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-- Wisconsin's two-day spring youth hunt initiated in 2007, occurs the weekend before the regular season opens. This year's youth hunt occurs April 10-11 statewide, and the 2010 regular spring turkey season starts April 14 and consists of six, five-day time periods that end May 23.
The Youth Hunt allows close one-on-one mentoring of future hunters in a relaxed atmosphere without competition for hunting spots from regular season hunters. The new Mentored Hunting Program that took effect last fall allows youth hunters aged 10 and 11, as well as youth ages 12 through 15 to participate in the 2010 youth turkey hunt.
Under the Mentored Hunting Program, youth ages 10 through 15 may hunt during the two-day youth hunt without first having completed hunter education, so long as they do so with a qualified adult mentor and follow the rules. Youth ages 12-15 who have already completed hunter education may hunt during the youth hunt while accompanied by an adult 18 years of age or older. Each youth must have a valid spring 2010 turkey harvest permit, license and stamp.
Youth ages 10 through 15 are allowed to hunt on April 10 and 11 in the Turkey Management Zone their permit is valid for, regardless of the time period their permit is issued for, and may harvest only one male or bearded turkey during the two-day hunt.
A youth who does not successfully harvest a turkey during the two day youth hunt may use the unfilled permit during the time period and in the zone for which the permit was issued. There is no special application procedure for the youth hunt, but young hunters must either apply through the drawing for a tag or purchase a left over tag.
All other spring turkey hunting regulations apply. More information on the spring turkey youth hunt is available at http://dnr.wi.gov/org/land/wildlife/hunt/turkey/youthhunt.htm . Information on the Mentored Hunting Program can be found at http://dnr.wi.gov/org/land/wildlife/hunt/mentor.htm .
More than 225,700 permits were made available for this spring's hunt, a slight increase from 225,414 permits offered for the 2009 season. More than 149,000 permits were issued in the preference drawing for the spring 2010 spring season, which left 76,636 tags available for sale on a zone-per-day basis beginning March 22.
As of March 31, there were still significant numbers of permits available for the last two hunting periods for zones 1 and 3, with fewer remaining for the last period in zones 4 and 5. All other periods were sold out in all other zones. Remaining permits can be purchased until sold out or the season ends. View current spring turkey permit availability at http://dnr.wi.gov/org/caer/cs/springturkey/.
This marks the second spring turkey season under the new seven-zone consolidation, which first started during the 2008 fall turkey season. For the 2010 spring turkey season, a total of seven zones, 15 state parks and Fort McCoy will be open for hunting. State wildlife biologists say turkey hunters can once again look forward to good year of turkey hunting.
"From the information gathered during annual surveys, the wild turkey population continues to be healthy and in good numbers," notes Sharon Fandel, assistant Upland Wildlife Ecologist. "While the results of the 2009 10-week brood survey indicate a decrease of 11 percent in number of broods observed compared to 2008, brood size remained the same compared to 2008. The number or broods observed in 2009, however, was still well above the statewide long-term mean."
Hunters harvested 52,581 turkeys in 2009, just 300 shy of the record harvest set in 2008. Spring season success rates over the past few years have been in the 23-25 percent range.
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I hiked the first mile or so of the Grey Rock Trail with my family about one week ago. I was really bummer to see the amount of dog poop on and next to the trail. We have three little girls and it got so bad in spots that we just carried them so they wouldn't step in any. In the first 100 yards there must have been more than 50 different piles on and next to the trail. I am not sure what can be done about it, but just thought I would give someone a heads up.
From a recent Greyrock trail report: "There was a fire ring at about 2.75 miles from the trailhead that still had hot embers in it and we were unable to remove it because of safety."
Seriously!? After what we have been through the past two years, we haven't learned this lesson yet? Sigh...
From a recent Greyrock trail report: "Saw 40 people and NO dogs!"
That's got to be the all-time record. On my last Greyrock patrol 18 of 21 dogs were on a leash, which I also thought was some kind of record. I can only imagine the abundant poison ivy is having an effect on dog owners. :-)


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Fisker to Launch Luxury Plug-In Hybrids Sales in China
Published: 30-Nov-2012
LOS ANGELES - Fisker Automotive will start selling its US$100,000-plus (S$122,780)Karma plug-in hybrid in China during the first quarter of next year to take advantage of the country's rapidly growing market for luxury cars, company executives said on Wednesday.
Fisker said earlier it would launch in China by the end of this year. But the company encountered a slight delay in obtaining final certification to sell cars in China and decided to focus on the Middle East first, spokesman Roger Ormisher said.
Tackling growing markets like China and the Middle East, where Fisker launched sales earlier this year, is a big part of the fledgling automaker's growth strategy after it suffered a series of financial setbacks and quality problems with the Karma launch.
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Celebrity Obama Attacked By Rove Ad
Karl Rove's super PAC group American Crossroads has released a devastating new ad targeting the celebrity of Obama.
"After four years of a celebrity president, is your life any better?" the ad asks…
Go see it HERE
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In 2008 America voted to elect an American Idol president because it was cool. How's that working out?+5
I have mixed feelings on this ad. The first time I heard/saw it, I liked it. The next time, I wasn't in front of the TV and all I heard was how cool he was – I couldn't see the stats they posted at the end. If all you do is hear the ad and not see it, then you're going to think it's a probama ad.+4
Details of the ad were debunked by a guest on the Scarborough show. Well, he tried to. Couldn't actually come up with anything…
Why are flies so attracted to him? Is it the remnants of the dog meat?
Rodents too:
Hey rove & you bushies…how about attacking The Won with the same venom you attacked Palin?+1
Yep, he has modeled himself and Shelly after movie stars. The clothes, the expensive trips, the lies, the poor acting, dumbing down his policies to the lowest common denominator. The lib lab press treats him like a celebrity.
Having said all that I like the ad but agree the sound track needs more verbiage. The listener should be reminded of his socialist agenda and his disregard for what it means to be a US citizen.0
…the whole point of the ad is to blame all of the economic malaise on Obama without touching on the Bush years.
Are they STILL on about THAT?!?!
Remember what Wraith said on this very blog:
I'm gonna slap the next person that whines about Obummer "inheriting" fill-in-the-blank from Bush. As if [the] dude was just standing around picking his nose and minding his own business, and we all came up and said, "You're the President now. Fix all this."
He wanted the job, he campaigned for it, he swore that the seas were going to recede and the planet was going to heal and free beer would fall from the sky and nothing bad would ever happen to anyone ever again, if only we elected him. Well, he got it — and he therefore owns the clusterfuck this country's turned into under his pathetic and traitorous excuse for "leadership."
But I shouldn't be surprised that Obamanoids are still trying to blame everyone else but the responsible party. After all, that's the core of Leftist thought.
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So the next time some mongoloid liberal stops dragging his knuckles, starts scratching his ass, and says, "Our messiah inherited this from Bush," you can answer him with Wraith's statement above.
Thank you, Wraith. The perfect answer to when the liberal douchebags blame anyone other than Obama.0
Every time I hear inherited from Bush I think "and the Democratic controlled Congress inhabited by Sen. Obama."0


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Mos Def and Beyonce aren't the only ones with new film projects up their sleeves. Here, a recap of the latest music-meets-the-movies news:
50 Cent: Not only does he have a new album on the horizon, the December 9 release of Before I Self Destruct (which comes complete with a film of the same name), but 50 Cent also has plans to release another film in conjunction with the project: Two Turntables and a Microphone, a documentary focusing on the life, legacy, and untimely death of Run-DMC's Jam Master Jay [via MTV.com].
And that's not all: Don't forget about his new Apprentice-type reality show launching next week, and the role he recently landed in a remake of the French-language film 13 Tzameti [via NME.com].
Guided by Voices: The lo-fi indie rock alums have signed on to write the music to Steven Soderbergh's new 3-D rock'n'roll musical remake of Cleopatra, reportedly starring Catherine Zeta-Jones and Hugh Jackman [via Variety.com].
Beck & Gorillaz: And finally, though these won't be coming to a theater near you anytime soon, Beck's new "Gamma Ray" music video starring Chloe Sevigny, and Gorillaz collaborators Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett's "Monkey Bee" video merit mention, if only for their big-screen production values.


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The committee performed its own calculations of low-level radar coverage using 30-m digital terrain elevation model data, considering the full extent of the radar beam (i.e., not just the axis, as in some prior studies) and assuming standard atmospheric propagation conditions. An integrated analysis of the coverage provided by the Sulphur Mountain NEXRAD and the adjoining Vandenberg Air Force Base, Santa Ana Mountain, Edwards Air Force Base, and San Diego NEXRADs reveals overlapping coverage for much of the area. However, there is an area southwest of the Sulphur Mountain radar over the Pacific Ocean that is covered exclusively by this radar. Low-level coverage of this area from which storms often approach is important for monitoring incoming storms and assessing their flash flood potential before they move onshore. Although the center of the Sulphur Mountain radar beam at the current minimum antenna elevation angle of 0.5° rises above 1.83-km (6000-ft) altitude beyond 75 km from the radar site, half of the radar beam is below that level at this range and has enabled detection of approaching storms. The committee did a hypothetical analysis with the radar antenna lowered to 0.0° and found that this would provide beam-axis coverage at or below 1.83 km (6000 ft) out to 125 km.
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Fresh off a runner-up finish at the Kia Classic, Yoo defeated Korea's I.K. Kim on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff to win the Kraft Nabisco Championship and join the ranks of major champions. After Kim missed a one-footer for par on the final hole of regulation, Yoo sank a 20-foot birdie putt on the first extra hole to join Grace Park as a South Korean-born Nabisco champion. More>>
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In 1993, Representative Carolyn McCarthy's son was injured, and her husband murdered as a deranged man on a Long Island commuter train opened fire, killing 6 and injuring 19. This kind of evil is almost unimaginable, and I, like everybody else, constantly hope that the most recent shooting will be the last rampage we see. Though it is safe to say, that is wishful thinking.
The fact is, we live in a dangerous world, filled with sick people with no regard to the preciousness of life. While laws and penalties serve as a deterrent for most of us, there is a small, determined few whose psychopathy drowns out the threat of consequences.
Mrs. McCarthy, in the wake of her tragedy, did what a lot of people do in such times; she tried to make the deaths have some kind of meaning. She channeled her efforts into promoting gun control, and such efforts helped elevate her to Congress, where she has been since 1997. While I certainly extend my much-belated condolences to her, I find McCarthy's efforts to be misguided and ineffective.
Gun control, while not only being in direct violation of the Second Amendment, does nothing to curb the illegal use of weapons and effectively reduces the ability of the law-abiding population to defend themselves against those who care neither for law nor order.
I believe the message of this story should be that a well-armed, law-abiding population is a better solution to gun violence than gun control. However, McCarthy feels otherwise. She has used her story to compel action in Congress to try and resurrect the assault weapons ban that haunted the 1990′s. While her story motivates her, my story motivates me. You see, I carry a firearm practically everywhere I go. As far as I am concerned, the gun debate is over. Whenever anyone asks why I would need a gun, I tell them a story…
My best friend (we will call him "Alex") and I have been friends since high school. We enjoy many of the same things including shooting. In college, I got a job at a coffee stand. It was good money and worked around my school schedule, so it was a pretty good job. After awhile, I helped Alex get a job there, too. I typically worked nights in this dimly lit parking lot in a shady part of town. One night, I needed a night off, so Alex did me a favor and covered my shift for me.
As he was working at night, someone tapped on the back door. He unlocked it to see who it was, when a drug-addled scumbag pushed open the door and shoved a 9mm in his face. The robber, dressed with a bandana covering his face, told Alex to open the till and that if he didn't do what he said, he would kill him. Alex complied, opened the till and put his hands up. The robber began grabbing money and told my friend to turn around. Alex later told me, "I knew that if I turned around, he would've put a bullet into the back of my head." Alex placated the robber, saying, "It's cool. Just take the money!" The robber, so concerned with his loot, got lazy and had the gun trained slightly off of my friend. He was so distracted, he didn't notice Alex slowly reaching for the .40 caliber Glock he carried in a concealed holster by his appendix. Once Alex had his fingers on the Glock, he quickly pulled, chambered a round and began firing point-blank into the robber's chest.
The robber, out of reaction began firing at Alex, but was taken aback by the rounds hitting him. Though the gunman fired numerous rounds at him, miraculously, none hit him. The robber fell out the back of the stand and was down. Alex was approaching the dying robber to make sure the gun was no longer within his grasp, when the not-yet-seen lookout by the backdoor began firing at Alex. The second gunman fired at Alex and he fired back, neither one hitting the other. Undoubtedly terrified, the second gunman ran away. The first gunman died shortly after the gunfight.
So, what's the point of the story? The lesson I learned is that while during my time working at the coffee stand, several people had asked me, "Why would you need to carry a gun?" No longer was the possibility of danger a possibility; the unimaginable had happened. It happened on my shift, and thankfully, the only other person at the company that carried a gun was the one person covering my shift. Otherwise, this story might have had a very different ending. For me, the debate over concealed carry was over. Why do I need it? That's why.
Perhaps I could take gun control advocates more seriously if they weren't so reactionary and superficial in their analyses. In 2007, while trying to capitalize on the death of students at Virginia Tech, McCarthy again pushed for the renewal of the assault weapons ban which would prohibit certain cosmetic features of a gun such as a pistol grip, a barrel shroud (a covering of a gun barrel) and those much-feared "high capacity" magazines. She appeared on MSNBC's "Tucker" to discuss the bill and when asked why she proposed the ban on barrel shrouds, a component of a gun that has no impact on lethality, she dodged the question. Finally, after being pushed twice more for an answer, she was forced to admit that despite the fact that she proposed banning it, had no idea what it is. She even wagered a guess and called it a "shoulder thing". Watch the video here.
I am tired of hearing about the dangers of "high-capacity" magazines. It is an arbitrarily defined term. California, for example, bans magazines with a capacity of over ten rounds. Eleven rounds is California's definition of "high capacity". In 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2011, McCarthy proposed bills to ban magazines that hold over ten rounds. She is not getting the hint that Americans are not interested in policies that only hinder the law abiding and not the criminals.
Furthermore, those looking to ban "high-capacity" magazines do not consider the practical application of their usage. What if there are more than one intruders in your home? What if my friend had a six-shot revolver? He would have been killed by the second shooter. These dangers exist, they're not dreamed up by action movies.
These kinds of things happen every day, we just don't hear about it from the mainstream media. Did you hear about Tim Patterson, who foiled a mugger with a knife by drawing his .45? 77-year-old Donald McElrea who shot a burglar to defend himself and his wife? Curt Crowley who foiled a burglary at his office with a pistol? Dale Swallows who shot an armed robber who had broken into his home? David Whitney who detained two car thieves who tried to run him over with a car? Elizabeth Easterly who shot and killed a would-be robber and kidnapper who took her 1-year-old baby? Thanks to Dustinstockton.com, I know you heard about Samuel Williams, the 71-year-old permit holder who, earlier this month, shot two armed robbers of an internet cafe.
The point is that these things happen every day, and the mainstream media never seems to focus on the usefulness of firearms in law-abiding hands. Gun control advocates exclusively discuss the firearms being misused, but never discuss the role of firearms in preventing or stopping crime. To offset this purposeful omission of balance in the gun control discussion, the NRA publishes these stories each month.
McCarthy and other gun control advocates have been asking the wrong questions. They have been asking, "How can we stop criminals from getting their hands on firearms?", when they should be asking, "How can we make it easier for good people to get their hands on firearms?" In the wake of 1990′s anti-gun hysteria, we have seen a loosening of gun control laws, and a decrease in violent crime. While Democrats like McCarthy raised their hands to the heavens and cried out that without an assault weapons ban, the blood would run red with the blood of the innocent, in the 8 years since it's expiration, we have not seen the much-feared rise in crime. In fact, despite reactionary rhetoric, in 2009 total violent crimes were down 43% since 1991. Murder was down 49%, rape was down 32%, robbery was down 51% and aggravated assault was down 39%.
I was just a witness to Alex's story. Like Carolyn McCarthy, a tragedy solidified my perspective and compels me to steadfastly believe in a cause. This world is dreadfully imperfect, and preparing for the worst is a far better plan than disarming the population and hoping for the best. I leave you with this question: I live in a state relatively unhindered by restrictive gun control measures. How might this story have been different if Alex had lived in Chicago or New York?


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Hey, I don't have the problem anymore! No more user accounts are being created. I think that combofix helped fix my problem. Thanks for all the help everyone!
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? How so? You did a system restore after you ran Combofix.
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Damn I hate it when 2 and 2 doesn't equal 4. What infection did combofix report and what did you do to rid yourself of it?
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I'm not exactly sure how combofix helped fix it. I think that the virus was either caused by that eset bug beforehand or it may have been cleaned out by Malware bytes or MSE beforehand, but just not completely cleaned out when I quarantined the virus and deleted it. It must have been in my temporary files or something but combofix helped fix that.
On second thought though, it may have been gone awhile ago and I didn't recognize it until now because I never really restart my computer that much and wouldn't have noticed untill combofix ran and made me restart my computer.
Thanks for all the help though guys. If you want to check out the combofix report Layback Bear, please look at the log file I uploaded on a previous post.
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ComboFix found and 'fixed' many infected files ... most possibly associated with P2P file sharing.
If you did a system restore after using ComboFix, they're still on your computer.
I'm kind of wondering why you didn't post the CKFiles.txt that I asked for. (need I ask more? )
If you're going to go about using an infected computer, then uninstall ComboFix by:
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The CKscanner gave me these results:
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I don't know if combofix did anything then. The MSE or MB must have fixed the problem beforehand then and then I just didn't notice it until Combofix restarted my computer.
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Thanks for your help Jacee.
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No wonder you have issues - cracked software is sure to be the cause of much of your trouble.
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Just so there is a solid resolution to this post, since it was driving me crazy for 2 weeks. I had the same problem, contacted Eset and it turns out, the version of smart security 6 is creating the phantom user.
If you sign up for their Anti theft feature, they create the phantom user so they can access your computer in case it is stolen. So the ComboFix didnt actually fix it, it just happened to be the troubleshooting step you tried right after uninstalling Eset SS6.
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Lonely tenement on Avenue C and 13th Street, near many homes of the Triangle Fire victims. photo by Percy Loomis Sperr [NYPL]
From cable television to museums and campuses all over the city, you've been able to find a host of remembrances of the tragic fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory one hundred years ago. At the bottom of this post, I'll reprint my list from a couple weeks ago (with a couple new additions) outlining some easy ways to learn about the history.
I wanted to focus on something a little different. Thanks to the research of Michael Hirsch and the Kheel Center at Cornell University [found here], it's possible to actually come up with a map of the homes of all 146 victims of the Triangle fire. It would look something like the map below. Just zoom into it to look at the individual sites and take a gander at which neighborhoods and boroughs that were most affected:
NOTE: The addresses are accurate, but a few of the points are approximately placed. In a few cases, the streets no longer exist, so I placed the points in close vicinity.
To nobody's surprise, the neighborhood most devastated by the tragedy is the Lower East Side (The east side above Houston Street -- i.e. today's East Village -- didn't take that new designation until the 1960s.) There doesn't seem to be a block in the neighborhood with an empty home that day one hundred years ago.
A few years before the Triangle fire, the Lower East Side has experienced an even more ghastly tragedy -- the explosion of the General Slocum paddle steamer on June 15, 1904. Among the 1,021 victims of that horrific event, most lived in this neighborhood and specifically in the German area of Kleindeutschland. As the victims were mostly women and children, the disaster effectively marked the end of the German enclave here. New York wouldn't see such a large loss of life until September 11, 2001.
The deaths of the 146 garment workers on March 25, 1911, did not produce the same effect to the neighborhood, but certainly the loss was gravely felt in tenements and houses throughout the city. The map shows that the disaster's immediate impact reverberated even into the other boroughs.
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Of the 146, most all of them were born in three countries -- Italy, Russia or Austria. A handful were born in the United States, presumably the children of first generation immigrants. So its no surprise most of them found homes in the Lower East Side, still the heart of immigrant life in the early 20th century. But I really didn't expect it to be so decisive. Outside of a small cluster of people who lived in Greenwich Village close to the factory, there were no victims who listed addresses anywhere on Manhattan's west side -- not in Hell's Kitchen, the Upper West Side, or anywhere else.
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I'm fascinated by those who lived further out, near the growing immigrant village of Yorkville on the Upper East Side, for instance. A great many took streetcars and elevated trains into work from Brooklyn and the Bronx, and some might even have taken advantage of the new subway (although in 1911, its route was very limited). No surprise that none of them lived in Queens; the ethnic neighborhoods of that borough would really flourish after the 1920s.
And then there's young Vincenza Billota, a 16 year old girl who lived out with her uncle in Hoboken, NJ -- the only one of the victims to commute into the city. Her uncle came in from New Jersey that night to identify Vincenza who burned alive inside the factory. He identified her because her shoes had recently been repaired; he recognized the cobbler's work.
Missing TenementsThere's something moving about finding and identifying the homes of the victims. Most of these people had no solid roots, no property they owned. Only an address, a home they most likely shared with family members and other tenants. Every year the sidewalks outside these addresses are marked with chalk, the names and ages written on the ground as a yearly reminder. You can look at a photo array from the most recent chalk excursions here.
They didn't live in fabulous Beaux-Arts mansions or apartment buildings. Their homes were tenements, most overcrowded and poorly maintained. Thus, many of the actual buildings themselves are gone. In the cases of the victim's homes on Monroe Street, even most of the street itself is gone, replaced with more modern housing projects. At left, 135 Cherry Street, the home of fire victim Rose Cirrito. The photo is from 1939 (courtesy NYPL); the entire row of buildings was later demolished.
509 East 13th Street was the home to two Italian girls, Antonietta Pasqualicchio and Annie L'Abate, and an older Italian woman Annina Ardito, who all lost their lives that day. But that building has been replaced with a most modern apartment.
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To grasp a disaster of this magnitude -- at a vantage one century later -- you have to deal with it in generalities. The victims were mostly girls, mostly immigrants, mostly uneducated. However, by singling out a particular address, the individual tragedies come into focus. And oddly, you get to place that person's life next to what inhabits that address today. In the case of the Lower East Side, some of these places are now restaurants, bars and luxury condos.
143 Essex Street was the home of two victims -- two teenage brothers Max and Sam Lehrer from Austria. Both had arrived in the United States via Ellis Island in 1909; another Austrian, Sigmund Freud, also arrived at Ellis Island that year. Last year, that building itself caught on fire.
Young Jennie Stellino had lived in New York since she was 12 years old; she died in the blaze at age 16. She walked to the factory every day from her home at 315 Bowery, one of the few with a fairly easy commute. Jennie survived the blaze but died from her burns three days later. Decades later, the building at that address became internationally renown for the tenant at its ground floor, CBGB's.
I'm not sure there's even a 35 Second Avenue anymore. The street is inhabited by a diner and a few bars today; the Anthology Film Archives sits across the street. But it was the home to three women who lost their lives that day -- Catherine Maltese and her two daughters.
Press: Lots of articles will be generated about the fire, but I recommend you start with the excellent coverage by the New York Times, including a story last week about researcher Michael Hirsch and his quest to identify the last six remaining victims of the fire whose names until now had been unknown. [New York Times]


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- 9 mile(s) from Gladstone, Michigan There are 7.72 mi between Escanaba and Gladstone and there are 9.28 mi by road.
- 12 mile(s) from Bark River, Michigan There are 11.85 mi between Escanaba and Bark River and there are 12.11 mi by road.
- 14 mile(s) from Harris, Michigan There are 13.8 miles between Escanaba and the Island Resort & Casino and there are 14.6 mi by road.
- 53 mile(s) from Iron Mountain, Michigan There are 48.59 mi between Escanaba and Iron Mountain and there are 52.36 mi by road.
- 54 mile(s) from Fayette, Michigan There are 20.44 mi between Escanaba and Fayette Historic State Park and there are 53.92 mi by road.
- 54 mile(s) from Manistique, Michigan There are 42.08 mi between Escanaba and Manistique and there are 54.37 mi by road.
- 55 mile(s) from Menominee, Michigan There are 51.54 mi between Escanaba and Menominee and there are 54.85 mi by road.
- 63 mile(s) from Munising, Michigan There are 50.21 mi between Escanaba and Munising and there are 62.99 mi by road.
- 67 mile(s) from Marquette, Michigan There are 57.72 mi between Escanaba and Marquette and there are 67.01 mi by road.
- 111 mile(s) from Green Bay, Wisconsin There are 96.77 mi between Escanaba and Green Bay and there are 110.28 mi by road.
- 118 mile(s) from Mackinac Island, Michigan There are 117.81 mi between Escanaba and Mackinac Island.
- 137 mile(s) from Tahquamenon Falls, Michigan There are 103.89 mi between Escanaba and Tahquamenon Falls and there are 137.26 mi by road.
- 174 mile(s) from Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan There are 140.31 mi between Escanaba and Sault Ste. Marie and there are 173.99 mi by road.
- 160 mile(s) from Houghton, Michigan There are 119.17 mi between Escanaba and Houghton and there are 159.20 mi by road.
- 227 mile(s) from Milwaukee, Wisconsin There are 191.77 mi between Escanaba and Milwaukee and there are 227.02 mi by road.
- 317 mile(s) from Chicago, Illinois There are 268.97 mi between Escanaba and Chicago and there are 317.06 mi by road.
- 370 mile(s) from Minneapolis, Minnesota There are 305.91 mi between Escanaba and Minneapolis and there are 369.62 mi by road.
- 435 mile(s) from Detroit, Michigan There are 309.26 mi between Escanaba and Detroit and there are 435.09 mi by road.
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- 5 mile(s) from OSF St. Francis Hospital, OSF St. Francis Hospital & Medical Group, a part of OSF HealthCare, located in Escanaba, Michigan, is a rural, sole community provider hospital and the only Catholic hospital in the Upper Peninsula. We provide care for more than 55,000 patients and their families throughout Delta County and surrounding communities.
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The Census Project is producing a series of Fact Sheets detailing the importance of the American Community Survey. The first six focus on children, veterans, the business community, rural areas, transportation and health care. Go to our Fact Sheets page to download the information.
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Government Executive
Nov. 10, 2014
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May 22, 2014
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May 18, 2014
Census Bureau: Question changes make it easier to assess health insurance law
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April 16, 2014
'Big data' needs a helping hand in Washington
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March 27, 2014
Republicans Versus an Informed Public
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March 18, 2014
'Intrusive' survey actually helps countless Americans
The Kansas City Star
March 12, 2014
Streamlined questions could improve Census
Chicago Sun-Times
Jan. 17, 2014
Census Funding in Omnibus Keeps American Community Survey Intact
CQ Roll Call
Jan. 15, 2014
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Welcome to the Census Project website. The Census Project is an informal network of scores of census stakeholder organizations that are working to ensure inclusive, comprehensive and forward-thinking early planning for Census 2020. We also will encourage Congress and the Administration to provide adequate resources to meet the task. Further, we support the Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS), which replaced the census long form as an ongoing source of key social, economic and demographic data. This vital survey also needs adequate resources over the coming decade to maintain its accuracy and usefulness to decision makers.
In FY 2013, because of economic, fiscal and political challenges, the ongoing budgets to adequately fund planning for Census 2020 and the ACS' ongoing work were under a microscope in Congress. And, the House of Representatives voted to eliminate the FY 2013 funding for the ACS. Fortunately, the U.S. Senate blocked this move in the final budget for that fiscal year.
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