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Canadian Federal Election 44 - Sep 2021
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Because his party won't let him.
The party has more to lose by a internal leadership battle than by letting him run till he decides he doesn't want to anymore.
If the party has learned anything from the Martin Chretien years its that.
Altair said:
In terms of racism, which party leader took a knee at the BLM protests? Which party has 30 percent of its caucus be BIPOC?
same party where the leader had his apparatchiks pressure an indigenous woman to do his bidding to support a party-friendly ethics-challenged company, then kicked her out of caucus when she wouldn't subvert the justice system; and the same party whose leader paraded a black woman around in front of foreign leaders as a token of his wokeness, then later also jettisoned her from the party for daring to refuse to continue to be used as a virtue-signaling pawn.
Nor does it seem that supporters of that party have any issues with any of that, or they convince themselves that's not really how such actions were to be experienced by the outcast.
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Jarnhamar
It less about a bar than it is about relevancy. Did Trudeau do blackface? Yes. Was it recent? No. Has he shown himself to be racist in recent memory? No. So its not relevant.
Did O'Toole laugh at an indigenous woman who had to scrape together $2000 to get an audience to talk about not having clean water to drink?
No of course not, that would have destroyed him. We know there is a giant double standard when it comes to the low-bar behavior the Liberal party gets away with compared to anyone else. They've successfully branded themselves. Trudeau successfully branded himself.
That's why Trudeau can get a general fired for a sexual misconduct allegation from 30 years ago while he can admit to one himself and the rest of Canada learns a lesson.
Trudeau can get away with anything because his voters let him, not because they give a shit about policies.
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same party where the leader had his apparatchiks pressure an indigenous woman to do his bidding to support a party-friendly ethics-challenged company, then kicked her out of caucus when she wouldn't subvert the justice system;
You believe this happened because she was indigenous or or regardless of if she was indigenous?
and the same party whose leader paraded a black woman around in front of foreign leaders as a token of his wholeness, then later also jettisoned her from the party for daring to refuse to continue to be used as a virtue-signaling pawn.
Take this, weight it against all the other things I mentioned and ponder if its enough to undo all of that.
Nor does it seem that supporters of that party don't have an issue with any of that, or they convince themselves that's not really how such actions were to be experienced by the outcast.
Just another sign that policies matter more than the individuals actions.
He did not. However, again, you are expecting an individuals actions to overcome all else.
No of course not, that would have destroyed him.
I don't know about that, this is the guy caught on camera saying the initial goal of residential schools was to "provide education", and he apologized and everyone moved on.
We know there is a giant double standard when it comes to the low-bar behavior the Liberal party gets away with compared to anyone else. They've successfully branded themselves. Trudeau successfully branded himself.
Yes, which, again, is why I continue to be amused by people putting so much emphasis on the individual actions Trudeau does.
I maintain that if O'Toole left daycare alone, left guns alone, left the carbon tax alone, and got every one of his candidates vaccinated he would be PM using the rest of his platform.
Otherwise, if its all on the leader, and we all agree Trudeau is pretty teflon, what makes anyone think he wont continue winning elections going forward? And if that's the case, why would he not run in the next election?
Bruce Monkhouse said:
... Most vote because of the names of the parties name and what they think that entails ...
... or for names/faces they know.
The NDP ran jack layton a bunch of times and the only time the NDP made any traction as after they agreed with 50 percent plus 1 after the Sherbrooke conference. That was policy.
Scheer was not liked because of his utter failure to make a coherent response to the abortion issue.
Canadians could just have easily elected Mulcair, in fact Mulcair was in the lead for a good portion of the campaign. After the LPC said screw it to balanced budgets and ran to the left of the NDP who were trying to appear more responsible under mulcair, and thus more electable, the NDP started to falter. Was Trudeau the right guy to deliver said message? Sure. But lets not pretend that he became leader and overnight the LPC was polling in majority territory. They were still the 3rd place party going into that election, and once there was a clear divergence on issues between them and the NDP, they started their rise.
No, its a opinion.
Again, you give too much credit to the Canadian Voter. They are notorious for not wanting change.
Again, Trudeau lucked out due to being the right contrast to Harper and the right time.
No, the NDP policies did not get them elected. After Layton passed they were wiped out in QC. Quebec votes with its heart. Plain and simple. They liked Jack Layton after his stint on QC television and his debate performances.
You also discount the voters who vote against rather than for.
Trudeau is exactly like Trump. One side of same coin. Both have supporters who will vote because of whatever superficial reason and couldn't care less about policy.
So factor in the percentage of how many people ACTUALLY voted for the LPC. From that extrapolate how many are die hard LPC. Then substract the people who vote the same way their family or spouse does or did, then substract the people who don't like what the others offer, then remove the ones who have no clue how any of policies really work or even care etc etc. How many does that leave you with that voted for actual policy? Not a lot and certainly not a majority of Canadians.
You think Canadians vote for policy. Some do, but not in the numbers you think.
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I'm poitning out the double standard Trudeau armours himself with and how when his guard is down his true self shines through.
People made a lot of noise about it.
Yup. Lots of honour bound suckers out there.
Daycare was the 2nd least popular thing Canadians were concerned about in the graph you posted up thread. Guns weren't mentioned, carbon tax (climate change) was around the middle.
O'Toole had no chance of winning because the election is decided by Toronto and Quebec.
Agreed. He'll continue to run and continue to win, because he speaks Toronto and Quebec.
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People care less about true self and more about what politicians can do for them.
People made a lot of noise about how Trudeau treated that protester.
Point is it didn't sink either of them.
It's amazing how far an apology will go.
Politics for ya.
This is my opinion, take it or leave it, but I think it would have allowed a lot more Canadians be more comfortable with replacing Trudeau with O'Toole if O'Toole left well enough alone.
O'Toole, and any conservative can be competitive in Quebec or Toronto if they picked policies popular with Toronto and Quebec.
Cynical.
Wont complain about that though.
mariomike
CPC is 95 percent of European descent.
How does that compare to LPC?
mariomike said:
30 percent of the LPC caucus this time around is BIPOC
Rupa Subramanya: Yes, Tofino Trudeau is entitled, but he's not clueless
Trudeau critics who justifiably continue to hammer away at his personal foibles ultimately miss the plot when they stop there
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A striking refrain I hear from those who voted for the Liberals this time around is that they don't particularly like Trudeau's sense of entitlement or his arrogance, but they still think he and the Liberals are better than the alternative. In particular, despite his pivot to the centre, many seemed unconvinced by Erin O'Toole and fear the regressive right wing of the Conservative party. One particular Liberal supporter described the newly rebranded and likeable Tories as "wolves in sheep's clothing". Nor were they impressed by the TikTok antics of Jagmeet Singh, whom they see as a little more than the class clown — entertaining and likeable but light on substance and not someone who could credibly lead the country.
Trudeau critics who justifiably continue to hammer away at his personal foibles ultimately miss the plot when they stop there. As the last two elections proved beyond any doubt, most Canadians, at least Liberal supporters, don't give a toss. Nor is the public likely to be moved by the sanctimony of critics who themselves probably enjoyed Thursday as yet another holiday, much as Trudeau did. Certainly on the evidence of the overflowing pubs in downtown Ottawa last Thursday, most average folks were more concerned with enjoying a pint on a patio on one of the last warm days rather than cloistered at home in a state of reflection and reconciliation.
Most Canadians, I think, are jaded by the competitive sanctimony and self-righteousness of both Trudeau and his critics. And Trudeau knows this. His critics often make the mistake of assuming not just that he's entitled, which he clearly is, but also that he's clueless, which he clearly is not. He knows full well that most Canadians are not bothered by the competitive politics of self-righteous symbolism but rather are concerned with pocketbook issues, and many have given Trudeau credit for the safe return of the two Michaels from Chinese captivity.
I could write for the National Post.
Eaglelord17
The Conservatives need a real climate change plan, and they could easily do away with the Carbon tax if they had a actual plan to back it up. For example if they said instead of a carbon tax we are now going to start limiting products made in other countries in environmentally unfriendly ways (or manners that would be illegal here) from being allowed in and sold in Canada. We are also going to create jobs and encourage industry to set up shop in Canada to produce goods in a environmentally friendly manner (or at least friendlier than anywhere else) creating a ton of good paying jobs which don't require extreme amounts of education. You would likely see a bunch of blue collar votes going their way and the NDP losing what blue collar support is left there.
If the Conservatives left guns alone they would lose rural Canada and those votes would shift to the PPC which would likely end up as the opposition or at least a very credible party.
The Liberals can also learn a bunch from the Conservatives, they don't have much rural support. The more they continue to pander to the cities and actively hurt rural areas for no actual practical reason the less viable their party shall be in those regions and the more likely they shall never move past a minority government again.
For reference to the disussion,
Percentage of women in the House of Commons:
Liberal 16.6%
Conservative 6.5%
Women in the 44th Canadian Parliament - Wikipedia
Brad Sallows
Canadians vote for topics, not policies. Pretty much every time I look at a list of polled "top concerns" and compare to the policies of the parties and the actual policies of the government, there is little to no useful alignment of the two (eg. firearms control and firearms violence mitigation; almost everything to do with economic measures). Policies are often wishful thinking born of decades of ideological conviction that ideas hatched in university seminars can be effected in society in the way that the dreamers dream. Voters do not enforce a connection of efforts to aims; I suspect most voters subscribe to a lot of popular myths about the way the world is, how it got that way, and how it could be changed.
The implication is that all that matters is what is said - speak the correct words; get elected. Also, meet conventional standards of physical attractiveness and demonstrate habits that are whatever contemporarily passes for "cool".
Eaglelord17 said:
One of the easiest ways to show that you have an environmental plan is to reduce emissions and meet or exceed the Paris climate targets.
Nothing you wrote would reduce emissions, in fact by removing the carbon tax I think you would see an increase.
Once other parties started to point that out any CPC climate plan along those lines would be dead in the water.
How much can they afford to lose to the PPC is the calculus they need to make. If they lose 2-5 seats to them in the west and have to fight them for 10 more, does that make up for being competitive in Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver?
The LPC could try to win in rural Canada but they could easily lose urban Canada to the NDP if they do so.
But seeing as the LPC need just a dozen or so seats more they could also just try to get them from the bloc or the NDP. The problem for rural Canada is that they are not exactly open to voting LPC and for that reason the LPC are not courting them. When you look at which parties supporters would vote LPC as a second choice the NDP and BQ are more likely than CPC voters.
That said, I do not mind the age of minority parliaments. One of the perks of PR is that it's very rare for a party to win a majority and they need to work together to make parliament work. Well, 5 of the last 7 elections have resulted in minority parliaments and the with the bloc and PPC potentially cementing themselves in the electoral landscape, its making getting to 36-40 percent of the popular vote needed to secure a majority harder and harder to get.
So maybe parliament needs to stop the gamesmanship and
A)Stop calling snap elections
B) stop bringing down the minority government when it's politically convenient for the opposition parties.
"BIPOC" is probably an overly American lens for the purpose of looking at Canadian politics. Consider this argument from UoT professor Joseph Heath:
The term 'BIPOC' is a bad fit for the Canadian discourse on race
One of the biggest problems in Canadian politics is that large segments of our population seem to think they live in the United States. How else can one explain the fools running around in MAGA hats and holding demonstrations in support of former U.S. president Donald Trump? Sometimes, I feel like I should shake them by the shoulders and shout, "You live in Canada!"
Unfortunately, I am beginning to feel the same way toward people who talk about "BIPOC issues," as though it were normal for Canadians to use that expression. After all, BIPOC ("Black, Indigenous and People of Color") is an acronym developed in the U.S. to discuss domestic race relations, just as BAME ("Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic") is used in Britain.
Rather than developing our own acronym to reflect the reality of race relations and multiculturalism in Canada, far too many people have chosen just to use the American term. This cognitive capture by American social-justice discourse is, in many ways, just a left-wing version of what's been happening with MAGA on the right.
Because of their distinctive history in the U.S., it makes sense to treat Black people as a separate category in that country. And because of their demographics, it may make some sense to put them before Indigenous people, who make up only 1.6 per cent of the U.S. population. In Canada, however, where Indigenous people make up almost 5 per cent of the population, it makes no sense at all to put the B before the I, or even to treat Black people as a separate category from other ethnic groups. Indeed, it is in many ways offensive to the distinctive status of Indigenous peoples in Canada to put the B first. From the perspective of many Indigenous people, the Black population of Canada are settlers, just like white Canadians – that is, part and parcel of the continuing colonial project.
... if there is the need for an acronym to identify the most important minority groups in Canada, I would propose "FIVM": Francophone, Indigenous, and Visible Minority.
Maybe the same party comes out ahead if we use a Canadian metric but, if we are going to measure and recognize extent of representation in a party's caucus, then we should use a Canadian metric.
Colonials victimized by colonialism. Only in Canada.
McG said:
If you want to piss off black Canadians and completely disregard the existence of anti black racism in Canada, go with this. I'm sure black canadians, a lot of whom live in urban Quebec and Ontario would love that issues specific to their community just gets lumped in with visible minority.
Great idea. And while we are done telling blacks that their issues are in the same vain as any other visible minority, let's promote the French, and because this author thinks order means anything, let's put them at the front of the line. Because the present day struggles of the french are in the same league as those the Indigenous people and black people and other people of color.
If the order of things matter so much, just use IBPOC and call it a day. But to use FIVM makes the authors agenda abundantly clear.
Using this ridiculous metric, and not willing to go into the linguistic and racial background of every candidate background, let's just do a rough estimate of 10 CPC francos from Quebec and 34 LPC francos from Quebec.
That gives the LPC 51 percent of their caucus using that ridiculous metric compared to 14 percent CPC.
Just to note, this is the first and last time I will be using that ridiculous acronym and metric and will be using BIPOC from now on.
If you want to pass off black Canadians and completely disregard the existence of anti black racism in Canada, go with this. I'm sure black canadians, a lot of whom live in urban Quebec and Ontario would love that issues specific to their community just gets lumped in with visible minority.
Can I infer from your reply that you completely dismiss the merits of a Canadian specific metric, even if it is something other that FIVM? Do you not agree that indigenous communities in Canada are far more disadvantaged? Do your concerns about burying "B" in "VM" not apply to burying "I" in "POC"?
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The executives and members of the Asokwa Concerned Youth Association (A.C.Y.A) extend our hearts felt congratulations to the Asokwa Municipal Assembly for a successful first year anniversary celebrated last week Friday. The municipal has always been on the top of the list for serving the Constituency with your unselfish services.
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Julian Halsby was born in London in 1948 and after Highgate School studied History of Art at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He then joined the staff of Croydon College of Art lecturing in the History of Art and Design and rose to become Senior Lecturer and Head of the Conservation Department.
Julian has written seven books on art history including Scottish Watercolours 1740 -1940̛̛, the biographies of Diana Armfield RA and David Wolfers, owner of the New Grafton Gallery, and a Dictionary of Scottish Artists. He has also written hundreds of articles including the current series of In Conversation̛̛ for The Artist̛̛ magazine and many articles on art criticism. Julian currently lectures for NADFAS and other adult education organisations and is chairman of Artslink, a local community arts education charity.
During the 1980s Julian ran Highgate Gallery with his wife, Miranda, and they now jointly run Newland Gallery, situated behind their medieval house in Sherborne. (www.newlandgallery.co.uk). They run exhibitions of their own work as well as of other artists. They are also involved in community art exhibitions.
He studied painting in Florence and began exhibiting in London, first at the Thackeray Gallery and later at the New Grafton. He currently shows at a number of galleries throughout the South of England. Julian works in oil on board, mostly on a fairly small scale. He paints both landscapes and nudes in interiors, two themes that run throughout his work. One of his great passions is Venice, about which he has written a book Venice – The Artists̛̛ Vision̛̛. He returns to Venice most years to paint, delighting in the flickering light, the unusual architecture and the wonderful sunsets.
Julian and his wife spend the summers in their house in the Languedoc, not far from Montpellier. Julian loves the intense light of the Languedoc, a light which has captivated many artists including Courbet. He paints the vineyards set against the blue mountains, the Mediterranean with its unspoilt beaches and the ports of Meze and Marseillan. He also enjoys the dramatic mountains and gorges to the north, especially the exciting Gorges du Tarn where sheer rock cliffs tumble into dark green water.
Dorset and the West Country are another of Julian̛̛s passions. He loves the hilly landscapes, especially in spring when bluebells, rape and cow parsley create a riot of colour. He is also attracted to the dramatic coastline which he walks whenever possible. Julian also paints small nudes in interiors, influenced by the intimate panels of Bonnard and Bernard Dunstan.
Julian was elected to the RBA in 1994, to the International Association of Art Critics in 1996, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 1997 and to the Critics Circle in 2006.


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Magna is a census-designated place (CDP) and township in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States. The population was 26,505 at the 2010 census, a moderate increase over the 2000 figure of 22,770.
Nourishing meals are provided to residents, 55 is the minimum age allowed for residents, residents can self manage their diabetic care, this community provides complimentary transportation, and hospice is an option available at this location.
A podiatrist visits the community to address any issues related to your feet, speech therapy is offered via a speech therapist who comes to the community regularly, this property administers patient medications, wheelchair accessible showers are available at this location, aging in place allows residents to remain in one location as their care needs change, Spanish is spoken at this location, and this community was built in 1996.
Healthy meals are provided to residents, a visiting podiatrist helps keep your feet healthy, speech therapy is offered via a speech therapist who comes to the property often, staff monitors medication and reminds residents when it's time to take them, the community has a nurse that is able to administer injectable medicine, wheelchair accessible showers are available at this location, and aging in place allows residents to remain in one location as their care needs change.
Delicious meals are provided to residents, an occupational therapist visits and helps residents, complimentary transportation is handy for residents, the property is convenient to local bus lines, French is spoken at this location, the staff speaks Spanish at this location, and the community is licensed for 119 residents.
Nutritious meals are provided to residents, nurses are on staff, regular occupational therapy by a visiting therapist helps you stay active and engaged, the property is secured for the safety of memory care residents that might be prone to wander, caregivers at Canyon Creek can address potential disorientation presented by residents, staff is trained to deal with any wandering behaviors that might present themselves dealt with, and resident parking is available to residents who drive.
Residents have Kosher food as a dietary option, professional nurses are on staff to help you, physical therapy can be done on-site by a visiting physical therapist, regular occupational therapy by a visiting therapist helps you stay active and engaged, full-service medication administration is available, residents who drive will find parking available to them, and hospice is an option available at this location.
Expertly prepared meals are provided to residents, Kosher menu options are available for all meals, the minimum allowable age of residents is 55, a visiting dentist helps residents maintain their dental health, high tech wander guards can prevent memory care residents from leaving the community, residents who drive will find parking available to them, and the property is convenient to bus lines in the area.
The minimum allowable age of residents is 55, nurses are on staff, a podiatrist visits the community to address any issues related to your feet, physical therapy can be done without leaving the community by a visiting physical therapist, staff can help residents monitor their blood sugar, aging in place allows residents to remain in one location as their care needs change, and this community was built in 1988.


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Nitrovit has been reviewed very favorably by many and is a firm favorite among regular nootropic users. Today we take a detailed look at Nitrovit and give our own opinion on this much discussed supplement.
Nitrovit contains a wide variety of nutrients, essential vitamins and minerals, which are extremely effective in supporting neurological and cognitive health, and they can help supplement an active, modern lifestyle, particularly if you suffer from low concentration, low self-esteem or low motivation, or you are striving for success in the fields of sport, academia or business.
One of the main active ingredients in Nitrovit are what are known as Nootropics, which are substances that improve cognitive function, for example memory, creativity and focus. As such, they are particularly popular with students and those who would benefit from increased focus and attention, e.g those with impending deadlines and high-flying city types.
They are also designed to reduce fatigue and increase stamina, and so they would be useful in general for those who need a little bit of help to get back to their best.
The nutraceutical formulation of Nitrovit also includes other vitamins and minerals, such as vitamins B6 and B12, as well as ingredients following the Ayurvedic tradition, which is an ancient Indian tradition of medicine used throughout the wellness industry scientifically proven to improve health.
Nitrovit also includes powerful antioxidants such as Alpha Lipoic Acid, which prevents the cellular damage in your brain caused by free radicals, allowing Nitrovit to have it's fullest effect on your cognition.
The Nitrovit capsules, of which you take two a day, either two first thing in the morning or one with breakfast and one with lunch, contain ingredients that are designed to be completely complementary and bio-available.
Overall we found that Nitrovit is a great product and as a fairly low risk supplement is worth trying for anyone who is seeking to improve their cognitive prowess.
Neuro Laboratories, the company who produce Nitrovit, are a organization who specialize in developing products that improve wellness and vitality. They mainly produce nutritional supplements and through research, education and development, they strive to be on the cutting edge and produce revolutionary products in the field.
Their supplements are mainly geared towards improving cognitive and physiological performance and are aimed at those who seek to be at the top of their game in sport, academia and business. The CEO of Neuro Labs, Archie Marks, originally developed this solution for his own attention problems, and after four years of fine tuning he believes this supplement is a market leader.
The product is available in vegetarian, easy to swallow capsules, and Neurolabs also offer other capsules such as Nitroamp and Nitrodrive for your other needs, such as increasing libido and improving your workout.
According to the manufacturers, Nitrovit can increase Motivation, Drive, and Concentration, and helps to improve the function of and repair the neurotransmitters responsible for working and long-term memory. Evidence so far is strong, with the makers of Nitrovit citing a study in which memory and cognition was boosted 83% in a group of students compared to a Placebo.
Consumer testimony has been strong, with customers often giving the product a five star review. One student claims that after taking the product her memory improved significantly after only four days and she was able to study for her finals much more effectively.
Another user giving a five star review cites the massive improvements in their focus, alertness and sense of well-being, claiming that they saw a massive reduction in their anxiety levels.
Mental Health Daily reiterates these potential problems. They add that during stages in which brain development is occurring at a rapid rate, for example adolescence, it may be detrimental to use Nootropics, as there has been little research into the way in which they affect brain chemistry.
Likewise, the duration and frequency of usage is important, as using them for too long too often could lead to dependence.
So, Nitrovit capsules have some very exciting advantages, such as improved concentration and memory, and apparent alleviation of anxiety symptoms. This has made them extremely popular amongst students and those who need an extra boost in work.
These advantages, combined with the excellent consumer testimony, make Nitrovit an intriguing prospect. However, there are some things to be aware of, such as the unregulated nature of many of the products, and the potential danger of dependence.
Let us know in the comments what you thought about Nitrovit so we can help others decide if it's right for them.


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package org.estatio.dom.lease;

import org.estatio.dom.Titled;

// TODO: is this in scope?
// EST-130: convert to entity, since will vary by location
//
// my idea is that these will become the values of Event#subjectEventType
// (scoped by the subject to which the event refers)
//
// see BreakOption for a usage of this...
//
public enum LeaseEventType implements Titled {

    LEASE_OTHER("Other"),
    LEASE_MEETING("Meeting"),
    LEASE_PROLONGATION("Prolongation"),
    LEASE_TASK("Task");

    private String title;

    private LeaseEventType(final String title) {
        this.title = title;
    }

    public String title() {
        return title;
    }
}

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text:
import * as types from '../constants/ActionTypes';

import {
    SOURCEMAP_SEPARATE,
    OPTIONS_PRESET_DEFAULT,
    IDENTIFIER_NAMES_GENERATOR_HEXADECIMAL,
    TARGET_BROWSER,
    STRING_ARRAY_ENCODING_NONE,
    STRING_ARRAY_ENCODING_BASE64,
    STRING_ARRAY_ENCODING_RC4,
    STRING_ARRAY_WRAPPERS_TYPE_VARIABLE,
    STRING_ARRAY_INDEXES_TYPE_HEXADECIMAL_NUMBER,
    RENAME_PROPERTIES_MODE_SAFE,
    DOMAIN_LOCK_REDIRECT_URL_ABOUT_BLANK
} from '../containers/OptionsContainer';

const initialState = {
    optionsPreset: OPTIONS_PRESET_DEFAULT,

    compact: true,
    selfDefending: false,
    disableConsoleOutput: false,

    debugProtection: false,
    debugProtectionInterval: 0,

    splitStrings: false,

    splitStringsChunkLength: 10,
    splitStringsChunkLengthEnabled: false,

    stringArray: true,

    stringArrayRotate: true,
    stringArrayRotateEnabled: true,

    stringArrayShuffle: true,
    stringArrayShuffleEnabled: true,

    simplify: true,

    stringArrayThreshold: 0.75,
    stringArrayThresholdEnabled: true,

    stringArrayIndexesType: [
        STRING_ARRAY_INDEXES_TYPE_HEXADECIMAL_NUMBER
    ],

    stringArrayIndexShift: true,

    stringArrayCallsTransform: false,
    stringArrayCallsTransformThreshold: 0.5,

    stringArrayEncoding: [
        STRING_ARRAY_ENCODING_NONE
    ],
    stringArrayEncodingEnabled: true,

    stringArrayWrappersCount: 1,
    stringArrayWrappersChainedCalls: true,
    stringArrayWrappersParametersMaxCount: 2,
    stringArrayWrappersType: STRING_ARRAY_WRAPPERS_TYPE_VARIABLE,

    numbersToExpressions: false,

    sourceMap: false,
    sourceMapMode: SOURCEMAP_SEPARATE,
    sourceMapBaseUrl: '',
    sourceMapFileName: '',

    domainLock: [],
    domainLockRedirectUrl: DOMAIN_LOCK_REDIRECT_URL_ABOUT_BLANK,
    domainLockEnabled: true,

    forceTransformStrings: [],
    reservedNames: [],
    reservedStrings: [],

    seed: 0,

    controlFlowFlatteningThreshold: 0.75,
    controlFlowFlattening: false,

    deadCodeInjectionThreshold: 0.4,
    deadCodeInjection: false,

    unicodeEscapeSequence: false,

    renameGlobals: false,

    renameProperties: false,
    renamePropertiesMode: RENAME_PROPERTIES_MODE_SAFE,

    target: TARGET_BROWSER,

    identifierNamesGenerator: IDENTIFIER_NAMES_GENERATOR_HEXADECIMAL,
    identifiersDictionary: [],
    identifiersPrefix: '',

    transformObjectKeys: false,

    ignoreImports: false

};

export const options = (state = initialState, action) => {

    // this is necessary because new options need to be filled with their
    // default values and them merged with the state from the localStorage
    // which can be outdated when new options are added
    // from https://github.com/reactjs/redux/issues/433#issuecomment-129188687
    if (!state.hydrated) {
        state = {...initialState, ...state, hydrated: true};
    }

    switch (action.type) {

        case types.RESET_OPTIONS: {
            return initialState;
        }

        case types.SET_OPTIONS_PRESET: {
            return {
                ...state,
                ...action.options,
                optionsPreset: action.optionsPreset
            };
        }

        case types.TOGGLE_COMPACT_CODE: {
            const compact = !state.compact;
            return {
                ...state,
                compact,
                selfDefending: state.selfDefending && compact,
            };
        }

        case types.TOGGLE_SIMPLIFY: {
            return {
                ...state,
                simplify: !state.simplify,
            };
        }

        case types.TOGGLE_SELF_DEFENDING: {
            const selfDefending = !state.selfDefending;
            return {
                ...state,
                selfDefending,
                compact: state.compact || selfDefending,
            };
        }

        case types.TOGGLE_DISABLE_CONSOLE_OUTPUT:
            return {
                ...state,
                disableConsoleOutput: !state.disableConsoleOutput,
            };

        case types.TOGGLE_DEBUG_PROTECTION: {
            const debugProtection = !state.debugProtection;
            return {
                ...state,
                debugProtection,
                debugProtectionInterval: debugProtection
                    ? state.debugProtectionInterval
                    : initialState.debugProtectionInterval,
            }
        }

        case types.SET_DEBUG_PROTECTION_INTERVAL: {
            return {
                ...state,
                debugProtectionInterval: action.debugProtectionInterval
            }
        }

        case types.TOGGLE_DEBUG_PROTECTION_INTERVAL:
            return {
                ...state,
                debugProtectionInterval: !state.debugProtectionInterval,
            };

        case types.TOGGLE_SPLIT_STRINGS: {
            const splitStrings = !state.splitStrings;

            return {
                ...state,
                splitStrings,
                splitStringsChunkLengthEnabled: splitStrings,
            };
        }

        case types.SET_SPLIT_STRINGS_CHUNK_LENGTH:
            return {
                ...state,
                splitStringsChunkLength: action.chunkLength
            };

        case types.TOGGLE_STRING_ARRAY: {
            // Also change the TOGGLE_DEAD_CODE_INJECTION below if changed
            const stringArray = !state.stringArray;
            return {
                ...state,
                stringArray,
                stringArrayRotateEnabled: stringArray,
                stringArrayShuffleEnabled: stringArray,
                stringArrayThresholdEnabled: stringArray,
                stringArrayEncodingEnabled: stringArray,
            };
        }

        case types.TOGGLE_STRING_ARRAY_INDEX_SHIFT:
            return {
                ...state,
                stringArrayIndexShift: !state.stringArrayIndexShift
            };

        case types.TOGGLE_STRING_ARRAY_ROTATE:
            return {
                ...state,
                stringArrayRotate: !state.stringArrayRotate
            };

        case types.TOGGLE_STRING_ARRAY_SHUFFLE:
            return {
                ...state,
                stringArrayShuffle: !state.stringArrayShuffle
            };

        case types.SET_STRING_ARRAY_ENCODING:
            return {
                ...state,
                stringArrayEncoding: action.encoding
            };

        case types.SET_STRING_ARRAY_THRESHOLD:
            return {
                ...state,
                stringArrayThreshold: action.threshold
            };

        case types.SET_STRING_ARRAY_INDEXES_TYPE:
            return {
                ...state,
                stringArrayIndexesType: action.indexesType
            };

        case types.SET_STRING_ARRAY_CALLS_TRANSFORM_THRESHOLD:
            return {
                ...state,
                stringArrayCallsTransformThreshold: action.threshold
            };

        case types.TOGGLE_STRING_ARRAY_CALLS_TRANSFORM:
            return {
                ...state,
                stringArrayCallsTransform: !state.stringArrayCallsTransform
            };

        case types.SET_STRING_ARRAY_WRAPPERS_COUNT:
            return {
                ...state,
                stringArrayWrappersCount: action.stringArrayWrappersCount
            };

        case types.SET_STRING_ARRAY_WRAPPERS_PARAMETERS_MAX_COUNT:
            return {
                ...state,
                stringArrayWrappersParametersMaxCount: action.stringArrayWrappersParametersMaxCount
            };

        case types.TOGGLE_STRING_ARRAY_WRAPPERS_CHAINED_CALLS:
            return {
                ...state,
                stringArrayWrappersChainedCalls: !state.stringArrayWrappersChainedCalls
            };

        case types.SET_STRING_ARRAY_WRAPPERS_TYPE:
            return {
                ...state,
                stringArrayWrappersType: action.stringArrayWrappersType
            };

        case types.TOGGLE_SOURCEMAP: {
            return {
                ...state,
                sourceMap: !state.sourceMap
            };
        }

        case types.SET_SOURCEMAP_MODE: {
            const mode = action.mode;
            return {
                ...state,
                sourceMapMode: mode
            };
        }

        case types.SET_SOURCEMAP_BASE_URL:
            return {
                ...state,
                sourceMapBaseUrl: action.baseUrl
            };

        case types.SET_SOURCEMAP_FILE_NAME:
            return {
                ...state,
                sourceMapFileName: action.fileName
            };

        case types.ADD_DOMAIN_LOCK: {
            const domain = action.domain;
            if (state.domainLock.indexOf(domain) !== -1)
                return state;

            return {
                ...state,
                domainLock: [...state.domainLock, domain],
            };
        }

        case types.REMOVE_DOMAIN_LOCK:
            return {
                ...state,
                domainLock: state.domainLock.filter((domain) => domain !== action.domain),
            };

        case types.SET_DOMAIN_LOCK_REDIRECT_URL:
            return {
                ...state,
                domainLockRedirectUrl: action.domainLockRedirectUrl
            };

        case types.ADD_RESERVED_NAME: {
            const name = action.name;
            if (state.reservedNames.indexOf(name) !== -1)
                return state;

            return {
                ...state,
                reservedNames: [...state.reservedNames, name],
            };
        }

        case types.REMOVE_RESERVED_NAME:
            return {
                ...state,
                reservedNames: state.reservedNames.filter((name) => name !== action.name),
            };

        case types.ADD_FORCE_TRANSFORM_STRING: {
            const string = action.string;
            if (state.forceTransformStrings.indexOf(name) !== -1)
                return state;

            return {
                ...state,
                forceTransformStrings: [...state.forceTransformStrings, string],
            };
        }

        case types.REMOVE_FORCE_TRANSFORM_STRING: {
            return {
                ...state,
                forceTransformStrings: state.forceTransformStrings.filter((string) => string !== action.string)
            };
        }

        case types.ADD_RESERVED_STRING: {
            const string = action.string;
            if (state.reservedStrings.indexOf(string) !== -1)
                return state;

            return {
                ...state,
                reservedStrings: [...state.reservedStrings, string],
            };
        }

        case types.REMOVE_RESERVED_STRING:
            return {
                ...state,
                reservedStrings: state.reservedStrings.filter((string) => string !== action.string),
            };

        case types.ADD_DICTIONARY_IDENTIFIER: {
            const name = action.name;

            return {
                ...state,
                identifiersDictionary: [...state.identifiersDictionary, name],
            };
        }

        case types.REMOVE_DICTIONARY_IDENTIFIER:
            return {
                ...state,
                identifiersDictionary: state.identifiersDictionary.filter((name) => name !== action.name),
            };

        case types.SET_SEED:
            return {
                ...state,
                seed: action.seed
            };

        case types.SET_CONTROL_FLOW_FLATTENING_THRESHOLD:
            return {
                ...state,
                controlFlowFlatteningThreshold: action.threshold
            };

        case types.TOGGLE_CONTROL_FLOW_FLATTENING:
            return {
                ...state,
                controlFlowFlattening: !state.controlFlowFlattening
            };

        case types.SET_DEAD_CODE_INJECTION_THRESHOLD:
            return {
                ...state,
                deadCodeInjectionThreshold: action.threshold
            };

        case types.TOGGLE_DEAD_CODE_INJECTION: {
            // Also change the TOGGLE_STRING_ARRAY above if changed
            const deadCodeInjection = !state.deadCodeInjection;
            const stringArray = state.stringArray || deadCodeInjection;
            return {
                ...state,
                deadCodeInjection: deadCodeInjection,
                stringArray,
                stringArrayRotateEnabled: stringArray,
                stringArrayThresholdEnabled: stringArray,
                stringArrayEncodingEnabled: stringArray
            };
        }

        case types.TOGGLE_NUMBERS_TO_EXPRESSIONS:
            return {
                ...state,
                numbersToExpressions: !state.numbersToExpressions
            };

        case types.TOGGLE_UNICODE_ESCAPE_SEQUENCE:
            return {
                ...state,
                unicodeEscapeSequence: !state.unicodeEscapeSequence
            };

        case types.TOGGLE_RENAME_GLOBALS:
            return {
                ...state,
                renameGlobals: !state.renameGlobals
            };

        case types.TOGGLE_RENAME_PROPERTIES:
            return {
                ...state,
                renameProperties: !state.renameProperties
            };

        case types.SET_RENAME_PROPERTIES_MODE:
            return {
                ...state,
                renamePropertiesMode: action.renamePropertiesMode
            };

        case types.SET_TARGET: {
            const target = action.target;

            const isNodeTarget = target === 'node';

            return {
                ...state,
                target,
                ...isNodeTarget && {
                    domainLock: [],
                    domainLockRedirectUrl: DOMAIN_LOCK_REDIRECT_URL_ABOUT_BLANK
                },
                domainLockEnabled: !isNodeTarget
            };
        }

        case types.SET_IDENTIFIER_NAMES_GENERATOR:
            return {
                ...state,
                identifierNamesGenerator: action.identifierNamesGenerator
            };

        case types.SET_IDENTIFIERS_PREFIX:
            return {
                ...state,
                identifiersPrefix: action.identifiersPrefix
            };

        case types.TOGGLE_TRANSFORM_OBJECT_KEYS:
            return {
                ...state,
                transformObjectKeys: !state.transformObjectKeys
            };

        case types.TOGGLE_IGNORE_IMPORTS:
            return {
                ...state,
                ignoreImports: !state.ignoreImports
            };

        default:
            return state
    }
};

export function sanitizePersistedOptions(persistedOptions) {
    if (typeof persistedOptions.debugProtectionInterval !== 'number') {
        persistedOptions.debugProtectionInterval = initialState.debugProtectionInterval;
    }

    if (!Array.isArray(persistedOptions.stringArrayEncoding)) {
        persistedOptions.stringArrayEncoding = initialState.stringArrayEncoding;
    } else {
        for (const value of persistedOptions.stringArrayEncoding) {
            if (
                value !== STRING_ARRAY_ENCODING_NONE
                || value !== STRING_ARRAY_ENCODING_BASE64
                || value !== STRING_ARRAY_ENCODING_RC4
            ) {
                persistedOptions.stringArrayEncoding = initialState.stringArrayEncoding;

                break;
            }
        }
    }
}


McFarland Clinic is pleased to announce Michelle Pearson, ARNP joined the McFarland Clinic Jefferson office. Michelle is welcoming new patients.
Michelle completed her family nurse practitioner degree from Clarkson College. She received her master of science in nursing degree from Walden University and a bachelor in science and nursing degree from the University of Iowa.
To schedule an appointment with Michelle, call the McFarland Clinic Jefferson office at 515-386-4192.


Surrounded by breathtaking beauty, we are the most luxurious four-star hotel in Manado, North Sulawesi. Treat yourself to a panoramic view of the sea with lush green mountains serving as the backdrop. Our extensive facilities and spectacular location make us a perfect choice for business and leisure travelers alike. A pleasant thirty minutes' journey from Sam Ratulangi International Airport, we are right in the centre of the ecotourism area and business districts of Jalan Jenderal Sudirman, with easy access to entertainment venues and tourist attractions.
Many people think of North Sulawesi as mainly being a place for diving and snorkelling. There is a lot more though! Visiting Manado and not spending some time exploring the beautiful Minahasa Highland means that you miss a good part of this area's wonderful attractions. The Highland Resort is the ideal place to base yourself, for however long you choose to stay with us. Our unique resort offers a cool respite from the tropical heat of the town and a quiet venue to relax and enjoy the lush vegetation and birdlife found in the Highlands.
Offers a wide range of facilities to maximize your stay in Manado. For the convenience of guests, the hotel offers free Wi - Fi in all rooms, 24- hour room service, Wi - Fi in public areas, car park, room service. Step into one of 88 rooms from this 3 star hotel and enjoy a number of amenities such as internet access - WiFi, WiFi internet access ( free of charge ), air conditioning, wake-up service and many more.
Situated in Manado, 10 km from Manado Harbor, Murex Dive Resort boasts an outdoor pool and a private beach area. The hotel has a spa centre and water sports facilities, and guests can enjoy a meal at the restaurant. Free private parking is available on site. Some rooms include a seating area to relax in after a busy day. You will find a kettle in the room. For your comfort, you will find free toiletries and a hairdryer. Murex Dive Resort features free WiFi . There is a gift shop at the property. You can engage in various activities, such as snorkelling and diving. Bahu Mall is 7 km away, while Sam Ratulangi International Airport is 21 km from Murex Dive Resort.


The Shine the Light Award, established by American Baptist Women's Ministries, ABCUSA, serves to recognize women who serve as outstanding light-bearers for Christ. The award highlights a specific ministry project or projects that best demonstrate how the individual or group receiving the award have spread the light of Christ through their congregation, their community, or the world; it highlights creativity and collaboration in ministry.
Averhart, Hawthorne, and Moore are members of the Outreach Ministry of St. John Missionary Baptist Church, which has the purpose that, "by the aid of the Holy Spirit, to proclaim Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, demonstrating His love by our actions, services, communicating and sharing God's Word." Nominator Mildred Archie shared the many ways that Averhart, Hawthorne, and Moore fulfill this purpose through their ministries in the church and community.
Maria Averhart launched in 2007 Operation Give Back, a project founded at first to give backpacks and school supplies to underprivileged children at the beginning of the school year. It has since expanded to include clothing, shoes, food, and furniture as well. Maria and other volunteers minister to clients while they're waiting in line, and last year over 25 people gave their lives to Christ through this ministry.
Helen Hawthorne and Valerie Moore founded the Thanksgiving Annual Feast in 2012, put on by their congregation for members of the community, including publicity sent to local pantries, high-rise communities, homeless shelters, schools and grocery stores. Each year, 75-100 people are served. During the feast, church members are greeters, and sit at the tables with participants for conversation. Volunteers from other congregations, youth groups, and culinary staffs pitch in as well.
Additionally, Valerie Moore, a Certified Nurse Practitioner and Health Consultant, coordinates the Your Health ministry. In this role, she provides information on current health events in the community, writes articles on health issues for the quarterly St. John Chronicle publication, and creates partnerships with area medical providers for services such as flu shots, diabetes testing, blood tests, and studies, such as studying the effects of salt on health. Moore's goal is to create a church-based health clinic at St. John and increase people's knowledge of resources available in the community.
Maria Averhart, Helen Hawthorne, and Valerie Moore will be presented with the 2017 Shine the Light Award at the AB Women's Ministries' Women's Day, Friday, June 30, at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon, prior to the American Baptist Churches USA Biennial Mission Summit.
Past recipients of the Shine the Light Award, more information about the award and the nomination process may be found on the American Baptist Women's Ministries website at www.abwministries.org/shinethelight, or contact the AB Women's Ministries office at (610) 768-2288 or info@abwministries.org. Nomination forms for the 2018 award will be available in the fall of 2017.


... It's nice game. But it's exactly as Floris said.
So if they're not precise, mine could actually worth more.... or less. Still, who's actually gonna sell they're domain and who's going to pay that much?
My domains worth more to me.
Leapfish has absolutely no idea about how its worth to the owner.
OptiBoard is actually worth more than that. I'm surprised that they rate machol.com so highly though.
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Just curious, I am surprised you say your board is worth that much. It doesn't seem very big at all?
My board generates sponsorship income and has since 1997.
$147k for my production site. $0 for my home server domain, at least one of them. $30 for a domain I registered on a whim. Finally, $9,500 for a domain another guy offered me around $50 or $200 or something like that for a while ago.
Obviously these tools are beyond useless. Only a human can judge the value of a domain; it's not merely the number of search results it generates.
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Olive Seedlings - שתילי זיתים: Emuna Peshuta - The Misuse of "Faith"
I frequently encounter people who claim that their basis for belief in God is "faith" or, if they are religious Jews, "emuna peshuta" - "simple faith". You're most likely to hear this when a religious person is confronted with a challenge to his belief in God by modern atheists, who claim that modern science and philosophy have eliminated any basis for belief in God. (This is not true, but that is a topic for another time.) To this, the response of many religious people is that they believe out of simple "faith"
Professor: Tell us if you have ever heard GOD?
Professor: Have you ever felt GOD, tasted GOD, smelled GOD? Have you ever had any sensory perception of GOD for that matter?
Student : Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor's brain, felt it, touched or smelled it? No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established Rules of Empirical, Stable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says that you have no brain, sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures, sir?
This little "dialogue" is a good example of what is, in my opinion, a fundamentally erroneous approach to religious belief. While the "student" makes a one or two minor points that are valid (or at least defensible), his core argument is simply absurd.
The essential problem here is that the word "faith" is used to mean different things, and the essay improperly lumps them together. The primary definition of "faith" is trust, in that we take something "on faith" from a person or authority that we trust. (This is the definition of faith being used by the professor, towards the end of the dialogue, when he says that we should accept what he teaches in his lectures on faith, even if we have not (yet) confirmed them with our own senses.) Of course, such faith has to be earned, in that there must be a reason why we trust a given authority figure sufficiently to take his statements on faith. Assuming that we have good reason for trusting the authority, then such faith is perfectly rational.
However, there is another, deeply problematic, understanding of faith, which is to believe something without any rational basis. This is the definition being used by the student, when, in response to his professor's challenge that there is no rational basis for belief in God responds that he has no answer, "...I only have my faith." Fundamentally, what this means is that the "student" acknowledges that the argument against his belief in God is valid, yet he believes in God anyways, simply because he wants to (which actually means that he doesn't really believe in God at all, since, in principle, he acknowledges that he could just as easily choose not to believe in God). This kind of faith has become increasingly popular amongst religious people in the modern world, who see it as the only answer they can give to the arguments made against religion by atheist "professors", but the answer is self-defeating because it is essentially a concession to the intellectual superiority of atheism. By claiming that their belief in God is based on nothing but "faith", they have openly surrendered the intellectual battlefield to the atheists.
more than a figment of your imagination.
This mentality may be understandable with Christians (such as the author of the dialogue printed above) because many core elements of Christianity are, in any case, fundamentally irrational. However, this is not an acceptable approach within Judaism. Our belief in God is not based upon an irrational "faith"; rather it is based upon the objective historical experiences of the Jewish people. When the Jewish people stood at Mt. Sinai, they didn't believe in God just because they had "faith", their belief was based upon direct, objective knowledge. While we, today, no longer have that degree of direct knowledge, we do have the historical tradition of that experience, which (among other things) provides a rational basis for our belief in God and the Divine origin of the Torah. With that basis, we can then have faith, of the rational kind, that even when we do not understand why God does something, there must be a good reason for it.
It is only in this context that the concept of emuna peshuta - simple faith - comes into play. We trust God because we have simple faith in Him. But before we can trust him, we must first know that He exists. That initial knowledge cannot be based upon "simple faith."
This distinction is not always made clear in many seforim (classical Torah works) when they discuss emuna (belief), and in some cases, as when one comes across sources that are critical of philosophy (of which there are many), one might come away with the impression that the author is arguing in favor of an irrational faith. However (while there may be some exceptions), in almost all cases, these sources are only talking about using philosophy as a means to reinforce one's belief, and are not addressing the core basis for belief in God (a distinction which I discussed in the previous post). To my knowledge, almost all of these sources would acknowledge that, when it comes to one's basic belief in the existence of God, this must be based upon an actual rational conviction that God exists, and not simply on an irrational "faith."
Our belief in God is not based upon an irrational "faith"; rather it is based upon the objective historical experiences of the Jewish people.
This is the exact same reason why I'm pretty confident that David Blaine is capable of levitation. Myself and many other people observed this taking place not too long ago, and since miraculous events are impossible to fake, mistake or lie about, this is clearly a real phenomenon.
"This is the exact same reason why I'm pretty confident that David Blaine is capable of levitation. Myself and many other people observed this taking place not too long ago, and since miraculous events are impossible to fake, mistake or lie about, this is clearly a real phenomenon."
While obviously facetious, I assume that your comment is intended to bring out a serious point. It is unfortunate that you did not clearly state your objection, as that leaves me at the disadvantage of having to guess at your exact intent.
I would assume that you are *not* arguing that since most rational people do not accept that David Blaine actually has the power to levitate, even after observing him appear to levitate first hand, that therefore we should never accept the evidence of our own senses, and certainly not the word of other people about events. Obviously, such an argument would make it impossible for us to function in the world, and would make it impossible for us to even know what is, and what is not, supernatural or miraculous in the first place.
Clearly then, the fact that we may occasionally witness an event that we cannot readily explain (unlike David Blaine's levitation, which is fairly easy to explain) does not mean that we have to discount our ability to interpret the world around us entirely. All it means is that we need to be aware of the possibility of error, and of the possibility that what appears miraculous may not be. When confronted by an apparent miracle, a certain degree of skepticism is certainly called for.
This very point is made by Maimonides (and many other traditional Jewish sources) in reference to the Sinai Revelation. Briefly stated (I hope to have a post up on this topic in the near future), Maimonides writes that even after all the miracles of the Exodus from Egypt (10 plagues, splitting the sea, etc. - all far more impressive than anything you will find in repertoire of even the best stage magicians or faith healers), the Jewish people were still uncertain about the validity of Moses as a prophet. Sure, things looked good, but maybe they were all tricks of some kind? It was only after they experienced a direct revelation from God, in which God clearly indicated that Moses was His prophet, that they could be certain (and even then they had periods of doubt). The Jewish people were not quick to accept Moses as a prophet, and this was entirely to their credit! Such things are not to be taken on without serious consideration and investigation.
Very, very nice post! I was especially pleasantly surprised to see you take such a forceful stance against the claim of belief in something while denying evidence of it, a notion that has always struck me as nonsense.
I also liked your answer to "Unknown" - Imagine a courtroom that would disallow visual evidence because it may be an illusion. Though I wouldn't expect one where questions that cast doubt on that visual evidence are eschewed, either.
I always found interesting (though I'm not sure how to process it fully) the argument that if something was able to be done through illusion, it would've surely have been done multiple times - or at least more than once. Hence, if a staged G-dly revelation to an entire tribe or nation was doable, where is the second time that ever happened?


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Randall L. Williams Correctional Facility, a prison in Arkansas
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President Donald Trump is removing the director of the U.S. Secret Service, the agency that provides protection for him and other top U.S. officials, the White House said on Monday, a day after the ouster of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.
The dismissal of Secret Service Director Randolph "Tex" Alles comes amid major leadership changes at the sprawling Department of Homeland Security. The Secret Service director reports to the Homeland Security secretary.
The agency came under scrutiny last week after a Chinese woman carrying electronic devices was charged with bluffing her way through security checks at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
Chuck Schumer, the top Democrat in the Senate, called for Alles to testify before Congress "as soon as possible about the potential security vulnerabilities at Mar-a-Lago ... and other counterintelligence and national security threats."
"We are dealing with a humanitarian and security crisis at the border because Congress failed to act," said Ron Johnson, the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee.
"In addition to congressional dysfunction, I am concerned with a growing leadership void within the department tasked with addressing some of the most significant problems facing the nation."
The removal of Alles marked the latest in a long line of firings and resignations of senior officials in the Trump administration, a list that has included the secretaries of state, defense, homeland security, interior, veterans affairs and health and human services, the attorney general and numerous senior White House aides.
The first sign of Trump's overhaul of Homeland Security came late on Thursday, when he abruptly pulled his nomination of Ron Vitiello as director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, part of DHS.
Trump described that move as part of a policy change "going in a tougher direction."
Nielsen, who oversaw Trump's bitterly contested immigration policies during her tumultuous 16-month tenure, resigned amid a surge in the number of migrants at the border with Mexico.
Her departure had been long rumored particularly after criticism of the administration's 2018 family separation policy at the border with Mexico and as U.S. border officials estimated that 100,000 migrants were apprehended at the southern border in March, the highest level in a decade. Trump was so frustrated about the increase that he announced he would cut off U.S. aid to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
A senior administration official said Trump asked for Nielsen's resignation when the two met at the White House on Sunday. Trump also announced that Kevin McAleenan, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection commissioner, would become acting DHS secretary.
CNN reported that Trump in recent weeks empowered his hard-line conservative aide Stephen Miller to lead the administration's border policies, and reported that L. Francis Cissna, director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency, and department General Counsel John Mitnick were also expected to soon leave their positions.


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import React, { Component, PropTypes } from 'react';
import '~/assets/stylesheets/Utility.scss';

class Info extends Component {
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    faqContent: PropTypes.object.isRequired,
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  constructor() {
    super();

    this.state = {
      changelog: false,
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      changelog: !this.state.changelog,
      faq: false,
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  onToggleFAQ = () => {
    this.setState({
      changelog: false,
      faq: !this.state.faq,
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  render() {
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    const changelogText = changelog ? 'hide changelog' : 'show changelog';
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    const faqClass = faq ? 'new-section' : 'new-section hide';

    return (

          {faqButton}
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            Dec 13 2016

Added Baby Pokemon from Generation 2.

Misc: Added changelog.

            Nov 22 2016

Updated stats for latest update.

            Feb 27 2017

Simplified site.

            Oct 25 2017

Added Generation 3.

            Oct 19 2018

Added Generation 4 and Alolan Forms.

            Nov 15 2018

Updated stats from rebalance, added Melmetal line.

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Let's start with look #1, which establishes Amanda as the first woman to ever look this good and comfortable during an early morning breakup. What are those, linen pajamas? Are they 300% cotton? Whatever they are, I need Santa to bring me five pairs, please.
She TRAVELED in this outfit. How dare that driver make her walk all that way looking like this and in HEELS.
When the heat in your house isn't working, is this what YOU look like? Didn't think so. A gorgeous chunky knit sweater with a beautiful scarf and the softest hat available must look and feel so good, you'd be a fool to want the heat to kick in.
Whoo, the heat's on now! Just a brief pause to ask, can you even believe how hot Jude Law is in this movie?
This is me, wracking my brain wondering where I can get such cozy cashmere pieces to put on when I'm just hanging out at home. I don't even have to physically touch that pink sweater myself to know it's the softest thing I'd ever feel.
Now, if you're keeping track at home, this is the second winter coat that Amanda has traveled to London with (what Los Angeles resident even OWNS two separate winter coats?). And look, it was worth lugging it across the pond.
Surprise! Another gorgeous coat, this one with buttons, that also looks perfect on her.
I'm sorry but Amanda looks BETTER than a Barbie in this outfit. It's sleek and sophisticated and perfect choice when cuddling with your new dude's daughters in their dreamy fort.
"Hi, just calling to let you know I'm totally rocking fingerless gloves, the perfect winter hat and yet another beautiful wool winter coat. K bye!"
She may be wallowing, but she looks damn good doing it.
Oh, come on! Even her bralette is beautiful! The details on this one give it such a feminine yet fancy look, it's simply not fair.
Which is why she stays through New Years and instead wears a dress 100% too fancy for any home party yet still looks absolutely incredible in it. From cashmere to a cocktail dress, Amanda remains rom-com fashion goals for life.
The Holiday is the best Christmas movie, obviously, duh, we know this. And while Kate Winslet is as beautiful and relatable as ever as Iris, and her friendship with Arthur (Eli Wallach) will make you melt, and also Jack Black is at his very best, that just barely scratches the surface of why this movie is so purely wonderful. Yes, Mr. Napkinhead helps too, and the man behind the napkin, Graham (Jude Law) will make you soon, but the aspect of Amanda's (Cameron Diaz) life it's utterly impossible to not fall in love with is her gorgeous wardrobe. Writer and director Nancy Meyers put together the perfect movie with the perfect fashion and you will not stop me from celebrating every detail of it, right down to those damn fingerless gloves.
When the Los Angeles resident flies to London, she brings A LOT of clothes with her, including FOUR separate winter coats (the navy blue one, the shaggy one, the camel wool one, and the one with the buttons, I counted). And yet, it's what she's got on under them, from her cashmere pj's to her cashmere sweaters to her cashmere hats (so much cashmere!) that will have you sweating with envy. It's just that everything looks so completely soft and warm. Hell, even her bralette is beautiful! Put on your softest cashmere outfit and cuddle up by the fire for this one, because here are 14 of Amanda's coziest, comfiest, and chicest outfits throughout the entirety of The Holiday.


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Q: How nodes communicate in OpenMPI I am able to run OpenMPI job in multiple nodes under ssh. Everything looks good but I find that I do not know much about what is really happening. So, how nodes communicate in OpenMPI? It's in multiple nodes, hence it can not be shared memory. It also seems not TCP or UDP because I have not configured any port. Can anyone describe what happened when a message is sent and received between 2 processes in 2 nodes? THANKS!

A: Open MPI is built on top of a framework of frameworks called Modular Component Architecture (MCA). There are frameworks for different activities such as point-to-point communication, collective communication, parallel I/O, remote process launch, etc. Each framework is implemented as a set of components that provide different implementations of the same public interface.
Whenever the services of a specific framework are requested for the first time, e.g., those of the Byte Transfer Layer (BTL) or the Matching Transport Layer (MTL), both of which transfer messages between the ranks, MCA enumerates through the various components capable of fulfilling the requirements and tries to instantiate them. Some components have specific requirements on their own, e.g., require specific hardware to be present, and fail to instantiate if those aren't met. All components that instantiate successfully are scored and the one with the best score is chosen to carry out the request and other similar requests. Thus, Open MPI is able to adapt itself to different environments will very little configuration on the user side.
For communication between different ranks, the BTL and MTL frameworks provide multiple implementations and the set depends heavily on the Open MPI version and how it was built. The ompi_info tool can be used to query the library configuration. This is an example from one of my machines:
$ ompi_info | grep 'MCA [mb]tl'
                 MCA btl: openib (MCA v2.1.0, API v3.0.0, Component v2.1.1)
                 MCA btl: sm (MCA v2.1.0, API v3.0.0, Component v2.1.1)
                 MCA btl: tcp (MCA v2.1.0, API v3.0.0, Component v2.1.1)
                 MCA btl: vader (MCA v2.1.0, API v3.0.0, Component v2.1.1)
                 MCA btl: self (MCA v2.1.0, API v3.0.0, Component v2.1.1)
                 MCA mtl: psm (MCA v2.1.0, API v2.0.0, Component v2.1.1)
                 MCA mtl: ofi (MCA v2.1.0, API v2.0.0, Component v2.1.1)

The different components listed here are:

*

*openib -- uses InfiniBand verbs to communicate over InfiniBand networks, which is one of the most widespread high-performance communication fabric for clusters nowadays, and other RDMA-capable networks such as iWARP or RoCE

*sm -- uses shared memory to communicate on the same node

*tcp -- uses TCP/IP to communicate over any network that provides a sockets interface

*vader -- similarly to sm, provides shared memory communication on the same node

*self -- provides efficient self-communication

*psm -- uses the PSM library to communicate over networks derived from PathScale's InfiniBand variant, such as Intel Omni-Path (r.i.p.)

*ofi -- alternative InfiniBand transport that uses OpenFabrics Interfaces (OFI) instead of verbs

The first time rank A on hostA wants to talk to rank B on hostB, Open MPI will go through the list of modules. self only provides self-communication and will be excluded. sm and vader will get excluded since they only provide communication on the same node. If your cluster is not equipped with a high-performance network, the most likely candidate to remain is tcp, because there is literally no cluster node that doesn't have some kind of Ethernet connection to it.
The tcp component probes all network interfaces that are up and notes their network addresses. It opens listening TCP ports on all of them and publishes this information on a central repository (usually managed by the mpiexec process used to launch the MPI program). When the MPI_Send call in rank A requests the services of tcp in order to a send message to rank B, the component looks up the information published by rank B and selects all IP addresses that are in any of the networks that hostA is part of. It then tries to create one or more TCP connections and upon success the messages start flowing.
In most cases, you do not need to configure anything and the tcp component Just Works™. Sometimes though it may need some additional configuration. For example, the default TCP port range may be blocked by a firewall and you may need to tell it to use a different one. Or it may select network interfaces that have the same network range, but do not provide physical connectivity - typical case are the virtual interfaces used by the various hypervisors or container services. In this case, you have to tell tcp to exclude those interfaces.
Configuring the various MCA components is done by passing in MCA parameters with the --mca param_name param_value command-line argument of mpiexec. You may query the list or parameters that a given MCA component has and their default values with ompi_info --param framework component. For example:
$ ompi_info --param btl tcp
                 MCA btl: tcp (MCA v2.1.0, API v3.0.0, Component v2.1.1)
             MCA btl tcp: ---------------------------------------------------
             MCA btl tcp: parameter "btl_tcp_if_include" (current value: "",
                          data source: default, level: 1 user/basic, type:
                          string)
                          Comma-delimited list of devices and/or CIDR
                          notation of networks to use for MPI communication
                          (e.g., "eth0,192.168.0.0/16").  Mutually exclusive
                          with btl_tcp_if_exclude.
             MCA btl tcp: parameter "btl_tcp_if_exclude" (current value:
                          "127.0.0.1/8,sppp", data source: default, level: 1
                          user/basic, type: string)
                          Comma-delimited list of devices and/or CIDR
                          notation of networks to NOT use for MPI
                          communication -- all devices not matching these
                          specifications will be used (e.g.,
                          "eth0,192.168.0.0/16").  If set to a non-default
                          value, it is mutually exclusive with
                          btl_tcp_if_include.
             MCA btl tcp: parameter "btl_tcp_progress_thread" (current value:
                          "0", data source: default, level: 1 user/basic,
                          type: int)

Parameters have different levels and by default ompi_info only shows parameters of level 1 (user/basic parameters). This can be changed with the --level N argument to show parameters up to level N. The levels go all the way up to 9 and those with higher levels are only required in very advanced cases, such as fine-tuning the library or debugging issues. For example, btl_tcp_port_min_v4 and btl_tcp_port_range_v4, which are used in tandem to specify the port range for TCP connections, are parameters of level 2 (user/detail).

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