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Editorial
T
oo often the minister of a
church that is filled to
capacity with members of
his or her congregation
preaches to empty pews of
fully dressed people. They
are there to touch their God through
osmosis. It is because, more often than not,
people who are so tuned in to today’s social
and economic issues are turned off from the
banality of spent solutions. They know full
well that man solves human problems
through greed and human selectivity.
During the Middle Ages, the church,
in addition to being the personal representative of God, was also the inured of social,
economic, and political policies for the
state. In other words, the church made
policy on just about everything. It also enforced those policies and punished all those
who broke or disobeyed those policies—in
the name of God.
Today, long after America, through its
Constitution, separated the church from the
state, some religious leaders are now trying
to define the pericap of their interpretation
of religious biases, not from the Bible, but
from images and viewpoints.
Churches are the panacea for nothing.
They are here on earth to do the bidding for
the madras of voices who speak with their
hands and not their voices. Churches need
to teach pantheism and not the percussions
of regional folklore according to the world
of reincarnation of the Middle Ages.
Churches are responsible for informing refulgence of God’s work, not the
regicide of his word.
Religion is becoming as confusing as
politics. Churches have gotten to be a rhinoceros of dictums, fauceting apocalyptic
religious apoplexy, stopping only for a TV
commercial or an Amen. People now leave
their peace of mind on the sidewalk just
prior to ascending the steps to God’s house.
Churches are now more diversified
and prolific than talk shows. If you flip
enough channels on your TV, you are bound
to find your religious refuge. God’s emissaries promenade their words more as
threats than encouragement to do God’s
work. More often than not, after the service,
as you descend the last step leading away
from the church, the first thing you pick up,
creased against the step and sidewalk, is
your mind . . . wishing it were possible to
exchange your dry mind for dry clothing.
In most cases most men have a private
reserve in their souls where only they can
visit. It is chiseled out with mind-thoughts
of a private god and a religious soul that
only pass through churches and other
religious places on the way to their personal
sanctuary.
Western women and men are more
literate about religion. They understand that
the war is good against evil—not religion
against religion. There is no emeritus of
religion.
More wars are being fought today in
the name of religion than politics. Just look
around us in Europe, South America,
Africa, India, and other places—ALL in the
name of God. In America the abortion issue
is a religious issue. No middle-class white
man or others will be allowed to show Saint
Peter his or her color photo of being hogtied and carted off to jail as being
credentialized for admittance to the other
side of the pearly gates. The number of
arrests do not constitute a winning entrylevel cribbage game.
Religion has become more divisive
than it is healing. Religion now, in some
cases, desecrates the intent of God in the
name of God. People are confused. Cultism
is now replacing established religions all
over the world as alternatives. Some of these
extreme groups seek to redefine society in
the name of desultory religious correctness.
There is no doubt that for some, their
eyes are imaging a perverse kind of
religious deus ex machina; God can be
realized simply by the on and off switch of
living color on your television set.
Of course, the solutions to the mixed
signals the different religious sects are sending their assemblages must be fixed by the
church. One of the correct things about our
government is that it does not want nor try
to interfere with the church.
Churches, like any other element of
society, have a right to protest. The church
does not have the right, in my opinion, to be
God, nor to determine issues that are better
resolved by individuals or the state.
Churches should be places to prepare
souls for God and not minds for war. The
churches in America, up until recently, were
collectively on the side of right. Perhaps we
have reached a world state where religion is
too important to be left for the church—and
individuals must build churches in their
minds and not their communities . . .
PDD
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October 19, 2007
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AROUND THE NATION
October 19, 2007
HUD AWARDS GRANTS
TO FIGHT HOUSING DISCRIMINATION
50 MILLION POUND CHALLENGE
Debra R. Collins
D
r. Ian Smith’s 50 Million Pound
Challenge is rallying Oaklanders to take control of their
health and give up the pounds to fight
the epidemic of excess weight taking so
many lives across the community.
Backed by African-American leaders
and sponsored by State Farm®, The
Challenge is in Oakland on the 13th
stop of its national kickoff tour, helping
people get fit, lose weight and save lives
with free tips, tools and now Challenge
Teams. One of the most far-reaching
initiatives of its kind, The Challenge is
an historic campaign by the AfricanAmerican community that has taken on
234,194 participants in its first six
months and taken off 848,672 pounds.
To encourage Oaklanders to make
healthier lifestyle choices, a star-studded cast joins Dr. Ian on Saturday, Oct.
20 for a free afternoon of music, fitness
and fun at Oakland’s Lake Merritt. Ap-
pearing are Grammy-nominated gospel
singer Kelly Price, R&B singer Raheem
DeVaughn, rapper Slick Rick and DJ
Biz Markie. Golden State Warriors
point guard Baron Davis will also be on
hand to sign autographs. Along with the
live entertainment, attendees can get
free health screenings, learn more about
The Challenge, sign up for the initiative, start or join one of 2,240 new Challenge Teams, and accompany Dr. Ian on
a Challenge walk. They can also take
free eshots photos to keep as “before”
shots to show their progress “after”
reaching their weight-loss goals.
Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums is
also encouraging city residents to take
control of their health. “The health and
vitality of our residents is essential to
the future of our City’s overall prosperity,” said Mayor Dellums. “By collectively addressing the health disparities stemming from excess weight, we
will advance a vital area of our Model
City agenda.” Residents are encouraged to visit 50millionpounds.com to
join Team Oakland and start tracking
their progress together.
“Too many people are dying too
young, too early from preventable
weight-related illnesses,” said Dr. Ian.
“We face an epidemic that affects all
Americans, especially the AfricanAmerican community where lives are
being cut five years shorter than the
US average. The good news is people
are listening to our vow to ‘give up the
pounds, not the fight.’ They’re signing
on and teaming up to take control of
their health. We gained the weight together; we can lose it together. We can
reverse these trends and turn the epi-
NRT LLC AND NCRC RENEW
PARTNERSHIP TO PROMOTE
FAIR HOUSING PRACTICES NATIONWIDE
T
he National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC)
and NRT LLC, the nation’s
largest residential real estate brokerage, today announced an expansion of
their strategic alliance to promote best
fair housing practices to real estate
sales associates and consumers in more
than 35 major metropolitan areas
where NRT operates. At the core of the
agreement is the belief that championing fair housing best practices not
only strengthens communities, it also
makes good business sense.
The new three-year agreement is an
extension of a partnership that began in
May 2006. As part of that agreement,
NCRC and NRT collaborated to design
and roll out fair housing training across
NRT’s national family of companies,
and reviewed and assessed NRT’s fair
housing policies and practices to reinforce equal professional service to all
consumers.
Building on the educational focus
of the initial agreement, the new agreement identifies strategies for furthering
its goal of equal housing opportunity,
including community outreach plans,
public information campaigns as well
as continuing to incorporate fair housing principles in the company’s day-today operations.
To date, more than 54,000 of NRT’s
59,000 sales associates from approximately 1,000 offices across the country
have completed the training, which is
now a mandatory component of orientation for newly hired associates. In
addition, during the initial agreement,
NRT developed a Fair Housing Policies and Practice Manual for sales associates to promote equal and profes-
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sional service to consumers in all channels of NRT’s real estate brokerage
business.
“Our new agreement is a partnership in the truest sense of the word,”
said Judy Reeves, executive vice president and COO for NRT LLC.
“NCRC’s long history as an advocate and expert in the area of fair housing, combined with NRT’s coast to
coast presence in major metropolitan
areas, gives us the ability to reach into
these areas and underscore important
messages. No other partnership within
the real estate industry can do that.”
“NRT’s ongoing commitment to
fair housing makes it a best practices
leader in the real estate industry,” said
John Taylor, President and CEO of
NCRC. “NRT’s collaboration with
NCRC in our National Fair Housing
Best Practice Campaign significantly
reinforces our goal that every home
seeker who visits an NRT affiliated office can expect equal professional
service and work with a real estate professional who celebrates equal housing
opportunity so that they may live in the
neighborhood of their choice.”
The National Community Reinvestment Coalition is an association of
nearly 600 community based institutions that promote access to credit to
create and sustain affordable housing
and viable communities for America’s
working families. NCRC established
its National Best Practices Campaign
to celebrate voluntary compliance initiatives between NCRC and real estate
brokerage
companies,
housing
providers, lenders, mortgage insurers,
securitizers and appraisers throughout
the nation.
demic of excess weight into a culture
of healthy living. Take the Challenge.
It’s free. It’s fun. The reward is worth
the weight—it can save your life, and
you’ll look and feel great!”
A new study in the New England
Journal of Medicine finds close friends
and family set a powerful example for
each other-they gain weight together
but can also lose it together. The Challenge aims to reach its 50 million
pound goal by making it easier for millions to fight the epidemic of excess
weight threatening half all Americans.
Today, 135 million Americans and two
in three adults are overweight, double
the rate a few decades ago. Each
week, 10,000 die from heart disease,
stroke, diabetes, cancer and other illnesses tied to inactivity and diet. The
African-American community is especially hard hit: 80% of women and
67% of men face higher risk, and life
expectancy is five years below the US
average. To fight back, The Challenge
has enlisted leaders across the community, national civic and health organizations like the American Diabetes Association, Congressional Black Caucus
Foundation, 100 Black Men of America, National Urban League and American Council on Exercise, and is hosting a 14-city kick-off tour to call
attention to the issue.
Challenge champion and gospel/
soul star Kelly Price said: “Life is a
gift God gave us. We need to guard it
well, because it can go away too
quickly. The Challenge is a welcome
alarm telling us it’s time to take control
of our health. Losing weight and getting fit is never easy. It takes determination and faith to climb the mountain.
The Challenge gives us a guide to get
to our destination. The view from the
top makes it all worthwhile.”
Signing up for The Challenge
is easy. Anyone can join at
50millionpounds.com, an online community and go-to resource that tallies
the total pounds lost by everyone taking The Challenge. Free tips and tools
make it easier to get fit and reach your
healthy weight-there’s even a private
personal weight tracker to help measure your progress. Free Challenge kits
have a CD and brochure from Dr. Ian,
menu and fitness advice and a pedometer to count steps.
The Challenge is serious about
helping people get healthy and reaching the one million pound milestone by
the end of the kick-off tour Nov. 24.
As an incentive, it’s giving participants
who update their online weight trackers or get others to join a chance to win
a free trip to the State Farm Bayou
Classic in New Orleans-the tour’s
final stop. For more details, go to
50millionpounds.com.
BLACK FACT
On October 19,
1960, Martin Luther
King, Jr., was
arrested in Atlanta
at a sit-in and was
ordered to serve
four months in the
Georgia State
Prison for violating
a probated traffic
sentence.
T
he Department of Housing and
Urban Development today
awarded 88 grants totaling
$17.1 million to recipients in 37 states
and the District of Columbia to help
fight housing discrimination.
Additionally, HUD awarded $1
million to New America Media, a division of Pacific News Service, to develop the Department’s first coordinated national media campaign to
educate the public about discriminatory lending. New America Media
has engaged the creative team of Impact Strategies, LLC, and Equals Three
Communications to produce television, radio, and print advertisements.
“Last year there were a record
10,328 housing discrimination complaints filed with HUD and its state
and local partners,” said Kim
Kendrick, HUD’s Assistant Secretary
for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity. “These grants will allow us to
continue with efforts to educate the
public and the housing industry about
their rights and responsibilities under
the Fair Housing Act.”
“The national media campaign that
we will develop is also very important.
Without the campaign, we believe that
the consequences of discriminatory
lending will not only continue, but
may escalate.”
The grants, funded through HUD’s
Fair Housing Initiatives Program, will
be used to investigate allegations of
housing discrimination, educate the
public and the housing industry about
their rights and responsibilities under
the Fair Housing Act, and work to promote equal housing opportunities.
For the first time in the history of
the Fair Housing Initiatives Program,
an organization in the state of West Vir-
ginia received a grant. The Northern
West Virginia Center for Independent
Living will use its grant to conduct fair
housing education and outreach activities throughout the state.
Thirty-Nine of HUD’s more than
100 FHIP agencies are high performers
and will receive multi-year funding.
Multi-year funding allows groups that
maintain excellent performance ratings
to continue their activities without interruption. Groups that are not in this
category are required to submit requests for funding each year.
One of the first-time recipients of a
performance-based grant is Access
Living of Metropolitan Chicago. Part
of the Department’s national effort to
reduce discrimination against persons
with disabilities, Access Living will
use the grant to conduct a range of fair
housing enforcement activities.
This year’s grants were awarded
under one of two initiatives:
• Private Enforcement Initiative
grants (PEI)—HUD awarded $14
million to help groups investigate
alleged housing discrimination, and
enforce the Fair Housing Act and
state and local laws that are substantially equivalent to the Act.
• Education and Outreach Initiative
grants (EOI)—HUD awarded $3.1
million to groups that educate the
public and housing providers about
their rights and obligations under
federal, state, and local fair housing
laws.
Victims of housing discrimination
should contact HUD at 1-800-6699777 (voice), 800-927-9275 (TTY).
Additional information is available at
www. hud.gov/fairhousing.
HONORING OUR TROOPS:
TAMPA’S POSTCARDS FROM HOME
I
n support of the American
Troops, PostcardMania announced today that for the
second year in a row that they have
donated the design and printing of
Holiday Greetings postcards for
America soldiers deployed overseas in coordination with US
103.5’s “Postcards From Home”
Tampa Bay program.
“Postcards From Home”, sponsored by US 103.5 and radio personality Skip Mahaffey, has been
instrumental in sending out over 150,000 holiday postcards from listeners to
troops overseas over the past seven years. This year PostcardMania raised its
contribution to 75,000 postcards—25, 000 more than last year.
According to About.com there are over 170,000 American Troops in Iraq.
Since the majority of them will not be home this holiday season, US103.5 is
encouraging Tampa Bay citizens to relay encouragement and gratitude by
sending a personal note to these soldiers via a postcard. The 75,000 postcards
PostcardMania printed are a series of holiday designs that are blank on the
back side for Tampa Bay citizens to write their messages.
“Over the years we’ve heard from military personnel all over the world
who have told us that these postcards helped them through a very lonely holiday season,” said Skip Mahaffey. “PostcardMania has been the first and only
direct mail firm to step up to the plate and offer to help.”
Schools, churches, retirement homes, business and other organizations
should contact US 103.5 to reserve postcards in the quantities they need by
calling 813 832 1444. After crafting holiday messages of thanks and gratitude, the postcards should then be dropped off to any Buddy’s Home Furnishings location no later that mid-November to ensure all the postcards will
arrive to the American Troops overseas in time for the Holidays.
“This is a great thing that US 103.5 is doing,” said Joy Gendusa, CEO of
PostcardMania; “The genuine gratitude shown to the men and women that are
far away from home and missing their families means a lot.”
Tampa Bay citizens can also tune into US 103.5 or call into PostcardMania
at 800-628-1804 for more information about the program and ideas on how they
can get involved. For more information, visit www.postcardmania.com .
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AFRICA UPDATE
October 19, 2007
NIGERIANS TRY TO DAMPEN POLIO FEARS
CHAD STATE OF EMERGENCY IMPOSED
The army has been battling various
rebellions for years
A
state of emergency has been
imposed on three regions in
Chad after ethnic clashes resulted in at least 20 deaths. Restrictions will be in place for 12 days in the
eastern regions of Ouaddai and Wadi
Fira and the northern region of
Borkou, Ennedi and Tibesti.
Earlier, the EU approved the sending of 3,000 peacekeepers to the
region.
The ethnic violence has been inflamed by a four-year conflict across
the border in Darfur. This has seen
more than 200,000 Sudanese flee into
Chad.
The Zaghawa tribe, to which
Chad’s President Idriss Deby belongs,
accuses the Sudanese government of
supporting members of the rival Tama
tribe.
Tensions between the Zaghawa and
the Tama have been high for many
years. Hopes of an end to the violence
were raised recently when former
Tama rebel leader Mahamat Nour
joined President Deby’s government as
defense minister. But Mr. Nour is now
accusing the Zaghawas of starting the
fresh round of violence.
“Nobody can accept seeing their
relatives massacred before their eyes,”
Mr. Nour said on national radio. “The
Tama problem is a real problem, people are dying in their hundreds. All
they had as cattle has been rustled.”
The ongoing instability in the region prompted the EU on Monday to
authorize the establishment of a 3,000strong, UN-backed peacekeeping force
to maintain order.
“The Council decided that the EU
will conduct a bridging military operation in Eastern Chad and North Eastern
Central African Republic (Eufor
TCHAD/RCA) in the framework of
the European security and defense policy,” said the EU Council.
The EU force will be made up predominantly of French troops and is expected to start its deployment in November.
The head of the operation will be an
Irish general based in Paris, whereas
troops on the ground will be headed by
a French general.
BASHIR HOLDS S SUDAN CRISIS TALKS
Southerners are frustrated over delays in
implementing the deal
S
udan’s president has met a delegation from south Sudan’s exrebel movement for the first time
since they withdrew their ministers
from the government. Omar al-Bashir
kept the delegation waiting for two
days before hearing their demands for
a cabinet reshuffle.
A BBC correspondent says some
have interpreted the delay as a snub,
but south Sudan Vice-President Riak
Machar said the meeting had been
“cordial”. He said that Mr Bashir
agreed to meet south Sudan’s leader on
Wednesday.
At the same time, Egypt has announced it will mediate between the
two sides. Egyptian Foreign Minister
Ahmad Abou el-Ghait has said he will
visit Sudan on Wednesday for talks in
Khartoum and the southern capital,
Juba. There have been fears that the
withdrawal could jeopardise the 2005
deal that ended the 21-year north-south
civil war.
The Sudan People’s Liberation
Movement (SPLM) wants President
Bashir to accept a reshuffle of ministerial posts and also wants the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA),
signed in 2005, to be fully imple-
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mented.
Under the deal, the SPLM controls
the southern regional government and
participates in the national government
in Khartoum.
The BBC’s Amber Henshaw in the
capital, Khartoum, says Mr Machar
handed a letter with the SPLM’s requests to Mr Bashir on Sunday.
Some have interpreted the two-day
delay as a snub, but our correspondent
says this is not what the SPLM is saying publicly.
Mr Machar said it was agreed that
south Sudan President Salva Kiir
would meet Mr Bashir later this week.
“The two leaders will meet soon to discuss the outstanding issues and resolve
the crises between the parties triggered
by the non-implementation of the CPA
and violation of the spirit and equal
partnership between the two parties,”
Mr Machar said. “Issues of non-implementation of the CPA we have
given a time limit of 9 Jan - this will be
the third anniversary of the CPA but I
believe this can be resolved in a very
short time.”
Mr Machar told the BBC the parts
of the CPA that had not been implemented included:
• The redeployment of northern
troops from the south, especially
from Unity and Upper Nile states
• Issues of oil management and marketing
• The final border demarcation which
means the division of oil wealth
cannot be completed
• Issues to pave the way for a census
in 2011, when the south could decide to split from the north.
A
minu Ahmed Tudun-Wada
idolizes England football
striker Michael Owen. Sitting
with friends in Kano, northern Nigeria’s largest city, he says, “With those
legs, he can do anything!” Aminu’s
own legs lie crossed and shriveled underneath him, all feeling taken by
polio. It pains him that children in
Nigeria are still catching the disease
that crippled him at the age of three.
But polio did not stop Aminu from
following his football dreams. At 47,
he is the coach of the Kano Para-Soccer team, a 14-strong squad made up of
polio sufferers. They play by swatting
the ball with their hands and scoot
around on roller skates fixed to planks.
Aminu proudly says, “Our captain
Awolo is known as ‘the director’, he
models himself on David Beckham!”
They have won three trophies, and
competed in the Para-African Nation’s
cup last year.
Aminu, a welder and carpenter who
runs a workshop with other poliostruck artisans, accompanies immunization teams organized by a partnership of the World Health Organization
(WHO), the Nigerian government, the
American Center for Disease Control,
children’s charity Unicef and the charity Rotary International.
“If the parents refuse,” Aminu says,
“I go in and say, ‘Do you want your
children to end up like me?’ They usually change their minds.”
He is part of a scheme to improve
inoculation in northern Nigeria after a
year-long boycott of vaccinations saw
the numbers of new cases explode.
In 1990, health experts said eradicating polio, the paralyzing virus
spread by sewage-infected water, was
possible within 15 years. But in 2003,
the Kano State government backed Is-
lamic clerics who said they believed
vaccinations were a plot to make Muslim women infertile.
Almost immediately cases emerged
in neighboring countries thought to be
free of polio.
The authorities, with the help of
people like Aminu, have regained the
trust of some of the population. This
year, new cases of the wild polio virus
dropped considerably.
By August only 198 cases were
recorded across 21 states. For the same
period in 2006, there were 945 cases
recorded in 18 states. But now these
achievements are under threat.
A new strain has emerged: it is a
rare, mutated form of the virus, which
comes from the vaccine. At least 69
children have been infected between
2006 and 2007, by this vaccine derived
polio virus or VDPV.
Experts at the WHO say the boycott
caused this problem. Not enough people
have been vaccinated and are vulnerable to the new mutated strain. At a conference in Washington in September the
WHO said people must be informed of
the new risks and persuaded to immunize their children. But the Kano State
government is trying to prevent the public from finding out about it.
The state commissioner for health,
Aisha Isyaku Kiru, said many people
are illiterate and do not trust medicine.
They refused to release any more details about the outbreak other than saying
it is thought to come from one source and
39 cases are in Kano city itself.
“If it comes out,” she said, “and
people believe the vaccine causes the
virus and can even infect other people,
do you think that they will go and get
vaccinated again? They will not. They
will not do as they should and go and
clean their environment, they will
Kano’s Para-Soccer team have won three
trophies
blame the vaccine.”
The vaccine is given to children in
a little drop on the tongue. It passes
through the gut and can be picked up
by people who come into contact with
sewage infected water.
In countries with successful inoculation programs this is not harmful, but according to the WHO, two years ago the
virus mutated in a blocked sewer or pit
latrine and regained its virulent nature.
The Kano government says it is investigating how and where the outbreak started, but says the investigation will take months. This is the
biggest such outbreak the world has
yet seen.
Dr Ameen Al-Deen Abubakar, a
cleric who supported the boycott before being convinced by the WHO the
vaccine was safe, said the state government was mostly responsible for the
problems it faced.
“We should thank our foreign
friends for coming to help,” he said.
“But we should ask, where is our government in all this? If this came about
because of unsanitary conditions, isn’t
that the government’s responsibility?”
ZIMBABWE DISMISSES BOYCOTT THREAT
U
K Prime Minister Gordon
Brown is “not qualified” to
talk about human rights, Zimbabwe’s
Information
Minister
Sikhanyiso Ndlovu has said.
Mr. Ndlovu also insisted Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe
would attend an EU-Africa summit in
December that Mr. Brown has threatened to boycott.
In an interview with Portuguese
radio, he encouraged EU countries to
oppose Mr. Brown’s position. Portugal
will host the first EU-Africa summit in
seven years.
As holder of the rotating EU presidency, it has indicated that it will invite
Mr. Mugabe to the summit. In his
comments on Monday, Mr. Ndlovu
said Mr. Brown had no right to lecture
Zimbabwe when he himself was “running away” with power by taking over
from Tony Blair without an election.
“Other EU countries should tell Gor-
don Brown to shut up,” Mr. Ndlovu
said in a telephone interview with Portugal’s Renascenca radio station. Gordon Brown is not even qualified to talk
to us on human rights and as you can
see he failed his own country’s internal
democracy in Britain,” he said.
Mr. Ndlovu also said Europe had
no right to accuse Zimbabwe of human
rights abuses. “European countries are
not clean, they are not clean at all,” he
said.
Mr. Ndlovu complained that when
Zimbabwe won its independence from
Britain, people were imprisoned and
land was taken away. “Where were all
these countries (then) who are in the
EU, who are clamoring for human
rights?” he said.
He reiterated that Mr. Mugabe
plans to attend the summit. “Our president will be at the summit,” Mr.
Ndlovu said. “No one can stand between Portugal and inviting heads of
state from the African Union and Euro-
Mr. Mugabe face an EU travel ban and
sanctions
pean Union,” he said.
Portuguese Prime Minister Jose
Socrates told European politicians visiting Lisbon on Monday that the summit would deal with human rights and
governance.
Critics charge 83-year-old Mr. Mugabe of bringing his country’s economy to the brink of collapse and committing human rights abuses. He faces
a travel ban in Europe and his regime
is subject to EU sanctions.
Some 1.5 million people died in
Sudan’s conflict—Africa’s longest
civil war—which pitted the mainly
Muslim north against the Animist and
Christian south before the CPA was
agreed. There are currently 10,000 UN
peacekeepers in southern Sudan.
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AROUND THE REGION
October 19, 2007
2007 SOLAR
DECATHLON
The University of Maryland’s house is naturally lit through a translucent polycarbonate
ridge skylight that runs the length of the house and the roof of the house features a custom
made, flexible aluminum racking system designed to support solar electric and solar
thermal arrays Top photo shows outside of house; bottom photo shows inside of house
during construction (photo credit: Kaye Evans-Lutterodt/Solar Decathlon)
T
he Solar Decathlon is a competition in which 20 teams of college and university students
compete to design, build, and operate
the most attractive, effective, and energy-efficient solar-powered house.
The Solar Decathlon is also an event to
which the public is invited to observe
TOUR DE CHAMPAGNE DC
T
his fall, Washington DC
welcomes the ninth annual Tour
de Champagne at La Maison
Française on Saturday, November 3.
Featuring more than 20 prestigious
brands of Champagne along with cuisine from some of the city’s most talented chefs, Tour de Champagne provides yet another reason to celebrate the
most delightful fruits of France. Guests
will also enjoy live music and will have
a chance to win a trip for two to Paris, compliments of Air France—ooh la la!
The evening ends with a fin de soirée where guests will continue to mingle,
sip more champagne and enjoy a late-night snifter of Cognac. For VIP ticket
holders the fin de soirée includes an exclusive Tête de Cuvée and dessert buffet.
For the past eight years, Tour de Champagne has been delighting Washington DC oenophiles with its annual celebration of the wines of France’s
finest Champagne houses. In 2007 and 2008, the event will tour the United
States. During the DC stop, guests will be able to experience various labels
paired with cuisine from local renowned chefs.
Restaurants participating in Tour de Champagne DC include Café 15,
Citronelle, Evening Star Café, Galileo, PS 7’s, Tabaq Bistro, Urbana and Café
Bonaparte. Bringing chefs and sommeliers together from these select restaurants promises to be the culinary treat of the year.
Tour de Champagne will take place on Saturday, November 3 from 7 to
10p.m. Fin de soirée will be from 9:30pm to midnight. Dress—cocktail
attire/black tie optional. The tickets for Limited General Admission are $125
and include tastes of the excellent champagnes, samples from the city’s finest
restaurants and a silent auction. The tickets for Extremely Limited VIP entrance are $150. The VIP tickets include admission to the main soirée from 7
to 10p.m. at La Maison Française, and to a special “Fin de soirée” from
9:30pm to midnight at a luxury hotel downtown. All Tour de Champagne attendees must be 21 and older.
For more information contact [email protected] or
www.tourdechampagne.com/washington.html
La Maison Française/Embassy of France is located at 4101 Reservoir
Road, NW, Washington, DC; 202-944-6090.
Tour de Champagne pairs with a local non-profit organization, hosting a
silent auction during the event. The DC Tour de Champagne benefits the
French American Cultural Foundation.
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the powerful combination of solar energy, energy efficiency, and the best in
home design.
The event takes place on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., October 12–20. The team houses are open
for touring everyday, except Wednesday, October 17, when they will close
for competition purposes. An overall
winner is announced on Friday, October 19 at 2p.m.
Teams of college students design a
solar house, knowing from the outset
that it must be powered entirely by the
sun. In a quest to stretch every last watt
of electricity that’s generated by the
solar panels on their roofs, the students
absorb the lesson that energy is a precious commodity. They strive to innovate, using high-tech materials and design elements in ingenious ways.
Along the way, the students learn how
to raise funds and communicate about
team activities. They collect supplies
and talk to contractors. They build
their solar houses, learning as they go.
The 20 teams transport their solar
houses to the competition site on the
National Mall and virtually rebuild
them in the solar village. Teams assemble their houses, and then the active
phase of the Solar Decathlon begins
with an opening ceremony for students,
media, and invited guests. The teams
compete in contests, and even though
this part of the Solar Decathlon gets the
most attention, the students really win
the competition through the many
months of fund raising, planning, designing, analyzing, redesigning, and finally building and improving their
homes. The public is invited to tour the
solar homes and event exhibits during
much of the competition.
The Solar Decathletes—tomorrow’s engineers, architects, researchers, and homeowners—are sharing with us a new vision for living
under the sun. These solar homes are
powerful, comfortable, and stylish.
They are relaxed and elegant, wasting
neither space nor energy.
Today’s solar houses connect with
nature to take advantage of heat and
light from the sun and cooling breezes
and shading. But they crank this natural advantage way up by using the
newest products and technologies on
the market. The Solar Decathlon solar
homes combine the best from the past
and the present... and deliver the promise of a brighter future.
You can see it all at the solar village. These solar homes, born from the
imagination and creativity of 20 collegiate teams, are powered entirely by
the sun. Here, nature and technology
join together in 20 solar homes unlike
any you’ve ever seen. Visit us on the
National Mall. Learn simple ways to
improve your own home. Home tours
are free . . . just like the sun’s energy.
The University of Colorado is the
two-time, undefeated champion of the
Solar Decathlon—they took home the
trophy in 2002 and 2005.
BLACK FACT
On October 19,
1936, Johnetta
Betsch Cole
was born.
OCTOBER IS NATIONAL PEACE MONTH
Mayor Adrian Fenty, Ronald Moten, Councilmember; Marion Barry and other
distinguished guests (photo courtesy Lateef Mangum)
R
esidents of the violence
stricken community of Highland Dwellings, also known as
Condon Terrace, were joined by Mayor
Adrian M. Fenty, Councilmember
Marion Barry (D-Ward 8), Councilmember Kwame Brown (D-At
Large), Councilmember Harry Thomas
(D-Ward 5) and a host of other community leaders and clergy assembled
recently to recognize October as National Peace Month and announce a
full week of activities during the
month in an effort to focus the community on peace and reconciliation. Universally “Peace Month” is recognized
in honor of Mahatma Gandhi’s Birthday, which was October 2.
“Celebrating Peace Month is the
most important thing we can do as
community given the violence that has
plagued our City,” said Councilmember Harry Thomas (D-Ward 5). “We
must use this time to reflect and improve upon our own personal transgressions and do whatever humanly
possible to recommit to improving the
lives of people around us.”
As part of the collaborative efforts,
to commemorate the 12th Anniversary
of the Million Man March, which took
place October 16, 1995, Ronald
Moten, COO, Peaceoholics, also announced the official “DC Atonement
Week”—Octber 12–16—which included five days of activities that were
open to all District residents.
“Each one of us must first take the
time to address our own personal inefficiencies so that we can come together
and collectively as one unit work together to do what’s best for our children, for our families, and for our communities; atonement is about putting
our personal differences aside and
doing what’s best for the community”
said Moten
Peaceoholics is a nonprofit organization provides intensive support services in conflict resolution, HIV/AIDS
prevention, substance abuse, gang mediation/prevention, and family wellness through its youth programs as
well as working closely with elected
official and community leaders to
bring positive change and energy to the
District of Columbia.
“Mr. Moten reminds me of a young
Dr. King or Malcolm X; not only because of his dynamic speeches but because of his courage to stand up and fight
for his community” said Mayor Adrian
Fenty. “In circumstances such as these, it
is important to maintain the public’s trust
through openness and transparency.”
Councilmember Marion Barry (DWard 8) expounded on that point and
added, “We’re facing a critical time in
our city and our nation. It’s not just
about talking anymore, it’s about action.
We have to stop talking and start acting.”
For more information contact 202906-0488.
NEW TELEWORK PROGRAM IN
DANVILLE/MARTINSVILLE AREA
G
overnor Timothy M. Kaine recently announced a new Department of
Taxation telework program in the Danville/Martinsville region. The
25 new employees, who will work from home with equipment and
Internet connections provided by the Tax Department, recently began 12
weeks of training in Martinsville to prepare for their positions.
“The Department of Taxation has been a leader in state government in
shifting a large number of its employees to working from home at least one
day a week, and this southwest Virginia effort is an extension of that,” said
Governor Kaine.
The Tax Department hired the 25 new employees after interviewing nearly
400 applicants at a two-day job fair in Danville. They began training on October 1 at Martinsville’s New College Institute, which offered the use of its
facility and equipment to support the effort. The new Customer Service Reps
will work 30 hours per week and will not receive state benefits.
Fifty-four percent of eligible Tax Department employees currently work
from home at least one day a week. The Department’s field audit and collection staffs have been home-based for several years.
“Teleworking has proven to be a great productivity booster for the Tax Department,” said Governor Kaine. “They have surveyed teleworking employees and their managers and found that both groups are very pleased with the
results.”
The Tax Department found some very qualified people in the
Danville/Martinsville region, according to Tax Commissioner Janie Bowen.
“This is really the best of both worlds,” said Bowen. “We get 25 new employees working exclusively from home which decreases pollution and increases productivity. And we are able to do this in an area that has a genuine
need for more employment opportunities.”
The Department of Taxation will hire an additional 30 home-based employees in the same region after the first of the year to key in information during the busy tax-filing season.
THE METRO HERALD
AROUND THE REGION
October 19, 2007
LEARNING TREE INTERNATIONAL
OPENS NEW EDUCATION CENTER
Donald F.Berbary, President of the Reston-based Learning Tree Mayor & William D. Euille
L
earning Tree International received a warm welcome to the
Alexandria area recently from
Mayor William D. Euille. The mayor
said the new Learning Tree Education
Center is just the beginning catalyst of
growth coming to the Alexandria area.
The facility will serve the training
needs of technology and management
professionals of business and government agencies in Washington D.C. and
Northern Virginia area. It has five
classrooms, each equipped with stateof-the-art hardware and software, ergonomic furniture and MagnaLearn™,
Learning Tree’s patented Instructional
Enhancement Technology. The center
also offers Internet-access kiosks,
courtesy phones and other conveniences to ensure attendees’ comfort.
The Alexandria Education Center is located within easy access of Washington, D.C. Metro trains, major roadways
and Ronald Reagan National Airport.
“By offering courses in the Alexandria area, Learning Tree has made it
even easier for technology and man-
agement professionals in Washington,
D.C. and surrounding vicinities to get
the top-quality training they need,”
commented Donald F.Berbary, President of the Reston-based Learning
Tree. “Now thousands of our customers can receive our proven, effective hands-on technology and management training closer to where they live
and work.”
The Alexandria facility will augment Learning Tree Education Centers
worldwide, including New York, NY;
Northern New Jersey; Reston, VA; Annapolis, Baltimore and Rockville, MD;
Boston; Chicago; Atlanta; Los Angeles; Ottawa; Toronto; London; Paris
and Stockholm. Learning Tree also
conducts on-site courses at client facilities around the world.
For a schedule of courses being
presented in Alexandria, throughout
the Washington, D.C. area, or anywhere our Education Centers are
located around the world, call Learning Tree at 1-800-843-8733, or visit
www.learningtree.com.
IMPROVEMENTS PAY OFF
FOR METROACCESS
M
etroAccess — a regional
transit service for customers
who cannot use Metrobus or
Metrorail due to a disability—is attracting more riders than ever before
and offering some of the best service
passengers have seen in years, according to Metro managers.
“Our operating statistics show that
MetroAccess service has improved dramatically since we transitioned to a new
contractor in January 2006,” said Assistant General Manager of Access Services
Christian T. Kent. “The substantial investment in the system made through the
support of our Board of Directors and
General Manager is paying off.”
MV Transportation took over the
service early last year. Passengers
complained of lengthy waits to be
picked up, long trips and not being
picked up at all. Rides were arriving as
scheduled only 82 percent of the time
during the first month of service, but
have stayed above 92 percent thereafter. Last month, the on-time performance approached 94 percent.
Complaints have been cut by 60 percent from January 2006 to August 2007.
Customers have shorter telephone wait
times with most calls being answered
within two minutes. Managers expect
that level of service to improve when
passengers are allowed to make reservations online, beginning later this fall.
“We expect to see fewer complaints
once door-to-door service is implemented next spring,” said Selene Faer
Dalton-Kumins, MetroAccess Director. “Door-to-door service will reduce
THE METRO HERALD
missed trips because drivers will connect with customers more directly by
coming to their door. It is our hope that
door-to-door service will also improve
our on-time performance since our
drivers will be empowered to expedite
the boarding process.”
Drivers currently wait up to 10
minutes at the curb of a pick-up location after a scheduled pick-up time.
Under the new service initiative, drivers would wait up to five minutes for
passengers at their door and then escort
them from a building entrance to a
MetroAccess vehicle.
Sixty-five new vehicles also will be
in service next year and managers will
upgrade ride scheduling software.
The MetroAccess budget has grown
to $62 million, a $10 million increase
over last year. The extra money is paying for more staff, vehicles and improved technology to deliver higher
quality and more efficient service. The
agency also is hiring more staff and partnering with other agencies to encourage
people with disabilities to ride buses and
trains. If customers show their MetroAccess photo identification card to the rail
station manager or bus operator, including most regional buses, they and one
companion can ride for free.
“The bus or train can offer people
with disabilities a more flexible and, in
some cases, shorter trip,” said DaltonKumins, who commutes to work by
Metrorail in her wheelchair. “But for
those who cannot use bus or rail service, we are committed to making
MetroAccess the next best alternative.”
FIRST HOMEOWNERS MOVE INTO LEGACY AT LINCOLN PARK
O
n October 11, local community leaders and elected officials welcomed the first homeowners to Legacy at Lincoln Park, a
new mixed-income community developed by Mid-City Urban in partnership
with the Rockville (MD) Housing Enterprises (RHE) on the site of the former Lincoln Terrace public housing
project in Rockville, Maryland.
A ribbon-cutting ceremony took
place to welcome Legacy’s first homeowners and recognize the public-private partnership that has resulted in a
successful mixed-income home ownership community. “Because this was
publicly owned land, we were able to
create a perfect opportunity for the City
of Rockville to offer affordable home
ownership opportunities to its municipal workers, so that teachers, firemen,
police officers, and other workers can
live near where they work,” said Vicki
Davis, President of Mid-City Urban,
based in Silver Spring, MD.
“Legacy at Lincoln Park exceeds my
wildest dreams,” said Wilma Bell, a
fourth-generation Lincoln Park resident
who chairs RHE’s Board of Commissioners. “It is the fulfillment of a vision
that started in 1891 with the one of the
Nation’s first real estate venture targeted
at African Americans, allowing our
predecessors to own their land, live their
dreams, pass on their values, and build a
community that remains intact today.”
“Since we always thought of ourselves as owners, we disagreed with the
concept of public housing because it
does not give people a stake,” Ms. Bell
continued. “So ten years ago, we set out
to replace the Lincoln Terrace project
with a community that would provide
home ownership opportunities for people who might not otherwise be able to
purchase their own homes. In the
process, we transformed the former
Rockville Housing Authority into
Rockville Housing Enterprises. I cannot
express enough gratitude to the developer Mid-City Urban, the builder Bozzuto Homes, the City of Rockville, and
many others for making this 116-yearold neighborhood vision a reality.”
FLU AND
PNUEMONIA
SHOTSAVAILABLE
AT SAFEWAY
S
afeway will conduct more
than 350 flu clinics throughout the mid-Atlantic region
(Maryland, Virginia, Washington,
D.C. and Delaware) through
November 13 at its 140 Eastern
Division Safeway stores. This
year’s clinics will offer customers
(ages 11 and above) a choice of flu
or pneumonia vaccinations. Vaccinations are offered on a first-come,
first-served basis without respect to
age. There is no cost for Medicare
Part B beneficiaries who simply
present their card at the flu clinic
and complete a roster billing form.
Non-Medicare participants will be
charged $30 for flu shots and $45
for the pneumonia vaccine.
All shots will be administered
either by registered nurses or by
Safeway pharmacists.
Visit www.safeway.com for a
complete list of stores with their
corresponding flu clinic dates.
Legacy of Lincoln Park is knitted into a historic black neighborhood of Craftsman and
Victorian homes. Front-loaded garages were prescribed to keep infrastructure
development costs down.
“This innovative development can
serve as a national model for affordable housing, allowing cities and counties to replace aging and blighted public housing projects with strong, stable,
mixed-income communities,” Ms.
Davis remarked.
“All this can be achieved through
private project financing without direct
government subsidies.”
“Legacy at Lincoln Park is a new
community that has restored the historic prominence of the Lincoln Park
community,” Ms. Davis concluded. “It
reflects the neighborhood’s unique history while integrating seamlessly with
the exciting new developments in and
around the heart of Rockville, including Rockville Town Center. Whereas
the prior public housing project had become obsolete, Legacy at Lincoln Park
has raised both pride and property values throughout the surrounding area.”
Established over a century ago,
Rockville’s Lincoln Park neighborhood
has undergone a recent wave of im-
provements due to its charming older
homes, protected trees and streetscapes,
and its proximity to Metrorail and the
new Rockville Town Center.
The Lincoln Park Civic Association
has held numerous meetings with RHE
and Mid-City Urban over the past four
years to reach community consensus
on the mixed-income redevelopment.
Legacy at Lincoln Park reflects that
community consensus, while the name
“Legacy” conveys the developer’s
promise to keep the neighborhood’s
history alive.
Mid-City Urban is one of the MidAtlantic region’s premier developers of
multi-family rental and for-sale housing. The firm, headquartered in Silver
Spring, MD, has over 4,000 housing
units under development with a total
value of nearly $1 billion. Two other
former public housing projects in
Washington, D.C. are being redeveloped by Mid-City Urban as mixed-income communities.
BENEFIT CONCERT FOR HUMANITARIAN
RELIEF EFFORTS IN DARFUR
O
n Tuesday, October 23, at 7:30PM the George Washington University’s STAND Chapter in cooperation with the Darfur Interfaith Network, Save Darfur Coalition, the Jewish Community Relations council (JCRC) of Greater Washington, American Jewish Committee, American
Islamic Congress, Metropolitan
AME Church, Shiloh Baptist
Church,
Foundry
United
Methodist Church and Temple
Beth Ami, will sponsor “STAND
UP for Darfur,” a communitywide interfaith concert to benefit
advocacy and humanitarian relief efforts in the Darfur region
of Sudan. The concert will take
place at The George Washington
University Lisner Auditorium,
730 21st Street N.W., Washington, DC.
The evening’s program will
feature performances by Step
Africa! (www.stepafrica.org),
the highly acclaimed dance
troupe, and Drumtalk39 (www.
drumtalk39.com), an energetic
percussionist group specializing
in world music.
Daowd Salih, president of the Damanga Coalition for Freedom and
Democracy and a Sudanese refugee whose family members have been killed
in Darfur, will give the keynote address. Zainab Al-Suwaij, executive director of the American Islamic Congress will provide a “call to action”. More
than 200 Washington area faith based organizations will be represented at the
event.
Net proceeds from the event will go to selected non-sectarian humanitarian relief organizations providing services in Darfur (Due to security issues in
Sudan, the organizations cannot be publicized, but more information is available at amargolin@jcouncil. org).
Admission is $25 ($20 for students with valid ID at Lisner box office).
For more information and to purchase tickets, visit Ticketmaster at www.
ticketmaster.com; call 202-397-7328 or call House of Musical Traditions
301-270-9090.
The situation in Darfur region of Sudan is the worst humanitarian crisis
facing the world today. Hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians have
died and millions are being forced from their homes. As people of faith, it is
our duty to speak out against ethnic cleansing and genocide and help those in
need.
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CAPITAL COMMENTS
October 19, 2007
MAYOR DIXON CALLS FOR
CONGRESS TO OVERRIDE
PRESIDENT BUSH’S VETO
OF HEALTH INSURANCE
FOR CHILDREN
M
ayor Sheila Dixon joined
Congressman Elijah Cummings and Baltimore City
Health Commissioner Dr. Josh Sharfstein, along with state health advocates
and local working families, to publicly
appeal for the U.S. House Insurance
Plan (SCHIP).
President Bush vetoed the reauthorization and expansion of SCHIP on
October 3, 2007, and Mayor Dixon has
responded by leading a coalition of
mayors from across the country, as
well as local leaders, in the fight for
children’s health insurance.
“This successful and popular pro-
CLINTON NOW AHEAD OF
OBAMA IN MONEY RACE
D
emocrat Hillary Rodham Clinton has pulled ahead of rival
Barack Obama at the bank as
well as in the polls and both continue
to crush Republicans in the money
race.
Clinton holds nearly $35 million
three months before the voting starts,
to Obama’s $32 million.
The Republican money leader,
Rudy Giuliani, reported $11.6 million
in the bank for the primaries.
Clinton, who had trailed Obama in
NEW ROMNEY AD APPEALS
TO NH VOTERS
R
epublican presidential hopeful
Mitt Romney is appealing to
the fiscal conservatism of New
Hampshire voters in a new ad that
started running Tuesday.
In it, the former Massachusetts
governor and business executive says
existing tax policy is fundamentally
unfair and that his plan would reduce
the tax burden for all.
“It’s not fair that you have to pay
taxes when you earn your money,
when you save your money and then
when you die,” Romney says in the
television ad.
Romney has made the promise of
lower taxes a staple of his campaign.
He and his GOP rivals also have argued over who would be the best stew-
MCCAIN SAYS CAMPAIGN
HAS CASH FOR ADS
R
epublican John McCain said
Tuesday his campaign cash
flow is fine though a new finance report shows him in the red. He
also cast doubt that he would accept
public financing.
“Certainly not at this moment. It’s
always an option that we are prepared
to exercise if we need to,” the Arizona
senator said in an interview with Associated Press reporters and editors. He
has filed all the necessary paperwork
with the Federal Election Commission
should he need to tap that vein.
“As long as we can see upward
movement in the polls, which we are
seeing, we really don’t see the necessity of it,” McCain said. “We do have a
lot of cash on hand.”
He made the remarks in an hourlong interview a day after filing his
quarterly FEC finance report that
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gram created 10 years ago with bipartisan support provides health insurance
to more than 6 million children, many
of whom live in our cities,” Mayor
Dixon said. “SCHIP reauthorization is
not about politics or ideology. It’s
about giving our children a healthy
start in life.”
President Bush has offered to fund
$5 billion of the $35 billion increase
requested by Congress for the program, and has refused to expand the
program until 95 percent of those currently eligible are enrolled. Bush’s
plan would eliminate coverage for
thousands of Maryland children.
If Congress votes to override the
President’s veto, the proposed expansion of SCHIP is estimated to give
health insurance to an additional 4 to 5
million children in this country who
are uninsured. For Maryland, an over-
ride could mean
up to $945 million in additional federal
funding over the
next five years
and the chance
to insure some
of the 132,000
children who are
currently eligi- Mayor Sheila Dixon
ble for the program but remain without healthcare
because of a lack of funding.
“SCHIP provides an integral safety
net for those hardworking families
who are unable to afford quality health
insurance,” said Dr. Sharfstein. “The
bottom line is we cannot expect our
children to succeed in school and in
life without adequate access to basic
healthcare.”
fundraising and in money in the bank at
the end of June, edged past him with an
aggressive third quarter of fundraising.
The New York senator, who also
has been raising money for the general
election, had a total of $50.5 million in
the bank, her campaign reported. But
nearly $16 million of that cannot be
used for the primaries.
She reported raising $23.7 million
for the primary and had operating expenses of $21.3 million. Obama spent a
nearly identical amount, but he raised
$19.3 million in the quarter. They each
reported debts—Clinton owed $2.3
million and Obama owed $1.4 million.
Democrat John
Edwards reported
$12.4 million in the
bank after raising
nearly $7.2 million
and spending almost
$8.3 million during
the quarter. New
Mexico Gov. Bill
Richardson, trying to Hillary Rodham
establish
himself Clinton
among the Democratic leaders, reported $5.8 million in the
bank. He raised $5.3 million in the
quarter and spent $6.6 million.
ard of the nation’s economy and whose
proposals would create the most jobs.
His new ad appeals to voters where
it counts most: their pocketbooks and
wallets.
“That’s why I’ll kill the death tax
once and for all and roll back tax rates
across the board,” Romney says in the
30-second ad. “And savings? When
I’m president, for middle-class Americans, the new tax rate on your interest,
dividends, and capital gains will be absolutely zero.”
Romney has proposed eliminating
taxes on interest and dividends for
families earning less than $200,000 a
year. He has said the plan would benefit 95 percent of families - 56 million
that earned interest in 2005, 28 million
that earned dividends and 23 million
with capital gains from real estate,
stocks or bonds.
The proposal
would cost $32 billion, to be paid for
through economic
growth, and by
holding non-defense discretionary
spending to inflation minus 1 percentage point.
“Want tax cuts Mitt Romney
that will grow our economy?” Romney
asks before repeating what has become
a campaign slogan: “Change begins
with us.”
Republican rival Rudy Giuliani has
made taxes a centerpiece of his radio
ads. He routinely touts 23 tax cuts that
occurred while he was mayor of New
York. Critics note that he did not initiate all of them, and that he opposed
some.
showed him with more than $1.6 million available for the primaries but
more than $1.7 million in debt.
“We have a debt that is a long-term
debt, but we have cash on hand in
order to fund the advertising we need
to fund,” McCain said. An aide said
many of the bills that need to be paid
aren’t due for another few months.
McCain’s financial picture is the
weakest of all the leading Republicans
in the race.
Rudy Giuliani reported having
$11.6 million in the bank for the primaries. Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor and venture capitalist, had $9.2 million cash on hand, and
Fred Thompson, the former Tennessee
senator, reported $7.12 million available. Long-shot candidate Ron Paul,
the lone anti-war Republican in the
field, had $5.2 million in the bank.
Accepting public financing would
provide an infusion of cash but limit
how much McCain could spend.
“Do I wish
we had more
money? Do I
wish we had not
had the budgetary problems that
we had? Of
course,” McCain
said. “But from
being declared John McCain
dead to doing
well is something
that I’m very happy about.” McCain,
whose campaign spent much of the
$25 million it raised in the first half of
the year, has scaled back spending over
the past three months, and he has enjoyed somewhat of resurgence in polls.
He is in his third week of airing a
heavy level of television ads in New
Hampshire, and he said he’ll probably
begin running ads in Iowa and South
Carolina soon. He also is spending
$100,000 in Iowa on two waves of
direct mail.
OBAMA REACHES OUT TO
RELIGIOUS VOTERS
T
he invitation appeared one Sunday in Joanna Chase’s church
bulletin: Come to a “faith
forum” and join a conversation about
the intersection of religion and politics.
Living in New Hampshire, Chase is
accustomed to pitches from presidential hopefuls, especially those focusing
on values-voting Republicans. But this
one came from the team of a Democrat, Sen. Barack Obama.
The candidate himself wasn’t on
the bill. But about 50 people showed
up to talk about the war, poverty and
trying to seize back the moral mantle
some in the GOP claim. The night also
featured an Obama video and a campaign altar call—an invitation to become a “congregation contact” and
rally support for the candidate.
“I don’t know if I will vote for
Barack Obama,” said Chase, 62, who
was inspired enough to organize a similar forum at her United Church of
Christ congregation in Northwood,
N.H. “There are several candidates I
like very much. But I love that he has
the character and confidence to allow
people to do this. He doesn’t have to
own every bit of it.”
The leading Democratic contenders
BILL TO GRANT FEDERAL
RECOGNITION TO
VIRGINIA INDIAN TRIBES
S
enator Jim Webb (D-VA) today
endorsed a House-passed bill to
grant federal recognition to six
Indian tribes in Virginia, a status that
would qualify the tribes for certain
benefits provided through the Bureau
of Indian Affairs (BIA) and other federal agencies.
In a letter dated October 16th to the
Senate Committee on Indian Affairs,
Senator Webb urged the Committee to
approve the Thomasina E. Jordan Indian Tribes of Virginia Federal Recognition Act of 2007 (H.R. 1294), which
the House of Representatives approved
overwhelmingly in May.
“I have spent several months examining this issue in great detail, including information about the rich history
and culture of Virginia’s extraordinary
Indian tribes,” Senator Webb said.
“Through this review, I have concluded this legislation is a simple matter of fairness. Four hundred years
after the founding of America’s first
colony at Jamestown, these six tribes
deserve to join our nation’s 562 other
federally recognized tribes.”
The bill, sponsored in the House by
Representative Jim Moran, would extend federal recognition to the Chickahominy Tribe; the Chickahominy Indian
Tribe—Eastern Division; the Upper
Mattaponi Tribe; the Rappahannock
Tribe, Inc.; the Monacan Indian Nation;
and the Nansemond Indian Tribe.
Proponents of the bill have argued
that recognizing Virginia’s Indians
through an Act of Congress as opposed
to normal administrative channels is
necessary because many of the tribes’
land and genealogical records have
been destroyed, in some cases through
actions of the state. Webb also raised
serious concerns about the BIA’s inadequate resources and cumbersome administrative process resulting in a
backlog of petitions.
“Because of a consistent lack of resources, the BIA process traditionally
has resulted in delays of fifteen years
for the White
House all have
made a point of
talking about religion this campaign
season.
They
discuss
their faith journeys and how
their beliefs in- Barack Obama
fluence their policies. The campaigns of Obama, Hillary Rodham
Clinton and John Edwards all are doing
outreach to religious communities.
But Obama, the junior senator from
Illinois, has made religion a signature
part of his campaign through his own
public appearances in places where
Democrats rarely venture, and a faithbased voter mobilization, topped by
forums in Iowa, New Hampshire and
South Carolina that could prove key to
organizing.
“I don’t think a Democratic presidential candidate has come close to
doing anything like this before,” said
Mark Silk, director of the Leonard E.
Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life at Trinity College
in Hartford, Conn. “If you are going to
parse the different dimensions of how
a presidential candidate does religion,
he’s doing them all.
or more. As is the
case with our Virginia tribes, some
of which began the
recognition process
in the late 1970’s
and still have a
long wait in the
queue,” said Webb.
“All parties agree Jim Webb
that the process has
proven to be an arduous one for both
the tribes and the BIA.”
Senator Webb said he is eager to
work with interested citizens during
the Senate’s review of the bill to determine if improvements can be made to
the House legislation. But at the same
time, he emphasized the support which
federal recognition of the tribes already enjoys in Virginia.
“Federal recognition of Virginia’s
Indians enjoys strong, bipartisan support in Virginia,” he said. “Governor
Kaine and his predecessor Governor
Mark Warner have supported recognition, and in 1999 both Houses of the
Virginia General Assembly adopted resolutions embracing federal recognition.
The measure also has support from various religious and civic organizations.”
“The Virginia Indian Tribal Alliance for Life (VITAL) has worked
diligently with Senator Webb and his
staff in an effort to grant Federal recognition to six of Virginia’s Indian tribes.
During that same time, we have been
sharing our history at various
Jamestown 2007 commemorative
events and have received overwhelming support from our fellow citizens. I
am delighted that Senator Webb has
endorsed a bill in the Senate to grant
such recognition,” said Wayne Adkins
(Chickahominy), VITAL President.
Webb concluded by saying, “I believe this bill’s enactment will go far
toward recognizing Virginia’s Indian
tribes in this—the 400th year anniversary of the founding of the Commonwealth.”
To read the full text of Senator Jim
Webb’s letter visit: webb.senate.gov/
pdf/indianaffairsletter2.pdf.
THE METRO HERALD
CAPITAL COMMENTS
October 19, 2007
OVERRIDE
PRESIDENT
BUSH’S VETO
ON SCHIP
Dear Editor:
T
he vote to override President Bush’s veto for the
additional funding for
SCHIP will be Thursday, October 18. I implore the thousands
of families who have children
covered by FAMIS (SCHIP) to
call Congressmen Virgil Goode
(202-225-4711), Bob Goodlatte
(202-225-5431), Randy Forbes
(202-225-6365), Eric Cantor
(202-225-2815) and Congresswoman Thelma Drake (202-2254215) to ask them to change their
votes to now support SCHIP. I
also ask working families with
uninsured children who cannot
afford health insurance to call
these U.S. Representatives.
I have worked tirelessly over
the last eight years to improve access to health care for our children. As both a health care advocate and taxpayer, I know the
additional funding for SCHIP is a
vital investment. Do not believe
the false information being circulated. SCHIP will not and has
never covered illegal immigrants.
SCHIP does not cover families
who can afford health insurance.
I have looked directly into the
eyes of families who are embarrassed to ask for government help
but have no other choice when
faced with monthly family premiums in excess of $1,000 per
month or when private insurance
companies tell the families their
children are uninsurable due to
pre-existing medical conditions.
This bill does not create government run health care; it creates
cost effective protection for our
nation’s children until a new federal administration can come up
with something better. The Bush
Administration has had seven
years, and now Bush has vetoed
the only hope of doing something
positive for health care in this
country. I urge Virginia’s representatives in Congress to please
listen to your constituents and
vote to override the veto!
Rhonda Seltz, M.S.
Health Care Advocate
(540) 381-8518
BLACK FACT
On October 19,
1983,
Grenada’s
U.S. educated
Prime Minister
Maurice Bishop
was killed in a
military coup.
THE METRO HERALD
CELEBRATION OF
FOUR MILE RUN TRAIL
GROUNDBREAKING
A
lexandria Mayor William D.
Euille, Vice Mayor Redella S.
“Del” Pepper and City Council
members Rob Krupicka and Paul C.
Smedberg will join Congressman James
P. Moran and the Arlington County
Board to celebrate the beginning of construction on a multi-use trail linking the
popular Washington & Old Dominion
Trail and Four Mile Run Trail. The trail
will offer a safer, more direct path along
the Four Mile Run stream for walkers,
runners, and cyclists under the Shirley
Highway (I-395) and along scenic Four
Mile Run. The project includes landscaping of the stream bank and a sanitary sewer main to increase capacity
and prevent back-ups.
Celebration will take place on
Saturday, October 20, 2007 at the
Four Mile Run Trail Construction
Office (outdoors) located at 27th Road
South and South Four Mile Run Drive
in Arlington, VA.
The Arlington County Bicycle
Advisory Committee will meet at
Courthouse Plaza, 2100 Clarendon
Blvd., at 9:00a.m. to ride to the event.
All are welcome to join the ride. The
groundbreaking ceremony will take
place at 10:00am.
Participants will include: Congressman James P. Moran, U.S. House of
Representatives; Alexandria Mayor
William D. Euille; Alexandria Vice
Mayor Redella S. “Del” Pepper;
Alexandria City Councilman Rob
Krupicka; Alexandria City Councilman Paul C. Smedberg; Paul Ferguson,
Arlington County Chairman; Walter
Tejada, Arlington County Vice Chairman; Barbara Favola, Arlington
County Board Member; Jay Fisette,
Arlington County Board Member; and
Christopher Zimmerman, Arlington
County Board Member.
In Alexandria, Four Mile Run Park
(3700
Commonwealth
Avenue)
stretches from
Jefferson Davis
Highway
to
Mount Vernon
Avenue, with a
bike trail along
Four Mile Run
that provides a
connection to
the Mount Vernon Trail.
Rep. Jim Moran
For more in- (D-VA)
formation
on
bike and pedestrian trails in Alexandria, visit www.alexride.org.
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EDUCATION
October 19, 2007
BOARD APPROVES RESOLUTION ON ANNUAL GROWTH POLICY
T
he Board of Education met recently and, among other items
approved was a resolution on the
Annual Growth Policy for Montgomery
County and discussed an update on demographic and enrollment trends in
Montgomery County Public Schools
(MCPS). The Board also discussed an
update on the secondary learning center
transition project and participated in a
discussion of budget priorities. The
Board voted to approve the Comprehensive Master Plan and approved guidelines for recognition of MCPS and community achievements. The Board
approved an administrative appointment
and recognized the observance of American Indian Heritage Month and National Bus Safety Week. Winners of the
Mark Mann Excellence and Harmony
Award also were recognized. The Board
also urged employees to participate in
the annual Montgomery County Public
Schools Charity Campaign. The Board
also approved a request for a regulation
regarding outside audits.
UPDATE ON
CIP/ENROLLMENT
The Board participated in a presentation on trends and forecasts in student enrollment size and patterns in
MCPS and how these factors relate to
building and modernizing schools, the
use of portable classrooms, and other
issues. (See separate news release for
more information.)
ANNUAL GROWTH POLICY
RESOLUTION
The Board approved a resolution
supporting the 2007 Planning Board
recommendations for a County growth
policy school test. The test would use
MCPS program capacity as the basis
for collecting school facilities payment
from developers when cluster facility
use is over 110 percent and imposing a
residential development moratorium
on construction when cluster facility
use is over 135 percent. If the County
Council eliminates the school facility
payment from consideration, the Board
recommended that the moratorium be
imposed when cluster facility use is
over 110 percent. The Board also requested the Council to place the school
facility payment revenue in the general
fund, not in separate funds that apply
only to the cluster where the revenue
payment is collected. In addition, the
Board encouraged the Council to explore all possible revenue enhancements that can provide adequate financing for school and other county
capital needs. The resolution will be
forwarded to the County Council, the
county executive, Planning Board, and
mayors and councils of Montgomery
County municipalities.
UPDATE ON SECONDARY
LEARNING CENTER
TRANSITION PROJECT
The Board discussed the transition
of students with disabilities from secondary learning centers to their home
schools during this first year of a sixyear plan to phase out the centers. The
plan to phase out the centers was included in the FY 2008 operating
budget, passed by the Board last February. The plan has several goals:
• Improving the academic performance of students with disabilities.
• Increasing the number of students
with disabilities educated in the
least restrictive environment.
• Addressing the overrepresentation
of African American and Hispanic
students in the secondary learning
centers.
Preliminary findings indicate that
there has been a smooth and positive
school opening regarding positive peer
relations, transportation, schedules and
staffing; however, the transition will
continue to be monitored.
DISCUSSION ON
BUDGET PRIORITIES
Board President Nancy Navarro, on
behalf of the Board of Education, will
send a letter to the County Council and
the Montgomery County Collaboration
Council for Children, Youth and Families, inviting them to participate in a review of the strategic plan supporting the
Children’s Agenda and a shared vision
to aid families and student learning.
FINAL APPROVAL
OF THE COMPREHENSIVE
MASTER PLAN
The Board approved the updated
Montgomery County Public Schools
Bridge to Excellence in Public Schools
Act—Comprehensive Master Plan for
2007, fulfilling the requirement for
local school systems to submit annual
updates of their five-year comprehensive master plans to the Maryland State
Department of Education. The Board
also voted to write a letter to the state
superintendent requesting that the
State accept the Board’s strategic plan
in lieu of a separate comprehensive
master plan.
RECOGNITION OF MCPS
AND COMMUNITY
ACHIEVEMENTS
The Board approved guidelines recommended by the Communications
and Public Engagement Committee for
recognizing achievements of students
and staff, as well as education-related
accomplishments of community
groups.
AMERICAN INDIAN
HERITAGE MONTH
The Board approved the observance of American Indian Heritage
Month in November in recognition of
the many contributions made by American Indians to enhance the freedom,
prosperity, and greatness of America
today.
NATIONAL
BUS SAFETY WEEK
The Board proclaimed October
22–26, 2007, as National Bus Safety
Week, in recognition of the importance
of a safe and pleasant ride to and from
school in fostering a high level of
learning and success. The Board expressed its continued support for the
MCPS Ride by the Rules safety campaign for school bus riders, pedestrians, and drivers.
SUPERINTENDENT’S
ANNUAL MARK MANN
EXCELLENCE AND
HARMONY AWARD
The Board recognized the winners
of the Mark Mann Excellence and Harmony Award. This year, two outstanding principals won the award—Lance
Dempsey, principal of Shady Grove
Middle School, and Lee Derby, current
principal of Cedar Grove Elementary
School. Derby won for his work at
Garrett Park Elementary School,
where he was principal for five years.
The award honors Dr. Mark Mann, former principal of Parkland Junior High
School, who died in l988.
MONTGOMERY COUNTY
EMPLOYEES
CHARITY CAMPAIGN
The Board encouraged employee
participation in the 2007 Montgomery
County Public Schools Charity Campaign, scheduled for October 22
through November 16, 2007. In partnership with the three employee representative organizations, this year’s
charity campaign gives employees the
option of contributing to four charities—the Montgomery County United
Way, the Union Community Fund, the
Montgomery County Community
Foundation, and the Montgomery Alliance. Last year, employees contributed approximately $185,000
through the campaign.
BISHOP IRETON OPEN HOUSE
OUTSIDE AUDIT PROJECTS
ishop Ireton High School will hold an Open House for prospective
students and their families on Sunday, October 28, from
1:00–3:00PM. There will be a presentation in the Garwood Whaley
Auditorium at 1:00PM. Families will have the opportunity to meet and hear
from the school’s principal, Fr. Matt Hillyard, OSFS, as well as two current
parents who will talk about their experiences. Bishop Ireton student ambassadors will lead families on tours of the school building, while teachers will
be available in their classrooms to answer questions regarding the curriculum.
Coaches and moderators from the school’s athletic teams, music program, and
drama clubs will also be on hand. Student music groups will be playing in the
atrium. The Vice Principal for Academics and the Admissions Director will
have a question and answer session during the Open House to provide details
about the academic program, application process, and financial aid procedures.
All are welcome to attend the Bishop Ireton Open House, 201 Cambridge
Road, Alexandria. Reservations are not required. For more information, contact 703-751-7606.
The Board approved a resolution
directing the superintendent to develop
regulations regarding a review process
in which the Board is informed about
the alignment of outside audit projects
with the pertinent requirements of the
Education Article of the Annotated
Code of Maryland.
Board of Education includes Mrs.
Nancy Navarro, president; Ms. Shirley
Brandman, vice president. Members
include: Mr. Steve Abrams; Mr.
Christopher Barclay; Ms. Sharon Cox;
Dr. Judy Docca, and Mrs. Patricia B.
O’Neill. Student member: Mr. Ben
Moskowitz. Superintendent and secretary-treasurer: Dr. Jerry D. Weast,.
Office of the Board: 301-279-3617.
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CHARITY GOLF TOURNAMENT TO
REDEFINE “SUPPORTING OUR TROOPS”—
MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP
T
he 4th Annual Marine Corps
Scholarship Foundation Golf
Tournament will be held Monday, October 22, 2007 at the ArmyNavy Country Club in Arlington, VA.
The event provides much-needed funding for academic college scholarships
that benefit the children of U.S.
Marines with particular attention given
to children whose parent was killed in
action.
Special guests include General
James T. Conway, Commandant of the
United States Marine Corps. The
event’s main sponsor is BAE Systems.
The day’s activities include a
“scramble-style” golf tournament,
lunch, reception, and awards presentation with the Commandant.
For nearly 50 years, the Marine
Corps Scholarship Foundation, a
501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, has
helped accomplish what many Marines
cannot-enabling their children to pursue dreams of higher education. These
academic, needs-based college scholarships, funded by the generosity of
patriotic supporters, helps set life-altering, new paths for these young men
and women while honoring our nation’s brave Marine heroes. Since its
inception, the Foundation has distributed over 21,000 scholarships nationwide and educational bonds valued at
more than $34 million.
In addition to scholarships available to all Marine families, the Foundation has made special commitments
to the children of all American servicemen and women, whose parent is
killed in combat. Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the
Foundation committed to provide Heroes Tribute Scholarships, totaling
$20,000 over four years, to every child
of a Marine or Navy Corpsman serving
with the Marines, whose parent is
killed in combat in the Global War on
Terror. This commitment is made regardless of family income in recognition of the ultimate sacrifice made for
our Nation.
Americans are looking for a concrete way to say “thank you” to our
country’s men and women in uniform.
The Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation offers a unique lasting, meaningful contribution to the futures of
Marine children and honors those who
have given so much.
Individuals, corporations, foundations, and other organizations wishing
to honor Marines and their families
through an honorary or memorial
scholarship, or support the Capital
Area event through a direct contribution or sponsorship should contact
Tournament Chairmen Mike Beatty at
202-546-4196 or Matt Carroll at 949689-4948 or visit www.mcsf.kintera.
org/cag.
To learn more about the overall
Foundation and its scholarships, contact Charlotte Tomic at 917-882-5243
or David Uy at 202-423-7512.
The Marine Corps Scholarship
Foundation is a private, nonprofit
scholarship organization and is not affiliated with the U.S. Marine Corps or
the U.S. Government. Visit www.
mcsf.org.
EVENT SCHEDULE
• 10:00AM–12:00PM—Registration and Warm Up
• 12:00 noon—Rules and Box Lunch
• 12:30PM—Shotgun Start (Format:
Scramble)
• 5:30PM—Reception
• 6:30PM—Awards Presentation
DC CAMPAIGN YOUTH LEADERSHIP
TASK FORCE MEMBER TESTIFIES AT
DC COUNCIL HEARING
D
onnell Kie a member of DC Campaign’s Youth Leadership Task
Force and a junior at Ballou Senior High School testified at a hearing
before the DC City Council, Committee of the Whole, on Saturday,
October 13.
The following excerpt is from his testimony:
“Good Morning Chairman Gray and other city council members. Thank
you for the opportunity to speak today. My name is Donnell Kie, I am 16
years old, a junior at Ballou Senior High School and a third-year member of
the Youth Leadership Task Force at DC Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy.
There are many situations at my school that I could tell you about but here
is one that is important to me. There are NOT enough counselors to go
around. Let me explain: Ballou has many students. I don’t know how many,
maybe a couple of thousands. But they only have one counselor for each
grade level. I am in the 11th grade and it is about 300 of us. And I plan on
going to college when I graduate but I don’t know exactly where I want to go
yet.
That’s why I need to talk to a guidance counselor who can give me information and help me to decide. But with only one counselor for about
300 11th graders, it is hard for me to get a chance to see her. Sometimes
she is busy with other students, or teachers and sometimes parents.
You are probably going to ask me, “Why don’t you go to the library?”
Well, my neighborhood library is a little kiosk on Alabama Avenue and Stanton Road southeast. It doesn’t have a lot of college catalogs and most of the
time, the computers don’t work. So what can I do?
If you are a student, you should be able to get what you need. And it
Shouldn’t matter what part of the city you live in. All this talk about us
being the city’s future leaders won’t come true if we don’t get what we need
now.
Thank you very much.”
THE METRO HERALD
EDUCATION
October 19, 2007
NIKE/NATIONAL HEAD START
ASSOCIATION’S LET ME PLAY
HEAD START TO EXPAND TO
115 NEW SITES IN 2008
Ron Herndon, Chairman NHSA Board of
Directors
L
et Me Play Head Start, a joint
Nike/National Head Start Association initiative to get kids
physically active starting at a young
age will expand in 2008 to include 115
new Head Start sites in 15 cities across
the United States.
Formerly known as Nike GO Head
Start the joint program with SPARK
(Sports, Play and Active Recreation for
Kids) already has reached 322 Head
Start sites in its first three years, training 1,079 staff and parents in 20 cities
encompassing an estimated 12,600
Head Start preschoolers.
Let Me Play Head Start will expand
this year with an additional 15 trainings for parents and teachers. The program currently operates in New York,
Los Angeles,
Chicago, Washington, DC, Orlando,
Anchorage, Memphis, Salt Lake City,
and Portland,among others. The additional 15 training locations are being
selected based in large part on the
prevalence of childhood obesity and
other health problems related to physical inactivity among preschoolers.
In addition, Let Me Play Head Start
will offer challenge grants to Head
Start operators that have been working
with the Nike/NHSA program for at
least a year. These grants
of $5,000 will allow Head Start
programs to achieve new inroads in
terms of spreading the Let Me Play
philosophy.
NHSAs Board Chairman Ron
Herndon said the initiative builds on an
eight-year relationship between Nike
and the National Head Start Association. Currently the largest prvate funder of NHSA, Nike is issuing a series
of one-year grants, with specific performance requirements, totaling $2.5
million over five years.
As childhood health woes continue
to rise, we are compelled to continue to
provide opportunities like the Let Me
Play Head Start partnership to enhance
chldrens love for physical activity, especially at an early age, said Chad
Boettcher, Director for US Corporate
Responsibility, Nike. By increasing the
number of cities that offer the Let Me
Play Head Start program, we can increase the number of children, parents
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and families who make physical activity a regular part of their lives and help
prevent sedentary lifestyles before unhealthy practices can take hold.
NHSA President and CEO Sarah
Greene said: We are excited to continue our partnership with Nike and
look forward to continuing to educate
parents and teachers in the importance
of stressing physical activity from an
early age as an important tool in combating childhood obesity, which has
been a growing problem in our country
over the past few years. Head Start has
always focused on the entire family,
not just the kids, as an important component of their education and development. The Let Me Play Head Start Initiative teaches parents along with their
kids so physical activity becomes a
family activity.?
Let Me Play Head Start understands
how parents can play a critical role in
raising healthy children and provides
them with the resources to replicate the
programs activities in the home. In addition to receiving the Playbook and
SPARK training, participating Head
Start sites will receive Nike donated
equipment necessary to implement the
program including parachutes, easy-tocatch balls, beanbags and balance beams.
Head Start instructors receive a playbook
of activities that are fun, inclusive, developmentally appropriate and aligned with
Head Start Child Outcomes.
Parents and children learn how ordinary objects like socks and scarves
can be used for movement and physical activity.
For more information on challenge
grants, contact Tiereny Lloyd at 703299-7519 or [email protected].
NORTH AMERICAN REPTILE BREEDERS
CONFERENCE & TRADE SHOW 2007
S
nakes have been revered throughout the centuries for their hypnotic
sway and seductive slithering
movements. Don’t miss the opportunity
to fall under the spell of these coldblooded creatures at the first annual
North American Reptile Breeders Conference and Trade Show at the Dulles
Convention Center, October 27 and 28.
Located at the Dulles Convention Center, 4368 Chantilly Center, the NARBC
is the world’s largest reptile conference
bringing together experienced dealers
from across the country offering over
10,000 cold-blooded creatures.
“The South has emerged as a huge
market for reptiles and was lacking a
show of this magnitude. We are proud
to bring the NARBC to Virginia and
look forward to meeting ‘herp’ enthusiasts from the area,” says Brian Potter,
NARBC show producer.
The cold-blooded creatures at this
amazing exhibition and sale of petfriendly “herps” are among the finest
in the world. With prices ranging from
$5 to $75,000 everything from the
common gecko to extraordinarily rare
breeds of snakes with unusual morphing of colors will be represented. Open
to the public, this high-quality, captivebred-only reptile show produced by
ECO Wear and Publishing and
Chicago Reptile House, Inc. will feature over 100 dealers from across the
country offering over 10,000 geckos,
frogs, iguanas, snakes, lizards, and tortoises! The Show is sponsored by TRex, Timberline and Gourmet Rodent.
Both the reptile connoisseur and the
reptile-curious shouldn’t miss this exciting and educational opportunity to
encounter alternative pets along with all
of the supplies needed to support a herp
hobby. All of the animals at the North
American Reptile Breeders Conference
& Trade Show are audited to ensure
compliance with all federal and state
laws as well as the guidelines of the
Herpetological Society and the Pet In-
Bearded lizard
dustry Joint Advisory Council (PIJAC).
The North American Reptile Breeders Conference & Trade Show will also
host several special events and educational lectures throughout the weekend. Details will be announced shortly.
On Saturday evening at 6 p.m.,
the North American Reptile Breeders
Conference will host a fundraiser for
the Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council (PIJAC). PIJAC promotes the interests of the pet industry and develops
aids to enhance humane and responsible care within the industry. Open to
the public, admission to this event is
free and includes a live auction, hors
d’oeuvres and a cash bar. Proceeds
from the live auction will be donated to
this important industry organization.
The North American Reptile Breeders Conference and Trade Show is open
to the public Saturday, October 27
from 10a.m. to 5p.m. and Sunday,
October 28 from 11a.m. to 4p.m. at
the Dulles Convention Center, 4368
Chantilly Center, Chantilly, Virginia.
Weekend passes to the Show are $15
for adults; children under 13 are $8,
while children ages 5 and under are admitted free. Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts
with proof of membership will be admitted for $5. A special VIP badge,
costing $50 allows show-goers entrance to the Show Preview on Friday,
October 26, at 5p.m. along with complimentary snacks and beverages
(sponsored by Reptile Magazine) The
VIP badge also provides advance show
entrance at 9a.m. on both Saturday
and Sunday. For more information on
the Conference or to order tickets,
email [email protected] visit www.
narbc.com or www.reptileconference.
com, or call 708-932-8044.
OFFICE FOR CHILDREN SHOWS HOW
TO LAUNCH A CHILD CARE BUSINESS
T
he Department of Family Services’ Office for Children will reveal
the benefits of running a home-based child care business at 1p.m.
on Thursday, November 8 at the Franconia Governmental Center, which is located at 6121 Franconia Road in Alexandria. The workshop
is free; light refreshments will be served.
“Becoming a child care provider allows you to have a home-based
business and enjoy a personally rewarding profession,” says Office for
Children Director Judith Rosen. Child care providers also have the opportunity to:
• Earn an income while spending time with their own children.
• Earn tax credits for running a home-based business.
• Get reimbursed by the USDA Food Program for meals they serve children in their care.
• Reduce the cost of transportation and other items needed to work outside the home.
• Offer an essential service to the community.
• Work at a job they love.
At the November 8 workshop, Office for Children staff will train residents in how to obtain the necessary permit to legally operate a homebased child care business in Fairfax County. Attendees will also learn
about ongoing training the Office for Children offers free of charge to
child care professionals on how to provide quality educational programs
to children.
For more information about becoming a child care provider, call 703324-8100 or visit www.fairfaxcounty.gov/ofc.
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THE ART OF BEING TUAREG: SAHARA NOMADS IN A MODERN WORLD
October 19, 2007
T
he first major exhibition in the United States to examine
the historic and evolving culture and arts of the semi-nomadic Tuareg peoples of West Africa opened at the
Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art on October 10. “Art of Being Tuareg: Sahara Nomads in a
Modern World,” continues through January 27, 2008.
Featuring the distinctive jewelry, clothing, leatherwork and other highly decorated items for which the Tuareg are famous, the exhibition considers the complexities of history, desert living and the ever-changing
effects of globalization.
“This show presents another view of Africa—one unfamiliar, discrete, yet
historically and culturally significant,” said Sharon F. Patton, director of the
National Museum of African Art. “It represents a confluence of topography,
culture and present time, an extraordinary feat for any art exhibition.”
Highlights
“Art of Being Tuareg” includes more than 200 works from public and private collections around the world, as well as documentary photographs,
video footage and music. Highlights include:
★ Photographic portraits and first-person accounts that introduce visitors to
what it mans to be a Tuareg today
★ A goatskin hide tent, typical of the Tuareg nomadic lifestyle, displayed
with carved tent poles, decorated screens, camel saddles, daggers,
swords, leather bags, tools and musical instruments
★ Classical Tuareg silver jewelry including a necklace made of silver
crosses of Zinder. Tuareg women once used this type of cross as a form
of currency.
Drum and beaters; Tuareg; Agadez, Niger; Wood, leather; H: 22 cm; Diam: 52cm; Musee d’ethnographie,
Neuchatel; 48.4.108 a-c
★ Video footage from a desert wedding, showing the confluence of Tuareg
culture past and present
★ A close look at one well-respected inadan (artist or smith) family in
Niger, with a simulation of their workshop. A video shows the family
making jewelry and provides insight into their lives.
★ A concluding display on the global marketplace for Tuareg art includes
Tuareg-produced and inspired works that are sold at Hermès and other
exclusive boutiques in the U.S. and Europe
Scarves with Tuareg motifs; Hermes; Paris, France; Silk; Each: 88.9 x 88.9 cm; Private Collection
Educational Programs
The museum will offer a series of free educational activities: On October
20 at 2p.m. the museum will screen “Africa: Desert Odyssey,” about a nineyear-old Tuareg boy embarking on his first trans-Saharan trek. The film examines the endurance of an age-old Tuareg tradition against the backdrop of
the modern world. And, on November 17 at 2p.m., the museum will screen
“Middle of the Moment” which documents the nomadic lifestyles of two Tuareg groups and the circus troupe Cirque O.
Sponsors and Publication
“Art of Being Tuareg: Sahara Nomads in a Modern World” was organized
by the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University
and the Fowler Museum at UCLA. Major support was provided by C. Diane
Christensen and Karen Christensen. Support to the Cantor Arts Center came
from the Halperin Director’s Discretionary Fund, the Bill and Jean Lane
Fund and the Phyllis C. Wattis Program Fund. Additional generous support
to the Fowler Museum was provided by the Shirley and Ralph Shapiro Director’s Discretionary Fund and the Ethnic Arts Council of Los Angeles. The
exhibition was curated by Thomas K. Seligman, director, Cantor Arts Center, and independent scholar Kristyne Loughran. “Art of Being Tuareg” premiered at the Fowler Museum in 2006 before traveling to the Cantor Arts
Center and the Smithsonian.
A companion catalog was edited by Seligman and Loughran and includes
essays by many of today’s most accomplished scholars of Tuareg art and
society.
Anghelen playing an anzad (photo by Francois Borel, In Gall; Niger, 1983)
ON THE COVER
Top left: Seated astride a prestigious white camel, this
Tuareg man and his companions wear the characteristic
tagulmust made of shimmering blue aleshu cloth (photo by
Thomas K. Seligman; Talak region, Niger; 2001).
About the
National Museum of African Art
Top right: Chemo Saidi (photo by Thomas K. Seligman;
Agadez, Niger; 1980)
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art is America’s only
museum dedicated to the collection, conservation, study and exhibition of
traditional and contemporary African art. The museum is open daily from
10a.m. to 5:30p.m., except December 25. Admission is free. The museum
is located at 950 Independence Ave. S.W., near the Smithsonian Metrorail
station on the Blue and Orange lines. For more information about this exhibition, call (202) 633-4600 or visit africa.si.edu. For general Smithsonian
information, call (202) 633-1000 or TTY (202) 633-5285.
Bottom left: Camel saddle; Kaggo Oumba; Tuareg, Kel
Ewey; Niamey, Niger; Wood, leather, metal; 80.8 x 73.3 x
36.3; Cantor Arts Center; 2005.102
Bottom right: Ladle; Tuareg; Niger; Aluminum, leather; L:
25 cm; Diam: 12.5 cm; Cantor Arts Center; 2002.51
Camel and rider; Saidi Oumba; Tuareg, Kel Ewey; Agadez, Niger; Nickel silver; 17.2 x 5.1 x 15.2 cm; Private collection
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THE METRO HERALD
Bag; Andi Ouhoulou; Tuareg, kel Ewey; Agadez, Niger; Leather, cloth, pigment; 89 x 86.1 x 1.3cm; Private Collection
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HEALTH & WELLNESS
October 19, 2007
BLACK AMERICA URGED TO CONFRONT ITS SECRET PAIN:
DEPRESSION
E
xperts in mental health, Members of Congress and other
prominent African Americans
today converged at the Congressional
Black Caucus Foundation’s 2007 Annual Legislative Conference to shed
light on issues surrounding “Black
Women Surviving Unmet Mental
Health Needs.” Rep. Julia Carson (DIN) together with the Depression Is Real
Coalition hosted this special session
with keynote speakers Eddie Levert,
legendary singer of The O’Jays, and
Terrie M. Williams, mental health advocate and acclaimed author. Eddie Levert,
for the first time, passionately lent his
voice and visibility to the cause of mental health in Black America and demonstrated his commitment to speaking out
about the effect of depression as witnessed and experienced in his family.
“Black women have always taken
care of us—their men, their children,
and their community. I have seen firsthand the damaging effects of depression, and it’s past time we support our
women and educate the black community to recognize depression for what it
is—a medical illness that is nothing to
be ashamed of,” said Levert.
According to a survey conducted
by Mental Health America, 63 percent
of people in the African American
community believe depression is a personal weakness, while only 31 percent
believe it is a medical health problem.
“One thing about black women is that
they are survivors,” said Rep. Carson.
“But we need to do more than survive—
we need to solve a growing crisis among
black women who remain silent about
this disease in an effort to appear strong.
“Black women are significantly impacted by mental health problems and
yet are reluctant to acknowledge that
depression is a serious, biologicallybased disease,” said Altha Stewart,
MD, president of the American Psychiatric Foundation, a founding member
of the Depression Is Real Coalition.
“Depression can be especially devastating because it is linked to other medical conditions experienced by black
women in high numbers, including
obesity, high blood pressure and heart
disease. And, left untreated, depression can be fatal. We need to do all we
can to encourage black women to confront their depression and ensure they
get the health care they need.”
Depression among black women is
almost 50% higher than it is among
white women. Of black women suffering from depression, only 7% receive
treatment compared to 20% of white
women. Black women are twice as
more likely to suffer from depression
than black men.
Terrie M. Williams, author of the
forthcoming book Black Pain: It Just
Looks Like We’re Not Hurting, commented, “My hope is that black women
and all of Black America will take a
painfully honest look at a silent killer in
its own community—depression. The
worst part is that we ourselves are often
unaware that we suffer from depression, or—if we know it—too ashamed
to admit it and seek help. And until we
address the reality of this illness, many
of us can’t begin to tear down the other
obstacles that hold us back.”
In addition to Dr. Stewart, experts
who joined today’s panel include Rahn
Bailey, MD, National Medical Association; Lynne Saunders, National Alliance on Mental Illness; Gina Villani,
MD, National Urban League; and Angela M. Burks, JD, Kelley School of
Business, Indiana University.
Panelists addressed a number of issues surrounding mental health and
black women, including health care
disparities; depression and its link to
breast cancer; workplace depression;
the role of families in mental health
care; as well as the racism, gender bias,
poverty, and social disadvantages
women of color experience that can
lead to depression and stress.
The Depression Is Real Coalition, a
group of seven preeminent medical,
advocacy and civic groups, has made it
its mission to dispel popular misconceptions that trivialize one form of
mental illness in particular, depression—as “just the blues” or dismiss it
entirely as an “imaginary disease.”
The Depression Is Real public education campaign is sponsored by The
American Psychiatric Foundation (a
philanthropic and educational subsidiary of the American Psychiatric Association), the Depression and Bipolar
Support Alliance, the League of United
Latin American Citizens, Mental Health
America, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, the National Medical Association, the National Urban League and is
made possible through the support of
Wyeth. For more information visit
www.DepressionIsReal.org.
The American Society of Clinical Oncology
& Women Mean Business Present
RED RIBBON WEEK—
OCTOBER 23RD–31ST
R
ed Ribbon Week is the oldest and largest drug prevention program in the nation reaching millions of young people every
year. Narconon Arrowhead would like to remind you to do your
part in taking a stand against drug and alcohol addiction. If you or someone you know is struggling with drug or alcohol addiction, Narconon
Arrowhead can help. Narconon offers free addiction counseling, assessments and referrals to rehabilitation centers nationwide by calling 1800-468-6933 or logging on to www. stopaddiction.com.
HAA CALLING FOR HIV/AIDS LISTINGS
T
he Department of Health’s HIV/AIDS Administration (HAA) is currently preparing an updated version of its free ‘’Directory of
HIV/AIDS Services in the District of Columbia,’’ first released in
May of this year, to include more agencies that provide HIV/AIDS-related
services.
‘’We’re going to do a new edition in the beginning of the new year,’’ says
Michael Kharfen, one of four people from HAA who prepared the 60-page directory of Department of Health-funded agencies providing HIV/AIDS-related services.
‘’This is the first time we’ve done this,’’ Kharfen says, ‘’but it’s our intention to do this now on an annual basis.’’
Kharfen says the directory provides “as comprehensive as we can, a range
of services that are available to people with HIV and or their caregivers, as
well as information on where you can get tested for HIV and an assortment of
other information resources.’’
Organizations or groups in Washington that are providing such services, as
well as preventative efforts, and are not already listed in the directory are
asked to contact HAA to be included in the next edition.
“We’re happy to send out, or give out, multiple copies to groups that can
make this available.’’
For a copy of the ‘’Directory of HIV/AIDS Services in the District of Columbia,’’ call 202-671-4900, or download a PDF version of the directory at
http://doh.dc.gov.
Help raise funds for early detection
& education in Alexandria
MAKE A
DIFFERENCE DAY
CLOTHING DRIVE
AND RUN/WALK
M
Saturday, October 20, 2007 at 8:00 a.m.
To register, visit www.alexcancerwalk.com or call 703.838.5030
On-site registration and parking at AMC
Hoffman Center Theatres
2500 Eisenhower Avenue
Alexandria, Virginia
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ake a Difference Day is a
national day of doing
good in the community.
The Maryland-National Capital
Park and Planning Commission’s
Department of Parks and Recreation will be participating in this
program by sponsoring a clothing
drive of new and/ or gently used
children’s hats, scarves, mittens and
gloves for members of our community, Prince George’s County.
Collecting articles of clothing
ends October 22, 2007. Forty-five
parks and recreation facilities
throughout the county will be host
sites including all community centers.
The culminating event will be a
5K Fun/Run/Walk For The Health
Of It, to be held Saturday, October
20, 2007 at Watkins Regional Park,
301 Watkins Park Drive, Upper
Marlboro, MD 20772. The scenic
park trail is accessible.
Registration begins at 8:30am
and the walk/run begins at
9:00AM. The first 300 to register
will receive a commemorative gift.
The event includes fun demos,
skate mobiles, hand dancing and
the Positive Pathways Pre-Teens
program to help prevent juvenile
diabetes.
For information contact the
Volunteer Services Office at 301454-1484, TTY-301-454-1493 or
log onto www.pgparks.com .
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HEALTH & WELLNESS
October 19, 2007
STRESS PREVENTION MONTH—
STOP MULTITASKING AND PLAY!
P
laying isn’t just for kids anymore. Emerging research tells
us that play can rewire the
brain, help reduce the risk of
Alzheimer’s and memory loss and
even decreases chronic pain. When
you play and laugh, it can boost your
immune system, lower blood pressure
and reduce stress hormones.
With more than 76% of Americans
indicating that they experience “great
stress” at least one full day during the
week, play needs to be an important
part of an established health routine.
October is “Stress Prevention
Month.” As we approach the most
stressful season of the year, it is a great
time to learn how to prevent the dangers of stress by creating play in your
hectic life.
Dr. Kathleen Hall offers the following playful tips to help prevent the
stress in your life:
• Revive Your Rhythm. Energetic
happy music can stimulate physical
responses such as increased heart
rate and respiration to result in
more energy
• Comedy Club. Play CD’s, DVD’s,
or go online to visit to your favorite
comedian or funny website. Laughter can increase your artery diameter
by 22% and boost your immune system. Do “internal jogging” often.
• Gratitude. Smile at your desk and
be grateful for something in your
life. It is physiologically impossible to experience stress and gratitude simultaneously.
• Share a Meal. Don’t eat alone at
your desk. Meet a coworker or
friend for lunch and share laughter
and stories.
• Reach Out and Touch Someone.
Email a friend with a playful email
when you are stressed.
• Toy Chest. Keep a drawer or box at
work with playful toys and when
you get stressed shoot a basket,
bounce a ball or play jacks.
• Play an Online Game. Play an online game for a few minutes during
your busy day to de-stress and
laugh.
Dr. Kathleen Hall has partnered
with Pogo, Electronic Arts, to kick off
“Take 5 to Play” to bring back the
power of play into everyday lives.
Here, visitors can play stress busting
games, interact with one another, and
seek advice from the expert herself.
(www.pogo.com)
Dr. Kathleen Hall, internationally
recognized stress/work-life balance expert, founder and C.E.O. of The Stress
Institute (www.thestressinstite.com),
has been featured on major media including The Today Show, CNN, FOX,
ABC News, CBS, Oprah & Friends
Radio, Good Morning America Radio,
Martha Stewart Radio, Fortune,
Forbes, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington
Post, Money, Business Week, Parents,
Cosmopolitan, Real Simple, and
Woman’s Day. She is the author of A
Life in Balance, 2007 Nautilus Book
Award winner, and Alter Your Life; has
a weekly radio show, Live with Dr.
Kathleen Hall, in LA on KCAA; and,
is a contributing writer for PINK Magazine.
OP-ED
T
he word hope can inspire a
range of feelings. But to someone facing cancer, as I have,
hope is a lifeline to a better tomorrow,
a breakthrough treatment, a cure. As
we observe breast cancer awareness
month this October, let hope also mean
that one day, no woman will have to
face this terrible disease with a poor
prognosis for recovery.
In the African American community, the hope to win the fight against
breast cancer is particularly profound.
Our community is disproportionately
affected by a variety of cancers, including breast cancer. African American women are 28 percent more likely
to die from breast cancer than white
women, according to the American
Cancer Society.
There are a variety of complex factors that contribute to this health disparity. One is that African American
women are more likely to be diagnosed later with more advanced cancer
– which is much more difficult to treat,
according to the American Cancer Society. That’s why it’s so critical that
women be vigilant about doing
monthly self-examinations and getting
regular mammograms as directed by
their physicians. These steps help detect any irregularities earlier and can
make a life or death difference.
More than ever before, medicines
also have the power to provide hope to
cancer patients. Until recently, killing
BREAST CANCER/
NEW MEDICINES
Larry Lucas
Special to The Metro Herald
cancer cells without harming healthy
cells in the body has proven to be extraordinarily difficult. But that’s
changing. Right now, researchers from
America’s pharmaceutical companies
are creating new “smart” medicines
that ignore healthy cells and go
straight to the cancer. In addition, companies are working on medicines to
improve the quality of life for people
undergoing cancer treatment. In fact, a
new survey by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America
(PhRMA) revealed 229 new medicines
in development for cancers that disproportionately impact African Americans, including 88 for breast cancer.
But, just knowing about the treatments available to you isn’t enough. If
you are diagnosed with cancer, it’s
very important to follow through with
the treatments prescribed by your doctor. Columbia University Medical
Center researchers found that African
American women with early stage
breast cancer are less likely to finish
chemotherapy treatment, contributing
to lower survivor rates.
There are likely a variety of factors
for why patients might not take their
medicines as prescribed; cost may be
one of them. For those who need help
affording their prescription medicines,
there are programs that can help. The
Partnership for Prescription Assistance
(1-888-4PPA-NOW or www.pparx.
org), a national program sponsored by
America’s pharmaceutical research
companies, provides a single point of
access to 475 patient assistance programs. More than 2,500 brand-name
and generic prescription medicines are
available through the participating
programs. So far, the program has already helped more than 4.3 million
people in need nationwide.
One of our community’s greatest
leaders, Martin Luther King, Jr., once
said, “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite
hope.” This month, as we remember
those who have won and lost the battle
against breast cancer, may we also preserve that infinite hope for a new treatment that helps save a life, ushering in
a cure to cancer forever.
•
•
•
Larry Lucas is the vice president for
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA).
PEDIATRIC NURSING:
SCOPE AND STANDARDS OF PRACTICE
T
he National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners
(NAPNAP) and the Society of
Pediatric Nurses (SPN) announced recently that the Pediatric Nursing:
Scope and Standards of Practice document is available for public comment.
The document is available on both
NAPNAP’s and SPN’s website (www
.napnap.org and www.pedsnurses.
org).
“This document incorporates the
wide array of responsibilities of pediatric nurses in general and advance
practice and is the result of a dynamic
and collaborative process involving
representatives from a variety of practice areas from both NAPNAP and
SPN”, said NAPNAP Chair Martha
Swartz. “We had the opportunity to
bring together the two primary pediatric nursing associations in the United
States to develop a comprehensive
document to meet the needs of all pediatric nurses in a variety of settings
and roles.” said SPN Chair Lynn Mohr.
The document, developed in collaboration with representatives from
BLACK FACT
On October 19,
1944, the US Navy
accepted
black women.
THE METRO HERALD
the American Nurses Association
(ANA), is in three parts, with a reference list at the end:
• Introduction discusses the history
of the document and how the two
organizations collaborated together
to create a unified scope and standards.
• Scope of Practice defines the actions and processes within pediatric
nursing practice, based on a thorough understanding of education,
clinical experience, certification
and demonstrated competency.
• Standards of Practice delineate
standards of practice, including assessment, diagnosis, outcomes
management, planning, implementation, and evaluation, and standards of professional performance
at all levels of pediatric nursing
practice.
The document is intended to guide,
define, and direct pediatric nursing
practice. It is also an essential resource
for nursing faculty and students, other
health care providers, researchers, and
those involved in funding, legal, policy
and regulatory activities.
Go to www.napnap.org or www.
pedsnurses.org to retrieve and review
the draft document posted for public
comment. Please provide feedback
using the online evaluation form. All
comments must be received by November 9, 2007.
For more information about
NAPNAP call 856-857-9700 or visit
www.napnap.org.
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COMMUNITY NEWS
October 19, 2007
ALEXANDRIA
ALEXANDRIA JAYCEES TO
HOLD FINAL COMMUNITY
YARD SALE
T
he Alexandria Junior Chamber
of Commerce (Jaycees) seek
sellers for the “Original” Community Yard Sale on Saturday, October 27 in the parking lot of Anthony
Lane Elementary School located at
7137 Beulah Street, Alexandria VA
22315. This is located just south of the
intersection of Beluah Street and Manchester Blvd. The cost for sellers is $15
per space. There is no cost to browse.
Seller set-up is from 6:00– 7:00AM
and the actual event runs from
7:00AM–3:00PM. This is the last yard
sale of the season.
Sellers may sell anything legal (appliances, clothing, toys, books, etc.)
except for food and drink which are
sold by the Jaycees. Please go to our
website: www.alexjaycees.org for directions, other dates, and seller rules.
To get to Lane E.S., go south on
Beulah Street from Franconia Rd, pass
Manchester Blvd, the school is on the
left. From Telegraph Rd, go north on
Beulah St, before Manchester Blvd,
the school is on the right.
The Alexandria Jaycees rely on the
proceeds from the Community Yard
Sales to fund ongoing activities for the
community. The Alexandria Jaycees is
part of a worldwide not-for-profit organization for young adults aged 21-40
that has been actively serving the City
of Alexandria since 1940. The Jaycees
are best known for their Holiday Shopping Tour for underprivileged children,
support of local charities, such as the
Red Cross and ALIVE, and the playground they funded and built for the
Community
Interested sellers and buyers can
obtain more information about the
Community Yard Sales by leaving a
message on the Alexandria Jaycees’
24-hour recorded eventline: 703-8667171. Someone from the Jaycees will
return the call or visit www.
alexjaycees.org.
SUBSTANCE ABUSE
AWARENESS WEEK—
OCTOBER 22-26, 2007
S
“
tomp Out Drugs in the Community” is part of Red Ribbon Week and will take place
on Wednesday, October 24, 2007
from 4:30 to 6:00pm at the Walt Whitman Middle School located at 2500
Parker Lane, Alexandria, VA. Presentation will given by: MADD (Mothers
Against Drunk Drivers).
Red Ribbon Week is the oldest and
largest drug prevention campaign in
the country. It serves as a vehicle for
communities and individuals to take a
stand for the hopes and dreams of our
children through a commitment to drug
prevention and education and a personal commitment to live drug free
lives with the ultimate goal being the
creation of drug free America
Fairfax County youth in 5th–8th
grades will learn valuable information
about drug prevention and earn the
chance to win great prizes at the
“Stomp Out Drugs” event! There will
be food, fun, prizes and priceless information about how they can help in the
fight against drugs!
For more information, contact:
Saundra Perry; Fairfax-Falls Church
Community Services Board Prevention Services, 8350 Richmond Highway, Suite 515, Alexandria, VA; (703)
704-6801
MONTGOMERY COUNTY
ALS MEETING
O
n Saturday November 3 the
ALS Caregiver Resource Support Group will meet from 1
to 3pm at The ALS Association, Administrative office, 7507 Standish
Place, Rockville. This support group
for all caregivers of ALS patients and
interested friends is sponsored by the
ALS Association. For more information on this free event, call 301-9789855 or visit www.ALSinfo.org.
(ALS is also referred to as Lou
Gehrig’s Disease.)
MEDIAN PRICE
FOR NEW HOUSE IN
MONTGOMERY COUNTY
CLIMBS TO $1.1 MILLION,
RESEARCHERS SAY
A
ccording to Montgomery
County Planning Department
researchers, the median price
for a new single-family detached home
in Montgomery County reached a startling $1.1 million in the first quarter of
2007.
Researchers found average prices
for all types of housing increased 8
percent in the first quarter while prices
were flat for the rest of the Washington, D.C. area.
County prices for existing singlefamily homes and new townhouses decreased slightly but continue to average more than $500,000.
Researchers say that developers appear to be responding to the downturn
in the housing market by focusing on
building high-end houses for the affluent rather than meeting the housing
needs of middle- and lower-income
families. Read the full report at: www.
mc-mncppc.org/research/documents/
HousingBulletin091907_003.pdf
Aware of the housing trend, the
Planning Board and other officials are
working to provide affordable housing
options. Current county law requires
most residential developers to include
a minimum of 12.5 percent moderately
priced homes in their proposed plans.
When the Planning Board approves 35
or more new housing units near Metro
Stations, developers are required to
build workforce housing units.
With County Council support, the
Planning Board has placed even
greater emphasis on the importance of
affordable housing opportunities in the
county, initiating a new housing study
that will become a new element of the
county’s General Plan. In June, the
Planning Board directed its researchers
to analyze county’s housing trends and
examine where home prices tend to be
lower. Researchers also will recommend ways the county’s most affordable neighborhoods can maintain their
quality of life without endangering
their affordability. Their report is expected to be delivered to the Planning
Board in January.
Late this month, the board will send
a revised set of growth policy recommendations to the County Council
that—if adopted—will require developers to pay higher impact fees in
order to offset the costs of infrastructure required by brand-new homes in
existing communities. The board recommended that developers be required
to pay a greater share of the cost to
build new roads and schools.
Under the board’s proposal, developers of most single-family detached
homes would need to pay about
$31,000 in impact taxes. According to
a variety of economic studies, those
fees add costs to developers, not homeowners, and help existing residents receive adequate services.
“Developers are not having prob-
lems selling high-priced new homes,
so we think they can contribute 3 percent of the revenues to help improve
the roads and schools serving that new
home,” said Planning Board Chairman
Royce Hanson.
The Planning Board, after reviewing its growth policy recommendations, presented them to the County
Council in work sessions which started
October 1st.
GROUNDBREAKING
CEREMONY OF NEW
THOMAS FARM
COMMUNITY CENTER
T
he Groundbreaking Ceremony
is the first of three events
scheduled for Saturday, October 20th. All are open to the public.
First will be the Thomas Farm
Community Center groundbreaking
ceremony followed by the Sister City
Friendship Bridge ribbon cutting ceremony and then the Rockville Antique
and Classic Car Show at Rockville
Civic Center Park
10:00a.m.—Groundbreaking Ceremony; Fallsgrove Drive, West of West
Montgomery Ave.; (Public may park
on Fallsgrove Drive)
11:00a.m.—Ribbon Cutting Ceremony; Watts Branch Parkway, South
of Hurley Avenue; (Public may park on
Watts Branch Parkway)
11:00a.m.–4:00p.m.—Rockville
Antique and Classic Car Show; Glenview Mansion, 603 Edmonston Drive
The 18,000-square foot Thomas
Farm Community Center will be the
City’s first community center west of I270. The facility includes a gymnasium, two multi-purpose rooms, a fitness center, game room, bathrooms, a
kitchenette, offices and storage space
among other amenities at a total cost of
$5.3 million. The budget for the project
was supported by a $1.5 million grant
from Maryland Program Open Space
(POS), a program that supports acquisition and construction of park facilities.
Also included in the budget was a
$45,000 developer contribution as well
as $250,000 from a state bond bill.
Following the groundbreaking,
spectators can travel a few miles over
to Watts Branch Parkway to witness
the official ribbon cutting ceremony of
the Sister City Friendship Bridge.
The bridge marks the most recent
connection to the City’s bikeway network. Bicyclists will be able to conveniently and more safely travel from
neighborhoods such as Rockshire and
Fallsgrove to other destinations in the
central and east part of the City. The
majority of the funding for this bridge
was obtained from the Maryland State
Highway’s Transportation Enhancement Program. The name was chosen
in recognition of the 50-year relationship between Rockville and Pinneberg,
Germany.
The grounds of Glenview Mansion
will be transformed when more than
400 antique and classic automobiles go
on display. Twenty-two car clubs, from
Packard to Ferrari, will be represented
during this grand event, while auto collectors and enthusiasts share the fond
memories of the classic cars of yesteryear. The goals of the Rockville Antique and Classic Car Show Committee
are to exhibit motor vehicles of the
highest standard of preservation and
restoration and to continue to be recognized as the premier non-judged motor
vehicle show in the region.
For more information visit www.
rockvillemd.gov
WASHINGTON, DC
INTERNATIONAL POLAR
YEAR: EXPLORING THE
CHANGING POLES
F
ind out why the polar regions
are changing faster than any
other part of our planet at a discission with Dr. Robin. Discussion
will take place on Thursday, November 29, 2007 from 6:00 to 7:30pm at
the Koshland Science Museum located
at 6th and E Streets, NW, Washington,
DC. Admission is $5.
For more information: 202-3341201, [email protected], or www.
kosland-science.org.
34TH ANNUAL WASHINGTON
STUDIES CONFERENCE
T
he theme of the 2007 Conference is “Empowerment” chosen to link the District efforts to
explore and commemorate the events
of the year 1968, which altered the face
of the city. Conference will run November 1–3, 2007 at The Historical
Society of Washington, DC located at
The Carnegie, 801 K Street, NW,
Washington, DC. Cost is free. You can
register
at
www.historydc.
org/2007/Conference/.
The Conference will convene on
Thursday evening, November 1, with
a reception at The Carnegie, followed
by the Letitia Woods Brown Memorial
Lecture given this year by the Honorable Walter Fauntroy. Very interesting
array of plenary and panel presentations are scheduled for Friday and Saturday, conference content and registration are found at www.historydc.
org/2007Conference/.
BLACK FACTS
On October 19, 1870, the first blacks were
elected to the House of Representatives.
Black Republicans won three of the four
congressional seats in South Carolina:
Joseph H. Rainey, Robert C. Delarge and
Robert B. Elliott. Rainey was elected to an
unexpired term in the Forty-First Congress
and was the first black seated in the House.
On October 19, 1943, Paul Robeson
opened in Othello at the Shubert Theater
in New York City. The show ran for
296 consecutive performances.
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
October 19, 2007
SILENT WINGS FILM SCREENING
PORTRAYS CRITICAL ROLE OF
WWII GLIDER PILOTS
SMITHSONIAN TO
REPATRIATE
SITTING BULL’S
LOCK OF HAIR
AND LEGGINGS
A
T
he National Museum of the
U.S. Air Force will feature a
screening of Silent Wings—The
American Glider Pilots of WWII at
10a.m. on November 10 in the Carney
Auditorium.
Narrated by Hal Holbrook, Silent
Wings reveals the critical role gliders
played in World War II offensives.
Through rare archival footage and photographs, the film places the audience
right at the center of the action in the
dangerous world of the American
glider pilot.
During World War II, 6,000 young
Americans volunteered to fly large unarmed cargo gliders into battle. For
these glider pilots, every mission was
critical. It was their task to repeatedly
risk their lives landing the men and
tools of war deep within enemy-held
territory, often in complete darkness.
Thousands of lives were saved and battles won because of their efforts.
Distributed by Inecom Entertainment Company, the film includes interviews with former National WWII
Glider Pilots Association, Inc. Chairman Michael J. Samek, surviving
glider veterans and legendary journalists Andy Rooney and Walter Cronkite,
who flew into Holland with the 101st
Airborne Division in 1944.
New York congresswoman Carolyn
McCarthy who sponsored a House
Resolution honoring glider pilots said,
“For nearly 50 years, our nation knew
very little about these courageous men.
They are finally receiving the recognition they deserve through the release of
Silent Wings and passage of a House
THE METRO HERALD
Resolution in their name.”
No tickets are necessary for this
free film screening. Doors to the Carney Auditorium open at 9a.m. More
information about the film is available
at www.SilentWingsFilm.com.
The National Museum of the
United States Air Force is located on
Springfield Street, six miles northeast
of downtown Dayton. It is open 9a.m.
to 5p.m. seven days a week (closed
Thanksgiving, Christmas and New
Year’s Day).
For more information, contact the
National Museum of the U.S. Air
Force at (937) 255-8046, ext. 490.
For more information on the film,
contact Julie Halapchuk with Inecom
Entertainment Company at (412) 9672700, ext. 3029 or [email protected].
lock of hair and wool
leggings belonging
to Sitting Bull, a
Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux
leader, are to be repatriated to
his closest living relatives by
the Smithsonian’s National
Museum of Natural History.
After Sitting Bull was killed
in 1890 while being arrested
by the Native American police, his body was in the temporary custody of Horace
Deeble, a U.S. Army doctor
at the Fort Yates military post
in North Dakota. Deeble obtained a lock of hair and the
leggings, a type of traditional
pants worn by Native American men during the 19th century, from Sitting Bull’s body
and later sent the items to the
museum in 1896.
“It has been an honor to
meet the descendants of Sitting Bull, and to work together
toward the return of these important items to the family,”
said Bill Billeck, director of
the National Museum of Natural History’s Repatriation Office. Billeck worked closely
with the family members on
this repatriation.
Ernie LaPointe, Sitting
Bull’s great-grandson, and a
representative of the four
known living great-grandchildren, requested the return
of the lock of hair and leggings. LaPointe said the repatriation “will bring closure to
my grandfather and I hope
that it will lead to a healing
among the lineal and collateral descendants of Sitting
Bull and to the Lakota
Nation.”
The National Museum of
Natural History’s Repatriation Office operates under
repatriation legislation that
requires the return of culturally affiliated remains and
certain types of objects to lineal descendants and federally
recognized Native American
tribes. Since it’s inception in
1991, the office has conducted more repatriations
than any other museum in the
United States.
CHARITY EVENT FOR
CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL
O
n Tuesday October 23rd, The DC Improv is proud to be hosting a
Halloween charity benefit for Children’s Hospital. Comedy will be
provided by our very own DC Improv Comedy School Cast (THE
DICSC)—it’s a true FUN-raising event! The Improv will be collecting costumes, decorations and other Halloween themed items to be distributed to
children in the hospital on Halloween. In addition a portion of the ticket price
will be donated to help replenish supplies for Children’s Hospital. If you like
the hit TV show “Whose Line Is It Anyway”, then you’re going to love The
DICSC! Come out and use laughter to show your support for Children’s Hospital.
During the week of October 23– 28, The DC Improv will be a collection
site to drop off costumes and decorations to help bring the spirit of Halloween
to the children in Children’s Hospital.
If you are coming to see a comedy show or just around our neighborhood,
stop by with Halloween goodies for the kids. Hours of Operation 10:00AM–
10:00PM
NO CANDY OR EDIBLE ITEMS. ALL GIFTS MUST BE BRAND
NEW FOR DISEASE/INFECTION CONTROL.
Tickets: $15.00, www.dcimprov. com or 202-296-7008. The DC Improv
Comedy Club & Restaurant is located at 1140 Connecticut Avenue N.W.
Washington DC. Doors Open at 7:00PM.
ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER’S EVITA
C
atholic University’s Benjamin T. Rome School of Music will sponsor
and present Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical “Evita” directed by Jane
Pesci-Townsend at 8:00PM on October 26, and 27, and 2:00PM,
on October 28 at The Catholic University of America, Hartke Theatre, 620
Michigan Ave., N.E., Washington, DC.
Webber’s musical offers a window into the infamous life story of Eva
“Evita” Duarte de Peron, the wife of Argentine President Juan Peron. Evita
rose from poverty to become the most famous Argentine woman in history,
one who inspired fear, admiration and hatred. CUA junior Amanda Roberts
will star in the title role, with sophomore Andrew Halpin as the story’s narrator, Che.
General admission tickets are $20. Tickets for students, staff and seniors
are $15. For more information, contact the Benjamin T. Rome School of
Music at 202-319-5414 or visit http://music.cua.edu.
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
October 19, 2007
ARTEEAST ANNOUNCES 2007 CINEMAEAST FILM FESTIVAL
COMPOSER AND CONDUCTOR HK
GRUBER BRINGS FRIGHTS AND FUN TO
BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
H
alloween arrives a little early
this year as Austrian composer, conductor and chansonnier HK Gruber brings his beloved
work Frankenstein!! to the Baltimore
Symphony Orchestra, October 19 at
the Music Center at Strathmore and
October 20 at the Joseph Meyerhoff
Symphony Hall. These Symphony
with a Twist™ concerts will feature
Gruber conducting, singing and acting
in his own “Pandemonium for Chansonnier and Orchestra,” Frankenstein!!, a collection of humorous songs
depicting characters including Dracula, Superman, Frankenstein and others often associated with the spooky
holiday (as well as some that are not).
Gruber will also lead the BSO in
Beethoven’s jesting Symphony No. 8
and Camille Saint-Saëns’ haunting
Danse macabre.
HK Gruber’s Frankenstein!! is a visual and aural feast, complete with
virtuosic orchestral arrangements, an
outlandish libretto by H.C. Artmann,
kitschy toy instruments and Gruber’s
own theatrical rendition of his songs,
which The Independent described as
“lovable madness.” Gruber will conduct the BSO as he sings and acts out
songs including “Miss Dracula,”
“Goldfinger and Bond,” “John
Wayne,” “The Green-haired Man,” and
“Frankenstein,” among others. Gruber’s performances have been praised
as “stunning,” “riotous” and “tantalizing.” In addition to standard orchestral
instruments, Gruber’s score calls on
members of the orchestra to play items
including plastic hosepipes, kazoos, a
toy trumpet and motor horns. The
work, originally written for chansonnier (singer) and chamber ensemble in
1971, was re-orchestrated for full orchestra six years later. The BSO performed the original chamber version of
the work with Gruber as soloist in the
inaugural concert of the Discovery Series in 1986, but these concerts mark
the BSO’s first performance of the full
orchestral arrangement.
Danse macabre is one of composer
Camille Saint-Saëns’ most frequently
performed and best known orchestral
works. Based on a Henri Cazalis poem
rife with macabre images, the piece is
often associated with Halloween, and
is frequently used in horror movie
scores and haunted houses. The programmatic work begins with the Devil
tuning up his fiddle, represented by a
solo violin with an out of tune E-string.
As the work continues, chilling
melodies depict Cazalis’ moaning trees
and dancing skeletons, and the xylophone plays a prominent role in depicting the skeletons’ rattling bones. As
more skeletons arise from their graves
and begin to fly, more and more sections of the orchestra join in the madness. Finally, the oboe sounds the
rooster’s call, dawn breaks and the
skeletons return to their graves as the
piece comes to a quiet conclusion.
The program will conclude with
Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8 in F
Major, composed in 1812. The work,
the shortest of Beethoven’s symphonies, is generally upbeat and lighthearted despite the strife and turmoil in
Beethoven’s life at the time of the
work’s composition. Beethoven’s hearing was fading quickly and he was involved in a lengthy dispute with his
brother. Also in 1812, Beethoven wrote
the so-called “Immortal Beloved” letters. These letters, written to an
unidentified
woman,
represent
Beethoven’s frustration and despair
over not being with her. The Eighth
Symphony appears to be totally removed from this unhappiness however.
Energetic melodies and bouncing
rhythms pervade the work, and the second movement’s steady rhythmic
pulse, often perceived as a playful
joke, is an homage to Beethoven’s
friend Johann Mälzel, inventor of the
portable metronome.
The concerts at both the Meyerhoff
and at Strathmore mark the BSO’s first
College Nights of the 2007-2008 season. Voted “Best College Night” by
Johns Hopkins University students, the
evening features a post-concert party,
refreshments, prize giveaways and a
chance to mingle with musicians of the
BSO. Tickets for College Night are
$10 with a university ID.
These Symphony with a Twist ™
concerts are part of the BSO’s 20072008 “Year of the Composer,” which
features works by 11 contemporary
composers, paired with all nine
Beethoven symphonies. HK Gruber is
among five composers who will also
conduct the Orchestra their own works
this season.
Tickets for these performances
range from $15 to $84 and are available through the BSO Ticket Office,
www.BSOmusic.org, 877-BSO-1444
or 410-783-8000.
SPECIAL EVENING PROGRAM
TO BE HELD AT ARLINGTON HOUSE
P
rogram will be held on Friday, October 26, from 7:30–
10:00p.m. at Arlington House, in The Robert E. Lee Memorial/
Arlington National Cemetery, in Arlington, Virginia.
Join the National Park Service for a free Open House with an
evening program about the latter part of Robert E. Lee’s life and death,
as well as death and mourning in a broader context from 1802–2001.
Visitors will explore how a community of wealthy property owners,
slaves, military men, government officials, mourners and tourists has
shaped how we, as a nation, remember our dead. This event will feature
living history demonstrations; ranger- and volunteer-led talks about life,
illness, death, and funeral customs; and Civil War period music by the
Federal City Brass Band. Reservations are required and will be available
for 7:30p.m., 8:00p.m. and 8:30p.m. To make a reservation, call 703235-1530 or visit www.nps.gov/arho. This event is one of several held
at Arlington House during 2007 to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the
birth of Robert E. Lee.
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O
rganizers of renowned biennial CinemaEast Film Festival
announced recently the program selections for the 2007 season, to
take place from November 8-15, 2007
at the IFC Center in Manhattan.
Recognized around the world for
being a premier venue for bringing cinematic voices from the Middle East,
North Africa and their diasporas to international crowds, the 2007 CinemaEast Film Festival selections continue to break new artistic and political
ground. Culled from over 250 submissions, the festival program illustrates
the diversity and artistic vibrancy of
veteran, emerging and independent
filmmakers, and showcases 12 features,
22 documentaries (long and short), and
18 shorts representing15 countries.
In a time of increased turmoil and
misunderstanding about these regions,
the 2007 CinemaEast Festival is more
timely than ever. Breaking stereotypes
and misconceptions, the film selections will provide rare opportunities
for dialogue with filmmakers, actors
and artists; building bridges through
culture and art. Some of the festivals
selections include:
The TV is Coming by Moncef
Dhouib (Tunisia)—A German TVcrew instigates an uproarious “Extreme Makeover” of a lost village in
the Tunisian countryside, setting a se-
ries of hysterical antics into play.
MAINLINE by Rakhshan BaniEtemad and Mohsen Abdolvahab
(Iran)—The ninth feature by Iran’s most
celebrated female filmmaker, is an unflinching portrayal of the new face of
Iranian youth, through the story of a
young bride-to-be’s psychological struggle with overcoming heroin addiction.
What A Wonderful World by Faouzi
Bensaidi
(Morocco)—Set
in
Casablanca, this quirky, post-modern
reflection depicts what calculated and
unexpected intersections life in an
urban metropolis can bring.
Documentary selections include an
impressive array of some of the most
dynamic and talented filmmakers tackling with wit, grace, and originality,
pressing social issues, tragic political
situations, challenging stereotypes or
mixing the subjective voice with collective experience. Films include the
meditative journey of a Palestinian immigrant’s return home to Haifa, where
past and present seem entrenched, recollections of his imprisonment in an Israeli jail intertwine with the new reality of Palestine (The Roof); a
captivating documentary on Arab volunteers in the Iraqi secular resistance
that rides the cutting-edge of grass
roots political engagement and art
making all set to a hipsters sound track
(Isti’mariyah); an incisive and master-
ful investigation into the political
predicament of contemporary Syria
(We Will Live to See these Things); the
portrait of an Iraqi war combatant, imprisoned in Iran who paints prison
walls and transformed the grounds into
a museum (POW 57187); and a humorous, witty portrayal of the social
transformation of Tehran told by one of
Iran’s most promising emerging documentary film talents (Tehran has no
more Pomegranates).
Short film selection is also illustrative of the diversity of talent emerging
in the region and gives rarely screened
experimental works.
The 2007 Season will also feature
Beur is Beautiful, an overdue homage
and groundbreaking retrospective and
conference on beur cinema: a burgeoning trend in French filmmaking reflecting on the legacy of colonialism and
the integration of France’s populations
of North African descent.
In line with its mission to promote
visibility of emerging initiatives in filmmaking in the region, CinemaEast Film
Festival will include two special presentations by new film schools in Baghdad
and Amman and other special programs.
For more information about
ArteEast and the CinemaEast 2007
Film Festival visit www.arteeast.org/
or contact [email protected] 425
591 8781 (cell)
VFH HIRES FIRST DIRECTOR OF
VIRGINIA INDIAN HERITAGE PROGRAM
I
n Virginia, where history and tradition reign, there is one area in which
public education is lacking: Virginians grow up and live here knowing almost nothing about Virginia Indians.
Despite the fact that Indian ancestors
were living here for thousands of years,
few non-Indian people in Virginia today
have ever met a Virginia Indian; they
know little about Virginia Indian history,
and most assume that Virginia Indians
are people of the past. The Virginia
Foundation for the Humanities (VFH) in
partnership with tribal leaders in Virginia has established a program to address this problem and has hired
Karenne Wood as its first director.
Wood, a member of the Monacan Indian Nation and a long-time advocate
for Virginia’s native communities, previously served as Chair of the Virginia
Council on Indians, a gubernatorial appointment. She has studied at George
Mason University and the University of
Virginia, where she holds a Ford Predoctoral Fellowship. “Our elders have
taught us that the history of our people
is portrayed inaccurately,” she says.
“We have an obligation to those who
came before us—our ancestors and elders—to correct the stereotypes and misperceptions of the past.”
The Virginia Indian Heritage Program will include research and a resulting database that will be housed
on-line at a VFH website; summer institutes for K-12 teachers; higher education summits to promote educational
opportunities for American Indians in
Virginia; and a grant program to provide funds for tribes, intertribal groups,
museums, and other organizations to
implement or improve their interpretation of Virginia Indian history. The
Virginia Indian Heritage Program is
funded in part by the Commonwealth
of Virginia.
Throughout its thirty-four year history, VFH has been telling the untold
stories of Virginia, including the story
of its indigenous citizens. “The VFH
strives to create the most complete picture of Virginia, and of its complex history,” according to David Bearinger,
Director of Grants and Public Programs. “Karenne was the perfect choice
to direct the Virginia Indian Heritage
Program because she brings to this
work a unique blend of passion, intellect, and experience—an understanding
of the past, sensitivity to the issues of
the present, and a vision for the future.”
Chief Kenneth Adams of the Upper
Mattaponi Tribe made numerous visits
to the Virginia General Assembly with
other chiefs to support funding for this
program. He notes: “We now have an
opportunity to portray the Virginia Indian in a proper light. We cannot continue to be the forgotten people in the
Virginia history books or on the landmarks across this Commonwealth. Our
Creator placed us here as the gatekeepers of this land, and our magnificent
story can not and will not be buried.”
Earlier this year, VFH published
The Virginia Indian Heritage Trail, a
guide to locations which have accurate, culturally sensitive interpretative
content on Virginia Indians. The guide
provides an interpretive framework or
context in which to understand the
sites. The Virginia Indian Heritage
Trail publication was developed by the
Virginia Council on Indians with support from Jamestown 2007, the Virginia Department of Historic Resources, the Virginia Tourism
Corporation, the Virginia General Assembly, and the VFH. The Virginia Indian Heritage Trail provides an accessible general introduction to Virginia
Indian history, heritage, and contemporary life. Copies of the book are available through the VFH website (www.
virginiafoundation.org).
This summer, VFH offered the first
state-wide teachers’ institute to be
taught collaboratively by Virginia Indian tribal leaders and academic experts. Public school teachers spent four
days learning about indigenous history
and cultures, regional ecology, archaeology, and contemporary experiences
of tribal members who were denied access to public education until 1963.
Similar institutes will be offered next
summer in various regions of the state.
Future plans for the program include
the development of web-based lesson
plans for teachers and other educational
materials, museum exhibits and public
programs, a second edition of The Virginia Indian Heritage Trail, new publications focused on tribal histories and
historic images, and other projects.
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
October 19, 2007
STILL PURRRFECTLY MARVELOUS
eartha Kitt (photo courtesy of WPAS)
E
artha Kitt celebrates her 80th
birthday on November 10 at
Warner Theatre. Eartha Kitt
was a sex kitten before Halle Berry and
a groundbreaking international style
maven before Madonna. She challenged racial stereotypes and embraced
her biracial background long before
others in the entertainment industry. A
proven “triple-threat” performer, Kitt
gained fame as a dancer with Katherine Dunham, as Catwoman in TV’s
Batman series, and as a singer and performer on Broadway and beyond.
Her cabaret-style solo performance
at Warner Theatre on Saturday, November 10 at 8pm includes traditional
favorites and new classics, all performed
with the improvised theatrics and personal flair that have made her a star. Said
a Guardian reviewer, describing a recent
Kitt performance at the Shaw Theater in
London, “It is not just the legs that are
intact: Kitt retains a ferocious pair of
lungs and her trademark vibrato throaty
growl—she remains a staggeringly vivacious performer—all high-kicks, back
bends and athletic crouches.”
Kitt’s best selling recordings include Love for Sale, Santa Baby, I
Want to be Evil, and Folk Tales of the
Tribes of Africa, which earned her a
Grammy Award nomination. In 1967,
when appearing as Catwoman, her face
and trademark “purr” became synonymous with the role and part of pop culture. Her roles as the villain Yzma in
Disney’s animated feature The Emperor’s New Groove, as Mme. Zeroni
in the film Holes, and as the Fairy
Godmother in New York City Opera’s
Cinderella has introduced her distinctive voice and persona to an entirely
new generation of fans.
Born Eartha Mae Kitt in rural South
Carolina, the artist was sent to live
with an aunt in Harlem at age 8. In her
late teens, on a friend’s dare, she auditioned for Katherine Dunham Dance
Troupe and won a spot as a dancer and
vocalist. She traveled around the world
with the ensemble and was spotted by
a nightclub owner in Paris and booked
as a featured singer at his club. International audiences fell in love with her
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unique look and talent. Singing in ten
different languages, Miss Kitt has performed in over 100 countries and has
been honored with a star on The Hollywood Walk of Fame.
In 1966, Miss Kitt was nominated
for an Emmy for her role in the television series, I Spy and in 1978 she received her second Tony nomination for
her starring role in the musical Timbuktu. Live theater is Miss Kitt’s passion. In 2001, Broadway critics singled
her out with both Tony and Drama
Desk nominations for her role as Dolores in George Wolfe’s The Wild
Party. She has also starred in National
Tours of The Wizard of Oz and Rogers
& Hammerstein’s Cinderella.
In 2003, Miss Kitt dazzled Broadway
audiences as Liliane Le Fleur in the revival of Nine: The Musical. In 2004, she
appeared as The Fairy Godmother in The
New York City Opera production (Lincoln Center) of Cinderella. She starred
most recently in the off-Broadway production of Mimi Le Duck (2006).
Miss Kitt remains devoted to solo
performances in front of live audiences. She frequently enthralls New
York nightclub audiences during her
extended stays at The Café Carlyle.
Other recent appearances include such
varied venues as Detroit’s Music Hall,
Washington, D.C.’s Blues Alley, Seattle’s Jazz Alley and the famed Ravinia
Festival. She also brought her onewoman show to the 51st Annual JVC
Newport Jazz Festival and the JVC
Jazz Festival in Miami Beach.
Tickets: $40-80. To purchase tickets
call Ticketmaster at 202-397- SEAT
(7328) or visit www.ticketmaster.
com.
SENIOR SPY CITY TOURS
L
urking behind Washington,
DC’s day-to-day world of government workers, political antics, inspiring museums, and soaring
monuments, is an underworld of espionage unknown to the casual observer.
But now, those who seek to learn the
secret history of history can go behind
the scenes for an exclusive look at the
city’s hidden world of espionage.
Launched in 2006, Spy City Tours™
blows the cover off some of the most notorious spy cases ever to unfold in the nation’s capital. Now, due to the incredible
success of its first year, the International
Spy Museum and Gray Line are offering
an additional Tuesday tour including a
special Senior rate valid on both Tuesday and Saturday tours. Recruits ages
55 and above are invited to experience
this Tuesday tour with a special promotional rate of $54, a savings of over 30%
off the high season ticket price. This promotion is only available through February, so don’t miss this opportunity to get
a spy’s eye view of Washington, DC.
The two hour tour features over 25
of Washington’s most notable espionage sites used by some of the nation’s infamous spies. Everywhere you
turn you can find embassies, agencies,
restaurants, and hotels in Washington
that have been at the center of espionage activity . . . if you know where to
look! Famous sites like the French
bistro where a seductive agent used her
wiles to elicit secret information from
her infatuated U.S. State Department
target, as well as the pub where deadly
traitor Aldrich Ames gave up the names
of 25 American spies in the Soviet
Union, ten of whom were subsequently
executed, shot in the back of the head.
The tour includes an interactive
mission in which Recruits complete an
undercover operation. The mission
will take them to a posh local park
where they will be asked to decipher a
top secret message left by an agent.
The most adept recruits will crack the
code and deliver the information back
to headquarters.
Intelligence insiders will share with
Recruits the truth about their own experiences in the great game of espionage via video briefings. Former
KGB Major General Oleg Kalugin will
reveal what it was like to work undercover while stationed in Washington,
DC. Former CIA Operations Officer
and Founding Executive Director of
the International Spy Museum, Peter
Earnest, will disclose key spy concepts, lingo, and recruitment strategies.
Former CIA Chiefs of Disguise, Tony
and Jonna Mendez, will demonstrate
the art of the “quick change” and how
to move through hostile territory without attracting attention. The FBI’s Historian will provide an exclusive look at
some of the Bureau’s most provocative
evidence from over 100 years of FBI
espionage investigation.
Spy City Tours™ is available every
Tuesday and Saturday at 10am. The
Fall/Winter rate is $59 and High season rate is $75. Senior tickets are $54
and available only through February
2008. All Spy City Tours include
same day admission to the International Spy Museum. Tickets can be
purchased online at grayline.com or
by calling 1-800-GRAYLINE.
NOTICE OF
VOLUNTEER NEEDS
G
ive an abused or neglected
child the gift of your voice!
The Alexandria/Arlington
Court Appointed Special Advocate
(CASA) Program is seeking
volunteers. Volunteers conduct interviews with children, families, and
professionals, monitor compliance
with court orders, write detailed
reports, and represent the best
interests of the child in court.
Volunteers must complete training
and background checks. Volunteers
commit to one year with the program.
Bilingual volunteers (Spanish/
English) are greatly needed. Training
begins in late February. To learn
more, call (703) 820-9001 or visit
www.scanva.org.
VSA ARTS AND VOLKSWAGEN OF
AMERICA, INC., DEBUT “DRIVEN”
EXHIBITION AT THE
S. DILLON RIPLEY CENTER
V
SA arts and Volkswagen of
America, Inc., present “Driven,” an art exhibition by 15
emerging artists with disabilities that debuts at the Smithsonian Institution’s S.
Dillon Ripley Center through Dec. 31.
The exhibition illustrates the motivational force behind the artists’ personal
visions—what moves them to create.
“This is the sixth year VSA arts has
partnered with Volkswagen to identify
talented young artists,” said Soula Antoniou, president of VSA arts. “Volkswagen of America, Inc.’s support
helps these emerging artists pursue careers in the arts.”
“Volkswagen is proud to partner
with VSA arts and reveal the outstanding talents of these young artists,” said
David Geanacopoulos, Volkswagen of
America, Inc.’s director of industrygovernment relations. “This exhibition
highlights the enormous possibilities
that exist for their bright futures and
what they might pursue.”
A total of $60,000 will be awarded
to the finalists. Jacolby Satterwhite, 21,
a current student at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Md.,
and originally from Columbia, S.C.,
won the $20,000 grand prize for an oil
on canvas titled, “Remission & Resilience.” The jury awarded Laurel
Ebenal, of Ellensburg, Wash., 1st prize
of $10,000 for her digital photograph,
“Faun.” E. Brooke Lanier, 23, of
Rochester, Minn., received the 2nd
prize of $6,000 for “Staring,” an
archival inkjet print on photo rag paper.
The following artists won an Award
of Excellence and $2,000:
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•
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Sarah Beren, 23, Rochester, N.Y.
Isaac Caruso, 19, Phoenix, Ariz.
David Castro, 23, Visalia, Calif.
Elayna Flodin, 24, Beaverton, Ore.
Wes Holloway, 23, Katy, Texas
Ryan McDonnell, 21, Northampton, Mass.
• Jessica Merrell, 23, Albuquerque,
N.M.
• Anjali Poddar, 22, Andover, Mass.
• Patti Pogodzinski, 17, Jacksonville,
Fla.
• Holly Schuh, 21, Altura, Minn.
• Merlin Strivelli, 16, Asheville, N.C.
• Hannah Zurko, 21, Wooster, Ohio
The largest awards program for
emerging artists with disabilities ages
16-25, the work chosen for the exhibition was selected by a distinguished
jury, including William A. Newman,
artist and professor at the Corcoran
Gallery of Art, John Perreault, art critic
for Artopia, and Lisa Wainwright, dean
of graduate studies at the School of the
Art Institute of Chicago.
The S. Dillon Ripley Center is located at 1100 Jefferson Drive S.W. It is
open daily from 10a.m. to 5:30p.m.,
except Dec. 25, and admission is free.
For more information about VSA
arts visit www.vsarts.org.
Visit Volkswagen of America online at vw.com.
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SPORTS & RECREATION
October 19, 2007
WOODS HAS ENDORSEMENT DEAL
WITH GATORADE
Tiger Woods
T
iger Woods will have his own
brand of sports drink next year
under an endorsement deal announced with Gatorade that marks a
couple of firsts for the world’s No. 1
golfer—his first U.S. deal with a beverage company and his first licensing
agreement.
Gatorade said it will introduce
“Gatorade Tiger” in March, with more
products to follow. Woods even picked
out the flavors himself, with the drink
available in a cherry blend, citrus
blend and grape.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed, although Golfweek magazine
reported last month it was for five
years and could pay Woods as much as
$100 million, moving him closer to the
$1 billion mark in career endorsements.
“There have been some licensing
elements to things we’ve done,” said
Mark Steinberg, his agent at IMG, who
cited video games produced by EA
Sports as an example. “But everything
he does with Gatorade is going to be
creating new products. It’s something
Tiger and I and our licensing business
has been looking at for some time.”
The deal has been in the works
since the summer, and Golfweek reported earlier that it came down to
Gatorade and Vitamin Water. It became obvious who won out when
Woods began drinking from Gatorade
bottles during the final month of the
PGA Tour season, even when the
Gatorade product wasn’t available at
certain tournaments.
“Gatorade has been part of my
game plan for years, whether I’m training or competing, so this is an ideal
match,” Woods said in a statement.
“I’m eager to launch my first signature
product in a few months and look forward to developing additional sports
performance beverages with Gatorade
in the coming years.”
Woods, with 61 victories on the
PGA Tour and 13 major championships, joins a stable of star athletes at
Gatorade—Michael Jordan, Derek
Jeter, Peyton Manning and Mia
Hamm. None of those athletes has licensing deals, which also is a first for
Gatorade, a division of PepsiCo.
“His iconic nature resonates everywhere he goes,” said Jeff Urban, senior
vice president of Gatorade. “Bridging
that iconic nature with his will to win,
those things make this a big deal for us.”
Urban said it was too early to say
how Gatorade would market Woods
and his new product line, especially
since the drink will not be available
until the spring.
The company released video of
Woods going through sweat analysis
testing with the Gatorade Sports Science Institute, which tested such things
as his sweat rate and energy needs during exercise.
Woods has endorsed everything
from sports equipment and apparel
(Nike) to financial services (Accenture) to automobiles (Buick) to shaving
products (Gillette). His first beverage
deal comes after 11 years as a professional.
“We wanted to get away from a
straight endorsement deal in the beverage category,” Steinberg said. “We
thought this would be the best fit for
his first licensing deal. It’s authentic to
what Tiger does every day, as hard as
he works out every day.”
Woods previously had an endorsement deal with Asahi Coffee in Japan.
The Gillette endorsement features a
television commercial with Roger Federer and French soccer star Thierry
Henry. Steinberg said it was not likely
that Woods and Jordan, who are close
friends, would do a Gatorade commercial together. They have never appeared in television ads for Nike.
2007 STEEPLECHASE AT OAK RIDGE
E
xcitement is growing for the Fourth Annual Steeplechase at Oak
Ridge. The races are being held Sunday, October 28, 2007, and
volunteers are busy transforming the historic Oak Ridge Estate into a
first-rate steeplechase track.
On-site preparations begin next week: setting up the portable safety
hurdles, prepping the track for hooves and jockeys, and preparing for the
needs of the thousands of spectators expected to attend this year’s edition of
the Steeplechase at Oak Ridge.
Proceeds from the Steeplechase at Oak Ridge benefit children of the
Jubilee Family Development Center and the Hillside Garden Club of Lynchburg. Since its inception, the Steeplechase at Oak Ridge has delivered more
than $160,000 for charity. General admission and tailgate tickets are on sale
now at retailers throughout Central Virginia. For more information, go to
www.jubileefamily.org/steeplechase/index.html.
TERRIER RACES
One of the many exciting pre-race events is the terrier races. Dogs will be
placed in divisions according to height and the Championship will be run off
by winners over fences. Anyone may enter the race. Please arrive by 11am at
the terrier course. No entry fee. No qualifications. Divisions: PUPPIES (12
months and under) to be run on the flat only; TERRIERS 12-1/2” and under;
TERRIERS over 12-1/2”. Heats of 6 to be run on the flat for practice. Heats
of 6 to be run over fences. Winners over fences to race for champion and reserve. All terriers must be kept under control at all times—on leashes or in
crates. Fighters will be eliminated. No bitches in heat.
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59-YEAR-OLD LINEBACKER RETURNS TO FIELD
M
ike Flynt waited 37 years to
get back on a college football field. Once he did, he
was part of his team’s winning play.
Playing left end on kicking plays,
the 59-year-old grandfather held his
own all night, most importantly during
the field goal that gave Sul Ross State
a 45-42 victory over Texas Lutheran in
three overtimes Saturday night.
With his wife, three kids, grandson
and a legion of new fans watching,
Flynt kept his defender from getting
into the backfield when it mattered
most, then turned, jumped and pumped
his fist. He wound up lost in a
teamwide pile celebrating their second
straight win in extra periods.
“We won this tonight for each
other; that’s what matters,” Flynt said.
“I’m glad my family was able to be
part of this and see this. That’s important to me personally. From a team
standpoint, it’s their victory.”
His joy was evident during a
postgame gathering on the field. As the
coach spoke, Flynt couldn’t stop grinning.
“I’ve been at a lot of great schools
and experienced a lot of this stuff,”
said Flynt, who was a strength coach at
Nebraska, Oregon and Texas A&M.
“These guys, they’re learning every bit
of this.”
Flynt got in for nine snaps, including one waived off by penalty. He
stood up his rusher several times and
got in a nice chip block once. Out of
respect or admiration, opposing coach
Dennis Parker never tried taking advantage of the old man. Yes, Flynt is
two years older than Parker and eight
years older than his own coach.
Afterward, Flynt went to the player
he blocked most of the night to shake
his hand.
“I just told him he played a great
game,” Flynt said. “He was always
talking, always coming hard. I appreciate that.”
Flynt was kicked out of school during two-a-days in 1971. A team captain
at the time, he never got over letting
down his friends. He mentioned that to
the guys during a reunion this summer
and one of them basically dared him to
come back. Discovering he was eligible, Flynt did, only to miss the first
five games because of a groin injury
and pinched nerve in his neck.
Despite being an AARP member
and only six years from Medicare, he’s
still in good enough shape to butt
heads with kids one-third his age—
Sul Ross State linebacker Mike Flynt,
center, celebrates after a college football
game against Texas Lutheran. Flynt, 59, is
playing linebacker, 37 years after he last
played for the Lobos. Sul Ross State won
45-42 in triple overtime. (Photo courtesy
AP Matt Slocum)
about as old as his youngest daughter—because he’s spent his life in the
fitness business. In recent years he’s
sold a piece of workout equipment he
invented, even training the military.
CO-DEFENDANT TO TESTIFY VS O.J., OTHERS
guns,” Miley said. “I think he wishes
he would have never met O.J.”
Simpson and his lawyers have denied guns were in the room at the
Palace Station hotel-casino. His
lawyers did not immediately respond
Monday to requests for comment.
Alexander and Cashmore waived
their preliminary hearings. Las Vegas
Justice of the Peace Joe Bonaventure
Jr., set both men’s arraignments for
Oct. 23.
Cashmore faces up to five years in
prison.
“In District Court, he’ll be pleading
NASCAR FLAP
RAISES CAUTION FLAG FOR DEMS
O.J. Simpson
A
second co-defendant in the O.J.
Simpson armed robbery case
said that he will plead guilty to
a reduced charge and testify against
Simpson and four others in the alleged
hotel room theft of sports collectibles
from two memorabilia dealers.
Walter Alexander, 46, of Mesa,
Ariz., told a judge he will plead guilty
to conspiracy to commit robbery, a
felony. He could face between one and
six years in prison.
Outside the courtroom, Alexander
and his lawyers declined to say what
testimony he will provide.
Earlier Monday, Charles Cashmore,
40, of Las Vegas, told the same judge
that he would plead guilty to a felony
and testify for the prosecution.
“It’s always a prosecutor’s strategy
to go after the little fish to get to the big
fish,” Cashmore’s attorney, Edward
Miley, said outside court. “In this, it
seems to be that O.J. Simpson is the
big fish.”
The plea agreements up the ante in
the prosecution of Simpson. Cashmore
can testify that guns were involved in the
Sept. 13 confrontation with two sports
memorabilia dealers at a Las Vegas
casino hotel room, his lawyer said.
“He can establish who was in the
room, what was said, who had guns,
who didn’t have guns, potentially who
may have seen guns, who didn’t see
guilty to accessory to robbery,” Clark
County District Attorney David Roger
told Bonaventure. “He’s agreed to provide truthful testimony.”
Outside court, Cashmore said he
thought he’d done the right thing, but
declined additional comment.
Cashmore was initially arraigned
on nine felonies and a gross misdemeanor, charges that included kidnapping, armed robbery, assault with a
deadly weapon and conspiracy. A kidnapping conviction alone could have
resulted in a sentence of life in prison
with parole.
I
t got the GOP’s engines revving—a Democratic official suggesting
staffers get immunized for several diseases before heading south from
Washington and into the Red State wilds of NASCAR country to conduct
research at a pair of races.
The reaction on both sides illustrates just how valuable candidates for
elected office consider the votes of NASCAR fans who pack grandstands by
the thousands every weekend and the donations of business leaders who
spend millions to sponsor the sport.
It started last month, when an official with the House Committee on
Homeland Security suggested that staff aides get immunizations before visiting health facilities at Alabama’s Talladega Superspeedway and North Carolina’s Lowe’s Motor Speedway, where the Bank of America 500 was run
Saturday.
In an e-mail, a staffer who works for committee chairman Rep. Bennie
Thompson, D-Miss., noted an “unusual need for whomever attending to be
vaccinated against hepatitis A and B,” as well as “the more normal things—
tetanus, diphtheria, and of course, seasonal influenza.”
The note didn’t explain why the committee saw such concern. It didn’t
mention NASCAR or the races at the tracks at all. But the implication was
enough to draw a snarky complaint from Republican Rep. Robin Hayes,
whose district includes Lowe’s Motor Speedway.
“I have never heard of immunizations for domestic travel, and ... I feel
compelled to ask why the heck the committee feels that immunizations are
needed to travel to my hometown,” wrote Hayes.
Thompson responded to Hayes that such immunizations are “are recommended for public safety professionals working in areas such as hospitals,
holding areas and similar locations.” But the staffers were only scheduled to
visit a few health care facilities—not work at them.
“What do they know about NASCAR that we don’t?” said Dr. David
Weber, a professor of medicine and public health at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill.
THE METRO HERALD
BUSINESS NEWS/BIDS & PROPOSALS
October 19, 2007
10TH ANNUAL ARIEL-SCHWAB BLACK INVESTOR SURVEY
A
riel Mutual Funds and The
Charles Schwab Corporation
released today their 10th annual Black Investor Survey at the firstever Ariel-Schwab Black Investor
Summit. The two financial services
companies convened the summit in
New York City at NASDAQ in response to the survey’s findings, which
show that African-Americans save far
less money than Whites and are no
more likely to be investors today than
they were a decade ago. Panels featuring government, business, and community leaders covered such topics as
financial literacy, the role of employers
in promoting saving and investing, and
the need for individuals to take greater
responsibility for securing their
retirement.
Traffic Signal proposed at
Coverstone Dr. and Miramar Dr./
Sage Street in Prince William Co.
Find out about the proposal to install a traffic signal at the intersection of Coverstone Drive (Route 1596) and Miramar Drive/Sage
Street (Route 1630). Currently at this intersection, traffic on Miramar
Drive and Sage Street are controlled by a stop sign giving the right
of way to traffic on Coverstone Drive. Due to the number of traffic
accidents at this location a proposal to install a traffic signal has
been developed.
Review the proposed project plans depicting the major design
features and the environmental documentation in the form of a
Programmatic Categorical Exclusion, at VDOT’s, Northern Virginia
District office located at 14685 Avion Parkway in Chantilly,
telephone number (703) 383-2000 or the Manassas Residency
office located at 10228 Residency Road in Manassas, telephone
(703) 366-1900 or TTY/TDD 711. Please call ahead to assure the
appropriate personnel are available to answer your questions.
In compliance with the National Historic Preservation Act, Section
106 and 36 CFR Part 800, information concerning the potential
effects of the proposed project on properties listed in or eligible for
listing in the National Register of Historic Places is provided in the
environmental documentation.
“The truth is that many Americans
are not saving enough to ensure a comfortable retirement,” said Schwab
Founder, Chief Executive Officer and
Chairman Charles R. Schwab. “The
problem is broad-based; but the 10th
anniversary of this research and
today’s summit serve as important reminders that the need to better prepare
for their financial futures is even more
pressing among this underserved segment of our population.”
According to this year’s just-released Ariel-Schwab Black Investor
Survey of 500 Blacks and 500 Whites
earning more than $50,000 annually,
the median amount of money saved by
Blacks surveyed is less than half of
their White counterparts ($48,000 versus $100,000). On a monthly basis,
median savings is $182 for Blacks versus $261 for Whites.
The survey was first conducted by
the two companies in 1998, when 57%
of Blacks and 81% of Whites said they
owned individual stocks or stock mutual funds. A decade later, still just
57% of Blacks are stock investors,
compared to 76% of Whites. During
the past ten years, the number of
Blacks who own stocks or mutual
funds rose as high as 74% (in 2002)
only to fall again, while White participation has consistently hovered within
a few percentage points of 80%.
“The data is troubling because it
suggests that barriers to investing are
just as formidable as they were a decade
ago. Our industry and our community
must address this challenge aggressively,” said Ariel President Mellody
Hobson, adding, “Government and employers also play a crucial role.”
BLACK RETIREES
NEED MORE BUT SAVE
LESS FOR RETIREMENT
This year, Ariel and Schwab also
conducted a first-of-its-kind survey of
middle and upper income Black and
White retirees to assess their investing
behavior and how well they prepared
for retirement. The survey shows that
retired Blacks have median savings of
just $73,000 compared to $210,000 for
Whites. Blacks, on average, also retired
earlier than Whites (59 vs. 61) and are
more likely to be relying on a pension or
Social Security rather than a defined
contribution plan, such as a 401(k) plan.
Lisa Toppin, vice president of em-
ployee development and inclusion with
Charles Schwab, said the retiree survey confirms that retired Blacks may
be facing far greater financial challenges than Whites because of their
saving and investing behavior during
their working years.
“Most Americans’ first, and sometimes only, exposure to investing is
through their workplace,” said Toppin. “Employers need to find ways to
get the message out about how to take
charge of our finances, and we need to
start building understanding and
awareness at an early age.”
According to the Ariel-Schwab retiree survey, fewer Blacks than Whites
Continued on page 23
CLERICAL
Virginia Department of Correctional Education
Coffeewood Correctional Center
Program Support Technician
Position #00501
Seeking a qualified individual to manage routine office functions
and provide administrative/clerical support to professional staff.
See www.dce.virginia.gov for additional information and to
apply for this position by 5 PM on October 23, 2007. Effective
January 1, 2007, DCE only accepts online applications.
Fingerprint-based criminal history check required/subject to
random drug screen. State application required; incomplete
applications will not be considered. Tel: 804-225-3310; Fax:
804-786-3308. EOE/AA
If your concerns cannot be satisfied, VDOT is willing to hold a
public hearing. You may request a public hearing be held by sending
a written request on or before November 1, 2007, to:
Ms. Maria J. Sinner, P.E.
VDOT Manassas Residency
10228 Residency Road
Manassas, Virginia 20110
If a request for a public hearing is received, notice of date, time and place of
the hearing will be posted. VDOT ensures nondiscrimination and equal
employment in all pro-grams and activities in accordance with Title VI and
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. If you need more information or
special assistance for persons with disabilities or limited English proficiency,
contact VDOT’s Civil Rights Division, at the Northern Virginia District Office,
14685 Avion Parkway in Chantilly at (703) 383-2341 or TTY/TDD 711.
State Project: 1596-076-S56, PE-101, RW-201, M-501
UPC: 71471 - Federal Project: STP-5401 (637)
THE MARYLAND-NATIONAL CAPITAL PARK
AND PLANNING COMMISSION (M-NCPPC)
hereby invites sealed proposals from interested parties for Proposal
No. P28-123, “Preparation of Strategic Plan for Geographic
Information Services (GIS) for Montgomery County Planning
Department” in accordance with scope of services to be furnished by
the Purchasing Division, 6611 Kenilworth Ave., Suite 300,
Riverdale, MD 20737. There will be no charge for the proposal. A
Pre-Proposal Conference is scheduled for 1:30 PM, Monday, October
29, 2007, at M-NCPPC, Dedrick Annex, 5th Floor Conference
Room, 1400 Spring Street, Silver Spring, Maryland 20910. Each
proposal must be submitted to the Purchasing Office at the above
address. Proposals must be received before 1:00 PM, Wednesday,
November 14, 2007. Questions regarding this proposal may be
directed to Tina J. Baham at (301) 454-1602, TTY (301) 454-1493.
All proposals and associated documents will become the property of
the M-NCPPC and will be considered public information.
The Commission is an E.O.E. with special procurement rules for
Minorities, Females, and the Disabled.
THE METRO HERALD
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BUSINESS NEWS/BIDS & PROPOSALS
October 19, 2007
OP-ED
A
merica’s beer industry provides more than 1.6 million
jobs and more than $144 billion in U.S. economic activity. So, the
SABMiller and Molson Coors’ announcement they are bringing their
U.S. operations together is big news.
The new company will be a joint
venture called “MillerCoors”. With
projected revenue of nearly $7 billion,
the combination brings together Miller
Brewing Co., the second-largest U.S.
brewer by sales with about 20% market
share and Coors Brewing Co., the No. 3
player with about 11% market share. As
mass-market beer companies are challenged with slower growth and shifting
consumer tastes, makers of Miller, Molson and Coors’ joint venture could
threaten the decades-long dominance of
Anheuser-Busch as the country’s leading
beer company. Anheuser-Busch controls nearly half the U.S. beer market.
The transaction is driven by profound changes occurring in the U.S. alcohol beverage industry in which many
in the market are turning to wines and
spirits. African Americans remain top
consumers of beer and malt liquor products and will be a focus of the companies’ sales efforts. Pete Coors, Vice
Chairman of Molson Coors, says that
the companies expect to save $500 million in annual costs from the deal and
estimate net revenue of $6.6 billion.
Mr. Coors will serve as chairman of the
venture, while Molson Coors Chief Executive Leo Kiely will be CEO.
Shares of Molson Coors and SABMiller stock have been up. SABMiller’s brands include Miller genuine
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BREWING INDUSTRY
William Reed
Special to The Metro Herald
Draft, Milwaukee’s Best and imported
drinks like Peroni Nastro Azzurro and
Pilsner Urquel. Molson Coors brews
Molson Canadian, Carling, Coors and
Keystone Light. The venture is seen
as substantially improving both Molson Coors and SABMiller’s economic
positions. Anheuser enjoys a substantial per-barrel cost advantage over the
two, partly because of their higher distribution costs. That’s especially true
for Coors, which ships most of its finished product from its Golden, Colo.,
headquarters brewery. Miller, in contrast, has two major breweries in Wisconsin plus five others around the U.S.
The Beer Institute projects total
U.S. beer sales, by barrel, will rise
1.5% this year. The brewing industry
is a huge global business. More than
35 billion gallons of beer is sold per
year - producing total global revenues
of $294.5 billion in 2006. In 2006,
Americans consumed an average of
27.1 gallons of beer per capita and
African Americans accounted for 20 to
25 percent of all domestic beer sales.
The benefits of the beer industry extend throughout the whole country.
From the farmer in the Midwest to
brewery workers in California, Texas,
New York, Wisconsin, Missouri, Colorado, Florida, and others such as local
distributorships, where the industry
has a substantial economic presence.
As a part of the nation’s beer distribution network, there are over 2,200
beer distributors. The modern system
of beer distribution is an efficient “ole
boy” process that provides consumers
with immense choice and retailers with
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customized inventories. Historically,
beer distributors have been local multimillion dollar businesses controlled by
family dynasties. These distributorships are closely held by whites. They
provide transportation, refrigerated
storage and maintenance for perishable
beer and is the conduit from the brewer
to retailer outlets.
The African American and U.S. Hispanic populations are growing at a faster
rate than the general market, making
multicultural consumers increasingly
important for beer companies. The
African American and Hispanic markets
together make up nearly one-third of the
population in the U.S. and 21 percent of
all U.S. males ages 21-34 are Hispanic.
Over the years, Anheuser-Busch, Coors
and Miller Brewing have connected
with multicultural consumers through
wide-ranging and reciprocal programs.
Advertising in black newspapers, sponsorship of events and programs of organizations such as the NAACP, Urban
League, the Congressional Black Caucus and hundreds of local groups and
grant programs from these companies
overall have been substantive.
However, African Americans are
missing from distributor networks.
Of the 2,200 beer distributors less than
five are black-owned and operated.
Surely the MillerCoors venture’s
mass-marketing mix should set a new
level of equity in the industry and increase its black distributorships to enhance market share in urban areas
were African Americans comprise a
million population.
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FIRST-EVER ARIEL-SCHWAB
BLACK INVESTOR SUMMIT—
A CALL TO ACTION
In response to the survey’s findings,
Charles R. Schwab and Ariel Founder,
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer,
John W. Rogers, Jr. invited leaders in
business, academia, government and
the non-profit sector to discuss measures aimed at spurring wealth building
and responsible retirement planning
among African-Americans. They were
joined by United States Treasurer Anna
Escobedo Cabral, who addressed the
actions that the federal government is
taking to encourage financial literacy
for all Americans. For the conference,
Ariel and Schwab published “The
Ariel-Schwab Black Paper: A Decade
of Research on African-American
Wealth Building and Retirement Planning.” Interested parties can visit www.
arielmutualfunds.com or www.
aboutschwab.com to download a copy
of the paper. The panelists and invited
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guests discussed proposals to expand
financial literacy programs with
schools and community groups and encouraged employers to analyze employee 401(k) participation by race.
Two Fortune 500 companies, McDonald’s Corporation and Exelon Corporation, shared how they took the initiative
to track investment patterns by ethnicity, which revealed a savings gap between Black and White employees at
their respective organizations.
Exelon just recently completed the
tracking, while McDonald’s, which
began this initiative three years ago,
has subsequently enhanced its 401(k)
program and increased participation
and saving rates among all employees.
Of note, African-American employee
participation increased 21% or double
the rate of White employees.
John W. Rogers, Jr., commented,
“We can no longer afford to simply admire this problem; it calls for action,”
Yorkshire Terrier
Female
07-17-2007 (13 weeks)
Yes
No
Yes
Puppies are registered/registerable (AKC, NKC, etc.), have all
current vaccinations, veterinarian examinations, health certificate,
and travel crate.
I am taking offers on the puppies; I need to move ASAP; so I
have to find good homes for them. Please email me with your offer
or any questions. Also these babies were raised in my home and they
aren’t caged puppies they are very sweet and lovable and very well
socialized so I want them to go to a good home like they have here!
This dog is tolerant of children, provided that they respect its
territory. It can be a bit too brave occasionally when dealing with
larger dogs but gets along fine with cats and other household pets.
ANIMAL RESCUE FOUNDATION
PUPPIES
My name is Dr. Leon Gaus, co-manager of the Animal Rescue
Foundation,we currently have Yorkie bulldog puppies in our
shelter looking to be adopted into forever loving homes. Our
mission is to provide temporary care and shelter for stray,
abandoned and relinquished animals, and to place as many as
possible into responsible and caring homes. The Animal Rescue
Foundation also works to create awareness and support for the
humane treatment of all animals and to end animal overpopulation through education and the promotion of spaying and
neutering. Send me an e-mail if you are interested so that I can
send you their pictures and information animalrescueteam59@
gmail.com.
For adoption please contact us with the above email address.
•
William Reed
www.BlackPressInternational.com
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10TH ANNUAL ARIEL-SCHWAB BLACK INVESTOR SURVEY
Continued from page 21
have gone through some of the basic
steps of retirement planning, such as calculating the amount of money they need
to live comfortably in retirement. However, those who consulted with financial
professionals were much more likely to
have saved more than $100,000 by the
time they retired, and were much less
likely to have retired early.
“With the right combination of
planning, discipline and patience, a retirement goal can go from dream to reality,” said Toppin.
Breed:
Sex:
Birthdate:
Champion bloodlines:
Champion sired:
Show potential:
said Rogers. “Today we took steps to
change the course of our country’s financial future and to close the savings
gap that exists between Black and
White Americans. My hope is that a
decade from now, both Blacks and
Whites will be equally well prepared
for retirement and that there will be no
need for us to continue this survey.”
The random sample survey of 500
Black and 500 White households earning over $50,000 annually is the tenth
for Ariel-Schwab. It was administered
by telephone between June 23 and July
14, 2007. The margin of error is approximately 4.5%. The retiree research
conducted this year surveyed 300
Blacks and 300 Whites within the first
ten years of their retirement who
earned over $50,000 annually before
retiring. The survey was administered
by telephone between June 22 and July
11, 2007. Both surveys were conducted by Argosy Research.
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