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The Sierra League and Council in partnership with the Far West Ski Association awarded Lila Lapanja the Frank Ap Memorial Scholarship, a grant of $1,250, to be used to cover training and competition fees for her 2013-14 season.
Lapanja graduated in 2013 from Forest Charter School in Truckee as Salutatorian of her class with a 4.0-plus GPA.
A native of Incline Vilage, Lapanja grew up skiing for the Diamond Peak Ski Team with her father, Vojko, as her coach. She trained at Sugar Bowl Academy prior to her selection to the U.S. Ski Team in 2011.
Last season, she continued to aspire toward a World Cup-level of performance as a member of the U.S. Ski Team's Europa Cup Technical Team, which culminated in her successfully defending her Junior combined title at the 2013 U.S. National Championships.
By the end of the season, she was second in slalom, second in super G and fourth in giant slalom in her national-ranking year group.
Lapanja will face a busy and difficult season in 2013-2014. She will have in excess of 45 FIS starts traveling with the U.S. Ski Team in Canada, Europe and the United States. Her focus is to excel in the North American Cup (NorAm) race series and to take advantage of, if given the chance, some World Cup races for the ultimate ski-racing experience, and to vie for a spot on the 2014 Sochi Olympic Team.
U.S. Ski Team Coach Seth McCadam praises her as one of the top technical skiers in the U.S.
"She also has proven to be a take-charge person who is able to successfully implement strategies to maximize her potential," McCadam said.
The Sierra League and Council is composed of 12 ski clubs located in central California, the Tahoe area and Nevada. The Frank Ap scholarship was established to honor the memory of Frank Ap, an ardent skier and ski competitor.
The Far West Ski Association is one of the country's largest ski associations, with 11 active councils. Nineteen young racers from Washington, California, Nevada, Idaho, Wyoming and Utah will benefit from FWSA grants this season.


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National Doughnut Day, celebrated on the first Friday in June each year, was established by the Salvation Army in 1938 to honor the servicewomen who served doughnuts to soldiers during war.
In celebration of National Doughnut Day, we have 10 delectable facts about breakfast's sweetest treat here plus information below on donut deals and events around D-FW.
Free doughnuts and deals
Dunkin' Donuts
On June 6, participating Dunkin' Donuts restaurants worldwide will offer guests a free doughnut of their choice (while supplies last) with the purchase of any beverage. Click here to find the Dunkin' Donuts closest to you.
Krispy Kreme
Kirspy Kreme stores in the United States and Canada will be offering a free doughnut of any variety while supplies last.
You can find more information at nationaldoughnutday2014.com
Win a dozen doughnuts per month for a year from Top Pot Doughnuts
Stop by Top Pot's new Dallas location starting at 6:30 a.m. for a chance to win a dozen doughnuts a month for a year. See our story on Top Pot Doughnuts here and visit their website for more information here.
Glazed Donut Works
If you visit Glazed Donut Works' Short Pink Donut Bus at 8 a.m. and make a donation to the Salvation Army's Red Kettle they will give you a free Sour Cream Cake donut. The bus will be on Mockingbird at Greenville next to Burger Street. You can go here for more information.
Doughnut Day events
Hypnotic Donuts celebrates National Doughnut Day with a DMA Donut
This may be the prettiest donut you've ever seen. Trevor Powers of Hypnotic Donuts has created a rendition of Georgia O' Keeffe's Grey Blue & Black- Pink Circle on a donut. Sadly, you will not get to taste this one, but you get to see it on display on Doughnut Day.
Also, on National Doughnut Day, Hypnotic Donuts will have local public figures selling donuts, a Proclamation from Mayor Rawlings and various giveaways.
You can find more information about the event on Hypnotic Donuts' Facebook page.
More Doughnuts!
Photos: Glazed Donut Works in Deep Ellum makes drool-worthy doughnut ice cream sandwiches
Photos: Donuts, beer and running? The best of Dallas' Hypnotic Donut Dash
Check out the mouthwatering doughnuts at Glazed Donut Works, like the bacon-covered Elvis Killer
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By Troy Krause
When the school year comes to an end, students are typically thinking about things such as spending time at the pool or maybe getting a job.
Few of them are thinking about ways they can spend their summer days helping others, but a group of Redwood Area School District students did that very thing in June through a program known as Students Today, Leaders Forever.
The local group, which included Gykayla Gregg, Payton Benson, Andrea Cable, Sidney Peyerl, Aiden Dirlam, Mason Breidenbach and Tre Jones, spent several days in June traveling by coach bus across the midwest spending time serving others in need.
Students Today, Leaders Forever began in September 2008 when four college freshmen sat in a dorm room dreaming of a way to make a difference, and since its beginnings more than 5,000 youth have been engaged in service and leadership experiences.
The program has two main programs, including Pay It For-ward, which provides opportunities for students to get out and serve others.
The local students were involved in this program. That meant traveling to communities in South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas.
"I first heard about it in school," said Gregg, who said they watched a video about the program. "I thought it looked like fun."
Benson said she has always enjoyed volunteering, and this looked like a good opportunity to do that.
The group was on the Pay It Forward trip from June 11-15 and were part of a much larger group that included other students from Minnesota, including some from Sleepy Eye, New Ulm and St. Peter. Gregg and Benson said at first it was a bit awkward to be on a bus full of people they did not know, but that feeling did not last very long.
The group got to know each other through different activities, as well as its service projects.
At different stops the group did everything from working in a food shelf to helping clean the trash out of a state park area.
Yes, it was hard work, but it was worth it knowing they were helping others, said Gregg and Benson.
"We had amazing leaders," said Gregg, adding she met a lot of new people and made new friends through her experience.
"It was good to be able to help others out this way," said Benson.
Those who plan to participate are asked to put down a $100 deposit in advance of making the trip. If they complete the project, they get their money back, but if they fail to attend the $100 stays with the program.
Both Gregg and Benson said they learned a lot on their trip, and both are hoping to do it again next summer. Benson is also going to be in-volved in a project through the organization that works with middle school students.
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Less than One Week Until James Durbin Album Launch!!
Adapted from JAMESDURBININFO. JAMESDURBININFO was created by fans to help support the launch of James Durbin's debut album Memories of a Beautiful Disaster on WindUp Records.
In 6 days, James Durbin will launch his debut album, Memories of a Beautiful Disaster!
These next couple of weeks jamesdurbininfo will be full of links to reviews and press about the launch of the new album. But, we won't lose site of our primary goal: helping fans learn how to help James Durbin launch a successful career. This week jamesdurbininfo will offer a "Daily To Do List" that will give you tips and suggestions for just one thing you can do each day to support James.
Remember, selling albums is still the #1 way to succeed – not an easy task in the age of illegal downloads. There is a lot we can do to help. First and foremost, buy the album!!! We can also help generate buzz, which will in turn be picked up by the media, which generates more buzz, which sells more albums. We can also help with making radio requests to our local top 40 stations for the single Love Me Bad, and to rock stations for StandUp. Look for information coming fromjamesdurbininfo about joining one of the James Durbin Street Teams in the coming week. Or, you can sign up now right here.
Preorder Memories of a Beautiful Disaster! This is the last week you can preorder James' new album, Memories of a Beautiful Disaster. All of these sales count towards the albums all-important, heavily reported by the media, first week album sales. You can pre0rder here:
James Durbin TO DO List for Week of November 7!
This post is adapted by JAMESDURBININFO. JAMESDURBININFO was created by fans to help support the launch of James Durbin's debut album Memories of a Beautiful Disaster on WindUp Records.
To view full post, please visit here.
1. Area residents please personally call your local station (if on chart below) and thank them for playing StandUp. Most of these have been played overnight and not in prime time. We need to change that. Be sure and tell them you would like to hear it again.
2. For the rest, tweet or email your appreciation – be very nice and respectful – or you can leave it on their website or facebook. Since we want to keep track of what radio stations we have coverage for, please make a quick note in the comments like "called WKEE in Memphis to thank them for playing StandUp." We will keep the info on a spread sheet so we can know where we still need coverage.
4. This week is the time to join your local stations listener club if you haven't already. The top 40 stations are listed on the pull down tab here called Radio Stations. Those are the stations for Love Me Bad. Look for their contests where they pit LMB against another song and listeners vote. Let us know in the comments section on the NINJA NEWS page right away if your local station is having a contest. Active Rock stations for StandUp will be posted on the Radio Station pull-down tab very soon.
5. We are just two weeks out from the release of Memories of a Beautiful Disaster. The CD was sent to bloggers and newspapers to listen to at the end of last week and review and we expect to see the reviews start rolling in. American Idol is kind of like football playoffs through the Superbowl. Fans of other contestants that did not make it as far, or of contestants from past years like to voice their displeasure in the comments sections of articles about James – and the reviews will be no exception. Don't worry, this is classic Idol and the more threatening James success is to others, the worse it will get. So, don't get disheartened, JUST GOOGLE JAMES TO LOOK FOR THOSE REVIEWS AND MAKE SURE YOU LEAVE POSITIVE COMMENTS ABOUT JAMES. The goal is to far outnumber fans of others (kind of like fans of other teams – it really is like sports or politics and it can get ugly). Chin up, take the high toad, and fill the comments full of your excitement for the CD and sing James' praises – in other words just be us – but publicly!
6. Want mobile updates? Subscribe by sending text "james" to 30644 and receive updates from Autism Speaks!
7. Remember, Memories of a Beautiful Disaster comes out in two short weeks. It is a busy time for fans; James needs us more than ever now!
James Durbin To Do List!
This post is adapted from 'JAMESDURBININFO.'
In the spirit of supporting all things James, here is what you need to do today to support our favorite rocker.
- Check out the new website at www.DurbinRock.com. You could get lost for hours there – it's awesome. Think about your Christmas list and check out the merchandise section.
- Sign up for the Community on the website and flood James with congratulations.
- It is Follow Friday on twitter. Put #FF in front of James' twitter name and tweet it. #FF @DurbinRock. While you are at it, add some of your other favorite celebrities and James fans.
- Be sure you like James on Facebook if you haven't done it yet already.
- Want mobile updates? Subscribe by sending text "james" to 30644
Within a few weeks it will be time for voting for James video on VH1. This is going to be important for getting James' video into the top 10. VH1 is watched…..so keep your voting fingers limber!


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Aliases for CHMP4B Gene
Aliases for CHMP4B Gene
External Ids for CHMP4B Gene
- Entrez Gene: 128866
- Ensembl: ENSG00000101421
- UniProtKB: Q9H444
Previous HGNC Symbols for CHMP4B Gene
- C20orf178
Previous GeneCards Identifiers for CHMP4B Gene
Summaries for CHMP4B Gene
This gene encodes a member of the chromatin-modifying protein/charged multivesicular body protein (CHMP) protein family. The protein is part of the endosomal sorting complex required for transport (ESCRT) complex III (ESCRT-III), which functions in the sorting of endocytosed cell-surface receptors into multivesicular endosomes. The ESCRT machinery also functions in the final abscisson stage of cytokinesis and in the budding of enveloped viruses such as HIV-1. The three proteins of the CHMP4 subfamily interact with programmed cell death 6 interacting protein (PDCD6IP, also known as ALIX), which also functions in the ESCRT pathway. The CHMP4 proteins assemble into membrane-attached 5-nm filaments that form circular scaffolds and promote or stabilize outward budding. These polymers are proposed to help generate the luminal vesicles of multivesicular bodies. Mutations in this gene result in autosomal dominant posterior polar cataracts.[provided by RefSeq, Oct 2009]
GeneCards Summary for CHMP4B Gene
CHMP4B (Charged Multivesicular Body Protein 4B) is a Protein Coding gene. Diseases associated with CHMP4B include cataract 31, multiple types and early-onset posterior polar cataract. Among its related pathways are HIV Life Cycle and Infectious disease. GO annotations related to this gene include protein homodimerization activity and identical protein binding. An important paralog of this gene is CHMP4A.
UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot for CHMP4B Gene
Probable core component of the endosomal sorting required for transport complex III (ESCRT-III) which is involved in multivesicular bodies (MVBs) formation and sorting of endosomal cargo proteins into MVBs. MVBs contain intraluminal vesicles (ILVs) that are generated by invagination and scission from the limiting membrane of the endosome and mostly are delivered to lysosomes enabling degradation of membrane proteins, such as stimulated growth factor receptors, lysosomal enzymes and lipids. The MVB pathway appears to require the sequential function of ESCRT-O, -I,-II and -III complexes. ESCRT-III proteins mostly dissociate from the invaginating membrane before the ILV is released. The ESCRT machinery also functions in topologically equivalent membrane fission events, such as the terminal stages of cytokinesis and the budding of enveloped viruses (HIV-1 and other lentiviruses). ESCRT-III proteins are believed to mediate the necessary vesicle extrusion and/or membrane fission activities, possibly in conjunction with the AAA ATPase VPS4. When overexpressed, membrane-assembled circular arrays of CHMP4B filaments can promote or stabilize negative curvature and outward budding. Via its interaction with PDCD6IP involved in HIV-1 p6- and p9-dependent virus release. CHMP4A/B/C are required for the exosomal release of SDCBP, CD63 and syndecan (PubMed:22660413).


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:: Bubblefunk Ltd :: DJ Booking Agency ::
Bubblefunk as an International DJ Agency operated from around 2007 and closed it's doors permanently in late 2012 to allow James to focus more time on music production. Based in London UK, The agency provided DJs mainly to 5 star hotels and corporate events worldwide, as well as DJs to independent bar lounges and nightclubs. Below: Bubblefunk & fellow DJs Anna Kiss & Tamara at The Mini United Festival. The agency provided 5 DJs for 3 different arenas over 3 days.
The brand name Bubblefunk was originally founded in around 1998 in London, UK, Europe. Clients included some of the worlds largest advertising, marketing & corporate event companies worldwide. As DJ agents we also provided quality DJ talent to fashion show parties & catwalks, product launches, conferences, live events, road shows, conventions, art galleries & trade exhibitions around the globe.
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Understanding Common eBay Variation Listing Error Messages
Error messages from listing eBay Variation Listings can sometimes be confusing and complicated to resolve. Many times they result from items that have posted individually without problem but do not have appropriate data to be packaged together as a variation listing. These common error messages should give you better insight into the error messages that result from submitting variation listing and how to quickly resolve them.
If you encounter error messages for eBay Non-variation Listings please visit the Common eBay Errors page for guidance.
You should be familiar with the following topics before continuing:
While this is not a comprehensive list of the errors that may occur, new messages will be added as they are encountered to help diagnose and resolve variations listing errors as quickly as possible. If you have an error message not listed here that requires assistance to resolve, please post to the forums or contact support.
Error messages from listing eBay Variation Listings can sometimes be confusing and complicated to resolve. Many times they result from items that have posted individually without problem but do not have appropriate data to be packaged together as a variation listing. These common error messages should give you better insight into the error messages that result from submitting variation listing and how to quickly resolve them.
If you encounter error messages for eBay Non-variation Listings please visit the Common eBay Errors page for guidance.
You should be familiar with the following topics before continuing:
While this is not a comprehensive list of the errors that may occur, new messages will be added as they are encountered to help diagnose and resolve variations listing errors as quickly as possible. If you have an error message not listed here that requires assistance to resolve, please post to the forums or contact support.
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Does anybody have any information on how to get this resolved ?
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There is an eBay limit of 30 options per variation dimension, such as 30 sizes, 30 colors, or 30 material options. The limit of eBay variations is:
* 5 dimensions
If your variatiion configuration has more than any of these, you will need to change it to have less in order to be supported by eBay. I have updated the main SSC page to include this information:
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I am not familiar with that one right off hand, but one thing I would check would be to see if you have values that are in different capitalizations, like "white" and "White" and "WHITE". That could cause that type of error to happen. I have a note that it's something I want to automatically address at posting time but it is also something you can fix by changing the values to be consistent in their capitalization.
If that does not address the issue, I suggest opening a support case so we can dig into it some more and if we find a situation relevant to more people we can add it as a new message in this list.
We have applied an update as of the July release that should prevent this error from happening. We found that it was happening when different capitalization was used among the child items, such as "WHITE" and "white" and "White". We have applied a change to reconcile all of those together such that eBay will properly accept and process them.
I'm getting a new error from for some variation listings. Here it is:
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Have you seen this before? Could you decode the "VCS" acronym for me? I haven't seen it before. It's probably something obvious, but I can't decode it. Any help you could provide would be appreciated! Thanks! -Dan
Translation: The category you are using for this item does not support any item specifics at all. Do not send any item specifics values when listing this item.
You should not be getting this error for a variation listing -- the error message tells me some underlying information at eBay that says the category in question can't support variation listings. The easiest way to resolve this is to check your posting template and ad and remove any item specifics that may be configured for the item. If there are none configured, it may be a relist attempt (would have a green RELIST in the errors view) and eBay is trying to carry over the information from the original listing. If that is the case, you can select Post Now from the errored listings view and make sure to select "do not use relist" when it is submitted so eBay doesn't try to carry over information from the previous listing.
This used to come up a lot more, but eBay has changed how they do item specifics under the covers and we've been able to get a lot of this type of error message to go away.
HI there,
I keep getting the following error message;
I've checked your explanation but i don't understand it completely. All of my settings aseem to be fine, can you help please, thanks
The SKU you have noted either does not have any values configured for the variation elements (like Size, Color, etc.) on the inventory item or on the posting template. Since those have not been detected, the posting process doesn't know how to uniquely identify that child item when listing it for a buyer to purchase.
First, you should check your inventory item to ensure that the values you want to use are there. If not, they will need to be added. If they are, then it means that the posting process is unable to see them. There are two ways for that to be seen: configure item specifics on the posting template or use automatic matching. If you are configuring item specifics on the posting template, make sure you have the right attributes configured (spelling matters). If you are using automatic matching, make sure that you have it enabled and that you are using the same name for the variation option (in your Variation Relationship configuration [Inventory > Products > Product Variations]) that you use for the attributes (in your Attributes configuration [Inventory > Grouping > Attributes]).
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I have no idea what this even means. We have thousands of products listed on eBay, and hundreds of listing errors. This is one of the errors that there are plenty of. Does anybody know what this is? How do we correct it?
It has nothing to do with the variations, but there is an error in your shipping rates on the posting template. Specifically, the third domestic shipping option has a bad value in the "first" rate field. It may be a bad tag or a typo in the value, but fixing that value should get your items to post normally.
Ok. Are you looking in the right account? We have multiple posting accounts that we use. I am interested in correcting this in all of them ,but the question was regarding the account " Infinite Beauty Supply - US" . We do have this issue on other accouhnts too, and I will check to see if this could be their issue. We used the little tool next to the field to create the tag. Is that not always accurate? I also don't understand why this would only happen to a handful of products when we have almost 10,000 items on this account and most of them are being sent out to Amazon, eBay, etc. Do you have any idea why these few products would be affected, but no others?
Thanks for the help.
Here is the error message:
The child SKU '03224 001 54' cannot be added to the open variation listing 220824766462 because of a conflict:
Item Specific 'Size (Women's)' conflict:
Open eBay Listing Value: 'XS'
Requested Child Item Value: 'L'
An item specific value cannot be revised and converted to a variation option after the initial posting. To create as a variation option, withdraw the open listing and resubmit.
I have a handful of these. "Post Now" does not work to re-list, and I cannot withdraw from open listings because they are not "open" because of the error.
Please advise...
Your situation is detailed above. Please see the information for that error message and the resolution.
I keep getting this error even though I have each child sku as a unique sku with unique options (S,M,L). Any ideas on what could be causing this and what I can do to resolve this?
The weird thing is that I have other variation listings working perfectly fine.
Error Message
Unable to submit variation listing to eBay:
All child items in a variation listing must be unique to ensure buyer accuracy. Revise the SKU values so that each has unique values or add additional variation options to uniquely identify each item.
The way that error message is written implies that you have a variation dimension of "31960" with an empty value in both of those SKUs and that it is the only variation option configured. There is no Size or Color being seen by the system and since 31960 isn't an eBay-defined item specific it must be coming from your inventory information based on automatic variations. You should check the configuration of your inventory items to make sure they are properly defined with the variation details that you want to be used on your items. If you still can't figure it out after that, please open a case with support so we can assist based on your specific information.
Hi can anyone help with this error code,
eBay responded with the message:
That is not related to variation listings. You do not have any valid shipping options configured on your posting template that can be used by the eBay listing. If you have options configured on the posting template, the most common cause is that the values configured for the shipping amounts are not valid, so check the values you have entered or the underlying values for any replacement tags you have there.
I am receiving the following error on several of my listings:
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I have verified everything on the parent and children but the error keeps appearing. Any advice?
Trying to understand listing error 10019.
Short Message: Inconsistent shipping parameters.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
When I try to upload a listing I get this error
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I have 6 photo slots filled and I continue to get this error
Any Ideas?
When I try to upload a listing I get this error
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I have 6 photo slots filled and I continue to get this error
Any Ideas?
Hello, I keep getting this message? I'm not sure how to remove it. CA says i have a total of 120 Charaters for the Title and I'm only using 75?
eBay responded with the message:
Listing titles are limited to "80" characters. (Attempting to revise only Quantity and Price.)
I amn getting this error eBay responded with the message:
Short Message: Missing name in name-value list.
I have checked and all of the listings look correct. (I generated them by coping and changiing the size and shade values.)
I am new to CA so any help would be greatly appreciated!
Catalog product details and variations are not supported at the same time for the catagory. I'm not sure what this means everything looks like it should post
I can't see anything wrong with the products. They are fly rods and they vary by size. All of them have the size and they are all unique. I'm just not sure what this error means.
I tried to save a screenshot with this but it's not showing up when I view it in the comments.


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The Barnett Ridge Cemetery along Barnett Ridge Road in Barlow Township isn't the area's largest graveyard, but some interesting figures are buried there.
One is Peter Barnett, 56 years old when he moved his family from their native Albermarle County, Va., to Washington County, Ohio in 1845, according to a family history by the late Glenn W. Barnett II of Columbus, a direct descendant of Peter Barnett.
Peter's wife, Anniyaya (Bowles) Barnett, had died in 1844 back in Virginia, just a year before the family moved to Ohio.
Glenn Barnett wrote that Anniyaya's father was a British Loyalist officer who had a family with a Native American Cherokee woman. He said Anniyaya's name was derived from what the Cherokees called themselves in their native language-Aniyunwiya, which means "principal people."
Peter Barnett was a mulatto who would have had to present his "free papers" when he and his family crossed into Ohio and settled in Barlow Township.
"He brought about 11 people with him-sons and daughters," said Bob Barnett, 61, who lives near the Barnett Ridge Cemetery, and is a brother of Glenn Barnett.
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Location: 2.5 miles south of Ohio 550 on Barnett Ridge Road
Anyone with information about Thomas Still (1826-1918), a Civil War veteran reportedly buried at Barnett Ridge, can contact Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War members Dan Hinton (740) 525-2133, or Scott Britton at (740) 525-5913.
"I don't believe he was ever a slave, but at that time any man of color would have been issued freedom papers and had to carry them and show them wherever he went," Bob said.
He said Peter most likely brought the family north out of Virginia because of the unrest brewing that would eventually lead to the Civil War.
"He was a farmer, and probably one of the first Barnetts to move into this area," Bob said.
Peter Barnett died in 1875 at around 86 years of age after, according to a death notice in the Athens Messenger, he "recently fell into the fire, receiving injuries from which he died on the following day."
Also among the approximately 215 graves in the Barnett Ridge Cemetery are two Civil War veterans, Thomas Stiles and Charles Striblin.
Thomas B. Stiles was born in 1834 and died in 1865, according to local historian Scott Britton with Sons of the Union Veterans of the Civil War.
He said Stiles enlisted in the 70th Ohio Infantry, Company D on Sept. 10, 1861 and was discharged with the rest of his company on Aug. 14, 1865 at Little Rock, Ark.
Britton noted during his term of service Stiles had been promoted on Jan. 31, 1963 from the rank of private to first sergeant, and on Jan. 6, 1865 to First Lieutenant of Company F, which would have been quite unusual at the time.
"The 70th fought at Shiloh under General Sherman, and was also with Sherman in the battle of Vicksburg as well as at Fort McAllister which led to the fall of Savannah, Ga.," Britton said.
Charles Striblin was born Oct. 14, 1844 in Loudoun County, Va., and died Sept. 24, 1914 in Belpre.
Britton said Striblin enlisted in Barlow Township in April, 1864, with the 27th U.S. Colored Troops, Company F.
"He was promoted to corporal at that time and later to sergeant in May 1864 before being discharged with his company on Sept. 21, 1865," he said.
Striblin married Alice Barnett and was a member of the Barlow Post 434 Grand Army of the Republic.
Britton said the 27th was one of two USCT units from Ohio.
"They saw a lot of action during their first year of service," he said. "In what became known as the 'Battle of the Crater' they blew up an underground mine just outside of Petersburg, Va., near Richmond."
The explosion caused the surface above the mine to cave in, leaving a deep hole in which many of the unit became trapped.
"They suffered 74 casualties because men couldn't get out of the hole," Britton said.
He added that the 27th also fought hand-to-hand in an assault that took the fort at Wilmington, N.C. for the union forces.
Britton and fellow Sons of the Union Veterans of the Civil War member Dan Hinton believe there may also be a third Civil War soldier interred at Barnett Ridge Cemetery.
Thomas Still was born on June 5, 1826 in Newport or Grandview Township, the son of John and Christy (Davis) Still, Britton said.
Still enlisted on Aug. 16, 1864 in the Fifth USCT, Company K, as a private from Wesley Township. He married Harriet Shaver and died of a stroke on March 4, 1918 in Vincent.
He's listed as buried in Barnett Ridge, but there's no headstone for Still, Britton said.
"Thomas Still and Thomas B. Stiles may be the same man, but neither Dan nor I know for sure," he said."They could be two separate people and Thomas Still just does not have a headstone. Regardless, that is a question which will necessitate more investigation on our part."
Hinton, who is coordinator of the Sons of Union Veterans Graves Registration database agreed, noting one purpose of maintaining the electronic record is to maintain accurate information about the final resting places of Civil War veterans.
"This is an ongoing project of our group, and anyone who may have information about Thomas Still can contact myself or Scott," he said.
Hinton can be contacted at (740) 525-2133, and Britton at (740) 525-5913.


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Purse and Wallet Pattern
I really need a new purse. I need help finding a pattern for a purse and wallet. But can't find one. Can anyone help me?:knitting:
Where have you looked? Have you tried Ravelry?
Also, what kind of purse and wallet designs are you wanting?
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Yeah I've looked on there. I really want a purse with a row of drop stitch. I want the wallet to have pockets for my cash, cards and coins with a row of drop stitch.
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Here are several sources for patterns for bags although perhaps not with drop stitches. You may find a shape that you like and be able to incorporate a drop stitch pattern into the bag.
Knitting Pattern Central is worth a look as well.
Okay Thank You I will look at those. Also I have another question is it possible to double a 45 stitch block to make it linger and taller, its in basketweave stitch
It should be especially if you're just knitting a block. There are lots of basic patterns that are expandable in multiples both in width and in length. Is this part of a project?
Yeah. I've found a couple patterns. One that I really like. But I'm thinking I might design one myself
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Patta just has a way with these silly womens. This sounds like it could've been on Layin' Da Smack Down pretty much…and that's a fucking great thing. Pat for president. Cheese N Dope coming soon.
Project Pat "Sackful" (Produced By Drumma Boy)
Project Pat "Sackful" (Produced By Drumma Boy)
Young Dolph remixes his drinks and perhaps the perception that he can only rap on the most bombastic trap symphonies. This is a lot more learjet than trap house… certainly a fitting song title. Dolph's Blue Magic can be purchased sans dj on iTunes now.
Peace to DGB
OG Boo Dirty "Rap Niggaz" (Feat. Gucci Mane & Rocko)
Ca$h Out and GuWop talk about that tragic, street corner life. Oh, just some hypnotic, sinister plot trappin'. Ca$h Out's Keisha project drops December 18th.
French Montana dropped visuals for his track originally just titled "Intro" on his latest mixtape, Mac N Cheese 3. Grab the mixtape here. The beat's produced by Harry Fraud, arguably his best contribution to the project.
French Montana "Only If For a Night" (AKA "Intro", Prod. Harry Fraud)
Gunplay released another random loose track on a strange but hypnotizing backdrop for the fanbase. Peace to Don Logan, one of the few two time Fresh Out the Box alumni. Check his appearances on our show — here and here. His recent interview with Vice is a legit read a too.
Gunplay "Definition of A Plug" (Feat. Yo Gotti)
Young Gila gave this a twist or two…the traphouse drum kit is still an ever omnipresent force in the rhythm section, just in his own mode of interpretation, while the melody falls somewhere between We Are The Streets era L-O-X and an uplifting passage in a Kitaro song: basically, Styles P would probably rap on this and then be deported to a Siberian prison camp due to the copious amounts of bodies he'd be forced to catch on such new age savagery. In the end, it's copious amounts of substance being transported/forklifted/flown off…etc. – and we are completely good with that.
OJ Da Juice Man "Make The Trap Say Aye Gila Monsta Remix" (Feat. Gucci Mane, Produced by Gila Monsta)
We had the pleasure of debuting this last night on Fresh Out The Box…plus some other unheard of things from Tree and Hefna Gwap. Do the right thing and hit the FOTB archives for the entire episode + playlist.
Styles P is lord of the cold winter rap realm. More proof to that statement being actual fact follows. His new album, The World's Most Hardest MC is out now.
Tone Skeeta enlists fellow Gutter City Ent. brethren Tree for his cut "Thrilla n Manilla". And check Tone's solo project, Mixtape Music. Tree also appeared for an interview on our weekly radiowave installment Fresh Out the Box a few months back, learn yourself something.
Tone Skeeta "Thrilla n Manilla" (Feat. Tree)
Ragazino, the Brownsville spitter links up with UK producer The Purist, who you might remember from his collaboration with Roc earlier in the year. And if you missed the track that PTP's own Geng-Grizzly did with Maff, check that too.
Maffew Ragazino "Fish$cale" (Prod. The Purist)


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AT&T announced that it will finally begin unlocking iPhones as of this Sunday.
You can't currently have your iPhone tied to any ongoing service contract, and you can't have any outstanding balance with AT&T. If you're free-and-clear, though, starting Sunday you'll be able to call up AT&T and the carrier will happily unlock you.
Granted, even an unlocked AT&T iPhone will be a bit limited in how else users in the US can take advantage of the handset.
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Mahalia Jackson Elementary closed Friday
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A power outage has caused Mahalia Jackson Elementary to close Friday.
The closure is due to a power outage caused by a traffic accident Thursday.
School officials had hoped to start classes late this morning.
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By Mr Leon Roberts (USACE)February 27, 2012
JAMESTOWN, Ky. -- Wolf Creek Dam is abuzz with machinery, often bottlenecked with equipment and vehicles, and work crews move about like ants on the work platform in performance of their duties on the foundation remediation project, Feb. 24, 2012. Despite what seems like construction commotion, there hasn't been a lost-time accident in more than a year.
During this period, more than 700,000 safe maintenance hours were amassed on the project, mainly due to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District and the contractor Treviicos-Soletanche Joint Venture carefully orchestrating maintenance activities and promoting safety on the job.
"A year without a lost-time accident is a significant accomplishment," said Bill DeBruyn, Nashville District's resident engineer at Wolf Creek Dam. "On this project it is made more significant by the fact that over a one-year period the contractor worked two 12-hour shifts and operated roughly 24 pieces of heavy equipment."
DeBruyn said the difficult work is also compounded for the contractor, which operates in a cramped work space measuring 80-feet wide and 4,000-feet long. "The fact that the contractor was able to control the safety environment and prevent lost-time accidents over this year-long period is indeed commendable," he stressed.
To celebrate the safety achievement, which was officially reached Feb. 15, the contractor paused this morning and lauded their employees for their attention to detail and for supporting the safety program.
"Lots of effort, commitment and dedication have been invested to create the safety culture that is present on site," said Fabio Santillan, project manager for TSJV.
John Schnebelen, Nashville District's safety manager at Wolf Creek Dam, said a lot of coordination takes place between the Corps and the contractor to foster the safety culture that Santillan mentioned.
The coordination includes daily safety meetings, frequent reviews of procedures, and safety inspectors being present on the work platform to watch over the commotion of activity and identify situations that could lead to unsafe acts or accidents. In addition, employees receive mandatory safety training as required by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
"A continuous presence on the site ensures safety procedures are followed," Schnebelen said. "A different management representative also joins a safety walk each week. Safety remains our number one priority. I am very pleased with the success of our accomplishments."
The project continues to move forward, and officials say safety is important because accidents can hurt people, equipment and even the dam, and can also cause delays.
"At this point, keeping momentum, not losing focus, and maintaining a consistent safety program is our ultimate goal," Santillan said.
DeBruyn said the Corps continues to work closely with the contractor to keep safety at the forefront of the project.
"Fixing the dam and ensuring public safety hinges on our ability to be safe in every aspect of this project," DeBruyn said. "The Corps will continue to place a very high priority on safety in partnership with the contractor."
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According to a recent story in the New York Daily News, 90 apartments in Ocean Village, the 11-building ocean-front complex between Beach 56th and Beach 59th streets and Shore Front Parkway in the Arverne section of the storm-ravaged Rockaways, are "off limits" for health and safety reasons. "Water infiltration has created mounting physical issues including mold growth," the story noted, quoting a report by the head of the New York City Housing Development Corporation, Marc Jahr.
Strikingly, however, the News article was published about three weeks before the storm hit and the residents of Ocean Village—whose name conjures images of a quaint seaside resort that belie the complex's Brutalist aesthetic—were plunged, like so many others on the narrow peninsula, into more than two weeks of frigid darkness without running water.
According to a woman who was escaping the "madhouse" for some fresh air in the complex's barren courtyard on November 10th, people were "running up and down the halls at night" and relieving themselves in the darkened stairwells.
One lady in her seventies said she had barricaded herself inside her second floor apartment every night since the power went out.
"People breaking into people's houses, you're scared to leave your homes. And there ain't no police at night," the woman in the courtyard sighed.
"The wrong things happens when the lights is out," nodded a dazed-looking man in his twenties wearing a wool cap pulled down to his eyes.
Ocean Village, or O.V. as it is known to locals, sustained significant flooding and related damage during the storm, according to management. And the complex didn't get its generators—procured from out of state and the Army Corps of Engineers—until almost two weeks after Sandy hit and days after nearby NYCHA buildings had theirs, because, according to a spokesman, "[as] Ocean Village is a private residential complex, we did not benefit from the same immediate Federal response as New York City Housing Authority buildings in the area." (There were several privately-owned high-rises in the area that had generators up and running before the NYCHA buildings did; it was unclear whether those buildings already had generators on-site.)
As of last Thursday, all but two of the Ocean Village buildings had power. Apparently, saltwater damaged the connections to the transformer and management says it's working with electrical engineers to correct the problem. In the meantime, those buildings were running on generators. Higher floors were still without running water.
Before the storm
Living in less than hospitable conditions is apparently nothing new for Ocean Village residents, though it didn't start out that way. The complex was built between 1972 and 1974, on the heels of a "slum clearance" program that razed thousands of bungalows in the eastern part of the Rockaway Peninsula that the city had been using to house the subsidized poor since the late 1940's, when the area fell out of favor as a summer retreat.
In their stead, the city built dozens of public housing buildings, filling them with those the "clearance" had displaced. It also used state and federal funding to develop dozens of nursing homes in the area. Jonathan Gaska, who has been the district manager of Community Board 14 for 23 years, has long decried what he sees as the city's traditional treatment of the Rockaways as a human dumping ground. In 2008 Gaska told a reporter that "if you were a problem tenant in public housing, NYCHA sent you here. If you didn't have a job and weren't going to get one, then this was the place for you. When the state government started closing their hospitals, they began placing those with mental disabilities here, but without any services."
Ocean Village was not built as public housing but as a part of the states's Mitchell-Lama program, under which cities acquired property by eminent domain and provided it to developers to create housing for low and middle-income tenants. Developers received low-interest mortgages, subsidized by the federal, state, or New York City government (Ocean Village was financed with a mortgage loan provided by the New York State Urban Development Corporation, or UDC) as well as tax abatements as long as they stayed in the program.
While long-term residents recall Ocean Village's better days, according to an August 2012 Housing Development Corporation memo, the property began experiencing financial difficulties early on. In 1984, the UDC and its subsidiary, the New York State Mortgage Loan Enforcement and Administration, began foreclosure actions against the property; while a workout agreement was ultimately reached, the loan has accrued interest totaling $139,000,000 (the original mortgage was $42,198,000). The property has also been operating at a loss since 2008 and currently owes close to $2 million in water and sewer fees and taxes and has deferred capital needs that total approximately $55 million.
Given its financial condition, it is hardly surprising that Ocean Village's physical condition has also deteriorated. In 2009 and 2010 the property—which comprises 1,093 units, 10 percent of which are eligible for Section 8 subsidies—received HUD inspection scores of 41 and 59 (out of 100) respectively, ratings that were among the lowest in the country and were accompanied by a designation indicating that one or more exigent fire safety/health and safety deficiencies were observed. (In addition to Section 8 subsidies, Ocean Village also receives monthly Interest Reduction Subsidies from HUD.)
Death and deprivation
The property also has 17 open DOB violations, mostly related to its elevators, some going back as far as 1993. In fact, the death of a security guard by fire in an elevator on Christmas night in 2004 brought attention not only to problems with Ocean Village's elevators, which had received 12 safety citations in the decade prior, but also to the fact that the public fire extinguisher was in a locked cabinet to which only the security guard had a key—a measure often taken to prevent vandalism. The fire was started in hallway trash can by two teenage boys who had also been setting Christmas decorations on fire; the guard, attempting to remove the smoldering trash bin from the building to protect residents, was burned to death in the building's slow-moving elevator.
In the summer of 2005, a problem with Ocean Village's electrical equipment resulted in a three-day blackout, leaving residents without power and, as a result, lights, air conditioning, elevator service and water. The Red Cross and the local ambulance corps came in to assist tenants, some of whom told newspapers that elevators in the complex broke down routinely, stranding elderly residents in the lobby or trapping them in apartments.
Ocean Village's deteriorated physical plant is not the only threat to residents; violent crime has also plagued the complex, which many locals say has become more dangerous than the area's notorious public housing projects. Just last June a 23-year-old man was shot outside O.V. in what was believed to be retaliation for another shooting death the month before. The police told the local paper The Wave that a war between two rival gangs had caused the number of gun-related incidents to "skyrocket in recent weeks."
In the spring of 2011, two Ocean Village residents and another man from Far Rockaway committed armed robbery against four people in another Ocean Village apartment, battering two of their victims in the face with a firearm. In 2010, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown charged 36 people—including a 12 year-old girl—with drug-related charges after a five-month undercover investigation targeting Ocean Village and another housing complex.
Not surprisingly, Ocean Village has had trouble attracting tenants in recent years, and as of July had 315 vacancies.
Multimillion-dollar rescue plan
But Ocean Village's fortunes should soon improve, now that a long-planned sale of the complex to L+M Development Partners closed last Friday. L+M, which was founded in 1984, has built over 8,000 units of affordable and market-rate housing in the tri-state area, including apartments that transformed what had once been considered one of the worst blocks in Harlem. There, the developers built specifically for low- and middle-income residents, with some apartments designated for people who make less than $35,000 a year and others reserved for those earning over $80,000.
The proposed Ocean Village deal was outlined in the August HDC memo, which recommended the approval by the HDC of a construction loan not to exceed $110,000,000 to finance the "acquisition and preservation" of Ocean Village in accordance with the Corporation's Mitchell-Lama Restructuring Program.
L+M spokesperson Maya Kriet noted that Ocean Village "will remain 100 percent affordable to moderate income individuals and families pursuant to the Mitchell-Lama housing program" and will maintain its project-based Section 8 contract, which means HUD will continue to provide rental subsidies for about 10 perecnt of its units. She also said the new owners "anticipate that the vast majority of all Ocean Village tenants will receive Section 8 vouchers as a result of the transaction."
The scope of work, which is scheduled to begin this month, will include, according to Kriet, "items such as kitchen and bathroom upgrades, security improvements, landscaping, facade restoration, and roof replacement, all with an eye towards sustainability and energy efficiency." The construction will be carried out by L+M Builders, the construction division of L+M. C&C Affordable Management, L+M's management arm, will manage the property.
In spite of the immediate challenges posed by the effects of the storm the new owners, according to C&C CEO Richard Doetsch, "are looking forward to helping to re-stabilize the community and keep Ocean Village families in safe, high-quality homes for the long-term."
Those are welcome words to folks like Milan Taylor, the founder and President of the Rockaway Youth Task Force, a two-year-old youth empowerment organization that has been active in civic and community issues and several of whose members live in Ocean Village. Taylor, concerned about the poverty and violence in his community long before the storm, is fearful that the economic and social instability Sandy wrought could result in even more desperation and crime. For Taylor, "if the new [owners are] as honest as they claim to be, [this] sounds like a true blessing for the residents of Ocean Village."


text: Sept. 5 INDIA: Teacher gets death sentence for rape, murder In New Delhi, The Supreme Court has awarded death sentence to a school teacher who raped and strangled a 9-year-old girl to death in Pune hills 6 years ago. "The contagion of lawlessness would undermine social order and lay it in ruins. Protection of society and stamping out criminal proclivity must be the object of law which must be achieved by imposing appropriate sentence," said a Bench comprising Arijit Pasayat and Mukundakam Sharma, upholding the sentence awarded to him by the High Court. The apex court rejected the convict's plea for leniency and said, "Any liberal attitude by imposing meagre sentences or taking too sympathetic view merely on account of lapse of time in respect of such offences will be result-wise counter productive in the long run and against societal interest which needs to be cared for and strengthened by string of deterrence inbuilt in the sentencing system." (source: Sify News) LATVIA: Child's murder revives capital punishment debate in Latvia The murder of a young girl has sparked a debate over the re-introduction of the death penalty in Latvia. Eleven-year old Daina was found with her throat cut in bed in the town of Bauska. Her father, Ivars Grantins, confessed to the killing after emerging from hiding 3 days after the August 27 attack. "I think people like that have no place in society," Justice Minister Gaidis Berzins told Latvian national radio this week. "This view might be unpopular, but situations like this require renewed debate on the suitability of not having capital punishment," he said. Investigators said they plan to ask for psychiatric tests on Grantins, who has a record of sex crimes and violent assault. Latvia abolished the death penalty in 1996 in order to meet a requirement for joining the European Union in 2004. "We have to remember that we have these obligations, but at the same time we know there are crimes for which the penalty is still death in the US and many other democratic countries," Janis Smits, chairman of parliament's human rights committee, was quoted as saying Friday by the newspaper Diena. In an interview with Latvian television on Thursday evening, Interior Minister Mareks Seglins said he supported a re-introduction of the death penalty. "If we are in the European Union, we have to adhere to its standards, but I'd like to remind you that I was against the abolition of the death penalty," he said, adding his blief that there are people who never change their behaviour. (source: The Earth Times) INDONESIA: Death sentence, is it our right? Setting out the pros and cons about the death penalty always creates hot debate. Many countries including Indonesia, as well as several U.S. states, still have capital punishment, while the practice has been abolished in Europe and Australia. Opponents of capital punishment argue there are many who still do not realize or recognize the death penalty violates the right to life as an inherent right of all human beings. The death penalty is a form of cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment. It is nothing more than legalized murder done by the state in the name of justice. If we think murder is extremely cruel -- so much so the perpetrators must receive a death sentence -- then how can we say preparing an execution team of 20 shooters to take someone's life is not inhuman? One of the favorite arguments put forth by retentionists -- those who support the death penalty -- to justify capital punishment is it is one of the most effective deterrents for would-be criminals. They argue the death penalty is needed to prevent other members of society from committing crimes. Statistics from many countries, however, demonstrate the death penalty has little effect on decreasing crime. It is not the severity of the punishment which will deter crime and convey justice for the victim but the certainty perpetrators are convicted after a just, transparent trial, a legal process which determines guilt based on evidence. "But the death penalty meets society's need for justice." Retentionists often use this argument as well. Anyone who has committed a serious crime deserves to die. Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth, a life for a life. Is that the kind of justice we stand for here? If so, then why not torture a torturer? At this point, we strongly condemn the practice of torture or, at least, prohibition of torture is clearly codified in the UN Convention against Torture. Letting that argument play out, why doesn't our legal system allow the state to rape a rapist? It is simply because, deep down inside our conscience, we all know justice is not about taking that which the perpetrator has taken from us. For a long time, we have been sickened by cruel crimes and have asked the government to impede such cruelty by applying the death penalty. Yet we never put 2 and 2 together to see capital punishment does nothing more than continue the chain of atrocity. Retentionists often link the notion of death penalty with a victim's need for justice. But who are they to talk about what any victim considers justice to be? Victims often forgive perpetrators and even unequivocally declare they do not want the perpetrators to be executed. If we really want to punish perpetrators for the victims' sake, it is akin to punishing people based on emotional considerations. If punishments are linked to victims' feelings, then sanctions become subjective and risk becoming arbitrary. Let's not forget the criminal justice system is vulnerable to error, an essential consideration in this debate. Fallibility is something we, as human beings, cannot avoid since it is in our nature. We cannot prevent all false convictions even with the system of judicial appeal. Even an impartial and transparent legal process cannot always prevent this sort of human error. It is thus imprudent to allow this vulnerable system to decide if someone "deserves" to die or not. As has already been proved in many cases, a court may execute someone who is falsely convicted. There are cases in which the executed were found innocent after the real perpetrators confessed and, unfortunately, after the executed had already lost their life. When this happens, consider who is responsible. If we are speaking of justice, what kind of justice can the victim, the executed one, and his or her family experience? We cannot bring the wrongly convicted back to life. Are retentionists willing to be responsible? One final argument which Indonesian retentionists use to defend their position on the death penalty is a decision by Indonesia's Constitutional Court. In that decision, the right to life guaranteed in Article 28I, paragraph 1, of the Constitution is also subject to "limitation" as mentioned in the subsequent Article 28J, paragraph 2. The Constitutional Court confirmed the death penalty is not a violation of the right to life, only a limitation of that right. That decision hinges on how we interpret what rights can be impaired, and which cannot. Is it true the right to life, explicitly mentioned in the Constitution as a right which cannot be derogated, is also subject to "limitation" as the Constitutional Court ruled? Life is grace. It is a grace which is given by God. If He is the one who gave us life, then He must be the one with the right to take it. Who are we, as humans, to think we have the right to arrange somebody's moment of death? Who are we to judge whether someone is evil enough and hence deserves to die? Are we playing God? (source: Ricky Gunawan is international relations manager at the Community Legal Aid Institute. Answer C. Styannes is a research associate at the Community Legal Aid Institute; Opinion, Jakarta Post)


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The Second Annual FF Billy Quick Memorial Volleyball Tournament will be held on Wednesday, June 12, 2013 (raindate June 19, 2013) at 8:00am, continuing in memory of the Lt. Williams volleyball tournament. Registration will begin at Riverside Blvd. at the Beach in Long Beach, NY.
Pre-Registration: $35.00 per person, On-site registration: $40.00 per person. Pre-Registration checks must be received before May 31, 2013.
Teams must consist of at least 6 persons.
Please note: All checks should be made payable to the Lt. Williams Fund, NOT the FF Billy Quick Fund. Checks should be mailed to Mrs. Lisa Quick, 87 Malone Avenue, East Atlantic Beach, NY11561. For more information, please contact Lisa at email@example.com.


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During the last few months of the presidential campaign, Billy Belchev and
Paul Baker of Webitects traveled to Obama for America offices in swing
states studying the campaign's ground game.
Using design research methods, they recorded screens, mouse movements, and
voices as organizers "cut turf," pulled walking and calling lists, entered
volunteer information, etc. They also photographed and collected artifacts,
took videos of strategy meetings, and interviewed organizers. Their design
research will help inform the redesign of campaign software.
In very graphic terms, they will present what they learned, and how they
learned it.
Zack Exley of ThoughtWorks and the New Organizing Institute (former Director
of Online Communications and Organizing for John Kerry's campaign) will also
preview his book about the Obama ground game. See his related story on the
Huffington Post at
Wednesday, January 14, 6:30-8:30,
ThoughtWorks in the AON building.
Please RSVP if you want to
Food and beverages will be provided.
Announcements from the Dec event:*
Know anyone interested in a contract development position at a
competitive hourly rate?
The office is located at 1900 N Clybourn.
Skills requested:
1. General web developer with Moveable Type or Wordpress skills, or able
to learn Moveable Type 4; PHP, Javascript, MS-SQL.
2. Actionscript3, Flex3, Ruby On Rails.
email: Patrick Malon at malonp at gmail.com for more information and
mention where you saw this posting
*Sears Holdings Corp is looking for:*
Information Architect: Taxonomy Specialist
Project Overview:
Must be able to analyze large amounts of data about a product assortment
to create categorical relationships among entries to enable shoppers to
browse to a desired product.
Required Skills/ Experience:
• Card sorting,
• Task analysis,
• interview methods,
• contextual inquiry & affinity diagramming,
• Web analytics,
• metadata organizing & ontology design
• categorization & labeling
• clickstream analysis (Tea leaf),
• search term analysis (Omniture)
• user survey creation and analysis,
• heuristic & competitive review
• evaluation methods
Interface Design
• UI design
• site architecture
• faceted browsing & search
• Navigation design
Consulting Skills
• Understanding business needs in relation to user needs &
technology restraints
• Ability to negotiate with business stakeholders
• Gain consensus on designs through peer review
• Team leadership
• Group facilitation
• Project planning and tracking, keeping to tight deadlines
• Mentorship of co-workers
• Identification tools, templates, and techniques that
evolve existing approaches for the user experience group
Desired, but not required Skills/ Experience:
• Ability to run remote testing
• TeaLeaf and Omniture experience
• Semantic Web and underlying technologies
• Semantic tagging
• Degree in Information Science
Daily Responsibilities:
The Taxonomy Specialist will play a key role in presenting our products
As a member of the Experience Strategy & Design Group you will work
closely with Business Stakeholders (Management, Merchandising, IT) to
ensure that the Sears.com, Kmart.com and other web-based products meet
business objectives, support the brand and are useful, intuitive and
desirable to users.
You will work with multidisciplinary teams to create smart, innovative
online solutions involving:
• Understanding target audiences' needs and other motivating
factors and translating them into concepts for compelling interactions
and experiences.
• Planning and executing iterative user research and
analysis projects including but not limited to interviews, concept
testing, and usability testing and heuristic evaluations.
• Leading and/or participating in immersive user research,
concept testing, and usability testing.
• Collaboratively developing scenarios, navigation models,
and prototypes for demonstration of concepts to stakeholders and project
• Developing and documenting detailed information
architecture and interaction designs for highly interactive interfaces
to support business strategy, marketing strategy, and desired user
• Serving as an expert consultant during the detailed design
phase by reviewing interaction design, copy and visual design for
usability best practices.
Please send resume to :
Mark FelcanSmith and Scott Confer
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By Staff Sgt. Susan Wilt, 82nd Airborne Division Public AffairsMarch 15, 2011
FORT BRAGG, N.C. - Every NASCAR fan loves to hear the words "Gentlemen start your engines," on race day because it's followed up by the loud roar of 42 stock car engines firing up and their favorite driver getting behind the wheel and stepping on the gas to try and win.
In the week following the race there's always a slew of radio shows and television shows that re-cap the race and start revving up for the next one. If someone is a NASCAR fan then being part of one of those shows is a big deal.
Monday, approximately 50 Service members and their family members came out to Sports USA on Fort Bragg to be part of "Fast Talk Radio" on the Performance Racing Network and visit with NASCAR drivers; Ryan Newman, driver of the #39 U.S. Army Chevrolet car in the Sprint Cup series, and Kyle Petty, retired NASCAR driver, son of racing legend Richard Petty, and co-host of the show.
"It means a lot to me to have them come out, it shows that they care and are willing to talk to us," said Greensboro, N.C, native, Sgt. Serge Ziegler, Company B, 188th Brigade Support Battalion, 18th Fires Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division.
The purpose of the show was to help kick-off Charlotte Motor Speedway's "Let the Troops Race" ticket program, a program that will send members of the Armed Forces to the Coca-Cola 600 at the speedway, May 29. Last year more than 3,000 service members attended the race and were part of the pre-race activities. The program works with the USO of N.C. to ensure that the tickets are distributed to the Service members.
"We believe this event to be the most patriotic in all of sports," said Scott Cooper, vice president of communications for Charlotte Motor Speedway. "It's a great way for us to pay tribute to all those Soldiers who have given the ultimate sacrifice to protect our freedoms, and also all those active duty service men and women that continue to serve today."
Sgt. James Agan, of Raeford, N.C., and member of the 1st Theater Sustainment Command, took his NASCAR loving family to the Coca-Cola 600 last year, and they are looking forward to attending the race this year.
"We went to the race last year and loved it," said Agan, who was at the show because he and his family wanted to meet the different drivers.
"I've always enjoyed Ryan Newman ever since he started driving the Army car," said Agan, who's been on active duty for the past 15 years.
The race fans weren't the only ones excited for the meet and greet opportunity; the drivers themselves were just as excited to chat with the Service members about racing.
"This type of setting is great, the people who come to this are race fans, it's as simple as that," Petty said.
During the show, Col. Stephen J. Sicinski, the garrison commander of the base, talked about Fort Bragg's different units and capabilities. The USO of N.C. president, John Falkenbury, also spoke on the panel about working with Charlotte Motor Speedway for the Coca-Cola 600.
The audience members also got a chance to ask the drivers different questions on the air, which ranged from "how many speeding tickets have you had" to "what's your favorite race track." Anyone who had one of his/her questions asked won tickets to the Coca-Cola 600.
"Just giving them the opportunity to come out and enjoy what we do and our sport during the holiday weekend...is pretty special," Newman said talking about the race.


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Issue 382: 5 / 9 / 2011
The Southwest Class of 2011 Challenged to "Have a Plan" to "Change the World"
Amidst a sea of black regalia, glad hearts and hopeful spirits soared as family and love ones awaited the pronouncement of their names, signaling their turn to walk across the stage to receive that piece of paper proclaiming "I did it!" More than 1,700 graduates marching to the traditional Pomp and Circumstance were encouraged to "Have a Plan" by Commencement Speaker Joseph DeVivo and to "Change the World" by Student Speaker Tinisia Branch during the Southwest Tennessee Community College 2011 Commencement Ceremony on May 7, at the DeSoto Civic Center in Southaven, MS.
Southwest President Nathan L. Essex welcomed family members and friends and applauded the outstanding efforts and accomplishments of graduates. Among them was Jacqueline Bain, awarded a Dietetic Technician Degree 30 years after an earlier, unsuccessful attempt to go to college when she graduated from high school. Bain was privileged to graduate concurrently with her daughter, Kristen, who earned an Associate of Science degree in teaching.
Also recognized for overcoming tremendous odds was Robert Hunt, who bravely served his country in the U.S. armed forces from 1995 to 2007. Hunt was discharged due to an injury he sustained while deployed in Iraq. Matriculating through Southwest, Hunt served as vice president of the International Studies and Veterans clubs and held membership with the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, graduating with a 3.79 GPA. All graduating members of the armed forces were commended.
Other students President Essex commended were those who had dually enrolled in high school and Southwest. John McDaniel earned both an Associate of Arts degree in general education while also earning a high school diploma. Ariel Anderson, Lindsay Avis, Callie Goldsby, Josue Medrano, and Kristin Harris were awarded technical certificates in electrical electronics fundamentals as well as high school diplomas.
Powerful business leader, Joseph DeVivo, asked the question "Do you have a plan?" in his address to the Southwest Graduating Class of 2011. DeVivo detailed the events of his life, both disappointing and rewarding that led to his current position as President of Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics. He culminated his message with ten pieces of advice from his personal experiences: (1) Listen to your inner voice, (2) Find your passion, (3) Be dependable, (4) Put your company first and your career second, (5) Try to learn every day, (6) Take on the company's largest problems, (7) Include your family in your work, (8) Focus on the job you have, not on the job you want, (9) Don't worry, and (10) Live to be debt free. He also added "Give back to your community."
Eloquent and commanding, Southwest Student Speaker Tinisia Branch, a sociology major, encouraged her classmates to think of their diplomas, as she once heard Tom Brokaw, former TV journalist and NBC anchor, say – "tickets to 'change the world.'" Branch remarked, "Each and every one of us has the opportunity to change the world. …Graduates of 2011 take your tickets and change the world!" Branch served as President of the Honors Academy and Services Learning Club.
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Twitter Slumps to New Lows as Lockup Expires
Twitter shares sank Tuesday morning as early investors and employees were allowed to sell their stakes for the first time since the company went public six months ago.
Rules that barred insiders from unloading their stakes after Twitter's Nov. 7 initial public offering expired on Tuesday. It unlocked some 489 million shares, or about 83% of shares outstanding, though holders can also opt to hold on to part or all of their stakes and some key shareholders have already said they didn't plan to sell.
Shares fell as much as 10% to $34.84 as volume in the first 20 minutes of trading was more than double the number of Twitter shares that typically change hands per day. Some 27 million shares traded in that span, compared to the daily average of 13.2 million shares that have exchanged hands, on average, over the past 30 days, according to FactSet.
Twitter went public in November with a $2.1 billion IPO priced at $26 per share. The stock skyrocketed out of the gate, climbing as high as $74.73 in late December. But shares have dropped more than 40% this year as investors have grown increasingly skeptical of its long-term prospects. In last week's quarterly report, Twitter's user-growth numbers failed to impress Wall Street despite doubling quarterly revenue again.
Lockups are widely followed on Wall Street. These agreements prevent a company's pre-IPO shareholders from selling stock for a certain amount of time after an offering. The expiration of the agreements can have a big impact on a company's stock, as seen in other high-profile tech stocks in recent years. Facebook, Groupon and LinkedIn all tumbled on the day each of their major lockups expired.
Key investors including co-founders Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams and CEO Dick Costolo said last month they would not sell their shares, signaling their long-term confidence in the firm. Other early backers such as Rizvi Traverse Management LLC, whose 14.4% stake is the largest, have also vowed not to part with their shares on Tuesday. In all, that would keep about 34% of Twitter's shares away from the public markets for now.
Insiders owned about 13.4% of outstanding shares leading up to the lockup expiration, representing roughly $3 billion of Twitter's current $23 billion market cap, according to S&P Capital IQ. It is smaller than the 32% of outstanding shares held by institutions and 25% belonging to venture capital or private equity firms.
There are 589.47 million outstanding shares.
On Monday, two senior employees filed plans to sell portions of their stake. According to a securities filing, Twitter's vice president of engineering Christopher Fry sold 19,568 shares at $39.09 while general counsel Vijaya Gadde parted with 3,914 shares.
Both were small slices of their total holdings. Mr. Fry held 949,181 shares after the sale while Ms. Gadde owned 861,642.


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Most of the revenue from the 13-day auction was earned from the sales of jade, which fetched more than 128 million euros ($172 million). Gemstones and pearls were the other items offered.


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Dallas Crime Watch: Tuesday, July 21, 2009
A sampling of crime and public safety news in and around Dallas:
• Steve Thompson unravels the horrifying tale of three children who were locked for months in a bathroom, and were starved. The eldest, an 11-year-old girl, told authorities that her step-father repeatedly raped her. When CPS investigators asked one of them, a 10-year-old boy, what they could do for him after the children were freed, he replied, "I'm safe. That's all I need."
• A story by Dallas County reporter Kevin Krause digs into the dealings of two county constables who have an unusual relationship with a towing company that has a troubled history. Since 2007, the two constables have towed more vehicles than many cities in Dallas County.
• Interns Matthew Waller and Megan Goodson looked into a series of alarm system scams that are rattling North Texas residents.
• The Dallas City Hall corruption trial was fairly quiet Monday, but Gromer Jeffers Jr. takes an informative look at how the trial has revealed the inner workings of money and politics down at City Hall in his weekly column.
• A law going into effect September 1 will close a loophole and allow emergency workers to be exempt from tickets from red-light cameras.
• Steve Stoler at WFAA got the goods on one of the freakiest crime sprees in years: A monkey who was caught on video stealing plants from a nursery. Check out the video.
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Finished Chest Sizes: 32 (35.5, 38, 42, 47, 51.5, 56)"
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Take It or Leave It is a game title asking to be mocked by those who don't like the design, so here's hoping it goes over well with audiences.
What is the game, you ask? Each player has a hand of four task cards showing dice combinations and other tasks that the player is trying to achieve during a game round, such as a sum of pips less than 13, or two white dice and one black die; each card has a point value on it, with the tougher cards obviously being worth more points. Someone rolls a bunch of white, black and red dice, then players take turns choosing a die from the pool. Each player also holds one action card that lets him manipulate the dice to better achieve his tasks.
On a turn, a player either takes a die or passes from the round. Once everyone has passed, players assign dice to their task cards, with red dice counting as either black or white. Complete your tasks, and you'll cheer (and score points); have dice unused, and you'll wish that you'd never been born – or you'll just lose a couple of points. Depends on how much of a drama queen you are.
After each round, a player refills his hand of cards in the appropriate proportions, and after each player has started a round 1-3 times (depending on the number of players), the game ends and players tally their points.
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Players: 2 - 5
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Well technically I drank a lot more and forgot to send in another e-mail.
This week's music video is from a band called Bear In Heaven. I like them, but this music video, is, well, complicated. I can't tell if it's really bad or simply brilliant. I guess faux-retro music videos with lots of cleavage featuring a girl in a Julia Roberts mask can do that to you. Since I've never watched Pretty Women while eating confetti and tripping on acid at one of Wayne Coyne's after parties, I don't think I've ever seen one like it.
This week's mailbag is sponsored by our friends at Picasso's Cafe. They're a long time support of TLO. Whoever sends us the best email — as determined by our readers — will win a $25 Gift Certificate to the Paseo staple. When you go there, do three things:
1. Order the Risotto Croquettes as an appetizer
2. Order the Pasta Carbonara as an entrée
3. Send me an email complimenting me on my dining selections
This all [sic] emails are after the jump:
Anon writes:
Did Landry Jones sleep with your mom? Did he run over your dog. Get over the fact that you're jealous. He's one of the most prolific passers in NCAA history and big part of the Sooners success. If he didn't follow Bradford you'd be all over his nuts. He's not perfect but who is. Look at his stats. He's one of the greatest passers in NCAA History! Why do you hate him?!
I don't hate Landry Jones. I'm sure he's a good kid. I just happen to think he's an above average system QB with the inability to go off script when needed and make plays.
A few weeks ago during a Thunder game, I think Bill Simmons referred to Russell Westbrook as a 90-percent'er. What he meant by that is Russell is great 90% of time, but that other 10% is so frustrating that you tend to forget about the 90%.
Well, Landry Jones is a 70-percent'er. He's pretty damn good 70% of the time, average for 20%, and so mind-numbingly awful for the other 10% that you think John Blake is his QB coach. He can be more frustrating than the traffic on Lindsay Street.
Kelli asks:
You seem to know things…can you find out where Kevin Durant's mom has been this season? I've yet to see her at a game.
Well, this is one of those things I don't seem to know. I'd guess she probably recovering from watching Thunderstruck.
On that note, I was watching SportsCenter yesterday and ad for the Thunderstruck blu-ray release appeared on the bottom crawl. Five minutes later, I received this unintentionally funny email from some PR firm asking me to blog about Thunderstruck. Here it is:
Warner Bros. is proud to announce the release of Thunderstruck on DVD and Blu-ray December 4th 2012, along with the Thunderstruck Blog App!
To get involved simply write a blog post with the Thunderstruck blog app included and offer your readers a chance to enter to win a Combo Pack (Blu-Ray + DVD + Digital Download). Once you have your winner, send us their address and we will send them their prize!
NBA superstar Kevin Durant plays himself in this action-packed family film about a basketball star who switches talent with a klutzy 16-year-old fan. When Brian (Taylor Gray) magically switches basketball skills with his hero, Kevin Durant, he becomes the star of his high school team… while Kevin Durant suddenly can't make a shot to save his life! But with the playoffs approaching, Brian learns that being a true winner means working hard at your own game, and he tries to make things right in time to prevent a catastrophic end to his hero's season.
You must reply to this email and send us a link to your post to participate!
Check Out the Thunderstruck Blog App Here: https://www.partnershub.com/show/4/thunderstruck/widget/thunderstruck/
WHY Your Audience will love the Thunderstruck Blog App:
• Host a Giveaway! Host a GIVEAWAY by posting the blog app and we'll offer you a free Thunderstruck Blu-ray to give away to your audience.
• Free-Throw Challenge Game! Are you up for a Free-Throw Challenge? Show us your skills! Make as many baskets as you can and unlock special clips along the way!
• 7 Thunder-ific Tips for Kids! Does your kid dream of going pro? Use these awesome tips to help them sharpen up their skills! "Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard."- Kevin Durant.
• Get Social! Tweet with the #ThunderstruckBluRay hashtag to get your audience revved up for the release of this action-packed family film.
GREAT Ideas for a Giveaway Contest:
• Have your audience share their results from the Free-Throw Challenge Game!
• Have your audience download the 7 Thunder-ific Tips for Kids and post their favorite in the comments section!
• Pin the activities to your blog via Pinterest to drive traffic to your website!
Yes, we really do get emails like that.
Anyway, have some fun with that Moles. Check out our Pinterest page for more details on the TLO Thunderstruck free-throw challenge game, 7 Thunder-ific Tips for Kids and 5 simple ways to commit suicide after watching the film.
Nikki writes:
When I arrived to Sooner Mall on Black Friday, about 4:50am, (for work) there were 4 young women in their 20's being held by police near the main entrance outside Dillards. They were sitting on the pavement, with their backs to the glass of the entrance and all were getting breathalizers. When I got to work, another mall employee whose store is next door to the newly renovated Victoria's Secret said they were arrested for standing on the tables and throwing panties. Supposedly, one of them lost a tooth.
Kinda ridiculous, but funny.
I think Victoria's Secret would be a much more enjoyable place if that was a common occurrence.
By the way, am I the only person that still calls it "Sooner Fashion Mall?" Isn't that 10,000 times better than "Sooner Mall?" They need to change it back. Even the people at Science Museum Oklahoma thinks the new name sucks.
Josh asks:
Why the hell does everyone drive below the speed limit between Moore and Norman when it's 70, but then drive 70 through Norman where the speed limit's 60? I would think people would speed out of Moore to get away from the Sewer Free Will Baptist College and Toby Keith's residual stench and drive slow through Norman to soak in the awesome.
This is an amazing email because it's 100% true. I notice this every time I drive to Norman for Free Team Trivia at O'Connell's. I'm once thought the bad driving was caused by dumb people trying to figure out how to get to Crossroads, but now I'm not so sure. Maybe we should blame the Furr's Buffet.
Chad writes:
In honor of open carry, I've made a video game where you exercise your second amendment rights in an alley behind hobby lobby with Diaper bandit, berry trammel and Traber:
Chad isn't lying. He really made a game where you can shoot Jim Traber, college Boomer Tramel and the Austic Diaper Bandit. In other news, Chad has waaaaay to much time on his hands.
Am I the only one who finds it hilarious that Microsoft has chosen a PG cover of NWA's Express Yourself as the theme song of their new advertising campaign?
I see that little girl showing her dad the picture and I keep hearing the original words.
I hope to come up with a better entry as I continue to drink.
That's kind of funny. Although it's not as funny as OG&E, a legalized monopoly, using a Flaming Lips song about the abuse of power as their corporate jingle.
And for the record, Ryan didn't send a better email. That means he either lied about drinking or coming up with good emails is harder than he thinks.
Where do. I enter for the ring.
She probably needs to go drink with Ryan.
Well technically I drank a lot more and forgot to send in another e-mail.
Hmmm…don't think that's NWA in the Microsoft ad. Think they're using the original song that NWA had sampled
Bear in Heaven sounds like a cross between the Pet Shop Boys and the opening title sequence music of Miami Vice.
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SIKESTON -- A Sikeston man is in custody after being arrested on traffic and drug charges following a high-speed pursuit.
The chase began at about 8:20 p.m. Thursday around Smith Street after a Department of Public Safety officer attempted to pull a white Buick over for a traffic violation.
"He wouldn't stop and proceeded through town at a high rate of speed disregarding red lights and stop signs," said Capt. John Martin of the DPS.
The vehicle headed west on Malone, turned left on Route FF to Highway 60, and then right on Highway 60 to head west toward Dexter.
The pursuit was terminated by using stop strips at the 1-mile marker with assistance from the Missouri State Highway Patrol and Dexter Police Department.
"There were no injuries, thankfully," Martin said.
The suspect's name is being withheld pending the filing of formal charges.
Pending charges filed in Scott, New Madrid and Stoddard counties include multiple traffic violations, assault of a police officer, resisting arrest and possession of cocaine.


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Fall 2012 Turkey Hunting Regulations
The 2012 fall turkey season will consist of one seven-day hunting segment, N, (excluding Sunday) from Saturday, Oct. 27 through Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012. Fall hunting hours are one-half hour before sunrise until one-half hour after sunset. Turkey Hunting Areas 1–5, 8, 9, 11, 20–22 are open for fall hunting. Turkey Hunting Areas 6, 7, 10, 12 and 14–16 are closed to fall hunting.
Immediately upon killing a turkey, hunters must complete the transportation tag on their fall hunting permit and affix it to the bird. The turkey must be taken to an official wild turkey check station by 7 p.m. on the day it is killed by the hunter who killed the bird.
Spring Turkey Season Changes
Southern New Jersey turkey hunters: be advised that there are new boundaries for Turkey Hunting Areas 16 and 22. The southern parts of Turkey Hunting Area 16 have been placed in Turkey Hunting Area 22. Refer to the Turkey Hunting Area map on Fish and Wildlife's website or to the Turkey Permit Supplement (available in late January, 2013) for the new boundary.
Spring 2013 Gobbler Hunting Regulations
Spring gobbler hunting regulations are published in the 2013 Wild Turkey Hunting Season permit supplement available in January. See Turkey Hunting Permits, General.
Turkey Hunting Seminars
The latest turkey hunting techniques are presented at several turkey hunting seminars sponsored by Fish and Wildlife or wildlife conservation organizations. These seminars focus on how to set up, calling techniques and key safety information for turkey hunters. New turkey hunters are especially encouraged to join us at a seminar. Check your newspaper and the January 2013 Wild Turkey Hunting Season permit supplement for the seminars scheduled during March or April.
Youth Turkey Hunt Day
April 20, 2013
If no turkey is harvested on this youth hunt day, Period Y permits may be used by the youth hunter in the designated zone for the balance of the season until a bird is harvested (see Take a Kid Hunting).
Non-hunting adults accompanying youth turkey hunters need only have in possession a valid hunting license. Turkey hunting is by permit only.
Spring and fall turkey hunting is by permit only. See Turkey Hunting Permits, General in Permits. For farmers, see Farmer Turkey Permits.
2013 Spring Gobbler Hunting Season
Hunting Period
Youth Turkey
Hunting Period Y
Sat., April 20
If no turkey is harvested on this youth hunt day, Period Y permits may be used in the designated zone for balance of season until a bird is harvested
Hunting Period A
Mon., April 22 – Fri., April 26
Hunting Period B
Mon., April 29 – Fri., May 3
Hunting Period C
Mon., May 6 – Fri., May 10
Hunting Period D
Mon., May 13 – Fri., May 17; Mon., May 20 – Fri., May 24
Hunting Period E
All Saturdays, April 27,
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