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More than 70 per cent of affluent middle class Chinese citizens intend to study overseas or send their children abroad, bringing fresh business opportunities for Australian banks and real estate sector.
Australia is considered to be one of the top educational destinations for Chinese students, ranking the fourth globally and the first in Asia, according to a HSBC bank survey of 1000 Chinese citizens in Shanghai, Beijing and other urban centres.
The bank finds Asian investors are starting to invest internationally to gear up for sending their children abroad.
Graham Heunis, head of retail banking and wealth management at HSBC said: "They [Asian investors] tend to invest more internationally that what we do."
He said Chinese investors like to invest in financial products and assets outside of traditional Australian favourites such as property and equity.
Foreign currency is one of the areas that Asian investors like to invest in. Thirty per cent of mainland Chinese customers surveyed by HSBC have investments in foreign currency products.
Local banks are increasingly looking at international students market as a new source of revenue. Close to one third of HSBC's retail customers is of south east and east Asian background.
Chairman of NAB, Michael Chaney, predicts Australia's education export industry can grow by 30 per cent to more than half million students, injecting close to $20 billion into the economy by the end of this decade.


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SUBMITTED: Thursday, September 05, 2013POSTED: Thursday, September 05, 2013
I will say this---- Do yourself a favor and go to REAL Acting school in L.A such as UCLA, take some college courses, work on getting a Business Degree or a Degree Arts and Performance, get that under your belt, then go onto to Acting or a legit Acting Company that provides real training and real coaches who have been through the Industry and still have existing expierence with Acting and Hollywood outcomes and all the information you need.... Trust me!!! You don't want to get caught up in a Scam like Casting Call Entertainment and others telling you they have connections in Hollywoood or for example Sharry telling kids she has connections in Beverly Hills... LMAO! Really? If that is true, then why isn't her and her family living in L.A trying to do better for them or even for their son if wants to be a real actor????... Please!!! Wake up people...... Doing 1 film isn't going to get you in, you have to stay on it... If you actually sit and listen to her talk, it's fake and not even true, It's all a lie and they take your money, let's get real.. How many real actors live in Vegas area and making films/?.. NONE!!! Hollywood BRINGS actors to Vegas to film a movie yes and call in local "extras" in.... Otherwise they're all in L.A because that is where the work is and that is where the real auditions are, they will get you prepared for auditions and portfolios ready! Not just a walk in and be announced! The staff at casting call entertainment in Vegas are pretty funny people let me tell ya.... They have silly fame pictures of actors on the wall who aren't "A-List" or big time celebs they have their pics with.... The others on the wall are just autographed A-listers who made it,, but not from Casting Call Entertainment they're just autographed actors is all.....anyone can have those on their wall, the photos aren't professionally done, the teachers are rude and bitter because they never made it as a star and probably never will either because their attitide towards students, Gary (kid in the office alot) was never a actor, he doesn't have a clue either, Now let's take a look at some prospects here, If a real professional (Acting and Directing) Coach is going to teach and has the most expierence in the field and still acting on the side, that is where you should go to get the training, ones who will teach, tell you everything, be a mentor, and not be jealous and be against you... Not these low-life's who live in Vegas and work part time at Casting Call Entertainment who have little or no expierence at all unless they were a "Extra"... Sorry being a extra doesn't count you as a Actor or have teaching expierence because you don't have a clue in the industry, HAS-BEEN doesn't count.......... Take your HAS-BEEN and get a real job you losers!!!! LOL Folks-- Listen!! Go to L.A if you are serious about Acting! The work is there, not in Vegas!!!
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'From my angle I thought maybe it was nipple-y, but from what I heard, it was entire areolas,' the co-host comments on the wardrobe malfunction.
Khloe Kardashian suffered a wardrobe malfunction on her first day hosting "The X Factor (US)" and she has talked about it. On Thursday, November 1 after the second live show, she told reporters, "I kind of looked. From my angle I thought maybe it was nipple-y, but from what I heard, it was entire areolas. That was what the production told me in my ear. They were like, 'Your areolas are out.' "
Speaking of her outfit choice, the reality TV star revealed, "[The blouse] came in the mail and I wanted to wear it. It's lined with nude lining, it's not just like a sheer top. I had no idea, with my dressing room lights you didn't see a thing. We were rushed and went on stage."
Then, she saw Simon Cowell "sort of doing something like this [points to her chest], and I thought he meant my hair. Then I hear in my ear, 'We've got to fix your shirt.' I didn't know what they were talking about and I heard, 'Full areola is out.' "
Sharing how her husband Lamar Odom reacted to the wardrobe malfunction, she said, "We talked about the show, but I just forgot that part. Today [after watching the show] he texts me, 'Um��� make sure you're not showing your nipples tonight.' "
Simon himself wasn't really bothered by the nip-slip. "No, I thought it was hilarious," he commented. "Your first live show, you don't wear a bra, and the studio's freezing, of course."
Making her debut on the FOX reality show on Wednesday, Khloe wore a purple blouse with plunging V-neck. Noticing that the co-host's nipple was a bit exposed, Simon enthused, "You're looking very sexy tonight. I think the air conditioning's on high tonight. It's very distracting."


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We press on. I didn't mention that I am using two apps to look at the fonts: Firefox 4 and LibreOffice Writer. That way I avoid unusual things due to just one type handling system (I hope). Later, I want to see the final selections in another browser, and on an e-ink device (nook).
I wanted to get Dejavu back in the running if I could, reconsider Droid Serif, and throw in a new contestant: Arvo, the first slab serif to be examined.
Remember Dejavu had a letter spacing problem (or Win7 had one with the font). To try to rehabilitate Dejavu, I ran the regular sans and serif fonts through the @fontface generator at FontSquirrel (
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I installed the new versions of Dejavu and the downloaded Arvo and Droid Serif. I didn't think such a simple thing as auto-hinting would work on the Dejavu fonts, but it did! Both the sans and serif fonts displayed none of the issues I saw earlier. I haven't confirmed that the other variants (italic, bold, etc) of Dejavu will be improved for Windows use by autohinting, but I am very encouraged.
Both Arvo and Droid Serif are legible at 6 pt (Arvo less so than the others), and have no significant problems with my simple color and spacing test paragraphs. Arvo looks light at these small sizes - it may be more intended as a display font.
The FontSquirrel @fontface generator also lets you subset the font's character set, so I can reduce font file size drastically (by 5x or more) by picking the Unicode ranges or languages I want to keep. So that problem is also solved.
Eight body text choices, five serif and three sans, are more than enough. For setting sans and serif fonts in the same book, it is nice to have pairs that work well together. It's clear that both the Droid and PT families were designed to do just that; that leaves the Liberation and Dejavu families and Arvo to check. I used a small book chapter, again in html and LibreOffice, to do the compatibility tests.
As expected, Droid Sans and Serif, and PT Sans and Serif, look great together. I have much more mixed feelings about both Liberation and Dejavu. Liberation is a metric-compatible substitution for Times New Roman and Arial, and I was not fond of using those two together over twenty years ago, and I'm still not today. The two families have the same general problem: the sans and the serif fonts don't match, and they also aren't distinctly, consistently different. There is some confusion at the individual glyph level. So I'm not sure what to do there.
PT Sans and Arvo don't look too bad together. But I'm not convinced Arvo is up to the task on its own. Looking at more samples will help, and maybe running it through FontSquirrel. I'dl ike to have a good slab serif as a option.
With the help of Fontforge, and spelunking in Constantia, I have come a long way in adding small caps, numeric subscripts, numeric and lower case superscripts, numerators and denominators, and text ("old style") figures to the two regular Dejavu fonts. Fontforge does everything but the old style figures automagically.
The text figures take more manual work. But it is pretty simple: copy the standard monospaced titling figures to a new location in the font and rename them ("nine.oldstyle"). Then there is a tradition for what to do with each digit. The 6 and 8 remain unchanged. The 0, 1, and 2 get squished down to the height of the lower case letters. The 3, 4, 5, 7, and 9 get dropped down (not squished) to match the height of the lower case - their bottoms hang below the baseline. Last, reset the widths so the numbers are proportional width, not monospace (the "1" gets the biggest change). Set up an Opentype table tagged "onum" to point to them, and, in theory, you are done.
So I'm pretty sure I can meet my requirements with at least three families: Droid, PT, and Dejavu. I'm not sure Liberation adds anything extra to those three, so it's optional. And I'd like to keep Arvo, or another slab around.
Since most ePubs don't require anything larger than 16pt, or at most 20pt, I see little reason to spend much time on display fonts. They barely begin to show their character at those sizes.
Does anyone have any advice, suggestions, or requests while I am going about tailoring these fonts for e-books?
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Melle is situated 210 miles (338 kilometers) west of Berlin, the national capital, and approximately 110 miles (177 kilometers) northeast of Cologne.
When it comes to getting the best from your holidays, keep in mind that Melle is just just the start; Lower Saxony - Bremen is home to a treasure-trove of fabulous things to see and do. Interesting places in the vicinity of Melle are Bad Oeynhausen, 20 miles (32 kilometers) to the west, and Bad Salzuflen, 20 miles (32 kilometers) to the northwest.
Around 60 miles (97 kilometers) to the east of Melle is Hannover, a regional center where you can explore Lower Saxony State Museum, KUBUS Municipal Gallery and New Town Hall. Wangenheim Palace, City Cemetery Lahe and TUI Arena are other attractions worth visiting for those who would like to spend a while longer there.
If you're in the hunt for experiences that won't blow the budget, set aside some time to explore Lower Saxony - Bremen's numerous outdoor attractions such as open-air museums, open-air exhibits and gardens. If it starts raining cats and dogs, fear not, Lower Saxony - Bremen is home to a number of popular art galleries, art museums and history museums, that'll keep culture vultures busy.
There's plenty of ways to make the most of the outdoors in and around Melle. Quad biking and mountain biking are two ways active visitors can get their kicks. Camping and shore fishing are just some of the great low stress activities in this area.
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text: Although socialist President Hugo Chávez routed his centrist challenger, Henrique Capriles Radonski, 55% to 45% in Sunday's presidential election in Venezuela, the opposition can take some consolation in the fact that Capriles did a lot of things right. That includes reaching out in a more credible way to poorer Venezuelans, who make up Chávez's base. The problem is that it wasn't nearly enough to make up for all the things the opposition has done wrong during the almost 14 years that Chávez and his populist, anti-U.S. revolution have ruled Venezuela and the world's largest oil reserves. Chávez's foes, whose more unified front should have made Capriles a contender, now have six more years to ponder why the Miraflores presidential palace is still so far out of their reach when so many factors indicate it should be within their grasp.


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CALLS for the chief executive of Pembrokeshire County Council to resign are again echoing around the county following the recent conviction of a former youth worker of child sex offences.
Michael 'Mik' Smith was sentenced earlier this month to six years in prison for abusing a child after he was sacked from the local authority.
In a BBC Week In, Week Out programme tonight (Tuesday July 13 BBC1 Wales, 10.35pm) whistleblower Sue Thomas said she had warned bosses about Smith's inappropriate behaviour and raised concerns he posed a risk in 2005 but he was only given a verbal warning.
Further complaints were made about him in 2009 and 2011.
Labour Regional AM Joyce Watson told the programme that chief executive Bryn Parry-Jones should step down following this latest scandal.
Smith was sacked in 2012 following a CSSIW and Estyn investigation which was highly critical of the safeguarding procedures at the county council.
Mrs Watson told Week In, Week Out: "I think it's time for him to go and I'm not fighting shy of saying that.
"He has been the permanency in all of the negative reports that have been there and there have been a number of them.
"You cannot be the highest paid chief executive in Wales because you are worth that money and preside over failure. Repeated failure."
A council spokesman said: "The council's investigation at the time revealed no evidence of criminal activity, and since that time the council has completely changed its procedures and management of the education department and is confident that past failings would not be repeated now."


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See how Autodesk customers are using Autodesk® Revit® building information modeling (BIM) software for structural engineering.
AECOM: Roseisle Distillery
RLF: Irwin Army Community Hospital
ATP Architects and Engineers
S.A. Miro, Inc.
Rutherford & Chekene et al: UC Merced
Bornhorst + Ward Consulting Engineers
The Beck Group: Builds Church 120 Feet Underground
Haynes Whaley Associates: Structural Engineers
Odeh Engineers: MassArt High-Rise Residence Hall
Robins & Morton: Auburn University Basketball Arena
New Complex at USC School of Cinematic Arts
NASA Sustainability Base
UC Davis: Maurice J. Gallagher Hall
Merrick & Company: Lackland Air Force Base
NOAA Research Facility
Figueiredo Ferraz (Brazil)
Breijn B.V. (The Netherlands)
China Construction Design International (CCDI)
Mortenson Construction
Sundt Construction: Water Reclamation
PBS&J / TLC Engineering for Architecture
HNTB/Turner Universal: Human Resources Center
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Grange Insurance Audubon Center
Good Samaritan Hospital Expansion
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The Haskell Company
Brandow & Johnston Associates
Cary, Kopczynski and Company, Inc. (CKC)
Reno C. Negrin Architects
SCA Consulting Engineers
Graef, Anhalt, Schloemer and Associates
Ericksen Roed and Associates, Inc.
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Bornhorst + Ward is one of the leading independent engineering consulting firms in Queensland, Australia. Based in Brisbane, the multidisciplinary firm has completed hundreds of projects along the eastern coast of Australia—including numerous hotels, bridges, and high-rise buildings. On many of these projects, the firm relied on AutoCAD® software. Based on that experience, in 2005 the firm took advantage of an opportunity to use Autodesk® Revit® Structure software for Building Information Modeling (BIM) on a complex, 70-story office building. "Some benefits of BIM were immediate," says Brett Taylor, a Director at Bornhorst + Ward. "Once we created the model, we not only had the floor plan, but also all sections, elevations, and quantities. After a few days, we knew that BIM was the way to go." With implementation support from Autodesk Authorized Reseller AEC Systems, Bornhorst + Ward had standardized on Revit Structure for all new structural projects by early 2007.
The Challenge
Owned by the Industry Superannuation Property Trust (ISPT) and Brookfield Multiplex, this project is part of a larger redevelopment plan that includes a $100-million facelift of the adjacent Wintergarden Shopping Centre. The new podium and tower will include three auditoriums, a shopping complex, and a complex helix ramp that leads automobiles from the ground level to an interior parking facility on the fourth and fifth stories. "The ramp was quite a challenge," says Taylor. "Very early into the design process, we had to confirm that our structural model met strict requirements for ceiling height clearances."
The Solution
"BIM helped everyone make better decisions early in the design process," says Taylor. "Using Revit Structure, our engineers could spin the model and more quickly visualize the appearance of the completed project and all of its components." This capability was particularly valuable on hard-to-model areas, such as the helix ramp. "We met all required clearances and believe this approach will minimize construction problems."
The model proved equally valuable in improving collaboration with the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) engineers from The Hastie Group—who used Autodesk® Revit® MEP software—and Brookfield Multiplex. "BIM and the 3D model helped us get owner sign-off very quickly," says Taylor.
BIM also improved communication with Brookfield Multiplex's construction manager. "Within an hour, he learned more about key constructability issues than he did in two days looking at 2D drawings." Bornhorst + Ward used Autodesk® Design Review software to produce detailed section cuts that further illustrated building complexity.
In the early schematic design and design development phases, BIM helped Bornhorst + Ward to more accurately determine the cost impact of different design options. "The quantity surveyor estimated project steel tonnages with the assumption that connections accounted for 15 percent of the total," says Taylor. With assistance from Revit Structure, Bornhorst + Ward showed that the connections accounted for only 5 percent, helping the team identify the best design option very quickly.
To meet sustainability goals, the firm had to maintain an overall concrete-fly-ash content of 20 percent. The engineers used Revit Structure software to insert a fly-ash parameter in every model element, thereby facilitating the creation of more accurate fly-ash schedules, as well as high-quality, multicolored 3D views illustrating fly-ash content throughout the project.
The Result
Bornhorst + Ward completed construction documentation in late 2010. "Our clients are very happy with our work on this project," says Taylor. "They loved the 3D model and really appreciate how it helped them better understand constructability issues." Construction is scheduled to begin in 2011.
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While barrel samples and futures are the main focus of the Wine Road Barrel Tasting, as discussed earlier this week; but its also a great time for Wineries to introduce new releases, and offer sales to visitors to incent you to take some of their work home with you. Many of the Wine Road wineries are small, family owned – this is a business for love, not wealth. Support these small artisans with your purchases, instead of your local grocery store.
The list is too long to link to each winery, so use the Wine Road maps and event program to find each one. The Wine Road website is an amazing resource. Remember not all wineries participate both weekends, and some are doing Barrel Tasting on Friday as well, so CHECK the program!
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Futures: 30% off 2010 Pinot Gris, 2009 Pinot Noir, 2009 Zin, 2009 Abouriou
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Is offering the 2007 Moshin Vineyards Zinfandel – Dry Creek Valley. Regularly $30.00/btl., this weekend it is $15.00 when you buy a case at $180. This wine will be available for tasting and you'll agree that this tasty little gem of a balanced Zinfandel will become your new favorite "House Wine" at this price! Only 475 cases made!
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They are not going out of business anytime soon. Come on, this is not serious topic. While more and more books are being digitized, most people do not want to give up on owning a physical copy, they can hold, share, keep, display, collect or sell. Then there are those who do not shop on the internet or want something right now and not wait for the time it takes to ship. And while that might not make up the people on this group, it is a large segment of the population.
I agree with this. On this forum it sure seems like everyone wants only digital books, but I don't think it holds true with most people out there. My main purpose of buying an ereader is to check out library books, and dowload as many free books as possible. If I see a super cheap digital ebook that interests me, then I'll probably buy it. Otherwise, if I need to buy a book it's going to be a p-book not digital. I love p-books, and I suspect that a lot of people are like me. I have no plans to be totally digital or totally paper.
I don't see B&N going out of business any time soon. Every time I go to there store(2 different locations) they're always busy.
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Finally, I had gotten up the courage to tell him once and for all how I feel about him. And it seems he may have finally gotten up the courage to do it too. Now I'm not completely sure if I should do it or wait up a little bit to see if he does it.
I finally got to see him after a long time (I go to school far away and I came home for spring break just to see him) and he starts mumbling some analogy about dogs chasing cars and how they don't know what to do with the car once they catch up to it.
When I told him I wasn't sure what he was talking about he said something along the lines of, "There's something I want to tell you but I'm not sure how to say it."
By the way he was implying things I got the idea that he was trying to muster up the words to tell me how he feels about me, but where we were really neither the time nor the place. But I certainly do get the idea that he wants to tell me, so how do I encourage him to do it? Or should I just go for it and do it myself? It's because I figure if he finally got the guts up to do it I might as well let him have his moment, but also if he doesn't hurry up, I really will do it myself.
How do I encourage him to tell me how he feels about me?
Finally, I had gotten up the courage to tell him once and for all how I feel about him. And it seems he may have finally gotten up the courage to do it too. Now I'm not completely sure if I should do it or wait up a little bit to see if he does it.
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tell him, get it off your chest - if you hold it back you'll always ask yourself 'what if'...
guys don't have to be the first to say something, just be like
you: "hey I wanted to tell you that I like you and youve alwasy been really cute to me"
him: "really, wow I've been wanting to tell you that forever"
you: " :) haha well I'm glad we're on the same page :) "
him: "yeah tell me about it, that's a relief"
you: "maybe we can go out sometime? movie? or dinner?"
him "sounds great, why don't I call you on friday evening and we'll figure something out"
lol I mean it probably won't go exactly like that but I've had girls do stuff like that to me and its actaully very exciting, because guys are the ones who always take the risk, when you do it and you get what you were looking for the payoff will be a great feeling...but don't get your hopes too high - otherwise you'll be setting yourself up for a let down..
You are actually totally right with your point of view.
And you can add some lines of(flirts,one liners,emotional) in daily chat which muster internal feelings.
So he won't need you tell what he thinks about you.Because he will get over this quickly.
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- Inclusive business models in agriculture? Learning from smallholder cane growers in Mozambique
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Future Agricultures / PLAAS Policy Brief 66 Emmanuel Sulle, Ruth Hall and Gaynor Paradza
Amidst the increasing corporate investment in African farmland the term 'inclusive business model' has become a catchphrase touted as an opportunity for incorporating smallholder farmers alongside large-scale commercial farming projects. Inclusive business models require an enabling institutional and regulatory framework. Such frameworks now exist at the international level: the African Union Framework and Guidelines on Land Policy in Africa and FAO Voluntary Guidelines on Responsible Governance on the Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forest in the Context of National Food Security provide a starting point. If translated and implemented, these guidelines can help develop transparent and accountable mechanisms that enable and strengthen the participation of smallholder farmers in the process of commercialisation, such as in the sugar industry in Mozambique.
To enable equitable partnerships between corporate investors and small-scale farmers, governments need to prioritise public investment in agriculture, including research and development, that helps smallholder farmers increase and diversify their agricultural produce. Smallholders' access to, ownership of and control over land and other resources should be secured. Based on our analysis of current large-scale sugar estates and milling companies, as well as smallholder involvement as outgrowers in the Mozambican sugar industry, this policy brief interrogates policy and suggests mechanisms for enabling and strengthening smallholder farmers' participation in and securing returns from large scale investments.
- Land Grabbing in Africa and the New Politics of Food
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Policy Brief 41
by Ruth Hall
'Africa is for sale' is how some characterise it: there is a 'land grab' underway. Others are more cautious, speaking of 'large-scale land acquisitions', while the World Bank notes euphemistically the 'rising global interest in farmland'. Whatever the prevailing terminology and ideologies, there is now ample evidence that large swathes of African farmland are being allocated to investors, usually on long-term leases, at a rate not seen for decades—indeed, not since the colonial period. The fact that much of this land is being acquired to provide for the future food and fuel needs of foreign nations has, not surprisingly, led to allegations that a neo-colonial push by more wealthy and powerful nations is underway to annex the continent's key natural resources.
- Land, Land Policy and Smallholder Agriculture in Ethiopia
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By Samuel Gebreselassie
Land and land tenure is a hot policy issue in Ethiopia. Three key issues are raised – farm size and fragmentation and the question of what is a 'viable' farm unit; tenure security and whether lack of land registration/certification or titling undermines investment in productivity improvements; and finally the issue land markets and whether imperfectly functioning markets constrain opportunities for land consolidation, investment and agricultural growth.
- Large-scale Commercial Agriculture in Africa: Lessons from the Past
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Policy Brief 65 by Rebecca Smalley
African agriculture is in a phase of rapid commercialisation. Planners and investors in sub-Saharan Africa urgently need to consider how the choice of business model, the local context and the political environment affect outcomes of commercial ventures. A review of past experiences with three commercial farming models reveals the conditions that have provided the most stable environment for investors but also protected the most vulnerable in society and created the best chance for technology transfer and local economic linkages. These lessons from history have contemporary relevance.
- Large-scale Land Deals, Food Security and Local Livelihoods
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CAADP Policy Brief 10by Kate Wellard-Dyer
Large-scale foreign land acquisitions - land grabs - are major and real concerns for African populations. The consequences of land deals are highly significant for local populations and the environment. Some see economic opportunities for local communities through employment and income generated from leasing or selling land. Others see land alienation as a major threat to local livelihoods, food security and the environment. The question is whether 'win-win' models exist - benefitting local people as well as providing an economic return to investors. This policy brief draws on latest research by Future Agricultures. It asks: What are the drivers behind large-scale land deals in Africa and who are the main players? What is the impact of land deals on livelihoods and food security of existing land users? What can governments do to protect smallholder livelihoods?French version: Les Transactions Foncières à Grande échelle, la Sécurité Alimentaire et les Moyens de Subsistance
- Lessons for the New Alliance and Land Transparency Initiative: Gender Impacts of Tanzania's...
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Full title: Lessons for the New Alliance and Land Transparency Initiative: Gender Impacts of Tanzania's Land Investment Policy
Policy brief 67 Helen Dancer
There are gender-differentiated impacts when land is harnessed for commercial investment. Land policy needs to address the gendered nature of power relations within families and land tenure systems, and the implications of rural social relations on processes of community consultation, land management and dispute settlement. Without this, land investment policies will not reach their goals of tenure security for all, agricultural productivity and increased revenue. From the outset the full participation of women as well as men, good local leadership and gender-sensitive business practices at the local level are needed, to ensure that the fruits of land-based investment deals in the countryside are gender-equitable.
- Reframing the New Alliance Agenda: A Critical Assessment based on Insights from Tanzania
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Future Agricultures / PLAAS Policy Brief 56by Emmanuel Sulle and Ruth Hall
A dedicated investment in smallholder farmers to enable them to improve their land use and productivity is critical to achieve sustainable and inclusive growth in African countries. The New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition ('New Alliance') focuses on public-private partnership (PPPs) with local investors and multinational corporations (MNCs) to produce food. However, this is unlikely to solve chronic problems of hunger, malnutrition and poverty because of under-investment in smallholder agriculture, and the rolling back of state support following structural adjustment programmes from the 1980s onwards.
The initial signs of New Alliance implementation, instead of reversing this chronic under-investment in smallholder agriculture, suggest the adoption of corporate agriculture, either turning smallholder farmers into wage workers and hooking them into value chains in which they have to compete with MNCs, or expelling them to search for alternative livelihoods in the growing cities. Although tempered by promotion of 'outgrower' schemes, in practice this agenda promotes large-scale commercialisation. We argue that African countries engaging with the New Alliance should focus instead on securing citizens' access to land, water and improved governance. African countries have a better chance of addressing the root causes behind rural poverty and low agricultural productivity by investing directly in smallholder farmers themselves.
- The Green Belt Initiative and Land Grabs in Malawi
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FAC Policy Brief 55by Blessings Chinsinga and Michael Chasukwa
There is often a mismatch between the apparent benevolent intents and the practical manifestations of the large scale land deals. The empirical realities of the large-scale land deals call for critical scrutiny and interrogation of the underlying interests of the stakeholders involved to assess the extent to which they genuinely prioritize win-win scenarios. As the experiences of the Green Belt Initiative (GBI) in Malawi demonstrated, the smallholder farmer is almost always the loser.
This raises doubt as to whether the international initiatives such the Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) voluntary guidelines on responsible governance of tenure of land and other natural resources; the World Bank's principles for responsible agricultural investment; and the Africa Union's (AU) framework and guidelines on land policy shall make any significant difference on the actual outcomes of the large-scale land deals across the continent.
- Agrarian Labour Relations in Zimbabwe after Over a Decade of Land and Agrarian Reform
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Walter ChambatiApril 2013
This paper begins highlights some key features that shape agrarian labour relations in Zimbabwe, illustrated through the setting of Goromonzi district. The new agrarian structure that forms the basis of the reconfigured agricultural production systems and labour relations is then analysed. This allows for the examination of the labour mobilisation patterns among the different classes of producers resulting from agrarian restructuring. The assessment of the material conditions that farm labourers derive from selling labour in various ways and their responses to the challenges they face precede the conclusions.
The new agrarian labour relations are explored using empirical research in Goromonzi district. Research undertaken by the African Institute for Agrarian Studies (AIAS) since 2002, including a baseline survey in 2006 of 695 landholders and 173 farm workers in Goromonzi is used to illustrate the outcomes prior to economic stabilisation in 2009.iii The analysis draws from the results of the survey reported in Moyo et al. (2009) and the data referenced as AIAS (2007). Qualitative surveys in Goromonzi in 2012 are used to trace the dynamic changes to agrarian labour relations as further land redistribution occurred and the macro-economic context and agrarian policies shifted. Data was collected through interviews and observations from farm labourers, landholders, farm compounds, traditional authorities and state officials.
- Biofuels Investment and Community Land Tenure in Tanzania
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Future Agricultures Working Paper 73Emmanuel Sulle and Fred NelsonDecember 2013
Like much of sub-Saharan Africa, Tanzania has experienced a surge in land-based investment during the past decade. While expanding private investment in agriculture is a core ambition of the G8's New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, experiences of prior investments raise questions about possible negative impacts. A notable element of this pattern of international private investment in Tanzania has been the emergence of biofuels as a form of agriculture; biofuel investments occurred rapidly and on a large scale around 2005–2008, with about four million hectares around the country requested for allocation to commercial biofuel projects. Many of those investments were large-scale projects based on the cultivation of jatropha or sugarcane, headed by European companies. One of the most well-known biofuel investments was that of Bioshape, which acquired approximately 34,000 ha in Kilwa District for the cultivation of jatropha.
The report documents, insofar as is possible using available information, the process Bioshape and government authorities at national and district level undertook to acquire the land from the four villages in Kilwa where Bioshape established operations.
- Grazing rights in Namibia's communal areas: A case study of a local land grabbing dispute...
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Full title: Grazing rights in Namibia's communal areas: A case study of a local land grabbing dispute in Western Kavango region
Future Agricultures Working Paper 93 Theodor MuduvaJune 2014
While conflict and competition over land is a major trend in Africa, and there are allegations of 'land grabbing' of large areas of land from local people, usually by foreign companies, other more localised forms of competition over land are less well understood. This paper presents the case of disputes over grazing land between local communities in Northern Namibia and pastoralists/ herders who entered the area and engage in alleged illegal grazing and fencing of communal land for their large herds of cattle. Fencing off of communal land (without authorisation) is forbidden in Namibia by the Communal Land Reform Act.
- Narratives of scarcity: understanding the 'global resource grab'
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Future Agricultures Working Paper 76Ian Scoones, Rebecca Smalley, Ruth Hall and Dzodzi Tsikata February 2014
Global resource scarcity has become a central policy concern, with predictions of rising populations, natural resource depletion and hunger. Resulting narratives of scarcity drive behaviour and justify actions to harness resources considered 'under-utilised', leading to contestations over rights and entitlements and producing new scarcities. Yet scarcity is contingent, contextual and above all political. We present an analysis of three framings – absolute scarcity, relative scarcity and political scarcity – associated with the intellectual traditions of Malthus, Ricardo and Marx, respectively. A review of 134 global and Africa-specific policy and related sources produced over the past six years demonstrates how diverse framings of scarcity – what it is, its causes and what is to be done – are evident in competing narratives that animate debates about the future of food and farming in Africa and globally. We argue that current mainstream narratives emphasise absolute and relative scarcity, while ignoring political scarcity. We suggest a more political framing of scarcity requires paying attention to how resources are distributed between different needs and uses, and so different people and social classes. This requires, we argue, a policy emphasis for land and resource issues on rights and access, and distributional issues, centred on equity and justice.
- Plantations, Contract Farming and Commercial Farming Areas in Africa: A Comparative Review
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FAC Working Paper 55Rebecca Smalley
There is uncertainty and no small controversy surrounding the potential impacts of commercial agricultural developments that are being proposed for sub-Saharan Africa by domestic governments and foreign investors. Much of the debate concerns how Africa's rural poor could be affected. One response is to look back and review what the outcomes have been from earlier such developments. This should include consideration of the institutional setting to help us understand how institutions influence the character and outcome of commercial agricultural schemes.
This working paper assesses the historical experience of three farming models that have figured in recent investments in sub-Saharan Africa: plantations, contract farming and commercial farming areas. Based on a literature review, the paper concentrates on the involvement of, and effects on, rural societies in and around the area where the schemes were located. It looks mainly at sub-Saharan Africa but also considers case studies from Latin America and Asia.
This paper was produced as part of the Land and Agricultural Commercialisation in Africa (LACA) project.
- The role of the state and foreign capital in agricultural commercialisation: the case of sugarcane..
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Full title: The role of the state and foreign capital in agricultural commercialisation: The case of sugarcane outgrowers in Kilombero District, Tanzania
Working Paper 106 Rebecca Smalley, Emmanuel Sulle and Lameck Malale
Since the launch of the Kilimo Kwanza ('Agriculture First') slogan in 2009, the Tanzanian government has been part of efforts to inject foreign capital into its country's agricultural sector. A range of domestic and international players have developed plans to facilitate private acquisition of farmland; increase investment in irrigation and value addition; deepen the penetration of agribusiness; and bring more of Tanzania's small-scale farmers into commercial agriculture, particularly through outgrower arrangements. The plans include the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor project (SAGCOT), a public–private partnership focused on Tanzania's south-central region, and Big Results Now, which aims at achieving rapid progress in commercialisation and other agricultural policies in priority crops (Cooksey 2013). Sugar is a target sector.
One of the areas of Tanzania in which development is planned, the Kilombero Valley, already has a nucleus– outgrower sugarcane business. This working paper presents findings from a study of the sugarcane business in Kilombero. We argue that a dramatic but poorly planned expansion of the outgrower sector, combined with farmer services being transferred or reduced, has created wealth but also systemic weaknesses that are linked to falling returns for many outgrowers and a wider problem of land scarcity. The solution to these problems lies with the state, the company and associations of cane growers, as well as sugar industry regulatory institutions.
- Land, Land Policy and Smallholder Agriculture in Ethiopia
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By Samuel Gebreselassie
Land is a public property in Ethiopia. It has been administered by the government since the 1975 radical land reform. The reform brought to an end the exploitative type of relationship that existed between tenants and landlords. Tenants became own operators with use rights, but with no rights to sell, mortgage or exchange of land. The change of government in 1991 has brought not much change in terms of land policy. The EPRDF-led government that overthrew the Military government (Derg) in 1991 has inherited the land policy of its predecessor. Even though the new government adopted a free market economic policy, it has decided to maintain all rural and urban land under public ownership. The December 1994 Constitution of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia proclaimed that 'Land is a common property of the nations, nationalities and peoples of Ethiopia and shall not be subject to sale or to other means of transfer'. Since the 1975 land reform, which made all rural land public property, the possession of land plots has been conditional upon residence in a village. The transfer of land through long-term lease or sales has been forbidden1, and government sponsored periodic redistribution, though, discouraged administratively since the early 1990s, has not been outlawed (Mulat, 1999).
- La lutte pour les terres collectives: feux de savane annuels et schémas transnationaux de...
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Titre complet: La lutte pour les terres collectives: feux de savane annuels et schémas transnationaux de plantation de mangues dans le nord du Ghana
Point info 62 Joseph A. Yaro et Dzodzi Tsikata
Le nord du Ghana est caractérisé par l'agriculture pluviale, le manque d'infrastructures, la production de cultures alimentaires et une faible agriculture d'exportation. La production agricole industrielle de cultures d'exportation est l'une des nombreuses pistes proposées pour réduire la pauvreté dans la région. Cependant, des feux de savane détruisent chaque année des investissements dans l'agriculture commerciale et alimentaire en raison de la méconnaissance de la nature et du but de ces incendies. On ne peut pas se contenter de limiter les causes sous-jacentes et la maîtrise des incendies à des causes manifestes ; ils résultent de causes sociopolitiques telles que le mécontentement quant aux processus de marginalisation et d'exclusion sociale. On peut dès lors se demander dans quelle mesure l'introduction d'un projet agricole moderne de plantations de mangues destinées à l'exportation est plausible et efficace pour améliorer l'économie locale du Nord du Ghana.
Ce Point Info se penche sur le modèle agricole contractuel de la société ITFC (Integrated Tamale Fruit Company), qui correspond bien à l'approche gouvernementale de la commercialisation de l'agriculture par la chaîne de valeur et principalement axée sur l'exportation. Les feux de savane ne sont pas nécessairement destructifs, contrairement au discours politique actuel, mais il est important de comprendre les utilités diverses de ces incendies, leur durée et la gestion négociée des ressources naturelles, y compris de la terre, pour régler l'utilisation des feux d'une manière bénéfique pour tous les usagers de la terre.
- L'accaparement des terres en Afrique et les nouvelles politiques alimentaires
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Point info 41 par Ruth Hall
«L'Afrique est à vendre», comme le disent certains; un «accaparement des terres» est en cours. D'autres sont plus prudents et parlent «d'acquisitions de terres à grande échelle», tandis que la Banque mondiale souligne par euphémisme «l'intérêt croissant pour les terres agricoles dans le monde». Quelle que soit la terminologie ou l'idéologie en vigueur, il est désormais largement prouvé que de vastes étendues de terre agricole africaine sont attribuées à des investisseurs, généralement sur base de baux à long terme, à un prix inédit depuis plusieurs dizaines d'années et même depuis la période coloniale. Étant donné que ces terres sont souvent acquises pour assurer les besoins futurs en nourriture et en carburant de pays étrangers, on ne s'étonnera pas du fait que les pays plus riches et plus puissants soient accusés de néocolonialisme dans le but d'annexer les ressources naturelles et essentielles du continent.
- L'initiative de la ceinture verte et l'accaparement des terres au Malawi
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Point info 55 par Blessings Chinsinga et Michael Chasukwa
Il y a souvent un décalage entre les intentions en apparence bienveillantes et les manifestations pratiques des accords fonciers à grande échelle. Les réalités empiriques de ces accords appellent à étudier en profondeur et à questionner les motivations cachées des intervenants impliqués afin d'évaluer si leur priorité est réellement de développer des situations gagnant-gagnant. Comme l'ont démontré les expériences de l'initiative de la ceinture verte (GBI, Green Belt Initiative), les petits exploitants sont presque toujours les perdants. Cela fait donc douter de la capacité des initiatives internationales – comme les directives volontaires sur la gouvernance responsable de la tenure des terres et des autres ressources naturelles de l'Organisation des Nations unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture (FAO), les principes de la Banque mondiale pour un investissement agricole responsable et le Cadre et les lignes directrices sur les politiques foncières de l'Union africaine (UA) – à améliorer significativement les résultats des accords fonciers à grande échelle sur le continent. Depuis l'introduction du programme de subventions aux intrants agricoles (FISP, Farm Input subsidy Programme) lors de la période de végétation 2005/2006, le Malawi occupe une place importante dans les débats politiques sur la sécurité alimentaire et le secteur agricole florissant à travers le continent.
- Redéfinir le programme de la Nouvelle Alliance: une évaluation critique sur base du cas...
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Point info 56 par Emmanuel Sulle et Ruth Hall
Pour réaliser une croissance durable et inclusive dans les pays africains, il est essentiel d'investir spécifiquement dans les petites exploitations agricoles, afin de leur permettre de mieux utiliser leurs terres et d'améliorer les rendements agricoles. La Nouvelle alliance pour la sécurité alimentaire et la nutrition (« Nouvelle Alliance ») se concentre sur les partenariats public-privé (PPP) avec des investisseurs locaux et des entreprises multinationales pour produire des denrées alimentaires. Toutefois, cette initiative ne résoudra probablement pas les problèmes chroniques de faim, de sousalimentation et de pauvreté, en raison des investissements insuffisants dans les petites exploitations agricoles et du démantèlement des aides publiques suite aux programmes d'ajustement structurel menés depuis les années 1980. Plutôt que de remédier à cette insuffisance chronique des investissements dans les petites exploitations agricoles, il semble que les premières interventions de la Nouvelle Alliance aillent dans le sens de la promotion d'une agriculture industrielle.
- Development and Change: Governing the Global Land Grab: The Role of the State in the Rush for Land
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Development and ChangeMarch 2013Volume 44, Issue 2Pages 189–471Issue edited by: Wendy Wolford, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Ruth Hall, Ian Scoones, Ben White
Published by Wiley-Blackwell (Oxford) on behalf of the Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Development and Change appears six times per year.
This issue of Development and Change is linked to the work of the Land Deal Politics Initiative, supported by the Future Agricultures land theme.
Governing Global Land Deals The Role of the State in the Rush for Land Wendy Wolford, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Ruth Hall, Ian Scoones and Ben White
State Involvement, Land Grabbing and Counter-insurgency in Columbia Jacobo Grajales
Road Mapping: Megaprojects and Land Grabs in the Northern Guatemalan Lowlands Liza Grandia
Land Regularization in Brazil and the Global Land Grab Gustavo de L.T. Oliveira
Negotiating Environmental Sovereignty in Costa Rica Dana J. Graef
Building the Politics Machine: Tools for 'Resolving' the Global Land Grab Michael B. Dwyer
Indirect Dispossession: Domestic Power Imbalances and Foreign Access to Land in Mozambique Madeleine Fairbairn
Competition over Authority and Access: International Land Deals in Madagascar Perrine Burnod, Mathilde Gingembre and Rivo Andrianirina Ratsialonana
Regimes of Dispossession: From Steel Towns to Special Economic Zones Michael Levien
The Political Construction of 'Wasteland': Governmentality, Land Acquisition and Social Inequality in South India Jennifer Baka
Chinese Land-Based Interventions in Senegal Lila Buckley
Identity, Territory and Land Conflict in Brazil LaShandra P. Sullivan


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Forward-looking Vision Vancouver borrows Obama's campaign slogan
Many U.S. pundits wrote U.S. president Barack Obama's political obituary after his Democratic Party was slaughtered in the 2010 midterm elections.
But with the help of some savvy marketing, outreach to diverse communities, and a rather odd slogan—"Forward"—Obama cruised to victory in 2012.
When Obama launched the "Forward" slogan, it elicited scorn from the right.
Writing in the Washington Times, Victor Morton claimed that it has long ties to Marxism and socialism.
But the public didn't care about, giving Obama a second term.
Now, Vision Vancouver wants to replicate those efforts.
This past weekend, it announced a marketing campaign directed at Mandarin- and Cantonese-speaking voters.
And the reigning civic party's newest English-language video is called Go Forward With Vision.
It opens with Mayor Gregor Robertson bounding the stairs toward Vancouver City Hall. He looks a lot like Obama running up stairs whenever he's about go on-stage.
The Vision Vancouver video also includes black-and-white footage.
That was also central to the Obama campaign's videotaped theme song.
It was called Forward: A New American Anthem for President Obama's Second Term.
This video featured Herbie Hancock, Ne Yo, Johnny Rzeznick, Delta Rae, and Natasha Bedingfield, and was billed as a "100% grassroots effort" not produced or coordinated or done in consultation with the Obama reelection campaign.
But that's not the only one that riffed on this theme.
Singer-songwriter Crystal Lucas-Perry also created Take Us Forward (Obama 2012), which drove home the point that the president was the best candidate for the future. As you watch the video below, note the number of Hispanic voters who appear. They were a major factor in Obama's success.
So far, there's no sign that local musical luminaries like Dan Mangan or Mother Mother are working on any forward-looking music videos for Vision Vancouver's 2014 reelection campaign.
But given the similarities between Vision's forward-looking video and the Obama campaign's theme, don't be surprised if more parallels emerge in the coming months
Obama made use of music in a major way to engage young people. And his Republican opponents were characterized as angry old white men—just as Robertson has described the NPA.
The way the 2014 Vancouver campaign is unfolding, we can probably expect to see Gregor Robertson playing his tuba alongside some local musicians before election day in November. (You can see the mayor performing with Mangan here.)
It fits into the overall marketing theme—Vision is hip and forward-looking whereas its opponents are stodgy and out of touch with the diversity of the city.
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Vision's divisive ways might catch up to them in the next election. Vision has an ugly habit of labeling their opponents. In pushing developments in the West end they started dividing gays (good) vs straights (bad) and continued pitting renters (good) vs owners (bad). Finding their momentum they moved on to the East Side (good) vs West Side (very bad indeed, especially Dunbar). In the Langara golf course debate we learned that golfers were (bad and elitist!) vs non golfers (good). In the mayor's most recent speech he has added white (bad ) vs ethnic (good) and young (good) vs old (bad). Let's forget the universal themes of agreeing with everything Vision says (expected) vs disagreeing with Vision (bad, f*cking hack, NIMBY, angry). No comment on Vision would be complete without discussing cyclists (good) vs drivers (almost impossibly bad).
So the next election let's see how Vision does after going out of their way to alienate: straight people, home owners, the West Side, golfers, white people, seniors and motorists.


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The purpose of the study is to assess the performance and safety of the InterGard Synergy vascular graft.
|Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal Occlusive Disease of Artery of Lower Extremity
|Device: InterGard Synergy Vascular Graft
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- Graft Patency and Complications [ Time Frame: 6 months ]
- Patency will be assessed by color-coded duplex ultrasound up to 6 months post implantation.
- Complications including the occurrence of graft infections will be assessed up to post implantation.
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- Mortality rate [ Time Frame: 6 months ]Mortality rate will be assessed up to 6 months post implantation.
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Study of the device in patients with aneurysmal and occlusive disease of the abdominal aorta and peripheral arteries.
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- Patients with current graft infection
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- Patients who require urgent or emergent surgery
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Some of the finest legal scholars in the world engage students with a good balance of theory and practice. Socratic method is the norm for first-year classes. The class size is on the smaller side, though first-year courses are, of course, quite large (about 90-100 students). The caliber of students is high, but the competitiveness inherent in a challenging system doesn't bar collaboration and socializing between the students. The faculty is unparalleled, and the opportunities are endless. The only thing lacking is time enough to take advantage of them all.
The neighborhood isn't great, but campus is nice. Interesting architecture, great libraries and facilities, wonderful gym, plenty of relatively affordable housing. Can't find a good burger of fries within 10 miles, but there are lots of hair salons. Crime and overall safety haven't been as bad as I expected, but the surrounding neighborhoods are rather notorious.
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Great faculty, small classes, except for core 2L subjects (Corporations, antitrust), should offer multiple sections of those classes.
Pretty quick, seemed to be all LSAT/GPA. Admissions office was good in making contact though.
The focus on law and economics is unique and exciting! Being the home of Richard Posner certainly helps.My class is particularly competitive, probably because of the current state of the legal market and worries about finding summer jobs.I haven't found the socratic method to be terribly intimidating or overwhelming. I prefer it to listening to people who raise their hands all the time.
Cost of living is fantastically low, especially compared to the East coast schools in New York and Washington. We live like kings for less than students at NYU live like paupers.Hyde park has a reputation, but it is not like the rest of the south side, as far as safety goes. I have no problems walking around alone at night here. I feel very safe.The campus is absolutely beautiful. It's like a little oasis in the middle of the city. Gothic architecture everywhere. It's incredible.
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Class is primarily theoretical; if you can get into one of the practical clinics, it will change your entire view of the school. I would love a study-abroad program but U of C is really hung up on their faculty (even though they all seem to be leaving).
The financial aid opportunities are not great; I don't recall any particularly odd essay questions but the LSAT score is very high. They should really implement an interview process to cut down on some of the least socially adapted students.
I think our law school is one of the very best, if not the best, in terms of classroom learning. Our professors really are very amazing. The one drawback is that there is no study abroad opportunities.
The cost is much better than NYC and California, by a long shot. Hyde Park is basically safe if you take care of yourself, but it can get dicey late at night, especially south of 60th street. A lot of people complain about lack of restaurants, but I've found that there are plenty in Hyde Park, and it's really easy to get downtown or up North where there are a bunch more. I've enjoyed living here.
It's the same basic process as all other schools, but we also have a binding early-admission program.
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I was rereading this battle and noticed that after Yaxley and Greyback are defeated that Ginny Ron McGonagall Lupin and Tonks were each battling a death eater since Amycus Alceto and Rowle are said to be fighting Ginny McGonagall and Tonk leaves Ron and Lupin fighting ?. (220.127.116.11 19:31, 29 November 2008 (UTC))
I agree to... 8 Death Eaters + Fenrir.. In the book, we can see 5 DE, where are the other three?? I don't know, why they put Bellatrix in the movie???
I think Bellatrix was in that scene because she is awesome (who doesn't want more Bellatrix?), and with films it's harder to keep track of lots of small characters so they give more more work to the ones everyone knows. Does anyone know who the forth DE in the book was, the one Harry knocked out?
Battle of Hogwarts
Should it now perhaps be pointed out that, between HBP and DH, this battle was sometimes known as The Battle of Hogwarts, and, since DH, has sometimes been called The First Battle of Hogwarts? DBD 22:49, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
Isn't "The Battle of Hogwarts" a more fitting term?
--Devil's Snare 22:18, August 18, 2010 (UTC)
- Not since the Battle of Hogwarts was officially named in the books as the final battle and not this one. -- Seth Cooper owl post! 22:34, August 18, 2010 (UTC)
Exact Date?
Do we have an exact date of this Battle (so it would be Albus Dumbledore's deathday as well). It would be good to get a date for here and in Albus' page. Ryan-McCulloch 19:31, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
Deathly Hallows
David Yates has announced that the Battle Of The Astronomy Tower will be in Part One of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows . Evanna Lynch, Bonnie Wright and Matthew Lewis are all confirmed to be in the scene. Also, the four heads of houses, Maggie Smith, Jim Broadbent, Miriam Margolyes, and Warwick Davis are confirmed to be there.
Source? It doesn´t make any sense.-Rodolphus 15:15, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
Snape is listed twice and one of the times it says "secretly". I'll reread the passage, but I don't believe there is any reason for the double mention or the secretly.
- He is listed twice, because while he was overtly acting for the DEs, he was secretly carrying out a plan under Dumbledore's orders. Also, please remember to sign your posts. --JKoch(Owl Me!) 20:16, July 21, 2010 (UTC)
I think that this page should be merged with the battle of the astronomy tower because they basiclly tell the same story. Abranon 21:33, November 6, 2011 (UTC)
- Ummm.... This is the Battle of the Astronomy Tower article. -Shorty1982 23:22, November 6, 2011 (UTC)
- Sorry i mean Second Skirmish at the Horcrux Cave Abranon 09:54, November 7, 2011 (UTC)
The Background - Snape's allegiance and Albus Dumbledore being cursed by the ring
In the background, it doesn't make it clear that Dumbledore had planned his death with Snape due to being cursed by the ring. I think there should be one sub section that explains (under background) that explains that. Abranon 13:34, April 22, 2012 (UTC)
Date of the Battle
I don't think that it happened on June 30. That is the last day of June. McGonagall said that they could have them back home on the Hogwart's Express the night day. There is never a mention of the Hogwart's school year continuing into July, so it would Have to be the last day anyway. (Several times Harry comments on having a 2 month break that ends of September 1). I know the current cannon source is the expiration of the 31 days. The 31 days may have been up, but they couldn't find Harry. His location had been hidden purposely. Also, Dumbledore's will and possession may not have been collected until the 30th. I think that Late June or just June would be better than the 30. I just read through the book and there can't have been more than 2 months that occur between Dumbledore and Harry's discussion of Horcruxes (April 22) and Dumbledore's Death (Stated as June 30). Just something to consider. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 184.108.40.206 (talk • contribs).
- No. It doesn't matter if you don't think it makes logical sense. The hard facts are that Dumbledore died, and thus this battle took place, thirty-one days before Harry's seventeenth birthday, or 30 June, 1997. This is an irrefutable fact. -- 1337star (Drop me a line!) 18:22, June 8, 2012 (UTC)
- This user actually does make some valid points. However, this has already been discussed (see here), and it was decided that the June 30th would be accepted as canon unless/until contradicted by any new developments or releases of information. - Nick O'Demus 14:27, June 9, 2012 (UTC)
I'm slightly confused by the reason for listing it as a "Death Eater tactical victory" and "Order strategic victory through Snape". Okay, Snape was acting under Dumbledore's orders but it's hard to see how his actions count as any sort of victory, since Voldemort already trusted him so it doesn't really give them any additional strategic advantage. Also, a tactical victory is normally given to the side that holds the field of battle and the Death Eaters were the ones who retreated. I'd list it as an Order tactical victory and Death Eater operational victory (since they achieved their main aim of killing Dumbledore). Skteosk (talk) 12:57, March 15, 2014 (UTC)