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Provides recommendations to the Under Secretary for Science and Technology including identifying research areas of potential importance to the security of the nation.
Advises the Commandant of the Coast Guard on matters relating to the training, qualification, licensing, certification, and fitness standards for seamen serving in the U.S. merchant marine.
Advises the Commandant of the Coast Guard on matters related to the offshore mineral and energy industries, including activities directly involved with or in support of the exploration of offshore mineral and energy resources insofar as they relate to matters within Coast Guard jurisdiction.


I am feeling super motivated today! It's crazy I actually look forward to getting up EARLY and working out!
chest/triceps – liift 50/50: I can tell I'm getting stronger. I was able to go up in weights on my tricep kickbacks and chest flys. But by the end of the set 2, on all the moves, I was really feeling it.
I did really bad keeping track of nutrition today.
back/biceps – circuit: I upped all my weights today! It was hard but I still made it happen. I love weight lifting because I can see the physical results in my muscles as they build. And it's just as nice to see the growth on paper as I track my progress!
Recover days are hard on my nutrition. It's not that I eat the wrong things. It's that I struggle getting in all that I need because I don't stick to my schedule like on workout days.
I am working my nutrition HARD today. I am determined to get this figured out.
I know I ate my required containers today, but I didn't keep track of each meal like usual.
legs – liift 50/50: Leg day is a beast! But, I still like weighted leg day. It's the hiit that's not my fav. Though, it was all challenging today. My legs are J-E-L-L-O.
I'm taking some "me time" today and heading out for some retail therapy.
Being out of the house makes it hard to get in my scheduled meals. And quite honestly, I forget to eat when I get busy. I know this is something I need to put more focus on and get better at.
recovery day: I'm a bit sore today but I still want to move around so I opted for a nice walk on the beach with the fam this evening after dinner.
I really wanted to get in some yoga today or at least a good stretch. But honestly, I struggle BIG TIME with time management on the weekends. I let myself sleep in a little bit and I really shouldn't. I should get up like normal and get my workout in early. But I don't and I end up wrapped up in family activities the entire day.
Since it's the last kinda chill day before school starts on Tuesday, we are having a family treat day and watching a movie – Little Bear's choice – and having a "snack party". It's cheat day, so it should be fine.
Overall, I am still in the process of getting my nutrition under control. I did implement timed-nutrition all week – except for recovery days, those days are difficult to keep on schedule because of no set schedule.
I'm still not ecstatic with my results, thus far. Since the beginning, I have gained 0.6-pounds and 1.25-inches overall.
I'm not sure if it's my nutrition that is hindering me or the fact that I have let a majority of my recovery days end up as rest days. I am going to keep plugging along though. I am DETERMINED to be successful. Though, I do understand that muscle growth can affect both inches and weight. But it still gets frustrating none the less.
I still have lots of lessons left to learn in my health and fitness journey.
It's a journey. We peaks and valleys.
I'm using this whole experience to learn more about my own body and about ways to health others.
If you want to start your own journey, I would love to help guide you. Like I said, I'm not perfect and I'm still learning, but I KNOW the journey is better with company and we can learn together!
If you want to just jump in, visit here.


BOSTON (AP) A group of students have found that a Boston arena has not held up its end of a 1993 agreement that called for it to host three fundraisers a year for the agency that oversees the city's recreational facilities in exchange for state approval for a new facility.
Officials at TD Garden, a multipurpose arena where the city's NBA Celtics and NHL Bruins teams play, and the state Department of Conservation and Recreation officials acknowledged in separate letters to the students that no fundraisers have been held, The Boston Globe reported (http://bit.ly/2tbuUga ).
The teens had been seeking funding for a new hockey rink in their neighborhood when they began researching the old agreement. They looked up a state law enacted in 1993 that stated: ''The new Boston Garden Corporation...shall administer...no less than three charitable events per year'' and pay the proceeds to the Metropolitan District Commission.
TD Garden had been called the Boston Garden before it was renamed in 2005.
The students sought an accounting of funds the state had received from fundraisers held at TD Garden. The DCR's general counsel told them last month that ''the search did not reveal a responsive record,'' meaning no fundraisers had been held.
The students say the arena should settle on a one-time payout to make up for the past 24 years, as well as begin holding the fundraisers it agreed to.
Tricia McCorkle, an arena spokeswoman, said they are working on a resolution with the department.


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CIC and GroupM China released "2013 White Paper on Travellers - The Rise of Social Travel " today. This white paper collects and analyzes the information related to social media, maps out five types of travellers active on social media - business travellers, self-drive travellers, package tourists, luxury shopping travellers and backpackers, and has identified their unique attitudes to travel and different consumption behaviours, aiming to help brand marketers develop more effective and targeted marketing strategies.
2. 2© 2013 GroupM Knowledge | CIC Preface Tourism revenues in China are expected to reach 2.9 trillion yuan in 2013, with a growth of 120% in five years. The rise of Chinese social media becomes the most important booster which drives it into people's lives— Where to go? How to get there? What are you looking for? What do you want to experience and How you experience it? Travel has become the hottest topic on social media and stimulates modern people's desire for travel. To those brand managers, it's a golden opportunity when people are on a journey. Leaving behind familiar environment and escaping the normal pace of life, people set out a journey in a cheerful mood and with a bulge wallet. They search for all sorts of possibilities to broaden their life experience, which is a perfect opportunity for brand to communicate and build up relationship with them. We look into the business opportunity in travel through 29.6 million travel- related posts and over 10 thousand travel enthusiasts. From travelers' perspectives, thinking about their concerns, a brand can provide valuable service and unique product to them. Not only in travel category, almost all brands can use it to build their brand experience via such a great opportunity.
23. 23© 2013 GroupM Knowledge | CIC Online Feedback from Hanting Consumers Ibooked my hotels via Wechat, and finally I chose Hanting Inns & Hotels as our travel destination for its better services on Wechat than 7 Days Inn's and others'. Now, we are playing in Ge Garden in Yangzhou. Great! // 到达扬州,感谢打的拼车宝顺风兄弟的接待和赠书,我也回赠玩转微信。扬州果然是旅游城市,通过 微信各种订房都基本爆满,可以看出体验汉庭最好,7天最不理想。订酒店微信号也不错。汉庭服务最周到,最后也是订了汉 庭的房间。现在全家在个园游玩,环境很好。就是人实在太多! (Link) —— 管鹏 View: 25,454 Reply: 140 Source: CIC Travel Panel Data, June 2012 – May 2013 哈哈~十一都去拼房吧! // Let's book on Oct! 大家一起去拼哈~~~ // Yeah! Go, go, go! 这次去新昌就定这个宾馆了 // I'll book Hanting in Xinchang this time! (Link) Netizens' Replies Implication: Mobile is the only media which can be used throughout the consumption process. The real value of a good mobile strategy is supposed to optimize the consumption experience and transfer online fans to offline consumers.
24. 24© 2013 GroupM Knowledge | CIC Implications for Brand Marketing 1. The personality prototype of the business travelers is reflected as the Pragmatist, concerning the objective value of products and services. They valued the achievable experience, rather than promising ideas. As a result, brands should take practical communication strategy in a real way, especially avoid exaggerations. 2. As frequent travelers, the group usually gives their comments about hotels and airlines on review sites. They are used to reviewing key attributes which are set by online travel agencies. To improve the sentiment of online feedback, brands should pay more attention to the services related to these key attributes.
26. 26© 2013 GroupM Knowledge | CIC Geographical Distribution Top 5 Cities Base: 2,505 Self-driving Travelers Lifestyle and Profile Preview They are "Car Enthusiasts", have strong emotional bonds with their cars Normally, they would take part in some Car Club and Offline Gatherings frequently They are pursuing an outgoing & positive lifestyle and are more likely to love Sports and Photography Consumer Insight: • They are also likely to learn information related the car from automobile dealers Note: Identified by social active Self-driving travelers' tags Source: CIC Weibo tracking, random sampling of tag with Self-driving travel (API data access of followers profiles) Beijing 22.1% Shanghai 18.4% Guangzhou 17.5% Shenzhen 4.0% Chengdu 3.0% 1st-tier Cities 40.5% 2nd-tier Cities 25.8% 3rd-tier Cities 8.5% 1 : 16 : 2 Base: 945 Higher Education 42% Male vs. Female 3 : 1 Base: 2,505 vs. vs. Base: 235 90s 80s 70s "Who" are they?
30. 30© 2013 GroupM Knowledge | CIC The Key Motivations for Self-driving Travelers Source: CIC Travel Panel Data, June 2012 – May 2013 Making Friends e.g. #就爱自驾游# 很早以 前就梦想着,有朝一日去 自由的旅行,放飞梦想, 解放心灵 // I love self- driving travel, I love freedom (Link) Family Glee Freedom Enjoy the Journey e.g. 2012国庆一家三口内 蒙赤峰克旗四日自驾游 // Family travel to Inner Mongolia on National's Day (Link) e.g. 2013年3月22日-4月3 日荷比卢+德(or法) 自驾 征 2同游 // Recruiting two mates to travel to Netherland, Germany and France (Link) e.g. 自驾游就是好,看到 美丽的风景随时可以停下 来 // I can enjoy the journey on the self-driving travel (Link) Insight: The timing of overseas road trips is directly related to price discounts offered by airlines. Middle-aged people prefer sharing their experience of the self-driving trip.
40. 40© 2013 GroupM Knowledge | CIC Implications for Brand Marketing 1. The personality prototype of the package tourist is the Everyman, who enjoys the easy life and seeks a certain comfort travel. Meanwhile they are impressionable by the current hot topics on social media. As a result, brands should combine the brand attributes with the current trends in order to deepen the brand impression and broaden brand impact. 2. Since the group lacks travel experience , they valued the agency's reputation and would like to comment about its services. In the first quarter of 2013, Thailand and Hong Kong have the largest number of the overseas tourists among foreign countries & Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, which is consistent with the rank of online buzz volume.
46. 46© 2013 GroupM Knowledge | CIC The Key Motivations for Purchase Intention of Overseas Luxuries Source: CIC Travel Panel Data, June 2012 – May 2013 e.g. 到纽约购物,不懂英文没有问 题,第五大道几乎每一家奢侈品店 都有中文服务 // That's no problem that you don't speak English fluently because almost every luxury store provide China-style services on the 5th Ave. (Link) —— 小鸟与老鹰的美丽家园 e.g. 对比下来,刷银联卡是最划算 的,直接按当天汇率折算人民币消 费了 // Shopping with Union pay is the fastest and cheapest way to shop overseas. (Link) —— 懒猫先生 China-style services Tax Rebate Union Pay Exclusivity e.g. 因为退税太他妈的麻烦了!排 队比买球票还难! // The tax rebate process is too complicated. (Link) —— 朝阳木仁 e.g.这次金没怎么买,因为家里很 多,老公给我买了周大福的限量版 的维尼熊,大陆都没有的说!周生 生仅有版权的HELLO KITTY ,还有 一条金手链// My husband brought me a limited edition of Winnie-the- Pooh and Hello Kitty Gold chain in HK. (Link) —— 秋之舞521 Implication: For brands, the limited products, which only sold in domestic shops, could be introduced in order to improve the outflow of overseas shopping.
48. 48© 2013 GroupM Knowledge | CIC Case Study: Overseas Purchase Pro – Luxury Shopping Guide Source: CIC Travel Panel Data, June 2012 – May 2013 @慶兒妹兒: 今天去了十六街的捞面,竟然发现有小香和爱马仕@纽约时尚毛儿 @纽约 购物达人 @俄勒冈七姐 最后一个不记得价格啦紫色那个是退回来的,所以很便宜 (Link) @纽约购物达人: 哇,捞面这么潮了都 Efluencer's Interaction @小象的自由天空: 捞面越来越神奇了。。。不过捞面和tjmaxx, marshalls是一家,有人 在tjmaxx买过假lv, 这次捞面卖的爱马仕和小香不知如何 //@俄勒冈七姐:右边的这位, 出来旅游么就好好玩,表这样总是刷微博。 //@纽约购物达人:哇,捞面这么潮了都 Efluencer's Further Exposures @俄勒冈七姐: 右边的这位,出来旅游么就好好玩,表这样总是刷微博。 // @纽约购物 达人: 哇,捞面这么潮了都 @纽约时尚毛儿: 天啊!!天啊!!!Loehmanns 竟然有Hermes和Chanel?!!!! Other Efluencers Initiative Involvement Netizen's Original Tweet @NYCvanessa: 乖乖,那家捞面真有空去围观 Arouse the Neizen's Interest Organic and Effective Content Distribution Implication: The Weibo accounts of overseas purchase professionals had a direct impact on netizens' online shopping. For brands, hot content on social media could be considered when making communication and marketing strategies.
49. 49© 2013 GroupM Knowledge | CIC Implications for Brand Marketing 1. The personality prototype of luxury shopping travelers is connected to the Magician, Trend Setter and Connoisseur. They have keen observation, keep up with the latest trends and expect changes for a new look. They are eager to be objects of envy and fashion. To meet their demands, brands should be more distinctive and eye-catching. 2. The group would like to show off everything about fashion on social media. Leather goods and ready-to-wear are the most buzzed category. Hong Kong remained the most buzzed luxury shopping destination, while Bangkok, Singapore and Dubai became the new hot destinations on social media. In addition, they follow online overseas purchase professionals as sources of information and shopping guides.
56. 56© 2013 GroupM Knowledge | CIC The Key Motivations for Backpackers Source: CIC Travel Panel Data, June 2012 – May 2013 e.g. 其实我们都想做一个背包客,抛开烦 恼,寻找自由。 // Actually, we all shared one target, to put aside all the troubles and live life freely. (Link) —— 神经兮兮的瑛儿 e.g. 我决定! 3月考完试我要做背包客! 第1站 搭高铁去武汉看樱花,第2站 飞上海叙朋友 旧情,第3站回北京探亲常住一段时间,第4 站宁夏银川回出生地落叶寻根预计用时俩三 个月,目的在于通过游历认识世界,认识自 我,挑战极限,有驴友想加入麽? // I decided to be a backpacker after my school test, I wanted to travel abroad to explore the world and find out who I am. (Link) —— 没煮熟的麺 Seek for Freedom (Kind of Escape) Experience Local Culture Explore the World and Self e.g. 台湾自由行,绝对是个很好的人生体 验,有历史、有文化、有美食、还有纯朴的 民风,拜访蒋公、逛逛老街,淡水渔人码头 看夕照,将会留下美好的人生回忆。我的自 由行,和五月天没有关系,觉得简直是浪费 时间。 // Backing in Taiwan is a very good experience to learn about history, culture, food, and natural folk culture. (Link) —— 天蝎座老魏 Implication: Backpackers yearn to explore the world and themselves. Internally, they are long for freedom. The brand culture related to "explore" & "freedom" could resonated well with the group.
61. 61© 2013 GroupM Knowledge | CIC Summary 1. China's international and domestic travel Industry is expected to approach RMB 3 trillion by the end of 2013, offering great opportunities for both travel industry brands and other brands to build their brand experience. Our insights and findings from those travelers will apply to all providers of products and services in all industry. 2. Business travelers pursuit value and convenience. They are more pragmatic and pay more attention to the practicality of the products and services. An authentic product introduction and sincere and genuine service will be the perfect communication strategy for them. 3. Self-driving travelers seek freedom. While independent in their nature, they are often family-focused as well. The family experience will be a good touch point for brands to approach potential consumers. Auto brands can also capitalize on this segment by taking the self-driving traveler's characteristics into consideration. 4. Package tourists enjoy comfort. They live for today, are happy with the status quo and are easily influenced by current events and hot topics on social media. Brands could combine their own "characters" with current trends to leave the deep impression on their minds as their communication strategy. 5. Luxury shopping travelers seek a high-profile. They keep up with the latest fashion trends, yearn for metamorphosis and wish to be recognized and admired. Brands need to focus on the creativity and uniqueness of these consumers while differentiating their own brand image in this competitive space. 6. Backpackers aspire to understand the meaning of life. They prove themselves through gallantry and adventure, believe that the rules are made to be broken, and that the truth will set them free. Brands need to permeate the concept of self-realization and the pursuit of truth into their brand strategy.
64. 64© 2013 GroupM Knowledge | CIC About CIC CIC is China's pioneering social business intelligence company. CIC enables businesses to fully leverage the power of social media and Internet Word of Mouth (IWOM) intelligence across the organization. Since coining the term IWOM in 2004, CIC has pioneered the industry to help companies meet their social media marketing and social business needs by providing customized research, consulting services, syndicated reports, as well as technical solutions and platforms, all from an objective, third party perspective. In addition to helping companies leverage social media intelligence for more informed decisions, CIC is monetizing the social business industry in China by creating an integrated social business support system. CIC utilizes its own patent pending technology to capture millions of online conversations and 'makes sense of the buzz' by assembling them into easy to understand intelligence and provides interpretation which informs strategic decisions and leads to action. CIC gathers and mines over 100 million naturally occurring consumer comments every month from a range of uniquely Chinese social media platforms including blogs, BBS and social network sites and applies its unique, China-derived methodology and indexes to provide a detailed and comprehensive picture of the social media landscape and its implications for business. CIC has well over 3.8 billion mentions of brands and products from well over 1 billion consumer comments that have been indexed and archived. In early 2012, as China's pioneering social business intelligence company, CIC consented to acquisition by WPP's Kantar Media, the media research and insight division of Kantar, expanding their social offering across Asia Pacific markets. (Press release) CIC will continue to provide social business intelligence from an unbiased, third-party perspective, to the world's leading brands and agencies. Contact us: +86 21 6404 9191*8891 / marketing@cicdata.com Corp. Website: www.ciccorporate.com Disclaimer All the images used in this study are in the public domain. This study is the sole and exclusive property of CIC and GroupM Knowledge. Any usage of the research and contents of the report or slides will be deemed a violation of CIC and GroupM Knowledge's intellectual property. CIC and GroupM Knowledge reserve the right to legal action to protect its ownership rights.


EU Sport Forum: Sport leaders and Ministers step up fight against match-fixing Representatives of Europe's sport movement and Sport Ministers will pledge to step up their fight against match-fixing when they meet at the EU Sport Forum, organised by the European Commission in Nicosia, Cyprus, on 19-20 September. They are expected to endorse a 'Declaration on the fight against match-fixing'. The Forum, which coincides with an informal meeting of EU Sport Ministers, will also discuss issues such as the contribution of sport to the EU economy, future EU funding for grass-roots sport, and the promotion of physical activity and active ageing.
"Sport is an important part of life for millions of people in Europe. I am committed to promoting sport and physical activity for all ages. An active lifestyle is key to our health and well-being. Unfortunately, sport also faces many challenges today. Funding at EU level can help to address issues with cross-border repercussions such as match-fixing, sportrelated violence, intolerance and gender inequality," said Androulla Vassiliou, European Commissioner responsible for sport.
The European Commission has proposed a sport chapter as part of Erasmus for All, the new EU programme for education, training, youth and sport. The proposed budget for sport is €34 million a year on average between 2014 and 2020. Support will be given to transnational projects aimed at boosting the exchange of know-how and good practices, non-commercial European sport events of major importance and work to strengthen the evidence base for policy-making in sport. The main beneficiaries will be public bodies and civil society organisations active in grass-roots sport.
The Sport Forum will also showcase EU-funded projects implemented during the past two years, aimed at supporting the fight against doping, access to sport for the disabled, gender equality, physical activity, volunteering in sport, the fight against violence and intolerance in sport, social inclusion of immigrants, and the promotion of good governance in sport. Since 2009 the Commission provided more than €12 million in support of such projects in these and other areas.
The Council and the European Parliament are discussing the Commission's Erasmus for All proposal. The final budget is expected to be known after the completion of negotiations on the overall multiannual financial framework for all EU policy areas, possibly by the end of this year. The Commission will make a proposal for an EU policy initiative to promote health-enhancing physical activity in 2013.
The EU Sport Forum, which is held annually, is an opportunity for the Commission to inform the sport movement about its current proposals and to listen to their views. It brings together 250 delegates, including leading figures from the international and European Olympic Committees, European federations, sport for all organisations, and organisations of leagues, clubs and athletes. The EU Sport Forum will also discuss good governance in sport through the European social dialogue with employers and athletes.
Commissioner Vassiliou will also take part in the informal meeting of EU Sport Ministers (20-21 September). Among other things, Ministers will discuss the impact of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Two joint high-level panels will focus on the contribution of sport and health-enhancing physical activity to Europe's economy and the fight against match-fixing.
The Ministers will also discuss ways to better promote sport and health in the context of Europe's ageing society and exchange views on the EU's representation in the World Anti- Doping Agency (WADA) in order to seek consensus on the designation of a governmental expert for the WADA Board.
Match-fixing constitutes one of the most serious threats to contemporary sport, undermining the fundamental values of integrity, fair play and respect for others. It is a growing and pressing problem affecting many Member States and many sports. Addressing the issue requires urgent, concerted, and coordinated efforts from public authorities, the sport movement and betting operators.
Initiatives in these areas should target all actors in the field of sport, including athletes, their entourage, referees, match officials, supporters and management.
Efficient monitoring and detection mechanisms should be further developed and sharing of relevant information among stakeholders should be improved.
Dissuasive, effective and proportionate sanctions, including criminal and disciplinary sanctions, should be in place and enforced in match-fixing cases. Prosecution of serious match-fixing cases, and notably of those with cross-border implications, should be prioritised.
Cooperation among all the interested parties, including public authorities, law enforcement agencies, sport stakeholders and betting operators should be reinforced.
The global scale of match-fixing requires enhanced coordination of all the efforts undertaken by the relevant parties at both European and international level.


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Trump nominates Oregon federal prosecutor Ryan Bounds to serve as federal appellate judge
Updated Sep 7, 2017 ; Posted Sep 7, 2017
By Maxine Bernstein | The Oregonian/OregonLive
Oregon Assistant U.S. Attorney Ryan W. Bounds, who had worked as a special assistant to former President George W. Bush, was nominated Thursday to serve as a judge on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, President Donald J. Trump announced.
If confirmed, Bounds, 44, will fill a vacancy created when Circuit Judge Diarmuid O'Scannlain assumed senior status.
But later Thursday, Oregon's two Democratic senators informed the White House counsel they will block the nomination. U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley wrote that Bounds was not vetted through their bipartisan judicial selection committee. As a result, they won't return what's called a blue slip on behalf of Bounds to the Senate Judiciary Committee for nomination.
"We have a long history of organizing a committee charged with thoroughly vetting applicants from the Oregon legal community,'' the two senators wrote. "Unfortunately it is now apparent that you never intended to allow our longstanding process to play out.''
The two senators, to accommodate the need to fill the judicial vacancy as soon as possible, had recommended U.S. District Judge Marco A. Hernandez, who they described in their letter to the White House as an excellent, sitting, Republican-appointed federal judge who already had been through the vetting process.
Hernandez, however, pointed out that while he was nominated by former President George W. Bush, that nomination did not result in his appointment. Judge Hernandez was renominated by former President Barack Obama, a Democrat. Hernandez is unaffiliated.
The senators accused the White House of only seeking their input to support Trump's preferred nominee. "Disregarding this Oregon tradition returns us to the days of nepotism and patronage that harmed our courts and placed unfit judges on the bench,'' Wyden and Merkley wrote.
U.S. Rep. Greg Walden, whose chief of staff is Bounds' sister, had recommended Bounds for the judge vacancy.
"The President's nomination of Ryan Bounds to serve on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is welcome news for rural Oregon. Born and raised in Hermiston, Ryan has never lost touch with his roots and understands well the way of life in our communities. He knows firsthand the dominant role federal decisions can make in our region where a majority of land is managed by the federal government,'' Walden wrote in an opinion piece in the East Oregonian on Thursday. "I was glad to offer my strong recommendation of Ryan earlier this year.''
Ryan W. Bounds
Bounds began his legal career as a law clerk to Judge O'Scannlain at Pioneer Courthouse, after graduating from Yale Law School. Bounds, who grew up in Hermiston, graduated from Hermiston High School in 1991 and obtained a bachelor's degree from Stanford University.
He has worked as an assistant U.S. attorney in Portland since 2010. He spent his first two years in the violent crime section, handling immigration prosecutions. Since 2011, he's prosecuted fraud and environmental crimes.
Before working as a federal prosecutor in Oregon, Bounds worked as a civil litigator in Portland, as a special assistant to President George W. Bush for justice and immigration policy, as chief of staff and deputy assistant attorney general for the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Legal Policy and as a federal prosecutor in Washington.
"Ryan is eminently qualified to serve as a judge on the Ninth Circuit,'' said Oregon's U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams. "He is a dedicated public servant and well regarded in the Oregon legal community.''
Bounds was one of 16 people who Trump nominated Thursday to serve as a federal judge.
Carl Tobias, a law professor at the University of Richmond in Virginia, said most of Trump's nominees are young and politically conservative and were recommended by the Federalist Society.
The nomination will now go to the U.S. Senate for confirmation.
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Depending on your preference, you can choose either silk or satin as the fabric for your nighty for honeymoon. Those who prefer natural fiber find silk as the better option. Silk fiber is produced by silkworm. That is why silk is called as all-natural fabric. On the other hand, satin is man-made fabric. Polyester and nylon are combined to make satin. The fabrics also determine how the nighties look. If you love nighties which flow very fluidly, choose silk nightgown. It has a light shimmer and shine. On the other hand, satin only has a slight shine on one side while on the inside it has a lackluster look. Compared to silk, satin has a heavier appearance. Although these two fabrics have different appearance, they do not differ greatly on the breathability. However, many women prefer silk to satin because satin has the ability to absorb moisture better than satin. You may get sweaty when you do activity before sleeping. Silk absorb any sweat so you can sleep well after that. Another good think about silk is the fact that it is hypoallergenic. You need not to fret in case you are allergic to extreme whether condition in your honeymoon destination.
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It is thought the cat is the third to have been taken to the RSPCA Greater Manchester Animal Hospital after ingesting poison in just three weeks.
Max's devastated owner Beverley Roberts has reported the incident to the police.
The year-old cat was let out of Beverley's house in Dukinfield, Tameside, on Monday morning while she went to an appointment.
He returned at around 5pm and fell asleep. At around midnight, Beverley said her pet took a turn started breathing strangely and vomiting blood.
Max's legs later gave in as the animal started crawling on his front paws.
The cat was rushed to the RSPCA Hospital in Salford, but was dead by around 2am on Tuesday.
The 59-year-old shared pictures of Max and details of the incident in a bid to warn others.
"People do need to see this, it was horrible," Beverly added.
Vet Kayleigh Hill said she was 'highly suspicious' that Max died from poisoning.
She said: "Max was brought to us by an RSPCA inspector in the early hours of Tuesday morning. I confirmed he was dead on arrival.
She said it was likely Max ingested ethylene glycol, a compound often found in antifreeze.
Just three weeks ago, two other cats were taken to the hospital after ingesting the same substance. One cat survived, but the other died, Kayleigh said.
She advised suspicious pet owners to take their animals to the vet as a matter of urgency if they spot symptoms of poisoning.
A spokeswoman for the RSPCA said: "If you suspect that your cat has been poisoned you should take it to a vet immediately.


THE BAY PSALM BOOK (1640). As the first book printed in America, The Bay Psalm Book is one of the most important works in American print culture. Originally published as The Whole Booke of Psalmes Faithfully Translated into English Metre, The Bay Psalm Book either directly or indirectly touched the lives of New Englanders throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and thus its unique tropes and images were crucial in forming the collective imagination of the Puritans. Since references to the sea and men in ships abound, The Bay Psalm Book played an important part in helping New Englanders perceive and interpret the maritime world around them.
Since psalm singing was such an important part of the Reformation and since publication itself was a symbolic act, the Puritan ministers published their own translation of the psalms as a means of distinguishing themselves from both Anglicans in England and Pilgrims in Plymouth. In 1639 the chief ministers of the Bay Colony divided up the Hebrew Psalms among themselves for translation and versification. In particular, John Cotton, Richard Mather, Thomas Weld, and John Eliot are thought to have collaborated in preparing the new text. Sensing that current translations had departed too far from the original Hebrew and intending to remain as close to the original language as possible, in the closing paragraph of the "Preface," believed to have been written by either Cotton or Mather, they stated: "If therefore the verses are not alwayes so smooth and elegant as some may desire or expect: let them consider that Gods Altar needs not our pollishings ... we have respected rather a plaine translation ... and soe have attended Conscience rather than Elegance, fidelity rather than poetry" (12).
Most people of the seventeenth century viewed the seas as a realm distinct from land. Accepting the biblical story of creation, they believed that God had brought order to chaos by separating land from sea. At several points in The Bay Psalm Book, the oceans are referred to as one of three distinct areas of the universe: heaven, earth, and sea. As heaven was God's domain, and earth was man's, the sea was perceived as a vast and strange environment that was both unknowable and unpredictable and as such was referenced with tropes to illustrate something beyond human comprehension and control. Moreover, as a symbol of chaos, the sea was also often used to dramatize God's dominion over all creation. As the psalms often celebrate God's great deeds, the biblical stories of the flood and the parting of the Red Sea are referred to several times as examples of God's omnipotence.
FURTHER READING: Foote, Henry Wilder. An Account of the Bay Psalm Book. Fort Worth, TX: Hymn Society of America, 1940; Haraszti, Zoltan. The Enigma of the Bay Psalm Book. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1956; Haraszti, Zoltan, ed. The Bay Psalm Book: A Facsimile Reprint of the First Edition of1640. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1957; Stackhouse, Rochelle A. The Language of the Psalms in Worship: American Revisions of Watts' Psalter. London: Scarecrow, 1997.


Gardenias are a classic flower.
A cold hardy gardenia is a variety bred to withstand extremes of cold in comparison with most varieties of gardenia. This is an important distinction. By the standards of much of the continental United States, there is no such thing as a gardenia that is seriously hardy in cold weather.
Gardenias are best adapted to tropical and subtropical conditions. Gardenias are native to Africa, Asia and the South Pacific. They haven't yet been bred to endure severe winter cold. It is better to grow gardenias as hothouse plants, house plants or seasonal indoor/outdoor plants if your USDA climate is colder than USDA Zone 7. Beyond that zone it is possible to grow gardenias with limited success in micro-climates or in warm years, but hard frost will cause flower-drop and a hard freeze will kill a gardenia. The most consistently recommended climates are USDA Zones 9 and 10. Unless you are planting a specifically cold hardy gardenia you shouldn't expect gardenias to grow well outside that range.
Gardenias are tropical and subtropical plants.
Gardenias grow best in a moist and humid climate but with limited direct water hitting the plant.
Even a cold hardy variety is unlikely to prosper as an outdoor plant beyond USDA Zone 7.
The colder your climate, the more carefully you should plan your planting and care of a gardenia if you intend to grow it outdoors.
There are a small number of varieties that can be trusted to endure non-tropical conditions. Those few are commonly recognized and promoted. The Oregon Association of Nurseries recommends Kleim's Hardy Gardenia and the Chuck Hayes or Oregon Gardenia. Other nurseries add the recently developed variety Frost Proof, but no varieties are recommended for climates colder than USDA zone seven.
Chuck Hayes is a reliable variety with a classic, fully double blossom with a rich, traditional gardenia scent. Suited to container planting for those in cold climates it can grow to as much as four feet in height.
Kleim's Hardy carries a single blossom similar to apple blossom in shape and form. The scent is again traditional gardenia, though not as intense as some. The shrub is low-growing to three feet, and well shaped for landscape use.
Semi-doubled blossoms resemble narcissus when partially opened, with an outer star-like disc of petals and an inner cup. As the flower fully opens it becomes an informal, loose lightly doubled rosette. The bush is large, well suited to landscape and hedge use. The plant takes more sun than many gardenias, and is considered the most cold tolerant of the species to date.
Only these few varieties can withstand more cold than a tender variety. Those recommended for Zone 7 can survive limited exposure to temperatures as low as 0 degrees F. Beyond that limit, other things must be considered. Gardenias are subject to mold and mildew when water comes in contact with the leaves or petals. High humidity is an advantage, but rain and watering systems can damage plants. It's not even wise to plant gardenias anywhere condensation can cause dew to drop down from neighboring plants. Soil should be moist, acidic, and well-drained, with plenty of organic matter added. Provide regular care and pruning for gardenias to ensure good air circulation within and around the plant.
Even chill resistant gardenias will do best when you take the time to prepare the planting site and develop good conditions for growth. The planting site should be in soil with a pH of 4.5 to 5.5. If your soil is not naturally this acidic you can prepare using organic material: peat moss, compost and pine mulch are all recommended ways of increasing soil pH. Soils with a high organic content also tend to drain better than clay soils, while retaining enough water to provide for the plant. Set your plants well apart to make sure there is good ventilation. You should also avoid planting directly against a fence or wall to ensure ventilation. Water from below, using a drip or underground system if possible, to keep leaves and petals dry. If you live in a zone with variable weather that pushes the limits of a cold hardy gardenia then you should pay particular attention to micro-climates of your garden. A sheltered, south-facing site with good sun and a dark wall behind to absorb heat can improve the chances of your gardenia surviving a cold snap.
Make good use of cold tolerant varieties, micro-climate, and the possibility of container planting. With these methods you can enjoy gardenias with their lush, elegant perfume as a special summer treat regardless of where you live.


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2 September 1898 sees Britain's last full cavalry charge
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Today, the 2nd September, in 1898 the British under Lord Horatio Kitchener dealt the Mahdi a crushing defeat at Omdurman, near Khartoum, in the Sudan. The troops of the Mahdi were called Dervishes and outnumbered the British two to one. Numbers would count for nothing as modern arms won the battle, in what was a massacre. The British who were firing Lee Metford or .303 Lee Enfield rifles, backed up by Maxim machine guns and artillery, cut swathes through the attacking Dervishes, armed with spears and antique rifles.
The battle is also remembered as Britain's last cavalry charge. The 21st Lancers were reconnoitring in force when they came upon 700 tribesmen, who they charged, only to discover 2500 Dervishes appear from hiding in a dry streambed. The Lancers fought their way out as best they could.
The Mahdi lost 20000 men and 5000 captured, whereas Kitchener lost a few hundred.
A certain young Winston Churchill was one of these Lancers present at the battle and wrote romantically of the cavalry charge, in which he personally killed three.
Anyone who has watched the great Dad's Army may also remember the septegenarian Lance Corporal Jack Jones stories of the battle and his cry of: "They do not like it up 'em", when urging his Captain, a non professional banker, to rely on the bayonet to defeat Hitler's invaders.
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Thanks, Wittmann. I always enjoy your historical notes.
In this particular case, I couldn't resist checking for any possible British cavalry charges of a later date, and indeed found one: a charge of the 20th Hussars on Turkish positions near the village of Gebze, in 1920. From http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=89391:
13 July 1920 (Based in PAVLO). Operations against GEBZE held by Nationalists-reputed numbers 350. Troops engaged from the 20th Hussars and one section from the 30th Howitzer Battery,and 2/39 Garwhalis. The 20th encircled GEBZE from the north. Enemy had retired on first shell being fired. Position E of GEBZE taken up by Regiment. A patrol under Sergeant Waite of C Squadron charged 3 enemy snipers,enemy sabred. I troop C Squadron under Sergeant Mountford charged retiring party of enemy twice,results from first charge 3 enemy sabred,and second charge 4 enemy sabred and 4 killed by rifle fire. 50 Nationalists attacked by Rear Guard while column was approaching from the east of GEBZE. Enemy held in check by the Rear Guard,commanded by Captain JWS Gailbraith Squadron A. Believed many casualties by Hotchkiss rifle fire-4 killed or wounded. Regiment withdrew from position through GEBZE to PAVLO arriving 1500,halting en route at TUZLA for a meal and food and water for the animals. Casualties for the 20th Hussars Lt.JT Way wounded and 1 horse killed.
Evening Herr KaLeun. I too have always been surprised that this charge was the last large scale one, but it is how I remember it.
Just to be sure, I did google last British cavalry charge and found and read of the one you mention about an hour ago!
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I caught Predators on Friday finally. This stuff either works for you or it doesn't and this one worked for me. I think they overdid the shaky camera thing in one of the fights and while I've always liked Brody he made a far more credible badass than I was expecting. I could have used a bit more info about the Predators and a bit more delving into the Predator/prey hunting sentient creatures tale these stories seem to want to be about but a nice little ride.
I also liked that it was or at least appeared to be lite on the CGI and heavy on actual make-up and muppets for the bad guys. Didn't seem to have a bunch of effects shots for the sake of having effects shots.
And the terrain/jungle felt alien despite it no doubt being earth.
Must see for diehard fans and must rent for folks who've seen Predator a few times more than three but don't consider themselves 'diehard.'
Predator 2
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Aliens vs. Predator:Requiem
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Ender's Game or Ender's Shadow?
All though I loved Ender's Game I found all the other books in that seires to be extrmely boring and I wasn't able to finish any of them.
On the other hand I loved Ender Shadow and Ive read all the Shadow books which I also love. I like how after battle school the Shadow books focus on Earth politics and what the future geopoliticals is like. Plus Enders Shadow is longer so it's a better deal.
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I didn't think Enemy At the Gates was very good as far as representing the reality of WW2 in Russia. It was still entertaining.
I liked Stalingrad a lot better. Worth checking out, if you can find it.
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WASHINGTON — Republican U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley is treading carefully around reports a whistleblower in the U.S. intelligence community is alleging serious wrongdoing by President Donald Trump.
Grassley, who calls himself a "longtime champion of whistleblowers," won't comment directly on reports President Trump allegedly ordered his staff to withhold $400 million in aid from Ukraine while pressuring that nation's president to investigate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.
"We don't know what we don't know," Grassley says. "Everything I know about it, as I've seen on television or read, I don't have any inside information so I think that dictates I ought to be very cautious what I say."
Grassley issued a news release Monday afternoon saying, "rampant speculation by politicians and the media is not helpful. That's how the false Russia collusion narrative took root. Let's not repeat the mistakes of the past. Going forward, it's important to respect the law and the whistleblower's confidentiality while we gather the facts of the case."
"My press release was a reminder that I listen to whistleblowers," Grassley says, "and if this whistleblower wants to talk to me, I'll talk to him." Grassley is founder of the bipartisan Senate Whistleblower Protection Caucus and he says whistleblower laws are "critical to providing safe outlets to share information so governmental officials can be held responsible without harming national security."
"Maybe for two or three decades, the intelligence community wasn't covered by whistleblowers and I thought that was wrong," Grassley says. "We do have laws now protecting whistleblowers in the intelligence community." Grassley says the nation does not need another Edward Snowden situation, "where information is released publicly and our national security is harmed."
He adds, "transparency is always the best policy so long as we don't endanger national security."
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Q: Ошибка. 2 Заголовочных файла Почему происходят ошибки.
1. C4430 Отсутствует спецификатор типа — предполагается int. Примечание: C++ не поддерживает int по умолчанию.
2. C2146 Синтаксическая ошибка: отсутствует «;» перед идентификатором «a»
Как это исправить?
Как мне сделать чтобы заголовок A включал в себя B.
И наоборот B включал заголовок A?
Source.cpp
#include "Header_A.h"
#include "Header_B.h"

A a;
B b;

int main() {
    return 0;
}

Header_A.h
#pragma once
#include "Header_B.h"

extern B b;

struct A {
};

Header_B.h
#pragma once
#include "Header_A.h"

extern A a;

struct B {
};

A: Проделайте работу препросессора, разверните исходник и все заголовки в один файл.
и даже не обязательно делать это вручную.
g++ -E Source.cpp

# 1 "Source.cpp"
# 1 "<built-in>"
# 1 "<command-line>"
# 1 "/usr/include/stdc-predef.h" 1 3 4
# 1 "<command-line>" 2
# 1 "Source.cpp"
# 1 "Header_A.h" 1

# 1 "Header_B.h" 1

extern A a;

struct B {
};
# 3 "Header_A.h" 2

extern B b;

struct A {
};
# 2 "Source.cpp" 2

A a;
B b;

int main() {
    return 0;
}

В итоге получается, что на момент объявления
extern A a;

сам тип A еще не объявлен. добавьте перед ним
struct A;

При этом сами перекрестные инклюды не так уж и нужны, достаточно того, что они есть в Source.cpp перед определениями a и b.

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From Public Enemy to J. Cole and Kendrick Lamar, hip-hop and rap culture has a long history of speaking truth to power, so who is better to tell its story than legendary Chuck D?
Titled Fight the Power: How Hip-Hop Changed the World examines how hip-hop/rap music became a cultural phenomenon, with insight from some of the rap scene's biggest stars. The four-part series starts on Saturday 21st January and all episodes are free to watch on BBC iPlayer.
Using a combination of interviews and archival footage, this hard-hitting, head-nodding documentary series explores where rap came from, how the crack epidemic led to the formulation of groups such as NWA, the ways it dealt with accusations of promoting violence and misogyny, and explores how the industry has used its voice and power to fight for change in the 21st century.
he docuseries features cameos from Eminem, Ice-T, KRS-One, LL Cool J, DMC and other hip-hop icons. It also features figures from the wider cultural scene such as Rev Al Sharpton, activist Dr Rosa Alicia Clemente, and co-founder of BLM of Greater New York, Walter "Hawk" Newsome.
In the first segment that was surfaced on the internet, Eminem says: "I know rappers were always getting attacked by politicians though, a lot of it was to push the buttons regardless and for you to take a lot of these lyrics seriously, is like, you are a f–king idiot."
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We all have a reasonably accurate view of ourselves – regardless of how we present ourselves to others. Most of us know or suspect our "true selves."
Similarly, we each have a reasonable understanding of what we consider "right" and what we consider "wrong" in our lives.
That sense of right and wrong is important to us. We may have gained these views through our parents, our belief system, our community or society, our learned experiences, or just because we have adopted them because we felt they were appropriate.
It should not be a surprise then, that these views (or values) affect the things we adopt and the things that we reject, the things we are attracted to and the things that we push away from us, and the things that to us, seem "acceptable" and those that seem "unacceptable".
The values that we hold, therefore, regardless of how they nurtured and developed within us, affect us by influencing the way we think, the way we act, and the way we lead and manage others.
Many organisations state openly to all who are interested what their values are. Although it may have an impact on external parties to the organisation (such as customers, clients, authorities, etc.), it should have a profound effect on all internal parties.
By stating openly its values, the organisation is saying to its people, "this is what we believe, and when you work for us, this is how we expect you to behave at all times to all people."
Such an overt statement, and therefore behaviours, are an explicit statement of rules with which all need to comply. Failure to comply commonly leads to dismissal.
That part is "easy".
It's the unstated values that reside in most of us that affect our decisions, and that complicates leadership.
As an example, a person who has unfavourable views of certain ethnic or cultural groups (i.e., discriminatory views) will probably disadvantage members of those groups when certain situations arise within the company – and that may not be in the best interests of the organisation, let alone the individual. And when those discriminatory views are imposed on customers (for example), then the impacts can be horrendous for the company.
There are a few dimensions of one's personal values that a leader needs to reflect on and reconcile.
The first dimension is the need to have synergy between the leader's values and the stated or behaviour-defined values of the organisation. Failure to have a common view may lead to stress caused by the leader's behaviour or decisions that run contrary to the company's stated values. Such behaviours by the leader (or anyone else) will be interpreted by the organisation as inappropriate.
When a non-leader displays non-conforming behaviour, that non-conforming person is "merely" seen as "delinquent" and a candidate for disciplinary action.
The thing about it being the leader's non-conforming behaviour is that it is interpreted as condoning non-conforming behaviours – and that contradiction harms the organisation.
The second dimension is that the leader must "live" the values. In other words, the values represent much more than mere words – the values represent a deeply-held set of beliefs that dictate behaviour, thinking and the treatment of others. In other words, the leader must walk the talk.
Leaders who don't practice what they preach are not trusted and fail to generate the loyalty from followers that the leader relies on.
There are two aspects of practicing what the leader preaches: the first is for the leader themselves to live by the organisation's values; the second is to enforce the values on all employees – and be seen to be doing this.
When employees see that the leader "means what they say," and that there are consequences for not complying, then such behaviour will become embedded in the organisation's culture.
The third dimension requires the leader to have strong values related to the common good of the organisation, its people, and its stakeholders. It is often tempting to take a short-cut toward organisational or personal self-interest, commonly at the expense of some values.
An example might be a salesperson selling to a customer because the salesperson needs the sale, without telling the customer information about the product that might have compromised the sale. The sale is wanted by the organisation, the salesperson, and the leader, but they all compromised (some unknowingly) the company's values of doing the right thing by the customer.
Such behaviour is self-defeating in the long term because others within the organisation will be confused about what's acceptable and what's not. If self-serving behaviour is chosen over core values, then others will believe that self-serving is OK. This applies to every one of the values spelled out by the organisation.
Values and adherence to them, largely (but not totally) define the culture of the organisation.
Other values that "reside within the leader" and over which the leader has ultimate control may have a profound impact on the organisation.
A person, (leader or not), who demonstrates integrity to all who they deal with is a person that others will trust. The reason is that integrity is a demonstration of truthfulness, reliability, and honesty.
It doesn't mean that everyone will agree with or like what the leader says, but they will know that what is said is their true and accurate belief or opinion. Give them different facts and they may have another opinion.
Integrity also doesn't mean that a leader needs to display brutality in their honesty. A smart leader with empathy will have a way of being truthful, sensitive, helpful, and constructive - all at the same time. Here, empathy is the key.
Brutality is generally the realm of the ignorant and the insensitive.
Interestingly though, many people are brutal with others, not necessarily because they're ignorant of the other's needs or feelings, but because they don't care how the other person feels. They think that the message is important, and that brutality is the way to make the other person "pay attention" to what's being said.
Commonly, such a confronting approach is due to the absence of adequate skills and talents in the leader or manager – people use the tools they know.
Often, leaders are forced to be judges in certain situations. Much like a parent adjudicating between siblings, a teacher adjudicating between students, or a sports umpire adjudicating between rivals; a leader too needs to play judge on occasion.
Where a leader has a strong sense of fairness, then adjudication relies on objectives, values, and facts.
Where a leader has a "flexible" definition of fairness, they may be influenced by self-interest, or bias, or favouritism, and so on.
This tells the organisation two things: you can go to the leader to get a good hearing and a fair resolution; or you cannot rely on the leader to provide a fair outcome.
There are very few successful leaders who lack respect for others. That doesn't mean that they agree with them, like them or will do what they want – but it does mean that they recognise the humanity of all people and treat them accordingly.
That means that regardless of age, gender, religion, political opinion, colour or culture, the leader deals respectfully and equally with all people. They listen to people, pay attention to what the people say, and they are never rude or abusive – either to their face or behind their backs.
The true leader stays calm, receptive, pleasant, soft-spoken, questioning, interested, welcoming, and friendly – and a person that others are happy to be with and talk to, rather than be afraid of.
The ability to be respectful in all situations is a trait internal to the leader and mature people and is within their control – but at the same time we acknowledge that sometimes this can be difficult and challenging.
As mentioned previously, all effective leaders must possess a reasonable level of empathy – an ability to understand and share the feelings of others.
This is important on several levels. A leader needs people to translate and implement company intent into performance. To do this, a company must foresee and plan for the way people work and how they will feel about what they are being asked to do.
Failure to understand people (i.e., workers, customers, suppliers, stakeholders, the public, partners, and so on) will inevitably lead to the need to redesign, restructure, and reformulate plans and initiatives.
That has obvious impacts on the organisation with increased effort, time, and costs that are needed to do the rework to "get it right."
People with empathic skills are better able to "see this coming" and will construct their plans and initiatives that more suitably accommodate these sensitivities – to the benefit of the people involved, and of the company.
The lesson that most organisations learn eventually, is that no matter the qualifications or the experience of the leader, if they don't possess a high-level of empathic skills, then there will be difficulties.
Trust, like other attributes and capabilities, is also a two-way issue.
A leader wants to be trusted and needs to be trusted to achieve their objectives. Without such trust, what the leader says about every or any aspect of the organisation won't be believed - and that's a serious performance determinant.
"Do this for me (or the organisation) and I will be good to my word," is the basic trust contract. Without it, one must resort to authority, law, or formal agreement – and that doesn't bode well for a strong and constructive culture.
As obvious as this may be, it is equally true that both parts of the trust relationship must give and be given trust. If the leader wants and needs trust, so do the people who are being asked to trust.
When employees are not themselves trusted to do what they are expected to do, then as an intrinsic part of the organisation's culture, trust will not be reciprocated.
Trust does not come from authority – it's comes from attitude, respect, understanding and a belief in the person being trusted.
A leader's approach to their organisation, what it stands for, what it's trying to achieve, of its people, and its stakeholders are essential components of loyalty.
As stated previously, the leader needs loyal followers to adequately fulfil the objectives the leader was employed to satisfy. That will only happen when the followers and supporters see in the leader an authentic and sincere personal commitment to the outcomes, objectives, and culture that they lead, as well as an appropriate demonstration of the organisation's values.
When an organisation's people see these "signs" then they will regard the leader as authentic, sincere, honest, and correctly focussed on those things that matter. They will then trust the leader and though their trust, will become loyal.
There are multiple views of how a leader needs to manage an organisation. At one end of the continuum, some believe that the role of the leader is to be the "corporate conductor" who coordinates every element of the "corporate symphony", to make beautiful music delivering the corporation's objectives (apology for the metaphor). They therefore see the leader as being responsible and accountable for the corporate outcomes.
At the other end of the continuum, some believe that the leader is "merely" there to represent staff in their endeavours in delivering corporate objectives - this is termed servant leadership.[1]
"Servant leadership is a leadership philosophy in which the goal of the leader is to serve. This is different from traditional leadership where the leader's main focus is the thriving of their company or organizations. A servant leader shares power, puts the needs of the employees first and helps people develop and perform as highly as possible.[2] Servant leadership inverts the norm, which puts the customer service associates as a main priority. Instead of the people working to serve the leader, the leader exists to serve the people."[3]
In both cases of management approach, (and everything in between the two extremes), a leader chooses the approach that they will adopt to achieve what they must achieve. The choice is almost always theirs, even when the implementation of their choice may be difficult.
We accept the reality of context where certain situations lend themselves to certain styles of management, and that certain contexts are harder to manage and harder to change.
Despite this, one can't escape two facts:
1. The leader chooses how they will lead the organisation, and
2. They are therefore responsible for the outcomes from the mechanism, structure, or style they have chosen or accepted.
The responsibility stops with the leader.
The lesson here is that any tendency for a leader to blame others within or outside the organisation for those things that "don't go to plan," risk the destruction of trust, honesty, openness, fairness, and integrity.
Although people may correctly and accurately be to blame, a leader sees impediments and obstacles as opportunities to learn, grow, and improve. That doesn't mean that the leader ignores errors, but that they choose how to handle them.
The bottom line for the leader, however, is that they never deny ultimate responsibility and always take the opportunity to improve to avoid repetition of the problem.
A leader who blames others is a person who refuses to accept the gravity and purpose of their role – and will not be a good leader.
[1] Wikipedia, August 2021, Servant Leadership
2 Sendjaya, Sen; Sarros, James C. (September 2002). "Servant Leadership: Its Origin, Development, and Application in Organizations". Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies. 9 (2): 57–64.
3 Kashyap, Vaneet; Rangnekar, Santosh (July 2016). "Servant leadership, employer brand perception, trust in leaders and turnover intentions: a sequential mediation model". Review of Managerial Science. 10 (3): 437–461.
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We apply a powerful diagnostic to your organisation to identify the issues that require remedy in your business systems. Those issues fall into one or more of the 12 core elements of every organisation which we term the 12 Pivot-Points.
We then bring expertise to those elements to help you navigate your issues in a complex world.
OUR DIAGNOSTIC AND METHODOLOGY
Like you, we have learned from decades of experience and research that there are no islands in organisations. When things happen, or don't happen, there are impacts up and down the organisation.
Therefore, to fix issues, or to undertake change, or to take advantage of opportunities, one needs to understand what happens up and down the organisation in order to successfully deliver objectives.
There are two broad ways clients engage with us: they either have a very specific issue they need resolved, or they have a number of issues and aren't sure where or how to start.
We have a way of looking at organisations that understands how they think, how they operate, and how to deliver successful outcomes that last.
SPECIFIC PROBLEMS OR ISSUES
When clients talk to us about specific issues, we undertake a few tasks to better understand the organisational context and deliver a successful outcome using our methodology to ensure the appropriateness of the solution.
• Establish clarity over the client's objective.
• We secure an understanding of the context of the issue within the organisation.
• We clarify the impacts of the issue up and down the organisation.
• We explore the implications of those impacts on relevant stakeholders.
• We then develop a realistic, pragmatic, and workable solution that sits realistically within the client's context.
• We then develop an Implementation Plan to help the client know what needs to be done, in what sequence, and with what resources, time and cost.
• If the client wishes, we can also manage the implementation and whatever changes are required.
MULTIPLE OR COMPLEX ISSUES
When the client has several issues but isn't sure where or how to start, we apply our methodology.
This research-validated methodology focuses on the 12 key organisational pivots that occur in a sequence and which impact other Pivot-Points and must be understood to deliver an enduring and robust solution.
THE 12 PIVOT-POINTS WE FOCUS ON ARE:
1. Organisational purpose (either shareholder objectives, or charter or constitutional objectives). Describes why the organisation exists.
2. Organisation's required outcomes (KPOs, priorities, and strategic direction). Converts broad purpose statements into measurable performance metrics.
3. Market and Operating environments. Identifies the operating environments from which all performance metrics must be achieved.
4. Products and Services (including manufacturing, procurement and product and service-related systems). Identifies the things that customers will buy in the markets you've chosen to satisfy performance metrics.
5. Channels and distribution. Determines how you will get your products and services to their customers.
6. Support systems. Determines how you will support the customers and intermediaries in all markets to provide an efficient and profitable service.
7. Selling and Communication. Determines how you will approach, offer and secure customer purchase and the messages you will use.
8. Human Resources and culture. Determines the number and types of people you need, and the culture that will engender the mindsets required.
9. I.T. systems, procedures and processes. Determines the systems needed to make it all work.
10. Management including structure. Determines how you will manage and structure the business.
11. Finance and other outcomes ($, #, %). The decisions above are modelled and compared to performance metrics.
12. Formal Plans. When #11 = #2, then formal plans are created that explain and instruct the organisation.
When we identify and clarify the client's issues, we then bring specific subject experts of ours to the challenge of solving the problem, issue, or opportunity. Our subject experts cover over 350 areas of expertise distributed over the 12 Pivot-Points.
Our experts are located around the world and focus on projects globally.
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If we believe we can assist you and based on your needs, we prepare a detailed proposal that we believe, based on the understanding we have gained from you or your people, will satisfy those needs.
If you would like to have the initial discussion to see if A&M can assist you, or if you have any questions about our diagnostic and methodology, please contact Dr Jack Jacoby, the Head of Client Satisfaction at [email protected]
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LMS Cereal Boxes- A Halloween Gift!
A great big Thank You to the LMS students and staff for their incredible donation of 575 boxes of cereal to the Montgomery Township Food Pantry!
The MHS Baseball seniors made quick work of the transport, sorting and counting. Thank you Coach Mueller and players!!!
the Pantry thru the Winter months and enables us to include cereal boxes in our holiday meal baskets in both November & December and to stock the pantry thru the late Spring .
The Senior Citizens who attend the Montgomery Senior Center also receive a box of Cheerios during the holiday celebrations!
Extra boxes are shared with the area Food Banks that support Montgomery families with more needs (longer term needs) than our temporary pantry can handle.
Lastly, we give a shopping cart of cereal to the ladies at Daytop/Crawford House. This Halfway House for women, located in Skilllman, helps women recovering from addiction get back on their feet.
I am truly amazed at what a giving community Montgomery is! The Montgomery Township Food Pantry could not do what we do without this support.


Shelly and Dave's luxe private villa wedding in Mykonos is one stunner fete. Crystal chandeliers, lucite chairs, lush floral tablescape, and ultra glam wedding guests are enough to turn heads. You know it's going to be a fine, oh-so-fine wedding when it is designed + planned by The 12 Events, and these stunning images from Sotiris Tskanikas proved us right.
This lush villa Paradiso wedding in Mykonos, much like the majestic views from its four poolside terraces has "island wedding escape" written all over and pretty much sums up the phrase "Heaven is a place on earth with you". Shelly and Dave flew in their closest US and UK friends and rented Villa Paradiso for both the wedding and everyone's stay.
The villa comes with its own private chapel, a 17th-century church on the hill overlooking the sea. The 12 Events worked on the villa premises to create a magical welcome space by the pool and set a long table and lounge on the terrace. The gorgeously styled ceremony and dinner could not, of course, go without a Mykonos-style party, a crazy all-nighter with my fun-loving bride and groom dancing the night away next to quaint performers and top-notch DJs.
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Q: String Regex for Phrases That Match a Pattern I'm stuck trying to understand what the regex pattern for phrases that contain variable words. So for example, if I'm scanning through a paragraph I want to be able to extract all phrases that matches this pattern, "_ colored _". The two blank spots can be anything, so both "red colored truck" and "blue colored bike" would match the regex and be extracted. It would very much appreciated if someone could help me out, thanks!

A: A pattern like this should work
\w+\s+colored\s+\w+

This matches any sequence of one or more word characters, followed by one or more whitespace characters, followed by the literal sequence colored, followed by one or more whitespace characters, followed by one or more word characters.
If you want to easily extract the two words on either side, you may want to place them in capture groups, like this:
(\w+)\s+colored\s+(\w+)

If you want to find more phrases than just those which contain the word colored, you can use an alternation, like this:
(\w+)\s+(colored|flavored|scented)\s+(\w+)

This will match strings like "blue colored bike", "cherry flavored vodka", and "bacon scented candle".
Also, because this is Java, don't forget to escape the \ characters in your string literal:
Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("\\w+\\s+colored\\s+\\w+");

A: This should work for you.
Pattern samplePattern = Pattern.compile("[A-Za-z0-9._%-]+colored[A-Za-z0-9._%-]");


The agriculture committees on Capitol Hill held their first official meetings of the legislative session Thursday. House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson acknowledged the need to implement the new farm bill in a timely manner. "We're pushing the USDA on that," said Peterson. "I'm pretty sure whenever they get that done, it will be retroactive to the first of the year. Hopefully, we can keep folks in business." Organizational meetings are a time to recognize new committee members and set the rules for the committee in the new Congress. There are at least 14 new members on the House Agriculture Committee.
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The Oklahoma State Bond Advisor is an officer of the state of Oklahoma who provides advice and assistance to the Governor of Oklahoma on matters relating to capital planning, debt issuance, and debt management. The Office borrows money to operate the Oklahoma state government and manages the resulting debt. The State Bond Advisor serves as the professional staff to the Council on Bond Oversight and assists the Long-Range Capital Planning Commission. The State Bond Advisor is appointed by the Council and serves until removed, for cause, by the Council.

Established in 1987 as an independent office within the Oklahoma Department of Central Services, the Office became a separate state agency in 2003. The current State Bond Advisor is James C. Joseph.

The Office was created in 1987 during the term of Governor Henry Bellmon.

Leadership
The Office of the State Bond Advisor is led by the Oklahoma State Bond Advisor.  The State Bond Advisor serves as staff to the Council of Bond Oversight. The Chair of the Council of Bond Oversight is Mark Beffort and James C. Joseph serves as the State Bond Advisor.

Boards and Commissions

Council on Bond Oversight
The Oklahoma Council on Bond Oversight is the statutory body responsible for reviewing all borrowing requests by State agencies, authorities, departments, and trusts, including public institutions of higher education. Upon approval, the State Bond Advisor is responsible assisting issuers with the sale of the approved bonds.

The Council consists of five members who are not members of the Oklahoma Legislature. Two members are appointed by the Governor of Oklahoma with the approval of the Oklahoma Senate, one is appointed by the Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, one is appointed by the President pro tempore of the Oklahoma Senate, and the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services serves as the fifth member. Appointed members serve terms of two years and may be removed for cause by the appointing authority. Members may be appointed for additional terms.

As of 2014, the members of the Council are as follows:
Mark Beffort - Chairman
Robert M. Jones
Tom Maxwell
Blaine Peterson
Preston Doerflinger, Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services

Capital Planning Commission
The Oklahoma Long-Range Capital Planning Commission is an oversight body created by statute to advise and assist the Oklahoma Legislature in providing for capital facilities in the state. Each year, the Commission prepares a state capital plan for addressing state, regional and local public capital facility needs for the next five years. The Governor of Oklahoma, at the time he prepares the state budget, is to use the state capital plan to prepare a capital budget for consideration by the Oklahoma Legislature. The Office of Management and Enterprise Services provides staff support for the Commission, with assistance from the State Bond Advisor's Office.

The Commission consists of nine members as follows:
 three members are appointed by the Governor to serve at his pleasure and represent the public at large
 three members are appointed by the President Pro Tempore of the Oklahoma Senate to serve at his pleasure, one of whom must be a member of the Oklahoma Senate and two must come from the public
 three members are appointed by the Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives to serve at his pleasure, one of whom must be a member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives and two must come from the public

See also
Bureau of Public Debt

External links
Oklahoma State Bond Advisor website

Bond Advisor

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