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It is only in the last year or so that I am discovering the different types of 'sports' parent that are out there. I think the first time I began to observe parent behavior towards their budding young athlete was actually at a Track & Field meet last year. My elder son was in grade 3 at the time & had never done any track & field prior to entering that grade. As you can imagine it was competitive but in a fun way for that age group. In fact, my son came 5th in shot put that year, which was fantastic, & we expressed how proud we were, thinking it were the luck on the day… then he came 2nd at the same meet this year!
The 'OTT serious I am living my own dreams through my child parent' – They eat, sleep & breathe their child's sport. Can irritatingly fuss over their child before they compete. Talks to them as if they are in the Olympics & appears more nervous & uptight than the child themself. Discusses equipment & training with other parents like they are stupid, & ensures the child NEVER misses a training session – even if they on a ventilator in the ICU!
The 'Interested, supportive & encouraging parent' – Allows the child some space & promotes independence. No mollycoddling here, the parent will be there but the child must learn to take charge of their training with the parent watching from a safe distance, & always ready to step in when help or guidance is needed. Usually very friendly, chatty people who will enjoy & make the most of the adult social side to the sport.
The 'I like to be seen to be supporting my child' – Will always be there appearing to supporting their child but really they spend the entire time their phone or tablet, or talking to the supportive chatty parents nearby. They can usually hold a conversation about the sport but are rarely able to be more specific about their child as an individual. They often have trouble identifying which one is theirs.
The 'passive' parent – drops their child off at training or event, leaves, returns when training or event is over.
I would like to think that I am number 2. I have definitely not ever & never will be number 1. I have possibly been guilty of number 3 once, maybe twice, & I hope I am never number 4 (my parents were number 4 so I know how that feels). Tonight at swim club there were 3 number 3's in front of me on the bleachers. I have them to thank for tonight's post. At first it was amusing to watch/listen to, but after a while I found it quite sad that they couldn't identify their children in the water, or, knew that they have 30 minutes of stretching after their swim session. They all appeared to have been on the club scene for a lot longer than me, & that wouldn't be difficult as this is our first season, so they really had no excuse.
Despite sitting & writing quotes in my little quote book I was glancing up frequently so observe my boys progress & behavior. I knew that younger child had gone to the washroom & not returned for 10 minutes. Slightly worried I almost sent big brother in to see if he was ok, then I saw his head pop around the door when he thought his group was finished. When he realized they had 2 more lengths to do he retreated back into the changing room. The monkey later admitted he didn't want to did the exercise his group were doing so he hid till it was over – which is what I suspected. This, among other observations I made throughout the session were discussed with both boys on the way home. They now know just how much 'watching' mum does even though she appears not to be looking.
Of course I am being very tongue in cheek about all of this, but have a look around, I bet you too find some of these parents at your child's sporting practices & events.
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Q: Observable isnt triggering I have two components that should be connected via Observable().
In the first i am declaring
@Injectable()
export class One{
    private changeConfirmed = new Subject<boolean>();

    changeConfirmed$ = this.changeConfirmed.asObservable();
    public init$: EventEmitter<boolean>;

    registerChangeConfirmed(category:boolean){
        alert('sending')
        this.changeConfirmed.next(category);
    }

    onMsg(){
        this.registerChangeConfirmed(true);
    }
}

onMsg is event bound to template
and in the second one
Import { One } from './pat/to/it'
@Component({
    providers:[One]
})

export class two{
    constructor( private childClass : One ){
        this.childClass.changeConfirmed$.subscribe( x => {alert(x)})
    }
}

However the event does not get emitted.
But when i emit event in class two instead of class one = i include
this.childClass.registerChangeConfirmed(true)

in class two the event gets triggered. Why isn't it working when i invoke it from class one?

A: Don't provide the service One on the component. This way each component instance will get its own One instance. If you provide it at a common parent (AppComponent) then they will get a shared instance.
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What brands need to know about the latest Instagram influencer ad rules breaches
By Danielle Amor on March 19, 2021
Yesterday's ASA (Advertising Standards Authority) report on influencers highlights that over a three-week period, 65% of the Instagram stories monitored (over 15,000 stories) were not clearly labelled and identified as advertising content (as required by the CAP Code).
This ASA report has put influencers promoting products on social media back under the spotlight as so many have failed to meet the compliance standards required. The headlines focus on the fact influencers may be named and shamed if they don't comply, but what does this mean for the brands and retailers that build campaigns around these partnerships?
The code requires that any paid for advertising is clearly labelled with #ad or similar and social media companies have introduced tools to allow brands to advertise more transparently on their platforms, such as through the "Paid partnership" tag on Instagram. For a while, it did seem that celebrities and influencers were using the ad hashtag, after a few high-profile mistakes, but this has clearly fallen off the radar in recent times, at the same time as massive growth in this form of advertising.
The main issue is the huge disconnect between the ASA focus on protecting consumers from subliminal advertising and the influencer's priority of maintaining an "authentic" image that is not tainted by sponsorship. The appeal of these social media pages is that they give followers an insight into the "real" life of the influencer or celebrity, which is aspirational and which many followers will want to emulate. If the followers realise that the content is only being promoted due to the financial relationship with the advertised brand, the content will naturally lose some of its appeal. In turn, this can lead to the influencer losing followers and this diminishes their appeal for other brands. It's a bit of a vicious circle.
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In the early days, big brands worked very closely with any talent representing their brand to ensure that the content they pushed out set the right tone and was compliant. Brands have moved away from this with influencers, most likely due to the push by influencers to maintain control of their channels and their image. In turn, brands have likely left responsibility for compliance with the influencer, which is not always the best move. Brands should consider doing their own due diligence on an influencer's track record for compliance as part of their partnership campaign planning.
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IWA Scholarship donors and recipients honored at Recognition Luncheon
by Raul Altamirano, Incarnate Word Academy
The Incarnate Word Academy Foundation hosted its fourteenth annual Donor Appreciation Luncheon for the Scholarship Recognition Society on April 27 to celebrate donors who have helped provide Catholic education to IWA students.
The special event provided scholarship recipients the opportunity to meet and interact with the contributors who have made their education possible through the scholarships they support.
Some 200 student recipients, generous contributors, as well as Incarnate Word and Blessed Sacrament (IWBS) Sisters attended the event. Also in attendance was recently retired John G. and Marie Stella Kenedy Memorial Foundation President and CEO Marc Cisneros and current CITGO Government and Public Affairs Manager, Larry Elizondo.
For the 2016-2017 school year 37% of all Incarnate Word Academy students received a scholarship and/or a tuition award. These scholarships help the school recruit and retain a talented and diverse student body.
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Gas station muffler man head in Atlanta, Illinois
Published on: November 8, 2021 | Last Updated on: April 10, 2022 by Valerie Bromann
This muffler man is a head above the rest. Or, at least, is a head. Find this gas station muffler man head in Atlanta, Illinois on Route 66.
Atlanta, Illinois has always been a popular stop for roadside attraction lovers traveling Route 66. With popular stops like the Paul Bunyon muffler man holding a hot dog, The Palms Grill Cafe, and the smiley face water tower, it is a highlight of anyone's itinerary.
A new display in town celebrates their famed attractions and has become an attraction in itself. Tucked inside a Shell truck station in a hallway that offers rest rooms and an entrance to the Dairy Queen Grill & Chill, is a mural that depicts the Palms Grill, the smiley water tower, a Route 66 shield emblem, and the phrase, "Welcoming the World with a Smile!"
A bright red display case in front of the artwork brings the mural to life with an authentic, full-sized, muffler man head.
Muffler men roadside attractions are fiberglass giants who stand anywhere from 14 to 25 feet tall. Each has a similar design and was built between 1963 and 1972 by International Fiberglass in Venice, California. With signature stances, these big men stood outside of muffler shops and other businesses to call attention from the road.
The fiberglass head originally belonged to a full bodied roadside attraction in Southern California, eventually made its way to an artist from San Diego in the 1980s, found its way to burning man in the 2000s, and finally ended up with American Giants in 2018. In 2021 it traveled to Atlanta and has taken its place here.
Interested in finding all the Illinois Route 66 muffler men? Also look for the Gemini Giant, Carl's Ice Cream Muffler Man, Muffler Man Holding a Hot Dog, the Lauterbach Giant, and the Harley Davidson Muffler Man.
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Address: Shell Gas Station and Dairy Queen Grill & Chill, 102 Empire St, Atlanta, IL 61723
Cost: Free to See
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WestJet Encore Purchases Five New Bombardier Q400 NextGen Aircraft
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Conversion of five options will increase Canadian carrier's fleet to 25 Q400 NextGen aircraft as it looks to expand service to eastern Canada
2014 FIDAE Air Show – Bombardier Aerospace announced today that Calgary-based WestJet Encore Ltd. has signed a firm purchase agreement for five Q400 NextGen airliners. This transaction is a conversion of five of the 25 options booked by the carrier's parent company WestJet and announced on August 1, 2012 along with WestJet's firm order for 20 Q400 NextGen airliners.
Based on the list price of the Q400 NextGen airliner, the transaction announced today is valued at approximately $167 million US.
"In just under one year, WestJet Encore has re-shaped the regional aircraft market in western Canada - opening new destinations and feeding traffic to WestJet's mainline network - all on the strength of WestJetters and the Q400 NextGen aircraft," said Gregg Saretsky, President and Chief Executive Officer, WestJet. "While the Q400 NextGen aircraft is well known for its efficiency on short-haul missions, we have also been able to leverage its jet-like speed to reach new destinations and connect cities further apart, and this will be instrumental as we look to expand Encore's service offering to our guests in eastern Canada."
"Since its inception, Encore has consistently delivered on the successful WestJet brand - including reliable, cost-efficient service - that our guests have come to expect, along with much needed connectivity in new and expanding communities," added Ferio Pugliese, Executive Vice President, WestJet and President, WestJet Encore. "The Q400 NextGen aircraft's superior economics, outstanding fuel economy and excellent passenger comfort have given Encore the flexibility to service a number of new routes and airports, and we are very proud of how the aircraft has been warmly embraced by WestJetters alongside WestJet's enhanced overall value in the market."
"WestJet Encore, which exemplifies today's growth-minded airlines looking for the perfect balance of operating economics, flexibility, passenger comfort and unsurpassed environmental credentials, is confirming that the Q400 NextGen airliner is the way to go," said Mike Arcamone, President, Bombardier Commercial Aircraft. "I am delighted that the addition of five new Q400 NextGen aircraft will serve to diversify Encore's route network further and will position it well as it seeks to enter new markets."
WestJet Encore has introduced service to Fort St. John, Nanaimo and Terrace, British Columbia; Brandon, Manitoba, and has added turboprop service to WestJet's existing western route network serving Winnipeg, Manitoba; as well as Saskatoon and Regina, Saskatchewan. Starting this spring, WestJet Encore will also service Fort McMurray, Alberta; Kelowna, British Columbia; Winnipeg, Manitoba; and - operating from a new hub at Lester B. Pearson International Airport - will provide service between Toronto and Thunder Bay in Ontario.
About Q400 NextGen aircraft
The Q400 NextGen aircraft, which is built at Bombardier's Toronto, Ontario facility, is the most recent development in the evolution of the Q400 aircraft, an all-new design that entered service in 2000 to address the needs of the evolving market. Optimized for short-haul operations, the Q400 aircraft is large, fast, quiet and fuel efficient. It provides an ideal balance of passenger comfort and operating economics with a reduced environmental footprint. In its extra capacity configuration, which provides seats for up to 86 passengers, the Q400 aircraft provides up to a 17 per cent seat-cost advantage for operators.
The Q400 airliner is the fastest new-technology turboprop, providing both jet speed and turboprop fuel efficiency. The aircraft therefore delivers the best flexibility and overall operating economics in its market segment, allowing airlines to successfully deploy it in a variety of markets ranging from typical short-haul turboprop markets to longer-haul jet replacement opportunities.
Including WestJet's order, Bombardier has recorded firm orders for a total of 491 Q400 and Q400 NextGen aircraft. Worldwide, Q400 and Q400 NextGen aircraft have transported more than 295 million passengers and have logged over 4.7 million flight hours and more than 5 million take-offs and landings. The Q400 and Q400 NextGen aircraft program includes over 50 customers and operators in over 30 countries on five continents.
About Bombardier
Bombardier is the world's only manufacturer of both planes and trains. Looking far ahead while delivering today, Bombardier is evolving mobility worldwide by answering the call for more efficient, sustainable and enjoyable transportation everywhere. Our vehicles, services and, most of all, our employees are what make us a global leader in transportation.
Bombardier is headquartered in Montréal, Canada. Our shares are traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange (BBD) and we are listed on the Dow Jones Sustainability World and North America Indexes. In the fiscal year ended December 31, 2013, we posted revenues of $18.2 billion. News and information are available at bombardier.com or follow us on Twitter @Bombardier.
Images of Q400 NextGen aircraft in WestJet's livery are posted with this press release at bombardier.com
Additional information on the Q400 NextGen aircraft is available at q400nextgen.com.
Follow @Bombardier_Aero on Twitter to receive the latest news and updates from Bombardier Aerospace.
Bombardier, NextGen, Q400 and The Evolution of Mobility are trademarks of Bombardier Inc. or its subsidiaries.
Marianella Delabarrera
Bombardier Commercial Aircraft
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The IBC Academy is something I've been passionate about for years. The academy is a seminary-like experience designed for lay-people. In the academy, you will dive deep and critically examine the Old Testament, New Testament, Hermeneutics, Church History, and so much more. Currently we are going through our New Testament course. Below you will find two links. One is for those who are a part of our current "in-person" class. The second is for those who aren't joining us in-person, but would like to take the course with us. Click the link below, and you'll find a link to take the online course with us.
I pray that you will reap a deeper understanding of the Bible, a deeper love for God, and an overall excellent experience as you go through the IBC Academy.
Please note, there was an error recording the session from Mar. 27th. We are working on an alternative and will share as soon as possible.


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Pasadena's coronavirus victims getting younger
A couple wearing masks due to the Coronavirus Pandemic walk past the City Hall in Pasadena on Saturday, May 2, 2020. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
PUBLISHED: July 20, 2020 at 3:26 p.m. | UPDATED: July 20, 2020 at 11:04 p.m.
A 30-year-old man has died from complications related to coronavirus, Pasadena public health officials reported over the weekend. He is the youngest person in the city to have died from the virus, which has now claimed 102 lives.
He was Black or African American, an analysis of city data indicates. Before he died, Pasadena's youngest death involved a 49-year-old. The most recent death was only the 15th not linked to the city's elder care businesses.
City spokeswoman Lisa Derderian said the young man had "several underlying health conditions that pre-disposed him to severe illness."
The news comes following a steady rise in Pasdena's case counts for weeks now, with an average of more than two dozen new cases reported each day last week — a significant jump from earlier in July and June.
Prior weeks saw an average of 13 new cases a day, rising up to 18 at worst. The increase is even more notable when compared to early June, when the virus had subsided significantly, and the city was reporting about a half-dozen cases a day on average.
That trend held over the weekend, as officials reported 84 new cases between Saturday, July 18 and Monday, July 20.
27 cases reported Saturday.
30 cases reported Sunday.
27 cases reported Monday.
Like last week, health officials say the recent spike is likely a result of July 4 celebrations between households.
The 84 new cases — all counted since this newsgroup last reported on the city's coronavirus situation on Friday, July 17 — matched recent trends noted by city and county health officials. The majority of these cases involved patients younger than 40 years old and Latinx residents.
Here's how they breakdown by age:
6 cases involved patients younger than 18.
45 cases involved patients between the ages of 18 and 40.
8 cases involved patients 65 and older.
And by race:
9 cases involved white patients.
38 cases involved Latinx patients.
1 case involved a Black or African American patient.
1 case involved an Asian or Pacific Islander patient.
2 cases involved a patient of another race.
At least 33 cases are still under investigation, adding to an investigatory backlog that now sits at 466 cases.
Only two of the new cases involved the city's elder care facilities, though it is unclear exactly which nursing homes or assisted living facilities may have been impacted.
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Accordingly, hospitalizations continue to rise at nearby Huntington Hospital, which has 71 patients in its coronavirus unit as of Monday. This is the most hospitalizations seen there since late April, when coronavirus patients jumped from 65 on April 21 to its peak of 79 hospitalizations on April 29.
While there have been some fluctuations, the hospital hasn't counted fewer than 50 coronavirus patients since June 23.
Still, Pasadena's current spike in cases, Pasadena Public Health Director Ying-Ying Goh said last week, isn't as severe as the spike seen by Los Angeles County as a whole.
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San Vito di Fagagna is een gemeente in de Italiaanse provincie Udine (regio Friuli-Venezia Giulia) en telt 1627 inwoners (31-12-2004). De oppervlakte bedraagt 8,5 km², de bevolkingsdichtheid is 202 inwoners per km².

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San Vito di Fagagna telt ongeveer 640 huishoudens. Het aantal inwoners steeg in de periode 1991-2001 met 2,0% volgens cijfers uit de tienjaarlijkse volkstellingen van ISTAT.

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San Vito di Fagagna grenst aan de volgende gemeenten: Coseano, Fagagna, Mereto di Tomba, Rive d'Arcano.

Gemeente in Udine


I have addressed the topic of cliches in photography, not to condemn them, but to suggest that certain "visual truisms" never really get old. Plus, recurring themes provide a blueprint for those starting out in any expressive discipline — you look at the work of people who came before you and try to do what they did. Of course, you hope to do it with some semblance of individual thought to avoid being labeled a clone, but the bottom line is that we're all piggybacking off someone else, even if in just the most basic of ways.
There's no fault to be found in emulating great work as you grow in your craft, but the ultimate objective is indeed to grow. If you are to ever attain any degree of self-actualization, you can't accept stagnation. Which means you can't continue to be satisfied with constantly cranking out cliched photos. You can't continue to watch what everyone else is doing, follow their lead, and then wonder why your work doesn't seem to stand out.
This is a scenario I see play out regularly around NYC tourist traps. One person steps up to snap a photo of this building or that statue or some other point of curiosity that may very well be deserving of having its photo taken. But in short order a thicket of humans holding cameras begins to grow out of control as everyone is vying to stand in the same spot for the same shot. There's nothing wrong with that shot. It will fit right in with the rest of anyone's "Summer Vacation" photo album and stir up fond memories of the experience.
But you're reading this because you want to step your game up, right? Here's the simplest way to start making stand-out photos: don't do what everyone else is doing. Don't stand in the same spot, don't focus on the same point, don't shoot from the same perspective, don't, don't, don't. I'm not suggesting you should never photograph sunsets or light trails or solitary trees or the Statue of Liberty; neither am I suggesting you abandon the fundamental skills and stylistic inspirations that inform your photography. What I'm saying is that the best shots are quite often the ones that everyone else overlooks, so those are the ones you want to pursue. Even if you decide to photograph the same subject that countless others have photographed, you owe it to yourself to find a different way to do it. I could waste a lot of time and get really meta about all this and blather on about how "different" will mean different things to different people…which is true…but the definition of different isn't the point.
However you choose to interpret and embody "different" — do that. Whatever other photographers are doing — don't do that (generally). It's really that simple. Granted, if you've already become ensnared by the tendency to follow the crowd or to copy the style of your favorite photographer there will be some bad habits you need to rid yourself of, which is never easy but it's worth the trouble.
More creative photography is not dependent upon having a camera stuffed to the brim with tech you will probably never use anyway, nor does it depend on where you live. If you're truly in pursuit of images that stand apart from all else that you see, you must literally stand apart from what all others are doing. Sometimes it's better to be where the action isn't.


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Debuting in 2014 and developed by Smoking Gun Interactive, Age of Empires: Castle Siege was the first castle builder game to bring Real Time Strategy (RTS) gameplay mechanics to the genre. Created in Caliber, Smoking Gun's' proprietary cross platform engine, Age of Empires: Castle Siege pushed the boundaries of what mobile strategy games can accomplish on a wide range of desktop and mobile devices. The innovative gameplay was well received which led to a strong community with Age of Empires: Castle Siege becoming a critical and commercial success.
Smoking Gun Interactive will continue to support the product and community for Age of Empires: Castle Siege through to its shut down period. The studio has another strategy title in the works and is working on securing its next new partnership and title that will be built with the latest incarnation of the Caliber engine used to create Age of Empires: Castle Siege and other titles.
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Hicks Wins NSA's Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Award
Michael Hicks, a professor of computer science, helped lead a team of researchers to victory in the National Security Agency's (NSA) 7th Annual Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Competition.
The research team's winning paper, "Evaluating Fuzz Testing," examines prior research on fuzz testing—a quality assurance technique used to discover coding errors and security loopholes in software—and evaluates whether that research produces trustworthy results. It was presented at ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS '18) in Toronto.
The research was supervised by Hicks and conducted by George Klees, a sophomore majoring in computer science; Benji Cooper, a computer science alum now working as a software engineer at Audible; Andrew Ruef, who received his doctorate in computer science in 2018 and is now a research scientist at the Institute for Defense Analyses' Center for Computing Sciences; and Shiyi Wei, an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Texas at Dallas and a former postdoctoral researcher at MC2.
According to the awards website, the paper was selected because it embodies the attributes of outstanding science and the criteria of the competition: rigorous research, generalizable results and clarity of presentation.
"This paper is a step forward in bringing scientific understanding to the security community," the awards site states. "It is grounded to current understanding by its methodological survey of evaluation practices, then advances the science through quantitative analysis and proposes conclusions that apply broadly in the fuzzing community. This paper is already having tremendous impact on fuzzing research, setting the standard for how evaluations should be done."
The purpose of the competition is to recognize security papers that "best reflect the conduct of good science" in the field of cybersecurity.
Hicks, in addition to his appointment in computer science, is part of the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies and the Maryland Cybersecurity Center.
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Arizona State Sen. Russell Pearce (R-Mesa), with a supporter. (Photo by Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)
Features » June 21, 2010
Ties That Bind: Arizona Politicians and the Private Prison Industry
A revolving cast of lobbyists and legislators blur the line between public service and corporate profits.
BY Beau Hodai
State lobby reports show that Brewer's current spokesman, Paul Senseman, previously worked as CCA's chief lobbyist in Arizona
This story is a sidebar to Corporate Con Game, In These Times' July 2010 cover story.
This story accompanies Corporate Con Game, In These Times' July 2010 cover story.
Over the past several years private-prison companies Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and the Geo Group, through their work as members of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and through their ties to the Arizona Legislature and the office of Gov. Jan Brewer, have had ample opportunity–and obvious intent–to ensure the passage of S.B. 1070.
According to Sen. Russell Pearce and Brewer's spokesman Paul Senseman, the S.B. 1070 went through a lengthy edit and review process that took place predominantly within the Arizona Legislature and the offices of the Maricopa County Attorney and Gov. Brewer.
A little over a week after Pearce introduced S.B. 1070 on the floor of the Arizona Senate, CCA enlisted Highground Consulting, one of the most influential lobbying firms in Phoenix, to represent its interests in the state. Lobby disclosure forms filed with the Arizona Secretary of State indicate that Maricopa County also employed Highground during the time of the bill's formation. Highground's owner and principal, Charles "Chuck" Coughlin, is a top advisor and the current campaign manager of Gov. Brewer.
State lobby reports show that Brewer's current spokesman, Senseman, previously worked as CCA's chief lobbyist in Arizona as an employee of Policy Development Group, another influential Phoenix consulting firm. His wife, Kathryn Senseman, is still employed by Policy Development Group and still lobbies the legislature on behalf of CCA.
In other words, in 2005 and 2006, as Arizona legislators–many of them ALEC members–were drafting provisions of what would eventually become the "Breathing While Brown" law, Brewer's director of communications, Senseman, was lobbying them on behalf of CCA.
Brewer's "chief policy advisor," Richard Bark–a man Senseman and Pearce both say was directly involved in the drafting of S.B. 1070–remains listed with the Office of the Secretary of State as an active lobbyist for the Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI). CCA is a "board level" member of the ACCI and is the top employer in Pinal County, located just south of Maricopa County, where it operates five detention facilities for both state prisoners and immigrant detainees.
Geo Group employs consulting firm Public Policy Partners, which, like Highground, also provides consultation and lobbying services to Maricopa County.
While Public Policy Partners (PPP), an Arizona-based firm, has more than 30 Arizona clients, it only has two clients at the federal level: Geo Group (based in Florida) and Ron Sachs Communications, a Florida-based public-relations firm that, promotes prison privatization. PPP, as a firm, also appears to be an advocate for expanded use of private prisons. Federal lobbying records show PPP owner, John Kaites, lobbying on behalf of the firm on issues of "private correctional detention management."
CCA has also shown special interest in Arizona through recent hiring decisions. In 2007, CCA hired on Brad Regens as "Vice President of State Partnership Relations" for the purpose of cultivating new contracts in Arizona and California. In the two years immediately prior to his employment at CCA, Regens had worked in the Arizona House as director of fiscal policy. Before his appointment as director of fiscal policy, Regens had spent nine years working in the state legislature in various roles, including assistant director of the Arizona Joint Legislative Budget Committee.
Following its hiring of Regens, CCA elected former U.S. Sen. Dennis DeConcini (D-Ariz.) to its board of directors.
Beau Hodai
Beau Hodai, a former In These Times Staff Writer, is the founder of DBA Press (dbapress.com), an online news publication and source materials archive.
During this week, at the end of August 2012, the state of Arizona has given a contract for 1,000 prison beds it clearly doesn't need to CCA. The outcome should hardly be a surprise, given the above investigative piece. Indeed in the two years just prior to the issuance of the state's RFP, CCA tried to get approval for constructing prisons in Dolan Springs, WIckenburg, Prescott Valley, Camp Verde and WInslow, Arizona. There was no need for any of them either, at the time. This gave rise to a reasonable basis for the supposition that CCA actually may have written its own RFP, a tactic aimed at eliminating any fair competition that might have been generated by the ultimate issuance of the call for new beds.
In this story, along with the accompanying article, "Corporate Con Game," author Hodai accurately predicted the outcome of this eventual assault on the state treasury. More importantly, his exposure helped defeat the original attempt to build a total of 5,000 unneeded for-profit beds at taxpayer expense. In my estimation, Hodai has saved the Arizona taxpayers from footing the bill for a good quarter-billion additional dollars worth of pork.
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How Much Does Business Process Automation Cost?
Ever wonder about business process automation (BPA) and its associated costs? You're certainly not alone. Think of BPA as your housekeeper, only instead of cleaning, it facilitates your business tasks that eat up everyone's collective time. With demands in rapid implementation and immediate return on investment, there isn't a better time to look for BPA than now. Your bottom line is of the essence–and will continue to drive business moving forward.
An obvious obstacle to BPA, of course, is cost. The final bill can vary greatly depending on what your organization needs. Automation consists of a huge bucket of tools and software, so being aware of what's available is a viable first step to getting your business process automation ducks in a row.The benefit, when all is said and done, is simplicity beyond compare.
So What IS Business Process Automation?
Take a moment to think about all the daily to-dos your employees accomplish – now how much of that is value and revenue-driven work? Chances are, there's room for improvement in every department. BPA eliminates manual processes that are prone to human error, especially for tasks in Accounts Payable, where one wrong tick can result in a costly mistake.
Business Process Automation, by definition, is a system of managing information, data, and processes to reduce costs, resources, and investment using computing technology.
Although automation has proven to be useful to organizations of all kinds, 63% of companies are still spending a quarter of the time on manual tasks.
While it's not always easy to tack an exact dollar value to BPA costs, every minute your employees are manually doing something, you're losing money! Why? Because you can streamline operations with consistent automated processes. These systems never call out sick, or put in their 2 weeks' notice. They're tools, fueled by software, that eliminate low-value work – all without jeopardizing your employees' current jobs.
It may sound bizarre, but reframe the way you think about software and automation for a moment. The end goal is to implement automation – quickly and easily, we might add – to add value to an organization's operations and bottom line. This doesn't threaten the stability of employee work; in fact, it opens the doors to improve customer satisfaction and allow your team to work on other, higher-level tasks that can't be accomplished by machines.
By having extra time to focus on your customers, you can deliver an unparalleled experience and keep them loyal and satisfied with your business. In today's competitive environment, that's a huge differentiator.
Much like most things in life, you get what you put into business process automation. By syncing your efforts with the proper ERP and document management system, you have the possibility to get BPA up and running within a few weeks.
If you're still hesitant, feel free to check out some of our case studies here.
The right automation solution takes time to discover, but it doesn't have to. Rest assured that business process automation has progressed greatly over the last few years, and it's almost guaranteed to generate ROI. Shave minutes and hours off of menial work for your employees, and bring your A game with BPA. We're rooting for you!
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Nicholas Baldo combines his experience as an independent businessman with his intensive training as a helping professional to bring challenging ideas, knowledge, motivational skills and support to varied clients in his life coaching practice. He has taught a local college course titled, Achieving Quality Relationships in addition to his private life coaching practice. Mr. Baldo has also received training as a mediator and is a past member of the Massachusetts Council On Family Mediation. Since 1989 he has helped individuals, couples and business owners & employees, from all walks of life and lifestyles improve their lives. Mr. Baldo utilizes an effective life coaching style, through the use of striking metaphors and analogies, to facilitate a client's understanding and personal awareness. Clients report that he has assisted them to become much more efficient at successfully tackling a wide variety of personal, relationship, and professional issues. Mr. Baldo also successfully combines his life coaching with a personal connection to all people, who partner with him on their journey toward greater happiness. Mr. Baldo received his life coach training from the Institute For Life Coach Training (ILCT), which is accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF). He is also a Board Certified Coach with the Center For Credentialling and Education, which is an independent national credentialling organization that establishes quality standards for many professions. He is a graduate of Syracuse University and has a 10 year Certificate Of Advanced Training in Humanistic Coaching. His hobbies include photography, computers, gourmet cooking and travel.
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Questa voce raccoglie le informazioni riguardanti l'Odense Boldklub nelle competizioni ufficiali della stagione 2013-2014.

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Lo sponsor tecnico per la stagione 2013-2014 fu Puma, mentre lo sponsor ufficiale fu Carlsberg. La divisa casalinga era composta da una maglietta a strisce bianche e blu, pantaloncini blu e calzettoni bianchi. Quella da trasferta era invece nera con una striscia orizzontale gialla, con pantaloncini e calzettoni neri. Infine, la terza divisa prevedeva una maglietta verde, pantaloncini neri e calzettoni verdi.

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Excellent. I wish this sort of wisdom had been drummed into me when I was in high school. It would have spared me a lot of grief.
One of the most difficult decisions in life is to truly turn a decision or outcome of an event to God's care. That is, to accept that you have done all that you can, and ask God to intercede.
I once read that worry is prayer without faith. I cannot disagree with that sentiment.


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Home Economy Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Launches Six Month Crackdown on China's...
Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Launches Six Month Crackdown on China's Internet Sector
The Chinese central government has launched a far-reaching six month crackdown on China's massive online economy, in the wake of aggressive action directed at leading tech companies Ant Group and DiDi Chuxing.
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) announced on 26 July that it had "decided to undertake a specialist rectification campaign targeting the Internet sector, on the foundation of previous specialist rectification of apps."
According to MIIT the six-month rectification campaign officially kicked off on 23 July after a teleconference was held with participating officials.
MIIT said that it would "further clear out hotspot and difficult problems of the Internet sector that have attracted a high level of social attention, exert broad influence, and have triggered a strong public response, with the goal of guiding the formation of an open, connected, secure and orderly market environment."
The campaign will focus on eight problems across four areas, including:
Disruptions to market order. Malicious blocking of URL links and disruption of the products and services of other enterprises, including restrictions on regular link access to other websites without appropriate reason, and the implementation of discriminatory blocking measures.
Infringement of user rights and interests. Software launching pop-up windows to defraud or mislead users, as well as mandatory provision of personalised services, including pop-ups that are redirect links, or the inclusion of fake closure buttons.
Threats to data security. Failure of enterprises to adopt necessary management and technological measures when collecting, transmitting, storing or externally providing data, including failure to encrypt sensitive information during data transmissions, and failure to elicit the consent of users when providing data to third parties.
Breaches of resource and qualification administrative provisions. "Black broadband" and failure to perform website registration procedures, including the transfer leasing or usage of illicit online link resources, and failure to promptly update registration information.
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The move comes just after Chinese authorities launched an investigation into leading ride-share platform DiDi Chuxing on 16 July, as well as ordered the removal of its apps from online sale at the beginning of the month.
The investigation and app removals came at an extremely inopportune period for DiDi, given that it listed on the New York Stock Exchange on 30 June, raising USD$4.4 billion based on a valuation of almost $70 billion.
The Chinese government has previously sought to bring other Internet giants in the country to heel, slapping e-commerce giant Alibaba with a massive $2.78 billion fine in April for anti-trust breaches, as well as scuppering the mammoth listing of its fintech affiliate Ant Group on the Hong Kong and Shanghai bourses just prior to launch in November last year.


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Future cities: moving from technical to human needs
Federico Caprotti ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-5280-10161
Palgrave Communications volume 4, Article number: 35 (2018) Cite this article
Science, technology and society
The article argues for a foregrounding of human needs at the heart of urban societal futures. While economic, technical and environmental imperatives are understandably the focus of policymaking and governance arrangements at national and supra-national scales, defining and targeting priorities in the 'ordinary' city is key. The argument is that it is now time to place basic human needs (as enshrined both in international agreements and in the more prosaic conditions of specific cities) at the centre of thinking and planning for future cities. The piece therefore proposes that plans for urban futures start from an elaboration of contextually sensitive as well as internationally negotiated needs rather than from macro-scale and potentially ephemeral visions of glittering technological future metropoles.
Introduction: dawn, Stellenbosch
'At the start of the day, water is an issue. Washing, going to the toilet: this requires a longish walk downhill (and then up again!) to the tap and public toilet area. The public toilets sit in not-so-splendid isolation in the middle of a small clearing, ringed by shacks: they are awful to be in when it's hot, and scary and dangerous to use when it's dark, in part due to the lack of lighting to, from and in the facility. Some simply use a bucket and then dump it into the rivulet flowing downhill near their shack: the kids playing ball have learned to skilfully avoid the liquid as they engage in endless penalty shoot-outs. As the day progresses, paraffin stoves are lit, starting the production of fumes that are the equivalent of smoking two packets of cigarettes per day for every resident in each shack with a similar stove. Some lights are visible, from candles or from those shacks that benefit from a solar panel'—Author's ethnographic notes from a visit to Enkanini informal settlement, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
The shape of the urban future
The shape of the urban future is of ever more interest today. Internationally, a raft of global agreements aims to contribute towards the shaping of future cities. The UN's New Urban Agenda, e.g., was elaborated in the run-up to the 2016 Habitat III conference in Quito, and included an explicitly urban Sustainable Development Goal for the first time in the UN's sustainable development framework (Barnett and Parnell, 2016; Caprotti et al., 2017). Similarly, the 2016 Paris Climate Agreement focused attention on a climate regime based on climate actions by sub-state actors (Hale, 2016), including cities and actors within urban areas (Gordon and Johnson, 2017). Regionally, there is also evidence of an interest in envisioning and steering the urban future, as seen through the European Union's 2016 Pact of Amsterdam, leading to the development of the EU Urban Agenda (Olejnik, 2017). Nationally, individual countries are also involved in mapping future urban development pathways, as seen in the inclusion of urban development goals in successive national economic plans in China over the past few decades (Mu et al., 2016). At the same time, cities are being seen as important actors in and of themselves in shaping specific urban pathways in a 'world of cities' (Karuri-Sebina et al., 2016, p 449); while concurrently, a large swathe of urban areas (mainly in the Global South) are theorised as 'shadow cities' (Neuwirth, 2016), existing outside the circuits of international policymaking and national, corporate-infused urban boosterism.
The contemporary focus on future cities can also be found in the circulation of oft-repeated tropes, for example around increasing rates of urbanisation and rural-urban migration. These include repeated and serial assertions of the rise of the so-called 'Urban Age' (Gleeson, 2012). More broadly, the focus on cities as key places where societal futures will play out is also reflected in the emergence of notions of the Anthropocene, conceived as an era in which human societies, and their aggregate behaviours, play a key part in shaping the world's ecosystems in new directions (Smith and Zeder, 2013).
The city is, therefore, clearly seen as a stage on which societal futures will play out. Urban areas are also a stage open to design and intervention: shaping cities for a desired (and often as-yet immaterial) future. At the time of writing, many (if not most) plans and visions for future cities are actually based on:
(a) Highly technical notions of the urban future: These visions are based on underlying notions of the future city as engineering or planning problem: future directions have to be conceptualised and shaped by technical knowledge and interventions. In this perspective, climate change, resource pressures, and socioeconomic and environmental inequalities are all the results of inefficiencies in the city-as-machine, or the city-as-organism. At the same time, it is not completely clear what the urban 'machine' actually is, or even—regardless of current interest in Big Data and urban science—how it works. From this perspective, then, the future city is a technical issue to be solved rather than an opportunity to delve into the 'black box' of urban (and wider societal) life (March and Ribera-Furnaz, 2016) and to ask pressing questions about what the future holds, and could hold.
(b) An urban economic lens: Much current research into future sustainable urbanism contains within it, explicitly or implicitly, the premise that the cities of the future should be based on 'business as usual' paradigms that combine technological progress with the enshrinement of continued economic growth (Gibbs et al., 2013) and the elevation of the notion of the urban citizen as homo economicus (Rossi, 2015). Again, while it is true that cities today and, in the future, will have key economic roles and characteristics, when the socio-environmental sphere is not given adequate consideration, then a purely economic perspective misses the mark by a mile.
(c) The urban efficiency imperative: Cities of the future are often envisaged, by corporate and scholarly elites and by governments, as frictionless places where flows (of capital, goods, and knowledge) can be enabled and accelerated. At the same time, the urban efficiency imperative is used to argue for more efficient and streamlined public services, including transport and e-governance. While this imperative has its utility, it also leads to a skewed notion of the urban sphere, where those who participate in the efficient acceleration of urban life qualify as worthwhile citizens (Vanolo, 2014), while those who do not (from the less able, to the poor, to the elderly, to those who live outside of the networks of digital urbanism and trade) are sidelined and rendered as targets of control and potential oppression.
These notions can, of course, be found in materials promoting other future urban development pathways: calls for resilient cities are just one example of this (Kaika, 2017). The current trend towards envisioning the smart city as a desirable direction for future urbanism is a case in point. Smart urbanism is vaguely defined at best: it has been loosely characterised as a set of approaches that seek to make the city more efficient and economically successful through the enmeshing of digital technologies and networks within the urban fabric, leveraging rapid data processing and the availability of Big Data to enable efficiency, control, and economic opportunity in real-time or near-to-real-time. Today's clarion calls for future smart cities are prevalent worldwide, from China's smart cities programme, to India's 100 smart cities initiative, to the panoply of European and North American smart urban projects. At the same time, what is common to these urban development strategies is their view of the city as a set of technical problems to be solved through the application of digital technologies; as an economic opportunity for governments and technology corporations, as well as for highly-educated and footloose 'talent'; and as a messy assemblage of social and technical life that can be rendered more efficient.
The envisioning of the future city through technical, economic, and efficiency-focused rationalities is a problem. At heart, the urban future is not primarily a technical problem, nor is it a purely economic one, although it has elements of both. To reduce the urban future to the technical or economic, to envision future urban spaces merely as enablers of greater efficiencies means reducing society to technique (Ellul, 1973). What seems to be overlooked is what Jacobs (1961) pointed to in her Death and Life of Great American Cities more than half a century ago: the human dimension. In her book, Jacobs pointedly highlighted the rift between the promise of high modernism in urban planning and architecture, and the resulting potential and real failures that resulted when the human dimensions of the city were not considered, accounted for, and valorised.
This short article is therefore a call to consider the human dimension, and especially the area of human needs, as the core basis and foundation on which urban futures could be usefully envisaged. The notion of human needs requires (a) a sufficiently granular definition that is both place-specific and can be related to broader agendas, and (b) contextualisation in place-specific geographical and other factors: what is a need in Johannesburg is not necessarily the same as in Urumqi, or in Calgary. What is important here is an elaboration of what is actually important in the city, on the ground, in specific places and spaces, moving away from grand stylised notions of what it means to live in cities in the 'Global South' or 'North' (Parnell and Robinson, 2012) and towards grounded notions of what is required to sustain a more equitable urban life in the 'ordinary' city (Maringanti, 2013). Nonetheless, while the definition of needs is at once basic and politically and culturally complex, it is a project that has begun (most notably with the UN and other agencies in the 20th century), and that requires sustained and continued efforts if it is to be adequately operationalised.
Needs, I argue, should be considered at multiple scales. The international scale, for example, is useful as it is the level at which significant resources, governance discourse and consciousness can be mobilised, through international agreements, treaties and diplomacy (Acuto and Rayner, 2016). The resources mobilised through action at this scale, in turn, can engender change and action at national and sub-national scales, including ordinary and everyday urban environments. At the same time, it is important to extend existing activity in local community engagement (as exemplified through the post-1992 Agenda 21) to those urban areas that are the most impoverished, that are potentially sidelined (whether intentionally or through other obstacles) from policy and other interventions, and where a human needs focus could deliver significant change. These urban areas are to be found not only in the Global South, but also in highly deprived parts of cities in middle- and high-income countries.
The latter point—of valuing specific, sub-national urban contexts—opens up the opportunity for giving serious consideration to a more rounded notion of what human needs are in specific urban contexts. It is striking that although there are repeated, frequent calls for bottom-up and participatory planning approaches, local community groups and the like are still woefully under-represented in planning processes and technical approaches to future urbanism. This is a political imperative, then: that of integrating a decentred approach to the urban into future city development priorities.
Is a consideration of human needs contradictory when juxtaposed with current imperatives focused on environmental aims? In brief, no. Since the 1970s, it has been increasingly clear that socio-economic inequalities are often produced as part and parcel of the same processes that produce socio-ecological inequalities (Swyngedouw and Heynen, 2003). While the latter may be diffuse to some extent, one of their key characteristics is that they are on the whole unevenly distributed and disproportionately affect the urban poor. Addressing current human needs through planning the city of the near future will, essentially, not require the sorts of environmental despoliation needed by current urban development models, focused as they are on growth and business-as-usual scenarios. This focus, however, require a serious commitment to and engagement with the specific notion of what a need is. In order to capture the essence of what needs are in specific contexts, a key requirement is engagement with urban citizens, not just scholars or practitioners, from a range of settings: from deprived communities in deindustrialised cities in Britain, to informal settlements in South Africa and elsewhere. These are the urban citizens who can be brought around the same table as practitioners, policymakers, and the like. This means including, but also looking beyond, the world of advocacies, NGOs, think tanks, and all others with specific and party-political agendas.
This short article opened with a vignette from a South African informal settlement on the outskirts of Stellenbosch. It closes with the urban future as envisioned in 1909 by Forster. In his The Machine Stops, Forster (1909) narrates what could be treated as a cautionary tale that rings true when considering cities simply as technical, economic and efficiency issues. The short story is set thousands of years into the future. In the story, future civilisation is homogenous, and humans have retreated to living in individual isolation in private pods within vast underground cities, connected via virtual networks. The surface of the Earth, meanwhile, is uninhabitable, as the air composition has been changed so as to make it unbreathable. The cities of the future represented by Forster are well-oiled machines that regulate their inhabitants' lives for their comfort and safety: and in so doing, reducing their humanity to the role of simple cogs in a machine. Euthanasia, banishment to the toxically polluted surface of the Earth, and ostracism are what await those who question the machine within which they live. What becomes clear, as the story progresses towards its inevitable Promethean end, is that the machine requires consent in order to function. Forster's clearly dystopian vision of the urban future, prescient in many ways, nonetheless highlights the key opportunity to move away from cities-as-technique, and towards a view of future cities as enablers of human futures.
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This work was supported by the Economic and Social Research Council [grant number ES/L015978/1 and ES/N014138/2)
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Federico Caprotti
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