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Ben Simo in a consulting software tester who accidentally stepped into testing in 1991 when he was hired as a 'data collector' for a US Government testing project. In the 26 years since, Ben has learned and applied his skills as a software investigator for companies large and small; spanning a variety of industries, including: defense, healthcare, finance, education, marketing, cloud computing, and more. Ben approaches software testing as a cognitively complex activity that requires critical thinking, an understanding of both people and technology, effective communication, and continuous learning.
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Finals Weekend
Finals Weekend at The University of Virginia is a special time for graduating Wahoos and their families. It's also the most packed and busy two days of the year in Charlottesville. Our businesses and restaurants work overtime to make sure that you and your Cavalier's weekend is exciting, memorable and full of good food and drink!
Don't forget to make dinner reservations! Our many wonderful restaurants quickly fill up during this special weekend. For a complete list of Charlottesville area restaurants, click here.
Below is a list, compiled by the Charlottesville Albemarle Convention & Visitors Bureau, that details which lodging properties in the area that still have availability for graduation weekend. Availability is subject to change.
|Country Inn & Suites
|(434) 293-4600
|Courtyard by Marriott - Charlottesville North
|(434) 973-7100
|(434) 979-7264
|Hampton Inn Charlottesville
|(434) 978-7888
|Hilton Garden Inn
|(434) 979-4442
|Holiday Inn Charlottesville - University Avenue
|(434) 977-7700
|La Quinta Inn & Suites
|(434) 293-6188
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text: How Does an Air Conditioner Work? Posted July 18, 2016 The temps are hitting record numbers throughout the country and many homes are using some type of air conditioner to beat the seasonal heat. Although we are all grateful that your air conditioner is functioning, the professionals at Select Comfort System Heating & Air Conditioning in West Valley City would like to teach you how it works. The Basics There's plenty of science behind keeping your home at a comfortable temperature. Your air conditioner runs in a comparable way to your refrigerator, of course your air conditioner has a larger task to handle. Both your fridge and AC cool with a reoccurring loop of refrigerant, however with the air conditioner this refrigerant loops from inside to the outdoors. This refrigerant effortlessly converts from a liquid to gas and back to a liquid again. It goes into your house as a sub-cooled liquid and as it evaporates it takes in heat from the indoors and reverts back into vapor. This vapor then moves back to the unit outside where the heat is released and is then condensed back into a sub-cooled liquid. Four Components There are 4 main elements to your AC system: a compressor, an evaporator coil, the condensing coil and an expansion valve. The evaporator coil is where your refrigerant evaporates from a sub-cooled liquid into a super-heated vapor. This component can be found inside your home, in your garage or sometimes in your attic. Warm air moves through the cold evaporator coil and the heat is taken from the air. This cooled air is then sent throughout your home. Your compressor sits in your outdoor condensing unit. The super-heated vapor from your evaporator coil goes into the compressor which raises the pressure of the vapor until it is converted into hot, high pressure vapor. The hot vapor then enters back into the condenser coil where less hot outdoor air moves across the coil, heat is moved outdoors and the refrigerant is changed back into a sub-cooled liquid. The sub-cooled liquid returns to the indoor evaporator coil through an expansion valve or metering device. This continues repeatedly throughout the process. That completes your physics lesson today…your air conditioner operates on an never-ending loop of science. We understand that it's not as important to you how it works, but that you are staying cool. If you'd like to talk about staying cool and comfortable in West Valley City contact us at 801-305-4777. With the help of our team and science we're going to make it through this sweltering summer. Back To Blog


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Video games change television consumption habits: Nielsen
What do people do when times are tough? History suggests they look for escapes. Some go to the movies, some eat candy and some indulge in sin. And some play video games.
The healthy growth in the video game market has not been dented by the recession according to Nielsen's newly-released 'State of the Video Gamer' report, which looked at console and PC video game usage in the United States for Q4 2008.


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'Encounter at the Lonely Dragon' in What Happens at the Tavern... from Circlet Press
Since Tolkien's time, many authors have taken readers along on elaborate treks through fantastic worlds. In What Happens at the Tavern Stays at the Tavern, we asked writers to tackle the pauses and interstices in a fantasy quest. What kinds of steamy adventures happen behind the scenes, when our heroes and heroines are trekking along their journey?
Gavin Thorne is returning to the questing life under duress of a failing economy, and he's not happy about it. But work is work, and Gavin figures getting back into professional adventuring is something he can handle. What he may not be ready to handle is sharing a loft with an ex-lover and having to confront all the pent up feelings that go with it, including the lingering sense of betrayal of a quest gone wrong.
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Gavin was just thinking of blowing out his small lamp when he heard someone come into the stable and then heard that same someone climbing the ladder up to the loft. He sat up, disliking the idea of being caught flat on his back, and as the someone's head rose above the edge of the trap door, Gavin's heart froze in his chest. The newcomer paused in his climb, regarding Gavin with badly disguised shock. "Gavin." "Ren," Gavin said. His supper felt heavy and unsettled in his gut, while at the same time his traitorous libido perked up at the sight of his former lover. Hell and death. Gavin had met Ren Lear on his last quest, the one to the Singing Springs, several years before. They had come together like tinder in a fire, flaring fast and hot. Gavin had never had sex that good in his life, and he'd even imagined himself rather in love despite the brevity of the affair. Ren was sharp-tongued and clever, with a sweet nature and magnificent hands, and, as much as Gavin hated to admit it now, it had been the best adventure he'd been on. Up until it had come to its nasty end. "What are ye doin' here?" Ren asked, completing his climb and dropping his satchel in the hay. His Northern brogue was stronger than Gavin remembered it–he must have been back home during the time Gavin had set up shop in Delphia–and it sent an irritatingly pleasant shiver down Gavin's spine. Gavin couldn't help giving him an assessing once-over, from the toes of his black suede boots to the top of his head. The last two years had been very good to him, and he was even more handsome now that he had grown up a little. His eyes were the color of a storm cloud, his jaw firm and straight, and his dark, smooth hair was longer than Gavin had ever seen it, reaching to the middle of his back and bound back in a braid. He was wearing the all-black rogue's uniform Gavin was familiar with: tight, soft leggings that hugged his muscular thighs and a long-sleeved tunic that was belted firmly at the waist. His sleeves were narrow, giving him room to move but offering nothing to get caught on rocks or in doors, and his knife and lock-picking kit were in place at his hip. "Sleeping," Gavin said, rather sharply, tearing his eyes away from Ren's midsection. He tried very hard not to wonder if the body under the uniform had improved the way the rest of him promised. "Of course," Ren said. Without looking, Gavin knew he was smiling. "I meant, what are ye doin' in town?" "Same as you, I imagine," Gavin said. He hated to just sit here, wrapped in his blanket and vulnerable, while Ren towered above him. The rogue had no power over him, save their history, but their position made him feel weak. Standing up, however, was out of the question. That would just be peculiar. "Lookin' for a quest, then, are ye?" Ren said, and now that he was done staring in surprise at Gavin, he moved to unroll a blanket from his satchel. Gavin clenched his fingers in the hay beside him, anger rising at the man's gall–to think that Gavin was going to allow him to sleep beside him, tonight, after what he'd done. "Afraid so," he said, and turned away. "Gavin," Ren said, and he sounded confused. Good. "What's–all this time, and a lucky coincidence to find ye here, and now you won' even talk to me?" "It isn't coincidence," Gavin said wearily, sitting back up. Ella knew every bit of the saga Gavin had told her, two years ago when it had all gone to hell, and no doubt she'd jumped at the chance to throw them back together again. She didn't believe Ren had a scrap of malice in him, was convinced it had all been a big mistake. She'd probably lied to him, told Gavin the inn was full up when it wasn't, just so she could get them in the same room. Ren sat down carefully on his own blanket and began to unlace his boots. He wasn't more than a few yards away, and Gavin's body was humming with anticipation. Just looking at Ren, remembering everything they'd done together, made his cock swell. He adjusted the folds of his shirt as subtly as he could, gritting his teeth in irritation against the unbidden arousal. "What do ye mean by that?" Ren asked, once he'd taken off his boots and set them aside. He unhooked his belt casually, as if Gavin hadn't watched him do it a hundred times, and laid it beside his boots. The lock-pick kit jingled delicately as it settled on the hay. Gavin remembered how sharp his knife was, too, and how proud Ren was of it. Now Ren's black shirt billowed out, disguising the hard, lean lines of his body, and he folded his legs under himself, soft leggings shifting as he moved and pulling taut around his thighs. Gavin scowled. "Ella's got it out for me," he said. "The barmaid. We have a history." Ren's eyes narrowed. "Do ye now?" "Do you have anything better to do besides interrogate me?" Gavin snapped. Ren looked taken aback for a moment, but then the ghost of a smile crept onto his face. "Ah," he said, "ye're just as prickly as I remember." "I'm not prickly," Gavin said, sounding prickly even to his own ears. "I'm tired. I walked a long way. Goodnight." "Wait, Gavin," Ren said, as Gavin tried to turn over again, "I know–I know things are strange. Between ye and me." Gavin rolled his eyes. He was trying very hard to be civil, but Ren was right. Things were strange and unresolved. His body wanted very much to be reminded of the feeling of Ren's hands, and his mouth felt dry with desire. Ren was perfectly magnificent with his tongue, and Gavin could imagine, or remember, how it felt to have that splendid man between his thighs. But through it all ran a thread of betrayal and desolation that Gavin couldn't shake. Ren went on: "But I'm sorry. I truly am. I was greedy, and impulsive, and I'm sorry." Gavin blinked. He'd been expecting a row, or a shouting match. Ren had a slow temper, but he could be riled up with the right application of force or attitude. Gavin's own temper was notoriously quick, and he was always ready for a fight. But Ren was taking the initiative, and it caught Gavin well off guard. Ren smiled at him, tight and uncertain, like he knew he was going out on a limb and he wasn't sure how successful he was going to be. Gavin hated to see that look on his face, only because he greatly preferred it when he was laughing, or teasing, or pulling off a bit of thievery for show. "I thought ye'd come back," Ren said, "and I know why ye didn'. I don' blame ye, but I wanted ye to know that I'm sorry. I–I didn' mean to." His voice had gone very soft, and then his hand was on Gavin's knee. It was warm and firm, exactly the way Gavin remembered it, and he leaned closer to Ren without thinking. He swallowed hard, all the stupid, lovesick emotion he had been glad to tamp down welling up again. Ren even smelled familiar. Gavin knew that if he touched Ren's hand it would be soft and delicate, all the better for picking pockets and making trouble. If he put his hand in Ren's hair, it would be thick and silky and good for grabbing. If he kissed him– Ren solved the question for him, leaning in decisively and pressing their lips together. Gavin opened his mouth instantly, and Ren's tongue slipped in, soft and questing, first just teasing, and then more demanding as Gavin clutched Ren's tunic and dragged him closer. With enough pulling Ren was bearing him down onto the blanket beneath them, spread out in the loft's soft hay. His body was a welcome, heavy, familiar weight, and he planted his elbows on either side of Gavin's head and kissed him hungrily. Gavin kissed back, desperate, aching for him. He'd gone two years without a fuck, without so much as a simple notion of attraction to anyone. Clearly, he'd been waiting and hadn't realized it. "No," he said, pulling away suddenly."I can't. This is–" "What," Ren panted, looking down at him with dark, dazed eyes. His face was flushed and his hair was escaping its braid, drifting in his face. "What's wrong?" "You fucking left," Gavin said, trying to shove Ren away now rather than draw him near. "You and Alona and Moul, you all left with the gems while I stared down a gelatinous cube. I could have died!"


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Dear Woman,
Working in retail, you see it all the time, customers refusing to
pay full price for products they feel aren't perfect. It's as if a
slight imperfection cancels out its usefulness and value. If something
has so much as the tiniest scratch, I've witnessed customers ask for a
discount of some kind. I've ordered new items for customers because
there was a page in a book that wasn't perfectly aligned with the
others. These slight imperfections caused products to lose their value
in the eyes of paying customers. The same is true of cars. As soon as
you drive a car off a lot it begins to lose its value. A car's value is
based on the name on the car, the number of miles that's on it, how many
accidents it's been in, how old it is, etc. The more miles, accidents,
and years it's been around the less people are willing to pay for it.
Just like products in stores and cars on a car lot, we too have so many
things trying to devalue us and take away our worth.
way the world and people treat products and cars is sometimes the same
way they treat people and sometimes it's the way we treat ourselves.
Living life we all fall short and make mistakes. The world and people
are sometimes so quick to hold those things against us and note that as
one of the ways in which we aren't perfect and have lost our value. The
world and people define your worth by where you grew up, who your
parents are, what college you attended, how much education you have,
your ethnicity, your weight, your past etc. with some upping your value
and others lowering your value. We sometimes even allow our past to
dictate our value and worth. We've all got a past, we've done things we
aren't proud of and because of this many of us have felt unworthy and
devalued. We've felt devalued because some of us have lived
promiscuously, others have lived a homosexual lifestyle, others have
lied, cheated, some have sold their bodies; others have been abused and
molested, etc. And we've all felt this way at some point…like those
things made us less, like they took away some of our worth. And we
became ok with others treating us less than what we deserve. And we
settled for randoms that only valued us for our looks and our bodies
because we've let our past define our worth and say I'm not valuable
enough for a really good man of God, who will treasure me, protect my
virtue, encourage/push me to grow spiritually, and who will love me like
Christ loved the church.
I'm here to tell you today that
you have so much worth and value! You are worth so much more than your
past. You are more than your body. You are more than where you grew up.
You are more than your education. YOU ARE MORE THAN YOUR MISTAKES.
Mistakes and your past may cause you to lose your value in the eyes of
the world and people, but in the eyes of the one that matters you are
worth it, you are highly valued! I want you to see yourself the way God
does, Ephesians 2:10 says, "For we are God's masterpiece. He created us a
new in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us
long ago." You are God's masterpiece! A masterpiece = a person's
greatest work, anything done with masterly skill, a consummate example
of skill or excellence of any kind. YOU ARE GOD'S GREATEST WORK. YOU ARE
ARE MADE IN HIS VERY IMAGE! God doesn't look at you and begin to check
off all the many ways that you don't measure up. He doesn't sit down and
go through your wrap sheet, docking your value for every wrong turn and
mistake you've made. He didn't say to himself, my Son's death wasn't
for her; she's not valuable enough for my Son to die. To God you were
worth His Son, Jesus dying, you were worth saving, and you were worth
buying back from death, hell, and the grave. In God's eyes you are
highly valued and you have so much worth! You are a daughter of the Most
High God! Refuse to let your past, your mistakes, the world, and people
take away your value and worth. If they don't recognize your value,
pray for them and move on. You don't need to around people that don't
see your worth because they will cause you to lose sight of it yourself.
Sis, whatever you've done, whatever your past, whatever your
mistakes you have not lost your value and you have not lost your worth.
Know that you are highly valued. That God paid a high price for you in
sending His Son, Jesus to die for you because He deemed you worth it! In
God's eyes you never lost and never will lose your value and worth.
You were worth the Son being sent and given…
"For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so
that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal
life." ~John 3:16
P.S. Don't forget to check out the new Changed Hearts: I AM Woman site that can be accessed through www.changedheartsunited.com and Mariah Milan's blog at www.mariahmilan.blogspot.com!


text: On Monday, we went over to the Redlands First United Methodist Church to thank them for their loving gift of a new 15-passenger van for Steps 4 Life. The van will be used to help our clients move towards self-sufficiency by providing transportation for appointments, activities and shopping. One of our children made the church a giant thank you card decorated with leaves and pine cones. We are so appreciative of this generous gift that will help our families in so many ways. Thank you to the Redlands United Methodist Church!


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Behind a strong defense and the shooting of tournament MVP Arielle Adams, the Fillies advanced to the State UIL basketball tournament for the first time in school history winning the Region I 4A tournament held last weekend on the campus of Lubbock Christian University.
And once again it was a strong second half of play that broke open two tight games that sent the Fillies to the final four at the Alamo Dome in San Antonio where they will face San Antonio Veteran's Memorial in a 3 pm Friday game making it a true home game for the Patriot's.
The Fillies opened play with a 44-33 win over number #2 state ranked Glen Rose in the first round followed by a 44-41 win over #11 state ranked Abilene Wylie in the championship game.
The Fillies opened play against #2 state ranked Glen Rose who was sporting an impressive 30-1 record and were riding a 22 game win streak. The two teams traded points early in the game before the Fillies grabbed a 12-6 lead late in the first quarter and were still up 12-7 after one quarter of play.
The Fillies suddenly went cold in the second quarter and did not record their first points until 4:11 was left in the first half of play. Fortunately, Glen Rose was also having problems scoring points and the two teams went into intermission knotted at 16-16.
Back to back buckets by Arielle to open the second half of play gave the Fillies a 20-16 lead. After Glen Rose fought back to narrow the score 22-21 Holly Hemmeline closed out the second quarter with back to back buckets to put the Fillies up 26-21 heading into the final quarter of play.
Those baskets by Holly were part of a 12-0 run that carried into the 5:03 mark of the third quarter giving the Fillies a 34-21 lead. One minute later the lead had grown to 38-23 on baskets by Haylee Villarreal and Arielle.
Glen Rose did cut score to 40-29, but the Fillies closed out the game trading out points and the 44-33 win.
Arielle finished the game with 18 points and was followed by Morgan Dial with nine. Also adding to the point total was Holly with eight points, Haylee tossed in four points, Cassidy Esmerado had three, and Nadia De La Rosa finished with two points.
In the Wylie game it was once again, back and forth affair with the two teams tied at 9-9 at the end of the first quarter after the Fillies were up 7-3 late in the quarter.
Wylie took their first lead at 11-9 early in the second quarter before the Fillies tied things up a 13-13 at the 5:53 mark. Cas gave the Fillies a 19-18 lead on one free throw heading into intermission.
In the third quarter the two teams once again traded points before Wylie claimed a 26-23 lead. Holly nailed a 3-point basket to tie things up once again 26-26 with 4:18 left in the quarter. Dacey Gutierrez came up with four points, Morgan hit a runner in the lane, and Arielle hit one from the left elbow that gave the Fillies a 9-0 run and a 35-26 lead heading into the final quarter of play. Another basket by Arielle gave the Fillies a 40-28 lead with 5:30 left in the game.
Wylie came back to make things interesting going on their own 8-0 run to cut the score to 40-36. Arielle nailed another basket to up the lead to 42-36 and Holly hit a five-foot jump shot from the side to put the lead back to 44-36 with :40 showing on the clock.
Wylie answered with a 5-0 run to narrow the lead to the final 44-41 score with :18 still left in the game.
Arielle once again paced the Fillies with 13 points while Holly netted nine points. Also adding to the point total was Dacey and Cassidy with six points each, and Morgan and Haylee both tossed in five points.
A Fillie win on Friday will put them in the championship game at 7 pm on Saturday against the winner between Houston Wheatley (31-3) and Argyle (32-7).
As some background to the Fillies first round opponent, known as an Early College High School, Veteran's Memorial was first opened on August 22, 2016 where it housed just freshman and sophomore classes. This year the junior level was added and next year it will be a four year high school. It is located in the Judson Independent School district located on the northeast side of San Antonio. Playing in District 27, ASVM defeated Wharton 61-57 in overtime to earn their trip across town.


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The Prince Claus Chair was established by Utrecht University and the Institute of Social Studies.
Utrecht University
Utrecht University is a research university comprising of seven faculties which collectively span the entire academic spectrum in teaching and research. Founded in 1636, the University is now a modern, leading institute enjoying a growing international reputation.
Utrecht University offers a broad range of 46 undergraduate and 196 graduate programmes, the latter including many English-taught programmes. There are almost 30,000 students at Utrecht University and 8,600 members of staff. Every year, more than 2,000 international students and researchers stay in Utrecht for variable periods of time.
For more information, please visit www.uu.nl
International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam
The International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam is a postgraduate school for policy-oriented social science activities including interdisciplinary research, practice-oriented teaching and capacity building in the field of development studies.
Founded in 1952, the Institute is one of the world's leading centres of research and higher education in this field. Over 10,000 students from more than 160 countries have studied at the International Institute of Social Studies
of Erasmus University Rotterdam.
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Product sales (parts and components delivered to manufacturers) were €7,294.7 million (around Rs 5,426 crore) compared to €7,231.7 million (around Rs 5,381 crore) in the first half of 2015, representing an increase of 0.9 percent. Growth from Faurecia's different clients include - Renault-Nissan (18 percent), Ford (11 percent), Cummins (5 percent). Commercial vehicles now represent 9 percent of sales for Faurecia Emissions Control Technologies. Sales to Chinese OEMs soared 31 percent and now account for 12 percent of sales in China.
However, FCA's decision to drastically cut production of the Chrysler 200 before discontinuing it in spring 2017 has negatively impacted Faurecia's sales by €97 million.
Operating income stood at €490 million (around Rs 364 crore), experiencing growth of 28 percent. It benefited from the sales growth Europe, a significant improvement of the industrial performance in North America and a strong contribution from Asia. EBITDA grew €136 million (around Rs 101 crore) to €814 million (around Rs 605 crore) up 20 percent.
Based on an encouraging first half and a solid industrial performance, Faurecia has upgraded its outlook, announced in February 2016. For full year 2016, the company's previous outlook for total sales growth remain unchanged at 1-3 percent, its operating margin has been increased to 5 percent from previous 4.6 percent. Its net cash flow of €300 million (around Rs 2,232 crore) also remain unchanged.
Patrick Koller, CEO of Faurecia said "Faurecia's robust profitability in the first half of 2016 of 5.1 percent operating margin, an increase of 110bp, was driven by a strong organic growth in Europe, clearly outperforming automotive production, a profitability breakthrough in North America and robust profitability in Asia."
"Based on an encouraging first half and an effective execution, we are upgrading our 2016 guidance. Our order intake momentum is very significant indicating solid future growth. The expected closing this week of the Exteriors disposal will allow us to further focus on our two strategic priorities: Sustainable mobility and Cockpit of the future," added Koller.


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MISSOULA – Montana Public Radio ended its annual spring fundraiser with nearly $550,000 in listener pledges. Live music, listener challenges, hundreds of phone volunteers and special programs highlighted the week.
At midnight, the tally reached $549,560, concluding a nine-day event that raised nearly 83 percent of the $660,000 goal. There were a total of 3,968 listener pledges during the on-air fundraiser, which ran April 7-15.
"Thanks to all of our great listeners for making pledges and donations to Montana Public Radio," said Ray Ekness, director of the University of Montana Broadcast Media Center. "While we didn't get all the way to our goal, we know our listeners will continue to pledge their support – online and through the mail – over the next few weeks."
The drive concluded with the popular "Pet Wars," where dogs outnumbered cats 953 to 860. The pet competition also included many pledges for chickens, horses, goats, turkeys, hedgehogs and more.
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As allotment of a basal absoluteness simulation, this accustomed arena has been adulterated with some of the assorted effects—overexposure, blur, added edges, heightened contrast, blush desaturation, and beheld snow—that bodies with autism often address experiencing.
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The backwoods is still—until, out of the bend of my eye, I apprehension a erfly agitate into view. At aboriginal it is about perceptible, but as I watch the erfly added intently, the copse about it becloud and the insect grows brighter. The added I curiosity at it, the added astonishing it becomes, authoritative it absurd for me to attending away. Afore continued the absolute backwoods recedes, and the erfly explodes into a red starburst, like a fireworks display. Everything goes dark. Then, dozens of white dots army about me. On my left, they are aloof dots. On my right, they leave continued trails of spaghetti-like light. The adverse makes me acutely acquainted that the present is never accomplished as a algebraic instant; it has some duration, and the acumen of that can alter with context.
The acquaintance evaporates as anon as I booty off my headset.
This immersive virtual-reality (VR) acquaintance was a basal attending at Beholder, an art installation at the Victoria and Albert Architecture in London in September that approved to charm how autistic bodies apperceive the world. It is now on affectation at the arcade that commissioned it, Birmingham Accessible Media. The project's creator, Matt Clark, has a acutely autistic 15-year-old son, Oliver. "He can't talk; his behaviors are acutely challenging," says Clark, artistic administrator of United Beheld Artists, an art and architecture accumulation based in London. Clark congenital Beholder so he and others could see the apple through his son's eyes. He collaborated with artists who either are on the spectrum or accept ancestors associates who are.
The action exemplifies a new access to the use of VR for autism. For added than two decades, scientists have experimented with the technology to set up controlled scenarios to abstraction autistic traits. At the aforementioned time, some teams accept acclimated VR to actualize role-playing environments for practicing amusing skills. Increasingly, however, bodies with autism are appliance VR to back their own experiences, both to accession acquaintance of the action and to abduction the cerebral and perceptual differences that characterize it. Some experts achievement these efforts will advance to new assay collaborations and applications.
These immersive adventures are, in abounding ways, the agenda agnate of Temple Grandin's narratives, which were amid the ancient first-person descriptions of autism. A dozen or so projects that can be beheld online use loud noises or aflame lights to try to carbon sensations such as acoustic afflict at a arcade mall, appointment affair or ancestors get-together. Hardly added busy efforts, such as the trailer for Carly Fleischmann's book, Carly's Voice: Breaking Through Autism, and the action Listen, layer the furnishings over a storyline. But a few are abnormally advancing in aiming to accommodate specific acoustic impressions. Examples of the closing are Beholder and an augmented-reality arrangement created by researcher Yukie Nagai and her colleagues at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology in Osaka, Japan.
Proponents of VR altercate that no added average comes as aing to putting you in addition else's shoes. "Having a perceptual experience—that's commodity we haven't been able to do afterwards VR," says Albert "Skip" Rizzo, assay assistant at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and a avant-garde of appliance VR in psychiatry. "You can watch a movie, but it's altered than walking about and accepting your perceptual experience," Rizzo says.
These projects are not uncontroversial, however. So-called 'disability simulation exercises'—blindfolding bodies to authenticate eyes crime or authoritative them use crutches to acknowledge advancement challenges—are mainstays of assortment training. But they abort to abduction the amusing a that is generally allotment of a disability, and they can arm-twist benevolence and condescension, active bodies afar rather than together.
Simulations of autistic acquaintance accept been met with a agnate ambivalence. They additionally charge accost the basal abstruse catechism of whether abstruse acquaintance is commodity that can anytime be shared. "I can accept that a neurotypical ancestor ability be atrocious to accept their autistic child's point of view," says Susan Kruse, arcade administrator at Birmingham Accessible Media, who is autistic. "But how can anyone get central addition person's apperception and acquaintance what they experience?"
Autism therapists and advisers started to use VR in the mid-1990s, not continued afterwards headsets became broadly accessible to consumers and added forms of immersion, such as first-person ballista games, became popular. Advisers generally deployed the technology to actualize basal environments to advice autistic bodies rehearse demanding encounters. For instance, Rizzo's aggregation congenital a virtual job-interview training program. In a abstraction appear aftermost year, they recruited adults with autism or added altitude for a training regimen involving interviewers who ranged from affable to aggressive. Rizzo says the participants with autism decidedly bigger in their interviewing skills, as rated by job counselors.
A agnate appliance lets autistic children practice accessible speaking in a basal classroom with an admirers of eight avatars. To animate them to attending about the allowance rather than beam beeline ahead, the avatars alpha to achromatize abroad if the apostle fails to accomplish eye acquaintance with them. "So it became a d of befitting the avatars on the awning by alive attention," says Peter Mundy, a analyst at the University of California, Davis, who developed the program. "We begin that the kids with autism absolutely responded to that."
VR can additionally accomplish autistic accouchement added adequate in aberrant environments. In an abstruse July 2018 case study, a aggregation led by Nigel New at the University of the West of England in Bristol gave 11 autistic children, age-old 10 to 14 years, a VR bout of a bounded science architecture a few canicule afore their absolute visit. "Students appear action beneath anxious, beneath stressed, added able for that space," he says. "In fact, the agents additionally begin that back the pupils got there, they knew area they capital to go; they had a greater faculty of purpose and direction."
Back in the lab, basal environments accept additionally offered advisers a acceptable new beginning technique. Nathan Caruana, a cerebral neuroscientist who uses VR to abstraction amusing acknowledgment in autism, prefers it to accepted screen-based scenarios. "All of those paradigms accept abundantly relied on non-interactive tasks, area bodies are responding to a face with averted boring on a screen," says Caruana, accessory investigator at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. "But it doesn't absolutely reflect the dynamics and complication of a amusing interaction."
VR additionally facilitates imaging abstracts that would contrarily be impossible—such as enabling addition lying in a scanner to badinage with basal humans. "In adjustment to admeasurement this in an imaging platform, you basically accept to use basal reality," Mundy says.
For all its credible advantages, however, VR has yet to be anxiously activated as a ameliorative or assay apparatus for autism. Several meta-analyses this year angry up analogously few studies, and best had alone a scattering of participants and no ascendancy group. New and a colleague, for instance, begin a absolute of six studies back 1990 that accept activated head-mounted VR displays in acceptance with autism. "There isn't that abundant affirmation to abutment the use of this yet," New says.
One acumen is cost, not aloof of the accessories but of the programmers and animators bare to actualize the content. Mundy laments that he hasn't been able to apparatus some of his account for abridgement of bodies with the accordant expertise. "One of the affidavit I couldn't go added with it was that I couldn't pay the coder as abundant as a high-tech aggregation [could]," he says. Consequently, VR scenarios abide awful simplified, and the technology's much-touted advantage—realism—remains out of reach.
New additionally says that advisers accept hardly asked autistic bodies what they appetite from the technology. "There's still a bit of a addiction to assay about autism and autistic groups as against to assay with them," he says. This is absolutely what the new first-person adventures seek to rectify.
Many bodies with autism are fatigued to VR out of a action of invisibility.
"Until a predominantly neurotypical society/culture puts in the agnate bulk of accomplishment and time to accept us and accept to us as we put into compassionate and alert to it, we will abide to be disabled," says Sonja Zelić, an autistic artisan based in London who contributed to Beholder. Imperfect admitting it is, VR can advice to appropriate that balance.
Some bodies with autism say they adopt VR to a accepted talking-head account because it doesn't crave them to sit in advanced of a camera; they can assignment abaft the scenes. "I acquisition it an uncomfortably voyeuristic bearings to accept to explain my autistic adventures publicly," Kruse says.
Even the best-intentioned archetypal bodies cannot absolutely accept what action is like for autistic individuals back it's declared alone in words, says Benjamin Lok, a VR researcher at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Lok has not formed on such projects but has a 9-year-old son, Brandon, who is on the spectrum. "Trying to explain that apple that Brandon sees, not alone to us, but to ancestors members—that is a challenge," Lok says. "I would think, if I could get my mom and dad to go through [a VR] experience, how would they collaborate with Brandon differently?"
London has emerged as a centermost of autism-related VR projects. In 2016, Don't Panic, a artistic bureau there, produced an immersive acquaintance for the nonprofit National Autistic Society. The simulation portrays how abandoned and overwhelmed an autistic adolescent ability feel at a arcade mall. In addition simulation, the BBC's accumulated neurodiversity initiative puts its advocate in an appointment affair with a breathtakingly arrogant coworker. Aflame lights and ablaze carpeting patterns betoken acoustic overload, and a soundtrack that incorporates a anguish baby and rushed breath signals a ascent panic. Sean Gilroy, who ran the BBC action with an autistic colleague, says ancestors associates of bodies with autism or added altitude accept reacted favorably. "They'll atom things in the becloud that their sons or daughters or sisters or brothers accept announced about," he says. "It brings it to life; it makes it real. It can get absolutely affecting for people."
The Party, produced by The Guardian newspaper, is notable for its close chat as its boyish advocate copes with her aloof ancestors and ancestors friends. The action was the abstraction of novelist Lucy Hawking, babe of the backward physicist Stephen Hawking; her son, William, is autistic. The calligraphy writer, Sumita Majumdar, is additionally autistic, and the action complex ascribe from autism researchers. "We approved to be accurate to the science, but it was absolutely important that we congenital a lot of the beheld acquaintance of the becloud on what bodies had said," says Owen Parsons, a alum apprentice in Simon Baron-Cohen's lab at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. "Of course, if the science is correct, again those two things should not disagree with anniversary other," Parsons says.
"Having a perceptual experience—that's commodity we haven't been able to do afterwards VR."
The augmented-reality arrangement created by Nagai's aggregation additionally draws heavily on ascribe from bodies with autism. Instead of bottomward you into a administration abundance or abode party, it takes a video augment of wherever you appear to be and transforms it in absolute time to what a actuality with autism ability experience. Whatever affirmation it has for apery autistic acumen rests on a simple principle: Bodies with the action address that their acoustic acquaintance changes with context. "Sometimes I'm in a acceptable condition, and sometimes I'm in a absolute bad condition," says Satsuki Ayaya, an autistic doctoral apprentice at the University of Tokyo who formed with Nagai on the simulator. Ayaya says these fluctuations accomplish her acquainted of what her action involves and how it ability alter from the neurotypical experience. The augmented-reality arrangement seeks to carbon these fluctuations in autistic perception. "There are variations of affection in anniversary individual," says Shin-ichiro Kumagaya, accessory assistant of anesthetic at the University of Tokyo and addition of Nagai's collaborators. "It is the foundation to verify the authority of this system."
In 2014, Nagai showed 22 autistic bodies videos of a alternation station, a bazaar and two dozen added accustomed vignettes. In anniversary of these settings, the participants rated which of 12 beheld furnishings they accomplished and to what degree. The aggregation edited that account bottomward to six decidedly accepted effects: overexposure, blur, added edges, heightened contrast, blush desaturation and beheld snow. Nagai activated the participants' letters with the appearance of anniversary scene, such as brightness, movement and complete level. In the end, she acclimatized on the aftermost three of these beheld furnishings as actuality the best reproducible for her simulation.
Nagai's actor is an bulky contraption: a accepted gaming angle kitted out with a webcam. Cables run to a laptop that a alum apprentice carries in a bung like a newborn. Back I band on the actor on a May day in Osaka, I accept a normal, if hardly lagging, appearance of the allowance about me. As the apprentice switches on the simulator, though, Nagai's face blurs, authoritative her expressions adamantine to read. Turning away, I bound acquisition myself captivated by what appears to be an abstruse Impressionist painting; it turns out to be a gray anteroom partition. I attending at my hand; the creases resemble intricate nut art. The system's acute adverse brings out akin the aboriginal textures.
Led by Nagai, I drag bottomward the anteroom and out into the parking lot. Everything is whited out at first, as if I've taken off my sunglasses on a abundantly ablaze day. Whenever I about-face my arch or a car drives by, blush drains from the image, like applying a noir clarify on Instagram. As we re-enter the building, the brusque concealment unleashes a blast of accidental speckles beyond the arena like so abounding polka dots. The lobby's asperous lighting is exaggerated. Shafts of ablaze alternating with darker regions, giving bodies apparitional outlines.
The simulation is absolutely visual, but Nagai says they accept been recruiting volunteers for a abstraction of complete perception. The aggregation is experimenting with audio furnishings such as white noise; bombinate notes, such as a connected 1000-hertz accomplishments sound; and filters that aish assertive ranges of audio frequencies.
Since 2015, Nagai and her colleagues accept captivated some two dozen workshops in Osaka and Tokyo for teachers, therapists and parents of autistic children, in which they let bodies try the simulator, see clips from it in several accustomed settings, and again altercate it. The advisers additionally awning accepted video documentaries about autism. Ayaya was initially arguable about the action but has back appear around. "It was bigger than I expected," she says. The simulation highlights aspects of her perception, such as the beheld snow, that she had taken for granted, she says. "I was afraid that neurotypical bodies were surprised," she says.
Being fabricated acquainted of these perceptual differences could akin advice bodies with autism advance strategies to compensate. "One of the participants in our abstracts told me that afterwards she aing our agreement she started cutting sunglasses in her circadian life," Nagai says. "Also, she told me she afflicted the lights in her allowance to an LED arrangement so that she can ascendancy the brightness."
Ayaya stresses that akin if the actor succeeds at apery the autistic acoustic experience, it cannot abduction higher-level aspects of perception. "You may see how we see, but what you feel is not consistently the aforementioned as what we feel," she says.
A accessible cardboard on the actor reinforces this point. Kuriko Kagitani-Shimono, a pediatric neurologist at Osaka University, says she showed video clips from the actor to 45 autistic bodies and 46 neurotypical volunteers and acclimated magnetoencephalography to admeasurement their academician responses. The patterns of action did not match. "The absolute acoustic responses of autistic bodies are altered from those of about developed bodies cutting the actor in abounding ways," she says.
Nagai has not approved the arrangement alfresco these workshops, and a YouTube video does not do it justice, so added advisers were clumsy to comment. They say they like the assumption it is based on, however. Parsons says the real-time augment ability accommodate greater adjacency than a scripted film. "You're accepting that acquaintance one footfall closer," he says. New praises Nagai's affiliation with bodies on the spectrum: "Autistic bodies themselves can carbon beheld experiences, and this is absolute atypical and commodity that has not been done before," he says.
Researchers are attractive against broader applications of VR to advice autistic individuals. In September, Nagai captivated a branch for architects and autogenous designers. Open-plan offices and fashionably blatant restaurants assume about affected to annul bodies with autism, and VR systems could be acclimated to sensitize designers. "There could additionally be new admonition for research, for example, in affiliation to how spaces—such as schools, doctors' surgeries—could be advised to bigger reflect the needs of a neurodiverse population," says Sarah Parsons, an autism researcher at the University of Southampton in the U.K. who consulted on "Beholder."
Therapists, too, could use a actor of autistic acumen in their training. Lok has helped to advance simulators for doctors and nurses to convenance their bedside manner, admitting not for autism. He founded a company, Shadow Health, to advertise these basal patients. "They can attending any way; they can complete any way; they can behave any way that the drillmaster wants them to; and you can get actual acknowledgment on how you did," he says.
Clark says the technology could additionally be acclimatized to accommodate a carriageable attentive amplitude for bodies with autism. "This could act as a abode of sanctuary," he says. In one abstruse study, New asked 31 autistic and 13 archetypal students, age-old 6 to 16 years, at four English schools to rank the needs they anticipation VR could fill. The top best in both groups of acceptance was for VR as a agency to relax back they feel overwhelmed. "Their preference, beyond all of those questions, is that [VR] makes them feel airy and calm," New says.
Mundy additionally envisions a multiplayer or 'yoked' beginning archetype in which two participants assignment together. One would be a commuter in the other's experience, so as to see (and apprentice from) how the added reacts. "The apple is no best reacting to your boring and arch turns and things of that nature; it's reacting to somebody else's," Mundy says. "You're seeing the apple and interacting with the apple in a acquiescent way." Autistic and archetypal bodies akin could account from inhabiting addition else's point of view, he says. "Virtual absoluteness has the abeyant to authorize real-time intersubjective experience."
As with added uses of VR in autism assay and therapy, however, there has been a abridgement of analytical evaluation. Participants in Nagai's workshops ample out avenue questionnaires, but Kumagaya says the aggregation has alone aloof amorphous to chase up to see whether the acquaintance has any abiding aftereffect on attitudes against bodies with autism. For now, the alone affirmation that VR succeeds at eliciting affinity is anecdotal.
Many anguish that by assuming alone one attenuated ambit of autism, VR applications may absolutely backfire. Zelić is edgeless about its limitations: "I feel that it is about absurd to back the abyss of autistic acuteness and affect visually because we don't accurate this in accustomed neurotypical ways, and so these types of reconstructions can abatement into a affectionate of parody." A cautionary account comes from schizophrenia research. Over the accomplished two decades, abundant advisers accept developed immersive adventures of psychosis that characterize beheld and audition hallucinations, including antagonistic voices. These simulations can be disturbing to watch. In 2011, a meta-analysis of nine such projects begin that they fabricated the participants more empathic to bodies with schizophrenia but additionally beneath accommodating to collaborate with them.
The Beholder project seeks to present added accepted impressions that accord a fuller faculty of the autistic experience. "I didn't absolutely appetite to be fatigued into addition academic 'how difficult action would be if you had this condition' [situation]," Clark says. "I anticipate there's a abode for that, for sure, but I meant to do commodity different."
Clark, accepted for his all-embracing multimedia installations and date sets, says the action started with an awkward abeyance in chat with Birmingham Accessible Media's founder, Karen Newman. "We were aloof talking about ancestors action and bound accomplished that both Matt's son and my brother are autistic," she says.
The two artists absitively to analyze VR as a accustomed way to acquaint addition modes of perception. Clark began celebratory his son added purposefully, watching for what captivated the boy. "He would accessible the curtains a little bit and aloof abstraction the dust motes, as if it was like a cosmos of stars that were amphibian around," Clark recalls. The brace additionally recruited Zelić and Kruse. Kruse described, amid added things, how back commodity moves through the air, she sees it as admitting it were cartoon out a aisle through space, giving anniversary moment an continued duration. (Others accept additionally appropriate that altered time perception is a appropriate affection of autism.)
The aggregation autonomous to focus on what Clark's son and Zelić acquisition admirable and translated these thoughts into a alternation of attributes scenes, including the one with the erfly. "No one anytime thinks to allocution about autism from this [positive] perspective," Kruse says. "The anecdotal is consistently focused on difficulties, or the strange, maybe affecting differences of the autistic mind." And the vignettes they developed are acute as art, behindhand of what they may or may not say about autism. In one examination arena of Beholder, rain avalanche assimilate the floor, sending out apathetic ripples; in another, leaves abatement acclaim to the ground. In yet another, I was diminished to abrasion size, absent but in awe of behemothic blades of grass acceptable overhead.
This commodity was reprinted with permission from Spectrum, the home of autism assay account and analysis.
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The 4GB USB (works like a normal USB) includes:
* ALL our music, including our latest EP 'BACK BURN'.
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Scholl Concepts 5 1/2" Navy Blue Spider Sandwich Pad
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The Scholl Concepts Navy Blue Spider Pad utilizes an extremely durable tear resistant foam that is Exclusive to Scholl Concepts and not available to any other manufacturer. It is a new generation of intelligent polishing pad which combines the advantages of foam with the cooling features of natural lambswool pads. Its The calibrated three-dimensional surface results in a higher cut and better endurance of abrasive particles. The reticulated foam provides a higher air circulation, is designed to resist tearing, and creates less heat generation when polishing, allowing the speed of the machine to be increased to reduce polishing time. Due to the center hole this foam resists "foam collapse" at its core, allowing use on the new generation long throw dual action machines as well as both traditional D/A and Rotary polishers. Paired with S20 Black and other Scholl Concepts compounds, results are consistently incredible!
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A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH has been issued for the Kansas City region. This is NOT a tornado watch as conditions just aren't favorable for tornadoes for a few reasons, but this doesn't mean there is a zero percent chance of tornadoes. The strongest thunderstorms were forming where it is warmer. Take a look at . . . → Read More: Severe Thunderstorm Watch


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Welcome to the Treasurer's Office
The Treasurer's Office is responsible for the overall fiscal management of the Lorain City Schools. Treasurer Josh Hill reports directly to the Board of Education.
Our mission is to support Lorain City Schools through the strategic management and use of federal, state and local dollars. This responsibility requires the coordination of the District's $98.7 million budget.
Our staff provides financial services needed by our schools, employees and vendors, to monitor and analyze budgetary activity, and provide financial leadership to the district according to state and federal legislation, governmental regulations, Board policies and sound financial practice.
The Treasurer's Office is committed to providing the highest level of fiscal integrity in management and reporting to our students, parents, partners and the community.
Treasurer's Office Resources
Vacant Board of Education Seat Application
Finance Facts - Title I Pool Spending - June 2019
Treasurer's Office ADC Meeting 3-19-2019 Presentation
The Chronicle-Telegram: Lorain Schools' pooling system for funds explained March 21, 2019http://www.chroniclet.com/Local-News/2019/03/21/Lorain-Schools-39-pooling-system-for-funds-explained.html
Ohio Dept. of Education Title I Schoolwide Pooling: Funding Flexibility for High Poverty Districts
Contact Us
Joshua J. HillTreasurer
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Drew has been deeply involved with the Binghampton neighborhoods for more than 14 years. For the past three years, he has strategically focused on the Binghampton area to develop the socio-economic and educational capacity of the area. He has been a board member for both the Binghampton Development Corporation and Service Over Self, both self-sustaining organizations making a difference in the Binghampton community as well as affecting thousands of volunteers' lives by highlighting the brokenness of the city and the need to address the issues of the city thoughtfully.
Drew accepted the position of executive director of Capstone Education Group (CEG) after studying the education needs of the community for the past several years. "We want to work to eliminate injustice and oppression, and I believe that it is unjust for a child to be destined to receive an inadequate education simply for being born in a particular neighborhood. A child born in the inner city of Memphis has a 40 percent chance of dropping out of high school before graduating, and if the child does graduate, he or she will receive a high school education that equates to an eighth-grade education of a suburban student. That is unjust, and I am committed to fighting this issue as the director of Capstone Education Group."
Drew has researched and visited many of the highest-performing urban schools in the country, as well as attending the Building Excellent Schools program in Boston, Massachusetts. Recently, he received a master of arts in education from Union University. He is bringing the best practices from these schools to Cornerstone Prep and Lester Prep, learning from the success of others.
He has a very clear picture of success for a Cornerstone Prep and Lester Prep students. "Our school will be successful when a student graduates from the eighth grade, attends a challenging high school, receives a scholarship to a prestigious university, and then returns to Memphis with a degree to invest his or her life serving this community as a leader in his or her chosen field, seeking to improve the lot of the people of this city."
This exciting and long-term vision motivates Drew to make CEG schools life-changing schools for students, families, and the Binghampton and Frayser communities.
Angie Cramer first joined the Capstone family in 2015 as the Principal of Cornerstone Prep - Lester Campus. She is humbled and ever grateful for this opportunity to be a part of this school community.
Angie was born and raised in a small town outside of St. Louis, Missouri and moved to Memphis just over ten years ago. She and her husband, Steve, are the proud parents of two boys, Tommy and Ben. She is a life-long educator having taught special education in first grade through high school, both first and third grades in general education classes, and has served as the director of children's ministries for a small church before her most recent position as principal.
Angie holds bachelor degrees in Elementary Education (K-5) and Special Education (K-12) from the University of Missouri and a master's degree in Educational Leadership from Christian Brothers University. Four years ago she joined an organization called New Leaders and served as the Resident Principal at Shannon Elementary. She was then named the Principal of Kingsbury Elementary and served there for three years, just before coming to Cornerstone Prep. At Kingsbury she and her team worked hard, seeing awesome results over her three-year stay, closing subgroup gaps by as much as 14% with the ELL population and made double-digit gains in all academic areas. While under Angie's leadership, they were also named a TN Reward School for the past two academic years for being in the top 5% in the state for student growth.
"I have learned that the same type of work has been happening here at Cornerstone Prep and the momentum is building," Angie says. "Cornerstone Prep certainly has a lot to be proud of, and I believe there is a great foundation set here on which we can continue to build together. I believe that the future is bright for Cornerstone Prep and the Binghampton community. I am looking forward to serving alongside each of you, on this journey!"
Alex Wrobel joined the Capstone family in 2013 where he has held a variety of operational roles for CEG. Along with his wife and two sons, he lives in Binghampton and enjoys having students from the Lester campus play basketball in the backyard. Hailing from the Midwest, Alex is a huge Big Ten fan and will always support any team that plays against the SEC. Alex and his wife came to Memphis as a part of the Memphis Teacher Residency where they both earned a Masters in Urban Education. As an undergraduate, Alex studied chemistry and chemical engineering at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, MI. "I see the inequality in urban education as the greatest social justice issue of my time. I came to Memphis to be a part of the solution." At CEG Alex works to ensure that systems are effective and they meet the needs of our leaders, teachers, and students. "I want to give our schools the support they need so they can provide our students with the world-class education they deserve."
Muna Olaniyi is from Washington DC and brings over 13 years of experience in education. She comes to Memphis by way of her husband who works as a Computer Engineer for a local company. Muna began her work with Capstone Education Group at Cornerstone Prep Lester Campus, where she coached teachers in grades K-5 in literacy instruction, created an after-school tutoring program for grades 3-5 and developed an incentives program for scholars who were proficient on weekly assessments. She was quickly offered the opportunity to build the second school, Lester Prep Middle School. She assisted with hiring the leaders and founding teachers of Lester Prep and co-authored the Instructional Blueprint. This Blueprint now serves as the instructional framework for all three schools. As the Director of Academic Achievement, she wears many hats. Her primary role is to work with leaders to ensure that the instructional expectations as indicated through curriculum and assessments are lived throughout the school.
Muna holds a bachelor's degree in Elementary Education with a minor in English from the University of Maryland. She also holds a Master's Degree from McDaniel College in Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Leadership. Before working at Capstone Education Group, she worked for the District of Columbia Public School District. She was a classroom teacher of grades 3-6, RTI Coordinator, Instructional Coach, Instructional Specialist, and Mary Patterson Fellows Candidate. She has won awards such as Teacher of the Year and Highly Effective Educator, three years in a row.
She comes to Memphis with a wealth of knowledge and is excited to continue the work that drives the CEG mission "equip all students with the wisdom and knowledge necessary to succeed in college and to become leaders in their community."
Donna Brigham joined the Capstone Education Group family in 2016 as the Director of Special Education. She brings 27 years of educational experience in both general education and special education. She spent 19 years in the classroom as a teacher and five years in leadership as Director of Special Education at a local private school. Donna had a strong desire to work in urban education to make a difference and impact students in the Binghampton/Frayser community. She has been serving the community for three years and loves working alongside other faculty and staff.
Donna holds a bachelor degree in Elementary Education (K-8) and a Master's Degree from Union University. She is has been married for 25 years and has raised two daughters in Memphis, TN. She loves to travel and spend time with her family, gardening and reading.
She has served on the Board of Directors for Learning Disabilities of America, a national organization that focuses on providing support for parents, adult, and students with learning differences. She has advocated on Capitol Hill in Washington DC, for Safer Chemicals through the Healthy Children's Coalition.
While the work is hard, it is rewarding to see students persevere and reach their goals to equip them to be successful in whatever endeavor they choose. Your zip code does not define your future. Each student has the potential to go to college and be a successful member of their community.
Patricia Burns became the assistant director of community and family relations at Cornerstone Preparatory School in February 2013, before becoming the manager of operations for a season. Now, she is our manager of information and business systems. She previously served as Lester community liaison for Christ Community Health Services from October 2000 through February 2013. Patricia provided reading intervention, taught character education, led a Girl Scout Troop, conducted an after-school Bible club, took students to summer camps and led a summer Vacation Bible School in the Binghampton community. She brings a wealth of experience and community knowledge to Cornerstone Prep.
"My desire for the students in Binghampton has not changed in these 13 years: to receive the quality education that every child deserves, without regard to his or her ZIP code". Patricia earned a bachelor of arts degree in human development and learning from Christian Brothers University in Memphis, and a certificate in biblical studies from Covenant College in Coventry, England.


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When going into a divorce, many people are hoping to have the proceedings finished with as little trouble as possible. While the situation may naturally bring out some negative emotions, couples going through a mutually agreed upon divorce, in Massachusetts as well as elsewhere, are sometimes able to put aside their feelings and finalize their divorce with few problems. For these individuals, an option such as settling their divorce through mediation may be a way to avoid a lengthy trial. Others, however, perhaps because of complex financial problems or personal reasons, are not able to settle their divorce quickly.
The latter appears to be the case between actors Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher, who announced they intended to end the marriage nearly two years ago. The main dispute between the two appears to surround a $10 million portion of A-Grade Investments, a venture capital fund created in part by Kutcher while the two were married.
According to lawyers for Moore, she is entitled to half of Kutchers $20 million share in the company. Lawyers for Kutcher argued that he has made a substantial amount of money in the time since the two split up, income which he feels he does not owe her. While the two remain in debate about the sum, the prospects of their divorce finalizing soon do not seem high.
However, given the sums involved, this may not come as a surprise. According to some reports, their divorce may be one of the most expensive celebrity divorces in the history of show business.
Situations like this are not reserved only for celebrities. When a couple is seeking a divorce, regardless of the amount of their assets, they can oftentimes find themselves in heated debate over who is entitled to what income or property. While it may be possible for some couples to come to an agreeable divorce settlement through mediation, others may need to bring their case to a trial.
Source: Huffington Post, "Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore's $10 Million Battle Drags Our Divorce," May 16, 2013


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For most people, the big advantage of subscription boxes is the fun factor. Experts who spoke with LearnVest about the psychology behind subscription boxes say people enjoy the suspense of looking forward to each month's box and wondering what it will contain. As addiction expert Amanda Dorman explains, "Waiting for that box each month – not knowing what it is, but knowing it's coming – creates an adrenaline rush." It's like getting a birthday gift every month.
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Last week, I started with the primary research phase of the project and interviewed few people about their found consumption habit. This first set of users were my colleagues at the SVA IxD program (first year) who had little or no context about the project as such. During the conversation, I asked them to talk about how they go about the process of planning, purchasing and cooking food and then probed deeper to find out the motivations that influenced their behavior at each stage. Next, I asked them to take a moment and think of the last time they cleaned their fridge at home (or items in their fridge right now) and talk about their motivation of buying those items and if they actually consumed it as they thought they would, what are things they think might be too old to consume, how do they decide what to do with old food items stored in fridge.
Some of the key things that stood out for all the three participants were:
- Time is the key factors that influences decisions regarding food (at all stages)
- Family/ Partners/ Roommates have a strong influence on how people perceive food
- Individual's cooking skills and interest are key drivers for peoples' behavior & choices wrt to food consumption
Here's a detailed look at my interview notes:
Participant #1
Participant #2
Since, we couldn't do an ethnographic interview, David sent me a few pictures of his fridge contents to help me better understand the context of our conversation.
Participant #3
For kohzy, it was easier to sketch and explain me all the food items he had in the fridge and talk about his purchase, storage, consumption and disposal behavior. Here is a sneak peak of the sketching+interview exercise with Kohzy:
I'm still in the process of continuing my research and gather more insights that can drive my design direction. For the next part of this research, I'm focussing on ethnographic research in people's homes. If you're someone who might be interested please leave a note and I'll get in touch with you. Thank you.


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Written by Tom Brooks, Director of Food & Beverage at The Essex, Vermont's Culinary Resort & Spa
Julia Roberts' latest, Eat Pray Love, arrives in theaters today, which means people the world over will be re-discovering their love for authentic Italian food. I, for one, have never lost my love for Italian cuisine, and thanks to my parents I know I never will.
It all started several years ago, when my mom asked me for a simple dish with authentic Italian flavors that she could share with her St. Francis of Assisi church group. I put together a recipe for a very easy mint-almond pesto, and it was an instant hit. She used it in her tomato, mozzarella, & black olive salad, and she still makes it every week for the group, which studies the life and teachings of St. Francis. Three years ago, the group went on a pilgrimage to the actual Italian town of Assisi, and my parents took the opportunity to renew their vows on the trip, which coincided with their 53rd anniversary.
So, as it turns out, this mint-almond pesto recipe is a little bit 'eat', a little bit 'pray', and a lot 'love', and it makes it that much more special. I can't eat it without thinking of my loving parents.
The recipe is about as Italian as you can get, and it really is remarkably simple. You can use it on everything from, yes, a mozzarella, tomato & black olive salad, to a plate of fresh pasta, and even as a lovely topping for a grilled rack of lamb.
Buon Appetito and enjoy!
Mint-Almond Pesto
2 big bunches of mint
3 cloves of garlic
¼ cup grated parmesan cheese
1 cup toasted almonds
1-2 lemons to taste
½ cup extra virgin olive oil
Wash the mint very well and cut off the ends of the woody mint stems. Put the mint, garlic, parmesan, and almonds into a food processor and pulse until smooth. Squeeze in the juice of the lemons to taste and add the olive oil. Salt and pepper to taste. It's just that simple.
This can be frozen, if you want to make some ahead of time– just omit the parmesan cheese until you're ready to eat the pesto.


text: The UO student organization LiveMove is sponsoring a speaker series titled "Movers and Shakers: Connecting People and Places." The upcoming speaker, Mia Birk, will be at the Oregon Electric Station on Thursday and it should pretty interesting. If the "Transportation ReMix" event that was held there back in October is any indication, it may be standing room only–so be sure to get there for the "social hour" to grab a good seat. Though we all know Eugene was way ahead of the curve when it comes to biking, we still have things to learn from how quickly Portland has taken progressive steps to get more people biking more often. Here's information from LiveMove about the event: