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By Mark Cooper

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How do we mitigatethe devastating ef-fects of layoffs on

employees, employers and theircommunities? Is there a “win-win-win” solution?

There is most definitely sucha solution and it is called“Shared Work.” Borrowed froma program called “Kurzarbeit”in Germany, a country consid-ered one of the world’s peren-nial industrial economies whoknows a thing or two about sur-viving business cycles, this con-cept can decisively help Virginiacompanies, both large andsmall, weather temporarydownturns by keeping theirskilled workforce intact and onthe job.

I know. Before coming to Vir-ginia, I was employed by andoperated my own businesses inGermany from 1980 through2008.

From Fortune 500 companieslike Texas Instruments, my firstemployer, to global giants likeMercedes, Bosch and others, Ihave personally experiencedthe effectiveness of these pro-grams. And they work. A sur-vey conducted by the state ofBavaria’s Chamber of Com-merce in July 2009, the depthof the Great Recession, revealedthat 60 percent of respondentswere able to avoid permanentlayoffs, another 16 percentwere able to come away withonly minimal layoffs so thatwell over three quarters or 76percent were able to keep all ormost of their workforce through“Shared Work.”

How? By reducing the daysworked per week from 5 to 4,as an example, the companiesare able to reduce a sizable por-tion of their labor costs, in thiscase 20 percent, maintain theirworkforce and additionallyavoid costly rehiring and re-training expense when businesspicks up. More importantly,communities keep their bread-winners employed, which inturn continue paying taxes andconsuming local goods and ser-vices. This keeps the “doors

open” which in turn keeps fami-lies together.

While the employee will seea reduction in gross salary orwages, through the clever useof unemployment benefitswhich the employer has beencontributing towards previ-ously, take-home wage reduc-tion would be not as pro-nounced. And that extra daywould be a welcome respite tothose families where bothspouses are working full-timeand could restore some work-life balance in the interim; orthe employer could decide touse the extra day for retrainingand skill improvement.

How do we proceed? In theU.S., 26 states have alreadyadopted such “Shared Work”policy. Our commonwealth hasnot, to date, but the GeneralAssembly should consider thisproven public-private solution.Virginia’s labor market, likemany others, is still languish-ing. “Shared Work” can preventlayoffs, maintain the well beingof employees and their commu-nities and keep businesses com-petitive over the long run.

This is an intelligent, testedpolicy that can truly provide a“win-win-win” for all Virgin-ians.

Preventing layoffs, maintainingthe well-being of employees andtheir communities and keepingbusinesses competitive.

‘Shared Work:’ AWin-Win-Win Solution

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When Springfield business owner TonyCoombs felt the “mind-boggling im-pact” the $87 billion in budget cutswould have on his IT and cyber-se-

curity company, he began preparing his 600 employ-ees for the fallout.

He froze bonuses and pay raises; he cut some em-ployees’ hours by as much as 50 percent; he consoli-dated where he could and he began leasing hisSpringfield office building on a month-to-month ba-sis.

“I wanted to do everything I could to avoid layingoff employees,” Coombs said. “There’s not someonehere who doesn’t have some family connection, anda feeling of family is something we’ve always en-couraged and embraced.”

But the sequester caused serious setbacks to hiscompany and employee morale, and after a fewmonths of treading water, Coombs considered lay-offs.

“We had to rearrange our teams to use less people,”Coombs said. “That’s the worst thing for me becauseeveryone knows my employees always come first.”

Coombs, who participated in Congressional busi-ness roundtables to keep his company moving for-ward, learned about a government program adoptedin several other states that help employers keep ex-perienced workers on the payroll.

CALLED WORK SHARING, more than two dozenstates are now using the program—a kind of unem-ployment insurance in reverse—which comes withfree federal dollars to keep workers in their jobs in-stead of supporting them after they’re laid off. In-stead of getting a pink slip during an economic down-turn, workers have an opportunity to stay on the joband receive unemployment benefits for the hoursthey lose.

And thanks to national employment policy expertssuch as David Balducchi of Arlington, work sharingis getting a new look from employers across the coun-try and the state.

“With work sharing, an employee’s lost day of workdoesn’t have to mean a lost day of pay,” Balducchisaid. “The hours of all employees are reduced in-stead of sacking some employees. Employees receive

partial unemployment benefits only for their losthours of work. And employees keep working anddon’t have to search for a new position in a bleakmarket.”

Balducchi has been crisscrossing the United Statesto educate lawmakers about work sharing and to helpthem enact legislation. In Washington State, for ex-ample, the program has paid dental technicians andplumbers at struggling companies. “The funds en-able companies to hang on to experienced workerswhile they wait for the economy to improve,”Balducchi said.

State Senator George Barker (D-39), a proponentof work sharing, is urging fellow lawmakers to makeVirginia the next state that adopts the legislation.

Barker, who said he is making work sharing legis-lation one of his top priorities for the 2014 GeneralAssembly legislative session, worked with Balducchiand John Horejsi of SALT (Social Action Linking To-gether) to lobby other lawmakers to enact work shar-ing.

“Having been through the recession and recentslight increases in Virginia unemployment rates asfederal sequestration takes effect, it is important thatwe give Virginia businesses all the tools we can tohelp them and their employees get through challeng-ing times. This bill does that,” Barker said Tuesday.

The program, Barker said, is not a red state or bluestate issue. In fact, the most recent states to passsome form of work sharing legislation this summer—Wisconsin and Ohio—are led by Republican gover-nors.

“This is a bipartisan bill put forth by RepublicanSenator Bill Stanley from Franklin County and my-self,” Barker said. “We have worked with the busi-ness community on this bill, including the VirginiaFederation of Independent Businesses, the VirginiaChamber of Commerce, and Virginia Association ofManufacturers as well as with community organiza-tions. We have addressed the questions and concerns

Saving Jobs in Hard TimesVirginia lawmakers willpush work sharinglegislation this session.

Virginia’s Potential SavingAccording to David Balducchi:❖ If Virginia enacted a work sharing law, the common-

wealth is eligible for a U.S. Department of Labor planning andimplementation grant of $2,739,420. The cutoff date to ap-ply for the U.S. Department of Labor grant is Dec. 31, 2014.

❖ Also, had Virginia enacted work sharing the common-wealth over the three-year period beginning with passing ofthe federal law in February 2012, it would have enabled Vir-ginia to receive 100 percent of federal reimbursement of worksharing benefits. According to the center for Economic andPolicy Research (CEPR), the potential annual estimated sav-ing in Virginia with federal financing of work sharing couldreach $14,506,300. CEPR says this is an annual saving.

Virginia Senator George Barker (D-39)stands with Fairfax County Supervisor JeffMcKay (D-Lee) during a Fairfax CountyDemocratic Committee meeting last month.

David Balducchi, a national employmentpolicy expert from Arlington, lobbies law-makers to enact work sharing legislation.

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Laura Wheeler Poms, ofFairfax, set out to earn adoctorate degree andmake a career change.

As a wife, mother and workingprofessional, the goal, she said,often felt lofty.

“Writing my dissertation at timesfelt overwhelming, especially if Ilooked at it as one huge project,”said Poms, who now holds a Ph.D.in industrial/organizational psy-chology and is an assistant profes-sor of global and communityhealth at George Mason Universityin Fairfax. “I set goals like writingone page or doing one analysiseach day and I was able to get itdone. I also gave myself little re-wards along the way.”

While Poms set and achieved anambitious goal, she and other psy-chologists say many people do not.Whether one desires to make a

career change, set boundaries inan unhealthy relationship or loseweight, setting and achievinggoals is difficult for some.

“The biggest reason people falloff the bandwagon is that they pickgoals that are outside their behav-ioral repertoire, that are environ-mentally impossible or that theydon’t have the skills to accom-plish,” said Linda Berg-Cross,Ph.D., a therapist in private prac-tice and a professor of psychologyat Howard University in Washing-ton, as well as a Potomac, Md.,resident. “If you say, ‘I’m going toexercise an hour a day,’ but youhave a full-time job and children,you really don’t have time to ex-ercise for an hour.”

Poms says that a person’s rea-sons for waiting to make a changecould affect his or her success orfailure. “If your goal is motivatedby guilt, fear or regret, you’re lesslikely to achieve that goal,” shesaid. “If someone tells you that you

need to lose weight, unless thatrealization has come home to you,it is not very useful. … If you don’tsee the need, you’re not going tobe motivated to accomplish it.”

To make lasting changes, expertssay, one must be prepared for thework involved in making the shift.“Sometimes when people want tomake a change, they are not quiteready,” said Amy Van Arsdale,Ph.D., assistant professor of psy-chology at Marymount Universityin Arlington and a therapist in pri-vate practice who lives in Fairfax.

“Another reason that sometimesmakes it really hard for people tomake changes like setting bound-aries with someone they love, isbecause that person might feelhurt, so the person who is tryingto change backs down,” VanArsdale continued.

Whether your goal is getting outof a toxic relationship, making acareer change or maintaining anexercise plan, there are strategiesthat you can implement to main-tain your perseverance.

“If someone starts to give up,”said Van Arsdale, “I recommendthat they do a check-in and ask

‘What is going on that makes mewant to quit?’”

Assessing how much control onehas over the situation is anotherkey tactic. “A person should lookat what they can change and whatcannot change,” said Van Arsdale.“When setting a boundary withanother person, for example, aperson could say, ‘Maybe I canchange how often I call my mother,but I can’t control how often shecalls me so I need to change how Irespond, because I can only con-trol myself.”

Berg-Cross recommends small,gradual changes. “Make the tee-niest changes you can think of thatare part of your normal routine,”

she said. “It is not making behav-ioral changes, it is fading from onebehavior to another on a long con-tinuum, little by little.”

Van Arsdale said that sometimesshe asks clients to think in reverse.For example, “If I didn’t loseweight and I didn’t get in shape,what is the worse part?” sheasks.Re-evaluate specific goals andtweak them if needed. “Sometimespeople set goals that are too high,”said Van Arsdale. “If you set yougoals to go to the gym five days aweek and that it isn’t happening,instead go three times a week.Hanging in there and tweakinggoals so that they work for you isbetter than giving up.”

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raised by legislators.”

UNDER THE BILL proposed byBarker, the legislation would es-tablish a shared work programthat provides employers with theoption of reducing the hoursworked by employees, while per-mitting the employees whosehours are reduced to receive par-tial compensation for lost wages.Program participation requiresVirginia Employment Commissionapproval of a plan, which mustprovide that the reduction in hoursof work is in lieu of a layoff of anequivalent percentage of employ-ees and that employees’ fringebenefits cannot be reduced oreliminated during the plan.

According to U.S. Department ofLabor data, work sharing hassaved 61,299 jobs in a combined19 states in 2012. Some states, likeColorado and New Hampshire,saved less than 100 jobs, whileCalifornia, Texas and Washingtoneach kept between about 10,000and 21,000 employed, accordingto a Justice Center report.

Balducchi said work share pro-grams are gaining momentumwith employers nationally becauseit gives them flexibility during aneconomic downturn. Instead oflaying off highly-trained, experi-enced employees—which maysave employers money in the shortterm—they have the flexibility toreduce hours and maintain a spe-cialized workforce, which ulti-mately benefits employers in thelong term.

For an employer like Coombs,who has invested significant timeand money in training top-ratedcyber-security employees, the pro-gram gives him and his employ-ees some breathing room.

“If I have to lay off people, I’mnot going to 7-11 and find the tal-ent, training and security level myclients expect. … This businessrevolved around a qualified teamof people,” Coombs said.

The Department of WorkforceDevelopment estimates work-share programs will save the un-employment reserve fund $4.9million.

“We almost got it passed in 2013and look forward to success nextyear,” Barker said, adding that heremains optimistic the bill willpass in 2014.

“We will rally the troops nextyear,” Horejsi said. “We are ener-gized by the prospects for successfor this commonsense legislation.”

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Tuesday morning, Sept. 3, the firstday of school in Fairfax County, Dr.Karen Garza began her official dayat 6:30 a.m. at Chantilly

High School. While Garza was makingherself available for interviews beforethe first class started at 7:20 a.m., manystudents were already on the school bus.

That means the students, and most likelytheir sleep-deprived parents, were rousted outof bed before 6 a.m., a time that is essentiallythe middle of the night for teenagers.

The science on teenagers, sleep schedule,health, learning and more all points in a singledirection.

“The scientific evidence is irrefutable:chronic sleep loss and disruption in circadian

rhythms associated with early high school starttimes are associated with negative conse-quences including poor academic performance,increased sport-related injuries, and potentiallong-term increases in cardiovascular andmetabolic (i.e., type 2 diabetes) health risks,said Judith Owens, MD, director of Sleep Medi-cine at Children’s National Medical Center. “We

know that delaying high school starttimes increases total sleep time andpositively impacts academic achieve-ment and school attendance. There are

also documented mental and physical healthbenefits for students that include reductionsin rates of depression and fewer drowsy driv-ing crashes.”

Children’s National Medical Center’s Divisionof Sleep Medicine has been contracted by theFairfax County School Board to develop a planto delay high schools’ start time to 8 a.m. or later.

A 2011 survey showed that more than a quar-ter of 10th and 12th grade students were get-

ting less than five hours of sleep on schoolnights, about half of the recommended eight-and-a-half to nine-and-a-half hours of sleep forteenagers.

Sleep deprivation can also affect teen moodand ability to cope with stress. About a thirdof Fairfax County students surveyed in the lastcounty student youth survey reported feelingdepressed, with more than 15 percent report-ing that they had considered suicide in the pastyear.

Fairfax County Public Schools, with a newsuperintendent supportive of later start times,is poised to do the right thing. It’s time to makethis the last year that high school begins at7:20 a.m.

For more information see http://smartschoolstart.wordpress.com/ and http://www.sleepinfairfax.org/.

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Heading to PollsTo the Editor:

Thanks to The Connection andreporter Victoria Ross for the“Every Year is Election Year inVirginia” information in theAug. 28 edition. I hope thatreaders will clip and save thearticle and then go to the pollsand vote on Nov. 5.

I would like to add two pointsthat were not mentioned in thearticle:

❖ Virginia citizens who havea current Virginia driver’s li-cense or ID card issued by theDMV can now register or up-date their registration informa-tion online by going to: https://www.vote.virginia.gov.

❖ The Fairfax County Office ofElections will need over 2,000election officers to work at thepolls for the Nov. 5 election. Per-sons with fluency in several lan-guages are especially needed. Per-sons able to spend election dayplus several hours for training to“help make democracy work” cansign up by calling the Office ofElections at 703-324-4735 or go-ing to the office’s website at:http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/e l e c t i o n s / w o r k i n g . h t m #electionofficer.

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Letters

Dangers of Failure To Act

By Jim Moran

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President Obama has sought Con-gressional approval to carry outlimited surgical strikes in Syria

against the regime of Bashar al Assadin response to his use of chemical weap-ons to attack Syrian civilians, whichkilled 1,429 people, including 426 chil-dren.

The Administration, led by Secretaryof State Kerry, has presented what Iknow to be irrefutable evidence that theAssad government is responsible for this heinous at-tack.

I support the president’s decision, but regret thefact that he chose to entrust this Congress, one ofthe most divisive and ineffective in history, to au-thorize force against the Assad regime for their useof chemical weapons. I hope the president calcu-lated correctly, because our current and future stand-ing in the international community is on the line.Should Congress vote down the Administration’seffort, it will severely undermine America’s futureleadership role in foreign policy and cripple theObama Administration’s ability to respond to subse-quent challenges, both foreign and domestic.

President Obama’s request for authorization to at-tack the Assad regime rests on three considerations:(1) the ethical responsibility to react to what Secre-tary of State Kerry has called a “moral obscenity,”Syria’s clear violation of the 1925 Geneva Protocolagainst the use of poisonous weapons; (2) The hu-manitarian doctrine known as “the responsibility toprotect” civilians at imminent threat from their owngovernment; and (3) The strategic imperative to es-tablish a clear limit to the Syrian military’s power,

and thus a deterrent against further useof chemical weapons.

That’s not to say we should ignore thedangers involved with taking military ac-tion. The impact a strike would have onopposition fighters, our regional allies,and on civilian communities in Syria isof serious concern. We also want to en-sure that we are not helping extremistgroups like the al-Qaeda connected AlNusra front gain strength due to ouractions.

Should a vote in Congress fail, a U.S.attack may occur anyway. The president

has the authority to carry out limited strikes, similarto what Presidents Clinton and Reagan carried outduring their time in office. But by rejecting thepresident’s request for Congressional support, ourability to deter the use of weapons of mass destruc-tion in the future, be they chemical or nuclear, willbe diminished.

America is the only country in this world with theability to stop the use and proliferation of such meansof murdering civilians on a massive scale. I believewe have the concomitant responsibility to use thatability today if we want to bring about a more peace-ful world for our children tomorrow.

What we decide to do now is transcendent of thisspecific situation and not confined to what we dowith Bashar al-Assad. We must act in a way that rep-resents our fundamental values and moral convic-tions, one that will endure through the inevitable sub-sequent challenges we are sure to face. The use andproliferation of chemical weapons is so abhorrent,so beyond the pale, that the world must act. In thiscase, our only option is military. We cannot fail toaccept this responsibility today. The challenges andcosts will be all the greater if we fail to act.

Our current and future standing in the internationalcommunity is on the line.

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The two-day event—hosted by the Burke CentreConservancy (BCC)—kicks off on Saturday, Sept.7, as Supervisor John Cook (R-Braddock) and BrianEngler, president of the BCC, welcome the crowds.

In addition to community favorites, such as thearts & crafts show, face-painting, pony rides, fun-nel cakes and live music, festival-goers got a sur-prise last year when a senior citizen flash mobstarted dancing.

“Awesome is the word I heard often with folksat the Burke Centre Festival after our Flash Mob,”said Cora Foley, who started a tradition last year.

“Our goal is to make sure that people walk awaysmiling after having a great time with all membersof their family,” said Jeannie Winslow, coordina-tor of the event.

Festival-goers can shop for unique hand-madeitems at artist-crafter booths, then enjoy deliciousfestival foods while seeing an exciting live musicalor dance performance, or interactive wildlife show.Children will love the popular ponies and manyother rides, games and activities, such as face-paint-

Burke Centre Festival:Virginia Is for Lovers!

Burke Centre FestivalWhere: Burke Centre Conservancy, 6060 Burke Centre

ParkwayWhen:❖ Saturday, Sept. 7, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.❖ Sunday, Sept. 8, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.❖ For more information: Call 703-978-2928Email: [email protected] or

[email protected]: www.burkecentreweb.comAdmission Fee: Very affordable costs to ride some rides;

costs for food, wine, shopping, etc.

From left, Connor and HarrisonCampbell of Burke enjoy slushies at theBurke Festival on Sept. 9, 2012.

ing, geared just for them. All ages will delight inthe 28-foot rock climbing wall featured again thisyear. Take a look at the community’s rich 36-yearhistory at the Burke Centre community booth.Adults 21 and older are invited to relax and enjoycomedy or music while they taste some of Virginia'sfinest wines and light appetizers in the after-hourswine garden area.

Festival-goers got a surprise when a senior citizen flash mob started dancing at lastyear’s Burke Centre Festival.

Photos by Deb Cobb/The Connection

By Chelsea H. Bryan

The Connection

The word around theneighborhood is thatAngry Birds are preen-ing to make an appear-

ance at the Burke Centre Festival,with sidekicks Spongebob andElmo, too. They’ll be at home inthe whimsy and sport that is theBurke Centre Festival, at 6060Burke Centre Parkway, 10 a.m.-5p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m.-5 p.m.Sunday. They might not be at thewine garden though (5-10 p.m.Saturday only). But everywhereelse? Fair game. Amongst theplaces you might spot them are themisting tent, stages full of dancers,bands and singers, participating insports demos, at police displays,shopping with the ladies, eatingfestival food, at a wildlife show,face painting, browsing the arts &crafts booths, or on amusementrides. As any of the characterswould tell you, the Burke CentreFestival is designed to entertain lit-erally everyone.

Children of all ages can expectto have the time of their lives. And

it’s free.Community service, fundraiser

and children’s booth applicants, aswell as candidates for elected po-

Angry Birds Rumored to Appear at Burke Centre Festival ... but not in thewine tent, please.

sitions, can still snag a spot to chatwith passerbys. Volunteers are alsostill needed. Go to http://

w w w. b u r k e c e n t r e w e b . c o msub_category_list.asp?category=37&title=Annual+Festival to reg-

Robert Munson of West Springfield gets assistance acrossa rope bride or “Monkey Bridge” by Boy Scouts TonyKresslein (left) and Zayn Khurshid of the Burke Boy ScoutTroop 1345 during last year’s Burke Centre Festival. Thefestival is coming up again Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 7-8.

ister and generally get hyped upfor the weekend of pure, unadul-terated fun.

The Robinson Rams Dance Team from Robinson Secondary School prepare for their performance at the Sept. 9 BurkeCentre Festival last year.

Photo by Deb Cobb/The Connection


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Memories. Sept. 7 at 8 p.m., Sept.8 at 1 p.m. W-3 Theatre, WorkhouseArts Center, 9601 Ox Road, Lorton.The Workhouse performs AcademyAward-winning songs from theGolden Age of film. $25. Doors open30 minutes prior; cash bar available.workhousearts.org.

SUNDAY/SEPT. 8The Dreaming. 7-11:30 p.m. Empire-

Alchemy Room, 6355 Rolling Road,Springfield. The Dreaming performsrock music. $12.www.ampedandalive.com/eventdetails.aspx?eventId=1108.

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FRIDAY/SEPT. 13Anathema and Alcest. 6 p.m.-12 a.m.

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In Concert: Sunset Serenade. 7p.m. Rizer Pavilion, Workhouse ArtsCenter, 9601 Ox Road, Lorton. Liveperformances of classic showtunescelebrate the end of the summer.Free, concessions and cash baravailable. workhousearts.org.

Cool Cow Comedy. 7 and 9 p.m., W-3Theatre at the Workhouse ArtsCenter, 9601 Ox Road, Lorton.Rahmein Mostafavi hosts five stand-up routines by touring comedians.$15. http://workhousearts.org/events/performing-arts/cool-cow-comedy-4.

SATURDAY/SEPT. 20Sixth Generation Concert. 8 p.m.

Rizer Pavilion, Workhouse ArtsCenter, 9601 Ox Road, Lorton. The1960s rock band performs retro hits.$10-15; seating is provided butguests are welcome to bring chairs orblankets; beer, wine, and concessionswill be sold; no outside alcohol.

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Kirkwood. 3 p.m., at KirkwoodPresbyterian Church, 8336 CarrleighParkway, Springfield. Jason

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The Gypsy Sons. 7-11:30 p.m.Empire-Alchemy Room, 6355 RollingRoad, Springfield. The Gypsy Sons,Jammboxx, and Fusebox performmusic of the rock genre. $10.www.ampedandalive.com/eventdetails.aspx?eventId=1189.

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p.m., at Waterford Springfield, 6715Commerce St., Springfield. Thetheme of the evening is “Together WeStand” and guest speaker Rev. Dr.Kenny Smith and emcee SheilaStewart of Radio-One DC, guideguests through the evening. $65 foradults; $45 for youth 16 and under.www.fairfaxnaacp.org.Freedom_Fund_2.php.

SATURDAY/SEPT. 28Ballroom Social Dance. 7:30-10:30

p.m. McGuirewoods Gallery,Workhouse Arts Center, 9601 OxRoad, Lorton. A Workhouseinstructor leads an evening of socialballroom dance. $5 for a mini-lesson,$10 for the social dance.

SATURDAY/NOV. 2Lorton Senior Center Advisory

Council’s Bake and Craft Sale.Lorton Senior Center, 7722 GunstonPlaza, Lorton. Baked goods andproducts made by local artists andcrafters will be sold. Admission isfree. 703-550-7195.

CalendarSend notes to the Connection at [email protected] or call 703-778-9416. The deadline is the Friday prior to the next

paper’s publication. Dated announcements should be submitted at least two weeks prior to the event. For more entertainment events inthe county, go to: http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/news/2013/may/22/fairfax-county-calendar/.

Burke Centre Festival, Sept. 7-8Crafty gals and guys will find many-a-ware from the offerings of arts & crafts

vendors and in the shopping tents on Saturday, Sept. 7, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sun-day, Sept. 8, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., at the Burke Centre Festival. Burke CentreConservancy, 6060 Burke Centre Pkwy. Admission is free. 703-978-2928. Email:[email protected] or [email protected]. Website:www.burkecentreweb.com.

Send notes to the Connection [email protected] or call703-778-9416. Deadline is Friday. Datedannouncements should be submitted atleast two weeks prior to the event.

Rally Day at 5500 Ox Road,Fairfax Station, provides free familyfun, a BBQ, moon bounce, water slide,face painting and games for children,from noon to 3 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 8.The festivities are open to the greatercommunity. 703-352-1421 orwww.livingsaviorlutheran.org.

The Guhyasamaja Buddhist Cen-ter , 10875 Main St., Fairfax Cityprovides free classes to both newcomersand advanced practitioners of TibetanBuddhism. The center emphasizes work-ing with the mind and learning how tounderstand the workings of the mind,overcoming innner causes of suffering,while cultivating causes of happiness.Under the direction of Lama ZopaRinpoche, the center is a place of study,contemplation and meditation. Visithttp://www.guhyasamaja.org for moreinformation.

Fairfax Baptist Temple, at the cor-ner of Fairfax County Parkway and BurkeLake Roads, holds a bible study fellow-ship at 9 a.m. Sundays followed by a 10a.m. worship service. Nursery care andchildren’s church also provided. 6401Missionary Lane, Fairfax Station, 703-323-8100 or www.fbtministries.org.

Lord of Life Lutheran offers ser-vices at two locations, in Fairfax at 5114Twinbrook Road and in Clifton at 13421Twin Lakes Drive. Services in Fairfax areheld on Saturdays at 5:30 p.m. and Sun-days at 8:15, 9:45 and 11:15 a.m.Services in Clifton are held on Sundaysat 8:15 and 10:30 a.m. 703-323-9500 orwww.Lordoflifeva.org.

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Crowds braved 90-degree heat to attend the 14th annual Labor Day Car Show, Monday,Sept. 2, in Clifton.

Cool Cars, Hot Day in CliftonA view of the Clifton car show from a hill overlooking the town.

Clifton’s Emily Dillard poses by a 1940 Ford coupe.

Harley-Davidson motorcycles line this Clifton street.

As in the famous TV commercial, Clifton’s Brant Baber (on right) borrowsa jar of Grey Poupon mustard from 1962 Rolls Royce owner James Brown.

Phil Foss has owned this 1930 Model A Ford for 50 years.

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The Connection

The Woodson volleyballteam on Tuesday night,Sept. 3, dropped two of

three sets to the Robinson Ramsfor the second time in four days.

There was no chance for re-covery on Aug. 31 as Woodson’s2-1 deficit meant Robinson se-cured a victory during a best-of-three tournament match. OnTuesday, however, the Cavaliersused intensity, positivity and ca-reer-best performance by seniorEliza Fisher tobounce back andwin the regularseason best-of-five rematch.

Fisher amasseda career high 31kills as the Cava-liers won the finaltwo sets to cap-ture a 3-2 (25-19,22-25, 22-25, 25-18, 15-9) victory over Robinsonat Woodson High School.

“On fire. That’s all you cansay,” Woodson head coach LenPalaschak said about Fisher’sperformance. “She’s an amaz-ing ball player.”

Fisher, a left-hander, talliedfive kills in the fifth set, includ-ing the final two points of thematch. She also totaled fiveaces during the contest.

“The thing about our team iswhen we get into ruts, we’rereally good at bringing eachother out of it,” Fisher said.“We’re constantly being posi-

tive. It’s very easy to get frus-trated, but we’re always tryingto uplift people and always tryto have something positive tosay.

“… [W]e were out for blood.We were mad that they beat us.… We were just really pumpedto play this game.”

Woodson’s Mackenzie Reedfinished with eight kills, DaraStevens had six kills, BellaBrahm had four kills and KaelinJennison and Jennifer Scotteach had three.

Palaschak said Jenna Yost,who switched to the libero po-sition late in the match, per-formed well. Yost will play forthe University of Mary Wash-ington.

“Jenna Yost did an amazingjob,” he said. “She got to every-thing. She made a couple great

saves.”Woodson won

back-to-back Pa-triot Districtchampionships in2011 and 2012.Even though theCavaliers are nowa member of Con-ference 7 (sameteams that werein the Patriot Dis-

trict, minus Lee) after theVHSL’s six-class realignment,Fisher, a four-year varsity ath-lete, has her sights set on athree-peat.

“I would love to get anotherdistrict championship,” shesaid. “Our banner is right overthere and we got our very firstdistrict championship ever mysophomore year, we got an-other one last year [and] I’dlove to continue the streak withmy senior year.”

Woodson will host Oakton at7 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 9.

Woodson’s Fisher TotalsCareer-high 31 KillsCavaliers beatRobinson infive sets.

Woodson senior Eliza Fisher (11) finished with 31kills against Robinson on Sept. 3.

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By Steve Hibbard

The Connection

At the age of 9, Aasa Dommalapati, a fourth-grader at Greenbriar West Elementary,competed against the top chess players inBrazil and Canada during the summer

months. She is currently ranked fourth nationally inthe girls U-9 category.

Representing the U.S. for U-10 girls, she took thirdagainst nine challengers at the Pan American YouthChess Championship in Brazil. Then it was off toToronto in mid-August where she competed in theNorth American Youth Chess Championships andplaced 22 out of 31. She was also part of a team of80 players from the U.S. who played in Slovenia lastyear — her first international experience. She hasqualified to play in Dubai at the World Youth Cham-pionship this coming December. The child wonderwon her first national tournament in 2009 in Dallaswhile she was in kindergarten.

Since that time she has been tutored on Skype byVempati Kameswara Rao, 33, from Hyderabad, In-dia, who also uses the website MyChessGuru.com.He has a FIDE rating of 2088 in the Worldwide ChessFederation and is a national arbiter for chess tour-naments.

He calls Aasa an “attacking” player. “I’m expectingher to become a Woman Grandmaster,” he adds.“That is a long-term goal. The short-term goal isWorld Youth Champion.”

Aasa also gets help from her dad Anand, who waschairman of the Greenbriar West Elementary ChessClub for four years.

BEFORE TOURNAMENTS, he often takes threehours of prep time to coach and prepare his childrento win. “Usually we don’t know these people,” saidAnand. “We get a basic idea of what to expect … thecoach can work with them to come up with an alter-native solution and what to expect.”

For strategy, Aasa says she breaks down chessmatches into three parts: openings, middle and endgames. Her strategy is to use different tactics andattacks, she says: “We think of a plan and we justplay it.”

If that doesn’t work, she says she tries another plan,and plays that. “And if he stops it, we think of an-other plan. And it goes on and on. And if he defendsthe plan, then we change it,” she adds.

During the Brazil tournament, she played ninerounds for almost four hours each. “I was expectinga little more, but I think I did pretty good,” said Aasa.“I played two U.S. players, from Washington stateand California.”

Brother Abhinay, 14, is a freshman at ChantillyHigh who has been playing chess since second grade.He’s traveled all over the U.S. competing in state andnational tournaments. He says he always learnssomething new with every chess game he plays. “Ilike to defend at first—then I like to attack when my

opponent is not expecting,” he said. “I don’t just at-tack or defend—I do both.” At Rocky Run Middle, hemaintained a 3.9 GPA and was in the e-Cyber Mis-sion Club and Model U.N.

The GBW Chess Club, which is coached by PaulSwaney, meets Mondays and Thursdays for studentsin grades second through sixth. An advanced clubhas 20 students who meet on Mondays.

“We group the strong with the strong,” said Anand,of the Fair Lakes Crossing community, of organizingthe club. He is a certified USCF—United State ChessFederation senior tournament director. He also worksas an employee for BAE Systems, Inc.

FOR CHESS PRACTICES, he’ll organize fiveminutes of fast games called a “Blitz” just for fun.He also organizes simul-chess or simultaneous chess,and “Bug House,” or team chess for fun.

“Basically by doing that they get to play the stron-ger players,” he said. “So when one tournament isover, you’ll have players with four to zero points.Those with zero points get moved into another sec-tion where they are paired with others with similarstrengths.

The GBW Chess Club is now taking registrationfor the new school year, with 90 children maximum.They are split into two groups that play from Sep-tember through January, and then February throughJune. The 90 are split into five or six sections, withabout 16 children in each section, based on ratings.On Thursdays, students play four rounds in a tour-nament. Students with the highest scores win tro-phies and medals. During the entire season, the clubplays three to four tournaments.

Chess ChampWins by StrategyAt the age of 9, Fair Lakes Crossing resident is ranked4th nationally.

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The Virginia Supreme Court operatesin silence, denying public access toaudio recordings of its oral argu-

ments. Unlike the U.S. Supreme Court,which denies video recordings but allowsaudio recordings, the commonwealth’s topappeals court has a complete blackout onpublic access to proceedings. In a writtenresponse to questions from ConnectionNewspapers, the Office of the ExecutiveSecretary of the Virginia Supreme Courtexplained that audio records were oncepublic, but the installation of new equip-ment in January 2008 created new concernsfor justices.

“The new digitalrecording equipmentis more sensitive sothat the recordingsnow include any con-fidential commentsany justice makes toanother justice dur-ing the oral argu-ment,” wrote KatyaHerndon, director oflegislative and publicrelations for the Of-fice of the ExecutiveSecretary. “Accord-ingly, the recordings,which are for the in-ternal use of the jus-tices, are no longermade available to thepublic.”

That’s unaccept-able, according to several advocates foropen government and freedom of the press.Virginia Press Association executive direc-tor Ginger Stanley said that she would raisethe issue next month during a meeting ofthe Rights and Responsibilities Subcommit-tee of the Virginia Freedom of InformationAdvisory Council. During the meeting nextmonth, members will be discussing whetheror not to look at parts of government thatare not subject to the Virginia Freedom ofInformation Act, which includes the StateCorporation Commission and the VirginiaDepartment of Corrections. Stanley said theAugust meeting would be an ideal oppor-tunity to challenge the lack of transparencyat the Virginia Supreme Court.

“I don’t believe that new technologyshould stand in the way of transparency,”said Stanley. “If this is new technology, thenit should be able to block the parts that areconsidered private conversations.”

THE LACK of transparency at the VirginiaSupreme Court fits into a pattern of behav-ior for the commonwealth, which has areputation for shielding basic information

from the public. Last year, the State Integ-rity Investigation ranked and graded eachof the 50 states on government accountabil-ity, transparency and corruption. Virginiagot an F, largely because police agencies usean exemption clause in the Virginia Free-dom of Information Act to withhold basicdocuments — even in cases that are closed.Now advocates for open government say it’sa mistake for the Virginia Supreme Courtto operate in secret.

“It just seems unnecessary to allow thejustices to make private comments like thatthat don’t serve any function in the hearingand use that as an excuse to keep the en-tire thing confidential,” said Gregg Leslie,legal defense director for the Arlington-based Reporters Committee for Freedom ofthe Press. “If they really have that concernthey need to have better microphones thatare off unless the justice pushes a button toturn them on.”

Some lawyers see the lack of transpar-ency as a necessaryand expected part ofthe court system.

“If a judge leansover to another judgeand says somethingduring the oral argu-ment, to me that’s partof the deliberation,”said Ed Weiner, aFairfax County attor-ney with 33 years ofexperience. “And I justdon’t think that thepublic should be in-vited into chambersduring deliberations.”

THE COURT is an in-famously closed op-eration. No videorecords are allowed.No audio recordings

are permitted. Visitors to the court are notallowed to enter the building with a cellphone. The court does not even producetranscripts of the oral arguments. Some saythe failure to allow public access to audiorecordings is a mistake that should eitherbe fixed with some kind of tweak to therecording system or by a new law forcingthe courts to allow more sunshine into thedark corridors of power in Richmond.

“The recordings should be made public,”said Del. Scott Surovell (D-44). “These casesare some of the most important cases inVirginia, and it’s important to have as muchsunshine on the public part of that processas possible.”

That’s a bipartisan view. Courts of Jus-tice Chairman Del. David Albo (R-42) saysthe Virginia Supreme Court should allowpublic access to oral arguments or face aneffort from the General Assembly to forcetransparency.

“They are denying the public recordingsbecause they chose crappy technology,” saidAlbo. “I just don’t see why they shouldn’tgive them out. People are allowed to bethere. It’s a public forum.”

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Specifications and proposals may be obtained at the addressbelow beginning on August 19, 2013 from 8:30 AM until Sep-tember 16, 2013 at 3:00 PM.Please go to our website to access the RFP and for answers toquestions:

http://www.capitalareafoodbank.org/accepting-vended-meal-bids/

Proposals presented in triplicate will be received by The Capi-tal Area Food Bank at 4900 Puerto Rico Avenue, NE, Wash-ington, DC 20017 until September 16, 2013 at 3:00PM for theperiod October 1, 2013 through September 30, 2014 inclusive.Proposals from those bidders meeting qualifications criteria willbe opened on September 2, 2013 at 8:00AM with award to bemade on or about September 20, 2012 at 11AM. The Institu-tion reserves the right to check all outside references. The In-stitution reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bidsand to waive any informalities in proposals received. Allawards are made pending Virginia Department of Health ap-proval for USDA regulatory compliance.

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Fanfare Eatery at Greenbriar, LLC trading as Fanfare Eatery, 13061 Lee Jackson Memorial Hwy, ste S, Fairfax, VA 22033 The above establishment is applying to the VIRGINIA DE-PARTMENT OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL (ABC) for Wine and Beer on and Mixed Beverage Restaurant li-cense to sell or manufacture alcoholic beverages. Jeffrey Newman, memberNOTE: Objections to the issu-ance of this license must be submitted to ABC no later than 30 days from the publishing date of the first of two required newspaper legal notices. Ob-jections should be registered at www.abc.virginia.gov or 800-552-3200

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Woodbridge $179,900Moorings of Occoquan. Attention Investors! This lovely two bedroomone and a half baths is a great way to jump start your portfolio. With atenant in place and ready to sign a up to a two year lease who could askfor more. It’s centrally located across from a commuter lot, marina,shopping, and dinning. It features large bedrooms, a great size kitchen,nice patio for those sunny days, extra storage, and more.

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