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Partridge leaves his painful gang previous behind, offers again to Saskatoon
By Gwen Christensen Last updated Oct 21, 2022
The former gang member has become a community activist and a political operative after beating a lifelong addiction.
Phil Tank • Saskatoon StarPhoenix Shane Partridge is a community activist and former gang member. Photo taken in Saskatoon on Feb. 25, 2020. Photo by Matt Smith /Saskatoon StarPhoenix
During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Shane Partridge volunteered to serve on the front line.
Partridge spent three weeks in March and April screening Saskatoon's homeless and vulnerable people at the White Buffalo Youth Lodge for hours a day, sometimes in bitter cold.
The community activist and political operative says he cares about his community and felt his background in the Riversdale and Pleasant Hill neighbourhoods would help.
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Stan Tu'Inukuafe, the cofounder of Str8 Up, a Saskatoon non-profit that helps former gang members like Partridge embark on new lives, says such altruism amid a time of fear does not surprise him.
"When Str8 Up members get healthy, they want to give back to the community that they took so much from," Tu'Inukuafe said. "And Shane's no different."
Partridge, who rescued himself from three decades of severe alcoholism and violence, returned to the youth lodge in May as an employee to continue screening.
The former gang member and wilderness guide has survived a lot, including two suicide attempts before his teens, his kidnapping and torture by a rival gang in Prince George, B.C. and an attack by a grizzly bear.
He's been stabbed three times, shot once, survived a head-on highway collision and faced death in a hospital bed from alcohol abuse.
Shane Partridge is a community activist and former gang member. Photo by Matt Smith /Saskatoon StarPhoenix
The lifelong alcoholic, who spent his life trying to find a place to belong, found the motivation eight years ago to jettison the booze that had defined his life and embrace a new direction.
Partridge now serves as a leader with the Pleasant Hill Community Association and is the campaign manager for a provincial NDP candidate in Saskatoon.
"I think about how long it takes me to tell my story," the soft-spoken Partridge says in an interview. "And you know what? That's OK. Because it means I'm still living and I'm still living life, right?"
Partridge grew up on a farm just west of Saskatoon. Life there proved isolating for him as a toddler and he spent a lot of time with his parents and their friends.
He started asking for alcohol to try to feel more grown up and was getting booze from his parents "on a weekly basis" at the age of three, he says.
He was eight when his parents bought him his first six-pack of beer, he recalls.
"I was a skinny little kid," he says. "I didn't really fit in at school, starting right at kindergarten."
Shane Partridge stands outside the White Buffalo Youth Lodge in April helping to screen homeless and vulnerable people for COVID-19 symptoms. Photo by Liam Richards /Saskatoon StarPhoenix
Partridge, a burly man who now sports a blond goatee with some grey hairs, an earring and a neck tattoo, was picked on at the school he attended in Saskatoon. His father advised him to "toughen up" and fight back against bullying, he says.
"That was all I ever wanted to be, was as tough as my dad, you know. Be as big a man as him and his friends were."
Partridge ran into trouble for getting in fights at school. At the age of 11, feeling isolated at school and at home, he started stealing cigarettes and alcohol from his parents. He remembers drinking alone in the basement.
"It wasn't a social thing, it was coping," he says.
He tried to end his life the first time by stabbing himself in the chest. The suicide attempt further isolated him from his parents, who were embarrassed and told him he would go to hell if he killed himself, he says.
At 12, he tried to hang himself, but his father found him. The rope burn scars on his neck attracted mockery at home and at school.
He started to dislike people and fight all the time.
He was getting bigger, too — big enough to hurt people.
In Grade 10, he badly injured another teen in a fight and faced a possible attempted murder charge. He was convicted of aggravated assault and began a string of jail terms, fuelled by alcohol.
"The system wasn't working for me, it was working against me and I didn't have a way out," Partridge says. "I didn't know how to ask for help."
He was drinking daily; other teens were told to avoid him.
He was kicked out of his home. He rattles off a list of high schools he attended that kicked him out for fighting: Mount Royal, Bedford, Nutana.
Bedford placed a restraining order on him.
"I was kicked out of every school there was that I could go to," he says.
When his father was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease, Partridge was affected even though he was no longer living at home. The father who had shaped his life, for better or worse, was dying.
Partridge bolted for northern British Columbia to become a wilderness guide for hunters. The Prairie boy was ridiculed when he applied to become a mountain guide, but he got the job.
"I (went) three years without even going to a grocery store," he says.
He guided trophy hunters on horseback in the Mackenzie Mountains to find caribou and Alaskan moose, in northern B.C. in the winter and in the Yukon and Northwest Territories in the summer.
The remote location failed to stop his drinking or address his addiction.
Partridge says he still drank every day. The guides paid for rye whiskey in plastic bottles wrapped in towels that were dropped from low-flying planes into the base camp, he recalls.
Even though he had accomplished his goal of isolation from people, as he neared age 30 he realized he wanted more.
"I knew there was more to life than dying alone in the mountains with my horse and dog," he says.
He rejected the idea of returning to Saskatoon, as he had yet to deal with his father's death in 2000.
In 2002, he suffered multiple broken bones in a head-on crash on the Alaska Highway in B.C. The cab of the red truck he was driving crumpled, looking like nobody could have survived the collision.
Shane Partridge, now a Saskatoon community activist, survived a head-on collision in this crushed truck on the highway between Dawson Creek and St. John in British Columbia on Dec. 8, 2002. (Photo courtesy Shane Partridge) jpg
He recovered, moved to Prince George, and was hired by a forestry company. Partridge welcomed the idea of a more normal life.
On his first day, he was invited out by a co-worker. He saw the opportunity to make friends and find the acceptance he sought his entire life.
At that point, he had done just about every drug available.
"I wasn't picky about what I got messed up on, although alcohol was always my preference," he says.
His new work pal introduced him to some friends who used cocaine and belonged to a street gang that was the subsidiary of a prominent motorcycle gang.
Partridge had spent most of his life being tough and mean, so his skill set fit the gang lifestyle, which also enabled his addictions. He rose through the ranks.
His fellow gang members loved hearing his tales about life in the wilderness — including the time Partridge shot a charging grizzly eight times as it pursued him and another guide before the bear succumbed.
The gang prohibited "dirty drugs" that required a needle, but cocaine and crack were fine, he laughs.
"I became really good at cooking crack, selling crack."
But the hard drugs led to greater violence. Partridge says people in Prince George would get their fingers cut off over drug debts as low as $10 to $20.
Partridge himself says he was stabbed three times, shot once and kidnapped twice by a rival gang.
The second time, a new gang that was flexing its muscles through escalating violence, took Partridge hostage. They wanted to find a member of Partridge's crew who had stolen from them.
Partridge says he was repeatedly beaten and tortured, moved from one "crack shack" to another.
He suffered broken eye sockets, a broken jaw, a broken cheek and lost teeth. The gang wrapped his head in a towel because he was bleeding so much, he says.
After two days of brutality, the gang leaders expressed "mad respect" because he refused to betray his comrades, he says.
When they tried to get him to join them, he replied, "You guys just tried killing me. I ain't going to be your f*cking hero," he recalls.
Partridge sobered up in captivity and realized he could die. The abduction proved to be a turning point, at least temporarily.
After the rival gang released him, he told his gang leader he wanted out. He remains surprised he left the gang so easily, he says. Gang members even drove him to the Prince George airport for his flight back to Saskatoon.
"My first day in Saskatoon, by the end of the day I had cocaine in my hands," he says.
He fell in with a new Saskatoon street gang he declines to name. His boss from the Prince George gang had alerted the Saskatoon group to his arrival.
"I thought that I had left everything in B.C. behind," he says. Instead, he resumed his life of addiction, selling drugs and drinking 20 to 30 beers a day.
He's still amazed he managed to hold down jobs through all the substance abuse, including work as a heavy equipment operator in Saskatoon.
Then he met Jackie Squance at the Blue Diamond restaurant on 22nd Street.
She didn't drink or do drugs. Partridge was there to sell drugs, while Squance, a mother of three, was there with her mom.
Shane Partridge, then a director with STR8 Up, talks to media in July 2019 about the need for a comprehensive provincial gang strategy to combat the recent increase in gang-related violence and crime in Saskatoon's Pleasant Hill neighbourhood. Photo by Matt Smith /Saskatoon StarPhoenix
They started spending time together and Partridge realized he had to quit drugs.
"And it wasn't hard," he recalls. "My motivation was I cared about somebody, right?"
Partridge and Squance moved in together, but he struggled with his new role as stepfather.
"I didn't know how to be a dad," he says.
His alcohol intake ramped up to 40 beers a day. He started to suffer two or three seizures daily and wound up in hospital with internal bleeding. A doctor told him he was drinking himself to death and would die within a year.
He remembers seeing Squance and his two stepsons crying. He suddenly realized someone else cared about him.
"I didn't want to lose that," he says. "I was stubborn as hell and I had survived that long through all that other sh*t. I wasn't going to drink myself to death."
He checked himself into detox for five days. It marked the first time he'd been sober for five straight days since the age of three, he says.
He thought he had beaten his addiction.
"And I bought a case of beer to celebrate," he recalls.
The sickness and seizures returned in a couple of weeks. He returned to detox, but was told he could not stay longer than two weeks. His attempts to find long-term help were met with resistance because of his gang background and criminal record.
He also struggled with where to turn. Then he met with Tu'Inukuafe from Str8 Up.
"I thought I wasn't bad enough for him, a sad enough case," Partridge says.
Tu'Inukuafe was blunt. He told Partridge his solution was simple — sober up.
Partridge trusted Tu'Inukuafe, followed his guidance and stayed sober for a couple of years. Then he started drinking again and avoided Str8 Up for a year.
When he returned, he was welcomed, despite his shame about the relapse. He has not had a drink since that day, eight years ago, when he was 35.
Tu'Inukuafe says Partridge had two important advantages that led to his success: A partner who supported him and a resume with fairly consistent employment.
"He had that desire to be healthy, to recover," Tu'Inukuafe observes. "And not everyone has that."
Sobriety brought to Partridge a need for a greater sense of purpose, although "I was able to respect that my life would never be typical or normal," he says.
Someone suggested he volunteer for Charlie Clark's mayoral campaign in 2016. Partridge had seen Clark at Str8 Up, but had no idea who he was.
"I'd only ever done my income tax once in my life," Partridge recalls. "I'd never voted. I'd just started getting my life back together here, still stuck in that unhealthy mindset where police, judges, lawyers, politicians, teachers, anybody (who's) an authority figure is bad."
Partridge was given Clark's cellphone number and called it. Clark invited him to come volunteer at his booth at the Pride festival.
"What really stood out to me is that he basically told me right off the bat that he was really intimidated to be out there," Clark recalls.
Partridge says he felt welcomed and valued by Clark's campaign team. The tattoo-covered man differed from other campaign volunteers, but it's important that others see people like Partridge as part of the community, too, Clark says.
Inspired by the experience, Partridge decided he wanted to help change the justice system. The addict in him wanted the good feeling from volunteer work to continue, he observes.
He started reaching out to politicians like former public safety minister Ralph Goodale and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Goodale showed up for a meeting with Partridge and provincial leaders at Str8 Up on Avenue V South in Pleasant Hill in April 2017. The provincial gang strategy evolved out of that meeting, Partridge says.
Shane Partridge, a Saskatoon community activist and former gang member, sits behind the desk of former public safety minister Ralph Goodale in Ottawa during the summer of 2019. (Photo courtesy Shane Partridge) jpg
Tu'Inukuafe gives Partridge credit for helping to shape the strategy. He wound up working for Str8 Up.
"Other workers, they might be hesitant to email the prime minister, but Shane's not," Tu'Inukuafe explains. "He was meticulous in his work ethic. We only had funds to pay him 20 hours a week, but he would work 50."
Partridge wanted to help other youth, people who feel lost like he did, find a different path. After leaving Str8 Up, he became involved with the provincial New Democrats and the Pleasant Hill Community Association.
He's now vice-president of the community association and has lobbied city council, including Clark, for action on boarded-up buildings.
"Even though I was part of that process of him, you know, rebuilding his life," Clark says, "now he's challenging the city and the community and me on some of these really complex, messy safety issues and the feeling in Pleasant Hill."
Partridge has lived in Pleasant Hill for about 10 years. He recognizes the stigma against Pleasant Hill due to crime and he wants to make the neighbourhood better and safer.
Current Saskatoon gang members, who mistrusted him when he abandoned his former lifestyle, have now accepted him as an ally, he says.
"I can walk anywhere in Pleasant Hill and somebody will always say hi, and they know me for good reasons, not to kick my ass."
Some have urged Partridge to run for office, either at the provincial or municipal level, but he's not sure that suits his skills.
He helped Betty Nippi-Albright win the NDP nomination for Saskatoon Centre in November and is now working for her campaign for a provincial election set for October.
Given his affiliation with the NDP, some were surprised when he cheered the selection of Premier Scott Moe as the new leader of the Saskatchewan Party in 2018.
"It's because a guy with a criminal record is now our premier," Partridge says, referring to Moe's 1992 conviction for drunk driving.
"Do you know what that means for me? It means I can tell kids that they can be any damn thing that they want to be and I'm not lying to them."
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The July Revolution of 1830 was stunningly swift, a matter of days instead of years. On Monday, 26 July, King Charles X issued the four ordonnances, a bold attempt to subvert the constitution and increase royal power. By late Thursday morning, he had lost control of Paris; by Saturday, the duc d'Orléans had accepted an invitation from the Chamber of Deputies to become Lieutenant General of the kingdom. On Monday, 2 August-just a week after the ordonnances had appeared-Charles X abdicated on behalf of his grandson. On 7 August, the Chamber approved a hasty revision of the constitution. And on Monday, 9 August, a mere two weeks after it all began, the duc d'Orléans was installed as Louis-Philippe I, King of the French.
Republicans were not happy, but there were too few of them to affect the outcome. "We ceded only because we were not in force," said republican journalist Godefroy Cavaignac. Nevertheless, the leading moderate republicans, all of them members of the educated middle classes-physicians, lawyers, hommes de lettres-were willing to tolerate a throne genuinely "surrounded by republican institutions," according to the popular formula. The July Monarchy soon disappointed expectations, first with a contrived political trial, the Proces des Dix-Neuf, and then with a series of judicial attacks against the free press, the right of association, and the Société des Amis du Peuple. By 5-6 June 1832, violent montagnardism had emerged, and active Parisian republicanism had become a largely working-class movement.
There were significant economic problems in the background of the 1830 revolution, acute in the period from 1827 to 1832; the years were marked by harvest failures, food shortages, and increases in the cost of living. These agricultural difficulties made worse the recession in the industrial economy, leading to an upsurge in the number of bankruptcies, a sharp rise in unemployment, and the lowering of wages in several important industries. During the unusually cold winter of 1828-1829, up to a quarter of Paris residents had depended on bread cards, which entitled them to cheap loaves. Yet the revolution was a political adjustment rather than an economic upheaval; the economic forces that drove it were not in the streets but in a struggle of the elites, and the regime that emerged-despite the continuing strength of the nobility-was called, with reason, the bourgeois monarchy.
The revolution began within the government itself. On 16 March 1830, by a vote of 221 to 181, the members of the liberal opposition in the Chamber of Deputies deliberately challenged the king by requesting that he change his council, which was headed by the reactionary Prince Jules de Polignac. Rather than concede, the king dissolved the chamber. New elections in June led to results even more lopsided; the opposition was now at least 270 votes strong, with only about 145 firmly for the Polignac ministry. In early July, after a very brief campaign, French forces seized Algiers. The initial conquest was easy; pacification would become the chief foreign military burden of the Orléans regime. But for the moment, it seemed that colonial success might embolden Charles X to use article 14 of the Charter, which allowed the monarch to issue ordonnances for "the security of the state," and thus effectively to assume dictatorial powers.
These premonitions were fulfilled on Monday, 26 July 1830, with the publication of the four ordonnances. The new regulation on the press prohibited newspapers from publishing without government authorization, renewable every three months and revocable at will. The already narrow voting rights (based on the payment of taxes) were further restricted to landowners, by a disqualification of the sorts of taxes paid by wealthy businessmen. Of the remaining voters, only the top one-quarter would elect deputies directly. The other two decrees dissolved the new Chamber and called for elections in September. If the ordonnances had stood, the monarchy would have been able effectively to muzzle a critical press and manipulate elections. To the liberal opposition, such a regime would have meant dominance by the old nobility and clergy.
July was the first of what would become an astonishing series of revolutions and unsuccessful rebellions. The National Guard of Paris, dissolved by Charles X after many of them had shouted against his ministry during an 1827 review, spontaneously began to appear on the streets to mediate between combatants and troops. Among the insurgents, ordinary working people predominated, with little to guide them except the energetic journalists' protest, drafted by Adolphe Thiers of Le National and read out on the streets by angry printshop workers (their livelihoods threatened) on Tuesday, 27 July. Those who fought, according to David Pinkney, were mostly respectable artisans and skilled workers. The construction and wood-working trades, including masons, carpenters, joiners, cabinetmakers, and locksmiths, were overrepresented, according to their total numbers in Paris. There were relatively few students. Pinkney suggested that the principle leadership was provided by veterans of the empire, an impression shared by physician F. Poumies de la Siboutie, who set out with his medical kit on the second day of the fighting and noted "uniforms of all branches [of the service], of all epochs, of the Republic, the Empire, worn by old soldiers or retired officers." The dead numbered 496 civilians and 150 soldiers.
But the insurgents were not republicans. Edgar Leon Newman has shown that the working classes of 1830 spurned the republican students and journalists who tried so desperately to enlist them. Instead, they had learned to trust the liberal opposition leaders of the Restoration, bound to them by a shared anticlericalism that was nourished with cheap reissues of Enlightenment classics. They followed these same leaders in 1830, to the amazement even of liberals; Le National editor Armand Carrel was frankly surprised that working people concerned themselves with the constitutional questions that agitated the political classes: "Everywhere in the streets men without coats, shirtsleeves rolled up, armed with muskets, and running to the defense of the barricades, said: `We want our Deputies; our Deputies know what we need, and the king doesn't." The duc d'Orléans' oldest son later remembered the appeal of a wounded combatant: "`Prince,' he said to me, his eyes haggard and his hair bristling, `time presses. It is necessary to save the fatherland! Your father at our head, your father king, and we will finish with the emigrés and the Jesuits!'"


If using the busybox built-in ntpd is enough (as suggested by r28613 and r28612) and the discusion in the openwrt-devel mailing list, the dependency for ntpclient package should be removed from the package aiccu. Or actually aiccu should be modified to be happy with the busybox ntpd.
Otherwise the full ntpclient needs to be installed if aiccu is used.


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Sunday will be breezy, sunny, and much cooler with highs closer to 70. The Fall feel will last into early next week.
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Nanoptix announces new strategic partnership with SUZOHAPP
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"The fact that Nanoptix has chosen SUZOHAPP as a partner is a great endorsement of our distribution leadership. We look forward to a long and successful partnership", concluded John Archuleta, Director of Sales – Aftermarket Americas.
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Q: How to estimate the likelihood that a distribution is not random Not sure I phrase the title right, but here's by question in a nutshell.
Say you have a box of balls with different colors. Let's say there are $N$ balls of $k$ different colors, and that the distribution of colors is such that some colors are more represented than others with a known distribution. You then ask a completely colorblind person to separate the balls across $M$ equally probable bins.

What is the likelihood of the distribution of balls made by this colorblind person?
Or: how likely is it that the person is really colorblind?
So far I've addressed the problem in this line of thought: If the person is completely colorblind, the most likely distribution would be random so it makes sense to somehow compare the outcome to this. If there were infinite balls I would just compare the distribution in each bin to the known distribution of colors, but as $N$ grows smaller this approach reduces in validity. The problem can also be recast such as to say that each bin draws a number of times from the distribution, but it gets very complicated when $N$ is finite because then the draws in each bin influence each other. Not sure how to proceed from here.
Disclaimer: This is a simplification of the actual problem I'm working on. Really, I'm studying whether the values a variable assumes in varying distances from a point can be said to have statistical significance, or are just random. The $N$ values of the variable are discretised into $k$ intervals, and distances into $M$ intervals.

A: As the problem is laid out it makes me think of a multivariate hypergeometric distribution. It is the same distribution assumed in Fisher's Exact Test.
That distribution models following situation :

In an urn there are $N$ balls each of a color so that there are $c$ colors. There are $K_i$ balls for color $i$. A sample of size $n$ is taken out of that urn and you end up with $k_i$ balls for each $i$ color so your sample is a vector ($k_1, k_2, ... k_c$).

The probability of such a sample is given by the multivariate hypergeometric distribution :
$P = \frac{\sum\limits_{i = 1}^c {K_i\choose k_i}}{{N \choose n}}$
In a Fisher's Exact Test (FET) for a table of size 2xc you can compute the probability of such a table happening with the multivariate hypergeometric distribution. Now, if you want to know how extreme that table is (i.e how not random it is) you have to consider all the other tables with same marginal totals (similar sampling) and compute their probability too. The p-value of that test is then the sum of all the probabilities lesser or equal to the probability of the actual sample/table.
Note that this distribution assume that there is no replacement and a ball is of only one color.
Hope it helps and I was clear

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China urges EU to ease high-tech export restrictions
Updated: Mar 15,2017 1:32 PM Xinhua
BEIJING — Premier Li Keqiang on March 15 urged the European Union (EU) to ease its high-tech export restrictions on China, in response to concerns over the bloc's trade deficit with the world's second largest economy.
"I believe that will make a big difference in China-EU trade imbalance," Premier Li said at a news conference following the conclusion of the annual parliamentary session in Beijing.
The EU is China's largest trading partner, while China is the EU's second largest after the United States.
"China has no intention to pursue trade surplus. In fact, China prefers trade balance, otherwise it won't be sustainable," the Premier said, pointing out that European companies are situated at the higher end of industrial chain and already making a lot of money on the Chinese market.
China looks forward to a positive response from the EU on the ongoing Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) negotiations, Premier Li said, while promising that, even without a BIT for now, China will further open up its market to European companies and treat them the same as domestic ones.
"We have got experience to properly handle our trade frictions," the Premier added.
The Premier also stressed that China will always support a united, prosperous and stable EU, a strong euro, and the European integration, which all benefit globalization, a multipolar world and cultural diversity.
"The future of the EU and China-EU relations looks bright to me," the Premier said.
China urges US to avoid trade remedy measures


It's one thing to grow up in India's middle class and travel as a local. But traveling as a well-to-do non-resident Indian who is taking in everything around her as part of her work requires wearing trifocals. I was peering into things that I had taken for granted when I lived in India as a young woman; I wanted to talk to people I would not have deigned to talk to in the past. I was interested in doing things that I'd never have dared to do before. On this trip, drivers became my best friends.
In Mumbai, Avdesh, a driver who spoke mostly Hindi and Marathi, received me at Sahar airport. He drove me from Chembur to Juhu and Ghatkopar and then to Powai (all in one day, no mean feat in Mumbai traffic during monsoon season). En route, Avdesh pointed out Juhu beach, the best coffee shops, the two homes of Bollywood mega star Amitabh Bachchan, five-star hotels and mammoth malls. He tried pidgin English. I spoke bad Hindi scaffolded by English. We traded snippets – about his young wife, his last job, dreadful Mumbai traffic and people in America.
From Mumbai to the town of Ahmednagar three hours away I drove with a burly, mustached gentleman called PJ. My friend Usha and I were there to meet women in Ahmednagar's red light district. PJ kept a discreet distance, never asking what we were doing there. A good driver in India is one who never talks. The best of the species is one who talks in monosyllables. Usha told me PJ's daughter attended an excellent English-medium school in Mumbai. Education was the only way out of poverty and everywhere across the length and breadth of India, families were dredging their bank accounts to educate their children "in English medium".
In the state of Gujarat, I broke bread, laddoo (chickpea flour balls) and ribbon pakoda (spicy rice flour snack) with yet another young driver, Mansingh, a reed-like man clad in tight-fitting polyester shirts and pants, who spoke no English.
With Mansingh at the wheel, I pulled up at palaces and museums in Baroda and Ahmedabad even though, many times, I didn't know if we would reach our destination at all. His driving was dreadful, but it was his only marketable skill. And in any case, his disarming nature made up for the wild ride. While I sank into a plush bed at Ahmedabad's St. Laurn Towers, Mansingh slept in his little purple Tata Indica, all six feet of him folded into a fetal position inside the backseat. If he so much as lowered the window by a half an inch and let the cool night air waft in, a swarm of mosquitoes would flurry in and dine on him.
Wherever I went, I let drivers also decide where I should eat and so I ended up dining at several questionable truck stops. At a dhaba (highway trucker's stop) on the Shanthipur-Kolkata road in West Bengal, the roti (thin round bread) was unpuffed, the dhal (spicy lentil soup) was flavorless, the okra, formless. Everything reeked of roasted fish. The vegetarian in me curled away from the plate. While others at this dhaba ate out of stained, stainless steel plates, I was served on dented upscale china. The only waiter who looked like a goonda – one of those hired thugs from Bollywood movies – sported a white sleeveless vest so dirty that I knew that the only way to keep my food in my stomach was to not visit the kitchen. With one sip of the bottled water, I knew it was bottled behind the dhaba's kitchen, but no sooner had the waiter served me his steaming masala chai than everything turned right with the world. There's a reason why people come back to India despite the frustrations. It's always that chai.
On that same drive to Kolkata I remember telling Driver – often drivers get assigned this convenient first name by passengers – to stop in the middle of the one-lane highway. In the glut of green, a farmer squatted on his haunches, supervising women who were working the field for him.
The man sat there under an umbrella, smoking, while arrows of water poked the ground around him. Rain pelting my face, I ran out of the car towards the paddy fields. Ten feet away, seven or eight sari-clad women were bent over, sopping wet , picking and pulling and transplanting seedlings. "How much do you pay them?" I asked. "Hundred rupees ($2) per day," he shot back in Bengali, chewing the cigarette between his lips, challenging me with a look in his face that said that it really was none of my business.
On this road trip I experienced the attrition of local culture in many places in South India, where highways and fast toll roads have rapidly connected towns and villages in the last five years. I wish they had only changed the landscape. Unfortunately, they're changing attitudes and livelihoods in ancient silk manufacturing centers like Kanchipuram, where they're wresting old values away from families that have been experts in traditional crafts for over a thousand years.
I traveled through India with the intent of breaking free from my mental fetters about caste and class. I spent many days in the company of unknown people – many of them from the lower social and economic strata – whom I considered the anonymous cogs in the machinery called India. It didn't matter how much money or power each of us had. We were all exactly like one another – trying to find our place in the world, trying to make sense of the new and the old orders while chasing a piece of the action that eluded us for reasons we would probably understand only later.
Kalpana Mohan's essays and articles have appeared in national, regional and local publications, including NPR, Business Week Online and San Francisco Chronicle. In 2009, she received the New America Media award in the "Arts, Sports and Entertainment" category for a story that she wrote for India Currents Magazine. In January 2011, she won a book pitch event called Pitchapalooza hosted at Kepler's Books in Mountain View. The prize gave her the courage to dream about a collection of narratives about India. She blogs about her work on India and Indians in the diaspora at http://www.saritorial.com. Kalpana also writes short stories about Indian-Americans whose lives are derailed by way of Google, social networking, SAT scores, masalas and mantras. She lives in Saratoga. To know more about her work, visit http://www.kalpanamohan.org.


It's that time of the year when we have to be grateful of everything we have!
Thanksgiving is a very popular holiday in the USA. It's a day where we stop and think about everything we have … stop for a minute and think … aren't you grateful of the amazing things life can offer us? Well, but to celebrate this holiday with style, nothing better than having a nice table set! Continue scrolling to see some ideas of Thanksgiving Décors!
The fireplace is back to business! After a long period of vacations, your fireplace is ready to start heating your day and nights! It's also a great place to display some fall décors, and, of course, some crafts that resemble the most grateful holiday of the year!
Motivational quotes are also a great idea! Print a quote and put it on a board – or but it already with the quote – and display it on your dining room décor! It's important to be inspired and specialy confident on this day!
And, of course, it's impossible to think about Thanksgiving diner without creating a picture on your head with a table full of delicious food, aren't we right?
Now, forget a little bit about the food, because we are sure that you'll handle that perfectly, and let's think about the table décor!
If you are more into the classic and sophisticated table set, this might be just the right option for you! It's actually a mix between the traditional table décor, and a few elements that are trendy this year!
If you don't want to be so classy, this is the right inspiration for you! Retro and vintage style are this year's top trends. How can you achieve this design? Well, an old wood table, some mid-century chairs, and, of course, some autumn flowers to decorate the table, and give it a little bit of life!
And, of course, you had to show you the perfect choice if you are willing to follow this year's latest design trends! It's all about vintage style, mid-century design, neutral colors, wood pieces, and rusty finishes!
More than food and décor, the most important thing of this day is to gather your family and friends and be grateful and delighted that they are with you!
READ ALSO: 5 Winter Vintage Décor Trends!


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The University of Liverpool is one of the oldest civic universities in the UK. Founded in 1881, the university has a reputation for recruiting notable scholars and is associated with eight Nobel Laureates.
It is a pioneering university, being the first in the world to establish a School of Tropical Medicine in 1899. The first departments of Architecture, Biochemistry and Civic Design in the UK were opened here. The University is well known for excellent teaching and research that relates to the professions, with particular strengths in Medicine, Dentistry, Law, Engineering, Business and Architecture. Recognised for innovative teaching methods the University is also the largest provider of online degrees in Europe.
Many of University staff are at the forefront of research. In the most recent Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), 53% of research staff ranked in the highest categories of 4* (world-leading) and 3* (internationally excellent). The University is a member of The Russell Group of 24 UK research- led universities and is ranked in the top 1% of higher education institutions worldwide for internationally recognised research. 4,600 international students from more than 100 countries enrol at the university and study on campus.
The university gives its students affordable and high quality student experience:
Liverpool is one of the most cost effective student cities in the UK (NatWest Student Living Index 2012);
Our student : staff ratio is the 9th best in the UK and the 7th best in the Russell Group (2012);
11th largest annual research income in the Russell Group (The Financial Times 2012);
Ranked 29th in the Times Good University Guide 2012;
31st in the Complete University Guide 2013 with many departments ranked in the top 10 in the UK: Architecture, Marketing, Nursing, Opthalmics, Physiotherapy, Veterinary Medicine, Chemistry, Dentistry, Computer Science;
Third best place in the world outside the US to do postdoctoral research (The Scientist).
In 2011 the University launched a £650m 10 year campus investment programme in learning and research facilities and state-of-the-art residential buildings as part of the University's commitment to providing a world-class student experience and research environment. The investment includes a £250 million redevelopment of the University's student accommodation. A further £350 million is earmarked for investment in the academic estate at its city centre campus and at its Leahurst Veterinary campus on the Wirral.
Campus facilities include:
Extensive research, teaching and study facilities;
2 million books and 40,000 electronic journals in 2 libraries;
Europe's most advanced scientific teaching laboratories;
Newly extended sports centre and swimming pool complex.
The University's continued investment in world-class libraries and state-of-the-art technology provision is a sign of our commitment to excellence in every aspect of learning.
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Liverpool John Lennon Airport is around eight miles from the city centre and offers flights from various parts of Europe. A low-cost bus service from the airport to the city centre is operated by Merseytravel. Manchester Airport, which is around 45 minutes from Liverpool, is the destination for flights from around the world. There is a direct rail link and coach service from the airport to Liverpool City Centre.


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Nine new instructors graduated from the Wilderness Medical Associates instructor training program held in the beautiful Adirondack Mountains June 19-21st. They bring to the company significant patient care experience, impressive back country resumes, and varied teaching experience. We are delighted to welcome them to the WMA family and applaud their energy, fun-loving spirit, and commitment to provide the highest quality wilderness medical training.
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Due to a recent, yet long overdue, change in legislation the Bank of England and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) are now closely monitoring those who are authorised to offer credit, this translates into a transparent service and ensures that the needs and demands of the customer are always met through a presentation of the most affordable & suitable funding solution and not the solution that earns the lender the most money!
We have always considered the customer and kept their best interests at the forefront of any transaction, we are proud to have gained our accreditation and that we are fully licensed and regulated by the FCA. As totally independent we are able to offer the most affordable solution, as we aren't tied to only the one funder like the typical main dealer. Subject to status, we are authorised to offer competitive and flexible funding packages from no fewer than five specialist lenders, Black Horse, Close Motor Finance & Bank of Ireland to name a few.
If you wish to discover how competitive we are or would like a non-obligatory illustration then please do not hesitate to ask, we would firstly recommend an informal discussion to allow us to understand your needs and to establish affordability, thus leading to the presentation of a fully compliant written illustration, allowing you, in your own time, to digest all associated terms of offer prior to agreeing on the most suitable funding solution, either finance or leasing.
We can assist you in purchasing your dream car while spreading the cost.
Agree an initial deposit, typically a minimum of 10% of the cash price with the balance spread over 13 – 60 months. We will handle the finance proposal, send to the most competitive lender, gain a response and then subject to acceptance we will have the documents ready for your signature, you can then drive the car away.
Choose your pre-owned or new car. Typically cars up to ten years old qualify.
Discuss the deposit you can afford.
The actual funder buys the vehicle on your behalf less any deposit that you have paid to us.
Interest rates are fixed so you'll always know the amount of each payment until the car is yours.
You pay over your chosen period.
After you've made all the payments including the interest you own the car.
PCP can keep your monthly payments lower by deferring a significant proportion of the amount of credit to the final payment at the end of the agreement.
Agree an initial deposit, how many miles you are likely to travel each year and how long you want the agreement to run for and we will then calculate the Guaranteed Future Value (GFV) of your vehicle and confirm your monthly payment.
Choose your pre-owned or new car. Cars up to three years old can also qualify.
Agree your maximum annual mileage—up to 24,000 miles a year.
Agree your deposit with us.
Set payments to suit your budget.
At the end of the agreement you have three options to choose from as below.
Part exchange the vehicle subject to settlement of your existing finance agreement; new finance agreements are subject to status.
Return the vehicle and not pay the Final Lump Sum Payment. If the vehicle is in good condition and has not exceeded the allowed mileage you will have nothing further to pay. If the vehicle has exceeded the allowed mileage a charge for excess mileage will apply.
Pay the Final Lump Sum Payment to own the vehicle.
And you have 2 to 4 years to decide which option to choose.
Lease Purchase is exclusively for business users and similar to a Personal Contract Purchase (PCP), with a large lump sum at the end of the agreement, but the final lump sum is not a guaranteed future value of the vehicle.
This means that you cannot return the vehicle at the end of the agreement, other than any voluntary termination rights that you may have. Agree an initial deposit and how long you want the agreement to run for and will then calculate your final payment and confirm your regular monthly payment. We will submit the finance application to the most competitive funder and subject to your application being approved; you can just drive your car away.
Choose your new car or pre-owned car. Used cars up to three years old can also qualify.
Agree the deposit with us.
Choose your repayment period over two to four years.
Agree the final lump sum payment with us.
Borrow any amount between £1,500 to £250,000.
At the end of the agreement you have two options to choose from.
Make the final payment, and obtain ownership of the vehicle or part exchange for a new vehicle (if the part exchange does not cover the final payment you would need to pay the shortfall to settle the finance agreement). New finance agreements are subject to status.
You pay a flexible deposit on the car, typically 10% or less of the cash price.
At the end of the agreement you have two options; (1) part exchange the car (subject to settlement of your existing finance agreement new finance agreements are subject to status) (2) pay the final lump sum payment to own the car.
We are able to offer a select choice of vehicles at competitive monthly rates based on a minimum 1 month rental commitment, this can offer a pro-active or re-active solution where your circumstances have changed either domestically or commercially.
Short term contracts are a great way to satisfy your needs where you may have a new staff member, you need a 4×4 for the winter or maybe you fancy a sports coupe for the summer? Whatever your requirement please don't hesitate to ask us about our latest offers on prestige, sports & 4×4's.
Exclusively for business users contract hire can be one of the most tax efficient ways of running a new car, your monthly rentals are fixed for the term (based on an agreed annual mileage) and can include routine maintenance along with your annual road fund licence (RFL).
For VAT registered companies 50% of the VAT on the basic rental can be recovered and up to 100% of the VAT can be recovered on the maintenance element of the rental.
At the end of the contract the vehicle is handed back and any excess mileage (only if you exceed the agreed mileage) is charged, typically between 0.7 and 0.12 pence per mile.
12 – 48 month contracts are available, subject to status, on any new car with deposit's starting as low as the equivalent of only the one monthly rental.
For business users only. Rental profile 3 + 23. Annual mileage 10,000. All prices quoted are subject to VAT.
Please call our leasing department today on 08450 230 100 to discuss your requirements and let us find your next car.


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Q: Cannot access class com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.datatype.XMLGregorianCalendarImpl My program needs to convert an xml file to another xml file compatible with sending invoices through our company program.
The compilation of the code happens without problems, while when I start the .bat file I get this error:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalAccessError:
class controller.ConversionWorker (in unnamed module @0x71c8becc)
cannot access class com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.datatype.XMLGregorianCalendarImpl (in module java.xml)
because module java.xml does not export com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.datatype to unnamed module @0x71c8becc

This is the code where the exception is generated:
 private XMLGregorianCalendar stringToXMLGregorian(String data, String pattern) {
    Calendar date = Calendar.getInstance();
    SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat(pattern);
    try {
        date.setTime(format.parse(data));
    } catch (ParseException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
        Log.debug("ERRORE DI CONVERSIONE DATA: " + data);
    }

    XMLGregorianCalendar result = new XMLGregorianCalendarImpl();
    result.setYear(date.get(Calendar.YEAR));
    result.setMonth(date.get(Calendar.MONTH) + 1);
    result.setDay(date.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH));

    if (!pattern.equals(DATE_PATTERN)) {
        result.setHour(date.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY));
        result.setMinute(date.get(Calendar.MINUTE));
    }

    return result;

}

This code was written by a former colleague of mine and only he worked on it. Honestly I am not so much informed in java and how it is connected to gradle but unfortunately this code needs to be revised due to an error that occurs
In gradle-wrapper.properties i've add the:
distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-6.3-bin.zip

I have installed the latest version of Java, Gradle and i build the code in Intellij
How can i solve this?

A: You are not supposed to use class XMLGregorianCalendarImpl in your own code, it's an internal class in the JDK and therefore it cannot be used directly.
Create an instance of XMLGregorianCalendar using DatatypeFactory instead:
import javax.xml.datatype.DatatypeFactory;

// ...

XMLGregorianCalendar result = DatatypeFactory.newInstance().newXMLGregorianCalendar();

See java.xml.datatype.DatatypeFactory


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Trust us – you would rather be in the first group. It's much less painful.
After all, companies who are already knocking on the door of defeat generally have less time and fewer resources to spend on turning things around through better marketing. They are in panic mode and looking for something to save them. Of course, it is much, much better to be in the position to build on success by spending wisely on marketing – and then to spin that investment into a healthy ROI.
Unfortunately, most companies belonging to the first group do not feel motivated to "go to the next level" in their marketing efforts. This is especially true for companies who have more or less stumbled upon their marketing success. They have an often-misplaced sense of confidence in their current customer targeting, positioning and messaging methods (or lack thereof).
2. they are putting themselves at risk by relying too much on current success drivers without thoroughly examining the methods necessary to expand their business opportunities with a hyper-targeted approach.
Inaction during times of success is risky indeed.
We all know that people and companies who can maintain high levels of success not just for months or a few years – but for a decade or more – have one thing in common: they make their own success. From a marketing perspective, this must necessarily boil down to taking a proactive, data-driven approach to marketing. Specificially, it means leveraging their knowledge about existing customers, geographies and revenue trends to not only predict – but to create – their own future success by targeting and messaging to the right customers.
What is the best time to invest in data-driven marketing? Whether your business is just starting out, has already met some success, or has hit a sales brick wall – the time to get serious about your marketing is right now.


Anyway, every other year we go to Sweden to see his family. His parents have a summer house near the Swedish and Norwegian border on a small island called Rösso. As beautiful as it is, the island is in Sweden, which means that the water is not exactly as, um, "pleasant" as it is here in Hawaii. The ocean is substantially cooler than what I am used to and with that cold water comes jellyfish. LOTS of jellyfish. Needless to say, in years past, I haven't been eager to spend as much time in the water as I do in my everyday life.
This year, however, something awesome happened…Surftech came out with an inflatable standup paddleboard. The 10'6 airSUP comes with it's own travel backpack and when deflated rolls up perfectly into a travel friendly, self contained piece of luggage. Now, if you have ever traveled with a standup paddleboard, you know that it isn't the most convenient thing to do…board bags are big and awkward and it seems like your board almost always comes through looking like it was dragged across the tarmac. With the airSUP, this isn't the case, in fact, the board travels so well it managed to make it to Gothenburg unscathed even when the rest of my luggage didn't.
At the airport, we waited and waited for the rest of my belongings to show up, but they never did. It was somewhat frustrating, but really…who needs clothing anyway? I learned a long time ago that there are two things that you should always have in your carry-on: a toothbrush and your bathing suit. I had come prepared, and we were off to the summer house in no time (my bags did eventually show up, just not as quickly as I had hoped).
As big as standup paddling is here in the US, it hasn't really made it's way to Rösso yet. Once the boys had the board inflated and we started paddling around, we got a fair bit of attention from everyone in the water. Anders' brother Kristian was the first Swede to try, and once he got the hang of it he was paddling all over the place with us following in the boat. Kristian paddled us over to "Swedish Pipe," where he demonstrated his awesome board style reminiscent of Gerry Lopez. Kristian assured us that Swedish Pipe is every bit as extreme as it's Hawaiian counterpart, we must have just hit it in between swells…typical.
Next it was time to test the board behind the boat. Swedish Pipe hadn't shown us any waves and it was clear that if we wanted to surf, we would have to make the waves ourselves. Anders' friend Daniel was the second Swede to give it a go, and he didn't seem to have any problem with it either. The rest of the day was spent surfing behind the boat, dodging the jellyfish…seriously, those things are EVERYWHERE…yikes.
This particular day in Sweden is exactly why I love standup paddling. Anders' family summer house is a place that I have been several times before, but this time standup allowed me to see the area in a different way. The versatility of the sport makes it so much fun for anyone who wants to give it a try. To be honest, going into this trip I was a bit hesitant to bring the board. I was worried that it was going to be a pain to carry around, that we wouldn't even use it, etc., but the airSUP proved me wrong. It was no more difficult to travel with than any other piece of luggage and we had a lot of fun on it that we wouldn't have had otherwise.


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Cien shelved: But cancellation may not be the end of the road for Cadillac supercar
By BOB GRITZINGER AND WES RAYNAL
The bad news is that General Motors is officially putting the Cadillac Cien sports car on the shelf. The good news? GM now has a new shelf, one from which it can retrieve canceled vehicle plans if resources and market conditions support a second look.
Cien, the Simon Cox-created concept that GM revealed amid considerable hoopla at the 2002 Detroit auto show, has always been a popular choice for production both outside and inside the corporation. We even touted the mid-engined, 750-hp, 7.5-liter V12-powered two-seater as Best Concept of the Detroit exhibition (AW, Jan. 21).
Production hopes were heightened in May when a cadre of GM product development execs took an exploratory expedition to the British Isles to scout potential suppliers to build some 300 of the cars per year (AW, June 3). Tom Walkinshaw's TWR and David Richards' Prodrive were among the companies visited, with Prodrive tagged as the most likely contender due to its work on development of the concept Cien.
GM continued to fan the flames in mid-June when it rolled out the Cien to lead the parade prior to the start of the 70th annual running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans—and restated that Cien (Spanish for "100") was built to celebrate Cadillac's centennial in 2002.
Sadly, now comes word that, amid an uncertain economic climate, Cien's business case doesn't stack up against the General's myriad of other needs, such as viable, profitable small cars, performance cars for every division including Cadillac, and more and better trucks.
GM Performance Division chief Mark Reuss told AutoWeek an internal review completed in the past few weeks didn't support building the $200,000 car—at least not now. But while in the past that kind of high-level decision would have killed a project for good, the climate inside GM today allows for shelving a project with hope of bringing it back.
"Right now, we're deciding not to spend the money on it, but that doesn't mean it couldn't come around again in the future," Reuss said. "In the past that would have been the final decision, but today we realize we ought to have a couple of shelves full of products we go back and do, depending on the situation."
Reuss said high costs associated with Cien didn't lie in any one area, such as in development of its specialized all-alumi-num V12 engine and its paddle-shifter six-speed semi-automatic transmission. Rather, Cien's costs were spread across the entire vehicle, from its powertrain to its carbon fiber body and chassis. In another break with the past, no one in GM wanted to cut corners on Cien to make the business case more palatable.
"We've looked at it, how we would do it, and how we would do it right," Reuss said. "It would really have to deliver the styling, handling, chassis, powertrain—everything."Reuss said shelving Cien doesn't end development of the V12 powerplant. But even Cunningham Motor Co., which had hoped to use the Cosworth-developed engine for its $200,000 super-luxury coupe due in 2004, is moving on to a different, more powerful V12 for the Cunningham.
"I know they've been wrestling with it," said Jack McCormack, Cunningham CEO. "It has caused us to make other arrangements for an engine."
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U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speaks about former U.S. President Donald Trump, accusing him of dereliction of duty. (Reuters)
Republican Senate Leader McConnell: Trump morally responsible for US Capitol attack
Published: 14 February ,2021: 02:11 AM GST Updated: 14 February ,2021: 02:50 AM GST
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell excoriated Donald Trump on Saturday for being "morally responsible" for the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol, but said he voted to acquit him at the impeachment trial because he believes the Senate had no jurisdiction over a former president.
Washington's most powerful Republican used his strongest language to date to denounce Trump minutes after the Senate voted 57-43 to convict Trump but fell short of the two-thirds majority needed to find him guilty.
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It was a stunningly bitter castigation of Trump by McConnell, who could have used much of the same speech had he instead decided to convict Trump. Had McConnell voted to find Trump guilty, he has enough respect among his colleagues that many more of them may well have done the same.
Clearly angry, the Senate's longest-serving GOP leader said Trump's actions surrounding the attack on Congress were "a disgraceful, disgraceful dereliction of duty." He even noted that though Trump is now out of office, he remains subject to the country's criminal and civil laws.
"He didn't get away with anything yet," McConnell said.
Seven Republicans joined all 50 Democrats on that vote, creating a clear majority against Trump and a bipartisan denunciation of his actions in helping spark the violent attack on the Capitol by his supporters.
US Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) departs following speaking on the Senate floor in the U.S. Capitol on the fifth day of the impeachment trial of former U.S. President Donald Trump, on charges of inciting the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, U.S., February 13, 2021. (Reuters)
McConnell had signaled last month that he was open to finding Trump guilty, which in itself was an eye-opening signal of his alienation from the former president. His decision on how he would vote was unclear until he sent a private email to GOP senators Saturday morning saying, "While a close call, I am persuaded that impeachments are a tool primarily of removal and we therefore lack jurisdiction."
He expanded on his rationale on the Senate floor after the roll call vote but went even further, making clear that his enmity toward Trump's actions.
"There is no question, none, that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the event of that day," he said.
McConnell's decision to acquit Trump left the party locked in its struggle to define itself in the post-Trump presidency. Numerous and fiercely loyal pro-Trump Republicans and more traditional Republicans who believe the former president is damaging the party's national appeal are struggling to decide the GOP's direction.
A guilty vote by McConnell would have likely done even more to roil GOP waters by signaling an attempt by the party's most powerful Washington leader to yank the party away from a figure still revered by most of its voters.
World News US election US Senate acquits Donald Trump in second impeachment trial
Many had expected the Kentucky senator to vote to clear Trump of the charges, based on McConnell's history as a GOP loyalist who takes few major risks. But before Saturday, he had said little in public or private about his mindset, and no one was certain what he would decide.
McConnell jarred the political world just minutes after the Democratic-led House impeached Trump on Jan. 13, writing to his GOP colleagues that he had "not made a final decision" about how he would vote at the Senate trial.
McConnell had also told associates he thought Trump perpetrated impeachable offenses and saw the moment as a chance to distance the GOP from the damage the tumultuous Trump could inflict on it, a Republican strategist told The Associated Press at the time, speaking on condition of anonymity to describe private conversations.
But since this week's trial began, McConnell has voted with a majority of Republicans against proceeding with the trial on the grounds that Trump was no longer president.
Over 36 years in the Senate, the measured McConnell has earned a reputation for inexpressiveness in the service of caution. The suspense over how he was going to vote underscored how much is at stake for McConnell and his party.
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McConnell has spent the trial's first week in his seat in the Senate chamber, staring straight ahead.
A guilty vote by McConnell would have enraged many of the 74 million voters who backed Trump in November, a record for a GOP presidential candidate. That could expose Republican senators seeking reelection in 2022 to primaries from conservatives seeking revenge, potentially giving the GOP less appealing general election candidates as they try winning Senate control.
McConnell's decision will no doubt color his legacy. He turns 79 next Saturday and doesn't face reelection for almost six years. Even critics say McConnell likes to play the long game.
McConnell maneuvered through Trump's four years in office like a captain steering a ship through a rocky strait on stormy seas. Battered at times by vindictive presidential tweets, McConnell made a habit of saying nothing about many of Trump's outrageous comments. He ended up guiding the Senate to victories such as the 2017 tax cuts and the confirmations of three Supreme Court justices and more than 200 other federal judges.
Their relationship plummeted after Trump's denial of his Nov. 3 defeat and relentless efforts to reverse the voters' verdict with his baseless claims that Democrats fraudulently stole the election.
It withered completely last month, after Republicans lost Senate control with two Georgia runoff defeats they blamed on Trump, and the savage attack on the Capitol by Trump supporters. The day of the riot, McConnell railed against "thugs, mobs, or threats" and described the attack as
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Elizabeth L. Littlefield is the former President and CEO of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, the US Government's Development Finance Institution, appointed by President Obama in 2009. OPIC manages a $24 billion portfolio of financing for private investment in developing nations. Under her leadership, OPIC's commitments to renewable resources investments witnessed a ten-fold increase, African investments, a five-fold increase and she undertook far reaching institutional strengthening.
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Nigeria's Tribalist-in-Chief By 'Tope Oriola
The appointment of the head of any government agency is inherently political. Our system of government gives enormous powers to the Office of the President. Therefore, President Buhari was merely exercising his constitutional powers in naming a substantive DG for the SSS.
by Tope Oriola Sep 14, 2018
The appointment of Yusuf Bichi as Director-General of the State Security Service (SSS) by President Muhammadu Buhari is the latest political salvo in Nigeria. Bichi replaces Matthew Seiyefa, who was appointed by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on 7 August 2018 as interim head of the SSS following the removal of the notorious Lawal Daura. Seiyefa was in office for just over one month and was removed despite clear indications that he sought to reposition the SSS, boost confidence in its ranks and improve its image.
The appointment of the head of any government agency is inherently political. Our system of government gives enormous powers to the Office of the President. Therefore, President Buhari was merely exercising his constitutional powers in naming a substantive DG for the SSS. However, reasonable heads of state and governments are conscientious and intentional about sending clear messages through their appointees. For instance, in Canada, there is a conventional rotation of the largely ceremonial position of Governor General between Anglophone and Francophone Canadians. The Francophone once engaged in efforts to secede from Canada. There was a terrorist campaign in the 1960s by the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) to secede from Canada. FLQ was defeated in 1970 but agitations for secession remained. A referendum was held as recently as 1995 (the second in the French-speaking Quebec history) on the question of independence. Voter turnout was reported to be over 90%. Those who voted "no" won marginally — 50.58%. Therefore, national unity had to be painstakingly earned.
The balancing act in appointments also includes minorities. Michaëlle Jean, a Canadian woman of Haitian descent, was appointed Governor General of Canada in 2005 although blacks made up less than 3% of the population. The moral? Reasonable political leaders deliberately engage in balancing appointments across the broad spectrum of society to build trust, foster unity and strengthen institutions even in the most advanced democracies. Some leaders approach power with sophistication but it appears others are mere ethnic champions and occupiers of space consumed with the adornment of power.
President Buhari's appointments have been largely unreasonable and detrimental to national unity. Major appointments in the military and security services had come under close public scrutiny prior to the appointment of Bichi, an indigene of Kano, who has been asked to take over from Seiyefa, a person from Bayelsa state and the most senior SSS official at the time of his appointment in August. Heads of the Army, Air Force, Customs, Immigration, Police, the Nigerian Intelligence Agency (NIA) and many other non-security related government agencies are headed by northerners despite the rather precarious status of Nigeria's unity and laws regarding federal character.
The idea that Seiyefa was removed because he was due to retire next year is idiotic. The president could have prolonged Seiyefa's tenure as he had done for the military service chiefs. It is a function of how a leader chooses to play politics. The new appointment is definitive prove that President Buhari does not have the instincts of a national leader. Consider that Professor Osinbajo asked Lawal Daura to hand over to the most senior SSS officer. He did not seek someone from Lagos. The appointments made by Buhari routinely damage our fragile institutions through bigotry and ethnic chauvinism. These issues continue a pattern that quickly emerged after 29 May 2015. Retirements in the military and police as well as illegal hiring exercises have left people with a scintilla of objectivity befuddled by the actions of the president. For instance, multiple careers of senior officers were ruined and resources squandered to ensure the emergence of "Mr Transmission" as the Inspector General of Police.
Most of Buhari's appointees have been either totally incompetent at worst or mediocre at best. His knack for sticking with his appointees despite poor performance has damaged Nigeria's national fabric. The security situation has worsened due to a trifecta of incompetence, politics and corruption. Killings by herdsmen in states like Benue and Plateau continue while Boko Haram remains active. Security forces have chosen to clampdown harshly on Biafran agitators in the southeast. While herdsmen and Boko Haram ravage the country, 112 pro-Biafran women were arrested in August 2018. The economy under Buhari has deteriorated. Nigerian citizens are being driven to suicide at an alarming rate while hunger and abandonment of children are on the rise.
Buhari's ardent supporters appear inebriated by him despite his poor performance in office. A beneficiary of the abject poverty in the North, where most of his support derives, he has done little to lift the people out of poverty and has worsened socioeconomic conditions in the south. There is a pervasive failure to accept that there is a distinction between supporting a kinsman in office and the fact that holding him accountable for his deeds is not betrayal but one of the highest forms of duty.
Make no mistakes about it: President Buhari knows how to use power. He has demonstrated yet again his real character. Any further analysis is a mere academic exercise. This is a world-class enemy of meritocracy. Only moderately educated himself, Buhari sees nothing wrong in putting forward names of co-ethnics who often fail to perform. Where is the integrity? President Buhari has become a diminished person nationally and a laughing stock internationally given President Donald Trump's reported "lifeless" comment.
The removal of Seiyefa is disrespectful to Vice President Osinbajo. Osibajo must now think about the implications of continuing to serve as deputy of a man who knows very little about 21st century governance and is too parochial to hire competent persons from all parts of Nigeria. The people of the Niger Delta must also ask hard questions about their place in Nigeria given the enormous contributions of oil wealth from the region amidst economic hardship and marginalization.
To be clear, Buhari has abandoned all pretensions to one Nigeria. One Nigeria for him is an avenue for corrupt enrichment of close family members and friends and clannish appointments. He is daily revealed as just another jobber and ethnic champion. Buhari has proven definitively that we currently have no national president. What we have is a self-righteous, over-rated power-hungry intellectually empty know-nothing, who is too arrogant to learn the nous of statecraft and too mired in identity politics. He has become a national waste of time, a liability and pretender to national unity and development. He began with the presumption that his body language was the solution to our problems. He will likely leave power in ignominy.
How times change. I would have voted for Buhari in 2015. I did not because we did not have any mechanism for people in diaspora to vote. I realized less than three months after Buhari's swearing in that we had elected a Tribalist-in-Chief. Buhari is proof that we should stop telling children they can be anything they want; rather, we should tell our children that they could be anything their abilities and hard work allow them to be.
The appointment of Bichi might have been made with an eye on the 2019 elections but that qualifies Buhari as an enemy of merit and hater of institution building. All Nigerians regardless of ethnicity and religion must be concerned because Seiyefa's removal sends the message that hard work does not pay, where you come from matters more.
Tope Oriola
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October is Plan a Cruise Month – a worldwide campaign to learn more about cruising and how to plan and take a cruise vacation, when cruise-goers can also take advantage of special cruise line deals and promotions available during the month.
Created by Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA), the program provides insight on the best cruise destinations, special cruise line deals and promotions as well as experts to help navigate the many cruise vacation options available for every travel style and budget.
Cruising Destinations Around the World: This year, Plan a Cruise Month is shining a spotlight on the many worldwide cruise destinations including those in: Europe; the Americas and the Caribbean; Australasia and Asia. Each week in October, through videos, online content and expert advice from travel agents, travelers can learn more about cruise destinations around the world. Whether travelers are looking for tours of historic castles or lounging on the best powder sand beaches, a cruise can take vacation seekers to some of the most visited sights as well as those off the beaten path.
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HANNOVER, Germany — A study by cruisewatch.com, a next-generation cruise search engine with an innovative decision support system, finds prices for cruise sailings are cheapest five weeks before setting sail.
Have you ever experienced checking cruise prices and finding they are high and then upon checking again later prices have decreased? The biggest factor you should consider in saving money is to determine the right moment when to book a cruise, says cruisewatch.com. Based on an elaborate study that considered more than 25,000 cruise sailings, cruise prices drop the lowest five weeks before departure, according to cruisewatch.com.
The best discounts, they say, can be found in the weeks prior to sailing, with average reductions of 4 percent for interior and ocean-view cabins. But that is just the average. Not fully sold sailings can be discounted up to 40 percent.
"If you're flexible regarding the cruise sailing, ship, or departure date, you can save big money by booking short term. But you can only choose between the last unsold rooms. If you are keen to get a special category, especially a suite, you should book your cruise early," explains Nina Stumpe, a cruise enthusiast and cofounder of cruisewatch.com.
"Cruiseline's prices are steered mainly during the last 100 days before departure. During this 'hot phase,' the biggest price decreases take place, especially for interior and ocean-view cabins. Interestingly the balcony staterooms, which are more expensive, are reduced less, and suites don't get any discounts," Stumpe says.
The search engine cruisewatch.com is offering a free price drop monitoring website that utilizes big data and machine learning to help customers find the perfect time to book their cruise. Users can get notified automatically when prices are reduced or when good deals are coming up. Even a price forecast is included on the webpage.
"Cruise lines invest massive amounts of resources into revenue optimization. We are leveling the playing field and offering consumers up-to-date technology to make the right decisions," says the cruisewatch.com cofounder. According to our claim right time, right cruise right price.
Carnival Cruise Lines, Oceania Cruises and Viking River Cruises top CruiseCompete's CruiseTrends™ report for the month of December 2014, sponsored by © EyeforTravel Ltd.
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Guests will sail aboard some of the most innovative ships afloat that offer an expansive array of exciting itineraries. Guests can use their bonus spending credit to book an adventurous family shore excursion, a specialty dining experience to celebrate a family milestone, or commemorate the occasion with the perfect family portrait.
The offer applies for all new U.S. and Canadian bookings made from May 7 – 31, 2014, for sailings departing from July 1 through Dec. 31, 2014. Vacationers will receive $50 onboard credit per interior or oceanview stateroom; $100 onboard credit per Jr. suite or stateroom with balcony; and $200 onboard credit per Grand Suite or higher category stateroom. As an added incentive, the cruise line is also doubling onboard credits up to $400 for all eligible sailings between Dec. 15 and Dec. 31, 2014. The offer is valid fleetwide, excluding Quantum of the Seas.
For additional information or to make reservations, vacationers should call your travel agent; visit RoyalCaribbean.com; or call (800) ROYAL-CARIBBEAN. Follow on Facebook at Facebook.com/RoyalCaribbean or on Twitter @RoyalCaribbean.
The Easter Bunny, parades, special Easter menus and egg decorating are just part of the festivities and family fun aboard select cruise ships exploring the world this April.
MSC Cruises' MSC Divina has a 7-night departure leaving from Miami on April 19 visiting Phillipsburg, St. Maarten; Road Town, Tortola; and Great Stirrup Cay, Bahamas, with a variety of "Easter themed" activities. Kids "Easter hunt", costume parades, Easter chef classes, chocolate Easter eggs and special Easter menus in the main restaurants make the week particularly festive. Seven-night departures from Miami on April 12 and April 26 visit Falmouth, Jamaica; Georgetown, Cayman Islands; Cozumel, Mexico, and the private island of Great Stirrup Cay, Bahamas for other spring break options. An added plus, is that kids sail free year-round on MSC Cruises.
The Easter Bunny will pass out chocolates and will be available for photo ops on select Holland America Line's April sailings. There will also be an Easter bonnet competition, egg decorating, a Jelly bean count and Easter mass. The Maasdam will sail roundtrip from Fort Lauderdale for an 11-day Southern Caribbean itinerary on April 11 with port stops in Philipsburg, St. Maarten; Basseterre, St. Kitts; Kingstown, St. Vincent; Bridgetown, Barbados; Fort-De-France, Martinique; Frederiksted; and the private island of Half Moon Cay, Bahamas. A 14-day Panama Canal sailing on Westerdam departing on April 15 travels from Fort Lauderdale, FL to San Diego, and will include Cartagena, Colombia; through the Panama Canal; with ports of call in Costa Rica and Mexico, ending in Cabo San Lucas. Also departing on April 15, the 11-day Adriatic Dream itinerary on Noordam departs from Civitavecchia (Rome), Italy, and includes the Strait of Messina, Italy; Greece and Croatia with an overnight and disembarkation in Venice, Italy.
Those who have suffered through the cold winter will be especially ready to celebrate spring in the sun. Disney Cruise Lines' four ships will all be in the Caribbean this April. Disney sails from Port Canaveral with three options: a 3-night Bahamian cruise on April 18 on Disney Magic with stops in Nassau and Castaway Cay, Disney's private island; a 7-night Eastern Caribbean cruise on April 19 on Disney Fantasy with stops in St. Maarten, St. Thomas/St. John and Castaway Cay; and a 4-night Bahamian cruise with stops in Nassau and Castaway Cay on Disney Dream on April 20. Disney Wonder sails from Miami on April 18 on a 5 -night Western Caribbean itinerary with stops in Grand Cayman and Cozumel.
Norwegian Cruise Line is currently offering free Balcony upgrades, reduced deposits and e-coupons worth $300 on these Easter sailings: 7-night Mexican Rivera from Los Angeles on Norwegian Star on April 13; 7-night Western Caribbean from New Orleans on Norwegian Jewel on April 13; 3-night Bahamas from Miami on Norwegian Sky on April 18; 7-night Eastern Caribbean from Miami on Norwegian Getaway on April 19; 7-night Inter-Island Hawaii on Pride of America on April 19; 7-night Western Caribbean from Tampa on Norwegian Dawn on April 20; and 7-night Western Caribbean from Miami on Norwegian Epic on April 20.
Royal Caribbean International's Navigator of the Seas sails April 20 from Galveston, Texas, on a 7-night Western Caribbean itinerary, calling at Roatan, Honduras; Belize City, Belize; and Cozumel, Mexico. Allure of the Seas sails April 20 from Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, FL, on a 7-night Western Caribbean itinerary, calling at Falmouth, Jamaica; Cozumel, Mexico; and Labadee, Royal Caribbean's private island on Haiti's north coast. Enchantment of the Seas sails April 18 from Port Canaveral on a 3-night Bahamas cruise, calling at Nassau and CocoCay, Royal Caribbean's private Bahamian-island. Guests also can combine a cruise aboard Enchantment of the Seas with a 3- to 4-day stay at Universal Orlando Resorts, enjoying savings and inclusive Universal Express Unlimited ride access among many more theme park privileges.
Guests of Paul Gauguin Cruises' m/s Paul Gauguin can combine sun with culture when they travel to Marquesas, Tuamotus & Society Islands on a 14-day cruise departing April 12 from Papeete, Tahiti. They'll experience a true glimpse of the Polynesia of the old including Bora Bora, Moorea, Taha'a (Motu Mahana), and Huahine.
Tauck River Cruising has limited space on its 10-day April 18 departure of "Belgium & Holland in Spring" aboard the ms Treasures. The itinerary begins with an included overnight in Brussels before embarkation in Maastricht and sailing to Amsterdam. Special experiences along the way include Keukenhof Gardens and the Rijksmuseum, a scenic Amsterdam canal boat cruise, the Netherlands American Cemetery, a culinary experience at Chateau Neercanne, chocolate and beer tastings, and a private dinner at and tour of the In Flanders Fields Museum to observe the WWI Centennial.
Silversea Cruises' Silver Spirit departs April 19 on a 16-day repositioning cruise from Fort Lauderdale to Barcelona. Ports of call include Bermuda, the Azores, Malaga, Cartagena and Valencia. There is still availability on Cunard Line's Queen Victoria during the 12-day Transatlantic Crossing from Fort Lauderdale to Southampton, England on April 16.
For expert advice, travelers can turn to a CLIA Cruise Agent, who stays current on the latest offerings and trends and is an expert in helping clients selects a cruise of their dreams. To find a CLIA Cruise Agent or Agency in your area, visit www.cruising.org and click on Vacations and use our Cruise Expert Finder.
Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) is the world's largest cruise industry trade association with representation in North and South America, Europe, Asia and Australasia. CLIA represents the interests of cruise lines and travel agents before regulatory and legislative policy makers. CLIA is also engaged in travel agent training, research and marketing communications to promote the value and desirability of cruise holiday vacations with thousands of travel agency and travel agent members. CLIA's Associate Member and Executive Partner program includes the industry's leading providers of supplies and services that help cruise lines provide a safe, environmentally-friendly and enjoyable holiday vacation experience for millions of passengers every year. For more information on CLIA, the cruise industry, and CLIA-member cruise lines and travel agencies, visit http://www.cruising.org. CLIA can also be followed on the Cruise Lines International Association's Facebook and Twitter fan pages, and CEO Christine Duffy can be followed @CLIACEO and cruising.org/ceoblog.


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