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Schwalbe Smart Sam Tire
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Product DescriptionSmart Sam goes well on any terrain and even on the road it rolls effortlessly. It is available in a wide variety of executions, also with reflective lines.
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Date Reviewed: November 13, 2014
Strengths: I think they'll probably wear well
Weaknesses: Dangerous in the wet
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Date Reviewed: October 26, 2013
Strengths: As front tire
Weaknesses: As rear tire
Bottom Line:
I use Nobby Nic as rear tire , better traction.
Date Reviewed: July 5, 2013
Strengths: Allrounder: at least some grip in any conditions, suitable for jumping and touring with heavu gear - it's extremely hard to make a snakebite on them. Suprisingly good for off-road&mud touring at medium pressure - they really get well through mud and sand. These tires are sort of "lazy" - if you block the front wheel during hard-braking at the wet pavement, the tire starts bumping instead of just slipping aside - there is a second to release the brake. Rather hard to puncture.
Weaknesses: Rolling resistance is pretty high under a heavy rider (>90 kilos) or under a rider with a heavy luggage pack on the bike due to contact between the road and the latheral knobs even at maximum pressure. Virtually no grip at any wet&hard surface, especially during cornering. The middle flat knobs tend to tear off at high pressure (rear wheel only).
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Purchased At: Came with the bike
Similar Products Used: Kenda Cobra, Schwalbe Hurricane, Schwalbe Big Apple, Schwalbe Nobby Nic
Bike Setup: Cube Acid 2012 + Avid Elixir 7 + 180/160 Avid G3 rotors.
Date Reviewed: November 29, 2012
Strengths: hard to wear out, they don't suck THAT much on dry surface
Weaknesses: slow rolling tyres, poor grip in corners, no grip at all on wet terrain
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Date Reviewed: October 14, 2012
Strengths: Great all arounder - Roll well, easy mounting, great grip, price, integral reflective strip
Weaknesses: Protective layer could make this a great commuter tire.
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Price Paid: $38.00
Purchased At: Schwalbe
Similar Products Used: WTB Crosswolf, Specialized Borough CX, Specialized All-condition Elite, Schwalbe Racing Ralph & Rocket Ron EVO's
Bike Setup: Redline Conquest Pro
Date Reviewed: December 14, 2011
Strengths: Good allrounder. Rolls fast, but does not run out of track on the corners.
Weaknesses: None for what I ride
Bottom Line:
No idea how they work in mud or wet conditions, as yet.
It is going to take a lot to get me to change....
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Duration Product Used: 3 months
Price Paid: $45.00
Purchased At: Chain Reaction Cycle
Similar Products Used: Continental Gravity, Race Kings and Verticals
Bike Setup: Specilized Epic Comp
Date Reviewed: June 29, 2011
Strengths: This tire can take a little bit of everything that you can throw at it.
Weaknesses: This tire while is good on most surfaces, it is definately not a do all tire.
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Duration Product Used: 3 months
Price Paid: $30.00
Purchased At: amazon
Date Reviewed: April 27, 2011
Strengths: Offroad versatility,comfort,speed,tought,quality
Weaknesses: Low speed & high rub in asphalt roads,height,price
Bottom Line:
Running over potholes is quite comfort and well-driven and suddenly movemments no longer be in your bike.score(4/5)
Schwalbe says:Great all-rounder tyre but they are quite noisy tyres and low-medium speed into asphalt roads.
Quite rubbing,you´ll need strength and make an effort for moving them.So big size tyres for city and roads(2.10")score:(2/5)
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Purchased At: incluyed in bike
Bike Setup: Acid Cube 2010
Date Reviewed: March 1, 2011
Strengths: Rolls fast on bitumen & hardpack.
Seems to be quite a durable compound.
Weaknesses: By being an allrounder, it's not the best tire choice for any one surface. Ok on most, but master of none.
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Duration Product Used: 6 months
Price Paid: $40.00
Purchased At: The net
Similar Products Used: Reminds me of the discontinued Maxxis Ranchero.
Bike Setup: Voodoo Sobo with : Sid Team, X0, Fulcrum Ones, Ritchey trimmings & SDG
Date Reviewed: December 3, 2010
Strengths: Balance between grip and rolling resistance, long wearing, good size and weight
Weaknesses: Somewhat unstable cornering
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Duration Product Used: 6 months
Price Paid: $30.00
Purchased At: LBS
Similar Products Used: IRC Mythos, Ritchey Z-Max, many others
Bike Setup: Focus steel HT
Date Reviewed: September 16, 2010
Strengths: It does What was Designed Great!
Weaknesses: Nothing important, Just some noise on the pavement or Asphalt
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Price Paid: $10.00
Purchased At: Jabbari Shop
Bike Setup: 2009 Fuji Nevada 1.0: Shimano Acera chain-wheel,Chain, Cranks, Shifters, Front derailleur & Hubs. Alivio Rear derailleur. Shimano B416 Mechanical Disk Brakes.
Date Reviewed: July 17, 2010
Strengths: Great all-around traction wet or dry
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Duration Product Used: 3 months
Price Paid: $110.00
Purchased At: RideThis.com
Bike Setup: Ti Motobecane Fantom Pro
Date Reviewed: June 26, 2010
Strengths: Very Light, Rolls fast
Weaknesses: Tends to suck up a lot of rocks, and it is a bit pricey.
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Duration Product Used: Less than 1 month
Similar Products Used: Kenda Dred Tread
Bike Setup: Dean Colonel Ti
Date Reviewed: February 20, 2010
Strengths: Fast roll and confortable
Weaknesses: None yet
Bottom Line:
As far as I experienced, these tires are really wonderful. They are very comfortable, good grip and very fast roll. Even independently of the price they would be very good. When considering the price, they are awesome..
My congratulations to Schwalbe for the very nice work!
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Duration Product Used: Less than 1 month
Price Paid: $20.00
Purchased At: Mototorres
Similar Products Used: Michelin Country Trail, Michelin Country Mud, etc, etc
Bike Setup: TREK 8000 (1993), weels shimano, rear derailleur XT, front SLX
Date Reviewed: May 4, 2009
Strengths: Excellent all round tire , fast rolling, seems to stick well to roots and rocks. I have ridden all mountain terrain with them.. Fort Rock New Hampshire and North Shore style technical trails as Raven Shoe ... The tire just seems to perform in general terms better than any tire I've used so far..
Weaknesses: As in all round tire it's weakest link would be its mud performance... but still as far as I'm concerned it's acceptable performance as long as you don't have long stretches of deep mud.. I have used other Schwalbe fast rolling racing tires in the past.. Fast Fred for example... these were absolutely horrible in the mud ..
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Duration Product Used: Less than 1 month
Price Paid: $30.00
Purchased At: ebay store
Similar Products Used: Fast Fred's , racing Ron's Kenda Small block
Bike Setup: Santa Cruz Blur LT - Crank Brothers Iodine UST wheelset
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MISENHEIMER, NC - Freshman Mike Smith poured in a career-high 33 points, but the Pfeiffer men's basketball team (1-2) fell to St. Augustine's (2-0) by a final score of 106-87 in the Falcons home opener on Saturday night. Smith hit 13 of 24 shots from the field and went 7-for-9 at the free throw line, while adding seven rebounds and five assists in just his third career game. Smith scored 28 in Pfeiffer's 90-86 win over Catawba on Nov. 10.
AJ Clark added 21 points for Pfeiffer and Connor Dahn scored 13.
St. Augustine's shot a scorching 63 percent from the field, including a 20-for-29 (69 percent) performance in the second half. Amere May went 11 for 13 from the field and scored a game-high 36 points for the visitors. Joel Kindred added 23 points and nine boards for St. Augustine, who scored 108 points against Morris College in their season opener on Nov. 11.
Pfeiffer struggled from long range, only connecting on 5 of 25 attempts from the three point line, while St. Augustine's went 10-for-20 from behind the arc.
Pfeiffer stayed with St. Augustine's for most of the game, and led the first seven minutes of the contest. The first half featured five ties before St. Augustine's used a 9-0 run to take a 38-29 lead. Pfeiffer fought back and trailed by one, 45-44, going into the break. Smith and Clark each scored 14 first half points.
Pfeiffer couldn't keep up with St. Augustine's hot shooting in the second half as the visitors poured in 61 points in the game's final 20 minutes. Smith did his best to keep Pfeiffer close, scoring 19 in the half. However, May topped the Smith's performance, dropping 30 on 9-of-11 shooting.
Pfeiffer held a 37-36 edge in rebounds which is impressive considering St. Augustine's pulled down 76 boards in their season opener, 37 on the offensive end. Each team turned the ball over 12 times in the contest.
The Falcons return to action on Monday, Nov. 25 when they host Bluefield St. at 7:30 in Merner Gym.


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"The secret to any instrument, really, is to be as lazy as possible."
Carey Harwood admits this advice is counterintuitive. But coming from a man who's mastered a half a dozen string instruments in as many styles, there must be something to it.
"It's about economy of motion. To express what's in your head through your fingers, you have to be relaxed. If there's any strain, you can't do that as well. It seems weird that, as a musician, you have to practice being relaxed," Harwood said.
Harwood might have lazy fingers, but the owner of Carolina String Studio is no slouch. He's performed all across North and Central America, usually on guitar or classical guitar, but also playing banjo, lute and mandolin.
At Carolina String Studio, he and three other trained and formally educated musicians teach guitar, banjo, mandolin, piano and cello. The business has been at 3015 S. Church Street for five years. Later this month, Harwood and company will move downtown to 117 E. Davis St.
It's a change he's looking forward to, one that should add a bit more practice space and room for group lessons, small concerts and jam sessions.
Harwood, 41, grew up in Burlington and graduated from Western Alamance High School. As a child, his parents pushed him into piano lessons. He didn't pick up a guitar until his lung collapsed during his senior year of high school. Stuck in bed, he grabbed his dad's guitar and started messing around with it, playing classic rock tunes by ear. A quick learner, he "caught the rock 'n' roll bug" and spent the next few years playing in rock bands.
Branching out into classical guitar, he found his niche. He completed his undergraduate and master's degrees at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and the University of Georgia.
"Before that, playing music for a living wasn't really on my radar," Harwood said.
He earned his doctorate at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colo., where he also headed the school's guitar department. His wife, Darcy Dennison, earned her master's playing the cello there.
In the midst of all that education, Harwood played some big gigs. He lists the Greensboro Symphony, Greensboro Opera Company, the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra, the Longmont Symphony and the Colorado Light Opera among his credits. The Conundrum Duo, his project with Robert Glaubitz, won Colorado's Bruce Ekstrand Graduate Competition.
They "high-tailed it back here pretty fast" when they learned Darcy was pregnant with twins five years ago. The extra support of nearby grandparents was too much to resist.
He now teaches classical guitar and music technology courses at Elon University. He and fellow Elon guitar professor, Chip Newton, perform blues, early jazz and gypsy swing music as The Undermanned String Band and have an album coming out later this year.
For the highfalutin' bona fides, he hasn't lost his appreciation for popular forms of music: rock, blues, jazz and bluegrass.
"If you're playing guitar, you have a responsibility to be able to play "Stairway to Heaven," Harwood said, poking fun at the in-joke guitarists share about how overplayed the legendary Led Zeppelin song is. "Even if you're only learning Skynyrd, we can still expose you to some new things."
The other teachers at Carolina String Studio are similarly accomplished and approach teaching from the same point of view: Whatever you want to learn to play is good; let us help you be better.
n Mark Charles Smith teaches music composition at Guilford College and piano and guitar at Carolina String Studio. A Greensboro native, he and Harwood struck up a friendship while studying at the University of Colorado-Boulder together.
"I teach all ages. I currently have two 5-year-old students. I've taught septuagenarians before. I'm teaching two people in their 60s right now. One of them just had always wanted to learn to play the guitar," Smith said. "I really just enjoy teaching in general. And if a kid has a really bad impression of classical music, I'll sneak the music theory in the backdoor. I try to cater to what their interests are."
Smith just finished recording his first album of original classical guitar compositions. It's out Sept. 1 on his website, markcharlessmith.com, and will be available through Amazon.com.
n Guitarist and mandolinist Kevin Dollar founded Carolina String Studio with Harwood.
His extensive credits include scores for films, session and stage work with Doc Watson, Clay Aiken and Katherine Whalen as well as frequent performances with the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra. He is a Master Teacher at the Music Academy of N.C.
He has a particular love for gypsy guitar and gypsy jazz, which was popular in France during the early 20th century, but he has a broad range of tastes and plays numerous styles.
n Jacob Danieley teaches guitar, bass and banjo at the studio. A Burlington native and Western Alamance graduate, Danieley earned his degree in music technology at Elon University with a minor in jazz studies and has performed professionally on multiple instruments. These days, he divides his time among touring internationally with The Hoppers gospel group, recording as a session musician in Nashville and North Carolina and teaching students at the studio.
"I love the atmosphere at the studio and I love the students' enthusiasm to learn," Danieley said. "I get to share the dream I had as a kid, and still have, of playing music. I just enjoy passing down my experience and love of music to others who want to learn."
Danieley said Harwood's enthusiasm for the teaching process and for finding new outlets for students — in weekend coffee house gigs and group sessions — differentiates Carolina String Studio from other music lessons.
Harwood says he's glad to work with accomplished musicians who genuinely want to teach.
"We enjoy teaching with performances on the side, rather than the other way around," Harwood said. "I really do enjoy teaching because it's always something different and I always have to keep learning. I don't think I'll ever want to stop doing that to just play for a living."
Learn to play
Carolina String Studio will be moving to its new downtown location, 117 E. Davis Street, July 22, or in the last week of the month.
Instructors there teach guitar, bass, banjo, mandolin, piano and cello in all styles — from rock to classical to jazz and bluegrass. Lessons start at $100 per month for four lessons and include group sessions and performances on weekends.
Owner Carey Harwood can be reached at (336) 675-7906 or by email at email@example.com. You can visit www.carolinastringstudio.com for more information.


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It's confirmed: Michael Vick has a new dog. To truly become a model of the type of behavior Vick wishes to teach his children—that animals deserve to be treated with compassion and respect—Vick should take the opportunity to "break the cycle" and "be an instrument of positive change" by expressing remorse about the dogs he brutalized and killed with his own hands. This is something that we've never heard him do publically.
Because of this, we have serious concerns about Vick's ability to be a responsible pet owner. We can only hope that he will set the right example for his children by teaching them to foster humane habits and a lifelong bond with their family pet.
What's your opinion?
I love you guys at the ASPCA, but I think you couldn't be more wrong on this issue.
Vick paid his debt to society. And he **DID** apologize and express remorse publicly -- all the way back in 2007.
People are capable of change. Vick has clearly turned his life around substantially since his dog fighting days. Do you really think that he would jeopardize his second chance at life by reentering dog fighting? Especially now that everyone will be watching him with hawk-like eyes? I don't think so, and I sincerely doubt that you actually do either.
I have to agree with the above commentor. Vick did wrong. But our legal system, as imperfect as it is, determined a punishment for his crimes and that punishment was met by our legal standards. We humans only live once. I know animals only live once as well, but my point is, by legal standards, which is largely what our civilized society is based, he paid for his crimes so-to-speak and it does appear, to me at least, that he has matured from the experience. Being a public figure of course makes him an easy target and I completely understand the concern for any animal in his care. That being said, I do believe he has earned his 'second' chance at life, if you will, which to me means NOT being guilty of anything before anything might happen.
This is ridiculous in my opinion. How do we actually know Vick has "turned his life around substantially", as the poster above mentioned. Do we live with this "man"? NO. People want to believe he has because he's a good athlete. BIG DEAL. There isn't sufficient justice for animal abusers at all. By Vick acquiring a new dog proves that. In my opinion this seems like a disgusting publicity stunt. I think people forget the magnitude of damage this person has done. It is so sad what our society values
And we can all thank HSUS for helping him...
That jerk should never have been allowed to ever have an animal again!!! Not even a mouse or a parakeet!
He has shown no remorse, no care for what he has done, and everyone knows he did not have any feelings about the animals he killed!
youre an idiot, do some reading. He has shown remorse. You dont know him. get a life!
Wow. Great logic, folks. Would you let sandusky get a new kid when he gets out? Some debts are never paid.
If his victims had been human or if he was predator of humans like he was of dogs, he would never be allowed dogs again. Why do dogs count less as beings than humans do. Gandhi: "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way in which its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man."
So....when a child molester says he's sorry & he's changed his ways, do we just let him start hanging around kids again...& go ahead & let him move in across the street from a school too. He said he's sorry, so I'm sure it's fine!
Amazes me the uninformed people that say he did his time.. know the facts before speaking. Vick did no time at all for the abuse and suffering he put innocent animals through.. learn the facts.. read the court transcripts..


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51095 Special Topics (1-4)
Topic announced in Schedule of Classes. May be repeated when content varies.
51096 Individual Investigation (1-3)
Independent investigation of problems in German language or literature. Permission of the department chair required. May be repeated. IP permissible.
51212 Stylistics (3)
Development of written German style through selected readings, textual analysis and stylistic exercises.
51216 Contemporary German Culture (3)
A study of selected sociological, political, cultural and economic issues in contemporary German-speaking countries, using readings, films and legal documents as the basis for discussion. Taught in German.
51330 20th Century German Authors (3)
A survey of the major movements and authors of the 20th century.
51331 History of German Literature (4)
History of the development of German literature from 750 to the present.
51332 German Literature by Women (3)
Readings of works by female German authors. Taught in German.
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Development of the German novella from the 18th century to the present. Readings of major works, lectures, analyses; taught in German.
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Reading and critical analysis of major works of the Classical Age with emphasis on Goethe.
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Students apply linguistic and communication science concepts to case studies of language mediation. Corequisite: TRST 60010.
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Topic announced in Schedule of Classes. May be repeated when content varies.
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Translating documents from a variety of literary and cultural sources, including literature, expository and journalistic prose, scholarly treatises and essays. Translation into German will also be emphasized.
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An introduction to methods and resources for the translation of commercial, economic, financial, legal, diplomatic and governmental documents. Prerequisite: TRST 60010.
61251 Scientific, Technical and Medical Translation (3)
An introduction to methods and resources for the translation of scientific, technical, industrial and medical documents. Prerequisite: TRST 60010.
61299 Thesis II (2)
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Background To address the challenge of conserving biodiversity outside of protected areas, conservation organizations are assessing the range of land and natural resource-use management tools, especially on community-land, to achieve biodiversity conservation. Among these tools are zoning, long-term land leases, voluntary easements, measures to secure tenure, and land purchases. The application of these new tools on community land depends in large measure on the law and practice of land tenure and natural resource property rights in the individual countries. ABCG organizations are working to advance the use of new land tools for biodiversity conservation and local development purposes on land outside the protected areas in Kenya and Tanzania. This work is supported by the US Agency for International Developments' Biodiversity Analysis and Technical Support (BATS) Program of its Africa Bureau.
In the past year, ABCG member organizations including AWF, JGI, TNC and WRI continued to collaborate on reviewing land tenure issues in key countries including Kenya, Tanzania and Zimbabwe; organized village sensitization meetings and implemented land use tenure actions; conducted research on compensation for property losses for private land-use restrictions in several countries; and developed a new benefit-sharing business model in communal conservancy areas. The following is a selection of task accomplishments.
AWF continued to focus on improving understanding of the evolution of tenure relationships in Zimbabwe as part of the indigenization process. Efforts were focus on developing a working model and pilot restructuring for conservancies. Read the summary Report on: A Proposed Business Model for a Conservation Based Property in a Conservancy in Zimbabwe.
TNC collaborated with JGI and Frankfurt Zoological Society to launch the Greater Mahale Ecosystem (GME) Steering Committee, which will among others coordinate the development of an Integrated Management Plan for the GME and advance conservation of priority areas within the GME. The TNC report, Steps towards Implementing the Tongwe West District Authority Reserve for Mpanda District Council provides more details on the launch of this steering committee in June, participants, as well as it's intended objectives.
A three-day meeting was held in Kigoma to review the Terms of Reference of the steering committee [Terms of Reference for the Greater Katavi Mahale Gombe Ecosystem Conservation Technical Team] and incorporate the comments from the regional and district leaders that were provided during the inauguration of the steering committee in June [Report on the Exercise of Establishing a Local Authority Forest Reserve for the District of Mpanda]
WRI conducted research on compensation for property losses from private land-use restrictions. The research focused on the law and practice of land-use restrictions in Kenya, Uganda and Zambia. It compared the findings from Africa with compensation principles in the U.S.(Compensation for Land Use Restrictions – Kenya, Uganda and Zambia, in Comparison to the United States of America) A written report was prepared that captures the data, findings and recommendations [to be published soon]. WRI also finalized a research report that captures the main findings and recommendations from our research on overlapping land and natural resource rights (Overlapping Land and Natural Resource Property Rights: A Comparative Analysis from Africa). The report was submitted to the April 2013 World Bank Land and Poverty Conference and is also available on the web (http://www.conftool.com/landandpoverty2013/index.php?page=browseSessions&am...).
In the past year, ABCG member organizations including AWF, JGI, TNC and WRI have collaborated to review land tenure issues in key countries including Kenya, Tanzania and Zimbabwe; analyzed communal conservancies and related strategies in several countries; and examine the law and practice of private land-use restrictions and assess their usefulness in achieving biodiversity conservation outside the protected estate. Much progress has been achieved in illuminating land use constraints, and uncovering opportunities for intervention as a first step in tackling poverty, biodiversity loss and conflict resolution. This paves the way to helping communities and governments at all levels implement a knowledge-based strategy integrating biodiversity conservation into local, regional and national development plans. Key results from the below activites were shared in an ABCG Thematic Meeting on October 2, 2012.Development of integrated Management Plan for the Greater Mahale Ecosystem (GME), Tanzania (JGI & TNC)
ABCG members the Jane Goodall Institute and The Nature Conservancy are working together with the Frankfurt Zoological Society (FZS) to assist local governments and citizen in general land management planning in the Greater Mahale Ecosystem of Western Tanzania.
Conservation Business Model Development (AWF)With support from USAID's BATS program, ABCG member AWF developed a proposed business model to be used by the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority to achieve tourism sustainability in its Parks, using Hwange National Park in Northwestern Zimbabwe as the pilot area.AWF has also developed a business model to pilot application of the indigenization of the wildlife sector focused on the Save Conservancy in Zimbabwe's Southeast Lowveld which has been the center of controversy between government, local communities and private land owners. This will include valuation, zoning and community engagement. The model will be presented to the relevant ministry for review and endorsement. Information and data was collected through site visits, discussions with key partner (i.e. Conservancy members and staff, ZPWMA staff), economic valuations, and community engagement using AWF staff directly and commissioned consultancy. Several high level meetings were held between AWF Senior Program staff led by the AWF President and ZPWMA management, board of trustees, the Minister, USAID Mission & other donors, and partners in Zimbabwe to discuss the findings. By the end of the year, a 'Report of Study and Recommended Model for Piloting' was completed and is being finalized for presentation to the Minister of Environment and Natural Resources Management to endorse recommended course of action.
Research on Overlapping Land and Natural Resource Property Rights (WRI) In many African countries, most land and natural resources are either the property of the state or are public resources vested in or held in trust by the government for the people. While the state may be the owner, rights of access, control, transfer and exclusion—the bundle of property rights—are held under customary tenure arrangements or grants by the state under formal law for land and various natural resources on or below the land (e.g., minerals, oil, natural gas, water, trees, and wildlife). Under formal law, these property rights regimes are separate and distinct. The rights to land often include only surface rights and not rights to these natural resources. As a result, different individuals or institutions may hold surface and natural resource rights on the same plot of land. While considerable attention has focused on protecting against overlapping land (surface) rights, less attention has focused on reconciling overlapping surface and natural resource rights. Conflict can arise when the various holders of surface and natural resource rights on the same piece of land seek to exercise their rights in ways that contradict each other. For example, when the holder of surface rights wishes to farm the land, while the holder of mineral rights wants to mine, or the holder of tree rights wishes to log the forest, while the holder of wildlife rights wants to manage the forest for game viewing. Security in land is weakened when the holders of natural resource rights are legally empowered to limit or restrict the surface rights held by others. In most African countries, the property rights regime for land and various natural resources are established and governed by different laws, and implemented principally by different government agencies. For example, land laws provide for surface property rights and sectoral laws (e.g., mineral, petroleum, forest, wildlife, water and other natural resources) establish the property rights regime for the various natural resources. While the land laws are generally silent on the exercise of natural resource rights on land in which surface rights are held by an individual, many natural resource laws provide for the rights and obligations of natural resource and surface rights holders. For example, the mineral laws often establish the authorities that holders of mineral rights have to enter onto land (surface rights) held by another individual, and the procedures to exercise their mineral rights. Many mineral laws also provide for some roles and responsibilities of surface rights holders regarding the exercise of mineral rights. WRI's research focuses on the laws that govern land and natural resource property rights and the implications for the holder of the land (surface) rights. The review of laws included petroleum, minerals and trees/forests in six African countries: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Nigeria, Ghana and Liberia. WRI is developing a series of recommendations designed to reduce conflict and promote development, including harmonizing legislation and promoting more coordination across the government agencies responsible for implementing the laws. The full report will be completed in FY2013.
2012 ABCG Land Use & Governance Thematic Meeting: Land under Pressure—Competition, Opportunities and Implications for Conservation
ABCG held a thematic meeting on Land Tenure and Biodiversity: Analyzing Biodiversity Conservation and Governance to Prevent Conflict and Crisis. Jimmiel Mandima, Program Director of Policy with the Africa Wildlife Foundation served as Chair and moderator on this open meeting that featured recent work in the field and a lively discussion with all participants.
Key themes of the meeting included:
The following is a summary of the presentation points and proceedings.
Implementation of Land Policy for Improved Ecosystem Management and Land Tenure in Western Tanzania
Emmanuel Mtiti, Program Director, the Jane Goodall Institute-Tanzania; Matt Brown, Conservation Director, The Nature Conservancy Africa Region
The landscape of Western Tanzania is seriously threatened by incompatible development, unsustainable farming techniques, destructive and uncontrolled wildfires, and inadequate local capacity to establish and enforce more environmentally friendly land use policies and practices. Gradual encroachment has caused significant negative impact on sustainable development and habitat preservation in the region. Co-presented by Mtiti and Brown, the discussion focused on how the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI), The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and partners are working with authorities from the village to the national level in a land use planning process to address on-going threats.
Available opportunities exist within the country policy framework to improve management of critical ecosystems in Western Tanzania and reduce conflicts in the utilization of forests while improving the livelihoods of the local population. Through an intense participatory process, JGI and Frankfurt Zoological Society have completed 63 village land use plans and 37 village land forest reserves in the Greater Mahale Ecosystem. This contributes to the process of integrating local planning with regional and national natural resource planning and management. Brown shared that the recently completed 15 month survey for assessing critical chimpanzee habitat is being used by government officials to identify priority conservation sites and reach consensus regarding the conservation status for each of those sites within the Greater Mahale Ecosystem. This information is being used to define the most critical forest protection sites for existing chimpanzee populations and for connectivity within this broader ecosystem. The resulting knowledge is being discussed with district and higher government officials to consider the value of the resource inventory and implications for management, local livelihoods and conservation. A forest protection blue-print will be produced that will result in the creation of new protected areas–village forest reserves and national forest reserves.
Mtiti emphasized that the most challenging issue for land tenure in Tanzania is in poor management, rather than a need to reform the constitution. It is important for villagers to develop village land use plans and to register clearly demarcated land, thereby avoid land grabs especially in densely populated areas. Having done this, villagers can pursue customary land use rights that are legally binding that could be honored as collateral for bank loans.
Securing Land and Community Benefits through Creative Conservation Tools and Models: Research and Practice in Zimbabwe, Kenya and South Africa
Kathleen Fitzgerald, Director of Land Conservation, Africa Wildlife Foundation
The African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) has explored land tenure, environmental easements, carbon mitigation, co-management agreements and conservancy models in Zimbabwe, Kenya, and South Africa. Fitzgerald highlighted some of their key findings and featured the work AWF is conducting in Zimbabwe around developing conservancy models as part of achieving provisions of the country's indigenization policy as well as economic, social and ecological sustainability.
The Zimbabwe government invited AWFs assistance with an initial review of the state of the nation's conservation estate that includes three major designations:
All three areas have experienced wildlife declines due to a number of factors including land use conversion, poaching, unplanned resettlement as part of the Land Reform Program, lack of capacity because of the financial situation and mismanagement. AWF is implementing a variety of strategies to address these threats, and was invited by the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority to help develop a proposed model for conservancies in Zimbabwe that meet the Indigenization and Economic Empowerment policy of 2007. AWF's proposal includes indigenization through the engagement of the communities that live in and around conservancies.
While conservancies vary throughout Africa, they offer a suite of universal benefits to land, natural resource management, community empowerment, tourism diversity, revenue generation and biodiversity conservation. The Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority requested AWF to use Save Valley Conservancy as a pilot site for AWF to develop a model that achieves economic, social and environmental sustainability. Fitzgerald discussed some of the best practices AWF has reviewed in Africa for conservancy management and development and shared some of the proposed model in Zimbabwe. She reviewed Zimbabwe's Land Reform Policy and how this had and continues to have a direct impact on wildlife conservation in Zimbabwe.
Overlapping Land and Natural Resource Rights in Africa: A Comparative Analysis
Peter Veit, Interim Director of Institutions and Governance Program, World Resources Institute
Peter Veit discussed the authorities granted by government to natural resource licensees to enter onto and use privately-held land (including communal/customary land and private conservancies) for purposes of exercising their resource rights. He focused on petroleum and mineral concession holders in Ghana, Liberia, Kenya and Uganda. Some comparison was also made with the authorities granted to the holders of tree and forest rights.
Veit's work with the World Resources Institute (WRI) has focused on the spectrum of restrictions on privately-held land—from restrictions with minor impacts on land use and values to regulatory takings. Of note is the contrast with US land rights where land ownership comes with rights to many natural resources, while in the study countries, there are separate and distinct land and many natural resource property rights regimes. Veit's research shows that mineral and petroleum laws provide resource licensees with considerable authorities to use private land for their operations.
The situation with trees and forests is more complex but in some countries the forestry laws better recognize land rights than mineral and petroleum laws. Still, commercial use usually requires government approval management plans and certain species have use restrictions or are fully protected.
There is ample room to increase options for landowners to lobby for stronger land rights such as requesting rent from licensees to use private land, mandating landholder consent for licensees to use natural resources, and allowing landowners to use land in conjunction with licensee, etc. Many contradictions exist between land and natural resource laws that need to be harmonized.
Empowering Communities: Recognizing Land Rights as a Path to Collaboration
Karol Boudreaux, Africa Land Tenure Specialist, U.S. Agency for International Development—Economic Growth, Education and Environment
Karol Boudreaux presented on emerging land tenure and land governance issues in Africa and focused on large-scale land acquisitions, private-sector investment and the opportunity presented by the adoption of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests (VGGT) to address conflict related to competing land uses and how USAID is thinking about these issues and challenges.
The VGGT offers land and resource managers fundamental guidelines on land use planning and administration. Adoption of the VGGT provides an important "window of opportunity" to tackle issues including protecting customary rights, integrating gender concerns, recognizing secondary and tertiary rights (most typically to natural resources) and supporting responsible investing by private sector actors. Boudreaux highlighted how some community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) best practices can be applied to work with communities, farmers' associations, etc. to build more collaborative contracting models that empower communities.
Governance is a systemic process that relates to the rule of law, political concerns and local power structures. Land tenure professionals would benefit from incorporating more comprehensive, integrated approaches to their practices so as to incorporate not only institutions allocating and enforcing laws, but also informal sector institutions, traditional leaders and customary practices.
Demand for land in Africa is high but tenure rights on the ground are often weak. Locals need assurances that their rights are realized and honored thus promoting a sense of ownership and resource stewardship. For example, empowering local communities to transfer rights between their own people and to engage directly with investors can be mutually beneficial and reduce some risks associated with land acquisitions.
Carl Bruch, Environmental Law Institute
The Environmental Law Institute (ELI) is working on a multi-year project examining how post-conflict peace-building can be catalyzed through natural resource management processes. As a joint exercise with other institutions, ELI has published Land and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding edited by Jon Unruh and Rhodri Williams and published by Earthscan. Peace building is difficult often because of conflicts over land and natural resources. In South Sudan, virtually none of the communities have come forward to validate their claims to community land after Khartoum enacted a law that invalidated 99 percent of the population's claims, reflecting a daunting task of integrating formal governance structures with local, informal customary systems.
Well functioning land management systems depend on good information systems. Cadastral systems thus need careful design to incorporate the vertical spectrum of rights—minerals and petroleum, grazing, trees, etc. into one system.
Closing Discussion:
Several key themes percolated during the discussion:
Land tenure professionals need to be more considerate of cross-sectoral land use issues, including climate change. USAID, for example, employs climate experts to address climate change implications on land use, and show concern on the level of informality prevalent with rural communities and other stakeholders.
The role of governance is crucial as a regulatory mechanism, but must also involve an interactive, multi-ministerial framework for effective policy-making and functioning regulation using a comprehensive cadastral database.
A significant challenge for land tenure practitioners is engaging communities, often small and marginalized, in the process of securing their land rights and other resource privileges with trust and confidence in the governance system. Some examples were cited where community awareness and trust in a (generally) centralized government agency is poor. These include South Sudan and southern Kenya, where communal rangeland in Kajiado County is being subdivided amid short-term gain and community uncertainty.
The land use and governance theme may gain from efforts to further formalize land issues and build capacity to tackle conservation challenges by engaging academic institutions. Whereas conservation and developments organizations indeed have field specialists and technical expertise, the academic sector offers opportunities to pool various resources including robust evidence-based socio-economic and ecological knowledge. The UK's Department of Land Economy at the University of Cambridge was cited as an example of its role in helping create several land use statutes in Africa. Other partnerships include USAID and The Nelson Institute's Land Tenure Center at the University of Madison-Wisconsin.
Much of the work done by ABCG is closely tied to the land, a fact that resonates with our development counterparts. Many of the stakeholders including rural communities approach land use broadly and systemically. Land use thus serves as an ever present reminder of the need to synergize strengths through partnerships, and break barriers of institutional silos and information stove piping that affect the mission of work towards biodiversity conservation and sustained livelihood development.
2011 ABCG Land Use & Governance Thematic Meeting
An ABCG meeting on this issue was hosted by The Nature Conservancy (Arlington, VA) and African Wildlife Foundation (Nairobi, Kenya) on 5 February 2011. The two locations were linked by video conference. Co-Moderators of the meeting were Helen Gichoi, PhD, President, African Wildlife Foundation (in Nairobi, Kenya) and Peter Veit, Institutions and Governance, World Resources Institute (in Washington, DC). The work presented in the meeting represents the first of several years' work by ABCG members African Wildlife Foundation, The Nature Conservancy and World Resources Institute (with the Jane Goodall Institute joining them in FY2011) on the intersections of governance, rights and land management for conservation.
Click here to download the minutes of the meeting
Presentations included:
Government Restrictions on the Use of Private Land in Tanzania and Kenya (click for presentation) Peter Veit, Institutions and Governance, World Resources Institute Expanding Options for Habitat Conservation Outside Protected Areas: The Use of Environmental Easements, Leases, Payments for Ecosystem Services and Other Conservation Tools in Kenya (click for presentation) Kathleen Fitzgerald, Director, Land Conservation, African Wildlife Foundation The Impact of the Recent Constitution and Land Policy Reforms on Community Conservation Initiatives in Kenya (click for presentation) Collins Odote, University of Nairobi, Nairobi


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We count down the 100 best comedy movies as voted for by more than 200 experts from the world of film, TV and comedy
Here are the 100 best comedy movies, as chosen by more than 200 people whose job it is to make you laugh. We spoke to dozens of comedy writers, comedy directors, comic actors and stand-up comedians – including Dan Aykroyd, Richard Curtis, Edgar Wright, Kim Noble, Stephen Merchant, Jo Brand and many, many more – and asked them to share with us their favourite comedy films of all time. Can you guess which film emerged as the number one choice?
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i not have seen the movie spinal tap but it is best ever movie i love it it deserve to be no 1 , although i am not able to watch this movie yet i know everybody will agree with me , what not agree go to toilet and relax and think again
this is garbage - worst list ever compiled - how can spinal tap be No1 comedy film - should get no star rating but there isnt an option for me to do this
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Tropic Thunder !!
Are you shitting me, one of the worst list ever. How could 200 people come up with this horrible a list, "This is Spinal Tap" is the best movie????????
only old movies .. and thy're not really funny so this list can't actually exsist ...
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In addition to announcing new shows like Don't Sleep, House Husbands, The Mathis Project and Second Generation Wayans, BET has renewed Let's Stay Together and Reed Between the Lines for third seasons. The latter's second season is expected later this year. Let's Stay Together and The Game are expected to wrap their respective seasons on June 5th.
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