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In another case, Mango's campaign released an ad saying Wagner wasn't doing enough to stop abortions. DiGiorgio replied, "Scott Wagner has been a leader in the fight to protect the unborn in Pennsylvania."
In January, The Associated Press reported that Wagner had given himself more than $7.5 million in loans and other contributions. The contributions continued.
Mango also gave millions to his campaign. But Ellsworth didn't have as much money and didn't go on the air with TV ads until relatively late in the primary campaign.
9. He embraced the garbageman role.
Wagner leads Penn Waste Inc., a waste hauling company. TV ads showed him standing in front of garbage and talking about how he would "junk the property tax, cut wasteful spending and put big government in the dumpster."
And another ad featured Penn Waste employees standing behind Wagner.
"I'm blunt, outspoken and determined. I'm a garbageman. You won't always agree with me, but know this: I'm on a mission to protect your paycheck, cut your taxes, and I will always put you first," he said in one ad.
Nothing really prepares you to be a leader. In most cases, you get the opportunity to lead by being good at something else. However, while being a strong performer gives you the credibility to lead, it says nothing about your ability to lead. Leadership is a skill in its own right and, for the most part, it’s one you l...
Of course, there’s no shortage of advice about being a leader. Some say that you should make decisions rationally, while others say you need to trust your gut. Just like some say that it’s important to exude confidence, while others say that it’s important to show humility. It’s all terribly confusing.
The truth is that all leaders have different styles and you’ll have to figure out what yours is. Nobody can do that for you. Still, one thing I wish somebody told me before I began leading people is what I would be required to do and how it would be different from any other job. So here are four things you’ll need to l...
It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that strong talent is important to every organization, yet it’s unlikely you’ll be able to attract better talent than your competitors. For the most part, you’ll be offering similar compensation to do a similar job. You can try and screen people as best you can, but you won’t be a...
Look at truly great organizations and you’ll find that they excel at developing — rather than just hiring — talent. The US military doesn’t really attract better talent than any other country, but the way it develops talent makes it the best fighting force in the world. Companies like GE and McKinsey are also renown fo...
So your first job as a leader is to help everyone on your team to maximize their potential. That means a lot more than just setting up training programs. It means taking an interest in the personal development of everyone on your team, even if it means that they eventually find that they are better off pursuing their d...
Ironically, the best way to attract talent is to build a reputation for developing it. So if you want the best people to come work for you, the first step is to find the best in the people who are already working for you.
Being a leader gives you a lot of power, but the one thing you have surprisingly little power over is what decisions you will have to make, because the most important questions you will have to answer are the ones you never planned for. They will be determined by market events, customer demands, competitor moves and in...
These are the decisions nobody wants to make, because they often have to be made with minimal information, unforgiving time constraints and serious consequences. There’s no opportunity to do a full analysis or to ask for more time, but as a leader it is your responsibility to make a decision anyway.
When I was leading an organization of 800 people, I had to make decisions like that all the time and each one was about something that not one of those 800 people — many of whom were extremely talented and intelligent — could answer on their own. I didn’t necessarily know any better than they did, but it was my job to ...
In situations like that, advice like “be rational” or “go with your gut” is completely useless. You simply have to make the best decision you can and accept the consequences.
Even more challenging than the fact that it is your job to make decisions that nobody else wants to, is the reality that a certain percentage of the decisions you make will be wrong and it will be your job to clean up the inevitable messes you make. This is simply unavoidable. Nobody gets it right 100% of the time.
When this happens, somebody will always be there to remind you that they had preferred a different option. This will be true, but meaningless, because one of the reasons you had to make the decision in the first place was that there was no clear consensus. Whatever choice you made, a lot of people were backing a differ...
This is perhaps the most important thing you have to learn to be a good leader. Being put in a position of responsibility doesn’t make you clairvoyant or endow you with any special wisdom, it just means that the consequences of your actions will be much greater than for anyone else.
Once you are able to accept that, everything else becomes easier.
Leaders do a lot of strategy and planning. It is simply a necessary part of the job, because people need a guide for what’s expected of them in order to operate at a high level. Still, as Steve Blank has observed, “No business plan survives first contact with the customer.” A plan never perfectly reflects reality.
In Team of Teams, General Stanley McChrystal describes how when first took over command in Iraq, his forces were winning every battle, but losing the war. The problem was that although his squads of commandos and intelligence analysts were performing their individual tasks with world class alacrity, they were failing t...
So his commandos would capture valuable intelligence, but it would take weeks to get it in front of an intelligence officer. Or an intelligence officer would locate a target, but by the time it went through the chain of command the terrorists would be long gone. He realized that rather than a better plan, he needed to ...
The truth is that your mission defines your strategy, not the other way around. So while planning and supervising work are part of every leader’s job, they’re not what’s essential. What’s most important is providing a mission with meaning. Great leaders do not merely plan action, they inspire belief.
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Catholic homeless charity Caritas Anchor House has warned that hundreds of the people it helps are at risk after they were presented with a £1million VAT bill.
The charity, based in Newham, east London, was told by HM Revenue and Customs it faces the bill for developing “move on” flats to support homeless people.
The charity provides homes for 230 people a year, and works with those who have experienced domestic abuse, suffer mental health problems, substance abusers and offenders.
The huge tax bill came about because the authorities deemed that the charity’s definition of the its services as a “residential and life skills centre” rather than a “homeless hostel” left it subject to VAT, even though the charity had not changed its activities.
The charity says it is being penalised for accurately describing its work, and appealed to the Government to reverse the decision.
The charity’s CEO House Keith Furnett told local paper The Wharf: “HMRC’s application of VAT in this case is devastating to our work and to the vulnerable people we support.
“We believe we’re being unreasonably penalised for accurately describing our operations despite not changing what we do.
“What makes this situation even worse is that we have worked incredibly hard to deliver a level of service with a reliance on donations and relatively little government funding.
Sporadic clashes broke out between Palestinians and Israeli forces on Thursday, as Israel deployed hundreds more troops to the occupied West Bank amid uncertainty over the fallout.
Jerusalem: Furious Palestinians have called for a "day of rage" on Friday as protests spread against US President Donald Trump's widely criticised recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
A senior Palestinian official said late Thursday US Vice President Mike Pence was "not welcome in Palestine" following the policy shift, which ended decades of US ambiguity on the status of the disputed city.
But the White House said it would be "counterproductive" to cancel a scheduled meeting between Pence and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas later this month.
Trump's announcement was met by an almost universal diplomatic backlash as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lavished praise on the president, saying his name would be associated with Jerusalem's long history and urging other countries to follow suit.
In a speech in Gaza City, Hamas leader Ismail Haniya called for a new intifada, or uprising. Within hours several projectiles were fired from the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military said.
One hit Israeli territory, prompting the army and air force to retaliate by targeting "two terror posts" in Gaza, it said, blaming Hamas, the enclave's Islamist rulers.
Demonstrations were held in West Bank cities as well as in Gaza, where five Palestinians were wounded from Israeli fire, Gazan authorities said.
Israeli forces dispersed tear gas at a checkpoint entrance to Ramallah, while the Palestinian Red Crescent reported 22 wounded from live fire or rubber bullets in the West Bank.
Trump said his defiant move -- making good on a 2016 presidential campaign pledge -- marks the start of a "new approach" to solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
"It is time to officially recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel," he said Wednesday.
But his willingness to part with international consensus on such a sensitive issue drew increasingly urgent warnings from around the world.
EU diplomatic chief Federica Mogherini said the decision could take the region "backwards to even darker times".
Russian President Vladimir Putin said he was "deeply concerned", calling for the Palestinians and Israel to renew negotiations.
And Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said it would put the region in a "ring of fire".
Pence is due to meet the Palestinian president in the second half of December on a regional tour, but a senior member of Abbas's Fatah faction said the leader would not meet him.
"The American vice president is not welcome in Palestine. And President Abbas will not welcome him," said Jibril Rajoub.
However the White House is likely to only consider the meeting cancelled if they hear that from Abbas, whose office could not be reached for comment.
In a joint statement with Jordan's King Abdullah II, Abbas said "any measure tampering with the legal and historical status of Jerusalem is invalid" and warned Trump's decision would "have dangerous repercussions".
In Lebanon, Hassan Nasrallah, the head of the powerful Shiite movement Hezbollah, called for a mass demonstration on Monday "to protest and denounce this American aggression". Protests are also planned in Turkey and Malaysia.
Palestinian shops in east Jerusalem and the West Bank were largely shuttered and schools closed on Thursday in answer to a general strike call.
"By this decision, America became a very small country, like any small country in the world, like Micronesia," Salah Zuhikeh, 55, told AFP in Jerusalem's Old City.
Hamas called for fresh protests after the main weekly Muslim prayers on Friday.
Trump's move left many angry US allies struggling to find a diplomatic response, with an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council set for Friday.
Trump also kicked off the process of moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem -- another campaign promise dear to US evangelical Christian and right-wing Jewish voters.
His predecessors had made the same pledge, but quickly reneged upon taking office.
Israel seized Arab east Jerusalem in the 1967 Six-Day War and later annexed it in a move never recognised by the international community.
The international community does not recognise the ancient city as Israel's capital, insisting the issue can only be resolved in negotiations.
This point was reiterated by UN chief Antonio Guterres, who stressed his opposition to "any unilateral measures that would jeopardise the prospect of peace".
"The United States would support a two-state solution if agreed to by both sides," he said.
Darren Seals, a black activist who protested in Ferguson, Mo., in 2014, was found shot to death in a burning vehicle in St. Louis County early Tuesday morning, according to county police.
Seals, 29, of St. Louis, was found at about 2 a.m. in the city of Riverview, one of dozens of small communities that make up St. Louis’ predominantly black northern suburbs. He had been shot one time. Police said his first name was spelled Daren, though court records and other activists spell his name as Darren.
No suspects have been arrested or identified, and police have not suggested a motive.
Some activists were chilled by the resemblance of Seals’ death to the unsolved killing of Deandre Joshua in Ferguson two years ago.
Joshua, 20, was also found shot dead in a burning vehicle on the night that St. Louis County Prosecutor Bob McCulloch announced that a grand jury had declined to indict Officer Darren Wilson for shooting unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown.
“At this time the two homicides are not linked,” St. Louis County police spokesman Shawn McGuire said in an email. He declined to release more details on the manner of Seals’ death, citing the ongoing investigation.
At least four other St. Louis-area men have been found shot dead in burning cars in recent years, though it’s unclear if any of those cases were linked in any way. McGuire said such cases were unusual, and St. Louis city police did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Seals, who also went by the name King D. Seals, was mourned by other activists who took part in the Ferguson protests, which began when Wilson, who is white, shot Brown, who was black, after a struggle.
Seals was with Brown’s family on the night of the grand jury announcement, standing on top of a car outside the Ferguson Police Department. Seals later recalled Brown’s mother crying in his arms after the decision not to indict was announced.
“I’ve seen people crying, but she was really hurt. And it hurt me. It hurt all of us,” Seals wrote in an essay for MTV News.
Seals was proud of the protests he had joined. “I don’t recall anyone having a longer protest, a more productive protest, a more creative protest than what we did,” he wrote.
Seals added that violence was a fact of life where he lived in the St. Louis area.
Seals was a contentious figure among the activists who gathered in Ferguson in 2014, some of whom he publicly accused of trying to “hijack” the protests. In July, he tweeted screenshots showing that several of Ferguson’s protesters had blocked him on Twitter.
But activists seemed to put any conflict aside in mourning his death, including DeRay Mckesson, who had been one of the most prominent targets of Seals’ criticism — and whom Seals claimed to have slapped at a protest in 2015.
St. Louis rapper Tef Poe tweeted that he had last spoken to Seals two weeks ago, but was busy and forgot to call him back. He said he cried after he found out Seals was dead Tuesday morning.
“He loved the city and he loved the fact that we accomplished something no else had done in this lifetime,” Poe wrote in a caption for an Instagram post that included Seals posing for a photo with prominent black intellectual Cornel West, who came to Ferguson to protest.
“He was a controversial figure so some people might shy away from shouting him out. Not Me. When it was go time he was always there. Nobody can take that from him,” Poe wrote.
1:55 p.m.: This article has been updated throughout.
The first version of this article was published at 11:05 a.m.
Dutch rival ING, Spain's BBVA and France's BNP Paribas have also expressed an interest - directly or through advisers - in either exploring a full merger with ABN AMRO or buying some of its large non-Dutch businesses, the sources said.
Amsterdam-based ABN AMRO owns large retail banks in North America, Brazil and Italy and the investors, which include British hedge fund TCI, have said it should consider a sale or breakup to boost shareholder returns.
Any talks being held by ABN AMRO with other banks are at a very early and uncertain stage, the sources said.
An announcement from Barclays was expected in a statement to the London Stock Exchange, The Financial Times reported.
The Times and The Daily Telegraph British newspapers also expected such news, while The Independent said both ABN AMRO and Barclays were set to confirm their early-stage talks.
The Sunday Times said Barclays was "keen to act as a white knight to save ABN from its current problems".
Another source said ABN has reached no decision on how to proceed and a quick deal before a shareholder meeting being held next month was unlikely unless the bank was made a hugely compelling offer in the meantime by one of its suitors.
Spokespeople for Barclays, ABN AMRO and BBVA declined to comment on Sunday.
TCI, which was part of a group of activist investors that torpedoed Deutsche Boerse's takeover bid for the London Stock Exchange in 2005, in February said ABN was significantly undervalued and called on it to merge, sell or spin off some of its assets or potentially the whole business.
Paul Kaju, a spokesman for TCI, was quoted on Monday as telling London's CityAM newspaper after news of the Barclays approach broke: "If a merger will unlock the group's undervalued assets then fine, yes, we would support that."
The Warriors beat the Clippers in Game 1 of this series on Saturday in Oakland, 121-104, and have now won Game 1 in 10 straight playoff series, one shy of the all-time record (set by three teams). The Clippers have a series record of 1-8 all-time when losing Game 1 of any playoff series, with the only win coming agains...
Steph Curry scored 38 points in the win, making eight threes to bring his career postseason total to 386, one ahead of Ray Allen (385) for the most in NBA playoff history. Curry also grabbed 15 rebounds to become the only player in NBA history to have 15+ rebounds and 8+ threes in a postseason game.
Kevin Durant has scored 20+ points in 29 straight playoff games, the longest active streak in the NBA. He has 117 career playoff games with 20+ points, second most among active players (LeBron James -- 214).
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 18 points in the loss, the most ever by a Clippers rookie in his first career playoff game. The last rookie to score at least 18 points in any playoff game for the franchise was John Shumate in 1976 for the Buffalo Braves (20 points on April 28, 1976 vs. Boston Celtics).
Eight different Warriors blocked at least one shot in the win, only the fourth time in the last 35 years that any team had at least eight players with a block in a playoff game. Golden State finished with 14 blocks total in the win and led the NBA in the regular season with nine double-digit block games.
Golden State outrebounded Los Angeles, 53-40, in Game 1. This was crucial to the success of both teams in the regular season -- the Warriors went 40-6 (.870) when winning the rebound battle, second best in the NBA, while the Clippers went 36-6 (.857) in such games, third best (Rockets best at 26-3, .897).

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