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We can be among world's top 200 varsities: Panjab University VC
Wednesday October 16, 2013 10:38 PM, Jaideep Sarin, IANS
Chandigarh: Panjab University, alma mater of two prime ministers, a nobel laureate and an astronaut, now wants to "hit the Top-200 rankings" among world universities, said a top official after it was listed as the top Indian university, even ahead of the IITs, by the Times Higher Education (THE) world university rankings.
"The universities with better rankings than us are good at pushing the frontiers of knowledge. They are good in research. This ranking has made us confident. Now we know what our competitors are doing," Panjab University's (PU) Vice Chancellor Arun Grover told IANS in an interview.
Based out of a 550-acre beautiful campus in Chandigarh, PU has emerged as the highest ranked Indian university in the top 400 institutions of its kind in the world. Having been placed among universities ranked 226-250th by THE, PU is the only Indian institution of higher learning to inch closer to the Top-200 mark.
In the process, PU has surged ahead of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and other leading universities in the country.
"The forte of the Top-200 universities is in the graduate school programmes and not under-graduate teaching like we do. We don't have a very rigorous graduate programme and that is one area where we want to concentrate. We have been talking and want to raise resources to run a good graduate programme. We can then hit the Top-200 rankings," Grover said.
The VC feels the latest THE ranking will help PU's students and faculty. "They will get better opportunities in India and abroad," he pointed out.
PU's famous alumni include Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, former prime minister Inder Kumar Gujral, former president Shankar Dayal Sharma and Nobel Laureate Hargobind Khurana, besides astronaut Kalpana Chawla, several union ministers, CEOs, corporate heads, top bureaucrats, army and police officers.
In the latest rankings, IIT-Kharagpur, which was in the same (226-250th) position last year, slipped to the 351-400 group. IIT-Delhi, IIT-Roorkee and IIT-Kanpur are also in the 351-400 group.
"The expectations from the IITs are very high. People think that the IITs are the best. They get the best of students and faculty. Only a handful make it to these premier institutes. The rest come to universities. We have our constraints. Still we have been able to surge ahead," Grover said, adding that it was not out of nowhere that PU emerged as the top-ranked institution.
Crediting faculty and officials in PU for effective presentations and filling up the required data to compete for the rankings, Grover admitted that the university always had the potential but never competed for the rankings.
"The rankings have provided us self-confidence. It shows that we are not as pathetic as we are made out to be. A negative image is created about PU at times which is unfortunate. The data was there to fill up earlier (for the rankings). Why didn't you have the confidence to fill? This time, our presentations were well done," said Grover who took over as VC in July last year.
He said that the Planning Commission and the Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) "motivated us to fill up the data".
"Our own people were reluctant to fill up the data. The credit is to the central government for goading all (universities and institutes) to fill up the data," he said.
Promising to "adopt the work culture of the Top-100 universities in the world", Grover said that the effort would now be research focussed. In the THE parameters for rankings, PU scored 84.7 percent in citations while its score in research was a low 14 percent.
"We want to change that. We want to focus on research. We want to begin a pre-PhD programme. We don't have the full faculty strength. The faculty is forced to take more lectures due to teaching load. Research needs a lot of time. You cannot be giving three lectures a day and then expected to carry out research activities also," he said.
Grover said that students enrolling for research programmes have no access to grants. "The grants from the centre are limited. Students have to depend on these. Eightyseven percent of our funds go to salaries. Due to this, we cannot give research fellowships," he said.
(Jaideep Sarin can be contacted at jaideep.s@ians.in)
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The WE Movement is a large foundation focused on making the world a better place through the improvement of individual action in a large scale setting. The operation allows schools around the world join them as a WE school through a four step program. The program motivates students to explore topics related to realistic challenges and come up with a plan to incite the change. WE movement gives the students the tools and opportunity to implement the plan that they designed, then record the results and celebrate the success.
NACI's social justice group HOPE (Helping Our World Pursue Equality) attended WE Day. This event took place in two parts, the Night of Inspiration and the official WE Day event. The Night of Inspiration was a private invite only affair taking place the night before the full scale WE Day celebration. That night was an opportunity for a select few (including four of our own NACI students) to experience some of what was to come the next day, but on a smaller more personal scale. The four students who were given the opportunity to attend this event were Allison Byram, Siri Freeman, Taylor Johnson, and Kailyn Hanke. One of the students attending WE Day said, "It was really cool to see what the other students had done in terms of fundraising." Overall the favourite speaker for WE Day of the Neepawas participants was George Takei, with his recollection of his time in a WWII internment camp and the struggles he went through during that time in his life. The global program creates "WE villages" which are in essence communities in impoverished countries that the WE movement supports by supplying education, clean water, health care and food. The hope for the program is to develop sustainability in the communities, allowing for a consistent increase in quality of life for third world citizens. The WE movement is a step in the right direction for global improvement.
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Lord Leycester's Hospital, Warwick
History, tourist information, and nearby accommodation
BY DAVID ROSS, EDITOR
Historic Connections
HERITAGE RATING: ?
Lord Leycester's Hospital
A collection of superb half timbered medieval buildings established as a home for aged and infirm soldiers by Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, in 1571.
The entrance porch
The Hospital is not one building, but a collection of buildings just inside the medieval Westgate to the town of Warwick. in the late 14th century Thomas Beauchamp, 12th Earl of Warwick built a chantry chapel dedicated to St James over the gatehouse. This chapel was given to the Guild of St George in 1383 to act as its chantry chapel.
Another of Warwick's guilds, the Guild of the Blessed Virgin, joined with the Guild of St George. The size of the resultant guild, which became the United Guilds of Warwick, meant that expanded quarters were needed for meetings and other guild functions. So a range of buildings were constructed to provide meeting rooms, dining areas, and living quarters.
Henry VIII disbanded the United Guilds in 1546, and the guild buildings might well have been lost to the crown. The Master of the United Guilds, however, one Thomas Oken, saw the end coming and transferred ownership of the guild property at Westgate to the Burgesses of Warwick (the Tudor equivilent of a modern town council).
The buildings did not stay with the Burgesses for long, however; in 1571 Robert Dudley, favourite of Queen Elizabeth, purchased the property and, under royal charter, created a home for 12 aged or infirm soldiers and their wives. To administer the 'Hospital', a corporation was established, with a Master overseeing operations. The corporation was endowed with estates which at that time produced an annual income of 200 pounds.
The Master's Garden
The Hospital was divided into seperate quarters for the Brethren residents. And so things stayed for almost 400 years, with the corporation administering the Hospital under a charter laid down by Lord Leycester (the Earl of Leicester). In 1954 the Corporation was abolished, replaced by a Board of Governors, and the Hospital was refitted and modernized. The number of living quarters was reduced to 8 rather than the original 12, and the remodelled Hospital was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, in 1966.
Though it has been modernized, the original purpose of Lord Leycester's Hospital has remained unchanged. It provides living quarters for ex-servicemen and their families. In exchange for the living space, the residents contribute to the administration amd upkeep of the Hospital. The original estates which were supposed to provide income for the Hospital were sold off over the centuries, and today Lord Leycester's Hospital depends on visitors entrance fees and charitable gifts.
The architecture of the half-timbered buildings is quite superb, with some excellent roofing and entry porches to the living areas. Within the centre of the compound lies the Master's Garden, a quiet, peaceful green space planted by the wife of a former Master.
Lord Leycester's Hospital is located at the western end of High Street, just inside the Westgate, signposted and easily reached on foot from the town centre. As you enter, spare a glance across the High Street where further medieval buildings still stand. In the same group of buildings that houses Lord Leycester's Hospital is the Queen's Own Hussars Museum, located in the 15th century Guildhall.
Another view of the Courtyard
I had walked past the Hospital exterior several times, and always been fascinated by the picturesque timber-framed buildings. when we finally made time to visit I was bowled over by the superb historic buildings. We bought tickets in a small chamber in the rambling frontage that looks onto High Street, where an ex-serviceman resident gave us a brief history of the property and a leaflet about the major rooms we would visit.
Then we were free to wander, starting in the old chapel over the West Gate, where the Master and Brethren gather daily for worship, following a very specific set of words established by Robert Dudley when he established the Hospital. Much of the chapel furnishings are Victorian, with a window over the door by William Morris and a superb east window by Clayton and Bell. The Victorian restoration was by Sir George Gilbert Scott, probably the most important 19th century church architect in Britain.
Then we went down a set of stairs to the Guildhall, built soon after the guld charter was granted in 1383. The hall was used for public functions and is notable for its timber roof, made primarilyt of Spanish chestnut. The most important event held at the hall came in 1617 when James I was entertained here on a state visit to warwick. The entertainment was so expensive that the town was in debt for 10 years after the king's visit!
The Hospital's front facade
From the Great Hall we entered the Courtyard at the heart of the Hospital. Two sides of this rectangular courtyasrd have remained unaltered since the 15th century. On one side is the house built for the Master of the United Guilds and now occupied by the Master of the Hospital. The courtyard is decorated with heraldic symbols of families linked to the Hospityal, including the Bear and Ragged Staff emblem of the Earls of Warwick and the porcupine symbol of the Sidney family.
When Robert Dudley died without an heir in 1588 he left his property to his nephew, Sir Philip Sidney, the famous Elizabethan soldier poet. Look for another Sidney emblem, the broad-headed arrow, used to identify Government property since the time when Henry Sidney, Earl of Romney, was Master General of the Ordnance.
One one side of the Courtyard a stair leads to the Guildhall, built around 1450 by Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, known to history as 'The Kingmaker'. At the centre of the chamber is the original table where Guild members conducted business, and the chair used by James I when he dined in the Great Hall in 1617. Part of the guildhall now houses a museum of the Queen's Own Hussars regiment. A large part of the regimental museum is housed in the former Chaplain's Dining Room off the main hall.
Below the Guildhall is the former Brethren's Kitchen, now a popular cafe. Bethren cooked and ate meals here until 1966. One one wall is a framed copy of Robert Dudley's will, and beside it is a piece of embroidery by his first wife, Amy Robsart.
In 1560 Robsart was discovered dead at the bottom of a staircase at Cumnor Hall in Oxfordshire, and there were whispers that Dudley himself had her killed so that he would be free to marry Queen Elizabeth I. Beside the will and emroidery is a large oak cupboard thought to have once belonged to Elizabeth I and been brought here from Kenilworth Castle.
Beyond the Brethren's Kitchen is a small knot garden and a passage leading to the Master's Garden, a delightful garden area ringed with hedges, planted by the wife of a former Master. In one corner is a two-storey summerhouse offering wonderful views across the garden below.
Lord Leycester's Hospital is a delight to visit; it is one of the best-preserved and most enjoyable timber-framed buildings in England.
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About Lord Leycester's Hospital
Address: 60 High Street, Warwick, Warwickshire, England, CV34 4BH
Attraction Type: Historic Building
Location: At the west end of High Street, just inside the medieval West Gate
Website: Lord Leycester's Hospital
Email: info@lordleycester.com
OS: SP2864
Photo Credit: David Ross and Britain Express
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I don't understand how it's made, maybe some enemies hiding over the ceiling? How can I use this mechanic?

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Students Shine on Runway at Sold-out Fashion Show
April 28, 2010 by Zach Jones
Reprinted from the Harker Quarterly March 2010 issue
The seventh annual Harker Fashion Show in February was another glamorous spectacle that put on fantastic display the many parts of the greater whole that is Harker. Titled "Outside the Box: Chic and Unique," this year's sold-out event was a celebration of Harker's uniqueness as a school, creatively highlighting the various academic programs and activities in which its students are involved.
Funds raised by the event are put toward scholarships for qualified students needing financial aid and to the Capital
Campaign, which provides students with the ideal facilities to maximize their Harker experience. The final total of funds raised by the fashion show will be announced on Harker News Online in April.
Each portion of the runway show was themed after a different department or program, including performing arts, science, athletics and community service. Students, parents, faculty and staff strutted down the runway dressed in ensembles from fashion sponsors Macy's and Eli Thomas for Men. A special segment of the show featured Earth-friendly fashions by Priya Bhikha, Gr. 12, who assembled short and long gowns using recyclable materials such as duct tape, candy wrappers and water bottle labels.
Some amusing surprises were in store as well, such as the opening routine by a professional circus performer who handled a large metal cube and twirled his way effortlessly through a series of complex and visually striking maneuvers. Later, the robotics team wheeled out one of their creations onto the runway during a highly entertaining sequence. Not to be outdone, the Harker forensics team put on a humorous mock debate to decide whether Harker was more "chic" or "unique."
The show also had exciting performances by Dance Fusion, a Gr. 4-6 group directed by Gail Palmer; the upper school's Downbeat, co-directed by Catherine Snider and Lang-Ree; and pre-show entertainment from Chris Florio's Jazz Band and Laura Rae's Varsity Dance Troupe. The show featured a total of 85 student performers.
The fashion show took place in two phases, a luncheon and a dinner event. The evening portion of the show featured dancing and the ever-popular live auction, which sold everything from a helicopter ride above Silicon Valley to a night at the Emmy awards to an American Kennel Club-certified black Labrador puppy. Dennis Baldwin Interiors, Concierge Du Cuisine, Chelsea Court Designs, Omesha Eternal Elegance, Inc. and Miller Design Company designed this year's showcases, which were won in drawings at the luncheon and evening shows.
"I feel complete," said fashion show co-chair Christine Davis, whose son, Cole, graduates this year. This year's fashion show, witnessed by nearly 1,300 people, was her last as a co-chair. "It's bittersweet, but it's mostly sweet," she later added.
Davis partnered with co-chair Marcia Riedel (Randall, Gr. 9; Hunter, Gr. 6) and a team of liaisons led by Sue Prutton, director of upper school volunteer programs, to put together the massive event. Davis and Riedel founded the fashion show more than seven years ago, when they first came up with the idea during a game of tennis. Since then, it has evolved into one of the school's two largest fundraisers (the Family & Alumni Picnic is the other).
The impressive design and execution of the show was largely the work of K-Gr. 12 performing arts director Laura Lang-Ree, who directed nearly every detail of the show as it happened, including video screen slides, skits, and lighting and musical cues. Meanwhile, producer Beverly Zeiss brought the fashion aspect to life, directing clothes choices, choreographing the models and handling backstage management.
"The fashion show has always been a tremendous fundraising event for the school, but in addition to that it gives us an opportunity to show the world what we can do," Prutton said. "Our emphasis on telling the Harker story in the past three fashion shows has proven to be incredibly popular."
Students who participated as models said the fashion show presented an opportunity to get involved in a fun and exciting way. "I just like hanging out with my friends and doing this," said model Danielle Buis, Gr. 12. "It was just cool to see how we come together as a community."
Veronica Hsieh, Gr. 12, also served as a model in her freshman year and said she enjoyed being a part of the show "because the entire school's involved. It's fun to all be part of the Harker community, to see all ages."
Nearly 200 students took an active and highly important role in this year's event, modeling on the runway, greeting attendees, acting as hosts and hostesses and performing in one of the performing arts groups.
After the show, Riedel reflected on how the event had grown since its inception. "I really enjoyed the way that having this event has just brought Harker so much more outside of the Harker community," she said. "I have people walking up to me and saying, 'I wish I knew about Harker before this so my kids could go there,' or, 'This is where my kids are going to go to school.'"
This year, 92 committee members, all of them parents, came together to make sure the fashion show lived up to the reputation that it has established. Whether they are securing sponsors, selling tickets or decorating the interiors, parent involvement has always been a crucial part of ensuring the event meets an increasingly high standard. Each
aspect of the fashion show had a different parent committee chair to manage the many parts of the event that make it such a memorable experience. Committee chairs were: Sangeeta Balram, Noela Nakos, Heather Wardenburg, Debbie Buss, Mary Malysz, Minoo Gupta, Michelle Maxey, Lana Kipnis, Leslie Nielsen, Debbie Hutchings, Ingrid Semenza, Maria Lu, Sathya Thyagaraj, Tina Najibi, Barb Chappell, Ram Duraiswamy, Susan Ellenberg, Lalitha Kumar, Shankari Sundar, Naren Nayak, Barbara Drummer, Shyamoli Banerjee, Archana Sathaye, Mariko Creasman and Betsy Lindars.
Najibi (Alexander, Gr. 10; Mary, Gr. 6) has been involved with the fashion show since its founding and served as model coordinator for this year's event. She said the schoolwide nature of the fashion show makes it a great event for parents to network. "When my kids were in lower school and middle school, I met upper school parents, and I got hints on what kinds of clubs to join, what kinds of things to do, that I would not have gotten had I not volunteered for the fashion show," she said.
Following the fashion show, Chris Nikoloff, head of school, thanked all involved for their months of hard work: "Sitting in the audience, as the Harker story unfolded before us throughout the evening, I was overcome with gratitude for the unique community we all share and help create."
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These four wines were the only wines that we submitted from our portfolio.
We're used to tectonic shifts here in the Bay Area, and one wine-related shift recently hit Sonoma. Robert Parker, famed wine critic who has been both lauded and villainized for his impact on the wine industry due to his influential wine scores, has handed over the Sonoma tasting/scoring reins to Lisa Perrotti-Brown, current Editor-in-Chief for Robert Parker's Wine Advocate. Because we primarily sell our wines directly to people we've met and poured for in person, scores don't play as important a role in our success as they do to other wineries that depend on retail distribution. And as we've always communicated, you shouldn't purchase wines on scores, but rather make decisions based upon your individualized taste. Nonetheless, we care about scores because they are a barometer of how we're doing in the eyes of qualified critics. Lisa Perrotti-Brown is massively qualified, and it will be interesting to watch how her tastes align with, or are different from, Robert Parker's, and what impact that may have on the broader US wine industry. We were very pleased with our first pass in front of Lisa, which garnered our highest Wine Advocate rating to date and some complementary words on the value of our wine.
Pale to medium ruby purple colored, the 2014 Serendipity Block Pinot Noir reveals some whole cluster on the nose with stemmy/sappy notes over a core of black cherries, pomegranate and black raspberries, plus hints of mossy bark and underbrush. Medium to full-bodied, with tons of expressive black and red berry flavors complimented by earth and herbal notes, it has a solid backbone of grainy tannins and lively acid, finishing long and layered.
The 2015 Estate Sauvignon Blanc spent four months in 50% neutral French oak with the other 50% in stainless steel. It is therefore a relatively restrained style with less of the overt vegetable and herbal characters, and more of a honeyed stone fruit and the lemon curd character with some grapefruit in the background. The medium-bodied palate has a nice satiny texture and plenty of citrus flavors with the faintest suggestion of herbs coming through on the long, honey-laced finish. Great value!
We bottled our upcoming release of wines on February 23rd and are just now trying them for the first time. We are very excited about our first-ever bottling of Grenache. Grenache (or Garnacha) got its start in southern Spain, before migrating to southern France and up to the southern Rhone where it famously became the primary grape for Châteauneuf-du-Pape bottlings. Now one of the most widely planted varietals in the world, Grenache has found many welcome homes. Grenache is generally a warmer climate grape. We've mentioned in the past how Syrah is on the edge of getting ripe at our Sonoma Mountain site. Grenache is even more of a nail biter. The style of Grenache we prefer is nuanced and high toned, not big and boozy. By employing meticulous viticulture practices and very low yields, we are able to get our Grenache to the perfect level of ripeness to create a very distinct wine. The only problem is, that our first effort produced only a mere 45 cases. This will be allocated as wine-club only upon first release.
Beyond the introduction to our first Grenache, It's been fun to taste the common thread each bottling holds from prior vintages. They all have their characteristics that make them, like family members, recognizable. We are still working to tease out what exactly defines this latest set of wines. The majority of them come from the 2015 harvest, which was the most distinct of any vintage in our young life as a winery. Due to a cool wet period during that year's spring flowering, we had what is called "shatter" in the clusters. Shatter is when weather disrupts the pollination of a meaningful portion of each grape cluster's flowers. In turn, those flowers don't become berries. In some cases (Serendipity Block), shatter reduced our yield to one third of normal. The good news is that shatter concentrates the vine's efforts on fewer berries and can result in very high quality wines. The 2015 Belden Barns wines have a depth and seriousness unique from prior vintages and, as always, are just plain yummy. We can't wait to hear what you think.
Burn Cottage (Central Otago) – Established on a 70-acre farmstead with 28 acres of grapes, Burn cottage shares a vision with Belden Barns of chickens, sheep, traditional vegetable crops, and beehives in co-existence with wine making. Teamed with Ted Lemon of Sonoma based Littorai wines, and just three vintages older than Belden Barns, Burn Cottage first released wines in 2009. While we weren't necessarily blown away in general by the Pinot Noirs we encountered in New Zealand, the Burn Cottage "Moonlight Race" Pinot Noir truly left an impression, and reminded us of our own Serendipity Block. Our affinity for this label was enhanced when we learned that they too were using some Grüner Veltliner in their mix, in this case to produce a Grüner/Riesling blend that we found quite tasty.
Rippon Vineyard (Central Otago) – Sitting above the stunning Lake Wanaka with a view of New Zealand's southern "alps," we have to admit that Rippon could make a strong argument for owning one of the world's most beautiful winery settings. First planted to some initial vine experiments in 1975, the Mills family planted out their first commercial blocks in the early 1980's, and had their first commercial release late in that decade. Like many stops we made in New Zealand, the white wines were what stood out to us at Rippon. An old vine Riesling was one of the best Rieslings we've ever tasted.
Neudorf Vineyards (Nelson) – The Nelson area has a laid back vibe with rolling hills of vineyards planted amongst apple orchards, hops, and sheep farms. Established in the late 1970's, in a converted 1850's era stable, Neudorf is one of New Zealand's oldest wineries, and also one of its most well respected. Producing only 14,000 cases, Neudorf's reputation reaches much further than its production. Because Nelson sits a little further north, their Pinot gets a touch more ripe resulting in added depth and complexity. Yet again, the whites were what really stood out here. In particular, their Chardonnay, a varietal that doesn't get a lot of love in NZ, was absolutely beautiful. Paired with sheep cheese made three kilometers up the road – we couldn't have asked for a better way to enjoy the afternoon.
Cloudy Bay (Marlborough) – Marlborough was the "Napa" of our New Zealand experience. Large, often ornate hospitality spaces plopped in a valley of manicured grape vines. Lauren has a soft spot for Cloudy Bay, as it was her family's go-to for celebratory events. We weren't necessarily planning on visiting, but a trip to another winery brought us to Cloudy Bay's entrance and we decided "why not?" We were happy we made the stop. Of course, we tasted the ubiquitous flagship Sauvignon Blanc that you can find most anywhere, and it was good as expected. But we also tasted the same flagship wine aged 10 years in bottle, and it was divine. Throw in a couple of small lot pinot noirs, and we had a very memorable stay.
Hanz Herzog (Marlborough) – No winery we visited on our trip reminded us more of Belden Barns than Hanz Herzog. Successful wine producers and Michelin-starred restaurant proprietors in their native Switzerland, Hans and Therese Herzog were looking for another challenge and a place to grow warmer climate varietals than Zurich allowed. That search led them to New Zealand where they've built a great reputation for serious, hand-crafted wines. In an apple orchard converted to a vineyard in 1996, Herzog works with 29 different grape varieties to produce less than 3,000 cases of wine (and you thought we were crazy!). What stood out to us was the individuality of each wine. Set amongst a sea of Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc, the Herzog's take is very, very different. Picked at the riper end of the spectrum, with extended lees contact and the allowance of Malolactic fermentation over 15 months of barrel age, this was a different animal and possibly the most memorable wine of our entire trip. The food produced at the estate was equally scrumptious and the entire experience is highly recommended.
For our 2016 Rosé, we decided to use screwcap closures. As a young winery, we're always experimenting in small (and sometimes big!) ways. The Rosé is a perfect candidate because it is built to drink immediately and after hearing how many of you enjoy it pool and seaside, we felt like the value of convenience might do this wine a service. We want to hear what you think, so let us know if you prefer to use a corkscrew or simply twist off a cap.
Jenny & Vince Trotter are continuing to developing the farmstead at Belden Barns. While weather has delayed spring planting, more permanent farmstead crops have been getting their due. If blossom count is any barometer, we'll be seeing a large jump in apple production this year (we're hoping to have enough to do an experimental cider batch). We were delighted to have asparagus grown on site join the mix at our first-ever winemaker dinners hosted by 18 Reasons in San Francisco this spring, which highlighted the highly talented Michaela Rahorst who recently took sabbatical from being Chef de Cuisine at Frances. On Cinco de Mayo, we will have more of Jenny and Vince's farming efforts highlighted as The Spinster Sisters restaurant in Santa Rosa hosts a Belden Barns Spotlight Dinner. If you're interested in joining, make reservations soon - each of the 18 Reasons dinners sold out within 24 hours!
Our newsletters regularly highlight how weather can impact our wine grapes, but the farmstead efforts get their fair share of ups and downs via Mother Nature as well. Many of you have enjoyed pantry goods produced on site by Jenny and Vince. Two of those items involve corn: Floriani Red Flint corn used to mill into polenta, and a special variety of popping corn. Each of these varietals is distinct and, if grown near each other, can cross pollinate, which creates a not so tasty hybrid. So, they are planted at different times in the season to avoid a period when both are pollinating at the same time. Unfortunately, the later planted popcorn did not get to maturity before the rains made their appearance in the fall of 2016. As a result, no popcorn this year. Further, the damp weather has delayed the drying of the polenta corn, which delays its milling. All lessons to be learned and issues to be mitigated as we improve our knowledge and infrastructure on site to provide healthy, great-tasting produce.
As most of you know, we have experienced an absolute drenching in Northern California this year – we're talking record level precipitation. Though our particular water situation at Belden Barns has been relatively neutral during the drought due to our rain catchment reservoir, for the sake of California, we do love to see as much winter rain as can safely fall prior to the stage of the vines flowering (when rain can have an adverse effect on pollination, which happened in 2015). Many of you have asked if the vines are at all damaged by all of this water – some of those inquiries coming after seeing a widely distributed picture showing Russian River vines submerged during one particularly large storm.
Because vines are dormant in the winter, the fact that they've been inundated by, and in some cases submerged by, water doesn't really impact them. A high spring water table will add to a vine's vigor, which we will manage in the vineyard. The real impact of water will be felt from this moment forward. If we continue to have wet cool weather, there is a likelihood our yields will be negatively impacted via a reduced fruit set (shatter). Cool wet weather can also initiate the development of mold that can take over late in the season.
Sometimes you go on a run of good fortune, and that's been the case in regard to our recent placements of Belden Barns wines. The quality of these placements gives us such pride. All of these establishments are reaching a high bar, and more than a couple are viewed as some of the best restaurants in the entire nation.
As always, please keep us in mind when you're heading up to wine country. We love to host private tastings for six or more people, share our vision for the farmstead, give tours of our site, and have you hang a wish on our (super powerful) Wishing Tree. For those of you who are wine club members - Spring Shipment selection emails will be coming your way shortly!


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20613 Zip Code (Baden, MD) Detailed Profile
Cities: Baden, MD (31.12%), Brandywine, MD (27.40%), Cedarville, MD (17.39%), Croom, MD (9.18%), Aquasco, MD (3.35%), Accokeek, MD (3.26%), Rosaryville, MD (0.56%)
Counties: Prince George's County, MD (92.27%), Charles County, MD (7.73%)
Zip code population in 2000: 8,266
Renter-occupied apartments: 514
March 2019 cost of living index in zip code 20613: 139.2 (high, U.S. average is 100)
Land area: 75.6 sq. mi.
Population density: 189 people per square mile
(very low).
Graduate or professional degree: 10.8%
Divorced: 9.5%
Black race population percentage above state average.
Median age above state average.
Renting percentage significantly below state average.
Number of rooms per house above state average.
6,78682.1%Black
4,04448.9%White
4054.9%Hispanic or Latino
1862.3%Asian
1061.3%American Indian
80.10%Some other race
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Urban population: 2,664
Rural population: 11,658
Estimated median house/condo value in 2017: $393,367
According to our research of Maryland and other state lists, there were 18 registered sex offenders living in 20613 zip code as of January 18, 2020.
The ratio of registered sex offenders to all residents in this zip code is near the state average.
Maryland median age:
(% of AGI for various income ranges: 0.1% for AGIs below $25k, 0.2% for AGIs $100k-200k, 2.0% for AGIs over 200k)
(% of AGI for various income ranges: 4.7% for AGIs below $25k, 0.4% for AGIs $75k-100k, 1.9% for AGIs over 200k)
Taxes paid: $10,468 (reported on 59.4% of returns)
(% of AGI for various income ranges: 120.5% for AGIs below $10k, 73.5% for AGIs $10k-25k, 83.7% for AGIs $25k-50k, 85.4% for AGIs $50k-75k, 84.2% for AGIs $75k-100k, 75.6% for AGIs over 100k)
Net capital gain/loss: +$11,291 (reported on 12.4% of returns)
(% of AGI for various income ranges: 0.2% for AGIs $10k-25k, 0.1% for AGIs $25k-50k, 0.1% for AGIs $50k-75k, 0.1% for AGIs $75k-100k, 0.1% for AGIs over 100k)
Self-employed pension: $10,792 (reported on 0.5% of returns)
(% of AGI for various income ranges: 3.2% for AGIs below $10k, 4.5% for AGIs $10k-25k, 6.4% for AGIs $25k-50k, 8.0% for AGIs $50k-75k, 9.0% for AGIs $75k-100k, 14.0% for AGIs over 100k)
Earned income credit: $1,553 (reported on 9.1% of returns)
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Household received Food Stamps/SNAP in the past 12 months: 215
Women who had a birth in the past 12 months: 178 (117 now married, 60 unmarried)
Housing units in zip code 20613 with a mortgage: 3,409 (180 second mortgage, 275 home equity loan, 7 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 793
Notable locations in zip code 20613: Good Fortune Farm (A), Prince Georges County Fire / EMS Company 836 Baden Volunteer Fire Department (B), Prince Georges County Fire / EMS Company 840 Brandywine Volunteer Fire Department (C), Romano Vineyard and Winery (D), Baden Branch Library (E), Baden Branch Prince George's County Memorial Library (F). Display/hide their locations on the map
Churches in zip code 20613 include: Brandywine Bible Church (A), Cedarville Assembly of God Church (B), Chapel of the Incarnation (C), Union Bethel Church (D), Ashbury Church (E), Brandywine Church (F), Gibbons Church (G), Immanuel Church (H), Saint Michael Church (I). Display/hide their locations on the map
Cemeteries: McKendree Cemetery (1), Saint Pauls Cemetery (2), Immanuel Cemetery (3), Grace Cemetery (4), Church of the Atonement Cemetery (5), Cheltenham Veterans Cemetery (6). Display/hide their locations on the map
Lake: Lake Ruth (A). Display/hide its location on the map
Streams, rivers, and creeks: Black Swamp Creek (A), Rock Creek (B), Burch Branch (C), Butler Branch (D), Full Mill Branch (E), Spice Creek (F), Tanyard Branch (G), Timothy Branch (H), Tom Walls Branch (I). Display/hide their locations on the map
Parks in zip code 20613 include: Cheltenham Acres Recreation Area (1), Brandywine Area Recreation Area (2). Display/hide their locations on the map
3081939 or earlier
Bedrooms in owner-occupied houses and condos in Baden, MD (20613)
241 bedroom
Bedrooms in renter-occupied apartments in Baden, MD (20613)
01 bedroom
694 bedrooms
Cars and other vehicles available in Baden, MD (20613) in owner-occupied houses/condos
63no vehicle
6791 vehicle
4695+ vehicles
Cars and other vehicles available in Baden, MD (20613) in renter-occupied apartments
6$10,000 to $14,999
1,287$300,000 to $399,999
10$2,000,000 or more
4$450 to $499
Median gross rent in 2017: $1,424.
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses and condos in 2017: $607,915.
White Non-Hispanic householders: $400,568
Black or African American householders: $391,380
American Indian or Alaska Native householders: $419,193
Some other race householders: $442,289
Two or more races householders: $417,703
Hispanic or Latino householders: $1,024,392
Estimated median house or condo value in 2017: $393,367
Lower value quartile - upper value quartile: $283,098 - $488,513
Detached houses: $319,235
In 2-unit structures: $633,243
In 3-to-4-unit structures: $389,015
Occupied boats, RVs, vans, etc.: $68,254
3 or 4: 4
5 to 9: 15
10 to 19: 9
0.5%39Bus or trolley bus
0.5%38Streetcar or trolley car
5.6%433Subway or elevated
765 to 9 minutes
45290 or more minutes
In nonfamily households: 1,448 (618 male householders (464 living alone)), 506 female householders (432 living alone)), 324 nonrelatives
In group quarters: 4 (34 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,219 2-persons, 1,022 3-persons, 664 4-persons, 526 5-persons, 131 6-persons, 30 7-or-more-persons
Size of nonfamily households: 895 1-person, 181 2-persons, 47 3-persons
414 single-parent households (124 men, 290 women).
3.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (62% very well, 12% well, 26% not well).
0.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (63% very well, 37% well).
2.5% of residents speak other language at home (94% very well, 6% well).
10%Nigeria
9%Liberia
8%Ghana
8%Costa Rica
7%Japan
6%Haiti
6%Burma
2%African
2%Sierra Leonean
1%German
1%Nigerian
902010 or later
Major facilities with environmental interests located in this zip code:
PANDA BRANDYWINE LIMITED PARTNERSHIP (16400 MATTAWOMAN DRIVE in BRANDYWINE, MD)
AIR MAJOR (AIRS/AFS)
AIR PROGRAM (Clean Air Markets Division Business System)
STATE MASTER (Maryland Permits tracking) - NPDES STORMWATER PERMIT, OIL CONTROL
STATE MASTER (Maryland Air Emissions Database) - AIR MAJOR
CRITERIA AND HAZARDOUS AIR POLLUTANT INVENTORY (Inventory of air pollution sources)
AIR MAJOR ("Best Available" air pollution technologies tracking)
Large Quantity Generators, more that 1000 kg of hazardous waste/month (Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (tracking hazardous waste)) - notification
Business SIC classification: ELECTRIC SERVICES
Business NAICS classification: FOSSIL FUEL ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION.
Organizations: PANDA-BRANDYWINE LP (CONTACT/GENERAL) , OGDEN POWER CORPORATION (CONTACT/OPERATOR) , PANDA BRANDYWINE, LP (CONTACT/OPERATOR) , PANDA GLOBAL SERVICES (CONTACT/OPERATOR) , OGDEN POWER CORPORATION (CONTACT/OWNER) , PANDA BRANDYWINE, LP (CONTACT/OWNER) , PANDA GLOBAL SERVICES (CONTACT/OWNER) , PANDA BRANDYWINE, L.P. (CONTACT/OWNER)
Alternative names: COGENERATION FACILITY , PANDA BRANDYWINE, L.P., PANDA BRANDYWINE LP, PANDA-BRANDYWINE
BRANDYWINE AUTO SALES (14105 BRADYWINE in BRANDYWINE, MD)
STATE MASTER (Maryland Air Emissions Database) - AIR MINOR
Business SIC classification: TOP, BODY, AND UPHOLSTERY REPAIR SHOPS AND PAINT SHOPS
Organizations: OPERNAME (CONTACT/OPERATOR)
MOBIL - 14330 S.E. CRAIN HIGHWAY (14330 CRAIN HIGHWY, S.E. in BRANDYWINE, MD)
Business SIC classification: GASOLINE SERVICE STATIONS
Alternative names: MOBIL GASOLINE STATION, TB SERVICE STATION - 14330 CRAIN HWY, TB SERVICE STATION (MOBIL)-CRAIN HWY
7-ELEVEN #32240 (16400 CRAIN HIGHWAY SOUTHEAST in BRANDYWINE, MD)
Business SIC classification: GROCERY STORES
Organizations: THE SOUTHLAND CORPORATION (CONTACT/OWNER)
Alternative names: 7-11 STORE - 16400 CRAIN HIGHWAY,S.E
A.H. SMITH - BRANDYWINE (12401 CRAIN HIGHWAY SOUTH in BRANDYWINE, MD)
STATE MASTER (Maryland Permits tracking) - National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Permit
Business SIC classification: ASPHALT PAVING MIXTURES AND BLOCKS
Alternative names: REDLAND GENSTAR - BRANDYWINE, SMITH, A.H. - BRANDYWINE #2
BEST PRINTERS (14106 BRANDYWINE ROAD in BRANDYWINE, MD)
Business SIC classification: COMMERCIAL PRINTING
BRANDYWINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (14101 BRANDYWINE ROAD in BRANDYWINE, MD)
Business SIC classification: ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS
CEDARVILLE/ MANNING FISH HATCH (SUNSET ROAD-CEDARVILLE FOREST in BRANDYWINE, MD)
STATE MASTER (Maryland Permits tracking) - NPDES NON-MAJOR
Business SIC classification: FISH HATCHERIES AND PRESERVES
Alternative names: CEDARVILLE/ MANNING FISH HATCHERY, CEDARVILLE/MANNING STATE FISH, JOSEPH H.MANNING HATCHERY, JOSEPH MANNING H. HATCHERY
MCKENNAS AUTO BODY (14212 BRANDYWINE ROAD in BRANDYWINE, MD)
Alternative names: MCKENNA S AUTO BODY
MIRANT BRANDYWINE FLYASH SITE (11700 NORTH KEYS ROAD in BRANDYWINE, MD)
Business SIC classification: REFUSE SYSTEMS
Alternative names: POTOMAC ELECTRIC-BRANDYWINE
BADEN ELEMENTARY (13601 BADEN WESTWOOD RD in BRANDYWINE, MD)
Organizations: PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS (SCHOOL DISTRICT)
BRANDYWINE ELEMENTARY (14101 BRANDYWINE RD in BRANDYWINE, MD)
ATLAS PONTIAC GMC (15113 CRAIN HWY RD 301 in BRANDYWINE, MD)
Organizations: ROBERT J WAGTDUICZ (CONTACT/OPERATOR) , WAGTOVICS ROBERT J (CONTACT/OWNER)
21.3%Fuel oil, kerosene, etc.
1.9%Wood
0.7%Solar energy
0.6%Other fuel
Population in 1990: 7,627. Population change in the 1990s: +639 (+8.4%).
This state: 5,227
Northeast: 1,309
Midwest: 556
Out of people who lived in different counties, 50% lived in Maryland.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 12% moved from different state.
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 213
111,681Law enforcement workers including supervisors
101,343Management occupations
98,699Computer and mathematical occupations
79,184Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations
Companies with federal contracts located in this zip code:
SPECTRUM CERTIFICATION SOLUTIO (12800 HEATHERWICK COURT in BRANDYWINE, MD; small business) : $559,001 in 6 contracts from 2003 to 2004
Contracts for Program Management/Support Services, ADP Systems Development Services by Air Force
Signed by year: 2000: $0; 2001: $0; 2002: $0; 2003: $311,145; 2004: $247,856; 2005: $0; 2006: $0.
Biggest contracts:
$123,928 with Air Force for Program Management/Support Services. Taking place in TX. Signed on 2004-10-01. Completion date: 2005-09-30.
$123,928 with Air Force for ADP Systems Development Services. Taking place in TX. Signed on 2004-09-20. Completion date: 2005-09-28.
$118,245, same as above. Signed on 2003-10-01. Completion date: 2004-09-30.
FAITH TRAVEL NETWORK (1221 BRANDYWINE in BRANDYWINE, MD; small business)
3 employees, $190000 revenue. : $403,550 in 5 contracts from 2001 to 2003
Contracts for Logistics Support Services by National Institutes of Health
Signed by year: 2000: $0; 2001: $185,000; 2002: $138,000; 2003: $80,550; 2004: $0; 2005: $0; 2006: $0.
$100,000 with National Institutes of Health for Logistics Support Services. Signed on 2001-03-15. Completion date: 2001-10-15.
$90,000 with National Institutes of Health for Logistics Support Services. Taking place in TN. Signed on 2002-04-15. Completion date: 2002-09-15.
$85,000 with National Institutes of Health for Logistics Support Services. Signed on 2001-02-15. Completion date: 2001-06-15.
THE PIE GROUP, POST INSTALLATI (16101 BALD EAGLE SCHOOL RO in BRANDYWINE, MD; small business) : $120,825 in 3 contracts from 1999 to 2000
$51,625 with Air Force for Maintenance, Repair and Rebuilding of Equipment -- Musical Instruments, Phonographs, and Home-Type Radios. Taking place in DC. Signed on 2000-10-24. Completion date: 2001-10-23.
$25,000 with Army for ADP Facility Operation and Maintenance Services. Signed on 2000-05-09. Completion date: 2000-06-09.
AMERICAN SANITATION ( in 3611 FLORAL PARK R, MD; small business) : $52,399 in 6 contracts from 1999 to 2004
Contracts for Other Housekeeping Services, by Navy, Federal Law Enforcement Training Center
Signed by year: 2000: $0; 2001: $8,609; 2002: $0; 2003: $0; 2004: $1,040; 2005: $0; 2006: $0.
$42,750 with Navy for Other Housekeeping Services. Signed on 1999-10-01. Completion date: 2000-09-30.
$8,380, same as above. Signed on 2001-10-30. Completion date: 2002-01-31.
$1,040 with Federal Law Enforcement Training Center for . Signed on 2004-09-24. Effective on 2004-10-01. Completion date: 2005-09-30.
$287 with Navy for Other Housekeeping Services. Signed on 2001-12-01. Completion date: 2002-01-31.
REGIONAL ELECTRICAL CONTRS (14160 BRANDYWINE RD in BRANDYWINE, MD; small business) : $47,894 in 8 contracts from 2000 to 2005
Contracts for Miscellaneous Items, Electric Services, Maintenance, Repair or Alteration of Real Property -- Office Buildings by Army, Public Buildings Service
Signed by year: 2000: $3,000; 2001: $0; 2002: $0; 2003: $0; 2004: $0; 2005: $44,894; 2006: $0.
$10,382 with Army for Miscellaneous Items. Signed on 2005-04-29. Completion date: 2005-03-11.
$8,480 with Army for Electric Services. Signed on 2005-05-26. Completion date: 2005-06-13.
$5,995 with Army for Miscellaneous Items. Signed on 2005-04-06. Completion date: 2005-03-11.
wilbur washington (11725 REDWOOD DRIVE in EAST BRANDYWINE, MD; small business)
$33,600 with U.S. Marshals Service for Guard Services. Taking place in DC. Signed on 2003-10-01. Completion date: 2004-09-30.
ACTION ROOFING & HOME IMPROVEM (4203 FLORAL PARK ROAD in BRANDYWINE, MD; small business) : $23,645 in 3 contracts from 2000 to 2001
$22,500 with Navy for Maintenance, Repair or Alteration of Real Property -- Government-Owned Government-Operated (GOGO) R&D Facilities. Taking place in DC. Signed on 2000-10-01. Completion date: 2000-11-03.
$795, same as above. Signed on 2001-04-20. Completion date: 2000-11-03.
AIR ENGINEERS, INC (15508 CRAIN HWY in BRANDYWINE, MD; small business)
$9,860 with Navy for Maintenance, Repair or Alteration of Real Property -- Office Buildings. Taking place in VA. Signed on 2001-10-01. Completion date: 2001-10-19.
AMISH CRAFTSMEN MAIN (13708 BRANDYWINE RD in BRANDYWINE, MD; small business)
$7,664 with Army for Prefabricated and Portable Buildings. Signed on 2002-09-26. Completion date: 2002-11-08.
Construction: Electrical Contractors (100-249 employees: 1 establishment, 20-49 employees: 1 establishment, 10-19 employees: 1 establishment, 5-9 employees: 2 establishments, 1-4 employees: 1 establishment)
Mining: Construction Sand and Gravel Mining (50-99: 1, 20-49: 1)
Other Services (except Public Administration): Religious Organizations (20-49: 1, 5-9: 2, 1-4: 4)
Construction: Plumbing, Heating, and Air-Conditioning Contractors (20-49: 1, 5-9: 2)
Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services: Landscaping Services (20-49: 1, 5-9: 1, 1-4: 1)
Wholesale Trade: Motor Vehicle Parts (Used) Merchant Wholesalers (20-49: 1, 5-9: 1)
2 people in group homes intended for adults
70 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
11 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
11 people in hospices or homes for chronically ill
10 people in homes for the mentally retarded
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LOANS ORIGINATED 259 $390,718 193 $362,009 478 $284,743 77 $102,908 42 $274,642 8 $51,073
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FILES CLOSED FOR INCOMPLETENESS 5 $420,362 23 $376,257 60 $352,918 5 $178,916 3 $214,220 0 $0
LOANS ORIGINATED 34 $335,177 579 $319,801 1,179 $305,544 173 $120,029 64 $237,435 11 $77,916
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FILES CLOSED FOR INCOMPLETENESS 0 $0 31 $406,916 210 $361,560 11 $241,289 3 $241,563 0 $0
LOANS ORIGINATED 16 $305,466 1,150 $276,304 1,832 $294,756 226 $135,488 125 $227,529 16 $55,542
APPLICATIONS APPROVED, NOT ACCEPTED 0 $0 176 $289,574 305 $301,985 57 $117,873 19 $194,857 8 $62,581
APPLICATIONS DENIED 1 $186,750 348 $303,409 1,040 $347,305 225 $167,996 33 $274,591 6 $68,137
APPLICATIONS WITHDRAWN 2 $242,650 241 $275,539 752 $317,534 47 $253,783 30 $235,172 0 $0
FILES CLOSED FOR INCOMPLETENESS 0 $0 48 $297,547 216 $327,347 8 $303,828 11 $236,485 1 $125,640
LOANS ORIGINATED 22 $281,770 1,264 $251,151 1,996 $275,691 245 $122,131 0 $0 82 $206,541 10 $63,060
APPLICATIONS APPROVED, NOT ACCEPTED 3 $224,053 145 $239,875 280 $268,251 61 $115,789 0 $0 16 $188,486 5 $42,578
APPLICATIONS DENIED 12 $280,082 295 $243,878 930 $290,655 218 $103,175 0 $0 47 $198,499 17 $47,648
APPLICATIONS WITHDRAWN 5 $267,936 164 $272,665 719 $278,983 82 $226,973 1 $266,360 25 $208,330 2 $24,190
FILES CLOSED FOR INCOMPLETENESS 0 $0 34 $277,346 185 $276,598 15 $104,981 0 $0 11 $233,778 0 $0
LOANS ORIGINATED 176 $238,340 1,273 $218,600 1,364 $226,775 148 $92,501 87 $172,202 16 $39,658
APPLICATIONS APPROVED, NOT ACCEPTED 2 $154,560 119 $252,231 235 $197,706 44 $56,407 14 $139,141 2 $75,625
APPLICATIONS DENIED 30 $224,552 268 $207,511 620 $219,540 160 $63,633 44 $179,250 16 $52,239
APPLICATIONS WITHDRAWN 9 $197,791 128 $233,019 499 $225,103 29 $95,649 31 $162,756 0 $0
FILES CLOSED FOR INCOMPLETENESS 8 $229,465 16 $271,629 112 $223,283 8 $48,406 5 $217,512 0 $0
LOANS ORIGINATED 151 $225,788 637 $211,484 1,781 $177,552 99 $41,424 63 $114,883
APPLICATIONS APPROVED, NOT ACCEPTED 6 $208,403 60 $188,585 252 $177,716 40 $40,339 6 $175,413
APPLICATIONS DENIED 12 $207,037 120 $172,521 587 $176,232 98 $31,292 26 $134,570
APPLICATIONS WITHDRAWN 13 $204,151 75 $206,580 462 $175,476 12 $49,121 21 $150,178
FILES CLOSED FOR INCOMPLETENESS 6 $200,015 23 $242,005 75 $211,859 5 $220,204 5 $113,302
(Based on 2 partial tracts)
LOANS ORIGINATED 7 $212,253 35 $188,817 98 $182,855 4 $30,660
APPLICATIONS APPROVED, NOT ACCEPTED 1 $133,070 3 $154,373 11 $150,191 1 $33,670
APPLICATIONS DENIED 0 $0 1 $234,670 23 $176,073 3 $35,337
APPLICATIONS WITHDRAWN 1 $118,840 2 $141,180 20 $187,845 0 $0
FILES CLOSED FOR INCOMPLETENESS 0 $0 0 $0 2 $249,700 0 $0
LOANS ORIGINATED 7 $189,579 28 $179,050 74 $161,652 6 $26,553 1 $72,140
APPLICATIONS APPROVED, NOT ACCEPTED 0 $0 2 $138,575 7 $143,944 2 $28,755 0 $0
APPLICATIONS DENIED 0 $0 2 $226,050 19 $148,264 5 $34,630 0 $0
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APPLICATIONS APPROVED, NOT ACCEPTED 0 $0 3 $169,607 5 $122,444 2 $28,655
APPLICATIONS WITHDRAWN 2 $137,875 3 $127,253 9 $125,050 1 $114,230
FILES CLOSED FOR INCOMPLETENESS 0 $0 0 $0 2 $70,640 0 $0
Choose year: 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000
LOANS ORIGINATED 14 $324,161 11 $292,778
APPLICATIONS APPROVED, NOT ACCEPTED 8 $443,153 9 $484,837
APPLICATIONS DENIED 3 $430,657 2 $330,130
APPLICATIONS WITHDRAWN 2 $351,990 0 $0
FILES CLOSED FOR INCOMPLETENESS 1 $428,640 0 $0
LOANS ORIGINATED 50 $421,093 44 $397,490 1 $372,930
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APPLICATIONS DENIED 10 $565,428 9 $356,003 9 $452,967
FILES CLOSED FOR INCOMPLETENESS 2 $313,940 2 $385,420 1 $148,260
APPLICATIONS DENIED 0 $0 10 $464,405 1 $167,080
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Pan Sonic's Mika Vainio Dead at 53
The Finnish experimental composer worked with Suicide's Alan Vega, and also released music as Ø and Philus
Mika Vainio in 2000, photo by Hiroyuki Ito/Getty Images
Mika Vainio of experimental electronic duo Pan Sonic has died, according to Rumba and confirmed by his representatives. He was 53. A cause of death has not yet been announced. Vainio formed Pan Sonic (originally known as Panasonic) with Ilpo Väisänen in Finland in 1993. Their full-length debut, Vakio, came out in 1995; it featured original member Sami Salo, who eventually left the group. In 1998, they collaborated with Suicide's Alan Vega for Endless (released as Vainio / Väisänen / Vega). Last year, the duo shared their score for the film Atomin paluu. In addition to his work with Pan Sonic, Vainio put out many solo records under his own name, as well as under the monikers Ø and Philus. Below, see artist's reactions to Vainio's death.
Read "7 Songs Perfectly Capturing Pan Sonic's Mika Vainio" on the Pitch, and read about Pan Sonic in "The 50 Best IDM Albums of All Time."
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'We are law-abiding, bill-paying people,' UK foreign secretary says.
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson on Friday dismissed European estimates of what the U.K. owes the European Union as part of its departure from the bloc, saying "we should pay not a penny more, not a penny less, of what we think our legal obligations amount to."
Speaking to BBC Radio's Today program, Johnson explained why he said the EU could "go whistle" for the U.K.'s financial obligations, also known as the Brexit bill, which some reports put at €100 billion.
"That's not a figure I recognize," Johnson said.
Asked whether the U.K. is ready to pay a lower amount, Johnson said: "Of course we will meet our obligations. We are law-abiding, bill-paying people."
"We certainly have to meet our obligations," Johnson said, but added: "I'm not saying I accept Mr. [Michel] Barnier's interpretations of what our obligations are ... we have to meet our legal obligations as we understand them, and that's what you would expect the British government to do."
Speaking about U.S. President Donald Trump's state visit, which has been criticized by many opposition figures, Johnson said the visit is "more likely [in] 2018 than this year." Johnson also said Trump "got it totally wrong" in refusing to condemn white nationalist protesters in Charlottesville two weeks ago.
I believe the EU are waiting for a "figure that you recognise" Mr Johnson. This constructive ambiguity isn't getting the UK anywhere.
Unfortunately I am starting to believe that even if the UK said it "owed" 150Bn the EU and its supporters would just laugh and say the UK is amateur and knows nothing and the actual amount is twice as high.
At present, due to the way that the briefings are portraying the UK position (not to mention ability of the negotiators), I find it hard to see how the UK can progress without just following everything the EU says as "fact" – the EU are following a stance that they see is to their benefit, and the UK is doing likewise; the main issue in my opinion is that until the German election, and to a certain extent the conference season in the UK, the political situation cannot develop, and like it or not the pounds and pence will be a political decision otherwise legal papers would already have been produced showing exactly how much is owed.
What Britain owes should be simple enough for even the Brits to understand. First Britain needs to tell the EU how much it owes us in order to leave the Union, then we double this figure, add a couple of zeros at the end and then multiply that number by the square root of the population of Europe and then we have the amount Britain owes us. Whats hard to understand about that? it just shows the Brits are time wasters and have no intention of paying the reparations they owe.
So show us the damned bill!
The ECJ would not be the court which resolves the issue as the UK will be a third country and it would be resolved under international law in the basis of the treaties @ in particular Article 50. So essentially the British Government's legal advice & the EU's legal advice say the same thing which is that legally the U.K. Owes nothing once the UK leaves the EU. That is why the talks are structured this way to 'force' the U.K. To submit to paying or no trade talks. The EU uses threatening economies as its go to tactic to force countries to submit. The UK very sensibility is not playing ball. This is going to be interesting, as the EU cannot afford the UK to leave without an agreement.
The legal position is very simple. Payments are made into the EU on the basis of an annual fee which is determined by a number of complicated calculations, but legally it is an annual fee. The EU itself is legally not allowed to have any debts, so there are only future obligations which are all paid by EU members. The treaty states that 2 years after notification of article 50, the treaty ceases to apply. That means the annual fee ceases to apply as it derives from the treaty. Also, that is the only legal basis in the UK that funds can be paid to the EU without passing an act of parliament.
So the position when there is no deal is legally very clear, there is nothing to be paid.
The position regarding a deal situation is a purely political one, not built on any legal obligations, but built on mutual interest. So, what does the EU offer that we would not get from the no deal option in order to get €x bn? At the moment stage 1 offers absolutely nothing, so politically there is nothing to offer.
So if the EU actually wants some sort of solution to their budget problem, it will need to move to stage 2, otherwise we go nowhere and everyone looses. The EU looses the ability to help a little with the budget shortfall that they get when the second biggest contributor leaves and the UK looses some access in terms of selling services to the EU (but gains extra government revenue from tariffs from EU exports to the UK). But more importantly both the EU and UK look like idiots on the world stage because they could not come to a neighbourly agreement.
Do we have to understand that the UK will pay any bill the EU will send? Or that it will NOT pay any bill sent by the EU. Another run of Tory's destructive ambiguity, at its best.
Well, this is a quite explicit climbdown. Next step is to move away from a UK view and a EU27 view to get to a common view. That is the point of the negotiation.
That's not a figure I recognize," Johnson said.
Smart political spin. €100bn is not right. By implication, anything below €99.9bn becomes possible.
No mate it will not just pay s bill.
Where on this planet do you tell a company what you owe, they send you a bill. Otherwise there is no bill. Wake up what world do you lot love in.
Firstly your name Europe rules nothing not even itself that would be Germany.
Also do you ever have anything factual or intelligent to say or is it the same bo77oks day in day, surely you get bored of it.
@François P: let's just take the case to the ECJ and provide them with financial evidence, which is available without any doubt.
So we are from go whistle to "We certainly have to meet our obligations".
The problem here is that the EU can not move from it's position very much as it said right in the beginning in a clear and open way what it wants. That was not a tactic, that was meant as it was meant.
The British are still in an election campaign mode and moode. They can and have to move from their simplistic positions, as they can not be meant as how they were said.
What is your point here? The conflict is about what modes to apply to calculate it, as I understand, not about the final bill.
And if there was unfair playing on the side of EU he would sure mention it, but he didn't. Does Davis or anyone else?
@ Vishnou in your reply to Francois P.
This is a forum containing reader's contributions so it is worth reading and judging what other have to say.
Not sure if you're just trying to wind people up like most other people here are, but this has always been the case. Go whistle for an arbitrary 100bn, we will pay what we 'owe'. And probably more, if the conditions are right.
This has not changed, not once.
I'm not really interested in the small opinions from your small brain.
I only like what is a real win win for both parties. And sorry for my naivity, but I believe most people around Barnier are also looking for a REAL win win for EU and UK.
There were 40 leaked in the name of May, the EU spoke of 60 sometimes. So 50 could be it?
And I don't understand your problems with the bill. The EU says there are obligations, Johnson now also says there are obligations. Just let's get it settled. I suppose the only problem until now was there were people in UK believing there could and should be no obligations at all.
I am still looking for the legal basis in which these 'debts', are owed.
Earlier this year in March the EU's chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, said in a speech that the Brexit talks will not take place in secret, and that the EU commission will negotiate in a "transparent and open manner".
So why has the EU not published its version of the UK's exit bill with figures and a total ?
Could it be because the UK legally owes nothing according to the treaties ?
Could it be because the UK has always been a large net payer to the EU budget and hence there is no moral reason for the UK to make any further payments ?
Could it be because the EU is trying to force the UK to make a payment for obtaining more favourable access to the EU Single Market (even though the UK has a trading deficit of £80bn/year with the EU) ?
If the EU is attempting to do this, and this is why it wants a payment before even discussing trading terms, then the UK would be foolish to make such a payment when the EU bureaucrats are in no position to guarantee that any deal will be approved by either the MEPs (see comments made by Mr. Verhofstadt and Mr. Tajani) or by individual countries, or in the case of Belgium, by individual areas within the country.
Time will run out in the negotiations and it will be left for the EU to decide on the leaving date whether to continue with the current tariff free trade or implement WTO regulations.
Thus the UK should ensure it is prepared for WTO regulations.
Because the final figures can on be computed AFTER Brexit. The figures are less important at this stage than agreeing in principle what the UK owes or doesn't owe, and vice versa. Must the UK take responsibility for a share of the pension liabilities of the EU institutions? If yes, why. If no, why. And if yes, what share? How are the pension liabilities computed? Etc etc etc.
It's not about a payment before, it's about finding a way of calculation, payabel at the end! And Johnson just acknowledged that there are obligations. And as far as I know there is a kind of list in the web.
"Since we joined the common market on 1 January 1973 until the day we leave, we will have given the EU and its predecessors, in today's money, in real terms, a total of £209bn. Will you make it clear to the EU that if they want a penny piece more then they can go whistle?" Hollobone said.
Johnson replied: "I'm sure that your words will have broken like a thunderclap over Brussels and they will pay attention to what you have said.
Does this read to you: we are willing to pay around 40 Billion? For me it doesn't, so for me acknowleding there might be (substantial) obligations is quite a step.
It is lunacy that the EU has stated that WE are the ones who should come up with a figure. This is their divorce bill and they have had over a year to produce a definitive amount and the justification for that figure, yet they have produced nothing. It doesn't matter what figure we produce, it will certainly be rejected by the EU. They have yet top produce a proposal and yet have rejected aver proposal we have put forward without any kind of analysis. The EU have their starting positions which all point to us not actually leaving in anything but name only. They will not budge from their starting position which means these discussions are anything but a negotiation. They have not once come back with a single proposal which counters ours. Their goal is clear. Outright rejection of every attempt at compromise. They have no interest in compromise even if this means the member states will be badly affected. If we are forced into WTO tariffs, Ireland will instantly lose 4% of it's GDP thereby throwing them into recession. The problem is, the EU commissioners who are negotiating will be totally unaffected by us walking away and since they are unelected, will also not be held accountable for the damage caused to the EU economy. They have only one goal. The perpetuation of their EU gravy train.
Despite what your view is of Brexit surely, in all fairness, if the eu demands it's a matter that's agreed before talks on trade, it's they that should submit the bill and it's breakdown? It's their 'red line' so surely they need to produce something.
Even Bojo hisself seems to be on board with the idea that the UK needs to tell us which of its current EU obligations it feels it should honour. Only two months after the start of the negotiations.
Go UK! You can do it!
No problem with the bill tpk, other than its conspicuous absence. I'd like to see it dealt with too.
And no, comments like the ones you mentioned don't actually seem like much of anything to me. I could find others that say Britain is more than willing to pay what it owes. Guardian interviews are not policy.
It is the EU who suddenly produced this very Ill defined divorce invoice, of anything from zero to 110 billion.
It is up to them to give a precise figure and to say which of our obligations it relates to.
We will pay our legal obligations as we have said since last year. This has been quoted time and again in this forum but no one wants to listen.
Bojo is not combing down but merely reiterating what has been said before. We will pay our legal obligations.
No doubt within any final amount will be something to facilitate free trade, however that is defined.
We can't be expected to agree to an open ended invoice. The EU need to tell us the amount and HOW it has been calculated.
I said myself that these statements don't mean what they boldly pretend to mean at the surface. Still it has quite some influence shouting this things into the world. And I would say it's not really helping create a supportive athmosphere for the negs.
How about this for a solution? The UK hands over £50 billion pounds to an independent body (for example under United Nations control) that invests it wisely (like a sovereign wealth fund). If after 50 years there have been no wars within EU countries the money is given to the EU. Whereas, if there have been wars the UK gets to keep the money.
In the UK we are told that the EU is a beacon of peace. In fact, we are told just the existence of the EU means wars are impossible. If this is indeed true, then this is a really good thing and something that the UK could consider spending £50billion as good value.
In the past 100 years the UK has been one of the good guys. It has intervened in two world wars to save Europe from tearing itself apart. The aim of this intervention was not for territorial gain or to settle old scores. This help for Europe cost the UK dearly in terms of lives lost and resources wasted. The UK does not want another world war (even though if we win the next one we get to keep the trophy).
So £50billion to keep the UK out of a European war for the next 50 years is probably worth paying. But the EU must show that it can deliver peace, and (to switch from a cake to a pudding analogy), the proof of the pudding is in the eating.
I have seen bills which include itemised food & drink, service charges if any & when bill paid, transaction closed.
Perhaps I am missing something about the bills absence. The EU must have a proper list where they calculated their 60-100 Billions. They now want to sit round the table with UK to finalize a conclusive 'bill' together with them.
As I understand it it's not about a bill, it's about finding a reliable way to calculate this bill in the end. Understandably they don't want to go through the effort of doing this tedious procedere on their own first and then again with the UK. That just prepared themselves to negotiate this together with the UK. Where do you see a problem in that? Where is the conspiracy?
What do the British not understand?
There is no 'bill', only a method used to calculate how the final total will be determined.
The UK is in serious trouble.
As I understand it it's not about a bill, it's about finding a reliable way to calculate this bill in the end. Understandably they don't want to go through the effort of doing this tedious procedere on their own first and then again with the UK. That just prepared themselves to negotiate this together with the UK. Where do see a problem in that? Where is the conspiracy?
The UK is obligated by treaty to pay for those things it agreed to pay for at the time those budgets were adopted. The UK voted 'yes' which is a verbal contract and is enforceable in court. If needed, this may be taken up with the ICJ in The Hague.
The bill depends also on whether the Brits want to stay in programmes like ITER or Galileo or not.
Judging by the flurry of Brexit papers from HMG it seems that the UK cannot really imagine to stand on its own feet. But it is now time to make up their minds and go through the list of open financial issues provided by the EU months ago.
I'll stick with my view that perhaps the Treaties which you refer to may in fact not support your position. 5 year plans, aspirations or intentions are not legal liabilities or obligations – a bit like a commitment to NATO to spend 2% of GDP on defence perhaps!
The treaties cease to apply 2 years after art. 50 notification.
It matters not a jot legally what was agreed before because the legal obligation ceases.
As do any legal benefits derived from the treaties.
Same old badly thought through meaningless nonsense, please try harder.


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Q: PHP Memory Limit Question I just moved to a dedicated server and I was wondering whether i need to do anything explicitly inside wordpress config files to increase the performance of the site, like setting an upper memory limit.. is this really needed?
many thanks,
Andy

A: Nothing needs to be done in your WordPress configuration, just in PHP (in your server's php.ini file).

A: Actually WordPress does have an option within its wp-config.php file to set the maximum allowed memory that WordPress is allowed to consume. It defaults to 32MB.
WordPress will automatically check if PHP has been allocated less memory than the entered value before utilizing this function. For example, if PHP has been allocated 64MB, there is no need to set this value to 64M as WordPress will automatically use all 64MB if need be.
However if you want to allocate a specific memory amount to WordPress you can do so.
You can set it higher by simply adding one line:
define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '64M');
That will increase the memory limit to 64MB obviously you can set it higher.
You can see more in the Codex Page on Wp-config.php

A: Actually, you should take advantage of your server and move some of the load from the database (usually disk) to the memory. You could start by enabling the APC PHP extension and installing this plugin.


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Q: Win 10 Pro lanmanserver - prevent binding to interface Motivation:
I am trying to proxy SMB connections through an SSH tunnel to a remote network, using either PuTTY, Bitvise SSH client, or similar.
This works well with other services, such as HTTP(S).
In order to avoid disabling SMB on the current interface, be it a Wi-Fi, or cabled device, I chose to setup a loopback adapter and binding the tunnel's listener to it.
Loopback adapter
`-- SSH Tunnel listening on port 445
    `-- SSH to remote host
        `-- Proxy to FreeNAS file server, port 445

Then, opening explorer.exe and accessing loopback adapter's IP address, or its equivalent local lmhosts entry, should proxy traffic to/from the remote FreeNAS file server via the tunnel.
\\192.168.0.2 or
\\freenas

Problem:
The local port binding attempt by the reverse SSH tunnel fails, because lanmanserver listens on all interfaces by default.
Running the below command shows that it is indeed listening on all interfaces (0.0.0.0).
netstat -ano | findstr 445

Attempted Solution:
After many hours of searching, I discovered this post:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/windowsserver/en-US/559e983a-3a53-4ad2-8030-b0cfc9ed0813/how-to-disable-tcpip-and-filesharing-service-on-interface
In order to find out the loopback interface's GUID, I used the very useful ShareFix script:
https://github.com/filippobottega/ShareFix
I then proceeded to remove all entries matching the corresponding GUID, from the bind key.
Once complete, I rebooted.
Unfortunately, lanmanserver was still listening on all interfaces.
Question:
What else should be done to prevent lanmanserver from binding to that specific interface?
Have I omitted something critical?

A: I have discovered the following on Microsoft's site:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/204279/direct-hosting-of-smb-over-tcp-ip

NetbiosSmb is a global device, and is not bound on a per-adapter basis. This means that direct-hosted SMB's cannot be disabled in Windows without disabling File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks completely.

Solution: (at time of writing)
Disable lanmanserver:
https://winaero.com/blog/disable-service-windows-10/
This is probably not such a travesty after all, particularly if your Windows clients only need to access SMB shares on a central server.
It might be useful if someone with a deep knowledge of Windows and its design choices, might explain why it's all, or nothing?
I've read possibly spurious statements that disabling lanmanserver can result in "undesirable consequences". Please do share.

A: In order to disable SMB on a network interface, go to the interface's properties and disable "File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks":


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Why the cameo in 'Crimes Of Grindelwald' doesn't work
Michelle Jaworski—
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It doesn't make much sense.
Warning: This article contains spoilers for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.
With a more Eurocentric setting and a return to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is much more referential to the iconic book and film series that preceded it. But in the process, the film gives us a head-scratcher of a cameo that not only doesn't make sense, but it also throws a giant wrench into what we know about the canon of Harry Potter.
A good way into the movie, Theseus Scamander, Leta Lestrange, and a group of Aurors arrived at Hogwarts as curious students looked on. They were there to question Albus Dumbledore regarding the whereabouts of Newt Scamander and were serious enough to send out Dumbledore's Defense Against the Dark Arts class into the corridor to do it. You can briefly see a professor outside the door, and the film leaves no question as to which one it is because she's mentioned by name: Professor McGonagall.
McGonagall also appears later in a flashback to Leta and Newt's time at Hogwarts. And in case you thought it could've been another Professor McGonagall at Hogwarts, the credits revealed that the character's first name was Minerva, the same as Harry's future Transfiguration professor. News of McGonagall's cameo in The Crimes of Grindelwald made headlines even before the first fan screenings on Nov. 3 because a casting sheet confirmed that Fiona Glascott would be playing the character.
McGonagall doesn't play any kind of role in The Crimes of Grindelwald, so her appearance is nothing more than a character cameo to further tie Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts together. There's just one problem: even in those brief moments, there's absolutely nothing about it that works.
What we know about Minerva McGonagall
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The main sticking point about why McGonagall's cameo doesn't work is a rather simple one compared to some of the film's other sprawling issues. In 1927, the year in which The Crimes of Grindelwald takes place, McGonagall wouldn't have just not been a Hogwarts professor—even less likely during Leta's flashback that takes place at least a decade before that—she wouldn't have even been born yet.
To be fair, J.K. Rowling has never explicitly said what year Professor McGonagall was born in (and only that her birthday was October 4), so we don't know her birth year for sure. By using evidence from the Harry Potter series and McGonagall's official Pottermore biography (as written by Rowling), fans determined that McGonagall was born in 1935.
How did they come to that date? First, you have to go to Order of the Phoenix. That book takes place during the 1995-1996 school year (or Harry's fifth year) and features a scene in which Dolores Umbridge questions McGonagall about her qualifications.
"How long have you been teaching at Hogwarts?" Professor Umbridge asked.
"Thirty-nine years this December," said Professor McGonagall brusquely, snapping her bag shut.
We might not know the exact day, but that scene takes place in 1995. Subtract 39 years, which would bring us to 1956. McGonagall's arrival at Hogwarts in the Transfiguration Department came after she spent two years at the Department of Magical Law Enforcement almost straight out of Hogwarts, which would mean she graduated from Hogwarts in 1954. Given that she would've turned 18 the previous October, that puts her birth year at 1935.
Could McGonagall have potentially worked at Hogwarts in a different capacity before becoming the Transfiguration professor? Yes, but she'd have been among the first to have done so apart from Hagrid; the Hogwarts staff doesn't really have something like a teaching assistant, so McGonagall would be the first. Plus, making McGonagall spend several decades as an assistant before getting to teach the subject herself to make the film's timeline work would be an insult to her intelligence. (And she's plenty smart; she was nearly sorted into Ravenclaw!)
The cameo complicates other aspects of Harry Potter canon
McGonagall's early appearance as a Transfiguration professor at Hogwarts is a sticking point, but it also highlights another aspect of Harry Potter canon being wonky: Dumbledore's tenure at Hogwarts.
We know from McGonagall's biography (which also appears in the Pottermore ebook Short Stories from Hogwarts of Heroism, Hardship, and Dangerous Hobbies) that she had a particular talent for Transfiguration. That's in part because she learned from the best. Dumbledore was her Transfiguration professor, and he even helped her become an Animagus (someone who can transform into an animal at will), something that's incredibly difficult to do.
By the time we meet him in The Crimes of Grindelwald, Dumbledore is teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts instead of Transfiguration. One potential explanation is that Dumbledore took the position to make room for McGonagall, but that wouldn't explain why he went back to teaching Transfiguration by the time that Tom Riddle opened the Chamber of Secrets during the 1942-1943 school year—another year determined by the main Harry Potter timeline.
"Only the Transfiguration teacher, Dumbledore, seemed to think Hagrid was innocent," Riddle told Harry in Chamber of Secrets.
Then if that's the case, where would McGonagall have gone when Dumbledore took back his teaching position? According to McGonagall's biography, she remained at Hogwarts once she started teaching and eventually becoming the school's headmistress, a role she still had during Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.
There is some leniency involved with the finagling of the timeline; for example, Rowling once said that McGonagall was 70 in a chat that occurred after the publication of Goblet of Fire, but that information has since been retconned (or is no longer considered canon). But what we do know doesn't give us a lot of flexibility: Dumbledore was born in 1881, so her youngest, McGonagall could be around Newt's age—who was born on Feb. 24, 1897, and would be about 30 by the time The Crimes of Grindelwald took place.
Even from a casual moviegoer standpoint, it's still a waste of an appearance
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For the fans who don't obsess over the Harry Potter timeline, this might all feel like a matter of semantics. She pops in, pops out, and that's it. Inconsequential, you might say.
And sure, that will likely work as an argument for some fans. Others might see a clear divide between the Harry Potter series and the Fantastic Beasts films even though they share a number of characters or surnames in it. But it'd probably work as a better argument if Warner Bros. wasn't literally marketing The Crimes of Grindelwald based on the connection between Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts. (Although granted, most of that is about Dumbledore himself versus the more spoiler-friendly McGonagall reveal.) There's an emphasis on how connected the entire story is, so those inconsistencies in a timeline that has a lot of weight become harder to ignore.
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Ultimately, the McGonagall cameo comes in two-fold. We still don't know what the next three Fantastic Beasts films will play out, so there's always a chance that McGonagall will have a larger role to play in the fight against Gellert Grindelwald. If she does, it almost certainly came at the expense of Rowling (who wrote the screenplay) meddling with the Harry Potter timeline—and almost certainly at the expense of McGonagall's previously established character—to make it work.
But if all this ends up being is a cameo, it still came at the expense of McGonagall herself for nothing more than a wink and a nod for Harry Potter fans. And in its most generous interpretation, it's a tepid wink that doesn't serve any kind of purpose.
Michelle Jaworski is a staff writer and the resident Game of Thrones expert at the Daily Dot. She covers entertainment, geek culture, and pop culture and has brought her knowledge to conventions like Con of Thrones. She is based in New Jersey.
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