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Zimbabwe is blessed with a good and warm climate with rich flaura and fauna. Zimbabwe is also where you find one of the Seven Wonders of the world, the Victoria Falls which is surrounded by the seven wonders of our own world.
Our people and Culture - Zimbabweans are a peace loving people, warm and hospitable and as such they are our first wonder.
Rich History and Heritage - Zimbabwe has a rich history and heritage defining how our people came to be what they are today.
The Majestic Victoria Falls - The Majestic Victoria Falls which is known by the locals as "Mosi Oya Tunya" the smoke that thunders because of the thunderous noise the water from the falls and smoke like mist from the fall.
The Great Zimbabwe - The grand medieval palace of the Great Zimbabwe is a wonder in itself, built of granite blocks with no mortar or adhesive it has captured the interest of both local and international architects.
Pristine Wildlife and Nature - Our pristine wildlife and nature rivals that of any other African country and is in the top 40 of the beautiful habitats in the world.
The Mystic of the Eastern Highlands - The eastern highlands is a mountainous plain which is said to be filled with the voices of the ancestors and the waters that flow within the plan are said to contain healing powers and sooth the body.
Mythical Kariba and the Mighty Zambezi - The mythical Kariba and the mighty Zambezi, the home of Nyaminyami the serpent god of the Tonga people. Visitors who come to the area can indulge themselves in the story of this mythical creature and even have a hand carved walking stick in the form of the serpent god.
This is the largest waterfall around making it one of the world's "Seven Natural Wonders". Victoria Falls is one of the highest, widest and most powerful waterfalls, especially in the winter months when the river is full. In the 1800s Victoria Falls was described by the nearby Kololo as 'Mosi-oa-Tunya' which means "the Smoke that Thunders"- illustrating the powerful forces of Victoria Falls.
David Livingstone is believed to be the first explorer to have discovered Victoria Falls; in 1860 he spread the word about his travels to Victoria Falls. With so much enthusiasm and passion about Victoria Falls the area became a popular tourist attraction (especially on the Zimbabwean side). Today, Victoria Falls is a still a popular holiday destination for honeymooners, families and couples.
Victoria Falls has been called "the greatest known curtain of falling water" - and it is a truly spectacular site to see.Victoria Falls borders on Zambia and Zimbabwe, and can be viewed from vast distances from both sides. Columns of spray can be felt from miles away as 546 million cubic meters of water per minute plummet over the edge (at the height of the flood season) over a width of nearly 2 km (1708 m) into a deep gorge - over 100 meters below. The spray flowing above the falls at Victoria Falls can sometimes be seen over 5 km away!
This is the name given to the twelfth to fifteenth century stone ruins spread out over a 722 hectare (1,784 acre) area within the modern-day country of Zimbabwe, which itself is named after the ruins. The name means "stone buildings". It is near the town of Masvingo, which before majority rule was called Fort Victoria. The word "Great" distinguishes the site from the many hundred small ruins, known as Zimbabwes, spread across the Zimbabwe highveld. There are 200 such sites in southern Africa, with monumental, mortarless walls and Great Zimbabwe is the largest.
This is a mountain range found in the eastern part of Zimbabwe, one of the four most magnificent physiographic divisions on the African continent. This enormous mountain range includes the Nyanga Mountain in the north, the Bvumba Mountain in the centre of Zimbabwe and the Chimanimani Mountain in the south. This Zimbabwean mountain range contains a cool wet climate, a different weather condition to the underlying dryer and warmer areas – hiking on the Eastern Highlands can prove to be a safari highlight for interested and adventurous travellers.
By volume, Lake Kariba is the largest man-made lake and reservoir in the world. It is located on the Zambezi river, about halfway between the river's source and mouth, about 1300 kilometers upstream from the Indian Ocean, and lies along the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe. Lake Kariba was filled between 1958 and 1963 following the completion of the Kariba Dam at its northeastern end, flooding the Kariba Gorge on the Zambezi River, also displacing large numbers of the local Tonga people. The Zimbabwean town of Kariba was built for construction workers on the lake's dam, while some other settlements such as Mlibizi in Zimbabwe and Siavonga and Sinazongwe in Zambia have grown up to house people displaced by the rising waters.
The fantastic shapes and deep valleys of the Matopos Hills were formed by river erosion over 2000 million years ago. The granite was forced to the surface, and eroded to produce smooth surfaces among broken hills, strewn with boulders and interspersed with chunks of vegetation. This landscape led to its name, "Matopos Hills", meaning "Bald Heads" in Ndebele.

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June 26, 2019 - Latest: What has happened to markets this year? by Darius McDermott
17th July 2015
Wedding guests will spend over £600 every time they attend a couple's nuptials.
Research by Policy Expert shows Britons will have to budget to cope with wedding season this year.
The average UK wedding guest will spend £644 on gifts, food, new clothes, accommodation and stag and hen dos and 35% will even splash out on an engagement present meaning the spending starts long before the big day.
When buying a gift, 37% buy from the preapproved list and others choose cash or gift vouchers. Just 3.5% gave handmade gifts.
Mothers and fathers spend the most on the wedding day, shelling out £700 on presents alone. Grandparents spend around £245, siblings £144, aunts and uncles £78 and £57 from close friends.
The average Scottish guest spent the most on gifts at £58 while those in the South East spent the least at £39.
Adam Powell of Policy Expert, said: 'If you or a family member is set to walk down the aisle this wedding season, it's important to remember to check that the gifts received from generous guests as well as wedding rings and other valuables are covered in your home insurance policy.'
He added that insuring items straight after the wedding would ensure 'you can cross the threshold on your return from honeymoon without any nasty surprises' and that Policy Expert offers a 10% increase in contents cover for the month either side of your wedding.


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Please welcome Dave Fromm to the blog! His new book, The Duration, just came out and chatted about it, and more!
Will you tell us a bit about The Duration and what inspired you to write it?
Sure. First, thanks for having me! I really appreciate it.
The Duration is a tragic bromance set in the haunted hills of Western Massachusetts, primarily in an area called The Berkshires. There's a rhino involved. It's my first novel – I wrote a nonfiction book that came out in 2008 – and I'm in a constant state of low-grade anxiety about how it will be received, particularly by my family and childhood friends, who make up around 90% of my likely readership.
I was inspired to write The Duration by a few things. One of them is pretty cool – a local Berkshire legend about a circus elephant named Columbus who, in 1851, came to the Berkshires as part of a traveling act, got injured and subsequently died in the woods in my small New England hometown. They left him where he lay, and the woods eventually swallowed him up. His body's never been found, although some folks are sure they know where it is. That idea, of a buried beast, an old, exotic secret in this otherwise Rockwellian place, always struck me as a pretty great hook on which to hang a story. In the book, I subbed a rhino in for the elephant and changed a bunch of other stuff, but the theme remains.
The other inspiration was my own return to Western Massachusetts from California, where my wife and I lived for seven years. Coming home opened up all sorts of heavy feelings about growing up, transitions, deep friendships and memories from childhood. I'm solidly midlife, but my characters are still in their late 20s when most of the action takes place, an age at which they're supposed to be laying the foundation for their adult lives if not already fully living them. A couple of them are, and a couple aren't yet.
What makes Pete and Chickie compelling characters?
I don't know. It's weird, for me Chickie is the hardest character to get my arms around. But that's true in the story for Pete as well, i.e. it's hard for Pete to get his arms around Chickie. I wound up identifying with Pete much more, with his efforts to be responsible and his frustrations at how fruitless those efforts were. Pete's right there, trying so hard to become his own man, to step into the light, as it were. But he feels a deep kinship, and even love, for his struggling childhood best bud – their relationship is a big part of Pete's own identity. He's determined to pull Chick up with him, and you know how that goes.
What kind of research did you do for the book?
Not a whole lot of traditional research. I grew up in the town of Lenox, where the novel is set, and we lived on a street that backed up to one of the crumbling Gilded Age mansions that became a health spa called Canyon Ranch. In college, I worked at Canyon Ranch briefly and drew some of the details of the novel's health spa from my memories. I read up on the legend of Columbus, which was featured in our local newspaper back on the early 2000s. I have a friend who is working on a documentary about that legend, and he and I compared notes. But that's it, really. Most of the stuff in the novel I stole or made up or based on unsuspecting victims who deserve better.
Have you always wanted to be a writer? Will you tell us more about yourself and that progression?
Yeah, I suppose so, but I think when I was younger my ideas of "being a writer" were very abstract and romantic and unrealistic. I thought I'd just need to sit around and smoke and act tortured, rather than to actually write anything. I had (and still have!) significant doubts about the quality of my work, so I relegated writing to the status of hobby, but a hobby I talked about more than worked on. After college I had one ambition – to go have an adventure and write about it – and I wound up playing basketball in Central Europe. The journal of that year became the manuscript for my first book, which came out more than ten years after I came home. In between, I went to law school and worked as a civil litigator in Boston and California. When that work became a grind, I started writing again, privately, for the fun of it, and with the considerable help of the Zoetrope Online Writers Workshop, which was full of talented and generous people who taught me what real writing was like. Eventually, my basketball book came out, we moved from Los Angeles to Massachusetts, started a family, and I started writing more and more.
I still don't really feel like a writer, though. As an identity, it seems risky.
What's one of the first things you remember writing?
A poem for my sixth-grade English class about Per Hansa, the patriarch in Rolvaag's Giants in the Earth. (I just looked that up.) I was screwing around in class and wrote this pretty awful rhyme that started "My name is Per Hansa and I am a Swede. I have trouble riting and can't even read." I put it in my teacher's mailbox because I was kind of a kiss-ass, and she was so happy that someone was even remotely engaged that she photocopied it and passed it out to the class.
That's when I knew. (Hah!)
What authors have influenced you the most, in your writing, and in life?
I carried around Nick Hornby's memoir Fever Pitch for most of 1994. It was a book that reminded me how fun and engaging a voice could be, and how a writer could write his way out of a box. Michael Chabon's novels have sentences I'll read over and over again, as do David Foster Wallace's nonfiction pieces. Those two are my go-to's for ambition and generosity in writing. I also loved the Czech author Josef Skvorecky, who wrote a bunch of wonderful books, including The Miracle Game and The Swell Season, which hit me at the right time in my life, and which I'd read again in a heartbeat. My favorite recent book is Joseph O'Neill's Netherland, which is a masterwork about the American Dream and, as far as I'm concerned, a worthy successor to The Great Gatsby.
If you could experience one book again for the first time, which one would it be?
Jeez, that's a great question. I guess one answer is my own book, not because it's going to light the world on fire or anything, but just because it would be nice to experience it without second-guessing every revision or non-revision or choice in it. But that's obviously not what you mean, and I wouldn't really want to waste the opportunity. And what if I didn't like it? That'd be a disaster. It's a hard question because so many of the books that have resonated with me resonated in part because they appeared at the right times, so to speak. Would those books feel different if experienced at different life stages? Of course, I guess. The Swell Season hit when I was young and in Europe and girl-crazy. Netherland came along when I became a father. All the fantasy stuff I read when I was little and got totally, utterly lost in and it would be nice to be able to get lost like that again.
I'm gonna say Netherland. I love that book. I feel like I'm still in the right place for it.
Have you read any good books lately? Anything you'd recommend?
I have! Jim Ruland's Forest of Fortune is wonderful. It's about a haunted casino in the desert southeast of Los Angeles. It's funny and slightly spooky and smart. Michael FitzGerald's novel Radiant Days, about an expat cohort in Budapest in the 1990s, is super smart. That came out a while ago but I recently dipped back into it.
What are you currently reading?
I'm working my way through the Knausgaard saga and when it gets too frustrating I read some of Rebecca Schiff's stories from her recent collection The Bed Moved, which is great. I'm excited to read my friend Pamela Erens's new novel Eleven Hours.
What's next for you? Is there anything else you'd like to share?
Back to living the dream. Red carpets, soirees. I wrote a YA-ish novel for my daughter (she's only 5 so we have a while) about a teenage girl who discovers her grandfather was a pirate and sets out to return all the priceless artifacts he plundered. We're shopping that to publisher now – fingers crossed. I have two other things I'm working on – one is a revision of an older novel about horseshoe crabs and the other is tbd but there will probably be some CrossFit in it, just because the jargon is outstanding. So, like, a story about a middle-aged guy who starts going to CrossFit to ward off the spectre of Death, learns some outstanding jargon and then in his second week loses all feeling below his waist. It's fiction.
Thank you so so much!
Keep up with Dave: Website | Twitter
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It's been 100 years since tragedy struck the rolling woods around Fleur-de-Lys, one of dozens of Gilded Age estates dotting the western Massachusetts town of Gable. In Gable, they both begrudge and venerate their past, and even now that health spas and corporate yoga retreats have replaced the mansions of a bygone era, the ghosts of yesteryear linger. Growing up there means navigating those ghosts, and the even more pernicious pitfalls of adolescence, until you're lucky enough to find your footing. Unless you're not.
In The Duration, Boston attorney Pete Johansson finds himself reuniting in Gable with his troubled childhood pal Chickie, who has returned to the wintry town of their youth determined to solve past mysteries and right the wrongs he can't seem to shake. Despite–or because of–his best intentions, Pete is drawn reluctantly into Chick's reckless orbit, straining a bedrock friendship and putting them both at risk.


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Canadian teen star will record a track for the boyband's second album
Pop pipsqueak Justin Bieber and boyband One Direction are set for a collaboration.
The pint-sized Canadian singer, who is set to take the top spot in the UK Album Chart this Sunday (June 24) with his second album 'Believe', will record a track for the band's second album, The Mirror reports.
"The One Direction guys are great," he said. "We have a lot of fun whenever we hang out. They came over my house and we were just chilling out around the pool and listening to music. We were talking about me collaborating with them on a song on their next album. It's gonna be great." He added:
I asked them who else they would like to work with. They were, like, Rihanna, Katy Perry, Taylor Swift and Jennifer Lopez… Now don't get me wrong those are all very talented artists but there seems to be a pattern emerging and, looking at the smile on the guys' faces, I don't think it was all about the music…
The 18 year-old singer said that the boys have managed to stay humble, despite their success on series seven of the X Factor. "The great thing about them is that they might be the biggest band in the world but they have stayed regular guys who are just fun to hang with. I don't see them changing. They are just so grounded and have each other."
Yesterday it emerged that One Direction's Zayn Malik had been accused of "enciting jihad" and "pimping Islam" to young female fans in a savage online attack by a US right wing blogger.


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ePlus inc.Today announced that its subsidiary, ePlus Technology, inc., has achieved Telehealth Authorised Technology Provider (ATP) status from Cisco. This designation recognises ePlus as having fulfilled the training requirements and program prerequisites to sell, deploy, and support Cisco® Telehealth solutions.
Cisco Telehealth helps partners enhance the delivery of health care at a distance. Cisco Telehealth ATP Partners deliver solutions that are designed to provide improved access to health services, reduced patient wait times, and decreased travel time and costs for patients and providers. The goal of the program is to help partners deliver an immersive and personalised experience for patient and clinician consultations to customers in underserved and hard-to-reach communities.
"With a national healthcare practice serving some of the largest and most prestigious healthcare organisations across the United States, achieving this latest Cisco ATP will enable us to further leverage our Cisco TelePresence investments," said Jerry McIntosh, senior vice president of advanced technology solutions for ePlus Technology. "We'll be able to provide highly secure, scalable solutions to help healthcare organisations reach underserved populations, extend the reach of their specialists, coordinate care, and educate patients and caregivers."
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There is no central budget for volunteer expenses, therefore you must speak to your Area CLD Team Manager to ensure expenses can be paid before recruiting a new volunteer. You can discuss whether you would like to reimburse your volunteer with cash, or whether you would like to issue a bus ticket. Arrangements for these are made at local area level. Travel expenses claims are up to the maximum daily amount of the equivalent of the Fife Day Rider bus ticket (currently £8.40) and any subsequent parking costs. Volunteers can claim car running expenses up to the Day Rider limit, calculated at the standard staff rate (currently £0.45 per mile). Where the person volunteering is unable to use public transport due to disability, we are able to pay mileage costs (£0.45 per mile) without the Day Rider limit.
A reference can be requested from anyone who knows the volunteer, with the exception of family members. We would encourage the link worker to explore this topic with the potential volunteer and discuss possibilities.
The Link Worker may provide a reference if no other referees can be found.
We request two references, which can take varying lengths of time to be returned by referees. The volunteer cannot be approved until two satisfactory references have been returned. If a PVG is required, this is processed by Disclosure Scotland, and we have no control over the length of time this takes.
We have recently amended the process to allow Link Workers the option to request a reference for a volunteer and submit the completed reference form to the Volunteer Admin Team with the application paperwork. This will mean less waiting time before approval. Please see section 5.3.3 of the Volunteer Framework for more information about this process.
If you prefer not to request references, the best thing you can do is ensure all the information is completed on the Volunteer Working Agreement, email addresses are given for references if possible and all paperwork is complete and in place for PVG forms before passing the information to the Volunteer Admin team.
The PVG paperwork is now held locally. When you request a PVG application form, you will also receive Guidance notes or you can access the notes online at the Disclosure Scotland website. These notes are prepared by Disclosure Scotland and will provide all of the information you need to complete the application form. If you have any questions that are not answered in this guidance note, you can contact your Area CLD Team Manager or HR Direct (VOIP 2000).
The volunteer application form is a standard template used across all of Fife Council, therefore we are unable to make any changes. We have passed this request on to the Volunteer Policy Group.
A good recruitment and induction process should allow you the chance to get to know the volunteer. If they are not suitable it is better to be honest that this is not the right placement for them. You can direct them to Fife Voluntary Action who will help them find a volunteer placement that is more suitable for them. Completion of the Working Agreement and Induction will mean you have these documents to refer to if the volunteer is behaving in a way that is not acceptable in the role.
No. These are two different forms, with different purposes. The Volunteer Working Agreement is a part of the official Fife Council volunteer recruitment paperwork, which allows the volunteer to agree that they want to progress their application, based on the information given. The Induction booklet allows us more time to discuss their particular volunteer role.
The move from learner to volunteer is a very important one, and by providing a comprehensive induction we are helping set the volunteer up for a positive transition in to volunteering with us. The induction aims to provide the volunteer with everything we think they will need to know, to ease any anxieties, increase their understanding of both CLD and the role they will play within CLD, what the expectations are on both sides, and will provide them with specific information relevant to their individual role. The induction also gives us a good starting point to refer back to if, for any reason, the volunteering experience doesn't turn out as positively as we would hope.
There are a number of training programmes provided across Fife that volunteers can access. This includes local CBAL programmes, Health Improvement Team training and Fife Voluntary Action training. Volunteers can also access training through the CLMS system. To book a place for a volunteer on a CLMS course please contact Laura Welsh. Please note that should sessions become oversubscribed, staff will always be given priority. We do not have a budget for volunteer training so we cannot offer volunteers places on courses on CLMS that have a cost attached.
We have listed these providers in the Weblinks section under Training.
Volunteer development time should be recorded by the Link Worker. Volunteering hours will be recorded in accordance with local procedures in the same way in which the learner's hours are recorded (e.g. business support staff, link worker). For further support or guidance in using Cognisoft please refer to the Cognisoft Users Guide or contact Avril Guild or Laura Pearson.


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The Maryland Eastern Shore is the state's most popular attraction. This peninsula extends hundreds of miles between the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean, and it features many opportunities for recreation, as well as being one of the most popular summer vacation spots in the country. Historic towns, beaches, and stunning natural areas draw tourists from all over to explore and relax. Activities in the area include boating, swimming, biking, fishing, bird watching, and golf. There are waterfront festivals and tournaments all along the coast for people to be involved, and this makes the Eastern Shore one of the best places to visit.
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|Volume 11 |Issue 51| December 28, 2012 |
Human Rights
Brutality Beyond Comprehension
Jawed Naqvi
There was another rape in Delhi last week in which the 23-year-old victim, a paramedic apprentice from Uttar Pradesh, was mutilated with an iron rod. Her condition is described as critical and she is breathing perilously with the help of a ventilator.
What the five or six brutes did to her in a moving bus in the heart of India's capital city would make anyone's blood boil with rage. They beat her male companion unconscious before targeting her. Then they threw out both victims under a flyover that links the city to the airport. Four of the men have been arrested; two or three are on the run. They will be caught, that's certain.
What next? Helplessness is writ large amidst police bravado. A newspaper headline helpfully added that the passenger bus was impounded and its licence cancelled as though we are discussing a traffic offence. Movie actress-turned-MP Jaya Bachchan was honest in her admission saying she was ashamed she couldn't do anything for the girl or for future victims. She captured the sense of everyone's insecurity in Delhi, which now carries the sobriquet of being the rape capital of India.
On social media people called for the hanging of the culprits. That's the only solution they seem to know. Some newspapers described the squalor the alleged rapists lived in cheek by jowl with the India Shining narrative of a posh district of Delhi. Their shanties were the "fertile breeding grounds of crime" in the city, claimed a newspaper whose proprietor runs an upper-class school in the vicinity. He could do without the slums. There is a familiar real estate angle in the social slander.
Turning crime, like the brutal multiple assault on the hapless woman, into a class jostling is typical of many an upper-caste journalist. Had there been even one percent Dalit journalists in the so-called mainstream media, we would have perhaps known more about the pervasive reality of rape in its widespread rural manifestation.
For what happened in the moving bus in Delhi is a feature of daily life in rural India, and the perpetrators are not slum-dwellers but scions of powerful powerbrokers, for the most part coming from upper-caste backgrounds.
And what is the social ranking of the military and paramilitary trooper whose criminal exploitation of vulnerable women in Kashmir or Manipur are seldom the source of the outrage we are seeing in Delhi this week? Rape was a feature of the partition riots on an exceptionally rampant scale. Sikhs, Muslims, Hindus participated equally in the predatory carnage in which women of all the involved communities were the eventual victims.
I don't like to believe reports that women in Gujarat egged on their men folk to target helpless women of a different community in 2002. However, I don't know if it is foolish or wise to believe the stories.
There was a high-ranking army officer I knew who was being cashiered for soliciting women under his watch in Jaffna. He was given an honourable exit with political help. Also, hear from the UN about the way several Indian and Pakistani troops have behaved with women during foreign assignments. The world knows what American soldiers did in Iraq and Afghanistan. It had little to do with anyone's social backgrounds much less their origins from any slum. Rape is an instrument of power. It is preposterous to believe that Dalit men are more respecting of women.
Contrary to the claim that slums are responsible for breeding crime in Delhi, much of the violence witnessed in Delhi's neighbourhoods has to do with affluence. Newly rich men having sold bits of their land for the price of gold want a share in the power perks, by hook or by crook. "Feudal lords" flaunting money and powerful new cars make a heady mix. Writer activist Mahashweta Devi has spent much of her life rallying support for socially stigmatised communities, known quaintly under British rule as "criminal tribes". In free India they became denotified tribes.
The Lodhas of Medinipur were often engaged in theft and robbery at the behest of the rural middle class, says Devi. Often the target of beatings, eviction and lynching, they were known as "born criminals" ~ a label which gained legal sanction during colonial rule when the British passed the abominable Criminal Tribes Act in 1871. Under it, many nomadic communities ended up being branded as criminals.
"I have fought against the stigma that was attached to these people for years now, but to little avail. West Bengal (was) under CPM-dominated Left Front rule for the last 30 years, but neither it nor the central government did anything to redress the grievances of these so-called 'criminal tribes', except to announce in 1952 that by no longer being notified as criminal tribes, they had become denotified."
However, many of these denotified tribes continued to carry considerable social stigma of the act and come under the purview of the Prevention of Anti-Social Activity Act (PASA). India's National Human Rights Commission recommended repeal of the Habitual Offenders Act in 2000.
That may not help much since the legacy of harbouring and flaunting social biases is an integral part of resurgent India. Sonia Gandhi visited the hospital where last week's rape victim is fighting for her life. She may need to walk across the four corners of the country to know the true enormity of the practice of rape.
She will find it as a feature of India's power pyramid of which the "hoi polloi" (the majority) are a negligible part. Very often she will discover the state's complicity in the crime, not so much the so-called criminal tribes or even the urban slum-dwellers.
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Somalia fell apart in 1991, when several clan militias clubbed together to remove a dictator, Mohamed Siad Barre (who was a proponent of what he called "scientific socalism" i.e. Marxism) and then turned on each other. A year later US peace-keeping forces fought with Aidid's forces in Mogadishu, chronicled by the film Black Hawk Down. By 1995 the US and the UN had removed themselves from Somalia, leaving the country to continue fighting. Aidid was killed in 1996 in a gunfight.
Two northern regions, Somaliland and Puntland, seceded from Somalia in the 1990s but remain internationally unrecognized. Some have commented that Mogadishu is the only "anarcho-capitalist" regime in the world. But that is false because the city has no legal foundation whatsoever. One cannot have an utterly lawless regime and call that capitalism. It fails even the classical definitions put forth by Smith. Somalia is simply a failed state, which is entirely different in its ambitions and in its purposes.
But Somalia is a resilient failed state, and has some anarcho-capitalist features. Consider its amazing currency, the Somali shilling, which has operated for 14 years without a central bank or reserves of any kind, save the will of ordinary Somalis. Though the country has lacked a government, it has never quite ceased to exist.
Numerous attempts to revive the state, mostly backed by rich-country donors, have failed. A transistional government backed by Ethiopian forces, created in 2004 in the alternative capital city of Jowhar, began with a lot of ambition. But by June 2006, it had lost out to Islamist militias in Mogadishu, whose power is spreading. The Straussian Policymakers at Heritage have linked these forces to Al Qaeda. For any hope of stability in the region, engagement with political moderates would be necessary. There are too many extreme forces in Somalia. The Islamists are fiercely opposed to foreign troops – particularly their neighboring Ethiopians – in Somalia. Since November, war between Islamists and Ethiopians seemed very possible.
Ethiopia has just this week, on Christmas Day in fact, bombed the airport in Mogadishu. The battles now fought are between an alliance of Mogadishu warlords known as the Alliance for the Restoration of Peace and Counter-Terrorism (ARPCT) and a militia loyal to Union of Islamic Courts (UIC).
Habitat, a UN agency that tries to provide housing and shelter, is struggling to bring some order here and in other Somali towns. But it is more trade, not aid, that might improve things the most. Saudi Arabia could help by restoring its imports of Somali livestock that were stopped in 2000, and Somalia needs help developing its offshore fishing waters, which are being plundered by foreign boats. The country also has some untapped oil reserves, which foreigners are too weary to explore for fear of violence. Trading oil wouldn't necessary turn Somalia into a healthy anarcho-capitalist regime, or even a healthy liberal democracy. Would we prefer living in Riyadh over Mogadishu? Islamist militias would most likely still fight over its oil, but the foreign investment this would bring is going to be worth the risk.


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Barrière is about to make landfall on St Barts, a stunning island hidden away in the middle of the Caribbean, one of the world's most beautiful seas. It is in this tiny jewel in France's overseas crown that the group will open its latest 5-star property, the Hôtel Barrière Le Carl Gustaf St-Barth.
Barrière is continuing to develop its hotel network, in so doing cementing its place among the leading French players in the luxury tourism sector. And having only just opened the doors of the Hôtel Barrière Les Neiges Courchevel, the group led by Dominique Desseigne is already preparing its next big venture in St Barts, the pearl of the French Caribbean.
It is here that the group has decided to expand its network through the renovation of one of the island's emblematic hotels, the Carl Gustaf, which closed its doors in 2013. After two years of studies and construction work, it will reopen at the end of 2017 more surprising and elegant than ever before following a complete renovation orchestrated by Gilles & Boissier, trusted figures on the Parisian interior design scene whose previous projects have included the Four Seasons in Montreal and Mexico, the Mandarin Oriental in Marrakech and the Ritz Carlton in New York. These two architects were keen to incorporate local culture into their design in an artistic way, incorporating contemporary touches into the Caribbean structure of the buildings.
Overlooking the port in Gustavia, the island's capital, a stone's throw from luxury boutiques, the finest restaurants in the Caribbean and the highly exclusive Shell Beach, and surrounded by a huge tropical garden that is as verdant as it is tranquil, the Hôtel Barrière Le Carl Gustaf will offer two junior suites and 13 cottages (all with their own private pool) behind its colonial façade, complemented by two superb additions: a loft and a private villa.
The first will feature three bedrooms, a swimming pool and private jacuzzi and will boast the best sea view on offer from the hotel – perfect for making the most of the island's magnificent sunsets! The second, as luxurious as it is exclusive, will include a total of six bedrooms and, of course, its own private pool.
This premium property merits top-notch facilities and services and with this in mind Barrière has planned two restaurants, a spa and a bar for its new flagship hotel. For dining, guests at Le Carl Gustaf will have the choice between Le Fouquet's with its à la carte menu overseen by Pierre Gagnaire, one of the world's most renowned modern chefs, and Shellona, a beachfront restaurant on Shell Beach, with its unique concept combining dishes to share and a live DJ-led ambience. When it comes to wellbeing, Barrière has chosen to join forces with Biologique Recherche, a renowned expert in cosmetic treatments operating in over 50 countries worldwide. The Diane Barrière spa will also feature a fitness centre and yoga room.
With such a partner on board, the future of the Hôtel Barrière Le Carl Gustaf is certainly looking very healthy!
Dominique Desseigne adds: "This is the beginning of a new era for Barrière, led by its spirit of conquest. This is the group's first foray into the highly coveted luxury hotel market in the French Caribbean and the Hôtel Barrière Le Carl Gustaf St-Barth symbolises our development strategy outside of mainland France. Our hotel, which will open at the end of 2017, will enjoy unbeatable views of the islands and the legendary port of Gustavia. It will also boast direct and exclusive access to Shell Beach, a veritable jewel on St Barts".


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Congratulations to Derek Christeler who ran in last month's Boston Marathon! Derek raised funds for the American Liver Foundation (ALF) and teamed up with Olio Taibi to help out with his fund raising efforts. Thank you to everyone who bought bottles of Olio Taibi to support the ALF.
This was Derek's first marathon and he completed it in the impressive time of 3 hours 30 minutes. As we say in Italy, "Bravo!" Derek plans to run more marathons in the future but in the meantime, he will focus on triathlons.


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It's been a season of surprises. Balmy breezes when there should've been icicles. Snowflakes falling on flowers. Winter socks in June. But it doesn't end there. The twists and turns have crept into digital publishing with Amazon suing its own sellers, authors fighting what seems to be a losing battle against copyright infringement, the birth of a 'Rotten Tomatoes' website for books, and much more. Here's the latest…
Amazon Starts Suing Its Own Sellers Over Fake Reviews
In its escalating fight against fake product reviews, Amazon has for the first time started suing its own sellers instead of just going after other websites that promise to write five-star recommendations for cash.
Stealing Books in the Age of Self-Publishing
In the world of self-publishing, where anyone can put a document on Amazon and call it a book, many writers are seeing their work being appropriated without their permission. Some books are copied word-for-word while others are tinkered with just enough to make it tough for an automated plagiarism-checker to flag them.
Hail and Farewell to the Google Books Case
"The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied. Justice Kagan took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition." With that two-sentence order, the Supreme Court brought the long-running Google Books case to a close on April 18. After ten years, two lawsuits, one failed settlement, a parallel case against Google's library partners, and five landmark copyright decisions there is nothing more for the courts to say. Google Books is legal. Full stop.
You May Soon Binge Books Just Like You Binge Netflix
Genre fiction, like TV, increasingly depends upon serialized long-arc storytelling; it's rare these days to see a science-fiction or fantasy novel that isn't part of a trilogy (or longer). Yet, the book world historically has been unable to match the comparatively rollicking pace of television. But publishing company Farrar Straus and Giroux believes the TV model can lend momentum to a book series.
Major Publishers are Lowering E-book Prices
Major publishers are fed up with the constant decline of e-book sales and are doing something about it. They have lowered the price of a bestselling e-book by three dollars in most major markets and discounted debut authors to complete against indie authors.


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Where our Glasgow city centre restaurant is located
La Bonne Auberge Glasgow Theatreland is situated in the heart of the Glasgow city centre making it easily accessible no matter your mode of transport.
The Concert Square multi-storey car park is directly opposite. When dining in La Bonne Auberge your parking will be FREE parking when you park after 5pm.. yet another reason to dine at La Bonne Auberge!
Find us:
Train – Just 10 minutes walk from Glasgow Central Station and 5 minutes walk from Glasgow Queen Street Station
Bus – Situated directly opposite Buchanan bus station and no more than a minutes walk
Subway – Just 5 minutes walk from Buchanan Street subway station
Surrounded by some of Glasgow top theatres such as the King's and Pavilion Theatres plus Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, the AA Rosette winning La Bonne Auberge offers the perfect venue for pre-theatre and à la carte dining.
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Small business owner and NYT blogger Jay Goltz discussed why he's still reluctant to hire new workers.
Economic uncertainty is a big issue, but so are regulations that make it expensive to hire and fire workers.
Let's say you meet a qualified job candidate.
If the new hire spends more than 30 working days with you but you have to let him go either because it's not a good fit or because you were overly optimistic about the economy, he is eligible to collect unemployment. That, at least, is how it works in Illinois; the rules vary by state. Many people don't realize that the government is not paying the bill for most of that compensation; companies are. The more people a company lays off, the more it pays in unemployment premiums...
But that's not all. After you let this employee go, he can go to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and file a complaint that he was fired because of his age. You will have to hire a lawyer. His lawyer will call your lawyer to try to settle. You will think, settle for what? For giving someone a chance? You will probably win, but that could take years and thousands of dollars in legal fees. This is why it's safer — remember, safer is in— to not hire anyone and to continue working with a short staff. Is this good for the unemployed? The economy? The businesses? Anyone?
Goltz offers two solutions: Giving employers a six-month window before they are liable for unemployment compensation, and take action to block out frivolous discrimination claims sooner.
Don't expect to hear either program from Obama tonight.


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Worth a tour if you are looking for a skilled nursing and rehab center in Palm Beach Gardens or Jupiter area in Florida. After surgery, accident or illness, when you're looking for the quickest way to restore your optimism, get back on your feet and make your way home, the Waterford is a beautiful skilled nursing and rehab center. View


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Maasai Mara National Park
Masai Mara Game Reserve
Masai Mara National Reserve is the Jewel of Kenya's wildlife game reserve. Located 270 Kilometers way from Nairobi in the south western Kenya,it takes 4 5 hours by road and about an hour by flight from Nairobi. The Maasai Mara, also referred to as the Masai Mara covers some 1500 Km2. It borders the famous Tanzania's Serengeti National park to the south. Maasai Mara is effectively the northern continuation of the Serengeti National Park game reserve in Tanzania."Maasai Mara", also known as "Masai Mara" is named after the Maasai people (the traditional inhabitants of the area) and their description of the area when looked at from a viewpoint - "Mara", which is Maa (Maasai language) for spotted: this is an apt description for the circles of trees, scrub, Savannah and cloud shadows that mark the area. It is famous for its exceptional population of Big Cats, game, and the annual migration of zebra, Thomson's gazelle and wildebeest from the Serengeti every year from July to October, a migration so immense it is called the Great Migration and now dubbed;The New 7th Wonders of the world.
Savanna Grassland and Rivers
The Maasai Mara reserve terrain is primarily open grassland, with seasonal river- lets. In the south-east region are clumps of the distinctive acacia tree. The western border is the Esoit Oloololo Escarpment of the Rift Valley, and wildlife tends to be most concentrated here, as the swampy ground means that access to water is always good and tourist disruption is minimal. The easternmost border is 224 km from Nairobi, and hence it is the eastern regions which are most visited by tourists. The reserve is drained by the Sand river, Talek river and the famous Mara River which is crossed annually by the migrating Wildebeests in the months of July - October annually - The Annual Migration.
Numerous Visitors and A Myriad Wildlife Species
Virtually everyone who visits Kenya goes to this 320-sq. km. of open grassland dotted with flat-topped acacia trees. A visit to Mara is truly a staggering one, and which is likely to have a profound effect on your own feeling of insignificance. This is the Kenyan section of the Serengeti and animals are in abundant. All year round, the Masai Mara, a living tapestry of grassy savanna, spreading thorn trees, rounded hills and tall gallery forests with its abundant wild life draw hundreds of thousands of photographers and visitors from all over the world. The Mara is home to millions of wild game such as wildebeest and gazelle among others and are continuously tracked by Africa's great predators. The annual migration of these animals is one of the most inspiring sights on earth, and this is the dramatic life and death struggle that tourists come to see. Other animals seen are lion, elephant, cheeter, leopard, zebra, antelope, impala, Thomson gazelle, topi, giraffe, baboon, jackal, warthog, rhino and hyena.
Maasai Village Visits in Kenya's Maasai Mara Game Park
A visit to the Masai village, located inside the reserve. This is a cultural village of the Masai tribe's people and it is an ideal place to take video pictures, buy trinkets and beadwork. Ballooning Safaris, Hot-air ballooning at dawn as you drift quietly, is the best way of viewing the savanna plains and the animals without the intrusion of vehicles and the dozens of tourists. Accommodation facilities in Masai Mara are plentiful and range from luxurious 5-star lodges to Spartan tented camps. Hot air balloon excursions are available in the Game Reserve.


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Reviewby Justin Sevakis
Revolutionary Girl Utena
VHS 1 - Crest of the Rose
Revolutionary Girl Utena IS one of the most revolutionary shojo series in recent memory. A pity that the dubbing studio used by Central Park Media seems to think that it's meant to attract an audience usually consumed by hours on end of "Nick Jr." on cable.
When she was a little girl, Utena Tenjou (mispronounced "Tenjuu" throughout) saw a vision of a beautiful prince, who comforted her in a time of need. She was impressed enough not to fall in love, but to idolize him to the point that she has become dead-set on becoming a prince herself. Now, as a high school student (you knew that was coming, huh?) she is even wearing boys' uniforms and her best friend Wakaba refers to her as her "boyfriend"! (She's joking, of course.)
Things change the first day of the new semester when she sees the class quiet girl Anthy Himemiya being smacked around by the student counsel vice president, Kiyoichi Saionji (mispronounced "Sayonjee" throughout), only to be stopped by president Touga Kiiryu (mispronounced "Tooga" throughout). When, the next morning, she finds her friend Wakaba's love letter to Saionji publicly posted, Utena challenges him to a duel, since he is the president of the kendo club.
What she thought was just a ring given to her by her prince instead opens up a mysterious dueling arena, and it is revealed that the student congress is a group in contact with "End of the World" to bring about apocalypse. Anthy Himemiya is known as the "Rose Bride", engaged and subservient to whoever the current sword dueling champion is... and keeper of strange pets (including Chu-Chu, a three-inch-tall pliable monkey). Of course, Utena wins the duel, resulting in all sorts of chaos from all parties involved.
Utena doesn't suffer from a tragic dub, but it comes dangerously close to being totally wrecked by an inept cast and direction staff. Anthy and Touga are fine (while Utena sounds a bit valley girl), but most of the characters are horribly miscast. Saionji, er, Sayonjee, sounds way too soft and non-threatening, while the androgynous Miki will incite memories of Ryoga from Viz's Ranma 1/2 dubs. (In the Japanese version, he was voiced by a woman... Aya Hisakawa, best known as Devil Hunter Yohko!).
In fact, really the only perfectly dubbed character is Chu-chu. I can't imagine an animal that can only say "Chu! Chu!" while crunching maniacally on the nearest edible item would be very tough to dub at all, but still the character's appearances make for a nice oasis in an otherwise torturous experience.
One of the more unique elements in the show are the "Shadow Play Girls", two marionettes that appear before the commercial break in every episode that foreshadow future plot twists and discuss them in a jovial manner. They were cute and fun in the Japanese version, but in the dub, all spontaneity is lost. More overacting and slow-speech totally impede the original feel of the characters. Like everyone else, all of the original spark of the characters are lost, and the result is a series that just lays there.
As for the anime itself, the art is rather undetailed; somewhat average for a television series (which, given the technological advances in other TV shows in recent years, is quickly becoming inadequate), but the story is top-notch. If you're a guy, you probably will be embarrassed to be watching something that is filled with pink frills and rotating flowers, but if you're willing to put up with that, you're in for a treat.
But the show's true saving grace is the opening theme. "Revolution!" is an amazing accomplishment as a song. Catchy to the point of addictive, it easily ranks among the openings to Vision of Escaflowne and Gundam Wing. While the symphonic tracks are not bad, the more memorable songs are from Seazer, a chorus of bizarre olden Japanese words. While catchy, I found them rather annoying at times.
See this one subtitled, even if you normally go for dubs. Or better yet, wait for the upcoming bilingual DVD. You won't be sorry.
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We have just finished working on a massive campaign for Standard Chartered, a multinational bank based in London.
The TVC's were produced in conjunction with Transmission Pictures, and the awesome team from Sixtoes in Singapore!
Pancho handled all the Post-Production for the massive 1 week shoot that stretched from Tasmania to Cairns.
Link to one of the TVC's here


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My dad and I thought that we had found a new secret dining spot. Well… as it turned out, my mom and my sister had known about this place years prior!
Regardless of that fact, it was early last summer when my dad and I went for breakfast at Zoe's House of Pancakes in a nearby suburb. If I'm not mistaken, my dad had pecan pancakes and loved them. My dish was apple cinnamon french toast (as seen below) and I enjoyed that as well.
Next up on the list of places to visit: Sweet Potato Sensations for their take on a classic sweet and salty combo: Chicken and Waffles 🙂


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1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Muntaner, Ramon
MUNTANER, RAMON (1265-1336?), Catalan historian, was born at Peralada (Catalonia) in 1265. The chief events of his career are recorded in his chronicle. He accompanied Roger de Flor to Sicily in 1300, was present at the siege of Messina, served in the expedition of the Almogavares against Asia Minor, and became the first governor of Gallipoli. Later he was appointed governor of Jerba or Zerbi, an island in the Gulf of Gabes, and finally entered the service of the infante of Majorca. On the 15th of May 1325 (some editions give the year 1335) he began his Chronica, o descripcio dels fets, e hazanas del inclyt rey Don Iaume Primer, in obedience, as he says, to the express command of God who appeared to him in a vision. Muntaner's book, which was first printed at Valencia in 1558, is the chief authority for the events of his period, and his narrative, though occasionally prolix, uncritical and egotistical, is faithful and vivid. He is said to have died in 1336.


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RECON Series
Answering the specific needs of these professionals, Luminox created the RECON Series in collaboration with former Swiss Army Military Security NCO Andrea Micheli, an internationally recognized law enforcement and military journalist and shooting instructor. The RECON series meets the requirements of military personnel for analog watches that can also be used as simple and efficient navigation tools on the ground.
Luminox has also breathed new life into the very traditional Field watch category. The Atacama Field Series update the vintage-inspired range with even more rugged appeal and functionality.


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A beautiful collection of poems from the heart about – joy, sorrow, triumph, love and pain. Hugely drawn from my personal experiences in life, it is a true tribute to life in all its beauty.
While 'Mother, my ode to you', conveys how a mother continues to guide and inspire her child in every way in life's struggles, 'Strength' lifts up the downcast spirit with life's historical triumphs and wins. 'Break free' is about the dark vicissitudes of practical life and how the protagonist wants freedom from life's falsities and hypocrisies. 'Thinking of you, my love' is about the love-filled thoughts kindled for the beloved while in 'He comes..' the protagonist wonders if she really deserves the new-found love in her life and doubts her destiny which has been unkind to her earlier. Quite on the same lines of 'He comes..' is 'She espies..' where she doubts her waning beauty in attracting her man, preferring to languish for him in her dreams.
This book is a story that happens in every human life and I am sure most readers will relate to the characters involved.
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Preeti is a freelance journal editor, ebook author and poet. Her writings have appeared in several journals. She's a member of the writer's group CRWROPP-B. Born and brought up in Hyderabad, she's done her MBA in Human relations and currently resides at Mumbai with her husband and son. She's currently working on her upcoming book which is a collection of short stories. She loves observing people around her and integrating their experiences into her short stories and poetry. Besides dabbling at cooking, she enjoys travelling, surfing the internet, reading and spending time with her family. If you'd like to connect with her, you can email her at [email protected]
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'22 Poems You Should Read About Love and Life!' concentrates on emotional reasoning and centers itself through different stages of life that we all can relate too. A wide spectrum of subjects about, romance, love, happiness, sorrow and pain. How we deal with these feelings is wrapped around a trail of beautiful symbolic words of literature through captivating prose and poetry. All smoothly bind together in food-for-thought reasoning.
My personal favorite in this eBook is called 'Lonely' quote:
"Ask me how it is, to spend time like this
with just myself and my agonies
Lonely and lost, frozen in fear
When everything looks dismal, all unclear…..
This is just the first part to this poem just to give you a little idea of her thoughts and how she writes pen to paper.
The essence of poetry is sadly coming to an end and is not as popular as a century ago. It's nice to know a few writers keep it alive like Peeti. The developmental values lay within these pages that seem to give you strength and meaning through own own life's journey. An entertaining experience.
By Wayne Elsner on March 28, 2015
The poems are short, which might have helped me, but they also said something to me. I don't think I'll choose another book of poems for my next read but for anyone who is into poetry I think they would enjoy reading 22 poems you should read about love and life.
I was given a copy for evaluation and an unbiased review
By Erika on March 23, 2015
Each poem is personal and heartfelt; the reader can really get a feel for the author's suffering and contentment. There is a range of emotions in this collection.
I enjoyed reading the poems.
By Brenchris on February 8, 2015
I wanted to read more.
She has also authored another book titled
"I am an Angel's Daughter: An inspiring story" .
Click on the link below to see:
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Trump: 'You've known my plans' on immigration after Turkey, Germany attacks
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump calls the assassination of Russia's ambassador to Turkey and an attack on a German market ''terrible'' and tells reporters ''you've known my plans'' on a ban on Muslims. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION) U.S. Republican President-elect Donald Trump called Monday's attacks in Turkey and Europe "terrible" as he spoke to reporters at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, on Wednesday. "What's going on is terrible," Trump said. One reporter asked Trump if the assassination of Russia's ambassador to Turkey, Andrey Karlov, at an art gallery in Ankara on Monday caused him to "rethink" his policy on immigration and a ban on Muslims. "You've known my plans all along, and I've been proven to be right," Trump said. "What's happening is disgraceful," Trump said, adding that he has not talked to President Barack Obama since the Berlin attack or the assassination of a Russian ambassador in Turkey, both on Monday.


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CRAZY MOUNTAIN AUTO, LLC is a new family operated business right in the heart of Montana in Harlowton. Tony and Brandy believe their automobile dealership has already proven to be a great success. They believe their many satisfied customers is confirmation of this success. They are thrilled to be able to provide their services to the quaint little community of Harlowton as well as all of Central Montana.
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The Consumer Voice, one of the nation's leading advocacy groups for nursing home residents and their families, recently announced that October will be declared "Resident's Rights Month." The new initiative, expanded from what was previously a week-long effort, will include a month of raising awareness of the needs and rights of nursing home residents across the country.
Many advocates in this state share in the call to speak out about the issue with the goal of honoring senior community members and assisting victims of Illinois nursing home abuse. The Consumer Voice hopes that the celebration will offer opportunities for all nursing home and long-term care facilities to re-commit themselves to honoring the dignity and respect each elderly resident deserves.
Far too often senior residents are forgotten citizens, relegated to an almost invisible life within the walls of their facility. To help residents break out of that cycle this year's month-long theme is "Welcome Home: Creating Connections Between Residents and the Community." It is hoped that individuals outside of the nursing home-resident friends, family, and advocates-will use the opportunity to become more involved with the senior residents at local facilities.
Our Chicago nursing home lawyers at Levin & Perconti applaud the efforts taken by the Consumer Voice to improve the lives of all nursing home residents. For our part, we will continue to advocate for the legal rights of all victims of abuse and negligence. We remain committed to pursuing Illinois nursing home lawsuits whenever necessary to protect the dignity of those affected by poor care at these facilities.
See Our Related Blog Posts:
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Supernovae are the swan song of giant stars. These cosmic cataclysms are tremendous explosions lasting a few weeks and bright enough to outshine entire galaxies. But the light and heat that astronomers see with telescopes is make up only about one percent of what's happening. Mostly they produce a deluge of neutrinos, the small, ghostly particles that barely interact with normal matter. This week on the Physics CentralPodcast, how neutrinos are key to unlocking the secrets of these interstellar explosions.
|An artist's rendering of a supernova.
Image: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss
Being able to catch a supernova in action would yield a tremendous amount of scientific data. Physicist Kate Scholberg is eagerly waiting for the next supernova near enough to Earth that we can detect its neutrino signature. She helps run the Supernova Early Warning System, a collaboration of neutrino experiments around the world that are constantly on the lookout for the tell-tale signals.
|The Daya Bay neutrino detector which recently joined the SNEWS collaboration.
Credit: Department of Energy
|One of Ott's simulated supernovas.
Credit: Caltech


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As some of you may know from my previous post, I recently moved to London to join the Blogosphere team and this week we launched our latest issue. This is such a special issue for me! Although I've been writing for the magazine since the beginning and became even more involved when I redesigned the website in November, this was the very first issue that I was as an official member of the Blogosphere team. I wanted to share some photos from the night and chat a little bit about the magazine as I've really only mentioned it before over on my design blog, XOMISSE.
About Blogosphere Magazine
Blogosphere Magazine is an internationally distributed publication that launched in Autumn 2013 and covers a whole range of interesting topics for the blogging and social media community. Each issue is split into eight main sections: beauty, fashion, food, travel, lifestyle, photography, parenting and arts & crafts. A blogger is chosen for each section and they recommend five of their favorite bloggers to feature. So you get all the best bits from the blogosphere! There's also exclusive features and interviews as well as a social media section, an agony aunt section answering all of your blogging questions and other blogging tips.
About Issue 9
Issue 9 is just packed full of amazing content so I won't go into detail here but I wanted to share some of the articles I most enjoyed reading. There's something so calming and empowering about cover star Ella Grace Denton and her interview was truly inspiring. I got to speak to her at the event and she's just lovely. There's also an interview with Emma Gannon and Q&A with Hannah Gale - two amazing women who are killing it online! I found the article on Journalists vs Bloggers really interesting and Jess from CopperGarden's fashion section made me want to go shopping! I also really enjoyed what Aftab wrote about life as a student blogger, I related to a lot of it and his motivation really inspired me. And finally I have to mention my own section - I share some SEO tips and talk about using Periscope as a blogger to grow and connect with your readers.
In addition to the 164 pages of great content there's also a brand new events supplement reviewing meet-ups, classes and other events from around the UK. It's a fabulous guide to blogger events, Albertine did such a good job with it.
On Wednesday we hosted a party at 15 Bateman Street in Soho to reveal who our cover star was. Magazine editors, contributers and platinum subscribers were invited along to celebrate the latest issue with us.
It was an absolutely crazy day but six o'clock quickly arrived and we were all ready to start the evening. Hannah Trigwell performed on the night as people started to arrive. She is so talented! At around 7.30pm Alice, Editor-in-Chief, thanked everyone for coming and announced the cover star who was in the room. Then it was time to enjoy the evening - chat to everyone, check out the showcase stalls and try some Premier Estates Prosecco and Fentimans Rose Lemonade!
My favourite part of the Cover Reveal party was being able to meet everyone in person. Since being in London I've helped design and proof each page of Issue 9 so getting to actually put a face and voice to each blogger was amazing! I also got to meet some lovely bloggers who told me that they have read XOMISSE for years, which made me extremely happy. And when people like Jess, owner of the F.B.L Bloggers community, tells you that your blog is their "blog bible"... well that's a pretty amazing and humbling feeling.
Albertine did such a great job organising the night. I had an amazing time, and I hope that everyone who attended did too! If you've got your hands on an Issue 9 let me know what you think. We've already started planning Issue 10...exciting!
Where to buy Blogosphere Magazine?For those of you interested in getting your hands on a copy of the magazine, it's available in a number of WHSmith and independent stores around the UK (see stockist list here). It's also available online before it hits the shelves - we ship internationally. Although if you want to gaurantee your issue then check out the subscription packages to get the latest issue sent straight to your door as soon as it launches (subscriptions also come with lots of amazing perks).
PS. There's a giveaway over on our Twitter and Facebook page to win a goody bag, go quick!!


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By Steven M. Bialick, Attorney, www.MotorcycleAccident.com If your health plan pays any medical expenses you incur as a result of a motorcycle accident that is someone else's fault, the health plan might have the right to seek repayment of those expenses (subrogation / reimbursement / lien rights). The language of the health plan, and relevant state and federal laws, must be reviewed to determine if the health plan has a right to repayment and, if so, what exactly that right is. This review sho...Last modified on
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By Steven M. Bialick, Attorney, www.MotorcycleAccident.com If you've been in an accident, you should not put anything on Facebook or other social media that you don't want to be questioned about. There appears to be a trend of Defense attorneys being allowed to look into accident victims' social media lives to try to find relevant information that can be used in a lawsuit. While there are legal arguments against allowing Defense attorneys to have unlimited access to a Plaintiff's social media ...Last modified on
By Steven M. Bialick, Attorney, www.MotorcycleAccident.com Recently there has been a lot of publicity about a lawsuit in which a man sued the manufacturers of a motorcycle and a motorcycle seat, claiming he suffered a long-lasting painful erection (priapism) as the result of riding on a motorcycle that had a ridge-like seat. Reportedly, the man claimed that the injury to his penis was caused by the seat, which he claimed was negligently designed, manufactured, and/or installed by the defend...Last modified on
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Our Create Whimsy crop is right around the corner. We still have some spots on friday and sunday. Possibly 2 on Saturday!!! Just finished up planning the menu and the seating chart. Goodness that was a nutty. When you have some ladies coming on friday, some on saturday and some on sunday and others all 3 days planning the seating arrangement is work. I did it though and I think everyone will love there neighbor..lol.. Here is a picture of one of the mini classes.. Also I am working on creating a album of the past crops you can get a idea of HOW MUCH I LOVE to SPOIL YOU! Happy Monday CRAFTERS!!! Oh don't forget to go like our FB Page..thanks!!
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