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School leaders move forward as Imagine presses legal action
Principal Justin Matthews eagerly awaits Monday's groundbreaking ceremony as he looks to further expand the biggest charter school in Sarasota County.
A day later, a court hearing is scheduled as Matthews' former bosses seek to push him from power, accusing him of a coup d'etat at the North Port school.
It is the latest part of a pitched battle pitting Matthews and the school's governing board against Imagine Schools, until days ago the charter's undisputed parent. The local governing board voted Feb. 15 to secede, accusing Arlington, Va.-based Imagine Schools of siphoning public tax dollars for its management fees and stunting the local school's growth.
The school, now independent, has been rechristened Sarasota Preparatory School.
Imagine Schools quickly sued Matthews and the board for more than $15,000, alleging both defamation and contract violation. The nonprofit also filed a motion for an emergency injunction that is scheduled to be considered Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. by Sarasota County Circuit Court Judge Charles Williams.
"We're doing what they should have if you have a dispute," said Shawn Arnold, a Jacksonville lawyer representing Imagine Schools, the largest commercial manager of charter schools in the United States.
"In this instance, we've gone to the court and asked for relief. We will wait for the court to speak before we take any action."
Matthews calls the nonprofit's lawsuit "frivolous," and scores of parents are backing him and the board.
"I have never seen a principal as involved as Justin is," said Imagine mother Tracy Roelle, who has a first- and fourth-grader at the school. "He's just a really solid role model for our kids."
Since Thursday, more than 100 parents have signed a petition voicing support for Matthews and the local board, and parents expect to present it to the court, Roelle said.
"This is not in the best interest of our kids to continue with Imagine when the money can be used to better serve students," said Roelle, a volunteer treasurer with the parent-teacher organization. "Mostly, I hear support. I really do."
There have been a few "naysayers," Roelle said.
"They were honest with us. They had no idea what's going on" and declined to sign the petition after being caught in the email crossfire between Matthews and Imagine Schools.
So far, the school has not seen a spike in student departures as the legal clash has heated up, Matthews said.
"Even though there's a lot going on, the professionalism of the staff is causing the school day to be normal," Matthews said of the 100 staff members at the two campuses. "It's business as usual."
District Superintendent Lori White had staffers visit the school once this past week — and plans to do so again on Monday and Tuesday.
"I don't feel there will be disruption. We just want to have the reassurance," said White, who, like others close to the situation, is awaiting the results of the Tuesday court hearing. "We want to make sure everything is continuing to work smoothly" so classrooms aren't affected.
Of the Sarasota district's nine charter schools, only two — the Imagine schools at North Port and Palmer Ranch — are run by a parent company.
The fight already is having some tangible financial impacts.
Arnold, the Jacksonville attorney, said Imagine Schools stopped payment on a $100,000 check that the local governing board had written to itself. The company also has concerns about another $650,000 from the state that had not yet been deposited into its primary bank account, the lawyer said.
Matthews counters that the five-member board has two accounts and was only transferring money from one to another.
"That's all really confusing and disconcerting," Matthews said about Imagine's response. "Imagine Schools Corp. is fully aware the local board has two bank accounts."
Matthews has led the charter school since its opening in 2008. In the five years since, the student population has doubled to about 1,100, while the school has been rated "A" by the state for the past three years.
Signs of the division between local management and parents and the non-profit parent can even be seen in the virtual world.
Imagine School at North Port still has a website.
A website for Sarasota Preparatory School — still being built — has a picture of a Hawaiian shirt in a closet and the words "Future home of something quite cool."


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Jim McLean Course Set to Open at Doral
Jim McLean has operated a golf school at Doral for two decades.
THE DORAL GOLF RESORT & SPA, a Marriott Resort, will debut The Jim McLean Signature Course at Doral, which was formerly known as the Silver Course.
Named after acclaimed golf instructor Jim McLean, a Top 100 Instructor who operates the Jim McLean Golf School at Doral, The Jim McLean Signature Course is McLean's first full golf course design project, and is highlighted by three of the toughest starting holes in golf.
The new par-70 layout is set to open this month. Highlights include widened fairways, enhanced water visuals and an increased course length from 6,557 yards to over 7,100 yards. The course also boasts a collection of dramatic par-3 holes on the back nine known as the Bermuda Triangle.
A bevy of golf products, services, destinations, events, news and more. Endorsement is not implied.
• Classic Sports Brands (CSB) is honoring legendary golf professional and acclaimed golf instructor, Bob Toski, and his first Classic Golf Cruise and new agency affiliation with CSB.
• GolfBallsAndAccessories.com sells used golf balls for as low as $0.30 each and used ProV1s for as low as $1 each.
• Macali Communications has launched a blog and new strategy for SeeMore.
• The World Golf Tour (WGT.com) is hosting a virtual U.S. Open Championship at Bethpage Black.
• A revised and updated edition of the top-selling The Eight-Step Swing by legendary golf teaching pro Jim McLean has been released for sale by publisher HarperCollins.
• Nick Costner writes comedy golf songs (SongsAboutGolf.com) and has been featured on ESPN Radio and TravelGolf.com.
• Henry-Griffitts, a custom-club fitter for 26 years, announced the release of its new OS-1 Irons.
• The Wind Meter Application for iPhone (WindApp.com) was developed by a start-up group of young engineers in Silicon Valley who enjoy the game of golf.
• Ladies Links Fore Golf (LL4G) and Nancy Lopez Golf (NLG) have formed an affiliation to offer amateur women golfers the "Best of the Best" combination in golf instruction and equipment.
• Dr. Robert Grober, a professor of Applied Physics and Physics at Yale University has developed a highly advanced, yet easy to use, swing aid − the Sonic Golf System-1 − that enables golfers at all skill levels to develop and maintain a consistent swing motion that will assist in game improvement.
• GolfSigma (GolfSigma.com) is a tee time search engine that searches tee time Web sites and conveniently displays all the results on the GolfSigma site.
• Performance apparel by AHEAD (AheadWeb.com) is a Father's Day gift opportunity.
• Slotline® is celebrating its new Web Site (SlotlineGolf.com) with a putter giveaway.
• In its May 2009 issue (on newsstands), WSJ. Magazine features a behind-the-scenes look into former party boy Anthony Kim's new lifestyle, from his workout regimen and diet, to his iPod playlist of choice for hyping up before tournaments.
• Tiger Woods is honored in TIME's list of 100 most influential people in the world (on newsstands).
• GOLF CHANNEL will combine exclusive early round live tournament coverage with Live From THE PLAYERS news reporting for 35 hours of THE PLAYERS programming.
• Imperial Headwear is teaming with the golf coaches association to sponsor the teams for the Palmer Cup.
• Marriott Golf has launched its "Fairway Furloughs" Military Golf Program.
• The Amphibian golf towel (AmphibianTowel.com) by Frogger Golf has twice the surface area as the standard towel, plus it's the world's first towel to stay both wet and dry in rainy or sunny weather. Available in three colors, retails for $24.95.
• The 2009 PUMA Open golf event series is underway with plans to visit 15 cities across North America from May through October.
• The World Golf Tour (WGT.com) is holding a contest for a video blogger that will commentate on the virtual and real-life U.S. Open. The search will reward the lucky winner with an all-expenses paid trip to the U.S. Open with a press pass and camera crew to capture the event on behalf of WGT.com as well as report on updates of the virtual U.S. Open.
• For the 12th year, PGA/LPGA Professionals in all areas will be offering free 10-minute golf lessons throughout the month of May as part of PGA Free Lesson Month.
• Le Towelé (www.argeecorp.com/HTML/letowele.htm) is a 14" x 16" black microfiber towel that attaches to a retractable cord which draws back into a clip-on waistband device. The high-quality towel can easily be removed from the device and thrown right in the washing machine for the next round of golf.
• GOLF CHANNEL's newest original series, Golf in America (June 23 premiere), will travel coast-to-coast to discover never-before-told stories, larger-than-life characters and inspirational people to capture the spirit of the game of golf.
• The Half Moon summer golf package (HalfMoon.com) includes seven nights free when booking seven nights (14 nights total) and five free rounds of golf.
• South Carolina dominated Golf Digest magazine's new list of the 100 top public golf courses in the United States.
−The Armchair Golfer
2 comments:
Great info. As far as Jim McLean's new course, I suppose it would be tremendous for pros and others of equal skill. The average golfer would probably like to play it so they can say that they played it and then go to a course that was a little more suited to their talent.
- The Armchair Golfer said...
Yes, it does sound like it would eat most golfers' lunch.
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I am seeking information on the 4th great grandfather of my wife named Archibald McEachen
Arch was born in 1791 and married Jean(Jane) on 5/2/1809 in Kilcalmonell and kilberry
They had 6 children Charles 4/10/1809,Malcolm 21/5/1812,Duncan 23/11/1814,Peggy 27/12/1819, Mary 26/9/1822 and Jean 11/11/1830
The 1841 census for the village of CLACHAN lists for the McEachens Arch 50 ,Jean 55 , Duncan 20 , jean 9 ,and Archibald 5
The first son Duncan married Elizabeth McGowan (Mc Gown) born 1812 paisley , in 1834 in Greenock
The emigrated to Australia in 1838 and settled in the Canberra region where they became successful farmers and strong supporters of their church. They were later joined by Charles brother Duncan and Charles Son Arch who had been living with his grandparents.
I visited Kintyre n 2013 staying at the beautiful Tarbert I visited Clachan and the church but couldn't find any information as the local historian had moved to another village
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Hayley Westenra performed "World In Union" live in the studio today on ITV1's Loose Women. This is the official song of the Rugby World Cup 2011 and can be downloaded in English, Maori and (in some Countries) French, Italian and Japanese too. If you like it, please buy the download!
Hayley had to get from Westminster Abbey (singing at the Royal British Legion's 90th Anniversary Service) to the ITV studios today in a hurry! See her own comments and photo (twitpic) below the video!
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Hayley beats the London traffic between Westminster Abbey and ITV studios
She tweeted:
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Traffic in downtown Drake was heavy Wednesday afternoon as giant excavators clawed dirt and rock from the gurgling Big Thompson River and dump trucks hauled away huge shards of concrete that used to be U.S. 34.
But the town of Drake itself — maybe about 300 strong in the best of times — was virtually dead, shrouded in dried mud and muck.
The town's mainstay, The Historic River Forks Inn Bed & Breakfast, proclaimed itself open, though the bar remained smothered in silt that swept in on the historic September floodwaters that sent some Drake residents running for their lives.
Heavy trucks rumbled through intersection of County Road 43 and U.S. 34 every few seconds as crews from Kiewit Construction and the Colorado Department of Transportation hurried to meet a Dec. 1 deadline to reopen flood-ruined roads and highways — including 18-miles of U.S. 34 between Estes Park and Loveland.
U.S. 34 through Big Thompson Canyon was heavily damaged and has been closed to traffic since the flood. But construction managers said Wednesday they will meet the deadline — barring any huge weather problems — although the highway may not look like it did before.
"In some spots, the road will be lower and it will be narrower in others," CDOT resident engineer Scott Ellis said.
Ellis said at least 160 people are working on the project, using 70 pieces of equipment, almost around the clock.
The work is daunting. In some areas, the highway was completely swept away.
"The river was in places where the road should be," Kiewit construction manager Will White said.
Crews are trying to re-channel the river in a few spots while using fill dirt to make the road passable to traffic. Most of the fill material is coming from the damaged road, but some gravel and dirt is being trucked in from a CDOT gravel pit in Denver, Ellis said.
The 7-mile stretch of U.S. 34 from Estes Park to Drake is pockmarked with holes and large gaps. But crews at least have a foundation to work on, White said.
It's all a matter of perspective, White said. "What we call minor damage in that area would have been considered major before the flood."
Beyond Drake, closer to Loveland, much of the highway is nothing but jagged edges of concrete.
"Those last 2 miles will be the real challenge," White said.
Furniture, spent propane tanks, wood from wrecked homes and concrete slabs top of debris piles along the highway shoulder. Homes, some ripped in half by the water, hang precariously over the river.
One Subaru station wagon looks intact, but appears trapped for good because the driveway that runs behind it was stolen by the river.
The river's power was awful but impressive, White said.
I've never seen anything like this," he said. "The river tossed aside boulders and rock like it was nothing."


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Bittorrent Inc. announced a deal with Orb yesterday to bundle the streaming media centre software with its own P2P client, and both parties used the opportunities to goad Apple over its "walled garden" approach to media.
"We're breaking down the barriers of the 'siloed' environments, where hardware companies tie media to a specific device," Bittorrent's VP of product development, Mark Hopper, told us.
Can't think who he means, there.
"Now with Bittorrent, you can access any form of media and distribute it to any device you have," he went. "The first step is PC-centric - BT and Orb PC hub - but aligns very well with deeply integrated UI combinations."
Orb's Joe Costello was more explicit.
"Ever since OS X, Apple has tried to claim the halo of being not just cool but Open. But as anyone who's tried to play their Bittorrent movies or TV shows on their iPod can confirm, the iTunes + iPod/iPhone monopoly-in-the-making is anything but open. Steve Jobs is turning into that soup guy from the Seinfeld episode," he told us.
As a timely reminder of how closed-gardens can creep on us, NBC inadvertently set a flag in some of its broadcasts last week that prevented Windows Media Centre from recording the shows.
"Contrast that with the free pass Apple gets over its own ever-more-massively walled garden. Would even Microsoft dare suggest you can only put apps they certify on your phone?"
Alas, the bundling deal is only for Windows - the Mac version of Orb never seems to get any closer. You can, using Parallels or VMWare and an Intel-based Mac, send your songs and movies to your work PC or phone, but you'll have to replicate your iTunes playlists manually.
(Any readers know different? Let us know.)
Orb is well placed to break down the walled garden media model - levering open the mobile world with a partnership with Vodafone a couple of years ago - and opening up the Wii last year. ®
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www.underclassblog.com — AquaMail is an email app for Internet and Exchange mail, for Android 4.0.3 and higher.
Easy automatic setup for popular email providers:
Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, FastMail, Apple mail services (@me.com / @icloud.com), GMX, AOL, and more. Recognizes mail accounts hosted at Google Apps, Yahoo BizMail, and others.
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How Much Should Groceries Cost?
As with most all consumer goods, prices do go up. In the years subsequent to my earlier post, I have tended to raise the figure, though not to what many still feel is reasonable. Most disagreeing parties either cite their own household grocery budgets, the IRS' allowable living expenses national standards for food (see example here), or the USDA's Food Plan as proof that I'm off my rocker.
After all, my suggested monthly grocery allowance per person is usually half that of the federal government's suggestion. Even then, I know from personal experience and from other sources that it is possible to spend even less per month – as little as 25% of the IRS guidelines – and still eat nutritious and satisfying meals.I have received many, much-appreciated emails from readers and educators alike wondering about my suggestion from as far back as our 2011 budgeting presentation and a 2010 blog that households should try to spend between $75 and $125 per person per month in their household on groceries.
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Many of these emails express concerns that the suggested budget amount appears extraordinarily low, especially when compared to the suggested figures released by the federal government (upwards of $200 to $400 per person per month – see latest USDA Cost of Food report).
I know from my experience in teaching, as well as my own household of four expenses (including pre-teen boys), that the $50 to $150 per person per month is a reasonable range for food for many (if not most) American households. The first point to make is that the IRS guidelines are not suggestions nor even averages. These are amounts below which related expenses claimed on our taxes are not questioned by the IRS.
Additionally, the USDA's food plans are based on the assumption that most all American families can conform to one of their food plans: 1) thrifty, 2) low-cost, 3) moderate-cost and 4) liberal. If I were involved (and there's a good reason I am not), the names of these plans would instead have been: 1) reasonable, 2) dial it back, 3) lap of luxury and 4) Alaska (yes, food is sky high expensive there).
Is it easy? No.
Is it convenient? Certainly not.
At $125 per person per month, you would have to eliminate most of the grocery store budget busters that add nothing to our diets but do add inches to our waistlines, such as bags of chips, expensive brand name breakfast cereals, soft drinks and alcoholic beverages.
A $125 per person per month grocery budget means that dinners are not served from convenient, but expensive, heat-and-serve containers or pre-chopped bags and boxes. Rather, dinners are likely prepared, if not from scratch, at least from several basic ingredients. Expensive meats are likely not an everyday affair on the dinner tables of households living on a $125 per person per month grocery budget.
A $125 per person per month grocery budget means brown bag lunches for all family members in school and at work. However, according to 2015 data from the National Center for Education Statistics' website, more than ONE-HALF of all American schoolchildren are eligible for free or reduced-price lunches at schools.
A $125 per person per month grocery budget also probably means buying store brand rather than name brand products.
With all of these probabilities, you may be wondering what's left to eat: crackers, peanut butter and the occasional water on the rocks?
Actually, in our household, where my amazingly resourceful wife regularly hits $50 per person per month. Such frugal budgets often require an extra hour or two per week of research on the Internet and circulars for special deals. There was a time when our grocery shopping habits included the extensive usage of doubled-value coupons, buy-one-get-one-free coupons and the like. However, now, grocery shopping trips typically include two trips a month to a warehouse (e.g. Costco), a weekly run to the supermarket, an occasion visit to the local grocery store for milk, and a monthly trip to the bakery outlet for half-priced (or better) bread. When our local grocery store has special deals (aka "case lot sales"), we usually stock up on many of the staples available at great prices.
But our $125 per person per month grocery budget also includes healthy and tasty breakfast cereals (hot and cold), organic deli meats for sandwiches a couple times per week, some convenience foods, but mostly healthy and delicious meals (including affordable, in-season fresh fruits and vegetables). Plus, we have our occasional – 1 to 4 times per month, or more often if I'm lucky – home made crepes with Nutella and fresh strawberries (that's our splurge).
The truth is, a $125 per person per month grocery budget may seem like a farce to a household currently spending $300 per person per month, but it's actually quite achievable. In single-parent homes or homes where both parents work full time and non-work time is spent hauling kids from one activity to another, grocery planning and shopping time are likely difficult to come by or not prioritized. For such families, spending $125 per person per month is not an impossibility, but it may be a casualty of the realities of life.
I do recognize that there are many communities and neighborhoods around this country that do not have grocery stores nearby but rather convenience stores or corner markets whose prices are higher than grocery stores. Additionally, grocery prices vary greatly around the country, with some large metropolitan areas such as New York and Boston, averaging prices 30% to 50% higher than those areas with the lowest grocery prices. Combined with the fact that many households lack sufficient transportation to carry more than a few bags of groceries at a time, and the strategies described above may either be irrelevant or much more demanding.
Regardless, here are the basic principles of minimizing grocery costs in every household:
- Plan and prepare for each grocery trip
- Be a little flexible in your meal planning options, since what is on sale may not match what you are craving for dinner that week
- Don't pay full price unless absolutely necessary
- Take advantage of periodic sales on staples that have a long shelf-life
- Buy meat when it's on sale and store in the freezer
- Use store coupons especially when items are on sale
- Check store ads and take advantage of store policies that match other stores' low prices
- For additional ideas, see my blog on the 7 Keys to Saving Money on Groceries
- Leave the credit card and possibly even the debit card at home if you know that you are tempted to overspend using plastic
Keep in mind that I always say in my classes that the $125 per person per month grocery budget is a target, not an inviolable law. The reality is that the grocery bill is one of the easiest of all household bills to save money on with a little extra effort. So that makes it a great place to start when it comes to improving the household finances.
Good luck, and please feel free to share your successes (and your frustrations) in reducing your monthly grocery bill.
This article was updated May, 4th 2017 to reflect current grocery spending standards.
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Earlier this offseason, Titans wide receivers coach Shawn Jefferson said that Justin Hunter "can be the receiver that puts us in the playoffs and helps us win our division" this season.
That's a pretty big responsibility for any receiver to handle, especially one who caught just 18 passes in a rookie season that saw him serve a one-game suspension for violating team rules. John Glennon of the Tennessean wondered earlier in the offseason if the expectations were too high for Hunter and Hunter's teammate Michael Preston responded by comparing Hunter to one of the most prolific receivers in NFL history.
Preston called Hunter "a young Randy Moss" and explained this week why he put Hunter in such company.
"I know how great a player Randy Moss was, and in my mind, there's no reason Justin can't be the next greatest player … I just want to be there to support him. I know he's going to grow, make a great leap this year, and impress the city and fans with his talent," Preston said. "The one thing that stands out to me is the way he attacks the ball – and his leaping ability. Of course, he has to make the same type adjustments I had to make with height, staying low and being physical at the line. But the thing that stands out is the way he attacks the ball and how he's able to make that big play at any moment."
Comparisons to Moss are about as premature as calling a book the greatest you've ever read after the first word. While there's plenty to like about Hunter's size and athletic ability, he made nowhere near the impact that Moss made as a rookie and needs to show he has the hands and consistency it takes to have any career at the professional level.
For now, the talk sounds like the offseason hype machine running amok. Hunter will have plenty of chances to prove otherwise this season, though.


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The City of Arts and Sciences rises from the edge of Valencia's center like a modern-day Xanadu. Designed largely by native son and internationally renowned architect Santiago Calatrava, its marvelous collection of spiny, bleached white buildings has been a major tourist attraction in this Spanish port city ever since it was inaugurated in 1998. But more recently, the complex has lost some of its luster. Thanks to the crisis and, more recently, to an opposition party's campaign against Calatrava and the regional government that contracted him, the gleaming City of Arts and Sciences has become a symbol of the excess of Spain's go-go years. And it's hardly the only one of its kind.
From cultural centers to transportation hubs to sporting arenas, large-scale urban projects like the City of Arts and Sciences were some of the showiest results of Spain's boom. As the economy prospered in the late 1990s and early 2000s and E.U. money flowed into the country's coffers, municipal and regional governments invested in flashy projects designed to draw attention and it was hoped tourist dollars to cities far from the hubs of Madrid and Barcelona.
The origins of the craze for lavish provincial construction lie with the Guggenheim. When the New York Citybased contemporary-art museum opened a branch in Bilbao in 1997, it transformed a decaying, postindustrial city into an artistic epicenter and one of the major tourist destinations in Spain. It hardly mattered that the museum's own collection was minimal; Frank Gehry's breathtaking, titanium-clad building, beached like fantastical treasure ship on the banks of the Nerua River, drew 1.4 million tourists in its first year, a full million more than expected.
It wasn't long before other cities wanted to cash in on this so-called Bilbao effect. "For a lot of places, it seemed like a simple formula," says Llàtzer Moix, author of Arquitectura Milagrosa, a book that investigates Spain's infatuation with large-scale urban design. "Plan a cultural center. Get a star architect to build it. And voilà." Ignacio Blanco, spokesperson of the opposition Esquerra Unida (United Left) and a member of Valencia's regional parliament, well remembers the enthusiasm of his colleagues across the aisles for the City of Arts and Sciences when it was originally proposed. "Instead of worrying about education and health care, they wanted the glamour," he recalls. "They said it would put Valencia on the map."
To an extent, the formula worked. In 2011, regional president Francisco Camps announced that the complex had brought in some 40 million tourists since it opened, and the complex has indeed become the most readily identifiable sign of the city. But visibility alone does not mean success, especially in times of economic crisis. The Valencia project came in four times over its original budget, and its final unit was not completed until 2005.
And it's hardly alone. The Oscar Niemeyer International Cultural Center, a massive exhibition and performance space designed by the Brasilian architect for the northern Spanish port city of Avilés, ceased programming less than a year after it was inaugurated in March 2011. After decades of planning, Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain finally inaugurated its City of Culture, a Peter Eisenman campus, containing a museum, a library and a performance space, in January 2011. Yet the eventual $500 million spent wasn't even enough to finish the complex: the city ran out of money before completing two of the six planned buildings. "The crisis hit, and they didn't have any choice," says Anxo Lugilde, Galicia correspondent for La Vanguardia newspaper. "They had to stop construction."
Nor is it merely cultural projects that have felt the pinch. During the boom years, Spain massively expanded its transportation network, building new high-speed rail lines and opening airports in provincial capitals in the hopes of attracting low-cost carriers like Ryanair and easyJet. Whether this new infrastructure was needed seemed almost beyond the point; cities like Lleida, located just two hours' drive from Barcelona, or Ciudad Real, two hours south of Madrid, invested millions of dollars in building their own. "In the Western world today, war isn't military, it's economic," says Moix. "So during the boom you had a competition between cities to see who could capture the most weekend tourists. Whether it was sensible for every provincial capital to have its own museum or its own airport didn't really factor into the equation." Indeed, since the start of 2012 two such airports Castellón's in the region of Valencia and Ciudad Real's in CastillaLa Mancha have seen all their commercial flights canceled. Both airports now stand empty.
But in a year in which the Spanish economy is expected to contract 1.7%, bailout pressures are growing ever stronger, and each week seems to bring word of a new cutback, that a herd of white elephants are no longer going unremarked, especially in Valencia. Late in April, Esquerra Unida announced that, after years of trying to gain access to the region's accounts, its representative Blanco had finally seen the government's bills for the City of Arts and Sciences. The first week of May, it launched a website exposing those costs. Translated loosely as "Calatrava Bleeds You Dry," Calatravatelaclava.com site alleges that Valencia paid the famed architect €94 million ($120 million) for the City of Arts and Sciences alone (it also paid him for several other projects), and that he received preferential treatment despite the fact that he charged more than other architects. "He also avoided paying Spanish income and value-added taxes," says Blanco. "Because even though he has an office here that oversaw the construction, he billed from his office in Zurich."
In a statement released to the press, Calatrava did not refute the amount of his billing, but noted that his accounts had been carefully audited, and that they were "from the first contract, correctly adjusted to the quality and volume of the work." In an interview with TIME, his lawyer Francisco Vega rejected the charge of impropriety. "Santiago Calatrava left Spain for Switzerland in 1975 for school, and has lived there ever since," Vega says. "He doesn't pay Spanish taxes because he doesn't live in Spain. He pays Swiss ones, which I dare say are higher." Vega is investigating the possibility of bringing charges against Esquerra Unida for defamation.
But Blanco says that the architect is not his real target. "We're not against Calatrava. We're against the politicians who allowed this kind of excess." In Valencia's case, that excess still costs an estimated $896,000 a year in maintenance and upkeep a quantity increasingly difficult for a city that recently had to sell $635 million worth of short-term bonds at rates higher than Greece's. Perhaps that's why Lugilde's words ring true there. The journalist was speaking about Santiago de Compostela's City of Culture, but his words apply to any number of other white elephants in Spain. "People criticize it by saying it was an accident that got out of hand. But in some ways, it's the perfect monument a monument to the bubble, and to our misuse of funds."


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"I feel good." "It was nice." "That was bad." Students respond to teachers' questions with these generic descriptions all the time, leaving teachers to dig deeper to figure out what students are really trying to say. Second-language learners also struggle to use descriptive words in written and oral language and tend to overuse common words, such as good, bad, and nice, due to their lack of knowledge of specific synonyms. In this multisession lesson, word webs are used to expose students to synonyms for common words, to help students choose synonyms that are appropriate for a given context, and to encourage students to use more descriptive words in their speech and writing. Student pairs then use words from the web in a skit they present to the class.
Conversation Cards: Use these conversation cards to prompt students to use specific descriptions in response to engaging questions.
Schifini, A. (1994). Language, literacy, and content instruction: Strategies for teachers. In K. Spangenberg-Urbschat & R. Pritchard (Eds.), Kids come in all languages: Reading instruction for ESL students (pp. 158179). Newark, DE: International Reading Association.
- Vocabulary development can be challenging for second language learners. Students are expected to comprehend content vocabulary, idioms, words with multiple meanings, as well as everyday functional vocabulary.
- Vocabulary instruction for second language learners should help them use familiar words to make connections to unfamiliar words. Instruction should also teach students how the words should be used. A word web is one tool that can facilitate this type of instruction.
Nagy, William. 1988. Teaching Vocabulary to Improve Reading Comprehension. Urbana, IL: NCTE.
Semantic maps are useful when teaching a key word or concept in depth. Students can help brainstorm words that relate to the key word or concepts and, with the teacher's help, categorize the words.


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2 Countries Story
2 Countries is the story of Ullas Kumar (Sunil) who prefers to live on other's money. He has a habit of lending money and escaping from them. He meets his childhood friend Laya (Manisha Raj) and she gets impressed for his acts. Laya is an NRI and she decides to get married to Ullas. An unexpected incident creates hatred on Ullas and Laya flies to USA ignoring him. The rest of 2 Countries is how Ullas finds her and manages to convince her again winning his love. Watch 2 Countries to know about the hidden truths.
2 Countries Analysis :
2 Countries has been inspired from a Malayalam blockbuster and the director managed to adopt the major plot alone. He banked big on Sunil's comedy which did not work at all. The entire first half offers nothing and misses logic in each and every episode. The songs have been well shot and the interval episodes have been decent. The first half of 2 Countries tests the patience of the audience.
The second half of 2 Countries too manages to irriate the audience. Some of the episodes look decent but on the whole 2 Countries is a huge misfire. The songs have been shot well and the second half has been shot across some beautiful locales of USA. The climax looks decent though it has been completely predictable. On the whole the second half of 2 Countries too fails to impress the audience.
2 Countries Performance :
Sunil manages to shine in his role but the entertainment has been predictable and outdated. He as usual delivered a decent performance and he has been energetic throughout. Manisha Raj looks awesome and has been impressive in the assigned role. Shayaji Shinde has been decent and entertaining in the role. Raja Ravindra, Prudhvi and Srinivas Reddy supported the film well with their performances throughout.
The story of 2 Countries looks simple and it is predictable throughout. The screenplay and the dialogues have been below the line and offer nothing. The music and the background score are the major highlights of 2 Countries. The cinematography is an asset for the film and the production values have been lavish. N Shankar fails to step out with an impressive script which makes 2 Countries fall flat.
Final Word:
2 Countries offers nothing and it falls flat because of the poor content and outdated narration. Sunil and Manisha Raj shine in their outings.


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White Sesame Pistachio Crunch Ice Cream Recipe
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Nutty white sesame gets a flavor boost from orange and vanilla, with chunks of pistachios for crunch. You can find pomegranate molasses in Middle Eastern groceries, likely near the rose or orange blossom water. It's an optional topping for this ice cream, though highly recommended.
- Yield:makes 1 quart
- Active time: 1 hour
- Total time:1 hour, plus an overnight chill
- 1/2 cup freshly toasted white sesame seeds
- 1 cup milk
- 2 cups cream
- 6 egg yolks
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 2 teaspoons orange zest
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon salt, to taste
- 1/2 cup (2 ounces) freshly toasted pistachios, chilled in freezer
- For Serving:
- 1/4 cup pomegranate molasses
Grind freshly toasted sesame seeds in blender on medium speed for 10 seconds, until they are mostly pulverized. Pour in about 1/2 cup milk and blend for another 10 seconds until a fine paste forms. Add remaining milk and cream and blend on high for 30 seconds, until well combined.
In a medium heavy-bottomed saucepan, whisk together egg yolks and sugar until pale in color and lightly thickened. Pour in dairy, whisk to combine, and cook on medium heat, whisking frequently, until a custard forms on the back of a spoon and a swiped finger leaves a clean line. Strain custard into an airtight container, pressing on sesame solids to extract all liquid.
Stir in orange zest and vanilla extract, then salt to taste. Chill at least 6 hours or overnight in refrigerator, then churn the next day according to manufacturer's instructions. In the last minute of churning, add pistachios.
Transfer churned ice cream to airtight container and chill in freezer for at least 4 hours before serving. To serve, top each bowl with 1 to 2 teaspoons of pomegranate molasses.
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In the world's eyes, this grassy, barren plateau is no different from the West Bank and Gaza Strip: territories occupied by Israel that should be relinquished in return for normal relations with Arab states. Captured from Syria in 1967, the Golan Heights is the linchpin for recently renewed Israeli-Syrian peace talks.
But to Israelis, the Golan is a peaceful part of their country, even a popular vacation spot. A movie at the "Golan Magic" tourist center in this Jewish settlement shows emerald grazing fields rather than the minefields left from war. The audience is sprayed with mist as a preview of waterfall hikes in the Golan's lush canyons.
"Even more than the West Bank, people have grown up thinking of the Golan as part of Israel," says Gershom Gorenberg, author of "The Accidental Empire," a book about the Jewish settler movement. "It's not dangerous to live there.... The whole set of images associated with the West Bank is not there."
Unlike the West Bank or Gaza Strip
Though the world considers the 32 Israeli communities in these highlands illegal settlements, the Golan occupies a different place in Israel's national psyche than the West Bank does. Israelis visit the Golan more than in the West Bank and even Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem, which Israelis claim as their capital.
Now that the Golan is back on the bargaining table, Israeli residents there bristle at being compared with the hard-line religious-nationalist settlers of the West Bank and of the former Jewish communities in the Gaza Strip.
"We're not missionaries. This is not a cult," says tourist-center owner and Golan resident Haim Ohayon.
The settlers who moved to the Golan Heights came from secular kibbutzim farming collectives dominated by the dovish Labor Party. Unlike the religious settlers who view territories conquered in 1967 as an inalienable part of a biblical birthright, the farmers brought with them a greater willingness to compromise.
That's why few Israelis refer to them as mitnachlim, the often derogatory Hebrew term for the residents in the West Bask and Gaza.
Golan residents also differentiate themselves from Israeli settlers there because, unlike those territories, the Golan has few Arabs. Some 90,000 Syrians fled or were driven out when Israel took over the territory in 1967, according to Israeli historian Benny Morris.
"What's special about the Golan is that there are only Jewish communities,..." says Yoni Dolev, a St. Paul, Minnesota native who moved to the Golan 15 years ago. "I'm not a settler. The Golan Heights is a different story."
The Golan Heights' frontier between Israel and Syria has also been calmer than any other border zone since the 1973 Arab-Israeli war. And despite the heavy presence of military vehicles on the roads, residents question why a treaty with Syria is necessary when the Golan is more tranquil and more secure than even Tel Aviv.
With a mostly quiescent Arab population of just 18,000 Druze villagers, there isn't any hint of the fear for personal safety that permeated the West Bank and Gaza after the start of the first Palestinian Intifada in 1987.
That allows Israelis to feel at home on day trips to ski slopes on the Hermon Mountain range here. They visit cherry orchards just a few hundred yards from the Syrian border fence and patronize the restaurants and bed-and-breakfasts in Druze villages.
The thin Syrian population also enabled Israel to pass legislation in 1981 that extended Israeli laws to the Golan in place of the military regime – a de facto annexation.
Reluctant to give it up
According to a recent public opinion poll sponsored by Israel's Channel 2 news program, about two-thirds of Israelis oppose giving the Golan Heights back to Syria.
In addition to seeing the Golan as their own, Israelis say they are skeptical that giving back the territory will prompt a full normalization of ties with Syria, Israel's stated goal.
Instead, they worry, it will leave northern Israel vulnerable to attack – especially with Hezbollah, the Shite militant group and Iranian ally, positioned just across the border in Lebanon.
Those concerns, along with disappointment from failed peace efforts of the 1990s and in recent years, and the rise of Islamic militancy, have soured many Golan residents on the idea of peace talks with Syria.
"I'm the first person that wants peace," says Ronen Gilboa, a resident of Kibbutz Ein Zivan, sitting in an outdoor cafe surrounded by orchards that attracted 5,000 tourists every weekend last summer. "But I don't believe it will happen in our generation."
To be sure, there are ample Israeli politicians, military experts, and analysts who have advocated talking with Syria, even though the United States, Israel's ally, refuses to engage its president Bashar Assad. A peace deal with Syria, the argument goes, would score a blow to the rising influence of Iran and its drive to become a regional superpower.
"Iran would be losing a big ally who it had firmly in its camp," says Meir Javedanfar, coauthor of "The Nuclear Sphinx of Tehran." "Relations with Israel will start impacting Syrian calculation when it comes to cooperation with Iran. It will also put pressure on relations with Hezbollah."
Back at the visitors' center, Mr. Ohayon holds business meetings in a souvenir shop. Would he resist a treaty that requires settlers to leave the Golan Heights? No, Ohayon says, "We're not above the law."
Like other residents here, his dream is for Israel to cut a deal with Syria that would allow Israel to remain on the Golan Heights. (He suggests a 200-year lease.)
But he admits it's a less than realistic vision. "For peace with Syria, there needs to be a new world order," he says.


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What Is This Storm Drain Marker, and Why Is It Here?
A storm drain is a particularly apt place to see the message Puget Sound Starts Here. There are thousands of storm drains in Seattle that lead directly to our local waterways without receiving any water quality treatment. Anything that is carried into one of these drains, (including the one you've clicked on) – from petroleum to pesticides, and pet waste to car soap – flows through underground pipes and into Lake Union, Lake Washington, the Duwamish River, a local creek and eventually into Puget Sound. Like a garbage can labeled "Landfill" rather than "Garbage," this marker serves as a reminder that water entering storm drains in our city doesn't just disappear; it goes into the very waters we use recreationally and commercially.


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'Magic Mike' Sequel Moves Forward; Will Reunite Entire Cast from the First Movie
Is it time to see Michael Douglas as Liberace and Matt Damon as his young lover Scott Thorson yet? Beyond the Candelabra will be screening at the 66th Cannes Film Festival soon, and HBO will be airing the film about the flamboyant pianist on May 26, but we bring you other Steven Soderbergh news today. According to The Playlist [via PrideSource.com] the director said the Magic Mike sequel — which star Channing Tatum expressed an interest in directing and Soderbergh is assisting him with behind the scenes — would reunite all the stars of the stripper tale and include axed plot ideas from the first film.
"There were some stories and events that Channing lived through that we just couldn't fit in the first one," Soderbergh said. "One of them is a really hilarious and very cinematic idea that we reluctantly didn't put in the first film, because it was such a big idea you could build a whole film out of it — but we didn't want to build that film out of it. It's perfect for this, though." Tatum previously described the follow-up as a "road movie" and "broad comedy," but those are all the plot details we have so far.
It seems that Soderbergh, although retired, is taking on a mentor/producer role as Tatum develops the story: "I want to help. I have some proprietary feelings about it, obviously. I want to make sure it gets done and done well, so we meet every couple of weeks to talk about where it's going. But it's gonna be good. It's a good idea. It's not a retread. And there will be more time spent with the characters — all of them."
I'd be interested to see if Mike can really stay away from the strip clubs and if Dallas (Matthew McConaughey) ever made it to Miami, but I'm less excited about revisiting the lives of other characters — like Cody Horn's Brooke who questions (guilts, browbeats… ) Mike's decisions. In the end, just as Mike sees her as a way out of the "lifestyle," Brooke's path to Mike is a way out of her cruddy relationship.
How about you? Is this a story you can spend another two hours in the theater for, or has the magic of Mike faded?
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Adam Marshall's remix beefs it up and quickens things a bit, giving the motor city synth section emphasis and reducing the vocal input to a moan, while Pär Grindvik turns in a marathon of a mix that cranks things up a little more and lets chunky percussion take over. Sinister sirens fill the gaps of Grindvik's take and create even more of a sense of depth than the original. The "Love" vocal snippet of the original is repeated over and over and over again and there's an occasional subtle change in pitch, which is only to be expected over thirteen minutes. The sound of the tribal initiation ceremony of the 21st Century? Could be.
"Love Never Sleeps" and its overwhelming pull is towards the warehouse and the wild hedonistic abandon of good trance, but that's trance as an adjective, not a genre. More importantly, though, it's great electronic dance music—pure and simple.
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Words /
Paul Corey
Tracklist /
A1 Love Never Sleeps
A2 Love Never Sleeps (Adam Marshall Sedition remix)
B2 Love Never Sleeps (Pär Grindvik remix)


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Not 100% the movie that Wolverine fans will have their hearts set on, but definitely pretty good.
After the events of "X-Men 3", we find Logan living in solitude in a cave in the mountains. The events of that chpater in his history haunt him, especially having to kill Jean Grey. He has nightmares about her constantly. In them, he feels the affection he used to have for her and then relives the anguish of having to kill her.
Eventually he's tracked down by a mutant named Yukio (Rila Fukushima), and asked to accompany her back to Japan in order to say farewell to and to be thanked by a dying man named Yashida (Hal Yamanouchi). Logan saved Yashida's life when the atom bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. In the years since, he rose to be president of one of the most powerful technology corporations in Asia. Now, on his deathbed, he wishes to say goodbye to Logan, and to thank him one last time for saving his life.
Of course, nothing is as easy as that when you're the Wolverine. When he arrives in Japan, he finds that Yashida actually wants him to transfer his healing powers to him in order to save his life. He's enlisted the aid of an evil mutant named Viper (Svetlana Khodchenkova) to try to drain Logan of his powers. There's also a battle ensuing between Yashida's heirs for control of his empire once he passes. Logan falls for Yashida's granddaughter Mariko (Tao Okamoto), and feels the need to protect her when the other interests try to kidnap her.
Will he be able to protect Mariko, even when he's robbed of his healing powers?
"The Wolverine" is almost the Wolverine solo movie that fans have been clamoring for. Logan gets to wallow in the pain and the burden of who he is, while getting dragged into a conflict he has little interest in aside from protecting the innocent. Along the way he finds a doomed romance and finds out just how much of himself he truly identifies with his healing factor. It's not exactly a "deep" film, by any means, but it's certainly not as disposable as say "X-Men Origins: Wolverine". Watching Logan struggle without his healing factor was a nice touch… for a superhero that feels more cursed than most others, seeing him come to realize just how much he needs and wants his abilities made for an interesting watch.
The action scenes and plot are both decent, Wolverine is given plenty of people to slice through and a good enough reason to do it. When they try to go "big" with the action, however, the film loses its footing a bit. The set piece atop a speeding bullet train and the final "Boss Battle" at the end of the film both strained credulity a little and stood out in comparison to the rest of the film, which was relatively grounded.
Nonetheless, it's great watching Jackman reprise this role. He's the spitting image of Wolverine, as if he were born to play this character. And this film is a solid showcase for him that will certainly please most fans.
NOTE: Be sure to stay through the credits on this one! I'm typically not thrilled about these little clips they make people hang around for, but this one is definitely worth your time!!


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|Care of Magical Creatures
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- "C'mon, now, get a move on! Got a real treat for yeh today! Great lesson comon' up! Everyone here? Right, follow me!"
- —Rubeus Hagrid at his first Care of Magical Creatures lesson[src]
Care of Magical Creatures is an elective course at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry that can be taken by students Third year and above. In the class, students learn about a wide range of magical creatures, from flobberworms to Fire crabs, and even unicorns and thestrals. Students are taught about feeding, maintaining, breeding, and proper treatment of these various creatures. The witches and wizards who succeeded in achieving an O. W. L. in the subject later could become Magizoologists. Some known magizoologists were Newt Scamander, his grandson Rolf Scamander and his wife Luna Scamander (not Lovegood).
Class informationEdit
- "My brother Charlie was the outdoors type, so he went for Care of Magical Creatures."
- —Percy Weasley on choosing subjects in third year[src]
Care of Magical Creatures is a subject taught only to those in their Third year or above who choose to take it.
It is unknown how many of Harry Potter's fellow students chose to continue Care of Magical Creatures in their N.E.W.T. year, however Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger left the subject after completing their O.W.L.s.
Silvanus Kettleburn taught Care of Magical Creatures until 1993, when he retired "to enjoy more time with his remaining limbs." He was succeeded by Rubeus Hagrid, whose lessons became controversial after Draco Malfoy was injured by a Hippogriff. After Malfoy was injured, Hagrid was more restrained in the animals he showed to the class for the remainder of the year. Hagrid occasionally brought creatures that were illegal to class. Hermione Granger attempted to organise Hagrid's classes in order to make him a better teacher and prevent him from being fired. In his second year of teaching the subject, Hagrid introduced the his fourth year class to Blast-Ended Skrewts during his lessons, a species of illegally bred creatures.
During the 1994–1995 school year Hagrid was replaced, for a short time, as Care of Magical Creatures Professor by Wilhelmina Grubbly-Plank who gave lessons on Bowtruckles and Unicorns.
Care of Magical Creatures classes typically take place outside of Hagrid's hut, but some lessons occasionally take place in the Forbidden Forest, such as the Thestral lesson.
Among the creatures the students learned about in these lessons during Harry's school period were:
Third yearEdit
- Hippogriffs - Practical lesson which culminated in Buckbeak "savagely mauling" Draco Malfoy. It was actually only a small injury that Malfoy played up for several reasons. Among those are to get Hagrid in trouble, to annoy Harry, Ron, and Hermione, to get out of playing the Quidditch match vs. Gryffindor in bad weather, and to get some of his school work extended or done for him.
- Flobberworms - Dull lessons which mostly involved feeding them lettuce, which resulted in them dying from being overfed.
- Salamanders - Taught while Hagrid was depressed about Buckbeak's pending execution.
Fourth yearEdit
- Blast-Ended Skrewts - Raised as a project throughout the year. All ended up killing each other, with only two remaining by the Third Task, and only one by the end of the year. These were possibly illegally bred mixes of Manticores and Fire crabs.
- Nifflers - A practical lesson which involved searching for leprechaun gold.
- Unicorns - Adults and foals; the adult lessons were mostly girl-dominant, while the foals allowed the boys to approach.
Fifth yearEdit
- Thestrals - Lesson was mostly impeded by Dolores Umbridge.
- Bowtruckles - Classwork and homework involved sketching a Bowtruckle.
Other creatures shown to classes across the years include:
- "Hasn' anyone bin able ter open their books? Yeh've got to stroke 'em."
- —Hagrid in his first lesson of magical creatures; he thought the books were funny.[src]
During Professor Hagrid's time teaching, Third-Year students used The Monster Book of Monsters, a book which would attempt to bite anyone near it unless stroked along the spine. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them was also a textbook used in this class.
Known O.W.L.sEdit
- Angelina Johnson[1]
- Barty Crouch Jr.
- Bill Weasley
- Charles Weasley
- Harry Potter
- Hermione Granger
- Percy Weasley
- Ron Weasley
- Newt Scamander
- Rolf Scamander
- Luna Lovegood
Behind the scenesEdit
- As revealed in Pottermore, J. K. Rowling had originally devised this class to be called "Beasts", and to be compulsory from the first year.[2]
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game) (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film) (Danish version only)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film) (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game) (Mentioned only) (GBA version only)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (video game) (Mentioned only)
- LEGO Harry Potter: Building the Magical World (Mentioned only)
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
- Harry Potter Trading Card Game (Mentioned only)
Notes and referencesEdit
- ↑ She stated in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix that Hagrid was a much better teacher, implying that she advanced to the NEWT class.
- ↑ Pottermore - Hogwarts School Subjects (J.K. Rowling's thoughts)
|Professors: Silvanus Kettleburn · Rubeus Hagrid · Wilhelmina Grubbly-Plank (substitute teacher)
|Textbooks: The Monster Book of Monsters · Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
|Care of Magical Creatures at Hogwarts: Hagrid's Hut · Forbidden Forest · Care of Magical Creatures classroom
|Creatures studied: Hippogriffs · Flobberworms · Salamanders · Blast-Ended Skrewts · Nifflers · Unicorns · Thestrals · Bowtruckles · Crups · Fire crabs · Knarls · Kneazles · Porlocks


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