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Purchase. If you have one problem and you start investigating you the often find a whole host of other problems. Reporter michael is a construction attorney who has represented several kb homeowners in other communities over several years. He said construction issues such as these are often caused by hurried workers. They are working to get the project on the market and sold and it leads to problems. Reporter he also said it is rare for homebuilders to implement a comprehensive fix for common issues within the community, preferring instead to thought spot fix problems for people who complain the loudest. Len ramirez kpix 5. It has been one month since the wine country wildfires. This evening some homeowners who lost everything are faced with a tough choice let the government cleanup or do it themselves. Forms must be turned in by tomorrow in napa county. In Sonoma County there is talk of a deadline extension. Emily turner is in santa rosa for us now. Reporter veronica, this has been an
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They admire most, and Nelson Mandela will likely as not be the answer. Other world figures are usually famous within their own professional disciplines, sections of society, Interest Groups or age groups. Many attract cynicism or play at indifference. Nelson mandelas achievement was to combine fame, affection and admiration from virtually anyone anywhere in the world. So if, i believe, he is more iconic than anybody else, then why . His life story of sacrifice, courage, endowns and suffering in the great and noble cause of democracy, liberty and justice, places him alongside a very select few; suffragists, gandhi himself, anticolonial african leader, che get around rah, often sang suu kyi to name just some. But mandela towers above all of them in popular imagination. Perhaps in part because he was the first such figure to be projected to the worlds peoples through the powerful media of the modern Global Television and the internet. He was quite simply far better known than any comparab
Anc, in order to deliver not just a transfer of power that offered the prospect of peace for all the people of south africa. Mandela once notably said, this is not about moving from white domination to black domination. There must be no domination of either community. He was an extraordinary man in not only believing that but practising it with every fibre of his being. As we look today at the lessons of mandelas extraordinary life and incredible achievements, at his contribution not just to south africa, which goes without saying, but to the wider world and at why he has become such an iconic figure, two factors stand out. First, he is perhaps the best example we have had in the past 100 years of how political leaders, by force of personality, transform themselves from politicians into statesman can by their sheer personal effort change the world and make what was impossible possible and then deliver it. He is not the only one who has done so. We should not think of him as unique. Gor