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WANT TO GO? Lewis Black's "The Rant is Due" WHERE: Clay Center WHEN: 7:30 p.m. May 16 TICKETS: $35, $45, $55 and $65 INFO: 304-561-3570 or www.theclaycenter.org Note: For adult audiences. CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Lewis Black doesn't remember if he's ever performed in Charleston or not. Sitting in the back of his car, riding back to New York from Florida, the frequently profane comedian grumbled, "Son of a b----. You do 10 years of this kind of travel ... but I know I've been through West Virginia a bit." But the 64-year-old wasn't sure. He couldn't remember. So, Black, who performs May 16 at the Clay Center, yelled up to his driver to get clarification. "I trust his memory more than mine," he explained. After a pause, the driver agreed. He thought Black had performed in Charleston at least once. There's no record of that, but it wouldn't be hard for Black (or his driver) to get confused. The "Daily Show" correspondent keeps busy. Between standup gigs and television, radio and film appearances, not to mention time spent writing books and plays, it's amazing he can keep anything straight. Lately, he's been talking up "One Slight Hitch," a play he wrote that's set to be performed this summer in Cape Cod. "It's a romantic comedy and a farce," he said. "If you actually saw it, you wouldn't believe I wrote it. Seriously. It's really a romantic comedy." Black, of course, is better known for his always topical, often political, rants filled with raving sarcasm that steadily build to an explosion of righteous indignation. His comedy is also barbed commentary about the society we live in. "We're not functioning," he said. "Everybody has A.D.D." The problem, he explained, is multitasking. Black doesn't believe that people are meant to multitask. "Don't tell me that that when you're talking to me on the phone and doing email that you're paying attention," he said. "Be here now." Black thought it all sounded very Zen Buddhist, but really, how crazy is it for anyone to try to text and drive? "You're actually in two different universes at the same time," he said. And that, to Black, is impossible (not to mention illegal in West Virginia). Multitasking, he said, is just something everyone has convinced themselves they need to do, including the people running the country. "Congress can't focus," he said. "It's jobs then guns then immigration then back to guns and now immigration. You need to stay on topic and just finish it, then move on." The solution, of course, is medication. "But we're running low on A.D.D. drugs," he said. Black said all the A.D.D. drugs are being wasted on school kids, who really don't have a lot to do compared to adults. "Give me the drugs," he said. "I've got stuff to do." Black divides his time between California, New York City and Chapel Hill, N.C., where he keeps an apartment. "It's where I go to write," he said. "It's also the last place I remember actually doing any work." New York and North Carolina are very different places. Both are home, but he really doesn't do much comedy about living in Chapel Hill. "If I wanted to, I could," he said. "There's constant material. They're crazy. It's a weird state." For example, he said someone had submitted a bill to the state legislature to make Christianity the state religion of North Carolina. Black thought it was baffling. "Really, guys?" He said. "Did you read the Constitution?" But just because he's not doing comedy in Chapel Hill, Black said it doesn't mean he's a different person than when he's in New York. "No, I'm the same a--hole," he said. Reach Bill Lynch at firstname.lastname@example.com or 304-348-5195.


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I have looked everywhere and I simply can not find a list of attributes that can be passed when creating accounts through the cli interface (zmprov createAccount). From my reading it looks like they are stored in the LDAP server, but I'm really leery on cracking that open as I have never worked with LDAP.
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I am needing to do a bulk import tonight and getting the list of attributes so I can get the boxes setup correctly is the only thing holding me back right now.
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Found an answer in this thread : http://www.zimbra.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5820
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As logistics professionals know, there's more to the supply chain than simply moving product. An innovative supply chain not only connects retailers to manufacturers and customers, but it can offer ancillary benefits including improved inventory control, lower costs, and even cleaner stores.
A leading example of that is Best Buy, the Richfield, Minn.-based "big box" retailer of electronic goods. Faced with rising transportation costs two years ago, Best Buy set out to change its logistics strategy while remodeling some of its 1,059 U.S. retail locations to offer smaller, more intimate shopping environments with a "cleaner" look.
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Yes I do. The UCE is RE's future. I think a team ( I.E. Ace, Chumma, Scooterbob ) working in concert could readily adapt Fireball concepts and principles to the UCE,,,,,,But someone or a group of someones would have to fund the project.I see California as the key to all this. IF California with its large market falls in love with the UCE and the Fireball Idea the demand will materialize and then the economy of scale could begin coming in to play.I have no real idea about the European market.
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A-833 Aluminum Case Buildup - Maximum OverdriveWritten by on October 1, 2001 Building An Aluminum Case A-833 Overdrive
A few months back, we yanked the slush box from our '69 Dart and made the change to four-on-the-floor. We'd scored most of the parts used in the swap from a boneyard '79 F-Body and covered that complete conversion in these pages (see "Crammin' the Crashbox," May '01). In fact, the cast-off Aspen R/T yielded a mother lode of components for the conversion, including what looked like a clean 833 aluminum-case overdrive gearbox. The tranny showed telltale signs of a recent over-haul, bench-checked OK in every gear, and generally showed no signs of undue distress, so we cleaned it up, added oil, and bolted it in. Roll the dice and sometimes you'll come up snake-eyes; in this case, the tranny turned out to be junk, plain and simple.
All it took was the first testdrive to realize all was not well. Balky shift action, popping out of first gear, and the noise of unhappy internals meant one thing: time for some four-speed surgery. The overdrive 833 is virtually identical to the traditional 23-spline gearbox, except for the ratios. From the factory, Third gear was changed to an overdrive ratio (.71:1), while the other two ratios were revised with a low (3.09:1) First gear and a 1.67:1 Second. Of course, the Fourth gear, Direct (1:1), involves no gear reduction. A simple, crea-tive linkage change was made by flipping the 3-4 shift lever so that Direct, which used to be Fourth, is accessed by the Third-gear gate of the shifter, and the tranny grabs the Overdrive gear, which occupies the old Third gear position when the handle is pulled back to Fourth. Clever, huh?
The floating countershaft used with the aluminum-case overdrive trannys wasn't so clever, though. In any gear but Direct, torque enters the tranny through the input shaft, is transferred to the cluster gears (which ride on the countershaft), then backs up through the mainshaft to whatever gear the trans happens to be in, and back out the tailshaft. Whenever torque is transferring between the adjacent gearsets, the gears naturally want to push apart. On the iron-case 833s, the countershaft is a light press-fit at each end of the case, providing zero clearance. The aluminum-case 833, however, was built with .005-inch clearance between the case and the shaft. Stab it on and off, the gears load and unload, and the countershaft has .005 inch of running room to gain momentum to pound at the hole in the case. So after a while, the case pounds out, then maybe the shaft has .010-inch clearance to whack back and forth, then .020-inch, then .030-inch, until the loose, misaligned internals result in a grenaded tranny. The production aluminum-case 833 has a miserable reputation in Moparland and for good reason.
The Fix Is In
Years ago, Chrysler used to build aluminum race cases for the 833. While the castings were reputed as beefier, another notable difference between these race cases and the production overdrive unit was that the race case came with steel sleeves for the countershaft; it makes perfect sense. A heavy steel sleeve would have a much stronger supporting surface in the aluminum case, drastically reducing the unit loading from the countershaft. The sleeve can be sized for a tight press-fit into the case, rather than the light press needed for the countershaft in order to slide through the case bores. With a light press-fit (zero clearance) between the I.D. of the bushing and the O.D. of the shaft, plus the much higher strength and fatigue resistance of steel versus aluminum, you have the beefiest setup possible, with no slop anywhere.
Rather than send it back to the junkyard, we decided to sleeve and rebuild our tired aluminum-case 833, making it bulletproof in the process. Sleeving the case isn't the place for meatball surgery. The case needs to be bored out to precise size, and more critically, in the precise location to pull this off successfully. This means a Bridgeport mill and someone who really knows how to use it to get the case prepped; a lathe with some experience behind the handles to whittle out a pair of precision-sized bushings is a must as well. As for the rebuild part of the job, servicing the overdrive trans is pretty much the same as with any 833: The usual replacement wear parts are the bearings, seals, gaskets, thrust washers, and syncro brass. The hard parts are just reused if they pass the eyeball test. Want an Ali-cased 833 that lives? Make friends with a machinist, break out the wrenches, and follow the photos.
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Whatever the reason behind the production aluminum-cased overdrive 833's sloppy, loose-fitting case-to-countershaft clearance of .005 inch, the bottom line is that under any kind of punishment, it's a ticking time bomb. It's only a matter of time before the case pounds itself apart and it's over. Bushing the case is the single biggest improvement to beef-up one of these trannys. It won't equate to the brutal 18-spline Hemi four-speed's strength, but we're talking seriously increasing the odds of survival in performance street applications. Bushing the box is a precision machining operation that involves boring the case to accept the sleeves and turning out a set of precise bushings in a lathe.
The basic working specs for the repair bushings on this tranny starts with sizing the inside diameter (I.D.) of the bushing for zero clearance with the countershaft. The bushing outside diameter (O.D.) was machined to 1.25 inches, with a step register .100-inch larger than the basic outside diameter (to 1.35 inches), .100-inch long, machined on one end of the bushing to locate it in the case. One bushing requires a notch for the countershaft key and both need notches at the inside edge corresponding to the slots in the thrust block face inside the case; otherwise, it'll be impossible to assemble the transmission.
The tranny case was bored for a .005-inch interference fit with the bushing, with a corresponding relief cut .100-inch deep, and 1.365-inches diameter to accept the locating register in the bushing. It's critical that the centers of the bored holes in the case are precisely located in order to keep the countershaft parallel, in line, and at the correct clearance to the mainshaft gears. A few thousandths out, and either the trans won't go together or the countershaft won't drive in. In this case, we indexed the center off the unworn portion of the countershaft bore closest to the mainshaft. Finally, make sure good machinist practices are followed, all of the edges are chamfered, and all measurements are dead-on. Hey, if a magazine guy can do it himself, it shouldn't be too tough to find a real machinist to handle the job.
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Tearing it down starts with driving out the countershaft. The extension housing needs to be unbolted and rotated to the position shown to access it. In aluminum-case overdrives like this one, the countershaft is designed to float in the case and eventually pounds out the case bore, effectively trashing the tranny. Note that the shaft is keyed to the case on the extension housing side, meaning it must be driven rearward to get it out.A steel plug is at the front of the aluminum 833 case and seated in a step in the case-bore. This prevents oil from running past the loose-fitting countershaft. These trannys have a slightly shorter countershaft to allow clearance for the plug provision; the plug must be drilled or punched out.Use a dowel or an arbor to drive out the countershaft. If the O.D. of the dowel is about 15/16 inch and it's 9 1/8 inches long, it can replace the shaft inside the cluster gear, holding the bearings and thrust washers in place, while allowing the cluster to drop to the bottom of the case so the tranny can be dismantled.With the cluster gear dropped, the front bearing retainer can be unbolted and the input shaft can be withdrawn. The input bearing on this tranny was wasted, since the ball spacer cage was mangled, allowing the bearings to bunch up; a very unusual failure.The extension housing with the mainshaft and speed gears all pull out as a unit when the cluster gears are dropped. Move the 3-4 syncro (front one) forward and set the reverse gear to the center to gain clearance to swing it out.Stripping down the first- and second-speed gears and syncro requires pressing the mainshaft bearing off to access them. A bearing separator (shown top) and a press are required.On the bench, the gears and mainshaft can be stripped from the extension. A good set of snap-ring pliers is a must. The overdrive speed gear and 3-4 syncro can come off the front of the shaft. Free the shaft from the extension by compressing the snap-ring holding the mainshaft bearing in the extension with a pair of needle-nose pliers.The basic rebuild parts include new syncro brass (top), which we obtained from Westoaks Dodge; gaskets, bearings, rear seal and bushing, and a small parts kit came from Brewer's.
At the front portion of the shaft, we have the overdrive gear, the 3-4 syncro assembly, and a snap ring to pin it in.We drove out the extension housing bush and knocked in a new one. A simple driver was made with a couple of sockets bolted together with a washer in between to drive the edge of the bushing. The supporting (inner) socket fit loosely inside the bushing with tape wound around it, since the bushing contracts as it goes in.Next, the assembled mainshaft goes into the extension. The snap ring between the bearing and first gear is compressed to lock it into the extension housing's groove.The cluster gear is loaded with new roller bearings and spacers, using heavy grease to hold them in place. An arbor shaft must be inserted to hold all the bearings in position while the cluster is installed. The shaft should be just long enough to support the thrust washers at each end of the cluster-but no longer-and 15/16-inch in diameter. We cut an old jack handle to make this one.Line up the tabs on the thrust washers with the slots at the thrust surface of the case and lower the cluster gear to the bottom of the case. The arbor shaft should be inside to hold the bearings and thrust washers in place.With reverse gear about midway and the 3-4 syncro sleeve edged forward (don't overextend the sleeve; otherwise the struts will dislodge or fall out), angle in the extension assembly, and don't forget the gasket.The input pinion is prepped by pressing on a new bearing and loaded with new roller bearings inside the gear. Make sure the front syncro stop ring is in position, and slide in the input pinion. The bearing retainer gets a new seal and gasket.Flip the tranny upside-down and the cluster gear will end up close to alignment with the countershaft bore in the case. Make sure the bores of the cluster gear, thrust washers, and case line up, and that the keyway grove in the shaft is in line, then drive in the countershaft. Since we didn't include the steel plug provision used with the shorter floating countershaft in our bushings, we went with the longer, standard 833 countershaft. The long countershaft will end up about .100 inch from the front of the case when the rear is driven in just flush. A fill of silicone at the front end of the shaft will stop any potential oil seepage. Driving in the countershaft will push the arbor out the other end.To finish it off, the reverse detent plugs and backup light switch go in, then the side cover. The 1-2 shift fork gets hooked into the syncro first, then the cover with the 3-4 fork is lowered in place, and the 1-2 fork is guided into the shift lever. The interlock scissors must be pushed back with a screwdriver to catch the shift fork for the cover to drop in place.
Bore the tranny case first, since the bushing can be made to fit if there's a goof. The hole was bored 1.245 inches in diameter all the way through, followed by an outside relief measuring 1.365 inches in diameter and .100 inch deep to take a step register in the bushing. The critical part here is to locate the centers properly before firing up the mill.The bushings were whittled from solid steel bar stock in a lathe. First, the I.D. hole was bored to give zero clearance to the countershaft, then the O.D. was machined to 1.250 inches to give a .005-inch press to the case. A .100-inch-long step register was machined at one end of the bushing to 1.350 inches, then the bushing was cut to length and the same thickness of the case casting.Here are the raw bushings just off the lathe. Note the step register on one end. The fit to the shaft was perfect; no clearance, but a tight slip-fit. The inside edge still must be notched to match the slot in the case's thrust face to allow the countershaft and thrust washers to go in.The case was heated to 300 degrees in a conventional oven to ease the press-fit, and the bushing was squeezed in with a jackscrew. Some Loctite wicking threadlocker was allowed to seep in; fat chance that these were going anywhere!A notch (pointer) is required for the countershaft key, only at the extension housing side. This can be performed on the mill with the bushing in place.


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|Bill Spindler sells last board; Spindler Lumber becomes Holyoke Building Center
|Written by Chris Lee
Bill Spindler has sold his last board as owner of Spindler Lumber in Holyoke.
The longtime owner sold the business Nov. 1 to Tom Wirges of Holyoke. Wirges has taken over and Spindler has agreed to stay on to the end of the year as a consultant.
"It's time to retire. I'm going to be 70 next year," Spindler said of his decision to sell the business.
Those calling the lumber yard will hear the employees answer with, "Holyoke Building Center" as Wirges has changed the name under the new ownership.
Many of the current faces will remain the same. Scott Murray will continue part time as the yard manager. Two other employees will include Casondra Olnes and Shawn Anderson.
Bill Spindler, at left, shakes the hand of Tom Wirges, the new owner of the lumber yard in Holyoke.
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Following his college graduation, Spindler began working for Boise Cascade, a wholesale building materials company in Denver. He spent one year there before moving to Georgia Pacific, another building wholesaler, where he spent four years.
In 1975 Irv and Susie Speer started the lumber yard in Holyoke which was called Speer Lumber Company.
Spindler said while working for Georgia Pacific he met Speer who convinced him to move to Holyoke and manage the lumber yard. Three years later in 1978, Spindler and wife Jeanne purchased the business from Speer and renamed it Spindler Lumber Company.
For 35 years, Spindler has been the man selling wood and other lumber yard products at 200 E. Carnahan St. Jeanne worked with him part time at the store until the early 1990s.
Spindler said the late '70s and early '80s proved to be booming times. "At least for us," he noted. Things began to slow down in the mid '80s, but when the hog farms moved into the area in the early '90s, things picked back up, Spindler said.
"Once we hit the 2000s, the competition has been so tough," Spindler said. He noted larger retail stores, like Home Depot and Menards have taken a lot of business away from smaller lumber yards.
Over the years, Spindler said the products and more importantly, the price of those products, has changed a lot. He noted prices have nearly tripled since he began 35 years ago.
Spindler said lumber yards aren't the only small town businesses losing customers to the competition. It can relate to all small hometown businesses. "It's because of the big boys," he noted.
Wirges said he hopes to introduce some new items and ideas to the local lumber yard to keep things moving in the right direction.
Wirges, who has worked construction in the area since 1985, said he is willing to listen to customers and order what they want.
He said people are always wanting new "stuff." Stuff can mean a lot of things, Wirges said. He is willing to listen to specific wants from customers and order in the products people want and need locally.
Wirges said he is planning to construct an additional building on the current lot where the office sits to house more material. He also plans to make some room across the street where the lumber is stored that will be used for office space to make helping customers easier and more convenient.
He also hopes to offer a couple different lines of custom cabinets and to implement a computerized point of sale system.
Wirges made the decision to purchase the business in order to maintain a lumber yard in Holyoke. "Bill said he was going to retire and I thought we needed to keep a lumber yard here in Holyoke," Wirges said.
Wirges came to Holyoke from northeast Nebraska in 1985. He has a daughter Anna who lives in Haxtun.
He is looking forward to providing a service to Holyoke and increasing the inventory to meet the public's needs. Wirges said he plans to have a grand opening next spring to showcase some changes to the business.
Spindler grew up in Aurora and attended college at Metro State College where he received his degree in marketing and management. He and wife Jeanne have two daughters. Shannon lives near Knoxville, Tenn. and Coleen is in nursing school in Texas.
Spindler said the future will entail doing some work on his home, golfing and tinkering with his 16x36 foot model train system.
Holyoke Enterprise November 15, 2012


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Behind the Scenes at Société Générale - Rogue Trader
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Did you happen to see where Danile Bouton, head of French bank Société Générale, admitted in an interview published on the French Internet site Mediapart that the bank's internal control systems had faults?
Bouton said: "The controls were carried out in accordance with the rules for each area concerned" … [but] "a horizontal method for assessing the risk of fraud, [and] a pooling of the information, was missing. It was the lack of this method that allowed Jérôme Kerviel to play on the different deficiencies, which his experience in the back office had enabled him to see."
Bouton is referring to the lack of an end-to-end process view that spans different functional organizations. Kerviel's experience in back office positions and his knowledge of how risk and controls systems worked allowed him to circumvent and override the bank's systems/processes to carry out his fraudulent activities.
It sounds simple enough, but I wonder whether Bouton is guilty of what Nassim Taleb (author of the Black Swan) calls the "narrative fallacy" where a story is created post-hoc so that an event will seem to have a cause. In fact, the auditing firm PWC wrote a scathing report for Société Générale that described a flawed "general environment" that enabled Kerviel to rack up the record-breaking losses. The report pointed to a number of specific problems in the design and the implementation of the bank's internal control system.
Since I haven't read the report, I will put on my Monday morning quarterbacking hat and speculate about why the largest event of its kind went on for so long at an institution that had a reputation for being "well controlled."
10. Warning signs were not heeded: complaints that Kerviel was not following proper policies and procedures, was in breach of limits, etc. were ignored because he was deemed to be a star trader and a money-making engine.
9. Management inaction: management was informed about the problem but they did not react or escalate the issue; they also failed "to question above-market returns." Kerviel's management chain was reluctant to bring these problems to senior management since they did not want to be seen as being counter-productive to profit making.
8. Failure to set/enforce proper limits: There are trading environments that have a "no tolerance" rule when it comes to breach of limits and there are trading environments that treat limits as permeable. The fluid approach to such breaches can be especially risky during times of high market volatility when exposures and limit breaks can grow quickly and exponentially. In Soc Gen's case, limits were not strictly enforced.
7. Risk taking environment (culture): Rogue traders such as Kerviel often flourish in environments where risk taking and idolization of traders go hand-in-hand. In these environments, a breach of limits is seen as tolerable and at times implicitly encouraged.
6. Gambling persona: Similar to gamblers, traders are risk takers. If a trader does not have the appetite to take on risk they will be ineffective in their job. Kerviel is a risk taker and when he sustained losses he tried to trade himself back to profitability. This led to a pattern of escalating losses that led to more rogue trading behavior and more losses.
5. Failure to reconcile daily cash flows: The volume of certain products, such as over-the-counter derivatives leads to challenges concerning reconciliation of trades and cash flow. There are important operational risk issues associated with the high volume of certain trading areas and the lag time between execution, settlement, and reconciliation of the books. A rogue trader such as Kerviel who understands the system and how it works can exploit the lag time between these activities to avoid detection.
4. Failure to comply with internal policies and procedures: Danile Bouton stated that there were adequate policies and procedures in place designed to prevent unauthorized trading events. But no firm wants to operate in an environment where controls are so rigid and inflexible that it is not possible to be creative and profitable. What happens over time is that an organization drifts away from following internal policies and procedures and becomes "fluid" in response to business demands. There are organizations with "no tolerance" policies for breaking control limits, and there are others that treat it as a part of doing business. Soc Gen appears to have been one of the latter organizations.
3. Failure to supervise: At the heart of unauthorized trading events are often supervisory issues at multitude of levels. This covers the obvious "failure to manage," but also includes supervisors who many be caught up in a direct report's scheme to increase profits or bring in outsized returns. At Soc Gen there was a clear lack of supervision and there may even have been two layers of misconduct.
2. Swiss cheese effect: Often the event attributes in a case such as Soc Gen occur in conjunction with a series of control failings. The largest unauthorized trading events contain a number of control breakdowns that occur in clusters. Think of the controls as slices of Swiss cheese lined up next to each other; the holes in the cheese are potential control failures. The rogue trader can see a clear path through the slices, where the holes are lined up, and the misdeeds can pass through the openings without being halted by operating controls. If even one or more controls were properly functioning, the misdeed might never have happened. For example, if someone had escalated concerns to management and management acted – the event might not have occurred or at a minimum would have been much less severe.
1. Lack of dual control and lack of proper segregation of duties: The "four eyes" tenet is a basic one in risk management and after the history of large events such as Barings (1995) it is difficult to imagine any institution that allows traders to confirm their own trades. Kerviel was able to break into Soc Gen's trading system to assume the identity of someone else and effectively confirm his own trades. The breakdown of dual controls in this area was perhaps the most egregious failure of the internal control environment at Soc Gen.
So Danile Bouton admitted that the bank's internal control systems had faults – no kidding!


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To the editor:
It�s concerning that I had to read in the newspaper this morning that my property taxes may be going up. With so many people now, I cannot grasp the idea of why someone would want to raise our property taxes.
I do not think it fair to just raise property taxes. Why not a sales tax � something that would be fair to everyone?
I understand we have overcrowding in schools. I have grandchildren in school; however, as a taxpayer, I must say enough is enough.
I have watched as they built so many schools, hired teachers, and I hear that there is a lot of staff in the county office. Maybe some other kinds of things need to be done. Maybe some people need to be moved around to fill schools that are not so crowded.
Why do our taxes have to be raised so much? What about cutting back somewhere else?
I recently spoke to a doctor and I asked how he became so successful. He said with a desk, pencil, a good book and a teacher who was willing to teach. He did not have a computer to take home from school. He did not have all that fancy stuff that our children have today. Why not go back to some basics?
I will also tell you that if our Board of Education members vote to raise our taxes, you need to make sure you remember who they are and vote the opposite the next time there is an election. I know I will not vote for them if they raise my taxes.
I ask that as a voter in Onslow County that you educate yourself and make wise decisions. I also encourage you to watch our elected officials and make sure they are making the right decisions.
Remember that two of them are up for re-election in 2014.
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Country superstar Taylor Swift has been named Billboard.com's Top Money Maker for the second time.
The "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" hitmaker has beaten out Kenny Chesney, Justin Timberlake and The Rolling Stones for the No. 1 spot thanks to profits from her "Red" album and tour, which landed her an estimated $39.7 million fortune in 2013.
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Rounding out the top five is Chesney with $33 million, Justin Timberlake earning $31.5 million, Bon Jovi, bringing in $29.4 million, and The Rolling Stones with $26.2 million.
Beyoncé, Maroon 5, Luke Bryan, Pink and Fleetwood Mac were also included in the top 10.


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Lean mixture on the pilot circuit.
It's possible that you have some worn things in your engine, which might cause it.If you had leaky valve seats, that can cause spitting back thru the intake. And leaky valve guides can cause oily spark plug.And an exhaust leak at the head joint might cause a lean mixture condition and spitting, so check your header pipe fit into the head for any leaks or visible carbon showing around the header pipe joint to the head.
thanks--will check as best I can. The cylinder head rebuild by the shadetree jackass I paid to do the initial work sure isn't precluding any of that.How would you check for a leaky valve seat or guides?I've been regularly looking for soot at the exhaust header join, though, and not found any.
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Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley has cancelled a trip to the Republican National Convention so he can monitor preparations as Tropical Storm Isaac approaches the United States.
Bentley said Saturday that he wants to make sure preparations and resources are in place. The storm had pushed into Cuba on Saturday and was headed northwest, possibly threatening Alabama's coast along the Gulf of Mexico.
The governor urged Alabama residents to monitor weather forecasts. He said the storm could bring damaging winds and heavy rain to the state. He urged residents to prepare.
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By Hilary Davidson
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (KSDK) - An Alton pair pleaded guilty Monday to their involvement in selling the heroin that caused the death of a local man in August 2012, US Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois Stephen Wigginton said.
According to court documents, 33-year-old Tyrone Adams and 26-year-old Cara Moss admitted to selling heroin to Leonard Hormann for $100 on August 20, 2012, from their residence on Powhattan Street in Alton.
Hormann, 23, was found dead of an overdose by his family in his own residence on August 21, 2012.
Adams and Moss pleaded guilty to distribution of heroin resulting in death, as well as maintaining drug-involved premises at their residence between June 2012 and September 2012. Adams also pleaded guilty to distribution of heroin within 1,000-feet of a school.
Tyrone Adams and Cara Moss each face life imprisonment when they're sentenced on April 29, 2013. They've been held without bail since their arrest on September 5, 2012.


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This Low-Carb Mushroom, Green Pepper, and Feta Breakfast Casserole is something I first made back in 2007, and this combination for a meatless breakfast casserole is still one of my favorites.
(Low-Carb Mushroom, Green Pepper, and Feta Breakfast Casserole was updated with better photos and step-by-step photo collages, October 2014. Before you make this you may want to read Basic Instructions for Low-Carb Breakfast Casseroles which has instructions for different sizes of pans and ingredient options for this type of breakfast casserole, as well as 15+ of my favorite low-carb breakfast casserole recipes.)
Mushroom, Green Pepper, and Feta Breakfast Casserole
(Makes 8-10 servings, recipe created by Kalyn)
8-12 oz. sliced mushrooms
1 large green bell pepper, coarsely chopped (or more)
1-2 tsp. olive oil, to saute mushrooms and green peppers
1 cup crumbled feta (more or less to taste)
1 tsp. Spike Seasoning (optional, but highly recommended)
fresh ground black pepper to taste
14 - 18 eggs
3 green onions, white and green parts, sliced (optional)
Beat the eggs until yolks and whites are well-combined and pour over mushrooms, peppers, and feta. Use a fork to gently stir the mixture so veggies and cheese are well-distributed in the eggs. Bake 35-45 minutes, or until casserole is firmly set and top is slightly browned. Serve hot. I like to eat it with a dollop of sour cream on top.
Breakfast casseroles like this can be stored in the fridge for at least a week and reheat very well in the microwave or in a pan on top of the stove. (I used to freeze them but I no longer recommend that because the eggs break down and release liquid when they've been frozen.) If you're heating in a microwave, be careful not to heat too long or the eggs will get rubbery.
South Beach Diet / Low-Carb Diet Suggestions:
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Ten More Delicious Low-Carb Meatless Recipes with Eggs
(Recipes from other blogs may not always be South Beach Diet friendly, check ingredients.)
Baked Eggs Skillet with Avocado and Spicy Tomatoes ~ Kalyn's Kitchen
Broccoli, Mushroom, Egg, and Cheese Breakfast Casserole ~ The Perfect Pantry
Baked Eggs and Asparagus with Parmesan ~ Kalyn's Kitchen
Veggie Egg Casserole ~ Budget Bytes
Power Greens Breakfast Casserole with Feta and Mozzarella ~ Kalyn's Kitchen
Zucchini Spaghetti and Sriracha Fried Eggs ~ Inspiralized
Easter Breakfast Casserole with Asparagus and Artichoke Hearts ~ Kalyn's Kitchen
Baked Eggs with Broccoli, Mushrooms, and Cheese ~ Poor Girl Eats Well
Kale, Mushroom, Feta, and Mozzarella Breakfast Casserole ~ Kalyn's Kitchen
Pretty Easy Smoked Salmon and Wilted Spinach Baked Eggs ~ Aida Mollencamp
(Want even more recipes? I find these recipes from other blogs using Food Blog Search.)
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If you're having a girl, she now has approximately 2 million eggs in her ovaries. She will have only a million by the time she's born. She'll have fewer eggs as she gets older, and by age 17, the number will have dropped to 200,000.
As for you, the fog may be lifting, so to speak. The side-effects of early pregnancy, frequent trips to the loo, tiredness and nausea, diminish some time in the second trimester. Your second trimester starts when you've completed 13 weeks of pregnancy. You may not even feel like you're pregnant any more. But your increasingly rounded tummy will reassure you that you are!
Got lots of questions? Try chatting with other mums-to-be on our birth clubs and find out how others are feeling at your stage of pregnancy.
Note: Every baby develops differently. This page is designed to give a general idea of how a fetus grows in the uterus.
Last reviewed: August 2009
ReferencesThis article was written using the following sources:
Hadlock FP, Yogesh PS, Kanon DJ, Lindsey JV. 1992. Fetal crown-rump length: Re-evaluation of relation to menstrual age (5-18 weeks) with high-resolution real-time US. Radiology 182(2):501-5
Hill M. 2009. Development week by week. University of New South Wales Embryology. embryology.med.unsw.edu.au [Accessed August 2009]
Medline. 2009. Fetal development. Medline Plus Medical Encyclopedia. www.nlm.nih.gov [Accessed August 2009]
Visembryo. 2006. Pregnancy timeline. The Visible Embryo. www.visembryo.com [Accessed August 2009]


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I have the same problem.
Haven't been able to post an attachment all day. Help!
I have the same problem.
Perhaps it's related to the change in album permissions? (with more than 5 posts i wouldn't think so, but maybe something in the code started a conflict when that update was done)
My finished maps
"...sometimes the most efficient way to make something look drawn by hand is to simply draw it by hand..."
Same problem here. Sometimes it just does nothing, sometimes it gives me a non-specific 'can't upload' error.
I don't get even an error message. The upload manager seems to work but it 'produces' no uploaded file.
I haven't had anything to upload but I wonder if any of the issues you are having are related to yesterday's change in album permissions?
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if it helps any, i tried to upload from web too (loaded the pic on one of my webservers)
The following errors occurred:
http://home.cogeco.ca/~msutter/ss19.jpg: This is not a valid image file.
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"...sometimes the most efficient way to make something look drawn by hand is to simply draw it by hand..."
I've messaged Arcana so he can look at the problem
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Glenn Harrold FBSCH Dip C.H.
About Glenn
Glenn Harrold is an author, musician and experienced clinical hypnotherapist who has helped thousands of clients over a wide range of stress related problems.
He has combined his hypnotherapy skills with an extensive recording knowledge to produce a uniquely effective series of high quality hypnosis recordings that have sold over 6,000,000 and are well established as the UK's best selling self-help audio titles of all time.
Glenn also writes self-help books for Orion in the UK and McGraw Hill in the USA and produces hypnotherapy CDs for BBC audiobooks and his own company Diviniti Publishing Ltd.
Glenn's best selling hypnosis CD, Complete Relaxation, has been at Number 1 in the self-help audio chart every year for the last 7 years, and in 2006 was awarded a gold disc for sales of over £250,000.
Glenn's has 20 years experience as a clinical hypnotherapist in one to one therapy sessions, and in recent years he has worked with many high profile and celebrity clients. In May 2011 he was made a fellow of the British School of Clinical Hypnosis for his achievements in the world of hypnotherapy.
The UKs best selling Self Help Audio Author.
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Background Story
Before becoming a hypnotherapist, Glenn was a performing and recording musician who spent many years making a living playing guitar in bars and clubs. In his teens as a punk rocker he played the bass in a band called The Vagrants who morphed into the Sugar Ray Five. In 1983 they won £10,000 in the BBC1 national Battle of the Bands. They were then signed to a major label, released a couple of singles and appeared on various TV shows, but alas their all too brief taste of success came and went like Haley's Comet.
1983 Television Interview
After turning his back on the hedonistic world of rock and roll in search of a 'proper job', Glenn eventually found his vocation as a hypnotherapist. He began producing his first hypnosis tapes in the late 1990's, primarily to help support his clients. His passion for hypnotherapy combined with an extensive recording knowledge enabled him to produce unique, high quality hypnosis recordings.
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"When I released my first tapes in 1997 I had no master plan other than a genuine desire to make the most effective tapes possible. Much to my delight and amazement the tapes sold well from the first day that I sold them into a local chemist store. I literally used to drive round to a number of local stores selling them for a fiver a piece on sale or return!"
"I still get a real kick that so many people from all over the world enjoy my recordings and get help from them. I feel I've done okay for a kid who was kicked out of school at 15! It just shows the power of a positive frame of mind."
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Future Plans
"I will be away in South America for the early part of 2014 spending time at a Shamanic retreat. However, I do have a number of new audio titles in the pipeline which I will be recording on my return to the UK. My seventh book (number five for Orion) called "The Answer", which was released in January 2012 on Hardback is now out on paperback. I am also adding to my list of Hypnosis Apps for iOS and Android. My Apps are now being downloaded at the rate of 100,000 per month which amazes me; it's a long way from when I used to deliver my cassettes to local shops. I am amazed that my Apps have been so successful there in such a short space of time, but then I am part of the same App stable as Eckhart Tolle (iMobilize) so I am in very good company!"
"I have also been writing and recording new and old songs of mine and plan to release this title very soon. https://soundcloud.com/glennharrold/all-of-my-heart
It is a song called All Of My Heart that I wrote 20 years ago and recently re-recorded it with a session team in California. The singer's name is Brian and he has done a great job on this track. Feel free to leave a comment on soundcloud and check out my other songs there."
"I also recently had a dance song signed up by an Italian dance label. The song is called Transparency and it is available on iTunes in various mixes."
"This year I have been doing lots of one to one hypnotherapy sessions helping with various phobias, addictions, weight issues and anxiety problems. I have also been working with a number of celebrity clients and had many cases featured in the press."
"The most rewarding aspect of my hypnotherapy work is the many emails, phone calls, and thank you letters I get from people all over the world who have been helped by using my CD's and downloads. My aim is to continue to develop the art of making hypnosis recordings, and to create products that have genuine healing qualities."
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It's been a turbulent couple of years for Etisalat Misr, Egypt's third-largest mobile network operator, marked by a political uprising and economic uncertainty. Yet the company managed to save nearly $5 million thanks to an employee innovation program launched in 2009.
The economic slowdown that followed the Arab Spring revolution in 2011 "resulted in a complete shift in the plans and a very strict and tight contingency plan that included budget cuts and a reduction in hiring for the year—a 40 percent cut in new head count," says Marwa Aziz, a human resources specialist with the company.
Company officials describe a chaotic scene after violence erupted in January 2011 in Cairo where thousands had gathered to protest then-President Hosni Mubarak's rule. The company moved quickly to make sure that its 3,000 employees were safe. Private security was beefed up, transportation was provided to and from work, and a landline was established so workers and managers could communicate after the government cut Internet and some mobile services.
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The company also launched a "breakthrough award" recognizing top performers, thank-you cards that managers and employees use to praise good work, and competitions among departments to reward engagement, successes and innovative ideas.
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Burgers containing horse DNA have been discovered at a second major plant in Ireland, the country's agriculture department said on Monday, again pointing the finger at Poland as the country of origin for the raw materials.
Food companies such as Tesco and Burger King last month found that beef products supplied by an Irish firm contained horse DNA, a scandal that has hit retailers with a wave of bad publicity and left Ireland's 2 billion euro ($2.7 billion) beef industry reeling.
Results of tests on a Polish meat ingredient at Ireland's Rangeland Foods, a supplier of frozen burgers to restaurants, caterers and pubs including local fast food chain Supermac's, contained 75 percent horse DNA, the agriculture department said in a statement.
"This isn't a huge surprise, it's another depressing saga that has put Irish food in the headlines for all the wrong reasons," Irish Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney told national broadcaster RTE.
"It's not a surprise to me because this is the same product that has been going into Silvercrest," he said, referring to the plant run by Ireland's most powerful beef baron Larry Goodman, the first whose burgers were found to contain horsemeat.
Coveney's department said Rangeland has suspended production pending the outcome of an investigation and the company has indicated that none of the products, which were imported through a meat trader based in Ireland, had entered the food chain.
Rangeland, based in the northern county of Monaghan, exports burgers to Britain, Sweden, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Greece and Cyprus. Coveney said the product containing the horse DNA was destined for the catering industry outside Ireland.
Initial tests on burgers produced by another Irish company, Liffey Meats, also tested positive for low traces of horse DNA, although further tests came back clear.
The minister said the only two other burger manufacturers in the country had both confirmed they have not used any Polish products, and that their products are 100 percent Irish sourced.
He has also asked the police and the fraud squad to join in the investigation and said the government would take legal action against those responsible if necessary.
Silvercrest - a subsidiary of Europe's largest beef exporter ABP Foods which is based just 6 kilometres (3.7 miles) from Rangeland - has lost its contract to supply both Tesco and Burger King with burgers.
Burger King, one of the most popular fast food chains in Britain and Ireland, said last week its affected burgers never reached


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Correction involving the start time of city council meetings scheduled for Monday and Thursday.
An article in Monday's edition gave the wrong start time for two meetings Elkhart City Council will conduct this week. Meetings on Monday and Thursday begin at 6 p.m., not 7 p.m. The meetings are scheduled to allow council to review on-going abatement requests.
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Laura Gerk earned an Academic All Region Award from the National Junior College Athletic Association Region IX for the 2012-2013 year. She plays softball for the Northeastern Junior College Plainswomen. She is also a member of the NJC honors program and Phi Theta Kappa.
Gerk was also recently recognized as a winner of a scholarship from the CHS Foundation.
Gerk, a 2012 HHS graduate, is the daughter of Casey and Hollie Gerk. She has committed to play softball with the Plainswomen for the 2013-2014 season. Gerk is a sophomore studying pre-veterinary medicine at NJC in Sterling.
Phawn Carper, daughter of Gary and Paula Carper of Holyoke, was named to the Dean's List of Distinction in recognition of her outstanding scholarship for the 2012-13 academic year at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley. She attained a 4.0 GPA for the academic year.
Janna Smith, daughter of John and Denise Smith of Holyoke, was recognized for academic achievement at several year-end celebratory banquets and award nights at Northeastern Junior College in Sterling.
Smith was recognized as an outstanding sophomore chemistry student, outstanding animal science student, top academic rodeo team member and outstanding agriculture student of the year. She also made the president's list honor roll and Phi Theta Kappa academic honor society membership.
Marissa Smith was one of 64 Colorado State University student-athletes to earn a total of 72 Scholar-Athlete awards from the Mountain West for their work in the classroom during the 2012-13 academic year. The 64 individuals honored is a program record, and the 72 overall selections ties CSU's all-time mark.
Smith, a 2010 HHS graduate and the daughter of Dave and Rhonda Smith of Holyoke, was a junior on the CSU women's track and field team, and as a health and exercise science major, she holds a 3.56 GPA. The MW Scholar-Athlete award is the highest academic honor bestowed by the conference.
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WASHINGTON (WUSA9) - A year long, caught-on-camera, undercover WUSA9 test shows DC cabs repeatedly giving white passengers preferential treatment at a rate as high as one out of three cabs stopping for white passengers compared to African-Americans, but the chairman of DC's taxi commission calls it economic, not racial discrimination.
See below for contact information on District officials who can implement change.
See our original 2012 investigation here: http://www.wusa9.com/investigation/article/232588/453/DC-Cabs-Refuse-Service-To-Black-Passenger-On-Hidden-Camera
The cabs sped by him while our crew, cameras rolling, screamed at the taxis to stop, one finally slowing down saying he didn't see the man.
If you think that is a coincidence watch our undercover video documenting about 33% of cabs passing our black passengers, while zero - not one taxi - passed our white passenger.
If you want your voice heard, contact Mayor Vincent Gray at firstname.lastname@example.com, Chairman of DC Council's Transportation Committee, Council Member Mary Cheh at email@example.com, the DC Taxi Commission Chairman at email@example.com, or click here for contact information of all DC City Councilmembers: http://www.dccouncil.us/files/user_uploads/documents/Council_Listing_-_2013.pdf
Including the three cabs that just passed that man, over the past weeks, we tested 57 cabs.
I posed as a passenger at the same locations where we staged an undercover African-American rider...each of us wearing the same clothing and and uncercover cameras showing each receiving quite different treatment.
Taxi Commission Chair believes equal service is improving
Linton questioned the sample size of our November-December 2013 test.
"How many did you test?" Linton asked - we told him we had tested about 50 in our most recent sample. "That is less than one percent."
But over the past year, WUSA9 has tested hundreds of cabs.
Starting a year ago, in December 2012, our undercover crews watched 15% of DC cabs tested refuse our black passenger's destination - video shows one of them locking the doors in his face as the driver says, "I'm not going there."
The cabby then drove a hundred feet farther to our undercover white passenger and agreed to take the white man to the same destination he'd just refused the black man.
In February we, we tested every Saturday night for three weeks from sundown until two in the morning,, testing nearly a hundred taxis..and this time, tracking cabs passing women too.
25% of cabs in that test passed our black passengers in favor of undercover whites down the street.
In May we tracked more cabs passing black or blind passengers with service dogs at a failure rate of about 33%.
The same month, we tracked 48% of cabs tested passing blind passengers with service dogs and riders in wheel chairs.
DC taxi inspectors followed our operations twice, but there is no evidence they ever tracked racial disparity independently.
Following our crews, inspectors issued over 80 citations, but they stop patrolling at midnight and our investigation shows cabs know it.
No taxi inspectors patrol overnight
In July, we ran our undercover operations from midnight until four - when no taxi inspectors are on DC streets.
Taxi inspector shifts end at midnight.
We found 100% of 20 cabs tested failing basic rules like - no DC taxi license at all, those with licenses not posting the required proof with face ID cards, cabs without the required bill of rights showing how to complain and that couldn't print required receipts, with one Virginia cabby, illegally picking up fairs in DC acknowledging he knew he would get away with it because no one is enforcing the rules.
Taxi Commission Chair says he has no data to show conditions are improving
Except for discrimination against disabled passengers, our most recent test was tied for the highest failure rate we've documented during any undercover operations through the year.
When confronted with the observation that the numbers would make it seem that there's been no improvement for black passengers over the past year, Chairman Linton disagreed.
"Well, that's your opinion," Linton said saying the system has improved and black passengers are being picked up at a higher rate, but acknowledged he did not have data to support his belief. "Not at my fingertips."
Our black passengers had to hail 34 cabs for 23 rides. Me? For 23 rides...I had to hail 22 cabs...that's right...one cab, I didn't even have to hail.
Taxi Commission Chair says disparity is "not the racial thing"
DC's taxi commission chairman is clear that the practice is illegal, but he believes taxis are looking for better paying fairs and calls it economic not racial discrimination
"It's really not the racial thing that results in failure to haul," Linton said. "Most of it is economic."
He acknowledged drivers may be profiling by race, but said the decision process is motivated by a desire for better fares, calling it"an economic assumption."
He dismisses undercover operations, saying they are ineffective and says the commission relies on passengers to complain.
"The enforcement action has to have a complainant," Linton said. "The effective way to do this is for people to rise up."
Little comfort for some, like the lifelong DC resident we watched passed three times in a row who said that is his normal experience.
"This is every day," the man said as he got into a cab our white crew screamed to a halt.
Some drivers have defended the practice citing murders and violence against cabbies.
On the day of publication, taxi commission officials released new data saying this year, they've investigated more than 11OO complaints, and Taxi Inspectors have issued more than 8,000 tickets for violations ranging from illegal fares to refusing service.
Enforce your rights
In response to our investigations the DC Office of Human Right has launched an initiative to enforce equal taxi service for all passengers. Click here for information about how to file a complaint: http://www.wusa9.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=262227
Click here to understand your taxi rights and for information about how to file a complaint with the Taxi Commission: http://www.wusa9.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=232705


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Joel Stashenko, Courts Approve Increase in CLE Bonus for Lawyers who Offer Pro Bono Services, N.Y.L.J., Mar. 9 2012, available at http://www.newyorklawjournal.com/PubArticleNY.jsp?id=1202544907646&slreturn=1.
New York Law Journal, OCA Launches New Website for Emeritus Program, N.Y.L.J, Jan. 24, 2012, available at http://www.newyorklawjournal.com/PubArticleNY.jsp?id=1202539693557&OCA_Launches_New_Website_for_Emeritus_Program&slreturn=1
Denise M. Champagne, State Hopes More Attorneys will Join 'Pro Bono' Program, DAILY RECORD (May 24, 2011, 4:00pm), available at http://nydailyrecord.com/blog/2011/05/24/state-hopes-more-attorneys-will-join-pro-bono-program/.
Joel Stashenko, Lippman Encourages More Civil Pro Bono, N.Y. L.J., Jan. 28 2011.
Linda Kostin, Retired Eastman Kodak General Counsel is First VLSP Volunteer to Enroll in Attorney Emeritus Program in Rochester, 19 PRO BONO NEWS, no. 1, Fall/Winter 2010, at 12, available at http://www.nysba.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home&CONTENTID=43485&TEMPLATE=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm
Noeleen G. Walder, Chief Judge Expands Reach of 'Emeritus' Pro Bono Effort, N.Y. L.J., Oct. 26, 2010.
Press Release, New York State Unified Court System, Attorney Emeritus Program Expanded, Receives "Bright Ideas" Award from Harvard Kennedy School (Oct. 25, 2010), available at http://www.courts.state.ny.us/press/pr2010_13.shtml.
Linda Kostin, Pro Bono Spotlight: A New Status Symbol for Attorneys, DAILY RECORD (July 8, 2010, 5:28pm), available at http://nydailyrecord.com/blog/2010/07/07/pro-bono-spotlight-a-new-status-symbol-for-attorneys/
Jeff Storey, Lippman Boosts Efforts to Tap Retired Lawyers for Pro Bono, N.Y. L.J., May 25, 2010, available at http://law.fordham.edu/faculty/20022.htm.
John Feerick and Fern Schair, Appointed to Advisory Council, FORDHAM LAW SCHOOL (May 20, 2010), available at http://law.fordham.edu/newsroom/19401.htm.
Press Release, New York State Unified Court System, Chief Judge Lippman Appoints Advisory Council to Foster Pro Bono by New York's Most Experienced Lawyers (May 18, 2010), available at http://www.courts.state.ny.us/press/pr2010_08.shtml.
William Glaberson, Courts Seek More Lawyers to Help the Poor, N. Y. TIMES, Jan. 6, 2010, available at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/07/nyregion/07lawyers.html.