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The purpose of this study was to determine the perception among defense attorneys regarding the New Reform Law SB899. The study was also to further assess defenses satisfaction with regard to the leadership provided by Governor Schwarzenegger, Senator Poochigian and the Legislature as a whole. Furthermore the study was to assess defense attorneys readiness to defend the gain afforded following the passage of the reform law.
This book has two sections. The first section deals with the History of the California Workers Compensation system and the initial reform law Senate Bill 899. The next section which begins in chapter 6 to 18 has to do with the Current reform law SB 863 one of the most comprehensive and sweeping reform. The book will be valuable to both injured workers and employers by expanding their knowledge about the California Workers Compensation system from the inception of claims to final settlement and lien resolution. Dr. Elias Teferi
A thrilling biography of one of the most famous African American pilots of all time.
Decolonization revolutionized the international order during the twentieth century. Yet standard histories that present the end of colonialism as an inevitable transition from a world of empires to one of nations—a world in which self-determination was synonymous with nation-building—obscure just how radical this change was. Drawing on the political thought of anticolonial intellectuals and statesmen such as Nnamdi Azikiwe, W.E.B Du Bois, George Padmore, Kwame Nkrumah, Eric Williams, Michael Manley, and Julius Nyerere, this important new account of decolonization reveals the full extent of their unprecedented ambition to remake not only nations but the world. Adom Getachew shows that Afr...
Die Dekolonisierung hat die internationale Ordnung im 20. Jahrhundert revolutioniert. Doch die Standardnarrative, die das Ende des Kolonialismus als unvermeidlichen Übergang von einer Welt der Imperien zu einer der Nationalstaaten darstellen, verdecken, wie radikal dieser Wandel war. Anhand des politischen Denkens antikolonialer Intellektueller und Staatsmänner wie Nnamdi Azikiwe, W. E. B. Du Bois, George Padmore, Kwame Nkrumah, Eric Williams, Michael Manley und Julius Nyerere zeigt Adom Getachew in ihrem gefeierten Buch, wie enorm die Sprengkraft der dekolonialen Bewegung war, deren Ehrgeiz weit über die Neugestaltung einzelner Länder hinausging. Vehement stellten die von Rassismuserfah...
Matakkal is a large region in Northwest Ethiopia along the Sudanese border. In former times it comprised nearly half of Goggam, although not counting more than 250.000 Inhabitants, who belonged to different ethnical groups. Members from all four Ethiopian language families (Semitic, Kushitic, Omotic, and Nilo-Saharian) inhabit the area. Matakkal represents thus from ethno-linguistic view a pattern of Ethiopia. The special ethnical variety of this region goes back to demographic and political changes in the Horn of Africa in the 16th and 17th centuries. Since the 16th century large subpopulations came into the region and led to an ethnical enriching. While Oromo, Sinasa and Agaw assimilated i...
This collection of texts was created in connection with the conference "Documenting Southern Ethiopia: recognizing past legacies and forging the way forward", which took place in February 2017 in collaboration with the Frobenius Institute, Frankfurt at the Hawassa University
Ethiopians had to wait over a thousand years to be able to use their waters for their own development. Ethiopian emperors and leaders have tried to build a dam on the Nile River as part of their development efforts. Unfortunately, due to varying reasons and circumstances, including external pressure from countries near and far, geo- and hydro-political balance shifts, and internal conflicts, they were not successful in realizing their wishes. Instead of giving up, though, each leader contributed to different extents, by laying the foundation for and addressing challenges faced in making this dream a reality. The masterplan for the dam designed in 1964 has been the seed in waiting ever since,...