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Governor Kalraj Mishra of being under pressure to not call assembly session: Gehlot
JAIPUR : Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot said today he had requested an assembly session from Monday and accused Governor Kalraj Mishra of delaying the decision because he was "under pressure from the top" to stall a test of strength.
Rajasthan governor Kalraj Mishra is not calling the state assembly session due to "pressures from the top", said chief minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday.
"After the decision of the Cabinet, we wrote a letter to Governor stating that we want assembly session to be convened in order to discuss issues including corona and the political situation… We believe that because of pressures from the top, governor is not giving directions to call the session. We are unhappy with this," Gehlot said at a press conference here.
Gehlot addressed the press hours after the Rajasthan High Court ordered "status quo" on the disqualification notice issued by the Assembly Speaker to a group of 19 rebel Congress MLAs, including former deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot.
The order was delivered on a petition filed by the dissidents challenging their disqualification from the Assembly. A bench of Chief Justice Indrajit Mahanty and Justice Prakash Gupta also allowed the rebel MLAs to make the central government party to the case. The HC deferred its judgment till the Supreme Court decided on the matter.
"We requested The Governor Kalraj Mishra to call a session in a letter yesterday and we waited all night, but there was no response. It is beyond comprehension what kind of forces would compel him to delay such a simple process," the Chief Minister said, alleging a BJP conspiracy.
The Governor, responding to the charge, told that he had not said "no" to Mr Gehlot's request. "I have not decided yet. Whatever I do will be according to the rules," Kalraj Mishra said amid reports that coronavirus restrictions may be one reason for him to hold off on a session.
"We have a clear majority and we want the assembly to start from Monday. Doodh ka doodh aur pani ka pani ho jayega (everything will be crystal clear)," Mr Gehlot said, before heading to the Governor's house with Congress MLAs.
The apex court Thursday said the outcome of the HC's judgment would be subject to its final order on the matter, which is scheduled to be taken up on Monday, July 27. The apex court was hearing a petition filed by Speaker C P Joshi, who challenged the High Court order asking him to provide relief to the rebels.
Joshi had petitioned the top court saying the HC did not have the jurisdiction to restrain him from conducting disqualification proceedings, adding that courts could only intervene when the Speaker took a decision to suspend or disqualify a member of the House.
Joshi had served Pilot and 18 other MLAs disqualification notices last week after they skipped two Congress Legislature Party meetings called by Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot despite they Congress issuing a whip. The rebels had argued that the party whip doesn't apply outside the Assembly.
Saying it was up to him to decide "whether this amounts to voluntary giving up membership (of a party)", Joshi told the SC: "I as Speaker have to examine the conduct of members. That they did not attend two meetings is just one aspect of it. Neither can HC nor SC decode that."
In other news, speaking to English Daily Gehlot said the political crisis was not due to the performance of his government but the "over-ambition of Pilot and a small group of MLAs… who are playing in the hands of the BJP". He reiterated that the Congress government in Rajasthan had a comfortable majority and continued to enjoy the support of the people. "The government is fully stable and will complete its full term," he said .
Mr Gehlot said he had even requested the Governor on the phone to call an assembly session without delay. "I told him you must follow your conscience and preserve the decorum of your constitutional post We are going with all our MLAs to make a collective request. The people of Rajasthan are with us. If the masses surround the Raj Bhawan in protest, we will not be responsible," said the Chief Minister.
The Congress has a narrow lead over the opposition and has only two more than the majority mark of 101 in the 200-member Rajasthan assembly. Team Pilot claims 30 MLAs but so far, only 19 MLAs have been confirmed as rebels. The BJP has 72. Including smaller parties and independent members, the opposition has 97 at the moment.
(Bureau Report with Agency Inputs ).
Edited by: newstrack24x7.com on July 24, 2020.
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February 13, 2012 September 12, 2016
Sir Martin Broughton's firm Sports Investment Partners has invested alongside MML Capital to buy events management company the Arena Group – the pair putting up £16.5m (€19.7m) between them.
Arena Group provides seating, interiors and management for sporting, broadcast, music and live events and has bases in the UK, Portugal, Abu Dhabi, Singapore and Dubai.
Sports Investment Partners hopes to offer Broughton's industry expertise – the British Airways chairman having overseen the sale of Liverpool to New England Sports Ventures for £300m in 2010.
Broughton's private equity firm narrowly lost out to Betfred in the hotly contested auction for former state-owned bookmaker the Tote last summer. The firm was tipped to take the Tote after receiving backing from the horse racing industry, but rival bidder Betfred walked away with the betting agency after agreeing to pay £265m (€298.2m).
As well as Broughton, Sports Investment counts Matthew Wheeler as a managing partner. A former professional cricketer with Northants, Wheeler sits on the board of the Professional Cricket Association and has chaired six private equity-backed businesses in sports and media.
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The Simonetta Lein Show is hosted by celebrity TV host and top woman influencer Simonetta Lein. This Simonetta Lein Show, along with its premier of Season Three, has continued its series of panel interview episodes, showcasing local and international entrepreneurs, business owners, and artists, looking to share their industry insights and experiences. For the 6th consecutive panel episode, The Simonetta Lein showcases the topic, "How Can You Break Boundaries Post COVID?"
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Michelle Hammons
@beautylifecoach
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@kristinadedwards_
Kristina Edwards is a digital entrepreneur specializing in social media marketing as a CEO of a marketing company named Classy Chic (specifically building IG accounts) and brand collaborations. She has worked personally with several large and small companies, establishing great partnerships since starting her IG/media journey in November of 2019. Kristina has worked with several brands, such as; Target, Shein, Steve Madden, Ulta, Cadillac, Guess, McDonald's, and Sephora to name a few. When collaborating with brands she works diligently on executing their vision while making the concept truly her own. Kristina's goal is to help others grow their influence on social media. She finds all things media so fascinating and has discovered so many helpful, foolproof methods that work- since working smarter, not harder is the absolute best way to go.
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Instilled with a love for all things fashion from an early age, Laura decided to focus on developing the proper skill sets through her education. Upon graduating from Texas Tech University with Broadcast Journalism and Advertising degrees, Laura immersed herself in the business world of marketing and retail. After several years in the corporate world, Laura was able to carve out a career path and go out on her own – something she ultimately dreamed about doing from the very beginning. The year 2021 marks Laura's 12th year working in the fashion industry as a fashion stylist and personal shopper with her Dallas-based business, Life-STYLE by Laura.
Robert Del Grande
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Robert Del Grande has been selling on Amazon.com since 2017. He originally started multiple Private Label brands on Amazon and then quickly transitioned to running clients drop shipping businesses on the platform. Robert is the owner of AmazonAutomation.com servicing over 75+ client Amazon drop shipping businesses. Robert's two most recent business ventures are an Amazon Private Label Acquisition company called Crescita.io and he just partnered with tech entrepreneur Jonas Muthoni in their pursuit to create the largest global online business selling marketplace, ecomexchange.com.
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02/24/2012 09:43 am ET Updated Apr 25, 2012
NYPD Defends Tactics Over Mosque Spying; Records Reveal New Details On Muslim Surveillance
By ADAM GOLDMAN and MATT APUZZO, Associated Press
NEW YORK -- The New York Police Department targeted Muslim mosques with tactics normally reserved for criminal organizations, according to newly obtained police documents that showed police collecting the license plates of worshippers, monitoring them on surveillance cameras and cataloging sermons through a network of informants.
The documents, obtained by The Associated Press, have come to light as the NYPD fends off criticism of its monitoring of Muslim student groups and its cataloging of mosques and Muslim businesses in nearby Newark, N.J.
The NYPD's spokesman, Paul Browne, forcefully defended the legality of those efforts Thursday, telling reporters that its officers may go wherever the public goes and collect intelligence, even outside city limits.
The new documents, prepared for Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, show how the NYPD's roster of paid informants monitored conversations and sermons inside mosques. The records offer the first glimpse of what those informants, known informally as "mosque crawlers," gleaned from inside the houses of worship.
For instance, when a Danish newspaper published inflammatory cartoons of Prophet Muhammad in September 2005, Muslim communities around the world erupted in outrage. Violent mobs took to the streets in the Middle East. A Somali man even broke into the cartoonist's house in Denmark with an ax.
In New York, thousands of miles away, it was a different story. Muslim leaders preached peace and urged people to protest lawfully. Write letters to politicians, they said. Some advocated boycotting Danish products, burning flags and holding rallies.
All of that was permissible under law and protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution. All was reported to the NYPD by its mosque crawlers and made its way into police files for Kelly.
"Imam Shamsi Ali brought up the topic of the cartoon, condemning them. He announced a rally that was to take place on Sunday (02/05/06) near the United Nations. He asked that everyone to attend if possible and reminded everyone to keep their poise if they can make it," one report read.
At the Muslim Center of New York in Queens, the report said, "Mohammad Tariq Sherwani led the prayer service and urged those in attendance to participate in a demonstration at the United Nations on Sunday."
When one Muslim leader suggested planning a demonstration, one of the people involved in the discussion about how to get a permit was, in fact, working for the NYPD.
"It seems horrible to me that the NYPD is treating an entire religious community as potential terrorists," said civil rights lawyer Jethro Eisenstein, who reviewed some of the documents and is involved in a decades-old class-action lawsuit against the police department for spying on protesters and political dissidents.
The lawsuit is known as the Handschu case, and a court order in that case governs how the NYPD may collect intelligence.
Eisenstein said the documents prove the NYPD has violated those rules.
"This is a flat-out violation," Eisenstein said. "This is a smoking gun."
Browne, the NYPD spokesman, did not discuss specific investigations Thursday but told reporters that, because of the Handschu case, the NYPD operates under stricter rules than any other department in the country. He said police do not violate those rules.
His statements were intended to calm a controversy over a 2007 operation in which the NYPD mapped and photographed all of Newark's mosques and eavesdropped on Muslim businesses. Newark Mayor Cory Booker said he was never told about the surveillance, which he said offended him.
Booker and his police director accused the NYPD of misleading them by not revealing exactly what they were doing. Had they known, they said it never would have been permitted. But Browne said Newark police were told before and after the operation and knew exactly what it entailed.
Kelly, the police commissioner, and Mayor Michael Bloomberg have been emphatic that police only follow legitimate leads of criminal activity and do not conduct preventive surveillance in ethnic communities.
Former and current law enforcement officials either involved in or with direct knowledge of these programs say they did not follow leads. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the secret programs. But the documents support their claims.
The effort highlights one of the most difficult aspects of policing in the age of terrorism. Solving crimes isn't enough; police are expected to identify would-be terrorists and move in before they can attack.
There are no universally agreed upon warning signs for terrorism. Terrorists have used Internet cafes, stayed in hostels, worked out at gyms, visited travel agencies, attended student groups and prayed at mosques. So the NYPD monitored those areas. In doing so, they monitored many innocent people as they went about their daily lives.
Using plainclothes officers from the squad known as the Demographics Unit, police swept Muslim neighborhoods and catalogued the location of mosques. The ethnic makeup of each congregation was logged as police fanned out across the city and outside their jurisdiction, into suburban Long Island and areas of New Jersey.
"African American, Arab, Pakistani," police wrote beneath the photo of one mosque in Newark.
Investigators looked at mosques as the center of Muslim life. All their connections had to be known.
David Cohen, the NYPD's top intelligence officer, wanted a source inside every mosque within a 250-mile radius of New York, current and former officials said. Though the officials said they never managed to reach that goal, documents show the NYPD successfully placed informants or undercovers - sometimes both - into mosques from Westchester County, N.Y., to New Jersey.
The NYPD used these sources to get a sense of the sentiment of worshippers whenever an event generated headlines. The goal, former officials said, was to alert police to potential problems before they bubbled up.
Even when it was clear there were no links to terrorism, the mosque informants gave the NYPD the ability to "take the pulse" of the community, as Cohen and other managers put it.
When New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle and his flight instructor were killed on Oct. 11, 2006, when their small plane crashed into a Manhattan high-rise apartment, fighter planes were scrambled. Within hours the FBI and Homeland Security Department said it was an accident. Terrorism was ruled out.
Yet for days after the event, the NYPD's mosque crawlers reported to police about what they heard at sermons and among worshippers.
(View the PDF documents on Danish cartoons, mosque targeting and summaries of plane crash.)
At the Brooklyn Islamic Center, a confidential informant "noted chatter among the regulars expressing relief and thanks to God that the crash was only an accident and not an act of terrorism," one report reads.
"The worshippers made remarks to the effect that `it better be an accident; we don't need any more heat,'" an undercover officer reported from the Al-Tawheed Islamic Center in Jersey City, N.J.
In some instances, the NYPD put cameras on light poles and trained them on mosques, documents show. Because the cameras were in public space, police didn't need a warrant to conduct the surveillance.
Police also wrote down the license plates of cars in mosque parking lots, documents show. In some instances, police in unmarked cars outfitted with electronic license plate readers would drive down the street and record the plates of everyone parked near the mosque, former officials recalled.
"They're viewing Muslims like they're crazy. They're terrorists. They all must be fanatics," said Abdul Akbar Mohammed, the imam for the past eight years at the Masjid Imam Ali K. Muslim in Newark. "That's not right."
Associated Press writers Chris Hawley and Eileen Sullivan contributed to this report.
Contact the Washington investigative team at DCinvestigations (at) ap.org
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BUILDING FITNESS IS THE KEY FACTOR AT MICKLEOVER
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NIGEL Clough will look to give most of his first team squad a 45-minute run out as the Brewers play their first pre-season friendly tonight.
Albion travel to Mickleover Sports - managed by former Brewers midfielder John McGrath – with a 7pm kick off at Station Road.
The Albion squad has been back in pre-season training since July 2 and making sure everyone gets the right amount of game time is the key for Clough tonight as they build fitness for the start of the League One season on August 4.
But the Brewers will be without three of the squad. Will Miller has had a slight hamstring setback as he recovers from a long-term injury and John Brayford and David Templeton have niggles that will keep them out.
Clough said: "The first couple of games are all about getting 45 minutes each. We have had a couple of practice matches but nothing going beyond 35 minutes. The lads won't be flying on Friday night but will get that 45 minutes under belt then build up at Kidderminster and against Aston Villa.
"We will mix and match in each half tonight. It's more about the physical more than anything else at this stage.
"It's ideal going to Mickleover and we are looking forward to seeing John McGrath."
Friday July 13th 2018: Mickleover Sports (A)
Don Amott Arena (7pm)
Station Road, Mickleover, Derby, DE3 9FB
Ticket prices: £8 Adults, £5 Concessions, £2 10-16, Free under 10
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About, Business, General, How To, Marketing
by Hawke Media November 16, 201811:00 am November 15, 2018
The Long-Term Benefits of Email Marketing
Email marketing is an extremely effective way to increase ROI, maintain customer loyalty, and boost brand awareness. In fact, email is one of the top performing revenue drivers and is highly cost effective. For every dollar spent on email marketing, brands can expect an average return of $38. Now those are some attractive numbers.
While email can generate quick conversions, it's a long-term game. To get the most out of an email marketing strategy, brands must be patient, utilizing a mix of tools and techniques while keeping an eye on data to generate insights for optimization.
Here are some key definitions and email marketing best practices for getting the most out of email marketing campaigns.
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Automated Series
An automated series is a set of emails delivered to users through automatic, action-based triggers. These actions may include making a purchase, submitting an email address, or abandoning an online shopping cart.
Automated emails benefit both the consumer and the brand. They allow brands to directly connect with their users after performing a specific action that is personal to their journey, increasing the likelihood of engagement (engagement rates such as open rate, click-through rate, etc. rise when users receive personalized messaging in real time).
Simultaneously, marketers need only to invest time in initial setup, letting the automation take over as they collect data and revenue indefinitely, with the occasional update and test.
A campaign is a one-time email-send sent to users often regarding seasonal or event-based occurrences. Campaigns are effective for communicating date-specific events or time-sensitive announcements (ex: promoting a new summer product or sale).
It's important to incorporate these messages into promotional calendars to ensure users are updated with relevant content.
Campaigns are also a great source of direct revenue and immediate data collection.
Email capture is a means of securing email addresses through various sources for meaningful list building (often built into a website's homepage as a pop-up, requesting users to submit their email addresses). Building and maintaining a healthy list is crucial to growing and sustaining an e-commerce business. The more active your list, the higher the chance of conversion through relevant messaging.
Capturing emails on-site enables brands to educate and nurture potential customers toward conversion, in the (highly likely) event they don't purchase at first sight.
The Importance of Tools and Techniques
A marketer is only as good as his or her tools. Email technology has come a long way in the last decade. The digital landscape is constantly shifting, with new, increasingly robust platforms and technologies being introduced every day. Predictive analytics allows marketers to pinpoint optimal send times, subject lines, and preview text. Better data reporting and analysis tools have opened doors to more exact targeting and conversion optimization. The better the tech, the more marketers can focus on high-impact ideas, rather than minuscule details.
Perhaps the most important decision any email marketer will make is which email service provider (ESP) to use to deliver and monitor emails. Each platform (MailChimp, Bronto and Klaviyo are among the most popular and effective) has different benefits for different businesses, and research should play a key role in the decision-making process. Other impactful platforms to consider are Litmus for quality assessments of email code and deliverability, MailCharts for competitor analysis, Justuno for list-building, and Klaviyo or Mailchimp for just about everything else.
A marketer is only as good as their data. It's nearly impossible to improve email marketing efforts without consistent testing and analysis. For a brand to understand its audience, it must continuously monitor its customers' actions and preferences. Keeping track of open rates, click-through rates, unsubscribes, and other important metrics is critical to establishing benchmarks and identifying trends. Studying these successes and failures gives email marketers the insights needed to double down on what's working, drop what isn't, and draw up new strategies.
Slow and Steady Wins the Race
The best email programs take ample trial and error through testing and analysis. Just because something works today doesn't mean will work tomorrow. Planning for the long term will provide better results over fleeting wins – email marketers should be wary of getting hooked on one-off campaigns with steep discounts. Segmentation and automation, paired with smart campaign strategy are the keys to long-term success.
Often times, marketers tend to be nearsighted, hungry for immediate ROI or instant targeting accuracy at the expense of long-term planning. Taking a long-term view will help brands avoid getting caught up in the ebb and flow inherent to email marketing. Monthly or quarterly results are more indicative of success or failure, and brands must never forget to adjust for seasonality and macro trends.
CEO & Founder Erik Huberman launched Hawke Media in 2014. Now valued at over $150 million, Hawke Media is the fastest growing marketing consultancy agency in the United States. Prior to its launch, Erik successfully founded, grew, and sold two e-commerce companies by the age of 26. Erik has since continued to strategically expand his business portfolio inclusive of a handful of company acquisitions, the 2018 launch of Hawke Ventures which reached a closed single fund of $5.6 million, the 2020 launch of his own podcast, HawkeTalk, the 2021 launch of HawkeZ, an agency offering brands the tools needed to tap into GenZ and most recently authored his own book, The Hawke Method. As a serial entrepreneur and marketing expert, Erik has been recognized by his industry peers through honors and awards including, Forbes Magazine's 30Under30, CSQ's 40Under40, and Inc. Magazine's Top 25 Marketing Influencers just to name a few.


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The table below contains the list of official Caribbean public holidays for the calendar year 2025. The qppstudio worldwide public holidays database for 2024, 2025, 2026, 2027, and beyond, is available, immediately, with a professional license.
Jan Wednesday Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Curaçao, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Puerto Rico, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin, Saint Vincent and Grenadines, Sint Maarten, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, US Virgin Islands
Jan Thursday Cuba, Haiti, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia
Jan Monday Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands
Jan Friday Bahamas
Jan Monday Puerto Rico*, US Virgin Islands*
Jan Tuesday Barbados, Dominican Republic
Jan Saturday Aruba
Jan Sunday Dominican Republic
Jan Monday Cayman Islands
Feb Friday Grenada
Feb Monday Puerto Rico*, US Virgin Islands*
Feb Saturday Saint Lucia
Feb Thursday Dominican Republic
Mar Sunday Anguilla, Puerto Rico*
Mar Monday Anguilla, Aruba, British Virgin Islands, Curaçao, Grenada*, Guadeloupe*, Haiti*, Martinique*, Puerto Rico*, Saint Barthélemy*, Saint Martin*, Trinidad and Tobago*
Mar Tuesday Grenada*, Guadeloupe*, Haiti, Martinique*, Saint Barthélemy*, Saint Martin*, Trinidad and Tobago*
Mar Wednesday Cayman Islands, Guadeloupe*, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique*, Saint Barthélemy*, Saint Martin*
Mar Monday Turks and Caicos Islands
Mar Friday Saint Vincent and Grenadines
Mar Monday Montserrat
Mar Tuesday Aruba
Mar Saturday Puerto Rico*
Mar Wednesday Guadeloupe*, Saint Barthélemy*, Saint Martin*
Mar Sunday Trinidad and Tobago
Mar Monday Trinidad and Tobago, US Virgin Islands*
Apr Tuesday Trinidad and Tobago
Apr Thursday Dominican Republic*, US Virgin Islands
Apr Friday Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Curaçao, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadeloupe*, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique*, Montserrat, Puerto Rico, Saint Barthélemy*, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin*, Saint Vincent and Grenadines, Sint Maarten, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, US Virgin Islands
Apr Sunday Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba, Curaçao, Puerto Rico, Sint Maarten
Apr Monday Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Curaçao, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin, Saint Vincent and Grenadines, Sint Maarten, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, US Virgin Islands
Apr Friday US Virgin Islands*
Apr Saturday Aruba, Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten
Apr Sunday Aruba, Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba, Curaçao
Apr Monday Barbados
Apr Wednesday Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba*, Sint Maarten
May Thursday Anguilla, Aruba, Barbados, Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba, Cuba, Curaçao, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Martinique, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin, Saint Vincent and Grenadines, Sint Maarten
May Monday Antigua and Barbuda, Dominican Republic, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis
May Thursday Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Martin
May Sunday Puerto Rico
May Sunday Haiti
May Monday Cayman Islands
May Wednesday Cayman Islands
May Thursday Martinique
May Friday Bermuda, Jamaica
May Monday Puerto Rico*, Turks and Caicos Islands, US Virgin Islands
May Tuesday Guadeloupe
May Wednesday Saint Martin
May Thursday Aruba, Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba, Curaçao, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Martin, Sint Maarten
May Friday Anguilla, Trinidad and Tobago
June Friday Bahamas
June Sunday Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten
June Monday Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, British Virgin Islands, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Montserrat, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin, Saint Vincent and Grenadines
June Friday British Virgin Islands
June Sunday Puerto Rico
June Monday Anguilla, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Montserrat, Turks and Caicos Islands
June Thursday Dominican Republic, Grenada, Haiti, Puerto Rico*, Saint Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago
June Friday Trinidad and Tobago
July Tuesday Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba*, Sint Maarten
July Wednesday Curaçao
July Thursday US Virgin Islands
July Friday Puerto Rico*, US Virgin Islands
July Monday British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Saint Vincent and Grenadines
July Tuesday Saint Vincent and Grenadines
July Thursday Bahamas
July Monday Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Martin
July Friday Cuba, Puerto Rico*
July Saturday Cuba
July Sunday Cuba, Puerto Rico*
July Monday Cuba, Puerto Rico*
July Thursday Bermuda
Aug Friday Barbados, Bermuda, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands
Aug Monday Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba*, British Virgin Islands, Grenada, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis
Aug Tuesday Antigua and Barbuda, British Virgin Islands, Saint Kitts and Nevis
Aug Wednesday British Virgin Islands, Jamaica
Aug Thursday Anguilla
Aug Friday Anguilla
Aug Monday Grenada
Aug Tuesday Grenada
Aug Friday Guadeloupe, Haiti, Martinique, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Martin
Aug Saturday Dominican Republic
Aug Sunday Trinidad and Tobago
Sep Monday Bermuda, Puerto Rico*, Trinidad and Tobago, US Virgin Islands
Sep Saturday Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba*
Sep Tuesday Saint Kitts and Nevis
Sep Friday Saint Kitts and Nevis
Sep Saturday Haiti
Sep Wednesday Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago
Sep Friday Turks and Caicos Islands
Oct Monday Saint Lucia
Oct Thursday Saint Barthélemy
Oct Friday Cuba, Curaçao
Oct Monday Bahamas, Puerto Rico*, Sint Maarten, Turks and Caicos Islands, US Virgin Islands
Oct Friday Haiti
Oct Sunday Grenada
Oct Monday British Virgin Islands, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago
Oct Saturday Grenada
Oct Monday Saint Vincent and Grenadines
Nov Saturday Antigua and Barbuda, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Martinique, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Martin, US Virgin Islands
Nov Sunday Haiti
Nov Monday Antigua and Barbuda
Nov Monday Cayman Islands, Dominican Republic
Nov Tuesday Bermuda, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Puerto Rico*, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Martin, Sint Maarten, US Virgin Islands*
Nov Sunday Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba*
Nov Tuesday Haiti
Nov Wednesday Puerto Rico*
Nov Monday British Virgin Islands
Nov Thursday Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands
Nov Friday Turks and Caicos Islands
Nov Sunday Barbados
Dec Monday Barbados
Dec Friday Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba*
Dec Tuesday Antigua and Barbuda
Dec Saturday Saint Lucia
Dec Monday Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba*
Dec Friday Anguilla
Dec Wednesday Puerto Rico*
Dec Thursday Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Curaçao, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Puerto Rico, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin, Saint Vincent and Grenadines, Sint Maarten, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, US Virgin Islands
Dec Friday Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Curaçao, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and Grenadines, Sint Maarten, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, US Virgin Islands*
Dec Wednesday Cuba, Montserrat


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Arkansas-based mobile home park operator Affordable Family Development has major project in Elk Grove
http://www.elkgrovenews.net/2019/04/arkansas-based-mobile-home-park.html
While some view California's rapidly escalating housing costs as an impediment, one company from America's Natural State is taking a contrarian view and sees a golden opportunity in the Golden State.
Mountain Home, Arkansas-based Affordable Family Development (AFD) has announced its intent to pursue a manufactured housing site on a vacant parcel in Elk Grove. The parcel AFD purchased for their development is the long-vacant 18-acre site located on the northeast corner of Sheldon and Power Inn roads.
According to AFD founder and president Ed Tom Bell, Elk Grove's recently passed general plan update caught their attention while attending the annual South by Southwest Conference in Austin, Texas. Bell said the city's flexibility in zoning matters makes it an attractive community to establish a manufactured housing park.
"Our contact Bear from Retail Strategies in Birmingham, Alabama told us all about Elk Grove at the conference, and how easy it was dealing with the people at city hall," Bell said. "Even though they adopted an update to their general plan, we've come to understand the city council is open to amending the plan as they see fit, and the city will permit us to place language for overriding considerations."
Housing affordability has been an Achilles heel not only for California but it has placed burdens on longtime residents of Elk Grove who are hoping to establish households in the community they have long called home. Many new families are being priced out of the housing market by so-called equity refugees from the Bay Area who are artificially escalating housing prices in Elk Grove and other Central Valley bedroom communities.
Bell avoids using the term mobile home park to describe AFD's housing communities noting they are well maintained and a phenomenal way for young families to build equity. AFD owns and operates 14 parks in Arkansas and manages another seven in West Virginia (posted below is our exclusive interview with Bell recorded early this morning).
"I understand mobile home parks have a less than positive connotation, but our parks are filled with mostly double-wides and they must be less than 13 years old when they are placed in our communities," Bell said. "We are sure when the city council sees the quality of our parks they will be singing high-praises that we are helping them with the housing shortage."
Typically, manufactured home parks have about 10 units per acre so the site could accommodate about 186 single-family dwellings. AFD has named their development Sheldon Chateau de Déverser which will include a clubhouse and swimming pool in the center of the park.
Bell noted that the site on Sheldon Road is perfect for young families given that two elementary, a middle school and a high school, as well as shopping and mass transit stops, are all within walking distance. Additionally, the park will be an example of fair housing and suburban land planning given that it is located directly across the street from Elk Grove's most exclusive private gated neighborhood, Shortline Lake.
"We have proven that whenever we place one of our communities near exclusive neighborhoods, we enhance the value of those places," Bell noted. "Undoubtedly the residents behind the gates of Shortline Lake community will be happy to open their arms to their new neighbors."
Although AFD has targeted the Sheldon Road site, their first choice was to purchase the Elk Grove Shopping Center on Elk Grove-Florin Road and demolish it for their entrée into California. In the end, Bell took note of the furor raised by California Northstate University's plan to demolish the Stonelake Landing shopping center in the master-planned Stonelake community for their proposed $750 million hospital.
"Our approach has always been based on being neighborly, and doing what is right for the communities where we operate," he said. "We are not taking Dr. Cheung and California Northstate's approach which seems to be 'if the only tool you have is a hammer, then every problem is a nail.' We'll take a friendlier Southern hospitality-based approach."
Along with providing affordable housing options, AFD has a long history of community involvement. In its home town, it has sponsored the Redneck Games and hopes to establish a similar event in the city's rural Sheldon community or possibly nearby Wilton (see video below).
As for operating in California, Bell said he is not concerned about the economic challenges compared to Arkansas or West Virginia. To the contrary, Bell noted there are certain advantages California offers.
"Unlike southern states, we don't have to worry about tornadoes in California," Bell stated. "You'll never have to hear the joke about 'what does an Arkansas divorce, and a tornado have in common? You know someone is losing the double-wide trailer.' That won't happen in Elk Grove."
AFH hopes to have permits in place so they can break ground on Sheldon Chateau de Déverser by April 1, 2020.
Steve L said...
Classic!!
Ed Tom Bell! Gotta love it!
What the hell is going on here?
I moved to Elk Grove because I thought is was a good place to raise my family. Now I'm learning the council is for sale and they'll do whatever developers want for a price. That's totally unacceptable! This town is already full of fast food joints and discount shopping stores. We don't need these trailer parks too.
I understand that Councilman Detrick lives across the street is a gated community and fought to keep Walmart from building on this proposed site. Looks like those Arkansas boys are preparing a little redneck payback. If what I hear is true, those other copuncil members will vote to approve the trailer park if the money is right despite Detrick's wishes.
Tell me this is a joke.
Your comment makes me ill. There are many people who around 2013 or so lived in a beautiful home in Elk Grove, but had to sell it because their business went under. You don't know what some people who once were successful had to deal with. Purchasing a mobile home was a viable option. Many are quite lovely, and I'm sure the new ones even better. Build em, and people will come.
EGN needs to back off!
This article takes unfair swipes at the city and Shortline Lake residents. Please cancel my subscription to EGN, effective immediately. I first subscribed to EGN through the Publisher's Clearinghouse Sweepstakes and besides not wining any money, I now have to endure the endless cheap shots aimed at our city leaders. Please take me off your list.
I am sure EGCAPP (Elk Grove Coalition Advocating Proper Planning) would bless this project and advocate for it.
And yes Steve L, got to love Ed Tom Bell! Lots of country smarts in his assessment of Elk Grove.
I heard that the Mayor Emeritus Gary Davis is moving over there because he's downsizing again. What a happy coincidence! He might be interested in coming on board with Ed Tom as a consultant. You can reach him at ElkSnoutMayorEmeritus@GaryDavis.com
This is very funny this is a good one!


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Bill of Rights Day!
Thread starter Citizen
Founder's Club Member
Fairfax Co., VA
Tuesday is the 224th Anniversary of the Bill of Rights.
Feel free to remark on the history of any single right or the Bill of Rights. Anything from little tidbits of historical knowledge to a long post discussing the history of an enumerated right. Or, even anything even tangentially related, for example, your view on how well many Americans understand or misunderstand rights.
Don't be shy. Even if you think lots of people already know, there is probably a lurker out there who never heard before the fact, conclusion, or idea you contribute to the thread.
Let's celebrate Bill of Rights Day by sharing and debating a major milestone in the political history of mankind!
Alright, I'll go first.
Five hundred seventy-six years. That was the interval between Magna Carta and the ratification of the Bill of Rights.
Half a millennium.
Across that time countless numbers of people who could have been your neighbors, friends, and family paid the price in blood, smoke, and treasure to wrest from government the rights in the Bill of Rights.
In his liberty-or-death speech, Patrick Henry asked when did government ever willingly a relinquish power, meaning willingly yield to a right.
The cost paid to obtain the rights in the Bill of Rights was very high. Over five hundred years of decent human beings burned at the stake (Mary Tudor, Fifth Amendment), having their ears cut off, disposed of their jobs and property, imprisoned, the English Civil War and all its dead and maimed, etc., etc., etc., etc., etc.
The Price was massive.
I do not want to have to pay that price again to recover something already paid for in blood, smoke, and treasure.
I shall not yield, I shall not concede. Not not even one inch.
Forty-nine views and only one post? Really?
OK. I'll toss in a couple historical facts.
James Madison is regarded as the Father of the Bill of Rights.
That is true, but only as far is it goes. He was a reluctant father; it was a shotgun wedding. He's on record referring to the Bill of Rights controversy as that "odious affair." He only caved when the freedom-minded anti-Federalists, deeply suspicious of a central government growing very powerful, threatened to derail ratification of the constitution.
Now, get this very carefully. The Federalists didn't give us a Bill of Rights because they thought we deserved one. It was a political ploy. The anti-Federalists were opposed to the constitution and the powerful central government it was creating. One of their arguments was the lack of a bill of rights.
So, the Federalists promised to supply a Bill of Rights. It mollified enough of the anti-Federalists to allow ratification of the constitution itself.
So, its not like the Framers were gifted above men with wisdom and benevolence. The Bill of Rights was a political ploy.
Freedom1Man
Greater Eastside Washington
Which is why reading the federalist papers and the anti-federalist papers, is so necessary.
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Absolutely! One cannot possibly claim to be a constitutionalist without reading both the federalist papers and the anti-federalist papers.
For unfamiliar readers, the Federalist Papers are a collection of letters-to-the-editor. Supporters of the constitution realized there were going to be two or three "battle-ground" states. Virginia was one. I think Pennsylvania and New York were the others. The federalist thinking was that if any of those states refused to ratify the constitution, the game was lost because other states would follow their lead.
So, a plan was made for John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison to write a series of essays for publication in the newspapers in the battle-ground states to sway opinion.
The Federalist Papers are marketing pieces. Totally intended to sway opinion into support for the constitution.
Even then, support was so rickety the federalists had to resort to ratifying conventions in the individual states. That is to say, there was no nation-wide referendum as to whether to adopt the constitution. The state legislatures either voted directly or created committees (ratifying conventions) to vote for adoption. The only state to submit the new constitution to the people was Rhode Island. Rhode Island voters defeated the constitution by something like 11-1.
I cannot recall if a Bill of Rights was discussed in the Federalist Papers. Anybody know?
Citizen said:
Not directly from my recollection, rights were said to be fundamental and that no people would allow the destruction of these rights because the federal government would never have the power to do so.
Stuff like that.
OC for ME
White Oak Plantation
Antifederalist No. 84
ON THE LACK OF A BILL OF RIGHTS
By "BRUTUS"
When a building is to be erected which is intended to stand for ages, the foundation should be firmly laid. The Constitution proposed to your acceptance is designed, not for yourselves alone, but for generations yet unborn. The principles, therefore, upon which the social compact is founded, ought to have been clearly and precisely stated, and the most express and full declaration of rights to have been made. But on this subject there is almost an entire silence. ...
http://jpfo.org/articles-assd/anti-fed-84.htm
The Founding Fathers on the Second Amendment
https://www.thefederalistpapers.org/history/the-founding-fathers-on-the-second-amendment
Sadly, there is a minority of similar thought amongst state employees.
Nightmare said:
You'll give them airs, make them uppity, calling them that. They are public servants and must be reminded of that and kept in their proper place especially the law enforcers.
...public servants? I see little service...even rarely.
sudden valley gunner
I've just started reading St. George Tucker....wowie! Why didn't I discover him earlier.
Reading his warnings about a government who does not remain within is limited powers is eerily prophetic.
A bill of rights may be considered, not onlyas intended to give law, and assign limits toa government about to be established, but asgiving information to the people. By reducingspeculative truths to fundamental laws,every man of the meanest capacity and understanding,may learn his own rights, andknow when they are violated ....- St. George Tucker
Federalist Paper 84 – Certain General and Miscellaneous Objections to the Constitution Considered and Answered
Independent Journal, Wednesday, July 16, Saturday, July 26, Saturday, August 9, 1788 [Alexander Hamilton]
¶2: The most considerable of the remaining objections is that the plan of the convention contains no bill of rights. Among other answers given to this, it has been upon different occasions remarked that the constitutions of several of the States are in a similar predicament. I add that New York is of the number. And yet the opposers of the new system, in this State, who profess an unlimited admiration for its constitution, are among the most intemperate partisans of a bill of rights. To justify their zeal in this matter, they allege two things: one is that, though the constitution of New York has no bill of rights prefixed to it, yet it contains, in the body of it, various provisions in favor of particular privileges and rights, which, in substance amount to the same thing; the other is, that the Constitution adopts, in their full extent, the common and statute law of Great Britain, by which many other rights, not expressed in it, are equally secured.
A fine resource http://www.thefederalistpapers.org/
<chuckle> I've been learning about this stuff for too long. After reading the text quoted above, I wondered to myself who wrote it--Madison? Hamilton? Jay? Number 84 is very late, so it would be Hamilton or Madison. Then I realized the rhetorical tactic of attacking an opponent's inconsistency. Only one of those three fit that mold--Hamilton. Then I realized the quote mentioned New York as "this state". Aha! Hamilton had financial connections in New York! The little rhetorical tactic, the location, its gotta be Hamilton! (Jay was also from New York but quit writing Federalists early for health reasons or something.) So, feeling all smug that I had figured who was the author of #84, I happened to glance at the citation for the publication. (sigh) I coulda just saved myself all that figuring by just looking at the danged citation.
Anyway, thanks for the quote, Nightmare. Exactly what I was wondering about. I had forgotten all about federalistpapers(dot)org.
It may be the only thing Hamilton got right about the Bill of rights but probably not for altruistic reasons.
That the enumeration of certain rights would cause problems. Even posters here make it out that those rights are more special.


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Q: Is thread::get_id (C++11) lock free? I would like to test the thread calling different functions of one of my classes. I have a critical time thread, and I don't want anyone to call a function that may call new to be called from that thread. However, as the 2 functions are public, I can't enforce it by the language.
My idea is to test the thread id. Assuming that I can ensure that the call initializing the thread id is in the right thread, I would just have to call thread::get_id() in other calls and compare to the thread id I saved.
The problem is that I also want to test in the critical thread this ID but I can not lock in that thread.
Therefore my question is: Is thread::get_id() lock free (and what could be the worst time of execution)?

A: The Standard gives no guarantee either way as to whether thread::get_id() and std::this_thread::get_id() are lock-free or not, or even concerning their complexity.
I'm afraid the answer to your question is implementation-specific, depending on your particular Standard library and underlying threads library.


It wasn't our intention to post so often. We'll likely slow down as OneFoot moves along. For now, it's all so new and exciting, we want to share!
In our last post, we shared that OneFoot had decided to switch out some gear. I can report that he is thrilled with his choice to send the hammock home and get comfy in the Hubba Hubba tent. Again, we'll say gear is a personal choice. He loves his hammock but for this adventure, he prefers the tent. Why?
–Better storm protection (if there is such a thing in the middle of the woods).
–Can get dressed and undressed in the tent, and not on the ground under the tarp.
–Option to sit in his sleeping bag in the tent to journal, read, or text with family.
–Can sleep on his side.
–Better privacy and more space.
Yes, he's added a bit of weight to his pack but it's well worth it.
When OneFoot made the decision to swap out gear, he thought it would be a good time to take a couple of zero days. His body was feeling the bumps and bruises of trail life and it was time to rest. So, while waiting for the gear to arrive by UPS, OneFoot enjoyed his first days of downtime. As with everything in this journey, zero days are new to us. To Ray, it was a chance to wash up, relax, and spend time with our friends who live in the area. For me, it felt like the years when he worked multiple days of double shifts. In those days, when I finally saw him, I had to pack in all the news from home in the minutes we had together before he'd grab a few hours of sleep. At some point in these zero days, I realized that's not our life anymore and he doesn't need to hear every detail from home in 2.3 minutes.
Planning trail visits from a distance.
OneFoot and I agree that when he makes his way north, our visits will be more frequent. Both location and my summer work schedule will allow for more impromptu outings. When looking at his hiking plan in January (remember when we tried to formulate a hiking plan? Silly kids!), we decided that we'd first meet up in Hot Springs, N.C. Great trail town and we could make it fit with my work schedule for April if I flew down (too far to drive given my limited time). Asheville is the closest airport, but whoa the airfare, so we decided on Tri-Cities, Tenn. I would just have to drive a little farther to reach him. We picked dates and got all the details confirmed. As time grows closer to the visit, we realize that we were naïve to think we could pinpoint X location on X date. Now we're thinking flying to Knoxville may have been better to catch up with him at Newfound Gap (Smoky Mountains). A thru-hiker permit is needed before entering the Smokies. The permit gives the hiker eight days to get through this section. If I meet him before he's done and he comes off trail with me for a few days, he'll risk running out of time on the permit. Bottom line? The logistics are tough. His plan now is to be through the Smokies, where I'll pick him up, and we'll drive up to Hot Springs for some zero days. I don't like having the pressure of this schedule on him so we won't lock ourselves into such a timeline again. Live and learn.
What? No camping at the NOC?
Who knew? We've always seen these beautiful photos and videos of people camping by the river at the Nantahala Outdoor Center (NOC). Turns out that was near the NOC. OneFoot hiked in and had hoped to get a bunk for the night but the hostel was sold out. Although there are tent platforms (also sold out), there is no rogue tent camping allowed there so off he went to find a place to crash. Turns out it was a great night as he met up with other hikers who were in the same situation and they all camped not far from the NOC.
Second breakfast of the day. This one at the NOC.
OK folks, here's the kicker.
That one broke my heart a little and brought to mind one of my favorite Thoreau quotes: "The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it." Side note to our children: find what makes you happy and then build your life and career around that.
What is the most surprising part of the adventure so far?
For Ray, as we've said, it's the people and the relationships. He's so easily connected with others and neither of us saw that coming. He's also very surprised about his choice to swap out the hammock. Pre-hike, he never doubted his gear decisions. He's fortunate to have a basement full of hiking gear making it pretty easy to try, try, and try again, as needed.
For family and friends, we're hearing that Ray's time spent in towns is something they didn't expect. Some thought this six months would be entirely in the woods. Others didn't realize how close the trail is to civilization and, at times, that it goes right through towns. Ray sees the trail as one giant adventure and wants to experience it all, on and off trail.
For me, where do I begin? First, I discovered that I hate cleaning the shower. Just how much I hate it is shocking. Ray, I am sorry. I get it now. When you get home, we can split this chore. I'll handle it on months with fewer than 30 days; you can take it for the months with 30 or more days.
As for the trail stuff, I am most surprised by how quickly I've seen a positive change in my husband. I never doubted that he would adapt well to trail life. I didn't ever expect that the transformation would begin straightaway. Perhaps it's the trail itself that is magic.
Which brings me to my next revelation. I honestly did not expect to feel such joy in watching Ray live this dream. Seeing his new smile, reading his journal entries, listening to his enthusiastic stories, and hearing the change in his voice fills me with an indescribable happiness. I can't stop smiling. How many people in your life do you know who, at this moment, can say, "There is no place on this earth I would rather be. I could not be happier than I am right now?" I'm pretty confident that Ray will say this every day on the Appalachian Trail.
OneFoot – Livin' the dream.
Your post are wonderful to read, they help us feel like a part of this journey the two of you are on. The joy makes my heart smile.
Aaaw, we love you Bea, aka OneFoot's Mom.
Your posts never fail to bring me a smile. So glad you all are getting to do this. Keep 'em comin'!
Will do Cardiac Kid! Lol. Miss you guys!
Enjoyed reading that. Hope to get to hear more along the way.