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SATURDAY, JULY 24, 2010
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Max Pane of Frederick walks on the street with a wet towel on his head, trying to protect himself from the extreme heat.
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ordered to slow down out of con- cern that the steel rails could ex- pand and kink. Utilities neared or surpassed all-time peaks in elec- tricity use, and Pepco imposed 15- minute limits on workers under- ground, where temperatures can hit 140 degrees. The District expanded pool hours. The fire department dis- patched “canteen trucks” equipped with misting fans and cooling chairs, in which overheat- ed firefighters could sit and dunk their forearms in buckets of ice. Montgomery County was poised to invoke an anti-cruelty law pro- hibiting the tethering of dogs outside. Many people in normally but- toned-up downtown Washington were dressed more appropriately for a resort. Men loosened their ties and rolled up shirt sleeves. Women wore strapless sundress- es and shorts. Quite a few people carried bottled water, and many also carried umbrellas for shade. Sweat management became an
art form, particularly for those keeping up a professional ap- pearance. “I carry a lot of handkerchiefs and paper towels,” said Keith Kirkpatrick, mopping his brow with a white handkerchief that he pulled from a pocket of his gray pinstriped suit as he walked to lunch from his job at Veterans Af- fairs. “This is Washington, D.C. You can’t get away from wearing a suit.” In Rockville, Jawayne Parrish stopped on a sidewalk, unzipped a black duffel and pulled out a neatly folded baby-blue towel. “I need it,” he said, wiping his forehead and face. “I feel exhaus- ted already, and I just started walking.” He’s searching for a job and was heading to meet a restaurant manager he had met the day be- fore. He was wearing a striped dress shirt and didn’t want to be seen as a guy who could get thwarted by a little hot weather.
LOTTERIES July 23
DISTRICT Mid-Day Lucky Numbers:
Mid-Day D.C. 4: Mid-Day DC-5:
Lucky Numbers (Thu.): Lucky Numbers (Fri.): D.C. 4 (Thu.): D.C. 4 (Fri.): DC-5 (Thu.): DC-5 (Fri.):
Daily 6 (Thu.): Daily 6 (Fri.):
MARYLAND Day/Pick-3:
Pick-4:
Night/Pick-3 (Thu.): Pick-3 (Fri.): Pick-4 (Thu.): Pick-4 (Fri.): Multi-Match:
Match 5 (Thu.) Match 5 (Fri.):
VIRGINIA Day/Pick-3:
Pick-4: Cash-5 (Fri.):
Night/Pick-3 (Thu.): Pick-3 (Fri.): Pick-4 (Thu.): Pick-4 (Fri.): Cash-5 (Thu.): Cash-5 (Fri.):
MULTI-STATE GAMES Mega Millions:
*Bonus Ball
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3-0-3 2-6-7-4
5-9-9-7-8 2-4-2 8-6-8
7-0-7-4 7-0-0-9
2-7-4-6-9 9-4-2-5-3
3-8-22-28-30-34 *26 3-5-11-16-24-28 *33
1-6-7
7-4-8-0 7-4-8 8-8-7
6-1-1-4 2-3-7-9
5-11-15-17-21-32 11-12-17-23-24 *20 11-13-20-29-30 *35
1-1-0 7-3-5-2
11-18-23-26-32 2-0-9 N/A
5-1-2-6 N/A
5-17-20-27-31 N/A
N/A
“It’s hot out, and I’m still dressed presentably,” Parrish said. Looking fresh took work. Bren- da Slaughter, a front-desk recep- tionist at a downtown office building, tucked a wash towel, soap and deodorant in her purse. Cheryl Noland, a bank teller liai- son, wore a sun hat while waiting for the bus to work and ambled in the shade of Lafayette Square af- ter downing a chilled frappe. Strolling through a Fairfax
County shopping center, Carrie Farabee kept the sweat at bay in a short-sleeved top, cropped jeans and flip-flops. “We have a relaxed dress code,”
said Farabee, a legal assistant. “I’m glad I don’t have to wear stockings every day.” It was also a tough day to be a
tourist. Jillaine and Anthony Gingerel-
li of Nutley, N.J., planned to stick to air-conditioned museums Fri- day with their four children, ages 7 to 13. At 10:30 a.m., Jillaine Gin- gerelli already rued her decision to apply makeup so she’d look nice for photographs. “I was wrong,” she said, shoul- dering a backpack holding four bottles of water. “It’s already drip- ping off.” Government officials ex- pressed concern that the continu- ing heat was not merely uncom- fortable but unsafe. That point was driven home Friday when Virginia reported a sixth heat- related death, which occurred in late June in central Virginia. Maryland has had 16 deaths relat- ed to the heat; the District has had one. Offering a cool place for resi- dents who don’t have air condi- tioning, the District extended op- erating hours at senior centers, homeless shelters and libraries. Since the heat wave began at the end of June, the city has had about 600 emergency medical calls a day, most of them heat- related, up from 450 on a typical summer day, said D.C. Fire and EMS spokesman Pete Piringer. The city’s Transportation Depart-
Creating his own bit of a breeze, Brandon Ford, who is with Boy Scout Troop 501 of the Middle Tennessee Council, tries his skills on the rope course at the Boy Scout of America 2010 Adventure Base 100, on the grounds of the Washington Monument. To see more ways people outside were trying to keep cool, visit
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ment sent out Twitter feeds ad- vising motorists to carry water and an umbrella in case of break- downs. Utilities also sent out adviso- ries on keeping cool while mini- mizing electricity use. Dominion
Virginia suggested closing drapes or blinds during the day and bar- becuing outdoors. Electricity use has soared in the past month. Pepco customers normally consume 5,300 mega- watts of power on a summer day.
Since June 1, consumption has surpassed 6,000 megawatts on 15 days and is running about 13 percent over last summer, spokesman Clay Anderson said. Energy demand by Virginia Do- minion customers is 15 to 18 per-
cent above normal, with 11 days when the peak topped 18,000 megawatts; in compari- son, last June’s peak demand was about 16,400 megawatts. The heat wave is expected to continue, even if it breaks for a few days next week, said the Cap- ital Weather Gang’s Samenow. It may be worth remembering, he said, that this is the heat every- one yearned for in the winter. “We’ve gone from one extreme to another,” Samenow said. “With an earthquake in the middle.”
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Staff writers Kafia A. Hosh, Michael Laris and Lena H. Sun contributed to this report.
Teachers’ sneak peeks of standardized tests are history Md. officials say
security, not cheating, had become a concern
by Michael Birnbaum
Security is crucial for stan- dardized tests because the results can make or break a school’s reputation. But until this year, many Maryland teachers were al- lowed an advance look at state exams. State education officials said
Friday that they had eliminated a policy that allowed elementary and middle school teachers to ob-
tain a sneak peek of the tests in the days before they proctored them. Officials said they had grown increasingly concerned about test security. The policy was eliminated af- ter the 2009 exams, and there are no apparent cases in which the policy led to cheating on the tests, known as the Maryland School Assessments. The results from the 2010 exams were re- leased earlier this week; students showed modest gains from last year.
But some testing experts raised
their eyebrows at the practice. D.C. and Virginia officials do not allow their teachers to look at the tests before they are adminis-
tered. “We make changes all the time” to the testing security policies, said Leslie A. Wilson, Maryland assistant superintendent for ac- countability and assessment. She said the policy was intended to allow teachers to prepare for the most basic aspects of adminis- tering the test, such as when to distribute and collect answer sheets and calculators. The policy had also been in effect for a previ- ous statewide exam, discontin- ued in 2002, that required much more preparation by proctors, she said. Teachers who administered the tests — which are given every year from third through eighth
grade — were allowed to sign up for an appointment to see the test booklet in a secure room after the tests were delivered to the school, usually seven to 10 days before the testing date, Wilson said. The school’s designated testing coor- dinator was required to be in the room with them. Teachers were not allowed to
take pen and paper into the room and had to sign a nondisclosure agreement promising that they would not discuss what they saw with anybody else or change their teaching as a result, she said. Wilson said “a couple” of teach- ers contacted the state education department in 2009 with com- plaints about certain questions
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Ian Stehmeier, along with fellow members of Boy Scout Troop 1407 from Chicago, Ill., who are on their way to the 2010 National Scout Jamboree at Fort A.P. Hill near Fredericksburg, cooled off in a fountain on the grounds of the Washington Monument.
before the test was administered. “We said, wait a minute, they’re using this for a purpose they’re not supposed to,” she said. One expert said the state was wise to end the practice. “I’m not sure why the teachers themselves would need to be per- mitted to go into the room to read the test,” said Linda R. Valli, an education professor at the Uni- versity of Maryland. “It’s almost like asking teachers to go in and be sure you’ve covered every- thing. If I were a teacher, I would feel negligent if I didn’t take a look at the test, if it were being presented as a legitimate part of preparing.”
birnbaumm@washpost.com O’Malley, Ehrlich take opposite sides in Arundel Mills slots issue slots from B1 Open Sun 12-5
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Interested parties on both sides are expected to pour mil- lions of dollars into the ballot measure between now and No- vember. Homeowners opposed to the casino have teamed with the deep-pocketed Maryland Jockey Club, which operates nearby Lau- rel Park racetrack. The Jockey Club provided the financial back- ing for a successful petition drive to put the zoning measure on the ballot. The club’s hope is that sinking the mall casino will allow it to win the only slots license the state plans to issue in Anne Arun- del.
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A county judge ruled last month that the December zoning decision by the Anne Arundel County Council should not be subject to second-guessing by voters. That opinion was over-
turned this week by Maryland’s highest court, which gave its blessing for the countywide refer- endum to proceed. The ballot measure could have
implications for the governor’s race, although there is wide dis- agreement over how significant those will be.
Although he is not enthusiastic about the mall location, O’Malley has generally been supportive of slots in recent years, brokering a compromise over the issue dur- ing his first year in office. That led to the 2008 statewide ballot measure in which voters author- ized five competitively bid slots locations, including one in Anne Arundel. The rapidly growing suburban
county, which abuts both the Bal- timore and Washington regions, is central to Ehrlich’s hopes of re- turning to office.
When Ehrlich won election in 2002, becoming Maryland’s first
Republican governor in a genera- tion, he won a staggering 65 per- cent of the vote in Anne Arundel. In his 2006 loss to O’Malley, a for- mer Baltimore mayor, Ehrlich’s percentage fell to 57 percent. O’Malley advisers argue that the vote on the mall casino could emerge as a wedge issue and help keep Ehrlich’s numbers from climbing to 2002 levels this year. The governor’s campaign has sought to portray Ehrlich as be- holden to corporate interests and points to work by Ehrlich’s for- mer aides on behalf of Cordish. “I don’t have divided loyalties,”
O’Malley said in the interview. “I work for the people of this state.” Ehrlich dismissed such talk as
“the usual silliness of the O’Mal- ley campaign” and instead sought to make the case that slots have become “a mess” under his Dem- ocratic successor. “We need to move forward,” Ehrlich said.
Ehrlich, who recently took a
leave of absence from the Balti- more law office of Womble Car- lyle Sandridge & Rice, said his firm provided “strategic commu- nications” assistance to Cordish last year as zoning legislation was pending in Anne Arundel. Ehrlich said the law firm, which employs some of his for- mer press aides, took great care not to engage in any lobbying on the issue. Of the five slots locations au- thorized by Maryland voters in 2008, two of the smaller venues are expected to open by the end of the year: a 1,500-machine facil- ity in Cecil County and an 800- machine parlor at Ocean Downs racetrack on the Eastern Shore. Other sites have seen setbacks and delays. Just this week, a state panel sought new bids for a 1,500-machine parlor in Western Maryland. And it is likely to con- duct a new round of bidding this
year for a 3,750-machine casino in Baltimore after rejecting an applicant late last year. The Anne Arundel site, mean- while, remains in limbo pending the November vote. Ehrlich acknowledged that Anne Arundel is one of several “suburban subdivisions where we have to perform at a high level” to win the governor’s race. But he said he doubts that the slots measure will factor much into the outcome. That view was largely echoed
by Patrick Gonzales, an inde- pendent pollster who lives in Anne Arundel. Gonzales said interest in the slots issue could increase voter turnout in the county come No- vember, but as an issue in the governor’s race, he added, “I don’t see it translating into much.”
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