Williamsport football wins for Campbell, Crews
Williamsport produced several highlights Saturday afternoon at Millionaire Stadium. It dominated all aspects, scored nearly every time it touched the football and recorded its second shutout this season.
But it was never about the Millionaires yesterday. It was all about the teammate whose name they literally kept close to their hearts all afternoon. And while defensive end Avery Campbell could not watch them in person, what a tribute his friends gave him.
Nassir Jones and Keith Freeman scored twice each, Frankie Morrone threw three touchdown passes and the defense dominated as Williamsport blanked defending 4A Eastern Region champion Dallas, 48-0, in its regular-season finale. Following the victory, Millionaire players — who wore “AveryStrong” T-shirts underneath their jerseys — took the game ball to Campbell. The junior defensive end temporarily is in a wheel chair and making rapid progress following a spinal contusion injury suffered last Tuesday against Harrisburg.
Without making a play against Dallas, Campbell still was the team’s MVP.
“It was really special. We were shelling out for Avery,” Jones said after catching five passes for 130 yards and adding 2 1/2 sacks. “This was all for him.”
“This game was for Avery,” two-way starting lineman Charles Crews said after a two-sack performance which included a forced fumble. “We strived to play for him (Saturday). That’s what we had to do.”
Williamsport also was thinking about head coach Chuck Crews who missed his second consecutive game while in quarantine and likely had him smiling as well. The Millionaires have overcome a lot this year, from COVID-19 uncertainty, to several key injuries, but have kept moving forward. Nothing changed despite this past week having been the most challenging yet.
The Millionaires were playing their second game in five days, coming off a 41-0 loss against state powerhouse Harrisburg. They had just two practices to prepare for a physical Dallas team and were grappling with Campbell’s situation as well. Through it all, players and coaches rallied around each other and delivered an emphatic win to send them into next Friday’s District 4-6 Class AAAAAA championship against Altoona at Bald Eagle Area High School.
“All week was about Avery and Chuck and the loss. After the loss we said we owe Avery a great effort and we owe coach Crews a great effort,” offensive coordinator and interim coach Kevin Brown said. “I told them (Friday) the thing I always hated about football is when you lost you had to wait a week to get after somebody. With this crazy week we had three days before we could get somebody, so we had to take advantage of the opportunity.”
Williamsport built a 20-0 halftime lead before overpowering Dallas throughout the second half and scoring on four straight possessions. The Millionaires outgained Dallas by 217 yards, did not surrender a second-half first down and forced three fumbles which produced touchdowns. Morrone went over 1,000 passing yards for the season, the offensive line jelled following a rough first half, and Williamsport inflicted the mercy rule by late in the third quarter.
Crews ignited Williamsport early, powering through the backfield and forcing a fumble on a third-and-7 from the 23-yard line. Linebacker Riley Bower scooped the ball up at the 20-yard line and returned it for a touchdown. On a short week, it was just the spark this team needed.
“I just saw an open gap and I went through it. I was just trying to help my teammates out,” said Crews, who has three sacks this week. “That gave us a big lift.”
The momentum carried to the offense as Jones started dazzling. Already an all-state defensive end candidate, Jones flashes his all-state tight end credentials as well, catching 24 and 72-yard touchdowns on consecutive series. Morrone was outstanding and completed 12 of 15 passes for 196 yards and his best throw came on a third-and-23 when he split two defenders and found Jones for the 24-yard score that made it 14-0.
The next time, it was Jones showcasing his explosiveness. Morrone threw a short sideline pass to Jones who quickly was hit by two defenders. Jones powered through them, maintained his balance while staying in bounds, then went the rest of the way untouched as his 72-yard score gave Williamsport a 20-0 lead. Jones finished with five catches for 130 yards, all coming in the first half.
“It was just me wanting to score,” Jones said. “It was just being an athlete and making plays.”
Williamsport made a lot of plays throughout the second half as it buried the Mountaineers under an avalanche of points. Offensive linemen Crews, Connor Adkins, Beau Smith, Austin Best, Joel Feleppa and Dade Splain overcame a rough start, worked together and started moving the pile as Williamsport both ran and threw effectively. The balanced offense had Dallas on its heels and Williamsport produced four consecutive touchdowns, the first two coming on impressive 11-play, third-quarter drives.
Freeman totaled 31 yards on the opening third-quarter drive, capping it with a 4-yard touchdown run. Freeman continued as a versatile threat on the next drive and Morrone made a nice throw on the run, finding him for a 10-yard touchdown. The ensuing two-point pass to Freeman made it a mercy-rule contest and allowed Brown to play his backups the entire fourth quarter. They were effective as well with George Whaley finding Nazir Washington for a 27-yard touchdown and Beau Pearson forcing a fumble before scoring on a 6-yard run.
“We have a couple things to correct offensively. We were far from clean. I just think our athletes sometimes made athletic plays, but it’s hard to complain with 48 points,” Brown said. “We made a few adjustments. They slanted us more than we were preparing for and it made it tough for us to get on the edge. At halftime we made a couple adjustments and those plays that we started moving it on plays were getting blown up in the backfield in the first half.”
The Williamsport defense blew up just about everything Dallas tried. The Mountaineers gained 172 yards with 25 coming on a bad punt snap and run, 60 coming on the first-half’s final play and 29 coming on a fourth-quarter run which resulted in a fumble. Take those away and Williamsport surrendered just 58 yards on 38 plays while adding five sacks.
Quarterback R.J. Wren never had time to settle in the pocket and plant his feet to make throws. Even when Williamsport did not get the sacks, they forced hurried throws. The problem for Dallas was it could not become one-dimensional and try pounding the ball on the ground because Williamsport crushed that dimension as well, allowing just 2.7 yards per carry.
“It’s all effort and everyone doing their job,” Jones said. “That’s how we get things done.”
“We just wanted to go out with a bang and get ready for Altoona next week,” Crews said. “We had to get our minds right today and just play our game.”
And this was a game that had to make the hard-working Campbell feel quite proud.
Williamsport 48, Dallas 0
Dallas 0 0 0 0 — 0
Williamsport 14 6 15 13 — 48
W–Riley Bower 20-yard fumble return (Elliott Wannup kick), 6:27
W–Nassir Jones 24 pass from Frankie Morrone (Wannup kick), 2:12
W–Jones 72 pass from Morrone (kick failed), 8:41
W–Keith Freeman 4 run (Wannup kick), 8:04
W–Freeman 11 pass from Morrone (Morrone pass to Freeman), 1:34
W–Nazir Washington 27 pass from George Whaley (Jett Johnson kick), 9:30
W–Beau Pearson 6 run (kick failed), 5:31
First Downs 6 18
Rushes-yards 27-74 33-166
Passing yards 98 223
Total yards 172 389
Comp-Att-Int 6-14-0 13-17-0
Fumbles-lost 3-3 2-0
Penalties-yards 3-20 6-55
RUSHING: Dallas, Zach Paczewski 1-29; Ben Fife 1-25; Rocco Ormando 11-24; Mark Karcutuskie 3-7; Nikolus Gashi 1-1; Ben Carpenter 1-(-1); RJ Wren 9-(-11). Williamsport, Nasir Hennigan 10-53; Keith Freeman 5-44; Beau Pearson 4-23, TD; Frankie Morrone 1-17; Nasir Williams 4-15; Stavon Jefferson 2-5; Damier Sams-Glover 4-5; Santino White 1-4; Cam Sims 2-0.
PASSING: Dallas, Wren 6-14-0, 98 yards. Williamsport, Morrone 12-15-0, 196 yards, 3 TDs; George Whaley 1-2-0, 27 yards, TD.
RECEIVING: Dallas, Fife 3-85; Zack Chamberlain 2-13; Ormando 1-0. Williamsport, Nassir Jones 5-130, 2 TDs; Sams-Glover 2-23; Nazir Washington 1-27, TD; Freeman 2-21, TD; Hennigan 1-13; DJ Greene 1-12; Sims 1-(-3).
SACKS: Williamsport, Jones 2 1/2; Charles Crews 2; Joel Feleppa 1/2.
RECORDS: Williamsport 6-1. Dallas 3-3.


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Fig, Pear & Pistaschio Muffins
During IVF treatment, it is vital to avoid refined sugar and junk food, so today I’m going to share a recipe from my book, The IVF Diet Book, that is both nutritious and will help you curb your sweet cravings.
My fig, pear a pistachio muffins are a perfect healthy snack, an on-the-go snack option or can be eaten as a pick-me up when your energy levels are low. Figs have long been renowned for their ability to improve fertility and and for boosting libido. The use of ground almonds provides plenty of protein while Maca powder is useful for supporting adrenal health. These muffins will keep well in the fridge for three to four days or can be frozen up to three months.
Prep time: 15 minutes
Chilling time: 30 minutes
Makes 8 muffins
- 250g ground almonds
- 60g tapioca flour
- 1 tsp maca powder
- 1 tbsp baking powder
- Pinch of sea salt
- 60 g coconut oil or unsalted butter
- 60 g xylitol
- 1 pear, cored and grated
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 3 eggs beaten
- 125 ml kefir or almond milk
- 100 g dried figs, chopped
- 75 g pistachio nuts, chopped
- Preheat the oven to 180oc (gas mark 4). Grease and line eight muffin tin holes with paper cases.
- Combine the ground almonds, tapioca flour, maca powder, baking powder and salt in the food processor.
- Place the coconut oil or butter in a pan with the xylitol and melt. Stir to dissolve the xylitol.
- Pour the oil and xylitol mixture into the food processor along with the grated pear, vanilla extract, eggs and milk. Blend to combine. Add the figs and most of the pistachio nuts and briefly pulse.
- Divide the mixture between the paper cases and scatter over the remaining nuts.
- Bake in the oven for 25-30 minutes until golden brown and or until a skewer inserted in the centre of a muffin comes out clean.
- Allow to cool in the tin for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack.
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The frontier spirit
MIRABEAU LAMAR, the second president of the Republic of Texas back in the 1830s, declared that “the cultivated mind is the guiding genius of democracy.” James Fishkin, a professor of government at today's University of Texas, would like to prove that Lamar was right. Mr Fishkin proposes to introduce to American politics the idea of “deliberative polling”. This is a process that would draw together a representative group of ordinary people, have them listen to all sides of an issue, and then cast their considered votes on behalf of their fellow citizens. He claims that the ancient Athenians used a similar system. Would it not be wonderful, Mr Fishkin muses, to resurrect the idea in a world where opinion polls are still merely a quick, come on, yes-or-no snapping up of instant reactions?
Instead of asking a random sample of people to decide instantaneously whether they think America should bomb Iraq, Mr Fishkin would invite his representatives to spend a weekend learning the basics of American foreign policy, of Iraqi politics and of military power. He would let them put their questions to experts, and debate the matter among themselves. Then he would ask them for their answer. That is responsible voting—the guiding genius, he argues, of democracy.
Deliberative polling has already been taken up by the more sober television stations. The Public Broadcasting System has commissioned such polls for presidential elections. It is in Texas, however, that deliberative polling is first dipping its toe into the waters of actual decision-making.The state's Public Utility Commission (PUC) has ruled that Texas's power companies must consult their customers about what the companies plan to do. To do this, the companies have turned to deliberative polling. “Initially I was sceptical,” says Pat Wood, the chairman of the PUC, “but the results have been extraordinary.”
How is it done? After selecting his representative sample, Mr Fishkin provides them with a free weekend in a fancy hotel and a little money for expenses. They then go to school on the issues. Where electricity is concerned, you might think this would be rather tedious. Yet the participants at a recent deliberative poll in Houston seemed genuinely enthralled to be given a voice. Their attention spans were prodigious; your correspondent nodded off several times, only to find on waking up that his companions were still bright-eyed and taking notes. The spirit of Frank Capra descended on one group when a verbose executive was asked to hush himself so that a teenage single mother could have her say.
Mirabeau Lamar would have liked the Houston proceedings. His “cultivation of minds” was done in small groups, so that everyone could be heard. The groups were led by trained chairmen who made sure that all sides of the question got addressed. “There are no wrong answers,” everybody was told; this helped to keep the discussion surprisingly civil. Once they have learned the difference between gas and coal as sources of energy, the members of these little groups can put their questions to heavyweights like a utilities commissioner or the local power company's chief executive. “They have to feel that they are there to make a difference,” says Mr Fishkin.
And they have. The Lone Star state is far more environmentally sensitive than most people had supposed. Texans want more renewable energy, from sources like wind and sun, and are willing to pay to get it.
Before its weekend, the Houston group did not want to reach into its pockets for renewable energy or for energy-efficiency schemes. After hearing all sides of the story, group members were prepared to add an average of $6.50 to their monthly bill for renewable energy and $3 for efficiency schemes. In Corpus Christi, the next city down the coast, 78% of those taking part in a similar exercise said they would be willing to pay a supplement for green energy. At the most recent deliberative poll, in Beaumont, near the Louisiana state line, support for renewables rose from 37% to 68% in the course of the proceedings.
It adds up to a vigorous prod in the ribs for the PUC. Mr Wood says he will try to give Texas's electricity customers the choice of buying green power. Already the interest in renewables has led to the construction of windmills in flat west Texas, paid for by supplementary charges.
Electricity is not the end of the matter. Mr Fishkin wants to improve the “town hall” style of democracy President Clinton is so fond of. “For the first time in 2,400 years,” he says, “a random sample of the population is being used to hear the voice of the people.” The lobbyists are taking nervous note of all this. Already the coal lobby is said to be looking at ways of trying to discredit the results of deliberative polls. If they fail, the idea could spread into many other fields. And fail they may. Texans seem to enjoy being on the frontier of new ideas.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline "The frontier spirit"
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Beta blockers, also known as beta-adrenergic blocking agents, are medications that reduce your blood pressure. Beta blockers work by blocking the effects of the hormone epinephrine, also known as adrenaline. Beta blockers cause your heart to beat more slowly and with less force, which lowers blood pressure.
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Beta-adrenoceptor blocking drugs. Prichard BN. PMID: 22852 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] MeSH Terms. Adrenergic beta-Antagonists/adverse effects; Adrenergic beta-Antagonists/pharmacology; Adrenergic beta-Antagonists/therapeutic use* Angina Pectoris/drug therapy; Arrhythmias, Cardiac/drug therapy; Cardiovascular System/drug effects; Humans; Hypertension/drug therapy
Beta adrenoceptor blocking drugs are relatively well tolerated and adverse reactions to them are not common. The ones that do occur are reviewed in this paper under the following headings: Short term adverse reactions, drug interactions, long term adverse reactions, risks in pregnancy and hazards of abrupt withdrawal.
Carvedilol is indicated for the treatment of mild, moderate or severe heart failure of ischemic or cardiomyopathic origin, in conjunction with digitalis, diuretics and ACE inhibitor, to reduce the progression ...
Beta-adrenergic blocking agents are commonly referred to as beta-blockers. Beta-blockers can be grouped into those that are non-selective (block both beta-1 and beta-2 receptors, such as nadolol, penbutolol, pindolol, propranolol, sotalol, and timolol), and those that are cardioselective (only block beta-1 receptors, and include acebutolol, betaxolol, bisoprolol, esmolol, and metoprolol).
Adverse reactions and interactions with beta-adrenoceptor blocking drugs. beta-Blocking drugs are widely used throughout the world and serious adverse reactions are relatively uncommon. Most of those which do occur are pharmacologically predictable and may be avoided by ensuring that patients who are to be given beta-blockers do not have a ...
Beta-adrenoceptor-blocking drugs and blood sugar control in diabetes mellitus. Wright AD, Barber SG, Kendall MJ, Poole PH. The effects on diabetic control of the relative cardioselective beta-blocker metoprolol and the non-selective drug propranolol were compared in 20 hypertensive diabetic patients receiving diet alone or diet and oral hypoglycaemic agents.
Beta-blockers are drugs that bind to beta-adrenoceptors and thereby block the binding of norepinephrine and epinephrine to these receptors. This inhibits normal sympathetic effects that act through these receptors. Therefore, beta-blockers are sympatholytic drugs.
Other properties : Some beta-blockers also block effects mediated at peripheral alpha-adrenoceptors (e.g. carvedilol and labetalol), stimulate beta2-adrenoceptors (e.g. celiprolol) or have direct vasodilator activity (e.g. nebivolol).
What are beta blockers and how do they work? Beta blockers, also known as beta-adrenergic blocking agents, are a class of drugs that works by blocking the neurotransmitters norepinephrine and epinephrine from binding to receptors. There are three known types of beta receptors, known as beta 1 (β 1), beta 2 (β 2) and beta 3 (β 3).

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This is without a doubt my favorite time of year! It is the only Holiday I decorate for and love to create home made items every year. Today I would like to share with you a simple project that is perfect for your Holiday Home Décor. Today's project is going to feature Blue Fern Studios' Vintage Christmas Collection
Magical 12x12 papers
Wonderland 12x12 paper
I started with a 12x12 chalkboard that I picked up at a local box store. I crackled it for a different project, and then simply erased the chalk saying to use for this project. The crackle base is gold with white on top. This offered the perfect frame for my vintage Christmas project. You can buy a chalkboard ready to use or make one by painting the glass inside a frame with chalkboard paint.
I fussy cut the images from the two paper collections to use in the corners of my board. To dress up the flat paper, I added a bit of white Puff Paint to the snow on the tree, yellow Stickles for the ornaments and Glossy accents over the berries. Then I clustered flowers, and miniature Christmas tree ornaments around the paper to give it depth and interest. To help it all sparkle I spritzed it was Lindy's Stamp Gang Glitz Spritz - Blazing Sun.
Aren't these little Candy Miniature ornaments adorable? And they add the perfect touch to the corners.
I just love how the flowers, ornaments and candies mimic the look of the paper.
Coordinating Chipboard - Santa's Sleigh
When I saw this Chipboard piece I just had to have it. I mean look at all the tiny fine details in the deer and sleigh.
To add a golden element to the layout, I carefully heat embossed the chipboard with gold embossing powder. Then made sure the antlers for the deer were safely mounted to the frame of the board so that they would not become damaged.
Here is a quick video showing how this chalkboard came together.
Here are a few tips for creating your own chalkboard lettering.
- For a new chalkboard - make sure you prime the board by rubbing chalk all over it, then erasing it. You can use your heat gun to blow away dust residue but don't "wet" the board.
- Use a pencil sharpener to keep a fine tip on your chalk
- Practice Practice Practice - It may help you visualize placement and spacing of the letter shapes if you practice first on a piece of paper.
- Don't draw your letters too close together.
- Thicken the lines on the down strokes to make them look better.
- use a cotton swab to smooth away unwanted lines
I hope I have inspired you to create a chalkboard for your Holiday Home Décor. If so, please make sure you come back and tell me about it, or #FollowingTonyaGibbs in your social media outlets so I can see your project.
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The noise was deafening and potentially unsettling in the minutes before the start of the men's Olympic 200-meter final. The Olympic Stadium crowd chanted "Hellas! Hellas!" for Greece and "Kenteris! Kenteris!" for disgraced Greek sprinter Kostas Kenteris, who would likely have been on the starting line Thursday if not for the drug charges against him.
Fans also took out their frustrations on U.S. sprinters Shawn Crawford, Justin Gatlin and Bernard Williams, cascading boos upon them when their names were announced. They resumed the heckling whenever the cameras put the Americans on the large screen -- which was frequently.
The bedlam was such that the final was delayed for several minutes. There was one false start. Namibia's Frankie Fredericks pleaded with fans to please be quiet, gesturing with his hands. The Americans paced the track.
"It was not so friendly," Germany's Tobias Unger said. "Kenteris was out, so they are very angry, but what can the American guys do?"
Quite a bit, actually.
When the noise finally subsided, and the race finally got off, the Americans ran unfettered. Crawford won the gold medal in 19.80 seconds, followed by Williams (20.01) and Gatlin (20.03), giving the United States the first sweep in the event in 20 years, and its first sweep of the 200 and 400 in the same Olympics since 1904.
But the big news did not end there. This night was carefully choreographed and splendidly executed. The U.S. sprinters were counseled to prepare for a hostile crowd, and urged to keep their cool. They had talked for months about taking the top three spots, and they also decided -- months ago -- they would not overshadow a great performance with a stupid celebration.
When they crossed the finish line, they were nearly expressionless. They traded hugs, then knelt to the track, bowing their heads with their arms around each others' necks. They only managed about half of a victory lap before stadium officials began the presentation of medals for the men's long jump -- which saw American Dwight Phillips win the gold and John Moffitt the silver, giving the United States a five-medal haul.
"I heard a slight boo after we won," said Gatlin, who wore an olive wreath for more than an hour after the race and clutched an American flag sewn to a Greek one. "But anyone who saw, we weren't acting like idiots. We were very gracious on the win, on the sweep. There was nothing but love from all of us. A lot of us know about [the Summer Games in] 2000. We wanted to go out and behave like gentleman."
Trevor Graham, the coach of Gatlin and Crawford, predicted that the crowd would be unruly before the race and warned his athletes not to be distracted.
"I told them the crowd was going to hold up the race about 10 minutes, and to make sure the guys just prepared for that," Graham said.
For Williams, the chance to run another Olympic victory lap was almost therapeutic. Williams was the athlete who clowned the most during the now infamous celebration after the U.S. men's 4x100 relay team won the gold in Sydney. At one point, Williams had tied the U.S. flag around his head like a bandana. Thursday, he couldn't resist flashing several toothy smiles for the cameras, but he behaved with as much decorum as he ever has.
"My silver medal here gave me a chance to show some growth," Williams, 26, said. "I was carrying the flag with respect. I'm older, wiser. I got a chance to show a better picture of myself. . . . That was what the plan was: The victory lap was as important as getting a medal. I knew I had a second chance to actually do it the right way. I had four years to think about it."
Of course, they had to win before they could celebrate. The trio said they talked about a sweep for a week, and the talking intensified after Jeremy Wariner, Otis Harris and Derrick Brew swept the 400 meters Tuesday.
"Because we had seen the 400 meter guys do it, it kind of inspired us," Williams said. "We didn't want anybody to sneak in and get one of those medals."
There was little danger of that. Jamaica's Asafa Powell, a medal favorite, did not compete in the race, perhaps because of fatigue. Portugal's Francis Obikwelu, who finished second in the 100, said he was too tired to put up a strong fight. He finished fifth in 20.14, just behind Fredericks, who is 36, and also was clocked in 20.14.
"I was so tired" Wednesday, Obikwelu said. "My coach didn't want me to run in this race, but I told him I would do it for my country and myself. Five days, eight races -- that's too much for me."
It wasn't too much for Crawford, who managed only fourth in the 100, and Gatlin, the 100 gold medal winner. Crawford, 26, was gracious in defeat last weekend, saying he was thrilled that his training partner had achieved such a momentous goal. A Clemson graduate, Crawford once outran a giraffe -- for a television special -- but his biggest international achievement to date was winning an world indoor title, a far less prestigious championship.
Though he is considered a 200 specialist, he claims to prefer the 100, saying once that "the training isn't as hard. You don't have to throw up as much."
Crawford ran strong from the start and had the lead off the final turn. He was never challenged by Gatlin or Williams, who fought for second place.
"We prayed," Crawford said. "Thank God we were able to do a clean sweep and come out of the race injury free. Once you accomplish something like that . . . a lot of eyes are upon you. You have to uphold yourself with honor and dignity."

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Recently, I wrote a piece about loneliness on the farm in the summer. What is the reason for this loneliness?
When I worked at the newspaper, most of the summer was traditionally known as silly season-when news is thin on the ground. Mainly because of the break in Parliament but also because other people take a break too (lucky things).
It seems farming has its own silly season. There is nothing new about it. It is just the first time I have heard it called this.
Silly season encompasses the grass cutting season so any kind of silage, hay or haylege making. It also includes summer harvests from the arable farmers and it ends after the field crops when straw is made.
There is one common denominator to silly season which affects all of the above.
The great British weather in general and the great British summer in particular.
You see, silly season begins with the first spell of dry weather. There is a flurry of activity on weather apps. How long will it last? When is the rain forecast?
Then the twitching begins. Shall we mow? Has anyone else started mowing? Has the farm down the road started mowing?
In any farming community, the first to mow is like the bench mark. A sharp intake of breath will be taken by all those yet to mow and then the weather apps will be viewed again.
Now that smart phones are de regeur-yes, even for farmers, there will be a variety of apps on their phones and my farmer will ask me what my weather app says, just incase the weather in the same house in the same village may be different.
When the cutting takes place, most farmers are ‘head down’ to get it done. They are not so bothered about Old MacDonald up the road but, for hay and haylege, once the grass has been turned a few (hundred) times, talk then turns to baling.
Who has baled? Which hay in the district is the best?
When the rain comes, it is a massive panic to get everything baled in time.
Heaven forbid someone else has mowed when rain is forecast that day. Are they mad? Have they lost their mind?
The feeling I liken it all to us when you need to pull off a sticking plaster. Once you start, you have to carry on no matter how much it pains you and you are left with what is there how ever bad it is.
My farmer says the sure way to make it rain if you want it to is to attach the mower to the back of the tractor.
If you are guaranteed a hot, dry spell, you’re winning but nothing is guaranteed with the weather really and, more often than not we are chasing the sun to get it done.
Our first cut is now cut, baled and stacked in our shed. There’s no let up though. All eyes are on the grass to grow again for the second cut.
There is nothing silly about this time of year.

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It’s no wonder they’re one of the most popular day trips from London: the picture-perfect Cotswolds villages below are pretty much the literal embodiment of the word “quaint”. A ubiquitous term you’ve certainly become acquainted with over the course of your reading about England. For it’s simply not possible to even begin to appropriately describe the Cotswolds and forego the adjective.
For all I know it probably originated right here, in southern England.
Located just a few hours outside London, the Cotswolds is the kind of place you go to explore villages on foot, indulge in a cheeky cream tea and a scone (or two, or three) and immerse yourself in the complex history the region famous for its abundance of honey-coloured cottages.
Here is a list of Cotswolds villages you simply cannot miss, either because of their significance or their sheer visual appeal (totally a valid reason). Also included: a few useful tips for planning your itinerary.
This easily one of my favourite stops in the area! This is largely due to the impressive High Street sweeping downhill towards the River Windrush. It’s flanked by a continuous ensemble of gourmet boutiques, ancient pubs and other shops —one of which, a chemist’s since 1734, is said to be England’s oldest pharmacy— on either side of it.
Most notable is the Tolsey building situated halfway down the High Street. It’s Tudor in style, with striking black and white timber. Additionally, it used to be a meeting point for wool merchants that would come here to pay their taxes and discuss their respective guilds.
Another historical point of interest is the Burford Church, which was built over 800 years ago by wealthy merchants; it was more recently used as a temporary prison —and, tragically, a merciless execution site— by Oliver Cromwell after the English Civil War.
Grab a pint of local cider on one of the many sprawling terraces. Walk into that heavenly-smelling cheese shop. Or, better yet, sit down for tea at Huffkins.
Comprising of Upper Slaughter and Lower Slaughter —which, rest assured, have nothing to do with the actual slaughter of living beings— two quaint (oh there’s that pervasive word again) hamlets that are worth a brief photo stop. There aren’t any commodities or particular attractions here, simply two supplementary examples of perfectly preserved Cotswolds villages.
Interesting to note, though, that there is a walking path linking the two Slaughters for those looking to burn off the scone-induced calories.
Not only is this a fine-looking castle (there’s a pleonasm if there ever was one), it’s also a historical one, too. Sudeley Castle and its 1,200-acre estate is indeed England’s only private castle to have a queen buried within its grounds; namely Katherine Parr, the last of Henry VIII’s six wives.
In fact, it seems that queens of all eras relished the gardens of this lavish estate: Anne Boleyn, Lady Jane Grey and Elizabeth I walked upon the original Tudor parterre of the aptly-named Queens Gardens.
Sudeley Castle is a wonderful place to stop for afternoon tea or simply for a stroll in the luxuriant gardens.
Often referred to as a masterpiece of Cotswolds villages, Chipping Campden is indeed a quintessential stop on any Cotswolds itinerary. Its 17th-century Market Hall was built solely to shelter cheese, butter and poultry merchants from bad weather and not wool merchants, contrary to popular belief. It’s nonetheless a superb landmark that is well worth stepping into.
Chipping Campden’s high street is slightly more peculiar than that of its neighbouring towns, because it curves in a shallow arc revealing ostentatiously-embellished houses. Another testament to the prosperous and lucrative wool trade in the region.
Pay special attention to the beautiful thatched-roof cottages on the periphery of Chipping Campden. These are some of the most expensive and sought-after properties in England!
Not to be missed nearby, too, is the stunning 55-acre Batsford Arboretum. As Britain’s largest private collection of trees and shrubs, this botanical garden is largely inspired by the original owner’s—the 1st Baron of Redesdale, Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford— extensive travels in Asia where he walked upon forests of Japanese maples, magnolias and pines.
One of the larger market towns in the Cotswolds and definitely a fun place to spend a few hours. Its sprawling central square has been bustling with activity for well over 500 years as it used to be a major trading centre in the so-called wool golden age; back then, almost 50% of England’s overall economy was connected to the wool industry in some shape or form.
There are multiple testaments and trinkets linked to that heritage scattered across town; keep an eye out for them! Stow-on-the-Wold has become a lively parish with plenty of antique shops, tea rooms (check out Lucy’s!) and inviting pubs.
Bourton on the Water
The crown jewel of Gloucestershire! This seductive village is definitely the one you’ve been seeing on literally every single postcard of the region. Ducks quacking on the canals, crooked stone houses with attractive bakeries, vintage shops and tea rooms, elderly ladies gossiping on a park bench. Bourton on the Water hits all the right notes.
Try and avoid lunchtime and early afternoons in Bourton on the Water. This is when coaches upon coaches upon coaches filled with tourists on a group day trip from London. It would be best to go in the morning or later afternoon and get the village to yourself (and the far less invasive, much friendlier locals).
Welcome to Bibury! A minuscule civil parish, perhaps the tiniest in this selection. But it’s also home to the emblematic Arlington Row situated on River Coln, a tributary of the Thames. It was first established in 1380 (!) with monastic wool stores. The steeply vaulted homes were converted into weaver’s cottages in the 17th century in order to supply cloth to the nearby mill, back when the wool trade with the new world started picking up and accounted for almost half of England’s economy.
Arlington Row is a national conservation area and is depicted on the inside cover of all United Kingdom passports.
Cotswold Woollen Weavers
As you can probably tell by now, wool used to play a major role in England’s and the Cotswolds, more specifically, economy. The medieval weavers of 12th century happily sang: “the best wool in Europe is English and the best wool in England is Cotswold”.
Therefore, my guide Alan planned a stop at the Cotswold Woollen Weavers. In the early days of the company 400 years ago, they used to weave various woollen goods destined to the trade with the Indians in what would become Canada.
Surely you’ve seen THE emblematic photo of the Castle Combe street evidenced above in a multitude of publications; rightfully so, in my opinion, as it is indeed quite a lovely view.
Likewise, not a village with commodities or particular attractions. Although, for the record, there is a lovely tea house called The Old Stables Coffee Shop worth popping into! Castle Combe is just a generally pleasing north-west Wiltshire destination for photographers and all-around Anglophiles out there. Both the Market Cross and St Andrew’s Church date back from the 13th century.
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Transportation in the Cotswolds
I used two driving services in the Cotswolds as I was too much of a wuss to drive a car on the other (tempted to stay “wrong” side, if you ask me) side of the road:
- Cotswold Tours: Alan Foster used to be an English history teacher before he founded Cotswolds Tours. This is more suitable for the quiet, laid-back travellers looking to get as much information as they can on the Cotswolds.
- CJP Tours: Established in 2002, CJP Tours is a family-run company. It provides private escorted tours and bespoke itineraries of the southern and northern Cotswolds for up to seven passengers. Definitely the more entertaining, lively type of your with Chris Peake’s numerous stories and knack for foreign accents.
Perhaps you are more courageous than I am and are not worried about navigating the narrow, winding country roads of the Cotswolds? A self-drive is a great option, in this case. It will allow you to fully control your schedule and impromptu stops along the way.
I wouldn’t advise on relying on public transit in the Cotswolds, as service is sparse and infrequent. You would end up spending more time waiting for a bus than actually visiting the area.

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As the speed of technological advances accelerated in civilian applications, so too warfare became more industralised. The newly invented machine gun and repeating rifle redefined firepower on the battlefield, and, in part, explains the high casualty rates of the American Civil War. The next breakthrough was the conversion of artillery parks from the muzzle loading guns, to the quicker loading breech loading guns with recoiling barrel that allowed quicker aimed fire and use of a shield. The widespread introduction of low smoke (smokeless) propellant powders since the 1880s also allowed for a great improvement of artillery ranges.
The U.S. Armed Forces are one of the largest militaries in terms of the number of personnel. It draws its personnel from a large pool of paid volunteers. Although conscription has been used in the past in various times of both war and peace, it has not been used since 1972, but the Selective Service System retains the power to conscript males, and requires that all male citizens and residents residing in the U.S. between the ages of 18–25 register with the service.
There are several different authorized pay grade advancement requirements in each junior-enlisted rank category (E-1 to E-3), which differ by service. Enlistees in the Army can attain the initial pay grade of E-4 (specialist) with a four-year degree, but the highest initial pay grade is usually E-3 (members of the Army Band program can expect to enter service at the grade of E-4). Promotion through the junior enlisted ranks occurs after serving for a specified number of years (which can be waived by the soldier's chain of command), a specified level of technical proficiency or maintenance of good conduct. Promotion can be denied with reason.
8. Use the following passage to answer questions 8 and 9. Harry went to the drugstore and purchased band-aids, pain relievers and cold medication. He also picked up two prescriptions. He then stopped by the hardware store and bought nails, screws and a first aid kit. Finally, he went to the grocery store and bought orange juice, flour and eggs. Where did Harry buy the first aid kit?
Just as the President, the Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of Homeland Security, are in charge of the entire military establishment, maintaining civilian control of the military, so too are each of the Defense Department's constitutive military departments headed by civilians. The four DoD branches are organized into three departments, each with civilian heads. The Department of the Army is headed by the Secretary of the Army, the Department of the Navy is headed by the Secretary of the Navy and the Department of the Air Force is headed by the Secretary of the Air Force. The Marine Corps is organized under the Department of the Navy, however it is still considered a separate and equal service. The Coast Guard is under the Department of Homeland Security and receives its operational orders from the Secretary of Homeland Security. However, the Coast Guard may be transferred to the Department of the Navy by the President or Congress during a time of war, thereby placing it within the DoD.
Military tactics concerns itself with the methods for engaging and defeating the enemy in direct combat. Military tactics are usually used by units over hours or days, and are focused on the specific, close proximity tasks and objectives of squadrons, companies, battalions, regiments, brigades, and divisions, and their naval and air force equivalents.
The United States Armed Forces are the military forces of the United States of America. It consists of the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard. The President of the United States is the Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces and forms military policy with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), both federal executive departments, acting as the principal organs by which military policy is carried out. All five armed services are among the seven uniformed services of the United States.
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A century or so later, in the hands of writers such as Jean Froissart, Miguel Cervantes and William Shakespeare, the fictional knight Tirant lo Blanch, and the real-life condottieri John Hawkwood would be juxtaposed against the fantastical Don Quixote, and the carousing Sir John Falstaff. In just one play, Henry V, Shakespeare provides a whole range of military characters, from cool-headed and clear-sighted generals, to captains, and common soldiery.
This will show you exactly what your weak areas are, and where you need to devote more study time. Ask yourself why each of these questions gave you trouble. Was it because you didn’t understand the material? Was it because you didn’t remember the vocabulary? Do you need more repetitions on this type of question to build speed and confidence? Dig into those questions and figure out how you can strengthen your weak areas as you go back to review the material.


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By Jeffrey Anderson. Photographs by Andy DelGiudice
With more than 15 years on the D.C. Council, four of them at the helm, Chairman Phil Mendelson is known as perhaps the city’s most knowledgeable legislator on the subject of land use and real estate development.
So his frustration resonated when he spoke in February to several dozen members of the Committee of 100 on the Federal City, of which he is a trustee, and blamed District planning officials for negotiating poor development deals for the city because of executive turnover and staff inexperience. Committee members took his remarks also as a rebuke of a revolving door culture within the business and political community, yet questioned his ability if not willingness to do anything about it.
The District is on its fourth mayor in a decade that has seen rapid growth, corruption and acrimony over increasing social and economic disparities attributed to gentrification. Officials in charge of the District’s real estate portfolio have come and gone, and come back again, allowing a perpetual and interchanging developer-lobbyist-legal establishment to capitalize on inconsistent city leadership through insider relationships, critics contend.
Citizens and entire communities feel out of the loop.
But the council has failed in its oversight role, its critics say, sometimes to the point of appearing complicit in what appear to be shady deals. “Phil knows there are outrageous giveaways but he just doesn’t have the votes,” says Committee of 100 member Anne Sellin, who has known Mendelson for close to three decades. “The council has degenerated enormously, and I think he feels defeated.”
A Sweetheart Deal
In September, Mendelson wrote to Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development Brian Kenner and urged him to extract a better deal on behalf of District residents, on a real estate project at 965 Florida Avenue N.W., a 10-story apartment building to be anchored by a Whole Foods Market. Independent appraisals show the proposed sale, at $400,000, to be more than $5 million below real property value. Such was the disparity that Mendelson complained publicly about lack of transparency and took it upon himself to haggle over an affordable housing component and a profit sharing arrangement, an ad hoc intervention more properly the domain of the mayor’s office — not the council chair. He then scheduled a vote by the council, which, pro forma, approved the deal.
Members of the Committee of 100, which advocates for responsible land use and historic preservation, agree with Mendelson that the executive should be more transparent. But they are disappointed that he doesn’t seem to be demanding that transparency. Competing developers and political observers are more cynical: They smell a sweetheart deal preserved by cozy relationships and a lack of council oversight.
In 2013, a proposal for the Florida Avenue property by JBG Companies included a Harris Teeter supermarket and plans to incorporate an adjacent parcel that JBG controlled. The proposal gained community support and met terms of the solicitation, Washington City Paper reported. But when JBG lost out to MidAtlantic Realty Partners, observers were astounded.
Then-Deputy Mayor Victor Hoskins oversaw the award, causing some in the industry to grumble about an appearance of conflict, given that Hoskins’ wife, Diane Hoskins, is co-CEO of Gensler, a design firm that counts MRP as a major client, on deals such as Washington Gateway, Washington Harbour, Tysons Overlook, 900 G Street and a facade replacement at 1333-1343 H Street, Northeast.
MRP’s relationship with David Jannerone, an ally and fundraiser for Mayor Muriel Bowser, adds to the perception that ties to a sitting mayor or top official is an influential factor in private-public partnerships. When a firm walks away with a deal of questionable value to the District, that perception is magnified.
Jannerone is a former development manager under Bowser’s mentor, Adrian Fenty, and a former interim chief operation officer with the D.C. Department of Housing and Community Development. As a managing partner at Taylor Adams, a development and advisory firm, the value he brings to developers can be difficult to assess. In addition to the Florida Avenue project, MRP already is converting D.C. Housing Authority’s headquarters on North Capitol Street into housing, building a mixed-use project at Rhode Island Center, working on the Southwest Waterfront redevelopment, and developing a $43 million mixed-use project east of the Anacostia River with the housing and community development department. Jannerone is directly involved with at least two of those deals. He declined to comment for this story, citing contract confidentiality.
Committee of 100 members at the February meeting with Mendelson left with the impression that the city’s dealmaking culture bothers him. “I could see some venom in Phil, thinking that inexperienced D.C. project managers is a big part of the problem,” says committee member Kirby Vining, who is retired from the Foreign Service and a Ward 5 activist. “But he was cagey, distant,” Vining said, pointing to a remark by Mendelson about reluctance to expend political capital. “I also heard words that admitted he’s aware there’s a revolving door. Obviously [the mayor’s office] isn’t too interested in fixing that.”
Mendelson has chaired the council since 2012. After three members of the scandal-ridden D.C. Council pleaded guilty to corruption charges in recent years, and the ward-based patronage system was laid bare, in 2015 he took oversight responsibility for planning and economic development and placed it under the Committee of the Whole, which includes all 13 council members, and which he controls.
Even though he occasionally uses his authority to limit influence on city government, conflict seems to vex him. Mendelson recounted for the Committee of 100 his frustration with Bowser’s persistent nomination of developer David Franco to the District’s zoning commission. Despite Mendelson’s refusal to hold a confirmation hearing, on grounds that Franco is too tied to the development community to sit on what is supposed to be a neutral body like the zoning commission, Bowser recently re-nominated Franco, with a letter, circulated by Ward 2 Council Member Jack Evans, signed by a majority of the council. “So, this is what I’m up against,” Mendelson told the group.
Despite attempts to bully him, Mendelson is holding his ground. But Bowser is not going away. She recently put Franco on a panel of “a public conversation” entitled “Preserving and Planning for Progress,” and last week she re-submitted his nomination.
That “public conversation” has been fueled by a real estate boom that has defied The Great Recession. With so much revenue, growth and profit at stake, the District has come to resemble a swollen udder, with builders and developers elbowing their way to a teat. D.C. watchdog and activist Dorothy Brizill says even in leaner times mayors used deputy mayors to push pet projects and reward friends, but it’s up to the council to represent the public’s interest. She says the council is rudderless, and that Mendelson is not running it in a competent manner. His gripes to the Committee of 100 annoy her. “The council exists to pass laws and conduct oversight,” Brizill says, “and the oversight is not happening. The council is not doing its job. Phil can rant and rave after the fact but what has he done?”
An ill-fated bid to develop a mixed-use project on the Tenley-Friendship Library and adjacent Janney Elementary School sites from a decade ago could just as easily take place today.
A report based on public documents by a Ward 3 Advisory Neighborhood Commission states that in January 2007, Jannerone, then D.C.’s director of development, strategized with his former firm, Roadside Development, on how to get Mayor Fenty to authorize the library project. In July that year, Jannerone urged his boss, Fenty’s deputy mayor, to issue a request for proposal and bypass the council to designate the land as surplus, the report states. By the time the neighborhood commission was clued in, the solicitation was in play and Roadside had the inside edge.
The neighborhood commission accused the deputy mayor’s office of pre-empting its authority and failing to disclose details of the project in time for public review and comment. “Basically, [the office] has created a situation in which it solicits offers, keeps the details private, revises the [solicitation] after seeing who has proposed what, and then selectively informs respondents of the new requirements and deadlines for meeting them,” states the report.
Jannerone did not notify his supervisor of his apparent conflict of interest until August, and even after he did, he continued to manage the project, according to the report. “[Jannerone’s] conflict of interest has tainted the entire process,” the report states, “leading to the issuance of an RFP at the behest of an ex‐employer, rather than on the basis of an objective analysis of whether private development on this site serves the public interest.”
The neighborhood commission was outraged by the lack of government analysis or public discussion about revenue projections, public facilities needs or the economic benefit of the project. “These questions have been left to developers rather than the Council to answer,” states the report, which details how another former planning and development official had become a vice president of Roadside, and how the deputy mayor’s office rolled out a request for proposal after the deal had essentially been put together.
Roadside’s bid eventually fell apart, but not before the neighborhood commission ripped the Fenty administration: “[The deputy mayor’s office’s] approach to decision‐making about public lands has been unconstrained by law, by any consistent standards, or by procedural safeguards,” the report states.
The commission’s report did not spare the council either: “We offer this case study as an example to use in thinking through the necessary and appropriate role of Council oversight in the disposition of public lands…The whole Council needs to be involved in these decisions from the beginning, because only the Council can provide the appropriate counterweight to [the deputy mayor’s office]…The Council has a duty to the people of this city to ensure that the public interest ‐‐ rather than the private interests of developers and individuals in government ‐‐ is being served when public lands are sold or leased for private use.”
Who Minds the Store
These days, Mendelson conducts council oversight of public land use by his lonesome, a solitary figure on the dais, quibbling on the margins of one project or another. In taking oversight duties into the Committee of the Whole, he has, in essence, made everyone responsible and no one accountable.
Unabated by vigorous oversight, the real estate boom has generated questions about value and public benefit that persist today. Meg McGuire, of the Committee of 100, says planning has become subservient to economic development, and that, “we’re not getting quality planning by a long shot.”
McGuire declined to address specifics of the February meeting, and stressed that she is a fan of Mendelson. But she pointed to structural aspects in D.C. government that make it easier for insider relationships to affect the outcome of development deals and zoning approvals. “The Office of Planning is buried under [the deputy mayor for planning and economic development] so guess who they answer to?” says McGuire. “We don’t have a truly independent planning [agency] and it leaves us open to dealmaking that can be a detriment to the city,” she says. “It seems we are dealing with an insider culture where decisions get made well before the public process is initiated. It’s tough for ordinary citizens to penetrate that. By the time the council sees a deal it’s way down the line.”
Projects years in the making can appear unseemly. In February 2012, Eric Jenkins, a senior economic development official who was managing the mixed re-use plan for Walter Reed Army Medical Center under Mayor Vincent Gray, was let go, City Paper reported. By September that year, he had joined the law firm of Graves, Horton, Askew & Johns, LLC, as head of the firm’s real estate and business practices. A year later, a joint venture between Hines Interests, Urban Atlantic and Triden Development, a client of Jenkins’ law firm, was selected as the master developer at Walter Reed. Then-Deputy Mayor Victor Hoskins denied that Jenkins’ participation was a factor in the contract award.
The Walter Reed award stunned local developers who say that an equally well-known developer had community support and a signed commitment by Wegmans Food Markets to anchor the 3-million-square-foot development. “Everyone assumed it was a wrap, but they come out of the backroom and it’s like, ‘what the fuck,'” says a developer who was not involved with the deal. Mendelson’s oversight of the matter, however, was limited to sniffing out and cutting $1 million in excess costs to the city.
Richard Lake, whose firm lost the bid, says he still doesn’t know what went wrong. “We had 700,000 square feet of [tenants] signed,” he says. “To this day, I have no idea why [the city] chose to go elsewhere.” Lake is careful not to sound like a complainer, and he has positive things to say about past and present deputy mayors — and Mendelson. But he points out that D.C. government lacks continuity of experience where it counts. “They need to find a way to allow experienced people to continue to serve,” he says. “These days real estate deals last longer than most administrations.”
As administrations come and go, they look to put their own stamp on projects initiated by previous mayors. Once Bowser took control of Walter Reed, Jenkins was in the position of having managed the deal for the city, then working for the law firm that advised the winning bidder. Sources familiar with the deal say Jenkins has complained about his cut arising from other aspects of his involvement. He did not return a call for comment. His law partner, Earle “Chico” Horton III, treasurer of Bowser’s defunct FreshPAC, describes himself to District Dig as nothing more than a “good old-fashioned lawyer,” and denies any further involvement in the Walter Reed deal.
Bowser did not dispel the significance of developer influence when she addressed the Commercial Real Estate Women, D.C. Chapter, last month. Bowser spoke about “reevaluating” decisions by the Gray administration towards the end of his term and pledged to solicit input from industry professionals. Indeed, Bowser’s “top-down review” of the city’s real estate portfolio has either put a hold on or completely gutted projects negotiated by Gray, including the adaptive re-use of the historic Franklin School. Bowser’s deputy mayor, Brian Kenner, did not respond to questions for this article.
Ralph Chittams, Senior Vice Chairman of the D.C. Republican Party, says that any city with one-party rule for any significant length of time, regardless of whether it is Republican or Democratic, is going to suffer from cronyism and corruption. “Power tends to corrupt; Absolute power corrupts absolutely,” he says, quoting 19th century moralist and historian John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton.
Chittams places no specific blame on one administration to the next. He sees the transition from Fenty to Gray, and Gray to Bowser, in similar terms. “If you are part of the in-crowd, then the spigot is open, and cash flows,” he says. “If you’re not, you cry lack of accountability. Then when you’re the new guy who’s in power, everyone looks at you and cries no accountability.” Chittams has seen enough of Bowser and her in-crowd, however, to offer this assessment: “They live inside an echo chamber. There can be no dissent, there will be no dissent, and if there is dissent, you will be shown the door.”
Perhaps one of the most controversial projects to demonstrate how the “in-crowd” operates is the McMillan Sand Filtration Site, where the deputy mayor’s office and a consortium of companies are planning to build a 2 million square-foot mixed-use project on the 25-acre site, an engineering and design marvel where the city cleansed its drinking water for most of the 20th century.
The development plan at McMillan originally called for open bids to select a master developer, city documents show. But in 2007, Fenty dissolved the National Capital Revitalization Corporation, a public-private entity that oversaw that plan, and swept the city’s entire real estate portfolio into the deputy mayor’s office. Instead of issuing a solicitation, Fenty’s deputy mayor, Neil Albert, selected a consortium of firms that included a company owned by a close friend and fellow Harvard University alum, Jair Lynch. When Albert moved on to become Fenty’s city administrator, his replacement gave the consortium exclusive rights to purchase the land and develop it. (Neighborhood activists have challenged the project at every administrative level and have cases before the D.C. Court of Appeals.)
After Gray defeated Fenty, in 2010, Jeff Miller, a former executive at Trammell Crow, one of the firms in the consortium, oversaw the deal as the city’s director of real estate. Albert had left the government, but he too re-surfaced as a senior policy adviser to Holland & Knight, the law firm that represents the consortium on land use issues at McMillan. Albert left the firm in September.
In an arrangement that calls for the District to absorb pre-development costs of the project, Holland & Knight has billed the city more than $930,000 in pre-development legal fees to date.
Miller and Albert are just two former officials who walked through the revolving door. Former project manager on McMillan, Shiv Newaldess, went from the deputy mayor’s office to the Menkiti Group, a firm whose president, Bo Menkiti, housed campaign headquarters for Ward 5 Council Member Kenyan McDuffie, a staunch supporter of the McMillan project, which is in his ward. McDuffie’s former legislative director, Stephanie Liotta-Atkinson, also works for Menkiti.
Mendelson has opposed the McMillan deal in writing and criticized it at council oversight hearings. Yet in meetings of the Committee of the Whole he listens, often alone, to troubling aspects of the deal, then makes excuses such as “that ship has sailed.” Citywide mulishness over McMillan peaked last year when D.C. Auditor Kathy Patterson, in a letter to Mendelson, recommended conducting a new solicitation. Yet the council — and Mendelson — ignored Patterson’s guidance, and approved the sale of the property, with just one member, At-Large Council Member Elissa Silverman, voting against it.
Pre-development costs to the city alone are close to $9 million dollars, with a groundbreaking nowhere in sight.
Mary Pat Rowan opposes the McMillan deal, and she also sits on the Committee of 100. In an email to The Dig, she writes: “I’ve realized that Phil is no longer the person to admonish the executive agencies for favoring developers. He had to be aware that developers were moving in and out of [the mayor’s office] not just causing confusion and bad deals for the city, but actually getting great deals for the development companies that they came from or went to. He made no attempt to condemn this. This expresses clearly the disappointment we in the community have begun to feel.”
All photos by Andy DelGiudice
Update: In an email received after posting this story, a spokesman for the Deputy Mayor of Planning and Economic Development says that D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson’s appraisal of the property at 965 Florida Avenue N.W. erroneously inflates its value. In response to Mendelson’s claim that the deputy mayor negotiates bad deals for the city, the spokesman says D.C. has economically thrived in recent years and has not submitted any projects that the council has disapproved or rejected. The deputy mayor currently oversees just one of MRP Realty’s projects with the city, says the spokesman, and he does not concern himself with who is or is not close with the mayor with regard to mayoral appointments. The deputy mayor has no position on the mayor’s nominee to the Zoning Commission.


WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 — Days after President Bush’s secret eavesdropping program was publicly revealed in December 2005, a battle-weary Alberto R. Gonzales stood before a room of reporters at the White House and asserted that “the president has the inherent authority under the Constitution, as commander in chief, to engage in this kind of activity.”
Time and again, as both White House counsel and attorney general, Mr. Gonzales would return to that theme: in a time of war, the president has broad powers to protect the country. It would become Mr. Gonzales’s mantra and, ultimately, by alienating lawmakers who accused the administration of overreaching, it would contribute to his undoing.
“He was not the intellectual father of those positions, but he shaped and articulated them at the White House, and he continued to take a very strong position on executive power as attorney general,” said Daniel Marcus, a professor of constitutional law at American University who was a top official at the Justice Department under President Bill Clinton.
It was Vice President Dick Cheney and his top legal adviser, David S. Addington, who, by most accounts, provided the intellectual framework for building up the power of an executive branch that they believed had been badly weakened by restrictions imposed after Vietnam and Watergate. They pushed for a radical rewriting of American policies on such critical issues as surveillance and detention of terrorism suspects after the Sept. 11 attacks, with virtually no oversight or input from Congress or the courts.
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Organizations looking to create a seamless and successful onsite-online presence need to remain true to their vision and values, play to their customers’ needs and desires, and foster a spirit of collaboration, attendees at the 2012 Texas Library Association conference were reminded during a session here in Houston yesterday.
Offering guidance that could easily be applied far beyond their library audience, Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library Chief Executive Officer Gina Millsap and Digital Branch & Services Manager David Lee King talked about how designing a digital branch library is “everyone’s job”—an assertion that makes sense in any endeavor involving the creation of an online service that is consistent with an existing physical presence.
Using their own library as a case study, Millsap and King noted that their efforts began with an obvious community need: they have a service area with a population of 177,000 and, by design, a single library building, so creating something that could more effectively reach larger numbers of people within that service area was an enticing challenge. Meeting that challenge in a way that remained true to the library’s mission and to the values of the community being served provided an additional foundation: “Ultimately, it’s about building relationships with people,” Millsap observed, so the digital library is designed to foster those relationships.
Before hiring King to help with development of the digital library—which, among its offerings, includes access to ebooks, downloadable music, original content including blog postings created by staff, and integration of social media tools to engage key members of the community—the library established clear and measurable goals, including a commitment to offering services onsite and online, creating unique content on the web, and acknowledging that the digital library would, for some users, be their only branch library. That virtual organization, furthermore, was designed to provide exceptional customer service, be consistent with the library’s strategic plan, and deliver a key element of what the library offers by promoting librarians as information consultants.
It also remains highly personal and engaging by avoiding library jargon and acknowledging that “customers and patrons” think of themselves as “library members” rather than “patrons.”
What those members find when they use the digital library is a focus on staff and important services; a strong commitment to reaching members where they are, i.e., on Facebook and on Twitter as well as on YouTube; and a team-based approach that makes the digital library with its social media sites work in engaging and interactive ways, King said.
And they arrived at that success through “lots of talking with my peers, with administration” as well as plenty of brainstorming, followed by planning, King noted.
Commitment by all staff members remains critically important, Millsap and King said. No one can opt out of involvement in the digital branch; the approach remains heavily team-based; participation is part of staff members’ formal job descriptions; and the organization deliberately hires people with a commitment to supporting the digital library.
The result has been that the library wants and continues to build trust with its community partners: “We’re sharing good stuff, making friends, interacting daily,” King explained. “We’re turning strangers into friends; that’s a goal for us.”
And if all of that sounds like a perfectly good roadmap for any organization wishing to better serve its constituents through a consistent blending of onsite and online operations, so much the better.