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Uganda, The Mountain Climber's Dream
Some of Africa's highest and scenic points are in Uganda! Magherita, for instance, the third highest point on the continent is in located in South-Western Uganda. For lovers of mountain climbing, Uganda has a packed and enthralling menu. Stand on an awesome peak in the 'Pearl of Africa' and behold lush expanses of nature, grand heritage and rich history!
Africa Sceneries has suitable options for you, including those for the experienced and inexperienced climbers, or for those short of time to choose from. For instance, the apex of conical-shaped Virunga volcanoes in Mgahinga Gorilla National Park offers breath-taking panoramic views of Uganda, Rwanda and the DR Congo.
To the east of the country, Uganda, elegant Mount Elgon along the Uganda-Kenya border is a guaranteed exhilarating experience for climbers. Weaving one's way to its peak, Wagagai is a 4-7 days' adventure. This calls more for guts than mountaineering experience on the part of the climber. The reward for such guts is a refreshing up-mountain trek though wonderful forest scenery, natural pools and ancient caves.
Undertaken in an even year, a sojourn up Mount Elgon presents an adventurer with a peek into the unique culture of the native Bamasaba people. You will behold peculiar drum beats, high-pitched songs and rhythmical dance patterns that climax with male circumcision (without anesthesia)! It is a revered mandatory ritual, through which the fearless boys transit to manhood and has been practiced here through the generations from time immemorial.
The ultimate climbers' challenge in Uganda is taking on the Rwenzori Mountains (mountains of the moon), Africa's highest mountain 'chain'. This is a 9-day fantasy adventure. Climbers will enjoy the breath-taking forest canopy of the lower slopes as they scale the heights further up. The sojourn climaxes with a conqueror's sigh at the snow-capped equatorial Magherita peak - a truly unforgettable experience! Recommended: Visit Africa Sceneries' Volcano and Mountain Climbing web-page to place your booking today!
The three mountain volcanoes in Mgahinga Gorilla National Park can be accessed by climbers. It, for instance takes about eight hours to climb up the steep 14km leading up to the peak of Mt. Sabinyo, at 3,669m.
It takes around six hours to ascend and descend Mt. Gahinga (3,474m), topped by a swamp-filled crater and giant lobelia. Occasionally, climbers may spot golden monkeys frolicking through the branches of the thick bamboo forests.
Mt. Muhavura is the highest peak at 4,127m, and this 12km round trip takes around eight hours. Once at the top, hikers are rewarded, on a clear day, with panoramic views of the Virunga Volcanoes, Lake Edward, Bwindi Impenetrable Forest and the peak of the Rwenzori Mountains.
Many travellers find Mt. Elgon an exciting alternative to the more strenuous climbs in East Africa. It is easier to access throughout the year, less congested and has many of the same attractions, with a milder climate and lower elevation. Getting to the Wagagai peak requires no special equipment or technical experience.
The Sasa trail is the shortest but toughest route to the peaks, traversing the community land and allowing you to explore Bamasaba farming settlements and culture. The round trip takes four days and starts at Budadiri town at an elevation of 1,250m. The toughest climb of over 1,600m is completed on the first day, before crossing the park's largest area of bamboo forest and passing Jackson's Pool on the way to Wagagai Peak.
The Sipi trail (four to six days, 56km round trip) starts at 2,050m at the Kapkwai Forest Exploration Centre. It is the longest trail to the peaks, passing through the northwestern mountainside through Tutum Cave to enter the caldera and reach Wagagai Peak. The trail begins gently, but becomes tougher on the third day from Kajeri Camp.
The Piswa trail (seven days, 49km round trip) is long and the most gentle of the trails. Starting at the village of Kapkwata on the north side of the mountain, it traverses the soft wood plantation to the Podocarpus forest. It's notable for its rich wildlife and spectacular views of the Karamoja plains in Uganda and the Nandi and Kapeguria hills in Kenya. The Piswa trail also passes the hot springs on the way to the caldera and the Wagagai peak.
Alternative Elgon hiking options
The various routes can be combined, ascending the Sipi/Piswa/Sasa Trail and descending along the Sasa/Sipi Trail for example. This allows a traverse of the caldera and a visit to the hot springs.
Trans-boundary hike/cross border tourism: The higher slopes of Mount Elgon are shared with an adjacent national park in Kenya and a trans-boundary hike can be arranged. After ascending to the caldera with a UWA guide, climbers cross the border to descend with a Kenya Wildlife Service escort.
The Central Circuit Trail: This challenging, seven-day climb provides a circular tour of the high Rwenzori. From the trailhead at Mihunga, the route ascends the Bujuku Valley via Nyabitaba for acclimatization before reaching the peaks. Clients joining the Central Circuit after Bujuku will traverse the Scott Elliot and Freshfield passes to descend through the Mubuku Valley.
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Kilembe Trail: The recently reopened Kilembe Trail ascends the southern slopes of the Rwenzori from a trailhead at Kilembe near the town of Kasese. The route along the lovely Nyamwamba Valley passes glacial lakes and some stunning viewpoints before joining the Central Circuit at Lake Kitandara.
Africa Sceneries will arrange for you a reward trek through the Rwenzoris worth every penny and climbing effort! We'll liaise with our cherished partners to give you an climbing adventure that brings dreams to life.
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On Ambition and Being a Shark Person
A few weeks ago I completed the first semester of my master's in journalism – for reasons that I now fail to recall I thought that undertaking some post-grad specialisation in an industry that boasts all the vigour of a man slowly dying on a sidewalk after being soundly beaten by a gang with baseball bats is a riveting idea for smart people. A few days after semester ended I returned to London and have since been leading the glorious lifestyle of an international model: waiting on phone calls, getting drunk, and trying to abstain from too many Ryvitas. I begin to contemplate the concept of ambition relentlessly when life slows down in this manner and that's because I feel deeply uncomfortable at the prospect of doing nothing.
Given three hours in which I fail to write, learn, draw, or work, I become critically existentially depressed; it feels as though the air is being pressed out of my lungs and I need to compensate for that absence with the creation of something – anything – fuck it, even a blog post. I've started to conceive of myself as a shark person in this way, I have to keep moving or I'll surely drown (actually, this is a misconception: some sharks need to keep swimming in order to breathe but others have a pumping mechanism of the pharynx that allows them to sit happily at the sea bed; I learned this when I was bored).
Ambition is unquestionably a wonderful, admirable quality in a human but lately I've come to perceive an excessive amount of it as a defect, an immutable burdensome void that keeps people flailing and depressed even when they are, by every dictionary definition, leading successful lives.
Towards the end of my last relationship, my partner and I had this awful conversation during which he asked me to realistically consider what would give me long-term happiness – if it was a writing career that was great and if it was getting married and having children, that was fine too, I just had to learn to acknowledge what happiness really meant to me. I did think about it and I could only respond that, if I was being entirely rational, I doubt that any noteworthy sense of happiness or contentment was achievable for me because I am forever in search for the next good thing. And then we broke up a week later. Because ambition is wonderful but it is also essentially selfish and leaves other people in the proverbial dust; excessive ambition is less 'stop and smell the roses' and more 'burn the roses for fuel'.
I now think it's interesting to observe other people in my life burdened by their own ambition, people who can't sleep or sit still, who tuck their lives away from others because intimacy is an intrusion on an objective, who strike out or take disciplinary action against their bodies when they feel as though they're not working hard enough. I fear my ambition to the extent that I am concerned it represents an immovable unhappiness with myself at the fundamental, untouched core and I'm quite sure that others who lead this existence pause to think the same.
My beating anarchist heart also likes to inspect the idea that this dense, overbearing ambition is a sickly manifestation of capitalist ideals that we've come to understand as productive and normal when, in fact, we should probably be able to sit around on a sofa scarfing biscuits for a day and not be driven into a philosophical abyss. Us shark people have a strong tendency to believe that life functions by a system of effort and earning when perhaps some raw hedonism and biscuit-scarfing untouched by an exhaustion economy should not be entirely out of the question.
I also believe this to be an issue inevitably exacerbated by social media, by the assaulting inundation of successes that harass us at any given opportunity. Because if a brand collaboration happens and it isn't on Instagram, did it ever really collaborate at all? Surely the burden of drive is not a new phenomenon but perhaps the painful, unremitting access to other people's achievements is and it is unsurprising that it should infect us with rather unrealistic notions of personal productivity and what on Earth we should be doing with our time. I am relatively unfazed by the depiction of wildly slim, paradoxically muscular bodies on Instagram but if somebody I consider competition is garnering recognition for their work where I am floundering, you can sure as shit bet I'm going to cry (I'm joking, I cry about the body stuff too – why am I even on the Internet?).
Sometimes I meet people who are thoroughly, staggeringly devoid of ambition and for the longest time, this astounded me and honestly led me to respect them less – ultimately because I am unable to fathom their brand of contentment. However, I've learned to reassess this instinctual reeling in recent years, particularly after meeting people who, you know, may not have a tertiary education, may not care so much about making it big in [insert here: hilariously hierarchical creative field], do not care so much for recognition or invest much belief in the farfetched notion of changing the world but they're fucking happy. I've learned to love people like this. I feel as though I can breathe around them. They strip you of your narcissism, they remove you from the exhibition or the competition that your anxious, dutiful mind has been attending to since the dawn of its own self-awareness. They care about relationships and fun and working only as a source of income to maintain the relationships and fun, they want to have kids some day – but only to continue this whole relationships and fun business; it seems an excellent way to live.
Ambition is marvellous but I've found, with a certain sense of irony, that a surplus of this relentless motion actually attenuates productivity and eventually stings you with a strong sense of self-loathing. I'm not saying I want to slow – I will never, ever slow – however, I am attempting to take more pleasure merely in the creation of things, creation for creation's sake, rather than creation for the sake of planting your flag in the ground and shouting, "LOOK AT THIS THING I HAVE NOW DONE". Intellectual curiosity is rewarding in this manner, too and reading is a quiet relief from the existential din. I am trying to consider life less as a resume to the best of my ability and to sit at the ocean floor for a while, sustained by the quiet, happy momentum of my own little pharynx.

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There are many things you should do before you put your property out in the real estate market, getting a home inspection is one important help. An inspection will help you discover the issues in your property and repair them to maximise your profits.
Here are a few good reasons you should not pass out on the inspection
An inspection shows that you have good will and intentions. A home inspection sets you apart from the typical seller. Most sellers want to make the highest profits off their homes and to avoid the cost they incur during the process. A home inspection may lead you to spend money on unplanned repairs and sometimes it may be out of pocket money. When you get an inspection, you are signalling potential sellers that you want to make the property a perfect and convenient for their liking.
An inspection will save your money in the long run. An inspection is supposed to give you a heads up when your home has problems and need some few repairs. If you know the issues to your home, you can get them fixed by hiring some professionals. If you do not fix all the issues at once, you will have an idea of what the buyers might need you to fix when it's time to show them the home.
The more problems you fix. The faster your real estate is likely to sell. If you have too many issues with your home, some client will want you to factor in the prices of the repairs before they agree to buy the property. This can cost you a lot of money and you may end up selling your property at a loss over some repairs that could have cost you less money or you could have done by yourself.
A pre inspection is important for legal issue. Let's say you sell a house to a client while claiming minimal damages to the home. Later on, the buyer discovers a few problems here and there, but you do not have enough money to incur the costs. The buyer has every right to take this issue to court and it may cost you much more than making the repairs in the first place. An inspection can help you avoid such legal altercations.
If you do not have an inspection, you may lose the profits to your home. If a buyer does an inspection of the property on their home and discovers a few issues here and there, they will try to negotiate for a lower price on the home. You will not be able to maximise the price of your property.
On the up-side, a pre-inspection will help you discover and highlight all the assets in your home. This way, you can have a chance to legitimately increase the cost of your home. It is a good way to shine the spotlight on the positive things about your house and get more potential clients to visit the home.
Final word
These tips will help you understand why an inspection could be beneficial financially when you are putting your home out in the market. Ensure you hire professionals to help you pint out and fix the issues in your home before you sell it.


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A nationwide general strike is taking place in Spain today in protest of the crippling austerity measures and harsh economic reforms that have been put in place to appease finance ministers in the Eurozone. Barcelona, Madrid, Malaga, and Valencia have seen the strongest turnouts as Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy feels the full force of a discontent nation.
Union-led pickets have sprung up in and around crucial transport routes, large factories and core food stores. It has been reported that energy suppliers have seen requirement down by 20% today, in a statistic that displays the severity of the situation in Spain. Protestors and trade unions are angry at the newly elected centre-right government for new legislation which has made it easier for companies to sack workers, cut wages, and modify employment conditions. Furthermore Mariano Rajoy is expected to announce an additional €40 billion in spending cuts tomorrow in line with the Eurozone's newly formed fiscal compact.
Student protestors have blocked the A6 – one of the main roads in and out of Madrid – causing a disruptive traffic jam in the capital city. Nissan and Seat factories are facing complete lockdown and so is Valencia's majorwholesale market. The main city food warehouse in Malaga has suffered a similar fate, as pickets have successfully brought integral parts of the country to a standstill.
Over 470 flights have been cancelled on a day when only 25% of train and bus services are in operation; people are proving prepared to put their jobs on the line to stand up against – what they see – as a self-defeating austerity drive.
The Spanish economy shrunk by 0.3% in the final 3 months of 2011 and is expected to drop by another 1.7% in 2012. Their GDP deficit of 8.5% last year is 5.5% above the Eurozone-imposed target of 3.0%; Mariano Rajoy plans to reduce the deficit this year to 5.3% which seems a torrid task – even though it will still leave the country with almost double the designated debt level. The difficulty of the task at hand, and the fierce resentment felt by the Spanish population, can be explained simultaneously by taking a look at Spain's unemployment figures; with the jobless rate at 23% and over half of all young people unemployed, the situation in Spain is drastic.
Greek unionists have taken heed of the Spanish effort and have voiced a call-to-arms for a European-wide revolt against the heads of the Eurozone and their "exploitative" austerity measures. The view held by these public and private sector workers is that a small group of powerful people (the Eurogroup of Eurozone finance ministers and the heads of European parliament) are putting policies into place that do not meet the needs of the people; moreover they feel that these new measures are "totally unjust and totally counterproductive".
The political unrest in Spain has had a negative effect on the financial markets with the Euro Exchange Rate losing out by 0.40% against both the Pound and the US Dollar. Spanish stocks have plunged and 10-year sovereign debt yields have re-risen to 5.45%. Investors are fearful that the protests could combat – what they view – as economic progress in the form of cuts and concessions. Markets tentatively await Mariano Rajoy's Budget tomorrow as they attempt to weigh up the overall position of Spain's economy. If finances prove unhealthy in the autonomous – and economically weaker – Spanish regions, and central bank assistance is needed, then expect this to have an adverse effect on Spain, and by default the Eurozone as a whole.


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The JDK ships with a plethora of command line applications. Some of these utilities we use everyday without much thought: the ubiquitous java, javac and jar commands for example. Others, we completely ignore as anarchisms: use appletviewer lately? Most of these applications, however, remain almost invisible, hiding inconspicuously in the bowels of the JDK directory structure. Yet these under appreciated tools contain some powerful functionality for troubleshooting, monitoring and analysis of applications on the JVM. Tools such as jcmd, jstat, jmap, jhat among others should be in the ready arsenal of every Java (or any JVM language) poweruser. Let's take a look at how you can utilize these utilities and make them a part of your JVM toolbox.
Yoel Spotts is a Senior Software Engineer at Travel Syndication Technology (TST), based in Atlanta. Holding degrees in Computer Science and Talmudic Law, he has over 15 years of programming experience, primarily in the Java world. When not building software, Yoel enjoys teaching, hiking and spending time with his family.


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I will write a couple of books and become a millionaire
Journalist and political activist Karl Stig-Erland "Stieg" Larsson was just 50 when he died of a heart attack while on the way to work in Stockholm.
Within a year of his death, he'd become an internationally-known author, as the first of what became known as his Millennium trilogy, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, was published. It became a bestseller; inspiring a big screen version in 2011.
Two sequels, The Girl Who Played With Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest followed and it later emerged that Stieg had been working on the fourth of what he'd intended as a 10-part series of novels.
Larsson had loved writing from an early age. He was given a typewriter for his 12th birthday and had initially begun to write science fiction fanzines. Covering sports news in his professional career, he was also a campaigner on the left wing political front, campaigning to expose far-right extremism.
In 2009, Stieg's family and publisher established a literary prize in his memory, which is awarded to writers whose own published work reflects Larsson's spirit.