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Alexandria, Virginia
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Arlington County is a county in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It is coterminous with the U. S. Census Bureau-census-designated place of Arlington, as a result, the county is often referred to in the region simply as Arlington or Arlington, Virginia. In 2015, the population was estimated at 229,164. The land that became Arlington was originally donated by Virginia to the United States government to form part of the new federal district of Columbia. In 1846, Congress returned the land southwest of the Potomac River donated by Virginia due to issues involving Congressional representation, the General Assembly of Virginia changed the countys name to Arlington in 1920 to avoid confusion with the adjacent City of Alexandria. The county is situated in Northern Virginia on the bank of the Potomac River directly across from Washington. Arlington is also bordered by Fairfax County and City of Falls Church to the northwest, west and southwest, as of the 2010 census, the population was 207,627. Due to the proximity to downtown Washington, D. C. It is also home to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, the many federal agencies, government contractors, and service industries contribute to Arlingtons stable economy. It is the county in the United States by median family income. According to a 2016 study by Bankrate. com, Arlington is the best place to retire, the area that now constitutes Arlington County was originally part of Fairfax County in the Colony of Virginia. Land grants from the British monarch were awarded to prominent Englishmen in exchange for political favors, one of the grantees was Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, who lends his name to both Fairfax County and the City of Fairfax. George Washington Parke Custis, grandson of First Lady Martha Washington, the estate was eventually passed down to Mary Anna Custis Lee, wife of General Robert E. Lee. The property later became Arlington National Cemetery during the American Civil War, the area that now contains Arlington County was ceded to the new United States federal government by the Commonwealth of Virginia. With the passage of the Residence Act in 1790, Congress approved a new permanent capital to be located on the Potomac River, the Residence Act originally only allowed the President to select a location within Maryland as far east as what is now the Anacostia River. However, President Washington shifted the federal territorys borders to the southeast in order to include the city of Alexandria at the Districts southern tip. In 1791, Congress amended the Residence Act to approve the new site, however, this amendment to the Residence Act specifically prohibited the erection of the public buildings otherwise than on the Maryland side of the River Potomac. As permitted by the U. S. Constitution, the shape of the federal district was a square, measuring 10 miles on each side
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Virginia
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Virginia is a state located in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, as well as in the historic Southeast. The geography and climate of the Commonwealth are shaped by the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Chesapeake Bay, the capital of the Commonwealth is Richmond, Virginia Beach is the most populous city, and Fairfax County is the most populous political subdivision. The Commonwealths estimated population as of 2014 is over 8.3 million, the areas history begins with several indigenous groups, including the Powhatan. In 1607 the London Company established the Colony of Virginia as the first permanent New World English colony, slave labor and the land acquired from displaced Native American tribes each played a significant role in the colonys early politics and plantation economy. Although the Commonwealth was under one-party rule for nearly a century following Reconstruction, the Virginia General Assembly is the oldest continuous law-making body in the New World. The state government was ranked most effective by the Pew Center on the States in both 2005 and 2008 and it is unique in how it treats cities and counties equally, manages local roads, and prohibits its governors from serving consecutive terms. Virginias economy changed from agricultural to industrial during the 1960s and 1970s. Virginia has an area of 42,774.2 square miles, including 3,180.13 square miles of water. Virginias boundary with Maryland and Washington, D. C. extends to the mark of the south shore of the Potomac River. The southern border is defined as the 36° 30′ parallel north, the border with Tennessee was not settled until 1893, when their dispute was brought to the U. S. Supreme Court. The Chesapeake Bay separates the portion of the Commonwealth from the two-county peninsula of Virginias Eastern Shore. The bay was formed from the river valleys of the Susquehanna River. Many of Virginias rivers flow into the Chesapeake Bay, including the Potomac, Rappahannock, York, and James, the Tidewater is a coastal plain between the Atlantic coast and the fall line. It includes the Eastern Shore and major estuaries of Chesapeake Bay, the Piedmont is a series of sedimentary and igneous rock-based foothills east of the mountains which were formed in the Mesozoic era. The region, known for its clay soil, includes the Southwest Mountains around Charlottesville. The Blue Ridge Mountains are a province of the Appalachian Mountains with the highest points in the state. The Ridge and Valley region is west of the mountains and includes the Great Appalachian Valley, the region is carbonate rock based and includes Massanutten Mountain. The Cumberland Plateau and the Cumberland Mountains are in the southwest corner of Virginia, in this region, rivers flow northwest, with a dendritic drainage system, into the Ohio River basin
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Geographic coordinate system
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A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system used in geography that enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters or symbols. The coordinates are chosen such that one of the numbers represents a vertical position. A common choice of coordinates is latitude, longitude and elevation, to specify a location on a two-dimensional map requires a map projection. The invention of a coordinate system is generally credited to Eratosthenes of Cyrene. Ptolemy credited him with the adoption of longitude and latitude. Ptolemys 2nd-century Geography used the prime meridian but measured latitude from the equator instead. Mathematical cartography resumed in Europe following Maximus Planudes recovery of Ptolemys text a little before 1300, in 1884, the United States hosted the International Meridian Conference, attended by representatives from twenty-five nations. Twenty-two of them agreed to adopt the longitude of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, the Dominican Republic voted against the motion, while France and Brazil abstained. France adopted Greenwich Mean Time in place of local determinations by the Paris Observatory in 1911, the latitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle between the equatorial plane and the straight line that passes through that point and through the center of the Earth. Lines joining points of the same latitude trace circles on the surface of Earth called parallels, as they are parallel to the equator, the north pole is 90° N, the south pole is 90° S. The 0° parallel of latitude is designated the equator, the plane of all geographic coordinate systems. The equator divides the globe into Northern and Southern Hemispheres, the longitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle east or west of a reference meridian to another meridian that passes through that point. All meridians are halves of great ellipses, which converge at the north and south poles, the prime meridian determines the proper Eastern and Western Hemispheres, although maps often divide these hemispheres further west in order to keep the Old World on a single side. The antipodal meridian of Greenwich is both 180°W and 180°E, the combination of these two components specifies the position of any location on the surface of Earth, without consideration of altitude or depth. The grid formed by lines of latitude and longitude is known as a graticule, the origin/zero point of this system is located in the Gulf of Guinea about 625 km south of Tema, Ghana. To completely specify a location of a feature on, in, or above Earth. Earth is not a sphere, but a shape approximating a biaxial ellipsoid. It is nearly spherical, but has an equatorial bulge making the radius at the equator about 0. 3% larger than the radius measured through the poles, the shorter axis approximately coincides with the axis of rotation
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Secondary school
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A secondary school is both an organization that delivers level 2 junior secondary education or level 3 secondary education phases of the ISCED scale, and the building where this takes place. Level 2 junior secondary education is considered to be the second, Secondary schools typically follow on from primary schools and lead into vocational and tertiary education. Attendance is compulsory in most countries for students between the ages 11 and 16, the systems and terminology remain unique to each country. School building design does not happen in isolation, schools need to accommodate students, staff, storage, mechanical and electrical systems, storage, support staff, ancillary staff and administration. The number of rooms required can be determined from the roll of the school. A general classroom for 30 students needs to be 55m2, or more generously 62m2, a general art room for 30 students needs to be 83m2, but 104 m2 for 3D textile work. A drama studio or a specialist science laboratory for 30 needs to be 90 m2, examples are given on how this can be configured for a 1,200 place secondary. The building providing the education has to fulfil the needs of, The students, the teachers, the support staff, the adminstrators. It has to should meet health requirements, minimal functional requirements- such as classrooms, toilets and showers, electricity, textbooks, Government accountants having read the advice then publish minimum guidelines on schools. These enable environmental modelling and establish building costs. Future plans are audited to ensure that standards are not exceeded. The UK government published this downwardly revised space formula in 2014 and it said the floor area should be 1050m² +6. 3m²/pupil place for 11- to 16-year-olds + 7m²/pupil place for post-16s. The external finishes were to be downgraded to meet a build cost of £1113/m², a secondary school, locally may be called high school, junior high school, senior high school. Sweden, gymnasium Switzerland, gymnasium, secondary school, collège or lycée Taiwan, Junior High School, Senior High School, Vocational High School, Military School, in Nigeria, secondary school starts from JSS1 until SSS3. Most students start at the age of 10 or 11 and finish at 16 or 17, Students are required to sit for the West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination. To progress to university students must obtain at least a credit in Maths, English, in Somalia, secondary school starts from 9th grade until 12th. Students start it when they are around 14 to 15 years of age, Students are required to study Somali and Arabic, with the option of either English or Italian depending on the type of school. Religion, chemistry, physics, biology, physical education, textile, art, design, when secondary school has been completed, students are sent to national training camp before going to either college, or military training. In South Africa, high school begins at grade 8, Students study for five years, at the end of which they write a Matriculation examination
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Fairfax County Public Schools
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The Fairfax County Public Schools system is a school division in the U. S. commonwealth of Virginia. It is a branch of the Fairfax County government which administers public schools in Fairfax County, all Fairfax County Public Schools are accredited through the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Council on Accreditation and School Improvement. With over 180,000 students enrolled, FCPS is the largest public school system in Virginia, the school division is led by interim division superintendent Steve Lockard. The school division is the 10th largest school system in the nation, the first Superintendent of Schools for Fairfax County was Thomas M. Moore, who was sworn in on September 26,1870. At the time of its creation, the Fairfax County Public Schools system consisted of 41 schools,28 white and 13 colored schools, in 1886, Milton D. Hall was appointed superintendent. He would serve for 44 years until his retirement in 1929, Fairfax County Schools like most Southern Schools were under De jure segregation. There were local elementary schools for students but not high schools. Although Fairfax was a populated area there were proportionately few Negro high school students. Fairfax, Prince William and Fauquier Counties shared the high school for black students, the school was centrally located between the counties in Manassas. Others attended high schools in Washington D. C. where many had relatives and those schools were Armstrong High School, Cardozo High School, Dunbar High School, and Phelps Vocational Center in Washington DC. In 1951 Fairfax County, at the request of residents for a high school. The opening coincided with the Brown decision passed in 1954, in 1954 Supreme court ruling prevailed to end racial segregation. When Arlington County announced an early attempt at a desegregation plan, richmond removed any possibility of local option. It was recognized in cases that it was the state who was running the show. The ruling from the court stated Prior to the Brown decision1 Fairfax County maintained a school system, one for Negro students. Shortly thereafter the placement of all children in the Fairfax County schools was taken from the local School Board, the assignment of students remained with the state Board until the 1961-62 school year, at which time placement responsibilities were reinvested in the local School Board. Fairfax County began their desegregation efforts shortly thereafter, as early as 1955 it was noted that in the Virginia General Assembly, Delegates from Northern Virginia openly opposed the Stanley plans as well as calls for even more radical legislation. Virginias 10th district was the congressional district to vote against the Gray Plan
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Stephen Foster
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Stephen Collins Foster, known as the father of American music, was an American songwriter primarily known for his parlor and minstrel music. Foster wrote over 200 songs, among his best-known are Oh, Susanna, Hard Times Come Again No More, Camptown Races, Old Folks at Home, My Old Kentucky Home, Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair, Old Black Joe, and Beautiful Dreamer. Many of his compositions remain popular more than 150 years after he wrote them and his compositions are thought to be autobiographical. He has been identified as the most famous songwriter of the nineteenth century and his compositions are sometimes referred to as childhood songs because they have been included in the music curriculum of early education. Most of his music manuscripts are lost, but copies printed by publishers of his day can be found in various collections. There are many biographers who have published works on the life of Stephen Collins Foster, in addition, Foster wrote very little biographical information himself. His brother Morrison Foster destroyed much of the information about Stephen that he judged to reflect negatively upon the family, Stephen Foster was born on July 4,1826. His parents were William Barclay Foster and Eliza Clayland Tomlinson and he was the youngest of three sisters and six brothers. Foster attended private academies in Allegheny, Athens, and Towanda and he received an education in English grammar, diction, the classics, penmanship, Latin, Greek, and mathematics. Though they lived in a northern city, his family did not support the abolition of slavery. His older brother Morrison was an influence throughout Stephens life. Foster was able to teach himself to play the clarinet, violin, guitar, flute and he did not have formal instruction in composition but he was helped by Henry Kleber, a German-born music dealer in Pittsburgh. Kleber was a songwriter, impresario, accompanist, and conductor, in 1839, his elder brother William was serving his apprenticeship as an engineer at nearby Towanda and thought Stephen would benefit from being under his supervision. The site of the Camptown Races is 30 miles from Athens, PA, Stephen attended Athens Academy from 1839 to 1841. He wrote his first composition, Tioga Waltz while attending Athens Academy and performed it during the 1841 commencement exercises and it was not published during the composers lifetime, but it is included in the collection of published works by Morrison Foster. Fosters education included a period at Jefferson College in Washington. His tuition was paid, but he had little spending money and he left Canonsburg to visit Pittsburgh with another student and did not return. During his teenage years, Foster was influenced by two men, Henry Kleber, one of Fosters few formal music instructors, was a classically trained musician who emigrated from Darmstadt, Germany, to Pittsburgh and opened a music store. Dan Rice was an entertainer, a clown, and blackface singer, in 1846, Foster moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, and became a bookkeeper with his brothers steamship company
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Mount Vernon High School (Virginia)
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Mount Vernon High School is a public high school in the Fairfax County Public Schools system located in Mount Vernon, Virginia. Originally constructed to take the place of the Lee-Jackson High School, with the opening of the school, Lee-Jackson principal G. Claude Cox moved to Mount Vernon, becoming the schools first principal, and Lee-Jackson became an elementary school. In 1945, Principal Cox resigned to become principal of Wythe High School in Wytheville, Virginia, Landes moved to Mount Vernon to begin a nearly thirty-year tenure there. The schools current location was built in 1961 as Walt Whitman Intermediate School, in 1973, Mount Vernon and Whitman swapped facilities, and the former intermediate school was enlarged to serve its new role as a high school. The original Mount Vernon High School continued to operate as the Walt Whitman Intermediate School until 1985, also in 1973, Principal Melvin Landes retired, and Thomas G. Hyer took over as Principal. Following the departure of Eric Brent to become principal at Forest Park High School in Woodbridge, after nine years as principal, Nardos King resigned in 2015 to take a position as Assistant Superintendent of High Schools with the Baltimore County Public Schools system. Assistant Principal Esther Manns became the principal of MVHS in September 2015. In February 2016, Rocky Run Middle School Principal Dr. Anthony S. Terrell was announced as the principal of Mount Vernon High School, beginning in March. The original Mount Vernon High School is still standing on Richmond Highway, now a school for Islamic students, the Islamic Saudi Academy, Mount Vernon is an accredited, high school. The average SAT score in 2013 for Mount Vernon was a 1417, for the 2014-15 school year, Mount Vernon High Schools student body was 37. 80% Hispanic,29. 56% Black,20. 91% White,6. 36% Asian and 5. 37% Other. The school takes its name from George Washingtons estate, Mount Vernon, and is located a mile, the nickname is a reference to George Washington and his beloved half-brother, Lawrence Washington, who both served as Adjunct of Virginia Colony. This position came with the rank of Major and included a red uniform. The school colors are maroon and gray, in Mount Vernons history, it has garnered five AAA State Championship titles. They won their first title in 1979, in basketball, their second in 1983, for football, their third in 2008 for the swim & dive team, and a fourth in 2013, for soccer, as well as one for wrestling. Mount Vernons Little Theater, officially named The Andrew Lee Pauley Theater, was dedicated to an English, the Little Theater can hold a capacity of more than 500 students. It is home to plays, school events, and speeches. Notable events include Mr. Mount Vernon and Miss Personality, model shows that are held annually, tim Koogle, first CEO and President of Yahoo Gary Etherington, professional soccer player Tony Perkins, Chief Weatherman, WTTG-TV. Ed Cunningham, former football player and currently TV sports journalist, analyst
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Arson
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Arson is a crime of intentionally, deliberately and maliciously setting fire to buildings, wildland areas, abandoned homes, vehicles or other property with the intent to cause damage. It may be distinguished from other such as spontaneous combustion, accidental fires. Arson often involves fires deliberately set to the property of another or to own property in order to collect insurance compensation. A person who commits this crime is called an arsonist, more often than not, arsonists use accelerants to ignite, propel and directionalize fires. It is not required that the defendant acted intentionally or willfully for the purpose of burning a dwelling, burning – at common law charring to any part of dwelling was sufficient to satisfy this element. No significant amount of damage to the dwelling was required, any injury or damage to the structure caused by exposure to heat or flame is sufficient. Of the dwelling – dwelling refers to a place of residence, the destruction of an unoccupied building was not considered arson, since arson protected habitation, the burning of an unoccupied house did not constitute arson. Dwelling includes structures and outbuildings within the curtilage, dwellings were not limited to houses. A barn could be the subject of arson if it was occupied as a dwelling, moreover, for purposes of common law arson, possession or occupancy rather than title determines whose dwelling the structure is. Thus a tenant who sets fire to his house would not be guilty of common law arson. In many states, arson is divided into degrees, depending sometimes on the value of the property but more commonly on its use, first-degree arson – The act in which the arsonist sets fire to an occupied domain or building such as a school. Second-degree arson – The act in which the arsonist sets fire to a building such as an empty barn. Third-degree arson – The act in which the arsonist sets fire to a building or an abandoned area of space such as a field. Many statutes vary the degree of the according to the criminal intent of the accused. In the United States, the common law elements of arson are often varied in different jurisdictions, for example, the element of dwelling is no longer required in most states, and arson occurs by the burning of any real property without consent or with unlawful intent. Arson is prosecuted with attention to degree of severity in the alleged offense, first degree arson generally occurs when persons are harmed or killed in the course of the fire, while second degree arson occurs when significant destruction of property occurs. While usually a felony, arson may also be prosecuted as a misdemeanor, criminal mischief, burglary also occurs, if the arson involved a breaking and entering. A person may be sentenced to death if arson occurred as a method of homicide, as was the case in California of Raymond Lee Oyler, in New York, arson is charged in five degrees
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Molotov cocktail
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A Molotov cocktail, also known as a petrol bomb, bottle bomb, poor mans grenade, fire bomb or just Molotov, is a generic name used for a variety of bottle-based improvised incendiary weapons. They are primarily intended to set targets ablaze rather than obliterate them, the name Molotov cocktail was coined by the Finns during the Winter War. The name was a reference to Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov. The Finns sarcastically dubbed the Soviet cluster bombs Molotov bread baskets in reference to Molotovs propaganda broadcasts, when the hand-held bottle firebomb was developed to attack Soviet tanks, the Finns called it the Molotov cocktail, as a drink to go with the food. The wick is soaked in alcohol or kerosene, rather than petrol. In action, the wick is lit and the bottle hurled at a target such as a vehicle or fortification. When the bottle smashes on impact, the cloud of petrol droplets and vapour ignites. Other flammable liquids such as fuel, methanol, turpentine, jet fuel. Improvised incendiary devices were used for the first time in the Spanish Civil War between July 1936 and April 1939, before they became known as Molotov cocktails, after that, both sides used simple petrol bombs or petrol-soaked blankets with some success. Tom Wintringham, a veteran of the International Brigades, later publicised his recommended method of using them, We made use of petrol bombs roughly as follows, take a heavy curtain, half a blanket, or some other heavy material. Wrap this over the mouth of the jar, tie it round the neck with string, when you want to use it have somebody standing by with a light. Put a corner of the material down in front of you, turn the bottle over so that petrol soaks out round the mouth of the bottle and drips on to this corner of the material. Turn the bottle right way up again, hold it in right hand, most of the blanket bunched beneath the bottle. When near enough, your pal lights the petrol soaked corner of the blanket, throw the bottle and blanket as soon as this corner is flaring. See that it drops in front of the tank, the blanket should catch in the tracks or in a cog-wheel, or wind itself round an axle. Do not play with these things, the Battle of Khalkhin Gol, a border conflict of 1939 ostensibly between Mongolia and Manchukuo, saw heavy fighting between Japanese and Soviet forces. Short of anti-tank equipment, Japanese infantry attacked Soviet tanks with gasoline-filled bottles, Japanese infantrymen claimed that several hundred Soviet tanks had been destroyed this way, though Soviet loss records do not support this assessment. On 30 November 1939, the Soviet Union invaded Finland, starting what came to be known as the Winter War, the Finns perfected the design and tactical use of the petrol bomb
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Robert C. Michelson
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He has received degrees in electrical engineering from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and the Georgia Institute of Technology. Michelsons professional career began at the U. S. Naval Research Laboratory where he worked on radar-based ocean surveillance systems and he later became a member of the research faculty at the Georgia Institute of Technology. At the Georgia Tech Research Institute he was involved in full-time research and he is the author of three U. S. patents and over 90 journal papers, book chapters and reports. Michelson is the recipient of the 1998 AUVSI Pioneer Award and the 2001 Pirelli Award for the diffusion of culture as well as the first Top Pirelli Prize. During the 1990s, he created a corporation to apply high tech solutions to modern archeology and has organized a number of archeological expeditions into eastern Anatolia. He now heads the engineering consulting company, Millennial Vision, LLC, since the mid-1990s, Michelsons work has concentrated on biologically inspired micro air vehicle design. Michelson is certified in various fields including radio, SCUBA diving, experimental aircraft design/mechanics. Michelson was born in 1951 in Washington D. C. the only son of Carroll and Evelyn Michelson, and is related to Christian Michelsen, Michelson attended the Burgundy Farm Country Day School during the sixth through eighth grades where he developed an appreciation for botany and ornithology. Michelson spent sixth through eighth grade at the Burgundy Farm Country Day School and he graduated from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1973 and the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1974 with degrees in Electrical Engineering. From 1971 to 1973 Michelson was an engineer working on aerospace radar systems at the U. S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington D. C. He spent the next 30 years in engineering and management capacities within the Georgia Tech Research Institute in Atlanta. In particular, aerial robotics dominated his research for the two decades. Since the mid-1990s, Michelsons work has concentrated on biologically inspired micro air vehicle design, from 1997 through 2004 Michelson was adjunct associate professor to the School of Aerospace Engineering, teaching classes in avionics for unmanned aerial vehicles and Micro/Mini Air Vehicle design. Michelson retired from the Georgia Tech Research Institute in September 2004, in 2004 he created Millennial Vision, LLC to continue research into biologically inspired aerial robots and remote sensing. He is the President of SEPDAC, a educational and scientific organization. He was a member of the board of directors for The Sharp Mountain Preserve for a period of five years. Michelson has been the U. S. representative and deputy chief referee to the Aviation Industry Corporation of Chinas UAV Grand Prix during its inaugural year and he was the section editor for MAVs and Bio-Inspired UAVs in Springers Handbook of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. He was the first MITRE Technology Speaker and has been a visiting professor in six nations, Australia, Belgium, Norway, Sweden, Turkey
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Pirelli Internetional Award
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The Pirelli Internetional Award was first offered in 1996, as the first international multimedia competition for the communication of science & technology conducted entirely on the internet. Since then, annual awards have been granted to the best multimedia presentations focussing on themes involving the diffusion of science, the multimedia presentations must deal with either physics, chemistry, mathematics, life sciences, or the enabling information and communication technologies that empower multimedia itself. As the name indicates, the award is sponsored by the Pirelli Corporation, an international jury of notable people including Nobel Prize laureates reviews the top entries. With an overall prize of 105,000 euro, awards are granted in the following major categories, physics, chemistry, mathematics, life sciences. This category rewards the best multimedia works coming from the field of physics and this category rewards the best multimedia works coming from the field of chemistry and amounts to an award of 15,000 euro. This category rewards the best multimedia work coming from the field of mathematics and this category rewards the best multimedia work coming from the field of life sciences and amounts to an award of 15,000 euro. The Information and Communications Technology prize amounts to 15,000 euro, the Top Pirelli Prize is the supreme recognition that the international jury grants a multimedia work which best embodies the philosophy of the Pirelli Internetional Award. In fact, the Top Pirelli Prize is considered the overall winner and it amounts to an additional 10,000 euro on top of the monetary award granted in any of the five regular categories. The Top Pirelli Prize was first awarded in 2001 to Prof. Robert C. Michelson for his work on the Entomopter, official Pirelli Award web site Describes the purpose, categories, history, and rules for winning the Pirelli Award. The Video Of Pirelli Award on YouTube
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Pirelli
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SpA is a multinational company based in Milan, Italy, formerly listed on the Milan Stock Exchange since 1922. It was acquired in 2015 by ChemChina, the company is one of the largest tyre manufacturers behind Bridgestone, Michelin, Continental and Goodyear. It is present in over 160 countries, has 20 manufacturing sites in 14 countries, Pirelli has been sponsoring sport competitions since 1907 and is the exclusive tyre supplier for the Formula One Championship for 2011–2019 and for the FIM World Superbike Championship. Pirelli is now a pure tyre manufacturing company, in the past it has also launched fashion project and operated in renewable energy and sustainable mobility. Founded in Milan in 1872 by Giovanni Battista Pirelli, the company specialised in rubber and derivative processes. Thereafter, Pirellis activities were focused on the production of tyres and cables. In 2005, Pirelli sold its division to Goldman Sachs. In the 1950s, Alberto Pirelli commissioned the building of a skyscraper, Pirelli Tower, in 1974, Pirelli invented the wide radial tyre, upon a request from the Lancia rally racing team for a tyre strong enough to withstand the power of the new Lancia Stratos. At that time, racing tyres were either slick tyres made with the cross ply technique, or radial tyres, both were unusable for the Lancia Stratos, as the radials were destroyed within 10 km, and the slicks too stiff. Lancia asked Pirelli for a solution, and in 1975 Pirelli created a wide tyre with a reduced sidewall height like a slick, subsequently, Porsche started using the same tyres with the Porsche 911 Turbo. In 1988, Pirelli acquired the Armstrong Rubber Company, which was headquartered in New Haven, Connecticut, in 2002 the company started a range of Pirelli branded clothing, watches and eyewear. In March 2015, it was announced that Pirelli shareholders has accepted a €7.1 billion bid from ChemChina for the company, the transaction was completed and the company was delisted in November 2015. The list of Pirelli main shareholders As of September 2016 The list of Pirelli Board of Directors, the Pirelli Calendar is published annually, and regularly features famous actresses and fashion models. The Pirelli Internetional Award is given annually for the best international multimedia involving the communication of science, power is nothing without control is the well known slogan of Pirelli Tyre Company, and is featured in numerous television and print advertisements. Pirelli is the main sponsor of Italian football club Inter Milan. Pirelli has a history of sponsoring football teams, Pirelli is well known for its long term primary sponsorship of the Italian football team Inter Milan. Pirelli previously appeared as a sponsor on the shirts of the Maltese football club Valletta for a short time, Pirellis sponsorship of football teams is not limited to Europe, South America is a key market and as a result successful clubs have also been sponsored by the tyre company. The Brazilian team Palmeiras, Uruguayan team Peñarol and Argentinian side Vélez Sársfield all had Pirelli as a shirt sponsor, when English Football League One side Burton Albion Football Club built their new stadium in 2005, Pirelli became the title sponsor of the new ground
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Carl C. Perkins
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Carl Christopher Chris Perkins, is a U. S. lawyer and politician who was United States Representative from the 7th district of Kentucky from 1984 to 1993. He was convicted on three federal felony corruption charges, Perkins is the son of Carl D. Perkins, who represented Kentucky in the House of Representatives from 1949 to 1984. Perkins was born in Washington, D. C. and graduated from Fort Hunt High School, Alexandria, Virginia and he earned his B. A. from Davidson College in 1976. In 1978, he earned a J. D. degree from the University of Louisville and he worked for some time as a lawyer in private practice. From 1981 to 1984, he was a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives, Perkins was elected simultaneously as a Democrat to the 98th and the 99th Congress by special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his father, U. S. Perkins was reelected to the three succeeding Congresses and he was not a candidate for re-election to Congress in 1992. The seat that he held, Kentuckys 7th district, was eliminated by redistricting and became Kentuckys 5th district and he did not seek office from the new 5th district, in part due to the House banking scandal. In 1994, Perkins agreed to guilty on three felony charges in connection with the House banking scandal. The following year he was sentenced to 21 months in prison for misusing hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions. He was also placed on three years supervised probation, ordered to perform 250 hours of community service, and told to complete any treatment for alcoholism deemed necessary by his probation officer. After his release from prison, Perkins attended Louisville Seminary and became an ordained Presbyterian minister, serving a church in Ezel, Kentucky
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United States House of Representatives
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The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress which, along with the Senate, composes the legislature of the United States. The composition and powers of the House are established by Article One of the United States Constitution, since its inception in 1789, all representatives are elected popularly. The total number of voting representatives is fixed by law at 435, the House is charged with the passage of federal legislation, known as bills, which, after concurrence by the Senate, are sent to the President for consideration. The presiding officer is the Speaker of the House, who is elected by the members thereof and is traditionally the leader of the controlling party. He or she and other leaders are chosen by the Democratic Caucus or the Republican Conferences. The House meets in the wing of the United States Capitol. Under the Articles of Confederation, the Congress of the Confederation was a body in which each state was equally represented. All states except Rhode Island agreed to send delegates, the issue of how to structure Congress was one of the most divisive among the founders during the Convention. The House is referred to as the house, with the Senate being the upper house. Both houses approval is necessary for the passage of legislation, the Virginia Plan drew the support of delegates from large states such as Virginia, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania, as it called for representation based on population. The smaller states, however, favored the New Jersey Plan, the Constitution was ratified by the requisite number of states in 1788, but its implementation was set for March 4,1789. The House began work on April 1,1789, when it achieved a quorum for the first time, during the first half of the 19th century, the House was frequently in conflict with the Senate over regionally divisive issues, including slavery. The North was much more populous than the South, and therefore dominated the House of Representatives, However, the North held no such advantage in the Senate, where the equal representation of states prevailed. Regional conflict was most pronounced over the issue of slavery, One example of a provision repeatedly supported by the House but blocked by the Senate was the Wilmot Proviso, which sought to ban slavery in the land gained during the Mexican–American War. Conflict over slavery and other issues persisted until the Civil War, the war culminated in the Souths defeat and in the abolition of slavery. Because all southern senators except Andrew Johnson resigned their seats at the beginning of the war, the years of Reconstruction that followed witnessed large majorities for the Republican Party, which many Americans associated with the Unions victory in the Civil War and the ending of slavery. The Reconstruction period ended in about 1877, the ensuing era, the Democratic and the Republican Party held majorities in the House at various times. The late 19th and early 20th centuries also saw an increase in the power of the Speaker of the House
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Kentucky's 7th congressional district
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United States House of Representatives, Kentucky District 7 was a district of the United States Congress in Kentucky. It was eliminated in 1993 when reapportionment reduced Kentuckys House representation from seven seats to six, the eastern Kentucky region formerly in the 7th District is now largely in the 5th District. The last Congressman to represent the 7th District was Carl C, Perkins, who succeeded his father, Carl D. Perkins. The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress, the Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts. Congressional Biographical Directory of the United States 1774–present
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James A. Winnefeld Jr.
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James Alexander Sandy Winnefeld Jr. is a retired United States Navy admiral who served as the ninth Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from August 4,2011 to July 31,2015. He previously served as the fourth Commander, U. S, northern Command and the 21st Commander, North American Aerospace Defense Command from May 19,2010 to August 3,2011. Prior to that, Winnefeld served as Director for Strategic Plans and Policy, The Joint Staff which he served as the Senior Member. His other operational commands include serving as the Commander, U. S, sixth Fleet and Commander, Allied Joint Command Lisbon. As the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Winnefeld was the second highest-ranking officer in the United States Armed Forces, in 2015, he retired from the Navy after over 37 years of service. Winnefeld graduated from Georgia Tech in 1978 with high honors in Aerospace Engineering, while at Georgia Tech, Winnefield was a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. After designation as an aviator, he served with two fighter squadrons and as an instructor at the Navy Fighter Weapons School. While an instructor at TOPGUN, he worked with crew from Paramount Pictures on the production of the movie Top Gun, Winnefeld went on to graduate with the highest distinction from the U. S. Naval War College off-campus program. His command tours include Fighter Squadron 211, USS Cleveland and as the 17th commanding officer of the USS Enterprise and he led Enterprise through her 18th deployment, which included combat operations in Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom immediately after the terrorist acts of September 11,2001. He most recently served concurrently as Commander, U. S, sixth Fleet, Commander, Allied Joint Command Lisbon, Commander, Striking and Support Forces NATO, Deputy Commander, U. S. Naval Forces Europe, and Joint Forces Maritime Component Commander, Europe. Winnefeld is now a Distinguished Professor at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Tech and he is also a non-resident senior fellow at the Belfer Center at the Harvard Kennedy School. Winnefeld was the officer of the USS Enterprise during the September 11 attacks. The USS Enterprise was headed to Cape Town, South Africa, the crew was watching television at sea on September 11 and watched the hijacked United Airlines Flight 175 airliner strike the south tower of the World Trade Center. Acting without authorization from the National Command Authority, then-Captain Winnefeld gave the order to put the rudder over to take station in the Arabian Sea. The carriers aircraft were within range of Afghanistan the next morning, for over three weeks, aircraft from USS Enterprise flew nearly 700 missions and dropped large amounts of ordnance over Afghanistan. The Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Vern Clark praised Winnefeld and he is also a recipient of the William J. Crowe, William W. Behrens Jr. awards and the 2012 recipient of the Naval War College Distinguished Graduate Leadership Award
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Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
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The Vice Chairman outranks all respective heads of each service branch, with the exception of the Chairman, but does not have operational command authority over their service branches. The Goldwater–Nichols Act of 1986 created the position of VJCS to assist the Chairman in exercising his duties, the chain of command runs from the President to the Secretary of Defense directly to the commanders of the Unified Combatant Commands. The Vice Chairman is nominated by the President for appointment and must be confirmed via majority vote by the Senate, the Chairman and Vice Chairman may not be members of the same armed force service branch. However, the President may waive that restriction for a period of time in order to provide for the orderly transition of officers appointed to serve in those positions. The Vice Chairman serves a term of office at the pleasure of the President. In case of times of war or national emergency, there is no limit to how many times an officer can be reappointed to serve as Vice Chairman, historically, the Vice Chairman has served two terms. By statute, the Vice Chairman is appointed as a general or admiral. Centered on the flag is an American bald eagle with wings spread horizontally, the talons grasp three crossed arrows. A shield with blue chief and thirteen red and white stripes is on the eagle’s breast, diagonally, from upper fly to lower hoist are four five-pointed stars, medium blue on the white, two above the eagle, and two below. The fringe is yellow, the cord and tassels are medium blue, the design was approved by Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger on 20 January 1987. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Defense Acquisition Board Deputys Advisory Working Group, Joint Requirements Oversight Council Official site
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Cheers
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Cheers is an American sitcom that ran on NBC from September 30,1982 to May 20,1993, with a total of 270 half-hour episodes spanning over eleven seasons. The show was produced by Charles/Burrows/Charles Productions in association with Paramount Network Television, the show was created by the team of James Burrows, Glen Charles, and Les Charles. The show is set in a bar named Cheers in Boston, Massachusetts, where a group of locals meet to drink, relax, the shows main theme song, written and performed by Gary Portnoy lent its famous refrain Where Everybody Knows Your Name as the shows tagline. After premiering on September 30,1982, it was canceled during its first season when it ranked almost last in ratings for its premiere. Cheers, however, eventually became a highly rated show in the United States, earning a top-ten rating during eight of its eleven seasons. The show spent most of its run on NBCs Thursday night Must See TV lineup and its widely watched series finale was broadcast on May 20,1993, and the shows 270 episodes have been successfully syndicated worldwide. Nominated for Outstanding Comedy Series for all eleven of its seasons on the air, the character Frasier Crane was featured in his eponymous spin-off show, which aired until 2004 and included guest appearances by virtually all of the major and minor Cheers characters. During its run, Cheers became one of the most popular series of all time and has received critical acclaim. In 1997, the episodes Thanksgiving Orphans and Home Is the Sailor, aired originally in 1987, were respectively ranked No.7, in 2002, Cheers was ranked No.18 on TV Guides 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time. In 2013, the Writers Guild of America ranked it as the eighth best written TV series, before the Cheers pilot Give Me a Ring Sometime was completed and aired in 1982, the series originally consisted of four employees in the first script. Neither Norm Peterson nor Cliff Clavin, regular customers of Cheers, were featured, in later years, Woody Boyd replaces Coach, who dies off-screen in season four to account for actor Nicholas Colasantos death. Frasier Crane starts as a character and becomes a permanent character. In season six, they added a new character Rebecca Howe, Lilith Sternin starts as a one-time character in an episode of season four, Second Time Around. After she appears in two episodes in five, she becomes a recurring character, and later featured as a permanent one for season ten. Ted Danson portrays Sam Malone, a bartender and an owner of Cheers, before the series began, he was a baseball relief pitcher for the Boston Red Sox nicknamed Mayday Malone until he became an alcoholic, harming his career. He has an on-again, off-again relationship with Diane Chambers, his class opposite, during their off-times, Sam has flings with many not-so-bright sexy women, yet fails to pursue a meaningful relationship and fails to seduce other women, such as intellectuals. After Diane is written out of the series, he tries to pursue Rebecca Howe, at the end of the series, he is still unmarried and recovering from sexual addiction with a help of Dr. Robert Suttons group meetings, advised by Frasier. Shelley Long portrays Diane Chambers, an academic, sophisticated graduate student, in the pilot Diane is abandoned by her fiancé, leaving her without a job, a man, or money
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Wendy B. Lawrence
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Wendy Barrien Lawrence is a retired United States Navy Captain, former helicopter pilot, an engineer, and a former NASA astronaut. She was the first female graduate of the United States Naval Academy to fly into space and she was a mission specialist on STS-114, the first Space Shuttle flight after the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. She enjoys running, rowing, and triathlons, Lawrence was born in Jacksonville, Florida. Lawrence graduated from Fort Hunt High School in Alexandria, Virginia in 1977 and she went on to attend the U. S. Naval Academy, graduating in 1981 with a Bachelor of Science in ocean engineering. Larwance Heights Middle School Phi Kappa Phi Association of Naval Aviation Women Military Aviators Naval Helicopter Association Lawrence graduated from the U. S. Naval Academy in 1981, a distinguished flight school graduate, she was designated as a Naval Aviator in July 1982. Lawrence has more than 1,500 hours of time in six different types of helicopters and has made more than 800 shipboard landings. While assigned to Helicopter Combat Support Squadron 6, she was one of the first two helicopter pilots to make a long deployment to the Indian Ocean as part of a carrier battle group. After completion of a degree program at MIT and Woods Hole in 1988. In October 1990, Lawrence reported to the U. S. Naval Academy where she served as a physics instructor, selected by NASA in March 1992, Lawrence reported to the Johnson Space Center in August 1992. She completed one year of training and was qualified for assignment as a Mission Specialist. She flew as the flight engineer and blue shift orbit pilot on STS-67. S. /Russian Shuttle/Mir program. In September 1996 she began training as a crew member for a 4-month mission on the Russian Space Station Mir. Because of her knowledge and experience with Mir systems and with crew transfer logistics for the Mir, she flew on STS-86, a veteran of four space flights, she logged over 1,200 hours in space. Lawrence was a Mission Specialist on the crew of STS-114, the mission launched on July 26,2005 and landed on August 9,2005. Captain Lawrence retired from NASA in June 2006, STS-67 Endeavour was the second flight of the ASTRO observatory, a unique complement of three telescopes. Mission duration was 399 hours and 9 minutes, STS-86 Atlantis was the seventh mission to rendezvous and dock with the Russian Space Station Mir. Highlights included the exchange of U. S, Mission duration was 169 orbits in 259 hours and 21 minutes. STS-91 Discovery was the 9th and final Shuttle-Mir docking mission and marked the conclusion of the joint U. S. /Russian Phase I Program, Mission duration was 235 hours,54 minutes
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NASA
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President Dwight D. Eisenhower established NASA in 1958 with a distinctly civilian orientation encouraging peaceful applications in space science. The National Aeronautics and Space Act was passed on July 29,1958, disestablishing NASAs predecessor, the new agency became operational on October 1,1958. Since that time, most US space exploration efforts have led by NASA, including the Apollo Moon landing missions, the Skylab space station. Currently, NASA is supporting the International Space Station and is overseeing the development of the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, the agency is also responsible for the Launch Services Program which provides oversight of launch operations and countdown management for unmanned NASA launches. NASA shares data with various national and international such as from the Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite. Since 2011, NASA has been criticized for low cost efficiency, from 1946, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics had been experimenting with rocket planes such as the supersonic Bell X-1. In the early 1950s, there was challenge to launch a satellite for the International Geophysical Year. An effort for this was the American Project Vanguard, after the Soviet launch of the worlds first artificial satellite on October 4,1957, the attention of the United States turned toward its own fledgling space efforts. This led to an agreement that a new federal agency based on NACA was needed to conduct all non-military activity in space. The Advanced Research Projects Agency was created in February 1958 to develop technology for military application. On July 29,1958, Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, a NASA seal was approved by President Eisenhower in 1959. Elements of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency and the United States Naval Research Laboratory were incorporated into NASA, earlier research efforts within the US Air Force and many of ARPAs early space programs were also transferred to NASA. In December 1958, NASA gained control of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA has conducted many manned and unmanned spaceflight programs throughout its history. Some missions include both manned and unmanned aspects, such as the Galileo probe, which was deployed by astronauts in Earth orbit before being sent unmanned to Jupiter, the experimental rocket-powered aircraft programs started by NACA were extended by NASA as support for manned spaceflight. This was followed by a space capsule program, and in turn by a two-man capsule program. This goal was met in 1969 by the Apollo program, however, reduction of the perceived threat and changing political priorities almost immediately caused the termination of most of these plans. NASA turned its attention to an Apollo-derived temporary space laboratory, to date, NASA has launched a total of 166 manned space missions on rockets, and thirteen X-15 rocket flights above the USAF definition of spaceflight altitude,260,000 feet. The X-15 was an NACA experimental rocket-powered hypersonic research aircraft, developed in conjunction with the US Air Force, the design featured a slender fuselage with fairings along the side containing fuel and early computerized control systems
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Hoda Kotb
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Hoda Kotb is an American television news anchor and TV host known as the co-host of NBCs Today Shows fourth hour with Kathie Lee Gifford. An Egyptian American, she won a Daytime Emmy Award in 2010 as part of the Today Show team, Kotb is also a correspondent for Dateline NBC. Kotb was born in Norman, Oklahoma, and grew up in Morgantown and she lived in New Orleans, Louisiana throughout the 1990s. Kotb and her family lived in Egypt for a year, as well as in Nigeria and she has a brother, Adel and a sister, Hala. Her mother, Sameha, works at the Library of Congress and she graduated from Fort Hunt High School in 1982. She was elected Homecoming Queen and selected to speak at her graduating class Baccalaureate service, in her college years at Virginia Tech, Kotb was a member of Delta Delta Delta Womens Sorority, Beta Nu Chapter. In 1986, Kotb graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in broadcast journalism, Kotb was the keynote speaker at her alma mater for the 2008 Virginia Tech graduation, and in her speech, played Metallicas Enter Sandman over her iPod. In 2010, Kotb was elected to a term to the Virginia Tech Alumni Association Board of Directors. Kotb was an anchor and reporter for WWL-TV in New Orleans, WWL-TV has been one of Louisianas top news stations for decades. Kotb appears on the hour of the Today Show, co-hosting with Kathie Lee Gifford. She has also been a correspondent for Dateline NBC since 1998, Kotb occasionally fills in as the co-anchor of Today for Savannah Guthrie and Matt Lauer. Kotb wrote a New York Times Bestselling book, Hoda, How I Survived War Zones, Bad Hair, Cancer, and Kathie Lee, in 2010, Hoda Kotb won Daytime Emmy Award as part of the Today Show. She has also appeared in Martina McBrides music video for Im Gonna Love You Through It, in 2005, Kotb married former University of New Orleans tennis coach Burzis Kanga. The marriage ended in two years later. In March 2007, Kotb underwent a mastectomy and reconstructive surgery for breast cancer, Kotb allowed Today Show cameras to follow her throughout her cancer battle. After she was announced cancer-free, her story was documented on the show, in January 2015, Kotb said she has been in a relationship with New York financier Joel Schiffman for two years. On February 21,2017, Kotb announced on the Today Show that she had adopted a girl named Haley Joy Kotb. Volume 57, Number 2 Appearances on C-SPAN
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Today (U.S. TV program)
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Today, also called The Today Show, is an American news and talk morning television show that airs on NBC. The program debuted on January 14,1952 and it was the first of its genre on American television and in the world, and is the fifth-longest-running American television series. Originally a two-hour program on weekdays, it expanded to Sundays in 1987, the weekday broadcast expanded to three hours in 2000, and to four hours in 2007. Todays dominance was virtually unchallenged by the other networks until the late 1980s, Today has maintained its No.2 status since the summer of 2012 each year behind GMA. In 2002, Today was ranked No.17 on TV Guides 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time, the shows first broadcast aired on January 14,1952. It was the brainchild of Sylvester B, Pat Weaver, Jr. who was then vice president of NBC. Weaver was president of the company from 1953 to 1955, during which time Todays late-night companion The Tonight Show premiered, in pre-production, the shows proposed title was The Rise and Shine Revue. Today was the first program of its genre when it premiered with original host Dave Garroway, the program blended national news headlines, interviews with newsmakers, lifestyle features, other light news and gimmicks, and local news updates from the networks stations. It has spawned several other shows of a type, including ABCs Good Morning America. In other countries, the format was copied – most notably in the United Kingdom with the BBCs Breakfast Time and TV-ams Good Morning Britain, and in Canada with Canada AM on CTV. When Today debuted, it was seen only in the Eastern and Central time zones. Since 1958, Today has been tape-delayed for the five other U. S. time zones, partly to accommodate host Dave Garroways declining health, the program ceased live broadcasts in the summer of 1958, opting instead to broadcast an edition taped the previous afternoon. The experiment, which drew criticism from many sides, ended when John Chancellor replaced Garroway in July 1961, a fourth hour was eventually added on September 10,2007. NBC stations in some markets air the third and fourth hours of Today on tape delay, WHDH in Boston, Massachusetts was an NBC station that would follow this practice to accommodate an hour of local news at 9,00 am. On January 1,2017, the NBC affiliation in Boston moved to a new owned-and-operated station, WBTS, which airs the third and fourth hours of Today at its regular 9,00 am and 10,00 am timeslots. Generally, the program live in the Eastern Time Zone. When breaking news stories warrant, Today will broadcast a live West Coast edition, the live updates typically do not last longer than the 7,00 a. m. hour and once completed, will return to the taped East Coast feed. When the anchors welcome the viewers to the show, they note the current time as being Pacific Time
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The Washington Post
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The Washington Post is an American daily newspaper. It is the most widely circulated newspaper published in Washington, D. C. and was founded on December 6,1877 and its current slogan is Democracy Dies in Darkness. Located in the city of the United States, the newspaper has a particular emphasis on national politics. Daily editions are printed for the District of Columbia, Maryland, the newspaper is published as a broadsheet, with photographs printed both in color and in black and white. The newspaper has won 47 Pulitzer Prizes and this includes six separate Pulitzers awarded in 2008, the second-highest number ever awarded to a single newspaper in one year, second only to The New York Times seven awards in 2002. Post journalists have also received 18 Nieman Fellowships and 368 White House News Photographers Association awards, in years since, its investigations have led to increased review of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. In 2013, its owners, the Graham family, sold the newspaper to billionaire entrepreneur. The newspaper is owned by Nash Holdings LLC, a holding company Bezos created for the acquisition, the Washington Post is generally regarded as one of the leading daily American newspapers, along with The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. The Post has distinguished itself through its reporting on the workings of the White House, Congress. It is one of the two daily broadsheets published in Washington D. C. the other being its smaller rival The Washington Times, unlike The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post does not print an edition for distribution away from the East Coast. In 2009, the newspaper ceased publication of its National Weekly Edition, the majority of its newsprint readership is in District of Columbia and its suburbs in Maryland and Northern Virginia. The Sunday Style section differs slightly from the weekday Style section, it is in a tabloid format, and it houses the reader-written humor contest The Style Invitational. Additional weekly sections appear on weekdays, Health & Science on Tuesday, Food on Wednesday, Local Living on Thursday, the latter two are in a tabloid format. In November 2009, it announced the closure of its U. S. regional bureaus—Chicago, Los Angeles and New York—as part of a focus on. political stories. The newspaper has bureaus in Maryland and Virginia. While its circulation has been slipping, it has one of the highest market-penetration rates of any metropolitan news daily, for many decades, the Post had its main office at 1150 15th Street NW. This real estate remained with Graham Holdings when the newspaper was sold to Jeff Bezos Nash Holdings in 2013, Graham Holdings sold 1150 15th Street for US$159 million in November 2013. The Washington Post continued to lease space at 1150 L Street NW, in May 2014, The Washington Post leased the west tower of One Franklin Square, a high-rise building at 1301 K Street NW in Washington, D. C
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Associated Press
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The Associated Press is an American multinational nonprofit news agency headquartered in New York City that operates as a cooperative, unincorporated association. The AP is owned by its contributing newspapers and radio and television stations in the United States, all of which stories to the AP. Most of the AP staff are members and are represented by the Newspaper Guild, which operates under the Communications Workers of America. As of 2007, news collected by the AP was published and republished by more than 1,700 newspapers, in addition to more than 5,000 television, the photograph library of the AP consists of over 10 million images. The AP operates 243 news bureaus in 120 countries and it also operates the AP Radio Network, which provides newscasts twice hourly for broadcast and satellite radio and television stations. Many newspapers and broadcasters outside the United States are AP subscribers, as part of their cooperative agreement with the AP, most member news organizations grant automatic permission for the AP to distribute their local news reports. The AP employs the inverted pyramid formula for writing that enables the news outlets to edit a story to fit its available publication area without losing the storys essentials. Cutbacks at rival United Press International in 1993 left the AP as the United States primary news service, although UPI still produces and distributes stories and photos daily. Other English-language news services, such as the BBC, Reuters, some historians believe that the Tribune joined at this time, documents show it was a member in 1849. The New York Times became a member shortly after its founding in September 1851, initially known as the New York Associated Press, the organization faced competition from the Western Associated Press, which criticized its monopolistic news gathering and price setting practices. The revelations led to the demise of the NYAP and in December 1892, when the AP was founded, news became a salable commodity. The invention of the press allowed the New York Tribune in the 1870s to print 18,000 papers per hour. During the Civil War and Spanish–American War, there was a new incentive to print vivid, Melville Stone, who had founded the Chicago Daily News in 1875, served as AP General Manager from 1893 to 1921. He embraced the standards of accuracy, impartiality, and integrity, the cooperative grew rapidly under the leadership of Kent Cooper, who built up bureau staff in South America, Europe and, the Middle East. He introduced the telegraph typewriter or teletypewriter into newsrooms in 1914, in 1935, AP launched the Wirephoto network, which allowed transmission of news photographs over leased private telephone lines on the day they were taken. This gave AP a major advantage over other media outlets. While the first network was only between New York, Chicago, and San Francisco, eventually AP had its network across the whole United States, in 1945, the Supreme Court of the United States held in Associated Press v. The decision facilitated the growth of its main rival United Press International, AP entered the broadcast field in 1941 when it began distributing news to radio stations, it created its own radio network in 1974
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Annandale High School
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Annandale High School is a public high school in Annandale, Virginia, United States. It is part of the Fairfax County Public Schools system, the schools student body has been well-recognized for its high level of racial and cultural diversity since at least the 1980s. Students derive from over 90 countries and speak more than 50 languages, the schools diverse student body has been noted by multiple US presidential administrations. In 1998, AHS was chosen by then-President Bill Clintons Race Initiative Advisory Board as the site and focus of discussions on race. Historically AHS has also had a football program. The team has seen district-wide and sporadic statewide success since the mid-1990s, Annandale was chosen in 1998 as the site and focus of the Race Initiative Advisory Boards round-table discussions on race and education. The event was hosted by members of the board, including Thomas Kean and William Winter, the discussions were held as part of President Bill Clintons One America Initiative. At the time, Annandale students taking Arabic were among the less than 1 percent of school students studying languages deemed critical. During her address, Obama said of AHS, “This is the place for you to find out who you are and what you want to become. During the 2009–2010 school year, Korean and other Asian-Americans represented 22 percent of the AHS student body, in 2011–2012, Annandales student body was 32. 28% Hispanic,23. 97% White,24. 97% Asian,16. 37% Black and 2. 41% other. During the 2011–2012 school year,51. 89% of the student body received free or reduced price lunch,74. 79% of the school was proficient in English. No single racial group formed the majority, AHS is considered one of the most diverse schools among FCPS, itself one of the most diverse school districts in the country. In fact, White students represent the group not to see consistent growth in percentage student body representation over the last three years. The A-Blast is Annandale High Schools student-run, student-sponsored newspaper, the A-Blast is a Washington Post Young Journalists Development Program Paper. A-Blast editors regularly participate in Post programs for school students, including the High School Writing Seminar. The A-Blast is printed on The Washington Post press in Springfield, the A-Blast uses WordPress as its technology platform and is hosted by School Newspapers Online. In 50 years, Annandale has won six state championships. After an undefeated season in 1978, Annandale ended the year ranked #1 in the nation by the National Sports Service, Annandale won Patriot District titles in 2005,2006,2007, and 2009, but the Atoms fell to their first round opponents each year
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Centreville High School (Fairfax County, Virginia)
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Centreville High School is a public high school located in unincorporated southwestern Fairfax County, Virginia, United States, north of the town of Clifton and east of the Centreville CDP. In 2010 the school was ranked as the 4th best high school in Fairfax County, on a national level, in 2010 CVHS was ranked as the 130th best of all high schools in the United States. Centreville High School currently enrolls 2350 students in grades 9-12, the schools students work with 150 faculty and staff members, with the population divided between four sub-schools. The school colors are Columbia blue, black, and silver, the school is within the Clifton, Virginia zip code jurisdiction, but its physical location is closer to the unincorporated community of Centreville. Residents of the town of Clifton attend a school east of Centreville. In the early 1980s construction of a school serving grades 7 and 8 was proposed for Braddock Park to deal with the westward population shift in the county. By April 1984, Superintendent William J. Burkholder was recommending that a school should be constructed instead of an intermediate school. Burkholders plan was that the school would open as a school in 1988. This change required the addition of 10 acres to the 25-acre school site to comply with high school property requirements. In 1986, the $22.6 million contract for construction of the school was awarded to A. S, construction of the school was temporarily shut down in August 1987 following the discovery of cancer-causing mineral asbestos in the soil. Despite early reports that the asbestos was not dangerous, it was discovered that a large amount of the soil in Western Fairfax County is contaminated with fibrous asbestos. Despite the controversy, it was as Centreville High School that the new school opened in the Fall of 1988 with a class of slightly over 1000 seventh through tenth graders. Over the next few years, the seventh and eighth grades were phased out, the CVHS population includes students who were born in 84 different countries. In the 2015-16 school year, Centreville High Schools student body was 37. 56% White,32. 36% Asian,17. 36% Hispanic,8. 82% Black and 3. 90% Other. Centreville High School is an accredited high school based on the Standards of Learning tests in Virginia. The average SAT score in 2010 for Centreville was 1,596, the average ACT score in 2010 was 22.9. Both SAT and ACT scores exceeded state and national average test scores,2031 Advanced Placement tests were administered in the 2009-2010 school year. 932 students were enrolled in AP classes, CVHS students exceeded collective National Average Passing rates in 2009 by 8% overall, the school exceeded collective Virginia State Passing rates by 5%
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Chantilly High School
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Chantilly High School is a public high school located in the Chantilly CDP in unincorporated Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. It is part of the Fairfax County Public Schools system, Chantilly High School is home to four years of study, 9th–12th grade. It is organized into five different subschools which each provide administration for a different group of students, subschools 1–4 are divided by student surnames. Subschool 5 consists of the Chantilly Center, a special-education co-facility which serves students from a geographical area than the rest of Chantilly High School. The school uses a scheduling system. Chantilly was listed in Newsweek in 2003 as the 72nd-best public high school in America, Chantilly High School is also home to Chantilly Academy, which offers classes for students in the FCPS school district, including culinary, engineering, Auto Tech, Cisco Networking, and Cosmetology. Chantilly Academy is also home to VA-20012, Chantilly Academy Air Force Junior ROTC, the mission of the program is to build better citizens through the practice of leadership. The program hase one of the states highest achieving drill team, in 2015–2016, students were approximately 31% Asian, 14% Hispanic, 7% non-Hispanic black and 44% non-Hispanic white, just over 52% were male. Many of the teams have qualified for district, regional. Various clubs and honor societies are active throughout the school year, in December 2007, The Odysseys adviser-teacher, Mary Kay Downes, won the National Yearbook Adviser of the Year award for her work for yearbooks all over the county. Chantilly is also renowned for its achievement in inter-scholastic competitions, in 2006, Chantilly won the VHSL AAA divisions Wachovia Cup in academics, beating out rivals Westfield High School and Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. The cup has competitions in 8 different areas, including Newspaper, Newsmagazine, Yearbook, Scholastic Bowl, Debate, Forensics, Literary Magazine and this will have been the 8th time Chantilly has won the Wachovia Cup in 12 years. Chantilly High School is an accredited high school based on the Standards of Learning tests in Virginia. The average SAT score in 2006 for Chantilly was 1628, as of 2011, Chantilly High School students exceeded state average SOL scores for all major exam categories. Prior to the 2006–2007 school year, Chantilly High School implemented what is now known as Learning Seminar, according to Principal James Kacur its primary purpose is to provide extra time for remediation and enrichment of students. It has also used to fit in assemblies and pep rallies that would normally take time out of the normal day. The plan, however, has been criticized by students and faculty alike for its vagueness, as of the 2008–2009 school year, Principal James Kacur has identified several problems with LS and revised the system for the 2009–2010 school year. In March 2006, Thomas Newlun,53, a special education teacher, Newlun was charged with distribution of marijuana to a minor, drug distribution on school property and contributing to the delinquency of a minor
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Fairfax High School (Fairfax, Virginia)
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Fairfax High School is a public high school in Fairfax, Virginia. The school is owned by the City of Fairfax, but is operated by Fairfax County Public Schools as part of a contractual agreement, the school building, opened in 1972, is located on Old Lee Highway in eastern Fairfax City. In 2007, FHS underwent a $54 million renovation designed by architectural firm BeeryRio7, renovations began in March 2005 and added 86,500 sq ft. of classroom space. Student size has increased at such a rate that 3 trailers have been installed. For the 2013-2014 school year, Fairfax High Schools student body was 41% White, 25% Asian, 20% Hispanic, 9% Black,0. 2% Native American, Fairfax High has a large White and Asian population, these two ethnic groups make-up 65% of the school. Fairfax High School is an accredited high school based on the Standards of Learning tests in Virginia. The average SAT score in 2009-2010 for FHS was 1657, in 2010-2011, Fairfax High School was ranked the nations 201st best high school. Fairfaxs nickname is the Rebels, and the teams currently compete in the AAA Liberty District. The closest high schools to Fairfax are Oakton and W. T. Woodson, the Northern Region was realigned for the 1994-95 school year, with Fairfax being placed in the Liberty District, and Annandale in the Patriot District. Without district competition, the rivalry with Annandale has lessened, in athletics, Fairfax is probably best known for the strong football teams that it fielded under the guidance of head coach three successful coaches. The first successful Head Coach of was Dick Claypool coached at Fairfax from 1961-1978, Dick Claypool has the most wins at Fairfax. Coach Claypool left after the 1978 season and the football program languished until the fall of 1983, Francis Dall was hired by Athletic Director Pat Laing as Head Coach in 1983 and led the Rebels from 1983-88. Pat Laing also hired long time Wrestling Coach Mitch Sutterfield in the early 80s as well as long time Basketball Coach Steve Henry & Field Hockey Coach Starr Karl, Coach Dalls arrival changed the culture at FHS and helped propel Fairfax High School Altheltic teams for the next 15 years. Dall turned FHS sports from losing programs into winning programs, Dall hired friend & UVA roommate Tom Verbanic who would succeed Dall as Head Coach & lead the FHS Baseball successfully from 1986-1999. Dall hired two coaches from West Springfield High School former West Springfield Head coach Bill Hanley & Pete Gallagher, Dall hired assistants Mike Kowalski, Mike Campbell, Clevland Lott, Dan Keating & kept holdovers Mitch Sutterfield & Lyndsey Ott. Fairfax football teams under Dall made the VHSL Northern Region playoffs for the 1st time under Dall with the 1987 was 7-3 reaching the Division 5 Northern Region Final to Marshall High School, in Dalls final season Fairfax went undefeated for the first time going 10-0. The 1988 team defeated 70s & 80s rival and powerhouse Annandale High School for the first time since 1973, the 1988 season ended poorly as the team suffered a shocking first round loss to West Potomac High School 20-13. In early January 1989 Coach Dall stunned everyone and stepped down as Head Coach of Fairfax to take a position at Lake Braddock High School
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Falls Church High School
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Falls Church High School is a high school located in West Falls Church, unincorporated Fairfax County, Virginia. While the school has a Falls Church, Virginia mailing address, the school does not serve the City of Falls Church, which is served by George Mason High School. Principal Mike Yohe served two years as assistant principal for FCHS before being promoted to his current position during the summer of 2013 upon the departure of former principal Cathy Benner, the school serves grades 9 through 12. It was relocated from its site in downtown Falls Church to this address in 1967. Falls Church Highs school motto is Building on Our Success, the mascot for the school is a Jaguar. The school colors are green and white. Falls Churchs student body in 2012-2013 is 22. 14% White,8. 36% Black,43. 92% Hispanic,22. 44% Asian, the school was formerly in the city of Falls Church on Cherry Street. Then moved to current location on Jaguar Trail, formerly Whittier Intermediate School, dr. Ben Nowak is the Principal of Falls Church High School. Falls Church High School is fully accredited based on its Virginia Standards of Learning test performance, the school was listed as the 603rd best high school in America by U. S. News & World Report in 2013. On December 5,2006, Falls Church High School was named a National Demonstration Site for the elective class Advancement Via Individual Determination, Falls Church is one of only two schools in Fairfax county that have a full four-year AVID program. With the start of the 2010-2011 school year, Falls Church gained some of Annandale High Schools population as the result of the Annandale Border Control Force, in the winter of 2010, two students qualified for the state Intel science fair, Junior Amanda Harbison and sophomore Maggie Cullather. The FCHS Marching Jags were named honor band in 2006, having won a superior rating at states in both marching and concert they earned the title of Honor Band for the first time in 55 years. During the 2009 football season, The Jaguars maintained a 5-5 record, led by varsity quarterback Ajay Kashyap, the high note of the season was during week seven when the Jaguars upset the AAA National District powerhouse Thomas A. This was the Jaguars first win over the Eagles since 1998, the Jaguars also won their homecoming against the Mount Vernon High School Majors 42-32 and also the Bell Game against rival J. E. B. During the season, Senior Running back Marcus Hughes rushed for a region high 1741 yards on 245 carries averaging 7.2 Yards per carry and 19 touchdowns. During the 2013 season, the Jaguars are already off to a 6-2 start, the Jaguars have not made it to the playoffs in the last century, nor have they had a winning record in many years. This year the Jaguars played Mount Vernon for their homecoming game, the Jaguars have also been receiving a lot of attention in the news and also by newspapers and reporters Also, many online polls have been won with the help of the FCHS Hype Squad, The Jungle. In 2013, the Jags won the Bell Game vs Stuart 35-13, in the playoffs the Jaguars played Ablemarle High School from Charlotteville at home
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Herndon High School
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Herndon High School is a fully accredited four year public high school in Herndon, Virginia, United States. Herndon serves grades 9-12 and is a part of the Fairfax County Public Schools system, Herndon High School serves the town of Herndon and the northern part of the unincorporated community of Reston. Herndons mascot is the Fighting Hornet, Herndon High School opened in 1911 on Locust Street. In 1930, seventy-one students enrolled, with such as economics, agriculture. In 1942, the school opened the first school cafeteria in Fairfax County, in the early 1950s, the building was expanded to support more students. In 1961, Herndon Intermediate School began within the Herndon High School building, in 1967, the High School moved to its current Bennett Street location, leaving Herndon Intermediate School at Locust Street with 650 students and 39 teachers. At the start of the 2012-2013 school year Herndon boasted a student enrollment of 2,171 students and approximately 222 staff members. In the 2012-2013 school year, Herndon High Schools student body was 45. 49% White,28. 32% Hispanic,13. 23% Asian,8. 61% Black and 4. 35% Other. Herndon High School is an accredited high school based on the Standards of Learning tests in Virginia. The average SAT score for 2012 for Herndon was 1641, scottie Reynolds, Former point guard for Villanova University Wildcats, named a McDonalds All-American, Reynolds was named the 2006-07 Big East Rookie of the Year. Ronnie Dove, Pop music singer in the 1960s, had such as Right or Wrong. Played college baseball at UVA and currently plays for the Cleveland Indians, doug Kammerer Chief Meteorologist for WRC-TV in the Washington, DC metropolitan area Matt St. Martin, Chef, Filmmaker, Actor and Producer. Angie Goff, Television weekend news anchor for WRC-TV in the Washington, bill Butler, Former MLB player Jon Carman, Former professional football player for the Buffalo Bills. Don Handfield, Filmmaker, Producer and Author
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Langley High School (Fairfax County, Virginia)
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Langley High School is a high school within the Fairfax County Public Schools system in Northern Virginia. It is located in McLean, a place in northern Fairfax County. The campus is located less than a mile west of the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters, Langley High School was established in 1965. The name Langley came from Thomas Lee in honor of Langley Manor, Thomas Lee was one of the first to envision the Thirteen Colonies as a separate nation whose capital should be on the Potomac between Great Falls and Little Falls. The student body was 69. 50% White,20. 87% Asian,4. 59% Hispanic,1. 18% Black, and 3. 86% Other during the 2012–13 academic school year. In the 2011–12 school year, Langley High Schools student body was 71. 15% White,19. 20% Asian,4. 60% Hispanic,1. 70% Black and 3. 35% Other. Langley’s boundaries extend west of State Route 123 and north of both State Route 7 and State Route 267 from McLean to Great Falls, ending at the Loudoun County line. Small parts of Vienna, Reston, and Herndon along the side of Route 7 are also within the school’s attendance area. Until 1994, areas west of Springvale Road in Great Falls were within the Herndon High School boundaries, after leaving Forestville Elementary School, students attended Herndon Middle and Herndon High School. As a result, school officials shifted Langley’s boundary line west from Springvale Road to the Loudoun County border, the LHS academic program follows standard Virginia guidelines, requiring 24 credits for graduation. Additionally provided at Langley is the Advanced Placement program, Langley offers one of the most comprehensive AP programs available, featuring more than 20 AP level classes in every discipline. Langley also used to contain a unique humanities department for the school level. Students would enroll in paired English and History classes, where the curriculum paralleled one another, the humanities department was split for the 2012–2013 school year in favor of optional tied classes. Langley High School is ranked as one of the top schools in the United States. In 2015, U. S. News and World Report listed LHS as the second best high school in Virginia, with Thomas Jefferson High School for Science, Langley was ranked 98 in the United States in 2015. In 2014 &2015, Relay For Life of Langley-McLean partnered with McLean High School, a mirror committee at McLean High School assists with the partnership between the two schools. The Executive Planning Committee is headed up by two Event Co-Chairmen, the Inaugural Chairmen in 2013 were Zackary Dailey and Rosie Mahoney and the 2014 Event was chaired by Harris LaTeef and Ava Shomaker. The 2014 Relay For Life of Langley-McLean was held on Saturday, April 26 at 6,00 PM to Sunday, April 27 at 6,00 AM and succeeded in raising $110,366.78 for the American Cancer Society
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George C. Marshall High School
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George C. Marshall High School is a public school in northern Virginia, located in Idylwood in unincorporated Fairfax County, near Falls Church. Named for General George Marshall, it opened in 1962 and is part of Fairfax County Public Schools and it is ranked at #343 in the nation for public schools and has received a gold award for Best High Schools from the U. S. News & World Report 2016. It is ranked 11th in Virginia and 8th in Fairfax County, George C. Marshall High School is a fully accredited high school based on the Standards of Learning tests in Virginia. During the 2014-2015 school year, the vast majority of Marshall students passed the end-of-year exams. Below are the demographics as presented during the 2015-2016 school year at Marshall High School,18. 04%, Marshalls teams are nicknamed the Statesmen, their mascot is the griffin, and their teams play in the AAA Liberty District and Northern Region of the Virginia High School League. In the 2005-2006 school year, the hockey team and the boys basketball teams advanced to the AAA tournaments. Marshall girls basketball won the Liberty District tournament back to back in 2006 and 2007, the girls tennis team placed first in the Liberty District in 2009 and second at the regional tournament. In 2013, the Mens Varsity Basketball team won the Liberty District, in 2014, the Mens Varsity Football team broke a losing streak stretching back to 2011 with victories over Thomas Jefferson and JEB Stuart. They take part in numerous competitions annually such as the District Performance Assessment, the Marshall Orchestra Program consists of four orchestras, The Marshall Concert Orchestra, Symphonic Orchestra, Philharmonic Orchestra, and Statesmen Sinfonia. During the 2014-2015 school year, it has grown to more than 120 members. Statesmen Sinfonia is a new ensemble introduced in the 2014-2015 school year due to the number of members. The orchestra is currently being led by director Catherine Bond, the Marshall Band Program is composed of two subgroups, Concert Band and Wind Symphony. The band program is currently being led by director Paul Vesilind, the Marshall Band has held the Honor Band title for three years consecutively. Marshall has many bands, including Marshalls Marching Statesmen, which have come in 1st place at multiple competitions. They went to the band states competition for the first time in October 2015. There is also a Marshall Jazz Band, which performs at school, the band offerings at Marshall also include indoor drumline, percussion ensemble, flute choir, and IB music. The percussion ensemble, which was led by Frank Gonzalez at the time, has also recognized for their achievement. They were invited to the Music for All National Percussion Festival in Indianapolis, the event is part of the Bands of America National Convert Festival
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Oakton High School
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It is part of Fairfax County Public Schools. Oakton operates on a block schedule five days a week, alternating between Burgundy and Gold days and it is headed by its principal, John Banbury, and several assistant principals. Oakton High School was founded in 1967 in Vienna, Virginia, the original Oakton High School was located in the facility which is now used by Oakton Elementary School. When it opened, Oakton was the host facility for an IBM1401 which was Fairfax Countys first computer. A computer curriculum, one of the first offered at the school level, was available to full-time Oakton students. This system was retired in the seventies when Fairfax County installed an IBM360 mainframe at the Annandale campus of Northern Virginia Community College. In 1973, after a tornado struck W. T. Woodson High School, the school achieved international notoriety in 2009 when it suspended, and threatened to expel, a student for taking a birth control pill while on school premises. The incident was referenced during the August 3,2009 episode of The Colbert Report, like most Fairfax County schools, the building is of considerable size, consisting of two stories in order to accommodate its large population of students. The school is divided into separate hallways for individual subjects, with English and History predominantly on the floor and Math. In the 2014-2015 school year, Oakton High Schools student body was 55. 91% White,24. 63% Asian,9. 30% Hispanic,4. 96% Black, Oakton High School is a fully accredited high school based on the Standards of Learning tests in Virginia. The average SAT score in 2006 for Oakton High School was 1,703, Oakton offers an Advanced Placement Diploma Program and a large variety of AP classes. Post-AP courses are available to advanced students through academy courses. The school offers a variety of elective courses and allows students to participate in academy courses. Elective courses include psychology, various engineering courses, journalism, video production, accounting, multivariable calculus with linear algebra and six foreign languages. In 2008, Newsweek ranked Oakton High School as the 103rd best high school in the country, in addition, Oakton was ranked 88th on the US News & World Report magazines list based on an assessment of college readiness in 2007. In 2014, Oakton was given a 9 out of 10 ranking by Greatschools. org, in 2014, Oakton High School was ranked #111 Nationally in the US News and World Report Best High Schools. Oaktons Performing Arts Department, which band, choral, orchestral. In 2008, the arts department won the extremely prestigious Blue Ribbon Award, a result of Superior ratings for all Band, Choral
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South Lakes High School
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South Lakes High School is the primary high school for the community of Reston in Fairfax County, Virginia. The school, part of Fairfax County Public Schools, has 2,378 students, the principal is Kimberly Brophy Retzer. The school also has 16 other administrators, including assistant administrators for each grade, the schools mascot is Seymour the Seahawk. The school colors are Royal Blue and Kelly Green, the school newspaper is named the Sentinel. South Lakes underwent a $55 million renovation from winter 2006 through August 2008, the renovation was completed in time for the 2008–2009 school year. The main feeder schools are Langston Hughes Middle School and Rachel Carson Middle School. In the 2013–2014 school year, South Lakes High Schools student body was 46. 68% White,21. 24% Hispanic,13. 00% Black,12. 53% Asian and 6. 56% Other. South Lakes High School is an accredited high school based on the Standards of Learning tests in Virginia. The average SAT score in the 2013–2014 school year for South Lakes was 1676, when the school first opened in 1978, South Lakes High School had an open classroom design. The school was laid out into four quadrants, one quadrant area for each grade level, each quadrant, or sub-school, was labeled by color, green for freshman, blue for sophomores, yellow for juniors, and orange for seniors. When the school was first opened each sub-school was designed to be a classroom within itself, the open space was not divided into individual classrooms or interrupted with walls. The open design was determined to be an ineffective and distracting way for people to learn, especially with different teachers. Individual classrooms were created with temporary dividers which remained until a renovation took place between 2006 and 2008. The extensive renovation changed several of the characteristic features. The four sub-school design was kept, but altered, like the original design, there are four separate locker commons, but the ease of access from one to another has been improved. Each classroom is divided by walls, rather than temporary dividers, classrooms have LCD projectors and the math classrooms are equipped with SmartBoards. The four cafeterias were combined into one larger cafeteria located in the center of the building, the media center was also moved and enlarged. Starting in the 2016-2017 school year, another wing will be added to the school, the schools curriculum offers special education courses, remedial coursework, standard courses, and college-level advanced courses
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J. E. B. Stuart High School
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Stuart High School is a high school in Fairfax County, Virginia named for Confederate cavalry leader J. E. B. The school is part of the Fairfax County Public Schools district, the school has a Falls Church address but is not located within the city limits of the City of Falls Church. At the time the school opened, the Fairfax County school board was opposing racial integration of its schools, in the School Board meeting minutes of 5/20/1958, Lee High School was simply named Lee for the Lee district. This school was located on Franconia Rd, on the border of Franconia and Springfield, the area had a Springfield address, the Property was originally the Clermont Estate owned by Fitzhugh Lee. In Feb 4th 1958 Meeting a local historical group suggested a compromise, in the May 6th 1958 meeting, Mr. Solomon made a motion that all future new high schools in Fairfax County be named for some prominent American, now deceased. Mr. Solomon qualified it by stating that the Franconia H. S. is not to be included in this motion, just those under construction, therefore a place name was needed for this school. Fortunately both communities were in the Lee district of Virginia and a compromise was reached on a place name, in a May 8th 1958 article in the Washington Post Mr. Woodson said. he is surprised and disappointed that we have this type of controversy among adults. I dont want the children coming to school saying Im from Springfield…Im from Franconia…lets fight. Gangs tend to develop in communities where there is controversy, the naming of High Schools in order were Lee, Jeb Stuart and James Madison in 1958. Thomas Edison, George Marshall, and W. T. Woodson in 1960, in addition nine intermediate schools were named by the same School Board in May of 1959. Among those school names were John G. Whittier and Henry Thoreau, fifteen schools were named and only one was for a Confederate General. In 1963 Lee was renamed at the request of the SPTA, regarding Fairfax Countys reaction to Brown, It was not Fairfax Countys choice either before or after 1954. Fairfax County Schools like most Southern Schools were under De jure segregation, richmond removed any possibility of local option. It was recognized in cases that it was the state who was running the show. In the Virginia General Assembly, Delegates from Northern Virginia openly opposed the Stanley plans as well as calls for more radical legislation. Virginias 10th district was the congressional district to vote against the Gray Plan. Munson Hill was steeped in Civil War history, JEB Stuart was named for JEB Stuart because it is believed his camp extended to the area where the school is located. Stuarts was famous for his Munson Hill Quaker Guns deception, the battle fought at Manassas in 1861, the first major engagement of the war, ended chaotically
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West Springfield High School (Virginia)
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West Springfield High School is a public high school located in Springfield in Fairfax County, Virginia, at 6100 Rolling Road, and is part of the Fairfax County Public Schools system. West Springfield enrolls students from grades 9–12, offers the Advanced Placement program, a school renovation was completed in 1991, which included the construction of new classrooms in a courtyard and remodeling the library, Auditorium, Spartan Hall, and the Career Center. The first principal was S. John Davis, who subsequently became Fairfax Superintendent of Schools, the school is laid out on two stories with the library, administration offices and cafeteria in front and auditorium and gymnasiums in the back. The school shares a layout with Herndon High School and Oakton High School, for the 2014–15 school year, West Springfield High Schools student body was 57. 16% White,15. 20% Asian,14. 94% Hispanic,6. 64% Black and 6. 06% Other. WSHS participates in a variety of high school sports. West Springfields school mascot is a Spartan soldier and school colors are orange, the school competes in the Patriot District which is in the AAA Northern Region of the Virginia High School League. Major rivals have traditionally been Lake Braddock and Lee, based on their geographic proximity, top ranked WSHS athletic programs include its boys and girls soccer teams, girls basketball team, girls softball team, boys baseball team, and boys and girls cross country teams. Alumni of note include Jeremy Kapinos, James Dexter, Kara Lawson, Ryan Speier, Joe Saunders, Brian Carroll who plays for the Philadelphia Union, and Jeff Carroll who played for D. C. Under Coach Robert Benton, the Varsity Softball Team won the AAA State Softball title in 1983, the Forensics Team won its first Group AAA crown in 2006 under coach MaryLove Wynne. Forensics won again in 2009 under coach Elizabeth Reeves, Debate also won the Group AAA in 2009 under coach Patricia Hagy, the first win since 1969. The Deliees continue to coach Forensics, the new coach of Debate installed this year is Michael Dutcher, former Director of Debate at The Catholic University of America. Students from both Forensics and Debate compete in the Washington Arlington Catholic Forensics League tournaments in the Diocese of Arlington, the Spartan baseball team, coached for 26 years by Ron E. In 2009 the Spartans were crowned district and regional champions, and compiled a record of 23–5, Coach James won the Northern Region again and also won his 1st Virginia AAA State Championship with a 24–4 record in 2010 defeating the then undefeated Woodbridge High School who finished. Coach James is assisted by Jason Olms, Tim Alley, Julio Rivas, John Batchelor, Joey Tinsley, Matt Thorn, the 2010 Spartans were led by The All-Met Player of the Year, Bobby Wahl. The VHSL ALL-State Player of the Year, Charlie Morgan, the 1980 West Springfield Spartan varsity football team went to the Virginia AAA State Championship Game, losing to the Hampton Crabbers. The game was played at W. T. Woodson High in Fairfax, the 1993 West Springfield Spartan varsity football team won the Northern District Championship with an undefeated run through the district schedule. The Spartans defeated crosstown rival Lake Braddock SS twice during the season and were the team to score a touchdown on the Bruins the entire year. The Spartans would fall to the state champs from Annandale High School in the Northern Region Championship game
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Westfield High School (Virginia)
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Westfield High School is a public high school in unincorporated Fairfax County, Virginia, United States, west of the Chantilly CDP. It is a part of Fairfax County Public Schools, serving students from the communities including Chantilly, opened in 2000, it is the head of the Westfield High School Pyramid in Cluster VIII. Westfields main building has the layout as South County High School. At 3,260 students, it is one of the largest four-year high schools in the Commonwealth of Virginia, Westfield shares a business partnership with Northrop Grummans business IT group that entails sharing of buildings, as well as financial donations and gifts of supplies. It also shares a partnership with Centreville Presbyterian Church to improve student achievement. Westfield was first conceived to deal with the extensive overcrowding at adjacent schools, primarily Centreville. Plans for Westfield High school might have originated in 1997 when it was conceived as West County High School, Westfields colors and mascot were chosen by community members in the months before its grand opening in 2000. By 2005, Westfield had grown so large that it had one of the largest four-year high schools in Virginia. An additional wing was planned to deal with the overcrowding. Regulation 1320.1 was implemented on April 21,2004 and it was adopted by the county school board to ensure that instructional time in middle and high schools meet limits set by the Virginia Department of Education. The directive limited events such as assemblies and pep rallies by categorizing them as after-school events, local radio station DC101s Elliot in the Morning show held a contest in fall 2004 for area high school students whose winners were to host alternative rock band Taking Back Sunday at their school. Westfield students won this contest, whose result was approved by former principal Mike Campbell with the date set for Tuesday. However, students learned that a clause in Regulation 1320.1 prohibiting assemblies by business-sponsored groups prevented plans for the concert from being carried out. Following the incident, students and parents appealed to the board to return pep rallies to the instructional period. In a review by the Parent Teacher Student Association, it was found that the school was allowed one pep rally during the year. In February 2005, FCPS clarified its policy stating that the regulation on pep rallies was not meant to limit school spirit, Westfield received media attention in the mid-2000s because two unrelated murders perpetrated by alumni occurred within one year. On April 5,2007, Kennedys father was indicted by a grand jury on two counts of drug possession and six counts of weapons charges. The indictment mentioned charges that Kennedys father illegally possessed marijuana, which made it illegal for him to possess the weapons or ammunition used by Kennedy in the police station attack
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Wilbert Tucker Woodson High School
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The school opened in 1962 and was once the largest school in the state. As of 2016, the student population is roughly 2,400 and it was ranked #74 on Newsweeks Top 1000 U. S. The school is named after Wilbert Tucker Woodson, superintendent of Fairfax County Public Schools from 1929 to 1961, following the retirement of Jeff Yost, Dan Meier, the former principal of Robinson Secondary School, took over as interim principal for most of the 2014–2015 school year. The current principal as of April 10,2015 is Dr. Scott Poole, Woodson High School is a fully accredited high school based on Standardized Testing in Virginia. The average SAT score in the 2009–2010 school year for Woodson High School was 1778, the following table shows the passing rates of all Woodson students in their respective years and academic subjects, as determined by the Virginia Department of Education. For the 2015-2016 school year, Woodson High Schools student body was 55. 63% White non-Hispanic,22. 64% Asian,11. 34% Hispanic,4. 82% Black, and 5. 57% Other. Emory Chelsey 1962–1965 Robert Phipps 1965–1968 William P. Ladson 1968–1972 Robert Phipps 1972–1981 James Wilson 1981–1986 Charles E, the project was paid for in bonds that were established in 2003 by a voter referendum. The issue of whether to renovate had been debated for years before the plan was approved. Woodson was one of the oldest schools in Fairfax County Public Schools, the renovations nearly doubled the square footage of the school. The project was completed in 2009, Woodsons mascot is a Cavalier and the sports teams play in the AAA Patriot District and the Northern Region. In 1976, the Washington Diplomats of the North American Soccer League used the stadium as their home field. The Cavalcade is the school newspaper, the Cavalier, Woodsons yearbook, is a AAA publication. The girls field hockey team defeated Princess Anne High School in the finals in 2003. The boys soccer team beat Robinson High School in 2000 to capture the Virginia State Soccer Title, to date, W. T. Woodson has won 30 Virginia AAA State Championships in a variety of sports. Woodson offers three levels of band, Concert I, Concert II, and the Symphonic Band, as well as a Marching band that performs in the fall. The band received the prestigious Sudler Flag of Honor in 1995 and 2012, the Symphonic Band also performed at the CBDNA/NBA Southern Division Conference in Kennesaw, Georgia, in February 2012. The winter guard is also praised for its consistent high rankings, in 2008, the winter guard was ranked the #1 high school winter guard in Virginia in the AIA circuit. The Choral program features two Womens Ensembles and two Mens Ensembles, as well as a Chorale and a Select Vocal Ensemble, the choral department is the largest in the state of Virginia, with over 300 members each year since 2006
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Hayfield Secondary School
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Hayfield Secondary School is the oldest secondary school in the Fairfax County Public Schools system of Virginia. It opened its doors in 1968 and graduated its first seniors in 1971, the land that Hayfield Secondary sits on was at one time part of George Washingtons Mount Vernon estate. Because of a natural spring underneath the school, the land served as a hay field. The land itself changed hands numerous times, until 1956 when developers constructed the nearby Hayfield Farm Community, Hayfield Secondary opened its doors to middle school students as well as 9-10th grades during the 1968-1969 school year, while still under construction. Floyd W. Worley was the first Principal, the school is erroneously mentioned in Remember the Titans as being all white. While at the time of the desegregation of the City of Alexandrias T. C. S, the desegregation encouraging word Diversity even headed a section of the 73 yearbook, the fifth volume of the Harvester. As the region which it grew, overcrowding became a major issue at Hayfield. A renovation of the began in 2002 and was completed in 2005. Further helping to relieve the pressure on Hayfield was the opening of South County Secondary School, Hayfield is a secondary school, meaning it serves grades 7 through 12, but the high school and middle school students are generally kept segregated. The middle school has a program and the high school offers both honors and Advanced Placement courses. As of Spring 2007, the number of exams on which a score of 3 or higher was achieved rose to 57% from 46% the previous year, Hayfield has an Its Academic Team and a Robotics Team that has been in the FIRST Robotics Competition. Hayfields Varsity Science Olympiad team competes in regional tournaments. The school competes in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, Hayfield also has an orchestra, a band and a choral group. Hayfields high school compete in the AAA National District of the AAA Northern Region of the Virginia High School League. The schools mascot is the hawk and the colors are orange. Sports offered include, Larry Asante, class of 2005, Football safety for the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League At Hayfield, he earned all-league honors as a running back in the AAA Patriot Division. Matthew Ashford, Actor best known for portraying the role of Jack Deveraux on the NBC soap opera Days of Our Lives, mike DOrso, non fiction writer Tony Mayberry played football for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers from 1990 to 1999. Technical support for the Wilburn Auditorium is supported by a student organization, Hayfield Secondarys Planetarium opened its doors in 1969
