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WASHINGTON - Metro has agreed to take part in meetings with Montgomery County officials to come up with solutions to address the defective Silver Spring Transit Center.
County leaders have been holding weekly meetings to come up with solutions since a report came out in March detailing major structural problems with the center.
The transit hub is two years behind schedule and more than $80 million over budget.
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WASHINGTON - Metro wants to change its deal with Montgomery County to cover any extra maintenance costs of running the flawed Silver Spring Transit Center.
General Manager Richard Sarles said Thursday he thinks Metro could assume control of the Silver Spring Transit Center but he wants to address the potential extra costs of maintaining a building that has substantial structural flaws.
Sarles said Metro is not backtracking from a letter sent to the county in April stating that the the transit agency would not operate nor maintain the transit center as described in a formal agreement with the county.
"We want to be in the Transit Center," Sarles says. "We want to operate out of it. But now we're dealing with the maintenance of the facility. Hopefully, I would like to see the fact that improvements are made to the facility so that we can operate and maintain it."
The letter also said that the unfinished and over-budget transit hub didn't meet certain standards and that even with improvements it "would unnecessarily place an inordinate maintenance burden onto WMATA."
In a follow-up email to the county, WMATA softened that position saying, "We had assumed all along that Metro would one day operate and maintain the Silver Spring Transit Center."
The email also suggests that the written agreement could be reworked to address Metro's future maintenance costs at the center.
"Our goal is to operate out of the Silver Spring Transit Center. On maintenance, that is something we'll be discussing with the county. I hope that we will come to a resolution that works for everybody," says Sarles.
Montgomery County officials had said they didn't believe the initial letter represented a final position. And Chief Administrative Officer Tim Firestine told the County Council the letter was legal posturing.
County spokesman Patrick Lacefield declined to comment on the Sarles' comments, but says the two sides will meet on Monday.
WMATA sent the letter following a recent engineering report that found severe structural flaws that pose a safety hazard at the transit hub. The county has pledged to fix the problems.
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Adams Central had the top singles player and the championship doubles pairing in the Allen County Athletic Conference tennis tournament that concluded Monday night after postponement due to rain.
The tournament started Friday night with two rounds, and was scheduled to conclude Saturday but rain forced a move to Monday night. That just prolonged the AC celebration as it backed its regular season championship with a solid showing in the singles and doubles tournament.
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The NDSU Public Health Association is a new organization on campus to help individuals learn about public health and connect students, faculty and staff with public health educators, practitioners and...
Offerdahl appointed to American Chemical Society committee
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Erika Offerdahl, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, has been appointed to a new committee of the American Chemical Society's Division of Chemical Education Examinations Institute. The...
Perrizo awarded fifth U.S. patent
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William Perrizo, distinguished professor of computer science, was awarded his fifth U.S. patent on Nov. 16 for his system and method for performing and accelerating cluster analysis of large data...
Golden Key inducts new members
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The NDSU chapter of Golden Key International Honour Society held its 16th annual new member induction ceremony on Nov. 9 in the Memorial Union Great Room. New members and honorary members were honored...
Maertens receives Distinguished Service Award
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Deborah Maertens, assistant director of Faculty Immigration at NDSU, received the Region IV National Association of Foreign Student Advisers (NAFSA) Association of International Educators...
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Joan Krush, academic advisor/lecturer in the computer science department, co-wrote an article for the National Academic Advising Association's (NACADA) publication, Academic Advising Today. The...
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Thanks for sharing your visit. I would LOVE to go there one day. I was born in the Big Apple, but it's been MANY years since I've been there. I'm sure a LOT has changed.ReplyDelete
I live on Long Island but manage to get into The City every so often and one of my favorite places to shop is The City Quilter!!!!!!!!!! Thank you so much for the photos - viewing them urges me to make another visit!!!ReplyDelete
Looks like a fun shop to visit! I'm dreaming of walking into a quilt shop with bolts and bolts of fabric... Only 2 1/2 weeks til I get to :oDReplyDelete
I make it there once a year, from California! It's my favorite in NYC.ReplyDelete
Thanks for showing us around the store.It looks like it has something for everyone.It looks like patient Hubby is checking the time on his watch.LOLReplyDeleteReplies
Thank goodness for Smart phones to keep husbands entertained in quilt shops. :)Delete
Pretty shop. Loved the Dear Jane quilt!!ReplyDelete
We were probably very close by when visiting Victoria, but next time I will make sure to visit the City Quilter! Thanks for the tour Amy.ReplyDelete
Isn't it interesting that some things like quilting know no borders? When I first learned that Japan has lovely quilters I was shocked, I picture them leaning over electronics?ReplyDelete
Oooh, I used to love to visit the City Quilter on my business trips, but back then they didn't have the little gallery next to it. The first time I visited TCQ was my first trip to NYC -- I thought it would be a good idea to drive in to Manhattan after work one day. I'd driven in lots of big cities before, but NYC is a different animal! I finally found TCQ and turned at the nearest parking sign -- I was pulling into a building, which was very strange to me. Some guy hopped out and took the car and disappeared with it. I remember walking down the street wondering if I'd ever see that car again LOL.ReplyDelete
Looks like a wonderful shop! You picked out some terrific fabric, too!ReplyDelete
Hey, I was just there about a month ago too!! LOVE that store! I purchased some of the NYC fabric also. Hadn't thought to use it as a map, but glad I didn't!!ReplyDelete
i especially like the patient husband photo....ReplyDelete
This was such a fun post! I am going to get there some day, and your tips from your travels are always appreciated!ReplyDelete
I loved checking out The City Quilter when we were in NYC (6 years ago now! Wow!).ReplyDelete
Looks fabulous! Sooo wish I'd gone when we were in NYC last month. Just going to have to put it on the list for my next trip :-)ReplyDelete
Thanks for posting this! My little sister lives in North Jersey, not too far from a ferry to Manhattan. Next time I go up there to visit, I'm definitely going to schedule an excursion to the City Quilter!ReplyDelete
LOVE the subway map! I need the subway map! I have a friend in NYC I can send to get it for me!ReplyDelete
Lovely blog post, I soooooooo want to visit The City Quilter. The last time I was in NY it was closed on the only day I could go. One day.ReplyDelete
I was just here yesterday! We also visited the Highline after I read about it here. :)ReplyDelete
I love picture of patient husband. Make me lough. My wouldn't be patient at all.ReplyDelete
The selection of materials is awesome.
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If the pistons are the common dished 350 pistons, they're around 11cc. The piston will reside about 0.025" down the hole if the block is stock, undecked. Now the heads are usually somewhere around 58cc. That leaves the head gasket thickness as the final factor. The thinnest is about 0.015 steel shim. That gasket gives a good 0.040" quench and a CR of 10.4:1. Using a common 0.041" composite gasket gives you a 9.75:1 CR w/a wide quench of 0.066".
To use those heads the right way, they'd need to be ported and the pistons should be reverse dome, D-shaped dished pistons w/a dish volume of about 22cc and a 0.041" quench to give you a 9.2:1 CR- which is the max I personally would try to run w/iron heads and today's gasoline.
hey guys dont mean to butt in i have a pair of 14101081 H.O heads off a 1988 monte carlo ss will these work good on my 350 3970010
Here is the scoop on the 081 heads.
In stock as cast form they are pretty lame.
If you just bolt them on stock on your 350 keep you expectations modest.
If you are willing to do generous home port work to wake then up they can work very well.
See my post on porting 305 heads.
The 081 heads have a very shrouded combustion chamber and will
need some extra hand deshrouding work to allow larger 1.94x 1.60 valves and lots of flow.
The chamber will be bigger when you are all done.
Look at the similar 083 casting cousin to this head for inspiration.
Look at the vortec chamber and the chamber on other hi perf SBC heads too.
with generous hand porting and chamber rework and larger 1.94x 1.60 valves you can make this head into a good head for a street motor.
Its up to you to do the dirty work.
They flow about 185cfm and 130ex cfm stock.
easy 230++cfm 180-190ex when done.
The small chamber allows and requires you to get creative with deshrouding and resshaping
and end up with a decent finished result around 62-64cc.
If you just throw them on stock all you will get is the benefit from the compression ratio raise. (more low and midrange torque)
Sort of a diamond in the rough depending on how you see things.
If you are allergic to work, just go buy a aftermarket head.
if you are not willing to do the porting work yourself its not going to be very cost effective.
not worth paying someone else to do the port work.
A 58cc chamber head on a flat top piston 350 does not create excessive compression ratio.
But will need 92 octane gas. cheap 87 octane gas is not going to work.
They will end up around 62-65cc when all done unless you mill them back down.
On a 383 you will want a dished piston (Approx -12cc)
You want to keep the true measured compression ratio under 11:1 for 92+pump gas
on a high perf street motor.
Its up to you to measure and calculate the compression ratio accurately.
You cannot determine the finished compression ratio by asking people on the internet.
I find a finished compression ratio of between 9.8 and 10.5:1 works real well.
Its all about how much effort you are willing to invest. A half baked lazy effort will get you a half baked lazy motor.
This is true when working with any of the stock SBC heads.
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i dont mind working on them i spend alot time working on cars but what will i need to port them i never ported heads before i'm shore i can do it im knot a dumb *** and my buddy has a pair or 92 350 heads with mild port would them be better
From what I have seen over the last 30 years or so:
Very few people outside of machine shops have the capability to replace guides, pull press-in studs and machine for and install screw-in studs, and grind and seat valves. In my shop, the labor for the stud work, guide replacement, and valve job would run around at least 400 bucks, less parts. Add to that valves, springs, studs, retainers, etc., etc., and you are getting close to the price of a set of far better heads.
Without these capabilities, saying that it is cost-effective to take a set of 305 heads and make them as capable as a good set of aftermarket heads is ignoring the fact that it costs money to do half the job.
Which brings me to the other half. Most guys haven't a clue as to how to or how much work is actually involved in properly and effectively doing the port and bowl work, and unshrouding, that is needed to make 305 heads work as desired. I have seen way too many botched or half-done port jobs that ruined the heads or had to be completed (at additional cost) to make the heads "work".
By all means, if one is has the equipment and ability to take on the task, go ahead. But you will still have, at best, a set of dated, thin-wall heads that are not what knowledgeable people would consider worth messing around with.
Good points IMHO, machine shop tom. Something that also sometimes bites first-time/novice heat porters is that just because it looks good does not mean squat about how the port may flow. Members have posted some photos of ported heads and they can look very impressive. Unfortunately that means nothing for the most part, unless the work was done by a seasoned porter and/or there was access to a flow bench- along w/the knowledge needed to digest the bench's results and turn the data into viable, meaningful, positive changes.
Doing a full-on porting job is very labor intensive and is a dirty, time consuming project- made doubly so when working w/cast iron. To bring a set of 305 heads up to what even a set of stock untouched L31 Vortec heads can do is hard to do regardless of who you are, let alone someone w/no experience. Just doing one port is a chore. By the time all 16 ports are done along w/the cost of the machine shop and parts, most guys will see that buying aftermarket or using a better production casting to start with (like the Vortec) is the better way to go.
If the decision has been made to use the 305 heads regardless, staying w/the "low hanging fruit" like removing/blending the lip that's almost always present where the bowl meets the bottom seat cut (red arrows on swirl port head below), and removing casting flash and irregularities, and careful port matching (NOT gasket matching) can result in an improvement of several percent w/only moderate time and effort. Often backcutting the valves gives an improvement for little cost. A true quality valve job can be worth a few percent more and should be considered a 'must-do' on any production head- even aftermarket heads need to be checked over carefully.
As has been said already, the difference between a properly rebuilt and prepped set of production heads and a set of aftermarket heads becomes less the more parts, time and work they consume. But if a production head is going to be used, it makes more sense to me to start out w/the best performing head available rather than using a head because it's cheap (or even free). Remember- the same machine shop time and money will be spent regardless if you're starting w/a Vortec head or a 305 head.
On the '92 heads, check the casting number to see if they're swirl port (SP) heads. If they are, proceed w/caution- while they have 64cc chambers and a relatively big intake port volume, the swirl inducing vane (seen circled below) costs flow at mid to upper rpm. If you're interested in researching the SP heads, there are several sites that have info on them.
Casting number 14102193
Here is a page w/some info on porting.
i ran 305 heads from 1990 to 2002 on my 350 with flat top 4v pistons trw
i ported the heads my self had the shop cut 194 and 160 in them shaved 10tho off heads intake i tried where torker 2 the old one weiand xpert is what i end up on the engine i had it in a camaro with 4 speed 456 gears car was around 3400
i ran 1215 at 114mph shifting at 6500 car pulled just fine i think the key is cutting the 194 and 160 vs in if you want them to work i won alot of races even maid alot of pp think wow one of the best race i ever had was a 1981 camaro with a 383 dart geads roller everything money money in to this car first race i won by one fender he came back said lets go again i was thinking ok how did i win this i told him to go get his slicks on so away he went he came back we went he one by one fender i went back to the startin line i had spon one car langht he about one foot i know if i heated up the tires i would have him he said you want to go again i said na in happy with what we have he said how fast is your car with the nos i said you wouldnt have been close at all yap i had 100 of nos on my car if ever needed cuse u just never know when a big block will pull up and yes we took the nos out before we raced that nite he helped on hook it
welcome to the forum crazyboy
the thread you are posting on is very old
maybe introduce yourself on a new thread and post some pictures?
nos? Is that the same thing as saying "Nauce" like they do in the movies?
Hey crazy,, was it a 350 Rocket by some chance? Or was it a Vette engine?
can you put 1.94 or 2.02 valves in the heads to get past the 5000 rpm wall
oh well should of read all of the post
The key to making it all work is generous full effort home brewed porting and 1.94x 1.60 valves.
2.02's are not optimum in these heads.
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The code is all GPL'd and available from various git repos, hardware will be CC-BY-SA 3.0 licensed, and they try to use Free Software design and development tools also, including KiCAD for schematics and PCB layout, and probably HeeksCAD as CAD tool for mechanical stuff.
I'm really tired of seeing more and more self-proclaimed "Open Hardware" projects that often don't even mention any license for their schematics and PCBs, or use crappy, self-invented "open" licenses that are not even remotely open in any way. Probably even worse, many hardware related projects use closed-source, proprietary electronic design tools such as EAGLE or OrCAD, thereby ruining the whole project from the beginning by forcing everyone who likes to contribute or adapt the hardware to use non-free software. That's why I was really happy to see the Qi people thrive to use open tools from the beginning! I hope to see more hardware projects use KiCAD or gEDA/PCB for their designs in future...
Mailman archives are often only available in the pretty useless "Gzip'd Text" format, which you cannot easily download and view locally (and threaded) in a MUA such as mutt. But that is exactly what I want to do from time to time (e.g. because I want to read the discussions of the past weeks on mailing lists where I'm newly subscribed).
After some searching I found one way to do it which I stripped down to my needs:
$ cat mailman2mbox #!/usr/bin/perl while (<STDIN>) { s/^(From:? .*) (at|en) /\1\@/; s/^Date: ([A-Z][a-z][a-z]) +([A-Z][a-z][a-z]) +([0-9]+) +([0-9:]+) +([0-9]+)/Date: \1, \3 \2 \5 \4 +0000/; print; }
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You can then view the mbox as usual in mutt:
$ mutt -f 2009-August.mbox
Suggestions for a simpler method to do this are highly welcome. Maybe some mbox related Debian package already ships with a script to do this?
Good news for kernel hackers, and especially coreboot developers like me: AMD has released the chipset documentation for the RS780 chipset, including the BIOS Developer's Guide. And these documents are being released freely and openly to the public, no NDAs required, which is great!
Quoting from the original announcement on the coreboot-announce mailing list:
The coreboot community, which includes government organizations, corporations, research labs and individuals from around the world, is very excited to expand on our existing and decade-long collaboration with AMD. This collaboration has, over the years, resulted in the inclusion of coreboot into everything from some of the largest AMD-based supercomputers in the world to some of the smallest embedded systems.
Together with the recent SB700/SB710/SB750 documentation release, the Developer Guide release for the RS780 family of Integrated Chipset/Graphics Processors enables the coreboot community to support any board with AMD chipsets out there, from embedded to enthusiast desktop and high-end server boards.
This new release once again demonstrates AMD's commitment to open standards and software that provides an improved user experience and Total Cost of Ownership for users in every walk of life. One cornerstone of this openness is the availability of documentation without NDA, enabling everyone to contribute.
Coreboot is open source, so every interested developer or user can modify, tweak and extend it to their heart's content.
An additional benefit of this documentation release is flashrom support for all AMD chipsets which enables users to reflash their BIOS/firmware/coreboot from within Linux and *BSD without rebooting.
Coreboot code for the SB700 and 780 chipset family is already being worked on by Zheng Bao at AMD in his spare time and the coreboot community is happy to work with him on finishing and integrating the code into the official coreboot codebase.
We'd like to thank Sharon Troia at AMD for making these documentation releases possible.
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Unbeknownst to me, my daughter Melissa McGinnis wrote a letter to President Obama in regards to my struggles with throat cancer. I received an encourging letter from President Obama today. I am extremly honored by both my daughter for writting a letter to the President and also honored to recieve a letter from President Obama.
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Letter my daughter wrote:
When my Dad found out that he had throat cancer back in May of this year, we were all shocked. I tried to be as supportive as I could be even though we live so far away. I tried to think of creative ways to put a smile on his face during the dark days of battling cancer. We sent him cards, texts, jokes, phone calls, and many prayers! One idea I had was to write President Barack Obama because my Dad is a big fan & supporter for him. And even though I did not vote for Obama, I know it would put a HUGE smile on my Dad's face if Obama wrote him a letter! And guess what......my Dad got a letter from the president today! My Dad didn't know that I had mailed out a letter and he called me today to let me know that he received a letter and wanted to see if I had anything to do with it. He is so excited that he got a letter from Obama and that put a smile on my face to know that he is happy! I am glad that my Dad and I have a mutual respect for each others political views, faith, and opinions (even though we have different views). Here is the letter that I sent to the president and also the letter that Obama sent to my Dad.
Dear Mr. President, June 23, 2011
It has been on my heart to write you for the past couple weeks now. I am writing you this letter because my Dad has stage 3 throat cancer (and he has never smoked cigarettes in his life). He found out that he had cancer on May 23rd of this year. He started his radiation and chemo treatments on June 13th. He has radiation 5 days a week for a total of 7 weeks (ending on July 29th) and he has 2 more chemo treatments (July 5th & July 25th). My Dad has a feeding tube in his stomach and the doctor said he will probably have to start using it by the third or fourth week of radiation. I am anxious about what the effects are going to be on him & his throat due to the radiation.
I talk to my Dad on the phone almost everyday and pretty soon his throat is going to hurt too much to eat or talk. That is going to be hard because my Dad lives in Clarkston, Washington and I live in Greensboro, North Carolina with my husband and son. I am trying to be as supportive as I can be even though we are thousands of miles apart. We send him cards, pictures, jokes, home videos of our 10 month old son (who he has never been able to meet yet), texts, Facebook messages, and phone calls. But, pretty soon I won't be able to talk to him over the phone because of the radiation treatments.
The first chemo treatment was rough on him. He doesn't like the idea of running poison throughout his body, but he knows that is what he has to do to kill the cancer. My Dad is a fighter and he is fighting for his life! He is trying to stay positive through all this, however it has been challenging because he lost his Dad to prostate cancer about 15 years ago.
My Dad is a great man! He served in the US Army over in Korea in the 70's, wore a police badge for many years, has been married to my Mom (the love of his life) for the past 33 years, has 4 sons & 1 daughter, and has 4 grandchildren. I thought to myself, "What else can I do to try to encourage my Dad and put a smile on his face?" And you, Mr. President, came to mind. You see, my Dad is a BIG Obama fan and supporter. It is kind of funny that I, the only Republican out of my whole family of Democrats, am writing you for a favor. I believe it would lift my Dad's spirits tremendously if you would send some words of encouragement his way during this difficult time in his life! I truly appreciate you taking time to read my letter. Thank you very much.
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I'm sure if you go back far enough you could find 11 players who debuted together. Some of them must have had some success
Edit: You could probably find 22 actually
I'm sure if you go back far enough you could find 11 players who debuted together. Some of them must have had some success
Edit: You could probably find 22 actually
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starc and warner actually made their fc debuts in the same match too
Indians can't bowl - Where has the rumour come from as I myself and many indian friends arwe competent fast bowlers ?
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which happened to be greg mail's last FC game #legend
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After close of play on the second day, Chappell announced in a television interview with his brother Ian, that he would retire from Test cricket at the end of the match. Later that evening Lillee also decided that this would be his last Test match, confirming his decision next morning, while later in the match Marsh said he would not be available for Australia's forthcoming tour of the West Indies.
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McLEAN, Va. - Joe L. Allbritton, who became one of Washington's most influential men through a media conglomerate of newspapers and television stations and a financial empire that once included Riggs Bank, died Wednesday. He was 87.
He was suffering from heart ailments and died at a hospital in Houston, where he lived, said Frederick J. Ryan Jr., president of Arlington, Va.-based Allbritton Communications Co.
Allbritton's fortune was self-made, beginning with real estate trades and banking investments. By age 33, he was a millionaire, Ryan said.
His media holdings included eight television stations in seven markets, including WJLA, the ABC affiliate in Washington whose call letters bear his initials. In an era of corporate media ownership, WJLA stood out as a family-owned station. Ryan said it is the largest privately owned ABC affiliate in the country. Its sister station, NewsChannel 8, was the first of its kind _ a local all-news cable channel.
He owned the Washington Star from 1974 to 1978 before he was forced to sell the venerable newspaper to Time Inc. to comply with federal regulations governing cross-ownership of media platforms; it folded a few years later.
But decades later Allbritton watched with pride as his son Robert founded one of the successes of the new media era, Politico, a must-read online and print publication for political junkies.
The elder Allbritton was also the principal stockholder in Riggs Bank for more than 20 years, including its final years, which were mired in scandal. Riggs, an old-line Washington institution that provided banking services to large numbers of embassies during his tenure at the helm, got into trouble for concealing suspicious transactions involving former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, whose regime was responsible for widespread killings and human rights violations.
Riggs executives, including Allbritton, regularly wrote letters to the late Pinochet soliciting his business.
In 1997, Allbritton wrote to Pinochet: "I am pleased to report the business relationship between Riggs and the Chilean Military is prospering. I am also grateful for our thriving personal friendship, which you have demonstrated through your gracious hospitality and stalwart support of the Riggs. .You have rid Chile from the threat of totalitarian government and an archaic economic system based on state-owned property and centralized planning. We in the United States and the rest of the western hemisphere owe you a tremendous debt of gratitude."
In 2004, federal officials ordered Riggs to pay a then-record $25 million civil fine for alleged violations of money-laundering laws. The following year, Riggs pleaded guilty to a felony charge of failing to report suspicious transactions involving foreigners, including Pinochet and family members. Riggs also agreed to pay a $16 million criminal fine. A federal judge said the bank had become "a greedy corporate henchman of dictators and their corrupt regimes."
Shortly thereafter the bank, which had hosted the accounts of 23 U.S. presidents and had a prominent location on Pennsylvania Avenue near the White House, was acquired by Pittsburgh-based PNC Financial Services Group Inc.
Allbritton stepped down as Riggs CEO in 2001; at the time, the Allbritton family controlled roughly 40 percent of the bank's stock.
Former George Washington University President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, an Allbritton friend who served on the Riggs board, said Allbritton was "a 20th century banker in that he had relationships with all of his major clients. He loved working with the ambassadorial community and being a player on the world stage." That style was not as well-suited for the changes that gripped modern banking, as community banks were getting squeezed out and federal regulators demanded greater transparency.
He was a fixture on the D.C. social circuit, though he rarely gave interviews. He was friends with Britain's Prince Charles and was reportedly invited to the wedding last year of Prince William and Kate Middleton. When Prince Charles visited the U.S. in May 2011, he traveled on a private jet lent to him by Allbritton.
He and his wife Barbara socialized with Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush and their wives.
Former first lady Nancy Reagan said in a statement, "Ronnie and I considered Joe and his wife, Barby, to be dear friends and I will miss his great sense of humor."
For all his Washington ties, Trachtenberg said Allbritton was a longtime Texan with a distinctive drawl whose ties to his home state were apparent "every time he opened his mouth."
"His life in Texas was separate altogether. Texas is where the Christmas cards came from," Trachtenberg said. "He was a nice man with old- fashioned good manners."


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- 100% polyester.
- Machine wash. Imported.
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Mustache Pillowcases
No longer available
- Overview
These dapper mustaches will keep you smiling and your space stylish.
- 20 x 26"
- Made of 100% cotton jersey.
- Reverses to solid cotton jersey.
- Envelope closure.
- Insert sold separately.
- Choice of Tom or Strongman.
- Machine wash.
- Imported.
Mix + match our bedding to create your own unique look with our Design Your Own Bed Tool.
- Dimensions + Care
- Machine wash in warm water; gentle cycle.
- Use only nonchlorine bleach, if needed.
- Tumble dry on low heat; remove promptly.
- Warm iron as needed.
- Shipping Info
- Please allow approximately 5-7 business days for delivery. Delivery estimate includes monogrammed and gift-wrapped items.
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