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The Billion-Dollar Bank Heist
Rivlin, Gary, Newsweek
Byline: Gary Rivlin; Research support was provided by the Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute.
How the financial industry is buying off Washington--and killing reform.
There are the bills a president signs sitting in the Oval Office and the bills that merit a Rose Garden ceremony. And then there are bills so momentous--or at least so critical to a president's reelection prospects--that those around the commander in chief orchestrate a more elaborate ceremony. Such was the case with Dodd-Frank, the financial-reform package that President Obama signed into law last July against a backdrop of velvet curtains in a resplendent venue a few blocks from the White House.
"Passing this bill was no easy task," Obama told the 400 dignitaries who witnessed the most ambitious overhaul of the financial system since the Great Depression. "We had to overcome the furious lobbying of an array of powerful interest groups and a partisan minority determined to block change."
The pomp and ceremony may have been premature. Ever since the law's passage, those same "powerful interest groups" who opposed Dodd-Frank have been trying to prevent it from taking effect. As written, the law delayed implementation of most of its new rules for at least 12 months so regulators would have time to hammer out the finer points of the 2,319-page bill. But that delay has also provided an opening to banks and other financial institutions seeking to defang the law. "Just because we lost that round," says Cam Fine, president of the Independent Community Bankers of America, which spent $1 million in the first three months of this year to lobby against implementation, "doesn't mean we just give up. Congress changes its mind all the time."
Take what's been happening with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which is the law's most significant and controversial provision. The agency is set to go live next week, except that Republicans in the Senate have made it clear they won't confirm anyone to serve as its head unless the agency is radically scaled back. All told, Dodd-Frank has some 300 provisions, and the bulk of them are under attack by a number of foes, from bankers to check-cashing companies to free-market Republicans.
And so it is, says a discouraged Rep. Barney Frank, that his eponymous bill is "facing a death through a thousand cuts."
The story of this evisceration is largely one of money--the tens of billions of dollars in profits that banks and other financial institutions stand to lose if Dodd-Frank is implemented, and the astonishing sums they're spending to squash it. The industry paid lobbyists $1.3 billion in 2009 and through the first three months of 2010, according to the Center for Public Integrity, which added up the spending by the 850 businesses and trade groups fighting financial reform. Many of these same businesses are now spending as much money, if not more, to lobby for curbs on the new law.
The Financial Services Roundtable, for instance, is on pace to spend $10 million on lobbying in 2011, based on its spending the first few months of this year. That's well above the $7.5 million that the trade association, which represents most of the country's largest financial firms, spent in 2010. The American Bankers Association is expected to beat its $7.5 million spent last year, based on first-quarter-2011 numbers. JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup are on track to match last year's lobbying spending: $7 million and $5 million, respectively. Wells Fargo, which spent $5 million last year, spent $1.9 million in just the first quarter of this year.
None of that includes the millions in campaign contributions the banks and trade associations are pouring into the coffers of those members of Congress who sit on the relevant committees responsible for financial reform--especially those willing to take on Dodd-Frank.
It's simple to see why banks oppose Dodd-Frank. …


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Spirit Lake, IA (KICD)–Drug charges were levied last week by the Dickinson County Sheriff's Office.
39-year-old Michael Norton was arrested last Tuesday on class D felony counts of possession of meth 4th offense, possession of marijuana 2nd offense, and possession of contraband in a correctional facility.
Norton is currently being held in Dickinson County jail on an $11,000 cash or surety bond.
Spencer, IA (KICD)–A Nevada man was caught operating a vehicle while intoxicated for the fourth time early Saturday morning.
Spencer Police arrested 27-year-old Jeremy Weigel on a class D felony count of OWI 4th offense & driving while revoked.
Weigel was booked into Clay Co Jail and was released Monday after posting an unsecured appearance bond.
Hull, IA (KICD)–A Hull man was arrested less than two hours after a Monday morning burglary.
The Sioux County Sheriff's office investigated a report of a burglary that occurred at a residence seven miles southwest of Hull. 21-year-old Steven Dieck was subsequently arrested for 3rd degree burglary and 5th degree theft.
The case remains under investigation.

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A new line of clothing, Lüme, lights up with tiny, flexible LEDs sewn right into the jackets and dresses. It is created by a husband and wife team – Elizabeth Bigger and Luis Fraguada – who are seeking to make tech clothing "truly comfortable and wearable".
Hal Hodson, of New Scientist, writes:
The collection, called Lüme, was shown last week at the International Symposium on Wearable Computers in Zurich, Switzerland. It consists of a bomber jacket, a tunic, and an open-backed dress – all of which have controllable LEDs built-in that can be controlled by a smartphone app. The LEDs are enmeshed in fabric so they don't touch the wearer's skin, and they shine out through several layers of fabric that diffuse the light for a softer glow.
The pattern of the fabric can be tailored with a laser cutter to make anything from polka dots to floral filigree, for instance. Their electronic components are designed to be easily removable, for when the clothes need a wash.
In a paper presented at the conference, Lüme's creator, fashion designer Elizabeth Bigger, wrote that wearers can "control the light pattern to match other elements in their outfit, react to a sensor event, or even echo the colours in the surrounding environment". For example, you can use the Lüme app to take a photo of a piece of clothing that you want to match with.
Lüme clothing can also change colours in time with the beat of music in a club. Bigger says the app could easily be tweaked to adjust the clothing colour according to the weather, or to sentiment in a wearer's Twitter feed.
More images can be viewed at http://jorgeandesther.com/lume/


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Minnetonka, University of Minnesota partner to educate students and boost community resilience
September 14, 2012
Minnetonka elected officials, city staff and residents joined University of Minnesota academic leaders today to launch the Resilient Communities Project, an initiative that will bring the expertise of hundreds of graduate students and the University to sustainability-related projects identified by Minnetonka.
"The Resilient Communities Project is an excellent opportunity to partner with the University of Minnesota in completing some of the many projects that city council and staff have identified as important to maintaining Minnetonka's quality of life now and into the future," said Geralyn Barone, Minnetonka city manager. "We look forward to seeing the results of the project, and hope it will provide students with a valuable learning experience."
RCP faculty director and Humphrey School of Public Affairs associate professor Carissa Schively Slotterback noted, "We are excited to advance an innovative and collaborative model of sustainability education that can build long-term capacity in the partner community, create new opportunities for engaged teaching for faculty, and train the next generation of students to address the challenges of building sustainable and resilient communities."
This fall, students and faculty from 11 University courses, including architecture, law, urban planning, public policy, natural resources science and management, and bioproducts and biosystems engineering, will work in Minnetonka. Affiliated faculty come from seven colleges across the University. Projects will include stormwater management and illicit discharge regulation and training, a study of density and housing options, water and energy conservation, surface water projection, an evaluation of post-development project impacts, a prioritization plan for water resources, an evaluation of conservation development standards, life cycle analysis of street designs, and a study of approaches to enhancing neighborhood identities.
The partnership is the first of many anticipated in the years to come. Each academic year, RCP will choose a city partner through a competitive request-for-proposal process, help identify potential projects based on community-identified sustainability issues and needs, and match the city's project needs with University courses. At the conclusion of the partnership, RCP will help the city create a strategy to evaluate and monitor ongoing sustainability efforts.
RCP provides communities with access to hundreds of students and faculty across a range of academic disciplines―from architecture, planning and engineering to business, environmental sciences and the humanities. Expertise is available in all aspects of sustainability, including analysis, planning, design, implementation and evaluation. At the same time, the program offers students real-world opportunities to apply their knowledge and training, as well as to engage with students in other programs and fields of study.
RCP is an initiative of the Sustainability Faculty Network at the University of Minnesota, with funding and administrative support provided by the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA) and the Institute on the Environment (IonE). The program is modeled on the Sustainable Cities Year Program at the University of Oregon, a highly successful cross-disciplinary program that supports one-year partnerships between a selected city and the university. To learn more, visit rcp.umn.edu.
About the Institute on the Environment: The University of Minnesota's Institute on the Environment discovers solutions to Earth's most pressing environmental problems by conducting transformative research, developing the next generation of global leaders and building world-changing partnerships. Learn more online at www.environment.umn.edu.
About the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs: The University of Minnesota's Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA) connects the resources of the University of Minnesota with the interests and needs of urban communities and the region. CURA pursues its urban and regional mission by facilitating and supporting connections between state and local governments, neighborhoods, and nonprofit organizations, and relevant resources at the University, including faculty and students from appropriate campuses, colleges, centers or departments. Learn more online at www.cura.umn.edu.
About the city of Minnetonka: Located in Hennepin County just eight miles west of Minneapolis, Minnetonka is a fully developed suburban community of 49,374 residents (2010 Census), making it the 17th largest city in Minnesota. Minnetonka is proud of its reputation as a city that preserves its natural resources and is also a thriving center of commerce, with the headquarters of several international companies located within Minnetonka. Visit www.eminnetonka.com for more information.


text: Becoming a food vendor is a good way to work on your own schedule, set your own hours and be your own boss. At first glance, the concept of a vending cart or concession stand may seem like a simple venture. But as with any other business startup, there is some real work involved. Be it a cart, trailer or a stationary booth, a lot of planning goes into starting up a concession stand. Developing a business plan, creating a menu and choosing the right equipment and supplies are just a few things that you have to think about before getting your idea off the ground.


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The draft is quite a crapshoot, and although that doesn't totally excuse the Royals ineptitude the past decade or so in the June amateur draft, it does illustrate how difficult it is to correctly predict which players will be key Major League components.
The following are brief excerpts before and after selected drafts. Keep these in mind when we hear how the player we selected is a future Hall of Famer, or how guys we passed up on were sure-fire All-Stars.
By the time the 14th pick rolls around, the three highly touted shortstops - Florida State's Stephen Drew and high schoolers Matt Bush and Chris Nelson - are expected to be gone, one of them likely to the Padres at No. 1. Baird is crossing his fingers that other everyday players remain. Among the possibilities: Oklahoma State third baseman Josh Fields, a right-handed power hitter who also plays quarterback for the Cowboys' football team; Princeton outfielder B.J. Szymanski, regarded as a five-tool talent and also a football player; and first baseman Mike Ferris, a Miami (Ohio) product who mashed 21 home runs this season. Don't discount the Royals choosing a high school player, either.....Seneca (Mo.) High School's Scott Elbert, a 6-foot-2 left-hander with a good fastball and slider, could be around.
The Royals selected high school third baseman Billy Butler.
"My only setback is in the field. I'm actually an average third baseman. You have to work on it every day."
-Billy Butler
The Royals are believed to favor a choice among three players: high-school outfielders Chris Lubanski of Schwenksville, Pa., and Ryan Harvey of Palm Harbor, Fla., and University of Richmond pitcher Tim Stauffer. Dark-horse possibilities include Tulane first baseman Michael Aubrey and Wake Forest pitcher Kyle Sleeth. Baseball America ranked all five among the nation's top 10 players. "A No. 5 pick needs to be a guy that we anticipate is going to the All-Star Game," general manager Allard Baird said. "Player, pitcher - either one."
With Sleeth and Stauffer off the board, the Royals selected Pennsylvania high school outfielder Chris Lubanski.
"Let me tell you something," the grand old scout, Art Stewart, says as we walk away from the batting cage after Lubanski's first-ever batting session at Kauffman Stadium. "You will remember this day. You will remember this day for the rest of your life.
That could be John Mayberry Jr. from Rockhurst High, son of former Royals star John Mayberry, or Prince Fielder from Melbourne, Fla., son of former Royals draft choice Cecil Fielder. (Fielder was traded to Toronto and became a home-run star for Detroit.) The Royals have scouted both players extensively, and both are strong hitters. Mayberry is right-handed, Fielder left-handed.
The Royals selected Florida high school pitcher Zack Greinke.
"It's weird, but their colors are Royal blue, and that's my favorite color. All my clothes match it. I just had a great feeling that it was going to happen."
-Zack Greinke
The publication Baseball America projects that the Royals ' first pick will be outfielder Roscoe Crosby, a left-handed hitter who has been mashing home runs for Union High School in Buffalo, S.C. "We do like Roscoe - a lot of clubs like Roscoe," said Royals general manager Allard Baird. Crosby is called the "best athlete" coming out of high school, and with good reason. He's a fine wide receiver who could go to Clemson and hone his skills for the NFL. Of course, Baseball America says the Royals might also opt for a right-handed pitcher with the intriguing name of Colt Griffin. He's from Marshall (Texas) High, throws like a Colt .45 - at about 100 mph - and strikes out two batters an inning. "This is more of a high school pitching draft ," Baird said.
The Royals actually got both, taking Griffin with the number nine overall pick, and Crosby with the fifty-third pick.
"If somebody had told me before the draft that we'd get Mr. Griffin and Mr. Crosby, I'd say you were nuts,"
-Allard Baird.
Point is, now might be the time to address other weaknesses, and it's no secret the Royals would like to land an impact catcher or middle infielder.
Scott Heard, a catcher from Rancho Bernardo, Calif., High School, is rated as the draft 's top prospect by Baseball America. If he's gone before the fourth pick, as seems likely, the Royals could again draft Pepperdine catcher Dane Sardinha, rated No. 10 overall. The club used its second-round pick in 1997 and chose Sardinha, then a high school senior in Hawaii. He chose instead to attend Pepperdine, where he batted .353 with 17 homers and 72 RBIs this season as a junior. "We're not going to take a catcher," Wetzel said, "just to take a catcher. But there's a couple of good ones out there." Baseball America rates three shortstops among its top 19 picks, and all are high school players: No. 5 Luis Montanez of Miami, No. 17 David Espinosa of Miami and No. 19 Corey Smith of Piscataway, N.J. But if the Royals stick to their basic policy of taking the best available player, only Montanez would seem to merit consideration as the No. 4 overall pick.
With Montanez off the board, the Royals selected California high school pitcher Mike Stodolka.
"He's got good mound presence. I liked his poise. I think he's a guy who showed command of the fastball, which is unique at such a young age. Every outing toward the end, he seemed to improve."
-Herk Robinson
Well, don't count on the Royals abandoning their conservative nature by drafting the controversial but highly talented J.D. Drew, who was the first pick last year and is back in this year's draft still demanding a contract worth over a third of the Royals ' entire payroll ($32 million). ``We simply can't afford what he's asking,'' Robinson said.
The Royals selected Stanford pitcher Jeff Austin.
"If you wanted to compare me with someone, I'd say more like a Mike Mussina or even a Greg Maddux type."
-Jeff Austin
"He's probably the college pitcher who's closest to the big leagues,"
-Allard Baird
If the Royals stick to their game plan, left-hander Eric DuBose of Mississippi State could be their man. DuBose, 6 feet 3 and 220 pounds, is ranked as the 10th-best prospect by Baseball America and is showing off his sweeping curveball this week during the College World Series in Omaha, Neb. ... The Royals also are keeping in contact with 6-5 right-hander Jason Grilli of Seton Hall, but they don't think he'll be around by the seventh pick.
After Grilli was selected, the Royals passed up DuBose and took P Dan Reichert from Pacific University.
"He is a pitcher with a high ceiling...He is a competitor. And he could get to the big leagues very quickly and help, hopefully within the next year or so."
-Art Stewart
Coincidentally, this year's amateur draft has many talented pitching prospects. So the Royals can arm their farm system with capable arms. Sixty of the top 100 prospects listed by Baseball America are pitchers. ... ``We're looking for the best player available. It would be great if it is a pitcher or a power hitter. '' With this group of prospects, it's likely to be a pitcher. The draft begins at noon today. The Royals have the 14th pick overall. Baseball America lists right-handed pitcher Jake Westbrook of Madison County High in Danielsville, Ga., as the 14th-best prospect.
The Royals selected high school outfielder Dermal Brown.
"He's the best power-hitting prospect in the draft."
-Brian Murphy
The Royals have the draft 's fifth pick, and scouting director Art Stewart said he's "90 percent sure" Kansas City will select a college pitcher. Based on draft projections, it appears the best prospect that will be available to the Royals is Texas A&M pitcher Jeff Granger, who probably will start against Kansas in the first game of the College World Series on Friday... If it's not Granger or a player projected to go ahead of him, the Royals will have a pool of college pitching talent from which to choose: Billy Wagner from Ferrum (Va.) will become the first player from a Division III school in a decade to be drafted in the first round. He's a 5-11, 180-pound lefty whose fastball has been clocked at 98 mph. Fresno State right-hander Steve Soderstrom has an injured shoulder and his stock has dipped this spring. Creighton right-hander Alan Benes is the younger brother of Padres pitcher Andy Benes, who was the No. 1 pick in the 1988 draft . The most discussed position players are Georgia Tech catcher Jason Varitek and Texas outfielder Brooks Kieschnick. But don't look for the Royals to go that route...
The Royals selected Granger.
Granger compares his style on the mound to that of another Texan, Roger Clemens. "I feel I'm in basically the same boat," Granger said. "Maybe not the velocity, but the aggressiveness. " Granger's goal of reaching the majors within two years sounds reasonable to the Royals. "He's closer to the big leagues than even he realizes," Stewart said. "He's such a competitor, he's like a Clemens. "The one person he reminds me of the most is Steve Carlton.
Let's hope Dayton and his team get it right tomorrow! His job is not an easy one.


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Gradinger in the News:
• March 3, 2016: A California Homecoming: Gradinger Returns to California
As a sophomore (2015): Made season debut in victory at Navy (2/14) ... suffered season-ending injury in second game of season against Yale (2/21).
As a freshman (2014): Made his collegiate debut in 16-3 win vs. Mount St. Mary's (2/8) ... spectacular first collegiate goal, putting in his own rebound on a diving back-handed shot in 14-3 win over UMBC (2/15) ... also had one groundball vs. the Retrievers ... one groundball in 13-5 win at Michigan (3/18) ... saw time in the first half in 11-8 loss at No. 6 North Carolina (3/22).
Before Maryland: Two-time US Lacrosse High School All-American … 2013 US Lacrosse Western Region Player of the Year … won the 2013 Adrenaline All-American honor after scoring four goals and adding two assists at the Adrenaline All-American Game … ranked the No. 15 freshman midfielder in the nation according to Inside Lacrosse ... ranked the 35th overall recruit by Inside Lacrosse ... four-year letterwinner for coach Jono Zissi at Torrey Pines HS … totaled 291 points on 144 goals and 147 assists for his prep career … 2013 San Diego Union Tribune Player of the Year … four-time all-league and all-county … two-time team captain.
Personal: Son of Leo and Melanie Gradinger … father, Leo, plated football at San Diego State from 1977-80 … younger brother of Nick and Max … brother, Nick, played lacrosse at Cornell from 2006-09 … sister, Max, played lacrosse at Vermont from 2008-11 … enrolled in letters and science … intends to major in business.


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With exception of a few inserted text phrases, anton let's his strong yet simple images speak for themselves, letting the beauty of the boys approach the readers up close and personal.
anton Z risan is a former classical ballet dancer, based in London, UK where he's been working as an architect for over seven years. Originally from Sweden with mix Croatian background, he moved to London twelve years ago to join the English National ballet, he also worked for Matthew Bourne's famous all male "Swan Lake" dance company. Anton has always taken photographs throughout his varied career, but it's only recently he has focused on it more seriously, we hope you like the outcome.
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text: After reading everyone's race reports for this race I'm wondering if I did the same race. It was by far the worst race I have ever done starting with race management to the course itself. Ironically, what I thought would be the most challenging part of the weekend was the easiet part - getting in and out of DC.I have three big complaints about the race which strangely no one mentioned.First complaint is the organization of bike slots in transition area. They were not arranged in numerical order and seemingly to me no order at all. Over 5000 bike slots and no apparent structure. It took me a good 5 minutes on Saturday afternoon to find my bike slot among the disjointedness. So I did I was taught, find markings in the surroundings so that I could find my bike slot on race day and not rely on row numbers. Somehow I didn't do a good enough job of this and it took me over 6 minutes in T1. I honestly thought someone had taken my bike out by accident. Maybe there was a logical reason for the transition layout, and since there was a mandatory meeting on Saturday before packet pickup, it seems like a perfectly good opportunity to explain something that was different from how most other triathlons are run. Ultimately, it was my responsibility to find my slot but this could have been made easier.Second is the condition of the roads. We all joke about how substandard the roads in DC are (thankfully, a good portion of the bike race is in MD). And it is one thing to experience pot holes and such in your car but quite another while riding your bike. Even me driving the bike course gave me no indication how wretched the roads and bridge joints would be on my bike. Two different times my aerobars, which started parallel to the road, where jarred about 15-20 degrees toward the road. Each time I thought for sure I was going down. By the time the race ended, my aerobars were nearly perpendicular to the road!! Yet I still could not move them by force after the race ended. They were firmly in place. In fact, one of the bumps was so bad that someone was on a bullhorn yelling something. Turns out he was yelling "Bump ahead!" And it turns the bump ( a 6 inch metal joint between road and bridge) was around a blind corner to one of the bridges. I thought I hit a wall when I went over that one. Again there was a perfect opportunity to mention these road hazards at the useless mandatory meeting. I now realize why so many people were walking their bikes the final few miles of the bike course. Either flats or bent rims from the roads.Finally, allowing over 6000 people to register and/or participate is way too many people for the course they planned out. I guess they figure they can't be as good as other local races so they have to be bigger. They need something to market to the masses?!? Too many people in the river. Constant congestion and bumping each other. Too many people on the bike course with little room to pass. And trying to find friends and family at the end was nearly impossible. Not to mention an hour wait to get back into transition after your race day ended.I will say that the race volunteers were great. At every intersection for the bike course they were wearing bright orange vests and waving a flag to indicate a turn. Also plenty of aid on the run course.I really wanted to like this race. I was born in DC and grew up in MD and thought it would be a good race to end the season. I love all the monuments and can never see them often enough. The logistics of the course and the sheer volume of participants will ensure that I won't do this race again. A very disappointing end to end my tri season. There is always something to learn in every race, and certainly this one was no different.That being said, I somehow still set a PR for an Olympic distance.Thanks for reading.Scott


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Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport officials expect that increased parking fees, higher concession income and other so-called "non-aeronautical revenue streams" will give them their first break-even budget in fiscal 2013-14, which begins July1.
Officials estimate total operating revenues will increase 5.4 percent to about $15 million in fiscal 2014, eclipsing a 1.7 percent increase in total operating expenses. "We're only projecting a slight aeronautical (revenue) increase" between fiscal 2012-13 and fiscal 2013-14, Chief Financial Officer Fred Kaplan told the airport board Tuesday.
He said the estimated increase in non-aeronautical revenues was tied to higher terminal-lot parking rates, which jumped 67percent from $6 to $10 in November, and the increase in concession space resulting from terminal expansions. Rental-car agreements under negotiation could augment the cash flow as well, he added.
A focus on non-aeronautical revenues can allow airports to minimize the consequences of economic downturns.
"Typically, airports will forecast things like concession revenues and rental-car revenues based on enplanements and also on deplanements," Kaplan said, adding:
"Think of the philosophy this way, if you're getting on a plane at Gateway and you're leaving somewhere for 10 days, and you park in the Ray Road lot at $6 a day, then that one enplanement is worth $60 in parking revenue to the airport authority. So, as enplanements go up, it affects non-aeronautical revenues tremendously."
Gateway's passenger count nearly hit 1.4million in 2012.
The new fiscal year's increase in operating expenses includes a 2percent bump in salaries, or about a total $110,000, and a 6percent increase in benefits, or about a total $136,000, according to budget projections.
Reductions in spending for advertising, consultants, insurance, training and outsourced repair and maintenance are expected to help compensate for those higher costs.
Personnel-cost increases also will be offset "by either leaving positions open or filling them much later in the year," as was done in fiscal 2013,Kaplan said.
The airport's capital budget will shrink to about $16.1million from the current $22.6million and will rely on funding from the Federal Aviation Administration, the Arizona Department of Transportation, Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport Authority capital funds, passenger-facility charges and customer-facility charges.
Four municipalities and the Gila River Indian Community contribute to the airport's operations. Currently, Mesa contributes $1.7million annually, Phoenix $1.3million, Gila River $450,000, Gilbert $350,000 and Queen Creek $120,000.
Kaplan stressed that the budget figures — presented this week for the board's review, not action — were preliminary and could shift in the coming months.


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Phoenix and Love
Is there a way that the Suns could end up snatching the big man?
They have the salary space for a big contract and a few first rounders to help the rebuilding Wolves.
They might not be a big name like Boston or LA but they are a young team in need of a true star player (no knocks on Dragic or Bledsoe) that has a promising future.


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Interview: Puppini Sisters – Telepathic Vocal Harmony
Kate from the Puppini Sisters was nice enough to answer a few of our dorky Christmas questions about their album "Christmas with the Puppini Sisters." (which we reviewed here).
Now there are singers… and there are SINGERS. These sisters have created a "telepathic vocal harmony" that can only be described as brilliant. The sound the shoots out from them is purely amazing. It's a shame so many people listen to Katy Perry's "Firework" when these are the girls with the REAL talent. I mean… just look at them!
What made you decide to do a Christmas album?
"It seemed to be a bit of a no brainer to be honest! We started the band during the Christmas of 2004. Some of our first gigs were performing for Christmas parties at The Cafe de Paris in Piccadilly where Frank Sinatra and Marlene Dietrich have performed in the past, as well as for Vivienne Westwood Christmas party at The Cafe Royale so we already had quite a few festive songs in our back catalogue. The three of us are such fans of the seasonal classics from this period too, the recordings of The Andrews Sisters and Bing Crosby, we all gather 'round the piano with our respective families on Christmas day and sing them. So really, a Christmas album was the next logical step."
What are your favorite Christmas songs and artists?
"Look at our track listing!! Those are our favorites, seriously, they're all on there. 'Oh Holy Night', 'Here Comes Santa Claus', 'Let It Snow'. We've tackled all our favorites."
You obviously are all incredibly talented vocally and are always on pitch. Where did you all get your vocal training?
"We've all studied classical music from an early age but honed our jazz skills at a conservatoire in London called Trinity College of Music. And then we've spent years singing together. It just takes hours. And hours. And hours of singing and being together. Give us 30 years and we'll have invented telepathic vocal harmony. It's a long road ahead…"
Do you think that we as a society are forgetting about the genre of music you sisters sing? Example – "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy"
"In a way, I suppose we are a society who's forgetting that genre, but that's the nature of musical progress. It marches forward. What's sad is that people are forgetting the standard and work ethic behind that genre of music. You had to practice and practice, work hard, gig hard, not just appear on programmes like The X-Factor where you see people who've never trained or gigged in their lives in tears saying that this is their last chance… Just put yourself out there and work!"
Where did you three get interested in your "retro futuristic" aka big band style of music?
"We were all brought up with it. And interested in the fashion of the era too. It just goes hand in hand."
Do any of you swing dance? Because we feel like swing dancing when i listen to your tracks
"None of us swing dance! Not to my knowledge anyway… It looks magnificent and i'd love to learn. I just wish I didn't have nine left feet…"
Merry Christmas to all of you! Thanks for talking to us.
Don't just sit there all googly eyed. Go buy their CD! It's full of Christmas cheer!


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I need to add some user accounts to a openDS server programmatically, but I don't know how to do it even after look through the openDS wiki. Could anyone help me?
The below code is using jndi. This will just add an user object with provided password. This is not much. But this might help you to get started.
Also I would prefer to stick with jndi compared to opends-sdk.
To add programmatically user accounts in OpenDS, you need to use an LDAP client library for your OS and preferred programming language. OpenDS has an LDAP library for Java, with many sample code. http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/sdk/20110126210001/ Sample are in the Example directory.
Here the code used in php working fine for me


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Michelle Plouffe became the third Ute to have 2,000 career points and 1,000 rebounds Friday at Arizona.
Feb. 21, 2014
TUCSON, Ariz. - Senior forward Michelle Plouffe became the third Ute in school history to surpass 2,000 points and 1,000 rebounds over her career and the University of Utah women's basketball team defeated Arizona, 52-47, on Friday in the McKale Center.
Utah (11-15, 4-11 Pac-12) had three players with double-digits in points and earned a 33-30 lead in team rebounding over Arizona.
"We hung in there during the first half," Utah Head Coach Anthony Levrets said. "In the second half, we came out with a lot of energy and executed. We played really well and made just enough plays to win."
Plouffe became the school's all-time leading rebounder and the third member of Utah's 2,000-point, 1,000-rebound club. She ended the game against the Wildcats with 14 points and 11 rebounds to go with two assists. Plouffe went 6-for-11 from the floor to go with two assists. Plouffe has now scored 10 or more points in 22 of the 24 games she has played in this season and this was her ninth contest in 2013-14 with 10 or more boards.
"She's an incredible player," Levrets said. "She has such an impact on the game. She does so many things well. Defensively, she can guard multiple positions, helps our younger kids a ton."
Freshman forward Emily Potter knocked down six of her nine field goal attempts for 12 points, while chasing down six boards. She handed out a career-high three assists and had three blocks.
Junior guard Cheyenne Wilson joined them in double-digits with 10 points off a 4-of-5 outing from the floor, including a 2-for-3 mark from 3-point territory. The Seattle, Wash., native has had 10 or more points in eight games this season.
Freshman guard Malia Nawahine shot 3-of-6 from the floor for eight points and tied her career high for the fifth time with five rebounds. She also had two assists.
The Utes hit their first three shots and the game was tied three times within the first three minutes (6-6) before the Wildcats led by as many as seven (22-15). Arizona took a 25-20 lead into the half. Utah earned an 18-16 edge in the boards in the first frame as Wilson was 2-for-3 from the field for a team-high five points, while Plouffe and Potter scored four in the first 20 minutes.
Jumpers by Rodriguez and Potter opened up a 14-2 run to start the half and brought Utah to a 34-27 lead. The Utes buried five of their first six shots in the second frame and built their lead to as large as 11 (46-35) on the way to the 52-47 victory. Utah shot 60.9 (14-23) from the floor in the second half as Plouffe made four of seven attempts for 10 points to go with five boards. Potter pitched in eight points after going 4-for-6 in addition to three rebounds and a pair of blocks.
"A lot of the second-half adjustments were just staying true to who we are," Levrets said. "Our kids did a great job following the scouting report and the guarding 1-on-1. With as much as Arizona dribbles, it's very difficult to contain them for a whole game, but we did a nice job."
Arizona (5-21, 1-14 Pac-12) was led by 14 points from Breanna Workman and a 10-point, eight-rebound effort from LaBrittney Jones.
The Utes travel to Tempe to take on Arizona State Sunday at 1 p.m. MT on the Pac-12 Networks with Matt McConnell (PBP) and Julie Rousseau (Analyst) calling the action.


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Is an EntityManager @Inject[ed] as follows in muliple classes threadsafe?
private EntityManager em;
This question and this one seem to be Spring specific. I am using Jave EE CDI services
Although EntityManager implementations itself are not thread safe the Java EE container injects a proxy which delegates all methods invocations to a transaction bound EntityManager. Therefore each transaction works with it's own EntityManager instance. This is true for at least transaction-scoped persistence context (which is default).
If container would inject a new instance of EntityManager in each bean the below wouldn't work:
doSomething->doSomethingAgainInTheSameTransaction call happens in a single transaction and therefore the beans must share the same EntityManager. Actually they share the same proxy EntityManager which delegates calls to the same persistence context.
So you are legal use EntityManager in singleton beans like below:
Another proof is that there is no any mention of thread safety in EntityManager javadoc. So while you stay inside Java EE container you shouldn't care about concurrency access to EntityManager.
To my great surprise (after years of using jpa in spring)
So why does it work in Spring? Because it wraps target
And how can you deal with that in your case? I don't know cdi but in EJB each stateless and stateful session bean is pooled, which means you cannot really call method of the same EJB from multiple threads in the same time. Thus
However injecting
See also
I feel I need to go deeper into this because my first answer was not absolutely true.
I will refer to JSR-220. In section 5.2 Obtaining an EntityManager you may find:
Well that's it. You may stop reading here and never use EntityManager in singleton beans unless properly synchronized.
But I believe there is a confusion in the spec. There are actually two different EntityManager implementations. The first is one is provider implementation (saying Hibernate) which is not obliged to be threadsafe.
On the other hand there is a container implementation of EntityManager. Which is also not supposed to be threadsafe according to the above. But container's implementation acts as a proxy and delegates all calls to the real provider's EntityManager.
So further in the spec in 5.9 Runtime Contracts between the Container and Persistence Provider:
This means in turn that there will be a different EntityManager instance for each transaction started. The code that creates an EntityManager is safe according to 5.3:
But what if there is an EntityManager associated with JTA transaction? The code that binds an EntityManager associated with current JTA transaction may be not threadsafe according to the spec.
But I can't really think of an application server implementation that works correctly with EntityManager injected into stateless beans and not correctly within singletons.
So my conclusions are:


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Oracle buys Sleepycat Software
Heard via Jeremy, Oracle has purchase Sleepycat Software, the makers of the Berkley Database:
Wow, the rumors were true. Oracle is snapping up Open Source Database companies now. First it was Innobase (see Oracle buys Innobase. MySQL between rock and hard place?) and now it's Sleepycat Software.The purchase of Sleepycat, which has been rumored for weeks, gives Oracle another open-source product to complement its proprietary database offerings. At an investor conference last week, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison reiterated the company's strategy to generate revenue from a combination of open-source and proprietary software.
They produce and support the famed Berkeley DB embedded database engine and have radically improved it's features since the version 1.x days. Nowadays you get a small, fast, transactional database engine with industrial grade reliability and replication.
It's interesting to note that MySQL's first transactional storage engine (BDB) was created on top of Berkeley DB. Their more popular transactional storage engine (InnoDB) is built on top of technology produced by Innobase, which Oracle bought last year.
This leads to the obvious question: What is Oracle up to? Are they trying to do to Open Source Databases what Yahoo appears to be doing to Web 2.0 companies?
There's been speculation of a master plan at Oracle that involves buying up various bits of the Open Source infrastructure used in building applications. Is JBoss next, as some have suggested?
We'll see.
Oracle is betting that they can make more money from the embedded database if you read their press statement:
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., 14-FEB-2006 Oracle today announced that it has added Berkeley DB to its embedded database product line which includes Oracle Lite for mobile devices and Oracle TimesTen for high performance in-memory database applications.
"Sleepycat's products enhance Oracle's market-leading database product family by offering enterprise-class support to customers who need to embed a fast, reliable database at a lower cost," said Andrew Mendelsohn, senior vice president, Oracle Database Server Technologies.
"We're very excited to join the world's largest enterprise software company and the industry's leading database company," said Mike Olson, CEO of Sleepycat Software. "Sleepycat's products, customer base and proven business model, combined with Oracle's tremendous expertise, complementary technology and resources, will allow us to better serve the needs of our customers and the open source community."
According to Carl Olofson of IDC's research, "The embedded database market was projected last year to be just over $2 billion in 2005 and forecasted to grow to over $3.2 billion by the year 2009. This market is very diverse, and the technologies tend to be quite specialized. Sleepycat's Berkeley DB complements Oracle TimesTen and Oracle Lite, allowing Oracle to address a broad range of segments within the embedded DBMS market."
Sleepycat Software's Berkeley DB is the most widely used open source database in the world with deployments estimated at more than 200 million. Berkeley DB is distributed under a dual license model, i.e. available under a public license and also available under a commercial license. Well-known open source projects such as the Linux and BSD UNIX operating systems, Apache web server, OpenLDAP directory, OpenOffice productivity software, and many others embed Berkeley DB technology.
Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Now we can wait and see if the Zend rumour is also true as apparenlty either Andi Gutmans is a Oracle employee or Oracle have also aquired Zend.


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Synopsis: In 1953, the ascent of Everest remained the last of Earth's great challenges. Standing at over 29,000ft, the world's highest mountain posed a fearsome challenge and had already claimed thirteen lives in previous expeditions. Faced with treacherous winds, sub-zero temperatures and battling altitude sickness, Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay finally achieved the impossible and became the first men to stand atop Everest. It was an event that stunned the world and defined an era. Sir Edmund Hillary's incredible achievement remains one of the greatest adventure stories of all time; the epic journey of a man from modest beginnings who overcame adversity to reach the highest point on Earth.
If you're in one of those places right now that's getting beaten down with the summer heat, the upcoming documentary "Beyond The Edge" might be a good visual cool-down. It will take you to the chilly heights of Mount Everest, all in 3D, and telling you the true story of one of the greatest expeditio...Read More »
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"Well, aren't you just a traveling shitstorm?" A more appropriate quote couldn't be found for Devin Townsend, nor STRAPPING YOUNG LAD's new one, "Alien". This release has untouchable frenetic speed, fuming and frenzied honesty at its purest, a radical shift in what we've come to know as "extreme" metal, topped off with Devin screaming like he's pissing fire — his best vocal performance to date. "Alien" is a total and complete metalized SHIT FIT — yes, the full-on metal tantrum. Intensity unmatched so far, pushing deep buttons, sincerity unquestionable, skillfully executing the simple lyrical theme into a giant tidal wave, just waiting to crash into, and over, the listener. You're definitely going to feel the fire here, and I don't think STRAPPING YOUNG LAD has made a better release. This is the first true group effort, and it shows with performances that are 100 percent passionate, everyone's getting into the melee, no matter what the tempo is. Towards the end of "Alien", we're served up the calm after the shitstorm, with a few songs that cool things down. Doesn't mean they're any less powerful, because they are.The "simple lyrical theme" that I mentioned is going from bitterly pissed off to "resolved to be confused." The tempo is as fast as any respectable death metal band, but, there are moments that distinctly remind me of some of the best qualities of black metal. The cold fury in the guitars, shrieks that are otherworldly, waves of strict drumming, keyboards that add almost atmospheric pressure. So in your face you may not be able to take it. Mental struggles breed incessant creativity, and openness is plastered all over every track. Tweaks are added, keyboard flourishes, children singing, with some samples massaged in — just enough to keep you on the lookout for what's coming next. Guitars are like lightening, raging through the songs, forging walls of noisy terror and disharmony. Vocals are layered under and on top, much like the guitars are. "Imperial" deliberately throws you right off, with riffing and drumming much like death metal that's got the SYL habit of fast tempo shifts. Quickly becomes a schizophrenic epic. With no time between songs, "Skeksis" so rudely interrupts the disc. Stuttering and chugging along, without a word said for two minutes. Powerhouse singing, strong guitar leads finish this one off. "Shitstorm" — aw, who wouldn't love a song named this? Normal people, I guess. Screams and shrieks of being pushed to your limits, keyboards surge the song, chaotic pace, twisted riffing and big booms. Ode to every fucker in your life that's just messing things up for you every time you turn around. "Love?" The big slick grooves show up on this one, slowly stalking, morphing back into disorder. Excellent vocal melodies are incorporated into this demanding song. "Shine" is war, and nothing less, with some serious guitar leads. "We Ride" — oh, can I ever hear this played live. "Possessions" those hooky vocal melodies, with children's voices as the backing chorus, black and white, fast to slower — it's the opposites that keep you locked right in. "Two Weeks" is where the disc slows down, a huge mood change. Subtle and dare I say, beautiful. "Thalamus" is an epic disturbed attack. "Zen" isn't particularly peaceful, quite the opposite. "Info Dump" is 11:56 minutes, and the last half of it's quiet synthesized confusion, guitar feedback, and wails. Brutal Truth: I think I need a cigarette. Dozens of spins through the headphones reveal so many more additional layers, levels of moods, keys, backing vocal lines, and guitar textures. It just gets better and better with the sound becoming fuller, bigger, and richer. Our world of hard music so much better off with a band like STRAPPING YOUNG LAD, and I do believe that "Alien" will go down as one of 2005's best releases.
(Century Media)
01. Imperial
02. Skeksis
03. Shitstorm
04. Love?
05. Shine
06. We Ride
07. Possessions
08. Two Weeks
09. Mega Bulldozer
10. Zen
11. Info Dump
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NASA site
Started by cloudmagnet , Oct 28 2012 10:20 AM
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Posted 28 October 2012 - 10:20 AM
The last few days, I've not been able access the NASA picture of the day site. I've been using this address for years http://apod.nasa.gov.../astropix.html: a window pops at the says the site is not available. Anyone know anything about this?
Posted 28 October 2012 - 12:44 PM
Just tried it again, and it worked.......nevermind!!!
Posted 28 October 2012 - 03:15 PM
I had trouble this morning, but all good this afternoon.
Posted 29 October 2012 - 08:00 AM
The link appears to be 'broken'!!....I get an alternate link to use, and that one works fine!!!
Posted 05 November 2012 - 10:31 AM
This is what i've been using for quite a long time - never had any problems.


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Cimode wrote:
> Bob Badour wrote:,
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>>>I will be more succint in future comments as wordyness seems to be >>>asource of confusion. >>> >>>Bob Badour wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Cimode wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>To Bob Badour >>>>> >>>>>As a proof of good faith that I am not trying to ellide your questions. >>>>>I will change the quoting. Hope this will clarify... >>>>> >>>>>Bob Badour wrote: >>>>><<What are the two dimensions? Can you name them?>> >>>>>For bidimensional RAM's, the 2 dimensions are RowAddress and >>>>>ColumnAddress >>>>>For tridimensional RAM's (64bit architectures) the 3 dimensions are >>>>>Block Adress, RowAddress, ColumnAddress >>>>> >>>>>Does that make sense? It was written above. >>>> >>>>It doesn't make sense yet. First, you will have to define: "RowAddress", >>>>"ColumnAddress" and "BlockAddress" as part of some coherent >>>>computational model. >>> >>>It does not makes *yet*?. Mister, what is nonsense does not make sense >>>*ever*. >> >>I don't recall saying that the above is nonsense. I recall saying it >>cannot make sense until you define the terms "RowAddress", >>"ColumnAddress" and "BlockAddress". Until that time, it is merely >>meaningless.//
The hell they are! At this time in this discussion they are nothing more than meaningless symbols. You have yet to provide any definition or any reference to a definition.
If all you want to do is engage in mental masturbation, I suggest you do it in private.
>>>Besides when was the last time you checked memory architectures? >>
I did not answer the question because neither the question nor the answer are relevant. If you expect people here to understand terms that are never used in this newsgroup, you will need to define them or point to some definition. Duh!
> The name of this newsgroup is comp.databases.theory and it is a ground
> for discussing all theory related to databases including implementation
> theory.
When was the last time you read a paper discussing a theory of computing that didn't bother to define a computational model? Never?
>>If you want to discuss a specific computational model, you will have to >>provide some sensible definition of that model. Even with segmented >>memory, the address space is linear. Even with virtual memory, the >>address space is linear. Even with paged memory, the address space is >>linear.
Of course, I do. We cannot even begin to discuss this topic sensibly until we know what fucking computational model we are using. Idiot.
While I told you that segmented memory has nothing to do
> with physical addressing scheme for relative position of data.
But you have claimed repeatedly that linear addressing is bidimensional and you have stated that this bidimensionality applies to logical entities with N dimensions.
>>Are you suggesting that current memory architectures are non-segmented, >>non-virtual, non-paged, non-linear architectures? Are you suggesting >>that this would somehow become relevant to the theoretical computational >>model?
You are nothing but an ignorant crank. Go waste somebody else's time. Idiot. Plonk. Received on Mon Jun 05 2006 - 06:51:01 CDT
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Jay Engeln discusses implementing Response to Intervention (RTI) at the secondary level (from RTI Action Network)
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REYNOLDSBURG, Ohio (AP) - A new high security building just outside Columbus has cameras, steel cages and a giant fence with electrified wire to hold tigers, snakes and other exotic animals.
The few creatures in the cages right now are a stuffed lion, monkey and snake, but the state's new Dangerous Wild Animal Temporary Holding Facility is ready for its first animals.
The facility is a result of the new Ohio law that requires owners to register exotic animals such as lions, tigers and some snakes. It's designed to temporarily house dozens of exotic animals confiscated under the new law.
Officials can seize animals if the owners don't meet state requirements or are found housing animals without permits.
The law came about after a suicidal eastern Ohio man released dozens of bears, mountain lions and tigers from his farm in 2011 near Zanesville. Authorities killed 48 of the animals, which included black bears, Bengal tigers and African lions, fearing for the public's safety.
The Ohio Department of Agriculture's holding facility cost $2.9 million and was built in less than three months.
"We're ready to take an animal today," state agriculture Director David Daniels said.
Security will be tight and access will be limited. The building won't be open to the public.
The cages for the largest animals measure 12 by 18 by 10 feet. Some were built solid metal walls to stop them from trying to attack other animals.
The building has an interior gate, a double metal exterior wall, and a 12-foot fence. There are 17 surveillance cameras too.
What is unknown is how many animals it will end up housing.
There are no reliable numbers for how many exotic animals and snakes are in the hands of private owners in the state. "We know there are additional animals out there," Daniels said.
Staff from the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium will feed and clean up after the animals each day.
State Veterinarian Tony Forshey will run the facility.
Healthy animals that are seized or surrendered will be sent to sanctuaries and other facilities nationwide.
The closest neighbor to the facility is a church.
Pastor Bill Hayes said he wasn't sure about allowing children on the church playground until he found out about all of the security measures.
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Building Blocks II - TRIANGLES
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Building Blocks II - TRIANGLES
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New to quilting?
Want to try some quick, fun techniques?
Want to perfect your awesome skills?
This series of Quilting Basics lessons explores basic quilt blocks used in nearly every pieced quilt. Gather a few of your favorite fabrics, follow along and you'll have enough blocks to make a fabulous quilt! Later we'll follow up with "Finishing School" lessons on setting, sashing, borders and how to "grow" your quilt to any size you'd like. Are you ready?? Let's quilt!!
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Deonn Stott at Quiltscapes
If you are just joining us, get started here with Tips, Tricks & Tools to assemble a basic sewing kit, then see last month's lesson, Building Blocks I - SQUARES.
Yardage Requirements:
Print #A .................................... 3/8 yard
Coordinating Print #B ............ 1 Fat Quarter (18" x 21")
Background #C ....................... 1/2 yard
Inner Border #D ...................... 3/8 yard
Outer Print #E ......................... 3/4 yard
Binding ..................................... 1/4 yard
Backing ..................................... 1-1/8 yards
Helpful Tools:
Triangle Square-Up Ruler by Quilt in a Day (Love this cool ruler from Eleanor Burns!)
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Lesson II: TRIANGLES
When sewing triangles, one of the biggest issues is the stretchiness of stitching a seam on a bias (45-degree) cut of fabric, the "Bias-Edge Blues". For that reason, I use SQUARES to make my TRIANGLES! Begin with two squares, one print, one background... and remember to sew with a consistent, accurate 1/4" seam allowance.
The following photo tutorial will take you through some simple steps from squares to half-squares then quarter-squares in just minutes. Click on the link for detailed step-by-step cutting and stitching instructions. Cut lists for each of the blocks are listed below.
Finished Size + 1/2" for side seam allowances + 3/8" for the diagonal seam.
(aw, heck, I just round up to 1" for good measure! Then I can trim to size.)
Yield: 2 HST (Half-Square Triangle) units
Finished Size + 1" for seams, then double that measurement
Yield: 8 HST units
Finished Size x 1.414 (calculate square root)
+ 1/2" for side seam allowances + 3/4" for two diagonal cuts.
(Confession: I always round up to the nearest 1/8")
Yield: 4 bias HST units
Finished Size + 1/2" for side seam allowances + 3/4" for two diagonal seams.
(Yes, I add another 1/4" here, too!)
Yield: 2 QST units
Each of these blocks and methods can be used for an entire quilt. Next Month, tune in on the 2nd Tuesday of the month for FLYING GEESE!
Hope you had fun trying some of these techniques! If you have any questions, please post a comment, send an email or stop by my blog for a visit. Your comments are always welcome! Happy Quilting!
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Middlebury schools dealing with chicken pox outbreak
MIDDLEBURY — Students attending Middlebury schools who are not vaccinated by the end of Thursday for the chicken pox will have to stay out of school for up to three weeks because of a chicken pox outbreak in the school corporation.
Elkhart County's Health Officer Dr. Dan Nafziger said that the school corporation had reported 13 cases to the health department with the initial case reported on Nov. 11. The state defines an outbreak as 3 or more cases in individuals older than 13 years old or five or more cases in individuals younger than 13 years old, he said. The cases are concentrated at Middlebury Elementary, Heritage Intermediate and Northridge Middle School.
Chicken pox, caused by the virus varicella-zoster, is highly contagious and a vaccine is required before starting school with a second vaccine by sixth grade.
Middlebury Superintendent Jim Conner said that there are around 550 students in Middlebury Community Schools who are not up-to-date with the required varicella vaccines. The majority of those, Conner said, are students who have not yet received their second vaccine in sixth grade. Others have not been vaccinated on religious grounds.
According to the Indiana Department of Health's website, parents who do not want their children immunized for school must provide a written objection to the school each year the child is enrolled.
The health department is holding clinics in Middlebury schools Thursday for students to be vaccinated. Those who are not vaccinated at the clinic or otherwise, will not be able to attend school for three weeks following the most recent case of chicken pox, Nafziger said.
Chicken pox has an incubation period of 10 to 21 days, he said, and while many people experience symptoms in the second week, many do not until the third week. Schools will be expected to enforce the health department's recommendation, he said.
Conner said that he thought 12 of the 13 reported cases were still ongoing, so that students not vaccinated will not be able to attend school beginning today.
Conner said he knows several parents are upset and will not have their children vaccinated because of religious or personal beliefs about vaccinations.
"It was not our call and I have to say I agree with the parents," he said.
Conner said he feels that the policy goes against individual rights and religious freedom.
"This is totally a call by the state of Indiana and by big brother over in the health department," Conner said.
Nafziger said that the policies are "not meant to be mean or disrespectful, but to protect people."
"The parents have the right in this country not to vaccinate their children and I respect that," Nafziger said, "but when they do that they're putting other children at risk who maybe don't have a choice or who can not handle a case of the chicken pox."
Nafziger said similar outbreaks with similar follow-through policies have occurred in other school districts in the state but not in Elkhart County since he began as County Health Officer two years ago.