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The Left's Chilling Refusal to Stop Flirting With Marxist Ideas
Posted Tuesday, May 8, 2018 | By Collaborative Correspondent | 5 Comments
The New York Times just can't stop talking about communism.
Recently the Times ran an editorial headlined "Happy Birthday, Karl Marx. You Were Right!"
The piece, written by Jason Barker, a professor in South Korea, is about what one would expect from a defense of communism. As one Federalist writer noted, it was "beyond parody."
Hilariously, the article was behind a very capitalistic paywall.
The New York Times hasn't shied away from publishing Marxist boosterism.
In 2017, the Times dedicated an entire section of its website to the 100-year anniversary of the communist revolution in Russia. It featured an assortment of absurd pieces running the gamut of declaring Lenin a hero environmentalist to claiming that women had better sex lives under socialism.
This romanticized account of life under communism is a delusion.
Of course, while the most ridiculous claim in the most recent piece is that Marx has somehow proven to be correct, it's notable it goes a step further to say that essentially nobody questions his fundamental critiques of capitalism.
"While most are in agreement about Marx's diagnosis of capitalism, opinion on how to treat its 'disorder' is thoroughly divided," Barker wrote.
It seems fair to conclude that actually there is widespread doubt about Marx's claims about capitalism—unless, of course, one lives in a neatly sealed left-wing bubble.
The fact is, Marx was wrong about everything.
He was wrong about economics, wrong about the flow of history, wrong about religion, wrong about where his ideas would lead, and most importantly, wrong about human nature—which he believed could be reshaped under a communist regime.
If there was one thing that was illuminating about Barker's piece, it was his description of modern social justice crusades as fundamentally Marxist.
"Social justice movements like Black Lives Matter and #MeToo owe something of an unspoken debt to Marx through their unapologetic targeting of the 'eternal truths' of our age," Barker wrote. "Such movements recognize, as did Marx, that the ideas that rule every society are those of its ruling class and that overturning those ideas is fundamental to true revolutionary progress."
This is an interesting admission that these movements are essentially "cultural Marxism," a phrase that the left so often stridently claims is a figment of conservative imaginations.
Given the profound failures of and misery created by communism in the past, we probably shouldn't be too hopeful about the success of its modern iterations.
Unfortunately, many young people don't know about the depths of these past failures, or have a skewed idea of what communism means in practice.
We should all worry about the consequences of historical ignorance.
At least Marx could conceivably say that "real communism hasn't been tried yet."
His modern proponents don't have an excuse.
After nearly two centuries of experimentation with Marxist ideas, communism has failed to produce a brotherhood of man or a classless society in which everyone worked in blissful harmony.
Instead, it has produced societies notorious for their cruelty, dysfunction, and violence. It has led to the estimated death toll of just under 100 million people in the last century.
One only has to look at the Korean Peninsula to see the astounding difference of a society under communist tyranny and freedom.
As historian Sean McMeekin wrote in his book, "The Russian Revolution":
Today's Western socialists, dreaming of a world where private property and inequality are outlawed, where rational economic development is planned by far-seeing intellectuals, should be careful what they wish for … they may just get it.
Communism offers nothing to humanity but suffering and hopelessness.
This is not to say that life under communism was all about starvation and murderous purges.
Even at its least malignant, living under communism's inevitable system of enforced conformity and equality where decisions are only the purview of government authorities and bureaucratic managers is hardly a system of human flourishing.
This is more akin to living a lifetime stuck in the DMV.
Marx was wrong, hopelessly wrong. His ideas have been tried, tested, and spectacularly failed.
It's time to leave his legacy on the ash heap of history.
From – The Daily Signal – by Jarrett Stepman
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Reblogged from Nox & Friends … A charming piece of information to make us wonder even more about the depth of the Swamp.
SNAP = Fraud
By SafeSpace | March 30, 2018 | Alinsky, Barack Hussein Obama (asshole), Culture War, Democrats, Dumbassery, Entitlements/Free Stuff, Evil Left, Lefties
It never fails: Some leftist politician authorizes the distribution of millions of taxpayer dollars in the form of free stuff to "the needy", then redefines "needy" as anyone who meets bullshit criteria that frequently DISregard income, employability and citizenship status. Magically, the number of "needy" grows exponentially, and millions more hands reach into the pockets of honest American workers. And the "free stuff" program descends into corruption and abuse.
This sequence of events played out at local, state and national levels bigtime during the eight years of the Batears Regime. King Putt encouraged officials in Appalachia USDA offices that dealt with the poor (both folks in actual poverty and those simply suffering from poverty of spirit) to destroy the ethic of self-reliance and corrode the respect for a day's work for a day's pay. His directives caused bonuses to be paid to USDA employees who recruited the most new SNAP enrollees. BHO replaced the time-honored work/paycheck equation with free stuff, available without the "stigma" of welfare through SNAP, the renamed food stamp program. Note that Soetero's socialist approach was not limited to the Blue Ridge; it played out in different forms nationwide. States and localities that had large numbers of illegals also found ways to add 'em all to the SNAP rolls.
SNAP benefits can be grossly abused because the program actually exists for three purposes: Feeding the hungry, of course … but also building the culture of dependency on central government, and enlarging the Democrat voter rolls. By granting SNAP eligibility withOUT citizenship requirements, both the number of dependents and the level of fraud increases.
Judicial Watch presented the following report a few days ago … one more feather in JW's war bonnet in their battle against leftard corruption.
Nearly 200 Busted in $3.7-Million Food-Stamp Fraud Operation
More than a year after the Obama administration slammed American taxpayers with a record-high tab to provide an unprecedented number of people with food stamps, the fraud continues full-throttle in the bloated welfare program. Authorities in north Florida arrested nearly 200 people for operating a sophisticated ring in which millions of dollars in food stamps were fraudulently exchanged for cash and drugs. Keep in mind that food stamps—renamed by the Obama administration Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to eliminate stigma—are designed to help nourish the nation's most needy.
For years Judicial Watch has reported extensively on the rampant fraud in the program that cost U.S. taxpayers a bewildering $80.4 billion in one year to provide a record 46 million people with the welfare benefit during the Obama tenure. Even then, a federal audit revealed that many who didn't qualify for food stamps received them under a special "broad-based" eligibility program that disregards income and asset requirements. The expansion was part of the former president's mission to eradicate "food insecure households" in the U.S. To accomplish it, the administration spent millions of dollars on ad campaigns to recruit more food-stamp recipients, even doling out hefty cash rewards to local governments that signed up the most people. One state even bragged about a $5 million performance bonus it got from the feds for its "swift processing of applications."
Not surprisingly, the food stamp program became a hotbed of fraud and corruption. Recipients use social media to illegally sell and buy food stamps online and others use the welfare benefit to buy drugs, weapons and other contraband from unscrupulous vendors, according to a federal audit that also says some trade food stamps for reduced amounts of cash. The fraud costs the government hundreds of millions of dollars, the audit discloses. This was back in 2012 when the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the agency that distributes food stamps, told Congress about the serious issues plaguing the program. Things got so out of control that the Obama administration dedicated $7 million to crack down on food-stamp fraud in 2014. Among the anti-fraud initiatives that the money funded were strategies to identify and successfully investigate attempts to buy or sell SNAP benefits online using social media such as Facebook, Twitter or ecommerce websites like Craigslist and eBay.
More than a year after Obama left the USDA program in disarray, the scams continue. In the recently busted Florida operation, more than 22,000 fraudulent transactions totaling $3.7 million were documented by a task force of local and federal authorities. It has been coined Operation Half-Back and a Jacksonville news report says undercover officers personally observed 115 individuals commit 390 fraudulent transactions involving food stamps. In most cases the food-stamp recipient took 50 cents per $1 in benefit. Some of the corrupt vendors were stores but many were mobile businesses that sell food and have USDA approval to accept food stamps as payment. Among the biggest offenders are a produce business that recorded 7,164 fraudulent transactions for $1.1 million, another that had 7,390 transactions totaling $1 million, a seafood store that recorded 3,958 transactions for $1.2 million and a mobile meat vender that had 3,958 fraudulent transactions for $572,282.
The undercover sting started back in 2012, the year the Obama administration shattered food-stamp records. Law enforcement agencies created fictitious businesses, according to the Florida Attorney General's office, which disclosed last week that more than 115 individuals have been charged with felonies and 61 others with misdemeanors. Though the federal government doles out food stamps, in Florida a state agency called Department of Children and Families administers it to provide nutrition assistance to vulnerable populations such as children, senior citizens and families in economic distress. "Food stamp trafficking steals from Florida's hardworking taxpayers," Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement. "The SNAP/EBT program is designed to provide services to the most vulnerable among us and for anyone to take advantage of this system is shameful."
Florida seems to be a hotbed of food-stamp rackets. Less than two years ago the feds busted the largest food-stamp fraud operation in U.S. history in south Florida. Twenty-two defendants in the largely black and Hispanic areas of Miami-Dade County known as Opa-Locka and Hialeah swindled the government out of $13 million by fraudulently trading food stamps for cash. The crooked vendors operated food and produce stands at a local flea market as part of then-First Lady Michelle Obama's initiative to eradicate "food deserts," common in poor, minority communities where fresh, healthy food is tough to find or often unavailable. The feds say the business owners and their employees let food-stamp recipients use their welfare benefit to get cash in exchange for a cut of the money.
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Posted on Bob's Opinion from EM ROWELL … A email communication it is a great article and on the subject that I am starting to think President Trump has not properly addressed on the senior citizens …
FYI from Edna…..they haven't "Borrowed" our Social Security….they have STOLEN somewhere between $2.85 and $5 TRILLON FROM US. They need to pay it back with compound interest!.
A woman dies at age 65 before collecting one benefit check. She and her employer paid into the system for almost 50 years and she collected NOTHING!
Keep in mind all the working people that die every year who were paying into the system and got nothing!
And these governmental morons mismanaged the money and stole from the system, so that it's now going broke.
BEAUTIFUL! and they have the audacity to call today's seniors "vultures" in an attempt to cover their ineptitude.
DISGRACEFUL!
The real reason for renaming our Social Security payments is so the government can claim that
all those social security recipients are receiving entitlements thus putting them in the same case as welfare, food stamp recipients.
THIS IS WORTH THE FEW MINUTES IT TAKES TO READ AND DIGEST!
FY.I. By changing the name of SS contributions it gives them a means to refute this program in the future.
It's free money for the government to spend under this guise.
The Social Security check is now (or soon will be) referred to as a *Federal Benefit Payment*?
I'll be part of the one percent to forward this. I am forwarding it because it touches a nerve in me, and I hope it will in you.
Please keep passing it on until everyone in our country has read it.
The government is now referring to our Social Security checks as a "Federal Benefit Payment."
This isn't a benefit. It is our money paid out of our earned income! Not only did we all contribute to Social Security but our employers did too. It totaled 15% of our income before taxes.
(This should be enough for you to forward this message, If not read on.)
If you averaged $30K per year over your working life, that's close to $180,000 invested in Social Security.
If you calculate the future value of your monthly investment in social security ($375/month, including both you and your employers contributions) at a meager 1% interest rate compounded monthly, after 40 years of working you'd have more than $1.3+ million dollars saved!
This is your personal investment. Upon retirement, if you took out only 3% per year, you'd receive $39,318 per year, or $3,277 per month.
That's almost three times more than today's average Social Security benefit of $1,230 per month, according to the Social Security Administration. (Google it – it's a fact). And your retirement fund would last more than 33 years (until you're 98 if you retire at age 65)! I can only imagine how much better most average-income people could live in retirement if our government had just invested our money in low-risk interest-earning accounts.
Instead, the folks in Washington pulled off a bigger *Ponzi scheme* than Bernie Madoff ever did. (Lyndon Johnson)
They took our money and used it elsewhere. They forgot (oh yes, they knew) that it was OUR money they were taking. They didn't have a referendum to ask us if we wanted to lend the money to them. And they didn't pay interest on the debt they assumed. And recently they've told us that the money won't support us for very much longer.(Isn't it funny that they NEVER say this about welfare payments?)
But is it our fault they misused our investments? And now, to add insult to injury, they're calling it a *benefit*, as if we never worked to earn every penny of it.
Just because they borrowed the money, doesn't mean that our investments were a charity!
Let's take a stand. We have earned our right to Social Security and Medicare. Demand that our legislators bring some sense into our government.
Find a way to keep Social Security and Medicare going for the sake of that 92% of our population who need it.
Then call it what it is:
Our Earned Retirement Income.
99% of people won't forward this.
Will you ?


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Home » Sport » Lando Norris will move to Monte Carlo at end of F1 season as £4.5m-a-year Brit follows in Lewis Hamilton's footsteps
Lando Norris will move to Monte Carlo at end of F1 season as £4.5m-a-year Brit follows in Lewis Hamilton's footsteps
LANDO NORRIS will swap Woking for Monte Carlo after becoming the latest F1 star to move to the principality.
Norris, 22, has had an excellent season with McLaren and is in fifth place in the drivers' championship.
The Bristol-born racer, who grew up near Glastonbury, has taken four podiums and agonisingly missed out on his first victory at the Russia GP when he slid off in the wet.
Likeable Norris will join the likes of Lewis Hamilton, Max Verstappen, Charles Leclerc, Daniel Ricciardo, Valtteri Bottas and Alex Albon living in the tax haven.
And while he knows there will be some who will criticise his decision to swap the UK for Monaco, he says it makes financial sense.
Norris had declared in 2018 and again in April that had no intention to move to Monaco, but he has now had a change of heart.
He said: "I'm moving to Monaco after [the final race in] Abu Dhabi for the reasons you probably expect.
"It's something that obviously a lot of drivers go to do, and especially with how racing is – I think you've seen it with a lot of the drivers, how quickly things can also go downhill.
"I still have to look after my life and things for my future so that's why I had to make the decision.
"I went with my managers and my trainer and we had a little look around a few different apartments and stuff.
"I was like 'I don't want to be in the same place as Max!'. I don't know where Lewis is? He's on the opposite side… I don't know anybody else over there.
"But I'm around that area in Fontvieille, which is a nice, quiet place."
There are similarities to Hamilton when he moved to Switzerland in 2007. Like Norris is now, Hamilton was 22 at the time.
He was also driving for McLaren and had secured a lucrative deal, but his switch earned him plenty of criticism – and still does.
Interestingly, Norris has picked to live in Fontvieille, a location picked by Jenson Button during his racing days, who did not get nearly as much stick as Hamilton.
When Norris is quizzed if he knew about the criticism Hamilton received, he replies, "Yes. Of course I'll understand it, and there's going to be some, for sure".
Norris signed a new McLaren deal in the summer that is estimated to be worth around £4.5million-a-year.
He currently shares a house near their factory, picked so he could make regular trips to use the simulator, helping him get up to speed with F1.
But after his standout season, he feels more established in the sport however he says he has not taken the decision to move lightly.
He added: "I signed my contract this year. I think I've still got a few more years!
"It doesn't change anything, like it doesn't mean I'll do any less days work at McLaren.
"I'll still be spending my days in the UK preparing and doing that side of it. And I still get to see my family and my friends and all of that.
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"It's not an easy decision, and it's not something I've been thinking of for many years. I just think I'm in a comfortable place at the minute to make this decision and spend the time to move over there.
"I'll still see a lot of my friends. My family are going to come over. Many things remain exactly the same. It's just that I'm based in a different place.
"Maybe I won't get to play as much golf, which is probably the biggest downside!"
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How appealing it is to a particular target audience.
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TLD is the part that appears to the right of the dot. The most valuable domains use .comTLD and for good reason. It is a common tendency among all of us to look for any website by adding .com to the business name. What's more, .com has been around the longest and is considered the global domain. Of course, there are many other TLDs — .in, .net, .org, etc. — but none as valuable as .com.
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South African start-up Lift set to launch in December
By Graham Dunn2020-11-11T16:43:00+00:00
South African start-up carrier Lift is aiming to launch domestic services in December.
The airline's website shows it is selling tickets on flights from Johannesburg to Cape Town and George from 10 December.
Source: Global Aviation
Wet-lease operator Global Aviation has a fleet of six A320s and three A340s
Lift will operate three Airbus A320s and is a collaboration between South African wet-lease operator Global Aviation, former Comair co-chief executive Gidon Novick and Jonathan Ayache – whose Linked In profile shows he has been serving as Uber's head of operations for sub-Saharan Africa.
Cirium fleets data shows Global Aviation has a fleet of six A320s and three A340s.
"The industry is undergoing a fundamental change and new business models are emerging in the industry where stronger customer orientation and more competition are evolving," Lift says on its website. "The airline has developed a unique flexible model where flights and routes can be quickly added based on demand."
Lift plans to launch at the same time that South African carrier Comair aims to resume services after a period in formal restructuring. Comair, which operates British Airways franchise flights and under the Kulula budget brand, will initially operate 15 aircraft across the two units when it restarts flights from 1 December.
Johannesburg-Cape Town is by far the busiest route in the South African market. Cirium schedules data shows South African Airways, its budget arm Mango, Airlink, Comair, Safair and Cemair are all scheduled to fly services on the route in December.
South Africa's beleaguered airline sector has endured a tough past 12 months, in which flag carrier SAA and SA Express had already entered formal restructuring even before the pandemic brought a halt to all flights in the country earlier this year.
Cebu Pacific eyes profitable first quarter
Cebu Pacific is hoping to rebound to profitability in the quarter to 31 March, though it remains wary of potential challenges including fuel costs.
Southwest end-year meltdown costs $800 million, leads to Q4 loss
Southwest Airlines lost $220 million during the fourth quarter of 2022 after it was battered by a system-wide meltdown during the busiest travel days of the end-of-year holiday season.
Alaska posts $58m full-year profit on record revenues
Alaska Air Group posted record full-year operating revenues of $9.65 billion in 2022 and a net profit of $58 million for the year.


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Saipem wins new EPCI contract offshore Guyana
WCN Editorial Team 15 May 2017 SOUTH AMERICA ENERGY & UTILITIES
Italian turnkey contractor Saipem has secured a new EPCI contract for the SURF package of the planned Liza project, which is operated by Esso Exploration and Production Guyana, an affiliate of ExxonMobil.
The Liza field, which is situated about 120 miles offshore Guyana at a water depth of 1,800m, is a subsea development with a recoverable resource estimate of over 1bn oil-equivalent barrels.
Under the contract, Saipem will be responsible for the engineering, procurement, construction, and installation of the risers, flow lines, and associated structures and jumpers.
The contract also includes transportation and installation of umbilical's, manifolds, and associated foundations for the production, and water and gas injection systems.
Saipem will deploy its flagship vessels FDS2 and the Normand Maximus to execute the works which will commence in 2019.
Saipem CEO Stefano Cao said: "We are delighted to have secured this award from an important client such as ExxonMobil.
"A further reason for our satisfaction is the opportunity to be among the first operators in the oil & gas industry to work in an emerging country like Guyana. This is an important milestone for Saipem and an exciting challenge in a frontier area."
The company has also secured new contracts that are currently in progress in the North Sea and West Africa. The new contracts are valued at $500m.
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Ericsson came to Canada in 1953. Nine years later a contract was signed that meant that the company, named Ericsson Telephone Sales of Canada Ltd, was to deliver automatic routing stations for international long-distance calls. During the years that followed, automatic crossbar switches were sold to several Canadian companies.
As of 2010 there are more than 3000 employees at Ericsson Canada. With facilities located in Mississauga (Toronto), Town-of-Mount-Royal (Montreal), Kanata (Ottawa), and Burnaby (Vancouver). The main activities are sales and marketing, research and development, operations and support, software development, as well as managed services.
1962 Contract signed with COTC, Teleglobe Canada, for delivery and installation of Automatic Gateway Exchanges of the Crossbar ARM type, used for international telephone and telex traffic in Montreal, Vancouver & Hawaii. When installed all Canadian telephone and telex traffic overseas and to South America is routed through Ericsson exchanges.
1977 LM Ericsson and the Swedish company Siewerts Kabelverk installed two 138-kilovolt, underwater power cables between Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick.
1978 The largest hands-free intercom system in Canada is installed in the Federal Government's International Development Agency in Hull, Quebec.
1984 Ericsson signs a contract to deliver a national mobile telephone network for the AMPS-system to Rogers Cantel Inc.
1986 A R&D centre is established in Montreal for developing guidelines for the AMPS mobile telephone network.
1989 The Mobile Radio/Phone Group is acquired from General Electric.
1991 Ericsson delivers the world's largest private radio system, EDACS (Ericsson Digital Access Communications System), to SaskTel. Since then EDACS has become the standard in Canada.
1992 Contract with Cantel is signed for Ericsson to provide new digital cellular technology, the first in North America (D-AMPS).
1992 Montreal mandated to develop software for the Mobile Switching Center based on the D-AMPS/AMPS worldwide cellular standard.
1995 Contract signed with Microcell Telecommunications Inc. to supply the first GSM based PCS system in Canada.
1997 Two production units are established in Montreal with the task of developing Wireless Intelligent Networks, Applications and Platforms, as well as Operations Support Systems on a global scale.
1997 Ericsson provides a $1,000,000 grant to the University of Waterloo to establish the Centre for Wireless Communication, Canada's first academic program in wireless communications.
1998 A new production unit is opened in Montreal with world-wide responsibility for managing the Mobile Switching Centre. The same year Ericsson Canada enters a strategic alliance with Rogers Cantel to develop support solutions for the TDMA network. Ericsson invests 178 million Canadian dollars in R&D, placing the company seventh in the country.
1999 Ericsson Canada signs a contract with the City of London Police and Ottawa-Carleton Police for delivery of the EDACS security system.
1999 Opens a new $7 Million Integration Centre in Montreal for testing and developing next generation wireless systems.
1999 Changes it's name to Ericsson Canada Inc.


"Asking questions and seeking answers" is probably what defines the life of Victor Manickam and the work that he has ventured to create. Every time you meet him there is something new that is experienced and yet you feel that he is the same at the core. From being a multi-talented guy at school- in elocution, scouts, sports, dramatics and academics or perusing engineering and even during MBA, one thing that always stands out is his freedom to experiment, explore and engage with the environment around.
It takes a lot of courage to take the first step in to the unknown. Although there was conviction in our thoughts, we knew the journey will be fruitful.
It was time we shared what we loved and let others take the eternal flame to different regions. Creating new Leaders was always the outcome of our programs.
We had a humble beginning however, we slowly and steadily gathered momentum and passed on our values and learnings to various participants.
After the initial success, it was time to look at the bigger picture and expand our dream. In order to touch the lives of many individuals and spreading the experience we started our Business office in Belapur and started the Knowledge Series.
Hard work for 7 years had led us to the path where can proudly share the knowledge we gathered over the years with individuals who are willing to bring about a change in their lives.
The possibility of this book and its creation that we now have in our hands has indeed been a journey in which many have played a role. Hence its only natural that we express our gratitude to them in making this possible.
We acknowledge the organisations being coached by us, as working with them has provided us with insights which were beyond what could have been provided by studying any management book.
A Visionary, A Believer and an Astounding Entrepreneur are words which can be used to describe the humble personality of Mr. Victor Manickam.
A M.Phil in literature and having established an centre in marriage counselling in Navi Mumbai has chosen to be the Chief Officer for Listening a profile of keeping the Mission of Listen and Share alive.
A Bachelor in Civil Engineering who has established an independent Construction firm and has developed the Channel Partner Program for Business Development and Strategising at Victor Manickam Knowledge Group being the Chief Engagement Officer.
A Chartered account who lead a successful online business in association with eBay. Now the Chief Officer for Accountability and has chosen to live a life of creating a way of life for people.
A Civil Engineer who has chosen to put his life into transformation and build the SHINE Program for Life Expression at the Victor Manickam Knowledge Group being the Chief Officer for Learning and Development.
A Person with a happy soul and who keeps everything organised and contribute the essence of responsibility to everything he does.
In the Business Empowerment Program, Victor puts a simple scientific process that not only helps us in making quicker decision but also leaves us assured that no matter what happens, we've given it our best and then all we have to do is observe. As time passes the number of decisions that a leader needs to make increase, so it becomes even more important and critical that business leaders do this course. In fact I could also venture to say that in the next few years the younger generation will definitely need to take this course to help them ease this part of their life.
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Heroes of the Universe E-Sports Brazil is a Brazilian team.
January 16, Killuard moves to support. Shiji leaves.
May 15, Heroes of the Universe E-Sports Brazil is founded.
July 25 (approx.), SkB, Heart, Dahas, Raven, and Shiji join.
September 17, Lance leaves coaching role.
September 20, Dragonis joins as head coach.
September 28, Killuard and Vinhemo join. Heart moves to sub. Dahas leaves.
December 2, Maze joins as coach.
December 9, Irelia leaves coaching role.


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Q: Buttons aligned to bottom of page conflict with mobile Safari's menu bar I am building a web-portal which has to be functional and pretty on multiple platforms.
One of the platforms is IOS Safari, and this is were I encountered a problem.
In my code I align two floating buttons to the bottom of a div with a width and height of 100%
This all works fine and my buttons show up exactly like they are supposed to on the bottom of the page.
However when I click the buttons the compact view from mobile safari switches to full view and my buttons are hidden behind the bottom nav bar!
Is it normal behavior for safari mobile to show the expanded menu when the user taps in the bottom 10% of the screen? How can I avoid this?
In this gif you can see the problem on the IOS simulator:As you can see the problem only occurs when a button is in the lower 10% of the view.
This is just a normal button, My code was triple checked by several developers and it has no errors.

A: It turns out this is the standard behavior in safari mobile and as such can not be overwritten, perhaps in a future IOS update this functionality will change.

A: I know this question is a bit old, but since the issue still exists I thought I should share my experience...
As of now there is NO fix for the issue, but there is a workaround. The solution jennz0r provided may work for some, but I didn't like the idea of the menu bar always showing. I saw a website that had the issue solved... well it seemed to work at least. I didn't find anything in their css or js.
So what was the fix? Since the "dead zone" is 44px in height they simply made their floating bar 88px height :D Users would instinctively tap on the top/center of the button and it will almost always work at first try!
"If it's stupid, but it works... it ain't stupid..." ;)

A: I think I may have found an answer. Setting your content to have the following styles:

*

*height: 100% (allows content to fill the viewport and go beyond the bottom)

*overflow-y: scroll (allows you to scroll below the viewport; the default value is visible)

*-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch (to smooth any scroll behavior)

appears to force the iOS menu in Safari to always appear. That way, button clicks will actually work instead of opening up the Safari menu. Hope this helps!

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An unforgettable memoir about a young girl who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University
Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Her family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when one of Tara's older brothers became violent. When another brother got himself into college, Tara decided to try a new kind of life. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge University. Only then would she wonder if she'd traveled too far, if there was still a way home.
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"Westover has somehow managed not only to capture her unsurpassably exceptional upbringing, but to make her current situation seem not so exceptional at all, and resonant for many others."—The New York Times Book Review
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Gendered Narratives, the Online-Offline Nexus and the Far-Right in Australia
GNET > Insights > 16 Days > Gendered Narratives, the Online-Offline Nexus and the Far-Right in Australia
1st December 2022 Dr Alexandra Phelan
By Dr Alexandra Phelan and James Paterson
1st December 2022 In 16 Days, Insights
This Insight is part of GNET's Gender and Online Violent Extremism series in partnership with Monash Gender, Peace and Security Centre. This series aligns with the UN's 16 Days of Activism Against Gendered Violence (25 November-10 December).
Radicalisation within online environments has been noted as an important dimension when examining far-right extremism and terrorism more generally. Due to increasingly inhospitable traditional social media sites, the far-right's engagement in online activity has transitioned toward alternative platforms and has been noted as a potentially contributing dynamic in the process of extremist ideological diffusion, community building, and member recruitment and participation. The far-right is a diverse ecosystem with varying motivations and calls to action; within this online space, there is growing evidence that highlights the importance of gender and misogynistic beliefs in shaping perceptions of appropriate behaviour for both men and women within the far-right. However, the relationship between the online space and offline activities remains under-theorised. Specifically, although gendered narratives among far-right actors often outline perceived legitimate behaviour for both women and men in online communities, the extent to which these online views shape offline behaviour is not clear-cut. Examining these dynamics in the Australian context, we ask: 'to what degree are the offline activities of Australian far-right actors impacted by online gendered narratives?'
Online Gendered Narratives Among the Australian Far-Right
Globally, far-right extremist groups often adopt a worldview that promotes male dominance, where hyper-, hegemonic- and toxic masculinity are employed as rhetorical frames that ideologically endorse traditional gender norms. An assumption held in existing scholarship is that far-right extremist organisations have a broadly masculine, patriarchal culture and habitus which promise a homosocial brotherhood of male belonging. This consequently dictates and limits the way both women and men can participate in the extremist movement.
In Australia, gendered far-right beliefs espoused online are most clearly seen when actors discuss what they view as the 'ideal man' and 'ideal woman' within the movement. Among Australian far-right actors, the 'ideal man' typically centres around the aesthetic requirements of being physically fit and strong, willing to use violence. For example, a prominent Australian far-right organisation, Antipodean Resistance (AR), posted on their now-defunct website that, "you cannot be pure and moral and yet be inactive. It's not enough to be white, or a nationalist, or even a high quality, white, nationalist. You must be all of these, and ACTIVE [emphasis added by the original author]".
There further exists an underwriting logic of white women as caregivers and mothers within far-right online narratives. On Australian far-right online channels, the repeated promotion of images of pregnant women, loving mothers, and traditional family units sets boundaries of passive participation for women. This passivity should not be underestimated ⎯ it still contributes to the socialisation of both women and men within these groups whilst simultaneously normalising misogynistic and sexist beliefs.
Moreover, gender norms, ideology and power relations act as intrinsic values for a vast majority of Australian far-right actors more broadly. For actors and organisations that subscribe to the Great Replacement theory, which outlines a perceived ethnographic extinction of the so-called white race as the direct result of the malicious intent of non-white communities and complicit governmental forces, a primary solution is the production of more white children. As above, although such actors may not explicitly state that a women's sole role is that of a mother, the promotion of this tactic as a solution inherently implies this belief.
Australian far-right communities regularly outline the perceived destructive nature of feminism and LGTBQ+ rights. These sentiments are treated with hostility as they represent, at least for far-right adherents, a move beyond the boundaries of appropriate behaviour for 'true' white individuals. According to such communities, the normalisation of these sentiments either creates weak-willed men unable to fight the existing threat to the white race, or fosters an environment that moves women away from their required motherly duties. Even though there are gendered narratives present in Australian far-right online chats, how do these gendered online narratives impact offline behaviour?
Public-Facing Offline Activity
We argue that offline activity undertaken by the Australian far-right can be broken down into two general categories; activities that are public-facing, and inward-facing, community-centric activities. Public-facing offline activities are centred around ideological diffusion and the simultaneous (attempted) mobilisation of the general public towards the far-right agenda. For instance, Australian far-right actors have favoured stickering campaigns which involve members placing white supremacist propaganda stickers in public locations across Australia, such as high school and university campuses. Celebrated as a favoured tactic among far-right propagandists, these stickering campaigns often serve as a potential avenue into extreme online ecosystems as they include pathways for further engagement within these communities.
Outside of these advertising initiatives, Australian far-right actors have also sought to engage in protests and counter-protests. In recent years, these protests have sought to exploit anti-government sentiments rooted in COVID-19 lockdown mandates. However, protest initiatives have also been established as a response to single-issue grievances, including gendered grievances. Most recently, the far-right organisation National Socialist Network (NSN) was involved in a protest against a drag-queen performance at a school-holiday event in Melbourne, Victoria. The motivations for this initiative, outlined in an Odysee video by the movement's leader, are telling. A performance during a child-friendly event was demonised due to its involvement of a drag-queen⎯ a grievance rooted in the movement's perception of the normalisation and promotion of 'deviant' cultures.
Further justification for this mobilisation was directed at the local council members who authorised and promoted the drag-queen performance in the first place. The NSN leader explained in the video that the performance was permitted due to the council's predominantly female team. He went on to state that the female council members, described as "obvious subversive entities", recruited a "Jewish transgender entity", or "literal demon", as part of the "age of Kali". The age of Kali, according to the far-right leader, represents an "age of chaos" and an "age of the sl*t". In other words, it was this combination of, and collusion between actors who, for the NSN leader, represent the cultural degeneracy of the modern age and the collapse of civilisation, as outlined in the Kali Yuga mythology. The specific use of the word "sl*t" as interchangeable with the Kali Yuga indicates that for the creator of the video, women who disregard their motherly duties in favour of multiple sexual partners are key contributors to this civilisational destruction.
The gendered motivations and rationale for this particular protest are explicitly clear, and in line with gendered messaging espoused on Australian far-right online channels more broadly. This "counter-protest", according to the NSN leader, was specifically targeted to combat perceived deviant cultural elements which are contrary to their idealised version of gender, as well as government forces who allegedly promote such practices.
Inward-Facing Offline Activity
Alongside these public-facing activities, Australian far-right actors concurrently engage in inward-facing offline activities that are similarly highly gendered, particularly in promoting hegemonic, hyper-, and in some cases toxic masculinities. Unlike, their public-facing counterparts, these activities are designed around internal community-building initiatives and often involve activities such as group hiking and combat-centric fitness camps, to increase solidarity and homosocial bonding. While these activities are designed to foster internal cohesion and membership ties, the focus on physical activities as a means to achieve these goals is no accident. As mentioned previously, for these communities, the 'ideal man' is one who is physically fit and ready to use violence; their decision to engage in these particular communal activities is representative of this ethos and mentality.
The importance of these activities is highlighted when one considers how the far-right group AR framed such activities as the means to achieve 'self-realisation.' For AR, "physically arduous hiking and the pursuit of mountaineering is a much loved and avowed pastime of many of us", as it counters the modern-day "sedentary lifestyles devoid of any true struggle". Importantly, while women are not explicitly excluded from engaging in such activities, and while the absence of female participants in these activities may be due to the lack of significant female membership, the internal messaging and imagery paint a different picture. The gendered messaging around such activities further establishes the boundaries of legitimate female participation as inherently supportive and passive. For example, an 'interview' detailing the reasons behind a hiking activity conducted by the NSN specifically notes that this activity was designed to advertise "an alternative lifestyle" for "white men of courage and conviction." Moreover, this same video promotes the idea of building "men from the ground up" by establishing "strong bonds and strong communities." When advertised internally, the use of the words 'lads', 'brother', and 'men' highlight the use of gendered language by in-group adherents, which in turn illustrates a belief system resting on patriarchal power relations.
Gendered Narratives: Why do they Matter?
Gendered views, often rooted in misogynistic narratives, espoused by Australian far-right extremist actors have justified and motivated both inward- and public-facing extremist activities. This spill-over effect from the online to the offline space can most visibly be seen in inward-facing offline activities designed to ensure male adherence to internally defined boundaries of manhood. Likewise, the most recent 'counter protest' in Melbourne staged by the NSN highlights the connective tissues between the online and offline spaces, as well as the dangers of the misogynistic beliefs held by these communities.
Furthermore, these observations have implications for policymakers – the amplification and adoption of misogyny online can act as an indicator of far-right radicalisation. As revealed by Australian far-right activity, individuals who adhere to extreme conceptualisations of manhood and womanhood can be motivated to act in the promotion or defence of these beliefs. However, it should be noted that these gendered motivations cannot be said to act in isolation from wider far-right concerns, particularly those surrounding an ethnocentric perceived existential threat. That is to say, the promotion of these hostile misogynistic beliefs in online platforms cannot be pointed to as the sole motivating factor for offline activity. Nevertheless, the specific events that have motivated offline activity and the specific ways Australian far-right actors have engaged in offline activity, both of which are clearly gendered, highlight the importance of considering and understanding the movement's gendered worldview as espoused online.
Dr Alexandra Phelan
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Do You Feel Called by God? by Michael Bennett (book review)
September 2, 2021 by Garrett O'Hara
Less than two months into my time on campus at Dallas Seminary, these words of unapologetic careerism came to us from a guest speaker at chapel:
If you're in your fourth year — first, second, third-year students listen up — if you're in your fourth year, and you don't have a job offer yet, you've settled.
The speaker derived this conclusion based on Genesis 11:31–12:4, where — according to a translator — "Terah" means 'roadblock' or 'delay.' (I had not yet established Apostasy Grand Prix.) To be clear, this was a guest speaker, and in my very next class session of the day, our professor correctly rebuffed the speaker's eisegesis.
Years later in a more doctrinally sound group setting, I received these words concerning the question of attending seminary:
Wouldn't it be horrible if you went through all of seminary and then found out that you weren't called?
These words ring in my head. I had only heard of this "discerning a call" to ministry recently, and at these words, I was equally confused and appalled. Is God not able to use seminary graduates who don't become pastors? Is not the desire to become an overseer itself noble (1 Timothy 3:1) even if God wills something else for that person later? Was it really true that I potentially violated God's plan for my GI Bill and should have pursued a graduate degree in something else? Am I just a stupid loser who got a seminary degree?
The question for me has been painful enough that I haven't done my own exploration. After all, there was seemingly no point in trying to defend some empty sense of my honor when I've now established a decent career elsewhere; what's done is done.
Do You Feel Called by God? by Michael Bennett successfully confirmed my nagging questions concerning this subjective discernment of a call to ministry.
From Bennett's own words, his conclusions which he conveys in the foreword are:
1. The often-heard and almost universally accepted expression "I feel God is calling me" is totally foreign to the revealed content of both the Old and New Testaments of the Bible. The continued use of this unscriptural pietistic language may be having negative consequences for churches, missionary societies and other Christian organizations in the choosing and training of future leaders.
2. Without denying in any way God's ability to call people into ministry by overt and supernatural signs, it is argued here that this is not usually God's method today. The motivation to serve the Lord, particularly in what is termed full-time ministry, is a human desire to do so, and not a felt call. However, this human desire, which must spring from one's love for Jesus and the gospel and genuine compassion for people, is not sufficient or valid in itself: it must be rightly motivated and rightly tested. [emphasis original]
Bennett uses the first two chapters to introduce himself to the reader and tell his own story concerning the issue at hand. He came to faith at the age of 24 after, as he describes it, "everything in my life was going too well," and yet "I felt empty and miserable." Bennett began his own examination of religion and found plentiful external evidence for the validity of Christianity, including non-Christian historians affirming the existence of Jesus and textual evidence affirming the transmission of the New Testament. But he still couldn't believe until the Holy Spirit worked on him for a period of about eighteen months until finally he realized "I do not want to live my life any longer without Jesus." Being desperate to understand scripture, instead of continuing in his architectural career, Bennett applied for theological college. He later realized that this college was too far to the left and didn't take scripture seriously enough, so he transferred to a different college which he credits: "They put the Bible back in my hands."
The Call of God in Scripture
And yet even at this other college, there was still this problem of calling for Bennett:
When I had settled into my new situation, I found I was still surrounded by men and women saying things like, "I feel God is calling me into the ministry"; "I feel God is calling me to work with students"; and "I feel God is calling me to be a missionary in country x". I continued to be somewhat troubled and mystified by this language, because I was not feeling anything of this nature. I began to think that in some way I was missing out on something important, or maybe I was significantly lacking in spirituality. Occasionally I would enquire of someone who was making this kind of I-feel-God-is-calling-me statement, "Tell me, what does it feel like?" to which the answer sometimes came back, "Oh, you will know when it happens!" I did not find this kind of reply to be very helpful, because it never did happen, and it still never has, and as I will try to explain later, I believe it usually never will. [emphasis original]
Concerning the concept of call in the Old Testament, Bennett finds:
The word of God comes directly and personally to one of God's people, specifically directing that individual to assume a defined role or task as God's chosen leader, representative or spokesperson.
Note how that contrasts with the concept of call we saw earlier in this review. Bennett writes: "when a person is called, you will never read of that person saying, 'I feel the Lord is calling me to be a prophet' or to take on some other role [emphasis original]." Whether it's Noah being called to build an ark or Abram being told to arise and go to Canaan, the last thing on anyone's mind is how someone feels about a subjective impression thereof.
Bennett writes that we see the same Old Testament pattern continue in the New Testament. Zechariah is so clear-headed about this message of having a son that he disbelieves the message itself. Mary and Joseph each receive clear messages about the conception of Jesus.
Bennett goes on to examine the usage of the Greek verb for "call" in the New Testament and finds seven uses. The following is my own consolidation of this list:
"'Call' used for naming people and places," e.g. "You shall call his name Jesus" in Matthew 1:21.
"'Call' used as a synonym for 'known as,' e.g. My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations" in Mark 11:17.
"'Call' used as an invitation or command to come." This can be as light as Jesus being invited (called) to the wedding at Cana in John 2:2, a command like Herod calling the wise men in order to garner intelligence about Jesus in Matthew 2:7, or also a call related to receiving the gospel, such as in Matthew 22:14 — "Many are called, but few are chosen."
"'Call' used of Jesus coming 'out of Egypt,'" in Matthew 2:15.
"'Call' used of the high priest's appointment" in Hebrews 5:4.
"'Call' used as a description of our faith response" such as in Acts 2:21; 22:16; 1 Corinthians 1:2.
"'Call' used as a description of new birth and election" such as in 2 Timothy 1:8–9.
Notably missing—from scripture, not Bennett—is this notion of a subjective sense of being called to vocational ministry. Bennett argues that "there are two nasty practical and pastoral problems that flow from a consistently unbiblical use of the term 'call.'" First, we may use the lack of a subjective call "as an excuse for Christian laziness or even fear," e.g. "I do not feel a specific 'call' to be a missionary, so there is no point in my applying." The same applies to any believer's lacking some subjective sense of possessing a spiritual gift. Secondly, a Christian who heeds this subjective call and subsequently experiences 'failure' in ministry may wrongly feel that he has sinned for having failed in his divine calling. "If Christian workers should fail in their ministry or have to give up, are they forsaking the call of God? … People give up all kinds of ministries for all kinds of good reasons: burnout, culture shock, discovered unsuitability not apparent previously, attacks by other believers, sickness, disillusionment, or lack of support and care."
Hudson Taylor and the Guidance of the Spirit
In the sixth chapter, Bennett chronicles the life of Hudson Taylor (1832–1905), who founded the China Inland Mission and was emphatic about having been called by God to bring the gospel to China. Without resorting to personal attack or maligning of motive, Bennett argues that Taylor was not called by God in the sense that we have been using the word in the church.
He goes on in the following chapter to invalidate the typical concept of "The Lord Told Me…" as mere impressions not from the Spirit, doing particularly well to argue that the guidance which Christ promises in John 16:12–13 is not subjective impressions from the Holy Spirit but rather "the epistles and later books of the New Testament."
Who Does the Work of the Ministry?
One of the great ironies of this "call to ministry" language is that it not only misunderstands 'call' but also misunderstands 'ministry.' Bennett asks to us consider Ephesians 4:11–13, which is too often understood to mean that those who possess one or more of the spiritual gifts listed—apostleship, prophecy, evangelism, and pastor-teacher—are the ones who do the works listed—equipping the saints, doing the work of the ministry, and building up the body of Christ. Bennett properly argues that this is not how to understand the passage. Instead, those with these gifts equip the saints, and it is the saints—normal laypeople—who do the work of the ministry and build up the body of Christ. Therefore, you need no special, subjective call to ministry to do ministry because you were already called when you became a believer.
With this in mind, there is indeed a certain distinction between a layperson and an overseer, one who must meet the listed qualifications in 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, and Titus. However, what one may consider a subjective impression from the Spirit to seek to be an overseer should be considered merely a human desire, and a good desire at that when it's pursued with the right motives and in submission to scripture. "This desire must be rightly motivated and also rightly tested, and this testing must come from others—particularly from those who are more mature in the Christian faith."
Do the Work of the Ministry
Do You Feel Called By God? deserves much more attention than it's received. It's only received two reviews on Amazon since it was published more than nine years ago. My one small disagreement with this book is Bennett's acknowledgment of continuationism. You might have noticed his affirmation of possible overt signs earlier in this review, and he states elsewhere that apostleship is the only gift of the Spirit that we can say for certain has ceased. Functionally, however, the book could not be more solidly scripture-centered. Strongly recommended.
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Q: Deleting the same column(s) from different shapefiles in QGIS In QGIS, I have a problem deleting the same column out of different shapefiles, is there a way to do this?
I want to delete several columns out of all these layers, is there a way to do this without opening each individual attribute table and manually selecting the fields

A: A PyQGIS solution. Tested on QGIS 3.24.1-Tisler.
Proceed with Plugins > Python Console > Show Editor and paste one of the scripts below.
The press Run script  and get the output.
This approach will directly modify the existing layer
Partially inspired from @MrXsquared's deleted answer.
selected_layers = iface.layerTreeView().selectedLayers()
# otherwise use a manual input
# layers_names = ['layer_1', 'layer_2']
# selected_layers = [QgsProject.instance().mapLayersByName(f'{name}')[0] for name in layers_names]

columns_to_delete = ['top','bottom']

if len(selected_layers):
    for layer in selected_layers:
        columns_to_delete_indx = [layer.fields().indexFromName(column) for column in columns_to_delete if column in layer.fields().names()]
        if len(columns_to_delete_indx):
            layer.startEditing()
            layer.dataProvider().deleteAttributes(columns_to_delete_indx)
            layer.commitChanges()

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After:

This approach will only create a temporary layer from the existing layer
Another option is to use the "Drop field(s)" geoalgorithm via "native:deletecolumn".
selected_layers = iface.layerTreeView().selectedLayers()
columns_to_delete = ['top','bottom']

if len(selected_layers):
    for layer in selected_layers:
        processing.runAndLoadResults("native:deletecolumn",
            {'COLUMN' : columns_to_delete,
            'INPUT' : layer,
            'OUTPUT' : 'TEMPORARY_OUTPUT'})

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Hot Hitter Polo and Skort.
Om Me Home Jacket and Club Dress.
Pow and Clear Mint Swiftlys with Secret Garden. Speaking of matching items to Secret Garden I got my upload order yesterday. I had ordered the Secret Garden Energy bra, Pow 105F Singlet and the Cashew WAFS Power Y and CRB. I think out of all the items I am only keeping the Secret Garden Energy bra. The Pow 105F Singlet is a bit sheer - I can see the Secret Garden print on my bra through it. I also really like Angel Blue best paired with this print. The Pow paired with all the roses seems like pink overload. I have first run Angel Blue 105F from the first run of the tank but I may look into getting an Angel Swiftly tank, though I wish they were solid and not heathered. As for the Cashew WAFS CRB and Power Y, the CRB is super soft and nicely thick. I do like the print but the grays and blacks make me think more of fall than summer so not sure if I will keep it. I'm on the fence about it now. The Power Y is nicely thick but I like the CRB better in the print.


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Q: ArgParse Python Module: Change default argument value for inherted argument I have a bunch of Python scripts that use common code for reading input and writing output files of different types.
These are chemical structure files. Some example file types would be .smi or .sdf.
By default, I want some of these scripts to output data in the "smi" file format, and others to output data in the "sdf" format.
Is it possible to override the default value of an argument inherited from a parent parser?
For example...
# Inherited code
filesParser = argparse.ArgumentParser(add_help=False)
filesParser.add_argument('-o', dest='outformat', default="smi")

# Script code
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='inherts from filesParser', parents=[filesParser])
parser.add_argument('--foo')

# Something like...
# parser.outformat.default = "sdf"

args = parser.parse_args()

First post so hope my etiquette is OK.
Many thanks,
Dave

A: set_defaults is probably the easiest fix.
But I think it is worth while knowing that you can change the default of an Action directly
filesParser = argparse.ArgumentParser(add_help=False)
outaction=filesParser.add_argument('-o', dest='outformat', default="smi")
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='inherts from filesParser', parents=[filesParser])
fooaction=parser.add_argument('--foo')
print fooaction.default
# None
print outaction.default
# 'smi'
outaction.default='sdf'
args=parser.parse_args()
print args
# Namespace(foo=None, outformat='sdf')

add_argument returns an Action object, which contains all the information that you specified in the arguments.  Here I save (links to) those Actions in variables outaction and fooaction.  outaction.default is the default value that parse_args uses.
With your inherited code it probably is awkward to save that outaction link (though it is possible to find it in 'parser._actions' list).  So it makes sense to let set_defaults do the job for you.
The code for set_defaults may be instructive:
def set_defaults(self, **kwargs):
    self._defaults.update(kwargs)

    # if these defaults match any existing arguments, replace
    # the previous default on the object with the new one
    for action in self._actions:
        if action.dest in kwargs:
            action.default = kwargs[action.dest]

First it puts the new defaults in the parser._defaults dictionary, and then it conditionally modifies the action.default attribute (note the search of parser._actions).  It has to do both, because when it comes time to use the defaults, the action.default value has priority over the parser._defaults value.
These details will make more sense if you run this code in an interactive shell (e.g. Ipython) and can print the action and parser objects.    The usual cautions about playing with 'private' attributes apply.

A: Yes (docs):
>>> parser.parse_args([])
Namespace(foo=None, outformat='smi')
>>> parser.set_defaults(outformat='sdf')
>>> parser.parse_args([])
Namespace(foo=None, outformat='sdf')


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Student Debt and The Spirit of Indenture
Jeffrey J. Williams ▪ Fall 2008
When we think of the founding of the early colonies, we usually think of the journey to freedom, in particular of the Puritans fleeing religious persecution to settle the Massachusetts Bay Colony. But it was not so for a majority of the first Europeans who emigrated to these shores. "Between one-half and two-thirds of all white immigrants to the British colonies arrived under indenture," according to the economic historian David W. Galenson, a total of three hundred thousand to four hundred thousand people. Indenture was not an isolated practice but a dominant aspect of labor and life in early America.
Rather than Plymouth, Jamestown was a more typical example of colonial settlement, founded in 1607 as a mercantile venture under the auspices of the Virginia Company, a prototype of "joint-stock" corporations and venture capitalism. The first colonists fared badly because, coming primarily from gentry, they had little practical skill at farming and were ravaged by starvation and disease. In 1620, the Virginia Company shifted to a policy of indentured servitude to draw labor fit to work the tobacco colonies. Indenture had been a common practice in England, but its terms were relatively short, typically a year, and closely regulated by law. The innovation of the Virginia Company was to extend the practice of indenture to America, but at a much higher obligation, of four to seven years, because of the added cost of transit, and also because of the added cost of the brokerage system that arose around it. In England, contracts of indenture were directly between the landowner and servant, whereas now merchants or brokers in England's ports signed prospective workers, then sold the contracts to shippers or to colonial landowners upon the servants' arrival in America, who in turn could re-sell the contracts.
By about 1660, planters "increasingly found African slaves a less expensive source of labor," as Galenson puts it. An economically minded historian like Galenson argues that the system of indenture was rational, free, and fair—one had a free choice to enter into the arrangement, some of those indentured eventually prospered, and it was only rational that the terms be high because of the cost of transit—but most other historians, from Edmund S. Morgan to Marcus Rediker, agree that indentured servitude was an exploitive system of labor, in many instances a form of bondage akin to slavery. For the bound, it meant long hours of hard work, oftentimes abuse, terms sometimes extended by fiat of the landowner, little regulation or legal recourse for laborers, and the onerous physical circumstances of the new world, in which two-thirds died before fulfilling their terms.
College student-loan debt has revived the spirit of indenture for a sizable proportion of contemporary Americans. It is not a minor threshold that young people entering adult society and work, or those returning to college seeking enhanced credential...
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Niels Brouzes, né le  à Drancy, est un coureur cycliste français. Il est professionnel au sein de l'équipe BigMat-Auber 93 entre 2002 et 2010. Son palmarès comprend notamment un titre de champion de France sur route espoirs et des victoires obtenues au Tour du Finistère, à la Ronde de l'Oise et la classique Paris-Mantes.

Biographie
Niels Brouzes est le fils de Jean-Marcel Brouzes, ancien cycliste qui a notamment participé aux Jeux olympiques de 1976, à Montréal, avec l'équipe de poursuite. Durant son enfance, il pratique d'abord le tennis. Figurant parmi les meilleurs jeunes joueurs français, il participe au tournoi international des Petits As, à Tarbes. Malgré les réticences de son père, il passe au cyclisme en catégorie cadet à la FSGT. Après être passé par le COM Argenteuil, il court en 2000 à l'AC Boulogne-Billancourt. Durant cette saison, il est notamment vainqueur du Chrono des Herbiers espoirs.

Niels Brouzes intègre en 2001 le CM Aubervilliers 93. Il remporte cette année-là le championnat de France sur route espoirs. À partir du mois d'août, il court avec l'équipe professionnelle BigMat-Auber 93 en tant que stagiaire.

À l'été 2002, il devient coureur professionnel au sein de cette équipe. En , il écope d'une suspension d'un an, pour un contrôle antidopage positif à la testostérone, intervenu un an plus tôt, en , au Tour de Normandie. Niels Brouzes attribue ce résultat par un  qu'on lui a . À l'issue de cette suspension, il est de nouveau engagé par Auber 93 et peut courir à partir de .

En 2007, il gagne le Tour du Finistère et Paris-Mantes-en-Yvelines en avril. Il espère alors être recruté par une équipe ProTour en fin de saison, mais n'y parvient pas. Il reste dans l'équipe Auber 93, avec laquelle il remporte en 2008 la Ronde de l'Oise.

À l'issue de la saison 2010, il décide de quitter BigMat-Auber 93, qui a le statut d'équipe continentale, dont il estime qu'elle est « un palier vers l'étage supérieur ». Il n'est toujours pas recruté par une équipe évoluant à un niveau supérieur.

Il redevient coureur amateur en 2011, au VC Rouen 76, équipe française évoluant en Division nationale 1.

Fin 2011, il met un terme à sa carrière.

Depuis 2011 il est conseiller sportif.

Palmarès
 1999
  du Chrono des Nations juniors
 2000
 Chrono des Nations espoirs
  de Paris-Évreux
  des Boucles du Canton de Picquigny
 2001
  Champion de France sur route espoirs
  du Circuit des Ardennes
  du Ruban granitier breton
 2002
  du Tour de Dordogne
 Contre-la-montre par équipes de la coupe de France (équipe Aubervilliers 93)
 2004
  du Prix de la Mi-août
 2005
  du Tour de la Manche
 2007
 Tour du Finistère
 Paris-Mantes-en-Yvelines
 2008
 Prix de Beauchamps
 Classement général de la Ronde de l'Oise
  de Paris-Rouen
 2009
 Trio normand (avec Florian Morizot et Tony Gallopin)
  de la Ronde du Pays basque
 2011
  du Circuit des Vins du Blayais

Classements mondiaux

Notes et références

Notes

Références

Liens externes

Coureur cycliste français
Naissance en février 1981
Naissance à Drancy

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Q: How do I get my "Swing" button in Eclipse While following a youtube tutorial, I noticed my program didn't have a "Design" or "Source" panel, even worse I can't find a Swing button. Do I need to download something...?
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By simply downloading it via browser or dragging a link to the Eclipse workspace and following the instructions.


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