled students, street children, poor children and so on.
I got insight to another culture that came underneath my skin. I am very grateful and happy to have had this experience in my backpack, and hope to come back one day.
My uncle, Father Steve Wilson C.Ss.R. is, like Father Ray before him, a Redemptorist priest and it is he who introduced me to the Father Ray Foundation.
By the time I graduated from university I had already decided that I wanted to be part of the work in Pattaya, and I am so glad I did.
The first morning I arrived I joined my fellow volunteers on their weekly visit to the Drop-In Center. From the moment I arrived the children met me with their amazing smiles and with the younger ones wanting to climb all over me; in just a few minutes I went from feeling nervous to feeling happiness and acceptance.
This was a very special moment for me as I knew right there and then that I had made a great decision to come to Thailand. That first day we played games and I gave many piggy-back rides and we also laughed a lot, even though I speak no Thai and they speak no English. We have a bond that I will now hold on to forever.
Most days my mornings are spent at the Father Ray Center for Children with Special Needs while in the afternoon we travel across town to the School for the Blind.
As each day passes I continue to learn more about the Foundation; today there are around 850 children and students living or being educate here. I am impressed with the size of the Foundation, all the projects and I am also impressed with the amount of work it takes to make sure the children and students can study and grow at their own pace in an accepting and loving environment.
Every day I witness the children and students grow in new ways and I am experiencing my own personal growth in equally new ways. No matter how much you or I give it pales in comparison to what we receive in return.
I began my volunteer stint back in October 2014, and had no idea what to expect. But I was soon met by an awesome group of volunteers who are here to help and get involved.
My initial 5 month stint soon changed. Every few months I had to endure the question from my family "So when are you coming home?" But they soon gave up asking as I extended my time in Thailand over and over again. In the end, I volunteered for 20 months, and they were 20 truly epic months. The students and kids soon became like brothers and sisters to me. Leaving them was much harder than leaving my siblings back home (but don't tell them that).
Teaching was a completely new experience for me. I did not even know what the verb 'to be' was until I had to teach it. It was great experience teaching (and learning), I reckon I could even pass my own English exams now. It soon became one of the most enjoyable and rewarding part of my volunteer experience. I never expected to have so much fun teaching, but my students were so inspirational and awesome, they were the reason I decided to stay until they graduated – unfortunately for them, it also meant they were stuck with me! To see how far the students (and me) progressed was amazing!
In the afternoons, I went to School for the Blind, where we would take the students swimming, go to the beach, playing games, and teach English. To hang out on a beach on a Thursday afternoon and see the joy on the children's faces beats life back home by far!
I was soon participating in any and every opportunity that I could. The weekend activities, birthday parties, fundraising events, Summer Camps, taking some children to the local water park, karaoke (always an experience!) and of course all the sporting events. Every evening, somewhere at the Vocational School, the students play sport. The students love the volunteers getting involved, and I did not need a second invitation. I was soon taking part in most of the sports, although sadly losing most of the time, not through a lack of effort though! I think I was the most passionate 'sportsman' they had ever seen, much to their amusement.
The reason I stayed so long was that it is an incredible place. The more I put into my time there, the more I got out of it. If you ever get the opportunity, I could not recommend it enough!
I arrived at the Father Ray foundation in April 2014, slightly nervous and unsure of what to expect. I settled in so quickly and it has come to feel like home in a way I didn't think it could. Living together, working together and eating together, the volunteer group has been like a family here in Thailand, and it is so strange to be without them. From all over and of all different ages, we all shared a love for the work here.
I taught at the Vocational School for People with Disabilities for five months, and, despite the challenge of having no teaching experience, found lessons to be such a highlight. The students just love being around you, especially finding out things about your life back home (and they aren't afraid to be nosy, so prepare yourself for some personal questions!). Living on site with them, we soon build up good relationships and I can't wait to come back and visit them.
Weekday afternoons were spent at the School for the Blind, and my first week there was difficult, having to completely reassess how to communicate. But, as time went on I learned each child's quirks, what they liked and how to make a connection with them. Of course, I grew to love them all to bits.
It was easier work on Saturdays, Jenga towers and fierce Uno games with the children at the Father Ray Children's Home and the Father Ray Children's Village. I especially loved the Drop-In Centre where the children welcomed us with screams and hugs every visit and we couldn't get enough of their spirit.
I can't say how happy I am that I found Father Ray, it is an incredible place full of love, and I know that when I leave, it isn't the end for me here. If you are considering volunteering, I would highly recommend it, for somewhere that you know your work is worthwhile, as you become part of an already very well established organisation that simply relies on people's kindness to keep it going. If you come with an open mind and a big heart, you cannot help but love it here.
I would not be able to explain everything that happened to me while volunteering at the Father Ray Foundation in just a few lines, but what really fascinated me is the fact that I was meant to go there and give everything I could to help people that due to different circumstances could not have as comfortable life as the one I was born with, and it turned out that I took and learned much more than I gave.
Being there has been the best experience of life.
First, I was only supposed to stay at the Foundation for 5 months, but once I started, not only teaching, but sharing the everyday life with my students, I became part of a really big family which persuaded me to stay one more term.
student was cheering my day up with their random chats and with their contagious smile. What really made my week was visiting the Father Ray Drop-In Center and spend my time with the kid there. They have been through a lot in their short lives, more than we can imagine, but instead of being angry or sad they are just so happy.
I used to get upset about silly things, but they have taught me a lesson, the staff that run the Center are always giving their best.
I hope I have the chance in the future to visit all my new friends that have given me this wonderful time in Thailand.
If you are taking some sabbatical months and really ant to contribute and dedicate your time to help others, then consider going to the Father Ray Foundation.
I volunteered at the Father Ray Foundation from November 2012 to April 2013 and I fully recommend it to whoever has the opportunity to do it.
The whole time was spread over a wide range of various teaching activities: Father Ray Day Care Center in the morning, Redemptorist Vocational School for People with Disabilities in the afternoon, but also Father Ray Children's Home and Children's Village on the weekend.
There are also activities with the students at the School for the Blind, as well as helping with fundraising activities.
You will spend your time looking after the cutest kids you will probably ever meet. You will teach English to the most polite and respectful students and also have fun and making lifelong friendships with a whole bunch of amazing people from all over the world. I cannot wait to volunteer for the Father Ray Foundation again.
I arrived at the Fr Ray Foundation in October 2009 intending to stay for six months, but pretty soon I realised that I would want to stay for longer, so those six months quickly turned into twelve, and even that's not been long enough. During my time at the foundation I taught English at the Vocational School, the Children's Home and the Daycare Centre. Not having taught English before this was quite a challenge, but everyone was really supportive and I can say it was probably the most enjoyable, and certainly the most rewarding thing I've ever done. I also visited the School for The Blind three afternoons a week, and on Saturdays spent time with the kids in either the Children's Village or the Drop-in Centre (one of my favourite places!).
The bond you make with the students and children in the various projects is incredible, they are the most warm and wonderful people you could ever meet. Watching the students in the vocational school, and how they cope with the challenges they face every day is a humbling experience. They never complain and always to come class with a smile on their faces, ready to learn, it's a privilege to teach these young people, but I also think I have learnt a lot from them as well.
Being a volunteer is also a lot of fun, nothing wakes you up first thing in the morning like singing "Fred the Moose" (a volunteer favourite) with 30 eager four year olds. The friendships you make with the other volunteers is also wonderful, it's great to have such support around you.
So as I near the end of my stay at Fr Ray's I can say the past year has been the most amazing time of my life. The work the foundation does is so important, especially when you see first hand the difference they can make in someone's life. I know I'll miss the students and children when I go home but I'm already planning my return trip!
Niamh has come back every year for the past 9 years to visit, and be a volunteer.


Stepped-up border enforcement appears to be having some impact, shutting down traditional mom-and-pop people smuggling efforts and driving more clients to larger, more professionalized organized crime operations often involved in the drug smuggling business. And so it goes. I wouldn't say cracking down on illegal immigration is a huge priority for me, but by any standard border enforcement is a relatively ineffective way to go about it. Well-designed systems to make it harder for illegals to get jobs and rent houses would make coming to the United States illegally much less attractive. The strong incentives to cross the border, rather than the physical feasibility of doing it, is why so many people cross.


Navia Tradition consists of 100% Faroese wool and has been produced to meet a demand for old-style yarns that have been popular in the Faroe Islands for garments like 'skipstroyggjur' or fisherman's jerseys. In Faroese, the yarn is called "Samfingio" meaning 'unsorted,' meaning the coarser fibers are not plucked out. This results in a rustic yarn that is especially suitable for rugged jumpers and jackets. A beautiful aran-bulky weight yarn Tradition comes in big 100 gram skeins with 196 yards of yarn.
Yardage: 196 yards of yarn in each 100 gram hank.
Gauge: Approximately 3.5 stitches to an inch on U.S. size 10.5-13 needles.
Weight: Works up at Aran to Bulky depending on needles used and pattern being planned.


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Kalyna Roberge, née le  à Saint-Étienne-de-Lauzon (Québec), est une patineuse de vitesse sur courte piste  canadienne.

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 Jeux olympiques
  Médaille d'argent sur relais 3000 m aux Jeux olympiques d'hiver de 2006 à Turin
  Médaille d'argent sur relais 3000 m aux Jeux olympiques d'hiver de 2010 à Vancouver

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  Médaille d'or sur relais 500 m aux Championnats du monde de 2007
  Médaille d'argent sur relais 3000 m aux Championnats du monde de 2006
  Médaille de bronze sur 1000 m aux Championnats du monde de 2006
  Médaille d'or sur relais 3000 m aux Championnats du monde de 2005

 Coupe du monde
  Médaille d'or sur relais 3000 m à la coupe du monde

 Championnats du monde juniors
  Médaille d'or sur 500 m aux Championnats du monde juniors de 2005

Patineuse de vitesse sur piste courte canadienne
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Patineuse de vitesse sur piste courte aux Jeux olympiques d'hiver de 2006
Patineuse de vitesse sur piste courte aux Jeux olympiques d'hiver de 2010
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