Meeting in Strasbourg, the European Parliament unanimously approved a resolution supporting their cause, by a resounding 470 votes to 43, with 26 abstentions.
Last Wednesday's vote was brought before the European Parliament by Sweden's Cecilia Wikstrôm, on behalf of the E.U. body's petitions committee. Among other things the resolution calls on EU member states as well as the European Commission to re-open negotiations with the U.S. over its so-called Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA).
The "accidental Americans" – as they insist on calling themselves, as opposed to "expatriate Americans" – argue that they should be permitted to let go of what the U.S. regards as their American citizenship without having to pay the current renunciation fee of $2,350 (recently raised from $450), along with various other, financially onerous, requirements.
They say that they should be allowed to be free of the burden of U.S. citizenship because they have lived most of their lives outside the U.S., typically don't even speak English, haven't returned to the country since they were born there, and otherwise are about as un-American as anyone could be.
FATCA was a 2010 piece of U.S. legislation that, the Europe-based accidental Americans and other U.S. expat groups say, has been a cause of significant hardship and expense for them over the past eight years, and which the Europe-based accidentals say violates "fundamental rights" that they, as E.U. citizens, are entitled to.
Conceived in the wake of a number of high-profile exposes of tax evasion by Americans who had been using overseas bank accounts and other financial structures to hide their wealth and income, it enables the U.S. to enforce its unique brand of "citizenship-based taxation", as opposed to the residence-based tax regime used by most other countries.
It does this by obliging non-U.S. financial services companies to report to the IRS on the assets held by their American clients, under "intergovernmental agreements" (IGAs) agreed between the U.S. and governments around the world – including those in the E.U. that are currently in the crosshairs of the European Accidental Americans' campaign.
Wednesday's vote in favour of the European Parliament resolution – which may be viewed and downloaded from the E.U.'s website here – comes at a time when the European Union is already standing up to the US over US President Donald Trump's decision to levy stiff tariffs on some of its imports, in the form of retaliatory tariffs on certain US goods, including bourbon, orange juice and motorcycles.
The vote was enthusiastically welcomed by Fabien Lehagre, 33, an "accidental" who has been leading an increasingly visible, France-based campaign to rally French and EU support for others like him via an organization he founded in 2015, known as l'Association des Américains Accidentels (Accidental Americans Association, or AAA). The organization currently represents some 580 members.
Lehagre's efforts have shone a spotlight on the accidentals' plight, particularly in France, over the last 12 months.
"We are calling on the European Commission to immediately initiate negotiations with the United States on this matter," Lehagre said on Thursday.
Other organizations that have sprung up recently across Europe to fight the taxation by the U.S. of "accidental Americans", in some cases apparently in the wake of the growing visibility of Lehagre's organization, include the Italiano Accidental Americans; U.K. Accidental Americans; Collectif Belge Pour la Défense des Américains Accidentels; Irish Accidental Americans; and Deutsche in Amerikanischen Steuerschlamassel, which also calls itself What the FATCA.
Most seem to use Facebook as their base of operations as well as their main means of disseminating news and soliciting new members.
Although even the U.S. government admits to not knowing exactly how many Americans live outside of the U.S., the latest estimates have been in the neighbourhood of 9 million – significantly more than previously believed, even as recently as three or four years ago.
Even less well known is how many of these are "accidentals". Lehagre says there are believed to be as many as 120,000 across the E.U., based on European Parliament data.
He adds that a survey of his organization's members some years ago found the average member had left the States before the age of 3, although he points out that this isn't a representative sampling of the expat community, or even his own organization now, as it is some years out of date.
Born near San Francisco, Lehagre himself was brought to France at the age of 18 months by his French father, and never returned to the U.S.
Wednesday's European Parliament vote was the latest in a series of developments that suggest Lehagre's AAA and the other, mostly newer organizations across Europe like it are making progress in their efforts to get governmental backing for their cause.
In February, the AAA received potentially-significant from French president Emmanuel Macron's La République en Marche party, in the form of a letter from the party's leader to French prime minister Edouard Philippe.
The organization also was able to cite among its supporters Marc Le Fur, a French MP who is deputy speaker of France's National Assembly.
Also that month, Bloomberg News reported how a group of "Accidental Americans" in France was "[pressing French president Emmanuel] Macron for relief" from the U.S. IRS, adding that the "plight of [these] 'Accidental Americans' in France" could be a subject of discussion when French president Macron met with Donald Trump later that month.
It is understood that during Macron's visit, the subject of the accidentals was discussed by U.S. treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin and his French counterpart, Bruno Le Maire, and that a French diplomatic mission subsequently travelled to Washington in May for further talks on the matter.
The Bloomberg article included input from Lehagre, and was topped by a photograph featuring him and others involved in his organization's efforts.
Other publications that have covered Lehagre's cru sade recently have included the Christian Science Monitor , Politico.eu, theLocal.fr, and such French media organ izations as La Dépêche, Le Figaro and Les Échos.
When President Obama signed FATCA into law in March, 2010, it was hidden inside a domestic jobs bill known as the HIRE Act, and as a result, its critics say, there was little chance for those who would be affected by it to object or make changes to it.
These critics also say that the act's authors failed to anticipate how it would affect those Americans living outside of the U.S., whose foreign bank accounts weren't set up to hide their wealth but because they were living abroad and needed them for their daily banking needs.
FATCA also enabled the U.S. for the first time to enforce its citizenship-based tax regime, which is almost unique in the world. Eritrea is said to be the only other country to tax on the basis of citizenship rather than residence.
No one today disputes the fact that almost as soon as FATCA was signed into law, and the news of its existence began to spread, expatriate Americans around the world began receiving letters from their local banks and other non-U.S. financial institutions telling them that they would need to need to move their accounts elsewhere, as these institutions had decided it made more sense to get rid of their American clients than to attempt to comply with the new law.
The ACA has also campaigned for a change to a residence-based tax regime, and last November published the results of a survey which it said showed that such a change could be "revenue neutral" for the U.S..
"While we have thought for some time that this would be the case, we are very pleased to have this confirmed," ACA executive director Marylouise Serrato said at the time.


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In half an hour Kevin and I will be boarding a plane which will take us to Eugene, OR where my brother will pick us up in order for us to surprise my parents. Though we had planned to cycle for a few more months, after a week on the divide Kevin decided that he no longer wanted to cycle tour. He had reached his saturation point; where a mountain was just another mountain, and a village just another village, and though we were about to enter into what most people describe as the most beautiful part of South America (and possibly the world), his heart just wasn't in it. This wasn't the first time he had brought up the fact that he wanted to go home either. During our travels we have met many different people with different "saturation" points, basically different amounts of time that they can truly appreciate the place they are in, and though I feel as if I could happily continue traveling, in reality we hit Kevin's end point months ago. Though I was extremely angry and disappointed – I'd been looking forward to the divide and then northern Peru since since we landed in Ushuaia six months ago – after a few rough days I too realized that forcing the rest of the trip would only make Kevin dislike cycle touring, and that it would be better to save Peru for another trip; a trip we will both appreciate even more given the chance to return with fresh eyes, and happy hearts.
As we stopped to eat lunch at the top of our third and hardest pass yet we saw a few cows as well as a smiling traditionally dressed lady in her thirties coming up and over the other side. She was obviously surprised to see us "gringos" on this rarely used rocky mountainous road, and animatedly began asking us questions in Qetchwa. Once we explained that we only spoke Spanish, she smiled and then waved us over, motioning for us to bring over one of our plates to where she was opening up the large colorful blanket she carries as a bag on her back. She then scooped three huge scoops of, well, who knows what, from a steaming bucket full of white potato/quinoa/unknown grain/milk mush into our bowl before swinging her blanket back over her back in order to follow her cows back down the mountainside. Welcome to the Great Peruvian Divide; a network of small rocky roads which connect rural villages throughout the Andes where smiling toothless villagers stop to encourage you along your way as you fight for every kilometer as it's always uphill.
After leaving Cusco, Kevin and I will embark on what is sure to be the most challenging, yet in all likelihood, the most rewarding part of our whole trip; The Great Peruvian Divide. I've been anxiously awaiting the beginning of this 35,000m elevation gain route – that's like climbing Everest four and a half times from sea level to the top – since we first read about it on the Pikes on Bikes site. This route will take us up and over almost thirty high altitude pass (all around 5,000m) along a road which doesn't appear on a single map (nor Google maps). We will pass through extremely rural villages where Quetcha, not Spanish, is the norm, and we will climb and descend passes which aren't even possible for most cars.
Let me introduce to you my newest idols; A French family who has cycle toured for a month or two every year from Norway to Morocco to Kyrgyzstan, as well as mountain biked, trekked, and skiied, through various mountain ranges around the world for the last decade as a family, ever since their oldest child was just a few months old. When we met them in Cusco they were one month into a three month tour with their eleven year old boy (who rides his own bike with two panniers), their eight year old girl (who rides with mom on the tandem), and their four year old boy who usually rides in the trailer (though he is jealous of his cycling siblings and is therefore allowed to cycle, on his own tiny running push bike, at least a few kilometers everyday as well). I spent most of my waking hours with these awesome kids and was extremely impressed at how well behaved they were, how well they played together, and how knowledgeable they were about the world. These are kids who will happily tell you about the monasteries they visited during a remote trek they did in Nepal, about the time a truck followed them for an hour during the night in Peru to protect them from speeding cars, and about the friendly people throughout the whole of Kyrgyzstan, all the while drawing, laughing, and running around like any normal kid would.
This past week of cycling has been awful. We have been riding along the nicely paved, often shoulder-less highway which is a far cry from the quiet rough country roads we are use to. Nevertheless, from within a kilometer of crossing the border into Peru, we noticed how much more outgoing and smiley the people here are, something we have really enjoyed. We had plenty of children and adults alike waving to us, or asking us where we were going, and whenever we asked a local for water or directions, they gave it to us with a huge grin and a wish of good luck.
1) Buy (or acquire) a bike.
It's as simple as that. You will figure out what foods work best for you once you hit the road, just as you will figure out how amazing people are once you experience your first homestay with a stranger. Cycle touring is one of those things which you just can't plan, because any plan you make is sure to change a hundred times over. Go out with a sense of openness and adventure, ready to wake up in a new place everyday, and I promise you that everything will work out. Don't listen to the voices in your head (or the voices of those around you) telling you that you can't do it, because it's only impossible to those who have never tried.
It's been two years to the day since I left my life back in Oregon to embark on a lifestyle which has taken me from the highest passes in the Himalayas down to the Amazonian jungle. Though what I've seen and experienced has been amazing – from the rushing colorful rivers in Patagonia to homestays with friendly people in the rural villages of Nepal – more than anything else, the things that I will remember for the rest of my life have nothing to do (directly) with the bike; they are the lifestyle lessons I've learned from meeting and befriending so many people from such different walks of life.


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Benjamin: Hello Giants fans and welcome back to the San Francisco Giants addition of For The Fans By The Fans, a podcast where we bring you your weekly dose of all things, San Francisco Giants baseball from the fan's perspective. I'm a lifelong Giants fan and your host, Benjamin Shapiro. As the Giants and their revitalized pitching staff show signs of life, and the team has crawled back to the 500 mark, we welcome my first boss, Mike Adams. Mike is now a vice president of IRS programs at MicroPact and he is based in Fairfax, Virginia. He's also a Washington Nationals Fan, but before Mike tells us who won the fight between Bryce Harper and Hunter Strickland, I want to remind you that this podcast is brought to you on behalf of our friends at Fanatics. Fanatics is the global leader in licensed sports merchandise. They have the world's largest collection of official sports apparel from the leagues, teams and players you love. So if you're looking for your Bryce Harper or Jeff Samardzija wig, the best place to possibly look forward is ftfbtf.com/fanatics. When you go to that link, fanatics will kick as a couple of bucks when you buy your Giants or your Nationals gear, you can also go to ftfbtf.com/fanatics.com. So Mike, that said, welcome to the pod. It's great to catch up. It's an honor to have both the first person who hired me in sales and marketing and a good friend.
Mike: Well thank you Ben. Thanks for having me. Excited to be on. So I have to apologize for getting you on this road to ruin that is sales and marketing, but you seem to have done pretty well for yourself, so congratulations. Despite my best efforts.
Benjamin: Somehow you teaching me to knock on doors and getting thrown out of businesses and I don't know, wooster Massachusetts has led to us being on a podcast to talk about baseball. It's funny. The road life leads you down. Yup. That's it. I want to talk to you a little bit about your experience as a nationals fan. First off, how did you become a nationals fan and what's it like to root for the team that used to be the Montreal Expos?
Mike: Right. It's been a few years now since they became the national sense of the learners, brought them over and as a city we're all really excited to get a baseball team. We've had to cheer for the Baltimore Orioles for a piece of our lives here, so it was great to actually have a hometown team and being someone who grew up in this area. I kind of feel like if you grow up in an area, you support the teams that represent that area, so the whole cadre of DC sports, whether it be the nationals, the wizards, the redskins or the capitals and recording this tonight, the capitals are about to play game five hopefully for a Stanley Cup tonight and if we win, that'll be the first championship that any of our major sports teams have brought back to the DC area and about the last 20 to 25 years. So that's really exciting. We hope some of that rubs off on our nationals, but what's the nationals moved to Washington. It was a no brainer. Kind of go adopt the club and become a lifelong fan.
Benjamin: So Baltimore Orioles, great color scheme, bad baseball team where you orioles fans first or were you just really without a baseball team and then decided to adopt the nationals?
Mike: Well, I personally wasn't oriels fan first. My family is from Baltimore, so I grew up during the cow rick and era and saw a lot of the Iron Mans Games and watch on TV when he broke that record of the most consecutive games. So I was always a Baltimore Fan, but it was nice to get our own team and not have to drive living in the northern Virginia suburbs two and a half hour. So baseball game anymore. Being able to just drive 40 minutes into the city and be able to catch a game was a lot more attractive. Plus we put together a pretty good package over the years. We've been able to make the playoffs more often than not over the last five to 10 years and a lot of young, exciting player. So it's just a fun team to be a fan for.
Benjamin: So tell me a little bit more about DC sports. You mentioned that the capitals are on the precipice. You're close to the mountain top and might actually get over this year, but what's it been like being a nationals fan, making the playoffs a couple times, but not quite getting over the hump. Tell me what life is like as a DC sports fan these days.
Mike: Yeah, it's been tough. Let's speaking to it as if we are not in the Stanley Cup tonight and hopefully our fortunes change here, but it has been tough to beat DC sports fan. I mean in the early nineties, the Redskins, we were pretty spoiled by some of their success. Has that petered out and dance night or bought the team and basically ruined the city for all sports. We haven't really been able to regain that kind of success, so when it comes to the nationals, I always look at it as I'm really excited for the team being able to make the playoffs every year, but it does seem like they play their worst baseball two times out of the year. April and October is when we play the worst, so it does get disappointed and you get all this buildup for postseason run and then usually we'll hit a strong team with an ace pitcher more often than not. That means we were playing against you guys and the postseason and I've been to several of your games only to see us lose are you losing five, that kind of thing. So it's been disappointing, but every year we got the hope of the next year behind us. So that's not so bad.
Benjamin: We have crossed paths a few times, most recently in 2014, which was the Nfl des and the giants took the series in four games, so three to one three game series and that was also early on in Hunter Strickland's career. So tell me a little bit about what you remember about that series. And to me one of the things that sticks out is that was really a formative time for hunter striction. What do you remember about that series?
Mike: I don't think anyone will forget that series featured the longest game in major league baseball history of the 18 inning marathon between our two clubs where it was one to one going into the 18th belt, hit that home run at the end to win the game for you guys. Now what's funny is I was actually at my cousin's wedding the night of that game and I think I spent more time at the lobby bar watching the game thinking, oh, it's almost over. It's the ninth. It's the 11th, it's the 14th. I'll be in there to dance with you in a minute, honey, but busy watching this marathon. So I remember that game and I just remembered the crushing defeat of that home run in the 18th. That's probably what I remember most about that series.
Benjamin: What's interesting to me and what I remember about that series is Bryce Harper hitting two of the most towering home runs I've ever seen off of hunter strickland in Hunter Strickland's rookie year, and that's actually one of the things that led to them not exactly having the best relationship. Obviously boiling over in the brawl in the middle of the field at Pack Bell Park last year from a nationalist perspective, what happened last year with Bryce Harper and Hunter Strickland?
Mike: I don't really remember the fight between Bryce Harper and hunter straight line until you reminded me out and then I looked it up a little bit later. I think that's too young. Alpha males. Well, early in his career, like he said, that must have been what in his second season at that point. I think it was the third, but yeah, Bryce Harper in his early twenties. Even then it's hard to believe that he's only 26 at this point and it's been in the league six or seven seasons. Know that's just too often. Males. Yeah. One doesn't like the throw home bronze and one likes to show you when he does so it's Kinda how that works out.
Benjamin: From what I remember the playoff series that hunter didn't necessarily appreciate. Bryce Harper, hot dog and it around and he was obviously upset giving up a home run the plants. I think he actually gave up two and a game and he started yelling at Bryce Harper on his way around third. I think that animosity hung over for a little while.
Mike: Yeah, and I guess there's a couple ways to look at that. One is hunter got the last laugh by winning the series and that's really what counts. Well about St Louis and you're being hot dogs by arguably one of the best batters in the league. Definitely within this generation.
Benjamin: Maybe one of the most memorable parts of the fight from last year was as Mike Morris who's playing at first base and Jeff Samardzija coming out of the bullpen, tried to break up the fight. They collided and it was like a 1980 [inaudible] hairband reunion where there's just long hair flying everywhere and Mike Morris actually got a concussion, went on the dl and I don't think he ever played another game. I think they released him, so that was Mike Morris. Giant, Great First Baseman, playoff hero actually hit the home run before Travis Ishikawa hit a homerun to send us to the world series to tie the game. That was the end of his career. Wow. That fight and that concussion.
Mike: There you go. Mike Morris played for the nationals at one point beforehand. We had a nice little run where we're sending former nationals out that way to round out their career.
Benjamin: You know, we appreciate everybody you sent to us and a couple of them worked out in. A couple of them didn't, and let's talk about somebody else that's been on both teams. Tell me what the national fans think about former giants manager. Dusty Baker.
Mike: You know what? We really liked? Dusty Baker. He was very popular here in the city. He would call into one of our more popular sports radio talk shows. I had a weekly segment there and he's an affable guy and really good in front of the press. We thought he made a lot of good decisions over the course of the season. Maybe some questionable lineup decisions during the post season there, but it was really surprising when they decided not to bring dusty back, but kind of all thought that he had earned a second shot at this, but we appreciated what he did. As a manager and thought he was a good choice when they brought him in.
Benjamin: It's interesting, so to me, dusty Baker who's an ex outfielder was great in terms of coaching hitters, right? Everybody, every team he went to, they hit the giants in the nineties, the Cincinnati teams that he was on the nationals, they can always just mash the ball, questionable about how he could handle a pitching staff and to me the thing that sticks out in terms of decision making is dusty Baker Pulls Russ or tease out of the game six of the world series against the angels and then decides to hand Russell Ortiz the ball as if we've won the game and it's over. Unfortunately the angels came back winning game six despite having a five run lead and then coming back and winning the whole series, the next game in game seven and that was the end of dusty Baker in San Francisco. So to me his demise has always been his use of the bullpen and pitching staff and I kind of get the feeling that that's probably what happened in DC as well.
Mike: Yeah, but he wasn't for a lack of talent when it came to starting rotation between Max Scherzer and Steven Strausberg, 10 row, our Geo Gonzalez. They had great years last year. I think he was helped by how they might maddox as his pitching coach, so maddox obviously Atlanta fame worked mostly with the bullpen and with the pictures there, so I think somebody is inability to manage a pitching staff was offset by Mike being there, but one of our big challenges is our relief pitching and our closing. It was nuclear. We did not have a good relief staff, a good setup guy, and we couldn't really find that strong closer to be able to shut down games. We seem to have solved some of that this season. It remains to be seen. I mean we're only a little more than a third way through the season, but we seem to have solved some of those back in relief pitching woes that we had last year.
Benjamin: Yeah. I can sympathize with your lack of a closer because the giants have signed Mark Melanzane who played for the nationals and since he's been in San Francisco, he's just been one dl stint after another or a blown save mixed in every once in a while and he is back on the team now and hopefully going to be a little bit more productive. Looks like he has some good stuff, but we've seem to have inherited some of the trouble at the back end of the bullpen from you.
Mike: That's a shame.
Benjamin: So tell me a little bit about this year's team. The giants and the nationals are facing off for the first time this year and what a giants fans need to know about the 2018 version of the Washington nationals.
Mike: Well, it's pretty interesting. We're battling for first place right now with the braves were neck and neck, basically tied with the brace for first right now, and we're missing a lot of our starting lineup or missing. Daniel Murphy were missing like Ryan Zimmerman. We're missing Adam Eaton, you know, these are three big bats and three all star players on our team that have had extended stance on the DL. Luckily we've got some guys that we brought in Juan Soto as 19 year old Vietnam. See, apparently, I'm not sure if you've heard of them yet, if he's really made the national mutually baseball news yet, but wait til you see him this weekend.
Benjamin: One Soda, a batting
Mike: 3:46. He's got two home runs, six rbis. So not a huge sample size, but looks to be a promising prospect. You also mentioned Adam Eaton. He's batting 3:45. So the definitely some high average guys at the top of your lineup. Um, talk to me about who's hitting the ball, who's getting the rbis? Where's the power coming from? Well, the power is really coming from Bryce Harper. He's got 13 home runs on a year. 18, 18 at this point. Sorry. 18. So yeah, the power's coming from Bryce Harper. And for Matt Adams. Actually, Matt Adams is one of our bench players. He's filling in for Ryan Zimmerman. So we're going to have some really interesting decisions probably in July and definitely as we go into the later part of the summer and we get some of those big names back, you know, what are we going to do with Mike Reynolds and Matt Adams and more importantly, what are we going to do in the outfield because Michael Taylor has been on a real hot streak the last few games.
Mike: I think he's always struck out three times in the last 22 at bats. So he's given us a real quality at bats there. Obviously Trey Turner, anytime he gets on base, he's a threat to steal and a threat to get an extra base out of it. So these guys have been really good. You look at our outfield, Michael Taylor and Bryce Harper and Juan Soto now. So it was only 19 years old and he's making a case for staying on the team. Even when Adam Eaton comes back. So when that happens, we've got some tough decisions to make. It's gonna be pretty interesting.
Benjamin: Yeah. You mentioned Matt Adams, formerly known as fat Adams. He's the same player that was push to 60 to 70 when he was playing for the St Louis Cardinals and we ran into him a few times in the playoffs and now he's down to a lien to 30 to 35, so we dropped 30 or 40 pounds. There you go. And revitalized career. Which begs the question is the food and DC no good. What's going on there?
Mike: Got a lot of fried stuff outta there, you know, I guess he's
Benjamin: at home before he gets to work. So you mentioned that you have some young hitters and you've had some injuries in the lineup. Tell me little bit about the pitching staff. Obviously headlined by sure Strasburg. What are the giants fans need to know about who they're seeing coming out of the pen?
Mike: Well, I think you guys are familiar with Scherzer. I mean he's just an all world talent. He's second in the league and era as leading the league and batting for pitchers, which is pretty funny, but he does everything. We're talking about the capital earlier. So it gained for shares. Her and Ryan Zimmerman actually went to the caps game. We're fully decked out the uniforms and and doing the whole thing, getting the crowd into it and metro until midnight, getting the crowd all rowdy the next day he goes out and pitches eight innings and I think it has like 11 strikeouts next day. So he's Mr everything.
Benjamin: He's always taken it a little easy in the playoffs.
Mike: Yeah, exactly. So this time of year, he's everything you wanted to be. Strasburg's obviously been a star. He's having a great season this year. Some ups and downs, but between insurers or Geo Tarot, arc and Strauss, all four of those are in the top 20, top 30 for era. So they're just having a great year. Yes.
Benjamin: Solid starting pitching and the pen. You mentioned that there was potentially some issues at the back of the bullpen.
Mike: There have been, but sean has come in and he's given us some good quality relief. Setting up our clothes or do little has been doing a great job as our closer this season. He's really shutting guys down in the ninth inning. Former Oakland, a former Oakland a, so you know, it's good to have him out here this season hearkens back to Mike Rizzo. Rgm just making some really quality moves in the off season. Really quality decisions on who he pulls up from our farm system at different points in the season because as the stars are going down we're able to fill in the gaps and keep this train going. So you got to give it up to them.
Benjamin: So it sounds like you're optimistic about this team. You think you're headed for the playoffs. What's the outlook for the season?
Mike: Yeah, you know, I don't want to do the cliche world series or bust, but I have to believe that the nationals have the same trajectory that we had last year. There was no reason why they shouldn't be in the playoffs except for the fact that the other teams and nos are picking up their games. You know, you're seeing better play from the braves and what we've seen the last few years better play from the phillies and we've seen for the last year. So that might actually be helpful for them to have to fight all the way to the very end and earn their trip into the playoffs instead of being, you know, a dozen games off midway through September and coast into the playoffs and maybe lose that edge. And it's funny because we saw the same thing again with the capitals not in their normal cat bird seat in their division having to fight all the way through and you see what that did to the team and the kind of iron that that build on this team. So like I said in the beginning of hopefully that rubs off a little bit on the nationals and having to fight for a hundred 62 games to get into the playoffs, turn their fortunes around a little bit this year. So you're pretty optimistic on their chances.
Benjamin: So I think that there is a sentiment that this could be the year in DC. That makes sense. And it's also something that might need to be the year because next year you're looking at Bryce Harper's impending free agency. What's the feeling in Washington about whether he's staying or going?
Mike: I mean, if you ask around the feeling is that is likely going, I have to feel that we've enjoyed his career thus far, but there's going to be a team out there that offers him the kind of contract that no one's ever seen before and that we would certainly have a hard time matching Albert pool halls money. Yeah, exactly. Probably why he could probably hire Albert pools to work for him for the amount of money that he's going to be making. So.
Benjamin: And if there's anybody who's going to take $300 million and not have it affect his ego, God knows it's going to be bright.
Mike: Yeah. Nothing can penetrate that ego.
Benjamin: All right, well we're excited to see the nationals at the park this week and before we let you go, any parting shots or any good fun giants related baseball stories?
Mike: Well, I'm assuming you share my despise the dodgers, so we do get good threatened sigh. A nationals, dodgers playoff game last year and unfortunately the dodgers, he does just like the giants beat us. We don't fair well against California teams in the playoffs, but we're right down on the first base line and their pitcher whenever he would go to his wind up and I was wearing one of those rubber Unicorn horse masks. So here I am standing right over the, dug out with my Unicorn horse mask, just making all kinds of faces and getting into his head and got a reaction out and welcome back to the dug out a couple of times. So unfortunately it wasn't enough to turn the tides on them, but it's always good fun given this dodge a hard time
Benjamin: any harassment of the dodgers, you a friend of ours, and even if we are not necessarily the biggest fan of Bryce Harper or the nationals, I appreciate the effort in trying to slow the dodgers. And that's a wrap for this week's show. Uh, we plan to do this every week or even a couple times a week. So if you want more giants baseball on your podcast feed, click that subscribe button. And since we're just ramping up, we'd love for you to give us a rating in the apple itunes store. You can learn more about the show@forthefansbythefans.com, the short version of that. You can also just go to FTF BTF.com, or you can find us on twitter, instagram, facebook, just search FTF btf. Thanks again to our friends at fanatics. If you're going to go buy your giants gear, click the link in our show notes or go to FTF BTF.com/fanatics, and our friends at fanatics will kick us a couple of bucks to help produce this show when you buy your giants or even your nationals gear. Until next time, swing and a miss, and that's it.

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Communication world evolved a lot over time. The modern communication has been taken over by the Business VoIP. However, a lot of businesses are not yet familiar with the technology of VoIP. But, it is not hard to know the idea behind this technology. In simple terms, a business VoIP phone technology leverages the data and internet networks in order to transmit the phone calls as compared to the traditional office telephone system which depends on the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN).
The business VoIP technology is not that difficult to explain as well. The business VoIP phone services convert the sound of voice call into digital data packets like email or documents. The end user of the service receives those digital data packets which are then translated back to the audio. This might appear as an oversimplified explanation and it may be somewhat true. Nowadays the business VoIP phone systems are equipped with a lot more advanced and sophisticated set of calling features.
Nowadays the traditional phone line which was employed as a main channel of communication has been replaced by the consumer VoIP. The traditional phone lines do not provide the advanced features apart from the basic voicemail or caller ID features. On the contrary, the business VoIP was created to substitute the enterprise telephone system which businesses employ to connect their staff internally with each other and externally to the public network. The business VoIP provides a variety of advanced functionalities like IVR, conference calling, auto attendant and much more.
A VoIP phone system is actually perfect for small business since it allows small businesses to conduct conferences and meetings without having to commute to a certain location; as a result, the transportation and the accommodation charges are extremely reduced. Furthermore, the business VoIP is integrated into the user's company phone which allows them to make and receive calls from anywhere with an active network connection.
The basic two kinds of VoIP phone systems including on-site and hosted VoIP phone services. The former is owned and managed by the business through a devoted team of IT experts, whereas, the latter transmits the PBX functions through the internet. The Hosted VoIP phone system does not need any big financial investment and resources; therefore, it is a great choice for the small and mid-sized businesses.
A hosted cloud-based business VoIP phone system needs a high internet bandwidth capacity and a fast internet connection to make sure that it works flawlessly. Furthermore, the network equipment has to have Quality of Service (QoS) optimised to guarantee a reliable and high quality of calls throughout the peak hours.
In conclusion, a few businesses might be capable of carrying out their operations with conventional office telephone systems; nonetheless, the VoIP phone system is essential for a lot of businesses to survive in this fast-paced and dynamic work environment.


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Hrm I think that's it, I'll probably bother you some more with other requests later on, heh.
- Not sure how to do fullscreen mode. I get the feeling this isn't something I can do easily with the current toolkit.
- Detachable map - not impossible, but not yet queued either.
- Push through commands - working, but needs a bit more integration.
- Global configuration support and sessions is in progress.
- Resizing command window will probably be done through control keys in the short term. I'm not sure how to make it resizable with the mouse at the moment.
Working mousewheel to check scrollback, heh. I like it how on zMUD I do a mousewheel click and it goes back to the bottom to keep playing.
I think the "Junior Member" thing relates to the number of posts.
I'm not sure I can make the mousewheel work. I'll take a look, but I don't exactly have a lot of equipment to test with here. Maybe fionna has a mouse I can use.
What exactly is the desired mouse operation?
Basically being able to scroll up and down with the mousewheel, and mousewheel click to go back to the bottom and have it ready to keep playing.
- When you climb towards any direction, the map doesn't change at all. This is particularly weird when you climb several times in a row, the map stays the same, etc. No idea how hard this would be to fix, but it's there.
- The road lines look really crappy.
Overall the client is really cool anyway, I think I got really used to it. So thanks!
Thanks, it'll be a while before I get to another client build though. Got lots of web and newbie work backlogged ATM.
I've had issues with the coloring bleeding over, and the fonts screwing up. It may be just me, but It's painful to read at times. As for functions, (I get crap for this all the time) Trigger functions, and client side alias' functions.
Do you have screenshots of it going stupid?
I'll hop on tonite and snag the newest version. until then i'll be posting from the crapper at work.
The detachable map is now working in internal builds. It should be available with release 0.981, which hopefully will be available in a week or two.
I have no real idea what you're talking about in reference to 'full screen mode'. I always thought you got this by maximizing the window and turning off the automap/buttons/hp bar.
The detachable map always on top is already implemented in my current code base, but has not yet been released. I have some tabbed stuff I want to get underway before I get that release out.


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Child sneaks on flight from Minneapolis to Las Vegas
Pat Hogan
American actor (1920-1966)
A 9-year-old boy slipped through security at the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport and flew on a Delta Air Lines plane to Las Vegas without a boarding pass, authorities said on Sunday.
It was not immediately clear why the child snuck onto a Delta Air Lines flight on Thursday, raising questions about airport and airline security.
"The story has a good ending because at least the flight crew took the appropriate actions and the child was returned safely," said Pat Hogan, a Minneapolis airport spokesman.
"Obviously the concern is how the child was able to go through the security screening process and board an airplane in the first place."
The boy was screened at one of the airport's checkpoints shortly after 10:30 a.m. CDT on Thursday and got on the Delta Air Lines flight to Las Vegas 11:15 a.m. CDT.
Crew members became suspicious of him during the flight and contacted the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, Hogan said.
Officers took him into custody when the plane landed.
Neither the Transportation Security Administration nor Delta would comment beyond saying that the matter was under investigation.
Delta spokeswoman Leslie Scott would not say why the crew became uneasy about the boy.
Security video shows the boy was at the airport on Wednesday as well, Hogan said.
The child, who is from Minneapolis, arrived on the light rail train that runs from the city's downtown, took a bag from a luggage carousel, and brought it to a restaurant in the area before the security checkpoints.
"He ordered lunch and ate it and then he told the wait staff that he had to use the restroom," Hogan said. "So he left the bag there, left the restaurant and never came back to pay."
The bag was returned to its owner.
Hogan said that he believed the child was home in Minneapolis with his family.
"It's really unclear why he was going to Las Vegas," he said.
(Reporting By Noreen O'Donnell; Editing by Bill Trott)
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Unreliable Narratives: Navigating Serialized Crime Documentaries
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From popular crime narratives such as the Netflix documentary "Making a Murderer" to the podcast "Serial," modern-day sensation narratives have recently spiked in popularity. Similar to the sensational reports published in nineteenth-century newspapers, these narratives dramatize real life while trying to maintain integrity to facts. Yet, by nature of narrative, whether fiction or nonfiction, stories are always patched and weaved into a representational narrative that excludes information so it can never be fully accurate, which can be troubling when narrative is used to reinvestigate a past crime ("Making a Murderer" directors Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos had seven hundred hours of footage that they whittled into ten one-hour long Netflix episodes).
Exploring the purpose of narrative is essential to literary scholarship, where academics analyze narrative to discover, or come closer to discovering, some higher truth. My current project is an exploration of Jekyll and Hyde through the lens of sympathy and trauma theory. As I research, my reviewers constantly remind me to be careful not to apply theory to fictional accounts in the exact same manner as I would to a nonfictional account. While reading and analyzing fiction informs, and educates audiences and persuades them toward action, we also have to remember that fiction is not real life, and, for example, trauma experienced by a fictional character is not the same as trauma experienced by a living human.
Yet I wonder how analysis works when true events become dramatized into narratives that resemble fiction; they are informative, but they are also meant to be entertaining. While some writers and film directors use their modes of expression to help exonerate wrongfully convicted people or to cast light on problems with the justice system, their narratives have other lasting, and sometimes unintended, consequences. The justice system, while potentially flawed, still follows a set of procedures by which people seek to fairly right wrongs. This can be problematic when filmmakers and artists take these problems into their own hands, as Kathryn Schulz articulates: "We still have not thought seriously about what it means when a private investigative project—bound by no rules of procedure, answerable to nothing but ratings, shaped only by the ethics and aptitude of its makers—comes to serve as our court of last resort." This questions modes of justice and whether or not one artist, filmmaker, author, etc. has the right to go about seeking justice without adhering to regular rules of the justice system, leaving those involved in the project or the crime at the mercy of one person's code of ethics.
These narratives are influenced by the opinions of only a few people who have their own biases and agendas rather than an entire court system that includes a jury. While the jury may also be biased, the narrative is unfolded to them, and they do not usually have an initial collective opinion about the guilty or non-guilty status of the accused. Schulz writes about the Netflix documentary "Making a Murderer" and the potential biases of its directors. She reminds readers that Penny Beerntsen incorrectly identified Steven Avery as her rapist, which led to his first wrongful conviction, causing him to spend eighteen years in prison before being released after DNA evidence suggested the crime was committed by another man. Beerntsen has expressed great sorrow over accusing Avery, but she was wary about helping with the documentary about his second conviction. Schulz writes, "But when Ricciardi and Demos approached [Beerntsen] about participating in 'Making a Murderer' she declined, chiefly because, while her own experience with the criminal-justice system had led her to be wary of certitude, the filmmakers struck her as having already made up their minds. 'It was very clear from the outset that they believed Steve was innocent,' she told me. 'I didn't feel they were journalists seeking the truth. I felt like they had a foregone conclusion and were looking for a forum in which to express it.'" Ricciardi and Demos disagree with this sentiment, but others, including Schulz, have questioned the biased nature of the documentary. Conclusive closure is one essential difference between fiction and nonfiction narratives: there are no conclusions in investigative narratives, and it is problematic for people to think of these reports as having a clean ending.
In addition to this problematic representation, these documentaries also spotlight actual people's lives in a medium of entertainment rather than reporting. Emily Nussbaum comments on this phenomenon stating, "There is, of course, a queasy undercurrent to any show like this: we're shivering at someone else's grief, giggling at someone else's crazy. Many of the best documentaries have this ugly edge, which may be why we cling to the idea that their creators . . . are as devoted to truth as to voyeurism." These documentaries meant to exonerate and bring forth justice also serve as a mode of entertainment in which every person involved in the case is brought out on camera whether they wish to be highlighted or not. Nussbaum also suggests that documentaries are still scripted in some sense because the people are still being filmed. She writes, "Everything in a documentary is contrived, even one with a fancy HBO imprimatur. The most sincere people still know that they're talking to a camera."
Not only do people participate in a voyeuristic exploration of both victims' and perpetrators' lives but serial crime documentaries open up different methods of understanding that are typical of literary analysis. Following the release of "Making a Murderer," Kathryn Shattuck posted a bunch of questions raised by the documentary, similar to the discussion questions found at the back of literary books. The lives of those involved in the case from families to perpetrators to victims to accusers and the accused become characters involved in narratives to be analyzed, and their lives become a form of entertainment.
What do all of these literary ties have to do with how we perceive crime in relation to media and art? Lisa Kern Griffin articulates problems with "serialized true-crime programs" but also notably points out, "At the same time, serialized true-crime programs, such as 'Making a Murderer' and the first season of the podcast 'Serial,' are bringing the failures of due process into focus: careless police work, flawed forensics, forceful interrogations, unreliable witnesses and the woeful condition of state-funded criminal defense." On the other hand, she writes, "But Americans shouldn't expect certainty about innocence. Sometimes the focus on finding new evidence to exonerate distracts from the question of whether or not the old evidence proved guilt." She is hopeful for change that can be brought about if people are compelled to actions from these narratives. But these crime narratives come at their own risks: narrative, by necessity, always leaves something out, and it becomes messy when a biased narrative is presented but becomes the basis by which to formulate truth. Narratives can compel people to create change in thought and action, but just as it is important to do justice to literary fiction and understand its role and place within a theoretical context, documentaries that aim to present factual accounts need to be analyzed with the same consideration and care as any other mode of narration.
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Pakistan in crosshairs as FATF begins plenary today
New Delhi Published: Oct 21, 2020, 05:13 PM(IST)
Pakistan to announce its first-ever National security policy today Photograph:( Reuters )
Early this month, the FATF`s Asia Pacific Group (APG) on Money Laundering has kept Pakistan on "Enhanced Follow-up List" for its slow progress on the technical recommendations of the FATF to fight terror financing
Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the global watchdog against terror financing and money laundering is holding its plenary session from October 21. During the session, FATF will take a decision about putting Pakistan in blacklist. Pakistan is already in the grey list. Inclusion in black list will invite great economic sanctions on its already battered economy.
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) needs to take a hard and objective look at Pakistan`s attempts to leverage "nuisance value" to ensure that the country fully complies with terror financing and money laundering obligations before it can be de-listed, Global Watch Analysis reported.
Early this month, the FATF`s Asia Pacific Group (APG) on Money Laundering has kept Pakistan on "Enhanced Follow-up List" for its slow progress on the technical recommendations of the FATF to fight terror financing.
Pakistan`s progress has remained unchanged -- non-compliant on four counts.According to a report by Roland Jacquard, Chairman of Roland Jacquard Global Security Consulting (RJGSC), published in Global Watch Analysis, the APG`s latest report of September 2020, based on the evaluation conducted after a year, Pakistan`s report card remained more or less unchanged with the country being able to move one of its partially compliant parameters to fully compliant.
"The APG has a stringent set of monitoring processes while evaluating a country`s compliance with AML/CFT measures. It has a scale of 40 parameters based on which it prepares its evaluation report on any country. These parameters range from the presence of effective laws and supervision to prevent terror financing or money laundering to identifying non-profit organisations that act as fronts for terror groups," he said.
"In Pakistan`s case, the APG, in its Mutual Evaluation Report in October 2019 had found the country compliant on 1, non-compliant on 4, partially compliant on 26 and largely compliant on 9 of these 40 parameters. In the APG`s latest report of September 2020, based on the evaluation conducted after a year, Pakistan`s report card remained more or less unchanged with the country being able to move 1 of its partially compliant parameters to fully compliant," he added.
Jacquard said that the APG is a non-political body and its opinion is not binding on the final decision of the FATF, adding that the FATF`s Joint Group Progress Report of October 2020 has taken a more "lenient stance" on Pakistan.Pakistan is in the FATF`s grey list since June 2018 and the government was given a final warning in February to complete the remaining action points by June 2020.
Another review meeting will be held later this month.The FATF extended the June deadline to September due to the spread of coronavirus that disrupted the FATF plenary meetings.The country is facing the difficult task of clearing its name from the FATF grey list.
As things stand, Islamabad is finding it difficult to shield terror perpetrators and implement the FATF action plan at the same time.In recent weeks, Pakistan has been trying to paint a picture that it has started the reforms, including the passing of some Bills in order to prevent blacklisting by the FATF.
In late July, Pakistan Financial Monitoring Unit Director-general Lubna Farooq told the National Assembly Standing Committee on Finance that the country is yet to comply with 13 conditions out of the 27-point Action Plan of the FATF, including curbing terror financing, enforcement of the laws against the proscribed organisations and improving the legal systems.
Jacquard said the reason for the FATF leniency is Trump administration`s hurry to leave Afghanistan and therefore its dependence on Pakistan to convince the Taliban for an honourable exit.
"However, since the APG is a non-political body, its opinion is not binding on the final decision of the FATF. As a result, despite APG`s recent evaluation, the FATF`s Joint Group Progress Report of October 2020 has taken a more lenient stance on Pakistan," he writes.
"As per this group`s assessment, Pakistan has fully complied with 21 of the 27 action points and more or less complied with the remaining 6, thereby indicating that it was more or less on the path of being de-listed. The reasons for this tempered position on Pakistan can only be speculated. The most obvious reason is the Trump administration`s hurry to leave Afghanistan and therefore its dependence on Pakistan to convince the Taliban for an honourable exit," he adds.
Jacquard said that the important institutions like the FATF should not be allowed to be pressured into taking a decision based on political considerations.
"Whatever may be the case, important institutions like the FATF should not be allowed to be pressured into taking a decision based on political considerations, especially when the ground situation in Pakistan tells an alarming story," he noted.
A closer look at the Pakistan-based social media accounts conveys a different tale of UN proscribed Pakistani terrorist groups like the Jaish-e-Muhammad, Lashkar-e-Toiba, Jamaat-ud-Dawa, Harkat-ul-Mujahideen and their leaders being allowed freedom of movement and activity in the country, Jacquard highlighted.
While these groups openly collect fund in the name of jihad, the Pakistan government tries to convince the FATF that its recently passed Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Terrorism laws were evidence of its commitment to act against terror groups, he said.
"The FATF, therefore, needs to take a hard and objective look at Pakistan`s attempts to leverage its nuisance value, in the larger interest of preserving its credibility as a global financial watchdog and ensure that Islamabad fully complies with terror financing and money laundering obligations before it can be de-listed In this connection, one is reminded of the case of Iceland that was `greylisted` for lesser infractions and took more than a year to get delisted," he concludes.
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Remote Desktop Connection is an application in Microsoft Windows which allows any user to get a remote assistance from another windows user. However there are lot of trouble while using it specially with keyboard shortcut. You cant use the default keyboard short cut like ALT + TAB to navigate using Remote Desktop.
So what do you do ? , Most of us just use the mouse to navigate. I had the same problem and found a solution for that too. Now you can be a power user with the list of keyboard shortcut I am going to mention.
But before looking at them here are some facts about Remote Desktop Connection. Its based on Terminal Services and is a product of Microsoft. It follows the Remote Desktop Protocol i.e a multi-channel protocol that allows a user to connect to a computer running Microsoft Terminal Services. Clients exist for most versions of Windows (including handheld versions), and other operating systems such as Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X.
CTRL + ALT + END : Opens the Microsoft Widnows NT security dialog box.
ALT + PAGEUP : Switch between programs left to right.
ALT + PAGEDOWN : Switch between programs right to left.
ALT + INSERT : Cycle through programs in most recently used order.
ALT + HOME : Display Start Menu.
CTRL + ALT + BREAK : Switch the client computer between a window and full screen.
ALT + DELETE : Displays the windows menu.
CTRL + ALT + Minus Sign (-) : Place a snapshot of the active window in the client the terminal server, same as PRINT SCREEN on a local computer.
CTRL + ALT + Plus Sign (+) : Place a snapshot of the entire window in the client the terminal server, same as PRINT SCREEN on a local computer.
So have fun with those shortcuts and and there are more coming in this new category. !!!


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Q: how to build a paging gridview without a datasource i want to ask a question about how to do paging in ASP.net coding with C#.
the thing i try to do is that, i want to display some content, have multi column and multi rows.
in the actually coding, i have a list of object, let say Object A
class A {
   integer id;
   string name;
   string desc;
}

and want to display this onto the page with pagable functionality.
i do google search, ASP.net offer gridview and listview, but they all require a datasource, which mean that table directly bind to the database.
that is not what i want, coz my list of object A come from some where else, not from my database (e.g it is a composite set of data, which generate in runtime)
so it there anyway i still can use those benifit component, or i have to do it all on my own for the paging???
thx

A: My advice is to use a GridView, with which you can use an ObjectDataSource, which can take its underlying data from a class method that you specify. So the class method might be (following your code example):
public static List<A> GetAllAs()
{
    return myAs;
}

and your aspx page would contain
<asp:ObjectDataSource ID="MyODS" runat="server" TypeName="Namespace.Classname" SelectMethod="GetAllAs" />

<asp:GridView ID="grdMyGridView" runat="server" DataSourceID="MyODS" AllowPaging="True" ... >

The TypeName and SelectMethod attributes of the ObjectDataSource tell it which method, and where, to use to fill the ODS with data. The AllowPaging="True" gives you paging on the GridView automatically.

A: A DataSource property will also accept a List<> or BindingList<> .
To use this in code:
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    var data = new List<Sample>();
    data.Add (...);

    GridView1.DataSource = data;
    GridView1.DataBind();
}

And maybe some IsPostback logic etc.

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Q: Code refactoring - Swift I think my code regarding buttons is violating the DRY principle. Can you suggest a more efficient way to reduce the clutter?
@IBAction func competitiveButton(_ sender: Any) {
    if competitiveMatch.isEnabled == true {
        competitiveMatch.isEnabled = false
        friendlyMatch.isEnabled = true
        tournamentButton.isEnabled = true
        trainingButton.isEnabled = true
    } else {
        competitiveMatch.isEnabled = true
    }
}

@IBAction func friendlyButton(_ sender: Any) {
    if friendlyMatch.isEnabled == true {
        friendlyMatch.isEnabled = false
        tournamentButton.isEnabled = true
        competitiveMatch.isEnabled = true
        trainingButton.isEnabled = true
    } else {
        friendlyMatch.isEnabled = true
    }
}

@IBAction func tourneyButton(_ sender: Any) {
    if tournamentButton.isEnabled == true {
        tournamentButton.isEnabled = false
        friendlyMatch.isEnabled = true
        trainingButton.isEnabled = true
        competitiveMatch.isEnabled = true
    } else {
        tournamentButton.isEnabled = true
    }
}

@IBAction func trainingButton(_ sender: Any) {
    if trainingButton.isEnabled == true {
        trainingButton.isEnabled = false
        friendlyMatch.isEnabled = true
        tournamentButton.isEnabled = true
        competitiveMatch.isEnabled = true
    } else {
        trainingButton.isEnabled = true
    }
}

The code follows a set pattern for all four buttons. I am not able to factor a shorter method to do the same. Please help. Complete beginner here.

A: You can use a single IBAction instead of 4 separate methods. And make the sender type to UIButton from Any. Then you can do something like
@IBAction func toggleEnableDisable(_ sender: UIButton) {
    let currentValue = sender.isEnabled
    let buttonArray = [trainingButton, friendlyMatch, tournamentButton, competitiveMatch]
    buttonArray.forEach { $0.isEnabled = false }
    sender.isEnabled = !currentValue
}


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TE Connectivity, eine frühere Sparte der Tyco International Ltd., die unter dem Namen Tyco Electronics bekannt war, ist ein international tätiger Schweizer Konzern mit US-amerikanischen Wurzeln und Sitz in Schaffhausen sowie bedeutenden Verwaltungszentren in Berwyn im Bundesstaat Pennsylvania.

Kernaktivitäten der Unternehmensgruppe bilden die Bereiche elektronische Steckverbinder, Netzwerktechnik, Unterwasser-Telekommunikationssysteme und Wireless-Systeme. Der Konzern entwickelt, fertigt und vermarktet Produkte für Kunden im Automobilsektor sowie im Bereich Luft- und Raumfahrt, Verteidigungssysteme, Telekommunikation, Computer und Unterhaltungselektronik.

Das Unternehmen beschäftigt rund 83.000 Mitarbeiter und erzielte 2014 einen Umsatz von 13,912 Milliarden US-Dollar. Die Aktien der TE Connectivity Ltd. sind an der New York Stock Exchange kotiert und im Aktienindex S&P 500 vertreten.

Struktur
Am 29. Juni 2008 wurde Tyco Electronics, zusammen mit Covidien, ein selbständiges, unabhängig vom Mutterkonzern an den Börsen gehandeltes Unternehmen. Als unabhängiges Unternehmen besteht Tyco Electronics aus drei Sparten (Umsatz 2020):
 Transportation Solutions (6,845 Mrd. $)
 Industrial Solutions (3,713 Mrd. $)
 Communication Solutions (1,614 Mrd. $)

Das Unternehmen beschäftigt Personal in 50 Ländern. Hauptabsatzregionen (Stand 2008) sind: EMEA (37 %), Amerika (36 %), Asien-Pazifik (27 %)

Geschichte
Im April 1999 erwarb Tyco Electronics die Firma AMP Incorporated. Zur selben Zeit wurde Jürgen W. Gromer Vorsitzender von Tyco Electronics, nachdem er seit 1998 Senior Vice President im Bereich des weltweiten Verkaufs- und Kundendienstes bei AMP war. Gromer blieb bis Ende des Jahres 2007 Präsident der Elektroniksparte bei Tyco International. Von 2006 bis 2017 war Tom Lynch CEO von Tyco Electronics. Seit 2017 ist Terrence R. Curtin CEO von TE Connectivity.

Am 18. Dezember 2001 wurde die Fusion von Tyco International mit TyCom Ltd. abgeschlossen, die somit unter der Kontrolle von Tyco Electronics zur Sparte Submarine Telecommunications wurde.

Als Folge eines Geschäftsrückgangs schrieb die Elektroniksparte im ersten Quartal 2002 einen Verlust von über 2 Mrd. $ im Zusammenhang mit Überkapazitäten im internationalen Glasfaserkabelmarkt, was sich auf das im Ausbau befindliche Unterseekabelnetzwerk Tyco Global Network (TGN) auswirkte. TGN wurde daraufhin im November 2004 verkauft. Im Geschäftsjahr 2002 erwirtschaftete Tyco Electronics trotzdem einen Gewinn von 11 Mrd. Dollar.

2003 verringerte sich der Gewinn in der Elektroniksparte leicht, blieb jedoch weiterhin über 10 Mrd. $. Im Jahr 2004 stieg der Gewinn auf ca. 12 Mrd. $ was ungefähr einem Drittel des Gesamtgewinns von Tyco International entsprach.

2006 übernahm Thomas J. Lynch den neu geschaffenen Posten des CEO der Tyco Electronics Sparte, welchen er auch 2007 nach Ausgliederung aus dem Mutterkonzern Tyco International weiter führt. Er war vor seinem Einstieg bei Tyco bis 2002 Executive Vice President und Vorsitzender der Consumer Mobilfunksparte bei Motorola.

Anfang 2009 beschloss der Konzern, seinen Sitz von den Bermuda-Inseln in die Schweiz zu verlegen. Die Sitzverlegung nach Schaffhausen wurde am 25. Juni 2009 vollzogen. Damit verbunden war auch die Umwandlung der Tyco Electronics Ltd. in eine Aktiengesellschaft nach Schweizer Recht. Die Firma TE Connectivity ist jedoch weltweit mit verschiedenen Tochtergesellschaften vertreten und der Sitz in Schaffhausen bezieht sich lediglich auf buchhalterische Aufgaben. Im ersten Quartal 2009 wurde die Sparte Wireless Systems für 675 Mio. $ an die Harris Corporation verkauft.

Im Juli 2010 informierten Tyco Electronics und ADC Telecommunications über die beabsichtigte Übernahme von ADC durch Tyco Electronics. Im April 2011 wurde Tyco Electronics schließlich in TE Connectivity umbenannt. Im Herbst 2013 informierte TE Connectivity seine Kunden über die zum Frühjahr 2014 beabsichtigte Verlagerung seiner Berliner Produktion (ehemals ADC Krone) nach Brünn.

Am 3. Juni 2019 legte der Elektrotechnikkonzern TE Connectivity ein Übernahmeangebot für die First Sensor AG vor, das einen Wert von rund 307 Millionen Euro besaß. Im September 2019 stand die Übernahme fest.

Im Sommer 2021 übernahm TE Connectivity ERNI Electronics.

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Einzelnachweise

Elektrotechnikhersteller
Ehemaliges Unternehmen (Pennsylvania)
Unternehmen (Schaffhausen)
Ehemaliges Unternehmen (Bermuda)
Gegründet 2007
Produzierendes Unternehmen (Pennsylvania)
Berwyn (Pennsylvania)
Unternehmen (Chester County, Pennsylvania)
Produzierendes Unternehmen (Schweiz)

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What is Miniatures Board Game and Its Popular Types?
Chris EvansPosted on 8 March 2021 |Games|Gaming| 0
Miniature board games are a reasonably vague subject, mainly since the absolute quantity of games with miniatures has burst through time. The debut of 3D printing also has attracted the fee of miniatures down tremendously. This has made them increasingly more prevalent in board games and tabletop games.
Miniature games have a long and rich historical past. They began out as battle simulations for military officials that became war-game. I'd like to suppose throughout the exercises; most people began to realize, "Hey, that is pretty enjoyable!". From that point, they slowly evolved to the huge collectible thing which we understand and love now. Allow me to break them into two categories: hobbyist miniature games and miniature board games.
Types of Miniatures Games
There are just two classes that come into mind when I consider miniatures games.
Miniature Board Games
Miniature Hobbyist Games
I believe board games differ from hobbyist games because the miniatures in board games have been all utilized to improve the gambling experience. A board game can use miniatures. However, it takes no extra installment aside from opening the box and establishing the game. A miniatures board game would be an entire gaming experience from the box. Most of the art and construction is complete.
You have to work out the guidelines and prepare the game. If you are trying to find a listing of sprawling arenas, miniature war gaming, and hobbyist miniature games, takes a look at this report. Now we're all on precisely the same page regarding just exactly what type of miniature board games would be all. Let us dip in and have a good look at several of the very greatest miniature games available in the industry today.
5 Popular Miniatures Games
Scythe has brought the board game world by storm. It is an Area-control engine-building game set in a different 1920s Europa. Players struggle for supremacy and property; however, while farmers descend at the backdrop, gigantic mechanic warfare machines stand guard to the edge of their land. Scythe is an interesting area-control game that unites several diverse genres and plays with amazing like a solo game. It has an aggressive warfare aspect right alongside its economy-building auto dealer. Players will also have to secure both those folks' hearts and heads or risk falling behind their opponents.
War of the Ring (2nd Edition)
War of the Ring is the most likely the best rendition of Tolkien's Workin board game shape. Battle of the Ring is an epic battle between the forces of Mordor and the Free Peoples of Middle Earth. After playing, it is but one of those very few games that have captured this Lord of the Rings' expansive range. It is a stressed battle of Good vs. Evil. The forces of the Free Peoples make an effort to shore up most of their defenses having a limited selection of troops; get you ready for the walls of orcs to wreck in their positions.
Meanwhile, the Sauron's infinite forces of Mordor parade upon the board in endless waves. Throughout most of this, the group's Fellowship is still in its pursuit, hammering a legend of its own. It's an amazing big-box game that's only one of the favorites to play with and works well with just two players. If you are even remotely a fan of board games, dreams, war games, or even god of the Rings, then I recommend you give it a go.
You are likely to find many games out of CMON with this particular listing, and there are reasons behind it. CMON knows the way to produce minis. (Duh, it stands for "Cool Mini or Not".) In Blood Rage, players control equal clans of all Vikings at the verge of Ragnarök. The entire planet will be destroyed, and everybody else wants to struggle in the last struggle to win their place at Valhalla.
The gods see that the last battle, bestowing gifts upon those that please them. Within this area-control game, players struggle for dominance, recruiting early creatures and pillaging earlier Ragnarök and the entire world's end. Blood Rage is supposed to function as a successor for the exceptionally popular Growing Sun, which features a very similar model and texture.
I am an enormous Star Wars fan, and Imperial Assault provides the Nostalgia, which I had initially rented Star Wars: A New Hope (that I was not old enough to observe that the initial in theatres). Imperial Assault is an
A-star Wars-themed dungeon crawler is a game with varying abilities and characters. One busy player will control the enemy forces, and everyone will need control of a scripted hero. Using only the center collection of Imperial Assault, then you are going to find an entire effort to play with some wonderful miniatures, including a DarthVader along with also an ATST. All of them look fantastic and pretty simple to paint, even when you are a newcomer.
Mechs vs. Minions
Mechs vs. Minion is a huge box of minis. The game has been designed by the game firm that attracted you to League of Legends. They understand video games; nevertheless, they reveal their gambling by building an extremely cool board game. The most significant mechanic employed in Mechs vs. Minions is just a programming automobile auto dealer. It's a combined game, so players need to come with each other to be sure their mechs come in the appropriate place to conquer the numerous, lots of minions from the box (also to perhaps not get in one another's manner).
There are numerous scenarios to play with varying objectives, and the four enthusiast mechs appear repainted at a quirky-fun art style. The remaining portion of the minion minis from the box is not painted. Still, whenever you determine just exactly how many arrive from the box, you will know the reason why.
Miniatures games are particularly the hobbyist areas of these games. I started playing War hammer 40k once I was in the Navy. I experienced a couple of friends who bought me my first miniatures to find the other individual to play with, and it immediately headed down a rabbit hole. We'd sit around and paint miniatures together, beverage, barbecue, and turn the entire day into some gaming event.
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Biography – FEATHERSTONE, JOSEPH – Volume XIV (1911-1920) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography
FEATHERSTONE, JOSEPH, farmer, breeder, and politician; b. 22 July 1843 in Trafalgar Township, Upper Canada, son of Thomas Featherstone and Margaret Ford; m. first 26 Feb. 1867 Isabella Malloy (d. 1893) in Vaughan Township, Upper Canada, and they had three sons and three daughters; m. secondly 20 Aug. 1902 Mary Thurston in Guelph, Ont., and they had one daughter who survived him; d. 17 July 1913 near Streetsville (Mississauga), Ont.
Joseph Featherstone was educated in the common schools of Halton County. In 1867, with money earned from assisting his neighbours in clearing land, he purchased a farm near the small village of Springfield on the Credit River. He chose this area because of its excellent access to transportation facilities, including Dundas Street, Port Credit harbour, and the Great Western Railway. Transportation was important to Featherstone because of his plans to export cattle. While clearing his land, he engaged in commercial butchering; according to the census of 1871 he had slaughtered or exported in the past year 4 cattle, 12 sheep, and 8 hogs of his own. For almost 30 years he specialized, evidently with two brothers, in shipping animals to Britain, but later he switched his emphasis to the domestic cattle market. Featherstone's Pine Grove Farm raised Shorthorns, and he became a noted cattle dealer.
Featherstone's agricultural fame, however, rests not on his cattle business but on his interest in pigs, for during that time he was also Canada's foremost breeder of pigs. Often fed only on scraps and considered to be of marginal importance, hogs were the least improved branch of Canadian livestock. The typical Canadian hog, described in the 1830s as a "small greyhound with the great head of a rhinoceros," was of limited use aside from domestic consumption. Canadian meat packers had a ready market for two types of animals: large pork or lard hogs such as Poland Chinas and Chester Whites for the North American mess-pork market, and lean bacon-type hogs such as Improved Yorkshires and Tamworths for the British market. Featherstone introduced Essex hogs into Ontario, had the oldest established registered herd of Improved Yorkshire hogs in Canada, and, at one point or another, raised every major breed, including Berkshires, Suffolks, Tamworths, and Chester Whites. The hogs of J. Featherstone and Son won prizes year after year all over North America and were particularly successful at the world's fairs in New Orleans (1884–85) and Chicago (1893). Featherstone served as a provincial judge for numerous types of pigs, and was the first president of the Dominion Swine Breeders' Association in 1890–91. He was president as well of the Dominion Livestock Association in 1887, and first vice-president of the Dominion Livestock Insurance Company in 1887–88. Featherstone's introduction of breeding stock and the success of his herds, combined with his work in promoting and organizing the industry, served to improve the overall quality of Canadian swine. The accomplishments of his farm would continue under the leadership of his son John K.
Politics was Joseph Featherstone's other major interest. At the local level he served from 1881 to 1889, first as a councillor, later as deputy reeve, and finally as reeve of Toronto Township. He entered the federal arena in the election of 1891 as the Liberal candidate for Peel. Featherstone won by a slim majority, but the election was declared void; at the subsequent by-election, in February 1892, he was returned. In 1896 he was re-elected by the largest margin in the history of the riding, and commentators credited his success to the fact that he had "the confidence of his fellow farmers to a remarkable degree." In the general election of 1900, however, he was defeated.
Featherstone lived on his farm until his death. Within his community, he served as an elder in the Streetsville Presbyterian Church. In his latter years he was afflicted with Bright's disease. He died at home a few days before his 70th birthday.
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High-Speed Wireless Modem Uses Dual Spread Spectrum Technology
Source: Wi-LAN Inc.
Wi-LAN Inc. has announced the availability of the Hopper FD, a new wireless modem capable of sending data transmissions via direct sequence...
Wi-LAN Inc. has announced the availability of the Hopper FD, a new wireless modem capable of sending data transmissions via direct sequence or frequency hopping spread spectrum technologies. The new modem will enhance SCADA systems by increasing the throughput reliability of data collected and distributed remotely.
The Hopper FD modem operates in the 902-928 MHz industrial, scientific, medical (ISM) band and is capable of delivering baud rates up to 19,200 bits-per-second full duplex or 38,400 half duplex in direct sequence mode. Any communications software package supports the FD modem. It features point-to-point, point-to-multi-point and multi-point transmission and delivers signals over clear line-of-sight distances exceeding six miles. The system, recently certified for use by the FCC, is said to be the first wireless modem to offer dual transmission technology capabilities.
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At Puffins, we aim to make life as easy as possible for parents, as we appreciate that getting a household organised in the morning can be a mammouth task! That's why we provide everything your child needs throughout the day, including meals and snacks, Pampers nappies, milk and formula milk.
When you begin visits, our staff will spend time asking you about your child's routine, including what dietary requirements they have, and we will provide the same formula milk that you use at home, as well as bottles and teats which are all maintained using our sterilising equipment provided in each of our Milk Prep kitchens.
If, however, you are breast feeding, we can provide facilities to store your milk safely to give via bottles, or areas for privacy should you want to return to nursery to breast feed during the day.
All you need to bring with your child is spare clothes, named, and outdoor protection such as a coat and hat. During the summer months we also ask parents to provide suncream so that we can continue to take the children outside.
All of our settings, including our Holiday Club, go on regular trips and outings to local parks, Paignton Zoo, the museum and other local interest areas. These outings are also fully covered in our fees.
At Puffins, we do not offer extra charge curricular activites, as these are all part of our everyday practice, and staff provide children with a variety of experiences including structured music and movement sessions, baby sign, baby massage, Leap into Life (physical movement programme) and Letters and Sounds (pre-literacy skills programme).


Day 19/100. This is my brain after driving through Central Pennsylvania at night in the rain.
Day 18/100. If some of the pieces I saw at MOMA qualified as "art" then so does this, done in a monotone Mondrian style. So there.
Day 17/100. Wicked (for July 7, 2015).
Day 17/100 (for July 7, 2015). Saw "Wicked," my first Broadway musical. Ever.
Day 15/100. Touring historical Ridgefield, CT. This house does not exist, nor has it ever, nor will it ever. But the sketch is oldish looking.


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Robert Sweet
Robert M. Sweet, age 71, passed away peacefully on Monday, December 9, 2019 at Stein Hospice in Sandusky. He was born in Cleveland on February 13, 1948 and was truly grateful to have been adopted by Joseph and Evelyn (Sillman) Sweet.
On October 10th,1970, Bob married his special girl, Joan (Bertsch) Sweet. They met at a home football game at the old Harmon Field and were married 49 wonderful years.
Bob first attended Lyme school and then Bellevue City Schools graduating in 1966. Bob became a brick & stone mason and worked for A.C. Scagnetti & Sons as the Office Manager. He then became a heavy equipment operator for the Portland Road quarry where he retired after 20 years in 2010.
Camping was a great enjoyment for Bob for many years and treasured the many friends and memories made. His favorite hobby of shooting sporting clays brought much joy and smiles to many. He wouldn't miss one of his girls' softball games (daughters or granddaughters!) and was so dedicated, with the help of the team, built the Bellevue Lady Red softball dugouts which are still in use today. He enjoyed watching Westerns and was inspired by John Wayne. Bob was a true Ohio State fan and really enjoyed watching Buckeye football. Traveling with his wife to N.C. and Florida while still able was a truly treasured time for Bob. But above all else, Bob's greatest joy was spending time with family, friends and most importantly his grandchildren.
Survivors include his wife, Daughters Jill (Jeff) Garton and Maggie (Nate) Rickel, Grandchildren Jake Garton and Malaina, Macy, Liam, Monica Rickel, Sister Joelyn (Dave) Moore, In-Laws Linda (Jim) Barber, John (Deb) Bertsch, Gene (Blythe) Bertsch, Aunt Helen Cominsky, Uncle William Cronin and many nieces, nephews and cousins.
Bob was preceded in death by his parents, his parents-in-law Walter & Leona Bertsch, brother-in-law Jim Bertsch, Uncles Robert Cominsky, Jack Sweet and Aunt Gretchen Cronin.
Friends and family will be received on Sunday, December 15, 2019 from 2-7 p.m. at Foos & Foos Funeral Service, 151 Yorkshire Place, Bellevue, OH 44811. A funeral service officiated by Father Jonathon Wight will begin on Monday at 11 a.m. at the funeral home.
Many thanks to all who contributed to his care and comfort. In lieu of flowers or gifts, donations may be made to Stein Hospice; 1200 Sycamore Line, Sandusky, OH 44870.
Memories and condolences may be shared at www.foosfuneral.com
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151 Yorkshire Place
Bellevue, OH - Ohio 44811
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1200 Sycamore Line, Sandusky OH 44870