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Posted July 27, 2010 by Corine D. Mclaughlin in Shopping

Starting a small business is one of the most difficult things a person can do, but it can also be the most rewarding. If your dream is to open your own clothing store, you'll have to be prepared to work hard and make sacrifices in order to improve your chances of success. Opening a clothing store requires a lot of thought, many decisions and a strong business plan to help focus your efforts. Here is a guide on how to start a clothing store.

Instructions

Step 1

Research the clothing business and gain experience in the industry. You'll need to learn the basics about clothing suppliers and designers, as well as gaining a general understanding of how the business works and what to look out for. The ideal way to do this is as an employee or intern of a clothing store, supplier or design team.

Step 2

Decide which kind of store you'd like to open. Evaluate whether you'd like to sell women's, men's or kid's clothing, and whether the clothes you sell will be new or vintage. Finally, decide whether you'll buy your clothing from designers and clothing manufacturers or whether you'll design, make and sell your own designs.

Step 3

Find a retail space. You'll need to buy or lease a store where you can sell your clothing. Find an area where the right traffic will have access to your store. If you are planning to sell high-end clothing, make sure that the area will support the prices you plan to charge.

Step 4

Write your business plan. You can get free business plan templates online and with most word processing programs. It's very important to have your business plan on paper so that you can see any areas of your plan that may need work (see Resources below).

Step 5

Secure financing. If you plan to borrow money to fund your business, you'll need to present your business plan to banks or small business associations. Many people also use loans from family and friends to get their business off the ground. No matter which option you choose, make sure you have more than enough money before starting your business.

Step 6

Produce or purchase your inventory. Whether you decide to buy your clothing from designers or you make your own clothes, now is the time to develop a large enough inventory to fill your store.

Step 7

Take care of the legal stuff. You'll have to incorporate your business, if that's your chosen business format, as well as creating tax accounts and filing for business licenses with your local government. Set up any applicable insurance during this time too. You may want to consult a lawyer during this tricky time of business formation.

Step 8

Open your doors. Stock your store with your newly purchased or designed inventory and open for business. Tell your friends and family to spread the word, and advertise your clothing store via radio or newspaper. You can even hold events at your store, or sponsor local events or causes to draw attention to your new business and bring in customers.

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Send Flowers to Mauritius

Posted July 21, 2010 by Flower In in Flowers, Family & Home

With flower in Mauritius.com You can now send flowers to Mauritius as from MURs 400. You can choose your arrangement, add flowers , gifts and securely pay online! It is easy and affordable. So say it with flowers to your love ones in Mauritius.

Introducing Shah Peerally - US Attorney from Mauritius

Posted July 19, 2010 by peerallylaw in Business

I am the founder and managing attorney of Shah Peerally Law Group PC, a professional corporation (formerly known as the Law Offices of Shah Peerally).

Born on the small and beautiful island of Mauritius, Shah (AKA Nawaaz) attended the Royal College of Curepipe in Mauritius.

After working for different major corporations in Mauritius, I moved to the United States where I went to law school in San Francisco, California. After graduating from law school and passing the California State Bar Exam, Shah worked in litigation and business law for the prestigious law firm of McNichols Randick O’Dea & Tooliatos LLP, in Pleasanton, California.

Later, I joined the Law Offices of Virender Goswami as a supervising attorney in business and employment immigration. I was also attorney of counsel for the Immigration law offices of Minter and Ahmad in Fremont, California. In 2005, I founded the Law Offices of Shah Peerally. Since then, the law firm has expanded and is now represented as Shah Peerally Law Group, PC.

Fluent in French and Creole, I am a passionate and dedicated advocate. I am very active in the Muslim, Middle Eastern, South Asian and African communities. I regularly participate in lectures and free legal clinics. I have been commended by House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Congresswoman Barbara Lee for assisting in their immigration workshops.

I received my Juris Doctorate degree from New College of California School of Law, in San Francisco. I hold a membership in the State Bar of California, and the American Immigration Lawyer’s Association (AILA), National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys (NACBA), and International Association of Professional Debt Arbitrators (IAPDA). I am also admitted in the Northern Federal District Court , Eastern Federal District Court of California and the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.

FIFA World Cup 2010 - The stolen goal which deprived En

Posted June 29, 2010 by Rafic

FIFA World Cup 2010 - The stolen goal which deprived England the quarter finals

Frank Lampard’s 39th minute clear goal against Germany denied by referee Jorge Larrionda

Watching the knockout round in the last 16 of the 2010 FIFA World Cup (South Africa) between Germany and England on Sunday 27 June 2010, I cannot help expressing my revulsion with the referee’s decision to disallow a clear goal against Germany, wrong and evident bias decision which clearly turned the tide against England which ended up losing 4-1.

Having watched Germany play in FIFA World Cup matches for several decades, I have observed during the last few that referees tend to be bias in favour of Germany. The German players have nearly always got away with offences which no other team would get away with. The most visible and disgusting example is when, in the 1982 World Cup (Spain) semi final match between Germany and France, Herald Schumaker, the German goalkeeper, seeing in front of him only the French attacker Patrick Battiston (having beaten all the other German players), deliberately and viciously collided against Battiston with direct blows to his stomach and face. The French player collapsed unconscious. This foul was seen by all the players, by all the fans in the stadium and by the whole world, except by the Dutch referee Charles Corver and the linesmen. Schumaker was not sent off; he did not even get a yellow card. The bias of the Dutch referee was all too evident. Patrick Battiston had damaged vertebrae and his teeth knocked out as a result of Schumacher’s foul. Battiston spent a long time in a coma, his career completely ruined. And, unsurprisingly, France lost to Germany in that 1982 World Cup semi final, albeit on penalties after extra time.

In the 2010 FIFA World Cup match on 27th June 2010, the English player Frank Lampard hit a shot at the German goal on the 39th minute. The ball hit the horizontal bar and bounced down diagonally over one yard inside the goal line. All the players, all the attendance and the whole world saw the goal, except the referee and the two linesmen. The Uruguayan referee, Jorge Larrionda, a building firm’s clerk, disallowed the goal. The linesmen Mauricio Espinosa, a 38 year old teacher, and 44 year old wholesaler Pabio Fandino, allegedly did not spot the goal either. How convenient! This 39th minute ‘goal’ would have helped England to equalise at 2-2. England was very fluid and creative at the time. They knew they were facing a younger inexperienced German side lacking in creativity but very quick off the mark. The stealing of this totally visible and indisputable goal was a heavy blow the morale of the English team. At 2-1 down, their Italian Manager Fabio Capello’s team had no choice other than concentrate on attack. Quick on the break, the German side scored two further goals bringing the final score to 4-1. The England skipper Rio Ferdinand, who was unable to play because of injury, is quite right to accuse linesman Mauricio Espinosa of wrecking England’s World Cup dream. Ferdinand said : « If Lamp’s goal had stood it would have been a 2-2 and then the game would have turned on its head. We’d been at full throttle. I’m sure we would have gone on to win it. »

As is usual, in defeat the English press has the habit of blaming the Manager and the players for not playing well, with star striker Wayne Rooney taking the brunt. Which ever way one looks at it, it cannot be denied that the downfall of England was due to bias refereeing. No amount of apology by FIFA’s President Joseph Blatter would do any good. He speaks of referees’ error. How sure is he that it was an error in such a clear case. This blatant goal denial is not comparable to possible refereeing errors such as when an offside player, marginally or otherwise, is not flagged. Even Diego Maradona’s ‘Hand of God’ goal was not evident, except to the English goalkeeper Peter Shilton and some other players nearby (Quarter Final between England and Argentina, 1986 World Cup Mexico). In the 1966 World Cup Final between England and West Germany held at Wembley, which England won 4-2, Jeff Hurst’s second goal against Germany was ruled to have crossed the line when after replays it was found that it had not. It was only a fraction out and not as clear cut as Lampard’s denied 39th minute goal on 27th June 2010.

It is high time that not only technology is introduced at the goal line but also that referees’ bias is addressed. Such standard of refereeing as we saw in the 1982 World Cup semi final between France and Germany and in the 2010 World Cup knock-out round between England and Germany, and so many others involving Germany, stinks.

M Rafic Soormally
London
29 June 2010

South African 2010 FIFA World Cup of shame

Posted June 16, 2010 by Rafic

South African 2010 FIFA World Cup of shame

Given that South Africa was only recently liberated from the clutches of White European terror, it is shameful that South African President Jacob Zuma did not dedicate the FIFA World Cup 2010 to the end of the racist Apartheid regime and to all those who, during two centuries of brutal occupation, suffered grave injustices and lost their lives in their fight for freedom, when Nelson Mandela was allegedly enjoying himself playing football with other ‘terrorists’ on Robben Island.

Shakira in a pre-World Cup concert at Orlando Stadium, Soweto, Johannesburg

Watching Britain’s Got Talent judge, Piers Morgan, in his documentary « Morgan's World Cup South Africa » shown on London ITV on Sunday 6th June 2010 at 10.00 p.m., one cannot help seeing the nauseating political propaganda behind it all, with all its twists and turns, misleading statements and downright lies. Firstly, he makes as if South Africa represents the whole of Africa, which was part of the politics of Apartheid, that is, to make South Africa the powerhouse and domineering force in the whole continent of Africa with its diverse peoples. Secondly, Piers described Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela and other freedom activists were held in solitary confinement for many years, and Soweto, a township well known for the massacre of Black men, women and children by European White racists, two of the centre pieces of his documentary, not for what they truly stand for, that is, as the epitome of racism, torture and murder, but as the cradle of ‘African football’ which he alleged came from the football played by prisoners on Robben Island, and for which he gave Nelson Mandela all the credit, the very Nelson Mandela described by former President Thabo Mbeki as « The White man’s favourite politician ».

In justification, Piers went on to demonstrate how the prisoners on Robben Island were refused permission to play football, how they (including prisoner and ‘terrorist’ Mandela) petitioned the Apartheid South African government, and how in the end they were allowed to play football, which allegedly was a source of inspiration for South African football which people would witness during the World Cup 2010. He makes no mention of the fact that the Robben Island was a penitentiary and a torture camp, not a leisure centre and a football ground, where prisoners were processed through various methods and where those who did not yield positive results disposed of. According to Piers, Robben Island should become a shrine of ‘South African football’ and not a shrine of the holocaust perpetrated by European racists in South Africa, a truth which he brushed under the carpet. His football gimmick is the biggest lie of all. In Fascist/Zionist ideology, the bigger the lie the more people would tend to believe it. This is exactly how people were led to believe that Black Africans were next of kin to animals deserving to be put in chains (See Midrash, Darwin ..).

My White South African colleague and friend, explains that, along side cricket, the national sport in Apartheid and post-Apartheid South Africa is rugby where the players were all Whites. Football was always the popular sport played by all South Africans, including Whites. Trying to focus on one leisure activity in Robben Island penitentiary in order to glorify South African football is totally misleading and untrue. Piers misleads people further when he associates the staging of World Cup 2010 in South Africa only with Nelson Mandela, the darling of the White European West.

In the concert held on 10th June 2010 in Soweto, the eve of the World Cup 2010 opening ceremony, viewers could witness performances by various artists, such as the Colombian Shakira, the American Alicia Keys and African stars Amadou & Mariam and Hugh Masekela, giving the World Cup event the kick-off it clearly deserves as a world sport which transcends all differences amongst people. But the choice of Soweto is no coincidence as the people of Soweto were never given justice. There was no Soweto Trial. Instead, they are given a concert of pop stars in the same vein as the Nelson Mandela Concert held in London, Wembley in 1990. When South African President Jacob Zuma hailed Nelson Mandela’s role in May 2004 in securing the right for South Africa to host the World Cup in 2010 and dedicated the World Cup to him, Jacob Zuma was merely making a political statement in favour of the « White man’s favourite politician ». He did not say exactly what Mandela’s role was. Some propagandists even describe Mandela as « South Africa’s World Cup Architect ». What did Mandela do so extraordinarily? Surely, all bidders must follow the same rules, or was FIFA bias in favour of South Africa? Who control FIFA ? The owners of the gold and diamond mines of South Africa ? In truth, like in the case of any other bidders, Nelson Mandela was merely part of the delegation that presented South Africa’s bid to the FIFA Executive in 2004. It was in that bidding process that South Africa was selected as the 2010 host after it defeated Morocco and Egypt. The deification of Nelson Mandela and the hijack of a world event such as the Football World Cup in his sole name can only be regarded as repugnant and obscene, and must be rejected by right-thinking people.

Given that South Africa was only recently liberated from the clutches of White European terror, it is shameful that South African President Jacob Zuma did not dedicate the FIFA World Cup 2010 to the end of the racist Apartheid regime and to all those who, during two centuries of brutal occupation, suffered grave injustices and lost their lives in their fight for freedom, when Nelson Mandela was allegedly enjoying himself playing football with other ‘terrorists’ on Robben Island, newly baptised the cradle of South African Football. Shame! Shame !

M Rafic Soormally
London
15 June 2010

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