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Citing the City of Falls Church’s vision statement, charter and comprehensive plan, all affirming diversity as an important community objective, the Falls Church City Council voted in the wee hours of Tuesday morning to approve an ambitious plan to build a new, sevenstory building with 174 affordable housing rental units in downtown Falls Church.

Virtually the only item on the agenda in what became a six-hour marathon until 1:20 a.m., the City Center South Apartments project was approved and will now press forward toward hoped-for Virginia Housing Development Authority approval next year.

It could represent the proverbial “third time is a charm” for Carol Jackson, executive director of the Falls Church Housing Corporation, who has been working tirelessly for most of the decade to get a significant affordable housing project built in the City.

The need for such a project was underscored amid the hours of public petitioning, City staff and Council comments at Monday’s (which became Tuesday’s) meeting. Even with all the new mixed use development approved in last 10 years, there have been only 36 new affordable units added to the City’s stock.

That is compared to hundreds of units already lost to renovations, rate hikes or demolition, with almost all of the City’s 600 remaining affordable dwellings at risk.

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Editor, Below is the cite from Muni law, which is under the City Code on the official web site of the City Falls Church: Sec. 4.01. Composition: The council shall consist of seven (7) members, who shall be qualified voters of the city actually residing within the corporate limits, and they shall be elected as provided in Chapter 3. They shall each receive in full compensation for their services such salary as the city council may fix in accordance with state law.

No member of the council shall during the term for which he was elected and one year there-

after be appointed to any office of profit under the government of the city.

(1952 Acts, Ch. 301; 1956 Acts, Ch. 190; 1960 Acts, Ch. 429; 1966 Acts, Ch. 146; 1979 Acts, Ch. 421; 1999 Acts, Ch. 168) Nowhere does it say, or even imply, that a former Council Member can forego a stipend in order to serve on another City commission or committee prior to the oneyear prohibition as stated in Section 4.01 above.

I am not a lawyer but I do speak, read, write, and comprehend my mother tongue ,

English, extraordinarily well and there is no ambiguity in the above language.

Lawrence Webb should have recused himself from the Council’s Appointment Committee as Ms. Hockenberry was one of his running mates for the May Council election. For this reason alone he could not have voted impartially.

Dare we ask if the Yates were even given cursory consideration? I think not.

The appointment of Lindy Hockenberry is a gross conflict of interest as she will serve only as an adjunct member of the Council for the Mayor. This appointment is without precedent and should be rescinded immediately. (Editor’s Note: The citation refers to the “office of profit,” meaning “paid position.”)

Margaret W. Housen Falls Church

Editor, The Falls Church Housing Corporation (FCHC) might consider a new variant on the “Community Land Trust” now in routine use in the US. i.e. a “Community Land Partnership” using an LLC as a framework.

This would involve setting up a “City Centre South” LLC in which FCHC are the “Custodian Member” of the land/property, the municipality provides the development funding, and the private developer acts purely as a service provider partner.

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the case of the City Center South Apartments (CCSA), they will be available to individuals or families with incomes at 30% to 60% of the regional median annual income.

That translates into incomes from $20,000 to $40,000 for individuals, or $29,000 to $58,000 for families of four.

The multi-faceted project approved this week also brought with it the approval of a “memorandum of understanding” between the City, the Housing Corporation (FCHC) and its partner, the non-profit Homestretch, Inc., and Thomas E. Sawner, chief executive of EdOptions, Inc., a educational support company.

Under terms of that deal, Sawner will provide structured parking on property he owns next to the CCSA building, relieving the FCHC of the need to build highly-expensive underground parking. Sawner will get to use $2 million already set aside by the City for affordable housing for up to a year to pur-

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chase and renovate two adjacent office buildings.

The plan is for that money to come back to the FCHC to be added to $4.4 million proffered by the Atlantic Realty Company in exchange for the approval it received earlier for its $317 million City Center project.

Then, the FCHC is counting on getting tax credits worth $12 to $16 million from the Virginia Housing Development Authority and another $5.6 million from the renovation of 83 Winter Hill apartments it owns to pay for the construction of the new CCSA building.

The calculation of the cost to the City’s taxpayers includes debt service on the $2 million, provided in a 15-year bond, and indirect costs of property tax waivers for the units in the building and the cost of educating children who might occupy the apartments and attend City schools.

All that taken together was calculated at a cost of up to $1 million a year. But out of pocket costs to taxpayers are half of that, City Manager Wyatt Shields noted Monday, or only 1.4 cents

on the real estate tax rate.

About 1 a.m. Tuesday, the Council proceeded to the four votes required to approve the plan. The only Councilman to vote “no” on all four provisions was new Councilmember Nader Baroukh. David Snyder voted “no” on two, and abstained on one.

All the five other Council members voted “yes” on all four, including Mayor Robin Gardner, Vice Mayor Hal Lippman, Dan Maller, Dan Sze and new Council member Lawrence Webb.

While it awaits final approval from the state for financing, the project is the first of its kind ever approved for the City of Falls Church.

Jackson, on behalf of the FCHC, had been frustrated in earlier efforts to build an affordable housing structure on City property adjacent the State Theatre, and in another effort to build a senior housing project on property adjacent the West End Park.

The latter plan had been so downsized by the City Council, in response to complaints from neighbors to the site, that when it

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limped to Richmond for approval it was rejected out of hand.

But Jackson persisted, and got a boost when she recruited former Vice Mayor and Chamber of Commerce president Dr. Steve Rogers to chair her board of directors.

Council members who favored the project at this week’s meeting followed the

lead of Assistant City Manager Cindy Mester, who noted it reflected the sentiments pertaining to promoting diversity and “a variety and mix of housing levels,” expressed in seminal City documents, including its vision plan, charter and comprehensive plan, as well as an affordable housing policy statement adopted in 2000 at the

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initiative of Former Vice mayor Merni Fitzgerald.

City Manager Shields introduced the subject by underscoring his staff’s recommended approval, citing the “courage” of the FCHC while saying the various, seemingly confusing components of the plan made it “one of the hardest we’ve ever dealt with.”

Support for it was cited from the Falls Church Chamber of Commerce, Architectural Advisory Board, Human Services Advisory Committee, the Environmental Services Council, and the Falls Church Chapter of the League of Women Voters, among others.

Clergymen present in support included the Rev. Thomas Schmid of the Falls Church Presbyterian Church and the Rev. C. Davies Kirkland of the Dulin United Methodist Church.

Ed Hickey, a young City resident, was successful in reading all three letters of support from regional elected officials Del. Jim Scott, State Sen. Mary Margaret Whipple and U.S. Rep. Jim Moran, within the three-minute speaking limit.

Christopher Fay, executive director of Homestretch, Inc., devoted to training homeless families to earn their way into homes, cited his group’s collaboration in the project. It owns

one of two buildings at the S. Washington St. site that will be demolished to make way for the new CCSA structure, and will be provided new operating space on the ground floor of the new building.

Homestretch, Inc., he noted, was recently honored by the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce with a “Blue Diamond Award” as the finest non-profit operating in the county. A Homestretch employee, Saul Adams, said the CCSA project “is not about money, it is about homelessness, and getting families off the streets to help society as a whole.” A project like it “makes me have hope,” he said, “that I have a chance.”

Sawner’s organization, as also a part of the CCSA project, could tout similar credentials, being named the Best Small Business of 2006 by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. It provides on-line and other educational services to support and enhance public and private education programs.

Sawner’s plan is to demolish the building there that he owns and build a new one with structured parking beneath office space. He’ll then close on the purchase of two other office buildings there that he will renovate and use for his own company with over 100 employees, among other things.

Another eloquent statement in support of the project came from Mike Curtain, a City resident who is the executive director of the D.C. Central Kitchen, the District’s largest program to feed and train homeless people.

“You can’t measure this project in dollars,” he said. “To view it solely as a financial transaction is irresponsible, without concern for its social currency.

We’re a different kind of community than those who say they don’t want to be inclusive.”

Affordable housing and homeless advocate Ron Brousseau, Tinner Hill Heritage Foundation’s Ed and Nikki Henderson, who home is adjacent the site, also spoke in favor.

On the other side of the issue, Maureen Budetti, chair of the Planning Commission, explained her group’s 2-2 vote, a tie which represented non-support. Lou Olom opposed “segregating” low income people into a large building. Ira Kaylin opposed it by citing projections of deep budget shortfalls in the future and “chronic budget difficulties.”

Most other opponents gave Gundry Drive addresses, stronghold of the Winter Hill Community Association, which opposed the plan. (Councilman Baroukh also resides on Gundry Drive and is a member of the

association, but announced that he’d consulted with the city attorney, and felt he could be objective in voting on the matter).

Councilman Maller said, “I want to live in a city that wants to do this project.” He said he preferred calling it “spectrum housing,” rather than “affordable housing.”

Webb said he lives in “affordable housing” himself, and that opposition to the CCSA was a “socio-economic issue.” He said it is “unfair to tag people” as “others, with low income,” because affordable housing is not designed for low income, but middle income people.

Baroukh and Snyder said the project was not ready to go forward, with too many details not buttoned up and not enough opportunity for deliberation or public input. Two motions they made to delay were defeated before the final vote.

Lippman said the project prevails against tendencies of Falls Church to become “a gated city of the rich,” and stressing the City welcomes people “of all means and backgrounds.” He also blasted the circulation of an anonymous flier in Falls Church that provided disinformation about the project, claiming its approval would cost taxpayers $1,500 a year more. “The actual average amount is $150,” if it

winds up at the “worst case” cost, he said. “Shame on you,” he said of the flier’s author and supporters.

Mayor Gardner concluded Council comments by acknowledging that “affordable housing costs money,” but the CCSA project “has a synergy with other buildings going up in that area.”

“I want to wake up in the morning with a happy heart that I did the right thing,” she said.

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F.C. Community Center Closed Aug. 25 - Sept. 1 Cleaning, painting and other maintenance needs will require the closing of the Falls Church Community Center for one week leading up to Labor Day this month.

The center will be closed to all activities, drop-in recreational use, room rentals, and other normally-scheduled functions from Aug. 25 to Sept. 1. However, employees will continue to staff the front desk, answer phones and complete sports and class registrations, and entering facility reservations. The center will be completely closed on Sunday, Aug. 31, and Monday, Sept. 1, Labor Day. Expanded Shoulder Hours on I-66 Begin Aug. 25 The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) announced this week that the hours of operation for the I-66 shoulder lanes between I-495 and Route 50 will be extended one hour in the morning and another hour in the afternoon beginning Monday, Aug. 25. The new hours will be, on weekdays, from 5:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. eastbound, and from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. westbound.

The section of I-66 in question carries more traffic than any other section of I66, VDOT reported, up to 196,000 vehicles on an average weekday. VDOT said it conducted a comprehensive safety study of the corridor and found no significant difference in crashes when the shoulders are open. The shoulders will also be opened during traffic incidents or when there is planned road work. HOV-2 hours will remain the same, 5:30 to 9 a.m. eastbound and 3 to 7 p.m. westbound.

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City of Falls Church officials confirmed yesterday that City police are investigating a case of identity theft by a former employee at the Kaiser Permanente Clinic on N. Washington St. According to a correspondence from Kaiser to its members and patients who may have been the victims of the theft, the former employee stole some names, dates of birth, last four digits of social security numbers, and copied credit card or other financial information without authorization.

The information may have been taken from appointment check in and co-payment collection processes at the Falls Church Center between Jan. 1, 2007 and May 1, 2008. Hyun June Lee, the City of Falls Church’s Public Information Director, urged persons to check their credit card statements to see if any unauthorized charges have occurred. She said that Kaiser confirmed that all considered at risk for the theft have already been notified by Kaiser by mail.

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Community Newspapers ‘Holding Own’ in Downturn The Tribune Newspapers yesterday reported a 15% advertising revenue downturn in the second quarter of 2008, compared to the year before, in line with the dismal performance of other major urban dailies and chains. But community newspapers remain “the sweet spot� in the industry, according to a report from the Suburban Newspapers of America (SNA).

A review of first quarter financial data collected by the SNA, community newspapers experienced a downturn of only 2.4% compared to the first quarter of 2007.

Hundreds of daily and weekly community newspapers, representing nearly 14.5 million in circulation with annual revenues of over $2 billion, participate in the SNA financial reporting group. “Community newspapers are doing well because they provide much needed hyper-local news and advertising,� said SNA President Nancy Lane. “Advertisers, especially at the community level, are reaching an engaged audience that no other medium can effectively serve.�

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From the indoor confines of gadgets and game systems, Camp Director Laura Hull rescues modern childhood from the sedentary life through Creative Cauldron’s three week camp “From the Seeds of Imagination: Magical, Mythical Plants.”

Creative Cauldron is a Falls Church-based arts education non-profit organization.

The second of two camps runs through Aug. 15, forging “a community of artists” – of children and staff – employing imagination and daily expeditions to foster in campers an understanding of plant life and a deeper appreciation of theatrical skills.

An artistic director with more than three decades experience and veteran Director of Communications of D.C. area theater troupe Arena Stage, Hull launched Creative Cauldron and its camps to bring children back outdoors, to explore and create fantasy worlds grounded in nature. “The connection between nature, science and art is very deep,” Hull said in an interview with the News-Press this week.

This summer, 150 children in the two camps used their new skills – “combining performance and visual arts” with an appreciation of nature. “Plants” will conclude with children staging a musical play on the last day.

“I think, OK, we’re largely doing what people would call children’s theater,” says Hull, who runs the camp along with five lead artistic producers and two junior counselors – including longtime colleagues Matthew Conner, an accomplished playwright, and Oran Sandel, joined by Lauren

Williams.

“But we’re more,” says Hull, dismissing the notion “Plants” is any regular camp. “We’re going back to the essence of storytelling.”

That storytelling begins every weekday at 9 a.m. in the main hall of the Center for Spiritual Enlightenment, next to The State Theatre on Washington St. – a temporary home, Hull adds, as Creative Cauldron transitions next year from “vagabonds” to a permanent residence at Pearson Square on S. Maple Ave., Falls Church.

Situated in a “sharing circle,” children engage in storytelling, along with dance, song and show and tell - displaying their

newfound skills to their fellow campers – a diverse crowd, too, with campers as young as 7-year-olds sitting beside teenagers.

Despite age differences, the children mingle freely – and as only children can do early on a brisk summer morning, they are ebullient and loud.

“Ah-go!” comes a shout from Williams, rising from the circle.

The children respond all together: “Ah-may!” Silence follows.

“It’s a Ghanaian phrase,” says Hull, interpreting the camp’s audible method of discipline. “‘Are you here?’ ‘I’m here!’

We use it all the time.”

In the brief interlude, children finish sharing their tales,

and Sandel assumes a position tangent to the circle holding a guitar. Sandel is a fellow veteran of Arena Stage and 23-year director of the troupe’s community engagement program, Life Stage. He calls the children’s attention to a possible instrumental accompaniment to their musical number, “Magical, Mythical Plants.”

Bo-Min Son, a sophomore music major from Boston University, joins Sandel with a cello, and the two perform as Conner and Williams lead the children through the song.

After several trials, the sharing circle adjourns and the energized children break into their respective age groups – the oldest

form Weeds, and so on down the spectrum – Herbs, Flowers and, finally, Fruits and Vegetables.

Each group disperses to their next locations, some destined for the preferred outside, while after a brief exit, the Herbs repair back to the hall with Conner, who reads books to them from the camp’s portable library – a small, black rolling suitcase filled with diverse titles, from The Magic School Bus to popular children’s titles, with one erudite treatise entitled Empire of Plants.

Activities are varied throughout the morning, plant life literature being one facet of this camp’s busy agenda.

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samples of herbs from his home to exhibit before the sharing circle. The lessons are infectious, too; asked what she has learned thus far, one young, eager camper spouts off the peculiar history of bay leaves and a Roman emperor.

Meanwhile, Williams leads her coterie bound for a neighboring park – the “magic forest” in camp parlance. Children search for a “magic portal,” Hull says, escaping into a fantastic setting to enliven the imagination.

“They say some magic words – we have a few of them – [then] pass through some trees, and that is when we see the fairies.

A seed pod can be a home for a fairy.”

Additionally, Williams says they take the children to the library regularly “gathering factoids.”

In this way, Creative Cauldron fills the “blank canvas” afforded by the outdoors and the larger community, translating what children learn and imagine into a cohesive story line for the final performance.

The process behind the product, however, is what most concerns Hull and the producers. “As performers, we focus on a product; as teachers, we’re focused on a process,” Conner says to nods from his coworkers.

Understandably so, as the camp depends on improvisation, a technique acutely familiar to Hull and Sandel, and integral to crafting a performance out of the camp’s general “green” theme. “[We] very much follow the metaphor of the cauldron. It’s a circle idea: you can have many leaders; everyone can add their ingredient, and we see what bubbles up,” says Hull.

The improvisational atmosphere allows for everyone to learn as well. Artistic producers “are catalysts,” Hull says, “but they’re just as much in a frame of learning.”

The artistic directors agree.

“I can given back and receive; as an actor, I can learn,” Conner says, with Williams adding that Conner and Sandel have “taught

me so much.” Sandel tempered his colleague’s praise: “We all learn from each other, it’s called ‘R and D’ - ‘Rip-off and Duplicate.’”

In a more serious tone, he describes the new way of thinking posed to children by the Arts Adventure experience. “They come into freedom, and they think it’s license,” Sandel says.

“I find myself saying, it’s not school, take a chance, fail. It’s so alien to the school environment, the modality we’re in here.”

What’s more, it is a way of thinking “No Child Left Behind ... left behind, scorned,” he says, criticizing the federal legislation for assigning the arts a mere “enrichment role.” Sandel disagrees. “They’re vital, like reading, writing and math.”

Visiting artists aid staff in facilitating the creative process, introducing children to a wide range of artistic skills. Hull points to earthen plant pots the children designed earlier; they intend to plant them later.

Likewise, the children create their own camp t-shirt design, in what Hull calls an “iconographic treatment of the theme,” using materials to represent memories from the three weeks.

Well equipped with artists, five lead art producers and two junior counselors, Hull still finds the children prove to be leaders, and perhaps even edgier creators.

“When we first started, we were very cautious,” says Hull, reminiscing about the camp’s first run in 2002. However, she recalls “the kids were several steps ahead of us,” and still are.

“We listened to that sentiment; sometimes kids can be in your face.”

Sandel adds: “If they didn’t create it, they won’t buy [into] it.” Teenagers can be the most audacious creators, he says, noting the teenagers’ ironic “spin on things” and “a lot of whimsy laced with what we know about world.”

Shortly before the camp concluded for the afternoon field trip to Arlington’s Potomac Overlook Regional Park, where children

roam the grounds and talk to naturalists, Hull had some campers rehearse a short scene from the final show. A tale of love and dangerous sunflowers skillfully presented by several children and junior counselors Eric Holl

and Daynee Rosales, the piece incorporated music with lessons about plants and folklore.

Above all, learning, exploration and performances reveal a unique experience for children, as well as Creative Cauldron’s

AN ACTIVE ARTIST, Matthew Conner has won a New American Voices award for compositions. (Photo: Courtesy Charles Cuyjet)

commitment to “giving artistic tools to kids” and providing community theater that is both “accessible and affordable.”

Curtains rise on the Lubber Run stage for the children’s finale at noon this Friday, Aug. 15.

CELLIST BO-MIN SON and Oran Sandel on guitar practice the finale’s musical accompanient. (Photo: Courtesy Charles Cuyjet)

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CHENGDU, China — The world can be divided in many ways — rich and poor, democratic and authoritarian — but one of the most striking is the divide between the societies with an individualist mentality and the ones with a collectivist mentality.

This is a divide that goes deeper than economics into the way people perceive the world. If you show an American an image of a fish tank, the American will usually describe the biggest fish in the tank and what it is doing.

If you ask a Chinese person to describe a fish tank, the Chinese will usually describe the context in which the fish swim.

These sorts of experiments have been done over and over again, and the results reveal the same underlying pattern. Americans usually see individuals; Chinese and other Asians see contexts.

When the psychologist Richard Nisbett showed Americans individual pictures of a chicken, a cow and hay and asked the subjects to pick out the two that go together, the Americans would usually pick out the chicken and the cow. They’re both animals.

Most Asian people, on the other hand, would pick out the cow and the hay, since cows depend on hay.

Americans are more likely to see categories. Asians are more likely to see relationships.

You can create a global continuum with the most individualistic societies — like the United States or Britain — on one end, and the most collectivist societies — like China or Japan — on the other.

The individualistic countries tend to put rights and privacy first. People in these societies tend to overvalue their own skills and overestimate their own importance to any group effort. People in collective societies tend to value harmony and duty. They tend to underestimate their own skills and are more self-effacing when describing their contributions to group efforts.

Researchers argue about why certain cultures have become more individualistic than others.

Some say that Western cultures draw their values from ancient Greece, with its emphasis on individual heroism, while other cultures draw on more on tribal philosophies. Recently, some scientists have theorized that it all goes back to microbes.

Collectivist societies tend to pop up in parts of the world, especially around the equator, with plenty

of disease-causing microbes. In such an environment, you’d want to shun outsiders, who might bring strange diseases, and enforce a certain conformity over eating rituals and social behavior.

Either way, individualistic societies have tended to do better economically. We in the West have a narrative that involves the development of individual reason and conscience during the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, and then the subsequent flourishing of capitalism. According to this narrative, societies get more individualistic as they develop.

But what happens if collectivist societies snap out of their economic stagnation? What happens if collectivist societies, especially those in Asia, rise economically and come to rival the West? A new sort of global conversation develops.

The opening ceremony in Beijing was a statement in that conversation. It was part of China’s assertion that development doesn’t come only through Western, liberal means, but also through Eastern and collective ones.

The ceremony drew from China’s long history, but surely the most striking features were the images of thousands of Chinese moving as one — drumming as one, dancing as one, sprinting on precise formations without ever stumbling or colliding.

We’ve seen displays of mass conformity before, but this was collectivism of the present — a hightech vision of the harmonious society performed in the context of China’s miraculous growth.

If Asia’s success reopens the debate between individualism and collectivism (which seemed closed after the cold war), then it’s unlikely that the forces of individualism will sweep the field or even gain an edge. For one thing, there are relatively few individualistic societies on earth. For another, the essence of a lot of the latest scientific research is that the Western idea of individual choice is an illusion and the Chinese are right to put first emphasis on social contexts.

Scientists have delighted to show that so-called rational choice is shaped by a whole range of subconscious influences, like emotional contagions and priming effects (people who think of a professor before taking a test do better than people who think of a criminal). Meanwhile, human brains turn out to be extremely permeable (they naturally mimic the neural firings of people around them). Relationships are the key to happiness. The rise of China isn’t only an economic event. It’s a cultural one. The ideal of a harmonious collective may turn out to be as attractive as the ideal of the American Dream.

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“It’s a completely fraudulent argument,” he said. “It’s misleading. It’s snake oil salesmanship of the worst order.”

He was talking about the latest smoke screen in the presidential election, the bogus contention that lifting restrictions on offshore oil drilling would somehow, in the foreseeable future, bring down the price of gasoline for American motorists.

This absurd contention is now one of the main issues of the campaign. It’s the latest example of a very real fear (that sky-high energy prices will undermine the average family’s standard of living) being exploited shamelessly for political purposes.

Sen. John McCain told cheering bikers at a giant motorcycle rally in South Dakota: “We’re gonna drill offshore! We’re gonna drill here, and we’re gonna drill now!” He told an audience in

Lafayette Hill, Pa.: “We have to drill here and drill now. ... Drill here and drill now.”

With McCain and the Republicans painting a false portrait of drilling as a method of relief for today’s high prices, and with polls showing the GOP gaining traction on this issue, Sen. Barack Obama has eased off his previous opposition to new offshore leases.

And so dies the possibility of the presidential campaign offering any real clarification of this important issue.

As Kerry and many others have pointed out, it would be nearly 10 years before any oil at all would be realized from new offshore leases. So your adorable 7- or 8-year-old would be just about 17 and clamoring for a license when this new oil started coming online.

Maximum capacity from these new leases wouldn’t be reached until 2030, when that 7- or 8-year-old is approaching 30, finished with college and graduate school, and very likely married with children.

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The draft Democratic Party platform that was sent out last week puts health care reform front and center. “If one thing came through in the platform hearings,” says the document, “it was that Democrats are united around a commitment to provide every American access to affordable, comprehensive health care.” Can Democrats deliver on that commitment? In principle, it should be easy. In practice, supporters of health care reform, myself included, will be hanging on by their fingernails until legislation is actually passed.

What’s easy about guaranteed health care for all? For one thing, we know that it’s economically feasible: Every wealthy country except the United States already has some form of guaranteed health care. The hazards Americans treat as facts of life — the risk of losing your insurance, the risk that you won’t be able to afford necessary care, the chance that you’ll be financially ruined by medical costs — would be considered unthinkable in any other advanced nation.

The politics of guaranteed care are also easy, at least in one sense: If the Democrats do manage to establish a system of universal coverage, the nation will love it.

I know that’s not what everyone says; some pundits claim that the United States has a uniquely individualistic culture, and that Americans won’t accept any system that makes health care a collective responsibility. Those who say this, however, seem to forget that we already have a program — you may have heard of it — called Medicare. It’s a program that collects money from every worker’s paycheck and uses it to pay the medical bills of everyone 65 and older. And it’s immensely popular.

There’s every reason to believe that a program that extends universal coverage to the nonelderly would soon become equally popular. Consider the case of Massachusetts, which passed a state-level plan for universal coverage two years ago.

The Massachusetts plan has come in for a lot of criticism. It includes individual mandates — that is, people are required to buy coverage, even if they’d prefer to take their chances.

And its costs are running much higher than expected, mainly because it turns out that there were more people without insurance than anyone realized.

Yet recent polls show overwhelming support for the plan — support that has grown stronger since it went into effect, despite the new system’s teething troubles. Once a system of universal health coverage exists, it seems, people want to keep it.

So why be nervous about the prospects for reform?

Because it’s hard to get universal care established in the first place. There are, I’d argue, three big hurdles.

First, the Democrats have to win the election — and win it by enough to face down Republicans, who are still, 42 years after Medicare went into operation, denouncing “socialized medicine.”Second, they have to overcome the public’s fear of change.

Some health care reformers wanted the Democrats to endorse a single-payer, Medicare-type system for all. On the sheer economic merits, they’re right: Single-payer would be more efficient than a system that preserves a role for private insurance companies.

But it’s better to have an imperfect universal health care plan than none at all — and the only way to get a universal health care plan passed soon is to inoculate it against Harry-and-Louisetype claims that people will be forced into plans “designed by government bureaucrats.” So the Democratic platform emphasizes choice, declaring that Americans “should have the option of keeping the coverage they have or choosing from a wide array of health insurance plans, including many private health insurance options and a public plan.” We’ll see if that’s enough.

The final hurdle facing health care reform is the risk that the next president and Congress will lose focus. There will be many problems crying out for solutions, from a weak economy to foreign policy crises. It will be easy and tempting to put health care on the back burner for a bit — and then forget about it.

So I’m nervous. The history of the pursuit of universal health care in America is one of missed chances, of political opportunities frittered away. Let’s hope that this time is different. One more thing: If we do get real health care reform, a lot of people will owe a debt of gratitude to none other than John Edwards.

When Edwards dropped out of the presidential race, I credited him with making universal health care a “possible dream for the next administration.” Edwards’ political career is over — but perhaps he and his family can take some solace from the fact that his party is still trying to make that dream come true.

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It must be appreciated that the current Russian military operation in Georgia comes in the context of eight years of a profoundlydestructive Bush administration thuggish, unilateralist foreign policy. The reckless Bush policy, including its unprovoked invasion and occupation of Iraq, has heightened tensions throughout the world and driven angry wedges where bridges could have been built.

Now, Russia is reacting to a perceived threat on its border much as it was accustomed to doing in the old Cold War days. They’re not the good guys in this, but it is clear that the U.S. has been the bad guys for way too long.

For Sen. John McCain to react like a Bush neo-conservative cowboy to the Russian operation is to deepen the conviction of the American public that he’ll be more of the same if elected. It has good reason to.

Daring to evoke the Cold War in his “get tough” stump speech Tuesday, McCain was propped up by his top foreign policy and national security adviser Randy Scheunemann, who has direct ties to the same posse of Project for a New American Century (PNAC) “chicken hawks” that originally bum-rushed Bush into invading Iraq.

In fact, Scheunemann is the president of the so-called Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, created directly by PNAC, on whose board he used to sit with the likes of Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz. He was Sen. Trent Lott’s national security aide and an advisor to Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on the Iraq invasion and occupation.

He was deeply involved in the deception that led to the Iraq invasion, including through his ties from the discredited Ahmad Chalabi, who fed false intelligence to the U.S. in advance of the invasion.

His ties to PNAC inner circles run long and deep and he’s been influencing McCain since the late 1990s, including writing a speech for him in 1999 about the core neo-con notion of “national greatness,” global interventionist conservatism.

In addition to being a lobbyist for the National Rifle Association, he has been a particularly active operative on behalf of PNAC objectives among nations on the fringes of Russia, including Georgia and the Caspian Alliance, a consortium of oil and gas producing nations from the Caspian Sea region. He is also a lobbyist for BP America, noteworthy because British Petroleum owns the two major oil pipelines that traverse Georgia.

In the context of geopolitics and natural resource control, Georgia is the most forward-deployed of PNAC-influenced nations, the most eager to subject itself to Western natural resource and other forms of looting in the name of free trade and open markets, and to be a base for a potential NATO military buildup if Scheunemann and his ilk can engineer the tiny nation’s membership in that organization.

That McCain is in complete and uncritical lockstep with the PNAC agenda, as evidenced by his full embrace of Scheunemann’s counsel, is a frightening prospect for, were he elected, a continued deterioration of U.S. relations abroad, and the reemergence of a new era of superpower tensions.

The hallmark of the PNAC approach, as seen in the Iraq invasion case, is its American unilateralist character, including a tacit repudiation of the United Nations and a meaningful multilateral approach to global problem solving.

It is a zealot’s insistence that the United States is the only significant so-called “force for good” in the world, and it must assert itself aggressively, advancing under code words of “freedom” and “democracy.”

The American people were hoodwinked into backing Bush’s invasion of Iraq by the very same con job. Once again, in the Caspian Sea region, the real name of the game, behind the shallow platitudes, involves an oil and natural resources grab, and geo-strategic military considerations.

It would be a shame if Barack Obama got sucked into the same delusion, in the name of being a “tough guy,” too. While he may denounce the military invasion for its harm to innocent civilians, he must propose a multilaterally-crafted resolution.

As for McCain, the old adage goes, “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.” McCain supporters appear eager to be fooled yet a third time.

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WASHINGTON – While Obama was spending three hours watching “The Dark Knight” five time zones away, and going to a fundraiser featuring “Aloha attire” and Hawaiian pupus, Hillary was busy planning her convention.

You can almost hear her mind whirring: She’s amazed at how easy it was to snatch Denver away from the Obama saps.

Like taking candy from a baby, except Beanpole Guy doesn’t eat candy. In just a couple of weeks, Bill and Hill were able to drag No Drama Obama into a swamp of Clinton drama.

Now they’ve made Barry’s convention all about them — their dissatisfaction and revisionism and barely disguised desire to see him fail.

Whatever insincere words of support the Clintons muster, their primal scream gets louder: He can’t win! He can’t close the deal! We told you so!

Hillary’s orchestrating a play within the play in Denver. Just as Hamlet used the device to show that his stepfather murdered his father, Hillary will try to show the Democrats they chose the wrong savior.

Her former aide Howard Wolfson fanned the divisive flames Monday on ABC News, arguing that Hillary would have beaten Obama in Iowa and become the nominee if John Edwards’ affair had come out last year — an assertion contradicted by a University of Iowa survey showing that far more Edwards supporters had Obama as their second choice.

Hillary feels no guilt about encouraging her supporters to mess up Obama’s big moment, thus undermining his odds of beating John McCain and improving her odds of being the nominee in 2012.

She’s obviously relishing Hillaryworld’s plans to have multiple rallies in Denver, to take out TV and print ads and to hold up signs in the hall that read “Denounce Nobama’s Coronation.”

In a video of a closed California fundraiser on July 31 that surfaced on YouTube, Hillary was clearly receptive to having her name put in nomination and a roll-call vote.

She said she thought it would be good for party unity if her gals felt “that their voices are heard.”

But that’s disingenuous. Hillary was the one who raised the roll-call idea at the end of May with Democrats, who were urging her to face the math.

She said she wanted it for Chelsea, oblivious to how such a vote would dim Obama’s star turn.

Ever since she stepped aside in June, she’s been telling people privately that there might have to be “a catharsis” at the convention, signaling she

wants a Clinton crescendo.

Bill continues to howl at the moon — and any reporters in the vicinity — about Obama; he’s starting to make King Lear look like Ryan Seacrest.

The way the Clintons see it, there’s nothing wrong with a couple making plans for their future, is there?

That’s the American way and, as their pal Mark Penn pointed out, they have American roots while Obama “is not at his center fundamentally American in his thinking and in his values.”

The Clintons know that a lot of Democrats are muttering that their solipsistic behavior is “disgusting.” But they’re too filled with delicious schadenfreude at the wave of buyer’s remorse that has swept the Democrat Party; many Democrats are questioning whether Obama is fighting back hard enough against McCain, and many are wondering, given his inability to open up a lead in a country fed up with Republicans, if race will be an insurmountable factor.

Some Democrats wish that Obama had told the Clintons to “get in the box” or get lost if they can’t show more loyalty, rather than giving them back-to-back, prime-time speaking gigs at the convention on Tuesday and Wednesday. Al Gore clipped their wings in 2000, triggering their wrath by squeezing both the president and New York Senate candidate into speaking slots the first night and then ushering them out of L.A. Wednesday will be all Bill. The networks will rerun his churlish comments from Africa about Obama’s readiness to lead and his South Carolina meltdowns. TV will have more interest in a volcanic ex-president than a genteel veep choice.

Obama also allowed Hillary supporters to insert an absurd statement into the platform suggesting that media sexism spurred her loss and that “demeaning portrayals of women ... dampen the dreams of our daughters.” This, even though post-mortems, including the new raft of campaign memos leaked by Clintonistas to The Atlantic — another move that undercuts Obama — finger Hillary’s horrendous management skills.

Besides the crashing egos and screeching factions working at cross purposes, Joshua Green writes in the magazine, Hillary’s “hesitancy and habit of avoiding hard choices exacted a price that eventually sank her chances at the presidency.”

It would have been better to put this language in the platform: “A woman who wildly mismanages and bankrupts a quarter-of-a-billion-dollar campaign operation, and then blames sexism in society, will dampen the dreams of our daughters.”

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A number of efforts to address the high cost of energy have failed on the House floor in recent weeks. While those that voted against the legislation claim to be for lower prices at the pump, it remains to be seen why they have taken positions that would prevent Congress from taking proactive steps to mitigate the pain at the pump. The following are seven questions the American public deserves an answer to: 1. 13 major proposals that would increase supply, reduce prices, protect consumers and transition America to a clean, renewable energy-independent future have been brought to the House floor in recent months. Each time a majority of the minority party has voted against these proposals.

How can these members claim to want to help consumers and businesses when they oppose these policies?

2. Releasing a small amount of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve

today, oil and gas production would not begin there until 2017, and the impact on prices before 2030 would be “insignificant.” Why do certain lawmakers keep calling for an action that they know won’t solve today’s energy problems?

5. Why do Members of has proven in the past to be a Congress who claim to be for critical way to reduce energy an “all of the above,” energy prices in the short term used plan oppose efforts to protect in 1991, 2000 and 2005. Why consumers like price gouging not support efforts to free a and holding OPEC accountsmall amount of the taxpayer- able for price fixing? funded government stockpile 6. Our dependence on forto influence the price of the eign oil escalated during the pump within days? past 12 years. Why didn’t the 3. Exxon Mobil announced party in power in Congress at the highest ever quarterly that time do something about profit by a U.S. corporation in America’s energy indepenhistory last week. With Exxon dence to ensure we wouldn’t Mobil making $1,500 a sec- reach the energy crisis we’re ond, how can some lawmak- in now? ers continue to block efforts 7. House Democrats supto repeal tax subsidies to Big port a Renewable Electricity Oil? to transition elec- JC 124847 CLIENTf Standard 2 13:55 6/6/01 4. According to the Bush tricity sources to renewable Administration’s own Energy energy but why do House Department if we repealed Republicans continue to block the offshore drilling ban its passage?

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Is ManHunt, the wildly popular online cruising site with the slogan “get on, get off,” a blessing or a curse for gay men? This is the question Out Magazine writer Joseph Gross posed in one of the most provocative articles of the year.

The Out commentary points to the benefits of the site, but posits that it also has, “a tendency to isolate us, encourage objectification, and diminish our sense of life’s nonsexual possibilities.”

“For a long time it has been considered normal to be on the net,” Hollywood physician Gary Cohan said in the article. “We need to start thinking, that’s not normal.”

In his most powerful passage, Goss laments that cruising on ManHunt has come with a steep social cost. “I don’t like to think about the number of books I could have read, languages I could have learned, and friends I could have stayed in better touch with if I had not wasted so much time cruising online these past 12 years.”

Why are gay men spending so much time online? Why are the profiles so explicit? Do sites like ManHunt, as the author claims, “exaggerate our propensity to objectify each other?”

I don’t necessarily think so and believe that gay online culture is a result of the law of supply and demand. There are simply too few potential partners suitable for relationships. To make up for this husband deficit, we are thrust into fierce competition – which is reflected by the level of skin shown in many of our online ads.

Here is the hard truth – if you are looking for a life partner the numbers are not in your favor. If you take the total number of gay men in your city, subtract the number you are not sexually compatible with, minus the ones who have deal breaking habits, minus the guys who you have nothing in common with, minus the pathological closet cases who play straight while playing around online, minus the ones who just plain annoy you – the universe of potential mates is remarkably limited. This harsh reality is true for gay men in large cities and especially for rural gay men who can’t find a hunk in Podunk.

What we are talking about is sexual Darwinism and it affects straight people too. Heterosexuals also trudge through the snow for a night of speed dating, have online profiles and spend lonely evenings in bars looking for Mr. or Ms. Right. Like us, when they have uninspiring one night stands they remind themselves that there are more fish in the sea. When they cast their nets, however, they do so in the ocean, while we are fishing in a pond. The exponentially higher number of potential mates, combined with the fact that straight people can flirt anywhere without fear of getting bashed, creates an entirely different dating experience.

ManHunt – much like the earlier gay bar cruising scene – reflects the understanding that we must show off what we’ve got because there are limited opportunities. We don’t want someone we are interested in to never get to experience our great personality because someone distracted him with a naughty picture – so we show a little more than we might like in order to compete in this cutthroat marketplace.

Until we learn to clone gay people or magically convert heterosexuals – as the religious right imagines we can – we will have a sexualized culture as we try to get the upper hand, so we won’t have to settle for our hand.

Such hyper-competition can best be seen at large Pride celebrations, where normally staid gay men bear all because for a few hours the dating pool increases by several hundred thousand.

This behavior mirrors the way many small town women act (think skimpy clothes and perfume wafting through the air) when a Navy ship docks, increasing their odds of finding a husband.

Goss concludes in Out Magazine that online hookups can be harmful because “decoupling sex from emotion is a fool’s errand.”

But, I’m not sure that such decoupling is going on most of the time.

Online meeting is a utilitarian audition where the actor usually doesn’t get a callback. It isn’t because he didn’t read his lines well – he just might not be right for the part. What sites like ManHunt do, is give busy gay professionals the opportunity to kiss enough frogs before they hopefully find a prince – which is no guarantee.

As the article points out, this process can be tiresome, frustrating, even addictive, as gay men feel as if they are one click away from love. And, the truth is, they are - or it could be one million taps on the mouse to find a spouse. There is no sugar coating that in a small community of limited partners, if you want a man you have to hunt – hence the success of ManHunt. All one can do is keep his head up and never forget that the next online fling might lead to a diamond ring.

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One of the inevitable realities of life is that everyone ages. Francis Bacon (1561-1625) wrote that “age appears to be best in four things – old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.� More than a century later, William Wordsworth (1770-1850) wrote about “an old age serene and bright.� In the Bible, the Book of Job (11:17) speaks of age being “clearer than the noonday.�

In a new “Innovative Model of Living� at the Vinson Hall Retirement Community in McLean, bright spaces and accessible features are retrofitted into an existing efficiency apartment, providing an interesting new approach to the challenges of aging, making the old efficiency into a new studio apartment. The demonstration project is a collaborative effort between Vinson Hall, whose history dates to post-World War II needs for housing for sea service widows, and M. Quinn Designs, a small business based in Mason District (MQuinnDesigns.com). Moira Ann Quinn Leite, a long-time lighting and interior designer, is the visionary behind the concept.

A recent visit to the remodeled Vinson Hall apartment revealed several simple, but smart, changes that could be incorporated into any home. A motion sensor in the switch unit by the front door automatically turns on the ceiling light, allowing the resident to see the path into the room. The old carpet was removed and replaced with smooth flooring, easier to walk on and less likely to be a tripping hazard. A disappearing Murphy bed was installed in place of the tiny sleeping area next to the bathroom, and floor-to-ceiling cabinetry provides com-

spearing a bleeding heart. Try to tell us something?

We went downstairs to watch the installation of a multi-media exhibit being put together by Randall Packer and John Anderson.

Packer moved from San Francisco to Washington, D.C. in 2000. He was particularly struck by the unique lack of a ministry of culture in the capital city of a major nation. So, he created one on the Internet, The Department of Art and Technology, and made himself Secretary.

He then embarked on a two year journey through a nation gone awry, and this journey is the principal focus of the installation.

The journey was made by Orf (after Orpheus), the main character of a media opera, the score of which was written by Packer and sung by Los Angeles opera star Charles Lane. He sang “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child� over moving shots of the Arlington Cemetery, and “I’ve Been Scorned, I’ve Been ‘Buked’� at the Jefferson Memorial.

Orf went to New Orleans for Mardi Gras after Katrina and performs dances of

self immolation. He travels through the Bible Belt and to a slave cemetery. The journey ends symbolically in Death Valley where Orf destroys all media — shown in several operating television screens being buried in a cemetery in the middle of the floor of the hall.

And this is only one of several memorable installations.

For example, The Tiffany Gallery will be filled with digitalized images of local people

by Helga Thompson. As you walk into the gallery you will hear “white noise� until you come to stand directly under the speakers, where you will hear conversations among these ordinary people discussing how they balance their daily lives with politics, if in fact they do.

This is just a taste of what you will see, feel, and hear at this remarkable exhibition.

While it opens tomorrow, the gala opening reception will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. on Friday, September 5.

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Convinced that we are wallowing in campaign minutiae and rhetoric and brushing the real issues under the rug?

Then you must rush to the Arlington Arts Center to see – experience – its new exhibition: Picturing Politics 2008: Artists Speak to Power. It opens tomorrow, August 15, and will run through September 27. It is going to be a powerful experience.

We dropped by the center on Tuesday to check on the installation and meet a couple of the artists. Claire Huschle, the center’s director, told us that the new exhibit, organized by curator Rex Weil, sought to shift our attention from the mechanics of party politics and partisanship to broad public policy issues, albeit in a “loose� way.

While we talked, I glanced at a painting of the White House flanked by a huge fork

puter space and lots of storage. More storage is available in the wide, but shallow-depth media center, topped by a large flat-screen television.

No more side-stepping around furniture that juts into the room. Large, comfortable recliners face the media center, and are equipped with “lifts� that help the occupant out of the chair at the push of a button. One chair is cloth-covered; the other is leather, to help visitors see and feel the difference in surfaces.

Most residents take their meals in the Vinson Hall central dining room, so the kitchen is compact, but large enough to bake cookies with grandchildren or store Bacon’s “old wine to drink.� The counter features a contrasting color edge to provide what its designer calls “a visual cue,� and was extended to provide eating space near the large windows overlooking the Vinson Hall campus. Sturdy Asian-style stools, wide enough to accommodate ample figures, slide under the counter when not in use. A clever mirrored “window� above the sink camouflages access to the electrical panel behind it.

In the bathroom, a walk-in shower and builtin tiled seat were installed. The shower door slides in three sections, to allow more room to maneuver, especially if a caregiver is assisting the bather. A conventional shower head and a handheld shower device are included, with the diverter valve placed near the seat, along with grab bars for safety and convenience.

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NEWLY ENGAGED Joey Pella and Samantha Wippich are planning on a May 2009 wedding. (Photo: Courtesy Carol Wippich) Engagement Announcement Samantha Wippich and Joey Pella have announced their engagement.

Samantha is the daughter of Earl and Carol Wippich of Falls Church, Va. Joey is the son of Sal and Diana Pella of Alpharetta, Ga. Samantha is a 2001 graduate of George Mason High School and a 2005 graduate of James Madison University, where she received a degree in psychology. She is now residing in Alpharetta, Ga where she is employed by Oh2 Medical Spa.

Joey is a 2001 graduate of Chattahoochee High School and a 2005 graduate of the University of Georgia, where he received degrees in Real Estate and Insurance. He is employed by SunTrust Bank in the real estate finance group.

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Bailey’s Crossroads retail coat authority kicked off a fundraiser as part of partnership with the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s nationwide “Light the Night Walk” initiative now through Nov. 2. Burlington Coat Factory (3524 S. Jefferson St., Bailey’s Crossroads) is joining the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society in a company-wide initiative to help raise money for the organization that promotes blood cancer research and awareness by encouraging area-shoppers to purchase a balloon icon to support the cause.

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Daniel’s Run Inherits HOT Lane Plants Environmental groups Audubon Society of Northern Virginia (ASNV) and Lands & Waters relocated native plants rescued from Virginia Department of Transportation HOT Lanes construction sites last Friday.

Viburnum, American Holly, Partridge Berry, Ironweed trees and a host of other native Virginia flora were relocated to the Living Classroom at Daniel’s Run Elementary School (3705 Old Lee Hwy., Fairfax).

Invited to the planting were the following officials: Rep. Jim Moran (D.-Va); VDOT Deputy Project Manager Roger Boothe, members of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, Jack Bricker, Larry Wilkinson and Diane Hoffman of Natural Resources Conservation Service, National Audubon Society education director Mary Ford, Christopher Collins of Fluor Corporation, Jennifer Augment of Transurban; ASNV Board of Directors and Daniel’s Run Elementary School Principal Kathy Mullenix.

Vitalia MedSpa Goes Green Vitalia MedSpa specializes

in offering effective, non-invasive laser skin treatments in an eco-friendly, relaxing and pampering environment. Spa owner Cathy Hill has invested in LED bulbs, lights that automatically turn on and off to minimize electrical usage, spring water served in biodegradable cups made from corn husks, and has recently done away with paper towels in their restrooms.

A Veltia hand-dryer was installed that uses 78 percent less electricity than traditional hand dryers, and is made from 60 percent recycled plastic.

Hill chose bamboo wood for the floors since bamboo regenerates itself so quickly, unlike hard woods.

F.C. Street Sweeping Week Scheduled The City of Falls Church will be doing their monthly street sweeping this week, starting on Monday, Aug. 18.

From Monday to Wednesday, areas north of Broad Street will be cleaned, and areas south of Broad will be cleaned on Thursday and Friday. Street sweeping reduces the volume of pollutants entering local streams through the City’s 900 storm drain openings.

Residents are asked to move their vehicles off residential streets, if possible, between 7 a.m. - 5 p.m. when street sweeping is scheduled for the ir area.

FCNP Staffer Attends Football 101 for Women Intern-turned-reporter Natalie Bedell attended last Saturday’s Football 101

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Clinic for Women. The fourhour course, sponsored by the National Capital Region Chapter of the National Football Foundation/College Hall of Fame was held at James Madison High School in Vienna, where football moms, sisters and girlfriends learned the X’s and O’s of the game.

Players from the Madison High Varsity football team joined volunteer coaches to teach participants on-the-field drills demonstrating the preseason training high-schoolers endure before the fall each year. Look for our football preview issue next week in the sports section for Bedell’s report on the clinic and to read what women who attended had to say about tackling each other on Maddie’s artificial turf.

Ladies’ Rooftop Booze and Baseball The Washington Nationals will hold a Ladies Night Out and Pre-Game Home Run Happy Hour on Thursday, Aug. 14 starting at 5 p.m. on the Rooftop of Garage B overlooking Nationals Park (1500 S. Capitol St. SE, Washington, D.C.) before the Nats take on the New York Mets at 7:10 p.m.

Tickets may be purchased for $30 by visiting nationals.com/ ladiesnight, including admission to the Home Run Happy Hour as well as a Scoreboard Pavilion game ticket for the evening’s game. Exhibitors include Hard Times Café, Anheuser Busch,

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The Elks Lodge (1821 Arlington Blvd., Fairfax) will be hosting a Disco Dance Party on Saturday, Aug. 16.

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the taco bar and desserts on the patio. For reservations and more information, call 703849-1282.

Nats’ First Ladies Collect Eight Bins of Supplies The Washington Nationals, in partnership with The UPS Store and the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation, collected over eight bins of school supplies and $6,500 at Nationals Park during their second annual Back-to-School Drive. The First Ladies, Nationals players’ wives and girlfriends, and volunteers from The UPS Store and the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve were located outside the Center Field Gates during the weekend games against the Cincinnati Reds on Saturday, Aug. 2 and Sunday, Aug. 3.

Collection began when the gates opened to the public and lasted through the bottom of the 4th inning. The Back-to-School Drive is one of the signature programs of the Nationals First Ladies.

LOCAL GUITAR PLAYER TOM PRINCIPATO hit the stage with his band mates at Cherry Hill Park in Falls Church last Thursday for the last show of the City of Falls Church’s Concert in the Park series. Principato performed in the series last year as well, has recorded over 16 albums, and tours the world frequently. (Photo: Dan Rosenstein)

Burke & Herbert Bank Puts on its Party Hat Burke & Herbert Bank & Trust Company will commemorate its 156th birthday on Thursday, Aug. 14, with a cake and celebration at all eighteen branches. The bank welcomes the public to stop by and visit any of its 18 offices during business hours (9 a.m.

- 5 p.m.) and join in the celebration.

“We are immensely proud of our history and appreciative of our customers who have so loyally honored us with their business, often for generations,” said Charlie Collum, Chairman and CEO. “Ours is an amazing history of endurance, commitment and outstanding management that has guided us and allowed us to serve this community for so long.”

The bank operates 18 branches in Northern Virginia with its 19th office scheduled to open in Manassas this September.

BUNDLE OF JOY Bryce Ruben of Oakton, Va. is the winner of the 2008 Panera Bread “Bun in the Oven” contest. “Bryce’s Sesame Bagel,” named in honor if his birth on June 2, is being sold through the month of August at a Panera near you. (Photo: Courtesy Sarah Unger)

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Ana Visage Institute is hosting a grand opening event at its new Falls Church location from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 16. A ribbon-cutting with Vice Mayor Hal Lippman, Falls Church Chamber of Commerce Chairman Gary LaPorta and other local community and business leaders will take place at 10:30 a.m. Ana Visage provides a wide array of European day-spa services to the public, as well as board-certified training in massage therapy, electrolysis, esthetics, permanent make-up and make-up artistry. Ana Visage is located at 350 S. Washington St. For more information, visit anavisage.com.

Falls Church-based Argia’s is participating in the Restaurant Association of Metro Washington’s Restaurant Week by offering a three course, fixed price dinner menu featuring some of their most popular menu items for $35.08. Almost 200 local restaurants are participating, many of which are also offering three course lunch specials as well. Argia’s, however, is the only participant also celebrating DC Central Kitchen’s Restaurant of the Month honor. Through August Argia’s is donating 10% of proceeds from three specially-created entrees to DC Central Kitchen (dccentralkitchen.org). For a list of all of the restaurants participating in Restaurant Week, which ends Sunday, Aug. 17, visit ramw.org. For more about the family-run restaurant, visit argias.com.

“Principles of Wealth Management”, a personal finance presentation, will be held at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Aug. 19 at the Falls Church Community Center., applying a wide range of investment, tax and financial planning strategies to address individual circumstances to build net worth and achieve personal objectives. The featured speaker is Falls Church resident Michael Byman, Certified Financial Planner® with Capital Management Group, LLC Registered Investment Advisers. Capital Management Group is a private wealth management firm serving individuals and families. The event is free; space is limited. Contact Byman to reserve a seat at byman@cmg-llc.net or 202-296-3306.

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The tours are free and include tastings and free goodies. Reservations are required by calling 703-448-1600. Whole Foods is the world’s leading natural and organic foods supermarket and America’s first national certified organic grocer. The Falls Church Whole Foods Market is located at 7511 Leesburg Pike. For more information about Whole Foods, visit wholefoodsmarket.com.

Northern Virginia Community College is now offering business and business-related courses at the Virginia Tech/UVA Northern Virginia Center in Falls Church. Business, computer science, engineering, information technology, mathematics and speech along with English history courses are now available through NOVA. The Northern Virginia Center is on Haycock Road in Falls Church, adjacent to the West Falls Church metro.

Professor Robert Woodke is coordinating the new NOVA site. Registration is taking place now for classes starting the week of Aug. 25. Students may register at www.nvcc. edu or in person at the Student Services Center on NOVA’s six campuses in Alexandria, Annandale, Loudoun, Manassas, Springfield and Woodbridge. For more information, contact Woodke at 703-323-4257 or rwoodke@nvcc.edu, or visit nvcc.edu.

The Virginia Chamber of Commerce is soliciting nominations for its Torchbearer Awards, which honor Virginia companies whose business achievements and corporate citizenship have made a lasting impact on the prosperity and quality of life in the Commonwealth. The deadline is Sept. 1. Nominees may be from any industry, but must be in Virginia. There will be one state winner and four regional winners announced at a gala banquet concluding the 2008 Virginia Economic Summit, Oct. 29 at the Richmond Marriott. For the Torchbearer Award nomination form or more information about the Summit, visit vachamber.com.

Restaurants interested in joining Taste of Falls Church at the Fall Festival are in luck: several restaurant spaces are still available. Sponsorship opportunities are also being offered. RCN is sponsoring the Children’s Tent. Buck & Associates Real Estate, Cox Communications, Foxcraft Design and Waterford Falls Church support the event as well. Those interested should contact Jenny Elmore as soon as possible at 703-248-5199 or jelmore@fallschurchva.gov to participate in the Saturday, Sept. 13 event.

Falls Church financial planners Hanson Cheng and Jocelyn Kaplan will join over 100 other Certified Financial Planner™ professionals who will volunteer their time and expertise to answer consumers’ financial questions at a free Financial Planning Clinic on Saturday, Sept. 13, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. at the Grand Hyatt Washington. Cheng and Kaplan will meet one-on-one with consumers to answer their individual questions on retirement and investment planning, debt management, etc. The clinic, organized by Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc., will also feature workshops on topics ranging from “Planning for Your Financial Goals” to “Debt Management.” Free registration and additional information is available at CFP.net.  The Business News & Notes section is compiled by Sally Cole, Executive Director of Greater Falls Church Chamber of Commerce. She may be emailed at sally@ fallschurchchamber.org.

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irelands four provinces restaurant and pub For those who aren’t ready to buy into the concept of world oil production going into decline in the next few years, there is a less worrisome subset making the rounds known as “peak oil lite.”

Those adopting this outlook have rightly noted that gasoline is selling for unheard of prices and don’t subscribe to the idea that evil speculators, evil oil companies, or evil OPEC is the cause of this unfortunate happenstance. They also correctly recognize demand for oil, especially from China, India and oil producing states, has outstripped the ability of the oil industry to increase supplies fast enough.

Notably absent from peak oil lite, however, is the notion world oil production has not increased appreciably in the last 3 or 4 years and is poised to start dropping very soon. Thus “peak lite” believers readily acknowledge there is a supply/demand problem pushing up prices, but do not go so far as to internalize the serious consequences of declining world production.

A good example of peak lite appeared last month in a frontpage Washington Post series on the current world oil situation.

After many years of writing around the problem, the Post finally bit the bullet and tackled the coming storm head on by examining “the economic forces that have unhinged oil prices.”

In the first story, entitled “This time it is different,” the Post concludes that, unlike in the 1970s, the problem is “world demand increasing faster than supply.” No argument so far.

For peak oil lite adherents who don’t want to believe or at least not admit publicly that the world is reaching geological constraints on how much oil you can produce, you immediately point out the lack of adequate investment and political constraints.

You start by explaining that “low oil prices in the late 1990s dampened the impetus for finding new oil supplies.” Then you say that “too few drilling rigs were built” and that “refineries weren’t expanded or upgraded.” This, of course, leaves the impression that if there were just enough money invested all would be well, not that the bottom of the barrels is in sight.

To be fair, the Post does tell us that “investment slackened just as finding new supplies was becoming more difficult and costly. Most of the world’s big, easy-to-tap fields have already been discovered and largely drained.”

By paragraph 23, however, the Post’s story does get to the heart of the issue – world oil production, and with it our economy, is about to go into decline. “Some analysts argue that peak oil production has already been reached. Others

say the peak remains a ways off but perhaps not very far.”

This is indeed an artfully crafted sentence that marks a great breakthrough in the Post’s coverage of the issue, for it not only mentions the words (peak oil); it leaves the reader with a slight, but not emphatic flavor of imminence.

The second Post story dissects a key factor in the course of oil prices – increasing Chinese demand. On reading the piece one is left with the impression that China’s economy has built up such a head of steam it is not going to slow its oil consumption until it looks like America or there is no affordable oil left. As looking like America requires that Beijing increase its car fleet from 14 million to 900 million vehicles, it is not hard to predict which is coming first.

The next piece of the Post’s series starts with a discussion of a depleted oil field in California and makes the point that US oil production peaked nearly 40 years ago and that we are now importing the bulk of our oil.

The story makes many points among the usual arguments for peaking world oil production – deep offshore oil is expensive and depletes rapidly, with the exception of Iraq most of the “easy” oil has been used up, Mexico is in decline, “the North Sea is plummeting,” “Russian output is hitting a plateau,” heavy oil from Canada and Venezuela is “expensive and energy-intensive to develop.”

To this point in their series, the writers, researchers, and editors at the Post have done

a fair job in laying out the current world oil situation. But there is one more step – connecting the dots by telling us what all this means and what is in store for us. Here is where the “lite” comes in, for there is no conclusion that fits the cited evidence.

For example, the Post cites the CEO of the French oil company, Total, that an “optimistic case” is for oil production to increase by another 14 million barrels per day (b/d) and peak around 100 million b/d in another seven or eight years. They then report that the International Energy Agency has just announced that it will take 3.5 million b/d of new production just to offset depletion at existing fields and keep the world oil production level.

Now, the obvious conclusion is that the world is going have to come up with 40 million b/d of new oil production in order to keep even and reach the “optimistic” 2015 projection of 100 million b/d.

This would require the discovery of four new Saudi Arabia’s.

Nothing remotely close to this amount of new production can possibly start up in the next seven years.

The series concludes by citing peak oil evangelist Matthew Simmons of Houston, that world production has already peaked and that higher prices will be here shortly; Saudi Oil Minister Naimi, that “Saudi Arabia will be able to meet the world’s rising demand for years to come”; and the inevitable expert-in-themiddle, who points out there will be a lot of problems in increasing production.

The Post is to be congratulated for a tour d’horizon that touches most of the bases relevant to peak oil. They acknowledge the problem, use the words “peak oil,” discuss much of the evidence and cite the differences of opinion as to the imminence of a crippling problem.

Reading between the lines, one can sense an editorial debate, for the obvious conclusion is one no reader wants to hear. It is probably unrealistic to expect more at this time, for the series itself is a major step forward in spreading the word as to where we are all going.

There is still much more to be told.  Tom Whipple is a retired government analyst and has been following the peak oil issue for several years.

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Send community event submissions to the News-Press by e-mail at calendar@fcnp.com; fax 703-532-3396; or by regular mail to 450 West Broad Street #321, Falls Church, VA 22046. Please include any photos or artwork with submissions. Deadline is Monday at noon for each week’s edition.

Community Events THURSDAY, AUGUST 14 Arlington Walking Group.

Arlington County walking group. Begins at Virginia Square Metro station (3600 Fairfax Dr., Arlington). Free. 10 a.m. 703-2280072.

Story Hour, Ages 5 and up. Mary Riley Styles Public Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free.

10:30 a.m.

Rotary Club Meeting. The Rotary Group Study Exchange Team reports on thir trip to Brazil.

Harvest Moon Restaurant (7260 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). $10.

6:30 p.m. 202-268-5089.

Book Signing. George Pelecanos discusses book, “The Turnaround.” Borders (5871 Crossroads Center Way, Baileys Crossroads). 7:30 p.m. 703-9980404.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 15 Film Festival. 13th Annual Hong Kong Film Festival. Screening of “As Tears Go By.” Meyer Auditorium at Freer Gallery of Art (Independence Ave. at 12th St. SW, D.C.). Free. 7 p.m. 202633-1000.

Musical Storytime, Ages 2-8. Join “Mister Don” for an interactive children’s music time. Lots of singa-longs and rhythm instruments!

Aladdin’s Lamp Children’s Bookstore (2499 N. Harrison St., Arlington).Free. 11 a.m. 703-2418281.

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TUESDAY, AUGUST 19

Farmer’s Market. Falls Church City Hall (300 Park Ave., Falls Church). 8 a.m.

Technology Training. Basic Internet skills. Shirlington Branch Library (4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington). Free. 2 p.m. 703-2286545.

Vamos Hablar Espanol, Ages 2-6.

Join us for a special storytime for songs and stories in Spanish.

Conducted by guest Rose Ann Renteria. Aladdin’s Lamp Children’s Bookstore (2499 N. Harrison St., Arlington).Free. 11 a.m. 703-241-8281.

Music On the Green. Outdoor musical performance by No Better Off. Acoustic roots music blending folk, rock, bluegrass, blues and country. Palladium Civic Place Green (1445 Laughlin Ave., McLean).Free. 6 p.m. 703-2889505.

MONDAY, AUGUST 18 Falls Church Street Sweeping.

Today through Wednesday on

areas north of Broad St., Thurs. and Fri. on areas south of Broad St. Residents should move vehicles off residential streets, if possible, between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m. when street sweeping is scheduled for the area. 703-2485081.

Building Self-esteem and Relationships. On-going groups will help you build your selfesteem, address intimacy and relationship concerns, eliminate fear based behaviors, and learn how to take risks. Falls Church Presbyterian Church (225 E. Broad St., Falls Church). 5:30 p.m. 703-903-9696, ext. 284.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20 Kindermusik, Ages 1-6. Share in your child’s wonder and delight as they play instruments, sing, chant and listen to music with Miss Grace. Aladdin’s Lamp Children’s Bookstore (2499 N.

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Joshua Coyne. Multiinstrumentalist performs an eclectic blend of classical, jazz, opera and Broadway.

Millennium Stage at Kennedy Center (2700 F St. NW, D.C.).

Free. 6 p.m. 202-467-4600.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 15 U.S. Air Force Silver Wings.

Country music at its best.

Millennium Stage at Kennedy Center (2700 F St. NW, D.C.).

Free. 6 p.m. 202-467-4600.

Maria/Stuart. featuring company members Naomi Jacobson and Sarah Marshall, with Meghan Grady, Eli James, Amy McWilliams and Emily Townley.

Become an Actor. Learn what to expect from an institution specifically designed to train you for a career in acting. Volta Place in Georgetown (1556 Wisconsin Ave. NW, D.C.). 6:30 p.m.

Reservations required. 202-3332202.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 21 Story Hour, Ages 5 and up. Mary Riley Styles Public Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). 10:30 a.m.

Charioke. “Success In The City” ladies host a special karaoke event to benefit the Bobby de Lorenzi Foundation. Food, refreshments and door prizes.

Velocity Five Sports Bar (8111 Lee Hwy., Falls Church). $45 for members, $55 for nonmembers. 6:30 p.m. 703-3095502.

All You Can Bowl. For $10.99, bowl as many games as you want.

Bowl America (140 South Maple Ave., Falls Church). $10.99. 9 p.m. 703-534-1370.

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Harrison St., Arlington).Free. 11 a.m. 703-241-8281.

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Legg Mason Tennis Classic FitzGerald Tennis Center (Through finals on Sunday)

Woolly Mammoth Theatre (641 D St. NW, D.C.). Pay what you can. 8 p.m. 202-289-2443.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 16 Charles Covington Jr. Baltimore jazz pianist. Millennium Stage at Kennedy Center (2700 F St. NW, D.C.). Free. 6 p.m. 202467-4600.

‘Rooms.’ Through 9/7. Metro Stage (1201 N. Royal St., Alexandria). $40-45. 8:30 p.m.

800-494-8497.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 17 Mario Spinetti. Kennedy Center Millennium Stage (2700 F St. NW, D.C.). Free. 6 p.m. 202467-4600.

Mitch Fatel. From the “Tonight Show” and Comedy Central.

Show is R-rated. DC Improv (1140 Conneticut Ave. NW, D.C.). $17. 8 p.m. 202-2967008.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20 Walking Monologues. Ford’s Theatre (511 10th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $12. 7 p.m.

202-638-2367.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 21 Mike Birbiglia. From Comedy Central, performing his “What I should have said was nothing” tour. DC Improv (1140 Conneticut Ave. NW, D.C.). $20. 8:30 p.m. 202-296-7008.

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empting though it may be for sports fans to vegetate on their couches this weekend with eyes glued to the Olympics, why not jump in the car, take a cruise through Rock Creek Park, via the parkway and getting off at Blagden, and wind up bathing in the sun at D.C.’s jewel of a tennis center for the crunch time of the Legg Mason tournament? This is the one week of the year that D.C. area folk have some of the biggest names in professional tennis here to entertain them. Going back to 1969, almost all the biggest names in the sport have won this tournament at one point or another, including Andre Agassi five times and America’s current best men’s player, Andy Roddick, three times, and shooting this week for a fourth.

Also watch 6 ft. 9 in. U. of Va. grad John Isner, in only his second year as a pro. He took Roddick to the finals before losing at Legg Mason last year. And check out Juan Martin Del Porto of Argentina, who came here having won 14 straight matches and three titles in the last month.

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live_music&nightlife THURSDAY, AUGUST 14 T�� G���������. An evening with the country band. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave., Vienna). $15.

7:30 p.m. 703-255-1566.

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T�� B����� L�����. With Crash Boom Band, The Scenic and Stacy Clark. Jammin’ Java(227 Maple Ave., Vienna). $15. 7 p.m. 703255-1566.

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T�� O������� T�������. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). $5. 7 p.m. 703-2419504.

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Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $15. 9 p.m.

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Free. 7 p.m. 703-241-9504.

P�������� E������. With The District Ambulance, Angel Row and Orange Marmalade. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave., Vienna). $10. 8 p.m. 703-255-1566.

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G����� A T����. With Stanton Moore, Skerik and Mike Dillon and Marco. State Theatre (220 N. Washington St., Falls Church). $20. 9 p.m. 703-2370300.

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It’s wonderful. This Sunday is your chance to join in on the crabbing smorgasbord with thingstododc.com’s All You Can Eat Crab Feast and Potomac River Cruise. In addition to the tasty crustaceans, you’ll be able to chow down on corn on the cob, hush puppies, potato salad, fries and cookies. If you find time in between bites, you can check out the D.C. sights the cruise has to offer. Bring your appetite and a wet nap and take part in a true Washington, D.C. tradition.

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Friday, August 22 — Indian Summer Showcase. Tonolec performs tradition-infused electronica. Welcome Plaza at National Museum of the American Indian. (4th St. and Independence Ave. SW, D.C.).

Free. 5:30 p.m. 202-633-1000.

Sunday, August 24 — Auction of Rare and Unusual Azaleas. By the Northern Virginia Chapter of the Azalea Society of America. Merrifield Garden Center (8132 Lee Highway, Merrifield). 703 455-4850.

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As late as a month ago, it felt like the spotlight would never shift. The focus of these Olympics, held in Beijing, would forever focus on China’s sociopolitical problems. The essays would center on China’s human rights troubles, on the country’s occupation of Tibet, on its repeated violation of U.S. copyright laws and the smog that sullied the various sports venues.

Then, after the opening ceremonies, the world’s athletes changed the focus. As the Games officially began, we are forgetting about the host country’s flaws as these stars take center stage and begin to outshine everything around them.

Good.

The chorus of yells protest Tibet’s occupation were drowned out by choruses of cheers for beach volleyballers Misty May-Treanor and Kerry Walsh, for the Chinese men’s basketball team and living legend Yao Ming, and the so-called “Redeem Team” of American hoopsters led by Kobe Bryant, who may be even more popular than Yao. There have been the unreal achievements of American swimmer Michael Phelps, so far five gold medals paired with five world records. And there have been the agonizing, oh-so-close endings of Katie Hoff, who narrowly finished fourth twice on Tuesday night (in America).

And Phelps’s celebrated quest for an unprecedented eight gold medals would be over if not for the Herculean efforts of American anchor swimmer Jason Lezak, who vaulted past the leading French on the final leg of the men’s 400m freestyle relay.

Though the world knew about Phelps and his impending future on the front of the Wheaties box, it has been introduced to athletes like Shawn Johnson, the spritelike female gymnast who looks like she could fit inside a box of Lucky Charms. Her constant grin would certainly fit in there.

Even as she and her teammates watched China defeat them for the gold medal in the team gymnastics competition, the bubbly Johnson beamed as she embraced her disheartened teammates.

As China and the U.S. battle for the top spot in the medal count, the bottom of standings offer more new names, like Rishod Sobirov, who claimed the lone medal, a bronze in Judo, for Uzbekistan.

While NBC and other news outlets have not entirely forsaken the sad storylines that made the world skeptical of China’s status as an Olympic host, the essays have more often adopted a whimsical tone.

On Saturday, former “NBC Nightly News” anchor Tom

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Brokaw, a man who has interviewed countless world leaders, sat down with Phelps’s mother as she retold the story of how her son’s inaccessibility during the Olympics and his training led her to learn how to text message.

“I don’t know all the acronyms yet, but I’m learning,” she said. Brokaw, the man who covered Watergate as a White House correspondent and was the first American newsman to sit down for a one-on-one interview with Mikhail Gorbachev, drew his head back slightly, pursed his lips and asked, “Do you know what ‘LOL’ means?”

What was that again Tom? OMG, that left me ROFL with my BFFs. There is no escaping, entirely, the political overtones during the games. Indeed, they have famously overlapped with previous politically poignant moments: The hostage crisis in Munich, the black-glove protest of Tommy Smith and John Carlos in Mexico City, the boycott of the 1980 Moscow games by the U.S. and the retaliatory boycott of the 1984 Los Angeles games by the Soviet Union.

The attachment of political context is far from a unique occurrence, but that doesn’t mean such stories always deserve to abduct the focus of the Games from the athletes. These men and women have often worked their entire lives to achieve their status as Olympians. Give them 16 days to enjoy it.

Let’s leave the barrage of bad news lie for a few weeks.

Over the next four years, there will be plenty of time to discuss it. Let’s just look at what happens when the world’s best athletes come together. We might even learn something.

Such was the case in the women’s 10-meter air pistol competition. Even as their countries engaged in an all-out hot war, bronze medalist Nino Salukvadze of Georgia and silver medalist Natalia Paderina of Russia shared the medal platform, embraced and kissed each other on the cheek, both of them were all smiles.

There will always be political causes. There will always be economic inequalities. There will always be reasons to raise voices in protest. For two weeks, we can take a break. Let’s repay these athletes’ lifetimes of hard work with our attention. Let’s see differences settled on the athletic field. Let’s just enjoy all of this right now. Because I guarantee you, the strife, the smog and the other sullen story lines will all be waiting for us after the Closing Ceremonies.  Mike Hume may be emailed at mhume@fcnp.com.

Days after the 2008 Summer Olympics kicked off in Beijing, senior citizens of Chesterbrook Assisted Living Residence at 200 Westmoreland St., Falls Church celebrated the start of their firstever Wii Olympics with an opening ceremony on Tuesday.

Residents at Chesterbrook enjoyed an afternoon of festivities, and an appearance by Steve Gurney, publisher of Guide to Retirement Living.

Nintendo’s revolutionary video game system, Wii enables players to interact physically with the game via the portable remote – more work than the dexterous fingering most game consoles require for their joystick.

The ceremony lasted just over two hours. Beforehand, Gurney greeted every resident, and started the Olympics by playing three games against various members of Chesterbrook’s two four-person teams.

In addition, Gurney spent last weekend learning how to play Wii to avoid embarrassing

himself against the well-trained seniors. The residents however, sporting their customized team t-shirts, had no intention of going easy on a rookie player. “[The ceremony] went really well,” said Marriam Hameed, Chesterbrook’s Director of Activities. “The residents supported each other, and there was a lot of team spirit.”

Over the next three weeks, residents at Chesterbrook compete against various groups and each other with Nintendo’s hands-on video game. The residents look forward to taking on challengers in “Wii Bowling,” the only event of the games, due to its popularity among retirement communities in Virginia.

The first challengers will be Chesterbrook’s own volunteers on Aug. 19. The following day they play the local fire department, and on Aug. 21, the residents have challenged the entire Chesterbrook staff.

However, the most anticipated tournament is final event on Aug. 26 against Potomac Place, their sister community in Woodbridge.

The Chesterbrook residents have invited Wii players from Potomac Place for a pizza party and an intense afternoon of virtual bowling. The closing ceremony follows on Aug. 27. “[The sister community] will be their first real challenge” said Hameed. “They will finally be playing against people of their own age and skill level.”

The residents at Potomac Place have a Wii of their own, and like Chesterbrook residents, they play at least three times a week to prepare for competition.

The Wii Olympics allows residents to get in touch with their competitive nature and use physical ability and hand eye coordination in a fun and competitive way, without too much more external effort.

Coordinated Services Management (CSM), a company, which serves retirement communities across Virginia, came up with the idea to put Wii’s in their communities this spring. CSM has made the Wii Olympics a state-wide event this summer.

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There is a different atmosphere at the J.E.B. Stuart High School practice field this summer – a new coach has stepped in, the losing mentality that has plagued the Varsity football team for the past few years seems to be gone and the team has gotten bigger, faster and stronger.

More so, the Stuart Varsity team has developed a newfound killer instinct.

Coach Roy Ferri, who has bled orange and blue – Stuart’s colors – since the 1980s is beginning his second tenure as Raider head coach.

Ferri began his coaching career at Stuart in 1981, and then coached at nearby Centerville and Lake Braddock before returning to J.E.B. Stuart as the head coach in 1998 before stepping down after the 2001 season. hE also has two athletic daughters who played three sports during their time at Stuart. “I have a deep loyalty to both the school and the community,” he said.

Not only has Ferri restored pride in the program, he has installed an offense devoted to

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a power running game, and a big play passing game, utilizing Stuart’s speed at the receiver position.

In addition to speedy wideouts, the Raiders have depth at the running back position that will allow their backs to stay fresh throughout game, letting them to pound away at opposing defenses while still keeping them honest with the threat of a deep bomb.

The Raiders expect to create match up problems at every offensive position causing headaches for every opposing coach they face.

In addition to the strong core of skill players, Stuart has several mammoth offensive linemen opening holes this year. The starting offensive line averages a whopping 260 pounds apiece.

The linemen have adopted Coach Ferri’s enthusiasm, and have worked hard all summer both in the weight room and in the trenches to become bigger and stronger, in addition to refining their skills.

On the defensive side, the Raiders are a little more stretched for talent. They have several big bodies up front, but the secondary lacks the explo-

sive speed they possess on offense. However, the big men up on the front line fully expect to be able to clog running lanes and shut down opposing ground attacks, taking pressure off the defensive backs.

Ferri plans to play Division six style “smash mouth” football in a Division five district. This style of play requires physical domination at every position on the field in order to be successful, something Ferri believes his team can do.

Despite having a team that is 0-18 over the past two seasons, Ferri sees this as a completely different group with a wholly fresh attitude and much higher expectations.

He adds: “Our goal is plain and simple: to make the playoffs. With this current team, we have a chance To go deep into the post-season.”

While the term “playoff run” might not have been uttered at Stuart since Ferri’s first tenure, the dour outlook might change in the coming months.

The National District is up for grabs this year, even for a team that is winless in its past two seasons. Across town, rivals Yorktown and Falls

Church High Schools are stuck in twilight periods, and other teams that have beaten up the Raiders in the past might likely be caught off-guard by Stuart.

Stuart’s first test, as well as Ferri’s first since returning, will be against another local team in George Mason. Traditionally, Mason sets the tone for the Raiders season by dominating on all sides of the ball at Stuart.

This year however, Stuart will make the short trip to Mason’s Moore Cadillac Stadium, in hope that, for once, they might return the favor.

Stuart has always been a school community that takes pride in their football team. They have an outstanding marching

band that puts on field shows during both pre-game and at halftime.

Likewise, Stuart has a student body that regularly comes out and cheers for the Varsity football team on Friday nights, despite knowing what the outcome will be.

However, this year might finally be the year it all comes together for the Raiders. With a new coach and state of mind, Stuart has no intentions of remaining the doormat of Northern Virginia high school football.

“The change has already happened”, said Ferri. “We have restored pride in the program.

We have shown that we can compete with anyone.”

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Ocean Park series done in California, Diebenkorn’s Ocean Park works are mostly pure abstractions, but drift back to realism and, at times, flirt with the edge between the two.

The much earlier New Mexico paintings are almost exclusively abstract. Possibly the most interesting aspect of this showing is the way we can see Diebenkorn struggling not with how to make art, but rather how to make his art. This notion is a key element of the MFA process in general.

Museum goers rarely get to see this sort of struggle in widely known artists.

Like reading the last chapter of a novel first, we know how this story ends, and as such it’s a tad odd and somewhat anticlimatic. These canvases were executed when Diebenkorn was 28 to 30 years old. He would go on to paint for almost 40 years afterwards.

We know Diebenkorn will wind up at a place where he defines straight-line, landscapebased, geometric forms with drawn lines and fairly solid blocks of color. In case you aren’t familiar with them, a sampling of the Ocean Park paintings hang at the museum entranceway to get you somewhat up to speed on the notion.

Knowing this while viewing the New Mexico works, we can see Diebenkorn struggling with how to best break up the picture field, and how definitively he

should mix and apply colors.

It’s difficult to accept his messier canvases as anything more than artistic experimentation. Some artists destroy or paint over this sort of work to eliminate the weak links in their oeuvre, while others save it all.

At least one of these canvases reminds one of a kindergartner’s “mud pie” finger painting; it’s almost painfully off the mark for Diebenkorn, which is not to say that’s the rule here, but not all experimental exercises are successful ... otherwise we’d call them solutions In fact, the artistic growth process demands a certain degree of failure as one steps beyond one’s known area of accomplishments and tries new things. Like adolescence, we work our way through it and find our own style in adulthood.

It’s entertaining and refreshing to see this growth process in a notable artist. Understandably, museums want to show the best of the best. However, a steady diet of such can give one the unrealistic impression that famous artists pop out of the womb as great masters.

The truth of the matter is it’s normally an intellectually painful path wrought with intense soul searching and a seemingly perpetual process of polishing, expanding and modifying one’s skill set, all meted out in virtual obscurity.

My two favorite works here are a pair of uncharacteristically beige paintings, Albuquerque 22, and an untitled 1951 canvas.

Each has the look of barren desert landscape as seen from the air. Black lines break up the space near the edges of the picture field. Albuquerque 22 has strong graphic marks that resemble cattle brands and a spur. It’s here that we possibly see the strongest link to Diebenkorn’s future use of space and line.

Though that would be a rather moot point, as they’re all part of Diebenkorn’s journey from career point A to B.

ALBUQUERQUE 7, 1951 by Richard Diebenkorn (1922-1993).

Oil on canvas. 69.5 by 38 inches. Private collection. (Photo: Courtesy The Estate of Richard Diebenkorn)

Brett Weston: “Out of the Shadow” through September 7.

“Out of the Shadows” refers not only to his printing style, but also to the shadow Weston’s famous father, Edward Weston, cast on his career. Like most second generation talent, dad’s (usually) shoes are often impossibly big to fill.

No one can fault the print quality here. Weston cut his photographic teeth working with his father and printing from his father’s negatives. He certainly knows how to find D-Max black, and use it with accomplished skill. Weston’s shadow areas tend to be featureless ink, black empty voids. To be sure, they are “punchy” prints.

Darkroom mastery, however, does not in and of itself

21 St. NW, Washington, D.C.) Museum Hours: Tuesday – Saturday 10 a.m. – 5 p.m., Thursday “Artful Evenings” with music and gallery talks 5 – 8:30 p.m;, Sunday, 11 a.m. – 6 p.m. Call 202-387-2151, or visit phillipscollection.org.

The permanent collection has a few gems on display at the moment.

Just beyond the end of the Weston show, you’ll find a largescale, abstract 1931 painting titled “Aspiration” by Augustus Vincent Tack. In the Marion Oates Chales Gallery you’ll find an excellent composition in the 1946 Edward Hopper canvas titled “Approaching a City.”

The playful 1888 painting titled “Hide and Seek” by William Merritt Chase will surely bring out the child in everyone who sees it. I also liked the 1991 ink and crayon drawing by Jake Berthot.

Have a look around and find your own favorites.

Richard Diebenkorn in New Mexico through September 7.

Of the three current shows on view at the Phillips Collection, the main attraction are Diebenkorn’s New Mexico works, focused on the 1950-52 period when Diebenkorn was studying for his masters degree at the University of New Mexico.

Widely known for his later

make a great photographer.

Most of the camera work here seems more illustrative than artistic. At times it seems irritatingly so, as if camera work were simply a means to get back into the darkroom and make some more great prints, which is not to say there isn’t good work here.

Weston’s 1926 photo of corrugated tin roofs in Mexico may be the best image of all, executed at the age of 15 no less. A confluence of different roof structures forms an arrow shaped abstract space in the shadow area between them. Similarly, a jagged black hole in the 1937 image titled “Broken Window” offers a taste of abstraction with his realism.

A later series of more inspired images challenges us to figure out what’s what in the shown image.

These photos of broken glass, leaves in ice, cracked plastic paint and the calligraphic image of kelp in sand all offer a bit of intellectual stimulation, sorely lacking in most of the other works.

Looking at the earlier works here, one can’t help but think that had Weston been an “envelope pusher,” he could have easily been one of the greats. But success of that sort takes a certain type of personality, matched with an unrelenting drive to conquer all obstacles that impede that path.

It’s pure conjecture, but one is tempted to say that the easy head start that second generation talent

often receive, denies them the grizzled fortitude that they need to propel them to greatness in the later stages of their career.

Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series through October 26.

These illustrations depict the story of the African American exodus from the South towards the supposedly less discriminatory North.

It’s an informative series that will no doubt give you at least a few twists to this story that you hadn’t thought of before. It all seems so dismissively obvious and well trod territory at this point, until you start looking at Lawrence’s work and realize you hadn’t even considered all sorts of angles on this story.

Don’t miss the short film of Lawrence taken two weeks before his death. This 60-panel series was completed in 1941.

After being published in Fortune magazine, the series went on tour for two years, and then split between the Phillips and the Museum of Modern Art. For this showing, the series once again whole.  The Northern Virginia Art Beat is compiled by Kevin Mellema.

See www.fcnp.com for photos and more. To e-mail submissions, send them to mulsane@aol.com.

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packets in the school library on Tuesday, Aug. 19 at 8 a.m.

Student volunteers are needed to assist packing, and volunteered time can be counted toward community service hours. For more information, call 703-7145700.

as many other recreational places within the region. Call 703-256-4711 to register your child.

Kenwood School Heads to Skate ‘N Fun Zone

ASA To Host Summer Camp American Soccer Academy, the Mid-Atlantic’s premier youth soccer education organization, has announced that it will be hosting a community soccer camp from Aug. 18 to 22 at Idylwood Park (7713 Virginia Lane, Falls Church). The camp is open to boys and girls, ages 3-14 years, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day during that week.

ASA’s innovative coaching methods teach young players the techniques and tactics of soccer through fun and innovative practices and games.

Orientation for New Kindergarten Students Bailey’s Elementary School invites parents to “Come experience kindergarten!” this Thursday, Aug. 21.

The school is hosting two introductory sessions for parents, available either in the morning or afternoon. To register for one of these sessions, call 703575-6800.

games, too. This year’s picnic will be Saturday, Aug. 16 from 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. at Kingsley Commons, Falls Church. For more information, contact the school at 571-226-2700.

‘Community CPT Conversation’ Scheduled Arlington Public Schools presents the last of three “Community CPT Conversations,” allowing APS staff and area residents to review the Crowding Project Team Report, which looks into developing boundary and nonboundary options to further reduce crowding in targeted elementary schools.

The last session meets on Monday, Aug. 18 at 7 p.m. in Rooms 101/102 of the Arlington Education Center (1426 N. Quincy St.. Arlington).

For more information, call 703228-8633 or e-mail boundaries@arlington.k12.va.us.

Arlington Citizens Invited to Superintendent Chats

Arlington Public Schools is providing two more informal discussions with APS Superintendent Dr. Robert G. Smith. The chats offer a chance for residents to discuss schoolrelated issues in a small setting.

Interested attendees are asked to RSVP directly with the host family, as space is limited to the size of the host’s home.

The next two sessions run from 7 – 9 p.m.: Monday, Aug. 18, hosted by Brian Butler and Kathleen Bragaw at 705 S. Wayne St., call 703-685-7024 to RSVP; and Wednesday, Aug. 20, hosted by John and Melissa Hinkson at 1101 S. Quinn St., call 703-892-9380 to RSVP. For more information about the program, contact APS Community Outreach Specialist Dawn Willard at 703-228-2581 or e-mail at dwillard@arlington. k12.va.us.

Community Picnic at Kingsley Commons At the beginning of each school year, Graham Road Elementary School hosts a community picnic. Families, business partners, local officials and members of the school’s surrounding community are invited to attend. There are activities and

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The movie is a send-up of Hollywood, actors, acting, agents, directors, writers, rappers, trailers and egos, much enhanced by several cameo roles, the best of which I will not even mention.

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If Chino doesn’t buy the Lazarus performance, Lazarus is critical of Tugg Speedman (Stiller), who stars in “Simple Jack,” a movie about a mentally challenged farmer who thinks animals can understand him.

Ironically, it is this role that saves their lives when they’re taken prisoner. The bored druglords have only one video, an old “Simple Jack” tape, and think Speedman is Jack himself. In a brilliant comic riff

by Downey, Lazarus critiques Speedman’s work as over the top: The really big stars, he observes, “never go full retard” when playing such roles.

The movie opens with trailers establishing three of the characters -- not only Lazarus and Speedman, but Jeff Portnoy (Jack Black), whose specialty is fart humor. Portnoy is a heroin addict who is in withdrawal for much of the trek through the jungle, and has a funny scene after he begs to be tied to a tree and then begs to be set loose.

The setup involves the actors, director Damien Cockburn (Steve Coogan) and burnt-out screenwriter Four Leaf Tayback (Nick Nolte) in the jungle with a huge crew and explosives expert Cody (Danny McBride). When one of the explosions goes off prematurely (think the opening of “The Party”), Speedman, acting as producer, fires the crew and announces he will direct the movie himself. He explains that hidden cameras have been placed in the jungle and will record everything that happens.

Uh, is that possible, especially when they get lost? These actors, even the five-time Oscar winner, almost seem to believe so, a tribute to their self-centered indifference to technical details.

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There’s a certain connection between the music swirling around in your head and the food you’re putting in your mouth. At dive bars, it’s usually a classic rock n’ roll hit that’s getting you in that beer-chugging, cheesy beef patty-guzzling mood right around the last lyric to Bon Jovi’s “Living On a Prayer.” We employ our best prim-and-proper chewing technique at that fancy Italian joint that has a three-month waiting list, as a violinist persuades our actions into slow motion. But at Raaga in Falls Church, the magical chimes of India’s sitar makes every arriving entrée fit for a queen, an edible offering to your Royal Highness.

OK, so maybe it’s not that posh, but it sure has the ability to make you feel special. Located on Leesburg Pike, between Washington and Payne Street next door to Duangrat’s, Raaga serves authentic Indian cuisine at an affordable price. Given a chance to glance over the menu with on-the-house crispy flatbread and a spicy cilantro dipping sauce, my party went with the Aloo Tikki ($3.95) by recommendation. The former cilantro concoction made its return with our appetizer, serving as a spicy kick to the mashed potato and lentil patties that got their rosy hue with the help of paprika. Garnished with a artistically sliced cherry tomato and greens, this meal teaser for two was enough to whet our appetites for more.

The imported Indian brews held us over until our main course arrived. With a full selection of bottles to drafts, Raaga gives you a chance to drink like an emperor with labels like Kingfisher ($4.25) and Taj Mahal Lager. Lassi ($2.50) — a sweet and salted yogurt shake available in mango — and Masala Tea ($2.95) are available for drivers who still want a little punch to their beverage without the risk.

Everything short of a belly dancer introduction, our entrées were presented to us. The Tiranga Chicken ($14.95), I have to admit, perplexed me a bit at first. The orange and green, yes green, colored chicken made the third array of kabob-style white meat seem like the ugly duckling. Hesitations aside, I indulged and was pleasantly surprise. The platter, a Tandoori specialty accompanied with Basmati rice, gives you a taste of chicken Tikka in lemon juice and homemade garam masala, charbroiled reshmi Kebab and Hariyali chicken, which gets its grassy hue from cashew nut paste and cilantro.

My accompanying guest looked on as I consumed my chicken rainbow and dove into her Kadai Shrimp ($15.95). Cooked wok-style over high heat, this sea treat, seasoned with choice spices, comes floating in a red sauce with diced tomatoes, onions and green bell peppers. The hardy side of long-grain Basmati rice makes for a delish combination, making up for the predictably-cheated, but nonetheless scrumptious, portion of shrimp.

I admittedly dined out for an early Sunday dinner and therefore cannot be held accountable for knowing Raaga’s late night vibe, though a little bird — cough, the waiter, cough — was quite persistent in its attempt at persuading me to return at a later hour one evening to witness the exotic display of natives decked out in saris, who come for the flatbread and cuisine. At the same time, I am not sure how I am supposed to feel so queen-like while my outfit will be inevitably shown up by the intricacies of jeweled satin, gold-stitched threads. I digress.

If you’re looking for something new, and an experience to go along with it, then Raaga is for you. There’s a time and place for the rock-out, burger-pushing watering hole. Trust me, I’m a devoted fan of such. But Raaga, my friend, is a little less Bon Jovi and a little more Pandit Ravi Shania.

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Summer is a time for many things, not least of all an assortment of offbeat beverages released on an adventurous public.

For example, lists of “best” drinks usually appear at midsummer just when most of us are in a gin-and-tonic rut. GQ magazine has come up with one in its latest issue. While I admire its aspiration to be the lead dog in the pack of magazines telling men how to dress, eat, drink and behave, I have difficulty with GQ because it insists we all should be untucked, unshaven, uncombed and generally unimpressive looking in a world in which women are expected to be sleek, stylish and perfectly coiffed.

GQ’s idea of what a man should look like is precisely what many of us laughed at when we were in our 20s. That aside, any magazine that goes to the trouble of coming up with an illustrated guide to the 20 “best” cocktails currently being served in. America has to be given its props.

Lest you think all such drinks are pricey, one that particularly caught my eye was The Margaveza from a Brooklyn, N.Y., spot called Daddy’s. It’s described as “a rock ‘n’ roll bar tucked into an obscure block of the Williamsburg neighborhood that’s staffed and patronized by obscure Brooklyn musicians.”

The Margaveza was invented by Eric Copeland, of the band Black Dice when he was a bartender there. Says GQ’s Will Welch, “It’s wildly simple: a 12-ounce bottle of Sol poured into a pint glass, topped with four ounces of frozen margarita, and garnished with a lime. All for five bucks. Why didn’t anyone think of this before?”

In another niche, we see the motto: “Aged less than 30 days.” Is that something to brag about? Forget the 8- and 12-year-old spirits. The folks at Heaven Hill Distilleries in Bardstown, Ky., like the newer stuff. It’s on the label of their two newest Georgia Moon clear spirits products. Peach and lemonade flavors have been infused in the 70-proof corn whiskey and will hit the market in September. Thus, we’re already heavily into flavor infusions in the still-small but growing corn whiskey niche that takes advantage of the generations-old liking in some circles for “white lightning” or “moonshine.”

“We felt like the convergence of these trends was natural in Georgia Moon Peach and Lemonade,” said Heaven Hill brand manager Susan Wahl. “Though the category is small, Georgia Moon is the top sell(er) -- and is growing at a nice clip. This will be a strong seller for us in traditional and in developing markets.” More offbeat beverages? Well, if you’re planning to be in Japan in time for the eel-eating season, be careful if someone offers you an Unagi Nobori. That’s Japanese for “surging eel,” or “sudden spike,” depending upon who’s doing the translating. It’s a drink made by Japan Tobacco Inc. that just went on the market in anticipation of the annual eel season.  Bill Dowd covers the beverage world at billdowd.com.

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There are two ways to make money at poker: sticking to the tournament scene or grinding it out in cash games. You’ll need to learn a vastly different skill set to consistently grow your bankroll in each environment because each venue tends to attract a specific kind of player.

Recreational players are more apt to play in tournaments whereas higher skilled players usually favor cash games.

That’s an important distinction because the better skilled your opponents are, the more creativity and sophistication you’ll need to bring to the table.

You see, not every poker player has what it takes to make the transition from tournaments to cash games, or vice versa.

Even some of the best known tournament TV pros don’t have the necessary tools to consistently win against tough cash game competitors. Sure they can beat a table full of novices in a tournament. But it’s not uncommon for them to immediately blow their winnings in a cash game soon after. It’s a cycle that has been repeating for the past 20 years. Many of the best cash game pros simply don’t respect the stars of TV poker. The celebrities of the small screen get plenty of recognition and notoriety but cash game pros believe they have the superior poker skills – hands down and end of story.

Well, they’re only half right.

While it’s true that cash game specialists tend to have a significant advantage over tournament players in a money game, tournament players often are able to outplay the least skilled cash players because they know how to exploit their weaknesses.

And tournament specialists also understand that the single most critical element of tournament poker is survival. These players are very careful to protect their chip stack, even if that mindset occasionally costs them some value.

A cash game player, on the other hand, is all about getting full value for every hand they play. As a result, when these players compete in tournaments, they often find themselves in situations where they risk their tournament lives in marginal situations. In tournaments, cash game players will inevitably make this type of mistake; seasoned tournament players rarely will. Take a look at how cash game and tournament tables compare.

You’ll usually find five or six pros, one grinder, and a couple of truly bad players at a

typical cash game table. It’s reversed in a tournament where you’ll likely see only one or two solid players, a few average ones, and the remainder all novices.

That highlights another interesting consideration: Cash game players are better at making skillful plays and sophisticated bluffs. The irony is that these tactics just aren’t effective against the bad players that populate tournament tables.

You beat bad players by letting them beat themselves.

Nobody understands that better than experienced tournament veterans. These players consistently focus on fundamental play and wait for bad players to dump off all of their chips. And trust me, they will.

That approach doesn’t work in cash games and that’s why tournament players are often overmatched. Skilled cash game players don’t make enough mistakes for an A-B-C poker style to work. To beat the best cash players, you need to think strategically and figure out how to get maximum value for your good hands.  Visit www.cardsharkmedia. com/book.html for information about Daniel Negreanu’s new book, Hold’em Wisdom for All Players. © 2008 Card Shark Media. All rights reserved.

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Mayor Robin S. Gardner . . . . . . . . . .

Vice Mayor Harold Lippman. . . . . . . . . . .

City Council Nader Baroukh. . . . . . . . . . . .

Daniel Maller . . . . . . . . . . . . .

David F. Snyder. . . . . . . . . . . .

Daniel X. Sze . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Lawrence Webb . . . . . . . . . . .

City Manager Wyatt Shields. . . . . . . . . . . . .

Home Page <www.fallschurchva.gov>

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703-534-8644 703-237-9089 703-992-9433 703-731-8433 703-241-0419 703-538-5986 703-532-1043 703-248-5004*

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city calendar

august 14 Story Hour, 10:30 a.m.

16 Farmers Market, 8 a.m.-Noon 18 Yard Waste, Bundled Brush, & Special Collections Fall Hobby Class Registration Begins for City Residents Story Hour, 10:30 a.m.

Planning Commission, 7:45 p.m.

19 Story Hour, 10:30 a.m.

20 City Meals Tax Due (Commissioner of the Revenue) General District Court in Session Teen Truth Seminar, 9 a.m.

Story Hour, 7 p.m.

provided as a public service by the city of falls church

Questions or Comments? City of Falls Church, Harry E.Wells Building, 300 Park Avenue, Falls Church,VA 22046 703-248-5003 (TTY 711) The City of Falls Church is committed to the letter and spirit of the Americans with Disabilities Act.This document will be made available in alternate format upon request. Call 703-248-5003 (TTY 711).

Park Avenue To Be Paved Aug. 17-20 Park Avenue will be milled and resurfaced from North Virginia Avenue to North Washington Street beginning Sunday, Aug. 17 to Wednesday, Aug. 20. The work will be conducted from 8 p.m.- 6 a.m. (Schedule subject to change.)

Teen Truth: An Inside Look at Bullying and School Violence

Library Board of Trustees, 7:30 p.m.

• Are our schools safe?

Tree Commission, 7:30 p.m.

• What can be done to protect our youth?

21 Story Hour, 10:30 a.m.

Environmental Services Council, 7:30 p.m.

22 Armchair Travel Group, 10:30 a.m.

23 Farmers Market, 8 a.m.-Noon 25 Community Center Closed for Annual Maintenance (Walk-In Registration Available) Fall Hobby Class Registration Begins for Non-City Residents Yard Waste, Bundled Brush, & Special Collections Volunteer Fire Department Training, 7:30 p.m.

Fall Festival and Taste of Falls Church Vendor Registration Deadline Tomorrow On Saturday, Sept.

13, the City of Falls Church welcomes the fall season with the Fall Festival and the Taste of Falls Church. This free event features local artists, restaurants, live entertainment and children’s activities from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on the grounds of City Hall and the adjacent Cherry Hill Park.

Restaurants and artists interested in participating can contact Jenny Elmore at 703-248-5077 (TTY 711) or jelmore@ fallschurchva.gov. The deadline to register is Friday, Aug. 15.

Register for the City’s Online Newsletter at www.fallschurchva.gov

Register to Receive Emergency Alerts

Paving will be completed one lane at a time to allow through traffic. Access to driveways and entrances will be allowed while this work is in progress. Please watch for “No Parking” signs and refrain from parking on the street between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m.

• What drives a teen to bring a gun to school and open fire on his classmates?

The Falls Church City Police Department will answer these questions and more at the “Teen Truth: An Inside Look at Bullying and School Violence” seminar on Friday, Aug. 22 at 9 a.m. This free seminar is open to educators, parents and students.

It will be held in the City Hall Training Center (300 Park Ave., Level G).

“Teen Truth” examines the phenomenon of school violence and bullying through hard-hit-

ting footage, interviews with real teens, and a dramatic look inside the mind of a violent teenager.

Participants will be ready to discuss how to change the alienating culture of high school; stop bullies; and make school a safe and supportive place for all young people.

Space is limited; all participants must pre-register with Officer Derrica Wilson at 703-2485056 (TTY 711) or dwilson@ fallschurchva.gov.

The City of Falls Church is committed to the letter and spirit of the Americans with Disabilities Act. To request a reasonable accommodation for any type of disability, call 703-241-5053 (TTY 711).

NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY Fiscal Year 2010 Community Development and Housing Program Grants The City of Falls Church expects to have available approximately $82,000 of federal Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds and approximately $47,500 of HOME Investment Partnerships (HOME) program funds, as of July 1, 2010 to assist City residents with low- and moderate-incomes. These funds may be used for housing development, rental assistance, social services, economic development, and public services.

The City is soliciting proposals to be considered for funding. Proposals for funding must be submitted in the format provided by the City of Falls Church in order to be considered. Proposal packets are available by calling 703-248-5005 (TTY 711) or by visiting the City’s Web site at www.fallschurchva.gov/Content/Government/Departments/ CommunityServices/HHS/HHS.aspx. All proposals must be postmarked and received by the Housing and Human Services Division by NOON on Friday, Sept. 19, 2008 (note: deadline time).

City staff and the Housing Commission will review submitted proposals. Final funding recommendations will be announced at a City Council public hearing in late November 2008.

City of Falls Church Housing and Human Services Division 300 Park Ave., Room 100 W Falls Church, Virginia Phone: 703-248-5005 (TTY 711)

FOR THE WEEK of

Growing Green Recycling Extravaganza and Paper Shredding Event Sept. 6 The public is invited to bring unwanted items to the City of Falls Church Semi-Annual Recycling Extravaganza on Saturday, Sept. 6.This is an opportunity for the community to bring electronics (including computers, printers, scanners, TVs and more), cell phones, clothing and textiles, bicycles, printer cartridges, eyeglasses, hearing aids, and medical supplies for recycling, reuse, or donation.For a complete list of acceptable items, visit www.fallschurchva.gov.

PNC Bank is sponsoring a paper shredding event in conjunction with the Recycling Extravaganza.

Residents can shred up to three file boxes of personal documents, at no charge!

The Extravaganza is held from 9 a.m.to 2 p.m.at the Falls Church Property Yard, across from the Recycling Center,located at 217 Gordon Road.The event is cosponsored by the City of Falls Church Department of Environmental Services and the Falls Church Environmental Services Council.

For more information, please call the Environmental Programs Specialist at 703-248-5176 (TTY 711) or visit www.fallschurchva.gov.

5th Annual Sunset Cinema Features Three Blockbuster Hits Three Fridays in September The City of Falls Church Recreation & Parks Division presents the 5th Annual Sunset Cinema in the Park three Fridays this September.

The screenings begin at 8 p.m. and are free to the public.

Moviegoers are invited to bring blankets, bug spray, and picnics and watch three great movies under the stars. Popcorn, drinks and candy will be available for purchase.

The screenings will be held at Cherry Hill Park, located at 312 Park Avenue, Falls Church, VA 22046. In the case of inclement weather, the screenings will be cancelled. For more information, call 703-248-5077 (TTY 711).

Dominion Virginia Power Meeting Thursday, Aug. 21, 7:30 p.m.

City Hall Council Chambers (300 Park Ave.) Residents of the Greenway Downs and Virginia Forest neighborhoods are encouraged to attend this follow-up meeting with Dominion Virginia Power. Dominion Virginia Power representatives will be available to answer your questions and provide an update regarding its efforts to improve electric service reliability in your neighborhoods.

For more information, call Dominion Virginia Power at 703-375-5912.

Sept. 5 Alvin and the Chipmunks (PG, 2007) Sept. 19 Enchanted (PG, 2007) Sept. 26 Horton Hears a Who (G, 2008) The City of Falls Church is committed to the letter and spirit of the Americans with Disabilities Act. To request a reasonable accommodation for any type of disability, call 703-248-5077 (TTY 711).

Falls Church Recreation & Parks Division 223 Little Falls Street Falls Church, VA 22046 703-248-5077* Phone Numbers Open Gym/Weather Hotline 703-248-5125* Special Events Hotline 703-248-5178* Fax 703-536-5125 Senior Center 703-248-5020*/21* Community Center Hours Monday-Thursday 8 a.m. - 10:30 p.m.

Friday 8 a.m. - Midnight Saturday 8:30 a.m. - Midnight Sunday Noon - 6 p.m.

Open Gym Hours Open Gym hours are updated on a bi-weekly basis and are also posted on the Open Gym Hotline, 703-248-5125*. All hours are subject to change. * Indicates TTY 711 Accessibility

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Chairman: Ronald Peppe II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Vice Chairman: Susan Kearney . . . . . . . . . . .

School Board Rosaura Aguerrebere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Kathryn Chandler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Charlotte Hyland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Kieran Sharpe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Joan Wodiska . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Superintendent: Dr . Lois Berlin . . . . . . . . . . .

government and the falls church city public schools

august 14-20, 2008

For more news about the Falls Church City Public Schools visit: www.fccps.org

Advocates Needed to Reinforce Rights Are you diplomatic, assertive and a good communicator? If you enjoy meeting people, particularly the elderly, and can serve during the weekday, the volunteer ombudsman position may be for you! Volunteer advocates are assigned to a specific local nursing home or assistedliving facility in Fairfax County and make weekly visits, meeting one-on-one with residents. Using the skills of listening, observing and mediating, the ombudsman works with the residents, their families and the staff of the facility, to ensure that the residents’ rights are being protected. The ombudsman empowers residents and their families to speak up on their own behalf, and helps them to address problems within the facility that they cannot resolve alone.

Applicants must be available to volunteer four hours per week, primarily during regular business hours. Volunteer ombudsmen must not be employed by a longterm care facility. Interviews of applicants will be held this summer in preparation for the next annual training, scheduled for Sept. 15, 16, and 26, 2008 from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. each day.

This initial training addresses such topics as the Residents’ Bill of Rights, communicating with people with physical or mental impairments, long term care facility personnel and operation, and complaint handling.

Support by the professional ombudsman staff and periodic in-service training are provided thereafter.

A heavy dependence on the facility staff for basic daily care causes

many residents to feel especially vulnerable. Others are unable to advocate for themselves or lack family members to aid them.

They appreciate having an advocate from “the outside” assisting them with their concerns.

The Northern Virginia LongTerm Care Ombudsman Program is a public service, funded in part by the Fairfax County Area Agency on Aging. It was established to investigate complaints made about community-based long-term care services.

For further information and an application, please call 703324-5422, TTY: 703-449-1186 or visit www.fairfaxcounty.gov/ LTCOmbudsman. To request reasonable accommodations or this information in an alternate format, call the number listed above.

Recreation & Parks Fall 2008 brochure

Sign up For Alert Falls church

Check your mailboxes for the Recreation & Parks Division’s Fall 2008 Brochure. It lists information on special events and classes available at the Community Center. Registration for City residents begins Monday, Aug. 18 and non-residents may register beginning Monday, Aug. 25. The Fall 2008 Brochure is also available online at www.fallschurchva.gov.

Get real-time updates and instructions on what to do and where to go during an emergency in Falls Church City, by registering for Falls Church Alert.

You will receive alerts from the City via portable electronic devices and e-mail, only in the event of an emergency. Sign up for this free service at alert.fallschurchva.gov. You can also visit alert.fallschurchva.gov to update your profile, and add or delete devices from the emergency distribution list.

FCC-TV Spotlight: Rich & Friends Rich Massabny interviews movers and shakers in the community, interesting personalities in the entertainment field, and top area chefs . Rich shares his 20+ years experience as a noted theatre, arts and restaurant reviewer .Rich & Friends airs on FCC-TV at the following times, and can also be seen on video .google .com: • Wednesdays at 1:00 P .M . & 8:00 P .M . • Saturdays at 5:00 P .M . • Sundays at 10:00 A .M .

FCC-TV airs on Cox Channel 12, Verizon FiOS Channel 35 and RCN Channel 2 . For more information about FCC-TV, or a complete schedule of the variety of community programs on FCC-TV, visit www.fcctv.net or call 703-248-5538 .

The FY 2008 Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report, to be submitted to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, details the City’s housing and community development activities and programs implemented in FY 2008. A copy of the report is available at the Mary Riley Styles Library (120 N. Virginia Ave.) and at the Housing and Human Services Division.

CitizensareinvitedtosubmittheircommentsonthereportthroughMonday,Sept.8,2008.Comments may be submitted in writing or by contacting Dana Lewis at 703-248-5170 (TTY 711), fax 703-248-5149, or e-mail dlewis@fallschurchva.gov City of Falls Church Housing and Human Services Division 300 Park Ave., 100 W Falls Church, Virginia 703-248-5005 (TTY 711)

Attention Skaters You’re welcome to use the Mobile Skate Park, located at the Cherry Hill Park basketball court. Open daily until dark. Skaters must wear protective helmets and are encouraged to wear elbow and knee pads.

Children age 10 and younger must be accompanied by an adult.

Call for School Board Advisory Committee Members Are you interested in helping the Falls Church City Public Schools?

How about serving on a school board advisory committee? The School Board is currently seeking applicants for the following advisory committees:

School content published in The Weekly Focus is written and edited by the Falls Church City Public Schools. For more information, contact the Falls Church City Public Schools Communications Office. Phone: (703) 248-5699 Fax: (703) 248-5613.

DATES ARE SubjEcT To chAngE August 22 Deadline for Day Care/ ASAP Fall Registration 26

6:30 p.m. School Board Work Session (City Hall)

• Family Life Education Advisory Committee • Health Advisory Committee • Career and Technical Education Advisory Committee • Business in Education (BIE) Committee Information about each committee, including the group’s area of interest, membership and terms of service is available at www.fccps.org/ volunteer. Or contact School Board Deputy Clerk Marty Gadell at (703)248-5601 or via email at gadellm@fccps.org.

We look forward to working with you to better the Falls Church City Public Schools.

Day care Registration Deadline–August 22 This is the last week to register for attendance on the first day of school!

The registration packet is available online at www.fccps.org/asap

8:00 a.m. 5th Grade Locker/ Orientation (MEH) 10:00 a.m. New Student Orientation (MEH)

• Extended Day Care Advisory Board

• Special Education Advisory Committee

For more information about sharing your expertise through the BIE Partnership, visit www.fccps.org or contact Marybeth Connelly at connellym@fccps .org .

SCHOOL CALENDAR

• ESL Advisory Committee

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School Involvement: Regularly donates keepsake items to New Teacher Welcome Bags . Worked with school personnel on Relay for Life planning .

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September 2 First Day of School (MD) Mt. Daniel Elementary (TJ) Thomas Jefferson Elementary (MEH) Mary Ellen Henderson Middle (GM) George Mason High Check the FCCPS Web site for more calendar information. www.fccps.org

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