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Arrest after Magna Carta theft attempt at Salisbury Cathedral
The cathedral was evacuated afterward, and other visitors told the Journal they heard alarms while exiting. A 45-year-old man has been arrested for attempting to steal the Magna Carta from Salisbury Cathedral. Meaning "great charter" in Latin, ... More..
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Queen Elizabeth II to host Dutch king and queen at palace
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Voting access dominates Georgia debate between Abrams, Kemp
In exclusive audio obtained from an attendee of the event at the Blind Pig Parlour Bar in Atlanta, Rolling Stone reported that Kemp was focused primarily on the numbers of Democratic voters who have turned ...More..
China voices 'concern' as US warships sail through Taiwan Strait
The United States sent two warships through the Taiwan Strait on Monday in the second such operation this year, as the US military increases the frequency of transits through the strategic waterway despite oppo...More..
Pentagon plans to send 800 military troops to the Mexican border
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Saudi crown prince calls slain journalist's killing a 'heinous crime'
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Magnitude 7.0 quake hits off Greece
The epicentre of the quake, initially reported as a magnitude 7.0, was in the Ionian Sea, some 133.5km south-west of Patras in the Peloponnese. The natural disaster was so intense that, apart from Greece , i...More..
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Judiciary chairman Grassley refers Avenatti, Swetnick to Justice Department
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Jordan flash floods: Bus carrying students swept away near Dead Sea
A child survivor is seen with relatives in a hospital near the Dead Sea, Jordan. The media reports did not provide the ages of the students. "The teachers tried to save the children but the floods intensity...More..
Bin Salman wasn't aware of Khashoggi killing: Saudi FM
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Mattis expected to send hundreds of troops to border
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Saudi dissident YouTube star defiant after Khashoggi murder
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Forward-based, ground-launched cruise missiles. The US says Russian Federation has violated the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty and plans to withdraw . He went on to lament China's ba...More..
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Erdogan, Trump Discuss Khashoggi Case in Phone Call
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'Buck stops with prince for death of Khashoggi'
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China, Russia eavesdropping on Trump's iPhone calls, says report
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US tourists die in river rafting accident
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Spain not stopping arms sales to Saudi Arabia over Khashoggi killing
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Les Éditions L. Mauguin ont été fondées fin 1996 à Paris par Laurence Mauguin, avec l'idée "d'éditer autrement", de tenter une aventure éditoriale, dans sa forme et dans son fond, tournée vers la poésie.

La maison d'édition est aussi conçue comme un lieu d'échange avec le public. Situé près du Panthéon, ce lieu est à la fois une librairie d'éditeur, une bibliothèque de poésie contemporaine, une salle de lecture, une galerie où sont exposés régulièrement des artistes contemporains. Des lectures publiques y sont organisées tout au long de l'année.

Historique
Initialement les éditions L. Mauguin proposent des textes de littérature contemporaine au sens large, écritures poétiques à la marge des genres littéraires (cf. les ouvrages de Paul Parin, Thomas Strittmatter, Annie Zadek). Mais dès 1999, la maison se consacre uniquement à la poésie, proposée sous différentes formes : recueils bien sûr mais aussi extraits, lectures publiques, expositions, revue (intitulée Pas, - qui fait un panorama annuel des rencontres de l'éditeur avec des poètes européens, et propose donc à côté des textes écrits en français des textes traduits de l'allemand, du grec, de l'italien…)

Auteurs / Expositions
Parmi les auteurs, on peut citer Lionel André, Emanuela Burgazzoli, Françoise Jones, Xénia Mylonaki, Alice Nez, Annick Ranvier, Helmut Schmale, Margarita Xanthakou, Annie Zadek, Martin Ziegler…
Certains de ces auteurs sont également artistes et ont l'occasion d'exposer leur travail dans l'espace galerie qui accueille principalement les techniques sur papier (dessins au crayon, pastel, aquarelles, encres, gravures, œuvres photographiques).
Parmi les artistes exposés aux éditions L. Mauguin, on peut citer Aksouh, R. Blandin, I. de Buffières, M. Clancy, N. Cosentino, Krochka, Ehanno, H. Rajcak, M. Tachikawa…

Références

Sources
 Interview sur la revue Terres de femmes d'Angèle Paoli
 Entretien radiophonique Laurence Mauguin / Alain Veinstein, "Du jour au lendemain", France Culture,

Liens externes
 Site des éditions
 Programmation poétique

Maison d'édition ayant son siège à Paris
Maison d'édition de poésie

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Ole Miss QB Matt Corral now betting favorite to win Heisman
Mississippi quarterback Matt Corral (2) looks for an open receiver during the first half of an NCAA college football game against Louisville, Monday, Sept. 6, 2021, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)(John Bazemore | AP)
By Jacob Gallant
Published: Sep. 21, 2021 at 4:47 PM CDT
OXFORD, Miss. (WLBT) - Ole Miss Quarterback Matt Corral is now the betting favorite to win the 2021 Heisman Trophy.
Corral has been electric through the Rebels' first three games and has caught the public's eye with his gaudy stat lines.
The QB is completing over 68 percent of his passes and has already tossed 9 touchdowns, with another 5 rushing scores.
Both Fox Bet and BetMGM have Corral as the favorite to win the award, which is given out to the best college football player in the nation.
3 weeks into the season and Matt Corral is the favorite to win the Heisman trophy according to @FOXBet 👀🏆
Who's your pick to win? pic.twitter.com/LESuZgPzDa
— FOX College Football (@CFBONFOX) September 21, 2021
And while she doesn't have a vote...Corral is at the top of pop star Katy Perry's leaderboard too.
An Ole Miss player has never won the Heisman in the trophy's storied history, but they have netted a few finalists.
Charlie Conerly finished 4th in 1947 and Jake Gibbs finished 3rd in 1960. After them, Archie Manning finished in the top 5 in both 1969 and 1970, while his son Eli was a finalist in 2003.
After a dominant win over Tulane, Corral and Ole Miss will have a week off to prepare for top-ranked Alabama for a bout in Tuscaloosa.
Sylvester Croom, former Miss. State head coach, to be inducted into College Football Hall of Fame
Mississippi State University to require masks inside all buildings including indoor athletic facilities
Jackson State University lands no. 4 ranked wide receiver in the country
Ole Miss men's basketball prepares to take on the SEC's oldest rival Mississippi State
5-star RB announces transfer to Ole Miss

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These Harnath sisters are crunching out heavy emo vibes. Read on to find out more about Hot Glue, our Artists of the Month!
When Lily was one and a half years old she met Pearl at the hospital, held the infant in her arms and said "Will you join my band?" – We're sisters!
When did you start writing songs and making music? How did you get into it?
We've played instruments and been surrounded by music since we were young, but started writing songs on our own a bit over a year ago. A few months later we started writing songs together. We both started songwriting for a music program called YoWo and then found that we loved playing and writing together even more than doing it on our own.
Where does Hot Glue get the ideas for your songs and do you have a process for writing them?
Usually we'll bring song ideas to each other, either just a chord progression or a melody and flesh it out together. Sometimes we'll have some lyrics in mind or start with the music, but we usually aim to write something that makes us want to dance or scream. We find inspiration from our experiences as angsty teenage girls, kind of exploring into identity and authenticity. We use songwriting to figure out what we're thinking and how we feel; we try to be as honest as possible for that three minutes about everything we feel in a moment.
What kind of things do you like to write about?
We write about relationships, both friendships and otherwise, though usually about our friends. We love to write about things that are difficult to say and use it as a cathartic exploration of our own identities but mask the angst with upbeat guitar solos and whatnot.
Who are some of the biggest influences on your music as a band?
We absolutely LOVE and are so inspired by The Breeders, Courtney Barnett, Alvvays, and Mitski. These artists are huge inspirations to us as fellow female songwriting guitarists. Though these musicians are very rock related, we also draw from the songwriting of artists such as Phoebe Bridgers and Gillian Welch, who write incredible melodies and lyrics which are at the heart of what we aim to focus on.
What do you like to do in your downtime when you're not making music?
Brunch!!! Also cuddle our cat Knives, see live music, and hang out with our buddies when Pearl's not at school finishing VCE.
What would be your dream line up to be a part of?
Ryan Adams, Middle Kids, The Killers, Phoebe Bridgers, Courtney Barnett, Alvvays, IV League, Soccer Mommy, Wolf Alice, HAIM, Maggie Rogers, Japanese Breakfast, Lorde. Just to name a few!
What are your plans for the rest of the year?
We plan on releasing our EP before the end of the year, as well as an EP launch, then get stuck into work on the next EP. Also hoping Pearl survives high school. Definitely a few more gigs around Melbourne, too.
Where can people go to keep up to date with everything Hot Glue? (links to shows, music, videos etc)
You can check out the two singles off our upcoming EP on Spotify or Triple J Unearthed:
https://open.spotify.com/artist/6Xz3noOPv6Cpb2ULyIHOiG?si=J0w9FU27Q8eXsClfQDtSKw
https://www.triplejunearthed.com/artist/hot-glue
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The Sugarcubes (Sykurmolarnir in Icelandic) were an Icelandic alternative rock band formed in 1986 and disbanded in 1992. They were one of the bands that Bjork was in before going solo, and easily the best and most interesting of her pre-solo work. They played joyous and fun music, nothing gloomy about them.
Essential albums; Stick Around for Joy, Life's Too Good.
RIYL: The Smiths, Talking Heads, kind of silly post-punk / Indie-rock stuff!
Those two albums in the OP are nearly as good as anything Bjork did by herself. They have that spontaneity, and just pure fun and ridiculousness that she carried into her solo work, and it's just an absolute joy to listen to.
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You are here: Home / Crime / Courts / Officials urge parents to establish a code word with their kids
Officials urge parents to establish a code word with their kids
April 25, 2016 By O. Kay Henderson
Roxann Ryan
Iowa public safety officials make about five arrests each year for attempted child abductions and they're urging Iowans to be wary of suspicious activity now that children will be outside in spring weather.
Last year the Iowa Department of Public Safety formed a "Child Abduction Response Team" after children in Evansdale and Dayton were kidnapped, then murdered.
Public Safety Commissioner Roxann Ryan says Iowa authorities field about 15 to 20 reports of attempted kidnappings each year.
"They make multiple efforts before they are successful," Ryan says. "So if we are able to stop the attempts, then we are much more likely to be able to save those children."
The state's new response team has not dealt with a kidnapping in its first year, but has responded to two reports of missing children. Ryan suggests families should set up a "code word" for their kids.
"Sometimes the abductors will use a ruse to get the child to go with them," Ryan says. "…It's very helpful to have a code word so if the children do not hear the code word, they know it is not safe."
In 2013, Kathlynn Shepard and a friend were picked up by someone they knew at a bus stop in Dayton. One girl escaped, but Shepard was killed. Cousins Elizabeth Collins and Lyric Cook-Morrissey were kidnapped in Evansdale in July of 2012. Their bodies were found six months later, in Bremer County.
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Битката при Ел Брук в действителност са две отделни сражения край селището Ел Брук (в близост до Барселона), с разлика от няколко дни, между френските колони, командвани от Франсоа дьо Шварц и Жозеф Шабрен, и отряд от испански доброволци и наемници, начело с генерал Антонио де Виляфранка и Хуан Баге.

Сраженията се водят на 6 и 14 юни 1808 г., по време на Полуостровната война. Резултатът от битките и действията на страните е испански успех. Испанците също така пленяват френски императорски орел.

6 юни
Френският отряд от 3800 войника на бригаден генерал Франсоа Ксавие дьо Шварц излиза от Барселона на 4 юни, напредвайки в посока към Сарагоса и Лерида. Дъждовната буря през този ден забавя похода и дава време на местните испански сили, съставени от опълчение от съседните села, каталонски доброволци ( somatén) и швейцарски и валонски наемници от барселонския гарнизон (2000 мъже), да се мобилизират за действие. Испанците са водени от генерал Антонио де Виляфранка, който ги разполага по прохода Брук.

Последвалата схватка е успех за испанците, и французите на Шварц се оттеглят към Барселона със загуби от 360 убити, 800 ранени, 60 пленени и едно заловено от неприятеля оръдие. Испанските партизани залавят и императорски орел.

14 юни
Вторият френски опит е на 14 юни, когато те са водени от дивизионния генерал Жозеф Шабрен. Неговите войници обаче успяват само да подпалят няколко сгради в Ел Брук, след което са победени и отблъснати от испанските сили. На 15 юни, испанците нападат французите по време на оттеглянето им към Барселона, като убиват и раняват повече от 500 души.

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Източници
  Finestres, Jordi & Moliner, Antoni. Timbals de guerra al Bruc. юни 2008.
 Gates, David. The Spanish Ulcer: A History of the Peninsular War. Da Capo Press 2001. ISBN 0-306-81083-2

  Pigeard, Alain. Dictionnaire des batailles de Napoléon. Tallandier, Paris, 2004.
  Rodríguez-Solís, Enrique. Los guerrilleros de 1808: Historia popular de la Guerra de la Independencia. Vol. I. Calle de Balmes 1895.

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Časovou osnovu událostí v sérii knížek o Harrym Potterovi vytvořili fanoušci, kteří ji odvodili zejména z údajů v druhém díle (Harry Potter a Tajemná komnata), v němž se oslavuje 500. výročí úmrtí Skorobezhlavého Nicka. K Nickově popravě došlo 31. října 1492, z čehož se dá odvodit, že děj druhého dílu se odehrává od léta 1992 do poloviny roku 1993.

Bradavice byly založeny roku 998.

V některých ohledech si ale autorka Joanne Rowlingová protiřečí. Ve třetím dílu například Sibylla Trelawneyová mluví o 16. říjnu jako o pátku, zatímco 16. října 1993 byla ve skutečnosti sobota. Avšak Sibylla si často vymýšlela a snažila se znít zajímavě, takže toto popletení dnů mohlo být záměrem. Dalším problémem je postava Nicolase Flamela. Ten je skutečnou historickou postavou, nicméně v prvním díle se o tomto sestrojiteli Kamene mudrců mluví jako 665letém starci. Tohoto věku by se však skutečný Flamel dožil až v roce 1996, tedy o pět až šest let později než děj prvního dílu. Další nejasnosti přicházejí s Harryho dopisem Siriusovi ve čtvrtém díle, kde se dozvídáme, že Harryho bratranec Dudley má PlayStation (v českém překladu použil Vladimír Medek slovo "herna"). Podle časové osnovy psal Harry dopis v létě 1994, ale PlayStation bylo uvedeno až v závěru zmíněného roku a to jen v Japonsku (do Evropy se dostalo až v létě 1995).

Na druhou stranu je níže uvedené časové rozdělení děje fanoušky široce uznáváno a bylo použito i společností Warner Bros na DVD verzi filmové adaptace druhého a třetího dílu série.

Nejvýznamnější chybu týkající se dat je možné nalézt ve čtvrtém díle Harry Potter a Ohnivý pohár, kde jsou dny 1. i 2. září shodně označeny jako pondělí. Možné však také je, že v Bradavické škole čar a kouzel je každý druhý školní den (tj. ten následující po příjezdu studentů) pondělí. Další potíž přináší poprava Klofana. Podle knih se má odehrát 20. dubna, nicméně při podrobném čtení knih je jasné, že se nemohla odehrát později než v únoru.

Rowlingová sama přiznala nedostatky svých matematických dovedností na FAQ sekci svých stránek, takže možná není na místě očekávat v tomto ohledu konzistenci příběhu.

Časová osnova knížek o Harrym Potterovi

Události
 382 př. n. l. – Ollivanderovi začínají s výrobou kouzelnických hůlek.
 962 – První použití létajících košťat.
 dříve než 993 – Godric Nebelvír, Helga z Mrzimoru, Rowena z Havraspáru a Salazar Zmijozel zakládají Bradavickou školu čar a kouzel. Zmijozel požaduje přijímat pouze čaroděje s čistými kouzelnickými předky a následně opouští školu. Zanechává ale po sobě Tajemnou komnatu.
 1294 – Je založen Turnaj tří kouzelníků. Později je jeho každoroční konání přerušeno, neboť při něm začínalo umírat příliš mnoho studentů. Podle Brumbála se na konci 20. století nekonal už alespoň 100 let.
 1473 – Koná se první Světové mistrovství ve famfrpálu, během kterého se hráči stihli dopustit všech 700 různých famfrpálových faulů.
 1689 – Podpis Mezinárodního zákoníku o utajení kouzel, definitivní skrytí kouzelníků před mudly.
 1892 – Albus Brumbál začíná studovat Bradavickou školu.
 1926 – Ještě před narozením Toma Raddlea opouští jeho otec rodinu, Raddlova matka umírá po porodu a Tom je tak vychován jako sirotek.
 1937 – Tom Raddle začíná navštěvovat Bradavice.
 1942 – Raddle otevírá Tajemnou komnatu, v důsledku čehož je zabita Ufňukaná Uršula. Raddle pak otevření komnaty svedl na Rubeuse Hagrida.
 1943 – Raddle zabíjí svého otce a prarodiče z otcovy strany.
 1945 – Brumbál poráží černokněžníka Gellerta Grindelwalda.
 1970 – Tom Raddle se přejmenoval na Lorda Voldemorta a začíná svou snahu o ovládnutí světa.
 1971 – James Potter, Lily Evansová, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew a Severus Snape začínají chodit do Bradavic.
 1979 – Sibylla Trelawneyová předpovídá pád Lorda Voldemorta.
 31. října 1981 – Voldemort zabíjí Jamese a Lily Potterovy, kletba se ale obrací proti němu, když se pokusí zabít i jejich syna, Harryho. Tomu zůstává na čele jizva a začínají se o něj starat Dursleyovi.
 1. listopadu 1981 – Sirius Black je zatčen za vraždu Petera Pettigrewa.
 1. září 1991 – Harry Potter, Ron Weasley a Hermiona Grangerová začínají studovat na Bradavické škole čar a kouzel.
 1992 – Harry zabránil Voldemortovi získat Kámen mudrců. Ginny Weasleyová otevírá pod vlivem Raddleova deníku Tajemnou komnatu.
 1993 – Harry zachraňuje Ginny a poráží obraz Raddlea. Sirius Black utíká z Azkabanu.
 6. června 1994 – Professorka Trelawneyová předpovídá druhou věštbu o Voldemortově vzkříšení. Harry se dozvídá pravdu o svém kmotru Siriusovi Blackovi a Peter Pettigrew uniká.
 1994 – Lord Voldemort zabíjí Franka Bryce. Po sto letech se opět koná Turnaj tří kouzelníků.
 24. června 1995 – Za pomoci Pettigrewa získává Lord Voldemort znovu tělo a své bývalé schopnosti, Pettigrew zabije Cedrica Digoryho.
 1996 – Díky Harrymu a jeho přátelům se Voldemortovi nepodařilo získat Věštbu. Při bitvě byl zabit Sirius Black svou sestřenicí Belatrix Lestrangeovou. Brumbál Harrymu poví o první věštbě Trewlaneyové a kouzelnický svět se konečně dozvídá o Voldemortově návratu. Rufus Brousek nahrazuje Popletala na místě ministra kouzel.
 1997 – Brumbál byl zabit Severusem Snapem, Rufus Brousek je zabit, ministrem kouzel se stává Pius Břichnáč.

 1998 – Lord Voldemort je po zničení všech viteálů definitivně poražen. Ministrem kouzel se stává Kingsley Pastorek.

Narození
 1881 – Albus Brumbál, Percivalovi a Kendře Brumbálovým
 4. října zhruba 1925 – Minerva McGonagallová
 31. prosince 1926 – Tom Raddle (Lord Voldemort), do rodiny mudly Toma Raddla st. a čarodějky Meropy Gauntové
 6. prosince 1929 – Rubeus Hagrid, obryni Frídwulfě a kouzelníkovi Hagridovi
 1949 – Molly Weasleyová (Prewettová)
 6. února 1950 – Arthur Weasley
 1951 – Bellatrix Lestrangeová (roz. Blacková) Cygnusi Blackovi a Druelle Rosierové
 1954 – Lucius Malfoy, Abraxasi Malfoyovi
 1955 (přibližně) – Narcisa Malfoyová (roz. Blacková), Cygnusovi Blackovi a Druelle Rosierové
 30. ledna 1960 – Lily Evansová, provdaná Potterová
 27. března 1960 – James Potter
 3. listopadu 1959 – Sirius Black, Orionovi a Walburze Blackovým
 10. března 1960 – Remus Lupin
 9. ledna 1960 – Severus Snape, mudlovi Tobiasi Snapeovi a čarodějce Eileen Prince-Lloydové
 1960 – Peter Pettigrew
 1962 – Regulus Black
 26. ledna 1964 – Zlatoslav Lockhart
 29. listopadu 1971 – Bill Weasley, Arthurovi a Molly Weasleyovým
 1973 – Nymfadora Tonksová, Tedu Tonksovi a Andromedě Blackové-Tonksové
 12. prosince 1973 – Charlie Weasley, Arthurovi a Molly Weasleyovým
 22. srpna 1976 – Percy Weasley, Arthurovi a Molly Weasleyovým
 1976 – Oliver Wood
 1977 – Viktor Krum
 1977 – Fleur Delacourová, Monsieur Delacourovi a poloviční víle Apolonii
 1977 – Cedric Diggory, Amosu Diggorymu a jeho ženě
 1977 – Angelina Johnsonová
 1. dubna 1978 – Fred a George Weasleyovi, dvojčata, Arthurovi a Molly Weasleyovým
 1979 – Cho Changová
 19. září 1979 – Hermiona Grangerová, mudlovským zubařům
 1. března 1980 – Ron Weasley, Arthurovi a Molly Weasleyovým
 5. června 1980 – Draco Malfoy, Luciusovi a Narcise Malfoyovým
 30. července 1980 – Neville Longbottom, Frankovi a Alici Longbottomovým
 31. července 1980 – Harry Potter, Jamesovi a Lily Potterovým
 1981 – Colin Creevey, neznámým mudlům
 13. února 1981 – Lenka Láskorádová, vydavateli Jinotaje Xenofiliovi Láskorádovi a jeho ženě Pandoře
 11. srpna 1981 – Ginny Weasleyová, Arthurovi a Molly Weasleyovým
 1983 – Dennis Creevey, neznámým mudlům
 duben 1998 – Teddy Lupin, Nymfadoře Tonksové-Lupinové a Remusi Lupinovi
 2. května 2000 – Victoire Weasleyová Billovi Weasleymu a Fleur Delacourové-Weasleyové
 2005 – James Sirius Potter, syn Harryho a Ginny Potterových
 2006 – Rose Weasleyová, Ronu Weasleymu a Hermioně Grangerové-Weasleyové
 2006 – Albus Severus Potter, syn Harryho a Ginny Potterových
 2006 - Dominique Weasleyová, Billovi Weasleymu a Fleur Delacourové-Weasleyové
 2006 – Scorpius Hyperion Malfoy Dracovi Malfoyovi a Astorii Malfoyové-Greengrassové
 2008 – Hugo Weasley, Ronu Weasleymu a Hermioně Grangerové-Weasleyové
 2008 – Lily Lenka Potterová, Harryho a Ginny Potterových

Ostatní děti (není znám přesný rok narození)

 Molly Weasleyová (ml.) Percymu Weasleymu a Audrey Weasleyové
 Lucy Weasleyová Percymu Weasleymu a Audrey Weasleyové
 Louise Weasley Billovi Weasleymu a Fleur Delacourové-Weasleyové
 Fred Weasley (mladší) Georgovi Weasleymu a Angelině Johnsonové-Weasleyové
 Roxanne Weasleyová Georgovi Weasleymu a Angelině Johnsonové-Weasleyové

Úmrtí
 31. října 1492 – Skoro bezhlavý Nick, popraven neúplným stětím
 1942 – studentka Bradavické školy (později známá jako Ufňukaná Uršula), zabita baziliškem z Tajemné komnaty otevřené Tomem Raddleem.
 1943 – Mary a Tom Raddleovi zabiti Tomem Rojvolem Raddlem.
 31. října 1981 – James a Lily Potterovi, zabiti Voldemortem
 1990 – matka Lenky Láskorádové, nehoda při experimentování s kouzly
 24. června 1995 – Cedric Diggory, zavražděn Petrem Pettigrewem na Voldemortův příkaz
 18. června 1996 – Sirius Black, umírá při souboji s Belatrix Lestrangeovou.
 červenec 1996 – Smrtijedi zabíjejí Amélii Bonesovou a Emmelinu Vanceovou
 srpen 1996 – Igor Karkarov
 1996 – matka Hannah Abbottové
 jaro 1997 – Aragog (i přes veškerou Hagridovu snahu umírá stářím)
 30. června 1997 – Brumbál, zabit Severusem Snapem kletbou Avada kedavra na vrcholu astronomické věže
 27. července 1997 – sova Hedvika, zabita při přesunu Harryho ze Zobí ulice do Doupěte
 27. července 1997 – Alastor 'Pošuk' Moody při přesunu Harryho ze Zobí ulice do Doupěte
 1. srpna 1997 – Rufus Brousek, ministr kouzel
 podzim 1997 – Ted Tonks - při útěku od rodiny s Dirkem Cresswelem a Gornukem
 podzim 1997 – Dirk Cresswel - zabit s Tedem Tonksem a skřetem Gornukem
 podzim 1997 – Gornuk - skřet, zemřel při útěku s Tedem Tonksem a Dirkem Cresswelem
 jaro 1998 – Dobby, svobodný domácí skřítek, zabit nožem Belatrix Lestrangeovou
 březen 1998 – Petr Pettigrew, známý jako Červíček, uškrcen vlastní umělou rukou
 2. května 1998 – Colin Creevey, v bitvě o Bradavice
 2. května 1998 – Fred Weasley, zavražděn kletbou Avada kedavra při bitvě o Bradavice
 2. května 1998 – Vincent Crabbe zabit sebou vyvolaným zložárem
 2. května 1998 – Levandule Brownová brutálně zabita vlkodlakem Fenrirem Šedohřbetem
 2. května 1998 – manželé Remus Lupin (zabit Dolohovem) a Nymfadora Tonksová (zabita svojí tetou Belatrix Lestrangeovou)
 2. května 1998 – Severus Snape zavražděn hadem Naginim na příkaz lorda Voldemorta
 2. května 1998 – Belatrix Lestrangeová zabita při souboji s Molly Weasleyovou
 2. května 1998 – Tom Rojvol Raddle, známý také jako lord Voldemort či Pán zla, zabit vlastní smrtící kletbou při souboji s Harrym Potterem

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Nadine Labaki is a Lebanese actress and director, best known for the movies Caramel, Where Do We Go Now?, Capernaum, Stray Bullet, Rock The Casbah, and Mea Culpa. Nadine was listed on Variety's 10 Directors to Watch list at the Sundance Film Festival. Born Nadine Antoine Labaki on February 18, 1974 in Baabdat, Lebanon, in a Maronite family to Antoinette and Antoine Labaki, she is the older sister of costume designer Caroline Labaki. She earned her degree in audiovisual studies in 1997 from Saint Joseph University. She started acting in short films during the early 2000s. In 2003, she began directing music videos for singer Nancy Ajram. In 2006, she directed and starred in the critically acclaimed Lebanese LGBT-themed comedy-drama film, Caramel. In 2007, Labaki married musician and composer Khaled Mouzanar. They have two children.
Nadine Labaki Personal Details:
Birth Place: Baabdat, Lebanon
Birth Name: Nadine Antoine Labaki
Nickname: Nadine
Arabic: نادين لبكي
Occupation: Actress, Director
Nationality: Lebanese
Race/Ethnicity: Middle Eastern
Religion: Muslim
Eye Color: Dark Brown
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Height in Feet: 5′ 5¾"
Feet/Shoe Size: 8.5 (US)
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Father: Antoine Labaki (Engineer)
Mother: Antoinette Labaki (Homemaker)
Spouse/Husband: Khaled Mouzanar (m. 2007)
Children: Walid (Son) (b. 2009), Daughter (b. 2016)
Siblings: Caroline Labaki (Younger Sister)
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Saint Joseph University (1997)
Cours Florent, Paris
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*She obtained a degree in Audiovisual Studies in 1997 from Beirut's Saint Joseph University.
*She participated in the Cannes Film Festival Residence to write Caramel in 2005.
*She speaks Arabic, French, English and Italian fluently.
*She received an honorary degree from the American University of Beirut and was the speaker at the 150th Commencement Ceremony (2016).
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The 10 Highest-Paying IT Certifications for 2022
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Written by: getcertifiedpro
The IT landscape is constantly evolving, which means it's never the wrong time to get certified in new tech skills. We found the 10 certifications that can boost your earnings the most in 2022 and where you can find training to earn them.
It's no secret that employers have struggled to hire and retain qualified talent in recent years, a situation made all the worse since the pandemic. In a survey by Global Knowledge, a technology skills learning company, 50% of hiring managers said recruiting has been a major challenge. Part of the problem is finding candidates to fill highly-skilled, specialized roles; the same study showed that 80% of North American IT departments had skills gaps.
Clearly, opportunities abound. So how to get noticed and win your next big career break? One way is to demonstrate your skill by earning an IT certification. No matter your current level of experience, it's never the wrong time to pick up some new skills or even pivot into a whole new line of work. A multitude of certification programs are available, and there are more free or low-cost sources of training for them than ever before. What's more, passing one could mean a significant boost to your pay.
Not convinced that getting a new certification would be worth the effort and expense? In the latest report from edX and the Linux Foundation, 72% of hiring managers surveyed said they would be more likely to hire a candidate who had a certification, up a whopping 20% from the previous year's numbers. Even better, 88% of managers said they would be willing to pay to have their current employees certified, and that figure has grown by 60% over the last four years of the survey.
Undoubtedly, this growing enthusiasm for certification has much to do with how quickly the IT landscape has changed in recent years. The rapid shift to cloud computing, particularly among small-to-midsize businesses, means employers need teams with modern skills to match. Similarly, the ever-evolving underworld of cybersecurity threats is another perennial worry. According to a recent skill survey by Burning Glass Technologies, some specialty tracks in the cybersecurity space stand to grow by more than 160% over the next four years, with salary bumps to match.
Which Certs Will Earn You the Most??
Even among cloud and security certifications, however, the field of options was broad. We wanted to know which certs would add the most to your bottom line, and for this, we consulted Global Knowledge's latest report of the top-paying IT certifications in the U.S. as of 2021, ranked by the average salaries they command.
This year, cloud technologies and security made up the top six certs by salary, up from the top four in the previous year. This comes as no surprise, considering their high demand among employers. Still, project management remains another high-paying option, which is important to note since it's been a top contender for more than a decade. IT professionals with these skills are in high demand and tend to command the largest paychecks overall.
The data is based both on what Global Knowledge's customers study and the jobs they find after they graduate. Below, we've listed the pack leaders along with a description of the specialization and a corresponding average salary. Bear in mind, however, that an IT certification is no magic wand for better pay. Real-world compensation will always be the result of multiple factors, including not just your certified skills but also your education, length of experience, job role, tenure, and plain hard work. But certification remains a great way to put your best foot forward, especially if you're looking to enter a new field.
Here are the 10 accreditations that will be the best earners in 2022, based on Global Knowledge's research:
10. VCP-DCV: VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization
Coming in at number 10, down one spot from last year's survey, the VCP-DCV cert validates the skills needed to build a scalable virtual infrastructure using the VMware vSphere server virtualization platform. You'll learn to administer, consolidate, and deploy VMware virtualization technologies using vSphere High Availability and Distributed Resource Scheduler clusters.
If that appeals to you, to earn the cert you'll need to complete VMware's VCP-DCV 2021 – Professional VMware vSphere 7.x (2V0-21.20 course, which must be administered by an authorized training provider or reseller. You'll then need to complete a second course, but you can choose from a list of five possible electives, and VMware has on-demand web resources for those. To complete these courses, VMware recommends at least six months of on-the-job experience using the latest version of vSphere (currently that's version 7).
IT professionals with this credential have earned an average of 7.4 career certifications, the highest amount on the Global Knowledge list. They also earn an average salary of $132,947 per year.
9. Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)
Though it's relatively new to our Top 10 list, this is one of the oldest and most respected IT credentials, since it was originally created by ISACA back in 1978. The CISA accreditation validates auditing, cybersecurity, and risk management skills. CISA-certified IT experts are hired to ensure that a business' critical assets are secure and properly maintained.
To achieve this certification, you need to pass the Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam. This consists of five domains: Auditing Information Systems; Governance and Management of IT; Information Systems Acquisition, Development, and Implementation; Information Systems Operation, Maintenance, and Service Management; and Protection of Information Assets. The most likely job roles for this certification are IT auditors and the average pay for CISA cert holders is $134,460 per year.
8. Nutanix Certified Professional – Multicloud Infrastructure (NCP-MCI)
Nutanix is a rapidly-growing cloud solutions provider, which explains why this entry is new to our Top 10 list. The company provides a number of cloud technologies, including data management, hybrid clouds, multi-cloud architectures, and even desktop as a service (DaaS) offerings to support hybrid work. Most of these are based on Nutanix's proprietary AOS cloud platform technology.
The NCP-MCI certification ensures that IT professionals have the proficiency to manage, set up, and troubleshoot any AOS instance in Nutanix's Enterprise Cloud. Successful candidates will also learn to administer AOS network blocks, clusters, and nodes and use Nutanix's Prism Element tool to manage Nutanix virtual infrastructure.
Getting the certification means you'll need to pass the Nutanix Multicloud Infrastructure exam. The 75-question test is administered via remote proctor and Nutanix provides detailed learning resources. Pass the exam and you'll be in line to earn an average salary of $142,810.
7. Project Management Professional (PMP)
The Project Management Professional (PMP) certification has fallen from the fifth spot on last year's list to seventh in 2021, but it's still one of the most mature and stable certifications an IT manager can get. It's worth noting, too, that while its ranking has gone down, the average pay that PMP certificate holders can expect has gone up.
The program was created and is administered by the Project Management Institute (PMI) and is likely the most recognized project management accreditation available today. It demonstrates that you are competent when it comes to managing projects, including such aspects as budgets, goals, and teams.
That said, this certification is not an easy get. You will be tested in the five basic lifecycle steps inherent to any project: initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing. And before you become certified, you'll need to have completed at least 35 hours of related training before you can take the exam. If you have a Bachelor's degree, then you'll also need 4,500 hours of project management experience (those without a degree will need 7,500 hours).
That means getting a PMP certification can take years, but it's worth it for those that want this kind of career. Certified PMPs currently earn an average of $148,906 per year. However, those numbers can grow significantly if a PMP holder moves up into senior management, which many such professionals do.
6. Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)
Though it's maintained a position on the top 10 certifications list, the Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) certification has dropped from third place in 2020 to sixth in 2021.
It was also the highest-paying discipline with a core focus on information security in 2020, but has now fallen slightly behind its rivals, the CISSP and CRISC certifications (see below). However, it's still very much a sought-after and lucrative credential, especially considering the dearth of qualified IT security professionals.
Attain it, and your job will be to design and engineer security protocols as well as manage a company's overall IT security. As a CISM, you'll have access to lines of business outside of IT, putting you face to face with company stakeholders. ISACA, which created the cert, has detailed learning resources.
CISMs are well-paid, too. On average, Global Knowledge says you can make $149,246 per year.
5. Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
If you work in security analysis, auditing, systems engineering, or anything in between, then the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) might be your perfect certification. It was created by the International Information System Security Certification Consortium, known as (ISC)², and is one of the most sought-after security certifications today. Moving up from sixth place last year, the CISSP credential teaches candidates to be information assurance pros. These folks are usually responsible for determining the security aspects of an IT organization's overall architecture, controls, and management.
Should you pass the test, which requires you to have a minimum of five years worth of relevant experience, you can look forward to an average compensation rate of $151,853 per year. It's worth noting that even after getting the certification you will still need to receive continuing education credits each year to maintain your credential. This is a tough requirement, but that's a big reason why this cert is in such demand by employers.
4. Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC)
Take the ISACA Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) exam and you'll be tested in four major IT skill areas: Assessment, Identification, Mitigation, and Response, as well as Control Monitoring and Reporting. CRISC has maintained its fourth-place position on the list from last year likely because the industry has a continued and strong focus on evaluating IT risk. If you have the prerequisite three years of relevant experience, and identifying and managing risks sounds interesting to you, then the CRISC certification is worth checking out.
The test has 150 questions and lasts roughly four hours. If you pass the exam and find a role, your certification can earn you an average of $151,995 per year.
3. AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Falling one notch from second to third place this year, the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate certification tests your expertise in designing systems on the Amazon Web Services cloud. If you have hands-on experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and are used to architecting large-scale, distributed systems, then this certification may be exactly what you need to move your career forward.
To achieve this certification, candidates must pass the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C02) exam. In addition to the relevant training, AWS also recommends at least a year of hands-on experience designing systems on AWS before taking this exam. The exam takes 80 minutes and is administered at PSI centers across the United States. Successful AWS Certified Solutions Architects make an average of $159,033 per year.
2. Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect
Falling from first to second place in 2021 is the Google Professional Cloud Architect certification, which debuted in 2017. This discipline allows IT pros to certify as architects on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Completing this certification ensures you'll have the capacity to design, develop, and manage resources residing on Google's cloud architecture using GCP technologies.
Earning this certification entails a deep knowledge of the Google technology solutions you'll need to apply in order to address a wide variety of different cloud scenarios. Cloud skills continue to be in high demand and mastering Google's tools for reliable and secure solutions will be critical to any organization standardizing on the GCP platform. Global Knowledge points out that the average cloud computing professional in the U.S. makes over $160,000 a year, despite that specialization making up such a small percentage (4%) of its survey respondent base. Google Certified Professional Cloud Architects can expect to earn an average of $169,029 per year.
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A newcomer to the Top 10 list, this accreditation has exploded in popularity because of the intense need for cloud data management and database expertise. However, this isn't a database-administrator sort of gig. If you complete the Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer cert, you'll instead be doing architecture work on business processes and statistical models. You'll also design machine learning algorithms. That means you'll be giving senior management the data they need to make important business decisions through data transformation and visualization.
You'll need to pass the Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer exam to get this credential. Google offers plenty of online training courseware to help you get ready, but any certification candidate must also have an undergraduate degree in computer science, informatics, information systems, statistics, or another degree that Google would term a "quantitative field."
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AMC has snuffed out The Killing.
The cable network on Friday announced that "after much deliberation." it would not go forward with a third season of the serial procedural.
The decision to end The Killing came a month after the season two finale brought closure to the show's primary story line. Rosie Larsen's killer was revealed to an audience of 1.45 million total viewers, down 47 percent from the 2.72 million who tuned in for the April 3, 2011, series premiere.
In the second quarter of 2012, AMC averaged 1.03 million viewers in prime time, a decline of 17 percent versus the year-ago period (1.23 million). The core demo proved to be more resilient, as adults 18 to 49 dipped just 5 percent.
The Killing marks only the second time AMC has canceled an original drama series. In 2010, the network passed on a second season of the glacially-paced spy series Rubicon after the finale drew 1.03 million viewers.
Up next on the AMC development slate is the Detroit cop drama Low Winter Sun and an untitled legal thriller from screenwriter Richard LaGravenese and actor/director Tony Goldwyn. Pilots for both projects were greenlit in May.
AMC boasts the most successful original drama in cable history in The Walking Dead. The season two finale delivered a whopping 8.99 million viewers and 5.98 million adults 18 to 49 and a pair of award-winning critics' darlings (Breaking Bad, Mad Men).
On Aug. 12, AMC will return its period drama Hell on Wheels for its sophomore run. The inaugural run of 10 episodes averaged 2.98 million total viewers, per Nielsen live-plus-same-day data, and time-shifted viewing boosted that delivery another 44 percent.


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Newsroom / News Releases / Home repair assistance in Milwaukee gets boost from Associated Bank and Brewers Community Foundation
Home repair assistance in Milwaukee gets boost from Associated Bank and Brewers Community Foundation
'Hits for Homes' program leads to $100,000 donation and tool drive generates 160 tools for Housing Resources, Inc.
Thursday, September 08, 2016 | General Release
Christopher Piotrowski and Eduardo Herrera-Mier present check to HRI on behalf of Associated Bank.
MILWAUKEE – September 8, 2016 – Associated Bank and Brewers Community Foundation wrapped-up the Hits for Homes program during this baseball season with a $100,000 donation to Housing Resources, Inc. (HRI). A check was presented to HRI before the Brewers' September 7th game at Miller Park.
For every hit recorded during Brewers home games, a $150 donation was tallied on the Associated Bank Check Deck screen, which is located above the Associated Bank Check Deck in left-centerfield. The donation to HRI will be used to provide emergency and essential home repair grants in low-to-moderate-income neighborhoods in the Milwaukee community.
In addition to the financial contribution, Associated Bank and Brewers Community Foundation conducted a tool drive to support HRI's Tool Loan Center before the August 10th game at Miller Park against the Atlanta Braves. In sum, a total of 160 new or gently used tools were collected in exchange for free tickets to that evening's game. The donated tools will help to replenish the HRI Tool Loan Center's supply and help Milwaukee homeowners restore and maintain their homes, while stabilizing and reviving neighborhoods.
"Associated is a proud to partner with Brewers Community Foundation to support HRI and help families in our community with home repair assistance," said Christopher Piotrowski, chief marketing officer of Associated Bank. "This support, provided through HRI, helps stabilize families, facilitate neighborhood improvements and empower people to live their dream of successful homeownership."
"We value our partnership with Associated Bank," said Cecilia Gore, executive director of Brewers Community Foundation. "The commitment the organization has made to HRI should be commended. This type of effort has a meaningful impact on families."
Photo (pictured left to right): Associated Bank Chief Marketing Officer Christopher Piotrowski, Associated Bank CRA Residential Loan Manager Eduardo Herrera-Mier, Brewers Community Foundation Executive Director Cecilia Gore, Housing Resources, Inc. Executive Director Trena Bond
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Housing Resources, Inc. (HRI) was founded in 1991 as a 501(c)3 organization dedicated to providing education and counseling to first-time low and moderate income homebuyers. HRI's mission is to empower people to live their dream of homeownership through education, advocacy and supportive services. HRI has successfully assisted thousands of individuals and families in achieving their goal of homeownership, as well as provided services that help homeowners maintain their homes.
Housing Resources, Inc. is a chartered member of NeighborWorks®; a nationwide network of 240 trained and certified community development organizations at work in nearly 4,000 communities across America. Working in partnership with others, NeighborWorks® organizations are leaders in strengthening communities and creating affordable housing opportunities for low- and moderate-income families.


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#8 Spartan Men Fall in Regular Season Finale at #23 Carnegie Mellon
Case Western Reserve (14-3-1, 4-2-1 UAA) 1 0 1
Carnegie Mellon (11-4-2, 3-4-0 UAA) 3 0 3
1st - 8:06 - Painter,Jack (Carnegie Mellon)
1st - 11:48 - Cohen,Elliot (Carnegie Mellon)
1st - 34:22 - Dziadosz,Alex (Carnegie Mellon)
1st - 42:36 - Weber, Connor (Case Western Reserve)
G: Connor Weber - 1
Sh: 2 Players (#11, #23) - 3
Sv: Charlie Fink - 3
G: 3 Players (#5, #10, #24) - 1
A: Jacob Moskowitz - 1
Sh: Elliot Cohen - 2
Sv: Alec Lam - 4
The eighth-ranked Case Western Reserve University men's soccer team dropped their regular season-finale to 23rd-ranked Carnegie Mellon University 3-1 on Saturday afternoon at the CMU Soccer Field in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The Spartans see their regular season end at 14-3-1 and 4-2-1 in the University Athletic Association, while the Tartans end their regular season at 11-4-2 overall and 3-4-0 in the UAA.
Carnegie Mellon opened the scoring within the first eight minutes of the game. Jack Painter registered his fourth goal of the season at the 8:06 mark to give the Tartans the early advantage. CMU added to their lead just over three minutes later when Elliot Cohen laced a shot from 20 yards out that found the back of the for his eighth goal of the season.
The Tartans increased their advantage to 3-0 in the 34th minute when Alex Dziadosz recorded his second goal of the season at the 34:22 mark.
CWRU would got on the board at the 42:36 mark when sophomore midfielder Connor Weber launched a free kick from the top of the box that got past the Tartans keeper. The goal was Weber's third of the campaign.
The Spartans would try to even the score in the second half, but the CMU defense would be too much as the Tartans held on for the 3-1 victory.
CWRU held the advantage in shots (10-9), while CMU took the advantage in corner kicks (6-3).
Junior midfielder Garrett Winter and junior forward Zachary Senft led the squad with three shots apiece, while Winter recorded two of his shots on goal.
In net, freshman goalkeeper Charlie Fink made three saves to run his season total to 55.
With the regular season now complete, the Spartans will await the announcement of the NCAA Division III Men's Soccer Championship selections, set to be released on NCAA.com on Monday, November 5th at 1:00 p.m. A link to the selection show will be posted to athletics.case.edu once it is made available.


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that said, in effect, "Honeysuckle-covered areas of Pennsylvania attract a lot of fruit-eating birds. There are lots of robins and catbirds there eating the berries, more than in areas without honeysuckle. They also eat any other fruit in the area. Go figure."
This is perfectly sensible. They're fruit-eating birds. It's a fruit. There's a lot of it. They come eat it. I have no quibble with the science or the scientists involved. I think they're probably right–-there probably ARE quite a lot of fruit-eating birds eating that fruit. This is perfectly good science, and I gots no beef with it. I quibble with some of their conclusions, but I have no problem with the observational science.
And then a surprising number of gardening blogs and nursery newsletters jumped on this to say "Look! This means invasive species aren't a big deal after all! Go tell your friends who got into native plants after reading Bringing Nature Home to relax, already!"
It was really kinda messed up. (Some of these people have SEEN kudzu, too. I question how anyone can witness kudzu in action and not think that invasive species are maybe kinda a problem worth considering, but there you have it…)
About the only thing that keeps me from tearing my hair out in big elaborately-dyed chunks is that quote from Gandhi–-"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." We sure haven't won, but hell, at least we're past the ignoring stage.
I am sure most of my readers are fully capable of seeing the problems here, but let me go off, because A) it makes me feel better, and B) I've had wine.
Robins and catbirds, the two species mentioned in the article, are generalists. They eat a lotta stuff. And they are perfectly good birds, even charming birds, but I want more than two birds in my garden.
So I want to know about the wood-warblers, about the hummingbirds, about the woodpeckers. How are they handling a life over-run by honeysuckle? I want to know about whip-poor-wills and hawks, mice and moles, the elegant little shoe-string sized ringneck snakes and the big black racers, the salamanders and the cricket frogs.
And how about the bugs? How about the pollinators, in fact? I'm sure they ate hearty when the honeysuckle bloomed, but that was too late for a lot of them, since the honeysuckle also leafed out early and shaded out the spring ephemeral flowers that serve as the first meal for a great many pollinators. And the hummingbirds probably had a good meal too, but I suspect they had to leave after that and find somewhere else to breed, since a honeysuckle-strangled world offers far fewer flowers later in the year. Come to think of it, robins have to feed their young bugs like everybody else–-what are the breeding numbers like, long-term, in a honeysuckle-dominated area? A quick snack for migrants, I can see, but I bet it's not preferred nesting areas…well, anyway.
So honeysuckle thickets aren't quite as ecologically dead as kudzu forests. Whoopty-freakin'-doo, sez I. This is good news in the "not-quite-as-horrible-as-we-thought" sense, but hailing it as "Therefore stop worrying about invasive species! By the way, we have a special on privet and barberry!" makes me want to scream and bite things, or perhaps take a very long nap. (A NAP OF RAGE! Oh, shut up, like you've never done it…)
Even leaving all that aside, let me point out that A) you cannot generalize about the effects on an entire ecosystem by the effects of one plant in one area on a couple of specific species. There are tons of pigeons and rats in Manhattan, but the success of those two species in those conditions does not mean that paving over the world and putting up skyscrapers would be good for vertebrate species across the board–-all it means is that a couple of very adaptable species can adapt and thrive.
Sigh. A little science in the hands of people who want to be reassured that THEY can't possibly be doing anything bad to the planet is a dangerous thing. I hate bad science. I hate good science made into bad science by people with agendas. And certainly no nursery could have a hidden agenda or anything. It's not like they make all their money selling exotic plants or anything.
Oh. Wait. Hmm.
Apparently this is a backlash to all those so-called "native purists" I keep hearing about, who want nothing that isn't native and chew you out if you plant catmint or cannas. I would like to meet one some day, because I still haven't. (I once had a nursery owner get really pissy with me when I said that I was big into native plants and asked if she had any inkberry holly. There was eye-rolling and sighing. I instantly became a problem customer. Presumably a busload of these legendary purists had just left, after spitting on her privet bushes and making unkind comments about her Bradford pears—that's the only explanation I got.) Now, I'm huge into native plants, I love them, I collect them, I have, at last count, put in over a hundred different native species into this 2.5 acre madhouse I live in, and god, if that's not obsession, what is?—but I am still not out there slapping the azaleas from anyone's hands. (I rather like azaleas. And I have tons of Walker's Low Catmint, a pomegranate sapling, cannas, my salvia collection of doom…I will plant non-natives with a glad heart, as long as they don't eat the freakin' world. And goddamn, if the deer keep biting off mouthfuls of my "Autumn Fire" sedum and spitting them out, I am seriously gonna cut a bitch.)
…I had a point there. Hang on. Yes. More wine. Yes.
Robins and catbirds are very adaptable, and more power to 'em. But I would kinda like to live in a world that also had, oh, warblers and trillium, sparrows and sapsuckers—hell, wolves and tigers and moose and ostriches, pileated woodpeckers and jack-in-the-pulpit and frogs. I would like the whole world not to look the SAME. I would like to go to the desert and have it look like the desert, the forest look like the forest, the swamp be an-honest-to-god swamp. I do not want the whole world to look like a subdivision. I would like to eat at someplace other than McDonald's. And if we're all planting all the same invasives, and all the same highly adaptable species are surviving, and all the others are quietly expiring under the kudzu, I don't think we gain anything, and I think we lose a lot.
More wine, damnit. More wine.
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Wine and Grumbling
Some days I think the sole purpose of the internet is to make me angry. Then I turn on NPR and wonder if the sole purpose of news of any sort is to make me angry. Then I dismiss this news-as-solipsism and go haul bags of manure, which tends to take the edge off. Very few outrages can sustain themselves through 400 lbs of steer crap, and if it does, I can always go get rocks and build beds. (I finished digging the pond, so that's out.)
Someday the entire garden will be bedded and ponded and manured and then I will probably have to go on Valium or something. I can't dig a second pond. A second pond is just crazy talk…glorious, glorious crazy talk…
Ahem. Where was I?
Right, right. Anyway, so many of the things that make me angry are beyond my ability to talk about rationally. Compare abortion to slavery and I am reduced to anguished frothing, tell me about Libya and Wisconsin and the frothing becomes even more anguished and by the end of the week I am reading Barbara Kingsolver essays in the middle of Panera and trying not to cry into my bread bowl, because I am very small and there is so little that I can DO.
But one thing I CAN address, and that's the smaller argument goin' down in gardening circles at the moment, which also makes me angry, and which I feel reasonably equipped to talk about it.
So a coupla weeks back, a scientific paper came out that said, in effect, "Honeysuckle-covered areas of Pennsylvania attract a lot of fruit-eating birds. There are lots of robins and catbirds there eating the berries, more than in areas without honeysuckle. They also eat any other fruit in the area. Go figure."
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For Madera Hospital, Obamacare Presents Questions And Uncertainty
By Rebecca Plevin • Sep 10, 2013
Madera Community Hospital officials are unsure of how care will be funded and reimbursed once the Affordable Care Act is implemented.
Madera Community Hospital
If Madera Community Hospital is a safety net for county residents, then medical professionals like Stephanie Rolfo are a crucial link. On a September morning, Rolfo greets a patient who's coming to the hospitals' on-site clinic for a physical.
The hospital has 106 beds, and is the only adult acute care facility in the county. It also operates three rural health clinics, like the one where Rolfo, who's a nurse practitioner, works.
The type of care offered at the hospital won't change much when the Affordable Care Act is implemented in January 2014. But how that care is funded and reimbursed could change dramatically.
"How many people really sign up? Now that they have insurance, are they going to seek out more services than they have in the past? Do we have the capacity to handle all that? How are local physicians reacting to this as well?" says Mark Foote, the hospital's chief financial officer.
"All those questions are yet to still be answered. It makes for interesting times in health care, with all the uncertainty that exists out there."
"It makes for interesting times in health care, with all the uncertainty that exists out there" - Mark Foote
For the hospital, the big question is whether the books will balance once the health law is in place.
Medicare payments to the hospital have already been reduced. The hospital receives federal payments for serving a disproportionate number of low-income patients, and these are slated to be chopped, too.
The cuts could be offset - if a significant number of the hospital's patients enroll in health insurance. But that's a big 'if,' Foote says.
"It's tough to decide right now whether the payments we're going to get from the previously uninsured patients that are mandated to buy coverage are going to be enough to offset the cuts that are coming through the Medicare program," he says.
The balancing act will depend, in part, on how many uninsured people are successfully enrolled into new health insurance programs, like the expanded Medi-Cal program and the state's insurance exchange, Covered California.
"Hopefully, if that's a great success, then the amount of people who pay for insurance will be reduced, and thus we'll have fewer bad debts and other types of related non-payment situations, and we can make up for some of the cuts," Foote says.
But based on Karen Paolinelli's experience on the floor of the rural clinic, that could be a risky thing to bet on. She's a nurse practitioner, and the director of the hospital's rural clinics.
"I actually do talk to my patients about it," she says of the new insurance options. "They're in the dark. They really have no clue about what's going to happen. Many patients don't even understand it."
"They really have no clue about what's going to happen. Many patients don't even understand it" - Karen Paolinelli
And then there are undocumented patients, who receive care at the hospital, but aren't eligible for insurance under most provisions of the health law.
"There's never enough money to cover all the costs of those types of patients, so we have to absorb the costs above what we get paid for those patients, and try to get covered by other forms of payments," Foote says. "So that's always been a challenge."
Madera Community Hospital is not facing these financial challenges alone.
Jan Emerson-Shea, with the California Hospital Association, says hospitals in the state are expected to take huge cuts – an estimated $17 billion between now and 2020 - to help pay for the expanded coverage that the health law will provide. Meanwhile, she says, it could take several years for the uninsured to enroll in insurance.
"It's a very challenging time for hospitals – it's exciting on one hand, because we very much believe in the goals of the Affordable Care Act, and on the other hand, it's going to be very difficult, because we're facing very difficult financial times ahead, with these payments cuts looming," Emerson-Shea says.
These cuts should not affect the quality of care provided in hospitals, but they could impact the type of care offered, she says.
"Hospitals up and down the state are having to make difficult, strategic decisions about what services they will be able to continue to offer their local communities, and what services they may no longer be able to provide, in order to keep their doors open," she says.
Those decisions could be several years down the road, though. John Frye, CEO of Madera Community Hospital, says it will take time to determine the law's true impact on the hospital.
"It's unprecedented change," he says. "With that, it just takes a lot of time for something so enormous to really determine if the results are what they thought they would be… This is implemented over several years. This next year will be the most significant change to date, and the next several years after that we'll see the impact of that."
The hospital and its clinics will continue providing acute and preventative care to county residents. But how much that care will cost the hospital is an unknown and looming question.
Madera Health Center Prepares for Obamacare
By Rebecca Plevin • Jul 9, 2013
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In less than three months, thousands of California residents will begin enrolling in expanded health coverage as part of the Affordable Care Act. The law is complex and touches almost every part of the health care system. But what does it mean for residents of the San Joaquin Valley? Over the coming months, we'll explore that question by visiting with patients, doctors, businesses and clinics in the community of Madera. It's a city that's home to more than 62,000 people, more than quarter of whom live below the poverty level.
Growers Find Innovative Ways To Provide Health Care To Employees
By Rebecca Plevin • Sep 3, 2013
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The almond harvest is well underway in Madera County.
Along a tree-lined, rural road, about a dozen Agriland employees are loading almonds into a huge elevator. The nuts will then be loaded into a truck. They will appear on the shelves as Blue Diamond-brand almonds, among others.
On Valley Edition: Madera & the Affordable Care Act; Fresno County Probation; Good Company Players
By Joe Moore, Rebecca Plevin & Ezra David Romero • Jul 9, 2013
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This week on Valley Edition FM89 reporter Rebecca Plevin examines how Madera County's only federally qualified health center is gearing up for Obamacare. Also on the program host Joe Moore speaks with Rick Chavez, the Fresno County Chief Probation Officer to replace Linda Penner come August.


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The Battle Between FedEx Ground and Now-Former Contractor
August 29, 2022 • By Deborah Lockridge • Bookmark +
Are FedEx Ground contractors taken advantage of, or do they simply need to be better business people?
Photo: Deborah Lockridge
Spencer Patton's company is one of the largest FedEx Ground contractors in the United States — or it was, until his outspoken criticism of FedEx Ground led to the company canceling his contract and filing a lawsuit against him.
Patton's trucking operation, Patton Logistics based in Nashville, Tennessee, had about 225 employees and 275 trucks on the road across 10 different states, and in recent months he's been vocal and public with criticisms of how FedEx Ground treats its contractors. But FedEx Ground's legal challenge accuses him of creating a "fictionalized crisis" to drive business to his own consulting company, Route Consultant.
UPDATE: FedEx Ground Contractor Association Disbands (November 2022)
Patton has been an outspoken advocate for the roughly 6,000 contractors that deliver packages for FedEx Ground, alleging that FedEx Ground has expanded its profit margins through proceeds from fuel surcharges without allowing contractors to share in those proceeds. He also says that FedEx Ground has not adequately addressed other strains on contractor profits, such as Sunday deliveries.
His frustration with challenges being faced by FedEx Ground contractors and other contractors in the last-mile delivery space led Patton to start a separate business, Route Consultant, which advises and provides resources for FedEx Ground and other similar contractors. Its website offers FedEx and Amazon routes for sale. It also features a disclaimer that it is not endorsed by, recommended by, sponsored by, approved by, or associated with FedEx or Amazon in any way.
FedEx Ground Responds
Things apparently came to a head after Patton's remarks during the Route Consultant's 2022 Contractor Expo in Las Vegas Aug. 20-21, an event Patton said drew 60% of all the FedEx Ground contractors in the United States.
FedEx Ground filed a lawsuit on Aug. 26 against Route Consultant for disparaging FedEx Ground through a series of alleged false and misleading statements about its commercial activities. Hours after filing the lawsuit, FedEx Ground terminated all contracts with Patton Logistics. FedEx maintains that it has contingency plans to replace those routes and that service will not be interrupted.
In a 29-page complaint filed Aug. 26 in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, FedEx said Patton has misrepresented the financial hardships of FedEx Ground contractors. The suit contends that Patton is urging ISPs to renegotiate their deals with FedEx Ground as a way to drive business to his company, Route Consultant. It also alleges that Patton is overestimating the number of service providers in financial distress and that FedEx Ground is consenting to mid-contract negotiations with ISPs, contrary to what Patton claims.
Spencer Patton told some 3,500 attendees to his contractor expo, "I want to see FedEx Ground remember their identity. They are a $60 billion dollar company that could be $120 billion dollar company if we can work together through these challenges."
Photo: Route Consultant
"For years FedEx Ground has used bullying tactics when interacting with their contractors to create an environment of intimidation,", Patton said in a statement. "This move to cancel our contracts is a clear case of a $60 billion corporation silencing anyone with a voice."
Patton had set a date, November 25, Black Friday, as a deadline for FedEx Ground to make changes, or he, the largest contractor would pull out. He dubbed it "Purple Friday."
Other contractors, he said, would take the same action, because "the overwhelming majority, more than 50% of FedEx Ground contractors, are operating at a loss right now," he told Chris Brown on the Fleet Forward Fast Forward video podcast, recorded before FedEx responded with legal action.
The message to FedEx Ground, Patton told Brown, was, "you have to restore the financial viability to the ownership of routes. Right now, I am losing money in my daily operations of my own FedEx Ground routes. And we're subsidizing FedEx Ground's business. And that is just not a viable path forward."
In a Wall Street Journal article, Satish Jindel, president of the research firm SJ Consulting Group, said FedEx needs to listen to feedback its contractors — but that contractors also need to improve the way they explain their operations and expenses to the company. If the conflict persists, "the winner will be the competition," Jindel said.
The Person in a FedEx Ground Truck is Not a FedEx Employee
In the Fast Forward interview, Patton offered more information on the association and insights into the world of a FedEx Ground contractor.
"Most of the United States has no clue that the person coming into your door wearing a FedEx uniform, driving a FedEx Ground truck, is not actually a FedEx Ground employee," Patton said. "FedEx Ground contracts out 100% of their entire network to about 6,000 small business owners across the United States," most with somewhere between 10 and 25 employees.
These contractors own delivery territories, both for last-mile delivery and linehaul.
The problem with this model, he said, is that "we don't have any control over our top line revenue. Most other transportation businesses, when your input costs go up — things like fuel and wages and vehicle costs, stuff that all of us are experiencing — there's at least the optionality to pass that through to a customer. That's not in the cards for us as contractors for FedEx Ground, because we have operating agreements that last 12 to 18 months. We have no ability to pass through increased costs, so we are 100% at the mercy of FedEx Ground to make, in extreme cases like this, mid-contractual adjustments."
Patton said historically, the relationship between FedEx Ground and its contractors was kept in balance because FedEx Ground relies entirely on contractors, "if they allow their contractors to financially struggle to the degree where they collapse, then so, too, does FedEx Ground's entire delivery network. But that has not been the case over the last nine months."
He contends that the situation is so bad for contractors, "FedEx Ground's very network is at risk, and it is far more severe than what anyone has any idea about."
Purchasing Power and a New Last-Mile Association
Approximately 3,500 FedEx Ground contractors, industry analysts, professionals and special guests were on hand at Route Consultant's 2022 Contractor Expo to discuss "the inflation-based and contractual challenges facing the network of small business owners that power the FedEx Ground network," according to a news release.
Patton says the 6,000 FedEx Ground contractors spend about $15 billion per year collectively in procurement – buying vehicles, fuel, uniforms, etc. — but there is no collective purchasing power. "We will literally go to a Ford dealership and buy a step van at the same price as any listener here would be able to get that same step van. So one of the things that we announced at our expo was the Route Consultant Purchasing Alliance."
The alliance has five inaugural vendors that, through the purchasing alliance, can offer lower prices on purchases such as fuel and tire services to FedEx Ground contractors and other similar businesses.
Also during the expo, Patton introduced the Trade Association for Logistics Professionals, which he said will advocate for small business owners in the industry, including owners of last-mile delivery routes and linehaul runs, "based on their shared experiences, successes and challenges."
The association is not just for FedEx Ground contractors. For instance, he said, Amazon has about 2,300 delivery service partners, or DSPs, which operate on a similar model.
"There's a trade association for really small industries," Patton told Brown on the podcast. "There's a basket weaving association. But incredibly there's just not a trade association, especially for FedEx Ground contractors, but even for the broader last-mile industry."
Although the association was Patton's vision, it is taking nominations for an elected 10-person board to direct its initiatives.
With reporting from Chris Brown
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Winter Brings Colds - Case Chiropractic, Inc.
The major winter holidays are over and we're stuck with chilly weather and cloudier-than-usual skies until Spring finally decides to make an appearance.
And you know what else we're stuck with? Colds. Lots and lots of colds.
Have you ever wondered why we could put a man on the moon but still can't cure the common cold? We have! And we looked into it.
You see, the term "cold" refers to a complex group of symptoms sharing similar characteristics but which may be caused by a variety of different viruses.
Some of the very common symptoms of the cold include runny nose, nasal congestion, sneezing, cough, and sometimes sore throat and watery eyes.
According to scientists, at least half of colds are caused by rhinoviruses, of which there are approximately 100 different types. Yep. 100.
And therein lies the problem. There are so many different viruses and causes for the common cold – and those viruses change from year to year – that we'll never catch up with them.
The lack of efficacy of Cough and Cold Medicines (CCMs) is not surprising when one considers the pathophysiology of common cold symptoms. Those familiar and annoying signs and symptoms are primarily a result of our body's own inflammatory response to the viral destruction of infected cells in our upper airway. By the time this inflammation has begun, the progression of the illness and the resulting symptoms is inevitable. Our immune system (with the exception of those with congenital or acquired immunodeficiencies) is usually quite capable of rapidly countering the upper airway invasion by these viruses with this robust (though uncomfortable) inflammatory response. Most of the anecdotally reported benefits of CCMs are likely attributable to the self-limited nature of colds – a result our body's own ability to clear the virus and repair the damage.


In "Brief Answers To The Big Questions", the last book published in renowned physicist Stephen Hawkings name, he has reached the conclusion that there is no God.
"There is no God. No one directs the universe," he writes in "Brief Answers to the Big Questions, a copy of which is with IANS.
"For centuries, it was believed that disabled people like me were living under a curse that was inflicted by God," he adds. "I prefer to think that everything can be explained another way, by the laws of nature," Hawking writes.
It has been completed by Hawking's family after his death, and features answers to several pertinent questions that were put to the physicist during his illustrious life.
Among Hawking's other important assertions and findings, sequences concerning extraterrestrial life and artificial intelligence will interest readers.
Hawking has concluded that there is alien life in existence and has anticipated that artificial intelligence, for all that it is worth, may outsmart humans.
He has also asserted that time travel cannot be ruled out.
"Travel back in time can't be ruled out according to our present understanding," he says, predicting that "within the next hundred years we will be able to travel to anywhere in the Solar System."
For most of his adult life, Hawking suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), which is a neurodegenerative disorder, often referred to as Lou Gehrig's Disease.
His many publications included "The Large Scale Structure of Spacetime" with G F R Ellis, "General Relativity: An Einstein Centenary Survey", with W Israel, and "300 Years of Gravitation", with W Israel.
Among the popular books Stephen Hawking published are his best seller "A Brief History of Time", "Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays", "The Universe in a Nutshell", "The Grand Design" and "My Brief History".