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DEBORAH POTTER, correspondent: Everywhere you look it's "happy holiday" time, and despite the bad economy shoppers are still buying. After all, it's the "most wonderful time of the year," as that old Christmas song puts it, with everyone telling you "be of good cheer." But for some people, the season is not merry and bright. For Kate O'Dwyer Randall, Christmas is a time for missing her brother, Jim, who died of a sudden heart attack five years ago at the age of 37.
KATE O'DWYER RANDALL (Associate University Chaplain, University of Richmond): If you're grieving, there's always the sense that there's a chair there that's empty, that the person that was here once, last year, is no longer here. It's personal, and it's private, and it's very pronounced.
POTTER: But Randall does not grieve alone. On this day in early December, a small group gathers for a special service at Cannon Memorial Chapel on the campus of the University of Richmond, where Randall is associate chaplain.
RANDALL (speaking to congregation): Friends, welcome to Blue Christmas. We're so glad that you've joined us, and we're so sorry for the reasons that you have.
POTTER: Susie Reid came to mourn the death of her brother, Billy, just six weeks ago.
SUSIE REID: I thought this would be a good way to kind of accept that the holidays are here and that we're going to have them, you know, without Billy this year, and just be with other people who are also, you know, that understand, you know, that sometimes the holidays are not happy.
CARNISHA JONES (speaking to congregation): I'm not really a singer, but I thought I would share what's in my heart.
POTTER: Carnisha Jones is mourning the death of her mother.
JONES (singing): Sometimes I feel like a motherless child, a long, long way from home.
POTTER: Others have brought their own private pain to the service, one of hundreds being held in churches across the country this month for people facing the holidays with a heavy heart.
RANDALL: People can be honest about that grief, so they don't have to go and sing "Jingle Bells." They can actually come and cry with other people who are grieving. The church is going to say we're not going to give you a platitude. We're going to say to you this is hard, and God is in the midst of this, and this is hard—all at the same time.
POTTER: The interfaith service is quiet and simple. There are no scripture readings, just personal stories and poems.
ELIZABETH BOONE (speaking before the congregation): My God, you call to me in the silence: Do not be afraid. I am with you. And I answer behind tears: I'm trying. Stay there.
RANDALL (speaking to congregation): We feel, particularly in this season, that grief is permanent and hope is fleeting, but I encourage you and remind you today that it's actually the other way around.
POTTER: Randall invites everyone to light a candle, put a name to their grief, and join in saying the names together.
RANDALL: Stay in your seats if you'd like. Think, reflect, and pray. But for those that choose to come forward, your brave statement will be met with the congregants repeating it.
Congregant: I light this for my friend, Patrick.
Congregation: For Patrick.
Congregant: For Valerie.
Congregation: For Valerie.
Congregant: This is for my mom, Addie
Congregation: For Addie.
Congregant: I light this candle for my brother, Billy.
Congregation: For Billy.
POTTER: For four years, Billy Reid battled cancer with his sister by his side. The loss has hit her hard.
REID: I had never thought about how true it is that people—I think they think that they're going to upset you if they mention, you know, the person's name that's passed away. It doesn't. I'd like to hear it. I want to talk about him like he's, you know, still around, like he's still important, you know, and not talking about him and not saying his name emphasizes his absence, and lighting a candle in a church, you know, is just very meaningful. And I know he watched me do it.
Singing of "Silent Night."
RANDALL: Something happens in this service. I don't know if it's being with other people who are grieving, or being able to say the name out loud, but something happens in this service every year, and people are so touched and moved. I know it helps healing. I know it helps.
POTTER: As the service ends, the candles burn on.
RANDALL: We thank you for the lives of those that we've named today. Let us be people of faith and hope, always and often.
POTTER: There may not be joy this season for many here, but today there is comfort.
For Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly, I'm Deborah Potter in Richmond, Virginia.
Honestly, if these types of liturgies are needed in any particular church I would submit that those churches are FAILING to teach a solid grounding in the faith and hope and joy of our Lord Jesus Christ.
I would submit precisely the opposite: That "these types of liturgies" are helping people toward a solid grounding in faith and hope and joy, and it's those who feel compelled to criticize an effort to offer compassion and support and love who are on shaky ground.
Whild faith, hope, and joy are all well and good, and I believe my sister is in heaven, my earthly imperfection misses her terribly. And I, for one, am grateful for services like this.
I disagree with Scott. Missing a person, especially around the holidays, does not negate the faith, hope and joy of our Lord Jesus Christ. I lost my mother two years ago. I know she is in a much better place and is with the Lord. It doesn't lessen the human grief that is felt, especially this time of year when happy memories are there. I miss her terribly. This is especially true for those going through the first Christmas without their loved one. This is is the churches' way of acknowledging that grief and that Christ is there in our midst grieving with us.
These services are enormously helpful. There can be a good deal of guilt when we have the prospect of fun and a memory of loss or trouble. I think these services are an oppty to acknowledge that these are complicated emotions. I go because it allows me to accept and then put aside some of the sadness of the season that comes from past years' events. Honestly, these services remind me that God gives us what we can handle, but we don't have to handle it alone.
I would like to ask "Scott", who criticized the need for a "Blue Christmas" service, to share on this site his worst loss he has ever suffered.
To: Scott
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What a lovely idea. Holidays can be very difficult, and they can be most difficult on those who do not have family or friends to share them with. I wish I had seen such services offered years before. Going through difficult times, I always felt that attending services alone and depressed was one of the most difficult things to do over the holidays.
I lost my father in Dec. of 1995 and it is still a loss i feel very much. Blue Christmas is something that I feel many people can go to and feel that pain, that loss and admit that its something we still carry and there is nothing wrong with that. Blue Christmas is not a reflection on the Churches that provide them. Its a way for those Churches to remind people that they are not alone in their loss.
This is really nothing new. The Catholic church has had this tradition entrenched for over a thousand years: the Nov. 2 Feast of All Souls. Before the holiday season, as we come to the darkest days of the year, we gather to remember all who have died, and remind ourselves that even in darkness there's hope. My parish church always has a beautiful, moving service where, as described above, people can light a candle and say the name of their deceased loved ones. People always say it's a very cleansing and healing experience, not just to remember their own loved one, but to be with others who have suffered a similar loss and are experiencing the same emotions, to support them & be supported by them.
I love this I really do!! Think this is a wonderful idea. Thank you for doing this.
I've a friend who just lost her hubby 3 months ago, and she is deeply grieving. Doesn't want to go out and nothing.
I think she'd 'enjoy' this kind of service, because right now she doesn't enjoy anything at all.
I had dreamed of her the night before, therefore was prompted to call. What was weird, when I told my Son, he had dreamed of her Daughter the same night. Again, thank you for doing this!!@Scott… be watchful for your words and what you say, it'll come back to you! Everything has a place and reason, and yes, even God, God most of all understands!!
During the 80's I worked in a large urban church. Many in that congregation struggled through the holidays, and it had nothing to do with their faith. When people we love are no longer with us, we hurt. It is both unhealthy and a little insane not to honor that pain. Yes, we grieve as those who have hope, but if we had no pain we wouldn't need the hope, so it is not anti-Christ to grieve. It just is.


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Boards Are Not Ready for the Next Generation of Trustees
A rising generation of younger donors and philanthropic leaders could bring new money to nonprofits and fresh energy to their boardrooms—if boards can overcome their current dysfunction enough to engage them.
Next-gen donors' appetite for engagement was cited earlier this year in one of the first large studies of high-capacity donors in their 20s and 30s (a report that received grant support from the Meyer Foundation, where I work, and several other grant makers). Some of the 300 participants were entrepreneurs in the early stages of their careers who are just beginning to think of themselves as philanthropists. Others came from families with established foundations that will soon be governed by a new generation of trustees.
Whatever their current circumstances, these donors are poised to become even more influential in the decades to come as control of major institutions and a…
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Several weeks ago I had lunch with a board member of a small community-based nonprofit that does important work in the D.C. region. The board member also happens to be a seasoned consultant who has written several books on fundraising.
That's why I was surprised when he advanced an argument I've heard many times from board members of other organizations. It goes like this:
"Our executive director is terrific but doesn't have a background in fundraising or time to focus on it. Our board members want to help, but they don't have friends with deep pockets and are not fundraising experts. What we really need is a topnotch fundraising professional on staff. But we can't raise enough money to hire one, so we're stuck. We're never going to be really good at raising money until we can hire a development director."
Some parts of this argument do ring true. UnderDeveloped, a new national…
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The recent controversy surrounding Susan G. Komen for the Cure and the leadership role of its founder, Nancy Brinker, illustrates the special challenges that confront the boards of nonprofits led by their founders, as well as why those organizations need strong, independent boards.
Ms. Brinker, who created the nonprofit in 1982, announced last month that she was stepping down as Komen's chief executive. Her decision is the latest in a series of turbulent events for the charity, which is still looking to undo the damage that followed its decision to withdraw, and then reinstate, grants to Planned Parenthood.
Although she will no longer be the organization's chief executive, Ms. Brinker will retain her lifetime seat on Komen's eight-member board. She will also be chairwoman of the board's executive committee, which is responsible for hiring her successor.
As a result, Ms. Brinker …
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University of Virginia Firing Offers an Important Lesson for Boards
Last month, after a dramatic and unusually public example of board governance gone awry, the University of Virginia's board reversed itself and reinstated the institution's president less than two weeks after accepting her forced resignation.
For board members of all types of nonprofits, this episode should serve as a cautionary tale about what can go wrong when a board and its leaders are not clear about their roles. Trouble often erupts when people forget that boards govern, board members do not.
The drama at the University of Virginia began in mid-June when the chairman and deputy chair of the board met with Teresa Sullivan, the university's highly regarded and popular president, who had been on the job for less than two years.
The board chairman, Helen Dragas, a University of Virginia alumna who heads a Virginia Beach homebuilding firm, told Ms. Sullivan that she had lined…
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Nonprofits Need More Help Recruiting the Right Board Members
Much of the work being done to strengthen nonprofit board performance (by national and local organizations, funders, and consultants) has traditionally focused on helping boards and board members better understand their roles.
As a result, anyone with a little spare time and access to the Web can take a crash course on the basics of board effectiveness. Those with an appetite to dig deeper can find books to buy, training sessions to attend, and organizations to join.
So why are many boards still falling short?
One possibility is that we have misdiagnosed the causes of lackluster board performance—and our faulty diagnosis has led us to prescribe the wrong cure.
What if the problem is not that board members misunderstand their responsibilities. What if the problem is that nonprofits just can't find the right board members?
Boards are, after all, teams of individuals…
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While speaking at a conference of Northern Ireland's nonprofit chief executives last month, I noted that a small but growing number of people are questioning whether the current model of nonprofit governance—a volunteer board drawn from the community (however broadly defined), working in partnership with the chief executive—is so broken that it needs to be scrapped in favor of something better.
I should have known that someone in the audience would then ask a perfectly logical follow-up question: If we got rid of the current model, what would take its place?
Caught off-guard, I sputtered.
I eventually mentioned the author and consultant John Carver's Policy Governance Model, which has been around for more than 20 years and is more a refinement and clarification of the current model than an alternative to it. Policy Governance encourages boards to focus on organizational…
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Hull House Collapse Is a Cautionary Tale for Boards and Executives
Last month's abrupt closure of Hull House, a venerable organization that provided an array of social services to thousands of low-income Chicago residents, is a pointed reminder that many nonprofits operate with precarious finances. The organization's collapse also provides a sobering lesson for nonprofit boards and chief executives.
Hull House was started by Nobel laureate Jane Addams in 1889 to help Chicago's immigrants build "responsible, self-sufficient lives." Until last month, Hull House had continued Addams's legacy by offering foster-care services, job training, counseling, and literacy and other education programs at more than 40 sites throughout Chicago.
On January 27, its 300 employees received layoff notices and final paychecks, and Hull House shut its doors.
On the day the organization closed, a blogger for Crain's Chicago Business asked a question she said she'd be…
January 23, 2012, 5:01 pm
For Executive Directors and Boards, Chairmen Matter
Recently I presented the findings of Daring to Lead 2011, a national study of nonprofit executives that I co-authored, to more than 150 executive directors and board chairs.
As I prepared that presentation, I found myself wishing we had done more analysis of executives' responses about their relationship with their board chairs and examined more closely how those responses correlated with executives' happiness in their jobs and satisfaction with the performance of the entire board.
CompassPoint's Marla Cornelius, one of my co-authors, came to my rescue with some additional analysis, and the correlations are striking.
Among the 3,000 executive directors surveyed, a majority (52 percent) characterized their relationship with their board chair as functional. A large minority (39 percent) described the relationship as exceptional, and just 9 percent called it dysfunctional….
January 3, 2012, 5:34 pm
Examining the Complex Relationship Between Board and Executive Director
In my most recent post, I invited readers to weigh in on who is ultimately responsible for the performance of a board: the executive director or the board members themselves.
A majority of those who commented (11 of 19, or about 58 percent) said the executive was ultimately responsible for board performance. But it was hardly a ringing endorsement (even though I agree).
As I re-read the comments, two things stood out.
First, this is a complicated issue. Many comments acknowledged the murkiness and complexity of the question—so much so that in some comments, it was hard to tell which viewpoint the comment supported.
One reader wrote that the executive director had the responsibility for sustaining board performance but that the board must first step up and accept its responsibility to perform. Another noted that boards depend on executive directors to "guide them to…
October 6, 2011, 9:19 am
Who's Really in Charge of Board Performance?
Ask people in the nonprofit world who is to blame for poor board performance, and you won't get agreement. Some people say it's the board's fault. Others say it's the CEO's.
Rarely do these conflicting ideas get argued in public. But at the annual meeting of BoardSource, I had the opportunity to debate the point in front of an audience. Two-person teams argued opposing points of view on that and other controversial topics. At the conclusion of our comments, the audience voted.
I was teamed with the author and nonprofit management expert Jan Masoaka. We attempted to convince our audience that the executive director is ultimately accountable and responsible for board performance.
Our opponents, Karen Beavor of the Georgia Center for Nonprofits and Dave Sternberg, a fund-raising consultant from Indianapolis, made several compelling points.
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(by Kim Lunsford, staff writer - April 05, 2011)
Autism affects an estimated 1.5 million Americans and as many as one in every 110 children in the United Sates, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
During April's Autism Awareness month, Pickerington Elementary School is bringing more awareness to the surrounding community with its special activities geared toward educating the students and parents of PES.
Autism is a unique disorder that affects people in different ways.
"Being 'on the spectrum' means that you have been medically diagnosed to have characteristics of Autism or another related disorder, such as Asperger's Syndrome, PDD-NOS or another disability that falls under this category." special education teacher Christine Miller said. "It also means that there is a wide spectrum, if you will, of stereo-typical behaviors, characteristics and traits that people with Autism related disorders can display. Each person is unique in his or her needs and characteristics."
PES is bringing awareness through a community event on April 13 from 7 to 8 p.m. entitled, "The Puzzle Starts with Me."
This short presentation is scheduled for the school's multi-purpose room for parents and community members to attend. General information about Autism and its related disorders will be shared, resources from the Ohio Center for Autism and Low Incidence will be available and a representative from Autism Speaks will be in attendance to help answer questions. Free childcare will be available during the presentation.
In addition, the school will hold a voluntary professional development opportunity for staff and employees of Pickerington Local Schools. This professional development will focus on Autism in the classroom and share some helpful tips for educators. Teachers and staff will also learn details of the PES Autism Awareness day during this event.
Miller says educators must listen to their students and take time to get to know them and their learning style. Students on the Autism spectrum tend to need frequent reinforcement to encourage appropriate behavior and social interaction, as well as sensory breaks to meet their individual needs.
"In order for students to be successful, teachers need to understand, accept and encourage their students to build upon their individual strengths and to work hard to improve their areas of weakness," Miller said.
On April 21, the students of PES will participate in an Autism Awareness Day. PES Counselor Ruth Tookes said the students are being asked to wear blue to show their support for the special day and to participate in the Autism walk during their school day.
Activities will educate children and enhance their awareness of what it is like to be a person with autism or another disability.
"The activities will seem like games, but instead are an active learning opportunity to support tolerance and acceptance of people's differences," Miller said.
Those interested in participating in the April 13 community event should contact Ruth Toopes, school counselor at PEC, at (614) 833-2115 to reserve a seat and register for childcare.
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Tottenham Hotspur defender Kyle Walker will be visiting Morrison's supermarket on Thursday November 1.
Walker will be at the store to meet fans as part of the launch of a new trading card game by Match Attax.
There will also be other events on at the supermarket in Southbury Road, including games for football fans young and old as well as getting a photo with the Spurs star.
The free event is open from 10am to 4pm on Thursday November 1 at Morrisons Supermarket.


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-Lieutenant Governor Yvonne Prettner Solon during her trip to Germany
This week, Lieutenant Governor Yvonne Pretter Solon is leading a 16-member delegation in Germany, joined by Iowa's Lieutenant Governor Kim Reynolds. The delegation is made up of experts from Minnesota and Iowa that will study Germany's energy and power systems, in the search for finding more energy efficient methods that could aid in creating and maintaining a more sustainable Minnesota.
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A group of experts from Minnesota and Iowa are in Germany this week learning about energy solutions that could help Minnesota. The trip is organized by the University of Minnesota's Center for German and European Studies together with Germany's Federal Ministry of Economics and Germany's Foreign office. The group will hear from both Germany's economics and environment ministries in hopes to learn more about their renewable energy projects.
With summer officially underway in Minnesota, the Department of Natural Resources is offering residents a chance to learn the ropes of camping and climbing through their introductory "I Can Camp!" and "I Can Climb!" course offerings at Minnesota State Parks throughout the summer.
The "I Can!" program series is organized by the Parks and Trails division of the DNR as a way to introduce young families to the many opportunities that Minnesota offers for outdoor recreation. Beyond their camping and climbing programs, the "I Can!" series also includes lessons in fishing, paddling, and archery.
While all of these courses will be available at Minnesota state parks throughout the season, those interested in camping and climbing can benefit from combined weekend courses being offered in late June at Blue Mounds and Interstate parks.
In seeking new ways to save people and the state money, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) will use a permit already employed by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources' (DNR) to meet the requirements of MPCA Clean Water Act permit.
The MPCA and the DNR are working together to make sure that pesticide discharges to waters are controlled in order to protect aquatic life and water quality. During the permit development process, the MPCA found it could continue to protect the environment and reduce permit fees by using the DNR's already employed Aquatic Plant Management permit that would also meet the requirements of the federal Clean Water Act and the MPCA's Pesticide General Permit. You can read more on MPCA's efforts to control water quality in the state here: http://www.pca.state.mn.us/index.php/water/index.html
The MPCA and DNR's reform of this permit will save more than $1200 up front and another $345 annually for more than 180 permit holders representing thousands of Minnesotans. The estimated cost savings to the state are $150,000 annually.
Today, Governor Dayton will lead a delegation on a ten-day trade mission to China, traveling to Beijing, Shanghai and Xian (the capital of Shaanxi Province) for market and industry briefings, business match-making events, networking events and meetings with key U.S. and Chinese government officials. The 50-member group of business, industry, education and government leaders will attend market and industry briefings, networking events, and meetings with key U.S. and Chinese officials.
The delegation will also host multiple receptions for top Chinese government officials and business executives to showcase Minnesota companies and export industries, as well as promote the state as an ideal destination for direct investment by China. Minnesota has had an official relationship with China since signing the sister-state agreement with Shaanxi Province in 1982.
As the trip unfolds, the Governor's office will be covering the delegation in a special blog series that explores how trade missions foster new relationships via commerce, agriculture, trade, and the environment. You can get daily updates on the delegation by signing up for our e-mail list, checking back on the blog, or following Governor Dayton on Twitter and Facebook. We will showcase highlights of the delegation, highlight our sister-province relationship, and post photos of the Governor's meetings across the state. We hope that you will travel along with us as the Minnesota delegation embarks on its trade mission across China.
Governor Dayton and his administration are always looking for ways to help farms and businesses prosper in Minnesota. One of the simple but really effective tools the Minnesota Department of Agriculture makes available is a Directory of Minnesota Organic Farms.
It's clear that organic food has gone beyond fad to a mainstream choice for many consumers, and we want to help Minnesota's organic farms and food companies capitalize on this interest. Organic food (and even organic feed for animals) must contain organic ingredients and here in Minnesota we grow a lot of these ingredients. Our 700+ organic farms raise organic corn, wheat, oats, barley, rye, flax, soybeans, sunflowers, milk, eggs, beef, eggs, chickens, fruits and vegetables, and just about anything else you can think of. To make it easier for Minnesota's organic food companies to use organic ingredients in their products, the Directory of Minnesota Organic Farms was created. It lists farmers who sell in quantity to "intermediate buyers" such as food companies, restaurants, grocery stores, brokers, etc. The buyers can look up the farmer by product ("blue corn" for example), or by county, if they are looking for farmers close to their manufacturing facility or store. The directory is available in print and online at www.mda.state.mn.us/organic
Governor Dayton has proclaimed this week, May 20-26, to be Emerald Ash Borer Awareness Week in Minnesota. Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) is an invasive species of insect that has killed millions of ash trees in North America. It is not native to the U.S., but was discovered in Michigan in 2002; in 2009, the first Minnesota case of EAB was found in Ramsey County. It has since been found in the counties of Houston, Hennepin, and Winona.
The biggest risk of spreading EAB comes from people moving firewood or other ash tree products with EAB or EAB larvae inside. In order to help prevent the spread of EAB throughout Minnesota and beyond, you should try to use only local firewood, and you should avoid transporting firewood if possible. In order to prevent the spread of this destructive species, the Department of Agriculture has prohibited the movement of ash trees, ash limbs and branches, ash logs or untreated ash lumber with bark attached, firewood from hardwood trees, and uncomposted wood chips and ash bark chips greater than one inch in two of three dimensions from the affected counties. More tips on preventing the spread of EAB can be found at the Minnesota Department of Agriculture website.
You should also watch for signs that ash trees on your property are infested: heavy woodpecker activity, S-shaped tunnels under the bark, dead branches in the top canopy of the tree, and D-shaped exit holes approximately 1/8 inch in diameter are all signs of EAB presence in a tree. If you suspect a tree is infested, you can follow procedures for seeking treatment or removal of the tree from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources website.
Over the course of the last several years, the Metropolitan Council has transformed itself into a leaner, greener government agency. Metro Transit's "Go Greener" campaign has been the most visible facet of the Council's transformation, but Metro Transit's efforts are only a few of the agency's award winning green initiatives.
The Metropolitan Council's Environmental Services Division, responsible for handling waste water in the Metro area, is leading the way in making the Metropolitan Council a greener agency. The division has reduced its energy consumption by cleaning equipment more regularly, replacing old equipment with new, energy efficient equipment, and exploring ways to use the heat released during the treatment process for energy. In addition, Xcel Energy has recognized the Environmental Services Division with a Gold Award for achieving the highest electrical savings of all the utility's large commercial and industrial customers in Minnesota between January 2010 and June 2011.
Located on 53,000 acres of forest and grassland in Central Minnesota, Camp Ripley is more than just the primary training facility for the Minnesota National Guard. With over 125 different bird species, 600 plant species, and a thriving deer population, Camp Ripley is also an important nature reserve. The National Guard has won numerous awards for its environmental preservation at Camp Ripley, including a new environmental award. To celebrate this award and highlight its most important initiatives, Camp Ripley held an Earth Day celebration on Friday.
Though Camp Ripley is primarily a training facility for Minnesota's National Guard, environmental preservation has been a complementary function for decades. Camp Ripley incorporates their environmental mission into military training exercises; for example, exercises that track deer populations, locate tracked animals, and identify land in need of rehabilitation allow trainees to develop essential skills while promoting effective land preservation. Camp Ripley selectively harvests timber both to create space for military vehicle maneuvers and to maintain a healthy ecosystem. These trees then go on to provide a source of wood fiber for alternative fuel research.
More than one billion people now participate in Earth Day activities each year, making it the largest civic observance in the world. Before this year's Earth Day on April 22, check out these tips from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency to participate and live a healthier and less expensive lifestyle all year round:
Try composting. You can convert organic wastes — yard trimmings, leaves and kitchen scraps — into a dark, crumbly mixture that you can use to improve your garden soil and reduce your use of fertilizer and water. Learn how to start composting today!
Recycling is not just for cans and bottles anymore. Did you know you can recycle mattresses? Holiday lights? Carpet? To learn how you can recycle unusual materials, keep them out of landfills, and benefit Minnesota's economy and environment at the same time, go to http://www.recyclemoreminnesota.org.
Challenge yourself to carry a reusable bag on your next five shopping trips. Over 12 billion barrels of oil are used each year just to make plastic bags.
Help keep Minnesota's waterways clean and safe. Never dump oils, fertilizers, or other hazardousfluids down the drain or outside. Instead, find a nearby hazardous waste facility. Many will dispose of your hazardous wastes free of charge.
Taking small steps to be green can really add up. If every Minnesotan adopts just a couple of green strategies it will go a long way to keeping our environment green and clean for generations to come.
Wildfire Prevention Week is April 15-21, and the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is reminding Minnesotans to take steps to help prevent wildfires. Recent rain and snow throughout the state has temporarily decreased Minnesota's wildlife danger rating, but during our ongoing drought wildfires remain a threat across the state.
"Most wildfires occur in the spring, between the time when snow melts and vegetation turns green," said Larry Himanga, DNR's wildfire prevention coordinator. "This spring's wildfire season started earlier than normal and fires have been burning with greater intensity. Severe fire conditions have put a strain on our wildland firefighters and fire departments."
Every year, DNR firefighters respond to more than an average 1,500 wildfires each year. In Minnesota, 98 percent of wildfires are caused by people, and the number one reason is escaped debris-burning fires. So far this year, the Minnesota DNR has recorded 533 fires that have burned 14,613 acres.
The Department of Natural Resources encourages landowners to find alternatives to burning debris, such as chipping or composting. This is especially true for landowners affected by last July's blow down storms in east-central Minnesota and western Wisconsin.
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Instead, use the 6.5 billion to create an extensive DEDICATED TRANSITWAY NETWORK and coordinate this with new "TIF" financing for smart growth along each corridor (bus or rail, either way...just in dedicated lanes) throughout northern VA.
Route 1: Ft. Bevoir to Alexandria
Route 236 Annandale to Alexandria
Route 7: Alexandria to Tysons
Gallows Rd: Burke and Annandale to Tysons/Merrifield("Y")
Dulles Airport Road: Airport/Loudoun to Tysons
Route 123: Fairfax City to Tysons
Route 50/29: Fairfax Corner Metro through Fairfax City to Merrifield Metro
....and extend heavy rail metro only one stop...past Vienna to Fair Oaks/Fairfax Corner.
Count me among the citizens not wanting to pay 6.5 billion for a glamor station (heck, if I travel with my kids there is ZERO chance I'd take metro with the luggage) I'd only use once a year or so.
I agree the Orange Line should be extended to at least Fair Oaks/Fairfax Corner. This would help reduce the I-66 bottleneck from Route 50 to the Nutley where no additional road capacity is available.
I can tell the truth as to why, but Alpert will delete my comment, as usual.
From the Transportation Reserach Board Report:
"It is not possible to accurately predict how the situation will play out during 2011 as the additional employees arrive. But it seems likely that conditions may be severe enough, especially around the Mark Center, that not only will commuters be subject to substantial new delays but
also that mission accomplishment of some military units may be compromised and economic competitiveness of local businesses negatively affected."
Oscar: Ok, Mr. Truman, let's say that we actually do land on this. What's it gonna be like up there?
Truman: 200 degrees in the sunlight, minus 200 in the shade, canyons of razor-sharp rock, unpredictable gravitational conditions, unexpected eruptions, things like that.
Oscar: Okay, so the scariest environment imaginable. Thanks. That's all you gotta say, scariest environment imaginable.
Kill the Silver Line! Have it end at Reston, and not the airport.
Save 6 billion dollars.
Properly done BRT from Reston to the airport would fill the need for airport travel. Actually I'd just do BRT from Tysons to the airport as well.
Does properly done BRT fulfill the transit needs of people coming into Tysons to work?
The Silver Line will not primarily be for Dulles travel.
I agree that for people living past Reston, BRT would not work well for commuting to Tysons.
However, that was always going to be a minority part of the travel. The important part of the Silver Line (Reston-Tysons-Arlington) is what is already being built; the rest isn't worth it.
If they could come up with a compromise option, one on the southern half of that parking lot which was a lot closer than the north garage, I would vote for that. I would think it could be done without building a either hyper-expensive underground station or some massive elevated structure that would detract from the architecture of the terminal.
Any above-ground station would connect below-ground to the already existing tunnel between the terminal and the parking garage. It's climate controlled, complete with moving walkways.
Couldn't be because your comments don't add anything and are just a way for you to vent your pet hatred of the streetcar project. Nahhh... :)
by David Alpert on Mar 17, 2011 11:28 am • link • report
I would think that putting the station by the Daily Garage would allow a direct connection to the already-existing underground tunnel between the garage and the main terminal.
Lydia Phillips needs to figure out that there are more things in our community we would fall in line behind than new streetcars.
This seems to bother her (and those who think like her) as much as those of us EOTR who are force-fed the notion that streetcars EOTR are the next best thing since homemade banana pudding.
Although not likely, the Mayor should announce that pending future happenings, the city will be forced to implement a summer curfew.
I am BTW, a typical tax and spend liberal, so even I'm shocked to be writing this paragraph.
As far as transit, what would you support for your community other than streetcars?
For instance, would you support rapid-rail transit expansion (ie. light rail, heavy rail) east of the river?
I am not totally opposed to it, but if this is for healthy living encouragement besides excluding "tobacco, alcohol, and political campaign advertisements" they should also exclude fast food, snacks and any sugar as well.
"This Public park sponsored by Doritos and Coke" is worse - to me - than "Park sponsored by Miller lite" because most kids can't readily get miller lite (right away).
Currently, there is a rather large network of buses that travel w/in the same area proposed for streetcars. So other than "hey this is neat - a streetcar," I don't think it will draw enough people from outside the community to warrant the financial investment required.
Those same funds can be used to support things like walking trails and maybe some sort of redesign to support better walkability(is that a word) and in appropriate places, cycle paths for cyclists. Honestly, for the same space, I would much better support the installation of bike lanes than streetcars.
I'm sorta learning about transit as I continue to read about it here and other places. Truthfully, as long as I've lived EOTR, I never even thought "hmmm, there really is no sidewalk here" or "this is a dangerous intersection" until recently. There are things that can be done to improve accessibility for the areas mentioned. But, streetcars EOTR (or at least the proposed areas in Ward 8) seems like a waste of the city's already-drained financial resources.
But we're all learning as we go. Sooner than later, the people who drive along Alabama avenue near the IHOP will realize that flashing YELLOW LIGHTS
means that you should stop and allow pedestrians to cross w/o running them over.Yet, they are oblivious to them and there have been many times where I've had to play traffic police.
The Silver Line will only provide 17% of the trips into and out of Tysons Corner by the year 2030, according to Fairfax County DOT. VDOT's analysis of the Fairfax study suggests 17% might be overly optimistic. The original plan was to build rail in the median of the Dulles Toll Road to the Airport. Had that plan been retained, rail would be built already at much less cost and be operating. The rail project was hijacked by the Tysons landowners who figured out they could get more density with rail. They have their density, but need to finance at least $1.7 billion in new road improvements by 2030, at which point, all of the major roads will reach failure during the evening commute.
I believe MWAA thinks the airport will receive only about 5-6% of all travelers coming by rail. It might be a better way for lower-paid workers to travel to Dulles though.
Dumb me
BTW, the $6.5 billion figure is the cost of the entire Silver Line, not just Phase II. Sloppy writing in the Examiner article. So canceling Phase II would save maybe $3.5 billion. What I don't get is why Phase II, most of which runs in a median strip and the rest runs through publicly owned land at Dulles is going to cost that much more than Phase I which has an expensive section & 1500' tunnel through a lot of existing infrastructure in Tysons. Inflation costs adding that much to it? Or is just the Dulles section costing that much?
As for extending the Orange line to Rt. 50 / Fair Oaks, the line probably should have ended there to start with. But when the planning was done in the 60s and early 70s, I guess that was considered too far west. But the median strip in I-66 at around the Rt. 123 intersection is gone now, with all the road widening work on I-66 since the Vienna station opened. Probably would be a billion plus dollar project to shift the I-66 lanes and extend the Orange Line 4 miles west with stations at Rt. 123 and Fair Oaks / Rt 50.
Phase 2 of the Silver Line makes no sense. There's simply not enough capacity at the Rosslyn tunnel to allow for the expansion. Much better to use the $6.5B for a third Potomac crossing or create a new line that runs along Rt.7 from Tysons, through West Falls Church to King Street.
There are already good enough transportation options to Dulles. You've got Metro's 5A (low cost, good for airport workers), Wash Flyer's Express Bus, and of course, the Dulles Airport Road.
Sadly, this has just been a year long exercise in expectation management: first, promise metro-to-dulles, then metro-to-reston, then, oh, it's too expensive to build a real station, and now, yep, it's no longer even the Silver Line.
$6.5 billion wasted. Think what we could have done with that.
The problem is that with the economic development comes displacement ... and this hasn't been lost on the people living EOTR.
They're starting EORTR and other places where the land is relatively cheap because the streetcar system under the last administration was being driven by the interests of the developers. I think streetcars are great, but I think they need to start in places where they can be used to relieve congestion ... as we've seen happening in Europe. Not only is there an increased incentive to use a streetcar when congestion makes driving a less preferable alternative, but these congested areas already have more of the kind of person more apt to be able to use them ... the urban hipster ... The people living EOTR are more mainstream ... and like their neighbors living in the inner suburbs or upper NW, are more apt to need to go further and at different schedules than a streetcar system can provide them.
I.e., If the plan is to push these people out, then starting the Streetcar system there is the way to go. If we'd rather instead build a diverse - but bigger - city, then we need to provide the type of services that are already demanded by areas and neighborhoods, and not instead put the kinds of services there for the kind of neighborhood some of us would prefer to see there. That is social engineering. We're building the ballpark because 'if we build it they will come'. Except not everyone plays baseball ... as we found out when we lost a vibrant DC entertainment district ... to put a baseball park ... and a lot of office buildings in its place. Anyone actually ever go there anymore? I mean the people who used to go there?
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At 8:00 am, October 25, Colonel Powell Clayton sent a company of cavalry toward Princeton which ran into Brigadier General John S. Marmaduke's men advancing.
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Result(s): Union victory
Location: Jefferson County
Campaign: Advance on Little Rock (1863)
Date(s): October 25, 1863
Principal Commanders: Colonel Powell Clayton [US]; Brigadier General John S. Marmaduke [CS]
Forces Engaged: Pine Bluff Garrison (two under-strength cavalry regiments and a company of state militia) [US]; division [CS]
Estimated Casualties: Total unknown (US 56; CS unknown)
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Some of the best-known practitioners in the U.S. of Thai, Mexican, Chinese and other "foreign" cuisines are Americans with no familial ties to the cultures in question. Andy Ricker recently opened branches in New York of Pok Pok, his hyper-successful Portland, Ore., Thai restaurant. Ed Schoenfeld of RedFarm, a stylized Chinese restaurant, and Alex Stupak of Empellón Cocina, a Mexican restaurant, have also wowed New York critics and customers. Rick Bayless of Chicago restaurants Frontera Grill and Topolobampo is acknowledged to be America's master of Mexican cooking. All of them were referenced recently in a New York Times story, which asked who should best represent ethnic cuisines in the public's mind.
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I love Dune shoes, my favourites are definitely the glittery toed pumps but there all amazing
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A closed-door encounter between two college acquaintances. Both have been drinking. One says she was raped; the other insists it was consensual. There are no other witnesses.
It's a common scenario in college sexual assault cases, and a potential nightmare to resolve. But under the 40-year-old federal gender equity law Title IX — and guidance handed down last year by the Obama administration on how to apply it — colleges can't just turn such cases over to criminal prosecutors, who often won't touch them anyway. Instead, they must investigate, and in campus proceedings do their best to balance the accused's due process rights with the civil right of the victim to a safe education.
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Colleges that do too little about sexual assault could lose federal funds. The Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights is currently investigating a dozen colleges and universities over their response to sexual violence (documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show schools that have recently agreed to take steps to resolve OCR complaints over Title IX policies include universities such as Notre Dame, Northwestern and George Washington).
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But when colleges do take action against accused students, those students are increasingly lawyering up themselves, suing for breach of contract and negligence. And in at least two recent cases, in Tennessee and Massachusetts, male students have tread novel legal ground by alleging violations of their own Title IX protections against gender discrimination, arguing a college's sexual assault policies or procedures were unfairly stacked against men.
Whether or not such Title IX arguments hold up, they underscore a new fact of life: For better or for worse, the days when colleges could count on handling such matters quietly behind closed doors are over.
A 1999 U.S. Supreme Court decision established potential liability under Title IX for schools that fail to address sexual harassment and, in its extreme form, sexual assault.
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Among them: The University of Colorado faced a $2.85 million verdict under Title IX after two students were allegedly raped by football recruits and players at an off-campus recruiting event in 2001. An appeals court essentially held that Colorado had an official policy to show recruits "a good time," which created a dangerous culture for sexual assaults. The jury verdict in a sports-related Title IX discrimination case at California State University-Fresno ran to $19.1 million, though that was later reduced to $6.6 million.
Such verdicts have cast a cloud of fear over college attorneys and administrators. Some advocates welcome that. They hope it will prompt long-overdue measures to ensure sexual assaults don't deny women access to education.
But there are concerns of overreach.
In March, 2011, in a response to student protesters who had occupied a campus building and were calling for stronger policies to combat sexual assault, the president of Dickinson College in Pennsylvania announced that expulsion would be the only available sanction for rape.
Numerous experts and administrators at other campuses called such a policy unusual and troubling. They say it deprives educators of flexibility in handling cases that often aren't black and white. And like any sentencing minimum, it may have the unintended effect of making conduct boards less likely to convict at all. (Dickinson dropped the policy in guidelines published last December, which refer more broadly to sexual assault, and standardize punishments ranging from one-year suspension to expulsion).
"It drives — not hysteria, that's not the right word — but nearly that," Sokolow said. "It's such a fear-based reaction that a lot of colleges now are expelling and suspending people they shouldn't, for fear they'll get nailed on Title IX."
Hans Bader, a former attorney with the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights, says campus conduct boards, fearing Title IX lawsuits, will inevitably err on the side of punishment.
"Innocent people get found guilty of harassment because the school realizes the only way it can avoid liability is to punish everybody in sight," he said.
But that's a legal danger, too. Students accused of sexual violence don't buy the argument that such proceedings are merely "educational," affecting nothing more than their academic standing.
"Fifteen years ago, 20 years ago, if a student got into trouble he would just drop out and go elsewhere," Sokolow said. "Now colleges are starting to share information, they're starting to put notations on transcripts." With more at stake, "We're seeing more students who want to stand and fight." Continued...
Typically, such suits allege breach of contract or negligence, like a recently resolved high-profile case involving Brown University, brought by a former student who contended Brown rushed an investigation and caved to pressure from the accuser's father, a prominent donor.
But recently, at least two have made an apparently novel argument citing the Title IX rights of accused male students. Their argument: Title IX, while requiring numerous protections for sexual assault victims, fundamentally concerns gender equity, and men can be victimized, too.
A federal judge threw out the Title IX claim brought by a male student punished for sexual assault at the University of the South, Sewanee, in Tennessee. But a jury sided with the student on other grounds, agreeing the college failed to provide basic fairness. Sewanee, the jury agreed, allowed a charge to proceed without adequate evidence and gave the accused little more than 24 hours to prepare for a hearing. Also, administrators failed to interview key witnesses, disclose exculpatory evidence, and have adequately trained employees running the process.
Sokolow, who testified on behalf of the accused student (he usually testifies for colleges), called the ruling important because it established that even private colleges can be found negligent if they don't meet basic standards.
Then there's the case of Edwin Bleiler, who was expelled from Holy Cross in Massachusetts on the day he was supposed to graduate last spring, for allegedly sexually assaulting another student. The accuser maintained she'd been intoxicated and unable to give consent to a sexual encounter. Bleiler contends she wasn't incapacitated and acted willingly.
Now, Bleiler is suing Holy Cross, arguing the college's consent and sexual misconduct policies discriminate against male students — violating his Title IX rights. An attorney for Bleiler, Emily Smith-Lee, contends his Title IX claim is stronger than the one dismissed in the Sewanee case: Bleiler's case goes beyond the argument that Holy Cross implemented its sexual assault policy in a discriminatorily shoddy fashion. Rather, it claims the policies are inherently tilted against men, by creating different standards for male and female students.
Holy Cross declined to comment.
Russlynn Ali, the assistant secretary who oversees the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights, declined to comment on specific cases, and said she did not believe the department had ever received a complaint alleging a male student's Title IX rights were violated in a sexual assault proceeding. But, if it ever did, the complaint would be looked into.
"Title IX protects all students, male and female, against sex discrimination," she said.
Wendy Murphy, a Boston attorney and victims' advocate who has filed numerous Title IX complaints on behalf of victims, says colleges cave too easily to the threat of lawsuits from students accused of sexual violence. Most victims don't have the resources to sue, which is precisely why they depend on campus Title IX procedures to ensure they are protected. That requires putting a thumb on the scale in favor of victims — such as the "preponderance of the evidence" standard the Obama administration has said schools must use in adjudicating such cases. Continued...
Colleges must protect victims, she says. That means abandoning the fantasy they can make everybody happy by also offering accused students the full due process rights they'd enjoy in a criminal trial.
"You can't run a school that way," Murphy said. "If every once in a while a school has to be sued at the cost of being fair to all students, so be it."
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