Fairfax County

Lost in Lust The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, with music and lyrics by William Finn, book by Rachel Sheinkin, and conceived by Rebecca Feldman, explores a lighthearted event, as the play title suggests, a middle school spelling bee. I watched the production on February 7, 2016 at 2:00 PM at the University of Washington’s Floyd and Delores Jones Playhouse. This production was directed by Brandon Ivie, musically directed by Jordyn Meeker, and choreographed by Steven Sofia. This musical…

The subject is a one story home built in 1950 in the Fairfax Station subdivision in Fairfax. It is vinyl with stone exterior wall, Average + 10 grade home sited on a 1.7022 acre lot. The appellant filed on the basis of error in property description, submitting three comparable homes to illustrate that the subject is undervalued compared to similar homes in the neighborhood. The appellant claimed that the subject property is unique (Custom) home and requested an increase in its current assessed…

17.315 Recitation Reaction Paper In class, we discussed the multitude of factors that influenced the longevity gap between impoverished individuals and more affluent individuals. This also overlapped with our discuss of obesity and how while it is a useful analogy to compare tobacco to obesity, it is not a perfect analogy as there are countless caveats in the obesity crisis that have no counterparts in the argument used against tobacco. Similar to obesity, it seems like there are caveats that…

In October 2012, DC Water embarked on establishing job centers that emphasized increasing employment opportunities for local residents to work on DC Water projects. Such efforts were spearheaded by L. S. Caldwell, and Associates Inc. (LSC), DC Water’s third-party compliance firm. As the Compliance Officer, LSC is responsible for the development, implementation and monitoring of compliance initiatives relative to various projects associated with the DC Water Capital Improvement Program (CIP). In…

Throughout the memoir, A Question of Freedom written by him, Dwayne Betts had faced a lot of obstacles and limited choices/decisions behind bars in a Fairfax County Jail in Virginia. There are many reasons why others define Betts as a “felon”, but he describes himself as a “success”, Betts chose himself as a “learner”, others define me as “motivated” and to reflect based on challenges of defining an identity is, “failure to success”. Throughout the memoir, many people describe Betts as a…

Fairfax county has made technology and resources readily available for their classrooms. Laptop carts are available for each grade. Washington Mill utilizes these laptops regularly in an effort to have their curriculum and instruction be driven by data from students. They do this by having students take end of unit tests on a website called Horizon. This testing site allows teachers and administrators to not only see scores but to analyze the results of the test question by question. Another way…

everything to take place” (WTOP Staff, 2016). He later added that he did not personally feel as though justice had been served. This comment was made in reference to the widely perceived lenient sentence Torres received for the murder of Don’s son. Fairfax County initially offered a $2.95 million settlement to Geer’s two daughters before Torres’s internal affairs files went public (Jackman, 2016). In terms of Virginia police misconduct cases, this settlement is one of the largest offers ever…

This year’s winter break was by far the best winter break. Winter break held two of my favorite hoildays season, and Christmas. I also went shopping. To begin with, over break i went hunting. When I went hunting I killed a doe.We only had one pack of dogs so when i killed the doe I had to catch the dogs. Later on that day everyone ate lunch at the hunting club. After lunch the dog driver said,’’he was going to let the dogs rest for tomorrow’’. So everyone had to call it a day, so i started to…

be GMO allergens, the mother becomes frighten when her son is constantly found unconscious in a pile of vomit. The film is a great description of the struggles that many Marin County community members are currently living. Mark Squire, a supporter of GMO labeling and owner of Marin County’s, Good Earth Natural Foods in Fairfax has once contributed up to $44,000 to help support local awareness pervious to elections, supporting…

Brenda English is a mystery writer who has written the Sutton McPhee series and co-authored "The Intuitive Heart" with Henry Reed, PhD (a dream, parapsychology, intuition, and creativity). "The Intuitive Heart" is all about opening the door to inner wisdom, and developing intuition and psychic ability. Intuition in this case is more than just gaining answers to certain questions about what to do; but also becoming closer to everyone and everything around you. She got interested in writing…