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Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Internships
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) sponsors a 10-week summer internship program for undergraduate and graduate students majoring in homeland security related science, technology, engineering and mathematics (HS-STEM) Disciplines. The program provides students with quality research experiences at federal research facilities located across the country and allows students the opportunity to establish connections with DHS professionals. It is open to students in a broad spectrum of HS-STEM Disciplines and DHS mission-relevant research areas. Undergraduate students receive a $6,000 stipend plus travel expenses. Graduate students receive a $7,000 stipend plus travel expenses. 10-week research experiences are offered at: Argonne, Berkeley, Livermore, Los Alamos, Oak Ridge, Pacific Northwest, and Sandia National Laboratories; as well as at Homeland Security Studies and Analysis Institute, Coast Guard Research and Development Center, Customs and Borders Protection Laboratories and Scientific Services, Domestic Nuclear Detection Office, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Naval Research Laboratory, Engineer Research and Development Center, National Security Technologies Remote Sensing Laboratory, Transportation Security Laboratory, and more. Areas of research: Engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biological / life sciences, environmental science, emergency and incident management, social sciences, and more. U.S. citizenship required.
Deadline: December 7
Domestic Nuclear Detection Office Summer Internship Program
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO) Summer Internship Program will provide opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to participate in projects focused on helping DNDO meet its mission of "implementing domestic nuclear detection efforts for a managed and coordinated response to radiological and nuclear threats, as well as integration of federal nuclear forensics programs." Internships will primarily focus on projects related to Advanced Technology Demonstration programs, or are otherwise in the areas of: Materials Research and Supporting Technology, Advanced Analytics, Nuclear Forensics, Program Management, Radiation Detection, and Shielded Special Nuclear Material (SNM) Detection. Undergraduate students receive a stipend of $600 per week for ten weeks plus travel expenses. Graduate students receive a stipend of $700 per week for ten weeks plus travel expenses.
Research experiences are anticipated at: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley, CA) ● Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Livermore, CA) ● Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos, NM) ● National Security Technologies – Remote Sensing Laboratory (Los Vegas, NV and Andrews AFB, MD) ● Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Oak Ridge, TN) ● Savannah River National Laboratory (Aiken, SC)
Areas of research: Engineering, earth and geosciences, computer science, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biological / life sciences, environmental science, and more.
U.S. citizenship required
Deadline: January 25, 2017
James Madison Graduate Fellowships
Each year, the James Madison Memorial Fellowship Program makes available at least one graduate-level fellowship worth up to $24,000 in each state ($12,000 maximum per academic year). The program emphasizes the framing, principles and history of the Constitution. Current and prospective secondary school teachers of American history, American government and social studies are eligible to apply.
The Winston Salem Foundation
The Foundation offers scholarships with more general eligibility criteria, as well as scholarships with more specific criteria, such as those for students attending specific high schools or colleges or those pursuing certain fields of study. Some scholarships entail a one-time award, while many are renewable for three additional years. Additionally, many scholarships are strictly merit-based, while others will also consider family income as a factor. Most scholarships are designated for students attending Forsyth County high schools, but there are also scholarships designated for students who attend high schools in other locations in our service area. Some scholarships allow non-Forsyth County residents who attend a Forsyth County high school to qualify as long as they reside in a county in the Foundation's service area. The Foundation's service area includes Davie, Davidson, Forsyth, Surry, Stokes, Yadkin and Wilkes counties. There are two different scholarship application processes: many scholarship applications are made through the Foundation's Common Application process, while other scholarships utilize their own application process.
Triangle Community Foundation (NC)
Triangle Community Foundation administers a number of endowed and non-endowed scholarship funds established by individual donors and organizations to assist students in continuing their education.
Triangle Community Foundation is now accepting scholarship applications for The Tomorrow Fund for Hispanic Students for funding for the 2016-2017 academic year. The Tomorrow Fund provides college scholarships to immigrant Hispanic youth so they can become productive, well-educated members of our society.
Scholarships will be awarded to Hispanic/Latino immigrants (legal documentation not required) or first-generation citizens who are attending an accredited college or university in the state of North Carolina. Students must be receiving financial aid funded directly by the college, and must have a remaining unmet need gap of $15,000 or less. The award will cover the cost of tuition, required fees, books, room and board, or other approved expenses. Recipients will be selected based on their desire to further themselves through education, their probable ability to achieve their education goals, and their financial need and sources of support. One-time awards will range from $1,000 to $15,000 per student, and recipients must re-apply for funding each year.
Deadline: May 1
Teacher.org believes that teachers have the power to inspire our future. Your dedication to the field of education is immensely commendable. Whether you are an experienced teacher who is continuing their education, or a teacher candidate who has just begun the process – we want to support you. With that said, Teacher.org is offering a $2,500 scholarship to help you pay for your education and other associated expenses. Simply fill out the form and answer the question in order to apply.
Deadline: April 1
JW Surety Bonds Scholarship Program
You may apply for a scholarship of up to $25,000, by writing the most popular post on the corporate blog of JW Surety Bonds.
Deadline: September 30
I'min.com Scholarship
A $1,000 Imin.com scholarship will be awarded, based on an essay written from the topic "Do coupons influence your purchasing decisions…why, or why not?" Applicants must e-mail a written essay of a minimum of 650 words.
Deadline: December 31
Binpress Scholarship for Open Source
Binpress awards five $500 scholarships for students majoring in computer science, who have shown a commitment to the open source community.
Deadline: May 1
TEFL Academy Scholarships
The TEFL Academy awards scholarships to seniors graduating in 2014-15 who are interested in teaching English abroad.
Deadline: August 1
Belluck & Fox Scholarship Essay Contest
Belluck & Fox, LLP is hosting its third annual $10,000 scholarship essay contest. Ten different award amounts are granted to deserving students throughout the United States. The purpose of the scholarship is to assist with educational efforts, as well as raise awareness for Mesothelioma and its effects.
Deadline: March 25 (first contest), October 10 (second contest)
Caring.com Student Care-Giver Annual Scholarship
Caring.com is offering three $1,500 scholarships to university students attending an accredited U.S. college or university who care for aging relatives. Submit your story though a 1500-word essay or 2-minute video telling us about your journey.
Deadline: December 31
Thumbtack Scholarship
A $5,000 scholarship will be awarded to an individual who demonstrates a commitment to learning a new trade that can be turned into a business, learning fundamental business skills (such as marketing and accounting), or deepening the knowledge and capabilities to improve public policy and foster an environment that better serves small business owners and independent professionals.
Deadline: January 31
Hanlon Law will award a $2,000 scholarship to an individual who submits the winning essay on how he or she has been challenged by dyslexia. Write a 500+ word essay sharing your story and how you would benefit from this scholarship. Include your academic goals, your college, and your career path.
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Scholarship for Students with an Autistic Sibling
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Deadline: April 30
The Law Office of Howard A. Snader is offering a $2,000 scholarship for college-bound students who live in a single-parent home as a result of one parent currently being held in custody; or because one of a parent's former incarceration, the family is unable to assist in providing financial support for their college education. To apply, write a 500+ word essay sharing your story, with information about where you wish to attend college, the career path you wish to pursue, and how you would benefit from the scholarship.
Deadline: July 31
Rosenbaum and Associates Law Firm is offering a $3,000 scholarship to the child of a firefighter enrolling in college or graduate school in 2016-17. The successful applicant will embody what it is like to grow up with a parent in this occupation. To apply, write a 500+ word essay about how your parent being a firefighter has influenced your life. Provide information verifying where you will attend college, as well as your parent's name, badge number, and associated fire department.
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Scholarship for Military Families
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Kudos to the Moffat County library for installing software to filter pornography from computers that children use! However, this leaves me wondering: Why are our tax dollars being used to furnish entertainment (sick entertainment) to individuals in the first place?
To quote the Jan. 18 issue of the Craig Daily Press, "In Maybell, a visitor regularly viewed pornography on a computer, but the library staff worked a schedule with him so he would not look at the material while children were in the building."
When would there have been no children in the building? Besides, pornography is not jus bad for children, but criminal statistics prove it is bad for adults also. The public library is there for education, not for entertainment. Why was this person in Maybell given special privileges to view pornography at the expense of my (and your) tax dollars? And though some would claim the First Amendment, it was not intended to secure publicly funded pornographic "entertainment." Why shouldn't filters be put on all of the computers?
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Arts FeatureRise Up and Face the CameraHayashi's Levitations at Richard Levy Gallery
"Since I'm yowayowa, it's really heavy to carry SLR cameras around," says Tokyo resident Natsumi Hayashi in her blog, Yowayowa Camera Woman Diary. The petite young photographer may identify as such, but her self-portraits indicate that she is anything but weak. Gravity-defying, focused, and ethereal seem more appropriate adjectives to describe Hayashi, who has no formal training and has only been photographing regularly for about four years. According to the gallery's director, Viviette Hunt, Richard Levy discovered part of Hayashi's series, Today's Levitation, at an art fair and purchased her images on the spot. Levitations is her first show in the United States. The collection consists of seven images, all depicting Hayashi floating, hovering, and gliding her way through contemporary urban environments whilst participating in mundane, everyday tasks—such as speaking on a public telephone (yes, they do still exist in some parts of the world) or drinking from a water fountain. Her photography is far from ordinary, however. These are large, colorful images that possess a striking beauty and an innate quietness. Fascinated by the English idiom of having one's feet on the ground, Hayashi is making a name for herself through a whimsical photographic exploration of gravity. Or anti-gravity, as the case may be.
Truly, up-and-coming attractive females making self-portraits are abundant creatures in contemporary photography. So, what makes this girl so appealing? The effortless serenity captured in Hayashi's levitation series seems to be the primary characteristic that draws viewers to her work. Levy Gallery's director, Viviette Hunt, described the series as "uplifting," with a slight grin. A group of middle-aged women stood in front of what seemed to be one of the most popular images, in which Hayashi is exiting a huge train and hovering several feet off the ground. Her chin leads, her arms trail delicately behind her body, with one knee bent, looking like a modern-day Peter Pan. "How did she do that!?" exclaimed one woman. "She's very ... agile," observed another, in an awed voice. "If i were rich, I'd buy one ... I think they're great!" chimed in a third. Nods of agreement all around. Surreal imagery of figures floating or suspended in space have grown in popularity over the last several years. (Google "levitation photography" and you'll see what I mean.) Research the subject a little further and you'll find tons of online tutorials instructing photographers how to create these images—using Photoshop. Admirably, Natsumi Hayashi seems to be the only well-known photographer to be utilizing the "purist method" to achieve a look of natural levitation. Instead of employing a graphics editing program, she relies on a lightning-fast shutter speed (her camera is generally set to 1/500th of a second or faster) and patient, physically grueling repetition. And she's willing to share her techniques—her Camera Woman blog contains a fairly thorough description of her process. Not surprisingly, I overheard two photographers at the Levitations reception discussing whether Hayashi's images were photoshopped. Friendly banter accompanied a close inspection of a photo of Hayashi gliding weightlessly through a train terminal. The blurriness of her feet, indicating movement, seemed a reasonable clue that the image had not been meaningfully altered out-of-camera. However, neither man seemed convinced of that fact until the gallery's director assured them that Hayahi creates her images using only her camera. And a LOT of jumping. Hayashi says that she will sometimes jump hundreds of times just to capture the perfect image—one in which her entire being appears calm and relaxed. Across the room, a young tattooed couple admired the image of Hayashi at a public water fountain. She's positioned herself in the air so that her body is perfectly balanced in a virtually horizontal, very "Matrix-esque" position. "She's got mad hops!" said the guy. Indeed, she does. Natsumi Hayashi creates levitation photographs, naturally. Natsumi Hayashi Levitations Feb. 8 - March 29, 2013 Richard Levy Gallery 514 Central SW (505) 766-9888 email@example.com | Today's EventsMenopause The Musical at The LensicA musical parody staged to classic tunes from the '60s, '70s and '80s set in a department store, where four women who seemingly have nothing in common discover they have more to share than ever imagined. Petroglyph Plática: Mark MacKenzie at Oñate Monument and Visitors CenterExcavations: Field Dressing at Tricklock Performance LaboratoryMore Recommended Events ›› | |
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Senate Leaders Say They're Optimistic on Debt-Limit Deal
Richard Rubin, Kathleen Hunter and Chris StrohmU.S. Senate Democratic and Republican leaders said they are optimistic about ending a partial government shutdown and preventing the nation from breaching the debt ceiling in three days.
The emerging agreement would suspend the debt limit through Feb. 7, 2014, fund the government through Jan. 15 and require a House-Senate budget conference by Dec. 15, according to a Senate source familiar with the talks, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss them. A delay or repeal of the medical device tax isn't part of the deal, said that source and a Senate Democratic aide who also requested anonymity.
"I'm very optimistic that we will reach an agreement that's reasonable in nature this week," Majority Leader Harry Reid said today following talks with Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. McConnell said he shares Reid's optimism.
The movement toward a deal in the Senate today marked the strongest signals yet that Congress may be able to increase U.S. borrowing authority before it lapses Oct. 17 and end the shutdown that started Oct. 1.
U.S. stocks rose amid signs of progress in Congress. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index advanced 0.2 percent to 1,707.16 at 3:49 p.m. in New York while the Stoxx Europe 600 Index erased earlier declines and added 0.2 percent at the close.
The U.S. cash bond market is closed for Columbus Day. Gold advanced the most in a week and natural gas jumped to the highest level in almost four months.
Boehner, McConnell
Any proposal could face procedural delays in the Senate and an uncertain path in the Republican-controlled House, where Speaker John Boehner would have to decide whether to allow a vote or make changes. Boehner spent 25 minutes in McConnell's office this afternoon.
If Congress does nothing, the federal government would start missing payments sometime between Oct. 22 and Oct. 31, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
President Barack Obama postponed a 3 p.m. meeting with Reid, McConnell, Boehner and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi to "allow leaders in the Senate time to continue making important progress" toward a deal, according to a White House statement. Senate Republicans are set to meet tonight at 5:45 p.m., said a party aide speaking on condition of anonymity.
Republicans Meet
In the House, Republican leaders are weighing whether to bring up their plans for a short-term debt limit increase, said two aides who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss strategy.
House Republicans will meet at 9 a.m. tomorrow to discuss the details of that proposal, which is expected to include policy conditions that Obama says he can't accept.
A Reid-McConnell deal won't be reached until later this afternoon at the earliest, said a Senate Democratic aide who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the private talks.
The leaders are debating the length of a stopgap spending bill and debt limit increase, the aide said. Democrats want a longer debt-limit increase and a shorter spending bill at Republican-preferred levels. Republicans want the reverse, the aide said.
There is little if any discussion of major changes to the 2010 health care law. House Republicans' demands for those changes, such as a delay in the mandate for individuals to purchase health insurance, led to the shutdown 14 days ago.
Obama has insisted that no policy conditions be attached to a spending bill or debt-limit increase.
Medical-Device Tax
Republicans have been trying to include delay of an excise tax on medical devices and language requiring income verification for people receiving health-insurance subsidies, the aide said. Democrats want specific concessions if they agree to either of those items, the Democratic aide said.
Democrats want offsetting revenue increases, and a full repeal of the tax would cost about $30 billion in forgone revenue. They are also wary of setting a precedent for other industries that were taxes in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
"Things are back in the middle of the road on the Senate side," Senator Bob Corker, a Tennessee Republican, told reporters in Washington. "There's an opportunity today to bring that to a conclusion and to begin moving something off the Senate floor in a bipartisan way."
The congressional deadlock over increasing the U.S. debt ceiling from $16.7 trillion is threatening the U.S. and world economies, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde said yesterday in Washington.
'Set Aside'
"This week, if we don't start making some real progress both in the House and the Senate, and if Republicans aren't willing to set aside some of their partisan concerns in order to do what is right for the country, then we stand a good chance of defaulting," Obama said.
The Senate negotiations include discussions of easing the spending caps imposed by across-the-board cuts known as sequestration. Richard Durbin of Illinois, the second-ranking Democrat in the Senate, said there is a $70 billion spending gap between Democrats and Republicans.
Democrats don't want to lock in lower spending levels for most of the 2014 fiscal year, which began Oct. 1. They have been willing to accept the lower numbers through Nov. 15.
Disagreement over spending is the big sticking point, said Jim Manley, a former aide to Reid. Manley, in a telephone interview, said he's watching "to see if Senator McConnell demands some sort of fig leaf from Senator Reid to protect the speaker or whether he's prepared to throw him overboard to get this all behind him."
'Scare' Markets
Representative Tim Huelskamp, a Kansas Republican, played down the importance of the deadline and said the White House "is trying to scare the markets."
"Oct. 17 is a date that won't have a major impact unless the White House can create concern about that," Huelskamp said yesterday on CBS's "Face the Nation."
A Senate deal probably would face the prospect of a hostile reception from House Republicans still seeking to curtail Obamacare and opposed to easing spending caps.
Republican strategist Ron Bonjean yesterday described the latest efforts to find a way out of the impasse as "a Rubik's Cube from hell," adding that even if the Senate passes a plan, it would be "still pretty much a jump ball in the House."
"They may simply reject it without offering a Plan B," Bonjean, a one-time aide to former Republican Speaker Dennis Hastert, said in a telephone interview.


text: HomeLegal Notices Legal Notice Page Settings Show Sub Menu Print RSS Feedback Share & Bookmark Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Google+ Reddit Font Size: Larger Smaller Page Content alva scrub preserve meeting6/16/2010alva scrub preserve meetingWhen: Wednesday, June 16, 20105:30 PMWhere: Olga Community Center 2325 South Olga Drive Fort Myers Public invited to give input on Alva Scrub Preserve An 846-acre preserve in northeast Lee County now has a restoration plan the public can view and offer input. The Alva Scrub Preserve will be the topic of discussion at a 5:30 p.m. meeting Wednesday, June 16, at the Olga Community Center. The plan – called a land stewardship plan – is the product of Lee County Conservation 20/20 staff. It discusses how to manage the land, which combines six parcels purchased between 2000 and 2008 to form the Alva Scrub Preserve. The plan is critical because the preserve is home to numerous state and federally listed plant and animal species including Big Cypress fox squirrels, Florida scrub jays, and gopher tortoises. The preserve also abuts Hickey's Creek Mitigation Park. The stewardship plan is available for review until June 10th at the East County Regional Library, 881 Gunnery Road, Lehigh Acres; at the Riverdale Branch Library, 2421 Buckingham Road, Fort Myers; and at www.conservation2020.org/stewardshipplans.cfm under Alva Scrub Preserve. The meeting's address is Olga Community Center, 2325 South Olga Drive in Fort Myers. Written comments are encouraged and can be presented at the meeting, online or through the mail. For more information, visit www.conservation2020.org


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Eric A. Withrow, 53, of Galva, died at 12:10 p.m. Tuesday, May 13, 2014, in the emergency room at OSF St. Mary Medical Center in Galesburg.
A celebration of life service will be at 2 p.m. Monday, May 19, at Rux Funeral Home in Galva. Visitation will be from 2-6 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. Cremation will be accorded following the services with a committal of ashes at Wolf Creek Cemetery in Williamsville Township in Sangamon County at a later date. Memorials may be directed to an educational fund for his daughters, Nicole and Ashley.
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I'm an American, have been married for "a long time", and have a son and a daughter, so to me the characters are like sons and daughters. I like to study history and science, and I usually don't write (or talk) unless I have something to say, so I tend to be serious. I try to stretch my writing skills by entering challenges and forcing myself to write to prompts that I would otherwise not write, such as romance or vigorous action, and am surprised to discover that it can be done.
William, your story will fly for me. I just discovered that you had written a second chapter, and I enjoyed reading it. For some people, including me, the technical stuff is just fine. And I enjoyed the one-sided telephone conversation with the President. It's true that when a story is out of the ordinary, some people will like it a lot and others not at all; I think that that was true for my first story also. But we gotta do what we gotta do.
So glad to see another chapter, William. I am enjoying your story immensely.
Author's Response: I'm glad to hear it.
Hi, William,
I'm glad you finished this story. True, it was pretty high-tech, but not too high-tech for me, and it was full of interesting ideas. I enjoyed it. Too bad all parties concerned could not make the system work well enough to be reliable, but the spirit of the venture reminded me of the first people to sail around the earth, or travel to the North Pole or the South Pole. There were plenty of failures and deaths in those ventures also.
I liked the fact that your story dealt heavily with a subject that I have long thought about, which is the development of "Muggle" technology in the real world that replicates ideas that were only science fiction, or magic, in my girlhood sixty years ago. I mentioned that idea, extremely briefly, in the third chapter of my first story, but you have developed the concept much farther.
An unusual story, a refreshing change of pace, and an enjoyable read. Thank you for writing.
William, I am enjoying your story very much. You write very well. Your premise of a convergence of Muggle technology and wizardly magic is an idea that has been flitting around in my mind also, and having lived through the entire Space Age, I enjoy your references to its history. It is a treat to read a story that is out of the ordinary.
A fun story, and nicely written. We don't see much about Fleur or any of the Beauxbatons students.
Author's Response: Thank you!
Hi, Jenny. I see that Pooja has already written you a long review, but I have not read it yet because I want these comments to be all my own.
I think it is always a challenge to write a battle scene where so much is going on at a rapid pace, and you have to provide enough to give the feel of the battle without including so much that it becomes tedious, and you have to think of different details to include (such as the wooden pixies). (JRR Tolkien dodged this problem in [i]The Hobbit[/i] by having Bilbo knocked unconscious at the beginning of the Battle of Five Armies and not awakening until it was all over!) But you cannot dodge the challenge in this story; it [i]is[/i] the story, and you handle it very nicely. There is just the right amount of violent description to set the scene well, before you get into your main subject, which is the death of Tonks at the hands of Bellatrix.
I noticed that at first you have Tonks using non-lethal spells, stunning, stupefying, disarming, petrifying, but not killing. These spells are appropriate for Auror work in which the goal is to capture the suspects alive and bring them to trial, but not so appropriate for all-out life-or-death warfare, the situation in which she finds herself now. Her extensive Auror training has not really prepared her mentally for a free-for-all like this. She knows intellectually that âthis situation was real and deadly,â but she does not change her approach until she sees her husband die. It was perceptive of you to see and write this mental change; I donât think it was just grief or a desire for revenge, though you show her having those feelings also, but a realization that she [i]had[/i] to take this fight to its ultimate degree.
Bellatrix. It is easy to make her into a caricature or stereotype. There [i] are[/i] some behaviors that she often displays, but they have to be used judiciously. I would have used another word than âcackledâ, but her speech about wanting to kill all the unworthy members of her family works well here, without being hackneyed, because in the midst of the battle she actually is counting off how many unworthy relatives are dead and how many are still left to kill. (Was she planning to kill Andromeda someday too, do you suppose?)
It is interesting that you have Bellatrix using [i]Sectumsempra.[/i] In book six Snape states that he invented that spell himself, and I had always assumed that he had never shared it with anyone, but maybe he did. Itâs entirely believable that Bellatrix would be sufficiently sadistic to want to kill people slowly rather than instantly. For her, death is not always enough; she wants suffering too.
A couple of tiny observations: obviously Molly is a better dueler than Tonks (letâs hear it for the older generation!) and [i]episkey[/i] doesnât work if you have lost too much blood.
The seven books donât really get us inside the head of Tonks very well; why she fought and how she died were never spelled out in any detail. By opening in the midst of the action, this story does not address her decision to join the fight, but it does give a beautiful vision of her final minutes of life. In the end, itâs a sweet story; if she must die, it is nice to know that she drifted away peacefully and unafraid.
A good job on an important moment in the canon.
Author's Response: Thanks for the review, and sorry it's taken me so long to respond! I'm glad you thought I did the battle well; I wanted to set the scene, but didn't want to burden the reader with too much action--not to mention that it would be difficult for me to do as a writer, since I don't like action very much (this is my main problem with part 2 of the 7th movie!) and thus don't like writing it. I like to concentrate on how people think and interact, and this story is pretty typical of my writing in that respect. Of course, I'm still working on writing more complexity into the thoughts and emotions of the characters; I hope Tonks seems fleshed out here. Bellatrix is a challenge, since it's so difficult to empathize with her. And I definitely agree on the suffering thing--Bella likes to play with her food before she eats it...:P I wanted the ending to carry a strong feeling hope, wanted her death not to feel meaningless and cruel, although in some ways I suppose all deaths are, no matter what they're for. At least it made the story a little less sad to read.
The Battle of Hogwarts is over. While the rest of the magical world catches its breath, Hermione must retrieve one vital piece of information so she can find her parents and restore the memories she took from them.
As she waits for the information, she relives her eleventh birthday when a book, a bird, and a denistry patient changed her life.
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Hello, Horace. This is Vicki of Slytherin House, letting you know how much I enjoyed this story. There are probably many stories with versions of how Hermione was first invited to attend Hogwarts, but yours is one of the best.
All of the writing is smooth and graceful, as is your custom, and the scene in the dentistsâ office waiting room is remarkably imaginative in all its details. The long build-up in this section before the arrival of the owl works well to give the feeling of the passage of time as Hermione waits and waits for her parents to be finished with their work. The background information about her magical ability is woven effortlessly into this part of the narrative, so that it does not seem to be just stuck in there out of necessity, and the inclusion of Alice in Wonderland puts her and the reader in the mindset to accept the owlâs behavior. I love her multi-method conversation with the owl, and it is genius to place Professor Dumbledore in the dentistâs chair. He is perfectly characterized, jollier than we sometimes see him in the seven books (rather like Father Christmas), but inviting students to attend Hogwarts must have been one of his most enjoyable tasks.
Questions for this part of the story: What is the significance of the triangle with a tail? I have studied that image and canât connect it with anything. And Hermioneâs parents seem mighty quick to go along with the idea that their daughter is a witch and will attend a special school; they question nothing. The situation is usually written thus, but I always wonder if that is reasonable or logical for Muggle parents.
I liked your description of Hermioneâs system for tracking her parentsâ whereabouts in Australia, with all the details thought out ahead of time; that is so like her. But even though Mrs Granger sent an envelope once a month, am I correct that Hermione did not go monthly to Hogsmeade to collect it, but rather let all the letters accumulate in a bundle to be picked up on this day? And I wondered why she was irritated by Ronâs failure to come to the Post Office with her, if she did not want him to know how the letters were addressed.
The ending section of the story, Hermione and Ron in the Department of Magical Transportation, was necessary for the story, but less magical for me that the scene in the dentistsâ office. Hermione being angry and Ron being apologetic has been written often, and making it seem fresh would be quite a challenge. I liked the detail of the officeâs being jammed with people trying to get their exiled loved ones back home again; that would be very reasonable. And the portkey being an Alice in Wonderland white rabbit doll was a very neat way to tie all the ends together.
A very sweet story. What I will remember most is Hermioneâs conversation with the owl, and Dumbledore in the dentistâs chair.
Hi, Alice. This is Vicki from Slytherin House. I read your other chapter-of-cheer We Happy Few, and decided to try this story also, since it is set in the same situation.
This is not the sort of thing I usually read, and I know that I would be utterly incapable of writing it, but I was curious to see what you were going to do with this low-action, antagonistic-banter situation and where it was going.
You have created 8,000+ words of Hermioneâs thoughts interspersed with a little dialogue and descriptions of sitting outdoors in winterâs cold. At first I thought that her ruminations and little flashbacks of memory were digressions to the main line of the story, but I finally concluded that they were the story. And oddly enough, you have her thinking primarily about Draco, about his mood and his attitude, and very little about the guerrilla war that theyâre all waging. And in the manner we have come to expect, Hermione over-thinks and over-analyzes everything.
In fact, the only place where her characterization is a little off for me is the sentence, âThe base itself had taken her some time to put together due to her general abhorrence of instructions.â I would disagree that she abhorred instructions; in school she followed instructions closely, as in her Potions class. I think she would be more bothered by the absence of instructions, if the âInstructions For Assemblyâ leaflet that once accompanied the artificial Christmas tree had been lost long ago.
The story is very slow-moving, as if the freezing weather had made everything sluggish, their bodies, their minds, even the pace of the story. And given that they are in a war, there is surprisingly little action; one would have expected more. Even the recounting of the attacks on the four Mugggle villages was just Hermioneâs brief recollection in her mind, and it occupied only one paragraph.
After reading your story three or four times and getting the framework (the skeleton of the plot, over which is laid the blanket of Hermioneâs thoughts and minute observations of the moment) solidly in mind, I could perceive that the story made more sense. But neither character is attractive. Hermione is so depressed and discouraged, and Draco is so cynical. He seems to be taking out his frustrations about the war by verbally harassing and needling Hermione. By choice he had no friends, preferring to consider that everyone on his side of the conflict was a moron, including, we presume, Hermione. And that is why his sudden change of mood/attitude/behavior at the end seems inexplicable. The last half-dozen paragraphs outline Dracoâs apparent change of mood, as perceived by Hermione, but I still donât see why. Yes, Hermione has told him the story about the Christmas Truce during World War One, but until this point his preference is to reject all her ideas, even to the point of saying that âagreeing to disagreeâ is the sign of losing an argument. This is what makes the ending not completely satisfying for me.
Still, your story is skillfully written, with sentences that work well and good word choices. I will have to read some of your other stories also, to see if this talent has also produced something more lighthearted.
Very nicely done, Graceful writing, and a more complex treatment of the subject than the usual romance fic. Life is complex, and this fic seems to capture that.
Author's Response: Thank you, Oregonian. This pairing is quite complex. I just wanted to sculpt out a believable scenario and three dimensional characters. I'm glad you feel the fic suceeded.
Thank you so much for reading and for the review!
Congratulations on starting a new story, and I'll bet that Laird Gastrell will figure in the story somehow later on, since he is a completely new element. I am curious to see what this story will be about, and I will follow your chapters eagerly. Has the Hogwarts Express become updated to be a Bullet Train since the days when Harry rode back and forth? It seems to have arrived at Hogwarts rather quickly. :)
Author's Response: Hi, Vicki!! Thanks so much for being my first reviewer! Laird Gastrell is someone I made up who will play a small part in the story later, but I'll say no more here. I'm glad to hear that you'll be keeping up with the story. About the Hogwarts Express... well, I've always thought that since we're in a magical world, shouldn't the train be magical? If wizards can apparate from one place to each other instantly, then a train could at least go a little faster than a normal muggle train. Just my head canon... Thanks!
I enjoyed this story. It makes the character of Colin in the books easier to understand, more than just an odd kid who liked to take pictures of everything for no apparent reason.
Author's Response: Oh, thank you for your lovely review! Yes, this fic is an exploration of Colin's character and the relationship between the brothers :) though I think Dennis is slightly overshadowed here. Thanks again!
I enjoyed this story, a canon-compliant expansion of a tense part of the Harry Potter saga. The writing is good; it flows well, without the straining-for-effect word choice that one often sees. I am looking forward to the rest of this story.
Author's Response: Thank you! This was my first attempt at Remus and Tonks, so your praise means more than you know. Part two is in the queue as we speak, so it shouldn't be long until you get to read it. Thanks for reading and reviewing and so happy you enjoyed it! :)
A sweet story. I liked the fact that Ron could recognize (at least part of the time) that his negative thoughts stemmed from his wearing the locket. It is good to see him depicted as not being completely controlled by his emotions 100% of the time, but rather able to look at himself more objectively (at least part of the time). Also a good illustration of the fact that when times are tough, the smallest of luxuries is greatly appreciated.
Author's Response: I like to think that at some points, Ron did realise what the locket was doing to him-- because at the time when he destroyed it, he told Harry about how it seemed to affect him the worst. So I think, maybe, he had these vacillations... maybe he couldn't understand it at some points, but at others, he could remind himself that it was just the locket. Nonetheless, he did manage to lose control over these realisations at one point-- we all know that. :)
According to me, Ron isn't as emotional as he is made out to be sometimes. He's capable of being reasonable. Of course, he has his bad moments here and there, but he's the guy I can relate to the most-- the most human of JKR's characters, if you will. I like how he can be sweet, loyal, loving, idiotic, mental, insecure, jealous and adorable, all at the same time. :)
I quite agree with you on that last part-- when times are tough, these tiny luxuries seem lovely. Thank you for the review!
Yes, I do read through to the end; as you know, I have an interest in developing the character of Arabella Figg (if you read my story through to the end). The last two paragraphs were not completely clear to me. Who is Edward? Another name for M. Fletcher? I am sure it will become clear as the story proceeds.
Author's Response: Yes, I did read your story through to the end! And I loved what you did with Arabella in the Epilogue. I love the characters that are fairly well defined withing a very small window, like Arabella, and Dung, and Moody - they are very real, there is a personality you have to respect, but they can be expanded in logical directions outside of the small angle we get on their lives. You'll find out a bit about Edward in the next chapter.The earlier two stories show them interacting before things get so terribly tense in the Wizarding World, and I think I am keeping true to my elaborations of their characters. The two of them are outsiders in two different ways - I like to think that at least gives them some point of commonality to work from... I see Dung very much as he is in the books and the illustrations, rather than in the Movie - I think that Dung has some things in common with Book!Dung, but has way too much energy, and is way way too clean...
Nicely crafted, well constructed. The characters are well developed and the plot is original. One gets tired of reading the same stuff over and over, but this story is different. A good blend of romance and action, fitting well into the canon.
Author's Response: Thank you very much for the very helpful review. I was a little worried that the pairing wouldn't work for people and I'm glad it did.
Hi, Elle. This is Vicki, of your own House, here to give you a hearty pat on the back for this very nice story. If you have read my recent poem Narcissa In The Forest you already know that I too have a positive opinion of Narcissa.
Although Narcissa is sometimes dismissed as a weak character, mainly because she doesnât go to outrageous extremes like Bellatrix or defy her familyâs values like Andromeda, Narcissa doesnât deserve such a tepid assessment. In canon she exhibits strength, initiative, and great love for her son. It is reasonable that she exhibits great love for her husband also.
The familyâs strong sense of elitism and class prejudice is, alas, reflected widely in the real world, and it shows itself in a dismissive, uncaring attitude toward people (or beings like house-elves) who are supposedly inferior to themselves, but within their own class, these elitists can be very loving.
By beginning the story with some paragraphs about Narcissaâs concern for Draco, you establish her loving nature, and it is significant that her rage toward Voldemort is triggered not by what he is doing to the lower classes, but by what he is doing to Narcissaâs own family. For her it is all intensely personal. And although she is capable of strong emotion, such as love and rage, you show her ingrained habit of self-control in the lines ââ¦she realized her emotions were swirling out of control. Taking a deep breath she attempted to calm herself.â This tight self-control is what later allows her to deceive Lord Voldemort in the forest and save, not only her family, but the wizarding world. For this reason, I think your line âShe fled towards the sound in full panic,â might be a little overstated; she probably acted less panicky than someone else might have done, given the same amount of fear.
You have shown her tender side very realistically in the scene where she finds her husband lying on the floor, but also her tough side, in the lines âShe needed to see his woundsâ¦â and ââ¦she knew she couldnât give in to her urgesâ¦; she needed to heal him.â When she describes his physical state as âNothing we canât fix,â it is really âNothing Narcissa canât fix.â
Given the seriousness of the situation and the wretched physical state of her newly-escaped husband, I didnât think that there would be giggling, a mischievous grin, or a shower a deux. Those donât seem to be Narcissaâs style; they sound more like things that Ginny would do.
I was struck by the lines of conversation where Lucius said, âThis is all my fault. I failed, and you and Draco paid the price,â and Narcissa answered, âNone of this was your fault.â I re-read the pertinent chapters of Order of the Phoenix to see how much at fault he was, and he certainly did seem guilty, so Narcissaâs words suggest either that she didnât know the details of his behavior, or that love is blind.
This story is smoothly written, with a good balance between introspection, description, dialogue, and action. The details give a vivid image of the events of the story, and the introspection does not go needlessly into topics not closely related to the plot. All the elements of this story serve to further the plot, and that is good.
I enjoy reading well-written Missing Moments. The seven books are necessarily all written from Harryâs point of view; nothing is presented that Harry does not witness, but the Missing Moments enrich the whole saga immensely. All the characters are valuable, and all their stories deserve to be told. Thank you for a good job.
A prisoner of Azkaban reflects on what is and what could have been.
Little did he know that he was in for a surpriseâ¦
Hi, Priya. This is Vicki of Slytherin House, commenting on your unfinished story The Prisoner. This sounds like a rollicking good story, with an active plot, good details, and intriguing characterizations. The writing style is a little unpolished here and there, but the lively plot easily outshines any occasional rough edges, and we all know that the most polished of writing cannot save a boring story.
Throughout the story you follow the important rule of âShow, donât tellâ, so Dracoâs emotions are revealed well by your description of his actions, his out-of-control behavior after his trial and his Model-Prisoner behavior when he starts implementing his new plan. The description of the events of his daily life in prison, at the opening of the story, gives us a good sense of the setting in which this story takes place, the mention of the prison reforms juxtaposed with the callous behavior of the prison staff.
I also appreciated the humor that creeps into your story here and there: the prisonerâs glee at âtrickingâ the guards by pretending to be asleep when they come to awaken all the inmates; his outlandish imaginings about what he would do and say at his trial, where âthey would lead me out like a kingâ, while he would glory in the sight of âthoroughly pissed-off Potter and a similarly stymied Weasley, fuming with rage, with matching red faces and clenched fists.â When Draco injures himself rampaging in his cell and then begs the Healer for a deadly potion, the Healer would decline the request and âkeep on bandaging useless parts.â These bits of humor, tossed in seemingly at random, are a sign of the writerâs art; they attract our attention momentarily and impel us to read further.
Your story also has good suspense. You have given us hints of what happened in the past, enough to set our brains speculating about the details left unspoken, but not distracting from our sense of the present. And though you incorporate flashbacks, both to the farther past and then to the nearer past, the time sequence is very plain; I was never confused about what was happening when. I am left wondering how Hermione was used as âbaitâ to trick Draco into supporting the Dark Lord, and what Dracoâs newly-hatched vengeance plan is going to be. Somehow, being a Model Prisoner is the first step, but what next?
The auxiliary characters in this story are depicted well in just a few sentences eachâ"the guards who are inexplicably worried when Draco falls and skins his knees, the Minister who summarily sentences Draco to life imprisonment in a one-minute mockery of a trial, the unsympathetic, matter-of-fact prison Healer who is just doing his job. In each case, you characterize these players by showing actions that reveal what they are like.
I hope you finish this story because you seem to have the sine qua non of storytelling: a good story and the ability to tell it in a captivating way. The polish will come, but meanwhile the enjoyment is already there. Good Luck!
Author's Response: Hi, Vicki... this is Priya here... I am extremely sorry for the late response... but I have tried to make it up with an update... hope you like the new chapter as well... !!!
And also a very big thanks for your compliments... I didn't think I deserve such praise though... but thanks anyway for encouraging me... I will try to improve my writing skills and update faster... !!!
Regards and gratitude
A wonderful idea, and well done. One suggestion: in line 4, you want to say "tarriest", not "tarrieth", because the verb ending for the second person singular is -est. The ending -eth is for the third person singular. You have it correctly further on in that line, where you say "thou dost" (instead of "thou doth" which would be a mistake), and in the second line where you say "thou hast" (rather than "thou hath", which would be a mistake).
Author's Response: Thanks for catching that! I don't actually know how to write medieval English; I just winged it, lol. I'm glad you liked the poem!
Sybil Trelawney and Quirinus Quirrell: the Seer fallen to teaching and her bright young thing. Of course they never meant to fall in love. But they did, and so here is that story.
This is BrokenPromise of Ravenclaw, writing for the Great Hall Cotillion 2013.
Thanks to Sophie (the owl), who looked over some of this for me.
Hi, BrokenPromise. This is Vicki of Slytherin House, commenting on your story about Sybill Trelawneyâs early teaching days.
Poor Sybill gets a bum rap in the books by JKR, depicted as a dotty and ineffective person, a figure of fun. Her reputation deserves some rehabilitation, as you have done in this delightful little story, focused on her early years as a teacher, when she was younger, probably prettier and more carefree, a person that a young man might actually come to love.
It is a gentle story, even with its calamitous ending. The lovers are circumspect; the dialogue between Quirinius and Sybill is frank but not florid, and there is a very even pace and tone. I like the way you told the story as a series of vignettes separated by breaks. Each vignette acts like a steppingstone across the landscape of the story, brief but significant, each one propelling the plot forward. Your have a spare, succinct writing style, but using enough detail to flesh out each scene adequately. There are no wasted words here; each sentence pulls its weight and contributes well to the story.
The presence of the letters gives a nice change of narrative style. Because each brief letter comes from a different geographical place, one gets a sense of motion and the passing of time. One looks forward to seeing the letter from Albania, but, ominously, it is not there.
Your ending wraps it up neatly, with no loose ends. You have Sybill say that it was after Quiriniusâ death that she fell apart with drink and dottiness, due to the double blow of the loss of her loved one and the horrible circumstances of his death. This is all logical and does not contradict canon.
There were a couple of little points I noticed, neither of them very important. You assume that Quirinius was sorted in 1979, after Sybil had made her prediction at the Hogâs Head Pub about the birth of a boy who would be Voldemortâs downfall. I believe that that prediction, and Sybillâs subsequent employment at Hogwarts, occurred in 1980. The other point was the statement that, during the Sorting, âAndrews, Gillian, had been the first Gryffindor; Zeta, Carys became the last.â I interpreted this to mean that Carys was the last Gryffindor, but later you say that the Gryffindors and the Ravenclaw did not attend their Divination class together, yet Carys is passing around the blue chintz teacups in a class session where Sybill addresses a student as âmy dear boyâ, and I had assumed that that student was Quirinius. Of course any of these assumptions could be wrong: Carys might not have been a Gryffindor, or Gryffindor and Ravenclaw might have met together for Divination occasionally, or âmy dear boyâ might not have referred to Quirinius. But none of this matters to the impact of the story.
This is the subtle sort of story that improves with each re-reading. It was enjoyable to see how you managed to bring these two characters together in a plausible way. Nice job.
Author's Response: Hi Vicki, Iâm very grateful for this old review. I really pleased that you enjoyed the story.
The year of the prophecy has always puzzled me. I assumed she gave it in around March 79, then started teaching in September of the same year. It worked for the purposes of the story â it made Quirrell old enough to be a young teacher when Harry arrived. As for the Carys issue, I did not make it clear enough that this is in an earlier year. Finally, the letter from Albania was received â Quirinus kept his promise and wrote every day, so Sybil has hundreds of letters and postcards (in my mind theyâre tied with ribbon by month) â I chose the 4 letters I wrote to show Quirrellâs passion for learning about other people, which is also what made him a good Muggle Studies teacher. As for poor Trelawney, well, Iâm glad you feel I have contributed towards her characterâs rehabilitation, as you say.
To be honest, writing this pairing remains one of my proudest achievements on this website. I always cite it as one of my OTPs, no matter the looks I get from my friends! Thank you again for your most splendid review, and my humble apologies for taking so so long to reply to it.
Hi, H.S. This is Vicki from Slytherin House again. I always enjoy reading your missing moments, as you already know, because they are so skillfully written and fit so neatly into canon.
My initial reaction to this story was that I liked the first half, in which Draco is alone on the balcony reflecting on his recent past, better than the second half, because the first half is such a comprehensive analysis of the the emotions and reactions that Draco must have been experiencing at that moment: a lifetime of angers, fears, negative outlooks on life (looking down on people cannot be as enjoyable as appreciating them), negative experiences (bullying people cannot be as enjoyable as having friends), frightening real-life nightmares, disappointments, isolation, abandonment, resentment⦠You explore this lifetime of bottled-up hurts and wrongs in fascinating detail, even to the gallows humor of the golden casket with the mirror inside the lid.
There are significant hints in a few phrases: ââ¦the vacuum of emotion..â and âIt didnât affect himâ¦â Draco tells himself that he feels nothing and doesnât care, when it is painfully obvious that he feels a lot and does care, not in grief for a loving father whom he lost a few days ago, but in grief for an entire loving childhood that he lost on the day he was born. You have him think of his father as âThe man who had been dead to him for yearsâ¦â Twenty-one years, by my count. In this, he is like Harry, who also grew up without a loving father. To Draco, his father was like the walking dead, not present in any sense that matters.
And still, as he reviews his fatherâs sins and shortcomings, you show hints that Draco blames himself as well: âWho the hell cared that little about [their father] that they could spend his funeral counting the panes of glassâ¦â ââ¦no progress had been madeâ¦â in building himself back up, and âJust how fucked up was he anyway?â These are not the thoughts of someone who doesnât care.
At first reading, the half of the story featuring Astoria was less attractive to me. Her speech seemed affected, but to try to understand what you were doing here I re-read this section, skipping all the narrative and just focusing on her statements, and some points began to stand out, particularly ââ¦he is both pleased and horrified to discover that his fatherâs death hasnât affected him?â¦But doesnât that make him as cold and unfeeling as his father was?â My take-away message here is that how we are raised will affect how we think and behave for the rest of our lives, and I saw an unexpected parallel with my own story, The Baby In The Closet, about how Harry was affected by his own upbringing. (Donât know if you have read that or not.) Iâm not sure Astoria was thinking about anything like that; she was just having fun freaking Draco out.
It was not clear to me how Astoria could pinpoint so accurately what Dracoâs state of mind wasâ"a lucky guess?â"or why she accosted him out on the balcony. Why does she want to tease, torment, tantalize him? And why, in the end, does he seem to be attracted to her? Because she is the one person for whom he does not have to play a false role? It is for me a pretty ambiguous ending.
I enjoyed this story, and writing a review for it forced me to think more deeply about it instead of just skimming over it and on to the next. Thanks for writing.


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Andre Cymone Re-Emerges (For A Good Cause) With "America"
by MJ on Sep 10, 2012 • 2:03 pm 2 CommentsHow long has it been since you heard the name "Andre Cymone?"
Best known as Prince's former roommate and the original bass player in the Revolution, Andre broke South before the Purple One jumped over to mainstream success with "1999." Not deterred at all by PRN's commercial breakthrough, Andre recorded three solid funk/rock albums before setting his sights on songwriting and production, working with Adam Ant, Jermaine Stewart, and most notably Jody Watley. He also appeared as the love interest in Jody's "Don't You Want Me" video, and played Jody's love interest in real life-it was revealed in the mid Nineties that the two were married for a while Janet Jackson/Rene Elizondo style.
At any rate, Andre's been AWOL for quite some time, but he has returned with not a drop of rust. "America" is a sizzling slice of funk/rock that's timeless as well as timely. You can listen to or download the song on Andre's Bandcamp page, and all net proceeds will be donated to support the re-election of President Barack Obama.
Good music, good cause. How can you go wrong? Let's hope Andre is inspired, much like his friends in the Original 7even Time, to make a full-fledged comeback and bless us with an entire album!
Download the track here.
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text: Kroger card program benefits local labor school By Lori Kersey February 9, 2013 CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Customers of a major grocery store chain can help out a West Virginia school with each trip to the store.The Southern Appalachian Labor School is enrolled in the Kroger Bucks Program where customers buy $20 re-loadable Kroger cards with a serial number that's linked to SALS. Whenever a customer pays using the card, Kroger donates 5 percent of the money spent to SALS. "It really is a neat way to help out a nonprofit like us," director John David said. "We don't have to bother people standing outside the store selling a piece of fudge. The people don't actually spend any more money. It's basically [Kroger] that's kicking the money back." The school has been using the Kroger program for a couple of years, David said. David said the school has high hopes that the program will bring in a good deal of funds for the nonprofit. "It certainly could be a lot more than what it is because we haven't marketed it very well," David said. To use the card over and over, customers can take them to the Customer Service window at Kroger stores and re-load them with the money they expect to spend at the store. They may use cash, debit or credit cards to reload them The Kroger Bucks cards can be used for anything the store sells, including gas and prescriptions. Funds raised from the cards benefit the labor school, which operates an after-school program and a summer school program for a large portion of students in Fayette and upper Kanawha counties, David said. The school also has a home repair program, among others. The workforce for the home repair program is made of up high school dropouts who are getting their GEDs, he said. To purchase a card, contact SALS by phone at 304-465-9732 or by email at firstname.lastname@example.com Lori Kersey at email@example.com or 304-348-1240.


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by Stephanie Watson
Published on 31 October 2012
Many software developers swear by Pivotal Tracker. It is a cloud based tool that helps teams manage the flow of a project. Each person is always looking at the same snapshot, from micro task level to the overview.
It works for many companies that use agile development where the emphasis is on collaboration, step-by-step planning and adapting as the work progresses.
Teams that use the agile approach may also want to check out two other tools available that each use a slightly different approach.
A type of agile method, Kanban means a way to visualize a set of tasks. LeanKit Kanban provides a web-based graphical tool to show work-flow in real time that is geared to both distributed and physically close teams. Color coding, avatars and visual indicators of importance and dates all help make it easy to figure out where the project stands at a glance. This emphasis on the visual makes it easy to locate bottlenecks and slowdowns.
Uses Scrum Methodology - Teams that employ the scrum methodology for software development are right at home with LeanKit Kanban. With scrum, a team focuses for a set period of time called a sprint. The goal is to deliver a usable product in two to four weeks. Teams gage how they're doing in a daily meeting or scrum. Leankit Kanban fits easily into this methodology and in addition, provides real and meaningful metrics.
Data is Current - And, available as it happens. This removes a lot of guessing and helps a team make changes at the beginning of a problem, not late in the process. Teams that need to use diagrams to show the average time it takes to get from the Start Lane to the Finish Lane appreciate the Cycle Time diagram views. These can be all the types of work, or separated out by class of service, by type of task and by priority.
Seeing is Believing - Seeing where the different aspects of the project are: in process, waiting or completed, is easy with the Efficiency Diagram. It can show the percentage or the actual number of work items in each state. The interface is intuitive and easy to set up. With one click, a board can be created from scratch, using templates or cloned from an existing board. Moving around is simple. The user can navigate anywhere in the system from one screen. This ease of use is built into the design which uses common sense as its guiding principle.
The selling point for PlanBox is the ability to drag and drop items onto its version of a virtual story board. Each person can filter the view to show just what he is working on. It is cloud-based and simply needs a browser and internet connection. Both small and large teams find it a useful tool. PlanBox emphasizes that it is adaptable and fits the needs of any size company and of a variety of departments, not just IT and software development.
Great for Students - Students have discovered how useful it is for keeping track and prioritizing tasks and so they hand in assignments on time. They find it especially easy to collaborate with others on class projects. Breaking big jobs into component parts is straightforward using the two levels of projects the tool offers. PlanBox also offers students free accounts with no user limits which makes them extra special.
Collaborate in Real Time - Everything on the PlanBox board is shown in real time. This makes collaborating easy whether the team is in the same building or in other countries. Comments, descriptions and how-to information are shared as they are posted. PlanBox also has a mobile app so info can be checked and updated on the road. Meetings can be logged without delay. It is easy to customize with apps and to integrate with other software.
Makes Work Distribution Simple - The amount of work for each member of the team is clearly outlined so loads can be distributed fairly, making the best use of each person's time. It supports all the agile methods, including Kanban and scrum with their emphasis on team interaction and customer feedback. Since changes appear as they happen, it is easy to adapt and adjust on the fly. The interface is both easy to set up for beginners to the agile method and full featured for advanced users.
As you can see these two cloud-based project management solutions are excellent alternatives to Pivotal Tracker. Why not give them a try to see if you like them. Let us know your thoughts!
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The Steps to Salvation
STEP #1: Know that God's desire for YOU is life, abundant, and eternal with Him.
The Bible says:
"I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly" (John 10:10).
Giving you abundant life required the supreme sacrifice:
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life" (John 3:16).
God has given us a beautiful gift of fellowship and companionship. Yet, people have ignored this gift. Why don't more people have what He has designed for us to receive? It is a question answered by this sobering realization.
STEP #2: Realize that YOU are separated from God.
People throughout the ages have made selfish choices to disobey God Almighty. These choices continue to cause separation from the Father. God's Word shows us that the result of sin is death.
He says in His Word:
"There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death" (Proverbs 14:12).
And God also said:
"But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear" (Isaiah 59:2).
Paul the apostle states in Romans 3:23:
"For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God."
And in Romans 6:23 we read:
"For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."
All people were created with the ability and need to know God and fellowship with Him.
Many people try to fill that empty void in their lives with "things." They even try good works, morality, and religion. Yet they remain empty, for only God, through His Son, can fill that emptiness.
STEP #3: Accept the fact that God has provided only one solution to sin and separation from Himself.
Jesus Christ, His Son, is the only way to God. He paid the penalty for our sin and bridged the gap between God and mankind.
The Bible explains:
"But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8).
We are also told:
"For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God" (1 Peter 3:18).
There is only one way provided:
"For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus" (1 Timothy 2:5).
For in John 14:6 we read:
"Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."
God Almighty has provided the only way. Jesus Christ paid the penalty for our sin and rebellion against God by dying on the cross, shedding His blood, and rising from the dead to justify and reconcile you back to God the Father.
STEP #4: Pray to receive Jesus Christ into your life.
Ask Jesus Christ to take away your sin and to come into your heart to be your Lord and Savior.
God's Word is very clear:
"Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me" (Revelation 3:20).
And the Bible tells us:
"That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved" (Romans 10:9).
Are you willing to receive Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior now?
STEP #5: Pray to Receive Jesus Christ into YOUR life.
At this moment you can pray the most important prayer of your life by simply saying:
Dear Lord, I believe You are God and sent Your son to die for me on the cross and shed Your blood for my salvation. I believe you rose from the dead and ascended on high. I believe You are coming back again to earth. Please forgive my sin and clean me now. Come into my heart. I receive You now as my Savior, my Lord, and my God. From this moment on, I belong to You only. In the name of Your son Jesus, Amen!
By praying this prayer, confessing your sins, and receiving Jesus Christ into your heart, YOU have become God's forgiven child.
The Bible gives you this assurance:
"But as many as received him, to them he gave the power to become the sons of God, even to them who believe on his name" (John 1:12).


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After the Federal Reserve announced on Wednesday that the U.S. economy grew at a "measured pace" in recent weeks, Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher pressed the government to give businesses more incentives to use the central bank's liquidity to create jobs.
Fisher has requested more governmental action because there are limits to what monetary policy can accomplish, Reuters reported. "We at the central bank have been carrying the load and this is a very dangerous predicament," Fisher said during a lecture in Frankfurt.
The Summary of Commentary on Current Economic Conditions released by the Federal Reserve on Wednesday showed the reality behind Fisher's statement. Contacts within the Fed's 12 districts reported that manufacturing was either slowing or contracting as the impending fiscal cliff has made factory owners concerned. The slowdown in manufacturing offset gains made in consumer demand and housing.
"Consumer spending grew at a moderate pace in most districts, while manufacturing weakened," the central bank said in its Beige Book business survey. "Contacts in a number of districts expressed concern and uncertainty about the federal budget, especially the fiscal cliff."
In comparison, the Fed's previous Beige Book report stated that "economic activity generally expanded modestly."
However, as economic conditions have changed over the last few months, analyst expect that the Federal Reserve will continue its $40 billion per-month purchases of mortgage-backed securities in its most recent round of quantitative easing. Furthermore, the Beige Book survey gave an indication of the potential the fiscal cliff has to affect the economy. As Bloomberg reported, the report also "bolster[ed] Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke's view that an agreement on reducing long-term federal budget deficits without abrupt tax increases and spending cuts would remove a barrier to growth."


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Canadian Dollar Advances on Bets Jobs Growth Rebounded in April
Ari AltstedterThe Canadian dollar rose against the majority of its most-traded peer before a report forecast to show job creation rebounded in April.
The currency touched its lowest level in a week versus the U.S. dollar as the greenback rose against all its major peers after the yen fell past 100 to the American dollar yesterday for the first time since 2009. Canada added 15,000 jobs in April after losing 54,500 the previous month, according to a Bloomberg survey of 27 economists. A separate survey predicted the unemployment rate to remain at 7.2 percent.
"I don't expect the Canadian dollar to lose a lot more ground from here and it may be the market is seeing these levels as an opportunity to buy," said Jane Foley, senior currency strategist at Rabobank International, by phone from London. "Given that we've had this selloff, you could say the market is now positioned for a disappointing number and if we get anything slightly above the market median then we can see the Canadian dollar gaining back some ground."
The loonie, as the Canadian dollar is known for the image of the aquatic bird on the C$1 coin, fell 0.1 percent to C$1.0076 per U.S. dollar at 7:40 a.m. in Toronto, after touching C$1.0100 per U.S. dollar, its lowest since May 3. One loonie buys 99.24 U.S. cents.


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SMART-1's bridge to the future exploration of the Moon
ESA's SMART-1 moon mission has become a bridge to the future of lunar science and exploration.
"SMART-1 data are helping to choose future landing sites for robotic and possible manned missions, and its instruments are upgraded and being flown again on the next generation of lunar satellites," says Bernard Foing, ESA SMART-1 Project scientist. "Even its spectacular impact campaign is helping NASA to plan their own moon crash."
SMART-1's mission lasted from launch on 27 September 2003, to its controlled impact on the Moon on 3 September 2006. During that time, the mission's innovative approach to technology and science created new solutions to old problems that are now being carried forward to the next generation of lunar missions, in line with the recommendations of the International Lunar Exploration Working Group (ILEWG).
The miniature camera, AMIE, weighed just 2 kilograms yet the images it returned are being used to choose possible landing sites for future missions. The choice of landing sites depends upon criteria such as the scientific importance of the area, the ease of landing and operation and, if it is to become a human base, the availability of lunar resources. SMART-1 has imaged Apollo and Luna landing sites, and potential possible landing sites for humans at the lunar poles.
To follow up the technological breakthroughs of SMART-1, ESA is providing three instruments for the Indian Moon mission Chandrayaan-1. Two are direct descendents from SMART-1: the infrared spectrometer, SIR2, and the X-ray spectrometer, C1XS. The third (SARA) is a precursor to an instrument that will fly on ESA's Bepi-Colombo mission to Mercury.
ESA and European scientists are also collaborating with the Japanese, who are currently preparing the large lunar spacecraft, Selene, which will launch this year carrying two subsatellites and 300 kilograms of sophisticated instruments.
During SMART-1's mission, ESA provided the Chinese with details of the spacecraft's position and transmission frequencies, so that the Chinese could test their tracking stations and ground operations by following it. This was part of their preparation for Chang'E 1, an orbiter due to be launched in October 2007.
SMART-1 experts are collaborating with NASA to prepare for Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) that will provide new imaging, radar and other key measurements needed for future exploration of the Moon. LRO is due to be launched at the end of 2008. ESA is sharing the experience of SMART-1's impact campaign to help prepare the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS), which will be launched with LRO. The LCROSS shepherd spacecraft will watch the spent upper-stage of its rocket crash into a dark lunar crater, hopefully releasing water vapour and thus proving that ice exists on the lunar surface.
"Having flown SMART-1, we have now established collaborations with other countries that will help to take us into the future of lunar exploration," says Foing.
Bernard Foing explained SMART-1's legacy to the Symposium: "Why the Moon?" at the International Space University at Strasbourg, France, on 22 February 2007.
For more information
Bernard Foing, ESA SMART-1 Project Scientist
Bernard.Foing @ esa.int
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/SMART-1 - SMART-1 diagnoses wrinkles and excess weight on the Moon
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/SMART-1/SMART-1_diagnoses_wrinkles_and_excess_weight_on_the_Moon - How SMART-1 has made European space exploration smarter
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/SMART-1/How_SMART-1_has_made_European_space_exploration_smarter - SMART-1 impact simulated in a laboratory sand-box
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/SMART-1/SMART-1_impact_simulated_in_a_laboratory_sand-box - SMART-1 impact flash and debris: crash scene investigation
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/SMART-1/SMART-1_impact_flash_and_debris_crash_scene_investigation - SMART-1 swan song: valuable data until final moments
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/SMART-1/SMART-1_swan_song_valuable_data_until_final_moments - SMART-1 impact update
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/SMART-1/SMART-1_impact_update - SMART-1 impacts Moon
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/SMART-1/SMART-1_impacts_Moon - Impact landing ends
SMART-1 mission to the Moon
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/SMART-1/Impact_landing_ends_nobr_SMART-1_nobr_mission_to_the_Moon - SMART-1 star tracker views the Moon in earthshine (UPDATED)
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/SMART-1/SMART-1_star_tracker_views_the_Moon_in_earthshine_UPDATED - Amateur observers prepare to watch SMART-1 impact
http://www.esa.int/About_Us/ESOC/Amateur_observers_prepare_to_watch_SMART-1_impact - Intense final hours for SMART-1
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/SMART-1/Intense_final_hours_for_SMART-1 - Low altitude flying with coarse maps – determining the time of SMART-1 impact
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/SMART-1/Low_altitude_flying_with_coarse_maps_determining_the_time_of_SMART-1_impact - ILEWG International Lunar Exploration Working Group
http://sci.esa.int/ilewg - ISU International Space University
http://www.isunet.edu - Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
http://lro.gsfc.nasa.gov/ - Chandrayaan-1
http://www.chandrayaan-1.com/space-probe.htm - SMART-1


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Because nothing says "Merry Christmas" like standing in one's backyard in 70 degree weather on December 2nd, and picking a fresh watermelon off the vines for lunch. (And, as often mentioned on here, yes, I really am Canadian, I just really hate cold weather & snow.)
I've been just waiting to do a Christmas bento, but had to make myself wait at least till the calendar turned to December. And, being that I started prepping for Christmas ideas right after Halloween was over, I managed to lose one of the adorable sets of picks that I bought at Target specifically for Christmas bentos. I'm sure I'll find it eventually, likely the second week of January. ;o) But I digress ...
For lunch today, Faith had a turkey and chive cream cheese sandwich, on Nature's Own Multigrain Sandwich Rounds, topped with a little orange cheddar Christmas tree. Since I was feeling extra creative, the tree is decorated with Swiss cheese ornaments. She also has half a boiled egg and some carrots, plus grapes and freshly picked and freshly sliced watermelon.
This is our second to last watermelon of the season, I still have one more on my vine, then that's it till next year. I do, however, have a multitude of tomatoes (picked about 10 beautiful red ones last week) and about 75 habañero peppers that I'm hoping get even spicier if I wait longer. We haven't had freezing temperatures or frosts yet in Dallas, so I'm trying to hold out as long as I can on picking the rest of the garden.
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Roger Zelazny is a genial writer who sometimes manages to give old themes new twists to accomplish something bordering on the extraordinary. He does this in four instances in this collection of fifteen stories [The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth]—"Devil Car" in which the autos are self-mobile; "The Mortal Mountain" a long climb to the highest mountain in the near universe and well worth the struggle; "A Museum Piece" in which failed artists and cynical critics become living sculptures; and the best, "The Great Slow Kings," a truly funny piece that deals with dragons trying to discuss their contemporary problems over a span of centuries while the world moves on. Not all stars but O.K.
"Fiction: 'The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth and Other Stories'," in Kirkus Reviews (copyright © 1971 The Kirkus Service, Inc.), Vol. XXXIX, No. 8, April 15, 1971, p...
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Real analysis is the area of mathematics dealing with real numbers and the analytic properties of real-valued functions and sequences. In this course we shall develop concepts such as convergence, continuity, completeness, compactness and convexity in the settings of real numbers, Euclidean spaces, and more general metric spaces.
Real analysis is part of the foundation for further study in mathematics as well as graduate studies in economics. A considerable part of economic theory is difficult to follow without a strong background in real analysis. For example, the concepts of compactness and convexity play an important role in optimisation theory and thus in microeconomics.
This course in real analysis is designed to meet the needs of economics students who are planning to study at postgraduate level. It is also suitable for mathematics and statistics students.
Course Benefits After completing this course students will:
Prerequisites A course on multivariate calculus and linear algebra, both at first year undergraduate level. Furthermore, students need to be familiar with methods of proofs, basic set theory and the properties of real numbers. A revision of this material will be covered in the foundations part of the course and can also be found in Introduction to Real Analysis by Robert G. Bartle and Donald R. Sherbert (2011) [Chapters 1 and 2 and Appendix A].
This course has two components and will be delivered online and on-campus.
Foundation (10-14 August 2015) This part of the course will be delivered online, and will consist of:
On the Friday of this week, students will be asked to complete an online diagnostic quiz. Although mandatory, the quiz is not an exam, and passing it is not a prerequisite of attending the course. It is instead intended to give the lecturer an idea of what will need to be looked at on the first afternoon campus session.
Core (17-28 August 2015) To be delivered on campus over 9 lectures and 8 classes. Most lectures will involve the use of Class Response System "clickers" to help students think about the concepts and clarify the material covered before attempting exercises.
Assessment: A set of homework exercises (15%) and a two hour comprehensive final exam (85%). The final examination will take place on the afternoon of Friday 28 August 2015.
The course provides a rigorous yet accessible treatment of real analysis and analysis on metric spaces and will be delivered by formal lectures supported by classes. Students are required to solve exercises (homework assignments) on a daily basis. Exercises are a vital part of the course and their solutions will be discussed in the classes.
Part I: Foundations
Part II: Core
Main Texts There is no set text for this course. A comprehensive course pack with course notes and exercises will be supplied.
Suggested references Introduction to Real Analysis by Robert G. Bartle and Donald R. Sherbert (2011) Introduction to Metric and Topological Spaces by W. A. Sutherland (1995) Principles of Mathematical Analysis by W. Rudin (1976) The Elements of Real Analysis, by Robert G. Bartle, 2nd edition (1976) Convex Functions by A. Wayne Robers and Dale E. Varberg. (1973)
The following book is a useful, more advanced complementary reading: Real Analysis with Economic Applications by Efe A. Ok (2007).
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Dates Online component: 10-14 August 2015 On-Campus: 17-28 August 2015
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